Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 May 1910 — Page 2

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c F. Q.OF. M 15th. 2nd. Olth. PAST AND rEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Dastardly Deed Done in Reverse. Mrs. Yetta Friedman, 76 years old. was killed by an explosion of what is believed to have been dynamite in the range of her home at 712 South Randolph street. Philadelphia, Pa. Several other persons wtre injured and the house was badly damaged. It is believed that the explosive was placed in the fuel by enemies. The police believe the explosive was placed in kindling wood by an Italian who. with his family, formerly rented rooms from the Friedmans, who conducted a rooming house. The Italian family left the house about a week ago after a quarrel. Restored to Legal Life. Franklin Allen Smith, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.. previously pronounced legally dead by the Probate Court of Central Berkshire, was restored to legal life by that tribunal, and declared entitled to receive a bequest of $2,600 from the estate of his father, Hiram A. Smith, late of Williamstown, Mass. Frederick A. Smith, of Pittsfield, a brother of the legally resurrected man, and who was administrator of the estate, appeared in court and admitted the Identity of Franklin Allen Smith. Franklin Allen Smith left his former home in Williamstown nearly thirty years ago, and nothing had been heard from him until within a few weeks, when he appeared in Pittsfield and laid clrIm to his share in his father's estate. Peary in London to Get Medal. Commander Robert E. Peary has gone to London, Eng., to receive the gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society and to deliver his lecture on his trip to the north pole. The explorer expects to be in Europe several weeks. With the commander are Mrs. Peary and Captain Robert Bartlett, of the Arctic steamer RoosevelL The party was met by Major Leonard Darwin, the president, and Secretary Keltie, of the Royal Geographical Society; Commander Edward Simpson. American naval attache at London, and a committee of the Pilgrim's Society. Indiana Horse Thief is Arrested. Ernest Alyea, alleged horse thief, said by the police to have operated in small towns in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois, was Identified in Chicago as the man who shot Chief of Police Owen O'Hara, of Kenosha, Wis., July 4 last. Alyea denies he sht O'Hara and declares he is not a thief. Alyea was taken to Lafirte County, Indiana, to answer to a cha. ft 3 of horse stealing. If not convicted, it is said, he will be turned over to the prison authorities to face the charge of shooting O'Hara. Ancient Enemies III in St. Louis. J. W. VanCleave, president of the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis and former president of the National Manufacturers' Association and the Citizens Industrial Association, 13 critically ill with heart trouble. By a coincidence, Samue' Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, facing a prison sentence as a suit of an attack on Van Oeave's company, is also ill in St. Louis. He has been unable to leave his bed because of a severe attack of neuralgia. Young Chickens Roasted. The eight-room residence of William Elliston. a dairyman living outside the city limits of Bedford, Ind., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of several thousand dollars. In the upstairs rooms he had a number of incubators. Nearly one thousand young chickens had been hatched and the machines were filled with eggs of fine stock. The chicks and eggs were roasted. The lire originated from a lamp in one of the Incubators. Mad Elephant Kills a Trainer. One circus employe was killed and another fatally injured as the result of an outbreak of an elephant at Marietta, Ohio. Samuel Montgomery, an animal trainer, was trampled by an Infuriated beast and fatally hurt. Wm. Evans took refuge on the top of a wagon but fell from it during the excitement, suffering a crushed skull. He died a few mini. tea later. Both men were residents of Louisville, Ky. Lumber Yards Destroyed. Advices from Sandpoint, Ida., state that a fire has destroyed the lumber yard of the HumbirJ Lumber Company, containing over fifty million feet of lumber. The loss Is $300,000. Three Die in Hotel Fire. Three persons were burned to death and several injured in a f.re at Cronwall, Ontario. The Rossmbre batet and a number of stores were destroyed. Less, $250,000. Death of Cincinnati Banker . Charles II. Kellogg, for years president of the Third National Bank of Cincinnat!,-Ohio. died at his home in that city. He was sixty-five years old. Keilosg was prominent in financial circles for a number of years. African Tribes in Revolt. There is a serious uprising of natives in Nyassa, Portuguese East Africa. King Muria, at tho head of numerous tribes, has massacred the people, pillaged and burned the settlement and destroyed Empogua. Aeroplane Kovered Over Warships. The fleet of British warships anchored oft Shoernes3 had a novel experience recently when an aeroplane from the Aero Club aviation grounds at East Church suddenly appeared out of the haze and maneuvered over the Tessel3 at varying hights. Negro Cabinet Member Dead. Martin Morua Delgado recently appointed Secretary of Agriculture and the first negro to hold a cabinet position in Cuba, died suddenly of Bright's disease.

SCHOOL HOD UP TO HIGH COURT.

