Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 January 1910 — Page 2

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CL Q.fX. M.'-JN F. F. M 2nd O'lOLh 17th Vfc-th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Coraplete. Morgan, Ryan and Morton Unite. J. Pierpont Morgan. Thomas F. Ryan and Levi P. Morton have linked hands in New York City in a trust company merger, which unites resources of $100.000,000. It is a triple combination, brinsing the Guaranty Trust Company, the Morton Trust Company and the Fifth Avenue Trust Company, all of New York City, under one head with the title of the Guaranty Trust Company. The merger is perhaps the largest of its kind in the United States. Is N:aring Completion. After having been in the course of construction for four years the new National Museum of Washington, D. C, will be opened to the public by the middle of February. One section of the mammoth building has been practically completed. It is in this building that the Roosevelt collection of African mammals will be exhibited. It will take a year, however, to mount sufficient of these trophies to make a fair showing in the exhibition.

GOVERNOR MARSHALL SAYS

A prominent magazine addressed letters to some of the Governors of the great interior States recently, asking them to state briefly what in their opinion are the greatest needs of the commonwealth over which they preside, and what are some of the services that those commonwealths can render the nation at large. Following is the reply of Governor Marshall, of Indiana: "A man vho expresses an opinion today is much like the discoverer of a patent medicine he I3 quite sure that It will cure all ailments. Indiana needs many things. I hope the time will never come when all its needs have been supplied. Just now, from my viewpoint, its greatest need is contentment. By that I mean that it should possess a body of citizens who are content to do a day's work for a day's wage; who are willing to pay a day's "wage for a day's work; who are unwilling to shirk work and gain wages by cunning; who are unwilling by enforced employment to increase profits; who believe more In the common good than in the larger good; who would rather be buried in a pine box wet

witn genuine tars tnan to nave a rosewood casket guarded by detectives; who really feel that Indiana is the land of opportunity, individuality and" manhood, and not the, land of knavery, trickery and cunning; who believe he Is not wise who is not just, and that justice is as much the other fellow's right as his own. Maybe a majority of Indiana's citizens are such. I hope so."

J. N. Huston Under Indictment. Former United States Treasurer J. K. Huston, with ofHce3 in New York City, Samuel Graham of Montreal. Canada, Harvey M. Lewis and Everett Dufor, of Washington, D. C, have been Indicted by the grand jury in that city on the charge of conspiracy and of using the mail3 for fraudulent purposes. J. N. Huston was a native of Indiana and was prominent in politics in that State. He was ;t banker at Connersville. His home is on Long Island, N. Y. Wabash Train Burned Up. A fast freight train composed of oil tank cars and cars of merchandise, on the Wabash railroad, was destroyed by fire near Logansport, Ind. The train ran off the track and took fire. Several oil cars exploded and blazing oil was thrown over the rest of the train. The fire department could do nothing against the fire, which for a time threatened the neighboring part of the city. Roosevelt Party Well. The American naturalist expedition arrived at Hoima, Uganda, several days ago and reported all well. One hmdred and twenty-seven miles were covered after leaving Kampala on December 23. Colonel Roosevelt killed a bull elephant whose tusks weighed 110 pounds, while the party wa3 in camp at Kosingo. The expedition will leave for Butiab, 27 miles distant, soon. D. O. Mills is Dead. D. O. Mills, New York philanthropist and multi-millionaire, father of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, died at Milbrae, his winter home near San Francisco, Cal. Heart failure was the cause. Chief of Ben Hur Order Dead. David W. Gerard, supreme caief of the Tribe of Ben Hur, died at hi3 home In Crawfordsville, Ind. Hf3 death was due to hardening of the arteries. . Hurt by a Bomb. Several persons were slightly injured when a bomb was thrown Into the rear window of the home of Philip Livatano, in Chicago. Livatano recently received three letters, each demanding $G00, and signed "Black Hand." No further menace is expected. Many Hurt in Blast. Twenty-five persons were Injured, some of them fatally, ia an explosion at the Place Viger Station of the Canadian Pacific railway at Montreal, Quebec. Night Riders' Witness Murdered. James Middlcton, a farmer and prin cipal government witness in a. night rider case set for trial in the federal court at Mobile, Ala., this month, was shot from ambush near his home In Baldwin County. He died later. Chicago Fireman Killed at a Fire. One fireman was killed and several seriously hurt in a fire which destroyed a building occupied by the T. W. Will marth Gas Fixture Company, in the town town district of Chicago, 111. The jjroperty loss la estimated at 1200,000.

