Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 February 1910 — Page 2

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L,Q. Kir 2nd :'ith J$ 16th frd. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Condition of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. , N. W. Gilbert Goes Higher. Newton W. Gilbert, of Indiana, has been nominated by President Taft as rice governor of the Philippines, and Charles B. Elliott, of Minnesota, as a member of the Philippine Commission and secretary of the Department of Commerce and Police. Charles E. Magoon, former provisional governor of Cuba, vas offered the position of vice governor and secretary of commerce? and police, but declined owning to his doctors advice that he should remain in this country for the present. Mr. Gilbert will continue as secretary of public instruction in the islands. Girl Goes Over the Falls. A yum? woman thought to be Miss Beatrice R. Fnyder. of Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide by wading into the river just above Prospect Point, and going over tha American falls. As her body swept over the brink of the cataract she turned her face toward would-be rescuers and smiled a farewell to them. On the bank was found a handbag and ia it a card bearing the name of Beatrice R. Snyder. With the lower river jammed with ice and the jam increasing hourly, there is little hope that, the body ever will be recovered. Nurses' Eravery Saves Patients Lives. Bravery of the nurses in Parkview Sanitarium, a private hospital at Savannah, Ga., probably prevented a Tery destructive f.re. Eighteen patients were carried from the burning wing of the hospital, the nurses saving some of the sick after fighting their way through thick smoke in close proximity to flames. With the private fire fighting apparatus, before the arrival of the firemen, the nurses fought, beating back the flames until help arrived. The property loss was not great. New Hotel for Indianapolis.. A fourteen-story hotel, to occupy a Quarter of a block, to cost at least $1,000,000, with a theater and roor garden attached, is projected for Indianapolis, Ind. Thomas Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks are the men interested. Briefly their plan is to obtain from the Ewing estate which owns the Denlson hotel property a long lease, tear down the present buUding and erect the hotel on that site. Seven Men Blown to Atoms. Heedless of the warning of a foreman in charge of excavating operations along the line of the private motor road from Kelvin to the Ray copper mines, near Phoenix, Ariz., the motorman of a gasoline car containing six passengers ran his car close ,to a sputtering fuse of a heavy charge of dynamite and the car and its seven occupants were blown to atoms. Mammoth Subway for Chicago. A plan to relieve Chicago's congested traffic systems b.y the construction of a ninety-mile subway was believed ,to have been furthered when it was announced that Bion K. Arnold had been appointed the city's subway engineer to prepare plans. Rough estimates have been that the subway -would cost from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000. ' Ex-Treasurer Glazier Sentenced. Former State Treasurer Frank I. Glazier, of Chelsea, Mich., was sentenced by Judge WTiest at Mason to not les3 thr.n five nor more than ten , years in prison for misappropriating $GS3,000 of State funds. Glazier controlled a bak at Chelsea which failed in December, 1007, and the money had been deposited in this bank contrary to law. , , Fatal Wreck !n Arkansas. Dashing head-on into an east-bound freight train, Rock Island passenger ttrain No. 4 was wrecked at Fourche, thirty-eight miles west of Little Rock, ,Ark., killing Edward Rawls, of Beard, Ark., who was riding on the "blind," and Injuring fourteen passengers and nembers of the crew. Fatal Wreck on Florida Road. One man was killed outright and four others seriously Injured in South Jacksonville, Fla., when train No. 33 from St. Augustine on the East Coast railroad, crasSed into the rear end of train No. 40, the New Smyrna express. Wreck on the Burlington. Two through passenger trains on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad collided head-on near De Sota, thirty miles south of LaCrcsse, WTis. JNo one was killed. i Fred Cohen Out on Bail. Ferdinand Cohen, the hotel waiter who is charged with kidnaping Roberta Do Janon, the young heiress of Philadelphia, Pa., wa3 released from prison in $1,500 bail. Act of an Insane Farmer. William Ruckheim, a farmer, aged 25 years, murdered hJs wife and four children and shot hiraself at Barker's Prairie, Minn. He was found dying when hi3 son went to the farm. Ruckheim is believed to have been temporarily insane. Justice in Name Only. Although he has served as justice of the peace for eight years, U D. Reed, of Attica, Ind., has never had a case come before him or performed a marriage ceremony. Descendant of Two Presidents. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Taylor Huff, who died in Louisville, Ky., of pneumonia at the age of 60, was a descendant of two Presidents, James Madison and Zachary Taylor. She was a granddaughter also of Commander Richard Taylor, who fought in the Revolutionary War. Robbers Blow Illinois Bank. Robbers blew open the safe in the Van Cleave bank at Blue Mound, 111.! They escaped with more than $1,500 In cash. '

