Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 March 1910 — Page 2

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4th. 'llth. Jx) 17th h5th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Conditions of Thine re Shown. Nathioit Overlooked to make it Complete. STARCH FACTORY BLOWN UP. Eight cr Ten Men Killed at Roby, Indiana. From eight to ten persons were reported killed and seventeen were injured, many of them probably fatally, In an explosion at the works of the American Maize Products Company, at Roby, Ind. The explosion occurred in a detached building oi the plant and was preceded by a fire which soon enveloped a large three-story warehouse. Starch in an overheated kiln is supposed to have been the cause. The fire was so intense it was said to be impossible to enter the place and so definitely 'determine the exact number of dead. It was known that twenty-nine workmen were in the building at the time. Seventeen of these were rescued, badly burned and taken to a hospital. Of the twelve unaccounted for, several are believed to have escaped unhurt. The rest were buried in the ruins of the warehouse. Roby is Just across the Illinois boundary, not far from South Chicago. The company's plant includes a number of buildings, covers several acres and employs 275 men. The fire broke out suddenly after a force of men had prepared a kiln which was filled with starch. The starch in large quantities. It is seid, a moment later blew up like gunpovder. So great was the force that some of the injured were hurled through windows and doors and in thatway escaped death in the flames. Soon the whole building was on fire. Long Hatpins Declared Nuisance. Woman's long hatpins were declared to be a "public nuisance" and an anti-hatpin ordinance was ordered drawn by the judiciary committee of the City Council at Chicago, 111. The action followed a week's crusade against the hatpin which culminated in a public hearing. The ordinance will stipulate that hatpins worn in public places "shall not extend more than one-half of an inch beyond the crown of the hat" P. C. Knox, Jr., Elopes from School. Wearing a broad wedding band of gold and with a large diamond engagement ring sparkling on a finger of her left hand, Miss May Boler, 21 years old, until recently employed in a department store of Providence, It. I., coyly claimed Philander C. Knox, Jr., the 20-year-old son of the Secretary oi State, as her husband. "We were married in Burlington, VL, by a minister," she confessed. Theatre Burns; Audience Escapes. Nearly a hundred, persons, many of them women and children, had narrow escapes in a fire that ruined the Avenue theatre, the largest playhouse In East St. Louis, 111 As far as known no lives were lost. The fire broke out before the performance had begun. A cry of "fire" resulted In a panic in the audience, but all are believed to have escaped. Th loss is estimated at 30,000. f -. i Peary Refuses to Give Proofs. Commander Peary has declined to submit to Congress the proofs of his discovery of the north pole. lie sent In care of Representative Alexander, of New York, a statement written In the third person and addressed to the sub-committee of the House on naval affairs, in mhich he set forth his reasons for refusing to send data for the committee. Old Vesuvius is Belching Again. ' A dispatch from Naples, Italy, says: Vesuvius has suddenly become active again. There has been a continuous eruption for the last twenty-four hours of red hot stones and ashes, this be; Ing accompanied by internal detonations. Several fissures have opened, from which gas and lava are emerging In great quantities. Girl Killed when Auto Skidded. An automobile in which six young men and women were riding near Chamberlain, ten miles from Daton Rouge, La,, skidded across the road and overturned. Instantly killing Miss Sue Devail, who was crushed beneath the car and seriously injuring Miss Caroline Phillips. Elk Starving in Wyoming. With the range covered with snow 10,000 elk are said to be starving in Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, and the citizens there are organizing to devise means of saving the elk. Negro Student Vins Prize. Henry Coleman, a negro, of Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, with his pration, "The Philosophy of the Race Problem," won the State oratorical tontest at Cedar RaDid3. Sneezin3 Causes Slashing. Terrific fits of sneezing by John Hunziker, a boarding housekeeper in Pittsburg, Pa., re.Mi'.tod in a cutting affair in which .Michael Mondik, a foreign boarder, was slashed about the face. Hunziker was sent to jail. Mondik say3 that Hunziker disturbed his sleep, and that he had remonstrated. Passengers Are Injured. The second section of Northern Pacific west-bound passenger train No. 7 was ditched just east of Eddy, Mont. Several passengers were injured. Ticket Agent Robbed. Two hold-up men with revolvers compelled the night ticket agent at the Northwestern railroad station in Dixon, 111., to give them. $100, and forced the agent into a refrigerator car, where, after providing him with tobacco and cigarette papers, they locked him. Killed By a Fall. John Melvin, of Noblesville, Ind., head engineer in a big manufacturing plant at ML Carmel, 111., was killed instantly by a fall from a ladder.

