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ROC ISLAND ARGUS. FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 151. THE AKGUS. TUESDAY. APRIL 13. 1909 TEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. FIRE, DRIVEN BY HIGH t'JItJD, DEVOURS ROCHESTER; fJ. Y. Loss at 2 P. M. Estimat ed at $1,000,000 and . Growing Fast. STARTS IN CHURCHES Militia Ordered Out to Help Keep OrderHelp Sent from Nearby Cities. tion that woman's clubs and the like are promotors of race suicide. BERRY LIKELY TO BE HIS MANAGER Senator Hopkins Figuring on rutting His Campaign for Reelection in New Hands. Rochester, April 13, 2:30. It looks now as if the fire would be held in check" unless a, shift in the wind car ries it to other sections. The second fire in the northern part of the city has also, it is believed, nearly burned itself out. LOSS REACHES S1,M0.IMM. Rochester, April 13, 2 p. m. The loss is already estimated at $1,000,000. Assistance is on the way from Buffalo and Syracuse. A 30-mile ga'e is blow ing and both fires are spreading. From Earlier DlNpatHien. Rochester, N. Y., April 13. Fire today destroyed the Electrical and Surgical Implement Manufacturing company's building in East Main street and the flames are still spread ing. Twenty-five houses are afire in the section of Grove and Gibbs streets. ' Beth Kodah temple -wil be a total loss. The First German Lutheran Zlon church also probably will go. The loss so far is said to be $700, 000. Help from Syracuse and Buffalo has been summoned. Second Hlnse Start. While the conflagration was raging a second fire broke out in First Re- Springfield, 111., April 13. The Hopkins camp is getting ready to reorganize its forces with a view of putting a new commanding general In the field. A conference has been set for tomorrow at the statehouse, at which Govrnor Deneen will meet Albert J. Hopkins Roy O. West, re publican state chairman; Charles P. Hitch of Paris and Orville F. Berry of Carthage. The probability is that Berry will be put in charge of the Aurora man's campaign in the hope that under a new management Hop kins will have better luck with the lawmakers. All the talk now Is that the legis lature will take a recess next month and will come back for a "hang-over" session next fall, leaving the senator ship up in the air until that time. The state leaders who are with Hopkins have been criticising the management of his candidacy for months past and the idea of putting Berry in charge appears to have its source in a belief that the toga will be with out a wearer until autumn, that the siege will be prolonged, and that it may benefit the Aurora man to switch managers and to whoop it up during the summer recess. The "Good Old Days of Roosevelt" Club holds a meeting. jf" c : l AoSSjWTOh " . . " CONSTANTINOPLE SCENE OF A SERIOUS UPRISING rora today, developed the little town suffered severely from a tornado yes terday. Four persons were injured, two churches and two streets wrecked, and almost every building in town damaged. A brakeman was blown from a freight train and killed. BULLISH FEVER IN THE WHEAT PIT Another Record Reached on Advices That World's Supply Is Short. . LIBEL CASE OF J. D. ROCKEFELLER FAILS Attempted to Fix Guilt Upon Wrong Member of Hearst's Stan. New York, April 13. The writ of habeas corpus secured in behalf of formed cnurcn in uregon street aooui. s s Carvalho. Bradford Merrill and a mile from the first fire. The church Edward H. Clark, officers of the Star was destroyed and the- painieriOi.ronipaT1y pUUiishers of the New York ber comnany'8 yards caught Are Mayor Edgerton ordered out the lo cal militia to help the police in the burning district. 1 Woman tioen Insane. Rochester. N. Y., April 13. One girl is reported missing. A woman went violently insane from the fire as her home was in the path of the flames. She was sent to a hospital. It has been decided to dynamite some building on Stillson street in an ef fort to control the fire. TO HAVE COMMISSION GOVERNMENT AT WILL Three Jrgest Cities of Minnesota Affected by flill Which Gov ernor Will Sign. St. Paul, April 13. Governor John A Johnson will sign the bill, permitting the commission form of government for the three largest cities of Minne sota, St. Paul, Duluth and Minneapo lis. The state legal department has carefully examined the bill, and has decided that it does not conflict with the provisions of Minnesota's constitu Hon that all municipal charters must provide for a mayor and a council of either one or two bodies. There will be no serious legal obsta cles in the way of apllying the provis ions of the new bill to St. Paul. City Attorney Michael has rendered the opinion that the practical effect of change to the commission form of gov eminent will be simply the elimina tion of many boards such as those in control of the fire, police and school departments, and the centralization of more power in administrative depart ment heads. The new commission bill is not man datory. It simply provides machinery for the establishment of a commission government in the larger cities subject to the demand of the people living in them for the commission system. SUFFRAGETTES ON SPECIAL GO TO SPRINGFIELD SUPEREDUCATION CAUSE OF FALL OF THIS NEGRO GRADUATE OF YALE American and Evening Journal, in the action brought against them for criminal libel on complaint of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was upheld by Justice Gerard in the supreme court yesterday and the defendants ordered discharged. Mr. Rockefeller had complained of the publication in the New York American of Dec. 17, 1908, of an ar ticle wrongfully accusing him of hav ing originated a peonage system by which the employes of a certain breakfast food company in Illinois were alleged to have been subjected. In his opinion Justice Gerard char acterizes the article as a gross and vicious libel, the writers and pub lishers of which should be brought to trial, but finds that no evidence exists to show that these men had anything to do whatever with its writing or publication