Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 December 1909 — Page 2

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L. Q.N. M.S F. Q .ffj! F. M VjL 4th. 12th JZj m 4rth. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Couditions of Thine are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to j make it Complete. LAKE SHORE FLYER WRECKED. Many Killed and Injured in Disaster Near Erie, Pennsylvania. The Twentieth Century Limited, the New York Central fast train, en route from Chicago to New York, collided with the rear end of passenger train No. 10, on the Lake Shore railroad at Kortheast, Pa., sixteen miles east of Erie, shortly after midnight. At the time of the collision the Twentieth Century was making C2 miles an hour. Advices received by the railroad officials stated train No. 10 broke down and that a second section of the Twentieth Century ran into it. Twenty are reported dead. The engine of No. 26 reared up, turned oved and fell upon the coaches following. Northeast is f. small town and at night is cut oil fr jrti both telegraph and telephone comm lnication. The Twentieth Century limited is due at Erie at 11:43 p. m.. .a' passed, running faster than sched K' time. Train No. 10, also east-bouni, left there at 10:03 p. m., and was tcheduled to take the siding at Northeast, but it is believed the train did not reach the siding far enough In advance of the flyer to make a proper clearance. The wreck occurred directly opposite the Northeast railway station. Railway officials refuse to make public any facts concerning the wreck. The second section of No. 26 (the Twentieth Century) was made up of two cars from St. Louis, one from Cincinnati and one fron Cleveland. The St. Louis cars were ahead and most of the dead are reported to be In them and in the two rear cars of No. 10, which carried passengers from Cleveland and Chicago. No. 10 was delayed an hour and forty-five minutes at Northeast and sent a flagman back. It Is reported that hi3 lantern went out, but this Is not confirmed. Die Penned In by Flames. Two women, two men and three children lost their lives and seven other persons were seriously Injured in a tenement fire at Third and Sycamore streets In Cincinnati, Ohio, which broke out at midnight. Three of the dead were practically burned to cinders and the charred bodies are unrecognizable. In scenes and incidents of horror the fire outranks any similar calamity which has occurred in Cincinnati in many, years past. The fire occurred in a building which was occupied by about one dozen families. It wa3 caused through the upsetting of a kerosene lamp in a hallway on the second floor. All the occupants were asleep and before the fire was discovered all egress was cut off to the unfortunates who lived in the upper stories. One of the most tragic incidents which occurred as when an unknown woman, clasping her 8-year-old son In her arms, sprang from a third floor window and both were instantly killed In the fall to the sidewalk below. The loss of life is attributed to one cause alone. The dwellers in the tenement were so overwhelmed by panic that they rushed headlong into the flames to their death. Tht fire was extinguished with slight trouble, with a total loss of about $3,000. Child's Dead Body Found in a Well. The body of an 'lnidentified 8-year-old girl was found in an abandoned well cn the farm of J. P. Harrington, Foven miles south of Sandusky; Ohio. Nobody has been reported missing from the neighborhood and it is believed the little girl may have been a member of a band of gypsies that encamped near the Harrington farm last summer. Slain by Imbecile Son. August Helmquist, a farmer residirg in the township of Umess, In Dougla-.a County, Minnesota, was shot and killed while asleep in his barn, by his feebleminded son, who also shot and seriously wounded his brother. . Millionaire Mining Man Dies. V. S. Dean, millionaire contractor and mining man, died at Superior, Wl3., as the result of a third operation following appendicitis. Until recently he was president of the Butte-Ealak-lava Copper Company. Victims of Skating Season. Five deaths resulted from the inauguration of the skating season in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Four of the Tictims were tys and the fifth a father who was drowned after rescuing his 12-year-old son. Niagara Falls Theater Burned. The International theatre burned at Niagara Falls, N. Y. The house had just-been cleared of its scenery when the fire started. The loss Is $125,000. Assaulted by Ruffians. Louis Lanvermeyer, a prominent farmer living on Mt. Tabor, while returning from Aurora, was assaulted by unknown parties, the bridge of his nose being broken by a rock thrown by one of the ruffians. Fire Drill Safely Removed Children. The roof of the North High School building in Tell City, Ind., waa damaged by fire recently, due to a defective flue. The fire drill brought out 500 children to safety and school was dismissed for the day. Another Cashier in Jail. Charged with the embezzling of $33,000 from the People's Bank and Trust Company at New Haven, Conn., Cashier Robert D. Muir was arrested and locked up in default of ball. Muir, it Is alleged, took $113,000, but officials of the bank obtained security from him to the value of $80,000. Mrs.- Oowe's Fifth. Jacob Bruner and Mrs. Bettle Crowe of Evansville, Ind., were married at Henderson, Ky., recently. It was the tfth wedding for the bride.

