Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 November 1909 — Page 2

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(I L. Q.4N. M.JS F. Q. F. M 4ttL V.?Jl2th. f) 20thA27th. PAST AND PßESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Maar One Hundred Lest at Sea. The mail steamer LaSej-ne, of the Messageries Maritimes Service, running between Java and Singapore and on her way to Singapore, was In collision with the steamer Onda, of the British-India line, and sank within two minutes. Seven European passengers, Including Baron and Barcne.c3 Bencsksky, the captain of La Seyne, five European ofScers and eighty-eight others, comprising native passengers and members of the crew, were drowned. The rescue of sixty-one persons from the jaws of shoals of sharks formed thrilling incidents of the wreck. The accident occurred in a thick haze. The vessels were steaming at good speed and the Seyne was cut almost in half. The force of the collision brought the vessel to almort a dead stop and her engines were at once slowed and boats lowered. Not only "were the rescuing parties Impeded by the dark but sharks were already attacking those clinging to pieces of wreckage in the water. Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated steamer were finally dragged into the boats and brought by the Onda to Singapore. Many of them had been bitten by sharks. Although his skull was fractured three months ago, Patrick Ferguson, 23 years old, of 611 Walnut street, St. Louis, Mo., has continued at his work In the livery stable of Thomas Wand, at Sixth and Elm streets, relying all the time upon headache medicine to relieve him. The pain In his head became so great that ho went to the central dispensary for treatment. Dr. Lipsitz told him his skull was fractured and advised him to go to the city hospital. "I've stood It for three months," said Ferguson, "so there's no use of my going to the hospital now." Ferguson fell three months ago and his head struck the ground. Dr. Lipsitz says the injury Is serious. 1 $1,000,CC0,C0O Copper Combine. A dispatch from New York City says more detailed reports regarding the Impending merger or agreement among the great copper producers sent copper stocks to new high records for the year. The capitalization, of the combine, according to best reports, probably will be close to the $1,000,000,000 figure of the United States Steel Corporation, although the arrangements have not yet proceeded far enough to establish any definite figure. Three Victims of Pittsburg Fire. Threo unidentified men, all foreigners, are dead, five others are seriously Injured and twelve men and women are suffering from bruise3 and shock, the result of an early morning fire In a Polish lodging house on the river front ia Pittsburg, Pa. When the fire broke oit at 4 o'clock about thirty persons were asleep in the building. Firemen aroused the occupants of the place and carried the women and children to safety. Cleveland Raises Mayor's Pay. The new Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Herman Baehr, will receive a larger salary than Tom Johnson has drawn. The Council has, voted an increase from $6,000 to $10,000. The action was taken over some opposition. Blizzard Ties Up Ninety Boats. Reports from the north shore of Lake Superior indicate that the storm raging there ia growing in intensity and is accompanied by a blizzard. Ninety boats are tied up at the Soo on account of the storm. Father of Fifteen Children Dies. Henry Coleman, aged 87 year3, Is dead at his home at Kinsington, Ohio. He wa3 the father of fifteen children. Coleman was a plasterer, and seven of bis sons and two of his sons-in-law follow the same trade. President Taft at Home. Completing his 13.C0O mile journey through the West and South, President Taft has arrived in Washington, D. C, from Richmond, Va. Cracked a Safe on Broadway, N. Y. Within range of the brilliant lights of Broadway, New York City, expert cracksmen blew open the safe of a shoo company's store and got away with $4,000 in cash. Waiter Left Fortune of $500,000. Tips and bis savings were so wisely Invested by James Thielman, head waiter at Delmonicas, in New York City, that when he died recently he left an estate valued at $500,000. Guy Rope Breaks; 100-Foot Fall. While working on a tall stack at the plant of the Oglesby-Shartle Paper Company, at Middletown, Ohio, Ole Jackson and Paul Trieckel. Swedish workmen, fell nearly 100 feet. When near the ground the men struck a guy rope, which broke their fall and neither was seriously hurt. Young Woman Clerk Murdered. Miss Annie Pelley, a clerk in a dry goods store at Cairo, 111., was murdered, the crime being revealed when children found her body in an alley. Polish Explodes; Injures Woman. Mrs. Joseph Johnston, of Hamilton, Ohio, applied a patent stove polish to a hot stove at her home, and the polish exploded, setting fire to Mrs. Johnston's dr;ss. She rushed screaming to the street. Neighbors put out the fire with rugs. Her condition ir critical. Baby Burned to Death. Locked in a room that caught fire during the absence of the mother, the infant daughter of Mrs. Mary Zidoritch, of Omaha, Neb., was burned to death.

