Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 April 1910 — Page 2

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L. Q.5N. M. F. Q.F. M l 2nd fcä'Dth. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the LuUchteument of the Many. Five Ccnvicts Shot Down. Two convicts were killed and tLree others were fatally wounded while attempting escape from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colo. Those killed were John Bradley and Andrew Johnson. The wounded are Harry Brophy, John Miller and W. J. Williams. The br.ttle took place in the corridor of the cell house. The five convicts hai escaped from their cells and were preparing to dynamite their way to the penitentiary yard when they were met b7 Warden Tynan and Lis guards. One of the convicts was armed with a revolver and opened fire while the others fought desperately to overcome the officers, who shot down one after the other. Brophy, who was a trusty, had smuggled in the revolver and is supposed to have planned the escape. Bradley and Johnson were serving terms for murder. Brophy, Williams and Miller were serving terms for burglary. Brophy was to have been pardoned soon. $3,CC0,CC0 Fire Loss in Louisiana. Fanned by a high wind, a fire which broke out at Lake St. Charles, La., shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon swept over twenty or more blocks of the city, destroying several hundred buildings and resulting in a property loss estimated at about $3,000,000. Two thousand persons have been rendered homeless. Many houses in the path of the flames were dynamited, but showers of sparks swept beyond the gaps thus made, igniting the buildings on the farther side. Within a short time the wind had driven the fire over a space two miles in length, leaving a mass of ruins in its wake. While many of the buildings destroyed were merely frame cottages, scores of handsome structures also fell prey to the flames. The city hall, the handsome Calcasiou parish court house, the Clair hotel, churches, stores and warehouses were reduced to bare black walls and smouldering heaps of ashes within two hours after tha fire started. Brewer's Successor is Hughes. President Taft has received from Governor Charles E. Hughes, of Xew York, a letter accepting a tendered appointment as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Five minutes after the letter was handed to the President the nomination of Governor Hughes was on its wayfto the Senate. While it is expected that Governor Hughes will be confirmeeT-wIth little or no delay, it is understood he will remain as the chief executive, of the State of Xew York until next October and will not. take the oath of his new office until the fall term of the Supreme Court opens the second Monday in that month. Stork Brings Four Babies. When the stork visited Mrs. William Rife at Staunton, Pa., It left four' children in the Rife home, but to the distress of the parents one of the little visitors died almost on arrival. The remaining three two boys and a girl are doing well, as is the mother, who is CO years old. The Rife3 have three other children, the oldest 3 years old. Steamer with Eighteen Men Lost. The sealing steamer Boothic, which arrived at St John's, X. F., has brought from the fishing banks a report that the steamer Farora has been sunk. It is feared, according to the report current at the fishing banks, that, her entire crew of eighteen men lost their lives. Loses Part cf Ear in Dodging Bull. Dr. Alfred Heinemann, of Jones Station, Ohio, was attacked by an angry bull in a pasture on hi3 farm near Jones Station. In escaping the bull he plunged through a barbed wire fence. A large part of the physician's right ear was torn off. Erie Men Get Increase. A committee representing the telegraphers on the Erie railroad met at Marion, Ohio and agreed to accept the new scale of wages which have been offered by the road. The scale means an average Increase of six per cent Twenty-Two Young Foxes Captured. Twenty-two young foxes were captured near Lacrosse, Ind., by William Sommers, a farmer, who uncovered them while plowing an old wood lot. The foxes were between five and six weeks old. Dies Far From Home. John V. Good, millionaire manufacturer and chief stockholder in the Deere & Mansur Company at Moline, 111., di6-1 at Bombay, India. Noted French Lawyer Dead. Henri Barboux, the noted lawyer, i3 dead in Paris, France. He was born in 1S34. Three years ago he was elected a member of the French Academy to succeed the late Ferdinand Brunetiere. Champion Cyclist Hurt. Frank Kramer, of Orange, X. J., America's champion cyclist, was painfully injured in the five-mile professional race on the Vailsburg cycle track at Newark, N. J., when, in tryins to avoid a collision, he ran into a fence. Twelve Firemen Overcome. Twelve firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting a fire which destroyed the department store of Geo. B. Davis & Co., in Philadelphia, Pa. The loss f3 estimated at $1CO,000. Boy Dies in the Mud. Louis Rose, a 10-year-old boy of Jersey City, N. J., running valiantly to catch a foul tip in a baseball game, fell headforemost into a shallow pond and stuck in the mud bottom. He was dead when pulled out