SLIDE SWEEPS US OVER EDGE OF CANYON

Twerty-three Dead, Twenty-five Missing, Under Avalanche in State of Washington. FALL 200 FEET INTO A GULCK Coaches in Twisted Debris at Mountain's Base Transcontinental Lines Suffer. Conditions almost unprecedented In that section have virtually cut off the entire northwest, and have tied up traffic on half a dozen transcontinental railroads. Thaws in the mountains have caused avalanches and snow slides that have swept away mountain towns and sections of railroad track3 from Nevada to British Columbia. Flood3 also have caused widespread damage. In the Cascade mountains In Washington two Great Northern trains were buried by an avalanche. Twenty bodies were recovered and scores are injured or missing. The exact number of deaths caused by avalanches in the Rockies, in Idaho, and in western Montana probably will not be known until the summer sun melts the great masses of snow and ice In the canon into which several mining towns were swept. Further details of the disaster in which an avalanche swept two Great Northern passenger trains and a part of the town of Wellington, Wash., down the mountainside at the west portal of the Cascade tunnel shows It to be more serious than first reported. Twenty-three live3 are known to have been lost when the mass of snow, stones and uprooted treea hurled the cars containing seventy sleeping persons over the narrow ledge to tne' bottom of the canyon 200 feet bei w, and twenty-five more were reported . missing. Besides .these a score were injured. The avalanche rolled down the mountain at 4:30 a. m. The two trains, three locomotives, four powerful electric motors, the depot and water tank were swept off the ledge and deposited in a twisted mass of wreckage at the foot of the mountain. The noise from the snowslide, which was a mile long, could be heard throughout the valley. The wrecked trains lie piled on top of each other 200 feet below the siding on which they stood when the avalanche swept over them. The cars were crushed into kindling wood and no one In the train escaped injury. The slide filled the shelf on which the tracks at Wellington are laid and rolled over the edge into the valley. Messages telling of the disaster were sent to Everett and a relief train, bearing physicians, nurses and workers, was made up and dispatched. Owing to previous slides which blocked the road and swept away parts of the track, the rescue train could get no further than Scenic, whence the rescuers had to make their way on foot over the snow. In the later wreck of Oriental limited train No. 2, east bound, on the Great Northern, one person was killed and twelve were injured. The entire train escaped plunging down a fiftyfoot embankment near Milan by a narrow margin. It carried 175 passengers. As the train wa3 rounding a curve the engineer, Alonzo Carle, of Spokane, saw a great mass of bowlders blocking the way. Carle throw on the emergency brakes twenty-five feet bofore the train ran into the rocks. When the train struck the mass gas tanks In the cars exploded. Fire started immediately in five of the forward cars and they began to topple over the embankment. Conductor B. S. Robertson ran forward and uncoupled the last three cars, saving them. The exact number of dead in all the disasters will not be known for weeks, not until the snow, which is over forty feet deep in the canyon, has melted. Workmen digging in the snow and wreckage report finding dismembered bodies, severed arms and hands. Four transcontinental lines Into Washington and Oregon are blockaded. Only one railroad is operating into Salt Lake City. West of Utah the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific lines have been cut by swollen mountain streams. 23 KILLED INALASKA MINE. Powder Magazine Explodes in Gold Property on Douglas Island. Twenty-three miners were killed at midnight the other night by an explosion of a powder magazine in the 1,100 level of the Mexican mine, one of the group of Tread well gold properties on Douglas Island, Alaska. Eight men were seriously injured, of whom it is feared four will die. The last shots had been fired by the shift of men twenty minutes before the explosion took place, and the men had assembled at the landing on the skip and were arranging, to enter it and go on top. The magazine, which contains 273 pounds of powder, was thirty feet away from the place where the men were standing, and every man was killed or Injured. Duftt In Mine Kills 78. Overoccumulation of dust in room 5, A-ll, of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's mine at Primero caused the explosion that resulted in seventyeight deaths, according to the report of State Mine Inspector John D. Jones delivered to Gov. Shafroth. Kill ;irl mid Himself. Mrs. Grace Gayou, 19 years old, was shot and killed in a store at 3019 East 18th street, Kansas City, by Louis Hillson, who then killed himself, after he had attacked and severely beaten John Doyle, a rival for Mrs. Gayou's affections. Hotel Fire Kill Two 3Ien. In a fire which destroyed the St. Clair hotel, in Uniontown, Ala., Wesley Davis, a printer, was burned to death, and a negro employe was killed by a falling wall. Kx-Soliller to llnnv for Manlrr. In Ainsworth, Xeb., District Judge Harrington has sentenced Walter Rifenberg, convicted of the murder of Joseph Davis, to be hanged June 17. Rifentxrg, who was formerly a soldier In the regular army, will be executed In the State penitentiary at Lincoln. Three Loe Live in V. M. ('. A. Fire. The Railroad Y. M. C. A. building at Rotterdam Junction, N. Y., belonging to the Boston & Maine Railroad, was destroyed by fire and three employes cf the road perished in the flames.

