Walkerton Independent, Volume 29, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 January 1904 — Page 2

v uiOcnt. XV. A. nijlCY, I'ubllHhor. WALKERTON. - - - INDIANA. —8 55 ' CIRCLING THE GLOBE Eastern seaboard and a large inland area have been in the grip of the bitterest cold that has prevailed in many years. Transportation ami communication were seriously erippled, and in NewYork and other cities the poor suffered severely. A record of loss by tire in the United States and Canada for the jear just closed, compiled by the New York .Journal of Commerce, shows a total of $156.195.700. This is the largest total loss since 1893, with the exception of 1900 and 1901. The will of former Congressman Jas. J. Belden, of Syracuse, N. Y., gives the widow $1,000,000 of the $5,000,000 estate. Local institutions get $325,000, of which SIOO,(KM* goes to the Syracuse University and $50,000 to the Syracuse College of Medicine. Prompt work of firemen prevented a panic and possible loss of life among the 600 girl employes when the textile mills of VV. T. Smith & Sons at Philadelphia were discovered on tire. The girls were ^ tMrescued byway of the fire escapes. Prop trty loss, $25,000. , The Ohio Legislature has enacted two a-cjc mie increasing the lieu/tenaut gov-

ernor’s saTary Tram u’ iSjJtpO. pe^ annum and the other placing the governor's staff on a military basis. The bills are the first to go to a governor the State vested with veto power. The Schuylkill County. Pa., courts will endeavor to block what is believed to be a concerted effort to secure the naturalization of several thousand foreign mine workers before the presidential election. All applicants must prove that they took no part in the strike riots last year. Traction car No. 2004 of the Knoxville & Mount Oliver line got beyond control of the motorman while descending Monastery hill in Pittsburg, Pa., and iafter colliding with two wagons jumped 'the rails and was wrecked at the foot of the hill. Conductor Edward Redlinger. Motorman Nicholas Jacobs and foflr passengers were seriously hurt. M hen the police forced open the door of Joseph Koehler's home in Buffalo, N. Y., to arrest him on a petty charge, they •found him lying on the floor with a bullet wound in his neck. In another room 'was the body of his wife, Annie, 30 years old. She had bled' to death. Koehler was alive, but weak. At the hospital Koehler said that he and his wife had quarreled and he killed her. Twenty-six men arrested in Telluride. Colo., by the military authorities, including former Attorney General Eugene Eugley. counsel for the Telluride Miners’ Union; Guy E. Miller, president of the union, and J. C. Williams, vice president of the Western Federation of Miniers, were placed on board a north-bound train and taken beyond the boundaries of San Miguel County under military guard. BREVITIES, The Kev. J. M. Beard, of San Francisco. died suddenly at the Terminal Hotel in St. Louis. The famous old mercantile landmark, “Ridley’s Corner,’’ in New York, was destroyed by fire.

from a burning school at Arnold, Pa., marching out in regular order. Minister Allen at Seoul has advised the State Department in Washington that the Empress Dowager of Corea died on the morning of Jan. 2. Forty thousand wage-earners have been given employment during the last two weeks by the resumption of iron and steel mills in the Pittsburg district. Mrs. Frank Cummins was found dead from gas fumes in her home at McKeesport. Pa. Her husband and his partner, W. E. Weaver, were found unconscious. r J. E. Marcell, cashier of tiie bank of Ifi;rhlands, Kan., was arrested on a I Grand Island train at Troy. Kan., on a charge of forging notes aggregating $30,000. William Tucker, a Baltimore clubman, who disappeared last summer, leaving SOOO,OOO of paper indorsed by his mother, has been located in Brazil, where he is working in a mine. Human life is safer in Kentucky, even in Breathitt County, than it is at night in the streets of New York or Chicago, declares Governor Beckham in his message to the Legislature. A national convention, to be composed of representatives of Jewish societies, will be held in Washington within a month to take action toward moving a million Jews from Russia. Nearly 18.000 men have been laid off in the last three months by fifteen railroads centering in Chicago. Seven other lines have laid off a large number of employes on account of the season. ■ The Business Men’s League of St. Louis has decided to make a vigorous effort to secure the National Democratic convention for that city and has appointed a committee to present its claims. Alfred A. Knapp., penitentiary at Columbus. Ohio, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, was granted a new trial by Judge Swing of Hamilton. Fire gutted the Mount Royal Club, the most exclusive club of Montreal. One fireman was killed by falling timbers and another was badly injured. Col. Liardet, secretary of the club, sustained injuries from which he died later. Rock Island train No. 3, a fast passenger train, was wrecked in a collision four miles from Topeka, Kan. Engineers Reardon and Benjamin were killed. More than a dozen passengers were fatally hurt. T. J. Crawford, night watchman in the Cushman motor factor}’ in Lincoln, Neb., was burned to death in the factory. He was sitting at a desk, sleeping, with his lantern on the floor at his side, and it is supposed the lantern exploded and Crawford was burned to death before he could get help. The building was not badly damaged. Daisy Gee, a trick bicycle rider, went insane after her arrival in Knoxville, Tenn., the other day raved over her sweetheart and injured five policemen before she was overpowered. She used a cuspidor as a weapon, breaking the nose of one officer as she struck him with the receptacle. As the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton express for Toledo was pulling out of Dayton Ida Follett rushed into the chair car, exclaiming. “I have caught you at last.” She stabbed an unknown man with a dirk, but not seriously, and attempted to stab Lola Morton, who sat in the adjoining chair. She then probably •fatally wounded herself.

