Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 June 1910 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE. PLYMOUTH, 1ND. HENDRICKS 2l CO.. - Publishers. REGULATING TH USE OF ARMS That Is, an interesting and a sugj gestive proposal which has been made at Albany to legislate against the,' common use and even' ownership of the i.ngenious device which has been Invented for silencing the noise of firearms, says New York Tribune. That device is said to be so effective as to make the discharge of a rifle or a pistol nearly noiseless, without decreasing the lethal effectiveness of the weapon. It Is easily conceivable that such an attachment to military firearms would be of inestimable advantage In warfare, a noiseless rifle using jmokeless powder giving practically no information as to the location of its jiser. But it is obvious that precisely ie same thing would make a gun or pistol a far more dangerous tool for use of assassins. It may, Indeed, ie said that there is no legitimate use lor - :e silencing device, save in miliary doings and in actual war. If we rrant that citizens now and then need so use firearms against burglars, highwaymen and others it should be obrious that the most desirable and Host effective arm for such purposes li3 handicap and hurry. People are rett t happier, if they arc not getting iclier, and the former i3 a goo omen )f the latter. They have plenty of ijne to work at that that is . worth while, or even to play, and it is one of ttie wholesome indications of a healthy life that people In this country play is hard as they work. But business and pleasure hare turned their back3 upon the knocker, setting their faces to brighter skies. So if you are at Duts with somebody settle the matter with him; do not bother me with it. That is the answer of the world today, a good one, too. Even in sports this Wholesome spirit prevails; indeed It dominates there perhaps more than anywhere else. It takes the form of intolerance, it is so pronounced. It Is the spirit of a manly age, a big age and fast, too big and fast to slow up for the little fellow.

Practical Jokes often are In very bad taste and not at all as funny as their perpetrators seem to think. Sometimes such jokes Invite legal punishment Down in Panama a party of would-be humori&ts circulated the story that seismologists had predicted that the country .would he visited in the night by a great shock and that Colon would be wiped out of existence by a tidal wave. Coming on the heels of tb Costa Rican cataclysm, this prophecy threw the ignorant and superstitious into terror, and there was something of a panic Of course the convulsions did not occur. But the Panama. authorities took De matter In hand and the jokers are now In jail awaiting the result of proceedings tbv.t will be1 brought aga'nst them. And if these humorists get a round sentence the general verdict will be that it served them rieht. The war against the' white plague will neter be effective while contagion Is allowed to be freely and wantonly spread by expectoration In public places, especially on the streets, where all lungs are exposed to infection. Not until measures are taken severe enough to check. If not to abolish, the habit, objectionable both to health and to public decency, will the fight against tuberculosis be taken seriously. If the grandsons of the late Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince, live to be fifty, they will come into possession of their grandfather's residuary estate, which it is estimated by that time will be worth t $0,000,000. At the age of fifty the happy heirs will probably have outlived their boyish" follies, so that they won't .raste the money. There If la the physiological laboratory of the University of Pennsylvaxla a machine that measures the mental capabilities of any person to whom it is applied. It would probably register zero if applied to persons who pay money to go to shows that it is necessary for the police to try to suppress. We are not ready to accept the statement that the kaiser has made elaborate preparations to cut the submarine cables in case Germany is involved in a great war. If the kaiser should cut the cables, how could he' let the world know what he has to say?. In order that a physician may treat his patient without visiting him, a London invention prmlts'an examina tion of heart beats by telephone Lovers who are not certain of each other's affections should ; borrow the appliance from some friendly doctor. Delaware reports the largest strawberry crop in its history. This is enjcouraging. Perhaps vhen the berries arrive at market they may be so numerous and large that a Quart box of them will be really a quart. The doughnut has been removed from the list of lndlgestibles by the 'Chicago school of domestic science. Taose who have ben forced to take tc their beds after eating them in the past, will now be able to partake in eaf-ity. . Another prominent man has beconu involved In trouble owing to the fact hat he had things in his trunk when he came back from Europe. Detter jleave the trunk3 at home and try to get along with a hand-satchel. j The Genoa hotel proprietor who (worked as a waiter to1 learn how a JCew York hotel is run, at last knows the inside workings of our tipping system. - New York city's rubbish last yea was worth $234,000. this amount not Including the receipts from the sewage dramas. Missionaries are still eaten by cannibals In the South Sea Islands, and yet the world do move in some spots.

