Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 January 1910 — Page 2

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CL. Q M.-N F. Q F. M 2nd. 10th nth yg&th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ACOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Things are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Millions for His Children. The will of the late D. Ogden Mills. of New York, disposes of his large estate by division equally between his son and daughter, Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the American ambassador to the court of St. James. The sum of $ 100,000, however, is directed to be paid to institutions before the division of the estate. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of natural history and the home for incurables in New York City receive $100,000 each. The sum of $."0.000 Is left to the New York botanical gardens, and the American Geographical Society and the American National Red Cross $23,000 each. Ogden Mills and Mrs. Reid are appointed executors of the will, which was executed on December 4, 1908. The value of the estate is not indicated In the document. Mr. Mills estate has been estimated as high as $30,000,000. Trains in Collision. One passenger was killed, a brakeman was fatally injured and nine othe persons were hurt in a head-on collision between two passenger trains on the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad at Keystone, twenty-five miles west of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The west-bound overland limited and an eastbound fast train .were ordered to pass at Keystone. A freight train on the siding prevented the east-bound train from pulling in on the switch. The passenger train had run past the station and was ready to back onto the siding when the Overland Limited, going at the rate of 25 raile3 an hour, crashed into it Both engines were smashed and the mall, baggage and chair cars of the limited were wrecked. The engineer escaped by jumping. Passengers were thrown into heaps and in the panic that followed tho collision, those who were not pinned beneath the debris, broke through 'windows and climbed to safety. Illness cf Chicago Mayor Alarms City. The illness of Mayor Fred A. Busse, of Chicago, 111., whose physicians have ordered another operation, has caused alarm to his numerous friends. The mayor has never recovered entirely from injuries received In a railroad wreck in 1907. It was in the same year that Mr. Busse was elected to the office of mayor, becoming Chicago's first four-year mayor. Dr. John B. Murphy, of Chicago, the famous surgeon, who operated on Mr. Busse last summer, decided that another operation could not be deferred much longer in view of the state of the mayor's health. Mayor Busse is a republican, 44 years old.. He has heldthe offices of State senator, State treasurer and postmaster of Chicago. Brazilian Ambassador is Dead. Joaquim Nabuco, ambassador of the Republic of Brazil to the United States, died at his home in Lafayette place, Washington, D. C. He had represented hl3 government at Washington since May, 1903. Immediately on learning of the ambassador's death President Taft called at the diplomat's home and left his card. 'Death came suddenly, the ambassador having been ill only a few days. Preacher Commits Suicide for Love Leaving a note declaring his love for a young woman, the Rev. Harry Koonce, pastor of a country church near Greenville, 111., swallowed poison and died in the arris of the woman's father. The pastor swallowed the poi son at the gate and after thrusting the note in at the door, which had been opened at hl3 summons, fell dead. Ship Goes Down with 29 Men. The steamer Czarina, from San Francisco to Coos Bay, was disabled while crossing the Coos Bay bar and the indications are that she will be a total loss. The Czarina has disap peared and it is believed that the crew of twenty-nine men and one passen ger have gone down. Son Shoots Father to Save Mother. Charles Smith, of Ludington, Mich., was fatally shotby his 14-year-old son. The father is said to have been crazed with drink at the time and was threat ening to harm his wife and the son was defending his mother. The coroner and police refuse to prosecute the boy. Three Miners Suffocated in Colorado. Three men were suffocated by pow der smoke and nitro fumes in the Gun nison tunnel, near Montrose, Colo., and thirty others barely escaped with their lives. Death of an Iowa Pioneer. Mrs. John Wilson, a pioneer. Is dead at Traer, near CedarRapid3, Iowa, at the age of 90 years. Mrs. Wilson was the, step-mother of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Roosevelt Heads the Harvard Alumni. The election of Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard, '80, ex-president of the United States, as president of the Harvard Alumni Association succeeding Charles W. Eliott, president emeritus of Harvard University, has been announced by the Association at Cambridge, Mass. Killed By Street Car. Mrs. Mary A. McAdams, mother of William S. McAdams, of St. Louis. Mo., manager of the American Society of Equity, was knocked down by a street car and died later. Evansville Banker Dead. F. A. Foster, vice president of the City National Bank of Evansville, Ind.. whose service he entered th.rtythree years ago as a messenger boy. is dead at the age of forty-six years. He never had any employer but the bank. Ca.ches Fox Wearing a Collar. Harry Murley, while out hunting near Milton, Ind., captured a fox that measured four feet seven and one-half Inches from tip to tip. The animal wore a leather collar and had evidently escaped from captivity.

