Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 June 1910 — Page 2

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7th. J lUh.(g22nd.V 19thu FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All 81de and Conditions of Thing re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to malt it Complete. Auto Plow Does Work cf 30 Horses. An automobile plow if now in use on the Graham farms, north of Washington. Ind. The machine arrived last week and the first test wa3 made several days ago in the presence of a large number of farmers. It seemed to work perfectly. The automobile has a radiator and fans for cooling the engines, the same as other autos. It is propelled with gasoline, and magneto sparkä explode the gas. It has four wheels, the front wheels about four feet high and the rear wheels eight feet high. The rear wheels are about eighteen inches wide, enabling the auto to travel through soft earth without miring deeply. Behind the auto is drawn a gang of eight plows, plowing a strip ten feet wide each trip acrosa the farm. The auto, when plowing, travels at a speed of two and onehulf to three miles an hour. After the first trip across the farm it automatically guides itself, and if the field be free from stumps It could bo started at one end of the farm, a mile or two long, and without any one accompanying it, would do the work perfectly. Plowing thirty acres Is regarded as aa average day's work for the machine. Thirty horses and fifteen men would be necessary to do the same work. Only $4 of gasoline is required to feed the engine a day while In operation. All of Graham's 1,600 acres are in 200acre farms. The auto and plows, therefore, travel a long distance before making turns. This is said to be the first practical test of the auto plow In Indiana. Two Firemen Killed. Two firemen were killed and more than a score were overcome by stifling fumes In fighting a stubborn warehouse fire near the North river front in New York City. Ten of the ' firemen overcome were caught In a big draught on the fourth floor of the building. Two men who managed to avoid the worst of the burst of flames and dense smoke screamed from a window for help. Ladders were raised and the unconscious men carried down. Two American Missionaries Drowned. Miss W. Williams and Howard Bishop, missionaries of the American Baptist Society, were drowned while sea bathing in the Gulf of Cambay at Pulsar, north of Bombay, India. Dishop lost his life in attempting to save his companion. Miss Williams got into difficulties and Dishop went to her aid. He wa3 a powerful swhamer and made prolonged and heroic effort to bring Miss Williams to shore. He became exhausted finally and both sank. The bodies were recovered. Three Killed when Train Hit Wagon. Rushing at a high rate of speed to make up time a Big Four south-bound passenger train crashed into a market wagon at the Find'.ay street grade crossing In Dayton, Ohio, and three lives w;ere Instantly snuffed out. The victims are: II. E. Coombs, a farmer living near Tippecanoe City, hi3 daughter and son, aged about 17 and 13 respectively. The accident occurred when Combs was on his way to his stand at the Dayton market. New Head of Odd Fellows. James W. Gregg, of Boston, was elected head the Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, at the annual convention of the order in Boston, Mass. The other officers elected were: Deputy grand master, James G. Ritter, Philadelphia, Pa.; corresponding secretary, Joseph H. Handford, New Bedford, Mass.; treasurer, Robert McXeely, Norwich, Conn. Sail for the South Pole1. The British antarctic expedition In the steamer Terra Nova, sailed from London for New Zealand. Captain Scott had announced December, 1911, as the date for hl3 arrival at the south pole. Captain Scott and IJeutenant E. R. Evans, second in command, claim that they have the best equipped expedition that ever starU-d on a polar search. The officers and scientists number crew of twenty-seven, are all picked men. Wreck on Frisco System. The Southeastern Limited on the Frisco system was wrecked in Walker County, about sixty miles west of Birmingham, Ala., and thirty-six people were injured, six of them seri ously. Rail Magnate Dies. Joseph S. Harris, former president of the Philadelphia & Reading Rail road Company, died suddenly at his tome in Germantown. PaGrowth of Christian Science. A Christian Science church was es tablished every three and one-half days during the year ending June 1, according to the report of Clerk John V. Dittemore at the annual meeting of the First Church of Christ, the mother chuich of the Christian Science de nomination, in Boston, Mass. Millionaire Lumberman Dies. Hiram Goddard, millionaire lumber man, aged 74, is dead at LaCrosse, Wis., after an illness of more than three months. Twelve Hurt in Wreck. Norfolk & Virginia passenger train No. 42, known as the Washington and Chattanooga limited, was wrecked at Seven Mile Ford, between Roatoke and Bristol, Va., and twelve persons were injured, but none of them seriously. Killed in Trolley Wreck. Herbert X. Tunnell was instantly killed and a score of other persons injured, three seriously, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., when a trolley car left the rail3 and turned over.

