THE PLYMOUTinRIßUN'E. PLYMOUTH, IND. ntrfDRICKS CI CO.. . . Publishers. 1906 MARCH 1906 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr So. o G 1 2 3 A 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 .25 26 27 20 22 30 31 o o o e i 0 CLQ.N. M. T F. Q. Sv F. M. 17th 24th. g 3rd. 10th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE VORLD. , Court and Crimes, Accidents and Fire, I, bor and Capital, Grain Stock and Money Markets. Steamer Burned; Crew Kcapcd. The Goodrich steamer Atlanta was burned to the water's edge, twelve miles oath of Cheboygan, Mich., and five miles ut. The Atlanta is valued at $150,000 and the boat and cargo are a total loss. The Atlanta had a crew of sixty men and only two passengers. The crew and the two passengers put off in the life brats and were picked up by the tag Tes.sler without trouble as there was no sea running. About this time the steamer Georgia hove In sight and relieved the Tessler of her load of passengers. Mike Mickey, a deck hand, was drowned' in trying to escape from the flames. ' Fonr Perish In Burning Hotel. The business portion of the village of Tostin, Osceola county, Mich., was de stroyed by fire, which started in the base ment of the Hotel Compton from a defect ive furnace. Ten guests esv-iped in their night clothes, while four were burned, to death. The dead: William II. McGrar.e, proprietor of the hotel; Mrs. WiUiam II. McGrane; Edward Demorest, porter, and Charles Workman, traveling man of Pier son. The finacial loss is about $22,000. Big Fire in Cincinnati. Fire at the Dreses Machine Tool Com pany's plant. It the northwestern part of Cincinnati. Oho, destroyed that establish ment, causing a loss of $100,000; insured for $43,000. The Buckeye foundry, which is connected with the tool company's build ing by a wooden bridge, also caught fire and was damaged $10,0u0. By the falling of the bridge Captain Geiger, of the fire department, was painfully injured. Snowslide Wrecks Colorado Mine. A mammoth snowslide in the Mount Sneffels district, six miles south of Ouray, Colo., wrecked the Camp Bird mine, mill tram house, boarding house and reading room. William Cressey Is known to have been killed and it is reared that other lives were lost. A number of men it is reported were seriously injured. The property loss b estimated at from $400,000 to $500,000. Panic at Academy Fire. St. Vincent's Academy at Shreveport, Ljl, established thirty years ago, and one of the most widely Known Catholic insti tutions in the south, was destroyed by fire. Loss $80,000. The fire originated from a defective flue while the teachers and pu pils were at luncheon. A panic resulted but all escaied without injury. Michigan Town Badly Scorched. The business section of White Pigeon, Mich., was nearly wiped out by a lire which started in the furniture store of Al fred Wicket. The blaze is supposed to have started from an overheated stove. Only seven store buildings rcmaii of the business section. The total loss wLl prob ably not exceed $25,000. German Baroness Commits Hnnicide. Caroline M. von Busche, said to be the divorced wife of Baron von Dem Busche Uaddenhausen, a German baron of Berlin, committed suicide by. shooting, at the quarters of her son, Second Lieutenant Carl Frederick von Dem Busche, of the Eighteenth infantry, U. S. A., at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Two Killed in a Mine. A heavy fall of stone in the Pocock mine, near Massillon, Ohio, killed Fred Zett and Robert Booth. A number of othr miners bad a narrow escape from death. It is feared that there will be another fall of stone. , Steamer Lost on the Congo. A dispatchfrom Antwerp states that the Congo-Laise-Belgian steamer Koidesbelges has been lost in the waters of the upjer Congo river. All on board the vessel, in cluding Europeans and natives, wert lost. Monon Passenger Train in Wreck. The Monon's fast through mail and pas senger train between Louisville and Chi cago, was wrecked at Horseshoe Bend, near Bedford, Ind. Ten passengers were in jured, one seriously. Noted Anarchist Dead. Jlerr Johann Most, high priest of anar chy in America, died at the home of his friend, Adolph Krauss. In Cincinnati, Ohio. Most suffered from Erysipelas, which reached his brain. Hundreds Killed in Earthquake. Tokio (Japan) special: A severe earth quake occurred at Kagi, Formosa. Hun dreds of buildings were destroyed and many hundreds of peopls were killed. . Three Firemen Kille?. Three firemen were killed and nine ethers seriously injured at a fire which de stroyed the old Sixth Regiment armory at Camden, N.J. Big Lumber Mill Burned. The large lumber mill of James Wilkin son at Bristol, Tenn., was destroyed by fire and the lumber plant of the Adams Brothers Company was partially burned. The loss is heavy. The night watchman of the Wilkinson mill cannot be found. Bank Embezzler Skips. James Brooke, the North Liberty (Ind.) banker who is under indictment for the al leged embezzlement of $10,000 in 190i, has disappeared and his bond has beer- de clared forfeited. He formerly lived in Chicago. ' Woman Saved from Gaflw. The sentence f death imposed upon Mr. Antoinette Tolls, the Bergen Coun ty murderess, for the killing of Joseph Son ta, was comma ted to seven and one half years imprisonment by the; court of pardons in Trenton, N. J. Th vote atood 6 to 2. Xlalld Xtu In Peace Time. Failing to build up the navy in time of peace so that it will be prepared for war is a crime, said Secretary Boikt-arte at a banquet given by the Swedish-American Republican League of Chicago in honor of John Ericsson, inventor of the 3Ionitor. Gypsy L.oses Life Saving; Baby. J. W. Tarbell, a wealthy young man of Cincinnati, ran over and killed Mrs. Mary Johns a gypsy woman belonging to a wandering band camping near Carthage. The woman was carrying a baby when the machine struck her, but she threw the little one aside, and it was not- injured. Tarbell was arrested on a charge of man slaughter. Kills .Wife mud Himself. Ilenry Morrissette, aged 28 years, t driver for a riewspaper at Minneapolis, hot and wounded his wife, aged 20, and then son! ä bullet through his brain, dying fctstaruly. IASTEU2T. The United States cruiser Columbia left the League Island navy yard on a cruise to the West Indies. Fire, which started in Bevan's shoe store at Pittston, Ta., destroj-ed a block of stores, causing a damage of $50,000. An explosion of hot metal in the con verting mill of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock, Pa., resulted in seri ous injuries to eight workmen. One nan was killed and three injured, one fatally, by the falling of a derrick at the new addition