EASTERN. A slight fire in the Murray Hill Hotel, I New York, started a panic among the guests. The office of the Mayor of New York City was formally turned over to George B McClellan by Seth Low on New Year’s day. The fishing schooner Bell J. Neal, Captain F. J. Carter, with a crew of six, went on the rocks near Hull, Mass., but the men were saved. The coroner's jury in the death of Mrs. Agnes M. Leiby at Allentown. Pa., found that she fell out of bed and sustained a wound that caused her death. A. H. Hummel, a New York attorney who has been employed in many divorce suits, says that there are from 500 to 1,000 homes in the city where husband and wife do not speak to each others The famous “Little Church Around the Corner” in New York was threatened by flames that attacked the rectory adjoining. The rector and his household battled with fire until the engines arrived. 'l’he will of the late Peter B. Brigham, of Boston, who left $5,000,000 toward founding a hospital to bear his name, is sustained by a decision handed down by Justice Colt in the United States Circuit Court. Investigation of the affairs of the Bank of Staten Island at Stapleton, N. J., shows that SIBO,OOO in bonds are missing. This is believed to account for the suicide of Otto Ahlmann, owner of the bank. The women's wing of the Taunton, Mass., insane iyauifariut anght tire about 11-30 n’ch-wt t " kite

ttr.w o ciock t w There were 500 v ..aents in . department when the fire broke out. The first annual report of the manager of the municipal electric light and gas plant in Holyoke, Mass., shows a profit to the city of $7,159, after deducting 5 per cent interest on the entire valuation of the plant and an additional 5 per cent for depreciation. Mrs. Jennie M. Gay, widow of the late Thomas Gay of Attleboro, Mass., committed suicide in her room in the I’ark Hotel with a revolver. Mrs. Gay arrived the previous night from Chicago, where she had been a nurse since the death of her husband. She leaves considerable property.

WESTERN. William Graves shot and killed his wife at Portal, N. I). George W. Adams, formerly a Chicago insurance adjuster, committed suicide at Tiffin, Ohio. Captain Frederick Pabst, noted among the brewers of the United States, died at his home in Milwaukee Friday. All the livery establishments of Chicago are again open, the employers agreeing to reinstate the striking drivers. Jerome Sykes, leading man of “The Billionaire,” playing in Chicago, died of pneumonia at the Hotel Stratford in that city. Burglars smashed the plate glass front of Parry Goldberg's jewelry store at Cleveland and escaped with $750 worth of watches and rings. The Chicago-Louisville train on the Monon ran into a covered milk wagon just west of Hammond, Ind., fatally injuring the throe Occupants. Bishop Fallows of Chicago denounces Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, head of the Christian Science Church in America, as a plagiarist and one given to self-lauda-tion. ■' Ar:.. x m ... vi -o

