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L. Q.mX. M. F. Q.P. M V-L 2nd. Qoth. Jjy lfith. PAST AND "rPiESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many. Justice Brewer Dies of Apoplexy. David Josiah Drewer, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died in Washington, D. C, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. His death followed within a minute or two. before he could be carried to his bed. Mrs. Brewer was with him when the end came. Justice Drewer was 7.1 years old. The end came altogether unexpectedly. Although he had not been feeling well for the last few days, the aged Jurist was apparently In the best of health and spirits. He was in equally good spirits at dinner and spent the evening in reading. Shortly after 10 o'clock he retired to his room and within a few moments Mrs. Brewer heard a heavy fall and went to investigate the cause. She found her husband prone on the floor of the bathroom. He did not regain consciousness and died before a physician, hastily summoned, could reach the house. The two daughters of the aged Jurist, Mrs. James F. Karrich and Mrs. H. J. Jetmore were summoned at once but reached the residence too late. Justice Drewer came to the Supreme Court of the United States from the Federal Court in Kansas. He was the second oldest member of the court, Justice Harlan only being his senior. Horrible Catastrophe in Hungaria. Two hundred and fifty people were killed and many others injured In the village of Oekoerite, Hungary, when fire broke out in p hotel where a ball was being held. A coach house connected with the hotel had been fitted up as a ball room and was crowded with several hundred guests when the fife started. The flames were first no-, ticed when a woman's dress was seen to be abalze. A moment later, the gowns of several other women were burning. Panic followed and in a mad rush to the exits many persons fell and were trodden to death. As if to make matters worse the roof caved in before tbe hall could be cleared, and many persons were buried beneath it. Bold Yeggmen Loot Postoffice. Under the glare of the street lamps yeggmen backed a wagon up to the door of the postoffice In Richmond, Va and pierced the vault with steel drills and made 4ff with more than $30,000 in stamps and $1C0 in cash. A watchman In the building was undisturbed while the robbers entered through a street window. The office had been closed since 6 o'clock In the evening. When a clerk opened the door in th morning, the robbery was discovered. Though the thieves evidently had plenty of time they overlooked art envelope containing $2,000 In cash. Mrs. Longsworth Gets Rich Legacy. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Is named as a beneficiary in the will of her late grandfather, George C. Lee, a wealthy banker of Boston, Mass., who died recently. The will directs that the income of ose-half the estate be divided among hal a dozen relatives, of whom former President Roosevelt's elder daughter is one. The estate is valued at several million dollars. Head of Adams Express Co. Dead. , Leslie Weir, president of the Adams Express Company, died In New York City at the Hotel Plaza. Mr. Weir's death followed only a few hours after that of Dudley Evans, president of the Wells Fargo Express Company, who died the day before at a hospital In that city. Mr. Weir was identified with numerous financial institutions and railroads. Proud Father of Thirty-four Children. The birth of a healthy baby boy in Pedham, Mass., has made Joseph Sears the father of thirty-four children. He has been twice married in the past forty years, his first wife giving birth to eighteen children and the present Mrs. Sears to sixteen. But twelve of the large family are living. Mr. Sears is 57 years of age. Jewelry Store is Looted. Diamonds, watches and other jewelry, valued at several thousand dollars, were secured by thieves at Aycock, Fla., when they broke into the establishment of Aycock Brothers. The burglars blew open the safe where most of the diamonds were kept. Boy Dragged by Kite. Entangled in a cord of a monster kite which he was flying. William Fletcher, 17 years old, wa3 dragged over a steep declivity on Telegraph Hill, near San Francisco, Cal., and fell 350 feet to his death. Catholic Editor Dead. Charles J. O'Malley, editor of the New World, a Catholic publication, died in Chicago of paralysis. He wa3 53 years old. Blind Organist Dead. I Dr. David D. Wood, aged 62. the blind organist of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal church, of Philadelphia, Pa., who had an international reputation a", a composer and performer, is dead, after a brief illness. Dr. Wood had been organist and choirmaster in St. Stephen's church for forty-six years. Lake Navigation Opened. The passenger steamer City of Detroit, left for Cleveland, Ohio, from Detroit, Mich., marking the ope ning of the navigation season of 1910. Noted Engineer Is Dead. Henry W. Taylor, noted geologist and mining engineer, died of paralysis in Denver, Col. He was an authority on mining law relating to veins and was an Important witness in many of the great mining suits in the West. Sent a Duel Challenge. John G. Hambrick, of New York, wasarrested at Huntsville, Ala., being charged; with sending a challenge to fight a duel with John Bogenshott, of Gur'ey, The men had trouble over a division of property.