being erected to the Hotel Raleigh, Washington, D. C. Fred R. Green, former cashier of the defunct Fredonia N. Y.) National Bank, pleaded guilty of embezzlement and mak ing false entries, and .was sentenced to six years in Auburn prison. S. II. KaufTman, president of the Wash ington Evening Star Newspaper Com pany, died at his home there early Thurs day morning. He was born in Wayne County, Ohio, April 30, 1S20. Net earnings of the American Tobacco Company for 1905 are more than $23, 000,000, a large gain over the preceding year, and the annual statement shows millions of dollars' worth of bonds re deemed. A plot . to murder Rev. Charles II. Parkh'irst, Aid to hare been hatcheu by tw New York police officers has been bared to District Attorney Jerome by two men, who say they were hired to commit the crime. Mrs. W. E. Corey, wife of the Pitts burg steel magnate, has started East from Riverside, Cel., accompanied by Mrs. Corey, Sr., and her sister-in-law, to join her husband, a correspondence hav ing resulted in a reconciliation. Andrew Hamilton appeared unexpect edly before the insurance committee at Albany and bitterly scored the NeW Torts Life trustees as "curs and traitors' who, he says, knew and gave tacit approval of all his actions as disburser of funds. Senator Depew, so se.-iously ill that no one but members of his family is allowed to see him, is in strict seclusion at the country home of a friend near New York, and it is reported that he will not be able to go back to the Senate this session. Joseph Kolaski, a young Slav, was shot and killed by Jasper Freeman, watchman at the general store of the Ellsworth Coal and Coke Company in Monongahela, Pa. Kolaski was detected in the act of robbing the store. Freeman was not arrested. A charge of . dynamite was set off in the doorway of Clark, Chapin & Bush nell, wholesale grocers in New York, against whom a teamsters strike has been in progress for some time. The explosion severely damaged the front of the store. WESTEBN. Professor A. II. Pattengill, a well known educator and representative of the Michigan faculty in- athletics,, died at Ann Arbor. . : In a collision at South Omaha be tween north and south bound street cars, Jacob Paulsen was killed and seven per sons were injured. , Kansas City Democrats nominated Robert L. Gregory for Mayor and adopt ed a platform advocating municipal own ership of public utilities. . Shrinkage in values of Chicago traction stocks as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the ninety-nine-year, case shows losses aggregating $10,800,000. In Madison, S. D., Dora La pine has been convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for the shooting and killing of her husband, Joseph Lapine, on Feb. 8. The Chicago Board of Education pro poses to enforce its rigid rule against high school Greek letter societies, Judge Gary having dissolved the Hjie Park injunc tion. The presence of mind of a bridgetender prevented great loss of life when a crowded North avenue car plunged over the abutment of the structure over the north branch of the river lnjChlcago. In the burning of Charles Grimmett's home in Americus, Kan., one of his chil dren was burned to death, another was fatally burned and Mrs. Grimmett was seriously burned in rescuing the children. The Bronson primary bill was passed by the Ohio House by a vote of 73 to 34. Only one amendment was adopted. It was one by Mr. Hill of Columbiana pro viding that the law shall not go into effect nntil Oct. 20. ' Circuit Judge Douglas at St. Louis issued an order making permanent the Injunction prohibiting the Board of Po lice Commissioners from trying Chief Kiely on ten of the thirteen charges pre ferred against him. . With the close of the hop season a com pilation made by the leading Salem (Ore.) firms show that 11.S00 bales still remain in the' State, .which with the shipments to date, brings the 1905 crop of Oregon up to 113,800 bales. The business section of the village of Tustln, Mich., was destroyed by fire which started in the basement of the Hotel Compton from a furnace. Four persons were burned to death. The prop erty loss is. about $22,000. Fire at the Dreses Machine Tool Com pany plant, in Cincinnati, destroyed that establishment, causing a loss of $100, 000. The Buckeye foundry, which . is connected by a wooden bridge, also caught fire and was damaged. Annie Voesky, 17 years old, will die and her sister Rosa: Aggie Burkoweki and T. J. Seaford, aged 25, were probably fa tally bruised about their heads and crush ed internally by the collision of a bobsled with a tree In St. Joseph, Mo. Testimony before the Interstate Com merce Commission at Kansas City re vealed the fact that the Standard Oil Company has been allowed to lay it,s pipe line along the right of way of the Santa Fe Railroad for hundreds of miles. With a small penknife Charles Hum phrey, a patient in St. Mary's Hospital, Cincinnati, stabbed himself thirteen times in the side, the last cut reaching the heart and inflicting a wound which resulted in death within a few minutes. Vincent St. John, president of the Burke miners' union, charged with com plicity in the Steunenberg assassination, was released at Boise, Idaho, on a writ of habeas corpus, and was immediately rearrested, charged with a murder in Col orado. Logan Blissard, a fugitive convict, was shot and killed while resisting arrest by Sheriff John Owens of New Cistle, near Kimball, Neb. Blissard, who was 10 years, of age, was wounded several weeks ago while endeavoring to escape with stolen horses. The Ohio House by a vote of CO to 40 parsed the Aikin bill increasing the Dow tax imposed upon saloons from $350 to $1,000. , A spirited contest was waged by the opponents of the measure and it re ceived only five votes more than a con stitutional majority. Senator Howe's bill for the establish ment of civil service in the Ohio char itable and penal institutions was defeated, receiving but eight votes. One of the arguments made against it was that the reform campaign was being carried on at too fast a pace. Got. Folk has made public the report of the board of visitors of the State school of mines at Rolla, Mo., in which charges are made that Director Ladd is neglectful of his dilti in frequently being absent and that he has often played billiards in public halls with students of the institu tion. At the bi-monthly wage settlement in Youngstown, Ohio, between the Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the Republic Iron and Steel Company the rate per ton for pul dling was advanced from $5.75 to $0. The finishers receive an advance of 2 pet cent. R. S. Van Duzee, traveling