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Swear They .la Je All of Doctor's Recordr. for Him. SAY DOCTOR FAILED TO PAY Were to Have Received $4,000 Got Only S2CO on Account Before Explorer Disappeared. The New York Times publishes affidavits from Captain August W. Loose, who says he is a pilot and navigator of ocean-going steamships, and George II. Dunkle, an insurance broker, who claims to have been hired by Dr. Frederick A. Cook to supply books and charts whereby his data and observations in the arctic were to be so "doctored" that they would be accepted by the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Cook's friends in NewYork said t'uat the explorer had met Mr. Dunkle ence, and that he was so pestered by him i.hat when he called a second time he sent word that he could not see him. The affidavits in effect are that Dr. Cook engaged the two men to "fake" the report he has submitted to Copenhagen, promising them $4,000 for the job; that he paid them $260 and then disappeared. The story told by the Times in part follows: "Captain Loose describes at length how, working backward from the pole, he calculated observations that would fit in with Cook's narrative, and coached him on the necessary modifications of the latter as for example that he must be sure to record that he rose before 4:13 o'clock on a certain morning because it wa3 at that hour that a certain star mentioned in one of Loose's calculations would be visible. "Mr. Dunkle describes the Inception of the enterprise; how from the newspapers they gathered that Dr. Cook was in deep water and inferred that he would be glad to pay for help; how Dunkle got John TL Bradley, Cook's backer, to introduce him; how the subject" wa3 led up to delicately and the bargain finally struck and carried out, and how, at last, Dr. Cook disappeared, after accepting their work and paying only $200 for it. "Both Captain Loose r.nd Mr. Dunkle tell of a visit to the shop of John Blis3 & Co. at 123 Front street a few days after the captain's first talk with the explorer at the "Waldorf-Astoria and of purchasing for Dr. Cook various nautical and astronomical works, besides three charts of Smith Sound and the polar regions. Robert Flight, who sold the books and charts, told a reporter of the Times that he recalled the visit and that the purschases were made as described. "Captain Loose, in his statement, says he stayed at the Gramatan Hotel from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, working out observations for Dr. Cook and that he and the doctor had frequent conferences. Mr. Dunkle went with him on Nov. 1G, leaving the next day. He and Captain Loose having connecting rooms Nos. 126 and 128, Mr. Dunkle registering for them. The register shows the arrival on Nov. 16 of George H. Dundle and "Andrew H. Lewis," the fictitious name agreed upon for Captain Loose. "Captain Loose says he remained secluded in his room during his stay at the hotel so as to run no chance of having the doctor found out. All the time he worked hard on the polar calculations, giving them to Dr. Cook as they were completed. On the last day of his stay at the hotel. Captain Loose says, he gave Dr. Cook the ' final set of observations he had made for him and the doctor thanked him profusely, declaring that he now felt confident that his records would be accepted at Copenhagen." The Times i3 careful to explain that it does not know whether Dr. Cook adopted the "observations" of : Captain Loose. Form Indiana Tobacco Pool. The tobacco growers of Indiana have formed a pool, under the name of the Indiana Tobacco Growers Association, and have opened a warehouse at Dale. The dooI offers S3 to S14 for Rnriv I , i. SO 'A J 1- Al :iu to $a.au lur uarit tuuacco. Couple Die In Suicide Pact. Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Smith, an aged and wealthy couple of Tulsa, Okla., were found dead in their residence, apparently the victims of a suicide part. The couple was last seen by neighbors the other morning, when they appeared in jolly mood. Mother and Three Children Dorn. Myrtle J. Johnson, 3 years old. was burned to death and her mother and two younger brothers were fatally burned In a fire which destroyed their home, at Conneilsville, Pa. Oil Defeat Halt Mercer. The recent Standard Oil decision In the federal courts is said to have changed the plans of the proposed copper merger and there may be some delay in effecting the combination. Church Schools to Join. The Presbyterian Synod of Nebraska has voted to consolidate the college at Bellcvue, a suburb of Kearney, with that at Hastings. The combined Institution Is to be ctiied Belle vue Col lege and will have an endowment of $500,000.

