Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 November 1909 — Page 2

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(T L. Q.kN. M. IX P. Q. F. M V? 4th. Vrjl2tli ) 20thAg2Tth. PAST AND PRESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Two Killed at a Dance. A dispatch from Mobile, Ala., tells of a bloody dance near Point Clear, Ala,, In which two men were killed aad four wounded. The daughter of Simon Nelson, at whose house the dance was held, refused to dance with a youn? man because she said he had been drinking. He began cursing and the fight started, Mack Kinzie being beaten to death and Bert Pierce shot to death. The wounded probably will recover. Warrenton, Va- Swept by Flames. Following a fire that threatened to wipe out the town, Warrenton, Va., is under martial law and foui- blocks of buildings are smoking ruins. Only the use of dynamite saved the town from complete destruction, for the drought of seven weeks had exhausted the water supply. The dynamiting of four buildings checked the flames, which finally burned out. The loss is $75,000 with $30,000 insurance. Slayer of Children Electrocuted. Teodoro Rizzo, who murdered Theresa Procopio, 7 years of age, and Freddie Infusino, 2 years old, In a lonely culvert in Utica, N. Y., the night of Sept. 12 last, was put to death In the electric chair in Auburn prison. Rizzo walked calmly to the death chamber, holding a crucifix in his hands 2nd with no sign of fear. Rizzo confessed his crime and expressed sorrow. Huge Water Tank Bursts. The huge water tank just east of Newman, III., burst. It held 'nearly 600,000 gallons of water at the time and flooded the engine house so deep that Station Master Winn came near losing hi3 life. The tank was the property of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway and fell directly across the tracks. Six Miners Fatally Burned. A few minutes before the night shift had entered the Florence mine of the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company, near Martins Ferry, Ohio, fire damp exploded with terrific force, burning six miners. The men were rescued by comrades, but all will die. The mine was badly damaged. Wright Company to Make Airships. Capitalized at $100.000, the Wright Company of New York ha3 been incorporated "to manufacture, sell and operate airships.." The directors are Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio; George A. Stevens, Henry S. Hooker and Alpheus F. Barnes, of New York. V First Corn Shredder Accident. The first corn shredder victim of the fall was U. T. Stanton, or near Liberty Center, Ind. He was working on the farm of Lester Clark and wa3 near the shredder, when a belt broke, a piece flying and striking him in the back, making a deep cut and causing painful bruises. Racing Chauffeur Fatally Injured. The Franklin entry in the 150-mile race at Los Angeles, Cal., plunged through the fence at the first turn and the driver. Guy Irvin, was perhaps fa tally Injured. R. Mclntyre, mechani cian, was only slightly injured. The Apperson "Jack Rabbit" won in 3:45 Lived as Pauper; Had $62,000. Mrs. Susan N. Moore, of San Fran cisco, Cal., who was supposed to have died in poverty, possessed a fortune appraised at $C2.000. It has just been found. She ived in a hovel and was a charge of the Catholic Benevolent As sociation. Earthquake in California. , The heaviest earthquake recorded at Salinas, Cal., since 1906 was felt a few days ago. Buildings rocked and cracked for fifteea seconds and people rushed into the streets for safety. Mother and Son Asphyxiated. Mrs. Annie Spriggins, 23 years old, and her son Earl, 5 years old. were suf focated by smoke in a fire , in the Sheckler block at Alliance,' Ohio. William M. Laffan Dead. William M. Laffan, publisher of the New York Sun, is dead at his home in Lawrence, L. I., following an operation for appendicitis. He had not rallied from the operation as well as had been hoped. Death the End of Wedding Party. A wedding party of five in an automobile were dashed from a thirty-foot bridge at Crawford, Ga., three being killed and the other two fatally injured Judgment for $1,485,000. A decision giving the Southern Pa clflc railroad a judgment of $1,485,000 against the California Development Company has been rendered In the Superior Court The suit grew out of alleged loans by the Southern Pacific to the development company when the Colorado river threatened damage. Football Player Dies of Injuries. Walter J. Luffsey, Jr., 21 years old, died as a result of injuries received in a game of football in which he played a week ago at Richmond, Va. Skull Fractured by Kick. John Flickering, of Canfield, Ohio, was brought to Youngstown from New Bedford, where he had been kicked on the head by a horse. Flickering was trying to hitch up to drive home when the horse kicked him. His skull was fractured. San Jose Scale Infests Many Trees. George Demuther, Deputy State Entomologist, is in Madison, Ind., inspecting fruit trees In that vicinity. According to his statement many trees are Infested with San Jose scale.