salesman for a Milwaukee liquor house, jumped from the hurricane deck of the steamer Naomi the other night as the vs.el was leaving Grand Haven harbor for Milwau kee. Life preservers were thrown v Van Duzee, but he made no effort to grasp them. In a head-on. collision on a curve near Adobo, Colo., about 2 o'clock Friday morning, the heavy New Mexico aiM Col orado express and the Leadville-Denver local No. 10 of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were turned into a mass of wreckage an! thirty peron were killed, killed. While Rev. E. B. Bohnert of the More land (Ohio) Methodist Church was pre paring to load a revolver, which he sup posed was empty, a cartridge in one of the chambers was discharged. The bullet struck Clark Taylor, atred 17, in the left breast, and it is feared blood poisoning will ensue. While kneeling at the sanctuary rail in St. Mary's church, Sandusky, Ohio, pre sumably in devotions, a young man whose name is not known, is supposed to have stolen a purse containing about $13 in cash and certificates of deposit to the amount of $1,000. The victim was Mrs. Edward Manly of Venice. Joseph Hirn, aged 11, has been arrested charged with robbing the postoffice in Wels ton, Ohio, of the change left in the stamp drawer. It seems that the lad climbed over woodwork and got the mon ey. The stealing has been occurring for some little time, but officials have -been unable to catch the 'thief. David E. Sherrick, former auditor of Indiana, was found guilty of embezzle ment by a jury in Indianapolis. Sher rick was tried on Indictments charging hhn with misuse of $127,000 belonging to the State. . He resigned on the demand of the Governor, and the money haa since letn paid back to the State treasury. An attempt on the part of a mob to break into the county jail at Omaha for the purpose of lynching seven prisoners was defeated by the timely arrival of forty policemen, who charged the crowd with drawn clubs and dispersed it. Be fore the bluecoats appeared on the scene the mob. had broken down the outer door of the jail. The ore and coal dock managers and the delegates of the International Long shoremen, Marine and Transport Work ers Association, who have been in cou ference In Cleveland for ten days for the purpose of adopting a schedule of wages and working conditions for the coming year, split and the conference was called off. Milton P. Anderson, head of the Mid; land, Mich., Exchange Bank, which failed recently, was shot and probably fatally wounded at his home nnder mysterious circumstances. He says he was awak ened by a burglar, armed himself with a" cane, and was about to strike the in truder when the latter shot him. Mr. An derson is Co years old. Priceless relics, including rich silver ware, some .of it handed down from the household of Lewis XVI. of France; ne gotiable papers of considerable value and possibly other heirlooms whose' loss has not been discovered, the whole amounting to many thousands of dollars, have mys teriously disappeared from the home of Dr. J sbua N. Pinault in Minneapolis. A vctory for municipal ownership was won in the San Francisco courts when Judge Murasky handed down an opinion In the suit brought by I. Strassburger to prevent the city from buying the Geary street road. Strassburger brought suit as a taxpayer to prevent the Board of Super visors from expending the money appro priated for acquiring the municipal rail road. Fire of unknot n origin destroyed four buildings in the, business district of Ver non Center, Minn., and the opera house at an early hour the other morning. The loss is $35,000, most of which is insured. The losses are aa follows : Barnes de partment store and opera house, $23,000 ; Faehenbach's shoe store, $5,000 ; Han son's . saloon, $3,000 ; Halvern's restau rant, $4,000. V7AS3HXQT0U. The House Committee on Indian' Af fairs decided to teport favorably on a bill authorizing the f,ale of 56,000 acres on the lower Brule reservation In South Dakota. The national House committee on in terstate and foreign commerce has decid ed to make a favorable report on the Townsend joint resolution providing for an appropriation of $50,000 to enable the interstate commerce commission to inves tigate railways and monopolies under the Tillman-Gillespie Joint resolution. The Townsend resolution also corrects other defects in the Tillman-Gillespie resolution pointed out by the President. SOBEIGH. Telegrams from Shadrinsk report that rich deposits of platinum have been dis covered in the district of Ouray, Russia. Remarkable heroism was displayed by sailors in rescuing twenty-nine of the crew of the steamer British King, which went down in the Atlantic, carrying twenty-seven to death. A fire started on-board the battleship Ohio, lying in Manila harbor. It was put out after damage amounting to about $4, 000 had been caused. The Ohio Is the flag ship of Rear Admiral Train. Premier Witte has obtained proof of a plot by. members, of the Russian bu reaucracy for massacre of Jews and nulli fication of the reforms granted to the people, and declares the conspirators must be defeated. Father Gapon has been arrested in St. Petersburg and his enemies allege that he arranged the affair himself because he feared revelations in the scandal involv ing the charge that his labor organiza tion was sultidized by the government. The arrest occurred' on the eve of an in quiry demanded by him. The Gazetta del Tribunali of Rome says a prisoner has confessed that he was present at a meeting of anarchists In which a plot was concocted to kill the King of Italy on the occasion of the in auguration of the Milan exhibition April 18. A searching Investigation of hit story has been ordered. The official returns of the cecsus taken Dec. 1, 1905, show a total population of (50,005,183 in Germany, against 50,307, 178 in 1900. The women outnumber the men by 808,991, but the government statisticians estimate that if the male make the same rate of increase as shown by the last four censuses, they will out number the females in 1945. IN GENERAL. Fire visited ' the Imperial Oil Com pany's plant in Sarnla, Ont., doing $50, 000 damages. Three buildings, compris ing the grease and lubricating oil de? partment, were destroyed. Ole E. Finsttd and L. C. Coughener of Los Angeles were sentenced at Santa. Rosila, Mexico, to twelve years and six months each in the penitentiary for the murder of R. W. Rutherford of Phila delphia and C. W. McMurray of Los An geles at the Diaz ranch In Chihuahua re ceLtly. After having been helpless for hours through the breaking of her rudder tock In the tremendous teas kicked up by the same gale which sent the steamer British King to the btt m, the. North German Lloyd steamer Konigin Luise, New York for Italian ports, with 300 passengers on board, arrived at Halifax for repairs. The total number of Christian Endeav or societies throughout the world Is 67, 512, according to reports of officers of the Worlds Christian Endeavor Union, made public in Boston. Of these 45,250 re in the United Sta.es, 10,772 in Great Britain and Ireland, 4,295 in Canada and C13 in India. The total receipts of the world's union for the last year were $9,-. 