OF III L B IICü dlUIU Four New Craters Disgorge Fiery Streams, but Crisis Is Believed Past. PEASANTS FLEE FR0II E031ES Vineyards aud Fields for Miles Around Devastated by Eruption and Accompanying' Quake. An o.Tvhl report upon volcanic disturbr.iices in the Mount Etna district confirms reports that the situation is grave, but holds out the hope that th3 i vo'ot is ovci. The craters that properly may bo described as now appear to be only four in number. These have opened at the foot of Mount Castellazzo, four miles in the air line from the summit of Mount Etna. The fouv streams emitted from these craters have united at the foot of Mount Castellazzo and formed a great river of lava that is bringing death and desolation into the invaded districts. Plants trees, whole vineyards' and orchards have been destroyed by the consuming flood. The lava river has extended nearly fifteen miles from its source. In the path of the advancing flood the people are in great terror and thousands abandoned their homes. The rearing of Mount Etna continues without interruption and a rain of cinders fell for miles around. Several houses of peasants already have been destroyed and it is feared that if the flow does not cease soon the flood will enter Borrelo. Caravans of peasants carrying all their household goods and all of their transportable possessions are moving to places of safety. In their distress they present a pathetic Bight. At many homes the molten mas3 has entered the cisterns and caused destructive explosions. GIRL IS BURNED ALIVE. Ruth Wheeler Not Dead When Put in Fireplace, Says Physician. That Ruth Amos Wheeler, the 16-year-old stenographer who went seeking employment the other day, and whose charred body was found on a fire escape at 224 East 75th street, New York, was burned to death by the slayer, was the statement made by Dr. O'Hanlon; coroner's physician. Thi3 assertion came after an autopsy had been made. Dr. O'Hanlon found the lung3 congested and a deep mark on the right side of the neck, evidently made by a rope when the murderer sought to strangle his victim. Dr. O'Hanlon said: "Over the right nostril and on part of the face I found the remnant of a square of linen. I believe the girl was smothered, and while still alive but unconscious was put into the fireplace and the body incinerated." Katchen Müller, or Kate Miller, as she was better known, who was regarded as the wife of Walter Wolters, who is now in the Tombs charged with the murder of the Wheeler girl, was taken into custody. She denied all knowledge of the murder, and the police declared they were Inclined to believe her story. Captain Carey spent most of the night with Wolters In his cell, but could not get him to admit any knowledge of the crime. FIX UP TARIFF TROUBLES. Taft and Canada's Representatives to Announce Terms at Once. There is to be no tariff war with Canada. Peace term3 have been agreed upon, and the promulgation thereof will be made simultaneously from Ottawa and Washington, the day before the maximum tariff of the United States would go Into effect automatically against Canada in the event of no proclamation to the contrary by President Taft. Details regarding the successful termination of the negotiations between the United States and Canadian officials are being carefully guarded, but it is known that Canada grants its intermediate rates on a small list of articles that do not seriously come Into competition with Canadian manufacture. Full details are known as yet enly to President Taft and Secretary Knox on this side of the line and o Minister of Finance W. S. Fielding and Minister of Railways George P. (raham and Sir Wilfrid Laurler, the tminion premier, on the other. GENERAL HURT: WOMAN KILLED ZvlUy Car Demolishes Automobile on a Washington Ho ad. I'.zjor General J. Franklin Dell, chief t? ?taff of the army, was badly but froably not dangerously injured, and liri. Herbert J. Slocum, wife of Major Ecfüiu. of the Seventh Cavalry, was o'.yjt instantly killed in a collision o? t'aelr automobile with a trolley car cn (be Tenallytown road in the northtrdt outskirts of Washington. General Bell had one rib broken, suffered B cainful scalp wound and severe bruiser The chauffeur was uninjured. Mrs. f toe-urn lived only a few moments. Her di sband is attached to the headquarters of the Department of the East at Crernor3 Island, New York. General absolved the trolley car motorman from bla.me for the accident AVERT BIG RAIL STRIKE. 3taiiatcer of Wr(ern ltoads aud firemen Aifree on Terms. Peace on the Western railroads was assured when the general managers and the representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen reached an amicable settlement of their differences in Chicago the other day. Both sides agreed that the credit for averting what would have been one of the worst strikes in railroad history is due to Dr. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor. Admit Killing; Grandfather. Caspar Butler, 17 years old, pleaded guilty in Franklin, Ga., to the murder of his grandfather and was sentenced to life Imprisonment. He killed the elder man because the latter whipped him. ul St. Louis Inlnttrs Strike. The strike of 1,200 painters in St. Louis was settled by the master painters granting an increase in wages of 2 1-2 cents an hour until January, 1911. A raise of 5 cents an hour, was given for the following two years.