.Miners Thought Dead for Seven Days Are Snatched from Their Living Tomb.

WILD SCENE IN LITTLE TOWN Heaps of Corpses Found Where It Is Evident Entombed Men Tried to Escape names. Twenty-cne .men rose from the grave in Cherry. Saturday. Twenty-one men, pronounced dead days ago by all the mining experts in Illinois, rose from the depths of the St. Paul mine. where, with 310 others, they had been entombed for seven days, and when the people looked at them they were alive. Cherry saw a tragedy one Saturday. The next it witnessed a miracle. But, just when the hopes of the wait ing wives of the remaining entombed miners were at their highest, when the rescuers seemed likely to bring scores of other living men to the sur face, the sickening news came that the mine was again on fire. At midnight a small fire broke out, cutting off the rescue work. Fire apparatus had to be lowered and a stream of water had again to be turned into the mine. The news of the rescue of living men swept through the village like a telepathic wave. It transformed a community which was groveling In the deepest pits of woe into a community delirious with joy. Intoxicated with hope. When the men came forth from the shaft they found the whole community gathered to give them wel come. When their eyes, accustomea for a wek to the inky blackness of a sealed-up mine, were able to take in the sights around them one of the first things that they saw was the piled-up coffins in which, by all the laws of science and engineering, they were to

WATCHING EFFORTS AT RESCUE.

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Firemen, Officials and Part of Mine Horror. have been buried. When they were able to speak the first words that left their lips were words that brought up hope that hundreds of other men yet in the mine might be still alive. During the long watches of their own Imprisonment they said they had heard sounds that made them sure that the crannies and corridors about em held living .men. STORM-TOSSED SAILORS ESCAPE. Win i:ifthty-Four-Ilour Battle with KlemciitM on Lake Superior. After being tossed about !n a storm for eighty-four hours in a "dead" gasoline launch, without food for sixty hours and exhausted from exposure, Axel Oberg, his wife, two children and two sailors were cast on the rocks on the south shore of Lake Superior, thirteen miles from Duluth. A sailor and Robert Oberg, aged 12, told of their es cape. Oberg started for Two Harbors frcai Duluth. The boat ran into a heavy storm, the entire cargo was washed overboard and the gasoline tanks flooded with water, making it impossible . to operate the boat. The boat was driven twenty miles from its course. No one was injured. Auction Snle ll;veal Secret. Andrew Klein and Joseph Bolts, Albany merchants, purchased Jointly for $2.75 an old trunk at an auction sale of effects of murderers, suicides and victims of accidents, and found It contained bonds of a French traction line. They received word later that the bonds are believed to be worth $05 each, with accrued interest since 1903. Three Froaen to Death la Colorado. The bodies of Frank Loftus, William j Hasty, and James Hays, all of Lead1 .IITv i4Mn fj-tiin9 fn.l'itf fMiv v linn 1 Hit?, VV V 1 V 1UUUU W A.IS 141 lXlllTJO west of tho Hill Top mine In the Horseshoe district of Colorado. They had b?en ia a blizzard and were frozen to death. Two Hart In Auto Accident. Harold Jenks of Florida and Leslie Abell, students at the State Normal School, San Jore, Cal., were injured prohably fatally in on automobile accident. Find Limb or Girl In Ak Pile. The leg and part of the thigh of a girl about 16 years old, apparently recently severed from the body, was found in an ash pile in a lot in the center of Troy, N. Y. Scekx Gift Then Itejeets It. The Young Women's Christian Association of De3 Jloines, Iowa, asked the Des Moines Brewing Company for a contribution to apply on a building debt of the association. The brewing company sent a check for $1,000, which was refused.