241 and a balance is in the treasury of $146. FIFTY PERSONS DEAD AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK IN . COLORADO. Ilend.On Crnah on the Denver and Rio Grande, Cars Taking Fire and Many of the Victims Belnff Itoaaitetl Alive. In a head-on collision on a curve near Adobe, Col., about 2 o'clock Fri day morning, the heavy New Mexico and Colorado express and the Lcadvllle- Denver local No. 10 of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were turned into a mass of wreckage and fifty persons were reported killed. Failure to deliv er the train dispatcher's revised orders, making a change in meeting points, was the direct cause of the disaster. A blinding blizzard prevailed at the time of the wreck. Fire which envel oped the ruins of the coaches and ex press and mall cars a moment after the collision added Its horrors to the scene. Many bodies taken from the burning mass could not be identified, so badly are they charred. Relief trains were sent from Pueblo and Florence as soon as news of the disaster was received by the railroad authorities, but because of ot the cold, snow and smoke from the burning wreck 1 the work of the relief crews nvas slow. The express train, known as No. 3, was a double-header. Death came to Engineer Walter Causlet of the first en gine of the express as he sat In his cab trying to work . the emergency brakes. Fireman A. II. Smith, In Engi neer Causlet's engine, saw the headlight of No. 10 as the latter rounded the curve about 200 yards away, rushed to his engineer's side to warn him and jumped. Engineer William . Hollis of the local was killed in his cab. His charred body was recovered and easily Identified. Fireman Suddworth also was killed. Little short of marvelous was the escape from death of Engineer Grant Kelker and Fireman Harry nartman, crew of the second engine of No. 3. Kelker saw No. lG's headlight and, opening his air valve to the limit, shouted to his fireman. Both jumped from the cab. ' 'Collide on a. Curve. The scene of the wreck Is near mile post 147, where a bluff makes the road Inrn sharply. It Is only a short dis tance west of the place whtre passen ger train No. 10 and freight train No. 03 collided Oct. 15, 1004, causing the death of seven persons and the Injury of many. Conditions at this point are trying even In normal weather, because the Santa Fe tracks parallel the Denver and Rio Grande rails. It is easy for an englnenian of the Rio Grande to suppose that an approaching headlight I that of a Santa Fe engine. It Is Impossible for the englnemen to see each other's trains until the locomotives are within 200 yards of each other. The three engines were destroyed, but none of the tourist and standard sleep ers was demolished. It Is said that the train dispatcher originally Intended to have No. 3 and No. 10 meet at Adobe, one and one-half miles from the scene of the wreck. At Florence the conductor and engineer of No. 1C received orders to meei No. 3 at Beaver, five miles east of .Portlaad. The express train, It was said, was to have received similar orders at Swal lows, but in the blizzard the train may have, ran past an order board. No or ders were given . to No.. 3 to hold at Beaver for the local and the double header rushed on toward Adobe. The collision followed. THE COAL SITUATION. Strike, of Anthracite Itinera Now Sfcma Probable. The coal mine situation is far from being settled. No man can prophesy with any degree of certainty Just what the outcome will be. From present arv pearances, however, it seems likely that the bltumlrous miners will receive a considerable advance In wages rang ing anywhere from 5.5 to 12 per cent. This, however, is dependent upon the outcome of the dispute between the anthracite miners and operators. The anthracite' miners have demanded an increase in wages, an eight-hour day, equalized' pay and other modifications of the present system. The operators have announced that they will refuse every one of these demands. If ' the men force the operators to Increase wages or if they close the mines by striking, the bituminous operators will grant the advance demanded of them, for the reason that the Increased cost of rroductlon or the lessened output of anthracite would create a greater de mand for soft coal and therefore give them an entering wedge into a market now controlled by tbelr rivals. The success of the bituminous miners de pends, it would seem, on the anthracite men either going on strike or winning their demands, and at the present mo ment a strike seems probable. The op erators claim they have so much coal on hand that unless a strike Is pro longed during the greater part of a year It will not be necessary to raise the price of coal. All Around the Globe. George C. Thomas, a retired Philadel phia banker, presented $100,000 to the board of missions of the Protestant Episcopal church. Andrew Carnegie has signified his in tention to donata $25,000 to Rio Grande college, a Baptist theological school at Rio Grande, Galia county, Ohio. The international waterways' commis sion met in Toronto to discuss the distri bution of power from the Soo river and the diversion of water in the Niagara river. Mrs. Paul Morton, wife of the presi dent of the Equitable Life, narrowly es caped death or injury in a wreck on the Santa F at Toltec, N. M. Eleven per sons were injured. Division No. 2 "of the Supreme Court of Missouri transferred the murder case of "Lord' Frederick Seymour Barring, ton to the court in banc for a hearing before the full court. Mrs. Norman Tarro Ellison, the divorc ed wife of Charles B. Ellison, the Chicago turfman and plunger, became the bride of Joseph C. Smith of the Humpty Dumpty theatrical company last December, ac cording to an announcement made in Washington, D. C. George Hasty, indicted for the murder of Milon Benuett and Abbott Davidson, members of the Nothing but Money the atrical company, was found guilty in Gaffney, S. C, of murder in the second degree, with a recommendation of mercy. John Rilinger, " defeated Republican candidate for Maj-or of Seattle, W'ash., will not contest the election