Most Appalling Accident of Its Kind in Country's History Occurs at Cherry, III.

MEN DOOMED IN FLAMING PIT Hay Being Taken Down by Engineer Becomes Ignited from Cap Lamp and Blasts Follow. ; HEROIC DOCTOR SAVES MANY Fire In Smotliereil nml Firwt Ilecuer Afterward Sent Down Find -o Ilodics, Alire or Dead. The most appalling mine disaster in the history of the United States occurred Saturday afternoon in tho little town of Cherry, Bureau County, 111. A fire that started in the main sbaf of the St. Paul Coal Company's works choked out the lives of 400 men working there. Thirteen rescuers who went, down into a blazing shaft were roasted alive to a man. A few score of survivors, blackened by smoke and singed by flame, crawled from reeking crevices in the earth to tell an incoherent story of almost Inconceivable horrorä in the corridors below. The rest there were 563 human beings in the mine when the fire broke out perished in the flame-swept works. Saturday night the exits of the mine, from which smoke and flame had belched since 1:30 In the afternoon, were battened down. This heroic remedy was decided on as a last means of, extinguishing the fire in the works beneath. Above a seething furnace, in which three-fourths of the male population of the community is imprisoned, the town waited in silent dread for the dawning of th morning. When day came the hatches were to be opened and the toll of death begun. The cry of the widow and the orphan rang dolefully on the ear. The fire broke out at about 1:30. Engineer John Cowley, who is in charge of the elevator running from the surface to the higher of the three veins in the mine, had descended with i load of six baleä of hay. On the way down the hay was ignited by his torch. Reaching the level below him he dragged the bale3 out of the car and" attempted to hurl them into the sump of the second shaft, at the bottom of which is a pool of water. Before he could do so both the first and second shafts were afire. A strong äraft coming up to the surface turned the two shaft3 into red-hot flues. Almost before the danger could be realized the mine was ablaze everywhere, md the main avenues of escape cut off. The Cherry disaster, like every great disaster in America, developed its men of the hour, Its heroes. There is in Cherry one man who Is deserving of all the glory that the highest personal bravery and self-sacrifice merit. lie is Dr. L. D. Howe, the St. Paul Mining Company's physician. To him twenty-five of the rescued miners owe their lives. Escaping by a miracle from a red-hot lift in which twelve of hi3 companions were roasted like quail on a griddle, he returned six times alone into the seething Inferno of the shaft, and each time came to the surface with a group of men he had saved. He desisted from his efforts only after it had become apparent to every one that to descend in to the shaft again would be certain death. Exploration of the mine was begun Sunday. Volunteers, equipped with oxygen helmets, essayed to explore the shaft., , Two of them in a bucket were lowered three times down the air shaft. They found no bodies, living or dead. At a depth of S70 feet the temperature of the mine was found to.be practically normal 94 degrees indicating that the fire had burned itself out. OFFICIALS SHOT BT ROBBER. President and Cashier at New AN hnnf, Ind. Wounded. Cashier Carrett Fassett of the Merchants National bank at New Albany, Ind., was shot and fatally wounded, and President J. K. Woodward of the same Institution was wounded severely about 11:30 o'clock Thursday morning by a man who entered the bank and ordered them to hold up their hands. The man was captured a short time afterward and it Is reported that he has taken poison. The man had two confederates. Fifth is Slain in Tons War. The fifth victim of the On YIck-Yee Tong war was shot to death in Oakland, Cal.. by a Yee gun man. Jim Kong Fook was the victim. He was just going to work in a Chinese gambling house on Harrison street, which Is kept by Gee On, president of the On Yicks, when he wa shct. On Yang Gun was shot to death the previous1 night. Indicted for Graf Freed. Louis H. Young, a contractor Indicted in connection with the graft Investigation in Mahoning County, O., was found not guilty. This i3 the first of the cases which has been allowed to go to the jury. Colllnlon on JL Koad. Nine persons, four women and five men, were injured In a collision of two elevated railroad trains in Chicago, directly due to a cloud of smoke belched up by a railroad locomotive standing un'.er the L" tracks. $01,000,000 Coal Ileal Is .Made. II. C. Frick, the coke king, and the Mellon banking syndicate of Pittsburg have secured control of the Pittsburg . Coal Company, a $61,000,000 corpora-, tion. This control ends a campaign ' of year3 for the stock of the great j concern: Football Takes Boy'a Life. Albert Arend, 13 years old, son of Charles Arend, a grover of Marietta, 0., i3 dead a3 a result of injuries he received In a football game. The boy was kicked in the Lead. j j -w.