I SLOW: II iE BUlOli Hxplorers in .Mine Have Penetrated Only 400 Feet of Many .Miles Underground. KICKING MULES TAKE LIFE. Bodies of Animals Which Hurt These Trying to Escape Found New Timbers Placed Under Roof. After three days of Incessant labor only 400 feet of the many miles of sub-x terranean passages of the St. Paul mine in Cherry, 111., were open, and it was problematical when the 167 bodies could be brought to the surface. Every effort was being made to clear a runway from the main shaft to the air pit. Inspection of the cleared portion of the second level showed that from the bottom of the main shaft 350 feet underground westward for 250 feet, the main road is in good condition. Some of the heavy timbers near the shaft are charred, but they are solid and Intact. The main passage to the east is walled up. Behind this wall is a smoldering fire. Back of the fire lie about 100 dead. About 250 feet west of the shaft the bottom level ends In a blind alley, in which lie the bodies of two mules, covered with disinfectants. These mules kicked viciously at several miners as the men ran for their lives through the smoky passageways after the fire itarted. One miner was kicked into unconsciousness and could not escape, hile his companion was injured so severely that he is still under the care of a surgeon. Near the end of the mala road a tortuous runway branches off to the south, ending in the air shaft. The top timbers in this passage are broken, letting shale rock through. Some of the fractured scantlings appear halfrotted. Ther was no fire in this tunnel. As fast as men clear the runway new timbers are placed under the crumbling roof, making the ceiling so low that a man cannot stand erect. Rock3 as large as a steamer trunk were piled as high as the roof. So narrow was the tunnel and so dangerous was the work that only two worked at a time. EIG NEW YORK BROKERS FAIL. Bad Market Causes Fisk & Robinson to Go Into Receivership. Fisk & Robinson, members of the New York Stock Exchange and one of the best known bond houses In New York, with branches In Chicago, Boston and Worcester, were petitioned into insolvency the other day by three friendly creditors. The liabilities of the firm approximate $7,000,000, with nominal assets slightly in excess of that sum. Calling of the bank for better collateral than is held as security for some of the firm's loans. Inability of the firm to market some $2,000,000 of the bond 3 and preferred stock of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway Company and general dullness of the bond market are assigned as the causes of the failure, which, according to Joseph Stanley Brown, floor manager of the firm and one of the petitioning creditors, was decided upon when it became clear to the members that to continue for thef would be too dangerous and unfair to the creditors. TRUST IN BREAKFAST FOODS? Cereal Manufacturers Flan to Form a Holding Company. , Several of the largest cereal manufacturers in the country plan to form a holding company to take over the Dig factories, thus forming a trust in breakfast foods. It 13 understood thatv while some details remain to be adJusted, the deal is practically closed." The following concerns will probably be In the combine, according to the .report: The Northwestern Cereal Corporation; the Minneapolis Cereal and Milling Company; the Fruen Wheat Food and Milling Company; the MinnePaul Cereal and Milling Company; the Malta Vita Foci Company of Battle Creek, Mich.; the Pettijohn Fure Food Company; and the Iowa plants of the United Cereal Company of Chicago. It was further declared that seven white fleur millä in Minneapolis would be in the merger and that two of tha large bakery concerts of that city would also be Included. EXPRESS COMPANY MERGER ON? American Reported Parehaaer of Dltf Block of Wella-Fargo. It was said in authoritative circles in New York that the American Express Company had purchased the Southern Pacific Railroad Company's holding of stock in Wells, Fargo & Co., which i3 taken to indicate that a merger of the two companies 13 under way. The Southern Pacific's decision to sell the stock is in line with the policy of the new management of the road to avoid stock market manipulation and confine itself strictly to railroad management. James C. Fargo, President of the American Express Company, ,nd Judge Robert S. Lovett, president of the Southern Pacific, declined to talk about the reported purchafe. TRAMP IS AWARDED $250,000. Wayfarer I'rove flight to Fortune Left by Junk Dealer. After having tramped in poverty throughout the country for nearly a dozen years James J. Corbett was declared heir to $250,000. Judge George of the Probate Court in Boston decided that Corbett was the missing brother and heir of William J. Corbett, a junk dealer of that city. The claims cQ several other persons, including Eome from Philadelphia, were rejected. TAFT ORDERS TARIFF QUIZ. I'rcaldPiil l'repnre to Make Study of the Bntlre 3Iut(er. An exhaustive study of the whol.3 uibjeet of the tariff is planned by Pres.dent Taft. He has directed the tariff board authorities under the recent tariff act to prepare for such an inquiry. In order to defray the expenses of the work, the President will ask an appropriation of $75,000 from Congress. Such an investigation of the subject a3 was recently made by the German government is sought by the President.