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-Minneapolis Journal. DATA ON POSTAL BANKS. Comptroller Shows Growth of Such, Depositories in Foreign Countries. In the annual report of Comptroller of the Currency, Lawrence O. Murray, there is a comprehensive table of the growth of postal savings banks the world over which serves to emphasize the need for such banks in the United States. The table shows that thirtyfour countries or colonies have such banks and that, during the last decade, the number of depositors In these banks have increased from 20.1S2.8S7 to 40,320,303, or nearly 100 per cent, while during the same period the deposits have increased from $1,138,411,944 to $1,9S9,299,S13, or approximately 73 per cent. During the decade the average deposit of each depostor has fallen from $36.41 to $49.83. While the number of depositors in postal savings hanks is 42 per cent of the number of depositors in all foreign savings banks, the deposits are only about 20 per cent of the total deposits in such banks. In the thirty-four countries and de pendencies having postal savings banks, the united kingdom leads In the number of depositors and amount of deposits that Is. 11,018,251 and $781,794,533, respectively. In Japan there are 8,013,193 depostors; In Ita ly, 5,108,802; France. 5,034,998; Bel gium, 2.10C.237; Austria, 2,064,403; Russia, 1.78S.990; Netherlands. 1,401,670, and British India, 1,262,763. Canadian postal savings banks have but 153.893 depositors, but their deposits amount to $43,190,4S4, making the average deposit account $2S9.88, by far the largest average account In postal savings banks in any country. The report shows 25.000 banks with an excess of. 23,000,000 deposit ac counts, capital aggregating $1,S53,9S7,268 and Individual deposits of more than $14.000,000,000. It is reported from Rome that the Duke of Abruzzi has been promoted and Is now a rear admiral. Twenty sailing vessels went to the bottom and an unknown number of sailors were drowned in a storm which recently swept the Mediterranean sea from Port Said to Gibraltar. An effort to draw the United States Into the revolution In Nicaragua Is being made by many who are circulating a petition asking this country to restore peace. The United States, the petition says, is the only country to which the Nicaraguans can look for assistance. Canada's naval plans have been laid before Parliament. They provide for the construction of three cruisers of the "improved Bristol" class, and four destroyers of the improved river class. The cost of the cruisers is estimated at $75,000,0(0, and that of the destroyers at $1,500.000. The annual cost of maintenance of the vessels is estimated at $2.000,000. The Finnish diet, the last legislative body of Finland preserved from the domination of Russia, has been dissolved. The dissolution is locked upon as the beginning of the end of Finnish independence. During the past few months remarkable excavations have been In operation at Jerusalem and startling results are expected. A hitherto unknown tunnel has been discovered and explored and two deep shafts have been sunk. In spite of the secrecy maintained. It is understood that the quest is for the tombs cf David and the kings of Judah and the treasure thought to be buried with them. Having finished their inspection of the Panama canal works, the members of the American Congress Appropriations Committee has begun work of the $48.000.000 estimate for 1910, prepared by Col. Goethals, chief engineer and chairman of the Isthmian canal commission. An official report from Ottawa, Canada, bespeaks an immense harvest The wheat crop is put down at 168,S8G.000 bushels, giving an average of twenty-two bushels an acre, and barley at 57,000.000 bushels, or thirty-one bushels an acre. The yield of oats Is given at 355,000.009 bushels, or thirtyeight bushels an acre.

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CHILD'S MURDERERS GET LIFE.