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Sow and Cold Affect Wide Section, with Truck Gardens, Orchards and Farms Devastated. CROPS RUINED IN MIDDLE WEST iziltn Eiizzard with Eelow Freezing Temperatures Leaves Destruction in Its Wake. lEOTH GRAIN AND FRUITS SUFFER Cnnllnnnnrr of ltain and Cold, with Gradnal Change, Regarded a Oul- Salvation. Prematurely budding crops of th? middle West have been swept away in the most disastrous and far-reaching stoivn experienced in a generation. The disturbance has wrought more than $30,000,000 damage to fruits and vegetables and has started an upward shoot in the price of fresh foodstuffs that probably will be felt during the entire season. The Michigan fruit belt the backbone of the fruit district is described as almost wholly wiped !ut for the season, while the freezing temperature in Illinois and Iowa not only has killed buds, flowers and fruits, but threatens to ruin oats. In and about Chicago truck gardeners have seen all hopes of early vegetables blasted in a single night. Vegetables and flowers that had promised huge profits and low prices because cf the early spring have been damaged be yond hope. All that can be done is to replant, where this is possible, making the season several weeks ttehind rather than early. But in the end it will be the housekeeper who will feel the effect of the storm. The expected early vegetables and low prices, promised because of the lamblike March, have given place to promises of such high prices for green foodstuffs as have not obtained in years. The story of the storm is told best in the weather bureau reports that showed freezing temperature in practically till of the points that have been touched by the storm. Here are some of the temperatures reported. Chicago 26 above zero Kansas City CO above zero Keokuk 23 above zero Indianapolis 30 above zero Des Moines CO above zero Davenport 26 above zero Galesburg, III. 18 above zero Dubuque, Iowa 23 above zero St. Louis 2S above zero Unionville, Mo. 26 above zero Milwaukee 22 above zero In the central and southern districts of Illinois the temperature fell to a fraction below 23 degrees, with the result that fruit growers announced that they had little hope of any crop at all this season. Paradoxically enough, the only mitigation in the bad news was in the fact that rain and low temperature although not freezing temperatures prevailed throughout the whole Middlo Western section. Had the snowstorm been followed by a bright, warm sun, nothing could have saved fruits and berries cow in blossom from completo ruin. Aa matters stand, while many of the buds will be killed, the cool weather and rain of the next few days may save the others. What effect the damage will have on prices this summer is problematical. The indications up to the day before the storm fell were that the fruit crop would break all records. Fruits, grains and garden truck were from two weeks to a month ahead of their usual tim . The question now is whether enough of the crop will be saved to make the harvest next fall something like normal. Even if the fruit crop of the Middij West were half destroyed, prices cnigat not be seriously affected, for reports from other fruit sections indicate bumper crops. It seems certain, however, that the loss on apple, plum, cherry and peach orchards will be so serious as to make prices for those fruits higher this summer. Grains are reported to hive suffered severely everywhere, the los3 on oats being particularly heavy. In some sections the entire oats crop will have in be resowed. Wherever the first joint was out of the ground the frost killed the growing grain. OHIO MINE EXPLOSION KILLS 18. Disaster Near Steubenville, 0., Entombs 25 Victims In Shaft. Eighteen of a night force of twentyfive machine men employed in the mine of the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company, near Amsterdam, Ohio, are thought to be dead, as a result of an explosion in the mine late the other night. Seven men were taken from the shaft alive, but unconscious. Res cue parties began work a few minutes after the explosion. About 200 men are employed in the mine during the day time. They quit work between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The machine men work nights, preparing the work for the day shift. It Is be lieved that the explosion was caused by cotl gas. MAN KILLED BY EEEF. Trie to fvnlliT Sfrlp Six Inches !. ii ir nnd luch Thick. John S. Boyd, f. Dayton, Ohio, died of stranguiaucc wmie attempting swallow a pi'-" of raw beefsteak s inches long rnd an inch thick. Bo . . 11 ! 1 1 1 . to i yd naa oeen (WinKing cuusiuerauiy iat It is said and it is thought that wA ir vtvallnw th. "2W hppfsfmV ly. h3 to "sober P-" He died before a physician ?Ji was summoned could reach mm. RODS KILL l,O90 IN 3 MONTHS lteport Shon liieren in Hail munllic in Lnnt lOO'j Quarter. A Bulletin issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows that for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1909, there was an iamase in the number c. persons killed on American railroads of 301 and in the number injured of 5,643, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1903. The total number of persons killed was 1,099 and the to tal number injured 22,491.