of William II. Moore, elected n the mu'iicipal own ership ticket by 15 plurality. Sovereign Commander Root of the Woodmen of the World announced that the headquarters of the orVr would be moved from Omaha because of the State tax on reserve funds, and that either Chl-ctg-y or Detroit would be selected. Acrimonious debate over the Presi dent's recent message "scoring the resolu tion for an inquiry into the coal roads as being inadequate occupied the early part of the Senate session Monday. Senator Tillman, who framed the resolution, bit terly condemned the President's attitude SJitors Lodge and Spooner took the position that 'the President was warrant ed in making the.criticismj. At 2 o'clock the rate bill was called up and Sinator Culberson spke on the subject of a bill which he has introduced to lake tbe place of the House measure. Several bi!ls of local importance were paswd. The state hood bill was returned to the House frm the Senate and was laid on tie Speaker's table without comment. The Senate Tuesday passed a number of bills, including the following: Provid ing for the punishment of government oQ- cia!s for the premature divulgence of s"e crtt information of government bureaus in 6uch matters as crop reports, granting executive authority over the construction of bridges over navigable streams, giving government sanction to the efforts on the part of Delaware and New Jersey to adjust their long pending boundary dis pute, authorizing the construction of a public building in Denver at a cost of $2,300,000, authorizing the disposal of 505,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Co manche and Apache reservations in Okla homa to the highest bidders under the provisions of the homestead laws, author izing the erection ot a monument in Washington to tbe memory of John Paul Jones at a cost of $50,000. Mr. Simmons made the speech of the day on the rail road rate bill, supporting the House meas ure. The House began the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, and incident to it dis cussed the question of eliminating aged clerks from the government service, the niacins of alcohol used in the arts on the free list, the restriction of Japanese and Korean immigration, and finally conditions in New York City resulting from immi gration. -: :- A controversy over the provisions of the railroad rate bill occupied the Senate Wednesday. Mr. Rayner was the chief speaker, and his criticism of the suspen- aicn feature of the measure drew replies from Messrs. Foraker, Lodge, Dolliver, Aldrich, Tillman and Knox. A bill was passed authorizing Rear Admiral C. II. Davis to accept gifts offered him by the British and Rusuian governments, and also a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for corües of reports and other communications between the War Depart ment and officials in the Philippines re- Tux4nf? the recent battle on Mount Dajo The second day of general debate in the House on the legislative, executive ana indicial Rnrooriation bill developed a Iim ited discussion of the plan to retire aged clerks, interspersed with a speech on statehood by Mr. Babcock (Wis.), one on the restriction of Immigration by Mr. Gardner (Mass.) ond a presentation of reasons why the jurisdiction of Federal courts should be restricted in certain cases where jurisdiction is acquired be cause the litigants are citizens of different States by Mr. Garrett ( Tenn.). Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) attacked the civil ser vice laws. -: :- i Th renort of Mr. Tillman on the House rate bill, the reading of the views of Mr. Newlands and a speech by Mr. Nelson on that subject occupied the time the Sen ate devoted to the regulation measure Thursday. The message of the President regarding.' the recr.nt Moro battle " wa read, and Mr. Bacon spoke of the affair . "slanshter.' Mr. Lodge urged that criticism be withheld until all the ?act should be made known. The House reso lution, broadening the powers of the In terstate Commerce Commission in its in vestigation of charges of discrimination against railroads, was adopted. A resolu tion by Mr. Stone directing an inquiry into the Postoffice Department's rulings on the admission of college publication!! to the mails as second-class matter was n.i1. The additional power which President Roosevelt suggested should be given the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in making the special investigatbn into tbe relations of the coal and oil in dustries with the railroads was conferred hv th House in the pasaire of the Town- send resolution. During debate on the legislative, executive and judicial appro priation bill severe criticism of the recent battle in the Philippines was made by Mr. Jones (Va.). There was no session of the Senate Fri day. The House indulged in the first teal filibustering of the session. It wa due to the attempt of Mr. Prince of Illi nois to put through his bill abolishing the grade of lieutenant general in the amy, which would take away the chances of promotion for Generals Cor bin and MacArthur. For several hours the leaders of both factions exhausted the possibilities of parliamentary tactics, and when a truce was declared the bill stood as the rlar 0TQT of business, and an amendment by Mr. Grosvenor to let in Corbin and MacArthur was saved from tlefeat only by the absence of a quorum. Previously there had been four hours of debate on the legislative bill, during which Mr. Shackleford (Mo.) scored Speaker Cannon's rule of the House. Adjournment until Monday was voted. ., ' 'oes of the National Capital. A, delegation of Forto Ricans appealed to committee on insular affairs for re lief from graft in islands. Senator La Follette has introduced a bill providing for a close accounting by all party committees for campaign money. The Senate committee on interoceanic canals 'has decided not to examine moro witnesses until type of Panama canal is settled. . The Washington land office has decided that a man who has made homestead en try and lives a year on the land does not forfeit his claim by absence while serving in the army. Chairman Burrows of the .Senate com mitter on privileges and elections, has agree! with Senator Smoot and his coun sel to hear the evidence 'in rebuttal in the case of the Utah Senator Monday, March 20. President Roosevelt has taken official cognizance of the famine which has grown to such serious proportions In northern Japan, and in an appeal re quests that contributions for the suffer ers be forwarded to tho American Na tional Red Cross. Surgeon General Wyinan of the public health and marine hospital service has no tified the various government