COURT STOPS RAISE III FREIGHT RATES

Twenty-five Western Roads Are Restrained from Enforcing the New Tariff. PLEA CITES UNLAWFUL COMBINE Action Is Begun by Attorney General Wickersham on Behalf of Federal Government. Twenty-five Western railroads were temporarily restrained by United States District Judge David P. Dyer in Hannibal, Mo., from enforcing or making a general advance in interstate freight rates. The injunction was granted on a petition filed by the United States government on the allegations that the advance in rates were fixed by the defendants by agreement, without competition and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act. The petition was filed in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis and was brought to Hannibal to present to Judge Dyer. It states that unless such a restraining order be issued the advances will become effective at once, to the grave harm and injury of the people of the United States. The petition was presented by Edwin ?. Grosvenor of Washington, special assistant to the Attorney General, and Frederick X. Judson of St. Louis, acting as special counsel. It was signed by George W. Wickersham, Attorney General; William S. Kenyon, Assistant Attorney General, and Charles A. Houts, United States District Attorney. The roads restrained from increasing their freight rates are: Missouri Pacific Railway. Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Chicago, Rock Island and Facifla Railway. Wabash Railroad. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Illinois Central Railroad. Chicago and Alton Railroad. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail road. Chicago Great Western Railway. Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railway. St. Louis and San Francisco Rail road. San Francisco Railroad. Quincy, Omaha and Kansa-s City Railroad. St Paul and Des Moines Railroad. Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad. Iowa Central Railroad. Fort Dodge, Des Moines and South ern Railroad. Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad. Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad. Chicago. Peoria and St. Louis Rail road Company of Illinois. Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary Rail way. Minneapolis, St Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. Kansas City Southern Railroad. Chicago, Indiana and Southern Rail road. Western Trunk Line committee, s Brought to a sudden climax in the West by the successful invocation of the Sherman anti-trust law to enjoin the lines west of Chicago from putting their proposed rate increases in effect. the freight rate controversy was given an unexpected turn later. While the Western roads, thrown into consterna tion by the application of a law from which they had considered themselves Immune, were preparing to restore their old rates and to defend themselves against charges of illegal com bination, the Eastern roads were filing tariffs at Washington with the Interstate Commerce Commission. These tariffs advanced commodity rates throughout the territory . north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi. This move will actively extend the fight at once to every section between the Missouri River and the Atlantic seaboard and is expected to make the Eastern trunk lines defendants in a similar proceeding. SUES HARRY THURSTON PECK. Coininblu lnlverlty Professor Ac ruxeil of 11 reach of Promise. Suit for $50,000 for alleged breach of promise of marriage has bein brought in the Supreme court of New York by Miss Esther Quinn against Prof. Harry Thurston Peck, A. M., Ph. D., D. D., L. II. D., holder of the chair in Latin cf the University of Columbia; president "of the Latin Club of America, member of many prominent literary clubs and associations, magazine writer, critic of the fair sex and essayist on perfumes as related to moral.. The first wife of Prof. Peck obtained a divorce at Sioux Falls, S. D., in September, 1908. The ground was desertion. August 23 of the following year he married Miss Elizabeth H. DuBois, a teacher of classics In the Morris high school. COTTON CROP NEARLY NORMAL. Estimating Hoard's Report Says Condition Is I'p to Standard. The first cotton report of the season by the crop reporting board, shows the condition of the growing crop, May 25, was 82 per cent of the normal, as compared with 81.1 per cent on that date last year and 80.9 p?r cent the average for the last ten years. The area planted with cotton this year Is about 33,196,000 acres, or about 102.8 per cent, compared with 32,292,000 acres last year, an increase of about 004,000 acres or 2.8 per cent. OHIO EX-BANKER LEAVES PRISON G. A. Ilone of Cleveland I Iteleased After Servians Ten-Year Term. George A. Rose, formerly connected with tho Producers' National Bank of Cleveland, was released from the Ohio penitentiary the other day after serving ten years for violation of the national banking laws. Rose was a government prisoner and was sent to the penitentiary in 1900. His home has been broken up, his wife having died at Cleveland several years ago. BOY KILLS CITIZEN BY MISTAKE Suspected of Hein Burglar, Middle. town, X. V., Man Is Shot In Head. Mistaken for a burglar, Elmer Frost, a wealthy resident of a suburban village near Middletown, X. Y., was shot and killed by the 13-year-old son of C. W. Teed. The latter and his son noticed a figure on tfcclr porch and thinking it was an intruder the boy fired his small rifle, intending to frighten the supposed burglar away. The bullet pierced Frost's forehead, killing him instantly.