EFFECTS MOB RULES DALLAS, TEXAS. Takes Aged Colored Man from Court and Put Him to Death. Snatched from before the Dar o! justice, where his trial on the charge of. criminally assaulting a 2-year-old white child was about to begin, Allen Brooks, an aged negro, was lynched in Dallas, Texas, by a mob of 5,000 men. Brooks was seized In the courtroom by fifteen leaders of the avenging mob and was tossed through a window to the main body, which waited like a pack of ravening wolves for their prey, in the street below. His broken body was dragged through the streets and he was hanged to the Elks' arch, High above the heads of the avenging citizens. The mob was led by an old negro. With it all haruly a loud word was spoken, not a shot was fired, and above the dull murniurings of the mob could be heard the aged negro's pierc ing shrieks for mercy. After Brooks was hanged Dallas f jr nearly three hours was in the hands of the mob. The jail was stormed and death was threatened to three other negroes, held on charges of murder. They had been . spirited away, however, and after searching for them in vain the mob dispersed. The crime for which Brooks paid the penalty was one of the most brutal in the history of Dallas. His victim is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Buvenl TOWNS IN OHIO INUNDATED. Thousands in Distress, Traffic Impeded, Business Demoralized. Fully a thousand people homeless. other thousands living on the second floors of their homes, traffic impeded and business demoralized in many places. Is the situation in Ohio as the result of the floods. A bridge was washed away at Defiance. Mechanicsburg 13 still under water. Boats only can be used In the greater part of Warren, where the Mahoning is on a rampage. Water i3 creeping upon the busi ness section of Napoleon, and the Cuyahoga River has inundated Clinton and Warwick. Rain Is still falling In the southern part of the State, which will add to the flood in the Ohio River valley. At Zanesvllle several hundred families have been driven from their homes and the suffering is acute. At Fremont great danger still lurks about the gorged Sandusky River. PLOT WRECK AND LOOT. Hoya Open Switch with I den of Hoboing Victims' Bodied. The arrest of George Lenko, aged 10 years; Stephen Yoski, 14 years; Edward Gydooski, 12; Andrew Milken, 12, and Arthur Gydooski, 19, revealed the attempt of these youngsters to wreck the early New Haven Railroad train leaving New York shortly after noon, for the purpose, as they confessed, of looting the bodies of the dead and injured. They got so far as. to open the switch near the east Port Chester (Conn.) freight yard. A switchman happened to see them and closed it in time to avert an accident. The boys admitted that they were regular attendants at moving picture shows in Port Chester and had acquired some of their ideas of outlawry from the melo-dramatlc scenes of the "canned drama." Provident of Panama Die. Jose Domingo de Obaldia, President of Panama, died from heart disease the other afternoon. Ha had been 5!1 less than a week. President Obaldia was elected on July 12. 1908. Panama's new president will be Dr. C. A. Mendora. Xot Ciullty of Timber Fraud. William F. Kettenbach, George H. Kester and William Dwyer, whose trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of valuable timber lands was concluded in Poise, Idaho, were found not guilty by the jury. I'riaon I.ooUn Good to Ulm. Declining to take advantage of the pardon granted to him by President Taft, Thomas Taylor, fenter.ccd to fifteen years in the Atlanta penitentiary for the murder of his vi:'o, will remain tnero as one of the "trusties." Kit m on (liuri'li Abandoned. After simple exercises the famous Harvard Street Baptist Church of Boston closed Its doors ?3 a religious abode. The shifting ol the population i3 the chief cause of the dissolution of the church organization. Knc;liiM'r and .Miner Killed. William Douglas, engineer of tne McAlester Coal Mining Company at Puck, Okla., was killed, and Paul Thincher and Case Manual, miners, were fatally hurt when a cage they were In dropped to the bottom of the shaft. Thincher died later.

