Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 25, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 March 1910 — Page 2

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L. Q. 4th. F. Q .F. M 17th rth. '11th. FEATURES OF INTEREST AEOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Conditions of Thing re Shown. . Nothing Overlooked, to make it Complete. FORTY-FIVE KILLED IN WRECK. Passenger Trains Ditched in Iowa with Frightful Results. Forty-five persons were killed and forty were injured, many of them fatally, in a wreck four and a half miles Dörth of Green Mountain, la., on a Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific train. The train, which was a consolidation of No. 19 from Chicago and No. 21 from St. Louis, bound for Minneapolis, Minn., was being detourd oyer the tracks of the Chicago Great Western road. Running at about thirty miles an hour in a cut north of Green Mountain it struck a spread rail, it is believed. The pilot locomotive jumped the track and with terrific force was buried In an embankment of soft clay. A second locomotive behind the first, rolled over, and the impact of the sudden stop hurled all the rear cars forward. A coach, a smoker and a Pullman car were smashed to splinters, almost all the occupants being killed or Injured. The superstructure of the Pullman was literally shaved off and sras jammed like a ramrod through the imoker and day coach. Many passengers were apparently killed outright. Heads were severed from bodies and inns and legs were cut off. The wreckige was almost crimson with blood, some of the bodies being crushed bercad recognition by the mass of twist?d rails and splintered cars. A few of the passengers were found still living; with a rod or a splinter impelling them In the wreck. Decapitated bodies were picked up and it was almost impossible :o correctly ascertain the dismembered parts. The wreck occurred at a point lifflcult to. reach with prompt relief. Buch bodies as could be secured were stretched out on an adjoining pasture. But first attention was given to the mounded. The 'cries of the wounded roming from beneath the cars and from places which were walled in, were pitiable. Fortunately the wreckage did not take fire. Sparks Caused Explosion. The main gas pipe of a natural gas company burst in the middle of the Potomac river, near Cumberland, Md. Bparks from a switch engine ignited the gas, causing an explosion which blew the engine from the track. John C. Loz, the fireman, was injured, and It Is feared will die. The flames lighted up the surrounding territory, and the atmosphere In the vicinity became oppressive. The gas Is still burning, and it probably will be necessary to cut off the entire city before it can be extinguished. Hold-Up In Street Car. A typical wild west hold-up occurred in Chicago, 111., recently when two masked and armed men boarded a street car aad forced several passengers to deliver money at the muzzle of a revolver. The bandits, after pushing the conductor inside, ordered the passengers to line up with hands above heads. While one man kept the victims in line, the other went through pockets. It is believed that $50 was obtained. The two robbers escaped. Girl Burns Eye with Iron. Miss Blanche Green, a senior of the Liberty Ladies College at Liberty, Mo., almost lost an eye when a hot curling Iron became entangled in her hair beneath her right temple. Before aid could be rendered the iron had burned deep into the flesh around the eye. Miss Green and her room-mate were dressing for a reception when the accident occurred. She Is under a physician's care. Burns Cause Woman's Death. Mrs. Catherine Blakely, aged 32, died at a hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., from burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open gas lire. Mrs. Blakely was the mother of two daughters, aged 10 and 4 years, respectively. The father, Homer Blakely, a yard conductor for the Pennsylvania, was killed four years ago. Ward Ames, Sr., Dead. Ward Ames, Sr., of the firm of the Ames-Brooks Company, died at his home in Duluth, Minn. He was one of the pioneer members of the Duluth Board of Trade. Eight Hundred Lives Lost in Japan. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan says many fishing boats have been lost in the recent storm along the coast. It Is reported that not less than fifty of those craft have been sunk and 800 fishermen drowned. Oldfield Breaks World's Record. Barney Oldfield, in his 200-horse-power Benz, broke the world's record for one mile, going the distance in :27.3 seconds at Daytona, Fla. Their Twelfth Child. The twelfth child has been born to the wife of Theodore Jung, an umbrella manufacturer and well-known Socialist labor leader of Evansville, Ind. Jung says he will make a Socialist orator and leader out of the new arrival. Making Money Hazardous. Seven men, led by a man who gives his name as Rudolph Warner, were arretted in Hutchinson, Kan., charged with counterfeiting silver dollars, and their dies secured. Warner' wife confessed. Four Killed; Several Hurt. Four persons were killed and several injured in a wreck on the Chicago & Indiana railroad at the outskirts of Gary, Ind. The wreck was caused by the engine jumping the track. The victims were a fireman, one of the brakemen and two unidentified women. Italian Storekeeper Murdered. Carmelto Capras, an Italian storekeeper, was murdered in his place of business in Chicago by an unidentified man, who escaped. Revenge is believed to have been the motive.