LONG LIVE

Minneapolis Journal. SENATE PASSES RAILROAD BILL. Administration's Measure Is Carr'ecL 50 to 12, at Night Session. The administration's railroad bill was passed by the Senate of the United States the other night ai-10 o'clock by a vote of 50 to 12. The negathe votes were cast by Democrats as follows: Bacon, Fletcher, Frazier, Hughes, Money, Xewlands, Percy, Purcell. Rayner, Shively, Smith of Maryland and Smith of South Carolina. After the vote was announced Mr. Beveridge moved the statehood bill be made the unfinished business. Mr. Xelson, chairman of the Public Lands Committee, contended the public land withdrawal bill, an administration conservation measure, should have precedence. This precipitated a conflict, ihe Democrats lining up with Mr. Beveridge. Finally, with the Beveridge motion pending, the Senate adjourned. The railroad bill, that now goes to conference, was reported to the Senate Feb. 25. The debate began March 13, when Mr. Cummins commenced his four days' speech against the measure as it then stood. Since then it has been continuously before the Senate for twelve weeks. The original Hepburn law, of which this Is amendatory, was passed in the Scd ue May 18. 1906. Many speeches were delivered. In the main brief and explanatory of the position taken by Senators. When it became apparent ihat the final vote would be reach .1, several Senators who have fought vigorously for amendments asserted that, while the bill was not all they desired. It was a step In the right direction and would receive their support. Such statements were made by Insurgent Republicans and Democrats. These speakers were La Follette. Dolllver, Clay, Paynter, Simmons and Gore. Xewlands and Bacon spoke at length in opposition. W. F. Schilling, editor of the Minnesota Da Fryman, has filed for the Senate from his district on the Republican ticket. In the recent Ohio Republican primaries eleven of the twenty-one successful nominees for Congress had declared themselves against the re-election of Speaker Cannon, while nine remained noncommittal, and one, Keffer, is openly for Cannon. "Elder" William J. Bryan, who sailed from New York as a delegate at large to the Presbyterian Ecumenical Council at Edinburgh, said to the reporters who came to see him off that he was convinced that the country would choose a Democratic Congress this year, and that if that Congress made a good record the next President would be a Democrat. He spoke of Folk and Gaynor as possible candidates, but said there were plenty of good men. On the same boat sailed Senator Root, who goes to take part in the Newfoundland fisheries arbitration, beginning Juno 1, In England. The National Congress of the Socialist party which met in Chicago to revise the platform and program, voted after a long discussion that the party is opposed to the exclusion of any immigrants on account of race or nationality, and demands that this country be kept as a free asylum for persons persecuted In other lands; but that It favors 'all measures tending to prevent the Immigration of contract laborers or strike-breakers. This was the compromise resolution offered by Delegate Hilquit of Xew York. The policy of the party as to the farmer class was left open, and an enlarged committee was appointed to study the question and report at the national convention two years hence. The convention took a positive position against the commission form of city government. Senator A. B. Cummins, who, with Senator Dolliver, Is working on the progressive campaign in Iowa, makes little comment on the situation in Washington. He condemns the railroad bill, which he thinks should be greatly amended. "feie liquor Interests are responsible for the forcing of the county option question into the arena of politics, and they have only themselves to blame for the results that shall follow the growing indication against the Impudence, tho Insolence and the sordidness of the liquor interests," declared William J. ISyran in a recent address at Nebraska City. Senator Thomas Morris, candidate for lieutenant governor, who grave up his gubernatorial aspirations to help Restore harmony in the La Follette faction, will manage the La Fol'ette campaign in the State. President Taft, commenting on the bill he favors for the Statehood of Arizona and New Mexico, said: "There 1s a hesitation on the part of the Republicans in the Senate to pass a bill which Is so likely to add four Democrats to the Senate, or if not Democrats, Republicans of that radical type that are entirely out of sympathy with the more conservative notions of the East."

THE KIKG.