C. W. Mcrsr Goes to Frlson. With a supreme effort to be cheerful, but with emotion occasionally getting the better of him, Charles W. Morse left New York to begin serving a fifteen years' sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., imposed upon him for violation of the national banking laws. F.efore leaving the Tombs, where he had been confined for the greater part of the last year, Morse received his wife and two sons and then the newspaper men. He was too affected to say anything, but handed out a carefully prepared statement of comment on his case. The general understanding was that his wife was to accompany him south, but it coufd not be ascertained whether or not she was on the same train with him. Morse left Jersey City in custody of Deputy United States Marshals. The party occupied a state room. Morse's statement is bitter and dramatic.

Traction Cars Crash. Five persons were seriously injured, two probably fatally, in a head-on collision between two limited interurban cars on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern line at Philadelphia, four miles west of Greenfield, Ind. The cars were the New Castle Limited, west-bound, and the Dayton Limited, east-bound. They met at a siding as the west-bound car was preparing to enter the switch. The Dayton Limited was said to be running at full speed when it crashed into the westbound car. So great was the impact that both cars were telescoped for a distance of ten or twelve feet. Both motormen stuck to their posts in vain attempts to stop their cars. While the blame for the accident has not been fixed, there was such a heavy fog that the motormen could see but a short distance ahead of them. Train Vrecker is Hoosier Ycuth. Vernol Plessinger, 18 years old, of Anderson, Ind., was arrested at Union City, Ind., charged with having opened a switch and wrecking the Knickerbocker train on the Big Four railroad at Dawn, Ohio. Plessinger confessed, the police say, and gave as his motive that he wished to rob the passengers and go to some seaboard town where he could "join the navy." Thomas Grounded Wire Kills Fireman. Louis Ilensel, hoseman employed at No. 1 engine fire station in Fort Wayne, Ind., was shocked to death while responding to an alarm of fire from the rear of the Wolf & Dessauer dry goods store. Howard Garman, a truckman from the same station, received a severe shock but was dragged to a place of safety In ,tirae to save his life. A number of firemen who answered the alarm were victims of minor shocks but the death of Hensel was the on4y fatality. The grounded electric wire had charged the ice ice coated "bavement with the deadly electricity and when the firemen who were not shod in rubbers stepped upon the pavement, they received the full force of the shock. Train Rolled Down Bank; Few Hurt. A through passenger train on the Rock Island main line jumped the track and rolled down a ten-foot em bankment near Minoka, 111., but no one was killed and few were hurt. A cyl inder head of the locomotive blew out. it is said, throwing the rails apart and upsetting the train, which consisted of several sleeping cars, a couple of day coaches and mail and bagge cars. Spencer Trask Killed In Wreck. Spencer Trask, the head of a firm of bankers which for many years acted as fiscal agents of the late Queen Vic toria, was crushed to death in his private compartment while returning to New York from his country home. Left $70,000 for Horses and Dogs. A fund of 170,000 to care for favorite horses and dogs, and over $25,000 left to household servants are among the bequests of Charles Francis Wright, who died In Boston, Mass., a few days ago. Bad Fire at Edinboro, Pa. Edinboro, Pa., was swept by fire. The Masonic Temple, Twitchell building, postoffice, several stores and minor structures were destroyed. First Time is History, Mrs. Ella F. Young, superintendent of Chicago public schools, was elected president of the Illinois State Teachers' Association at the convention in Springfield, 111. This is the first time in the history of the association, and probably in that of any similar State association, that a woman has been chosen as head of the organization. W. J. Bryan In Panama. William Jennings Bryan arrived at Colon on the steamer Magdalena. He immediately took a train for Panama. Agnes Booth, Famous Actress, Dead. Agnc3 Booth, the famous actress of two or more decades ago, wife of John B. Schoeffei, manager of the Trcmont theatre, Boston, Mass., died at her home in Brookline, aged 63 years. She had been 111 for nearly a year. Walter Weston Plans .Knottier Hike. Edward Payson Weston, the veteran pedestrian, announced In New York that he will make one more transcontinental walk and that he will go from ocean? to oceanthis time within 100 days.