Supreme Justices Take Case of Teacuer Who Flogged Boy. Is the "tune of the hickory stick' to be given the moral support of the Supremo Court of the United States? That is a question it will be called upon to decide between now and vacation days. If the court gives its approval to this method of discipline, Annie Kelley, an Illinois teacher, will escape from a school squabble with no greater punishment than having been dedared a bankrupt. If the court puts its foot down on corporal punishment she probably will have to go to jail for flogging a pupil. In 1906 Miss Kelley was teaching in the primary department of the public schools of Tolono, Champaign County, 111. According to a brief Mis3 Kelley has just filed in the Supreme Court, Michael Burke, 11 years old, wa3 not as good as he could be. In the presence of the school on Dec. 6, 1906, so Miss Kelley tells the court, he "committed a breach of proper decorum by using vulgar and profane language at and toward your petitioner and jerking her upon the floor and striking and kicking her." After the principal had ordered her to chastise Michael, sha flogged him with a pointer. When the Burkes brought a suit for damages against her, alleging trespass and other things, the State courts returned a judgment against Miss Kelley. After the judgment Miss Kelley was declared a bankrupt. On the ground that the national bankrupt law does not discharge a person from payment of a debt incurred through the committing of ''willful and malicious injuries to the person or property of another," Miss Kelley was arrested under an Illinois statute for failure to satisfy the judgment. She went into the federal courts for her discharge. The district court of the United States for the Eastern District of Illinois found that the debt wa3 not Incurred through willful and malicious injuries. The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the judgment. Miss Kelley now has asked the Supreme Court to review her cafe. WESTON SETS NEW RECORD. 72-Year-Old Tedestrian Finishes Transcontinental Walk. Edward Payson Weston's recordbreaking walk across the continent is at an end. At 8:33 o'clock the other morning he set foot on Manhattan island, crossing King's bridge over the Spuytendyvil creek. Cheered by thousands of persons and followed by a constantly increasing crowd, he walked down Broadway on the last few miles of his journey to the City Hall. The feat which Edward Payson Weston thus brought to a happy conclusion is unique in the annals of sport. The original program called for the roverIng of the distance from the Pacific to the Atlantic approximately 3,4S0 miles In ninety walking days. In the LDWAKD P. WESTON. face of rain3 and storms, in defiance of heat and cold, undeterred by numerous minor accidents, and, in the last stages of the journey, trudging along in spite of a sprained ankle, the heroic old man has made it in 6eventy-seven days. Glorious as is this accomplishment from the point of view of sport pure and simple, it resumes the character of greatness when it is considered that Weston is 72 years old, and second, that no tempting monetary prize was held out as a reward for his feat. The transcontinental walk was made by the aged philosopher and athlete as an object lesson to the youth of America of the beneficial results to be attained through walking. GIRL IS A FIREBUG. Anna Foy Says She Is Seized with Desire to Barn Something:. An abnormal twist in the psychological processes of Anna Foy, a pretty 16-year-old girl, is indicated by a confession to the police in Newport, R. I., that she is a fire bug. The girl, who was employed as a maid in the home of George W. Ritchie, told the police she wa3 subject to violent nervous attacks, during which she felt she must set something afire, so she set fire to the Ritchie house. In each case she applied the match In broad daylight and helped to fight the blaze after an alarm had been given. IS Cents a Dar for Postmaster. A job paying 18 cents a day "is offered by the United States government to anyone who wishes to become postmaster at Wheatfleld, Pa. To permit the applicants to show their competency, the Civil Service Commission will hold an examination. Theater Lobby Collapses. Fifteen persons were injured, one of them so severely that it is believed he will die, in the collapse of a concrete and tile floor newly laid before the entrance to a New York east side moving picture theater. Christiao Science Leader Suicide, Miss Marion Stephens, for many year3 leader in the Christian Science Church in New York, committed suicide Monday by inhaling gas. She testified against Mrs. Stetson when the latter was deposed. Girl Ends Her Life. Obtaining a key to a man friend's room in Spokane, Wash., Rosie Baumberger, 24 years old. of Lind, Iowa, entered the apartment and committed suicide by shooting herself through the bead. Fire In Ills Ilrewery. Fire of unknown origin .caused a loss estimated at $530,000 in the ilant of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association in St. Louis, and, for a time, threatened the entire establishnu nt with destruction. Five hundred thousand bottles of beer were destroyed. Iluth IJrrnn to Wed A ten In. The betrothal is announced of Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of William J. Bryan, and Lieut. Reginald Altham Owen of the Royal Engineers, who is now stationed in Jamaica.