C. II. TREAT FALLS DEAD. Former Treainrcr of Mntlon Stricken with Apoplexy. ' Charles Henry Treat, treasurer of the United States under President Roosevelt, died of apoplexy in his apartment at the Hotel Victoria In Xew York. He was stricken an hour before death, and did not regain consciousness. He is survived by hl3 wife and two daughters. Mr. Treat was born in Frankfort, Me., about sixty-eight years ago. Among his ancestors were Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the declaration of Independence, and Robert Treat, a colonial governor of Connecticut. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1865, and at once entered business with his father and brothers, who operated a fleet of twenty-eight vessels engaged in the import and export trade. In 18SS he wa3 Delaware's delegate-at-large to the Republican convention in Chicago and was credited wfch .solidifying the Delaware delegation for Benjamin Harrison. Soon after McKinley's election he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall street district, serving during the Spanish-American war. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Progress of the Pennant Race la Dnse Hall benguc. XATIOX.it I EAGLE. W. J W. L. Chicago ....23 13 St. Louis ...20 21 New York ..25 15 Brooklyn ...19 22 Cincinnati ..19 18 Philadera ..14 22 Pittsburg ..IS IS Boston 13 26 AMERICAN LEAGUE. k W. L. W. I New York ..23 11 Cleveland ...15 19 Philade"a ..26 12 Wash'gton ..17 23 Detroit 2G 16 Chicago 12 22 Boston 21 17 St. Louis ... 8 30 AMERICA ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. .1 Minn polls ..32 13 Ind'polls ..1.21 26 St. Paul ...31 16 Kan. City ...17 23 Toledo 2S 19 Milwaukee ..17 2S Columbus ..21 2C Louisville ...18 30 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Der.ver 22 19 Topeka 13 20 Des Moine3 .19 22 Sioux City .21 17 Lincoln .....19 20 St. Joseph ..19 17 Omaha 18 22 Wichita 22 IS "O. HENRY," AUTHOR, IS DEAD. Wllllnm Sidney Porter Inspires In a Xt-w York Hospital. William Sidney Porter, better known to the public by his pen name, "O Henry," recognized as one of the lead ing short story writers of the age died at the Polyclinic Hospital, in Xew York, of cirrhosis of the liver. An operation was performed by Dr. Charles Russell Hancock a few days before, bat it proved to be useless. Mr. Porter wa3 born In Texas forty-two years ago and began his journalistic career on th Houston Post. Before that he had been cowboy, sheep herder and dru gist, and an extensive traveler. STAMPEDE BEGINS TO ALASKA. Ituab of Prospector Overtaxes Ca pacity of Northern Steamahlpa. Officials of companies operating steamships to Alaska points on the Bering Sea estimate that 13,000 people will leave Seattle for Xome and St Michaels on the early June sailings, drawn to the far north by the reports of rich discoveries in the Iditarod gold fields. Wealthj men have been compelled to take accommodations in the steerage, and there is a waiting list at the steamship offices larger than the combined capacity of the north-bound steamers. Cuba Favors Italalna- Maine. In response to the request made re cently by John B. Jackson, the American minister, through the State De partment, for permission to raise th; Maine, President Gomez of Cuba declares that he would be delighted to accord such permission and to facili täte In every way the work of the American engineers. Held for Murder He Was t'naware Of Unaware that a fellow countryman with whom he fought in Watertown, N. Y., had died of his Injuries, Kaston vasele, a Roumanian, was arrested in Canton, Ohio at the request of the Watertown authorities on the charge of murder. President Appoints New Secretary Announcement was made at the White House in Washington of the so lection of Charles D. Xorton of Chi cago as secretary to tho President succeed Fred W. Carpenter. to (Irl Strain i Takes Poison. When her father discovered she had drawn $173 of his money from a bank through forged checks. Inez Carhill. 19 years old, swallowed strychnine in Salt Lake, Utah. 1'nder f'barireai Kill. lf. , . . - - . Preferring death to dis grace and a probablo prison sentence rrom pending court-martial proceedings, G. C. Reeves, first serereant In tho iTni mrlnes. 1 ' . I-" v. uuiiuu i 1 J " ' stationed on Goat Island, San Francis co, snatched a private's revolver from

its holster and blew out his brains.

PMIirtnil