quarantine stations of the appearance of yellow fever at Bocas del Toro, and the officials in chargo will, under existing regulations, adopt whenever necessary, the,, usual measure of inspection and detention at quarantine of ships and passengers arriv ing freni that place. Following the action of Congress la placing a rider or. the urgent deficiency bill, declaring that the eight-hot law as applied to government work shall not be extended to alien laborers employed in the construction of the Fanama canal,' presidtnt Samuel Gompers of the Ameri can federation of Labor addressed a let ter to the President protesting against such legislation and requesting him to withhold his approval oT the measure so long as that provision was contained in it. Secretary Taft at the conclusion of a White House conference regarding Sen ate committee's action ''a Philippine tar iff bill said fight for the measure will be kept up. TRUSTS ARE HIT. Snpreme Court Decides They' Meat Convict ThciiiKelves. Corporations can not receive immu nity from incrimination as individuals and corporation officials must testify when called before grand juries. Offi cers of corporations may be granted immunity as individuals, but must pro duce evidence to convict the corpora tions in which they are Interested. All corporations are creations of a sover eign power and are not privileged to commit 11113- illegal act or possess any thing unlawful. When a corporation does either It is placed beyond the pale of constitutional protection. This is the principle laid down by decisions of the United States Supreme Court in four cases affecting the paper and tobacco trusts. The result will be that all corporations must produce their books and papers when nctions are brought against them by the gov ernment and witnesses may be com pelled to answer all questions. Indi vidauls may have immunity from self incriminations, but corporations are not individuals. . It Is possible under the Supreme Court's decisions for the Department of Justice absolutely to prevent the com mission of Illegal and unlawful acts by any corporation. No corporation against which proceedings are Instituted here after can avoid convicting itself if any of its acts have been illegal. A cor poration will henceforth have no pro tection in the courts from self-conviction unless Its books and papers are de stroyed by some officer, who will as sume responsibility for contempt. Two opinions were rendered regard ing the tobacco trust and two affecting tbe paper trust. Justice Brown handea down tbe decision on the tobacco trust and Justice, McKenna on the paper trust Justice McKenna read his deci sions first and referred forward to Justice Brown's opinions, which follow ed, thus Interlocking the four cases in volving Identical principles.. COL. MANN IS INDICTED. Editor of Toirn Topics Held on m Perjury Chargre. Colonel William D'Alton Mann, of New York, editor of Town Topics, has been Indicted for perjury by the grand Jury on charges growing out of the trial of Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, for criminal libel. He was held In $1,500 ball. Colonel Mann has been president and editor of Town Topics since 1S01 and has won an uneviable reputation in jouralism. He also is tbe founder and manager cf Smart Set. "Mr. Mann prin- , COLONEL MAN3T. clpally made his fortune through Im provements in army accoutrements and by his invention of the boudoir ' car, later sold to the Pullman Company, ne was born In Sandusky, Ohio, In 1839 was educated as a civil engineer and served with Michigan regiments In the Civil War. When hostilities closed he settled in Alabama, and was the first Democrat from the Mobile district elected to Congress under reconstruc tion, but was not seated, ne Is a com panion of the Loyal Legion and holds membership In several clubs In New York City. John Morley soon after he had visited the President at the White House is said to have remarked : "He is a sort of cross bet wen St. George and St. Vitus.' Gen. John C. Bates, who will be head of the general staff for one brief month, is the first bachelor in the history of the American army to attain this eminence. Admiral Dewey, dapper, smiling and sprightly, Is a familiar figure on Wash ington's streets. He walks with a youth ful buoyancy and takes a keen interest in the street sights. John Temple Graves, editor of the At lanta (Ga.) News, has begun a move ment to celebrate, in his home city, the centenary of the birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Jan. 19 next yetr. Senor Theodoro Desha, the Governor of Vera Cruz, Mexico, has donated to the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg a Mex ican idol which was regarded as the gem of his archaeological collection. Richard L. Ashurst, who has just been made postmaster of Philadelphia, was born in Naples, was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a lawyer. The tashi lama of Tibet during his recent visit to Calcutta was taken to the races and was much astounded. He said that he had never thought there were o many people in the world. The Rev.'W:. II. Fitzpatrick of Bos ton, who has not taken a vacation for forty years, will shortly start for the Holy Land, stopping on his way to' pay his respects to Pope Pius X. J. M. Barrie, the novelist, is one of the most painstaking dramatists of the day. So hard is he to please that he re writes an act eight or nine times. Linley Sambourne, the celebrated Eng lish cartoonist, when away from his desk is an enthusiastic sportsman. He is fond of shooting and an ardent golf player. George Summers Griffiths, who was well known m the Oxford circuit and n the criminal courts in London for many years as "the blind barrister," has just died. About twenty-five yenrs ago he became totally blind f.om a gunshot wound, but bravely stuck to his profes sion, going on circuits regularly, led about by his clerk. -( Baron Bramwell once presided in, a Welsh circuit, where the lawyer for the defense asked permission to address the jury in their native tongue. He won a doubtful case. The defense was 'after ward explained to the baron, which was: "This case, gentlemen, lies in a nutshell. You see yourselves exactly how it stands. The judge is an Englishman, the prose cuting counsel is an Englishman, the complainant is an Englisman. But you are Welsh, and I am Welsh, and the prisoner is Welsh. Need I say more? I leave it all to you." William II. Magennis of Albany, N. Y., Is the only Roman Catholic secretary of a Y. M. C. A. in the United States. mm !AL 5& JNANUAL' Commercial . develop ments reflect sustained confidence in the general