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Alleged Accomplice of Mrs. Belle Gunness, Archmurderess, Succumbs to Consumption. HIRED HAND ON MURDER FARM Passes Away Without Making Confession Hoped for by Indiana Authorities. Ray Lamphere, who was charged with the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and subsequently convicted of arson in connection with the burning of the home on her "murder farm," near Laporte, died at the State penitentiary in Michigan City, Ind., of tuberculosis. The man, suspected of assisting the supposed arch-murderess in slaying the ten victims whose bodies were found buried about the farm after her disappearance In April, 1908, made no statement to the prison officials. In the past few weeks State's Attorney Ralph Smith, who prosecuted Lamphere, and officials of the penitentiary have sought to obtain from the prisoner a statement. To all questions, however, Lamphere has steadfastly replied that he knew nothing which might throw further light on the wholesale murders. Lamphere was 38 years old, and for three years prior to the disappearance of Mrs. Gunness and her three children, had been employed as a field hand at the "murder farm." The crimes, ruthlessly premeditated and diabolically executed, rivaled the famous Holmes Castle murders in Chicago and the Bender murders in Kansas. Whether Mrs. Gunness was a party to these crimes, and whether she escaped or was burned to death in her house in April, 1908, never has been satisfactorily explained. She formerly lived in Chicago and went to Laporte after her first busband had died under circumstances said to have been suspicious. After establishing herself on the farm, just outside Laporte, the woman is said to have been a frequent correspondent with matrimonial agencies in various parts of the country. She thus formed the acquaintance of a number of men. At least six of them went to Laporte, all of whom disappeared. Later, when the yard back of the farmhouse was excavated, the bodies of some of these admirers were identified among the ten which were found. Lamphere was arrested the day followlng the burnlng of the house. He had been seen in the vicinity of the building the night it burned. OHIO ICE BOUND; FEAR FLOOD. River Blocked from Pittsburg to Cincinnati and Coal Shipments Stop. The Ohio river, from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, is closed to navigation, and according to reports, will be icechoked probably for several weeks. A rapid rise in the river caused by the ice gorges, it is feared, will result in heavy damage. Rivermen are astounded at the unusually severe ice packs for the present time of year, and predict heavy loss of property before a thaw sets in. At New Martinsville, W. Va., south of Wheeling, the Ohio is in the grip of an ice gorge miles in length which threatens Wheeling and intermediate points, where bridges span the river. Coal operators and shippers are particularly hard hit by the untimely river tie-up, as millions of bushels of coal were waiting for the passing of the holidays to be sent south in coal fleets. FINDS CHILDREN'S BODIES. Fire Tragedy Costs Two Lives in the Village of Santa Claus, Ind. In the village of Santa Claus, Ind., two children were burned to death the other night. Their mother found their blackened little bodies a few minutes before they died, in a room in which she had left them playing an hour before. The mother, Mrs. Fred Keller, wife of a young farmer, went to the barn to help him milk the cows. A thought of her girls, 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 years old, led her to leave her husband and return to the house. As she approached she heard the children screaming. The "rooms were filled with smoke. Groping along the floors she came upon, the babies and dragged them to a door. The children had played near the stove. 20 HURT IN DEPOT EXPLOSION. Ca Plant In Montreal Train Blows Up and Many May Die. Over a score of people were injured in an explosion at the Place Viger station of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. Many of the victims were frightfully mangled, and the death list, it is feared, will be large. The Quebec train, which usually leaves the station at about 11:30 p. m., was on the eve of pulling out. The station platform was crowded with a throng, seeing friends off, when there was a terrific explosion, which ripped up the platform from end to end and buried more than a score of people in the debris. The gas plant on the Quebec train had blown up. Barge Sinks Off New Jersey. Carrying down to death Capt. Joe Wyman and a crew of five men, the coal barge John A. Briggs, which broke away from the whaleback steamer Thurmond off Point Pleasant in the blizzard, sank off the coast of New Jersey. Children Sing in Burnlng Church. While firemen fought a stubborn blaze in the basement of the People's Methodist church in Kansas City, fifty children sang Christmas hymns on the floor above. Boy, Punished, Hangs Self. Sent to the cellar because he refused to get his mother a pail of water, Herman Miller, aged 14, son of John C. Miller, hanged himself in Toledo. 0. Two Hunters Found Dead. The bodies of two well-dressed hunters, identified by gunners' licenses in their pockets as Julius W. Uber of Camden, N. J., and J. W. McFarland of Wildwood Crest, were found on the banks of Swyane's Channel near Wildwood, N. J.