Hattie ZlntlnN Mayers Sentenced at Milwaukee After Confession. Carl wojcieehowski and Adam Pietrzyk, the confessed murderers of 14-year-old Hattie Zinda, were taken into the Municipal Court in Milwaukee unexpectedly the other night and pleaded guilty. The men were about to be sentenced for life when Pietrzyk, who confessed that "Wojcieehowski committed the murder while he himself stood guard outside, asked for an attorney to make a plea for clemency. This request was granted. After a hearing, lasting three hours, both men were sentenced to life imprisonment and arrangements were made to start them to the state prison before daylight. GROCERS CHARGE CONSPIRACY. Government lleglns Investigation of lllh Prices of Foodstuffs. High prices of foodstuffs are being investigated by the United States District Attorney's office In New York, because of complaints by the largest wholesale grocers that there seems to exist a conspiracy among some manufacturers to maintain prices to the consumer. It is learned that several leading manufacturers of food products have been called before District Attorney Wise and informed that the contracts they have been using to force wholesalers to keep up prices are in restraint of trade and a violation of the anti-trust law. BOYS SEIZED AS MURDERERS. Two of Trio Arrested for Aobberles Are Identified as Slayers. In the arrest of three youths, aged 17, 19 and 21, the Kansa3 City police believe they have found the perpetrators of numerous holdups. Two of the boys, Ralph Clyne and Louis Dye, were identified by a witness as the men who shot and killed M. A. Spangler Nov. 24. Spangler was killed in his saloon during an attempted holdup. His son, Samuel Spangler, was shot in both arms. The third prisoner, Harry Shay, was identified as the youth who accompanied Dye and Clyne on several expeditions. "PAT" SHEEDY IS DEAD. Noted Gambler and Sport Inn; Man Succumbs to Complications. Patrick F. Sheedy, known on two continents as a gambler and sporting man and in recent years the proprietor of an art gallery, died of a complication of diseases in his home, at 161 West 34th street, New York. Surrounded by the friends of old days, among them "Handsome Dan" Murphy, Pat Sheedy withdrew from the game of life, silently as was his wont, a smile on his face and with no fear in his eyes. "Speak kindly of him. If you can," his widow said to the reporters. Arrests In Zlnda Marder. Karl Wodciechcwski and Adam Pietzszak were brought to Milwaukee from Blaney, Mich., as suspects In the Hattie Zlnda case. Both disappeared from Milwaukee about the time of the murder. Crasjr Murderer Is Slain. After he had killed Sheriff Jacob Bell and terrorized the countryside, O. E. Boley, an escaped patient from the Massillon Hospital for the Insane, was shot down and captured near Shreve. Ohio. He died of his wound. Kills an Ohio Sheriff. After holding his family at Shreve, Ohio, in a state of terror all night, Roy Lee, who is believed to be insan, shot and killed Sheriff Jacob Bell, ti Holmes County, when the officer attempted to place him under arrest. Two Killed In Factory Kx plosion. George A. Fowler and his brother, Robert Fowler, were crushed to death In an explosion of an acetylene tank In the safe factory of Stiffel & Freeman, at Second street and Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia. Broker Baddeke Gets Two Years. Charles J. Buddeke, the broker recently convicted on a charge of embezzlement after a Jury trial in the Criminal Court, was sentenced in Cincinnati to serve two years in the Ohio penitentiary at hard labor.

BIG FIRE AT KALAMAZOO.