WOLTER FOUND GUILTY.

Youth Who Killed Fou: teen-Year-Old Stenographer Must Die. Albert Wolter, a 19-year-old youth. was found guilty of murder in the fir?: degree by a jury in the Court of Spe cial Sessions in New York, and by the verdict the contention of th'i State that Wolter on March 24 hut strangled and burned to death 14-year-oM Ruth Wheeler was substantiated. The boy's counsel said with eloquence T.-L- ' k.-.ar-." :rxAJ, tZ;WAVW&- that Wolter was ''!M??.y&A' too tender-hearted to harm a cat, but twelve men decided that he hid strangled Ruth Wheeler, whom he J ALBERT WOLTER. had enticed to his room by a promise of work, and thrust her while yet alive in his fireplace, where, soaked with oil, her crumpled body writhed and burn ed. With the same waxen-faced inauference that he had shown throughout the trial, Wolter evinced no emotion when the verdict was announced. IBs fate will be the eh-ctric chair. The law was quick to deal with th3 youthful degenerate, who was "crazy about women. It was one month ago that Ruth Wheeler left her home, where she lived with her widowed mother and two sisters, to answer a;. advertisement for a position as steno grapher. She never returned, an 1 when her movements were traced i was found she met her death in a struggle to save her honor. Failing dispose of her body in the fireplace, Wolter cut it apart and left the bunt and head wrapped In burlaps on th? fire escape from where it was pushed into the yard below. He was arrested on Saturday, March 26. 97 r1 Raseballs and moth lalls are in season. However, it's a little early yet to pick straw hats. Is the "lamp-shade" hat for the litiht-headed "woman? Pittsburg grafters come in packages the same as stogies. They seem to bv catching a lot of steal men In Pittsburg. The Socialist victory wasn't the first thing that made Milwaukee famous. Ilalley's comet Is helping a lot cf people to learn how to get up early. Astronomers say the comet Is losing some of its coiffure as it speeds along. A New York clerk has just died leaving $2,000,000. lie also left the bank. It seems wicked to spoil perfectly good spring weather by cleaning house: in it. Still, the "exposures" are not llicly to make Andrew Carnegie xroud of hia Pittsburg. Mr. Roosevelt continues his philanthropic work of giving Europe an Interesting time. Indianapolis coal grafters made a mistake in hiring a stenographer with eyes and ears. The Pullman company will not be able to pull a man so much for upper berths hereafter. By getting up as early as it does the comet is helping along the more-day-llght movement. It was time for the Interstate commerce commission to do something about that upper berth. Next thing the country will have to form a Society for Helping Rich Men ta Get Kid of Their Wealth. If all they say about that Kansas City doctor is true he was almost anything else than the ideal family pnyskian. Doubtless the reason the astronomers could not see the comet's tail at first is that the appendage is only 2,000:000 miles long. Jacies J. Jeffries, who had a fine tin on his birthday, hopes tha. th-. nation's natal day will be for hiy as joyous an occasion. It is Iiot, however, by the census enumerators that the hairs upeft our heads are numbered. The beau? parlors take care of such things. According to this year's baseball rules the umpire will be absolute monarch, but he will fall down If he attempts to censor the remarks of the bleacherites.