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mMw mm AM. LANDIS QUASHES 1HD1CTMEMT FREES NATIONAL PACKING COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY FIRMS. Sustains Demurrer on Technical Grounds Orders Special Grand Jury for New Hearing. Chicago. The indictment against the National Packing company and it3 ten sudsidiary concerns charging them with conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, was knocked out Thursday when Judge Keneshaw M. Landis In the United States district court sustained the demurrer filed against the indictment by the so-called beef trust. A special venire of seventy-five men was ordered called for July. 14. From thi3 venire a grand jury will be drawn and a 6econd investigation of the packing companies begun. In his decision sustaining the demurrer to the government Indictment Judge Landis said: . "The most painstaking search of this indictment fails to disclose the presence of a charge that during the statutory period the defendants have engaged in, or had anything to do with interstate commerce, or that they done anything having any effect upon such commerce, and the court is not clothed with authority to supply, entirely by Inference, the complete omission of such a fundamental element of the offense. MThl3 fatal weakness might have been obviated by including the charge, had the evidence warranted it, that the defendants, or their respective officers or agents, did something, as, for instance, fixed prices, controlled output, divided territory, or the like, which effected a restraint of interstate commerce being carried on within the three years' period. "The general averment that the defendants engaged In a combination in restraint of interstate trade is, of course, a mere conclusion, and therefore Insufficient The demurrer must be sustained." GEN. FUNSTOM NEAR DEATH .rmy Officer Dangerously III of Heart Disease at His Home in Kansas. Leavenworth, Kan. Gen. Frederick Funston, commandant of tho army service schools here, is dangerously ill with an attack of heart disease at his home here. General Funston's condition, is such that the pest army physicians and the best-trained nurses in the hospital are in constant attendance upon him. Mrs. Funston; who is In California, was notified of the general's condition Friday. General Funston Is suffering from angina pectoris. It was learned that ho has been subject to slight heart trouble for some time, and It is believed that the heat of the last week brought on the present severe attack. MISS ROOSEVELT NOT TO WED Her Father Characterizes Story of Her Engagement as "Scandalous Infamy of a Scoundrel." New York. When former President Theodore Roosevelt motored to town from Oyster Bay he was not in the best of humor. A story had appeared in print to the effect that his daughter Ethel was engaged to James Thompson Williams, Jr., who was a recent visitor at Sagamore Hill. This the colonel denied, characterizing the report as the "scandalous infamy of ft scoundrel." Standard Reduces Oil Prices. New York. The wholesale prices for refined oil have been reduced from cne and. one-half cent3 to one cent a gallon by the Standard Oil company, making tho prevailing price throughout the country now seven and onehalf cents a gallon. The standard controls more than seventy per cent of the refined output of the country and it can readily be seen what such a reduction in price means to the great corporation. A. G. Spalding Out for Senate. Los Angeles, Cal. A. G. Spalding of San Diego, formerly of Chicago, head of the big Chicago sporting goods house, Saturday agreed to run for the United States senate providing the campaign Expenses are limited, and he can stay at home. Upholds Commission Form. Jackson, Tenn. The Tennessee supreme court Saturday rendered a decision declaring the Memphis charter bill constitutional and upholding the commission form of government. Steal $5,000 From a Bank. Eoston. Police are searching for thieves who stole $3,000 worth of Ausi trian and Italian paper currency from the private bank of Julius Kottenburg while the bank was crowded Friday. The money had been placed In a show window. Public Buildi-g Bill Passed. Washington. Tbe house adopted tho coruerence report on tho public buildings bill, which disri of th?.t measure. Tbe bill now goes to tbe president. Rainstorm Helps Crcpr. IleadAocu, rj. D. A rainstcin visited tho western part of South Dakota Thursday and benefited crop? in rn?n sections. Kast of Kap'.d Cty the fall wi'.s heavy. Reports reaching here are more favorable from all the grain districts. Fitched Bal! Kills Man. New York. George Darcey, a Staten Island policeman, died Thursday from injuries he received two weeks ago when he was struck In th abdomen by a pitched baseball