One Life Probably Sacrificed and Much Property Destroyed. One life probably was lost, many firemen were overcome by smoke, 300 hotel guests were driven into the icy streets and property valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed by a fire which started in Kalamazoo at 10 o'clock the other night and was extinguished after an all-night struggle by the combined fire-fighting forces at Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and Grand Rapids. Originating in the. basement of the Star Bargain house, a 5 and 10-cent store on West Main street, the flames, fanned by a strong southwest wind. spread east along the north side of Main street, destroying the Burdick House, a four-story hotel and store building covering more than half a block. Along an arcade running north through the Burdick building to Water street were half a dozen small establishments, and these were burned. Sweeping east on Main street the flames made their way through the Postal Telegraph and American Express offices, Chase's shoe store, Cowlbeck's furnishing store, Kennedy's drug store and smaller business places. To low pressure in the mains Is attributed the spread of tie fire. The city depends for its supply on artesian wells and the water from this source was Inadequate. A large standpipe at the asylum was connected with the mains, but gave only a temporary advantage. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, which instituted freight traffic on its new Puget Sound extension by rates independently of the other transcontinental lines, with some especially low tariffs on Oriental export and Import business has abandoned Its independent attitude so far as the import traffic is concerned. One hundred miles of eighty-five-pound rails have been ordered for the improvement of the Central branch, a subsidiary road of the Missouri Pacific system. The line traverses a rich section of Kansas. Governor Stubbs, of that State, recently threatened to institute receivership proceedinr.s against the line unless It was speedily Improved. We are moving freight at the rate of a billion gross tons a year, and to do this we employ nearly two million and one-half freight cars, and nearly fifty thousand locomotives. We import about nineteen million gross tons of merchandise yearly, and export about fifty-two million gross tons. Our foreign trade shows a return of $3,000,000,000, and our domestic trade one of $21,000,000,000, annuallj'. One-half of the world's ocean commerce moves along North Atlantic routes, and for the greater part of it our foreign trading is responsible. At this its volume is a drop In the bucket as against the great trunk-line tonnage in this country. The Pennsylvania Railroad has placed orders in Philadelphia for 10,000 new freight cars. These are in addition to the orders for the regular replacements on the 1909 and 1910 schedules, for which 16,000 car's had already been ordered since the first of the year. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company has been authorized to issue stock to the value of $44.658.000, or 44,638 shares, the stock to be told at par. Of the proceeds, nearly half will be used in the discharge cf certain three-year 5 per cent gold notes, which mature in Febuarv, 1910. Our railroad trackage main track and siding is 350,000 miles in length, and this would girdle the equator fourteen times. In twenty years we have built more railroad mileage than Great Britain and France combined in ILfty yearrs. Two-fifths of the world's cntira railroad trackage is laid down in Uncle Sam's territory. We have more than five times the allotment of railroad mileage in Europe for each 10,000 inhabitants, the figures being: Twenty-seven miles in the United States; five miles in Europe. Moreover our railroad capitalization a mile of railroad is less than one-fourth of that of Great Britain on the same basis

The Senate met promptly at 12 o'clock Tuesday, with a full attendance of Senators on the floor. The President's message was brought in shortly after the call to order and the reading began. The Senators manifested deep interest in the document, some following the reading and others turning over the printed pages to find subjects in which they were specially interested. Following the custom the message was referred to the committee of the whole. The Senate then held an executive session until 2:30 o'clock, adjourning to meet Friday. The House assembled at 12, and a few minutes after when the President's message was brought in there was a scramble to get coiues. The actual reading of the document consumed a little more than an hour and a half. The message was referred to the committee of the whole and the House adjourned until Friday. ,