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COOD MORNINC! DID YOU BRING, Your twenty Cfnt$ WTK Vnn P SOMEBODY AGREEMENT WITH GERMAN x. Commercial War Averted and Door Opened for Other Settlements. By the tariff agreement with Germany announced the other day the United States has not only avoided a commercial war with the empire, but has paved the Wiy for a settlement of the differences existing with France and Canada. It seems certain now, that the business Interests of the United Stales may look forward to a period of peace in the commercial relations of the country. To obtain Ulis; result. Secretary Knox and his advisers in the State Department, as well as the tariff board, were compelled to abandon their demands for concessions on American live cattle and meat products and for the modification of the German customs rules governing drawback of duty allowed on flour when exported from Germany. A promise wa3 obtained, however, that the German government would discuss these matters diplomatically with the United States. As German goods now will enjoy the benefit of minimum rates of duty, the French government must seek like treatment for its products, many of which compete with those of Germany. Otherwise the market here will be lost to them. If an arrangement be made with France as expected American goods will enter French territory upon precisely the samu grounds as those of other foreign countries. This will mean that the Franco-Canadian reciprocity treaty will be of small benefit to Canada, and the latter probably will decide, in view of the circumstances, to accord to American imports treatment equivalent to that offered to those cf France. PDHTICS3Ö Congressman Dawson, of the Second Iowa District, has decided to be a candidate for re-election. With the installation of the new regime in governmental affairs in NewYork City, for the fir.it time in six years the chief offices of the municipality are not filled by men allied with the Tammany Hall organization. Thu joint committee of Congress, composed of six Senators and six Representatives, created to investigate the official acts of Messrs. Ballinger and Pinchot, began its sessions. Lewis R. Glavis, special agent, was the first witness to be examined. His testimony raised a question of professional ethics on the part of Ballinger rather than of official misconduct, the point being that Ballinger, before becoming land commissioner, had drawn up an agreement designed to convey the rights of dummy entrants on certain public lands in Washington to the Wilson Coal Company. At this point Glavis was asked by one member of the committee to state what he intended to prove against Ballinger. Thereupon Lewis G. Brandies of Boston, appearing as counsel for Glavis, said that his client was averse to formulating a specific charge and felt that this should be left to the committee after hearing the testimony. He promised that the investigation would bring out more than was contained in the charges filed by Glavis with the President. Not satisfied with what he has already written about the anti-trust law and its eificiency and the desirability of having the federal control over railroads extended. President Taft is having a water-power bill framed that goes far ahead of anything that Roosevelt conservationists ever proposed. A resolution proposing that the House shall elect five additional members to the Committee on Rules, four to be Republicans and one a Democrat, and that henceforth the speaker shall r.ot be a member of that committee, which shall elect its own chairman, was introduced by Representative Fowler of Ne w Jersey. "No, you will never have an opportunity to vote for me again. I shall not be a candidate for office," were the words which ex-Governor I.ind penned in reply to urgent requests that he a sain ente r the gubernatorial race in Minnesota. On the eve of the congressional investigation Into his official record, Secretary Ballinger found occasion to get in a sharp thrust at hi3 adversary, Pinchot, in an address before the Good Government Club of Williams College. Although no names were mentioned, it was easy to see that Pinchot and Roosevelt were the main targets of his remarks.