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OF A SNOWSLIDE IN THE MOUNTAINS.

HOGS REACH THE HIGH RECORD. JLot of 4 Sold at $10 a XOO, Aver OKins $20.40 for Each. Hogs reached the hlga record of 10 per 100 pounds the other day In the Chicago market, while $10.03 was paid in Indianapolis and $9.85 in St. Louis. The price equals the mark set in 1S70 and only the war price of $1?.23 paid in 1SC3 remains to bo broken. The winter packing season, which closed the other day, is expected to show a shortage of 2,700,000 hogs compared with the corresponding four months a year ago. When hogs reached $S in the Chicago stockyard3 it was expected a big rush would follow, but it failed to materialize. Tho same held good when the price advanced to $9, and the trade is anxiously awaiting to see the effect on the country of $10 hogs. KILLS 92 RAILROADERS. Avnlnnrhe on Canadian Pacific Road I! n rieft Score of 'Workers. Ninety-two Canadian Pacific trani men, track men and laborers were buried by an avalanche in Rogers Pass on the summit of the Selkirk range of the Rocky Mountains. v All probably are dead. Only five bodies have been recovered. They are those of Roadmaster Frazer, Fireman Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engineer Phillips and a Japanese. Work of recovering the dead and opening the track was greatly Impeded by a blizzard raging in the pass. There Was another big slide of snow and rock a mile east of the s.pot where the men were overwhelmed. It destroyed a portion of a snow shed and buried the track for 400 yards to a depth of sixty feet. There were no victims in the last avalanche. IDENTIFIED AS TORTURER. Aged Victim A reu es a Friouer 14 Year After Robbery. "This is the man that bound me and my wife and burned out feet until we told where we had hidden our money," said John Wagner, 80 years old, as he picked Frank Donahoe out of a line of eight men at the Etna police station, Pittsburg. "It was fourteen years ago, but I shall never forget his face." Donahoe was sent to jail to await trial for burglary. Two companions are serving terms in prison for the crime, but Donahoe fled and was captured on his return home. As the prisoner was being led away the aged man wept and said: "I have prayed that the guilty one would be captured, because those men were responsible for my wife's death." Because of a shortage of wheat In Mexico, the rate of duty has been reduced by the Mexican government from 3 cents a kilometer to 1 cent. A dispatch from Constantinople to a London news agency states that the powers will propose that Turkey' sell Crete to Greece as the best solution of the difliculty. The municipal election in Philadelphia resulted in a complete knockout for the reform movement, the entire Wil'.i.irn Pann ticket being overwhelmingly defeated. The regular Republican organization swept the city. Xot one reform councilman was elected. Tremendous applause greeted the statement of (lov. Hughes during the banquet that Taft would be renominated and re-tlected. He said: "The American people are fair enough u recognize a great man doing his duiy with absolute lidelity." In tho civil chamber Harold Vanderbilt. the young New York millionalrr, was condemned to pay a workman named Cutenard $4,650 for injuries suffered by him in 1907, when he was Hiruck by Vanderbilt's auto. (Juignird sued fur $1 1.000. The court decided t'.uit h- was entitled to $2.2."0 for medical and doctor's bills and $2,4G0 for damages. A number of Chinese girls, specially trained in San Francisco, have begun work in I'ekin as central operators In the telephone system recently opened there. Subscribers, when ringing up, address them us "Lily of the a!r" and 'üuttcrfly that-talks." A nnrrow-gaugc railway is to be constructed to the site of the Garden of I'dn, which Sir William Willcocks, i'.rltish adviser to Ihe Turkish minister of public works, thinks he has located. The spot Is an o;.sis situated in the center of a vast desolate plain traversed by four arms of the Kuphrates. It Is located aiiout 250 kilometers north of Ragdad.