Chicago Record Herald. GEORGETOWN LIERARY BURNED. Tram and Driver C.o Doivn Itnnk to Vnlveritltr Fire in Washington. A spirited team hitched to a hose cart dashed down a fifty-foot embankment and another fire horse fell dead after a heroic run with his mates at a fire which destroyed the library of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. About fifty students were asleep in the dormitory over the library when the fire was discovered, but all escaped. The flames, which originated in the boiler room, consumed rare volumes worth at least $10,000. TO SEIZE BLEACHED FLOUR. Secretary WHmou Taken Draatic Action Miller Stocks Raided. Open refusal of millers of bleached flour to heed the government's warning to cease the manufacture of that article of food has led Secretary Wilson to take drastic action. An order Crowd Around Air Shaft at Cherry has been issued by him to inspectors of the department of agriculture ' to seize all the bleached flour in the country, and information has been received that as a consequence fourteen consignments, including several hundred carloads, were taken in the west. It is supposed that about $1,000,f'00 worth of bleached flour wa3 manufactured in the last year and that niost of what remains of it is in the east, especially in and about New York. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. I!. Rockwell, an Iowa strawberry enthusiast, after twelve years' effort and experimenting, claims to have produced an ever-bearing strawberry. St. Paul officials declare that no advance in freight lates is contemplated in tbe Northwest, whatever may be the plans of railroads in other parts of the country. The immigration commissioner announced recently tint arrivals durii.f,the last three months from rhe Unlt?d States for the fanning districts of Western Canada total 13,811. Every month has an increase over those o' last year. Michael Ryan, president of the American Packers' Association, at a convention in Chicago, said that unless a great many more cattle were raised in America, this country would soon need to be importing meat. No hope of permanently lower prices for meat is 'held out by the association. James J. Hill will distribute $2,500 In gold as prizes at the Omaiia corn exhibit for the best grain grown in Montana within twenty :lve miles of the Great Northern. Montana .will have on display products which will demonstrate that the State of former mining and cattle-raising fame i now In the agricultural class. A report from Canada is to the effect that a new tentative route for the new Welland canal, enlarged so that successful competition with the Erie barge canal can be had, has been agreed upon by the government engineers. During the fourth annual convention of the meat packers at Chicago a committee reported to the effect that prices, which are now higher than ever before, will never go lower, and probably must go still higher. This, it was said, was due to the rising cattle market, on account of the increased cost of raising cattle. The committee said that the prices 'were pure? a natter of supply and demand. One c? the largest tobacco farms in the world, a 25,000-acre affair near Amsterdam, Ga., has grown about a third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for clgur wrappers in the United States. The fourth Dry Farming congress of the world was held at Billings, Mont, recently. The purpose of the "dry farming congress" is to forward the interests of what is known as "dry farming," and dry farming is the system of conservation of rainfall by which the great semi-arid district east of the Rockies is being converted Into one of the richest farming regions In America,

LIFE TERM FOR CLEMINS0N.