Cüicago. outlook, the fall in values of bread- stuffs causing no hesitancy. Distribu tion of staple merchandise has reached an exceptionally, high volume, 'while wholesale bookings made further accu mulation in dry goods, footwear, men's furnishings, food products and clothing. Purchasers for the interior run ahead of all former aggregates for spring de livery. The markets are attended by Increase ing numbers of visiting buyers and their free manner in making selections Is based upon the satisfactory conditions which prevail throughout the Western country. The demand for hardware, sporting goods and vehicles is brisk, and heavy shipments are made of wire and other material for farm improve ments. Retail trade generally has broadened, indicating that consumption is expanding, and business is much im proved in furniture, carpets and house hold utensils. ' Agricultural work has been com menced in various sections, prepara tions iointing to an increased acreage In corn and spring wheat. Report as to the growing grains are most en couraging, particularly in the South west. Mercantile collections in this dis trict are found to be reasonably prompt Manufacturing and outdoor construc tion are stimulated by favorable weath er and activity is gradually spreading In both these important branches. The demand for raw material Is unabated, especially for factory use, and prices re main steady. Pig iron output exceeds that of a year ago and current deal lugs are satisfactory both , as to book Ings and Inquiries, local prices holding firm. The production of steel Is undor unusual pressure, this permitting larger deliveries to be made of rails, structur al shapes, plates and wire. Lumber and other building material are eagerly se cured and bring high prices. Factory work has 'gained in farm Implements, heavy hardware, machinery and plumbi Ing supplies, while the demand is of un precedented force for heavy electrical power and supplies. Railroad earnings oommand attention because of the rotable gains made over those of last year, Chicago roads shar ing in the splendid showing.; Failures repeated In the Chicago dis trict number 2S, against 20 of last week and 20 a year ago. Dun's Review cf Trade. ' ' Spring jobbing Is as ac tive as ever, exceeding last year at nearly all mar New York. kets ; winter wheat crop reports are ex cellent; prices, except of some country produce, wheat, and flour among bread stuffs, and bleached cotton goods, show notable strength, and building activity, which Is of large volume, goes on with out n break, offering an opening for la bor employment rarely if ever before witnessed. Industry is active, and mills, furnaces and factories are all pushed to fill deliveries, but new busi ness for far-off accounts, say next fall and spring of next year. Is rather slow to present Itself pending future trade and crop development Money is rather firm as a whole, demand being more ac tive in regular trade lines. Collections are Irregular; backward in the South because of cotton holding and fair to good In the North and West Clearings heavily exceed a year ago, Itself a per iod of large trade. All signs point to a large retail business for spring and summer, developing earlier than usual. Business failures In the United States for the week ending March 8 number 177, against 180 last week. 190 In the like week of 1005, 200 In'190-L 17G in 1003 and 224 in 1002. Failures in Can ada for the week numbered twenty -four, against thirty last week and forty la this week, a year ago. Bradstriet's Commercial Report, ..Chicago Cattle, common to pine, JM.00 to $0.2.i; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.42; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.15 : wheat. No. 2, SOc to 82c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 42c; oats, standard, 28c to 20c; rye. No. 2, 02c to 03c; hay. timo thy, $S..riO to $13.00; .prairie, $0.00 to $10.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 20c;' eggs, frefth, 13c to 15c; potatoes, 40c to 53c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $.".0. ; hogs, $4.00 to $0.20; sheep, $2.50 to $5.10; wheat, No. 2, 82c to 84c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 40c; oats, No. 3 while, 31c to 32c ; rye. No. 2, U: to 05c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c to 7Sc ; corn. No. 3, 40c to 42c ; oats, standard, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 01c to 02c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 53c; pork, mess, $15.00. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 87c ; corn. No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c ; oats. No. 2 mixed, 31e to 33c; rye. No. 2, GO-s to C7c; clover seed, prime, $3.30. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.(5; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.75; lambs,"' fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.30. , - New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.S0; hogs, $4.00 to $0.70: sheep, $3.00 to. $0.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 83c to S5c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 4Sc ; oats, natural white, 35c to 30c; butter, creamery, 21c to 27c; eggs, western, 13c to 10c. , Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $00 to $5.75 ; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to $0.45; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $5.00 ; -wheat, No. 2, 79c to SOc; corn. No. 2 white, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c. St Louis Cattle. $1.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $0.:; sheep, $1.00 to S5.50; wheat, No. 2, SOc to S9c; corn. No. 2,'40c to 42c; oats. No. 2, 2Sc to 39c; rye, No. 2. 03c to 04c. Cincinnati Cattle $4.00 to $5.35; hogs, $4.00 to $0.45; heep, $2.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2, 85c to 80c; oorn. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 45c; oats, Ko. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; rye, No. 2, OSe to VOc. ' One of the buildings of the Star Shirt Company's plant in Bridgeport, Conu., was damaged by fire to the extent of $50,000. The 500 girls employed escaped in safety. The trial of Mathew J. Kiely, tho de posed .chief of police of St. Loufc, was halted by an injunction obtained by the official who is making a great fight to save his job. Rev. George C. Ware, formerly an Episcopal rector in South Dakota, was sentenced at Omaha to a year in prison and fined $1,000 for participation in a land fraud. AE0UND A BIG STATE. BRIEF COMPILATION OF If'DN ANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doins; Matters of General and Local Inter est Marriages and Deaths Acci dents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianlans. Brief State Items. The second annual convention of tbe In diana State Association of Spiritualists was held in Anderson. Mrs. Alvira Rogers of Wabash obtained a verdict of $3,000 against the Pennsylvania railroad for the death of her husband. Governor Ilanly uppointed G. D. Jay, T. S.