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V 1 v, i if. WINS IN REPUBLICAN FORT. E. N. Foss First" Democrat to Carry 14th Massachusetts District. Eugene N. Fos3 of Boston the other day was elected to Congress from the Fourteenth District of Massachusetts. Running on the Democratic ticket in a district which in 100S gave the late William C. Lovering, Republican, a plurality of 14,236, Mr. Foss defeated William R. Buchanan of Brockton, the Republican nominee by 5,617 votes. The victor in this election, is a brother of Congressman George Edmund Fosi of Chicago. Mr. Fos3 was adopted a3 the favorite son of the old oniony district by the decisive action of Republicans and Democrats, who gave majorities to him In thirty-three of the forty-four towns and in the two cities in the district. The Democratic candidate invadel Brockton, the home of his opponent, and secured the major portion of the votes, winning in that city by a plurality of 171. This showing in the Fourteenth District is aggressively and demonstratively insurgent. It turned a majority of 14,000 for a Republican into an excess of 5,C17 for a Democrat of comparatively recent conversion. GUN BURSTS ON U. S. CRUISER. Elsrht 31 en Itrported Victims of Accident on Charleston. An unofficial report has been received at Man'la that a great gun aboard the United States protected cruiser Charleston exploded while the crew was engaged at target practice near Olongapo. It Is said that eight men were killed or wounded in the accident. The cruiser now is on its way to Manila, supposedly for the purpose of bringing the victims of the disaster to the marine hospital in Manila. No details of the accident have been reported to the officials, so far as can be learned, and It i3 expected that none will be given out until the vessel comes to' port. The Charleston Is the flagship of Rear Admiral John Hubbard, Commander In chief of the Asiatic fleet. The commanding officer of the vessel Is Commander John H. Gibbons. Another radical move on the part of the suffrage advocates which is receiving much attention in the eastern part of the country is an organization of college women at Wellesley, Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and other colleees for women, the members of which promise not to get married until she shall have won over to the cause at least 500 men. "I have nothing to conceal in connection with my activities in behalf of legislation providing for the payment of subsidies for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine," said James T. McCIeary of Minnesota, in commenting upon the report that the committee on the judiciary might subpoena hin as a witness in an effort to uphold the charge that unusual methods were followed in an effort to press this legislation through Congress. Some of the aggressive women of Chicago have now formed an organization the slogan of which Is "No vote, no tax." and ' when certain women property owners appeared in line at the city collector's office the other day members of this new league picketed the line and prevailed upon the women to go home and leave their taxes unpaid. The pickets distributed cards containing the following sentiment: "If you can't be persons and citizens at voting time, don't be persons and citizens at taxpaying lime." Gilbert M. Hitchcock, editor of the Omaha World-Uerald. announced that William J. Bryan had given his word that he would keep out of the next race for a Nebraska seat in the United States Senate. Hitchcock, who has been three terms a member of Congress, will now run for the Senate. That definite plans are now being made for a battle to prevent the renomination of Senator Robert M. La Follette, was shown whn William D. Connor, former State chairman, who managed Senator Ia Toilette's first successful campaign, made a statement declaring he might manage the campaign against Senator La Follette. The action of the Canadian government in giving to France a reduction in duties of 2-j per cent, which action Is automatically extended to twelve other nations under the "most favored nation" rule, has brought the United States squarely up against the prospect of a trade war with our neighbor to the north. Special Commissioners Pepper and Emery recently went over the whole subject with the officials at Ottawa, but the latter believing that the American tariff was unduly severe on Canadian trade, would make no concessions. President Taft has been giving much attention to this question.