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FRIENDS OF MISSIONS III GREAT GäTIUG

Notable Men of Nation and World Attend Convention in Chicago. AN EVENT OF HIGHEST IMPORT Every Protestant Church Is Represented in Step Toward Christian Unity. Representing every Protestant denomination in the United States, 3,500 business men, foreign missionaries and men of national and world-wide note gathered in Chicago for the men's national missionary congress, one of the greatest religious events of recent years. It was the climax of the national campaign of the laymen's missionary movement, in which conventions have been held in seventyfive cities. The event which opened at 3 p. m. Tuesday in the Auditorium was the first gathering in the hisjery of the country of representatives of all the Protestant churches. It is regarded as one of the greatest steps ever taken toward church unity. The accredited delegates were from every State in Ihe Union except Nevada, They discussed America's religious responsibility to the rest of the world and were to adopt a missionary policy for the entire country. The needs of the heathen were discussed by such men as Lord William Cecil, brother of the Earl of Salisbury; Prince T. II. Yun, of Korea, and the leaders among foreign missionaries. In attendance were former Vice President Fairbanks, Governor Hadley of Missouri, former Governor Folk of that State, former Governor Hanly of Indiana and many United States Senators. One of the achievements planned, as recommended by the local co-operating committee, is to increase the offerings of the churches in Chicago to foreign missions from $160,000, the amount given last year, to a quarter million dollars. America's religious responsibility to the Orient was the subject at Sunday's session of the Chicago convention in Orchestra Hall. Rev. Arthur M. Sherman, a missionary to China, declared that the awakening of the Orient to the influence of Western civilization and the consequent inrush of American vice and morals placed the responsibility for China's moral future upon the American people. Missionary W. N. Blair declared that 1,000,000 souls was the goal set for the results this year In the present revival in Korea. Attorney Mornay Williams, chairman of the New York State Board of Charities and Correction, declared that America, with all her money and power, must be judged for the outcome in China and Korea. Sunday evening fifty of the delegates to the national congress preached in churches in Chicago and the vicinity. Rear Admiral Proctor, U. S. N., retired, addressed ?i large audience in the Christ Episeupal Church on the needs of foreign missions. MOUNTED MEN BOB STORES. Robbers Haid Three Places In Sparta, Wis., and (iet Much Booty, Mounted bandits raided Sparta, Wis., early the other day, blew open two safes and robbed a third store. They escaped with a large amount of booty before the townsman could organize for an attack. A heavily armed posse was soon formed, however, and started n pursuit. Hoof prhits show that .there were three riders in the raid. They tied their horses in the rear of one cf the stores they looted. The victims:. J. D. Lumber Company, safe blown and money and papers taken; Davis Bros., grocery store, safe blown: small amount of money and groceries taken; Morse & Dan man, hardware store; attempt to blow safe with nitroglycerin failed. From the methods used by the men it is believed the robberies were committed by the same bandits who robbed the Brittingham & Hinson Lumber Company's safe a week before. Macelester College, is beneficiary to the extent of $2,500 by the will of the late Amanda II. Moss of St. Paul. Courses In agriculture and domestic science will be given in the summor school of the University of Wisconsin this year for the first time. Jesse H. Ames, of Shiocton, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1907, is now professor of history in the River Falls Normal. The corner-stone of Carnegie Science hall at Macalester College was laid recently. Prof. D. N. Kingery officiating. An extended program was given. Prof. Moses Cobb Stevens, of Lafayette, Ind., aged 84, the oldest member of Purdue University faculty, and one of the best known educators and mathematicians in the Middle West, died recently at Tallapoosa, Ga. One of the most highly prized scholarship honors at Columbia University has been awarded this year to a negro student. George W. Scott, 1911, a Southern negro, is the winner of one of the two Curtis medals for oratory. Miss Ethel M. Arnold, a sister of Prof. Matthew Arnold, of Rugby, and of Mrs. Humphry Ward, lectured recently at Madison on "The Economic Position of Women." Following the lecture she was granted permission to smoke a cigarette in Chadbourne hall's guest room. Hazel Ford Brown, of Luvern, Minn., and Marguerite Record of Minneapolis, were named by the president of the sophomore class to carry the daisy chains on commencement day at Wellesley in June. In accnrdiince with college history the honor of weaiing the daisy chain is bestowed upor. vho prettiest girl in the class. The University of Wisconsin Live Stock Club was formed by students In the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin' by a consolidation of the Holstein, Shorthorn and Guernsey clubs previously conducted. The seventy-fourth convocation of the University of Chicago was held In Chicago, 111., recently and degrees were awarded to ninety-five students. The Minnesota graduates were: Joy k. Franklin, associate in literature, Austin; Otto E. ivterson, master of philosophy, Litchfield; Lillian H. Luehrs, bachelor of philosophy, and Opal E. Luehrs, bachelor of arts, both of Worthlngton. Minn.

PEACE TEMPLE DEDICATES.