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I fl N. - f c nfi, rib es r TRIUMPH FOR AMERICANS German Campaign of Slander Against the Deutsche Vacuum Company Fails. Oil Berlin. Tho long and venomous campaign waged by German newspapers and rival industrial interests against one of the German branches of the Standard Oil company the Deutsche Vacuum Oil company has just been brought to a vicorious end for the Americans Involved. A well-known Hamburg newspaper for months printed such a series of attacks on the "American gsaft methods" alleged to have been practised by the vacuum company in the conduct of its German business that the public prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official Investigation with a view to eventual indictments. The prosecutor has now concluded' his investigation, especially of the work of E. L. Quarles, American manager of the German company's sale, department, and announces that no necessity exists for pursuing the Inquiry further. No evidence of anything warranting prosecution was found against Mr. Quarles, and the costs of the entire Inquiry will be borne by the state. The result of the investigation constitutes a notable triumph for American Interests in Germany. It is not the first time that Germans, finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms, have resorted to slander. SAY CHARLTON IS INSANE Alienists Who Examined Wife Murderer Declare He Is Irresponsible for His Acts. New York. Porter Charlton, selfconfessed slayer of his wife, Mrs. Mary Castle Charlton, whosu body, stuffed in a trunk ho tossed into Lake Como, Italy, may escape punishment for his crime. Powerful influences were put at work Friday to save the prisoner, now locked up in the Hudson county Jail at Jersey City, from being extradited to Italy. . r. Judge Charlton, the murderer's father, consulted with R. Floyd Clarke of tills city and former Senator William D. Edwards of Jersey City, whom he retained on Thursday after getting word at Washington of the arrest cf his son as he stepped from the stean:er Princess Irene at llobolfen. At this conference It was decided to fight the extradition proceedings urged by the Italian charge d'affaires In a cablegram to his government at Rome. The murderer's counsel have determined upon a defense of insanity to keep him from being removed from this country. Four alienists visited Charlton in his cell and watched him for five hours. When they emerged they said that he I3 without doubt insane and that his particular species of Insanity Is incurable. 45,000,000 EGGS IN POOL Speculators Form Corner In Product and Hope to Realiie Big Profits Next Winter. Newark, N. J. Forty-five million eggs have been shipped into this city since April 1 and placed in cold storage by the warehousemen, to remain there until the high prices of last winter are duplicated. They were purchased at an average price of 232 cents a dozen, and the total cost is about twenty-six cents a dozen. If the eggs can be retailed in New York next winter at 45 cents a dozen which they fetched last winter there will be a profit of 19 cents a dozen, or a total of something over $700,000. Actress Is Drowned. New York. An actress, known to the stage as Miss Marlon Dell Taylor, was drowned in the Hudson river when a small skiff in which she and three other theatrical people were riding was smashed by a barge. Miss Taylor's true name Is Marion Dell Snelder, and her parents live ia Kankakee, 111. Two Drowned In Rock River. Sterling, 111. A sailboat capsizing in the Rock rker Saturday resulted in the drowning of Milliard Haskell, aged nineteen, a graduate of the class of 1910 of the University of Illinois, and Clemment Weary, aged seventeen. Fire Destroys Jown of 300. Fond du Lac, Wis. Allenton, a town of about 200 population on the Soo railway in Washington county, was almost totally destroyed by fire Saturday. Rough estimates place the loss at from $23,000 to $10,000. 20,000 Cloakmakers Out. New York. Between 18,000 and 20,000 men and women cloakmakers struck Thursday and PYiday and union leaders declare that the number will be Increased next week to 30,000. The regular strike order Is expected before July 1. Gambling, Mayor Indicted. Granite City, 111. Charles . Uzzell, the mayor, was iml'rtcd Friday cn th? charg." "of malfeasance in oflice. It is allrgrd h permitted gambling houses to opt" rate. j Ex-German f.nvoy to De Executed. Santiago, Chile. Tho supreme ouit Wednesday confirmed tho tntonca ff death imposed cn Wil'ielm Kerkert, former chancellor of the German legation who killed a legation rmp'oye. Taft and ""ariF Praised. IIarrl3burg. Pa. Traisa of President Taft and of tho new tariff mark the platform adopted by tho Pennsylvania Usnublican convention Wednesday. John K. Tencr v. as nominated for got J