Chicago Physician Is Convicted by Jury of Wife Murder. Dr. Haldane Cleminson was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Nora Jane Cleminson, by a jury in Judge McSurely'8 cort in Chicago Saturday night, and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment for life. Only one Juror stood between the accused Rogers Park physician and the gallows. The final verdict was reached after the twelve men had deliberated less than three hours and four ballots had been taken. Mrs. Cleminson was found dead in her bed at the family residence, 6823 Wayne avenue, May 30. Her husband telephoned to Dr. Paul Hullhorst, of Rogers Park, and told him that burglars had entered his home, chloroformed him and his wife, and stole a gold watch. Cleminson said that he had been unconscious for several hours, and that when he recovered he found his wife dead. The case was reported to the police of the Rogers Park station, and an investigation resulted. Burned matches and bureau drawers were found on the floor, and $50 the physician said he had in his clothing and jewelry were missing. After Dr. Cleminson had been taken to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital an Investigation of the burglary story led the policevto believe it false. Their theory was strengthened when physicians reported that Cleminson was shamming illness. EDITOR OF CENTURY IS DEAD. R. W. Gilder, Surrounded by Members of Family, Conscious at End. Richard Watson Gilder, poet, lecturer and editor-in-chief of the Century Magazine, died shortly before 6 o'clock Thursday night The famous editor, who for more than a quarter of a century has been regarded as an authority on literature, passed away at the home of a friend, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. 9 West 10th street. New York. He succumbed to an attack of angina pectoris. He was surrounded by b!s wife and children. Mr. Gilder had been slightly indisposed for two weeks, but death cams with unexpected quickness. He was seemingly in better health Thursday morning when Mrs. Gilder left the house for a short time, but an hour after noon he was stricken with heart trouble. He retained control of his faculties until the end. and bade faroweli o the members of his family. THIS BOY BAD WHEN HE SLEEPS Order Itevemed In f'ne of Katrnas City Lad Would Kill Parent. What strange impulse leads Walter Schoonover, 11 years old, who is devoted to his parents in his waking hours, to try to murder them when darkness falls? For months his parents, who live at Kansas City, Kan., ha 'e attempted to answer this ques tion. Failing, they have appealed to Judge Van D. Prather to help them solve the mystery. Several times the boy's father and step-mother have awakened to find the youth stooping over them with a hammer, ready to kill them. When awakened he returns to bed in a peaceful frame of mind. The boy asserts that he does not know why he has such homicidal impulses. The court ordered him sent to a sanitarium. CHURCH BLOWN UP IN FEUD. Dynamite Wreck Front of Fane for Control of Which Haee Ilattle. An explosion of dynamite destroyed the front of the new Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Clinton, Ind., in tho coal fields. The parish Is largely composed of Hungarian and Bohemian miners. There had been a quarrel between the races as to which should have charge of the church. The church cost $30,000 and wp.s dedicated la3t July. Kim Ira City Hall llnrned. The City Hall In Elmira, N. Y., was burned to the ground whs-n a fire which started in the engineer's room spread so quickly that the firemen could not check the flames. The structure was built ten years ago at a cost of $100,000. Illack Hand Member Die In PrIon. Guiseppe A. Aiello, a member of tha Black Hand Society which operated in Cincinnati, died in the federal prison hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., of inanition, brought on by acute melancholia. He had been violently insane for two weeks. Convict Hones Self In Cell. Benjamin Lamont, of New York, sentenced to four years in the penitentiary in Montreal, for robbery and assault, committed suicide by hanging himself to the cell door. nineteen Hart In Wreck. Frisco passenger train No. 11 was wrecked by spreading rails at Rogers, Ark., and nineteen penons were injured, including W. J. Ballard, of St. Louis, and T. M. Martin. Die of Hydrophobia on Train. Paul Wesley Collins, 4 years old, died of hydrophobia on a Big Four train due in Indianapolis. The child had been bitten by a dog at Delaware, Ohio, and was being taken home from Chicago, where he had received treatment