More than 350 bills and resolutions; were introduced in the Senate Friday. A resolution presented by Senator Rayner authorizes President Taft to cause President Zelaya of Nicaragua to be apprehended as a common criminal for murdering two Americans. Ajourned until Monday. Many bills were introduced in the House, including one by Mr. Lundin, of Illinois, for a $2.000,000 postofflce cn the West Side in Chicago; one by Mr. Sabath, of Illinois, providing a jury trial for persons accused of contempt of court, and a resolution by Mr. Sabath providing for an investigation of sugar frauds. Mr. Moxlej', of Illinois, was seated. Mr. Kustcrmann, cf Wisconsin, denied his interest in German shipping trade made him antagonize American ship subsidies. Adjourned until Monday. BLIND EYEBALL TATTOOED. White Surface Made to Match Young Girl's Healthy Optic. An operation performed only a few times by the greatest eye specialists of the world was recently successfully completed in a Philadelphia hospital clinic. By the use of six needles, Indian ink and a vegetable dye, the doctor succeeded in tattooing the perfect semblance of an eye on a young girl's blind eyeball, which was covered by an ugly white blemish the size of a 5-cent piece. The girl sought to have a glaas eye in place cf the diseased tissues, which made her face repulsive to look at. The doctor, upon examination, found that the growth over the cornea was so strong that the delicate operation that came in his mind could be performed with a chance of success. Cocaine was inserted to destroy whatever sensibility remained, but no anesthetic was administered to the patient, who did not appear to suffer any pain while the operation was going one. The students saw the skillful hand of the doctor guiding the tattooing needles produce the semblance of an eye with the skill and patience of a trained artist on a surface that had been a blank white. India ink was used for the pupil. For the iris a vegetable dye which had been caref.lly experimented with was employed, and the brown color of the other aci healthy iris In the girl's other eye was duplicated. The operation, it is said, can never become common, as it 13 seldom that the eyeball of a blind person is in condition to permit tattooing. Mar Disrsrlnsr More Canals. A message from Prof. Lowell of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., says that the recent sensational reports about Mars have no foundation in fact. The planet has been under minute observation there since April, and the much-talked of haze which appeared to envelop it in July is explained as due to the excessive spring naze, caused by the evaporation of the South Polar snows and only goes to corroborate the theory already published that there is water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars. The development of the canal system, he says, has progressed regularly down the disk from April to the present moment. Visual observations and photographs agree as to the apparent lateness of the Martian season Infantile Paralysis Infections. Doctors Flexner and Lewis of the Rockefeller Institute, who since the 1907 epidemic in New York of infantile paralysis have been carrying on extensive investigations to ascertain the nature of this little understood and much dreaded disease, now announce that it is an infectious disease and hold out the hope that a serum for its cure will soon be forthcoming. The experiments have been made on monkeys, which were inoculated with material obtained from the spinal cord of a child who died of the disease. The first monkey promptly took the disease and died in a few days, when it was found that its tpine -contained lesions exactly like those in the cord of the child. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the West Branch Hat and Cap factory at Northumberland, Pa., at a loss of $100,000. Contracts are to be placed for two submarines for the Russian navy. They are planned to cruise in company with a battle-ship fleet. While sleep walking, 17-year-old Hlnman Knowlton of South Framingham, Mass., Is believed to have fatally shot both his parents. The boy was arrested. The Keck Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati was declared bankrupt in a decision handed down in the United States District Court An endowment fund for the support of a post-graduate school for "teacher nurses" has been given to the teachers college of Columbia University by Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins. The amount of the gift has not been made public. The national executive committee of the Council of Jewish Women, in convention in Pittsburg, elected Miss Sadie American cf New York as a delegate to the international white slave trainc association to be held at Madrid next May. Henry T. Hart. Jr., charged with embezzling $29,000 while he was collector for the Illinois Central Railroad, pleaded guilty to one count in New Orleans. Sentence was deferred. Rrittain Medith and Richard Pace fought a duel near Charleston, W. Va., after Medith shot and killed Lulu Wlckline. Pace was wounded mortally. Medith shot himself. Asserting that the United States government set a bad precedent in granting her father, the late Capt. James Hall, $15.000 for his polar explorations, Miss Anna Hall of Cincinnati will return her share of the money to the federal authorities.

Iowa Senator Introduces Bill at Washington for Radical Changes in Law.