PRICES UP IN ALL COUNTRIES. Statistics Show Advance in Meat Figures Throughout World. The advance in the price of meats in the United States in recent years seems to correspond, in a measure at least, with conditions which have caused increases in meat prices throughout the world, not only in these countries which do not produce much meat, but also in Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other countries which produce a surplus for export. The government has gathered same interesting statistics upon the subject. It is found that the advance in the price of fresh meats is less than in salted and preserved meats, and In nearly all case3 the advance has been less in beef than in pork or mutton. In Australia beef preserved by cold process advanced in export price from $5.23 per 100 pounds in 1S99 to $3.40 In 1908, mutton and lamb from $3.82 per 100 pounds in 1S99 to $6.47 in 1908. From Canada the value of fresh beef exports advanced from an annual average of 6.1 cents per pound in 1898 to 8.2 cents in 1900, that of mutton from 6.1 to 11.2 cents; pork from 3.3 to 9 cents and butter from 1S.1 cents to 24 cents. All the European cities show, wherever statistics are available, higher wholesale prices in the local markets. In Moscow, Russia, beef oi the first quality has advanced in price per pound from 8.6 cents In 1903 to 13 cents in 1908. Berlin show's an advance in beef from 13.2 in 1S96 to 16.5 cents in 190S, pork from 12.9 to 16.3 cents.

TRAMP SAVES CHILD'S LIFE. Handier Trace 31 an Who Pnllcil Girl from In Front of Train. Frank Strome a few days ago was a tramp beating his way westward on a freight train with El Paso as hi3 destination. To-day he own3 a half interest in the Valvedere cattle range, said to be valued at nearly $1,000,000, with its 30,000 head of cattle and 100 square miles of land in Jeff Davis and Pecos counties in Texas. The range is owned by Samuel W. Jennings, reputed to be worth several millions. A few days ago the 7-year-old daughter of Jennings was crossing the railroad track. A train was bearing down on her and she seemed doomed, when Strome grabbed her and pulled her from the track. Strome went on his way, but persons who witnessed the rescue reported the matter, and three days ago he was located by Jennings and taken to the ranch. A day or two later a deed was filed transferring a half Interest In the property to the girl's rescuer. Wood man Eaten by Wolve. James Smith, a woodsman, was eaten by wolves in the forest near Ally, Mo., after fighting a desperate battle for his life. The wolves attacked him while he was alone, awaiting the return of a brother. When the latter returned he found his brother's bones In the center of a circle of five dead wolves, while an empty repeating rifle showed that he had been overpowered 1 before he could reload the weapon. 1m t Work Fast with Aeero. Gus Thomas, alias Ed Young, a negro, confessed at Girard. Kan., the murder of William Volk, the latter's wife and another negro. He was arraigned secretly, pleaded guilty, was sentenced to imprisonment for life and was taken to th- penitentiary at Lansing. Hoy Slapped; Ilurn SUler. Enraged because his 5-year-old sifter Doris slapped him, Morris IJlond, 3 years old, deliberately set fire to her dress in Kansas City. When the mother ran in the child was fatally burned. Flyer Hurl Car front Track. The Pennsylvania special "sidesviped" a freight train six miles west of Wooster, O., while traveling at the rate of fifty miles an hour. No ono was injured. Several freight cars ven burled across the track, but the passenger train did not leave the rails. Admit I'urt In Ilulcr'a Blurder. Asserting he took part in the assassination of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, in 189S, Christian Keppler, aged 49, gave himself up to the police in Cincinnati. Blackmail by a former convict, says Keppler, drove him o surrender. Six Hurt In Train Wreck. Great Northern par.senger train No. 5 was derailed four miles northwest of Fergus Falls, Minn. Only one passenger was hurt. Five trainmen received injuries, but all are expected ta recover.