BU ed John Tully, a soldier, to hang on Feb. 26 for the murder of Thomas Kennedy at Fort Missoula on Oct. 18 last. Gov.-elect Herrick of Ohio, who has a son at Harvard, says the boy will be expected to earn his own living ami will not be permitted to become a social butterfly. Annie Schenk of Garland, Ohio, and Clara Seibell of Folk. Ohio, were seriously scalded by the bursting of steam pipes in Henry Schenk’s greenhouse in Elkhart, Ind. By an order of Mayor Harrison all theaters in Chicago have been closed until such a time as the playhouse managers comply with every provision of the building laws. Joseph Spivey, who wounded four people at Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 1, while resisting arrest, and narrowly escaped lynching, was sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. Samuel Olsen and Fred Dryvel were killed and Foreman John Penaluma overcome by gas in Butte, Mont., by an explosion that appears to have been deliberately planned. Three men were probably fatally and four others seriously scalded as the result of the explosion of an eight-inch steam pipe in the Kundtz Cabinet works at Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. John Alexander Dowie departed from Zion City Friday on his world trip, which is expected to take six months. He was accompanied to the station by thousands. Believing that the Chicago police were after him, William Wintz surrendered himself to the police in Toledo, Ohio, stating that he robbed a man of S3O in Chicago not long ago. William Sheaver, a bartender, and Mrs. Clara Collins, met death by asphyxiation in a lodging house in Columbus, Ohio, the result t of ß Qnj«ono”s Mrs. Mvra Jaue Williams was sentenced the penitentiary at Stillwater for life by Judge McClenahan at Brainerd, Minn., for the murder of her little daughter, Lilly, on Aug. 23 last. Within the last few days, Minneapo.is mills have booked almost 100,000 barrels of flour for export to Japan. There have been further inquiries reported, and it is not unlikely more business will result. A special from Minot, N. D., says: W. C. Putnam, aged 50 years, cashier of the bank at Lansford, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The affairs of the bank are said to be in good condiition. The city board of engineers of St. Louis. Mo., revoked the license of Edward S. Forman, chief engineer in charge of the transit company’s power house, where seven men were killed in a boiler explosion Dec. 21. Between 500 and 600 men, women and children met a fearful death at the new Iroquois Theater in Chicago—burned, suffocated or trampled under foot —following a fire which was caused by the explosion of a calcium light. Grant Travis, an oil pumper, and William Helpen, a lineman, were found frozen to death near Findlay, Ohio. Helpen had fallen from a pole and sprained his hip. The temperature had ranged from 10 to 20 degrees below zero. Highwaymen held up 11. A. Cochrane, station agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton Railway at Glendale, 0., securing $350 in money and valuable papers. Cochrane was found lying on the floor in an unconscious condition. Isaac Gravelie, convicted of sending threatening letters to the Northern Pa- - ♦

I clfic Railway Company, was sentenced 1 Helena, Mont., to ten years in the peni\ : tentiary ami to pay a fine of $5,000. This\ is the maximum penalty for the crime. t Fire attacked the stately lowa capitol ’ at Des Moines and damage of $500,000 resulted. Gov. Cummins took charge of the firemen and after a hard fight the building, with the exception of the north wing, was saved, though long considered doomed. Dr. Edward Dolan, a prominent young physician of Worthington, Minn., is dead from a drink of carbolic acid taken by mistake. Feeling ill, Dr. Dolan opened his medicine case in the dark, took from it a phial containing the poison, thinking it a remedy. About the hour of the now year twins, daughter and son, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Brown, of Versailles, Ohio. Just before 1903 passed into history the daughter was born and a few minutes after the new year 190-1 was ushered in the son was born. Guards in the Cook county jail in Chicago discovered what is believed to have been an attempt to escape on the part of one of the car barn bandits. Bars in Emil Roeski’s cell were found to have been sawed in two and bent away. The saw cannot be found. I*. I*. Steiner and four other members of the Mennonite Church at Buttington, Ohio, brought suit against John Baer, pastor of the congregation, asking an injunction to restrain him from ousting them from their positions as trustees and members of the church. The infant of George Mrosky, now confined in the county jail at Laporte Ind., charged with brutal treatment of his family, died at Michigan City. Investi-

gation is' said to have disclosed the fact .that its~9eath was"dne'irrT'.^’cct. The WIWuXOM.! I ' Hi ■ i tut - The trial of the ten pupils of Bluffton, Ind., high school, charged with assault and battery on Ralph Mcßride, ended with a verdict of acquittal. McBride died several months after initiation into the L. of S. S. B. fraternity, and the State failed to show that his death was due to the severe hazing of the initiation. Mayor Harrison on Friday ordered the closing of eighteen Chicago theaters and concert halls in the downtown and out- ' lying districts, the specific reason being | that the stages were not provided with i asbestos curtains. Various reforms will be demanded before the theaters are permitted to reopen. New Year’s dav in