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BUT IS STILL SPEAKER Insurgents and Democrats Remove Him from Rules Committee, 191 to 155 HE RETAINS SPEAKER'S CHAIR Resolution to Oust Hirn as Presiding Ofilcer Is Voted Down byLarge Majority. Washington correspondence : Shorn of his power by a combination of the Democrats and Republican insurgents, Joseph Gurney Cannon is now merely the presiding officer of lae national House of Representatives. The House Saturday afternoon adopted a resolution amending the rules so as to provide for the election of a committee on rules by the House itself, the committee to consist of ten members and the speaker being ineligible to serve thereon. The full text of the resolution as passed by the House is as follows: "Resolved, That the rules of the House of Representatives be amended as follows: "1. In Rule 10, Paragraph 1, strike out the words 'on rules, to consist of five .members.' "2. Add new paragraph to Rule 10 as follows: "Paragraph X. There shall te a committee on rules elected by the House consisting of ten members, six of whom shall be members of the majority party and four of whom shall be members of the minority party. The speaker shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its own meenbers. "Resolved further, That within ten days after the adoption of this resolution there shall be an election of this committee, and immediately upon its election the present committee on rules shall be dissolved." By a vote of 133 to 191 the House then defeated a resolution declaring the office of speaker vacated and providing for the immediate election of a successor to Cannon. Nine insurgents voted with the Democrats in support of this resolution. At noon Friday the tense situation existing never would have been suspected from the appearance on the floor of the House. Apparently it was much more serene than it had been at any time since the condition developed. The insurgent Republicans were In conference and the regular Republicans were contending that the result of the meeting would be a compromise. While the conference was on, the House practically was in recess. The Speaker kept some one In the chair, but he wandered around the corridors of the building apparently quite unconcerned as to the ultimate effect of the strife on his own fortunes. The members were good-natured and generally discussed the situation in a friendly manner. It was a memorable fight which daylight found still in progress in the House. A stubborn filibuster on the part of Speaker Cannon and the House organization and equally relentless attack on the part of the "allies" these were the distinguishing features in the hottest fight that has yet been made to overthrow the present control of the House. It was extraordinary in many ways. For Instance, the odd spectacle was presented of the House, preponderantly Republican, ordering the arrest of the absentees of that party on the motion of a Democrat carried by Democratic votes. Then, too, it is not often that a fillbuster Is carried on by the regular House organization, virtually led by the Speaker, supposedly in full control of the House machinery, to prevent consideration of a resolution designed to overthrow that organization, make I the rules and reorganize radically the ! committee, the tenure of whose chair manship is supposed to be the chief asset in the Speaker's wealth of power. It is many years, old observers say in fact, no precise parallel has been suggested since the House remained actually in session all night, and that after an all-day session. All records of Congress wero broken in the debate on the Norris resolution, which caused the struggle in the House, 146,000 words being taken by the official stenographer. This Is the most voluminous debate ever heard in the House without a break. Sharp "Hoy" Swindle Hanks. Detectives are searching for Frank Thomas a boy in knickerbockers, who is accused of swindling several banks in Oakland, Cal., out of sum3 totalling $."00. The police believe Thomas to be an eastern swindler known as "Knee Breeches Kid." i:iht-Ineh Fall Kills Man. A fall of eight inches killed John Spiler, night watchman at a building under construction in New York. While standing on a beam, he fell backward, the back of his head striking a plank. Hl3 skull was fractured. Form Aeiv $ I ."0,000,000 Trntt. It is given out on what seems trustworthy authority that negotiations are pending looking to a coalition of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and its most bitter rlT&l, the General Electric Company.