The Week In Coooress J At a two hours' session Monday the Senate passed the Aldrich bill providing for a commission of Senators, Representatives and civil appointees to bo selected by the President to supervise the business methods of the executive departments of the govcrnmnt, by which it is hoped to save $100,000,000 a year. The postoffice appropriation bill was under consideration in the House during the entire session, which lasted over six hours. The Senate Tuesday passed several bills, including private pensions and providing for new public buildings throughout the country. After a session of two hours the Senate adjourned. The postoffice appropriation bill was under consideration for five hours in the House. The Senate Wednesday passed bills authorizing the issuance of $30.000,000 worth of certificates of indebtedness for the completion of irrigation projects already begun and providing for the purchase of $10,000,000 worth of real estate in Washington for the future uses of the government. Senators Heyburn, Bradley and Sutherland spoke on the postal savings bank bill, the two last named favoring the passage of that measure, while Senator Heyburn proposed a substitute for the pending bill. The House voted down a proposition to provide residences in foreign capitals for diplomatic officials. Various bills upon the calendar were considered. The postal savings bank bill wa3 under consideration in tho Senate Thursday during the entire session. At 5:30 o'clock the Senate took a recess until 11:30 Friday, so as to continue the legislative day in accordance with the agreement to vote before adjournment. Consideration of tha bill will be continued. Nearly the entire five hours during which the House was in session was occupied by consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill. The entire session of the Senate Friday wis devoted to a further consideration of the postal savings bank bill. Unable to reach a vote on that measure and in order to comply with a preTious agreement to dispose of it before adjournment, the Senate at 5 o'clock took a recess until Saturday. The House had the postoffice appropriation bill before it nearly all day. " By a party vote, with the exception that Senator Chamberlain voted with the Republicans in favor of tho measure, the Senate Saturday passed the administration postal savings bank bill. Amendments were adopted which provide that in time of war or other exigencies involving the credit of the nation, funds In the postal savings banks may be invested in government other than 2 per cent bonds, and also that depositors may withdraw their money from these tanks upon demand. The Senate adjourned until Monday. The House devoted nearly the entire day in considering the postoffice eppropriation bill. Slow progress wa3 made upon the measure, many amendments being considered, although none involving any material change va3 adopted. He Knew. Samuel Untermeyer was being congratulated at the Manhattan Club on his recent successful conduct of a murder case. The distinguished corporation lawyer modestly evaded all these compliments by the narration of a number of anecdotes of criminal law. "One case, in my native Lynchburg," he said, "implicated a planter of sinister repute. The planters chief witness was a servant named Calhoun White, The prosecution believed that Calhoun White knew much about his master'sy shady side. It also believed that Calhoun, in his misplaced affection, would lie In the planter's behalf. When on the stand Calhoun was ready for cross-examination, the prosecuting counsel said to him, sternly: "Now, Calhoun, I want you to understand the importance of telling the truth, the whole truth, ' and nothing but the truth in this case. " 'Yas, sah,' said Calhoun. "You know what will happen, I suppose, if you don't tell the truth?'. " 'Yas, sah,' said Calhoun, promptly. Our side'll win de case." When the land offlcials threw open the doors of the Shrine auditorium at Los Angeles, Cal., they received a throng of more than 900 men and women eager to enter their names for the 173 forty-acre farms in the Yuma Irrigation district. A committee headed by Governor Sanders of Louisiana and Mayor P.ehrman of New Orleans will go to Washington to seek federal aid for the proposed ranama exposition in the Crescent City. TV one. Prof If a man bus an income cf $2,000,000 a year, what is his principal? Stüde A man with such aa income usually has no principle. Yale Record. A JVntnrnl Tlenll. Professor in Physics If a man walk ten miles east and then fifteen miles south, where will bo stop? Voice from back row la a saloon! Yale Record. The OiuhliiC Reply. She What are you thinking about? He Oh, nothing much. She (sweetly) That's cgotiilkal.---Harvard Lampoon. Another Menu Item. Mrs. Mallard So poor Mr. Rooster's dead? Mr. Cochin Yes, he was killed in a broil. Yale Record. II in Mel tie. "Why, no.v I .see there's niolUo :n thee," said the ex-ray specialis us !.. discovered a safety pin in Ihe id: lung of his patient. Yale Record. Only Time Wa Lacklns. There is probably some satisfaction in knowing that one's launderer can do go)d work, even if she rarely doos. The Central Methodist Advocate tell3 why one maid fails always to do her best. "How nicely you have ironed thee things, Jane!" said the mtetresn, idmiringly, to her maid. Tlien, slar.einr; at the glossy linen, she continued, In a tone of surprise, "Oh, but I see they are all your own!" "Yes" replied Jane, "and I'd do ell yours Just like that if I had time."