President Taft and Cabinet Attend Ceremonies in Washington. The beautiful new home of the In ternational Bureau of the American Republics in Washington, called by Mr. Carnegie a temple of peace, was the other day formally dedicated in the presence of a distinguished company The international character of the dedication was proved by the presence of President Taft, the Secretary of State, the Mexican Ambassador, Cardinal Giobons, Senator Elihu Root, Andrew Car negie, Bishop Harding, Director John Barrett of the bureau of American re publics, members of the diplomatic corps, of the Supreme Court and the cabinet, as well as Senators and Rep resentatives and high army and naval officers. The ceremonies were initiated by an invocation by Cardinal Gibbons, who was followed by Secretary Knox, who delivered the formal opening address Senator Root delivered an address. which was responded to by Senor Don Francisco Leon de la Barra, the Mexi can ambassador. Mr. Carnegie deliv ered a characteristic address. There were readings of cable messages from the presidents of the Latin American republics, congratulating Mr. Carnegie and the bureau of American republics upon the completion of the great work and then President Taft spoke at length. Just preceding the benediction by Bishop Harding, which concluded the afternoon exe'.cises, occurred a unique feature of the program when President Taft and Mr. Carnegie jointly planted a "peace tree" in the patio, or court yard. The new home of the bureau cost $1,000,000, of which Mr. Carnegie contributed $700,000 and the twenty one American republics the remainder. BRIBERY CHARGE IN ILLINOIS. Legislator Says Senatorial Deadlock Was Eroken by Vote-Buying. An amazing story alleging bribery and corruption in the election of William Lorimer as United States Senator from Illinois was unfolded to State's Attorney Wayman in Chicago the other day by Representative Charles A. White of St. Clair County, who made a confession to the public prosecutor that he received $1,000 fcr his vote. Charges that the breaking of the celebrated deadlock was accomplished by the wholesale buying of votes at prices ranging from $1,000 to $2,000, were accompanied oy further allegations from White tTiat he had participated to the extent of $900 in the splitting up of the "jack pot," a term Le used to designate a "slush fund" alleged to have been collected for the defeat or passage of legislation. The disclosures, which shook State politics to its foundation, were followed by immediate steps on the part of the authorities to start investigations. Senator Lorimer makes emphatic denial of the White charges, and says no votes were purchased. Minority Leader Lee O'Neil Browne asserts that White's story originated as a blackmailing scheme. ' Representative Robert E. Wilson, who is said to be the person who paid to White the money for his vote, says White's charges are false and denies knowledge of a "jack pot" or "slush fund." Ilriyn Twenty-one Grain levators. The Shellabarger Mill and Elevator Company of Salina, Kan., announced the purchase of twenty-one elevators from the Peavy Grain and Elevator Company of Minneapolis and the Midland Company of Kansas. The latter concern is a branch of the Peavy Company. This gives the Shellabarger Company thirty-four elevators in Kantas. III Four's Head to Itetire. At the conclusion of the next meeting of the board of directors of the Big Four RailroaJ M. E. Ingalls will have ceased to Be chairman of the board and the executive head of the road. Mr. Ingalls said he had been in ill health for seme time and that it was for that reason alone that he was to resign. Ten IVraoni Horn to Drnlh. Ten persons were burned to death, several are reported missing, and others were injured in a fire which destroyed the Rossraore house and annex. Bailey's jewelry store, the Canadian Pacific. Railway telegraph, and the Cell company offices in Cornwall, Ont. The property loss is $200,000. Refuse Salary of $25,000. Archibald S. White, of New York City, president of the Columbia Gas and Electric Company of Cincinnati, has Just refused a salary of $23,000 voted him by the board of directors of ttat organization. "I want a just dividend to be paid the stockholders, before anything else," said Mr. White. Tons of Moth Ilnlls Horn. A famine in moth balls threatens Greater New York at the height of the house-cleaning season as the result of a downtown fire, which destroyed the stock rooms of a manufacturer of coal-tar products. Tons of moth balls, valued at $15.000, were destroyed. Man la Killed in Folding Bed. William Smith, a wall-paper manufacturer of Waterbury, Conn., who was was on a visit to New York city, was killed when a folding bed in which he was sleeping closed up. Boy Killed by Baseball. ' Sevea-y ear-old Michael Keefe of Boston is dead as the result of being hit by a baseball thrown by Joseph Burke, 14 years old. The ball struck Keefe over the heart. Danker Takes Own Life. S. R. Nelson, vice president of a local bank and former president of the Missouri State Bankers' Association, committed suicide at his home In Chillkothe, Mo., by drinking carbolic acid. It is said that hi3 accounts are correct. Killed In Auto Wrrrk. While returning home from his farm near Randolph. Neb., in an automobile, Filton Webber lost control of the machine. It was wrecked and he was Instantly killed. Lighter Kxploslou Kills Tuo. A dynamite lighter which exploded in Kobe harbor, Japan, April 7 did great damage to buildings and vessels. Two men were killed and eightythree injured. Charley Taft Is 'Hacked." Charley Taft, the President's son. who attends his uncle's school in Watertown, received a ducking at the hands of some of his fellow students, foung Taft took his immersion good naturedly and emerged from the brook bedraggled but smiling.

H00SEVELT GUEST OP PARIS.