......kv. vv lll'pVll. A till » UUJ 111 Chicago was given over to burial of the dead, more than one hundred funerals taking place. The customary celebrations were all given up and a Sabbath j stillness prevailed. FOREIGN. Japan has notified the powers that the situation in the far East is critical and that she is preparing for the worst. Two additional warships have been purchased and negotiations are under way for others. It is reported that the White Star line has ordered a steamer 755 feet long —thirty feet longer than the Baltic—the । largest ship in the world. Construction of the vessel, it is added, will begin im- j mediately at Belfast, Ireland. The authorities believe that General Ricarte, the exiled Filipino rebel who is wanted by the government for an attempted dynamite outrage and who recently returned by stealth to the islands, is organizing a new Katipnnan society. Paris witnessed the other day the successful operation of a trackless train. At ; the end of the test the train stopped at the Elysee palace and the inventors received the felicitations of President Lou- _ bet. The train v ‘- । ■—■ —- ■ -

, carriage similar to an ordinary automo- i . bile and live cars. The discovery consists । ; in the transmission of sufficient motive | power from the carriage to move each • The Hague correspondent of Le Petit ; । Bleu of Brussels, one of the best inform- I ed newspapers on political matters, re- | ports that although the decision of the i international arbitr ttion court in the ' Venezuelan ease will not be published i before February, it is believed in circles in a'position to judge that the decision has been drawn up and that the court will deny the contention of the blockading nations—Great Britain. Germany and Italy—tq be regarded as privileged creditors" of Venezuela. IN GENERAL. Secretary Wilson says there can be no panic while the farmers of the United States are making money ns now. Dun’s Weekly Review of Trade says that business men express confidence in the future, especially South and West. Theater managers in New York and St. Louis have been notified that the city . .

ordinances will be enforced strictly in the future. American warship was on Friday reported to have sunk the Colombian gunboat General Pinzon in a naval battle in the Gulf of Darien. Bradstreet’s annual review predicts a year of satisfactory conservative business for 1904, following the severe strains put upon the industrial and speculative communities in 1903. President Roosevelt transmitted a special message to Congress Monday, in which he pleaded for an isthmian canal and explained why the United States recognized the republic of Panama. President Roose , Senate the homi^ wt^ Idso nominated Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, to be civil governor of the Philippine Islands and Henry C- Ine, of Vermont, to be vice civil governor of the Philippine Islands, lu an interview the other day Gen. Nelson A. Miles said that 1904 would witness the greatest war in the history of the world. He said: “I predict that 1904 will be signalized by one of the world’s greatest wars. It will be between Russia and Japan, and the conflict may involve several European nations, but I do not believe the United States will be dragged into it.” Protest against a naval training station at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, is to be lodged by Canada with Great Britain. The ground is that such a station is in violation of the treaty stipulations of the Ruslr-Bagot treaty between Canada and the United States signed in 1817, which prevents the construction of warships on the lakes. In view of this Congress will be asked to abrogate the treaty, which can be done upon six months' notice by either party. The following summary of train and stage robberies committed in the United States during 1903, together with the record for the last fourteen years, has been compiled: The total number of trains held up in fourteen years is 341; total number of people killed, 99; and the number of people wounded, 109. The number of trains held up in 1903 was 13, as compared with 22 in 1902. The number of stage robberies in 1903 was 5, while that of 1902 was 7. The year's record shows that no passengers or trainmen were killed by robbers, but there were 6 wounded. In 1902 1 was killed and 3 wounded. One robber was killed in 1903, as compared with 3 killed in 1902.