Standard of New Jersey, Rocke feller's Head Company, Branded as an Illegal Monopoly.

GOVERNMENT IS THE VICTOR Ruling of St. Paul Tribunal Regarded as Death Blow, but Corporation Plans Appeal. The federal Circuit Court in St. Paul Saturday stamped the Standard Oil Company as an illegal corporation in restraint of trade, and a monopoly, and decreed its dissolution within thirty days. In its decision the court Is believed to have dealt the Standard Oil Company what will prove to be its death blow, and to have placed a weapon in the hands of the government that will enable it to wipe out of existence all similar combinations. The company affected is the Standard of New Jersey, the king pin of all the Rockefeller oil con erns. The government won a sweeping victory over the oil trust, for there 13 nothing in the decision to soften the severity of the blow. Every contention made by the government during Its three years' fight against the greatest of industrial trusts was sustained by the court. ' The decision is based upon the Sherman anti-trust act of 1890, the form of the company's organization, and the methods which it pursues in business being declared contrary to and in direct violation of Sections 1 and 2 of that act. Section 1 declares every form of combination and trust in restraint of trade and commerce to be illegal, while Section 2 prohibits any monopoly or attempted monopoly, or any combination or attempted combination, for the" purpose of securing a monopoly of trade. The law, according to the court, Is plain and explicit, and by inference it can readily be applied to nearly all of the great industrial combinations of the day. The purpose of the government, should the Supreme Court uphold the decision, is declared to be that .it shall be speedily applied to all combinations and trusts which have so markedly changed industrial conditions in the United States during the past decade. What will be the ultimate effect of the decision o( the court, assuming that the Supreme Court of the United States, to which the case will go direct, concurs in the view held by the Circuit Court, is the question that Is being asked on all sides. The attorneys for the government do not hesitate to say that It will revolutionize the industrial world of the country, and will eventually throw back into the hands of smaller corporations the business which the great combinations have absorbed. There will, it is claimed, be a recurrence to the industrial conditions of ten or fifteen years ago, when the man or the corporation with comparatively small capital could embark upon the sea of commerce with the assjrance that he would get a fair run and that he would not be gobbled up by a greater and more powerful rival. BOY'S CAPTOR IS KILLED. Outlaw Shot After IlefualnK to Surrender to l'oe. The unknown tra.:np who, for twenty-four hours, held Harry Garrett captive in an upstairs room of the Garrett ranch house, near Boise, Idaho, threatening death to the boy should an attempt to arrest him be made, was shot and killed Friday morning at daybreak after the boy escaped. Wearled by his long vigil, the outlaw fell into a doze and his prisoner quickly seized the opportunity to jump from a window. Shots startled the' watchers and a moment later the boy rushed from the direction of the house. The man had attempted to kill the lad, the men called on the desperado to surrender, but he refused and a volley of shots were fired through the floor from the room below. Jump" Sixteen Storle to Dentil. Morris Laudauer, a well-known financial writer, committed suicide by jumping from a sixteen-story window down a light well in the Real Estate Trust Company building in Philadelphia. The cause for the suicide has not yet been learned. . W0S&NDS, or Wilbur and Orville Wright have purchased 700 a'cres of farm land northwest of Springfield, Ohio, near Tippecanoe City, as a site for a park to be used for experiments with aeroplates. Howard B. Phillips, one of the oldest and best-known trainers and drivers of light harness horses in Pennsylvania, died recently at Pottstown. For more than two score years Trainer Phillips was a familiar figure at light harness horse racts throughout that State. Firestone easily won the Nassau handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., from a high-class field. The thirty-seventh annual fall meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association has closed. A few of the horses went from Lexington to Baltimore, while others were s,ent to Parkersburg, W. a. The twenty-fifth national horse show held its annual five-days exhibit at Madison Square Garden, recently. There were over 1,50 entries Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, president, his brother. Reginald C. Vanderbilt and a number of other noted horsemen, were present. Jack Johnson retained the heavy weight pugilistic championship by knocking out Stanley KetcheT in the twelfth round at San Francisco. T. C. Du Pout's grand little trotting more. Little Lady, 2: IT1, it which has been racing at Wilmington, has been booked to Del Coronado, 2:096, and will be bred next spring. The Times, London, reviewing tbe work of American horses during the past racing season, says that the gen eral conclusion is that they held their own in the matter of speed, but were deficient in stamina. They no doubt suffered from the change of climate and surroundings.