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ENORMOUS STORM LOSSES IN STATES OF THE MIDDLE WEST Illinois Greatest damage was caused by the blizzard that covered the en-' tire State. Early vegetables on the truck gardens in the northern districts and berry patches, where buds had reached an advanced stage, are reported as total losses. Damage, $G,0G0,000. Iowa Stcrms in Iowa have continued with greater or less vigor for nearly a week, but the frigid atmosphere and snows of the last two days have done the greatest damage. Not only fruits and vegetables, but even the oats crop is threatened. Eaiire damage, $10,000,000. Indiana Apple orchards aud truck gardens that supply Chicago were the greatest sufferers. The damage, which was confined' to the northern and central districts, amounts to $2,000,000. Michigan Fruit belt almost entirely gone for the season. All that remain 3, according to expert growers, is the grape crop, which has been damaged to a great extent. Damage, $4,000,000. Wisconsin It is estimated that o0 per cent of the fruit crop and all of the early vegetable and green stuffs intended for the Chicago market have been killed. Damage, $2,000,000. Kansas Snow and low temperatures have killed the buds and, in many instances, even the leaves on the trees. The corn crop, however, is safe. Damage, $1,000,000. Kentucky All the fruits and vegetables, as well as budding plants and flowers, have been damaged by the cold weather and flurries of snow, largely because of the fact that they had reached an abnormally early developnent. Loss, $1,500,000. Missouri Clouds and favorable con ditions saved much of the fruit Friday night, but the clear weather and continued cold cf last night completed the damage. Estimated losses, $2,000,ooo. Ohio Early fruit, particularly wat ermelon and other vines, have been killed by the snows and freezing weather. Grain has not been hurt. Loss, $000,000. Nebraska Small gardeners and truck farmers were the heaviest losers In the storm that, it is believed now, has not damaged the early wheat. Los, 51.000,000. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Pros renn of the IVnnnut Hacc In name Ilnll League. NATIONAL Li. A CLE. W. L. W. L. Philadelphia .C 1 Cincinnati ...3 3 Pittsburg ...5 1 Boston 2 Ö Chicago 4 2 Drooklyn ....2 5 New York ..4 3 St. Louis ...1 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE. V. L. VS. L. Detroit 5 2 Boston 4 I New York ...3 2 St. Louis ...2 2 Philadelphia .4 Z Washington .3 5 Cleveland ...4 4 Chicago 1 4 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. V. L. W. L. Toledo 6 3 Kansas City .4 2 Columbus ...6 3 Indianapolis .4 C St. Paul 5 S Louisville ....3 7 Minneapolis .6 4 Milwaukee ...1 G WESTERN' LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Omaha 2 1 Des Moines ..1 2 Sioux City ..2 1 Topeka 1 2 Denver 2 1 Lincoln 1 2 St. Joseph ..2 1 Wichita 1 2 Valuable Land Withdrawn. Secretary Ballinger of the Department of the Interior has withdrawn from entry approximately 13,500,000 acres of coal lands in Southeastern Montana, believed to contain valuable deposits, pending examination and classification as to their values. 1 0,000,000 Dae from cv Tmx. Corporation tax assessments up to date amount to $15,0."2,156. Only $132,017 has been paid into the treasury on account of the tax. Corporations have until June 30 to pay up. Ulovr Out lini and. Die. Theorore Boehmer and Ernest Schraage, of Hamburg, Mo., who camo to St. Louis to buy live stock, were asphyxiated In a room where Cey wert to sleep. They blew out the as. Eddie Fay" Given Ten Ycr. Pleading guilty to the robbefjr o! the Richmond, Va., postoffice or- tho uight of March 17. when SS.I.OOC was J taken, Eddie Fay and "Little Dick" s Harris wpre spntpncpH tn ton vears in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined SCODO each. ,

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U. S. Convicts Flee the Prison at Leavenworth. Five train robbers, serving life sentences, escaped from the federal pr'son near Leavenworth, Kan., early the other day. Within a short time two were recaptured. At 11 o'clock the three others were surrounded in the brush within a short distance of the prison and it was believed all would be taken. The men recaptured were Bob Clark, sent up from Tyler, Texas, and John Gideon, of Moscow. The three others were Thomas A. Kating, from Allen, Okla.; Arthur Hewett, from Caddo, Okla., and Frank Grigware, one of the cnen who held up a Union Pacific mail near Omaha last fall. The break for liberty wa3 made about 8 o'clock, and was the result of a clever plot on the part of the convicts. Its execution was most daring. Two men were at