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EHER I BUSINESS Correspondents of St. Louis Dank j Are Unanimous in Their Optimism. WEST AND SOUTH ARE TO BOOM Large Crops and Growth in Industry and Manufactures Forecast by Observers. Record-breaking commerce for 1910 is the unanimous forecast of several hundred correspondents of the National Bank of Commerce in St. Louis, one of the largest financial institutions in the South and West. Communications from bankers of most of the southern and western commonwealths indicate exceptional vitality in agriculture, industry, ' finance, manufactures and tVade, with almost as strong a demand or money as was experienced in 1007. Manufactures and industry will, ac cording to the authoritative predic tions, recover completely in 1910. Fac tories, mines and mills will be rushed with work. Construction operations will be general and pretentious. Whole sale and retail trade will be heavy. Agricultural production will be large and diversified. Opinions expressed in the letters sig nify that idle labor will be re-employed and the country, as a whole, will enjoy ts greatest prosperity. Yet It seerm to be impossible to gather clearly whether there will be a decided reduction in the cost of living. As well as may be inferred, prices will continue high on all the necessities of life, although the improvement in conditions, resulting in the re-employment of idle labor, should have the effect of providng the wage earner with larger means and thereby causing better ease. The increase in the gold supply is given as one of the causes of the high cost of living.-and authorities appear to be agreed that it is a powerful factor. But high prices are ascribed to additional causes, including the Inadequacy of the supply to the demand, the increasing population, the aug menting prosperity, extraordinary de velopment, growing demand, reduced supply, combinations and agreements as to prices, cost of service in trade. and even, paradoxically, idle labor. Indications are excellent in farming regions, and heavy production is the outlook. ' But crops will be more diver sified than ever, but It still is hard to foretell the range of prices, or to say where the decline is likely to show. Grain districts promise a large output, whereas cotton localities complain, to some extent,, of the boll weevil and refer confidently to a diversification of production. HEIRESS WEDS HEB CHATJFFEUB Miss 31ar;aret - Leavltt Elopes to Jersey ,0fr rlth An to Driver. Miss Margaret Leavitt, 23 years old. worth $1,000,000 In her own right and the youngest daughter of G. I low land Leavitt, of Flushing and Bayside, N. Y.. who has a few millions to leave hi3 children, eloped with Joseph Smallen. formerly chauffeur for James J. Corbett, the pugilist, and lately similarly employed by the Leavitt family. Smallen, who 13 four years his wife's Junior, Iive3 at Bayside, where he Is known' a3 "the Candy Kid" on account of his gbod looks.' His mother keep3 a laundry. The two were married In Jersey City, it is understood. ' " JTJPGE WEEPS AT SENTENCE. It egrets He la Forced Co Send Two Embezzlers to Penitentiary. Judge D. P. Dyer, of the United States District Court in St. Louis, wepf as he sentenced two young men ?onvicted of embezzlement George F. Smith, Jr., 21 years old, and William . Gray, 20 years old, former bank clerk3. must each serve five years In the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. The mittimus will be held until Maren 1 In hop that a pardon will be prantEd. "If the law permitted me to Impose a lighter sentence I would do so." Judge Dyer said. "I hate to send young men to the penitentiary." WARRINER TAKEN TO PRISON. Man Who Stole 043,000 from Kall road Begins Sentence. Charles L. Warriner, who confessed embezzling $643,000 vfhile treasurer of the Big Four railroad la Cincinnati, was taken to Columbus penitentiary the other day to serve six years. Warfiner declared rumors that he was protecting "someone higher up" were not true. The convict will be taken back to Cincinnati for the trials of Mr3. Jeanette Stewart Ford, "the vroman in the case," and E. S. Cooke of Chicago. - HOUSE STREWN WITH CASH. Nearly $30,000 Found In the Home of Father Nicholas Simon. Nearly $30,000 in cash, much of it lying where it had been carelessly tossed into bookcases and desks, was found In the home of Father Nicholas Simon by the executors of his estate in New Orleans. Father Simon was for many years in charge of St. Francis de Sale3 Church. CONVICT BLACK HAND SLAYER. I order Committed by Order of Secret Society According to Confession. Dominick Ferrer, charged with the murder of George K. Phelps, real estate collector, wa3 found guilty of mur der in the first degree in Albany, N Y. It was shown that Ferrer confessed to a New York detective that he was a member of a branch of the Mack Hand known as '"The Family of tho Dead Bodies," and that the murder was committed under orders from the society. RESIST EXPRESS RATE CUT. Companies Get Temporary Injunction IlaltlnK Stste'n K.fTort. Three express companies doing business in South Dakota have filed in the United States Circuit court in Sioux Falls, suits for permanent injunction! restraining the state railroad commissioners from enforcing a distance tariff of reduced express rates. Judge Garland granted a temporary Injunc- , tlon pending a hearing Jan. 25. The companies are the Wells-Fargo, Adorns, jand American.