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HOW DEADLY FIRE DAMP WORKS Gathers, Without Odor, About Roof of Mine, Ready to Ignite. . Fire damp or coal gas is the most insidious danger that the coal miner faces. It is an exceedingly light, colorless and odoiless gas, generated by the decay of vegetable matter. It burns with a nonluminous flame, and is only dangerous" a3- an explosive when mixed with five times its volume of air. Coal gas, escaping into a mine shaft from cracks in the coal vein, finds its way silently into the upper chambers of the mine, its small specific gravity carrying it up over the heavier air in the corridors. Having reached a point from which it can ascend no farther, the gas begins to gather along the ioof of the corridor. Miners working beneath this cloud cf gas may remain for hours without knowing the danger just above them. After a while the gas begins to mix with the air, and to sag down toward the mine floor. Then a lighted match or an unprotected miner's lamp will suddenly ignite it, causing an explosion that runs all over the mine wherever the gas is located. The explosions are usually followed by heavy falls from the roofs of the corridors, the blocking of passageways and the imprisoning of those in the explosion area. With escape cut off the works take fire and the deadly iftcr-damp, a gas caused by the explosion, settles down to smother to death everything living within it3 reach. ROBS BANK SECOND TIME. 18-Year-Old Bandit and Companion of 17 Are Hunted Down. Earl Ros3 Bullock, a boy of IS, who robbed the State Dank of Eudora, Kan., Oct. 11, returned to the bank Friday with Willie McKay, aged 17, and attempted a second robbery. In the first lobbery Bullock escaped with nearly ?1.00, went to Lawrence, his home, and shot Policeman Pringle, who attempted to arrest him, and escaped. When Bullock entered the Eudora bank this afternoon with his partner there were three men present: E. E. Wilson, cashier of the bank; Fred Starr, cashier of the Kaw Valley Bank of the same place, and Wilson's son. Bullock commanded the trio to hold up their handü, then without a word of warning, shot Starr, who fell with a bullet through his jaw. The two Wilsons had their hands high in the air by this time, while Bullock's companion stood guard at the door with two revolvers. Bullock gathered up all the money on the counter, took the bag which Starr had, then looted the vault and the two boys fled through the back door. They ran south to a small river on the edge of town and started up the river. A posse, led by the two Wilsons, followed them and about a half mile up the river overtook the boy bandits. A running fight took place in which Bullock was shot through the head. The McKay boy gave himself up without firing a shot. He was immediately taken to Lawrence in an auto and placed in the county jail to avoid lynching. The money was all recovered and returned to the bank, while Bullock was taken to Eudora in a dying condition. He was shot through the temple, the ball passing clear through his head, and was not conscious after the shooting. Bullock has been reading dime novels and his parents in Kansas City blame this fact for his crimes. Ransom It. Cable Is Dead Ransom R. Cable, former pres't'ent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, died in Chicago Friday. Mr. Cable was born in Athens County, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1834. Hurt In Anto Wreck. Dr. W. C. Stover, his wife and daughter, Ardys, aged 6, were feriously hurt in an automobile collision on Shaker Heights, Cleveland, the child sustaining a fracture of the skill. Dr. Stover's chest was crushed and his wife was badly cut and bruised. Daylight Saloon Law Upheld. The Supreme Court of Nebraska upheld the validity of the daylight saloon bill, which forbid3 the sale or gift 3f llQuor between the hours of 8 p. ra. and 7 a. m. jerU lr Hore II renk Hin A'ecli A man whose identity the New Yoti polico have been unable to ascertain, was killed in a peculiar manner wht-a he attempted to avoid a Brooklyn trolley car. Dashing for the curb he r&n his head into the halter of a hor&e tied to a post. The horse gave a jerk and broke the man's neck. Safe Blower Get $3,000. The safe of the Ben Arnold State Bank at Ben Arnold, Milam County, Tex., was blown by three men, who secured ?3,00O. "."-C - S' ".A-.v -tftjoo wt--