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HABRAY IS CONVICTED. Jurors in Council Bluffs Trial Find Alleged Swindler and Aids Guilty. John C. Mabray and thirteen of his associates, who for ten days have been on trial in the United States District Court in Council Bluffs, charged with illegal use of the mails in connection with an extensive "fixed" race swindle, were found guilty in a verdict by the jury which heard the case. Robert E. L. Goddard of San Antonio, the fifteenth defendant, secured a disagreement. Those convicted with Mabray were Leon Loser, Tom S. Robinson, Willard Powell, Clarence Class, Edward Leach, Edward K. Morris, Clarence Forbes, Harry Forbes, Frank Scott, Ed McCoy, Winford S. Harris, Bert R. Shores and William ("Ole") Marsh. The last-named three entered a plea of nolle contendre when the trial opened, which was, in effect, a plea of guilty. With the conviction of Mabray and his associates, the government believes it hai broken up the most monumental swindling combination which ever has operated. Statistics have been gathered which show the receipts of the combination since 'its organization about ten years ago to have exceeded $3,000,000. LYNCH BLACKS IN COURT SQUARE Marlon, Ark., Mob Ileeaptnres eBrot Snrrendered tu Sheriff. Bob Austin and Charles Richardson, negroes, were lynched in the courthouse square in Marion, Ark., by a mob of 200 men. The victims were charged with aiding and abetting a jail delivery. Richardson was arrested in Memphis and was brought back to Marion. While he was on the way to the jail a mob overpowered Sheriff Lewis and took the prisoner. He confessed complicity in aiding the escape of prisoners and implicated Austin. The latter was caught and it appeared that the trembling prisoners would be hanged at once. Cooler counsel prevailed, however, and the two negroes were surrendered to the sheriff. At 3 p. m. a mob formed and marched to the jail. The negroes were taken out and hanged to a tree in front of the courthouse. $500,000 GIFT BY HETTY GREEN. fw York Site to lie Donated for Colombo Memorial. According to Miss T. Brlzzl, directress of studies at the Christopher Columbus University, Mrs. Hetty Green Is to make a big Easter offering for the benefit of New York City. Miss Brizzi said that. Miss Geen Is giving Countess Annie Leary a large plot of land on 5th avenue, opposite Central Park. Her purpose, Miss Brizzi said, is to enable the Countess Leary to carry out her plans for a memorial to Christopher Columbus, to take the form of a free university of art where youths may be taught without tost all the higher handicrafts. Mrs. Green's gift is said to be worth $500,000. FAMILY IS LONGLIVED. Brother Is IOS, Another DU, While, a Sister Is 102. Mrs. Anna Boicourt is deadvin Moline, Kan., at the age of 106 years Her family is believed to hold all rtcords for longevity. William Hamilton, a brother, is ?9; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Byrne, of Rushville, 111., is 102. and another brother, James Hamilton, is 10S. A nephew, Zacharias Hamilton. Is 73. He expects to live to be 100. CHINESE HITS RICH GOLD VEIN. California Celestial Takes Out $201,OOO In Few Months. The richest strike of placer gold made in California since the pioneer days has just been opened in Placer County, and the finder is a Chinese, Ah Kai, an aged Celestial who has been placer mining for many years. He drove a tunnel 200 feet into the hill and struck an old river channel, from which in a few months he has taken out $204,000 in coarse gold. TAGGART WINS GAMBLING CASE Jury Iteturns Verdict Favorable to French I.lek Hotel Company. The jury in the French Lick Hotel Company case returned a verdict in Paoli, Ind., for the company. The verdict, however, was not a surprise. The State undoubtedly will take the case to the Supreme Court, with the hope that it will be sent back for retrial. The Attorney General declares there were many errors both In the ruliog3 and the Instructions of the court to the jury.