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EIL STRIKE

UP ALL PHILADELPHIA General Walkout in Sympathy with Street Car Men Takes Effect at Midnight. MILITIA IS HELD IN READINESS Labor Leaders Assert 103,000 Union Workers Will Obey Order Impartial Estimate 40,000. A general strike of the unions in sympathy with the striking street car men went into effect in Philadelphia at midnight the other night. Simultaneously it became known, despite the denial of Gen. Clay, head of the police force, that every national guard regiment in the State of Pennsylvania has received orders to be ready to entrain for Philadelphia at an hour's notice. The labor leaders are shouting exultantly that 100,000 men have lined up with the striking motormen and conductors. ' The police canvassers make the figure less than 21,000. An impartial estimate is 40,000, a little more or a little less. While the labor leaders are receiving moral support from their fellow workmen in all parts of the country, many asociation3 of employers have sent letters and telegrams to the officials of the Rapid Transit Company and the city officials commending the stand taken and urging them to remain firm in their determination not to submit to the strikers' demand for union recognition. The struggle of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company against the car men's union has broadened -into a fight between employers who insist on their right to run open shops and labor unionism. From now on the issue 13 the life or death of labor unionism in Philadelphia. ' All policemen, firemen and specials who have been on duty since the strike began received orders to remain at their posts. The emergency automobiles in the city hall courtyard were Increased in number and measures taken to send a force of men to any section of the city at a moment's notice. Many of these machines are driven by their owners, wealthy men, who have volunteerd for police duty and have been sworn. in. The outlook is ominous, even to the most chereful observers. So much bitterness has developed in the last few days that the people of Philadelphia are preparing for any. kind of trouble. EIGHTY IN PERIL ON FLYER. Twentieth Century Limited, Bound to Chicago, Derailed. For a reason not let determined, the west-bound Twentieth Century limited on the Lake Shore Railroad was derailed at Olmsted Falls, 20 miles west of Cleveland, the other day. The train was running at a speed of sixty miles an hour. Two or three passengers whose names have not yet been learned were only slightly Injured. The train was running as a double-header and had a straight track. All the seven cars were derailed, but were not thrown more than a few Inches from the tracks. Neither locomotive was derailed. Five hundred or 600 feet of track was torn up. There were probably eighty passengers aboard the train, which was due in Chicago at 9:30 a. m. A second train was made up at Cleveland and sent to the scene of the wreck. The passengers were taken aboard this train and sent to their destination. TRAIN ROLLS INTO RIVER. Two Demi and One Mlsalnx In Pennsylvania Wreck. One man was Instantly killed, one died, another is unaccounted for and believed to be dead, and nearly a scot? of others had narrow escapes when the Llnesville passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track ht Rock Point Park, Newcastle, Pa., and plunged down a fifteen-foot embankment Into the ice-filled Beaver RIvsr. The engineer and fireman of the train were carried Into the river with the locomotive and were rescued by means of a long hose. POLITICAL COMMENT. Former Governor Elrod, of South Dakota, has formally announced his candidacy for the . governorship of his State on a platform of rigid economy in, administration. Dy a vote of 100 to 3, the House of Representatives of South Carolina passed a resolution favoring eh amendment permitting Congress to lay an Income tax without apportionment among the States according to population. The Central Federated Union of New York has decided to ask President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to issue a call for a national convention of representatives of thunions to organize a labor party along the lines of the British labor party. In the last lesue. of the Commoner. Editor Bryan has an editorial on tho "Liquor Question In Nebraska," declaring that the Democratic party must divorce Itself from the liquor interests, as an alliance with the saloon Is an "alliance with vice." The federal Incorporation bill vhh was introduced in Congress recently le not to be pressed for passage at .his session. If the bill should be passed President Taft has stated his willingness to stand as its sponsor, and to take the responsibility for having recommended it. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. will be a candidate for the Ivsislature of NewYork from the Oyster Bay district, or from one of the districts of New York City. His friends regard it as a positive fact that he will tie elected If he enters the race. President Taft is alarmed over the situation in Congress, and has recently expressed some concern over tho fate of his legislative program. He continues to receive assurances from Republican leaders in the House and Seilte that everything is progressing f-nt5i.Taetori!y, but the President wants to be thn.n. In a leading editorial in La Follette's Weekly Magazine, the Senator from Wisconsin blames the new tariff law and other measures which in recent years have fortiüed special interests as the real causes for "why prices .tre soarin g." One direct result of the conference between President Taft and the New York State Republican leaders on Lincoln Day wa s the decision to have the legislative bribery scandal probed to the bottom. A resolution to that effect was brousht in the I'.wer house by Chanler, a Democratic member, and this further put the matter up to the Republicans.

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CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of Chicago trade says: "The advent of seasonable weather adds a cheering tone to business. Trading defaults have fallen in both number and liabilities to the smallest -since April, 1907. March settlements are seen to be remarkably heavy and the volume of solvent payments through the banks establishes a new high record. Financial conditions become decidedly favorable and ample accumulation of fund3 offers encouragement to more extended enterprise in commerce and investment. "Railroad operations rapidly return to the normal, while the returns indicate increasing movements o' finished and raw products, general merchandise, grain and plantation needs. "Outpuu of the leading industries continue rising, and the approach of spring work Involves wider use of miscellaneous materials and machinery and hands. Permits during February for new business structures and additions were seventy in number and $2,1'C4,600 in value, and compare with forty-feven la number and 5938,500 in value in 1909. "Dealings in the principal wholesale and retail branches of general merchandise make a favorable comparison with this time last year. -Rank clearings, 5336,010,197, exceed those of the corresponding week In 1909 by 7.S per cent, and compare with 2C4,397,914 in 190S. Failures reported In the Chicago district , number twelve,- as against twenty-one last week, twenty-seven in 3909 and forty in 1908. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number three, as against four last week, ten in 19U3 ard thirteen in 190S."