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Disastrous mine accidents in recent years; Year. Flace. Lives lost. 1902 Fratcrvlllr, Tenn 200 l'J02 Rolling Mill Mine, Pa 105 1P03 Hanna, Wyo 175 1&04 Lackawanna Mine, Ta 10 1904 Terek.. Cal 21 1903 Virginia City, Ala 152 1903 ZU-gler, 111 51 1903 Wc-ich Coal Mine 120 1903 Diainondville, Wyo. .....4. 18 1903 M., K. and T. Company .... 13 1903 Wilcox. W. Va. 33 1906 Courriere Mine, near Calais. France 1.0C0 1906 Oakhtll. W. Va 27 190G West Fork, Va. ; 75 1907 Fayetteville. W. Va 80 1907 Saarhruck, Prussia 200 1907 Las Esperanzas, Mexico .. 123 1907 Monongahela, Pa 30 1907 Tokyo, Japan 470 1907 Jacob's Creek, Pa '. 250 1907 Monongah, W. Va 398 1907 Yolande, Ala 81 19Ö7 Hanna. Wyo 70 1908 McAlester, Ok 30 1905 Hamm, Westphalia, Ger many 339 1908 Marianna, Pa 123 1909 Ziegler, 111 27

CUBAN RECIPROCITY AT ENDP America InveMtluratea .ew Treaty nnd 3Iny Act Sniiuniii Ily. The State Department in Washington has called upon the Cuban government for information regarding the new trade treaty between Spain and Cuba, reported to have been practically completed. Upon the answer may depend the abrogation of the Cuban reciprocity and the application of maximum duties upon Spanish Imports into the United States. At Folksone, England, the Moderat 2-year-old Plate of 100 sovereigns, distance five furlongs, was won by J. It. Kecne's Coronal. Twelve horses ran. Incidents during the recent Latonia meet were plentiful, the main one developing with the running of the handicap, when Woolwinder and Old Honesty scored a dead heat A race for motor boats from Philadelphia to Havana, Cuba, the longest ever held for this type of water craft, has been arranged by Thomas Fleming Da., the yachting editor, with the yachtsmen's club of Philadelphia and the Havana Yacht Club. The race will take place in the spring. James J. Jeffries will not accept any theatrical engagements between now and the time that he fights Jack Johnson, but will retire to the mountains of California and devote the entire period co active and systematic training for the championship battle, according to Sam Berger, his manager. With more than 1.500 entries, 300 in excess of last year, the national horse show will open In Madison Square Garden in the near future. Two hundred and forty exhibitors have made nominations in 158 classes, against the former record of 125 classes. ; WIsconsin'9 base ball team has returned from its recent tour in the Orient. In nine games which the Radgrs played with different Japanese universities, they were victorious. The games were witnessed by from 20,000 to 23.090 spectators. "The Japa phy base ball and play it well. They are fast, cutting players," says a member of tiiä Wisconsin nine. A .eeplf chase for about two milc-s featured the card at the Windsor tracks, Detroit. John Dillon won. Reginald, the favorite, failed to take the hurdles and was out of the running early in the race. Although there has been no racing in Mexico City for some time, nevertheless the local turf folk have plenty to keep them interested. First and most important of all is the fact that Col. Robert C. Pate, of St. Louis, was a short time ago granted a government concession to conduct a race track within the federal district as well as to maintain a restaurant and club house on the same r:te.