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SAYS WE CAN LIVE ON 20 ENFORCES SUICIDE AGREEMENT. Letter Carrier Shoot Spornte and Her Father and Then Kill II Im elf. Six years ago. whn they were married, Sandie Morrison, an Omaha letter carrier, and Miss Hattio Sumner entered into a suicide agreement. Fro quently since then Mr. and Mrs. Mofrison have talked of suicide and agreed that one could not live without the other. Last Saturday, when Morrison came home from his work, he remarked: "Hattie, I. have decided that we are to go." The wife begged for delay. He attacked her with a knife, wounding her on the neck. Escaping, she ran away and sought safety with her parents. A few days later Morrison held a conference with his wife and her father, J. H. Sumner. He apeared rational. She plainly told him that she had changed her mind. Morrison then urged his wife and her father to accompany him to the office of a justice, where, he said, he wanted to deed over his property. As the three reached the street he pulled a revolver and shot his wife in the back of the head and Sumner in the right eye. As the two fell to the sidewalk he turned the gun upon himself and sent a bullet in his forehead, dying instantly. Mrs. Morrison may recover, but Sumner will die. M'CANN IS GIVEN STAY. Granted Writ of Supercedes Fol lonlng Formal Sentence. Edward McCann was sentenced to a prison term of from one to five years by Judge Barnes in Chicago on his conviction of the alleged acceptance of bribes while police inspector from denizens of the West Side underworld. Although a writ of supersedeas immediately wa3 issued by Justice Orrin N. Carter of the Supreme Court on the theory that there was "reasonable doubt" of the defendant's guilt, and McCann's bond was reduced from $30,000 to $10,000, the convicted police official was taken Into custody by order of Sheriff Strassheim. DERRICK DROPS; TWO DEAD. Second I'ntal Accident i In Ilulldlntt Make Death List Five. Two men were killed and two will die as the result of a second accident at the Freidberg Building in Cincinnati. John Zeach, an employe of the Bishop Wrecking Company, was killed instantly, and Charles Fox was so badly hurt that he died when a gigantic derrick upon which they were working collapsed. This makes five lives which have been lost in the one location within a fortnight. Two weeks before the east wall collapsed and hurled an adjoining house beneath it. In thia accident three were killed and one other is fatally Injured. WILL PROBE "LOADED JURY'" J a dice Direct Invent Ijfntlon Following Acquittal of Woman a Slaer. Judge J. H. Quinn, of Fairmont, Minn., instructed the grand jury and appointed Harrison L. Schmitt, assistant county attorney, to investigate charges of a "loaded" jury against the jury which recently acquitted Mrs. Holly J. Ledbeter of the murder of her husband. A public indignation meeting, attended by 400 citizens of thlj city and surrounding country, first voiced these charges and attacked Judge A. It. Pfau, who presided at the Ledbeter trial. Schooner and Ten Men Loaf. The threevnasted schooner Frances, Captain Coombs, from New York to Jacksonoville, Fla., was lost on the treacherouh Hatteran coast and her entire crew of ten men are supposed to have perished in the raging sea that tore the stranded vessel to pieces. Fatal Wreck In Illinoln. One man was killed, three were possibly fatally injured, and an engine and fifteen freight cars were demolished in a wreck on the Elgin, Joliet an l Eastern Railway at Gilmer, 111. North Dakota Senator. Fountain L. Thompson, a Senator from North Dakota, has resigned on ac count of 111 healtn, and W. K. Purcell of Wahpeton has been appointed his ..uecessor. Gives Birth to Tvt cut) -it h Child. .Mrs. Philip W. Webster, 42 years old, gave birth to her twenty-sixth child at Niagara Falls, N. Y. She married at the age of 1G. Five pairs of twins and one set of triplets were in eluded in the number, hut none of them lived.