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FRISCO TO RUN CARS. City Approves Municipal Ownership Scheme at Special Election. San Francisco the other day took the first step toward municipal ownership of its street railway lines when by a vote of 31,000 to 11,000 the people carried a bond issue to the amount of $2,020,000. The funds raised by the sale of these bonds are to be used in the construction of a municipal electric line along Geary street and other thoroughfares from the heart of the business district to the ocean beach, a distance of about nine miles. This proposition has been submitted to the voters of the city four times, the other thre? polls being against the bond3. The present Geary street caf line Is an obsolete cable system. It is operated under a special permit granted to a private company by the supervisors after the franchise of the original company had expired. The causes leading to the voting of these bonds by a decisive majority after the same proposition had been three times defeated are numerous and complex. Posfclbly more than anything else the vote represents an expression of dissatisfaction with the methods and service of the United Railroads. The car system of the city under the present private monopoly admittedly is not good. n The Harmon presidential bocm is said tc have hit Washington hard. The recent two days visit of Ohio's Governor to the United States capital has installed him In popular favor and placed him In a new light regarding the coming presidential candidacy. It le.iked out how Andrew Carnegie and Secretary of State Knox had a sharp, wordy encounter during the dinner given at Washington by John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics, to the diplomatic representatives of the Latin countries to the south of us. Carnegie was eulogizing the peace work of Secretary Root, and began to compare it with the "shot-gun policy" of the 'present administration, when Knox jumped up and told the laird he was butting into affairs that he knew nothing about. Again, later, when Carnegie deprecated the present handling of the Nicaraguan affair, Knox angrily demanded that Carnegie stop. That Congress will take offlcial notice of the Balllnger-Finchot controversy by ordering a sweeping investigation of the Interior Department and the Forest Service was assured, when Senator Flint of California submitted to the Senate a resolution calling for all the papers in the case of Glavis against Balllngr. This was passed, and then Senator Jones of Washington announced that he would move an investigation after the holidays if no one else did. and read a letter he had received from Secretary Ballinger, in which that offlcial insisted that if Congress were to investigate his department the inquiry should also include the Forest Service, since he had "reason to believe that the pernicious activity of certain of its officers has been the source of Inspiration of these charges." Mr. Dalllnger foes on to say: "I therefore court the widest and fullest inquiry by Congress." Senator Gore would have had the Senato at once order an Investigation, but on objection from Aldrich the matter went over until documents should be in possession of Congress. Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of the Treasury, who addressed about 400 business men at the board of trade in Indianapolis, throughout his address opposed the idea of the contra! bank. He claims that such a bank would be sure to be owned, or at least controlled, by the Standard Oil combine. In a speech radiating his conception of Christmas cheer. Senator 4 De pewwafted the compliments of the season, even to La Follette, who had sharply criticised the New Yorker in the Christmas number of Ia Toilette's magazine,. Depew praised the President and referred to the new tariff law as an unmixed LlessJng. The Iowa delegation In Congress Is said to be angry at President Taft. The insurgents among .their number admit that those Republicans in Congress opposed to the regular organization have little or no standing at the White House. President Taft will give few if any offices in the South to Negroes. He is said to have assured Southern Senators of this. Such ofljces as are to go to negroes will go to men of that race from the North. A dozen or more negro revenue collectors and land office officials in Southern cities are mentioned as certain to be replaced by white men when their terms expire.

THE BIG ONES ALWAYS GO FREE.