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CONGRESSMAN WHO BROUGHT ABOUT CANNON'S DOWNFALL. George William Norris, representative from the Fifth Nebraska district, whose onslaught on Cannon has made him famous from Maine to California, has worked his way, despite many handicaps, up to a position of eminence. He was born on a farm in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1S61. His father died when he was a babe, his only brother was killed in the Civil War, and his mother was left in straitened circumstances. He yorked among the neighboring farmers ia the summer months and attended school only In the winter, became a country schoolmaster, studied law and wa3 admitted to the bar in 1SS3. Then the West opened vistas of preferment, and he went to Nebraska in 1883 and soon began to be conspicuous In politics. In 1S93 he was elected District Judge of the Fourteenth Nebraska District. Four years later he was re-elected to the same position, which he held when he was nominated to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and since that time he has represented the Fifth District. Mr. Norris is a man of strong personality and Is a ready debater. ?!: , Mr. Bryan has declared to friends that he is not a candidate for another nomination to the presidency of the United States. He says that he neither desires nor expects to be a candidate again. ' Leroy Percy, of Greenville, Miss., was chosen United States Senator from Mississippi on the fifty-eighth bailot of the Democratic caucus by a majority of live votes over former Governor Vardaman. The nomination is equivalent to election. The volume of campaign literature sent out during a national campaign is being eclipsed by the bulk of letters, speeches and pamphlets now beins poured into the so-called doubtful and insurgent States by the Republican Congressional Committee. In the two months since Gaynor became mayor of New York he has dropped over 400 politicians frcm the ray roll of the city, lie dismissed 123 politicians In a single day. He has cut salaries aggregating $53,000 a year and made savings In expenditures amounting to $2.000,000 per year. Mackenzie and Mann, owners of the Canadian Northern, have an option until May 13 to purchase for $11,000,000 the famous Dunsmuir coal mines of Vancouver Island, a property which ihe Great Northern and Northern Pacific have been endeavoring to secure for some time past. Secretary Knox may issue a statement to the public within a few days indicating his resentment of the criticism of his conduct of the State Department und conveying the noticethat if the people do not like this kind of diplomacy he is ready to lap.se Into a do-nothing rut or give way to some one else. Ex-Senator Charles A. Towne, formerly of Minnesota, but now a resident of New York, believes that Mayor William J. Gaynor, of New York City, will object to being named the nominee for President on the Democratic ticket, even if events should shape themselves so that this could come about. Mr. Towne was the first man to nominate Mr. Gaynor for mayor at a meeting Cooper Union In New York, and knows the city executive well. W. D. Jamleson, of Shenandoah, Democratic Congressman from the Eighth Iowa District, has announced in Washington that he will not be a candidate for re-election.

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Workmen Terrorized After Rescue of Kidnaped Pocantico Boy. New York detectives are aiding the West Chester County authorities in trying to run down a band of blackhanders who have terrorized the workmen on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico hills, New York, and whose latest exploit was the kidnaping of the 4-year-old son of Leonard de Carlo. The boy was found several miles from home in the custody of two women agents of the blackmailers, who became! lrightened and lied when approached oy a trolley car conductor. The trolley man's suspicions iad been excited by the crying of the child and the woman's actions. The gang now operating on and near the Rockefeller estate 13 believed to be the same as that which four or five years ago was investigated and whose operations were checked temporarily by the late Lieut. Petroslno. The terrorized workmen onthe estate can be induced to say little about the blackmailers' extortions, but the police are working on clews that it is hoped will result In the final' dispersal of the gang. DISCOVERS PROOF OF ABRAHAM. Philadelphia Savant Traees Mystic Story on Ancient Tablet, Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht offers to the world proof of Abraham as a real historic personage. A little piece of hardened clay upon which are tr"ed the mystic signs of a language tht.1 no tongue has uttered in common speech for more than 3,000 years supplies