" CITY BOWED IN GRIEF \CHICAGO MOURNS VICTIMS OF \ THEATER HORROR. Co A . 1 'Vtinuonß Procession of Funerals in the\ y , B Streets—Bells Toll KneP of TheA i) ea j„i)i K Graves at NijjhxAll . \\ters Closed Indefinitely. . / Chical f three da\ . , x . . .J _ hearses IV° 1S a Clty of mourinr / For theater hV' s a coutil ,10US ProceOMbn of •’rive" MV re 1111 n Fled bodie/ of the engo SundaXr r 01 ’ v * cti,lls to tb # .^^wy divin an \V re f unerl * s were held in (hr the burial pel thaler before/n a single ment, 256 bodiV’ 0 ’ "ty. local cemeteries' ' 1 he health departOs these 226 w. ’e bur/d that day in had lost their live of tow l U ’ ter fire. Funeral: t b ? s *"' bo Friday, when eigi nWe Iroquois TheaOne hundred and i '• f re victims began terred Saturday."-. were bnn ® d ' en over to burials, lety-seven were insaid over 512 of the thrce days glv ‘ have been placed ~^ al s o e ™ c * 3 Y" e grounds and 229.' 253 °5 wh . lch But eighty X burying identified rem a ‘^stance, consigned to th< an d slx un " the identified < onday to be Tuesday. “« places. Funerals beg interred y Saturday morn „ .. _ , crisp sound of a the ,l s 7 :30 o’clock snow, they lin ’cloct’Av Jong, with cemeteries in i nnchmg on the cession. Mart he eeets , leadlnK t 0 into their gn unbroken pro-•*-<rc not lowered ( after sundown. >44n -Gwic eland, £ \y in Forest Home. fternoon thirty bodone ed in the graves at f rom and in plain view l css h ' 'light from clouddesolath . ver the snowy Knelt ry ’ By an official ad ' Harrison Saturn clamation of Mayoy dav of mourning. was set aside as a town district pra usiness in the downThe large depart nll - v was suspended. O'clock, the Boa 11 stores closed at 1 o'clock, and the St<l frade nt 11 of Education, the J k Exchange, Board offices in the Coil urts alld the P ubhc City Hall were v Building and the dav. ;ed throughout the Slowly, solemn j bells sounded (lie a boom of many perished in th«V ell of the dead who : the hour betwe <heater fire. In melancholy cla. ld ° clock the ; city. From Ro^. through the — , to Kensington.

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from the lake sho’bic be Austin prairies. the bells call inf lch olher froin spire and church • belfry and minaret, across 5 1-swept. snowdriven spaces. i. .. their brazen voices to toll one knell for the passing of nearly Ite s - In a driving sn, Q r( b long, and in ate rc duly a few degrees above zer 6 ’^ ' 200 funerals were held. Throm * ui 4ht before, ghostly lights by burned in the darkness owy desolation of the city's They were the lanterns of gr. ' rs working overtime upon -Ml night they ”‘jturday and M.m. ■ . v*continned i their • r i ‘ , May night. Iheve wNAr M 3? ■ ” . , drai funerals of relatives who .it o , , , . ... the fire. Several who] e fannlu , .. . ~ T laid away to rest together. In . , . 'ce manv, funeral processions , . , 1 two and Ax jhb ° n 5 & i JKaS W Bl W ! A* “Lthree hearses. One j 7 <1 i i i • contained four, a black hearse bearing . X1 , * the remains ot a mother leading to the-—- . ..... . , • grave three little white hearses carryin; .. ... . . . .... ‘ ; the bodies ot her three children. Funeral procession: , that shouldered througn the weather tQ the y s were small. In most , . „ cases only two or three carnages follows , d the heurses The largest funerals of n _ ea]thv ]e had no more than ten or twelye Carri eg and hearses were s ^ and undertakers had much ado to m<*. h, „ , . ... , lem go round. Chicago public sci ve , , , q remained closed Monday as a token A som)w for she teachers who died 11, terrible the fire. Thousands of i mourn the ones they knew and , OVC(] - n the cJass rooms.

■lv^’ It Jiß EVERY THEATER CLOSED. Thirty-Six Chicano Playhouses Shut by Mayor’s Sweeping Edict. Aghast at the possibilities of another theater horror, the Chicago authorities on Saturday sought the safety of a multitude of play-goers by closing the doors of every amusement house in Chicago. Not one of the thirty-six theaters and concert halls of the city was open for business that night. Despite the terrible warning offered by the Iroquois disaster, perhaps 40,000 pleasure seekers were turned away from the theater entrances Saturday evening, the edict for public safety including buildings like the Auditorium, in which there are a few violations of the code, as well as the flimsily constructed theaters in which the infractions are so gross as to make the houses fire traps of the most treacherous kind. The action, which was taken in the name of the public weal by Mayor Harrison, means a suspension of performances for weeks in some of the theaters, months in others where the structures will have to be remodeled, while in others nothing will suffice but a tearing down and a rebuilding. The Iroquois Theater was the most modern in Chicago, yet it was turned into a fiery furnace through which nearly GOO souls passed to eternity. In the remaining houses the conditions that made the Iroquois a tirotrap are intensified to the maximum, with the addition of menacing flaws in construction, seating and exits. Eighteen houses were closed Friday night because they were not equipped with asbestos curtains. In the remaining eighteen that were darkened Saturday night the tireproof curtain was present. but other conditions made the playhouses suggestive of tinder piles in