NEW YORK. Trade i3 still irregular, and spring trade is rather tackward In developing at many points. Veathe conditions, flooded tream and bad country roads are, variously assigned as reasons for the hesitation shown in various lines, but back of all these there is an undeniable feeling of conservatism, bred of the uncertainty regarding the reception to be given higher-priced products by the ultimate consumer. Re-order trade In spring goods by jobbera is not especially large, and business at first hands is held back, pending clearer views of price matters and crop prospects. Collections .are widely quoted as slow. Business failures In the United States for the week ending with Mrch S were 184, against 234 last week, 219 in the like week of 1909, 287 in 1908, 172 in 1907 and 177 in 1906. Business failures in Canada for the week number 22, which compares with 28 last week and 33 In the same week in 1909. Bradstreet's, Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 4.00 to $8.25; hogs, prime heavy, $7.00 to $9.S5; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $8.00; wheat, No. 2. $1.21 to $1.22; corn. No. 2, 59c to 61c; oats, standard. 16c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 79c; hay, imothy. $10.00 to $19.00; prairie. $S.0C uj $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 28c 10 30c; eggs, fresh, '18c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel. 30c to 40c Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.50; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $10.25; sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $3.7r.; wheat. No. 2. $1.19 to $1.20; corn. No. 2 white, 60c to 61c; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs, $7.00 to $9.90; sheep, $3.30 to $7.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.24 to $1.25; corn, No. 2, 61c to C2c; oats. No. 2, 45c to 46c; rye, No. .1. 79c to Sic. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $6.75; hogs, $7.00 to $10.10; sheep, $3.00 to $6.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.25 to $1.2C; corn. No. 2 mixed, 62c to 63c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, 85c to S6c Detroit Cattle, $4.00' to $7.00; hogs. $7.00 to $9.80;. sheep, $3.50 to $6.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.22 to $1.23; corn. No. 3 yellow, 63c to 64c; oats, standard, 47c to 48c; rye. No. 1, 82c to S3c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern. $1.11 to $1.16; corn, No. 3, 61c to 63c; oats, standard, 46c to 47c; rye. No. J, 79c to SOc; barley, standard, 70c to 71c; pork, mess, $25.00. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, fair to choice, $8.00 to $10.20; sheep, common, to good mixed, $4.00 to $7.40; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $9.70. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, $1.21 to $1.22; corn, No. 2 mixed, 61c to 63c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, 81c to 82c; clover seed, $S.15. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $.S0; hogs, $S.0O to $10.00; sheep, M-00 to $6.S0; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.27 to $1.2S; corn. No. 2, 66c to 7c; oats, natural, white, 52c to f4c; butter, creamery, 29c to 32c; eggs, western, 19c to 21c. NOTES OF CUKHENT EVENTS. The striking mine engineers at Butte, Mont., voted to return to work. President Iewis, of the United Mine Workers, announced that an average of 10 per cent increase in Wi-gcs throughout America has been granted. A State-wide local option bill was rejected by the Maryland house of delegates by four votes. Patrick H. Houlihan, of Chicago, has resigned as Keneral manager of the Alton-Clover Leaf Railroad lines. The international commission on control of tuberculosis amonpr domestic 'animals adjourned in Detroit, and will meet next in Ottawa, May 19, 20 and 4. 1 The Oklahoma State Senate passed the House-bill on the "white slave," traffic. Penalty for violation of the law Is two to twenty-two years' imprisonmont At an election In Hiawatha, Kan., the commission form of Kovcrnroent was defeated by seventy-five votes. Robert W. lligbee, of Detroit, was elected president of the National "Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Assocla-' tion at Cincinnati. Mrs. Grace Gayou, 19 years old, was shot and killed it a Kansas City store by Iouls IlillsOB, who killed himself after he bad beaten Jack Doyle, a ri val for Mrs. Gayou's affection. Investigation is being made of tho death of K. J. McGannon, a Glovis, X. M., business men, whose body wa found hanging in a cement plant. Leiter Picks, a coufln, was arrested.

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