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THE GREAT ITALIAN DISASTER

V - -. . v J n - "v i- i. t .Is-. Chicago Will Xot Vote I'pon Local Option Qurnllon This Sprlnff. Chicago will not vote upon the question of discontinuing the licensed saloon and substituting prohibition at the aldermanic election this spring. The Board of Election Commissioners threw out the monster petition of the Anti-Saloon League colling for the submission of the question to the electorate. The commission held the "drys" to be short 19.233 of the 63,311 names necessary to give the petition a legal status, declaring that out of the 74,026 names appearing on the petition 2C.12S were not those of registered legal voters and 2,620 were "doubtful." The commissioners did not go into the question of some 2,200 obviously fictitious names, 1.2G0 duplications and 6,700 forgeries charged by the 'wets" who filed objection to the petition. DUPLICATES CUDAHY ATTACK. Kansas City Man Slashes Wife's Companion Third Case of Kind. For the third time within a few weeks in Kansas City an angry husband encountered his wife and a man companion and slashed the man with a knife when C. P. Oard, a piano salesman, met Mrs. Oard at her home early the other morning after she had been "joy riding," it is alleged, and, after bombarding the two men who accompanying her with bricks, cut one of them. The first affair of this kind was that in which "Jack" Cudahy attacked Jere Lillis, banker and clubman, when he found him in his home .with Mrs. Cudahy. The second occurred on a recent night when Dr. J. E. King trailed his wife and William A. Young, an actor, to Swope Park and slashed Young. SLAIN AFTER KILLING TWO. Urlnk-Crnzed Passenger Is Trapped hr WilnilnKton, Del., Police. Darrlcaded In the toilet room or a Pullman parlor car. In which he had taken refuge after killing a porter and a conductor, J. H. Bethea, a drinkcrazed murderer from South Carolina, held the entire police force of Wilmington, Del., at bay for an hour and twenty minutes. He also tied up traffic on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for more than an hour. He fired more than 100 shots from an automatic revolver at the besieging force, and wounded two men. Finally the fire department was called and drove him from his retreat with a three-inch stream of water through the window. Half drowned, he staggered on to the railroad station platform and was shot to death as he fired repeatedly toward the police. NO CUDAHY PROSECUTION. Case Aa-nlnst Son of Packer for Attack la Llllls Dismissed. The case growing out of the attack made by J. P. Cudahy, the packer, upon Jere Lillis, the banker, was dismissed in the Municipal court in Kansas City by Daniel Howell, assistant city attorney. Mr. Howell made no comment further than to say the case should not have been brought in the Municipal court. Brown Underwood, the patrolman who was caled to the Cudahy home the night Lillis was attacked, was the only witness to appear. The case had been continued twice before. American Ships Are Seised. The American-owned schooners Lark and Esfuerzo have been seized in the name of the Nicaraguan constitutional government, taken to Greytown and turned over to the troops of President Madriz, to be used as transports. The owners of the vessel protested to the American consul against the seizure, and the case has been referred to the Washington government. Hlhle Socitty eis Fund. The $.:00,000 fund which the American Bible Society has been seeking to raise to secure an equal amount, the gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, has been completed. Thousands of persons in all parts of the world have contributed to the fund. Ship Sinkst Fifteen Are Drowned. The Norwegian freight steamer Dixie, bound from a Scotland port, capsized in the mouth of the Elbe during a severe storm. The crew of fifteen drowned. Woman Killed by Antitoxin. Mrs. Guy E. Smith of Minneapolis s dead as the result of being inoculated' with antitoxin. She died in convulsions five minutes after the antitoxin had been administered by a physician. Infantile Paralysis Kills Cadet. Douglas Herbert Hartig, 18 years old, recently appointed to the naval academy at Annapolis, died at his home in Hopkins, Minn., after an hour's Illness. Deputy Coroner G. N. Moore gives infantile paralysis as the cause of death.