i - - 1 . . - - - -ii . . . . . - . ", ia 1 ii ' I aTV - - - n ia iiii i W COTTAGES; SORROW IN EVERY '''4 em to9t&m& -MW-B READY TO GO DOWN PASTORS BAB OUT REVIVALISTS. Afree That They Will Do Their Own Conversion Work. At a meeting of the pastors of fifty northern Ohio Baptist churches resolutions were adopted barring professional revivalists from that field, so far as the Baptists are concerned. The Rev. James A. Francis, of Boston, who advised the move, addressed the preachers, and at the close it was resolved that when revival services are wanted the regular pastors will do the work, exchanging churches for the purpose. Cleveland, Ashtabula, Lorain, Wooster, and other large Ohio towns are affected. $4,000,000 TO MOTHERLESS BOY. Lad of Ten on Georgia Plantation Shares Standard Oil Millions. " Hunt Tllford Dickinson, a 10-year-old motherless boy, now with his father on a Georgia plantation, has inherited 54,000,000 from the estate of hl3 granduncle, Wesley Hunt Tllford, a former vice president of the Standard Oil Company.who died last March, leaving an estate worth more than $11,000,000. The will gives $7,000.000 outright to Henry M. Tllford,. his brother, and the balance Is divided among other relatives. TWO TRAIN ROBBERS CONFESS. Dandlts at Syraenae, X. Y., Prove to Be Mere Yoaths. The two youths arrested in van attempt to rob an express car between Lyons and Syracuse, N Y., made full confessions. They said they were Arthur Schattner, 18 year3 old, and William Judd, 17, both of Lyons. The former, who has a cork leg, was but recently released from the Elmira reformatory, and the latter had just been released frcm the Lyons jail. 13,000 REDSKINS LOSE CASE. Court Holds Choctawi and Chlckaunwa Mot Entitled to Iledres. In an opinion by Justice Holmes the Supreme Court of the United States decided against the complainants in the case of the 13.000 Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians who asked for redress f.ir being excluded from the citizenship rolls of those nations when they were prepared by Secretary Hitchcock of the Interior Department on March 4, 1907.

?SY A X'S- - 1 - A - -vl- - - - - - - - - - - A i--. - - . ONE OF THEM. mm TO THE RESCUE. VILLAGE OF CHERRY. Small Town Populated by Miners and Their Families. Cherry, the scene of the disaster, is a small town in Bureau County on a spur track of the Chicago, Milwaukee . and St.; Paul, three miles north, of Ladd, twelve miles northwest of La Salle and nine miles north of Spring Valley. Until the railroad built an extension south about fifty miles from Davis Junction Cherry was nothing but a cross roads hamlet of ten or twelve families. After the building of the railroad, however,' extensive coal deposits were uncovered there and the mine where the men were killed i3 the property of the St. Paul Coal Company, a subsidiary organization of the St. Paul Railroad. It was opened about five years ago and employed nearly 500 miners. The families of these miners, with a few townspeople who own the stores and a few business enterprises, constitute the entire population of Cherry. Edward Is Sixty-eight. King Edward of England on Tuesday celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday at Sandringham Palace, surrounded by most of the members of his family and a few intimate friends. Death In Roller Towel. The Kansas Board of Health has issued a decree against the roller towel. The Kansas health Inspectors say that infectious diseases are conveyed through such towels used in hotels, railway stations and office buildings. Cattle 31 an Ciullty of 31 u rtler. The. jury in the case of Herbert L. Brink, one of the seven cattle men charged with the murder of three sheep men in the Tensleep country, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree in Basin, Wyo. Mother Saves Twelve Children. Ey passing her children out of a second-cilory window and allowing them to fall to the ground one by one, Mrs. John Frantsvoig saved her entire family of twelve from death in Dogden. N. D. ItiUe Steamer Cioes on Itnc.. Thq Sandusky & Islands passenger steamer Arrow, en route to Sandusky, 0-, lost its course in a heavy fog and went on the rocks. A high sea was running at the time ofthe accident. The vessel probably can be floated.

Negro Confesses Attacking an J Killins Miss Pelley and Is Shot and Burned.