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SUFFERING- IN THE WEST. The Supply of Coal Runs Short a3 the Cold Increases. The cold weather ha3 caused fac tories in many cities in the West to shut down for want of coal and hundreds of persons have been forced into idleness while there are orders on hand to keep them at work if coal could be had. Hardly any of the factories in Indianapolis are running full time, and even those are husbanding it, as there is no certainty when an other supply can be got. The railroads cannot haul the coal, though there is plenty at the mines. President Kolsoni. of the Indiana Op erators' Association, says that aside from the heavy general business of the road in the last six weeks there has been considerable cold weather, which diminishes the motive power one-half, that two engines are required to haul what is a load for ono in ordinary weather, and besides the two engines burn more coal than they ordinarily do. The result of this i3 that roads are furnishing empty cars to the mines on the stipulation that the coal Is to be for the railroad company's own use. In a number of cities prices of coal have increased greatly in two weeks and there is suffering among the poor which charity organizations cannot relieve because the coal cannot be got. Some railroad companies have been compelled to confiscate coal on the side tracks In order to move trains. The situation Is reported to be even worse in Iowa and the State Board of Railway Commissioners has appealed to the railroads to abandon passenger traln3 so far as possible and devote their faciltles to hauling coal. Factories in many cities In the State have closed for lack of fuel and hundreds of men are out of employment. Present conditions are without a parallel In the history of Iowa. The Chilean government has ordered from the Krupps, in 'Essen, Germany, 240 guns, to be delivered within three years. i Only the speed; and firm establishment of a new Turkish ministry. In the opinion of the leading diplomats, can prevent a break in the ranks tf the Young Turks following th resignation of Grand Vizier Hllml Pasha and his cabinet. The reception at San Juan, Porto Rico, recently tendered in honor of Secretary of War Dickinson and Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief of th-5 bureau of insular affairs, was unsurpassed even by that given to President Roosevelt in 1906. The T.ventieth Century, a government organ of Belgium, quotes "an authoritative person" confirming the religious marriage of King Leopold on his deathbed. It also says that a few days prior to this Bareness Vaughar. received holy communion. King Manuel, the youthful monarch of Portugal, led the work of relief in the district which suffered the heaviest damage from the recent storms. Manuel was in the saddle night and day. Two of Portugal's warships were sj badly injured In the storm as to be practically worthless. The secret service of Russia have arrested two men and four women at Moscow whi are Implicated in a plot to kill Czar Nicholas and the czarina, who will soon visit Moscow. ' The Italian ministry has announced its determination to lay down four battle Ships of the Dreadnought class in 1911 in the government yards and two others in private yards, besides three scout vessels. The sultan of Turkey accepted the resignation of the cabinet, headed by llilml Pasha, who felt constrained to retire owing to the opposition of the Young Turk leaders, but 'or Just what reasons can only be conjectured. The north polar observations of Dr. Frederick A. Cook reached Copenhagen safely on board the steamer United States. Extraordinary precautions were taken to make sure that the longheralded data were delivered Intact to the University of Copenhagen authorities. The chamber of deputies has voted authorization to the Pans municipality to contract for a loan of 900,000,000 francs ($160,000,000) for an elaborate scheme of improvements, including the demolition of insanitary quarters, the construction of new streets, gardens and schools, and for other changes in rjubllc works.