which a spark might start a killing blaze before the occupants could reach the outer air. “I am going to shoulder the responsibility no longer,” said Mayor Harrison. “It may be rough on the managers, but there is something more important than money, and that is human life.” ARRESTS ARE MADE. Managers and Employes of the 11lFated Iroqnois Theater Held. As. Chicago began to recover from the shock and stunning grief of the Iroquois Theater calamity, demands became loud from both people and press for the exemplary punishment of all the men who would seem in any way responsible for the death of nearjy Gl>O human beings. Within forty-eight hours the silence of grief began to be broken by the hoarse mutterings ot rage against the apparent crime and the possible criminals. Late Friday night Wil! J. Davis and Harry J. Powers, proprietors and managers of the Iroquois Theater, and George Williams, city building inspector. were placed under arrest on the criminal charge of manslaughter. Arthur E. Hull, who lost a wife and three children, with their maid, in the holocaust, swore to the complaint on which the warrants were issued. Ten of the employes of the theater are also in jail, and many of the chorus girls of the “Mr. Blue Beard” company, who were on the stage when the fatal fire started, are under restraint, being held as witnesses. According to the Tribune an inadequately protected “spot light" machine, close to which hung the frayed edge of the arch draperies, made the combination that caused the fire. William McMullen, the man who operated the “Spot light,” is under arrest with a charge of manslaughter against him. In a signed statement regarding the lights in the Iroquois Theater at the time of the disaster W. F. Machlan, manager cf the Chicago Calcium Light Company, declared that there never was a calcium light in the Iroquois except the ones sent over by the company to assist the police in caring for the dead and wounded in the building. From Far and Near. The scenery of Hanlon’s "Superba” was burned in a car at North Adams. Mass. Victor Herbert announces that he will organize a New York orchestra under his own name.

FIRE IN IOWA CAPITOL THE STRUCTURE DAMAGED TO AMOUNT OF $500,000. Entire Northwest Wing of Building a Mass of Charred Ruins-Regular Legislative Session Not to Be Postponed -Governor as a Fireman.

Fire ruined the northwest wing of the lowa State capitol in Des Moines Monday, with an approximate loss of $500,000. The chamber of the House of Representatives is a charred mass of ruined debris ami cannot be tixed up in time for the approaching session of the Legislature. The fire gained great headway before it was checked. It started about 10 o’clock and at noon it was thought the entire building was doomed and Gov. Cummins ordered the contents of all the offices removed. However, it was finally confined to the wing of the capitol in which it originated and by G o’clock was practically extinguished. The executive council of the State, consisting of Gov. Cummins, Secretary of State Martin, State Auditor Carroll and State Treasurer Gilbertson, held a brief session in the evening and announced that the convening of the Legislature would not be postponed. Arrangements will be made so that the sessions can be comfortably held. The origin of the fire is a mystery and Gov. Cummins h:is ordered an immed' investigation. It started near a shrt committee room No. 5 and spfeaTTilpward. and all around the ceiling of the House chamber. The fire department was unable to fight the flames effectively, the height of the building and elevation oi the capitol site making pressure impossible. The only thing possible was to cut off the progress of the flames. The gallery of the House chamber fell with a crash, portions of the debris slightly injuring two firemen and endangering the lives of several. The crash and scattering of the burning debris made the saving of the building seem impossible. Gov. Cummins gave up hope and State Architect Liebbe was also of the opinion that the building was doomed. The valuable volumes of the State library. located near the fire, were hastily removed and the State offices were quickly emptied. The funds of the State Treasurer were hastily loaded on a wagon, supposed by those not in the secret to contain books, and carried to a downtown bank for deposit. Gov. Cummins laid aside gubernatorial dignity and, clad in rubber boots and rough coat, engaged in the work of fighting the fire. At night the beautiful State capitol presented a scene of desolation. The marble staircases are covered with ice, the floors are flowing with water and the offices under the burned part of the building are flooded. Many beautiful