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION SIXTYFIRST CONGRESS COMES TO CLOSE. TAFTS PROGRAM IS PASSED President Signs Harbor Bill, But Objects to System in Vogue Gore's Bribe Charges to Se Probed During Recess. Washington. With rresident Taft's legislative program practically carried out in its entirety the first regular session of the Sixty-first congress adjourned sine die Saturday night, signed the rivers and harbors bill, but sent a message to congress indicating that he had made up his mind to do so practically at the last minute of time at his disposal, so far as that measure was concerned. Congress was warned that it must change its method of framing river and harbor improvement measures, and announcement is made that unless reforms which he suggests are carried out in future bills the withholding cf executive approval will be justified, even though a rivers and harbors till fall. The president also signed without comment the postal savings bank bill, the omnibus public building bill, the latter carrying authorization for improvements aggregating $23,000,000, but leaving the items of appropriation to be attended t.o later, in connection with the regular estimates of the treasury department with respect to work authorized by congress. There was little work remaining to be done when the two houses of congress mef for the last day of the session. Practically everything of importance had been attended to except the general deficiency appropriation bill, which had become involved in the charges of attempted bribery made by Senator Gore of Oklahoma. The upshot sC the recommitting of the last of the big appropriation measures to conference was the adoption of an amendment more drastic even that the Oklahoma senator had desired, providing that no contracts heretofore or hereafter made affecting the tribal money or property of the Indian tribes shall be approved until further action by congress. With this amendment, following the adoption of a resolution in the senate to have the Indian affairs committee Investigate the contracts involved in the Gore charges, the general deficiency bill was passed by both houses. The one thing left pending when congress adjourned was the Aypalachian forest reserve measure, upon which opponents in the senate prevented a vote. For ten days after 'the president reaches hls,summer home at Beverly, according to an ennouncement made at theSvhlto House, he will attend to no - business matters make no appointments ?nd have no political conferences, devoting the time to rest and recreailon. The only touch of excitement in the closing hours of the house cime when Representative McGuire of Oklahoma arose to a question of personal 'privilege and offered a resolution directing an investigation of the charges of fraud and britery in Indian contracts. A substitute amendment, offered by Representative Carter, more specific and stronger, was preferred by the house after promiscuous debate, which developed nothing of importance, except a widespread sentiment that a thorough inquiry should be made. After a fight which had lasted almost from the beginning of the session of congress just ended Representative Martin (Dem.) of Colorado succeeded'in securing aii investigation by congress of his charges of fraud and maladministration in the sale of friar lands In the Philippines and of the entire interior department of the Philippine government by the house committee on insular a If airs. 1,500 IN SHIP FIRE PERIL Four Dead, Number Seriously Injured and 400 Slightly Hurt Result of Burning of Excursion Steamer. La Crosse, Wis. Four persons are dead, a number seriously injured and about 4C0 slightly burned in attempting to escape from the burning hulk ol the excursion steamer J. y., with 1,500 passengers aboard, which caught fire Saturday, night in the Mississippi river 15 miles south of here. The ttory of the rescue as told is that the steamer, when it finally reached Pad Ax island, where the passengers were able to escape ashore, was burning so fiercely that only 20Q of the 1,500 aboard were able to go ashore on the gangplank. The other 1,200 or 1,300 passengers were forced to leap over the-rall into water four or five feet deep and wade ashore, suffering terribly until they were able to reach the main land. Congressman Boehnea Makes Gift. Evansville, Ind. Congressman John W. Boehnea Saturday made a donation to the Anti-Tuberculosis society of this city, making $10,000 'he has given the society in less than a year. 1 : Negro Stabs White Man on Car. St. Louis. Joseph Drlscoll, twentyeight years old. was stabbed to death Saturday by Judas Bates, a negro, during a quarrel on a street car. Bates accused Drlscoll of occupying too much space in the car. t Aviator Falls 100 Feet. London. Capt F. S. Cody, the aviator, while making a flight at Aldershot Thursday, fell from a height cf 100 feet aad was gravely injured. His r.ercplane was caught in a gust c? w'.mi and, becoming unmanageable, plunged to the ground. Cody was' pinned beneath the wreckage. Kaiser at Kiel Regatta. K'ol. Cermariy. Kmpercr William anivf A Ur." Thuday cn the imperil yacht II.:..;nzo:i'Tn to attend the" annual yr.r ntir.g regatta. Mrs. Taft Off for Beverly. Washii gton. Mrs. Taft, wifo'of tbe president, left Washington Wednesday fcr New York on her way to the suirner White House at Beverly She passed the night in New Yo-k'with relatives and then left for Boston Matches Kill Two Children ireiell. -rex.play,ng ' resulted in the t eath here Wednesday of two little sons cf J. o. Taylo?. aged two and foui y3arS. The boys were starting a Ire when their clolhe. becamo igniter.