ii HOI NOV AT 32,336,445 Protestant Denominations Report 20,287,742 and the Roman Catholics 12,679,149. NUMBERS ARE CN THE INCREASE Statistics Are Rased on Report of United States Census, Soon to Be Published. The aggregate number of communi cants or members of all religious de nominations in the United States in 1906 was 32,936,443, according to the United States census of religious bodies. Of this grand total, the various Protestant bodies reported 20,287,742 and the Roman Catholic church 12,679,142. Of the Prttestant communicants, ac cording to the report, 80.G per tent were outside the principal cities of the country. Of the Catholics, 27.9 per cent were in the cities of the first class, those having a population of more than 300,000, while 47.S per cent were outside the cities of the first, sec ond, third or fourth classes, the last class being cities of 23,000 to 30,000. Protestants in the first-class cities ag gregated 7.3 per cent. Of the Protestants, the Protestant Episcopal church reported a majority of its communicants in the principal cities, 51.2 per cent, as did the Church of Christ, Scientist. S2.6 per cent. Tho report shows a growth of all communicants, both in the cities and country, since 1S90. In the five leading cities the proportion of communicants to population was: Xew York, 44.7 per cent; Chicago, 40.7; Philadelphia, 3S.8; Boston, 62.6; Ct. Louis, 46.6. GOES INTO RECEIVERS' HANDS. Jones Dry Goods Company of Kan sas City Taken Over by Courts. Receivers for the Jones Dry Goods Company of Kansas City, one of the largest retail general cnerchandise concerns in the West, were appointed by the federal court to-day. The liabilities are placed at $1,400,000 and the assets at $2,000,000. The receivers said the company was solvent and that its business would be continued without interruption. It is alleged that the company has been spending large sums for realty and for leases that should have been placed In the business. The immediate cause of the receivership is given as poor business resulting from unfavorable spring weather. The principal creditors are in St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Xew York. DEDICATE KENTUCKY'S CAPITOL. cw $2, 000,000 Structure Is Opened with Much Ceremony. Kentucky's $2,000,000 capitol was dedicated the ether day with exercises that occupied practically the entire day. Special trains from all directions brought thousand of persons to Frankfort, one train bringing more than 1,000 girls from the Louisville high school. The exercises, which were opened early in the morning by a signal gun, included an invocation by Dishop Iewls W. Durton of Lexington and addresses, mainly of historic interest, by Gov. Augustus E. Wlllson and United States Senator William O. Dradley. sc . j4D. OLU&GES The annual outing of the Xorth Central Minnesota Editorial Association will be held at Glengarry Springs, on Leech Lake, near Walker. The oldest educational Institution !n existence is El Ashar University at Cairo, Egypt It was founded in 9SS, and had 8,510 students last year. Simplification ,of spelling is a plain matter of business expediency, accord ing to Prof. Homer II. Seerley, president of the Iowa- State Teachers' Association. Twentyfive coileges have been invited by the games committee of the Missouri Valley conferences to participate In the annual meet to be held at Dos Moines. For the second time in two years the debaters of St. Thomas College have defeated the representatives of the Forum Literary Society of the University of Minnesota. Fifty students of the University of Minnesota have been dropped from tho rolls of the colleges of engineering and science, literature and arts, for failure to maintain the required standard . f scholarship. Prof. R. R. Cochrane, of the chair of mathematics of the Manitoba University, died recently at the age of CO years. He was a brother of the late George Cochrane, president of Los Angeles University. ' Dr. John C. Parish, of the State historical department of Iowa and son of the late Prof. L. W. Parish of Cedar Falls, has accepted a position as professor of American history and political science in Beloit College. The nnnual meeting of the Tri-Coun-try Educational Association was held in Grafton, N. D. Resolutions were adopted imploring the Slate legislative assembly to appropriate money for the benefit of rural schools, while medical inspection of school children was ured. An actual registration of 4,947 students for the year at the University of Wisconsin is shown by statistics in th? new catalogue now in press. This is an increase of 426, or 10 per cent over last year's enrollment ,and brings Wisconsin up seventh in the list of American universities in point of number?. Dr. Toyokichi Iyenaga, a noted Japanese scholar, last returned from a tour of the globe on which he studied world-politics bearing on Oriental problems, pave several Illustrated lectures on the subject last week to students of the University of Wisconsin under the auspices of the political science department. Sanitary fountains have displaced the old faucets and drinking cups in all the buildings of thc University of Wisconsin, in compliance with the new State law against public drinkin? cups. The St. Paul Hebrew Institute of St. Paul has filed articles of incorporation with Secretary of State Julius Schmahl. The object of the new organization is to' provide and conduct for the Jewish people of St. Paul popular educational facilities, including schools, libraries, reading and debating rooms, lectures, religious and social meetings, also conducting free sheltering houses for poor and worthy Jewish strangers.