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Indiana Unveils Statue of Soldier, Author and Diplomat in Nation's Capitol. PROMINENT MEN SPEAKERS. James Whitcomb Riley Reads Original Poem and Grandson of General Draws Canvas Aside. In commemoration of his services to his State and country a statue of Gen. Lew Wallace, soldier, author and diplomat, has been placed in the capltol at Washington, making a notable addition to the galaxy of great Americans whose effigies adorn. Statuary hall. Oliver P. Morton, war governor of Indiana, is the other citizen who has been honored by the Hoosier State in this manner. The unveiling was made the occasion of an imposing ceremony. Captain John P. Megrew. who served as an officer In General Wallace's command In the Civil War and i3 president of tho Lew Wallace statue commission, presided. The figure was unveiled by Lew Wallace, Jr.. grandson of the general. Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana accepted the statue on behalf of his State from the commission which had charge of Its preparation. Others who delivered eulogies were Senator Beveridge, A. Rustem Bey, charge d'affaires of the Turkish embassy, and W. II. Andrews, delegate from New Mexico. One o! the most notable features of the ceremony was the reading of an original poem by James Whitcomb Riley. The statue Is the work of Andrew O'Connor of Paris. It is seven feet high and the figure is clad in the uniform of a ma-Jor-gmeral of the United States. Gets Kuck :tO,OOo Necklace. Mrs. Irene Isnian, who last October divorced Felix Tsnian, the real estate operator and theatrical manager of Philadelphia and New York, has recovered the necklace of pearls worth $30.000 she lost in the street recently. The working girl who picked up the pearls received $2,000 reward. Find Gold In Oklahoma. On the farm of Mrs. Albert Mitchell, a few miles east of Purcell, Okla., it is reported that J. L. Millfats, an old miner, has discovered gold ore that assays $95 per ton. The discovery was made while Millfats was digging a well. Excitement prevails here and land values are advancing. Robbers Lock Police in Vault. Five robbers cracked the safe In the Spencer, Mass., postoffice after overpowering two policemen and locking them in a steel vault in the town hall. One of the policemen was seriously Injured. The robbers escaped, but carried off only about $30 worth of stamps. Lack of Fuel Close University. The Ohia State University was compelled to close the other day in all departments except one because of lack of coal. Two thousand students were excused from recitations. Re ports from central Ohio show that stock not sheltered is suffering from the cold. Spain's 3Ilnlster Is Moved. The Marquis de Villalobar, Spanish minister to Washington, has been transferred to Lisbon. Action with regard to the transfer has been held up for a fortnight, and the foreign office in Madrid stated that the Spanish minister might not leave Washington. Six Killed I. Colliery. An explosion at ihe Nottingham. Pa., colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company caught a number of workmen. Six were killed and four injured. Cold Killed Sheep Herden. Related reports from the snow-hound range country of Wyoming indicate . m . l - a 1 mat a numuer oi sneep herders met death with their flocks in the extremely cold weather of December. Fire In Hoston V. 31. C. A. The Boston Young Men's Christian Association Building, In the Back Bay district, was destroyed by fire. The los3 will exceed $200,000. The origin of the fire is not known definitely, but the blaze is believed to have started in the gymnasium.

GRAVES IS FORESTER. Protege of Pinchot Appointed to Succeed Ousted Chief at "Washington. Henry S. Caves has been appointed chief forester to succeed Gifford Pinchot. Had Mr. Pinchot controlled the selection of hi?, successor he probably would have, named Mr. Graves, who is his protege, and who entertains substantially the same views and advocates practically the same policies as Mr. Pinchot. .Mr. Graves was the rortit available man of those with the necessary technical training available, and he will take up the work laid down by Mr. Pinchot with zeal. He was born in Marietta, 0., but while young his family moved to Andover, Mass., where Mr. Graves' father was for many years a member of the faculty of Phillips Andover Academy. When Mr. Pinchot became forester of the Department of Agriculture in 'July, 1S98, Mr. Graves became his first assistant.