City Officials Pay Many Tributes to Former President. Theodore Roosevelt was received by the municipal officials in the Hotel de Ville in Paris the other day, and was the subject of tributes pronounced by M. Caron, president of the municipal council; M. Deselvcs, prefect of the Seine; M. Lampuo, president of the general council of the Seine; and M. Leplne, prefect of police. After an inspection of the building, Mr. Roosevelt sat down to luncheon between Premier Briand and M. Carcn. Only formal toasts were given. The ex-President proposed a toast to Paris and the French people. During a visit which he paid to the Carnavalet museum, Col. Roosevelt manifested great interest in the original revolutionary documents. When shown Louis XVI.'s order instructing the Swiss guard to lay down their arms, he recalled Mark Twain's statement that if Louis hadn't had the virtues of a mediaeval female saint there would have been a large number of communists in the Paris graveyards that night. From the museum Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Ambassador Bacon and M. Jusserand, French ambassador to the Ubited States, visited Notre Dame. Owing to lack of time ihe climb to th.3 towers, which rise more than 200 feet, was abandoned. At the opera in the evening Col. Roosevelt enjoyed a repetition of the reception he received at the Comedie Francaise Thursday night. Human rights come before property rights, and the "average citizen" is the mainstay of a republic. These declarations were features cf Col. Theodore Roosevelt's lecture to the Sorbonne, Saturday. His audience was composed of all the mevmbers of the French cabinet, select students from th3 University of Paris, and many distinguished guests. To these incidentally the colonel referred to race suicide as a national peril. BOY FIGHTS OFF POSSE. Youth Who Tried to Slay Girl Gives Up When Soldiers Fire Volley. Clarence Woods, a 19-year-old clerk employed by the Title Guaranty and Trust Company of Manhattan, killed himself in a boathouse on the Hackensack River, near Rutherford, N. J., after the State militia had been called out to take him dead or alive and with a posse of armed citizens waiting for the firrf chance to shoot him down. Woods had barricaded himself in the boathouse after attacking 17-year-old Anna Kip with a club because of her refusal to marry him. Believing her dead, he took refuge in the boathouse. Armed with a rifie and two revolvers he shot and seriously wounded Deputy Sheriff Smith of Rutherford and repeatedly fought off all attempts by seventy armed officers and citizens to rush the boathouse. Woods apparently lost his nerve when Company M of the Third Regiment of Hackensack was rushed to the scene and fired a volley into the boatho jse and killed himself rather than surrender. PICK KERN FOR SENATE. Indiana Democrats Choose Bryan's Running Mate in 1903 Campaign. Opening in riotous discord and closing in enthusiastic harmony, the ? Indiana Democratic convention in Indianapolis adopted Gov. Marshall's proposition that it should indorse to next year's Legislature a Candida's for tho United States Senate, and named John W. Kern, who was the party's candidate for Vice President in 1908. Tho opposition made a grim fight, under the leadership of Thomas Taggart, 'former chairman of the Democratic National Convmittee and himself a candidate for the nomination for Senator, but In defeat it joined heartily with the element headed by Gov. Marshall and John E. Lamb of Terro Haute, vice chairman of the National Committee, and another aspirant for the Senatorship, in a shouted acclamation of Kern as the party's candidate. WW Tom I Johnson, former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, Is now in London. He is visiting Europe with the hope of improving his health, which has recently been poor. The Kaiser's cousin. Prince Frlederick Heinrich, of Prussia, has embraced Roman Catholicism, has ced-.d his entire fortune to the Roman Catholic church, and has entered a monastery as a monk. The Argentine consul, A. Geiger, was kille in Munich in an automobile accident. His wife, who accompanied him, and also the Paraguayan consul, W. Korte, and the driver were severely injured. The automobile dashed into a tree at full speed. King Albert has decided to give $200,000 for a campaign against sleeping sickness, $100,000 to build hospitals in the Belgian Congo, $100.000 for a pension fund for Congo civil ser vants and $10,000 for a fund for the assistance of their families. ' Advices received at Liverpool recently state that the fighting between the natives and Liberian troops at Cape Palms, Liberia, continues, and is grow ing more serious. The Rev. Mr. Sphäre, a natie pastor at the mission in Cape Palmas, has been shot and killed, and the lives of the white residents are said to be in danger. The Russian Senate has rejected the appeal of eight school boys and school girls, aged from 16 to 17. of the town of Pospeheny, of whom six have bean sentenced to exile to Siberia, and the other two to six months imprisonment on a charge of organizing a revolutionary association In 1307. Charles E. Coling, editor of the Live Wire, a weekly publication of Winnipeg, was arrested and held on heavy bonds on charges of publishing and circulating obscene literature. The Live Wire is a new publication, which bus exposed man? alleged gr:ift. Tk case will be fought to a Jinish by both sides. Eighteen diamonds, wighing togeth er twenty-eight carats, have been presented to the British Museum by the Premier (Transvaal) Diamond Mining Company, limited. The diamonds will be added to the collection at the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. It 13 reported from Cardiff, Wal? that as a result o. the intervention of the Board of Trade the South Wales coal owners have made new proposals, which the minors have practically ac cepted. Only recently the negotiations over the new wage agreement were broken off, and a strike of 200,000 miners was thought to be inevitable.