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REPORT SHOWS PRICE JUMP. Climb Since 1899 Indicated by Government Experts. That there has been a general increase in wholesale and retail prices of food between the years 1899 and 190S is indicated by a report sent to the Senate by the, Department of Commerce and Labor In response to a rf solution introduced by Senator Oawford of South Dakota calling for the trend of prices. For purposes of comparison the prices in 1S99 are used as normal, and the percentages of increases were about as follows: Bread- Wholesale," 23.1 ; retail, 4.9. Butter- Wholesale. Elirin. 20.8: creamery, extra. .27. ; dairy, 2i.6; retail, 30.0, no luality Indicated. Cheese Wholesale. 26.9 ; retail, 20.3. Coffee Wholesale. 3.9: retail. 5. Ksgs New laid, wholesale, 39. S : retalt, 3C.2. Wheat Hour Wholesale, spring. 43.6: winter. 26. S : retail, L'4.4, no quality indicated. Iard Wholesale, 63.3: retail, 3S.2. Beef Wholesale, fresh. 11.8; salt, 41.9; retail, fresh. 14.9; salt. 10.6. Pressed mutton Wholesale, 21.4 ; retail. 2G.S. I Ucon Wholesale 54.5; retail, 52.9. Ham Wholesale, 21.9; retail. 31.8. Milk Wholesale, 30; retail, 18.1. Potatoes Wholesale. 70.3; retail. 25.3. The report shows that prices on sugar, tea, spices and soda crackers have been slightly reduced. LAKE DOMESTIC COMMERCE. Tonnage in 1909 About 2,500,000 Below That of 1907. Domestic commerce on the great lakes during the calendar year of 1909 aggregated 80,974,603 tons of freight. This tonnage, while about one-third larger than for the year before, is about two ard one-half millions below the tonnage for 1907, the largest total in the history of the lake trade, according to a report by the Department of Commerce and Labor. Of the total, 44,087,071 net tons are credited to ports of Lake Superior. 14,120.029 to ports of Lake Michigan, 1,510,879 net tons to Lake Huron ports, 18,699,221 tons to Lake Erie ports, and 53-V 943 Ions to Lake Ontario ports. In the case of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan the bulk of the shipments were iron ore and grain. TRADE AND EtfDUSTRY. The 1,200 miners employed at No. S colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company went on a strike to enforce a demand for a. checking boss. More pay, shorter working hours and better forking conditions are the der mands which Ohio miners offer for,the approval of the United Mine Workers. Wisconsin railroads recently issued the order that coal should have the preference of all shipments until the present shortage and urgent need for coal was supplied. Three head of Holstein cattle were recently sold by the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, to G. L. Salto, of Tokyo, Japan, who will ship them to his dairy farm in' the vicinity of Tokyo. A corporation in New York capitalized at $300,000,000, to control everything pertaining to the manufacture of women's wearing apparel. Is under consideration by the Associated Waist and Dress Manufacturers. Control of the Fifth Avenue motor bus line and the New York Transportation Company of New York, which operates between 500 and 600 taxlcabs, has been acquired by the Intcrborough Transit Company and the Metropolitan and Securities Companies. Statistics prepared in the secretary' oillce of the board of trade indicate in Duluth. Minn., that the total shipments of grain fromthat port last year wear 78,413,404 bushels, of which 71,9.41.360 bushels were consigned to American ports and 6,472,000 bushels to foreign ports. "We must increase production per acre by more intelligent methods or we must face the relentless certain day when we shall not produce enough food to supply our own necessities," said Pr sidc-nt Brown, of the ftcw York Central I tail read, in a recent address. This is a reiteration of the statement made by James J. II ill not long p. go. A grape grower in the Ozark mountain country in Missouri is experimenting with new prape land by following Ibe Switzerland plan of planting sticks of dynamite deep in the ground and exploding them. By this means th. oil is thoroughly loosened to a great "depth without turning it over. Powerful foreign interests, beaded by V S. Pearson, a London banker, owner of Mexican properties and with strong Canadian connections, have recently acquired, in the open market, large blocks of Bock Island common and preferred stocks. The exact amount is not disclosed, but probably repre sents about one-fifth of the whole.

The Week

4T m congress The entire time cf the Senate Tues- ! Jay was devoted to a discussion of the postal savings bank bill. Senator Davis declared that the bill as it stood was in the interest of the national banks, while Senator Saiith cf Michigan thought the measure might prove a plague instead of a bltscing. W. E. Purcel! was sworn in as successor o Senator Thompson of North Dakota, who was appointed to succeed the late Senator Johnson. Mr. Thompson resigned on account of illness. Criticism of the bureau of forestry, led by Representatives Mondell of Wyoming and Taylor of Colorado, was the chief feature of the proceedings of the House. The agricultural appropriation biU continued before the House throughout the day. 1 The urgent deficiency and the army bills passed the Senate Wednesday, carrying a combined