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Few persons realize that the Presi

dent of the United States works day and night, does not take time out for lunch, and puts in, as a rule, eight unbroken hours of office work every day. At the time other workingmen are taking a breathing time in the middle of the day. Mr. Taft is going on with his grind of work. At night he frequently has conferences with his cabinet memers on important political subjects. The President's work is not easy. He s hurried all the time by the clamor of people to see him, members of Con gress, private citizens and army and navy people being on the list. Occa sionally, many times as often as four times a day, his callers bank up in such numbers in the reception rooms of the executive offices that he has to leave his private office and shake hands with them as they pass him in what seems to be a ceaseless stream. This is but the incidents of the day. In addition to this he has to keep up his correspondence, consult members of the House and Senate on the tari.T question and political appointments, keep his eye on the patronage situation throughout the country and solve ques tions of the greatest import in state craft. The President earns his salary more fully than any man in the government service. The Governors of all the States of the Union, with the exception of fourConnecticut, Georgia, Washington and Wyoming are heartily in favor of changing the date for the inauguration of the President of the United States from March 4 to th last Thursday in April. As members of a national com mittee they intend to exercise all their Influence at the coming session of Congress to have a constitutional amendment submitted. Commissioner McFarland of the District of Columbia as president of the organization has collected a large amount of material, including photographs of Washington on the last inauguration, a comparison of the weather i?re on Maren 4 and on the last Thursday in April, the death roll of victims wha have been sacrificed to the severe weather and other material which will, it is thought. make a great impression not only upon Congress but upon the public general ly. Secretary of the Interior Bailinger in an interview replied to critics concerning his revocation of the Garfield order which withdrew from settlement iiii 1,500,000 acres and the substitution of a 300,000-acre withdrawal. He insists that this change was promotive of the conservation policy. The former order had been an emergency measure with out taking time to find where the pow er sites were actually located. Later investigation had shown that much of the land did not contain any power sites. Another increase in the freight rates on lemons from the Pacific coast to points In the Middle West is an nounced by the Interstate commerce commission. About the middle of Oc tobcr the Western carriers gave notice of an increase in lemon rates from Cal ifornia to all points in Minnesota, the Dakotas and adjacent territory.; The tariffs which have just been liled in crease the rate in the same proportion to practically every 'point In the Uni ted States. President Taft's message to Congress at the coming session will be a recom mendation for a radical change in the Sherman anti-trust act, and a revision of the Hepburn railroad rate law. It will be found that the President's pro posed legislation regulation of corpora tlons is dear to his heart, and it wil be urged on the lawmakers in such .a manner as to indicate that Mr. Taft is very much in earnest and will insist upon action before adjournim-nt. The seal of secrecy has been put by the department heads at Washington on all government officials in New York connected with the investigation and prosecution of the gigantic sugar frauds. This order followed the recent conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Ho tel between Franklin MacVeagh, Sec retary of the Treasury, and Collector Ixeb, United States District Attorney Wise and Special Prosecutors Stimson Denison and W. Wickham Smith. Col. George R. Colton of Illinois, formerly collector of customs at Manila, was Inaugurated as Governor of Porta Rico, succeeding Regis II. Post, resign ed. The address of Gov. Colton assert ed that complete self-government would ultimately come to the island under the Stars and Stripes. He ex pressed the opinion that Porto Ricans should have the privilege of becoming American citizens. Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh came to New York to confer with Col lector Loeb and the federal prosecutor In regard to the status of the Custom House employes who have turned State's evidence. The secretary decid ed to sustain Loeb in his promise of immunity to these men, although they were self-confessed criminals, and tc let them remain in the service. Officials of the Indian bureau are de lighted over the information that an agreement has been entered into by members of the Minnesota Liquor Dealers' Association not to do business with retailers who sell to the Indian wards of the government. All of the original "V. D. B." Lir. coin pennies have passed entirely into the hands of the public. There werej 2!.32.x,uuu oi inese pennies conieu. and iot one of them is left In the treasury or sub-treasuries. According to a report by the isthmian canal commission the greatest amount of concrete laid in a single day at Gatun locks was placed on Sunday, Oct. 24, when 1,034 cubic yards were added to the 33,248 cubic yards that had been placed up to the close of work on Oct 23. Lieut. Frank P. Lahm, who gained international fame by winning the James Gordon Uennett cup in Europe in 190G for the longest flight in a dirigible balloon, has been relieved from detail In the signal corps and ordered to report to his cavalry regiment. Approximately $1.000,000 in back taxes alleged to be due the State under the gross earnings tax law is involved in the case of the Great Northern Railroad agiinst the State of Minnesota, now up for decision In the United States Supreme Court. A congressional investigation of the so-called Dallinger-rinchot row seems inevitable. Congressmen who are at Washington say a resolution providing for an investigation will surely be introduced the first day of the session.