work in the carpenter shop and the others were in the tailor shop. A Union Pacific switch engine had backed into the prison yard, and at the sound of the whistle tha men dashed Into the yard and made for the engine. Leveling dummy guns at the engineer they climbed into the cab ant compelled him to reverse his engine. The engine, with f ia convlct3 aboard, rushed through the west gate into the open country and soon was speeding toward the woods. When the escape became known a few minutes later the siren whistle at the prison was sounded as a warning to farmers to be on the lookout. The whistle can be heard for miles and its sound caused consternation. At the time heavily armed guardä were thrown around the gates to prevent any further attempt to escape, while others started in pursuit. When the engins had reached a point half a miio from the prison the five men jumped to the ground and made for the woods. Clark and Gideon separated from the others and soon were captured. Then every available guard, led by Deputy Lemon, started after the other three men. Half a mile farther on they were surrounded in the woods. IK'-i-H" Prince Joachim, the youngest son ol the Kaiser, following the example of his brother Adalbert, will enter the navy as soon as his studies are completed. Admiral Montecuccoli of the Austrian navy, with his staff of experts, has completed the plans for the new naval base at Sebenico, on the Dalmatian roast. The administrators of the Carnegie hero fund have decided to make awards to the widows of three soldiers who lost their lives in rescue work at tha recent floods in Paris. The Russo-Finnish bill giving thi duma authority over Finland has been introduced In the duma. After debate the measure was referred to a committee of twenty-one members. A thousand weddings in one city V one day should come near breaking the record, yet the reports show that there was slightly in excess of this numbei in Vienna on the Sunday before Lent. The prolonged negotiations over the new wage agreement between the Soutb Wales coal owners and miners have been broken oft and a strike of 200,000 miners is regarded as inevitable soon. This strike will affect altogether 1,000,000 workers, including railway and dock employes and others dependent upon the collieries. Dr. Sebastian Albrecht, who was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in the class of 1900, and for some years has been connected wilh the staff of Lick O'.servatory, bi'.s r'.cer.tly Letn appointed .'irst astronomer in the National Observatory of tbe Argentine republic. The government engineer of Canada has informed the house committee :it Ottawa 'hat, in order to hold tho grain tra le, sooner or later Canada will have to build a canal from Edmonton to Lake Superior. Parisiar.s derive great satisfaction from the fact that the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences hat awarded M. Lepine, the prefect of police, Its Grand Prix, valued at C00. fn recognition of his splendid work dump; the days of the great flood, "honoring in him all those who, placed under his orders, have co-operated with the same devotion In the relief work which he has so splendidly directed."

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The Week in Congress

Discussion of the rivers and harbors bill occupied the Senate during most of the session Monday. The House considered many measures cf local importance in various sections of the country. It also passed the McCall campaign publicity bill and a. bill regulating sealing on the Pribiloff Islands, Alaska. The rivers and harbors bill carrying appropriations of $j2. 000,000 was passed by the Senate Tuesday. In the House the entire session was .taken up by a discussion of the railroad bill. Toward the dose of the session there was so little demand for time to discuss the measure that a plan previously made for a night session was abandoned. The administration railroad bill and the resolution authorizing the expenditure of $G5,000 for an extension of the Senate's inquiry into the cost of living occupied the attention of the Senate Wednesday, but no action was taken on either measure. Senator Purcell spoke at length in opposition to the railroad bill, declaring that it was the purpose of the administration to so change the personnel of the Supreme Court of the United States so as to reverse former decisions on the rights of States to control questions Involving railroad legislation. A bill authorizing the President to make withdrawals of public lands for purposes of conservation was passed by the House. The entire session was devoted to the consideration of this measure, which, it was stated, met