the evidence. Among the tablets brought out of Nippur by the last expedition from the University of Pennsylvania was one fragment which is part of a deluge story mor5 ancient by 1,000 years than any that has been found and antedating by at least 200 years the time that Abraham left Ur to go to the Land of Canaan. And this fragment has been deciphered by Prof. Hilprecht after months of infinite la-, bor. WOMAN FLOATS TO DEATH. Han Arrested Following: Fatul Hide on Cake of lee. On a recent night a young woman floated down the Detroit River on a .cake of ice and when near the Detroit-Windsor ferry pitched from her frail support and was drowned. Passengers of one of the ferries saw her, though It was dark. Attempts at rescue were futile. Floating Ice has hindered efforts to recover the body. The police think they have identified her, and that It was murder. Mrs. Arthur J.. Best, of Comber, Ont., a bride of a month, disappeared Monday. Her husband is under arrest charged with pushing her off an up-town dock. Best never lived with his wife, but letters ne wrote are affectionate. Ilynnntlte In a ltnnaway. Dragging a wagon containing '200 pounds of dynamite, a farmer's team dashed madly along a country road past several houses near Bay City, Mich. A post, a tree and a rural mail box were demolished before the team drew up in the farmer's barn yard. In spite of the jolting of the wagon the dynamite did not explode. Town A'otes Comnilnnlon Rai. Rapid City, S. D., adopted the commission form of government by a majority of 43 out of a vote of 731. Negro Cuts and Hobs Woman. A negro entered the grocery store of Mrs. Mary Albert, a white woman, in the outskirts of Kansas City, and after probably fatally slashing her " with a razor, robbed her of several hundred dollars and escaped. Soldiers to He Inoculated. , Sixty-live soldiers at Fort Snelllng have volunteered to submit to antityphoid inoculation, and the treatment will be administered by Colonel W. D. Ballinger, In charge of the medical department at the post. Football Injury Is Fatal. John A. Airhart, aged 10, a former student at Simmons College at Abilene, Tex., who was Injured in a football game on Oct. 10, died of his injuries. He had been unconscious from concussion of the brain. 10,000 l'rlse Ileuuty Is Dead. Miss Louise Montague, famous a quarter cf a century ago for her beauty, died at her home, 164 Manhattan avenue, New York, after a protracted illness, in her fifty-first yetr. Her death was due to anaemia.

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The Week in Congress The nationality and mother tongue of all persons enumerated for the next Congress was provided for in a bill passed by the Senate Monday. The provision for recording the race of persons enumerated was left out of tho present law, but upon demand of a large number of citizens of foreign birth its reinstatement was decided upon. The( Senate also passed a bill providing fqr an election by the people of Hawaii on the subject of prohibition for the islands. The consideration of local bills affecting the District of Columbia consumed the entire ti-nie of the House. Senator Cummins took up the time of the session Tuesday with a speech on the pending bill to amend the interstate commerce law. In the course of his rejnarks Senator Cummins referred to a report that the President had stated that any Senator who did not support the measure would be put out of the Republican party organization. Mr. Cummins replied to this by saying he could not vote for the bill. The House passed the legislative, executive and judicial bill appropriating nearly $34,000,000. The administration railroad bill was under discussion during the entire session of the Senate Wednesday. In the House parliamentary questious consumed considerable time. Again Speaker Cannon failed to have the House sustain him in a parliamentary ruling, forty-two Republicans voting with the Democrats in opposition. After the questions relating to the rules were disposed of the House considered the bills upon its calendar. In the Senate Thursday Mr. Cummins delivered the third section of his address on the administration railroad bill and was interrupted by adjournment. A mighty battle was precipitated 'in the House early in the day by a resolution offered by the insurgents to select a new committee on rules and exclude Speaker Cannon from membership. Several times the speaker was defeated and he was finally forced to adopt a filibuster to delay action. Up to a late hour the result was undecided. In the Senate Friday Senator Cummins concluded his speech on the administration railway bill, after which routine business was transacted. The House spent the entire day in deadlock on the Norris resolution changing the Committee on Rules, which ended just before 3 o'clock with an agreement to take the matter up the next day. By a vote o.f 191 to 133, the Republican insurgents voting solidly with the Democrats, the House Saturday adopted the resolution of Representative Norris, Republican, of Nebraska," requiring a reorganization of the rules committee,' increasing its membership from Ave to ten, and declaring the Speaker ineligible to membership thereon. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 133 but with a decidedly different personnel of alignment the House defeated a resolution of Representative Burleson of Texas, declaring the Speakership vacant anJ ordering an immediate election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. As a calm follows a storm, the House of Representatives met in solemn session Sunday to pay tribute to one of its late members, Robert C. Davy of Louisiana. Only one .member. Representative Townsend of Michigan, made reference to the exciting incidents of the last few days on the floor, when he said, in introducing his remarks: "I am much impressed with the difference of the scenes now and those of a few hours ago." Representative Broussard of Louisiana occupied the chair during the session, except for time enough to deliver his eulogy of his late colleague. The other speakers were Messrs. Wagner of Pennsylvania, Adamson of Georgia, Gilmore, Ransdell, Pujo and Estopinal of the Louisiana delegation. Other members who did not speak wera granted permission to print their eulogies in the Record. SLAY A PRISONER IN JAIL. v Policemen Kill Man Who l es Jailor's Key as Weapon. To save the lives of Benjamin Myers, a jailer, and of prisoners in the men's quarters at police headquarters, in Kansas City, Jesse Jones, of Oklahoma City, a prisoner, was shot and killed by Samuel Reed, desk rergeant, and C. B. Pierce, a patrolman. Jones, who had been' arrested on complaint of his sister for disturbing the peace, seized a two-pound key from Myers, knocked him senseless with it and then attacked other prisoners. Reed and Pierce, who were called, were unable to get into the arena where Jones was attacking the prisoners, and shot him. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Fire at Cloverport, Ky., destroyed six residences and a saw mill; loss, $40.000. The criminal division of the Supreme Court Of Missouri upheld the law requiring all deals in futures to bear stamps of 25 cents. The Council of the United Reformed Churches, representing the entire iield in the United States of churches working under a Tresbyterian form of church government, met in Louisvil'.a for a three-day Vonvcntlon. President Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel Company, announced that thi demands of the striking steel workers have all been denied. Second Lieutenant Clarence M. Janey, Twelfth Infantry, was killed at Fort William McKinley, Philippine Islands, but it is not known whether the tragedv was due to accident or design and army inspectors are investigating. j William P. Snyder, former auditor general, and James M. Mmmaker. former superintendent of public buildings, and grounds, must go to prison, the IVnnsvIviinU Supreme Court atRrming their conviction on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State. The body of Oscar Lindborg, who had been missing since January, was found on the prairie between Wessingen Springs, S. D., and Line. The man perished in a heavy snowstorm. Coach Hargis, convicted of the murder of his father, Judge Janus Hargis, the Breathitt County, Kentucky, feudist, was taken from Lexington to Frankfort to begin his life sentence in the State penitentiary. Since President Taft's election the Unitarian Church which he attends in Washington has suffered from the depredations of visitors who have twice carried away cushions, books, etc.. while service actually was In progress.

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ü UlliUKUU X 1 FAMED Si President Passes Strenuous Day as Guest of the Country's Second City. MAKES EIGHT SPEECHES IN ALL Talks to Sons of Erin, Newspaper Men, Red Cross Society and ' General Public. Taft dubbed the St. Patrick's day in Chicago an -episode." "There's a lot going on in Washington, so that when I'm called away by a pleasant episode such as this I've not had the time to prepare the address you deserve." said he when he began his speech on conservation in the Auditorium Theater. This is the President's idea of an "episode": His breakfast was scarcely finished when he was whisked away from his private car and taken to a room in tho La Salle Hotel, where be made a speech. A few minutes later he made another then another and another and another and another and anotherand another. Eight. Count 'em. An "episode"! What if the President were willing to chalk