SAVE UVES AND GET $20,000. Two Workmen Injured In Ilrnve Act Itecover From Company. A verdict of $20,000 damages has been awarded to two bridge workers who saved the lives of several other workmen on the Queensborough bridge In New York. A heavy steel plate began to slip and Imperiled men below. Orlazus Judge and John J. McGlynn thrust their hands Into a crevice be neath the plate and held them there until the plate was raised. Their hands were so Injured they have not been able to work for two years. ROBBERS SLAY TWO IN RAID. Illhwa ymen Enter Resort and Shoot to Death Victims Who Resist. Robbers raided a resort known at Turner hall In Crowberg, Kan., and killed two men. One other man was wounded. The robbers got $200. Twenty men were In the place when the robbers entered. They were forced to line up and surrender their valuables. Aniline and Smith resisted and were shot down. Bert Turney ran to their aid .and was shot, but will recover. UTAH IS SHAKEN. Carthshooks II renk Window Panes and CauM! Much Alarm. Covorai enrthshocks have occurred at Richfield, Utah, within forty-eight hours. Window panes were broken and schools were dismissed to insure the safety of the pupil3. Slight quake3 are common there, but 'those were so violent as to cause general alarm. They were confined to a small area, however. Miss Rhoda M. White, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1906, and has since held a fellowship in sociology at that institution, has been made dean of women at Middlebury College, Vermont. Fire in Chadbourne hall, women's dormitory at the University of Wisconsin, caused a small-sized panic among the women students recently. The blaze resulted more In an abundance of ludicrous incidents than in actual monetary damage. Educators of . the Indian from all over the United States held a recent meeting in Washington, D. C, to discuss methods of improving the mindd of Indians. The subject of their education was treated by those who have had long experience in the work. Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, acknowledges the receipt of a gift of $7,000 from one of the alumnae of the college. Miss Cynthia M. Wesson, of SprlngOeld, Mass. The regents of the University of Minnesota have elected A. V. Woods, of Washington, D. C, as dean of the State Agricultural College to succeed Dean John W. Olsen, resigned. The board of directors of the Faribault school for deaf and dumb in Minnesota have decided to admit students from other States to the Institution. A charge of $273 per year will be made for these students. The educational department of South Dakota has completed the markings on the papers returned from the November examinations, and the results show 563 new teachers authorized to teach in the State out of 981 applicants; 418 failed to come up to the required standard and were rejected. Haskell Institute, valued at threequarters of a million dollars, the second largest Indian school In the Unlted States. Is to be . ofTered to the State of Kansas as a site for a day trade school, according to an announcement made by II. D. Pearls, who has recently been appointed as super intendent of Indian schools.

TYPHOID BACILLI FOR MURDER.

Suspected Man is Known to Have Bought Germs So firmly convinced are the relatives Df Thomas II. Swope of Kansas City, that the deaths of the multi-millionaire philanthropist and his nephew, Chrisman Swope, did not occur from natural causes that they have placed the investigation into the cause of tho deaths in the hands of a lav firm with instructions that all the millions of the dead philanthropist be usted if necessary to get at the truth. The assertion is made that both Thomas Swope and his nephew were poisoned and that the author of the :rime also inoculated the entire Swope family, consisting of eight people, with typhoid germs in an effort to exterminate them. The bodies of the two dead Swopes have been exhumed and their organs are being analyzed. The death of both Thomas and Chrismau Swope by convulsions after being taking a capsule and the subsequent serious illness of the entire Swope family with typhoid led to the investigation. Shortly before Chrisman Swope's death, the man to whom suspicion points visited the office of a well known bacteriologist of Kansas City and obtained some typhoid germs. With these deadly bacilli those push ing the matter believe he hoped to inoculate the members of the Swope family. "I am buying these merely to do some experimenting, he 13 