Crop Report Shows One Extra

Bushel Potatoes Per Capita Over Last Year. CORN YIELD IS NEAR RECORD Traders Give Figures Bearish Inter pretation and Market Sells Somewhat Lower. The crop reporting board of the Department of Agriculture in a preliminary report gives the indicated total production of corn for 1909 as 2,767,U 6,000 bushels, against 2,668,651,000 finally estimated last year, with the quality 84.2 per cent, against 86.9 last year. The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of corn Is 23.4 bushels, against 26.2 finally estimated last year. About 3 per cent (79,779,000 bushels) of the crop of 1903 is estimated to have been In farmers' hands on November 1, against 2.7 per cent (71,124,000 bushels) of the 1907 crop ' in farmers hands at this time last year. By states the total production (thousands omitted) for 1909 and total production for 190S are as follows: Bushels. '09. 652,000 1.053.0QO . 2.253.000 1,715.000 365.000 2.501.000 28.484.OCO 9.1S9.000 48,256,000 6.107.000 21.603.000 47.328.000 . 26.533.00 48.686,000 37.041.000 62,161,000 8.379.000 151.443,000 196.520,000 366,395.000 69,950.000 50,589.000 58.4C4.000 294.210,000 215.028,000 5.518,000 65,270,000 196.5o5.000 155.419.000 103.472.000 75.174.000 43.646,000 41,499.000 51.198,000 Bushels, 0S. 567.000 1,092.000 2,499.000 1,813.000 425.000 2.395,000 24.250,000 10.564.000 57,275.000 6.240.000 24.705.000 50,050.000 23.962,000 50,166,000 29,229,000 53.750,000 5,584.000 136.675,000 137.835,000 298,620.000 60,420,000 49.674,000 46,835.000 2S7.456.000 203.634,000 i ' 3.856,000 57,677.000 205.767,000 156,200,000 S1.S23.000 83.080,000 44.835.000 45.845.000 33.893,000 201.813.000 122.239.000 54.035.000 94.000 84,000 2.5S6.000 1,755.000 432,000 323.000 174,000 332,000 4 45.000 1,660,000 Maine New ITshire. Vermont .... Mass Rhode Island. Connecticut . New York .. . New Jersey . Pennsylvania Delaware ... Maryland ... Virginia W. Virginia . N. Carolina . S. Carolina . . Georgia Florida Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan ... Wisconsin .. . Minnesota . . Iowa Missouri . . . . N. Dakota . . S. Dakota, . . . Nebraska . . . Kansas Kentucky Tennessee ... Alabama . . . . Mississippi .. Louisiana Texas 117,107.000 100.555.000 52.fc02.00O 153.000 119.000 4,017.000 2,129,000 417.000 345.000 184,000 3S9.000 493,000 1,740.000 Oklahoma Arkansas Montana Wyoming Colorado .. New Mexico Arizona ... Utah Idaho Washington Oregon . . . California . Total 2.767.316,000 2.668.C31.000 "Wet r lit of Grain. The average weight per measured bushel of this year's wheat crop is 5S.0 pounds, against 58.3 last year, and of oats 32.7 pounds, against 29.8 a year ago. Backwheat quality is 91.1 per cent, against 90.7 last year, with the prelim inary estimate of the average yield per acre 20.8 bushels, against 19.S bushels in 1908, and a total Indicated production of 16,692,000 bushels, against 13,874.000 bushels a year ago. Potatoes show a quality of SS.9 per cent, against S7.6 a year ago, with a total yield per acre of 108.3 bushels, against 85.7 in 1908, an indicated to tal production of 367,473.000 bushels, against 27S.9S3,000 last year. The quality of tobacco is S6.7 per cent, against 87.9 last year; the pre liminary estimate of the average yield per acre is 807.7 pounds, against S20.2 pounds, as finally estimated in 1908, and an Indicated total production of S93.1S4.935 pounds, against 718.061.000 pounds, the final estimate of a year ago. The average quality of flaxseed is 92.1 per cent, against 91.4 in 1908; the preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre is 9.4 bushels, against 9.6 .bushels, as finally estimated In 190S, and an indicated total produc tion of 23,767,000 bushels, against 23,S05.000 bushels, the final estimate last year. The average production ,of apples this year is 42.5 per cent of a full crop, against 43.4 last year. Traders in the grain markets gave the government crop report on corn a bearish interpretation and sold the market somewhat lower because of it. Other grains sympathized to a consid erable extent with corn. RICH TRUCK FARMER DEAD. Lyman A. Budlong's Long Career In Coo?i County Is Ended. Lyman A. Budlong. said to hava been the world's largest producer of earden truck for city markets, died the other day at his home in Chicago of infirmities due to old age. He was born in Cranston, R. I., on Dec. 22. 1S29, and went to Cook County in 1837. He bought land at what is now Foster and Western avenues, then some distance outside the city limits, but now part of Chicago. At the time of his death he had seven hundred acres, most of it within the city limits and all devoted to truck farming. His wealth has been est! mated at from $1.500,000 to $2,000.000 He left a widow and four children. Cutton Traut l!n lllval. The Marquise de Ureteuil and her sister, Iady William Gordon-Cumming, formerly known in this country, as the Garner girls, have just closed a deal with Southern and Eastern cotton manufacturers for the sale of the vast cotton print manufacturing plants In Northern New York, which they had inherited from their father, who died In 1876. It is said that the purchasers are thus freed from the yoke of the cotton trust, which operates In the New England States, and will be able to reduce the price of their goods to the public, thus nullifying the effect of the increase in the tariff. Panlhan Mnkra Iteoord Height. Paulhan, the aviator, flying at Sandown, England, reached and sustained a height of 997 feet, which is claimed os the world's record. Orville Wright and De Iambert both claim to have gone higher, but their performances are not officially certified. Paulhan also created a new English record for speed by going a mile in 2:00 1-5. Notices posted in the cotton mills of New Dedford, Mass., informed more than 17.000 operatives that the produc tion of cotton cloth would be curtailed two hours in the week.