the aproval of the President. The Lodge resolution to appropriate IGÖ.OOO for the expenses of the cost of living inquiry was under consideration in the Senate, Thursday, but no action was taken. The traffic agreement vt the railroad bill was under consideration nearly all day. Representative Fowler, of Xew Jersey, introduced a resolution in the House designed to take away from the speaker the power to name all committees. For a tinio everybody tfcght the recent insurrection against Cannonism was to be renewed and the excitement continued until Mr. fowler announced that he did not intend to press the resolution until May 2. It was sent to the new committee on rules. A resolution was passed which calls on the Attorney General for information regarding the trial of Antonio I. Villareal, R. Fiores Magon and Liberado Rivera, now H prison at Florence, Ariz., having been convicted of violating the neutrality laws between the United States and Mexico. Mr. Russell of Texas made a speech in favor of the railroad bill. The House held a night session on th8 railroad bill. The traffic agreement provision of tie railroad bill was under considera t on in the Senate Friday. Senator Crawford took occasion to eulogize former President Roosevelt as the foremost figure in the United States. In the House the railroad bill was ur-der consideration. Upon the conclusion of the general debate upon th3 measure Mr. Mann of Illinois announced that next Tuesday the reading of the bill for'amenclments under the five-minute rules would begin. It the Senate Saturday Mr. Borah spoke in opposition to the ElkinsCrawford traffic agreement provision of the railroad bill. Senators Hughe3 and Xewlands opposed the Lodge resolution for an increased appropriation to continue the work of inquiring into the high prices of living. A large number of bills carrying pensions and private claims were passed by the House. The House met Sunday to hear eulogies on the late Senator Johnson of North Dakota. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. The hardware store of Evans Drothers in Newton, Kan., was burned. Loss $50,000. Mrs. Isabel Hampton Robb, wife of Dr. Hunter Robb, a noted gynecologist, was crushed to death between two street cars at Cleveland. P.y a majority of 930 the voters of Lincoln, Neb., voted at a referendum election to continue ?he dry policy. Last yenr the majority was 2ff2. The Hotel Carnegie, at Johnson City, Tenn.. built at a eost of $90,000. was destroyed by (Ire. Loss, including Jurniture, $120,000; insurance, f 4S.000. The striking girl employes of the East Liverpool, Ohio, potteries have resumed work, accepting the wage increases offered by the manufacturers. Fire destroyed the building in Montreal, Quebec, occupied by J. H. Waldman & Co., manufacturers of cloaks and suits. Loss $100,000; insurance about $S0,000. President Henry C. King, of Oberlin College, was elected president of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society at the annual meeting held in Boston. In three minutes' time a cyclonic wind came and went, leaving in Its wake to the southwest of Youngstown, Ohio, a score of injured people, ten demolished houses and a hundred partially wrecked. The less is upwards if $100,000. After hearing 5,000,000 words of testimony in perhaps the longest trial ever held in the country. Probate Judge Lawton, at Cambridge, Mass., closed the hearing of "Fresno Dan," who says he Is the long lost son of Daniel Russell, and who claims half of the $750,000 estate. A mob composed entirely of negroes overpowered Constable Mallory, of Keo, Ark., four miles north of that city, seized his two prisoners, both negroes, one a woman, and shot them to death, after which their bodies were strung up. Approximately 700,000 acres of land In Ciouteau County, Montana, will be thrown open for homestead entry, on May 18, according to advices received by the Great Northern Railway Company. Settlers may select and go on their bind on or after April IS, howover, ana can make their Illings at the United States land o!Hee at CJre-.it Falls, Mont. Breaking the world's record for speed made by a naval versed, the torpedo boat destroyer Reld, Lieutenant Doddridge in command, attained a speed of thirty-six miles an hour and held it through a four-hour speed test in the Gulf of Mexico. New York, according to the present plans, some of which are already under way, is to be put in order for the accommodation of the 10,000,000 inhabitants expected by the year 1923, and fco colossal are Improvements contemplated that it may be more than fifteen years before the $1,000,000,000 which they will cost !s expended and the work complsted.