POSTAL BASIC 01LL PASSED

TAFT'S "BIG STICK" POLICY BRINGS SENATE TO TERMS. Disposal of he Deposits Was the Main Issue on Which Senators Clashed. Washington. Lacking only the slg-' nature of President Taft to become a law, the final step toward postal savings was taken Wednesday when the senate concurred in the house postalsavings bank after voting down a number of amendments. President Taft's action In assuming a "big-stick" policy is regarded as having made the vote a certainty. Th vote was 44 to 25. The bill now goes to President Taft without a conference. On the main Issue of the legislation relating to the disposal of deposits in postal banks the house bill concurred ia by the senate provides that 65 per cent, may be redeposited in the local banks and 30 per cent, may bo used for the purchase of bonds backed by the taxing power of the national government. There is nothing arbitrary about either of these provisions, however. Five per cent, of the deposits will be retained as a reserve fund. As security for deposits In local banks, bond3 backed by national, state and municipal government and other securities approved by the trustees may ne used. The house bill creates a board of trustees consisting of tho postmaster general, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general, who are vested with discrimination In the administration of the system, including tho designation of post offices as postal-savings banks. Deposits in these banks by one person shell not extend more than $100 a month, or a total of $000, on which interest shall be paid at tho rate of two per cent, a year. An account may be opened with one dollar, but stamps may be purchased In the denomination of ten cents for those desiring to accumulate money to be deposited. At the request of the depositor government bonds in amount of $20, $40, $60. $S0, $100 and $500 may bo purchased with his deroslt. the bonds to bear Interest at 2Y2 per cent. These bonds will cover a refunding of the $64,000,000 of three. per cent, government bonds outstanding and a new issue of Panama canal bonds. Th9 banks will be reqoired to pay 2 per cent interest on postal-bank funds deposited with them. GOV. HARMON RENOMINATED Pfan to Pledge Candidate for Senate Defeated in Ohio Democratic Convention. Dayton, O. The following resolution, indorsing Gov. Judson Harmon for the presidency in 1912, was adopted by the Ohio Democratic convention after the renomination cf Mr. Harmon for governor by acclamation: "We Invite the attention of the nation to Judscn Harmon and the work he is doing for Ohio. Two years hence It will have been completed, then we can spare him for larger duties. He believes that guilt Is personal -I3 acting on that belief at home, and would act upon It in larger iields. A high sense of duty provides his enly motives for official actions and his sense of Justice alone compels judgment. Firmness and strength mark him the man to supplant vacillation and weakness. The nation needs a real man, and the Ohio Democracy here presents and Indorses for the presidency in 1912 Judson Harmon." Atlee Pomerene of Canton was nominated for lieutenant governor on the second ballot and the vote was made unanimous without finishing the roll call. The proposition to Indorse a candidate for United States senator was defeated by a vote of 84Q to 254. WEDDED IN RUNAWAY MATCH Second Daughter of Mayor Gaynor Becomes Bride of Harry Vingut In Wilmington, Del. . Wilmington, Del. Miss Edith Augusta Gaynor, second daughter of Major Gaynor of New' York city, and Harry Keimit Vingut, millionaire horseman, clubman and society man of that city, eloped to this dty and were wedded by Rev. Dr. Gecrgo L. Wolfe of the First Methodist Protestant church, in the office of Andrew C. Gray, attorney general of Delaware. 20 MEXICAN SOLDIERS SLAIN Four Cars of Transport Train Are Wrecked After Wild Dash Down Steep Grade. Mexico City. Twenty federal soldiers are reported to have been killed and many more than that number Injured when fcur cars of a train In which the troops were being transported on the Manzanlllo line of tho national railway In the State of Gollma broke loose from the locomotive and dashed down a steep grade. Mrs. Glover Is Acquitted. Cambridge, Mass. Judgo Stevens Friday ordered the Jury t3 return a ve.-dltt of not guilty In the cases of Mrs. Lillian Gbver and six ethers, charged with being accessories , after the fact to the murder of Clarence F. Glover of Waltham. Boston and Maine in Increase. Doston. Twenty-five hundred employes of. the Iioston and Maine railroad were Friday granted an advance in wage-3 ranging from 5 to 23 cents a day. Greece Dows to Roumania. Pucharest, Roumania. Tho Greek government Thursday granted the demands of the Roumanian foreign office in satisfaction of the recent incident at tho Piraeus, when a Greek mob attacked a Roumanian mall steamer. Hear Bakers in Flour Trial. Kansas City, Mo. Millers and baker1; trstilieu at tho bleached fiour trial Thur&ciiy in opposition to the gov rnmcnfä chaise that tho process cf bl- aching fluur adulterates iL

Confesses Killing Johnson. Portland, Ore. Jesse II. Webb confessed to tho killing of W. A. Johnson, whoso bedy was found in a trunk in 'ho Union station in this city Tuesday. Webb, in a signed statement to tlie pclice, said he killed Johnson in self-defense after a brawl between tie two men in the latter's room In a downtown hotel. Mrs. D. W. Kersch, who wan arrested with Webb, is exonerated frcm complicity In the crime by the confessed shyer, v. ho charges, however, that she conspired with him la placing th body in the trunk.