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In Con With the exception of the adoption of the Cummins amendment shifting to railroad companies the burden of proving the reasonableness of increases In rates, and the rejection of the Brown amendment prohibiting the consolidation of competitive railroad lines, the Senate's consideration of the railroad bill Tuesday was confined to discussion. Senator La Follette offered a resolution directing the Attorney General to bring suit to enjoin the recent railroad rate increases, but Senator Curtis announced the Attorney General had acted already in that direction. Early in tho day Senator Owen delivered a set speech in support of his resolution for the election of Senators by direct vote. In the House nearly the entire session was consumed by a discussion relating to appropriations to make effective rc-v cent legislation creating a bureau of mines and mining. Up to the time of adjournment $48S,000 had been appropriated for this purpose. Amendments making additional appropriations for the bureau will be voted on when' the sundry civil bill is again under consideration. The Senate made material progress with the railroad bill Wednesday, adopting several amendments and rejecting others. Among the provisions accepted were two by Senators Simpions and Burton prohibiting rtfilroad companies from reducing rates to destroy water competition. An amendment suggested by Senator Burton Imposing a penalty of ?3,000 upon' carriers for divulging information . concerning shipments also was accepted. An amendment' by Mr. Bailey re-enacting the commodities clause of the Hepburn act was rejected. Mr. Bailey freely criticised the Supreme Court Senator1 La Follette's physical valuation amendment also was voted down. The entire session of the House was occupied by a discussion of the administration bill providing for a new civil government for Porto Rico. Democrats opposed the measure, claiming that it provided a less representative government than was now enjoyed by the people of Porto Rico under the Foraker act. Resident Commissioner Larrinaga declared that a majority of the Porto RIcans preferred the present law governing the islands to that proposed by the administration bill. A number of important amendments to the railroad bill were adopted by the Senate Thursday. Among these was one by Senator Overman of Xorth' Carolina prohibiting Federal courts from granting interlocutory injunctions to suspend State laws, except upon an order of three judges, one of whom should be a member of the Supreme Court or a Circuit Judge. The provision including telegraph companies within the scope of the interstate commerce law was modified so as to prohibit the gfantlng of telegraph franks and permitting special rates on press dispatches. The time when the bill shall take effect was extended to sixty days after its passage. In the House an amendment was adopted to the sundry civil bill, proposed by Mr. Hughes of Xew Jersey, and providing that the appropriation for the enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law should not be uced In the prosecution of labor organizations The railroad bill passed the Senate at '9: 53 o'clock Friday night by a vote of 50 to 12. Senators Chambeiün, Clay, Gore, Poynter, Simmons and Stone are theonly Democrats who voted for the bill. An appropriation cf $30,000 was made by the House to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to ?uake an investigation of methods of making paper from various plants and woods. This provision was made in an amendment to the sundry civil bill, which was under consideration in tho House during the entire session. The Senate was not in session Saturday. The sundry civil bill, carrying appropriations of over $110,000,000, was passed by the House. The railroad bill was delivered to the House by the Senate, but In order to permit members to familiarize themselves with that measure it was permitted to lie upon the table until Monday. The House held a memorial service for the late Representative Loverlng of Massachusetts, Sunday. NEWS OF MINOR NOTE. Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Harvard College Corporation, resigned his position to accept the appointment of business manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research In Xew York City. An address by W. J. Bryan In favor of the initiative and referendum scheduled for to-night at Xebraska City, Neb., has been postponed, the county commissioners refusing to allow Mr. Bryan to speak in the county courthouse. The twenty-seventh national conference of charities and correction closed at St. Louis with a general session 03 lawbreakers. Tho Massachusetts Legislature took steps to investigate the threatened milk famine In Boston, due to the farmers refusal to sell milk at summer prices. The national conference of public school music supervisors held a fourday session at Cincinnati. These officers were elected: President, E. B. Birge. Indianapolis: Vice President, Miss Stella Root, Peoria; Secretary, Miss Clyde Foster, Ypsilanti, Mich. Yie Chaim Yong, the Korean who stabbed Premier Yi, in an attempt at assass-lnatlon Dec. 22, 1909, was sentenced to death at Seoul. John W. Gates, while declaring he did not join the Methodist Church, offers $250,000 for the erection of a Methodist university and forty acres of land on the edge of Port Arthur, Texas. Pittsburg's famous orchestra passed out of existence when a committee announced It had been unable to obtain a sufficient money guaranty to continue. Pittsburg will have four concerts next year, two by the Thomas Orchestra of Chicago. Olcott C. Colt, a loan broker of Wall street, Xew York, was convicted in the federal court at Kansas City on the charge of using the mails to defraud. Fifteen persons were injured when two coaches of Denver and Rio Grande train No. 11 jumped the track tvFo miles from Cucharas Junction, Colo. Spreading rails caused the wreck and two cars went down the embankment. Representatives of fourteen railway systems of the West met in Denver and decided to put into effect at once an increase of wages of 6 cents an hour for yard men and to apply there v,o. nri-lni.' rules now in effect in Chi-