said to have told the bacteriologist. Chrisman Swope became seriously ill with ty phoid. When it was found he would likely recover, and that the inoculation of the typhus bacilli did not take as was expected, he was given strychnine to .make sure of death, according to the theory of those conducting the investigation. Since that-time the other seven members of the Swope family have been taken down with typhoid. JOHN R. WALSH IS DEFEATED. Former Banker Denied Writ of Certiorari by Supreme Court. The petition of John R. Walsh, the Chicago former banker, for a writ of certiorari was denied by the United States Supreme Court in Washington; D. C. John R. Walsh went to his office In Chicago the other morning fully expecting to hear the result of his appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' affirmation of District Judge Anderson's sentence of Ave years' imprisonment at Leavenworth, Kan., on the charge of mismanagement of funds iL his Chicago National Bank. At the sane time he expected to be informed that the last signature required JOn.N B. WALSH. to wind up his financial affairs had Leen affixed to the settlement agreement between himself, the associated banks which backed adjustment of the affairs of his three banks when they were suspended in 1905 and the six guarantor;? of his $7,121,SST note to those banks. Mr. Walsh has put his business into such shape tlat it can be handled by his sons, Joan W. and Richard V. Walsh, without his assistance. BRIDE BEATEN; FLUf.'G IN WELL. Found .rar Death and Aecoes II unhand of Crime. William FVrris was forced the other morning by the freezing of his well in Bridgeport, Conn., to seek an old well that had long been out of use and he found a woman up to her neck in Its icy waters. After being beaten and robbed she had been thrown Into the well as 7 o'clock the night before. The woman was Mrs. Joseph Brooks, a bride of a week. For thirteen hours she had clung to an old pipe in the unused well to save herself from drowning. When she was taken from the water it was found that both of her feet were frozen and that amputation would be necessary. As soon as she had been taken from the icy water the woman accused her husband of the crime, and the sheriff and the police force are seeking him in all directions. A confederate, according to the woman, aided In the crime and disappeared with the husband. Lamp Explosion Kills Woman. Mrs. Fannie Binley, 80, was found burned to a crisp in her home in Findlay, O. A lamp had exploded. ? no.ooo Is Left by "IleKsrar." The finding of negotiable securities amounting to more than $30,000 among tho effects of J. C. Lounsberry, whose dead body was found In a roominghouse in St. Paul, started an investigation which showed that Lounsberry, who dressed as a beggar, had loaned money in large sums. Wilson's Stepmother Is Dead. Mrs. John Wilson is dead at Traer, Iowa, aged TO. Mr$. Wilson was the ntt smother of James Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington. F.x-IInnker Sentenced j Paroled. ' R. T. Clark, former cashier of the Oakwood Bank, who embezzled $9,99S.38 a few months ago, pleaded guilty In Hannibal, Mo., and was sentenced to three years In the penitentiary. He was paroled on a bond of $2,000. First 3Iale Giraffe Horn In Captivity. A male giraffe, said to be the first ever born in captivity, was given birth at the circus winter quarters in Bridgeport, Conn. It has been named Napoleon.

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Hcee nnfju & WLddUUilll II MYSTERIES LI BARE Alleged Lamphere Confession Tells of Murders and Woman's Death. DETAILS SLAYING OF 3 MEU Two Papers Give Out Purported Admission That Hired Man Drugged Assassin. Ray Lamphere, who died recently in the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan Zity while serving a term for setting Ire to the home of Mrs. Bella Gunness, icar Laporte, Ind., did not carry the :ecrets of the Gunness charnel farm 0 the tomb with him, according to a opyrlghted story in the St. Louis 5ost Dispatch. When he believed death vas near he confessed. . The confession was made to Rev. Dr. E. A. Schell, formerly pastor of he Laporte Methodist church, now iresident of the Iowa Wesleyan university at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and leid by him Inviolate as a secret of he confessional, until the main facts aad already become public, when ha Droke his long silence and gave to the Chicago Tribune the confession, made :o him in the county jail at