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BOLD JOB IS PULLED OFF ON OREGON SHORT LINE. ALL PASSENGERS DISGORGE Brakeman Is Shot and One Woman Hurt When Earrings Are Taken. Ogden, Utah. Three masked bandits held up the second section of the Oregon Short Line train No. 1, leaving Ogden at 1:00 o'clock in the morning, at Second street, in the northern part of this city. All of the passengers were relieved of their valuables and the express messenger was compelled ' to deliver the contents j of his safe. .The exact amount the robbers obtained has not been determined. , Two . passengers and two trainmen were injured. The robbers drove to Second street from Ogden in a buggy. They stopped the train by placing railroad torpedoes on the tracks. When the engineer brought the train to a stop the head brakeman went forward to ascertain the cause of the delay and was struck with a revolver by one of the robbers. He was then taken at the point of a gun to the express car and compiled to call the messenger to open the door. As soon as the door was opened one of the bandits crawled ia and commanded the messenger to open the safe. Brakeman is Shot. After rifling the safe the robbers turned their attention to the coaches. As they started for the coaches Rear Brakeman X. U. Franklin was met as he was .m his way forward. The train robbers commanded him to halt, but he disregarded the order and two shots were fired at him. lie then stopped and one of the bandits knocked him down. Franklin rolled into a ditch, where he feigned, unconsciousness. After seeing that he was not watched, he jumped up and ran three blocks to the home of Deputv Sheriff John Hütchens, whom he aro used and informed of tbe robbery. The deputy hurried to the scene, arriving just as the train pulled out for the north. When Conductor Williams left the train he was covered by one robber and ordered back into a coach. O'ie of the desperadoes stood guard over Engineer Kirkwood, the other two with revolvers drawn went through the train ordering each passenger to hand over his valuables. Ear Rings Torn Out. One woman, Mr. J. II. Hall, was relieved of a pair of diamond ear rings, which were torn from, her ears. Ä. foreigner whose name was not learned was assaulted by the robbers. The man did not understand what was oing on and wa3 brutally beaten with fhe butt of a revolver. After the train bad been robbed the bandits fired a fusillade of shots in the air to terrorize the passengers. They got into their buggy and disappeared. Sheriff Wilson gathered a small posse and started in pursuit. There was nearly one hundred passengers on the train, every or 2 of whom lost something. DESPERADO IS CAPTURED Georgia Man Who Killed Three Men and Wounded Three' Is Shot. Atlanta, Ga. W. H. Bostwick, the desperado who killed three men and wounded three at his home near Occilla, wtis found dying in his barricaded home when the Fitzgerald company of the National guard captured the house. He expired within an hour. The five children who were in the house with him were rescued uninjured. It is supposed that a bullet fired during, the fight with posses struck him. Sheriff J. P. Mcintosh died about the same time as Hostwick. The Fitzgerald company upon its arrival promptly rushed to the house which had been the scene of a fierce Are of bullets all night. For fear o hurting tie children, the sol-, diers did not fire. They assembled on all four sides of the house, two hundred yards away and at the command "Forward" mover upon the place at double time. The first one kicked in the doors and with drawn revolvers entered. Hostwick was found on the floor unconscious. The children terrified, huddled near. The father had kept them on the floor all night and thus they had escaped the bullets. It was reported at first that the guardsmen had killed Hostwick, but tliis was denied later. The man lived for over an hour, but the country ieaple were not told he was alive. Autoist Burned to Death in Machine. St. Louis. Mo. Robert O. Abel was burned to death and Frederick Abel, his brother, and Harry Jessom, were burned and bruised when an automobile, in which they were riding ran into a ditch, capsized and burned in St. Louis county. Insurgents Take Nicaraguan Towns. Blueficlds. Nicaragua. A column of ti-o provisional forces under General Arsenio Cruz has captured La Libertad and Juigalpa, important towns in the department of Chontales. This column is part of Gen. Menu's army. t . Fireman Overcome by Heat. Columbus. Ind. L. J. Applegate of Jefferson ille, a Pennsylvania fireman, was overcome by the heat and taken to the hospital here. Battle Among New York Chinks. New York. The furtive Tong war sleeps hut never dies in spite of threats, promises and solemn treaties, broke out recently In the little triangle of narrow streets just off the lower bowery known as Chinatown. In ninety seconds three Chinamen wer shot, two of them fatally, a third was painfully wounded, and more than forty shots from heavy calibre revolvers spattered against the bricks. In three minutes following seven Chinamen were arrested. Indianapolis Man Killed by Car. Indianapolis, Ind. Alonzo Ft. Kitchen, the owner, of a restaurant aud bakery at C Massachusetts avenue, was crushed to death by a College avenue car in front of his place of business. He walked in front of the car according to witnesses. Trusted Cashier Is Short $33,000. Oakland. Cal.Lland II. Prarnard. for a number of years cashier of the Oaklandw branch of the Sperry Flour company, is in the city prison accused of embezzling $33,000 from the firm. Barnard has confessed his shortage.