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COAL II ill IS 01; INDUSTRY IS II PERIL

Illinois Rattle Begins When Strike Leaders Order Engineers and Pumpmen to Quit. OPERATORS ARE STANDING FIRM Stopping of Pumps and Shutting Off of Fresh Air May Damage Many Mines. War which threatens the life of the coal industry in Illinois has been declared between the operators and miners. Refusing the terms accepted by the miners in other States, leaders of the Illinois -strike ordered out engineers and pumpmen who had been left to guard against destruction of property during the suspension. Millions of dollars are involved in the latest strike order, as many of the properties are known as "wet" mines, and they will be irretrievably damaged unless the pumps are kept running. The "drj-" mines also will be greatly damaged when the supply of fresh air is shut off by dosing down the fans. In face of the warlike move of the miners the operators decided to stand firm, and their position was indorsed at a special meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, held at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago. Though the suspension is costing the manufacturers in Illinois at the rate of $20,000,000 a year extra for fuel, they decided unanimously to stand by the operators to the last ditch in the struggle. Resolutions pledging the operators the full support of the Illinois Manufacturers Association were introduced by Xorman W. Fräser, president of the Chicago Portland Cement Company, who said that the suspension had cost his company $13.000 for the month of April and $25,000 for the month of May more for fuel than would have been the case under normal conditions. Federal Intervention may be asked by the manufacturers, and It was Intimated that President Taft may be urged to do as President Roosevelt did In the anthracite coal strike In 1902, when he forced the operators and miners to submit to arbitration. MRS. D0XEY IS FREED. t Jury Finds Her Not Guilty of Murdering Erder in St. Louis. Mrs. Dora Elizabeth Doxey was found not guilty by the St. Louis jury which heard the evidence against her on a .charge of murdering William J. Erder with arsenic. The verdict was returned eight hours and forty minutes after Judge Grimm ordered the jury to retire for deliberation. Late at night Mrs. Doxey was rearrested, this time on a charge of bigamy. The charges against Dr. Loren B. Doxey, who was accused Jointly with her. will come up for trial within two weeks, according to the announcement of Attorney Newton. Mrs. Doxey was placed on trial May 23. after having been held in the city jail since Dec 1, when she was brought from Columbus, Xeb., where she had been arrested on the warrant charging her with the murder of Er der. She was born near Aledo, III., March 17, 1SS0. In 1895 she married Robert L. Downing of Joy, 111. Dr. Loren B. Doxey was the family phy sician and attended her four children, who died. She married Doxey in Bur lington, Iowa, In August, 1906, after Downing had divorced her. Mrs. Doxey came to St. Louis in April, 1903, at which time she was alleged to have married Erder, who died 'July 10, 1903. Miss Kate Erder, a sister of the dead man, caused her arrest in Columbus, Xeb., on Xov. 14. MORE THAN 500 PERSONS PERISH En at Africa and Adjacent Oeenn I Swept by Terrible Cyclone. More than 500 persons were drowned and many ships lost in the terrific cyclone that swept East Africa, according to dispatches received from Mozam bique. The storm 'did great damage on land as well as on ' sea. It is be lleved that several large ships, aa well as' smaller ones, were lost On one were 400 miners, en route to the Rand mines. All were drowned. DYNAMITE WISCONSIN BANK. Dold Ilohbery Im Committed at Unity by Tvto Men Who Ernpe. The State Bank of Unity, Wis., was robbed the other day of $2,000. the safe of the bank being dynamited. The robbers escaped. It is supposed the robbery was committed by two men who had been hanging around the bank for several days. Tho ba.ik was established in 1903 with a capital ct $10.000. Forcen II rot her to Take Acid. During the absence of his mother, 6-year-old Harry Silvikas, of Bridgeport, Conn., found an ounce bpttlo of carbolic acid lying on a tab'e and in play forced the contents down tho throat of his 10-month-old baby brother. The latter died within an hour. Kill Slawnrlinitrlt Income Tax Act. By a tie vote, the Massachusetts Senate killed the bill providing Tor a general State tax on incomes In excess of $2,000. Killed n Train by Kx-VVIfc. While riding In a train Reese Prosser, an automobile salesman of Seattle, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, was shot and killed by his divorced wife, Vcr-v The shooting occurred at Libby, Mont. Mrs. Prosper left the train at Libby, where she later was arrested. Slaya Husband, Co i fr we. Mrs. Joseph Dillon has confessed Jo Chief of Police Peter Wring, of nibbing. Minn., that she shot and killed her husband on their homestead near there. Klre lltroj- Lumber Ton, The village of Inglis, Ore., was practically wiped out by fire in the night The sawmill and yards of the Oregon Lumber Company were destroyed. Oldest Ohio Lntryer Die. Justin H. Tyler, the oldest lawyer In Ohio, died at Xapoleon, aged 95. Ha J practiced until two years ago. Woolen 31111 Reduce Time. Ten thousand woolen mills operators in Olneyville, R. 