MOB HANGS VIRGINIA SLAYER. Knie IlaltH Murderer'u Flight, bat Attempt at Vengeance Kall. Following the killing at Murley, Va., of Samuel Baker and the serious wounding of his widow and two children by Henry Pennington, a mob of 100 took Pennington from jail and hanged him to a steam pipe. Pennington, who had been drinking, picked a quarrel with Baker, his enemy, and shot him while the latter was on his way to a Sunday school celebration with his wife, two children, and a friend, Wyatt Meadows. Seeing that he had killed Baker, Pennington started to run away. Mr3. Baker called after Pennington and Implored him to help her take the body home. The ruse worked and Pennington went back to the spot where his victim lay dead. Bent upon vengeance, Mrs. Baker grabbed Pennington's pistol from his pocket and shot twice at him. Her aim was bad, but she succeeded in wounding him in the hand and thigh. Pennington recovered possession of the pistol and then shot the woman and attempted to kill Meadows and the two children. Pennington then fled, but was surrounded and captured by a posse on the outskirts of the town. GIRL SLAIN; SUITOR SOUGHT. ' s Toledo 3Ialden Alleged ftctlm of Rejected LuTr, I'nrrUt Shot. Carol Hunt, 18 years old, was Instantly killed in Toledo, O., and her parents, Mr. .and Mrs. Stephen Hunt, were wounded, though not seriously. Joseph Mackley, aged S3, who is charged with having shot the three, is being fought by the police. The shooting occurred at the Hunt home. According to the police, Mackley, a railroader, who is said to have a wife and child in Mansfield, O., attempted to pay attentions to the girl and became enraged when he 'was repulsed. He entered the Hunt heme, and, declaring hl3 intention of killing the family, drew a revolver and began shooting, it is alleged. After exhausting all the cartridges in his revolver Mackley is said to have reloaded, fired four more shots and fled. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Mother Visiting Neighbor When Home Uet Ablaze. Mrs. Henry Blanton left her home in Pratt, Kas., and went across the alley to talk with a neighbor. When she next looked at the house It was a mass of flame3 and her three children, whom she had left in bed, were being burned to death. The dead are Roseby, a boy 5 years old; Myrtle, 3 years old, and Margaret, 2 years old. The house was In the outskirts of town, and with the exception of Mrs. Blanton and the neighbor no one was near. Mrs. Blanton ran for help. While she was gone the house fell, burying the children. FIVE TRAINMEN DIE IN WRECK. Enalnea and Cars Smashed by HeadOn Colllalon Hounding Carve. Five trainmen were killed and two fatally Injured In a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad between freight "trains Nos. 51 and 98, twenty miles west of Seymour, Ind., near Fort Ritner. On a sharp curve the trains met head-on, apparently because of a misunderstanding of orders. Engines and cars were smashed and their wreckage piled high. A relief train was sent as soon as word of the wreck was received, but the Injured sulered terribly from the cold before hel.i came. " Hefoed Fortune, Fearing- Evil. Patrick M. Smith, aged 57, the janitor who was found dead In Seattle recently, was informed that he had fallen heir to $30,000 in Ireland. He refused to claim It, being despondent over his appetite for drink and feeling that the money would do him no good. Sixty Dead In Yale DUssard. Eleven Newfoundland schooners and their crews of sixty men are believed to have been lo?t in thj Christmas blizzard, while great destruction ha3 resulted to property. Sirs. Ford Indicted Again. A new indictment against Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford, alleging blackmail, was returned by the Hamilton County grand jury in Cincinnati. It is designed to cure possible defects In the similar charge returned several weeks ago. Slain 3fnn' Estate Ia Small. William E. Annis, the publisher slain by Captain Peter C. Hains. Jr., at the Bayside Yacht Club in Auguct, 1908, left an estate valued at only $300, according to a report placed on file In New York.