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1 v A - i ., .- V .v.- v. . . . - '. . ,' .-. .- .v.' ' ? V ' N f K w GRAFT BILLS SNARE FORTY. Barely Quorum Left When Accased Men Plead Guilty and Resign. An embarrassing situation has developed in Pittsburg's councilmanic bodies, through the enforced resignations of a number of members because of confessions of guilt In connection with the bribery conspiracy and others that are expected to be demanded by reason of the indictments found against forty present and former members by the grand jury. It is not known if there are enough members left to form a quorum. It is considered fortunate in official circles that the budget was passed before the storm broke, as there might have been difficulty In arranging special meetings to pass the bills which had become laws before taxes could be collected. The penalty to which the guilty councllmen are liable under tle law is a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment not exceeding five years, and to be forever debarred from holding any place of profit or trust In the commonwealth. "Capt." John Klein, who started the municipal uproar by his confession. Is guarded by two detectives at a downtown hotel. His meals are being served In his rooms and his every want satisfied. Judge Frazer of the Criminal Court sit as a committing magistrate to hear pleas of councilmen who wish to "come forward" and receive suspended sentences. Anxious to receive the immunity bath, three former members of the Common Council appeared and pleaded "no defense" to charges of having received money for their votes In the passage of bank and street vacation ordinances. Two of the men who appeared were not even under indictment. All were given suspended sentences. BEEF FIRMS ARE INDICTED. Xnllonal Parking: Company nod Ten Subsidiaries Are lilt. Indictments against the National Packing Company and ten subsidiary corporations, charged with operating in restraint of trade, were returned by the federal grand jury in Chicago. Simultaneously, a bill In equity was filed by the government in which the courts are asked to dissolve the parent concern. The double barreled blow is calculated by government officials to have a far-reaching effect and shortly after the grand jury was discharged It was authoritatively stated that criminal prosecution of individuls might follow. The civil action was filed by United States District Attorney Sims, under instructions from Attorney General Wickersham. i Dr. Edward Meyer, professor of ancient history at the University of Berlin and one of the greatest living historians, is giving a series of lectures before the students of the University of Wisconsin. A lively discussion is in progress in Japan in regard to the advisability of adopting the jury sysiem. Even among the members of the legal profession opinion is divided, but if anything the balance appears to be against the Innovation. A German south polar expedition virtually has been arranged by Lieutenant Filchner, of the general staff o! the army, under the auspices of the geographical society. Lieutenant Filchner announced that the expedition would start in October of this year, if the necessary funds were forthcoming. The announcement that there will bi no Home Rule bill presented to the present session of Parliament, while not unexpected, caused regret in Ireland, and it is recognized now that it may mean another election before Ireland will be given the right to govern herself. The great German firm that is known to everyone as "Krupps," and which supplies hal;' the civilized world with what it wants in the way of cannon, is buying a large tract' of land in Holland, with the object of erecting new works there, and also have mad-j investigations in America with a view to i .-tal -'ishing a plant. The naval program of Russia has been finally completed, sanctioned by the Czar and presented to the commission of defense. The plan calls for the expenditure of $r00.000,000 extending over a period of ten years, and besides battleships and cruisers there will be built ilfty destroyers and fifty transports. Most of the ships, it is announced, will be constructed in Ru3sia, but it is probaLle that a few of them will bo built in France, Engiind and America. Vesuvius has suddenly become active again. Several fissures have opened from which gas and lava are flowing in great quantities.

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In the Senate Monday, Mr. Elklns supported the administration railroad bill in an extended speech. A number of minor bills were passed, including one appropriating $3,600,000 to purchase twelve, blocks for an enlargement of the grounds surrounding the capitol. A very quiet and uneventful session was held by the House. By unanimous consent numerous bills of minor Importance were passed and the pension appropriation bill, carrying nearly $156,000,000, was taken up. The House agreed to limit general debate upon the measure to eight hours. Representative Gillette, of Massachusetts, talked on the necessity of economy in government expenditures. Representative Goulden. of. New York, bpposed ship subsidy legislation and Representative Langley, of Kentucky, advocated more liberal pensions. The Senate Tuesday began consideration of a bill providing for a codification of