frescoes in the chamber of the House can never be replaced. The lowa capitol is one of the most beautiful in the United States. It is built along the lines of the capitol at Albany. It has been the pride of the State and of the etty of i Des Moines and was erected twenty years ago at a cost of $3,000,000. The I State capitol commission appointed for j this purpose had just completed the res- ; toration and repair of the building at a cost of $125,<H)9, most of which had been i expended in the chamber which iA ruined. The building was supposed to have ; been fireproof, but the use of several । false ceilings in the House furnished-e»=-. I cellent material for the flames. Gov. Cummins said that the House chamber could not possibly be repaired this winter. The estimates on the loss are varying. Gov. Cummins placing it at s39o, <hm), but the majority of estimates place the loss at $500,000 to $700,000. PULPIT ON IROQUOIS DISASTER. Pastors in Sunday Sermons Refer to > Awful Loss of Life. Pastors of many Chicago churches | turned their attention Sunday to the i Iroquois Theater horror. They discussed : the effects of the -disaster on the community, the measures xvhich should be i taken for punishing the guilty and the precautions necessary to prevent a repetition of the catastrophe. Quotations ' ; from sermons in local pulpits follow: Civic duty has been neglected for pri- | vate gain.—Dr. Emil G. Hirsch. Surely the Lord is speaking to us out ■ of the fire.—Dr. James I*. Thoms. We are reaping the harvest of the seeds of lawlessness.—Rev. E. V. Shay- I ler. It is time something made us stop and | take stock of life. —Dr. Cleland B. Me- ! A fee. Shameless inattention to duty on the j part of public officials is responsible.— : Rev. G. D. Cleworth. We ought not to need the awful ■ warning of calamity to make us faitjiful to duty.—Dr. Joseph K. Mason. The chief culprdit is a spirit of lawlessness which characterizes our American life. —Rev. M. Edward Fawcett. It costs less to secure obedience to law I than to repair the results of disobe- I dience. —Dr. William M. Lawrence. The way to avert such calamities is j , : for the people to insist on the enforce- . | ment of the laws. —Rev. C. B. Antisdel. Chicago has been baptized anew with fire and I trust it may make it a cleaner and devouter city.—Rev. John T. Christian. Do not ascribe it to the Almighty. He did not do it. Ascribe it to men’s vicious disregard of law.—Rev. Frederick C. Priest. It is the next thing to blasphemy to call this the providence of God. It is the selfishness of man.—Rev. Frederick E. Hopkins. However responsible the managers may be, the officials of the city government cannot escape their share. —Rev. L. A. Crandall. It has taken this costly sacrifice to rouse Chicago to see that its worst evil is the non-enforeement of existing laws. -—Bishop Cheney. . “Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord.” With malice toward none, let us fix the blame where it belongs; let us not think that the good God sent this calamity; it was a terrible accident, rej suiting from human negligence.—Dr. J. ' I‘. Brushingham. Some guilty Herod or Herods must be held accountable for this awful slaughter of the innocents. It is the black sin of omission that hrs been committed.—Bishop Fallows. There is blame, horrible blame; there is crime, incalculable crime, lying back of these funeral processions, behind and beneath the charred bodies i f nearly 600 victims. —Rev. Jenkin Lloyt Jones. In the name of humanity we protest i criminal carelessness and cheap ineffi- 1 ciency. Officials, owners. < orporations, managers and politicians are warned that I they will be held responsible by a justly • indignant people.—Dr. Polemus H. Swift.