appropriation of 5102,000,000. The postal savings bank bill was discussed at length. A bill exempting certificates of indebtedness and requiring the payment of the principal of Panama Canal bonds, previously passed by the House, was acted upon favorably. After a long debate the census bill was passed iu the House, providing for amendment to the present law fo that there should be an enumeration of cattle slaughtered and hides produced in country slaughtering-houses, together with a provision for an enumeration of information concerning irrigated lands. Charges of partisanship in the taking of the census were numerous. Democratic members insisting that a nonpartisan census were impossible unless enumerators .vere appointed from men of both political parties. The Senate devoted the greater part of Thursday. to consideration of the postal savings bank bill, agreeing to several amendments. Thi Lodg2 price of food Investigation resolution was reported from the committee on linauce. and the iact that it' received so much, more prompt attention than the resolution of Senator Elkius on the same subject was interpreted by the West Virginia Senator as a discrimination against him. He 'made a speech complaining seriously of the treatment and asserting that, it was intended to protect the trusts and the tariff against the inquiry. The House passed the agricultural appropriation bill, carrying appropriations aggregating nearly 113,500,000, a net increase of over $400,000 over last year, this increase being chiefly for the foresl service, made necessary by the addition to the national forests of 26.522.43S acres. Consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill wa begun. In the Senate Friday Mr. McCumbcr of North Dakota delivered a prepared argument to prove that the farmer does not obtain his due share of the prices paid for food products. Mr. Heyburn of Idaho concluded his speech in opposition to the postal savings bank bill. On account of the death of Representative Jxivering cf Massachusetts the Senate adjourned earlier than usual and for the first time this session failed to adjoaru over Saturday. Practically no business was transacted in the House and an early adjournment was taken because of the death of Mr. Lovcring. . The Senate gave the greater part of the day Saturday to the question of constitutionality of the extradition of criminals from one State to another in cases in which the prosecution is according to the process of "information. " No action was tala. The postal savings bank bill was also up for a time. The only impcrtant action taken was on a bill opening to settlement the unallotted lands in the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. Early in the day Senator Aldrich reported from the Committee on Public Expenditures a bill creating a permanent commission for the regulation of methods of government expenditure. He failed to obtain the unanimous consent asked to have, the measure acted upon, Senator Elkins objecting. The House was rot in session. FROM FAR AND NSAR. Earthquakes were felt at Imperial Valley points in California. No damage is reported. Fire destroyed the First Church of Christ. Scientist, at Kansas City. The loss ia estimated at $73.000. Fire destroyed the mill building of Wasp mine No. 2 at Lead. S. D. Tha loss is $97,000; insurance, $23,000. Speaking at a Tokyo dinner, Baron Shihusawa asserted that two-thirlls of American prestige was due to the character of the people, and he said he was especially impressed with the important part played by the Y. M. C. A. By a majority of 814 In a vote of ,- 504 prohibition was defeated af a local option election in Joplin, Mo. Women servtlJ free lunch at the polls. Candidacy of Congressman Butler Ames for the United States Senate to succeed Senator Honry Cabot Lodge was formally announced in Boston. Informed by the "Answers to . Correspondents" department of a psychic magazine that he was due to die on Thursday at midnight. John Wege, aged 35, of Cleveland, vanished at that time In his night clothes and has not since been seen. John A. Carlington and J. Stobe Young, officials of the Seminole Company, were found guilty of breach of trust with fraudulent intent. rteslKnation of the president, broken in health, started a run on the United States Banking Company in Mexico City, which is officially declared solvent. Augustus Nash, secretary of the Cleveland (Ohio) Y. M. C. A., startled the ministers of Pittsburg by declaring that "if Rockefeller had been enlisted by our Baptist friends to consecrate himself toward great work like the evangelization of New York City the joy would have been done." Harry Hilden of Biloxi, Miss., 11 years old, rescued Theodore Ryan, aged 12, from drowning. It was the fifth rescue of the kind by the boy. Possibility of saving the sight of Thomas Taggart's right eye, he bavins been hit by a charge of bird shot while hunting near Natchez. Miss., was established by an X-ray examination. The Ohio River Valley Association is planning for a . celebration next year similar to the recent Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York. A relative of President Roosevelt built the first steamer launched oh he Ohio ir 1811 and the ex-Presid?nt is expected to take part in the program.