BOYCOTT AS A FOOD-PRICE CURE

Movement of Nation-Wide Scope Started at Washington Meeting. Plan3 for a national boycott of those combinations that increase the cost of living were laid in Washington the other night, when the National Anti-Trust League was launched. Members of Congress are interested in the new movement and Immediate steps will be taken toward perfecting State organizations. Then, when prices soar, the league members by stopping the use of such articles or commodities as have gone above legal level will put them back again by refusing to furnish a market. The plan was one that was tried in Germany a few years ago and which, according to a report, broke up a combine in coffee that had raised the price of the bean to almost prohibitive prices. STEEL MAX COMMITS MURDER. i:ud Day of DrinklnK hy Revolver Fuftlllade in Own Home. Winfield Gibson, aged 4S years, resident of Munhall, a Pittsburg suburb, shot and killed his wife, seriously wounded a son, fired three shots at his fleeing daughter, and then sent a bullet crashing through his brain, dying Instantly. Gibson, who Is a former officer of the Carnegie Steel Company, came home late after a day of drinking with friends, according to the statement of the police. Meeting his wife as she awaited his coming at the top of a flight of stairs Gibson fired at her with his revolver. His wife's dead body fell down the stairway. Howard, a 15-year-old sen, hearing the shots, ran from a room, and was seriously wounded by a bullet from the revolver in the hands of his enraged father. Grace, a 14-year-old daughter, comin? to the stairway, was shot at ' three times, the bullets missing her by a fraction of an inch. A 3-year-old child was playing within ten feet of where the shooting took place, but was unharmed by the father. 1, 'i him ff't r r r a i y 4 .t Officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, with headquarters In Cleveland, formally notified the various divisions of about seventy-five railroads east of the Mississippi River that the 75,000 members of the brotherhood would on January 3 make demand for an increase in wages amounting to from 5 to 40 per cent The existing agreement necessitates a notice before such a demand can be made. Then the trainmen will wait until January 20 for their answer. President Lee of the trainmen does not expect a strike, but says it will come if the demands are not granted. The Block Signal and Train Control Board, which was authorized by Congress some three years ago to investigate the whole subject of passenger train control and protection, has now reported to the Commerce Commission. It severely criticises certain roads for the character of the signal system, and says that inexperienced operators were found all over the country. Others who have the experience are lacking in reliability, and still others are too young. The board has examined 328 Inventions of protective devices offered, and of these only twelve were deemed worth testing at government expense. The Northern Pacific has a fifty-two-acre poultry farm seventeen miles east of Seattle, Wash., with a profit of 11.000 White Leghorn chickens, which provide an average of 150 dozen eggs per day. The New York Central, not to b outdone by the Pennsylvania, has decided to put on soon a through trair to be known as the Cleveland, so tha the Southwestern limited may rur from New York to St. Louis In twen ty-four hours. "Transact to-day'j business in New York und to-norr in St. Louis," is the way the Xcw Yori Central advertists the new train. The Soo will be transacting bii3incsf over its own line into St. Paul in tht near future. Trains will then mov through the new concrete tunnel, ont of the most dlfileult pieces of engineering work ever undertaken in tht West The tunnel is 1.3S0 feet hng The entrance line, on which work va began three years ago. represents 9 total expenditure of between $1,500,OOC and $2,000.000. including the right of way. The Lehigh Valley Railroad hat agreed with its engineers as to waget and conditions for the next year, including the working day of ten hours. I instead of twelve, as heretofore.