WOMAN ELECTED JUSTICE

Mrs. Mary Phares of Clinton, Second of Her Sex to Hold Illinois Office. Bloomington, 111. niinols second woirxn Justice of the peace, Mrs. Mapjr Phares of Clinton, whose, camVsk was started as a joke, and who ' did not know she was a candidate un til notified of her election, has qualified for the position and hung out her shingle. She is now ready to deal with any malefactor who may be haled before her, or will serve papers, etc., for whomsoever may apply. She is diligently reading up In law and in the statutes which relate to the duties of justice of the peace and now that she ha the job, proposes to go the limit and learn everything about the position that can be unearthed. "It was started In fun," said Jus tice Phares, when asked about ber new post. "Last winter, Attorney L. O. Williams casually remarked, In my hearing, that he was going to see that I was elected justice of the peace, when the first vacancy on the board appeared. He said he thought I knew as much about weighing evidence and deciding controversies as the average masculine justice. I supposed he was joking and laughingly told him to go ahead and that it was all right with me. f, "The subject never entered my mind again until the night of the election, when I was astounded by the information that I had been elected. I received 52 votes. You must consider this a good showing, as I did absolutely no electioneering. Mr. Williams quietly spread the word around among his acquaintances and admonished them to say nothing about it. My name was written on the ballot and even the election judges did not know what was up, until they commenced to count alter the polls had closed. T was at home all day, while the election was In progress, little dreaming that I was being elected justice of the peace. If ever an office came unsought, this one did. I have since been busy thanking my friends for their remembrance. Perhaps If I had conducted a campaign, I would have polled 'more votes, but I am satisfied and will try to be a just Judge for alP the people. 4 "It will appear a little odd, at first, to give up household duties and officiate at trials. I may even be called upon to marry people. I will. have to brush up on the marrying code. I ought to do a rushing business, as brides will not object to me kissing them, as in the case of some of the masculine justices that I know of." Justice Phares is a widow, her husband, the late Frank Phares, having been a well-known and prominent citizen of Clinton. Mrs. Phares is unusually well educated, is highly intellectual and well read and her friends believe that she will be a fearless justice. HEADS AMERICAN PRINTERS James M. Lynch, Re-elected President of International Typographical Union, Remarkable Organizer. Indianapolis. James M. Lynch, who has been re-elected president of the International Typographical union, has been at the head of that organization since 1900. He is a leader of conJames M. Lynch. servative tendencies and has shown remarkable lower of organization since he began, at the completion of his apprenticeship as a printer, to take part in labor union affairs. Born at Manlius, N. Y., in 1867, he lived many yeais in Syracuse, N. Y., where he was for seven terms president of the Syracuse Trade assembly and a member of tho city board of fire commissioners. In 1899-1900 Mr. Lynch was the first vice-president of the International Typographical union. Negligent Guard in Jail. .Nogales, Ariz. Lieutenant Ilermolsslle, in charge of the guard when Louis Fleischner, American banker and land owner, made his sensational escape from the Mexican prison, across the border, has .been thrown into a dungeon, to begin a long punishment for allowing the American to get away. Not a Questioner. "I never ask Impertinent questions." "Judging by the general intelligence you display you never ask any other kind, either." Gutta Percha. Gutta percha Is the dried nilky juice of the trees of the genus Sapotaceae, chiefly of the species Palanquium and Tayena, the habitat of which is the Malay Archipelago, more particularly Borneo, Sumatra and Malacca, Duty to Self. Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; he noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self-made laws. The Ktvjidah.