laws relating to the judiciary. Senator Clapp, speaking upon the administration's railroad bill, expressed confidence that it would be materially amended before its final passage. The general debate on the pension appropriation bill continued throughout the day in the House. The bill providing for codification of the laws relating to the judiciary was ' under consideration during almost the entire session of the Senate Wednesday. The raising of the battle ship Maine now submerged in the harbor of Havana, was provided for in a bill passed by the House. Under the provision of this measure the wreck of the Maine can be examined to determine the manner of Its destruction. The remains of the sailor dead that may be found will be Interred In Arlington Cemetery. The House also passed a bill providing a penalty of not more than $1,000 fine or Imprisonment fof not more than two years in the case of any proprietor of a place of amusement In the District of Columbia and territories who may refuse admission to a soldier or sailor of the United States because of his uniform. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, carrying about $34,000.000, was passed by the Senate Thursday. Very few amendments were adopted. Senator Owen spoke in advocacy of his bill for the creation of a new executive department to be devoted to the preservation of the public health. The pension bill carrying appropriations of about $136,000,000 was passed by the House. Nearly the entire session was occupied by a contest, made chiefly by Republicans against the provision of the measure as reported from the committee on pensions, for the abolition of the eighteen pension agencies now in operation throughout the country. By a vote of 76 to 94 the House refused to overrule the recommendations of the committee The committee was sustained chiefly by Democratic votes. The Senate again Friday refused to accede to Senator Elkins' request that a day be fixed for a vote on the administration's railroad bill. A suggestion was made that a month or more might bo required for the debate on that measure. Senator Bailey announced he had received assurances that before adjournment there would be a vote on the statehood bill. The new committee on rules of the House of Representatives, as provided for by the Norris resolution, was elected without debate. The members selected by the Republican and Democratic caucuses were named in a resolution brought in by 'Mr. Currier of New Hampshire. General debate upon the naval appropriation bill was begun. Mr. Bartholdt o? Missouri spoke In favor of arbitration and ursed the adoption of a naval program to include but one battleship annually, which would, he said, be sufficient to maintain the navy. at its present strength. The Senate was not in session Saturday. General debate on the naval appropriation bill in the House gave an opportunity to several members to deliver political speeches. Mr. Kahn of California devoted considerable attention to muckrakers, citing numerous instances in which men honored by their country had been assailed in newspapers and periodicals of the past. Speeches were made also by Mr. Spight (Miss.) and Mr. Hobson (Ala.). ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. Five hundred men in the Busby Chain mines at Wilburton, Okla., struck. They say the operators demanded that they purchase all their black powder and dynamite from the company stores. An amendment granting equal suffrage at all municipal elections and the privilege for women of running for . ffice is the demand by clubwomen of Los Angeles upon the committee in charge of the city charter revision. Robert Mather, chairman of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, authorized a denial of the Pittsburg report tint negotiations are under way for a combination of the Westinghouse and General Electric Companies. An experimental potato farm has been established near Greeley. Colo. On ten acres 100 varieties of potatoes will be planted, including seed from every foreign country where they have been grown with success. The farm will be maintained by State appropriation of $10,000 a year. The famous -Drum Lummon mine and other claims near Helena, Mont., were sold for $i:0.000 by the United States marshal to satisfy a judgment in favor of the St. Louis Mining and Milling Company against the Montana Mining Company, limited, composed of London capitalists. Rev. J. Wesley Hill, of New York, who has been waging a pulpit warfare against Socialism, has been authorized by his congregation to call a national anti-socialistic convention, for the purpose of inaugurating a nation-wida campaign against socialistic doctrines, through the churches. Dr. Hill v. ill take personal charge of the campaign. Prof. W. E. Castle, of Harvard, announced to the Boston Scientific Society that he expects that soon the breeding of the human species can be accomplished along scientific lines a id that characteristics may be determined in advance. Rev. J. A. Sascianelll, D. D., of the Italian Catholic Church of Canton, Ohio, has been appointed by the popo to make an investigation of the Italian situation in the United Stales, with a view to ascertain the extent of blackhand crime among Italians. The report to the pope Is to contain suggestion for the remedy from a religious standpoint.