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. V Imprisoned in Tourist Sleeping Car, Pasoengers Are Burned After Train Is Derailed. FORTY-FIVE PERS0KS ARE HURT Fatal Accident Occurs Near Trenton, Mo. Cause of Castastrophe Is Not Known. Imprisoned in a tourist sleeping car and burned to death was the fate of perhaps three passengers on the westbound California Special on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad three miles east of Trenton, Mo. The bodies of all the victims have been recovered. One is that of Fireman 0. P. Lininger, Trenton, who receptly lived at Eldon, Iowa. He was scalded and burned to death. The others are those of passengers and are unidentified. Forty-five persons were injured, among them being: Engineer W. I. Millington, Trenton, scalded; will recover. William Flynn, agent Cudahy Packing Company, Kansas City, shovder broken, cut about head. J. Z. Orning, Davenport, Iowa, leg broken, head cut Steve Howard, Alabama, leg broken. C. E. Spooner, Dallas, Texas; back sprained. J. C. Childers, Anderson, Ind., sprains and bruises. Mrs. Nancy Hamershley, Letts, Iowa, badly vhurt about head, cnay die. Julius Meddlesome, Boston, Mass., slight. David Siegel, Cleveland, Ohio, prob ably fatal. The train was derailed at 8:40, while passing through a stretch of ice-covered country. The huge engine, a standard Pullman sleeper and the tourist sleeper caught fire and were destrojed and a portion of the chair car waa burned. The bodies of two women were taken from the chair car. The wreck occurred without a moment's warning to the passengers, and by the time they had realized what was happening the three cars were in flames. The train was one of the heaviest and finest in the Rock Island service. It is known in summer as the Golden State limited andin winter as tha California special. The cause of the accident is not known. The train was running at high speed. The heavy engine jumped the track and landed fifty feet off the right of way. The cars also left the track and all but one tumbled over. TO BARE FOOD GRAFT. Wilson Promises to Expose Those Responsible for High Prices. "We have already discovered that the farmer is not getting the exorbitant profits out of the beef he raises," said Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, discussing the high prices of food supplied. "I have' no doubt In the world," he continued, "that the same conditions will be found to prevail in most of the other lines of food products. The Department of Agriculture has agents in every State and every county in the country, and they have been ordered to report exhaustively on the cost of production and the returns of sales of all sorts of food products. As fast as we receive these figures we will compare them with the price: the same products bring in the cities where they are consumed. We will then give the facts to the public. We intend to bring out the truth, irrespective of whom it hurts or whom it benefits. I am convinced that the public is compelled to pay a great deal more for nearly everything it eats than It should, and I believe the figures will bear me out. "There is ample excuse for some of the increase In the cost of living over what it was years ago. The farm area is not keeping pace wth the demands fcr foodstuff. The cities seem to have more attractions for the laboring man than do the rural communities. The horde of Immigration, as well as the ever-increasing native population, must bo fed and the farm Is expected to furnish the food." FLAMES KILL SEVEN CHILDREN. Six Member of One Family Coal Stove Starts Fire. Seven children, ranging la age from 2 to 12 yars, were burned to death and three persons perhaps fatally injured when fire, followed by an explosion of powder, destroyed the home of Stephen Bronosky, a miner, at Sykesvllle. Pa. Six of the victims were members of tie Bronosky family and the seventh vas the child of a boarder. Mr. and Nrs. Bronosky and the boarder Jumped from an upstairs window and were seriously Injured. The fire started from an overheated coal stove. It spread' rapidly and communicated with a keg of mine powder. The explosion cut off all chance of saving the children. Two Rob Bank of fS,900. Two unidentified robbers held up W. F. Richards, cashier of the Vanndale, Ark., Bank, and robbed the bank of $2.900. Falls Fourteen Stories to Death. Tony Vlloa fell from the fourteenth story of a new building In Duluth, Minn., and was killed. He attempted to slide down a cable on a freight hnict The cable was covered with ice vr w v and Viloa was unable to grasp the rope and shot to the ground. L.lfe Prisoner Ecapes. William Davis, a life prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary, sent up in 1902 for burglary in Lorain. Ohio, walked out or the prison restaurant in Columbus and disappeared. Drives Wife and Girl Out. After passing the night having a good time, William C. Geary of St. Lo'sis went home at 3 o'clock in the morning and turned his wife and his 14-year-old daughter out into the snow in their nightgowns and barefooted. He wa3 fined Ö00 in Municipal court. Ten Killed In Celebrating. Death by accident and assault at Christmas celebrations reduced the population of tho Bluefield (W. Va.) coal field by half a score.