- Gear hart, republicans, and Jackson Morrow, democrat, members of the police board of Kokomo. The little child of Eugene Fields of Montgomery found a bottle filled with lau danum, and drank the contents, dying be fore remedial agencies could be applied. James Monroe Swihart and Miss Ida B. Daro, of near Auburn, were united in marriage. Both are deaf mutes and the ceremony was performed in the sign language. , The trial in the Circuit Court at ilent land,to test the remonstrance recently tied against the saloon traße at Morocco, re sulted in a sweeping victory for tho tem perance people. William LutrelL a Big Four engineer cf Wabash, has become insane. Ills ermine killed a fellow engineer in 1800 and be has brooded over this constantly since until his reason was dethroned. Miss Ethel Barrett, living six miles north of Petersburg, while helping to carry out household goods from her home which was in flames, had her celluloid combs catch Albert Johnson, 28 years old, was shot in the abdomen and probably fatally injured while walking in the streets at ' Pitisiroro. He accuses Sam Parmer of firing Ihe shot. No arrests have been made. Rev. Ulysses G. Sutherlin of NeW AI- bany, charged by Anna Adelia Moore with being the father of her child, was held in $500 bonds to answer in the Floyd Circu t Court Tho minister's father became surety. . The jury in the case of Archie Witt the 17-year-old country boy who was charged with shooting with intent to murder Ira Neif, returned a verdict of acquittal. The shooting took place at Daleville, lart Hal lowe'en. George Younker, postmaster at Vienna, and Peter Ball, rural mail carrier, had a misunderstanding over a money order, and blows were exchanged. As a result both have been removed by the postoffice de partment , N. E. Livingston, eager, employed at the Atlas mine at Linton, was tally crushed by a car. He failed to give the signal. Iiis son, employed as a driver, bad a leg broken at the-same time by fall ing from a car. Alleging that she had been guilty of illegal practice, the state board of medicine registration and examination revoked the license of Dr. Mary A. Whery, of Fart Wayne. Dr. Whery has been practicir g mediciie since 1SS8. Newton Gilbert of Fort Wayne, repre sentative in congress from the Twelfth distric t, has announced that he will shortly resign his scat to accept a judgeship in the Philippines, which position has been of fered him by the president.1 Annoyed by chicken thieves, the Rev. 13. I-.' Todd of the United Brethren church tt Washington, painted his chickens beneath the left wing. Recently one of the marked bens was found in a poultry-house, and the arrest of a neighbor followed. The jury'iit the case of James Donovao. indicted for complicity in the robbery of tho RidgevP.ie bank, last October, re turned a verdict of guilty, fixing the pun ishment at imprisonment under the in-determin?e-sentence act at Michigan City. Elza Vfakin, of Whitley county, Is under arrest xt Garrett, on a charge of stealing a horse belonging to Harry Ba:tels, w ho lives cact of the city. Makin is said to have been released only recently from the JefTersonville reformatory and is thought to be affected mentally. Tbe city council of Tcrre Haute, in special session, passed the sidewal'x ob struction ordinance. It provides against overhead signs, the use of sidewalks for display or sale of wares, for giving enter tainments and requires the removal of snow and ice. The main purpose of the ordinance is to prevent another street fair. Orlando I!' ;se and wife of Perry town ship, Olay iounty,;went to the barn to milk tbe cows, leaving heir G-inun!h-old child tsleep in a cradle near a stove. After they had finished milking they foand their t.mise in flames. Mr. Rctvse was ter ribly burned while endeavoring to resece the child, which was cremated In the ruins. The board of public works of South Bend has granted a franchise to a com pany headed by D, M. Shi vely, state repre sentative, to build a gas plant in that city. The new company pledges itself not to charge in excess of thirty-live cents a 1,0-W cubic ieet. Mr. Shively represents West Virginia capitalists and a bond has been filed, to be forfeited in case the plant is not built. During a quarrel at the home of Fred Luts, at Nobleville, Mrs." Lutz shot and perhaps fatally wounded her husband and then ran almost a mile, without shoes or street clothing, to the borne of M:eriff Ua worth and surrendered, llerface was bleeding profusely from the wounds which she declared had been inflicted by her husband. Lutz, with five bullets in his body, walked a considerable distance to the home of a neighbor and fell prostrate in the doorway. Managers T. W. Barhydt,. Jr., of the Grand opera house, and Jack llofiler, of the Lyric theater at Terre Haute, who were arretted on charges of violating the state law by giving Sunday performances, were acquitted. John Replogle, 70 years old, died at Ko komo, immediately following baptism. When Informed he could survive but a few hours Reprogle asked that he Im baptized into the. German Baptist church, where immersion is followed. lie was not taken to a running stream, but w&3 placed in a big tank in his home. lie ttpired soon af ter being immersed. The children by a former marriage of the late Captain James G.Wright, a retired river man of Madison, have brought suit at Indianapolis to recover $100,OJO in cash, bonds, securities, etc., alleged to have been retained by his widow. Kufus Woods, the notorious diamond thief and pickpocket, who was convicted of attempted robbery at Frankfort lat summer, and who escaped from Sheriff Haggard by leaping from the Monon Flyer at Broad Rippl-3 while en route to the Jef fercouville prison, has been recaptured, lie was arrested and identified in ,ew Or leans. Sheriff Haggard Ifjft with requisi tion papers to gel Woods. , She hafw 4Um BI;ley Good fellows are scarce. I know only two men whom 1 can really call my very good friends. Miss Pepprcy Ys? And what Is the other man's name. Mr. Eigley? New Vwu'i Rnsh. You teem busy?" interrogated tl3 caller in tne corner urug store. "Exceedingly , replied the druggUt "Many patrons dropping inr "I should say so. ' We trve out l.CC patent-medicine almanacs and XX tDCthinj-fyrup cslcnäsrs la two J. - - - -. ' 1 -