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i Week in Congress In the Senate Monday Mr. Lodge withdrew his resolution asking Senate sanction for the expenditure of $65,000 to continue the cost of living inquiry This action was taken on the ground that members of the minority were conducting such an extended debate upon the resolution as to interfere seriously with the passage of the rail road bill. The committee will contin ue the inquiry, however, under author ity of the original resolution. The Crawford-Elkins traffic agreement pro vision of the railroad bill was under discussion in the Senate during mot of the day. Senator Root spoke in favor of the provision, while Senators Dolliver and Clapp opposed it. In the House the session was devoted to con sideration of bills relating tc the Dis trict of Columbia. In considering the railroad bill in the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Clapp de nounced the "regular" leaders of the Republicans and the administration for efforts to read "insurgents" out of the party. Mr. Hughes attacked the bill as a whole and Mr. Heyburn defended the Crawford-Elkins provision. The ' insurgents," with the aid of the Democrats, forced the adoption In thg House of an amendment to the railroad bill which takes from the President the right to organize the commerce courts. An invitation extended Wednesday by Senator Rayner to the "insurgent" Senators to join the Democratic party was spurned by Senator Dolliver on behalf of the "insurgents." This suggestion by the Maryland Senator folI lowed a speech by him in the Senate criticising as unconstitutional some or the leatures of the administration railroad bill. He told the "insurgents" that they were out of sympathy with their party and should embrace the principles of Democracy. A lively tilt ensued when Senator Bailey of Texas advised the "insurgents" to remain in sympathy with the regular Republicans if they desired to win in the coming campaign. Otherwise, he said, they should join the Democracy. The session was concluded with a speech by Senator Bristow, who arraigned ths present system of railroad rate miking. In the House the entire day was devoted to the consideration, of bills relating to Indian Jands. One of these measures was a-mended on motion cf Mr. Sabath of Illinois so that in ths disposition,' lands of the Rosebud Indian reservation in South Dakota citizens could make application for such lands at their homes without the necessity of going to the reservation. In the Senate Thursday a spirited debate on the provisions of the railroad bill authorizing the making of rates was engaged In by Senators Clay, Bristow, Cummins, Crawford, Bailey, Aldrich, Borah, Root and Heyburn. The small number of Democratic .members in attendance in the House during most of the session made it impossible for the insurgents to score victories over the regular Republicans. An amendment was adopted to include telegraph and telephone "companies within the scope of the Interstate commerce law. The first test vote on the railroad bill was had in the Senate Friday and resulted in a victory for the administration members. The Cummins amendment, which would require all traffic agreements made between railroads, and all rates, fares and charges to be approved in advance by the Interstate Commerce Commission, was defeated by a vote of twenty-nine to thirty-five. Eleven Republicans, most of them from the insurgent ranks, and eighteen Democrats, voted forvthe Cummins provision. All of the votes against it were cast by Republicans. In the House the railroad bill was under consideration also. Numerous amendments were offered, most of which were voted down. An amendment making provision that the physical valuation of railroad properties shall be ascertained was offered by Mr. MadJen of Illinois and adopted after an extended discussion. The provision adopted yesterday for the inclusion of telegraph and telephone companies within the scope of the Interstate Commerce law was further amended so as to permit of different charges being made for press dispatches and for night messages than are made for commercial dispatches. The acceptance by Congress of a etatuc of Francis II. Pierpont from the State of West Virginia, for the permanent exhibition in statuary hall at the capitol, was the occasion of eulogies in the Senate Saturday. The House accepted the Pierpont statue and heard eulogies. Several hours were also devoted to the passage of several private claim bills. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Captain Charles R. Howland concluded summing up the evidence of the Brownsville raid, and the case now rests with the military court what shall be done with the men who seek reinstatement. President Taft, acceding to the request of the State of Kansas, granted a respite to Charles O'Neil, soldier of the Thirteenth Infantry, who was condemned to die for the murder of Miss Minnie Sherbino. Kansas has not had a hanging since it became a State. An application of ten of the twelve directors of the Standard Cordage Company looking toward voluntary dissolution was granted in the New York Supreme Court. The company showed a loss for the year of f 231,334. More than 12,000 American citizens, with from $1,000 to $5.000 each, practically all farmers and the heads of families, expatriated themselves- between March 31, 1!09. and March 1, 1910. They went from all portions of the United States, but particularly from the Middle West, to take up homesteads in Canad.!. The full number of persons who went from the United States to Canada in this period was 93,270. I Anna Hell, th actress, announced at Eoston, Mass., that she intended to retire from the stage, and that sho Avould say farewell to the American pvblic in New York, where she made her American debut thirteen years ago. The Minnesota State Board of Control has approved the bond of the Han-ley-Casey Company of Chicago, which Is to Install the mechanical equipment at the new State prison. The bond !s for $438,000, and is furnished jointly and peverally by five companies, all licensed in Minnesota, and all approved by the Insurance Commissioner and tb9 Attorney, General.

BJ0EKS0N IS DEAD. Tamous Novelist Dies in Paris from Paralytic Stroke. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the famous Norwegian novelist, playwright,. pee$ and publicist, died at the Hotel Wa gram in Paris in Paris the other night in the 7Sth year of his age. Hi3 wife, whom he married fifty-two years ago, was with him at the end. Bjornson suffered a stroke of paralysis last June, and was brought to Paris in November for electro-therapeutic treatment. It was reported lately that ha was growing better. The change came unexpectedly. Bjornstjerne Bjornson was born near the town of Moldo, Norway, December S, 1832. Poet, novelist, dramatist, leformer and apostle of peace, two hereditary traits dominated in his characterthe placid nature, which he drew from his father, a country parson, and the fighting spirit, which came to him from his more remote ancestors, the old Norse sea-rovers. He was known as the Prophet-Poet of Norway. Toward him the people looked for guidance, and with his cudgels he fought in the cause of truth and justice. At the age of 20 he entered the University of Christiania, and while there began writing in a serious vein. After two years as writer and editor he became the director of the Bergen Theater. This was in 1837. The next few years were devoted to travel and residence in Denmark, Germany and Italy, and then Bjornson went back to Norway for ten years. He began the series of plays which conquered the Norwegian stage and also invaded the Danish, Swedish and German theaters. , As Bjornson grew older he went into politics as a reformer.