CHICAGO.The weekly review of Chicago trade by R. G. Dun & Co. says: Trade developments sustain optimistic views as to the future, and further testimony to the progress made is furnished by the bank reports, which reflect gratifying expansion in both deposits and discounts. Credits gener-' ally are strengthened by the improved condition of collections throughout the western territory, although

the trading defaults yet show more than normal. Seasonable weather stimulated wider demand for necessa ries and the leading branches of dis-" tribution exhibit increasing activity in current shipments and forward bookings. Retail trade here and at the interior equals the best expectations. Heavy absorption Is noted of winter clothing, blankets, worsteds, footwear and food supplies, most stocks undergoing gratifying reductions. Supplementary orders are numerous In wholesale dry goods and other staples, many requiring Immedi ate forwarding and Indicating that consumption exceeds that for whicb. provisior wa3 previously made by many courtry dealers. Another rise in costs of cotton fabrics has also in duced urgent buying against future needs. Prices of food products and other need3 average unusually high and cause enforced .economies, but increased population and purchasing power as sure prospects for ery encouraging results in Chrjstma3 trade. Bank clearings, $277,816.907, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1908 by 4.2 per cent and compare with $196,856,633 in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number twenty-seven, against thirty-three last week, eighteen In 1908 and thirty-six in 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 6ix, against eleven last week, five in 1908 and fourteen in 1907. NEW YORK. With the arrival of cold weather this week, retail trade hitherto inclin ed to lag, has taken on the appearance of activity, and distributive trade reports are more uniformly encouraging tbtn for some time past. In some sections, particularly the Northwest, the temporary eJfect of heavy snows interrupting transportation to some extent ha3 been to dull some lines of wholesale trade, but the general effect of the winter visitant has been helpful. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Nov. 18 were 232, against 221 last week, 273 In the like week cf 190S. 263 in 1907, 212 in 1906 and 224 in 1903. Business failures In Canada for the week number 26. which compares with 29 last week and 23 in the corresponding week of 190S. Eradstreet's. Chlcag Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $9.23; hogs, prime heavy, $4.30 to $8.23; sheep, fair to choice, $4.3,0 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, $1.19 to $1.20; corn, No. 2, lc to 63c; oats, standard, 37c to 39c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 74c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie. $8.00 to $13.50; butter, choice creamer), 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh, ,23c to 2Sc; potatoes, per bushel, 00c to 0a Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. J3.0D to $8.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $8.15; sheep, good to choice, $2.13 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2. $1.15 to $1.17; corn, No. 2 white, 57c to 59c; oats, No. 2 white, C9c to 41c St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to ISM; hogs, $4.00 to $8.23; sheep, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat, No. 2, $1.22 to $1.25; torn. No. 2, 59c to 61c; oats, Nu. 2, 3Sc to 39c; rye. No. 2, 72c to 73c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs. $4.00 to $7.C5: sheep. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.20 to $1.21; wn. No. 2 yellow,. 60c to 62c; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, 73c to 76c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.06 to $1.00; corn. No. S. 5Sc to COc; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, 73c to 75c; barley, standard, 63c to 67c; pork. mess. $23.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4 00 to $7.00; hogs. ' fair to choice, $4.00 to $S.40; sheep, common to good mixed. $4.00 to $3.30; lambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.90. Toledo Wheat,, No. 2 mixed, $1.20 to $1.22; corn. No. 2 mixed, C5c to. 67c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42e; rye. No. 2, 74c to 76c; clover seed. $8.62. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $8.10: sheep, $3.00. to $4.50; wheat, No. 2. $1.24 to $1.26: corn. No. 2 mixed, 59c to 60c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2, 7Lc to 7c New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.S0; hogs. $4.00 to $8.25; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.23 to $1.25; corn, No. 2, 70c to 72c; oats, natural, white, 43c to 46c; butter, creamery. 27c to 31c; eggs, western. 30c to 33c Since the raid on the home of George Kreitz, near Lexington, Ky whose refusal to enter a tobacco pool might have cost his life if his daughter, armed with a Bhotgun. had not succeeded in inspiring awe. fear of night rider raids is general. Growers will ask the protection of troojy. The project of the Daughtrs of th American Revolution to have the government build a road from Yorktown. Va., to Jamestown, via Williamsburg, received the indorsement of the national congress of good road builders, in session at Columbus, Ohio. A wireless message received at Atlantic City, N. states that the Scarborough, k schooner, bound from Philadelphia to Chlncoteagate, Va loaded with coal, was wrecked off Cape Hcnlopen In a heavy gale. The crew of five men were rescued by a passing steamship. Notwithstanding tbe recent business depression, more funds were raised durlnp the past year by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church than during any other time In the history of the organ izatilon,