MARK TWAIN IS DEAD OF A BROKEN HEART America's Famous Humorist, Saddened by Loss of Daughter and Friends, Gives Up Fight. HIS ENDING IS WITHOUT PAIN Sad Event Occurs at His Home Near Redding, Conn. Angina Pectoris the Cause. Mark Twain, beloved the world over because he made it laugh, is dead. He passed away without pain at 6:22 o'clock Thursday evening in his country home, -Stormfield." back in the wild Camarack Hills, from Redding, Conn. For five hours he had been unconscious and the end was almost unnotlceable. It was simply a cessation of pulse and respiration. At his bedside were his only living child, Clara, who Is the wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist; Albert Bigelow Paine, his secretary and literary executor, who was almost a son to him; Drs. Edward Quintard and Robert Halsey, the heart specialists, who had kept him alive by stimulants for nearly twenty-four hours, and hi3 servants. headed by "Old Katie," who for thirty years has been his housekeeper. CLKMEXS. headed by "Old Katie," who for thirty years has been his housekeeper. Angina pectorlc, the doctors have it, ended the life which every one who had ever known Samual Langhorna Clemens hoped might be spared longer. That malady was coupled to some extent with asthma of the heart, brought about by excessive smoking. But what laymen call a broken heart was more responsible than the world in general knew. When his chum, Henry H. Rogers, died last year, those close to Mr. Twain saw that his grief was intense, The odd companionship humorist and multimillionaire was a nearer and dearer thing than any save they alone realized. When his only unmarried daughter, Jean, was drowned in her bath during an attack of epilepsy just before Christmas his nearest remaining tie was severed. He was a lone, sorrow-stricken man. After the passing of his friends Williaai Laffan of the Sun and Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century he said sadly: "How fortunate they are! No good fortune of that kind somes to me!" Samuel Langhorne Clemens, America's foremost humorist and known the world over as Mark Twain, was born in the little town of Hannibal, Mo., on November 30, 1835. Early in life he worked in the printing office of hls older brother and learned the trade as a compositor. For a time he was a pilot upon Mississippi River steamboats. But he drifted back into newspaper work and made a modest success as correspondent for various papers In Nevada and California. He published his first book. "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," in March, 1S67. Two years later a series of letters he had written as a correspondent were collected and published under the title, "The Innocents Abroad." The book had a record sale and his fame as a humorous writer was secure. Other books appearing later were "Roughing It," "The Gilded Age," "Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn," "The Prince and the Pauper," and "Pudd'nhead Wilsoa." His financial ability, however, was none of the best and in 1894 his entire fortune was swept away by the failure of the publishing house. Mr. Clemens was abroad at the time, and although sixty years of age he started out on a tour of the globe, delivering lectures and writing articles In order to pay the debts of the defunct firm which he was successful in doing. ENTOMBED IN A MINE. Men Imprisoned by Explosion, at Mulga, Ala., All Dead. Forty men were entombed in the Mulga mine of the Birmingham Railway Coal and Iron Company at Mulga, Ala., by an explosion at 9 o'clock the other night and it is believed that all are dead. Fifteen white men and twenty-five negro laborers are in the mine. The foreman, who is entombed with the others, has the only list of thoso working at the time. When th'j first crew of rescuers reached the bottom of the shaft the following morning the bodies of two miners were found. On returning to the surface the rescuers expressed the opinion ;hat all the aien were dead. After the explosion flames shot up the shaft for about 400 feet and the ground is covered with charred timbers, which are blown up from the boltom of a 350-fcot shaft by the force of the blast. Every window in the village was broken.Plttaburic Uankrr Found Dead. John Cameron Stevenson, agyd SO years, president of the Manufact urers' Bank, a South Side institution, was found dead in bed in Pittsburg by a member of his family. It is thought heart trouble, superinduced by acute indigestion, caused the banker's death. ' Storm IV reck Ilallooiij Four Die. The balloon "Delitzsch," which ascended at Bitterfield, Prussian Saxony, fell to the earth with great force near the village of Reichensachsen, about twenty miles northwest of Eisenach, in a thunderstorm. The crew, consisting of four men, were killed. Match Factory Explosion Kill 11, A boiler exploded in a match factory at Szegedin, Hungary, killing ten girls and one man. Eighteen other girls were dangerously injured.