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Medical Practiticner Are No Longer Rigorously Excluded from the Harem. The attilude of the hanoums to med leal practitioners has changed much 3f recent years. Twenty or SO yeaia igo no Turkish woman would ever aave submitted to a physical examination by a doctor. All he could have persuaded her to do would be to show him her tongue through rent in the yashmak or let him touch her pulse from behind a heavy :urtain and in presence, of course, of in argus-eyed eunuch or old female lave. Any attempt to apply a stethoscope to the chest would have been spurned is an impertinent presumption of western "barbarism." No matter how severe the Illness the medical Man could not go beyond certain strict limits of Islamatic usage and traditional custom. Even In cases of Imminent danger to life these scanty limits were never flowed to be overStepped, and the belief In the incantations of a priest and the house remelies of old, ignorant and superstitious women held unlimited sway and was always greater than the faith In the efficacy of medical skill and science. This is now changing, and changing rapidly. There are of course still many exceptions where antiquated views and conceptions are fanatically adhered to znd practised, but these become rarer ind rarer with each advancing year. Many Turkish women will now when ill voluntarily call on a medical praclltion?r and never hesitate to submit themselves to a thorough physical examination. j The general public opinion v on these matters among the Turks Is fast altering fer the better and only in very rare cases Is there nov any difficulty at all raised as to letting the hanoum submit to an examination with stethoscope or ether Instrument. In the Chorus. What's it like to be in the chorus? "Perfectly fascinating!" thinks the shopgirl s she measures off another y&iä'oL percale and pictures herself in pink tighte. "Awful!" nemarks the prima donna with a lock of disgust that forbids, all reference to her own days among the spear carriers. "Remunerative," suggests the cynic, recalling the inexhaustible' supply of Pittsburg millionaires ready to thrust riches upon the airy little fairies of the ballet. "Dangerous," urgos the moralls with his mind on stage entrances ana champagne suppcs. "Impossible!" snaps the woman in society. "A foothold on the ladder, to fame,' declares the manager, wisely. "Great!" says the chörus girL That Is translating freely Into her own language. It's great If she happens to be' In right with an easy berth in. a good company. But if she's lashed to a bum outfit where she has to hustle to corral three squares a day, it's rotten. Women Get Wireless Fever. Women who are now employed as operators In the "wire companies are getting the wireless fever. Many are experimenting with home made apparatus, while others besiege the commercial wireless companies for jobs. The manager of one Chicago station says he has had to refuse a number of women applicants in the last few months. "They come," he says, "with, only a smattering of the knowledge necessary, and av Indignant when refused jobs as operators. Even the few who have acquired sufficient skill I will not employ because they are too prone to be temperamental and under the tension which the operators' work would acquire 'nerves' too quickly. "There is perhaps only one woman, who is a wireless operator on a boat. She Is on cne of the Pacific boats running between San Francisco and Seattle." Minister Joins in the Laugh. Araorfg the passengers on the moving stairway at the Thirty-third street station of the Sixth avenue elevated railroad one day recently was a maa whose attire Indicated very plainly that he was a clergyman. A merry twinkle in his ej'e and a smile playing about the corner of his mouth proved that his serious occupation did not prevent him from enjoying a laugh when the occasion offered. The sevea or eight assorted citizens who were taking the easiest way to the platform were surprised when he said: ' "Wouldn't it be a grand thing if we could all get to heaven as easy as this?" "If we could, answered a fat man, "you fellows would lose your Jobs." And the clergyman laughed as loudly as the rest. New York World. Spirit-Pickled. Spirits have come into communication in strange ways on this mundan sphere, according to the earnest delvers into the psychic lore, but Mrs. Jones, who lives in a western state. had the strangest revelation of all. She was sitting at her work table one day when her arm felt the Irresistible Impulse to write. She took pencil and paper and hurriedly transcribed a message from the other world, which directed the' best manner In which calves tongues should be cured, pickled and canr.yd. She obtained a patent on the process and, with ghostly Inspiration at her elbow, she built a small factory and for several years conducted the traffic In canned calves tongue with distinction and profit Singularly Appropriate. When John Barrett pulled off his great stunt the dedication of the new building for the Bureau of American Republics jjnong other 'tVngs he had a tree planted by rrefJSent Taft in the patio, the space Ip the center of the building forming a court. Everybody wanted to fee the president plant the tree and there was a stretching of necks and standing on tiptoes to see the performance. . "You may not know," remarked former Governor Magoon of Cuba to a circle of friends, "that they have very appropriately selected a rubber tree for this ceremony." And those who heard him stopped "rubbering." First Need for Humanity. Without tolerance, sympathy, and L.oad-mindedPess there can be neither historical equity nor common, everyday justice and fairness, and until we get these indispensable requisites we are surely In no position to sit ia Judgment on our fellow-men. Baltimore Sun. Each Requires Sustenance A house Is no houze unless It otmtain food and fire for tie mind as well as for & body. Mar caret fIlox C soli.