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" 1 T'i r a a asm a' i f . CHICAGO. The Weekly Review . of Chicago Trade, published by R. O. Dun & Co.. says: "Despite the lowest weekly aggregate of payments through the banks, the unsuccessful efforts to settle coal mining troubles and other developments disturbing sentiment, the business position is easier by declining speculation In securities and grain, a better tone in money, improving weather and decreasing cost of foodstuffs. The failure record also makes a good comparative exhibit, and there is now a more adequate reduction of merchandise stocks In the leading retail lines here and at 'the interior. "Evidences of sustained production in the leading Industries in this dis trict undergo no diminution, and the sustained forwardlngs of factory outputs and commodities continue swelling gains in gross earnings of the Chicago steam roads. There is also extended passenger travel both east and west bound. Visiting buyers attend the wholesale merchandise markets more numerously, and the buying is wider in fall and winter lines of dry goods, footwear, clothing and household needs, but orders for immediate shipment have not e:-.panded as ex:ecteJ. It Is noted, however, that many buyers are conserva'tlre and prefer to await clearer views of agricultural prospects and probabie tendencies cf prices. "Bank clearings, 5214,817,505, are 2.9 per cent under those of corresponding week last year, and compare with $210,320,721 in 190S. "Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered fourteen, against twenty-set en last -week, twenty-five ir 1909 and twenty-two in 190S. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number six, against five last week, six in 1909 and five in 190S." NEW YORK. Trade advices are Irregular, varying somewhat with the sections or lines reporting, but with quietness th prevailing feature. In the northern half of the country unseasonably cool weather has been a bar to expansion in retail trade, which at many cities is classed as disappointing. At these centers re-order business is light, and jobbers' operations are consequently , restricted. Probably the best reports as to trade come from the -Xorth west and the Pacific coast. Business failures for the week ending with June 2 in the United States were 1C0, against 200 last week, 191 in the like week of 1909, 223 in 190S, 153 in 1907 and 162 in IPOS. Business failures In Canada for the week number eighteen, wTilch com pares with fifteen for last week an J nineteen In the like week of 1903. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $S.C3; hogs, prime heavy. $7.00 to ?9.55; Eheep, fair to choice, $4.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 9Sc to $1.01; corn. No. 2. 57c to 59c; oats, standard. 33c to 37c; ryet Xo. 2, 75c to 7Cc; hay, timothy, $9.00 to $18.50; prairie, $8.00 to $14.30; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, fresh, lCc to 18c; potatoes, net, per bushel, 90c to $1.10. IndianapolisCattle, shipping. $3.00 to $S 00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $7.00 to $9.7); sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, !7c to 9Sc; corn, Xo. 2, white, 60c to C2c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 36c to 37c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.00 to $S.40; hogs, $7.00 to $9.30; sheep, $1.30 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.0C to $1.09; corn, Xo. 2, 5Sc to 59c; oats, Xo. 2, 37c to 3Sc; rye, Xo. 2, 7Sc to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs, $7.00 to $9.C3; sheep. $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. Xo. 2, I1.0C to $1.10; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 60c to Glc; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2. S2c to 84c. ; Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $7.00 to $9.70; sheep, $3.50 to $3.00; wheat, Xo. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn; Xo. 3 yellow, 58c to 59c; oats, standard, 39c to 40c; rye, Xo. 1, FOc to S2c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.0G; corn, Xo. 3, 5Cc to 5Sc; oats, standard, 27c to 39c; rye, Xo. 1, 77c to 7Sc; barley, standard, 6ic to 66c; pork, mess, $22.23. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $9.00: hogs, $7.00 to $10.00; sheep. $4.00 to $3.63; wheat, Xo. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.04; corn, Xo. 2, C3c to C4c; oats, natural, white, 43c to 43c; butter, creamory, 25c to 2Sc; eggs, western, ISc to 21c Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $S.C0; hogs, fair to choice, $7.0Q to $9.90; sheep, common, to good mixed, $4.00 to $7.50; lambs, fair to choice. $6.00 to $S.90. Toledo Wheat, Xo. 2. mixed. $1.04, to $1.05; corn, Xo. 2 mixed, 56c to 67c; oats, No. 2 mixed, SSc to 39c; rye, Xo. 2, 7Sc to 79c; clover seed, $6.S0. The National Association of Manufacturers during their recent sessn in Xew York City, resolved to secure government consideration of their project for the participation of this country In the building of a deep water canal through Canada as a nvans of aiding the transportation of ores and grains from the lake regions. The Associated Merchants have appointed a committee to confer with the officials of the Northwestern Telephone Company regarding free telephones between St. Paul and Minneapolis. The monthly meeting of the merchants Tuesday night developed a sentiment In favor of a nontoll Interurban system as a stimulus to retail trade. The National Plant Introduction garden at I Chico, Cal.. is experimenting with the raising of the cork oak. which has not yet been grown commercially in the United States. The cork o:ik thrives In Spain, where It Is the basis of an important industry. Vigorously opposing the proposed advance In freight rates which carriers in official classification territory and Western trunk territpry have decided to make, shippers from all sections of the country gathered In conference In Chicago at one of the largest meetings of shippers assembled for years. Wesley Grenen. State horticulturist of Iowa, has given out figures on fruit damage as follows: Apples, 8 per cent; pears, below 1 per cen ; American plums, 1; peaches, below 1; cherries, 6; grapes, 20; red raspberries, 10; black raspberries. 12; currant, S; gooseberries, 4; strawberries, 3S.