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Operator on Sinking Steamer Zeatucky Oft Hatteras Brings Aid. Thanks to wireless telegraphy and the international distress signal, "S. O. S.," which has superseded the famous "c. Q. I).," Capt. Moore and his crew of forty-six men are safe on board thr Mallory line steamer Alamo, bound for Key West, while their vessel, the steamer Kentucky, lies at the bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras. The Kentucky, a wooden vessel of 996 gross tonnage and 203 feet long, was bound from New York to the Pacific to carry passengers between Tacoma and Alaskan ports for the Alaska Pacific Steamship Company. First news of the Kentucky's distress was received at the wireless station at Cape Hatteras at 11:30 a", m. There the operator heard the "S. O. S.," quickly followed by this message: "We are sinking. Our latitude is 22.10. longitude 76.30." Almost simultaneously the operator heard the steamship A?amo respond to the Kentucky's call for help, informing Capt. Moore that the Alamo was making all speed to the sinking vessel's assistance. The Navy Department at Washington in the meantime flashed wireless messages along the Atlantic coast, dispatching the battleship Louisiana and two revenue cutters to the scene, but later word came from the Alamo that it had arrived first and had taken off all hands in safety. This is the message as received in New York from the Cape Hatteras station: "Latitude 32.46, longitude 7C.2S. Steamship Ala mo has just taken Capt. Moore and crew of forty-six men from sinking steamship Kentucky. Water already had reached fireroom and steamer will sink before midnight. The Alamo is now proceeding to Key West." DIE IN MEXICAN MINE. Explosion in Coal Shaft Is Third Disaster, in Three Days. One hundred are, dead in the Paula mine in Mexico across from Eagle Pass, Texas, in the state of Coahuili, as a result of the carelessness of a Mexican in lighting a cigarete. Sixtyeight bodies have been taken frocn the shaft. The others are buried further in. There is no hope that any will be found alive. Not a single man in the mine escaped alive. One? man was brought to the surface in a conscious condition, but died shortly thereafter. He told of the circumstances of the explosion. Smoking In the mine is pro hibited. It seems as if a new miner. not understanding the danger, smug gled tobacco and matches into tha shaft when he went to work, and the miners had been at work ne?r;y an hourwhen he struck a match to light a cigarette. Immediately the expl sion followed, burying alive the 100 men. Frantic efforts were made by the mine superintendent to rescue the men, but the shaft was so filled that it took hours of work to reach the chamber where the men were confined. The explosion must hare been terrific, as the entire interior of the mine was badly wrecked. BIG PACKING HOUSE FAILS. .Mexican National Company Is Sent to Receiver by Bank's Suspension. 1 The Mexican National Packing Company, a New Jersey corporation controlled by English Investors and operating a string of slaughter-houses and packing-houses' in the Republic of Mexico, under concessions from the Mexican government, failed the other day with liabilities, including stock, of ap proximately $37,000,000. The assets were not announced, but It is estimated that they are in excess of the liabilities. The company will continue to operate its plants as usual. Henry De Kay was appointed receiver by Judge Lanning In the United States Circuit Court in New Jersey. The appointment of a receiver was not brought about by any condition in the live stock market, but by the tying up of part of the company's funds in the United States Banking Company in Mexico City, which suspended recently. SAVES A LIFE; GETS $100,000. Lumberman Rewarded for Heroic Deetl Performed in bnglaad, ' John S. Andrews of Sault Ste. Marie, who before going to Canada was a porter on the London & Southwestern Railway, claims he has been left $100,000 by an aged lady whose life he saved when he rescued her from the track In front of an approaching train. Though unrewarded at the time the woman was profuse in her thanks, telling Andrews that hi3 fortunate intervention on her behalf should not be forgotten. Andrews has been working in a lumber camp near the Soo during the winter ar.d recently was notified that he was heir to a fortune of $20,000. He cabled to England and re ceived assurance of the reality of his luck. He Is now on his way to England to get the money. Brooklyn Boy Hunsc lllmnelf. Chagrined and disheartened because he was the largest and oldest boy In his class and had failed of promotion, Walter Thompson, 15 years old, committed suicide in Brooklyn, N. Y., by hanging himself to a bed post with his school book strap. Four Children Cremated. Four children named Tatuni, ranging in age from 3 to 16 years, were burned to death at the home of their grandfather near Dover, Dela. Machine Gun In the Air. The, French Minister of War' has sanctioned an interesting experiment Two aeroplanes are to be fitted with machine guns, and flights are to be attempted. If they are successful an attempt is to be made at firing at a target. Gaa in House Ixulodea 21 Hurt. Twenty-one persons were hurt, two seriously, in a natural gas explosion in Leroy, N. Y. A pipe burst in a house, both ends of which were blown out. Coiigrenftmaii LoveriiiHT Dead. Representative William C. Lovering, of Massachusetts, died at his residence in Washington. He was 73 years old, a Republican, and cotton manufacturer. Gift to a School 9100,000. Announcement Is made by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania that a gift of $100,000 has oeen received for a chair In the medical department of the Institution. Further, particulars of the gift will be announced Sn "university daj'' Feb. 22.