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"" 1 Dun’s review of Chicago Cnicago. favorable developments are increased final di tribution of footwear, strong demand for foodstuffs, and improving aspect in iron. Following the unprecedented Christmas trade in leading lines retail current dealings appear somewhat restricted, but a gratifying exception ap pears in sales of shoes, rubber and warm wear lines. Wholesalers report dealings running as expected, various orders for reassortments coming from the interior and the house trade of fair dimensions, but most closed the year m preparatio* for the annual inventories and strikin of balances. Mercantile collections generally hat shown more promptness and less complaint affects local settlements. Railroad traffic reports still show heavy i movement of general merchandise and east-bound shipments of hog products make good comparison with a year ago. , Failures in Chicago district number twenty-one, against thirty six for the corresponding period of 1902. Provisions also shared in the improved j^mand, pork advancing G 5 cents, | cents, and lard 17% cents. Live jpeipts show heavy failing off, due to stormy we-rtliFr - ami some it.disposition to market at recent low prices. On the pancity of supplies bidding became spirited and prices gained in hogs 20 cents and in sheep 15 cents per hundred weight, no change appearing in the quotation for choice beeves. nr m G - Di,n & , o ’' s NBW lOIn. j Weekly Review of Trade Violent fluctuations in cotton am! uncertainty regarding the situation in the far East were the only significant factors in the business situation during the holiday week. Numerous expressions of confidence are heard regarding the future. however, especially at the West and South. Manufacturing plants have taken a longer vacation than last year. Much irregularity and activity is reported in the markets for minor metals, which are chiefly responsive to speculative operations at London. Despite a sharp break in the foreign market, tin closed the week with a net gain, and copper is also stronger because of increased interests abroad. Only steadiness can be recorded as to Chicago packer hides, further advances being checked by the diminution of purchases. As to the textiles, the week has only augmented unsettled conditions, especially as to cotton goods.

- Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $4.00 to $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $2.25 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 85c to 87c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 42c; oats, standard, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 52c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $12.00; prairie, $6.00 to -•511.0'75 bULtWr, ellf.i.'G cl‘ehl~iy7^-~TF—--23c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 30c; potatoes, 68c to 71c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $.3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light. $4.00 p ?4.50; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 37c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.40; hogs, ' $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.25; ; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92c;*corn. No. 2, : 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2,36 cto 37c; rye, j No. 2,48 cto 49c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep. $2.00 to $3.40; wheat. No. 2. 90c to Ole; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; rye. No. 2. 61c to 62c. Detroit —Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, i $4.00 to $4.40; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; J wheat, No. 2,91 cto 93c: corn, No. 3 I yellow, 46c to 47c; cats, No. 3 white, I 39c to 40c; rye. No. 2,59 cto 61c. । Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northerni 85c to 86c; corn. No. 3. 39c to 41c; oat® ; No. 2 white. 37c to 38c rye. No. 1. 55. 'to 57c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork I mess, $12.50. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 'mixed. 89c t< | 91c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; oats • No. 2 mixed. 36c to 38c; rye. No. 2, 57< I to 59c; clover seed, prime. $6.90. Buffalo—Catle, choice shipping steers $4.50 to $5.25: hogs, fair to prime’. s4.ot to $4.90; sheep, fair to choice. 53.25 to $3.85; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $6.20. New York —Cattle, $3.50 to $5.35; hogs. $4.00 to $4.90; sheep. $3.00 to $3.80; wheat. No. 2 rod. 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 52c; oats. No. 2 white, 42c to 44c; butter, creamery, 20c to 23c; eggs, western, 28c to 36c. Thia and That, C. H. Perham of Chicsgo was killed and Thomas Peterson, also of Chicago, was~Teriously injured by the breaking ot a derrick at Sayre, l’a. Miss Mary Helen Smiley T. “ r •• has telegraphed her family announcing her marriage to Harry V. Phelps, a wealthy cotton planter of Nittayuma, Miss. School children placed a bolt on the track before the incoming Rock I sic- 2 passenger train from the east at a point ton miles east of Colorado Springs, Colo., i and the locomotive, baggage car and first coach were derailed. Three trainmen were badly hurt. Charles Hillson, aged 30 years, was shot and killed by Mattie Lee in a saloon at Phillipsburg, Mont. The woman claimed Hillson owed her a small sum of money and followed him into a saloon armed with a revolver. A world wide observance of March 7, 1904, as Bible Sunday, proposed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, has been approved by the American Bible Society. On that date falls the centenary of the British society, which during the century has distributed 180,000.000 volumes of the scriptures in about 370 languages. Joseph Spivey, indicted for shooting Marshal Woodruff. Oxford. Ohio, was found guilty. Sentence will not be announced until after the trial of his broth- ■ er. Louis Spivey. These officers have been detailed on the new cruiser Tacoma at Vallejo, Cal.: Commander Reginald Nickolson, in command; Lieutenant Commander Harry George, executive officer. I Charges have been filed in Washington ; against District Attorney Atkinson and Assistant District Attorney Northcott ot West Virginia by Col. V. A. Wilder of New York, alleging that they illegally secured an indictment against him to further their personal spite.