PLAN TO RAISE FREIGHT RATES. Railroads to File New System of Tar iffs with Commerce Commission. Freight tariffs showing considerable increases over the present rates from western territory to the Atlantic seaboard will be filed with the Interstate Commission, to become effective 7une 1. This is the first step taken by the railroads which appears to indicate a purpose generally to increase freight rates throughout the country In order to enable them to meet their increased operating expenses. Already tariffs have been filed for western roads increasing the rate for the transportation of wool from Min neapolis and St. Paul to New York and other Atlantic seaboard points. The present rate on wool from Minne apolis to New York is 54 cents per hundred pounds. Under the provisions of the tariff the rate will be 64 cents a hundred pounds, an increase of near ly 20 per cent. The rate to Boston will be proportionately higher. An increase also has been made in the freight rate on live hog3 between Minneapolis and St. Paul and Chicago of 2-2 cents a hundred pounds. This is an increase of about 12 per cent over the present rate. The tariffs at ready filed with the commissioners are for all the roads in Western Freight Association territory and the increase will become effective simultaneously on all of them. WEATHER COSTS $500,000,000. Warmest April Day in Eleven Years and Chilliest in 30. One recent day was tho warmest April day in eleven years. The ther mometer said 84 degrees. Friday, April 22, was the. coldest April day in thirty years. Temperature 26 degrees. The range between the two days was 58 degrees. This conflict of the gods of heat and cold, and the resultant extremes, will cost America a billion dollars In 1910. Oats, cotton, corn, fruit iees, vegeta bles, wheat and other crops were dam aged in a sum estimated at $500,000, 000. And reports received from all over the Middle West and South Indicated that the extremely hot and dry weather will add much to the dam age. Warm rains, which are not forth coming are needed everywhere. Wheat and corn in Illinois are deteriorating. like in Missouri. The situation in Kansas and Nebraska is pictured as worse than ever, being aggravated by the extremely dry weather. It i3 estimated that 3,000,000 acres of spring wheat have been plowed up in four States nd other grains seeded. Twenty per cent of the South's cotton crop will be replanted or abandoned entirely. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. l'rogre of the Pennant Rae In Date Ball Leagues. .NATIONAL LtAGL'E. W. L. W. L. New York... 9 3 Cincinnati ...4 6 Pittsburg ...7 3 Boston 4 8 Chicago 7 4 St. Louis ....4 9 Philadelp'a.. 7 4 Brooklyn 4 9 AMERICAS LEAGUE. w. i- w. l. Detroit 8 5 Cleveland ....7 6 Philadelp'a ..6 4 Chicago 5 5 New York ..5 4 Washington ..5 9 Boston 7 6 St. Louis ....3 7 AHEBICA5 ASSOCIATION. w. L. vr. L. St. Paul.... 11 4 Louisville ... S 8 Minneapolis. 9 C Indianapolis. 7 9 Columbus.. 8 7 Kansas City. 5 9 Toledo 8 7 Milwaukee ..3 9 WESTEBÜ LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Denver 6 2 Sioux City ...4 S Wichita 7 3 Lincoln 4 6 St. Joseph ..6 3 Des Moines ..2 8 Topeka 6 4 Omaha 2 8 Cripple Domed to Dralb. Alone and unable to fight the flames on account of her crippled condition. Mrs. Minerva Collins, 57 years o'd, was burned to death in a fire at her home in Jackson, Ohio. Mrs. Collins was a sufferer from rheumatism. Oldest Xun Dead in Colorado. Sister Eutropia, the oldest nun in Colorado, who crossed the plains to Denver by an ox team and established St. Mary's Academy in Denver, died at Lorotto Heights Academy. She was SO years old. Leap Stvw Town Treasurer. William J. Walrad, formerly treasurer of Herkimer, N. Y., jumped out of his automobile just before it wa3 struck by a train on the New York Central. The machine was thrown 250 feet. Parliament to Quit May t is announced at the government house in Ottawa, Ont., that the State ball will take place on May 10. This means that parliament will be formally prorogued on May 11. Government business is bow being rushed forward,

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CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Chicago trade says: "Seasonable weather stimulates activity, but distributive branches recover slowly from the recent setback, and the curtailment In business generally Is reflected by reduced payments through the banks and increased trading defaults. Allowing for exaggerated estimates it is clear that the late bad weather has been hurtful to various interests, but most indications encourage large hopes of good prospects in agriculture, although grain growers are confronted with declining prices. "The industrial position as a whole exhibits sustained strength in both production and new demands despite efforts of pig Iron operators to lessen outputs. Transportation returns testify to enormous movements of heavy freight, and the aggregate remains good In general merchandise and raw material for factory use. J "Packing