Laporte, rJid., in April, 190S. ' The confession, which hitherto ha3 oeen held as a privileged communljation by the minister, was given with ill the detail of the three conversa:ions in which Lamphere laid here the secrets of the Gunness charnel. house. It describes the killing of Mrs. Belle 3unness and the three children who perished in the burning of the Gunness house. Lamphere admitted killing the four persons, but denied setling fire to the house. Lamphere's confession implicates a negress as an accomplice. Lamphere said he witnessed the killing of Andrew Helgetein and assisted in the burying .of ' the bodies of two other men. Lamphere, according to the St. Louis story, had guilty knowledge of the jaurder of three men In the Gunness home during the time he lived there, itout eight months in 1907, and he assisted Mrs. Gunness in disposing of ;ne bodies of the three men. He said he thought ' he had not received as nuch of the profits of the transaction is he considered himself entitled to, md he went to the farmhouse at night Ith a woman, chloroformed Mrs. Gunless, her three children and Jennie Olson. He and the woman then ;earched the house, finding between tCO and $70. The light 'they used was t candle, and they left the house without knowing they had left behind a tpark that soon burst into flames. Mrs. Gunness' method of killing her 'ictlms, Lamphere said; was first to hloroform them as they slept and hen if the drug did not itself kill, to .ever the heada with an ax. Each time 1 man was to be murdered, according o Lamphere, she sent him to purh;se chloroform. Lamphere said he iaw one of the men killed and aided n burying all three. These men were Vndrew Helgeleln and probably Ole Judsberg and Tonness Petersen Lien. Warden Reid of the Michigan City )rison denied the story told that Reid tad said he had talked with Lamphere while in prison and that the convict lad discussed with him the Helgeleln nurder. The warden said he never lad a talk with Lamphere regarding Lamphere's case and that he never :old any such ' story as was credited :o him. Ilalwe Price of Shoes. Charging the necessity of their action to the Increased cost of materials, 225 manufacturers of shoes, comprising the National Association of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, have made a formal announcement of a horizontal increase in the retail price of shoes, amounting to from 10 to 12 per cent. The advance was directed to be made within the present year. Conntry's Valentines llnrn. Fire in the plant of the George C. Whitney Company in Worcester, Mass., the largest valentine factory In the United States, did damage estimated at $200.000. The almost complete destruction of the plant means an almost valentineless St. Valentine's day for the country. 31 hier' Children Killed. Two children are dead and three persons badly Injured as the result of the explosion of three sticks of car bonite at the home of Jos. Kentic, a miner, near California. Penn. The dead are Gena Kentic, aged two; Mary Kentic, aged four. This carbonite was hanging near the kitchen stove. Klnnr Menellk Heported Dead. The Osservatore Romano in Rome prints a dispatch from Harrar, a town of Southeastern Abyssinia, saying It is reported that King Menelik died Dec. 23 and that the news was suppressed in order to avoid internal troubles. Cost of Girls Strike f 4,000,000. The strike of girl shirt-waist makers in New York has caused a loss of more than $4,000.000 in employes wages and employers' profits, according to calculations by I. B. Ihman, president of the Manufacturers association. Dies While Saving Daughter. Alexander Hilger, C3 years old, was killed by a locomotive on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, at Leetsdale, while saving his daughter from death. World's Fair for JVevr York. Plans for a world's fair to be held in is'ew York City in 1913 have been hunched. The exhibition will commemorate the 300th anniversary of the rottlement of Manhattan Island. The promoters have taken out articles of incorporation. rassle Chadwick Home Ilased The Euclid avenue mansion of the late Cassie Chadwick, Cleveland, female financier, is being wrecked to make roccn for a synagogue, to be the finest in the city. Detective Kill a Ilarglar. Caught robbing the store of Rudolph & Son Company, near the Central police station. In Cleveland, a burglar who said his name was William Rehfeldt was shot by Detective McFarland, of the municipal force. Rehfeldt died half an hour later.