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Kr-ys y.'-tiLbrt .-r-,M.?vV -L-i INC AI CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of Chicago trade says: "While an excellent exhibit appears in both aggregate payments through the banks and trading defaults, the business situation presents some ir-regularit)-, mainly due to weather uncertainties and labor disputes. The matter of costs also suggests more serious thought as to future undertakings. Further weakening in prices of raw supplies affects some interests and large consumers apparently await more favorable buying terms. Continued low temperatures have adversely affected leading retail lines and outdoor activity, but transportation has suffered" little hindrance and freight movements have remained exceptionally heavy in factory outputs, general merchandise, farm needs, lumber, hides and grain. ' "Interior advices indicate that mer-. chants have done well thus far in seasonable goods. Reduction of light weight apparel and fashionable wear is in part delayed by the cold and wet conditions, but local sales have been of fair volume. The attendance of buyers has been equal to expectations in the wholesale district and reordering for broken lines and fall needs have been the features. Forwardings remain fairly large in lextiles, millinery, lootwear, clothing, suits and house needs. Dealings have Been seasonably active in food products r.nd sporting goods. rB2nk clearings, S292.649.0S4, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1909 by 11.1 per cent, and compare with $222,GS4.009 in 190S. Failures reported in the Chicago district number only 15, as against 27 last week, 32 in 1909 and 34 in 190S. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number 4, as against 10 last week, 8 in 1909 and 10 in 190S." NEW YORK. Weather conditions and the unsettled outlook for prices of many commoditiesare the causes assigned for the quieter tone of trade in many lines. Retail business and, to a certain extent, reorder demand from jobbers, was affected by the return early in the week of wintry weather. These influences were, however, largely temporary, and they were largely offset by the decided benefit to the crop outlook generally by the breaking of the drought. Collections are about fair. Business failures In the United States for the week ending with April 21 were 193, as against 207 last week, 247 in the like week of 1909, 234 in 1908, 137 in 1907 and 177 in 196. Business failures rn Canada for the week number 15, which compares with 27 last week and 36 In the corresponding week of 1909. Biadstreefs. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, 54.00 to $8.30; hogs, prime heavy, $7.00 to $9.23; sheep, fair to choice, $4.00 to $S.10; wheat. No. 2, $1.07 to $1.09; corn. No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, standard, 40c to 42c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78c; hay, timothy, $10.00 to $1S.00; prairie. $S.OO to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 13c to 23c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to S8.25; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $9.33; sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $6.30; whe3t. No. 2. $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2 white, 3Sc to 60c;' oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $S.C0; hogs, $7.00 to $9.23; sheep, $4.30 to $8.15; wheat. No. 2, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. No. 2, 60c to 61c; oats. No. 2, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 2, 7Cc to 77c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $7.75; hogs, $7.00 to $3.13; sheep, $3.00 to ' $6.63; wheat. No. 2, $1.07 to $1.10; corn. No. 2 mixed, SSc to 60c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; rye, Xo. 2, 82c to 84c. Detroit-Cattle. $4.00 to $7.09; hegs, $7.00 to $10.83; sheep, $3.i0 to JS.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No. 3 yellow, 5Sc to GOc;' cats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 1, 79c to SOc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.06 to $1.07; corn. No. 3. 39c to 60c; oats, standard, 42c to 43c; rye. No. 1, 7Sc to SOc; barley, standard, 6Cc to 67c; pork, iess $21.30. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.63; hogs, fair to choice, $7.00 to $9.60; sheep, common, to good mixed, $4.00 to $7.40; lambs, fair to choice, $C.O0 to $10.23. New York-rCattle, $4.00 to $9.00; hogs, $7 JO to $9.83; sheep. $4.00 to $7.30; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.12 to $1.13; corn, No. 2, 61c to 62c; oats, natural, white, 43c to 4Sc; butler, creamery, 20c to 31c; eggs, western, 19c to 23c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixe.!. $1.03 to $1.06; cor, No. 2 mixed. 56c to 57c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 4"Cc to 44c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 79c; clover seed, $7.25. The season's crop of small fruit around Boise, Idaho, and in Fatlte Valley is reported to have been heavily damaged by frost. Three former Pittsburg councilmen Jhn Casserly, Isaac Libson and John Hogrue confessed their guilt vt taking bribes. Suspecting that certain bills are "railroaded" through the New York LeKislature a little band of "Insurgents," led by Lindon Bates, Jr., who has invented a mechanical device, are keeping count on the votes on the various measures as they are taken. Fire which started from some unknown cause in i. store in North Pownal, VL, destroyed three buildinps, causing a loss of about $75,000. The Congregational Church, in which President James A. Garfield taught Fchool while a student" at Williams College, was destroyed. Municipal elections were hell throughout Montana the other day. In Helena the Democrats elected four ani the Republicans three aldermen, with F. J. Edwards, Republican Independent, leading by less than thirty votes for mayor. Members of the Millers National Federation In convention at Chicago adopted resolutions urging federal courts which have the matter under, rnnslderation to clve an early decision - - - on the question of bleaching flour, that" millers may determine the character of their early output

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