POWER TO THE COMMISSION. Uniform Classification, Interstate Body to Act on Own Motion and IIo Court Interference. A controversy over railroad legislation which for Interest and importance promises to surpass the legislative conflict over railroad rates four years ago will be precipitated in Congress this winter. The first gun was 5red by Senator Cummins of Iowa when he introduced a bill proposing radical changes in the interstate commerce act. . In brief, the Cummins bill requires the Interstate Commerce Commission to promulgate a uniform classification 5f freight and to prepare a plan for the statement of rates, which thereafter would be made in a uniform way. The carriers are required to adopt this classification. The commission Is to be authorized to consider rates on its own motion, with a view to, determin ing their reasonableness, and is empowered to fix maximum and minimum rates. In an action in court t& set aside an order of the commission respecting rates, the courts would be prevented from inquiring into the reasonableness or sufficiency of any rate fixed by the commission. The bill also provides that changes shall not become effective be"ore they are approved by the commission. It prohibits acquisition of control of parallel and competing lines by any common carrier, or acquiring of capital steck or bonds of any other carrier that is a competitor. A carrier Is prohibited from issuing capital stock without payment at par either in money or in property, and, in effect, the commission shall have supervision of issues of stocks and bonds by any carrier. Specific directions are set forth for tho disposition of the proceeds of any sale of bbnd3. After Jan. 1, 1911, no nilway doing Interstate business shall be permitted to engage In other business than that of a common carrier. A resolution authorizing the President to take the necessary step3 for the apprehension of President Zelaya of Nicaragua and for hl3 punishment on the charge of murder, if the facts in the possession of the, State Department warrant such action, ' has been Introduced iu the Senate by Senator Rayner. The resolution recites the circumstances connected with the execution of two Americans, Grace and Cannon, by order of President Zelaya, as generally understood through published reports from Nicaragua. NEGRO SOLDIERS HIT. Kew Evidence Said to Fix Guilt Conclusively in Brownsville Case. That the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Texas, was done by members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, colored, wrho were in the fort at the time their companions were running through the streets of '.he town, firing right and left, is said to be proved conclusively by evidence now in possession of the military court of inquiry into that famous case. None of the members of the court would discuss the matter, but it is Intimated that a demand for the abolition of the negro troops will be made by the Southern delegations in Congress. Thus the bitter debate that marked the final days of the Rocsevelt administration threatens to J be renewed. The evidence discovered by the officers who compose the court is said to be susceptible of complete proof. Certain members, it is reported, made personal examination of buildings across the road from the fort In Brownsville. They discovered bullet holes in the sides of three houses. Continuing their investigations, they discovered the bullets, which were of the regulation army design. Following back the line of fire, as shown by the track of the bullets, the marksmen could have been nowhere else than within the barracks. FROZEN TO DEATH IN SWAMP. Lutheran Missionary Meets Fate in Effort to Keep Appointment. Rev. Olo O. Fugleskie, missionary of the United Lutheran Church, disciple and associate of Rev. Frank Iliggins, better known as the "Lumberjack Sky Pilot," was found frozen to death in an uninhabited and swampy region, southeast of Spooner, Minn., by a searching party of homesteaders. The hardy missionary left Nels Rippes homestead hut at Silver Creek, afoot, at 2 o'clock on a recent afternoon foi Clementson, thirteen miles away, where he was due to hold services that evening. When he did not arrive it was taken for granted by the assembled lumbermen and homesteaders that he had not started out, as a heavy snow was falling. He was found about ten miles from Rippes' place, at the edge of a floating bog, where he had dropped exhausted with his Bible open at his side. Aired W Id ott Is Asphyxiated. Mrs. Caroline Bryant, a widow, 76 years old, was asphyxiated at her home In Columbus, Ohio, and her daughter. Miss Ellen Bryant, and a maid had a narrow escape from death. The pressure of natural gas in a furnace filled the house with deadly fumes. Csar Cousin Hales Finns. Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholajevitch, second cousin of the Russian Emperor, has been designated to take full and direct charge of affairs In Finland. IMve Ierlsli Trlth Frrlghler. The W. C. Richardson, a big steel freighter, sank at a point five miles up the lake from Buffalo harbor and five members of the crew perished. Wife Dead) Acease Ilasband. Mrs. Frank M. Dickerson, 49 years old, wa3 found stabbed to death In the doorway of a store and flat building in Detroit Her husband, charged with her death, is suffering from probably fatal wounds self-inflicted. About four months ago Mrs. Dickerson left her husband on account of alleged cruelty.

CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The general conditions indicate that business is progressive, despite the hindrances interposed by roc 5b. weather, freezing and railroad difficulties in the Northwest. Bank clearings show a satisfactory gain, money is in broad request for commercial purposes and trading defaults have declined. Factory outputs in the principal industries exceed all former cggregates. "Specifications assure considerable forward work at rail mills, forges and car shops. Improvement Is maintained in structural steel activity, wire, machinery, hardware, electric and woodworking. The leather market is steady in values. "Further !r urease is noted in factory capacity and hands employed in the Calumet district and additional furnaces are operating at South Chicago. "Snowstorms impeded crcp marketings and heavy freight and merchandise movements, but the lower temperatures stimulated a brisk demand for sodsonable wares. Heavy-weight apparel, furs, jewelry, art .nd Christmas lines are freely bought. Mall and road orders continue their favoriMe comparison with a 3-ear ago in dry goods, footwear, clothing, woolens, men's furnishings and food products. "Lake navigation closed for the season with results satisfactory to vessel owners. Earnings of the Chicago

J steam road3 disclose notable gainsJn gross over those at thi3 time last year. - "Bank clearings, $2T0,717,oT9, exceed tnose in the corresponding week last year by 6.0 per cent, and compare with $193,271,971 in 1907. "Failures reported in the Chicago district number 20, against 30 last week, 41 in 190S and 23 In 1907. Those witU liabilities over $3.000 number 7, against 7 last week, 13 in 1!K8 and 5 in 1907." XEW YORIL Colder weather and the nearer approach of the holidays have stimulated trade generally throughout the North and West, and have even helped Southern trade. As the week advanced there seemed to be evidence that the railroad strike was losing its effectiveness as a trade deterrent. In wholesale lines there Is Doraething like a seasonable quieting down shown. There Is no particular evidence of slowing down in industrial operations. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with Dec. 9 were 239, as against 220 last week, 23S in the like week of 190S. ÜS4 In 1907, 220 in 906 and 22C In 1903. Business failures in Canada for tho week number 20, comparing with 25 last week and 60 In the correspondiig week of 19C8. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $9.15; hogs, prime heavy, $4.Ü0 to $8.60; sheep, fair to choice, $4.30 to $3.73; wheat, No. 2, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, No. 2, 64c to C6c; oats, standard, 41c to 43c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 73c; hay. timothy, $10,00 to $18.50; prairie, $S.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 2Dc to 33c; eggs, fresh, 27c to 30c; potatoes, per bushel, COc to 50c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $"8.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $8.50; sheep, good to choice, $2.25 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn, No. 2 white. 5Cc to 5Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $8.30; sheep, $3.C0 to ?5.40; wheat, Nc. 2, $J.2n to $1.27; corn. No. 2, 5Sc to COc; oats. No. 2, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 76c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $C.Ö0; ho $4.00 to $8.15; sheep, $2.30 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 $1.19 to $1.21; corn. No. 3 yellow, 53c to 60c; oats, standard, 41c to 43c; rye. No. 1, 75-: to 7Cc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.08 to $1.12; corn. No. 3, 59c to 62c; oats, standard, -:3c to 41c; rye No. 1, 73c to 75c; barley, standard, CCc to 6Sc; pork, mess. $23.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hcg3, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.00; Ehecp, comnicn to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.30; lambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.65. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.20 to $1.21; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 43c; rye. No. 2, 74c to 76c; clover seed, $9.15. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $6.83; hogs, $4.00 to $8.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.24 to $1.25: corn. No. 2 mixed, 5Sc to 59c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to lie; rye, No. 2, 77c to 79c. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $6.80; hogs, $4.00 to $8.55; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.23 to $1.23; corn, No. 2, 70c to 72c; oats, natural, white, 45c to 47c; butter, creamery, 30c to 34c; eggs, western, 30c to 34c ITncle Sam grew financially fat oft industrious Inventors last year, the records showing that revenues In fees from this source were sufficient to pay $1,887,443 In expenses for running the United States patent office and leave a surplus of fSS.476. Machinery and small tools valued at $150.000 were destroyed by a fire which burned the plant of the Boston Gear Works at Norfolk Downs, Mass. Fire that originated In the basement of the First National Bank Building- in Colorado Springs, Colo caused a. loss of $100,000. Mica Bertha Rosenthal saved the life of a 3-year-old child that fell from a moving train on the 2d avenue lino in Brooklyn. The child lay near tho deadly third rail when the young woman Jumped from the platform and picked it up as another train approached. David Simpson, a prominent and wealthy planter of Mint Hill. N. C. was shot and killed by Will Hartis, a neighbor. Beach Hargis life sentence for the murder of hi3 father, former Judge James Hargis, tva? confirmed by the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt, Ky.