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CHICAGO. Dun's Weekly Review of Chicago Trade says: The underlying conditions augment the prospects for enlarging trade, although cross currents adversely interfere with current operations. Stormy weather yet hinders outside construction and freight movements, and increasing difficulties in getting coal is responsible for temporary lessening ofj active factory capacity, The high value of money also causes decreased investment, but the volume of payments through the banks yet shows larger than at this time last year, when the security markets were expanded. While discouraging to transportation, theA heavy snowfall secures further protection for growing wheat and rye, and the demand is notably good for necessaries in the leading retail lines here and at the interior. Speculative, dealings have stimulated activity in the primary markets for breadstuffs and provisions and arrivals of the principal grains exceed those reported recently and a year ago. Bank clearings, $272.270,000. exceed those of the corresponding week In 1909 by barely 1 per cent, and compare with $221,907,319 In 190S. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 36, against 2S last week, 33 in 1909 and 47 in 1903. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number 7, against 5 last week, 10 in 1909 and 19 in 190S. NEW YORK. Reports as to trade and transportation reflect variations of weather irregularly affecting sales and movement of farm products and coal supplies and of spring goods to various markets. Retail trade In winter goods has been helped by cold, stormy weather and the usual January price revl--sions. A very fair volume of reorders Is reported by jobbers, while the volume of orders for spring reaching wholesale houses from travelers is fairly good. The question of higher costs is bv ing considered by many manufacturers, who are finding higher prices for raw materials and requests for advances in wages. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with Jan. 13 were 291. against 271 last week, 319 In the like week of 1909. 331 in 1908. 234 in 1907 and 279 In 1906. Business failures in Canada for the week number 44. which compares with 33 for last week and 36 for the like week of 1909. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime. t".C0'to $S.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $S.S5; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $C25; wheat, Xo. 2, $1.24 to $1.26; corn, No. J, 63c to 67c; oatf, standard, 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, 79c to SOc; hay.timothy, $10.00 to $18.00; prairie, $S.OO to $15.50; butter, choice creamery, 34s to 35c; eggs, fresh, 34c to 3Sc; potatoes, per bushel, 40c to S3c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to 57.50; hegs, good to choice heavy, $4.50 to $S.80; sheep, good to cho'ce, $2.23 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.25 to $1.26; corn, No. 2 white, 64c to 66c;. oats. No. 2 white, 45c to 4Sc. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $S.iO; hogs, $4.00 to $S.80; sheep, $3.00 to $6.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.31 to $1.32; vera, No. 2, 67c to 6Sc; oats. No. 2, 48c to 50; rye. No. 2. 7Sc to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $6.35;, hogs, $4.00 to $S.65; sheep. $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.29 to $1.32; corn, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 6Sc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 4Cc to 4 Sc; rye. No. 2. 80c to S2c. Detroit Cattle. $100 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $S.30;. sheep. $2.50 to 55.00; wheat No. 2. $1.24 to $1.26; corn. No. 3 yellow; 65c to 67c; oats, standard, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 1. 7c to Sic. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. $1.15 to $L1S; corn, No. 3, 6Sc to 70c; oats, standard, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 1, 79c t 81c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, mess, $22.35. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $S.S0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.S0. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $C.S0; hogs, $4.00 to $9.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.31 to $1.33; corn, No. T, 74c to 76c; oats natural, white, 53c to 55c; butter, creamery, 32c to 3cc; eggs, western, 35c to 39c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.23 to $1.27; corn, No. 2 mixed, 65c to 67c; oats. No. 2 blxed, 47c to 49c; rye, No. 2, SOc to 81c; clover seed, SS.93. ' TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Over 3,000,000.000 revenue stamps will be required for the cigars, cigarettes, strip tobacco and snuff during the current fiscal year, according to a deficiency, estimate sent to Congress by the treasury department. Members of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, New York Bible class contributed n average of 10 1-3 per capita per Sunday to the collections of the class during 1909, according to the annual repcrt. This is a falling off of 2 cents from the average of 1908. John W. Babb, a policeman of Westchester, Pa., was shot and killed by Joseph Carnathan, aged 1 6. whom he had gone to Wawaset, near Westchester, to arrest. Herbert Du Puy was elected temporary president of the Crucible Steel Company of America at Pittsburg to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank B. Smith. Arguments have been begun In the" Injunction suit of three railroad companies afcinst the State of Oklahoma j to prevent enforcement of a 2-cent-a-mile passenger rate and maximum freight rate. Three men are dead and fifteen are In a hospital as a result of a battle between two rival factions of miners at Phoenix, a Canadian mining town. Welsh and English fought Italians. West Virginia has compromised in its suit against the Johnson N. Cam-" den estate, it is reported. Instead of $1,700,000 the State will accept $100,000 under the forfeiture clause of tho tax laws. Mayor Gaynor of New York has notified every department head under him that they must indulge In no sewspaper interviews and Issue no statements concerning ths business of their departments except 'hrough him.