WHITE UX0RCIDE IS HANGED Illinois City in Hands of Frenzied Throng Women Are Prominent in Rioting. The city of Cairo, 111., all Thursday night wras in the hands of a bloodmaddened mob. Ten thousand persons, a large number of whom were women, after lynching a negro and burning his body, broke into the local jail and dragged forth a white man, whom they hanged almost before he had had time to pray. The men roaming the streets all night had access to many saloons, which remained open all night. Mayor Parsons and the chief of police were unabie to. close the saloons because they were shut up at home by the mob. j James, "The Frog," after having been trailed by bloodhounds, was arrested for attacking and murdering Misa Anna Pelley. On Wednesday, after being spirited out of the Cairo jail by Sheriff Davis, and after having remained hidden in the custody of that officer in the woods near Dongola, James was found by members of the mob which during two days had been scouring the whole southern part of the State, and brought to the city on a freight train commandeered for that purpose. Surrounded by a great crowd, he was marched to the public arch of the town. Here he confessed. There, after all the electric light had been turned on, he was hanged. The rope broke and the mob shot him to death. The body was then dragged to the spot where he murdered Miss Pelley and burned to cinders on a pyre built by his slayers. Women helped pull the body up to the arch and women set fire to the pyre. The white man, Henry Salzner, a photographer, was killed after the negro's body had been burned. A section of the mob broke Into the county jail and battered Its way into the steel cage where Salzner was confined on a charge of having murdered his wife. The prisoner, almost speechless with terror, was dragged Into the street, given a minute in which to compose his soul for eternity, and then hanged to a telegraph pole. Before he died Salzner made a full confession of his crime. He said that his sister was responsible for his murdering his wife. He cried and begged pitcously for his life; but the mob only hooted and .heat him. Company K, Fourth Regiment, was sent out In squads to guard the home3 of Mayor Parsons and Chief of Police Egan against possible attack. Telephone calls to both of these residences failed to bring any response and the whereabouts of these two officials could not be learned. Governor Deneen, who was In Chicago, immediately upon being Informed of the foregoing occurrences, ordered several outside companies of militia to the scene and placed the city under martial law. Five outside companies arrived before Friday noon and quiet was restored. EDGARSTCOOKE MAKESDENIAL. Returns to His Home After Avoiding" Reporters for Several Days. Edgar S. Cooke has returned to his home in the Lessing Annex, Chicago, from the place where he had been .voiding reporters for a week, and one of the first things he did after his reappearance was to deny he is a blackmailer. "I don't believe Charles L. Warriner will even insinuate that I ever got a dishonest dollar from him," declared Cooke when asked to what he attributes tbe action of the "Big Four's" former treasurer in dragging Cooke's name into the scandal surrounding acknowledged thefts said to aggregate $613,000. Cooke went on to describe how he was occupying the position of chief clerk in the treasurer's office of the "Big Four" Railroad at Cincinnati several years ago, when he met Mrs. Jeannette Timmins . Ford, who had obtained a divorce from her husband. ' "She became Infatuated with me and was around the railroad office so much that I was discharged in September, 1901," said Cooke. "I came to Chicago and she followed. Soon there were stories afloat that I was $23,000 short in my accounts. I went back ready to face the charges, but it was explained, that the whole thing was a mistake. I want to deny emphatically a report iu one of the dispatches that Mr. and Mrs. Warriner met me In a certain hotel and paid me $23,000 to cease my alleged blackmailing operations. Cooke said he would go to Cincinnati voluntarily with counsel when Warriner's case goes before the grand jury there. Charles L. Warriner, charged with a shortage of $543,000 in his accounts with the Big Four Railroad, is a physical wreck, according to statements of friends of the family. It Is denied by members of the family, however, that Warriner's condition is serious. Storm Causes $500,000 Fire. Lightning struck and set fire to the Gulf Refining Company's 53,000-barrel tank of naphtha at Port Arthur, Tex. The oil tanks of the Texas Company, containing about 325,000 barrels of crude oil, were set on fire also by lightning. Tho total loss is $300,000. Doctor Killed hy Own Anto. Dr. Edward J. R. Rickard was killed in au automobile wreck at Weeping Water, Xeb., while returning from a call Tho machine overturned, he fell under it jnd was crushed to death. Haul; Cashier Is Aeensed. George H. Osborne, for thirty-five years cashier of the Huntington Bank In Columbus, O., was arrested on the chargo of being short in his accounts. The amount involved Is unknown. Outlaw Sort Ik I)i creed. Ilobei t Jaaieö, a son of Prank James and nephew of Jccsc James, was divorced in tho St. Louis Circuit Court by Mary Sandbott Jone. James did not ccuteut the suit, in which Mrs. Janiv. tv.stined ho had choked her and "hrealened her with a revolver.