operations are still limited by a poor supply of raw material, and advance estimates of provision stocks In store indicate little change over a month ago. "In general merchant' Ise dealings a fair business is apparent in dry goods, clothing, mllinery, silks, footwear and food products, notwithstanding a smaller attendance of outside buyers. "Bank clearings, f 267.301,374, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1909 by 6.8 per cent and compare with $233,642,936 in 190S. Failures reported in the Chicago district number twenty-eight, against fifteen last week, twenty-three in 1909 and thirty-nine in 1908. Those with liabilities over $5.000 number eight, as against four last veek, seven in 1903 and nine in 1908." NEW YORK. Cold weather, with snow West and South, has checked . retail trade azid dulled reorder business in spring goods, while the reports of crop damage resulting from the return of winter have tended to discourage full business, pending clearer views of the ultimate cn ? outcome. . Taken as ' a whole, thr reports from jobbing and wholeseale trade lines and Industries point to a slowing down rather than a quickening of demand, and the downward tendency of many commodities does not seem to have brought out much new business. Business failures in the United States for the week ending with April 28 were 1S9, as against 193 last week, 263 in the like week of 1909, 2S2 in 1908, 163 in 1907 and 133 in 1906. Business failures for the week in Canada numbered twenty-one, which compare with fifteen last week and twenty-one in the -corresponding week of 1909. Bradstreefs. Chicago Cattle, common ' to pr.'-me, $4.00 to $S.30; hogs, prime heavy, $7.00 to $9.63; sheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $S.23; wheat. No. 2, $1.07 to $1.10; corn, No. 2, 57c to 59c; oats, standard, 40c to 41c; rye. No. 2. 77c to 7Se; hay. timothy, $10.00 to $18.00; prairie. $S.O0 to $14.00; butter, choice creamely. 27c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 20c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c. ' Indianapolis Cattle, shippins. $3.00 to $S.Q,0; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $9.70; sheep, good to choice. S3.00 to $G.23; wheat. No. , $1.04 to v'1.06; corn, No. 2 white, 62c to 63c; oats. No. 2 white. 42e to 43c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $S.40; hogs, $7.00 to $9.C0; sheep, $1.30 to $S.00; wheat, No. 2. $1.10 to $1.12; corn, No. 2, 63c to 64c; oats, No. 2, 40c to 42c; rye. No. 2. 77c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.90 to $S.O0; hogs. $7.00 to $9.75; sheep. $2.00 to $7.23; whe?t. No. 2, $lilO to $1.12; corn, No. 2 mixed, DSc to 60c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2, 82c to 84c. Detroit Cattle, $4 00 to $7.00; hogs, $7.00 to $10. S5; sbcep, $3.50 to $8.00; wheat, No. t, $1.00 to $1.07; corn, No. 3 yellow, 59c to 61c; oats, Etandard. 43c to, 44c; rye, No. 1, 79c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.06; corn. No. 3, 59c to 61c; oats, standard, 40c to 41c; rye, No. 1, 7Sc to SOc; barley, standard. 64c to C3c; pork, mess, $21.50. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $8.40; hogs, fair to choice, $7.00 to $9.S0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4 00 to $S.50; lambs, fair to choice, $6.00 to $9.35. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.07 to $1.0S;. corn. No. 2 mixed, 57c to 59c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; rye. No. 2. 78c to 79c; clover seed. $6.65. New York-pCattle. $4.60 to $9.00: hogs, $7.00 to $10.00; sheep, $4.00 to $7.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.11 to $1.12; corn. No. 2, 61c to 62c; oats, natural. white, 45c to 4Sc; butter, creamery, 2c to 30c; e?gs, western, 19c to 22c. A New York cable dispatch tells of the recent death in Paris of Baroness de Roques, mother of Mrs. Maybric-k. who was confined many years In a British prison under a life sentence. The baroness is said to have died in poverty. More than 2,000.000 nackaees of matches went up in smoke d urine .1 spectacular fire thnt destroyed the St. Louis factories of the Diamond Match Company in fet Louis. Loss $230,000. On the plea that the hand rail on a Santa Fe frei jht car broke and gave him a serious fall. George C. CounJ was awarded $25,000 by a Jury at EI Paso, Texas. Men interested In the upbuilding of the navy and its maintenance at a high point of efficiency, gathered at Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the Navy League of the United States. Aged 75, 'Andy Steele, the oldest locomotive engineer in Upper Michigan. has passed to his final reward. Ncar-j ly every engineer r.ow running on the South Shore has at some time fired for Andy Steele. ! . - ' Dr. D. 3. Catlin, of Mankato, has secured subscriptions amounting to $25,-! 000, which it is expected to increaso to $100,000, for the erection of a sanatorium at that place. Tho Governor of the territory New Mexico believes that the new, census wiU give that territory a population of 400.000.