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CHICAGO. The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co., says: The course of business generally reflects steadiness in operations and a satisfactory accumulation of new demands in the prominent industries. Bank statements this week impart strength to -he general situation by their exhibit of gains in both deposits and discounts and the evidence of amPie resources to meet needs of an expanding activity. With the liquidation in securities the direction of the money market is easier and a reduced cost of borrowing will promote wider effort in manufacturing and new enterprises. , Movements of commodities again approach normal proportions and transportation returns disclose sustained gains in gross earnings, indicating that recovery from recent adverse conditions permits satisfactory running of the Chicago roads. The more seaf.cnable weather has brought better buying In the leading retail lines here and at the Interior. Winter stocks of general merchandise have undergone adequate reduction and thi favorable factor encourages increasing number of visiting buyers to attend the wholesale markets. Higher prices for some staples occasion little objection, their scarcity heing apparent. Bank clearings, $267,236.S72, are S.3 per cent under those of the corresponding week last year and compare with $220,223,173 In 1908. Failures reported ia the Chicago district number 36, agajnst 31 last week, 27 in 1900 and 32 in 190S. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 7, against 7 last week, 5 In 1909 and 6 in 190S. NEW YORK. Trade in general dlsplajs a certain degree of quietness, not, by the way, unusual at this, a between-seasons period, but. In several quarters there is a greater disposition to act conservatively in the matter of purchases. For one thing,- the agitation for lower prices tend3 to the belief that quotations may recede to more attractive levels, and at the same 'time some large interests seem to fear inimical action from the Federal authorities at Washington. These factors, together with the marked weakness in the country's leading stock market and the natural tendency oMrade to mark time at this season of the jear, tend, to a quieting of the current of trade. There is some uneasiness over labor matters. Business failures for the week ending with Feb. 3 in the United States were 242. against 235 last week, 2S6 in the like week of 1909, 22 in 1908. 19S in 1907 and 204 in 1906. Business failures In Canada for the week number 30, as against 43 last week and 47 in the like week In 1909. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.70; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.23 to $1.25; corn. No. 2, 61c to 63c; oats, standard, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to Sic; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $19.00; prairie, $8.00 to $16.00; .butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh. 27c to 29c; potatoes, per bushel, 40c to 46c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hos, good to choice h'iavy, $4.30 to $S.S3; sheep, good to choice, $2.23 to $3.00; wheat. No. 1, $1.23 to $1.24; cora. 'No. 2 white, 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 4 Sc. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs. $4.00 to $8.67;. sheep. $3.00 to $5.83; wheat. No. . 2, $1.23 to $1.27; corn, No. 2. 61c to 63c; oats. No. 2. 47c to 48c; rye. No. 2, SOc to Sic. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.50; hogs, $3.00 to $S.35; sheep,' $3.50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.24 to $1.26; corn. No. C yellow, 64c to 63c; oats, standard, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 1, 82c to S4c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.11 to $1.14; corn. No. 3, C4c to 65c; oats, standard, 47c to 4Sc; rye. No. 1, 79c to. 81c; barley, standard, 70c to 71c; pork, mess, $21.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.23; hogs, fair to ctoice, $3.00 to $9.05; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to ,$5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $8.73. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, $1.25 to $126; corn, No. 2 mixed, 63c to 66c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2. 81c to 83c; clover seed, $8.47. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $6.10; hogs, $3.00 to $8.70; sheep. $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, To. 2. $1.27 to $1.30; corn, No. 2 A.ted, 63c to 64c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 48c to 49c; rye, No. 2, S5c to S6c. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $6.80; hobs, $4.00 to $8.50; sheep. $3.00 to $5.23; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.28 to $1.30; corn. No. 2, 71c to 73c; oats, natural, white, 52c to 55c; butter, creamery, 28c to 32c; eggs, western, 32c to 35c. r A decree w-as handed down in Common rieas Court at Philadelphia authorizing the receiver for the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company to accept the terms of settlement offered by the American Sugar Refining Company, which was being sued for $30.000.000 damages. Magazine owners in New York City, aroused over the effort of the postoffice department to bring about an In crease in the rate 1 for second-class mail matter, declare that any advance in the postal rate , will mean an In crease In the price of magazines. The Studebaker Automobile Company of South Bend has begun at Detroit its fourth attempt to secure a temporary injunction against the E. M. V. Company to prevent the latter from selling cars direct to dealers. Charles T. Ycrkes large collection of paintings, statuary and oriental rugs, in the late traction magnate's New York residence, vill be sold at auction before spring. Six battle ships of the American fleet at Guamanamo exceeded the designed speed dm inj full power steaming trials last week.