off what he considers a fair day's work? Would it make a rhino hunt look like a crochet party on a rainy Thursday" afternoon? Yet when Capt. Archibald Clavering Butt assisted him to the platforaa of his car at the end of a day of third rail strenuosity the President turned around and smiled. When the President's special stopped at the temporary station on the Pennsylvania railroad at 33d street it had pierced the heart of a solid phalanx of full blooded Gaels, but on the outskirts was a thick veneer of cosmopolitan Chicago. There was a delay of a minute. No President appeared. Then another minute went by and still another. Photographers clinging to telegraph poles by their left .legs shifted to their rights. Then the crowd surged towards the rear platform as Mr. Taft made his appearance. The President paused on the step for half a minute while a dozen cameras clicked a stacatto salute. There waii a beautiful tangle at tha start of the parade. Police and reception committee found automobiles to right of them, automobiles to left of them, and most of them were volleying and thundering sufficient to drown out cheers of salutation. Along the route to the loop district men and women were lined and in some places school children, but not in great numbers. Occasionally the crowds cheersd as the head of the parade drew near, but the cold morning and the heavy fog that hung over the streets seemed to have an effect dampening to enthusiasm. In the down-town district showers of confetti began to fall from the windows of the skyscrapers. Bit3 of green paper sprinkled the tile hats. A sackful of confetti fell at the feet of Capt. Butt in the President's automobile and spread chopped paper over the party. Long paper ribbons floated from the windows of downtown buildings and men in the parade caught the ends and carried them along. President Taft reached his room ?t the La Salle Hotel. It was time to meet the endowment committee of the American Red Cr6ss Society. But he paused. "I must have a shave," he explained. Then there was a hunt for a barber. Ten minutes later the President had begun a record breaking series of speeches. He talked to the Red Cross committee briefly and greeted with much cordiality the officers of the organization. Then the Irish Fellowship committee, that stuck to him all day like poor relations to a wealthy cousin, piloted him to the Newspaper Club reception In the Louis XVI. room. The President's grin lengthened a bit as he listened to the song of welcome sung by members of the club. Two hundred members of the Chicago Newspaper Club warbled a eong to the tune of "It Was Christmas on the Island." When the presidential party drove from the La Salle Hotel to the Auditorium Theater, where the conservation address was delivered, the chimes In a church steeple south of the loop district were ringing the tune "Wearing of the Green." The speech the President delivered before the members of the engineering association in the Congress Hotel was a sort of 100 word dash. He explained that press of engagements kept him from saying more, and hurried off to the Hamilton Club reception. After his address there an attempt was made to give as many visitors as possible an opportunity to shake hands with the president like fans through a turnstile after "play ball" is sounded. After the Hamilton Club reception the PresI dent was taken back to the La Salle Hotel, where he remained until time te start for his train. SHERIFF FINDS FrVE SLAIN. Dodles of Husband and Wife, Chll dren and Friend Slain. ( The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, Walter Eichmann and two infant children of the Schultzes were found in Houston, Tex., by Sheriff Anderson, who had been called by neighbors. All five had apparently been dead for nearly a week. It is believed they were murdered. No reason for the murder has been learned. ' LanKblln Hiebes to Wife. The will of Thoma3 K. Laughlin, brother of the wife of President Taft, who killed himself the other day, was filed for probate in Pittsburg. It leaves the entire estate, estimated at ?:0,000.000, to his wife. Train Kills Admiral Ileivey's Kin. Eli Dewey, aged 77 and said to be a relative of Bear Admiral Dewey, was filled by a Santa Fe passenger train ?t Prowers, Colo. He was a wealthy Jarmer, v.iio came from Vermont many ;ears ago. lee IJ renk-1 1 Costs $50,000. The lower section of Mandan, N. D., Buffered a lots of $30,000 by the overPowing of the Heart River and the breaking up of the Missouri. The preatcr portion of this loss will fall on ! (he Northern Pacific. Abandoned Ilride End Life. Deserted by her bridegroom of a veek, whom she accused of eloping' Vith her younger sister, Mrs. Frank Dague committed suicide at Addison, )hio, by swallowing a quantity of aris green.