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Flames in Fish & Cos Building Surround Victims and Hinder the Firemen. YOUNG WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH Heroism of Men in Attempting to Save Girls Trapped on Top Floor in Vain. The lives of twelve men and women were lost in a fire in the L. Fish & Co. furniture store, Chicago. Eleven of. them were burned to death on the sixth floor of the building. They had been trapped on the top floor, nearly 100 feet from the ground, with no possible chance of escape, and the flames roaring so furiously about them that the firemen could not raise ladders to go to their rescue. The twelfth victim, a girl 19 years of age, jumped to escape the flames, but was so badly Injured when she struck a glass awning that she died. Miner. W. Bell, one of the department managers of the company, and H. M. Mitchell, auditor of the firm, and a brother-in-law of Isaac Fish, were burned to death. They gave their lives to save the girls who were trapped by the names. The fire is said to have started from an explosion of an alcohol cigar lighter which was being filled on the 4fh floor of the building. With the exception of that on the intake water tunnel It was the most disastrous since the Iroquois theater horror. It swept upward through the structure with such i rapidity that the men and women In the general offices on the sixth floor had. Tttle chance of escape. There is no fire escape on the front of the building. It was a fire of horror and thrills, marked by tragic death and wonderful escapes. There were forty or fifty employes in the building when the report of the explosion was heard.' The furniture t fed the hungry flames and In an incredibly short time tl:e scorching tongues had burned their way through the fifth floor. Soon fhis section was an inferno like the fourth, and then the fire crept to the sixth, cutting off all escape for the girls and men who were at work in that section. The financial loss is estimated at $250,000. The contents of the building practically were destroyed by fire and water. The bodies were recovered. TO RAISE MAINE HULK. Opportunity May Be Afforded to Study How Vessel Was Destroyed. The National House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for the raising of the hulk of tha ill-fated battle ship Maine, which was sunk in the harbor of Havana in 1S98. If the Senate approves the bill the opportunity will be afforded to recover the bodies of any of the dead sailors that may be within the wreck and also furnish a way for an examination to determine if possible the manner In which the vessel was destroyed. The bodies of sailors that might be recovered would be interred in Arlington Cemetery on the Virginia shore, opposite Washington. The mast of the Maine would be erected In the cemetery near the graves of the Maine dead. As paused by the House the bill was changed In its general terms, so as to authorize the work to be done under the direction of the engineer corps of the army, with the consent of the republic of Cuba. By the insistance of Mr. Sulzer of New York, the bill wa3 worded to require the "raising" as well as the "removal" of the wreck, so that an examination could be made of the hulk to determine the manner of the vessel's destruction. GIVE UP HEREDITARY SEATS. Lords Vote to Accept Principle of Roseberry Resolution. By a vote of 175 to 17 the House of Lords in London renounced the hereditary right to legislate which has been the cardinal element of the British upper house for centuries. The occasion of the fateful division was Lord Rosebery's third resolution dealing with the reform of the house. The house agreed the previous day that reform and reconstitutlon was necessary. The complementary resolution was passed was "that a necessary preliminary to such reform and reconstitutlon is acceptance of the principle that possession of a peerage should no longer of itself give the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." It is significant that fewer than 200 of the G16 members of the house shared in the fateful division. Many of the absentees were reluctant to sanction the extinction of the hereditary principle. Nevertheless, they so far recognized its expediency as not to oppose it. Killed In Rubber riant. George H. Ailing, aged 39, president of a rubber company, was instantly killed at the plant in Barberton, O. While inspecting some electric wiring his clotheä caught in a machine and he was crushed to death. Drinks llnlr Tunic for Wklskyj Dies Unable to obtain liquor in Chase, Rice County, Kan.; Lee Baker, a traveling barber, drank a bottle of hair tonic. He died in a few hours. Standard Oil Agrnt Ivillrd. Joseph L. Roe, agent for the Standard Oil Company in Chanute, Kan., was killed by an unknown person, who crushed his skull with a heavy club. The body was found near his office. There is no clew. llustilnir Cnttle to Pastures. Railroads operating out of San Antonio have orders for 4,200 cars between now and April 10 to handle the greatest vuäh of cattle ever known from that section to Oklahoma pastures. Slight Quake on Coast. A mild earthquake shock was felt In San Francisco shortly before 11 o'clock the other night, i At the Chutes Theater, where an amateur show wa3 going on, there was some alarm and at the Central Telephone office the operators left the switchboards. Later reports indicate that little or no damage wa3 done. Commission Form Adopted. Chamberlain, S. D., adopted the commission form of city government by a majority of 55.