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CHICAGO. W. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review os hicago trade says: "Trade generally closed the year";' ictivities in a strong position.' Ai aual balances. Inventories and necei sary repairs now monopolize attention n the leading Industries. The resultt have been equal to the erpectations if arious prominent branches and ttf. . outlook based upon the accumulation. Df forward orders Is highly encouracing for the future. ' "Weather conditions during the wee': favored an extended absorption cf heavyweight apparel and other need, but the storms impeded freight cnbvl ments, crop marketings and outdocf svork. Wholesalers had large rcordekl ; in dry goods, clothing and foctwea. and the demand for spring goods wis weil sustained. Winter stocks in deal- ; ars hands have been comfortably reduced. "Banking returns testify" to large ? augmented deposits at interior point;. Manufacturing discloses little decli in operations with the year end.- Mc ey sustains a decidedly firm tone at to 52 per cent for choice commercial paper. Mercantile collections here td at Western points are satisfactory. Trading defaults furnish a favorahj comparison with previous experienced "Bank clearings, $223,970,222. exceed those of the corresponding week vn 190S by 4.8 per cent, and compare wia $173.127.532 in 1907. "Failures reported in the Chicago district number 19, against 31 last week, 43 in 1903 and 28 In 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 4, against 11 last week, 11 in 190S and '7 In 1907." NEW YORK. Quiet has followed the preceding week's rush of business in retail lin5, while In wholesale lines salesmen art? in from the road and inventorying iV general. All obtainable information points to a satisfactory In many sec tions, indeed, a record volume of bus Iness done in the year just closed, anJ j the feeling is general that a still cnore satisfactory twelvemonth faces tie country's commercial and manufacturing Interests. The best reports as to the year's Results come from the West and -Northwest In wholesale and jobbing lines a large if not, indeed, record spricj; business has been booked. Business failures in the VnlteV States for the week ending Dec. 7 were 256, as against 2G4 last week, in the like week of 1908, 1S3 in 1907, 220 In 1906 and 278 in 1903. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, M-00 to $8.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.75; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $3.75; wheat No. 2, $12 to Sl.27 corn. No. 2, COc to 62c; oats, stanJard 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 79c; hay, timothy. $10.00 to $18.00; prairie, JS.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 30o to 35c; eggs, fresh, 30c to 33c; roia toes, per bushel, 33c to 50c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $?-00 to $7.75; hog3, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $S.75; sheep, good to choce, $2.25 to $1.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.22 to $1.24; corn, No. 2 white. Clc to 62c; oats. No. 2 white 43c to 46c. St. Louis Cattle $4.00 to $s)0; , S2.00V0 hogs. S4.00 to 5S.75: sheen. S2.00to $5.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.26 to $1 corn. No. 2. 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2. Ae to 45c; rye, No. 2, 7Cc to 78c. , Cincinnati Cattle $4.00 to $6.6"; hogs, $4.)0 to $3.C5; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat No. 2, $1.2S to $1.50; corn. No. 2 mixed, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 80c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to S5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $8.30; sheep. $2.!0 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.23 to $1.24; corn; o. 3 yellow, C2c to 64c; oats, standard, 43c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 7Cc to 77c Milwaukee Wheat No. 2 uorthern, $1.12 to $1.15; corn. No. 3, 63c to 66c oats, standard, 43c to 45c; rye. No.'. 3 77c to 79c; barley, standard, 6Sc to 69c; pork, mess, $22.25. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.23; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.50; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3X0; lambs,1 fair to choice, $4.00 to $S.20. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $8.$0; hogs, $400 to $8.65; sheep. $3.C3 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.26 to t-. corn, No. 2 69c to 70c; oaC nt.t-.raL. white, 4Sc to 51c; butter, crcsnrry, 35c to 37c; - eggs, western. 32c to 35c. . Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $L20 , to $1.22; corn. No. 2 mixed, COc to 6lc, oats, No. 2 mix'vi, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 7' clover seedV $9.00. ; At a meeting of directors electM st : Pittsburg a practical monopoly of the American glass market was assured when all but six of the Independent window glass manufacturers close-the final business looking to the consol datlon of the independent glass plants throughout the country, valued at 6,000,000. 1 During 1908 the United Stafs ?ory tributed more than half of the woid . total production of copper, tho exn, iti of copper from this country being 618,. 613.S42 pounds, the largest amount ver recorded. These facts are contauuAtn a report on the subject by the Unftd States geological survey. The domeste consumption of copper during the ya.r was D3.000.000 pounds. American farm machinery is ow used in more than seventy counties and colonies of the world, list roar Argentina Uv.jght nearly a million hilars' worth of American machinerj. - " " t War was formally -declared uq the United S'ates Steel corporation iy the leaders of organized labor through; out the United States and Canads at the close of a momentous two d?ys conference at Pittsburg. The deciilont to battle against the stand taker by the steel corporation in its policy of; "open shop" was reached by tbr latKitf conferees only after hours of debf te. Woman suffrage advocates thrlugh out New York State are raising aifunJ of several thousand dollars to be issed for promoting the suffrage bill hica. will be put before the Legislature of New York Statt this winter.

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