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CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of Chicago trade says: "The inviting early spring weather leads to considerable revival in commerce and the Immediate effect is notable in the leading industries and distributive branches. A comparatively large gain also appears, in the vol-, ume of payments through the banks, testifying to the arger use of funds incident to the season, while the record of trading defaults again makes an encouraging exhibit as to the position of credits. Expectations now undergo fulfillment in the more plentiful commitments for future deliveries of heavy materials, and substantial contracts indicate the willingness of railroad managers to provide for requirements. "The market for hides has ample supplies to meet current demands, but sellers have firmer views as to prices for ensuing months. Tanning operations run steady, with leather under satisfactory consumption, and shoe factories and allied lines have ample contracts ahead. "Money hardened slightly, but deposits assure adequate loanable funds, and the discount rate for choice commercial paper ranged from A to 5 per cent. "Bank clearings, $231,632,863, exceed those of the corresponding week In 1909 by 11.9 per cent, and compare with $226,126,012 in 1908. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 20, as against 29 last week, 28 in 1909 and 32 in 1908. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 2. as against 6 last week, 6 in 1909 and 10 in 190S." NEW YORK. Trade irregularity is still manifest, but reports as a whole show a still further Improvement, due to advan?e of the spring season. Improvement In weather, and coincidently in trade reports, is most manifest in the agricultural sections of the West, Northwest and Southwest, while the reports from the East and parts of the South show the development of spring business retarded by the lingering winter. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with March 17 were 20S. as against 230 last week, '224 in the like week of 1909, 303 in 1003, 137 in 1907 and 170 In 1906. Business failures in Canada for the week number 25, which compares with 26 last week and 32 in this week of 1909. Bradstreets. 'mm Chicago Cattle, common to prime. ' $4.00 to ?8.70; hogs, prime heavy, 17.00 to $10.90; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $8.85;, wheat. No. 2, $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 2, 61c to 63c; oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 7f)c; hay, timothy$10.00 to $18.00; prairie, $8.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 2Sc to 31c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 33c. Indianapolis! Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.63; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $10.70; sheep, good to choice. $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2. $1.18 to $1.20; corn, No. 2 white, 59c to COc; oats. No. 2 white, 43c to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $S.40; hogs, $7.00 to $10.00; sheep, $3.50 to $8.50; wheat, No. 2. $1.20 to $1.23; corn, No. 2,' 61c to 62c; oats, No. . 43c to 4Gc; rye. No. 2, 79c to 80c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, $7.00 to $11.00; sheep, $3.00 to $6.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.21 to $1.23; corn, No. 2 mixed, 60c to 62c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2, S3c to 83c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $6.23; hogs, $7.00 to $10.70; sheep, 3.50 to to $7.50; wheat. No. 2. $1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 3 yellow, 61c to 63c; oats, standard, 46c to 48c; rye, No. I, 79c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern. 1.12 to $1.16; corn, No. 3, Clc to 63c; oats, standard, 44c to 46c; rye. No. 1, 7Sc to 80c; barley, standard, "70c to 72c; pork, mess, $23.73. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $7.23; hogs, fair to choice, $8.00 to $11.15; 6heep, common, to good m!xL $4.00 to $7.40; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $10.40. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs, $8.00 to $11.15; sheep, $4.00 to $7.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.23 to $1.26; corn. No. 2, 63c to 65c; oats, natural, white, 50c to 52c; butter, creamery, 29c ' i 32c; eggs, western, 21c to 24c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.19 to $1.20; corn, No. 2 mixed, f2c to 4c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 2, 79c to SOc; clover seed, $7.12. For the building of a bridge to connect St Croix Falls, Wis., and Taylor Falls. Minn., both these cities and their respective States have each appropriated $3,C00. making a total of $14,000. Plans for the bridge are being decided upon. Eastern capitalists have become In terested in the Agar Packing Company In Des Moines and. will advance money, for the construction of an enormous new plant. In addition the capital stock of the company will be Increased $240.000. Railroad earnings In Minnesota during the calendar year 1909 were $90,987,228, a handsome increase over 1908, when the gross earnings were $77,875,680. The taxes upon last year's business were $3,639.489, every cent of which has been paid into the Statt treasury. The Great Northern Railway has planned an expenditure of about $6,000,000 this year for additional equipment. The amount 111 be divided nearly evenly between the freight and passenger service, an! the total number of purchases will be delivered lefore the end of the year. Thirty-one associations, Including over 1.000k breeders of dairy cfcttle, are now engaged in the united effort to improve the dairy stock of Wisconsin, writes Prof. G. C. Humphrey of the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment station, in a new bulletin. No. 1S9, Just issued. Traction eng ncs are becoming common in Southern farming. Near Fredericksburg, Va., Capt. M. B. Rowe uses a" gasoline engine pulling six threeh)rse plows with harrows following. These do the work which would ordinarily require twenty-one horses and seven men.