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IAL InAnCIAL CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'g Weekly Review o! Chicago Trade says: "Easter trade in the principal branches of distribution equals sanguine expectations. A high volume of payments through the banks Is sustained and the trading defaults furnish a favorable comparison with previous years". Buying in the leading retall lines rose to new high proportions during the week, and business generally reflects the quickening derived from the advent of spring and the remarkably fine weather which prevails here and throughout the WesL "New building and heavy construction are vigorously advanced, and there are notable additions to workers emplojed at the mills and factories. Activi'7. among the industries and In trunspo; tation now compares satisfactorily with the best previous times, while the improving position draws strength for the future from the wider range of new .Semands for finished products. "Earnings of the Chicago steam roads surpass all former gross records for this season of the year, and threatened difficulties with workers are removed by higher wage concessions. "Offerings of lcommerclal paper have Increased, and the discount rate rose to i-2 per cent for choice names. "Bank clealngs, $2S0,4C3,O77. exceed those of the corresponding week in 1903 by 12.7 per cent and compare with $222,409,514 in 1908. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 24, as against 20 last week. 34 in 1909 and 29 in 190S. Those with liabilities over $3.000 ; number 10, a3 against 2 last week, 9 in 1909 and 12 in 1908." NEW YORK. The week's developments have been generally favorable. Chief among these have been the advent of warm spring weather, which, coupled with the near approach of Easter, has stimulated retail trade at all markets, allowed of expansion In the building trades, the preparation of the ground in the North for planting, the beginning of seeding of grain and cotton at the South and of oats and vegetables in the middle regions of the country. The industrial situation, too, has materially improved in the collapse of the sympathetic strike at Philadelphia, the return to work of many thousands of Idle hands there, and the submitting of the Western railroad men's demands to arbitration. Business failures In the United States for the week ending March 24 were 231, as against 20S last week, 22C In the like week of 1909, 2S6 in 190S, 166 in 1907 and 169 In 1906. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prJme, $4.00 to $S.S5; hogs, prime heavy, $7.00 to $11.00; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $9.30; wheat. No. 2, $1.17 to $1.19; corn, No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, itandard, 43c to 4c; rye, Ne. 2, 78c to 70c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $1S.50; prairie, $8.00 to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 28c to 32c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 2&c to 30c. i Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.09 to $S.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $11.00; sheep, good to choice, 3.00 to $7.00; wheat. No. 2. $1.17 to $1.18; corn, No. 2 white, 61c to 63c; oats. No. 2 white, 43c to 46c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $8.50; hogs. $7.00 to $11.00; sheep, $3.50 to SS.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.20 to $1.23; corn, Xo. 2, 61c to 63c; oats. Xo. 2, 43c to 45c; rye, No. 2. 79c to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs. $7.00 to $11.05; sheep. $3.00 to $G.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.21 to $1.22; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 60c to 62c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, S4c to S6c. Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $7.00 to $10.73; sheep, $3.50 to $7.75;; wheat. No. 2. $1.16 to $1.18; corn. No. yellow. 60c to 61c; oats, standard. 4Cc lo 47c; rye, No. 1, 79c to SOc. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern. $1.14 to $1.17; corn, Xo. 3, 61c to 63c; oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 1, 78c to 80c; barley, standard, 69c to 70c; pork, mess, $26.50. Buffalo Cattle. choice Bhlpping steers, $4.00 to $S.50; hogs, fair to choice, $8.00 to $11.10; sheep, common, to good mixd, $4 00 to $7.40; lambs, fair to choice. $3.00 to $10.70. New York Cattle, ' $4.00 to $S.O0; hogs. $8.00 to $11.75; sheep, $4.00 to $8.00; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.24 to $1.25; corn, No. 2, 63c to 64c; oats, natural, white, 49c to 51c; butter, creamery, 31c to 34c; eggs, western, 19c to 22c. Tole'do Wheat, Xo 2 mixed. $1.17 to $1.18; corn. No. 2 mixed, 61c ta , 62c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 80c; clover seed, $7.10. Three thousand Tnen, representing forty labor organization of Spokane, marched through the downtown streets to the Council chamber to demand that the city raise the wage ecale for city labor to $3 a day. The movement was led by D. C. Coates, former lieutenant p-overnor of Colorado, elected on a Socialist ticket. After f pending'severni hours at Cincinnati In disposing of details incident to the reorganizing of the conference recently broken off at Toledo, the miners and operators of the central competitive field, comprising Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania, appointed committees which are considering the points in Issue between the two factions. Over seventy exhibits were received by the Winona board of trade from farmers, to be sent to St. Paul, and placed on the Winona County table at the Minnesota Conservation and Agricultural Development Congress. The transfer of $10.800,000 In gold bars from the assay office In New York City to the- subtreasury vaults recently attracted a crowd which blocked Wall street.- Clerks carried 1,350 bar, worth $8.000 each, from the assay office to a truck on the sidewalk, while policemen guarded them, and then pushed the truck the short distance to the subtreasury and carried the gold bars in. J. E. Reed, of Eagle Lake, Minn, ha a Mack Minorca hen that laid two eggs, each weighing a quarter of a pound and another weighing one pound, five ounces in three days.