CHICAGO. The weekly review of Chicago trade by R. G. Dun & Co. says: While trading defaults show decrease in numbers the liabilities involved have an Increased average and reflect pressure in November settle

ments. Solvent payments through the banks, however, continue at a high level, and the general demand for money testifies to wider activities In both production and distribution. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 33, against 21 last week, 28 in 190S and 26 in 1007. Those with liabilities oer $5.000 number 11, against 10 last week, 10 in 190S and 7 in 1907. Weather conditi -is have favored an expanding distribution of store needs ari retail trade here and at the interior makes gratifying progress, stocks of seasonable merchandise undergoing rapid depletion. The demand for holiday goods and heavyweight clothing Is well maintained. Wholesale houses make large forwardings In Christmas wares, dry good3, men's furnishings and boots and shoes. Bank clearings, $276,103,17, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1908 by 6.2 per cent, and compare witL, $196,244,453 in 1907. NEW YORK. Continued mild weather li helpful to building and outdoor construction work and facilitates fall plowing and winter wheat growth, but at the same time Is a source of considerable coxaplaint as to its effect on retail trade on heavy dry goods, clothing and heavy wearing apparel. In other wholesale lines, however, reports are still to a high degree favorable, holiday demand Is especially active and spring business is being booked in good volume, except where, as in cotton goods, high prices and uncertainty as to future prices of raw material check selling operations. The general tone of affairs commercial Is buoyant. In Industry generally the report Is still one of well filled order books and ot fall time run. Business failures In the United States for the week ending Nov. 11 were 221, against 212 last week, 267 the last week of 190S, 259 In 1907, 222 U 1906, and 198 In 1903. Business failures in Canada for the week number 24, -which compares with 24 last week and 22 In the last week' in 190S. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $4.00 to $3.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.15; sheep, fair to choice, $4.25 to $4.75; wheat. o. 2, $1.15 to $1.17; corn. No. 2, 63c to 64c; oats, standard, 37c to 39c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 74c; hay, timothy, $S.00 to $15.00; prairie, $S.O0 to $13.50; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 23c to 2Sc; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 4Sc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.03 to $8.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $S.15; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.13 to $1.14; corn. No. 2 white, 5Cc to 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c. St, Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs. $4.00 tc. $8.05; sheep. $3.00 to $4.90; wheat, No. 2, $1.20 to $1.22; corn, No. 2. 59c to 60c; oats, No. 2, 2Sc to 39c; "rye. No. 2. 72c to 73c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.20 to $1.23; corn, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 61c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 78c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.50; bogs $4.00 to $7.65; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2. $1.19 to $1.20; corn, No. 2 yellow, 59c to COc; oats." standard, 40c to 42c; rye, No. 1, 75c to 76c. Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 nortnern. $1.02 to $1.0G; corn. No. 37c to 50c; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, 73c to 74c; barley, standard, 65c to 67c; pork, mess, $23.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $S.23; sheep, common to good mixed. $4.00 to $3.f.0; Iambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.90. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.S0; hogs, $4.00 to $S.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.23 to $1.26; corn, No. 2, 70c to 72c; oats, natural, white, 43c to 46c; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 30c to 33c , .' Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.19 to $1.21; corn. No. 2 mixed. C3c to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed 40c to 42c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 76c; clover seed, $8.77. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. By the will of Caroline Phelps Stokes over $3,000,000 is given for tl--; erection of model tenements in Ne York, the education of negroes. North American Indians and white students and for several charitable objects. Fire of unknown origin, with an estimated loss of $100,000, destroyed the five-story building, together with the stock and equipment of the Rawlings Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of sporting and athletic goods, in Louis. A bomb was exploded in front of & Japanese art store in Eureka, Cal.. and it is feared international complications may result While towing the bis steamer Khenango .out of the harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, in the storm, the t ig William D. of the Great Lakes Towins Company was overturned and sank. Tho crew was rescued. Articles of incorporation n-ere filed at Lexington, Ky by the Su;Uy Tobacco Insurance Company, with a capital of $2,000,000. Th. t-or.:pf.ny will finance the. white hurley crop of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. The Brownsville court of ir.Q iiry will visit Brownsville, Texas, late i: November to hear any new inatilal facts bearing on the famous "shooting up", of that city on the nlbt of Aug. 13. 1906. The court will fol.ow up the Drown8ville hearing with u similar proceeding at Washington. A surprising solution of the mysterious killing of two men ard the wounding of a third In a saloon in Old York road, near Philadelphia. Sept. 27. was hade public when Michael Coinporto confessed that he kept guar: while Sebastiano Dimasse went In: ide, shot tho three men and robbed the ash register.

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