St. Louis. April 13. "To what source do you attribute your mental condition?" Super-education. I am a negro, and have no business with a college educa tion." This question and answer propound ed and replied to by Louis O. Graves, a graduate of Yale, was the climax of what Judge Taylor today declares was the most uulque defense he had ever encountered. Avtit im Own Attorney. Graves was charged with forging a check. He acted as his own attorney, called himself to the stand, and con ducted his own examination. After testifying he had served terms in the penitentiaries at Jefferson City, Mo., and Crcster, 111., and that he had been an inmate of five insane asylums, he asked himself: RECEIVERS FOR OUTING CO. Judge Appoints Men for Hefunct Publishing Concern. Syracuse, N. Y., April 13. Judge George W. Ray in the United States court here has appointed receivers for the Outing Publishing company A Deposit, publishers of the Outing, the Bohemian, the Grey Goose and Brains magazines and for Knapp Brothers bankers at Deposit and Callicoon. The Outing receivers were author ized to continue the business of the company for 30 days, to borrow sum not exceeding $2,500 for that purpose. HALTS TRIAL WITH BULLET Former New York County Clerk Ac fused of Embezzlement Suicides. Binghampton, N. Y., April 13. On the eve of his second trial on the charge of embezzling county funds scheduled to open in Cooperstown this morning, Arthur W. T. Black former clerk of the Broom county board of supervisors, committed sui cide early today by shooting. ANOTHER BILL FOR B0YLES Child Stealing Charge Made Against Whitla Kidnapers. . Cleveland, Ohio, April 13. An addi tional Indictment charging child steal Ing was reported today against James H. Boyle and Mrs. Boyle, who are un der arrest at Mercer, Pa., on the charge of kidnaping Willie Whitla. "Did you ever try to commit sui cide?" "Five times," was the response to himself. "I tried to jump from the third tier of cells anM cracked my skull. I took a poisoi in the central police station. I tried - to hang myself in the penitentiary, ami twice I tried to kill myself when I felt a desire to commit a crime coming over me." Old Xt Keenll Forgery. Graves said he haiTno recollection of the forgery with which he is charg ed. He was remanded '"ift await possi J ble action by the grand Jury. Not On I.ixtM. New Haven, Conn., April 13. T'te alumni lists at Yale university do not give the name of Louis Graves, who was held for the grand jury in St. Louis today on the charge of forgery SEVENTY-FIVE PASSENGERS ARE MA ROONED IN SNOW ON MOFFAT ROAD Denver, Colo., April 13. Seventy- five passengers who left the city Sun day morning for a trip over the Mof fat road are marooned at Corona at the summit of the Continental divide vith nothing to eat but the limited amount of food stuffs in shipment on the express car. The primary cause of the blockade is the derailment of a snow plow sent out to clear .the track of huge drifts caused by Sunday's snow storm. A CASTRO'S WIFE IS PERSONA NON GRATA liars Put Up Against Her in the Same Manner as They Were Against Her Husband. Chicago, April 13. Wheat establish ed new high record marks at the open ing of the board of trade today. May, the available supply of which is in the hands a man who also is owner of millions of bushels of "paper" wheat, for which the shorts will have to set tie at his own price, opened with small sales at from $1.27 to $1.28. July rose early to $1.17, an advance over yes terday of 1 cents. September touch ed $1.09, a gain of to 1 over night The bullish influences were the high cables and general belief that there is a world wide shortage of wheat and the closing out of the May contracts of Ennis & Stoppani, brokers of New York and Chicago, against whom an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in New York today. Theamoun involved here is said not to have been large. BIG BROKERAGE - FIRM GOES UNDER Eunis & Stoppani of New York n Chicago Fail With Ik-Ms of $1,500,000. Troops Surround Parlia ment Building to Press Demands. WANT OFFICERS OUT Tension Between the Young Turks and Liberites at Breaking Point. Washington, April 13. Mrs. Castro, wife, of the former president of Ven ezuela, also is being kepi, out of that country. Dispatches from the Ameri- New York, April 13. Involuntary can diplomatic representative in Ven- petition in bankruptcy was filed here her party on the steamship Guadeloupe, TsToppani. members of the : , J 1 " . , " . consolidated stock exchange, and Chi- barked at Fort de France, arrived at cago board of trade. The liabilities train load of laborers was started to the rescue yesterday but according to reports they are stalled in the snow several miles this side of the passen ger train.- A 50 mile gale was blow ing on the main range yesterday and work had to be suspended. The train reached Earl, on the west side of the divide, where provisions are plenty, early today. Officials of the road say traffic will be open be fore night. i-.i iiiuiii.i n.ii un :iv lit v wwm mil I . . . .... ' ---. arp niipirpd tn no a minion nnii permitted to land or to communicate nalf with assets 5400.OOO. Lindsay wuu t,iiuie. as mi aauea precaution Russell was appointed receiver me uaueioupe was noi uocKen, DUt Following the aDDOintment of a 10 proceeded to the next stop, a Colom- ceiver it was announced Ennis & Stop bian port. It is apparent the effort is pani had made a general assignment to 10 Keep airs, uastro irom any direct the Treadwill of Cleveland. The as- communication with her husband's for- signee said the cause of suspension mer political mends in Venezuela. I was some unexpected demands from Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, April 13. out of town creditors. He believed the The French line steamer Versailles, I assets more than enough to meet the with former President Castro on board, I liabilities. One of the allegations called here yesterday on its way from made on the information in the bank- Fort de France to France. Castro did jTuptcy petition was the firm failed t ? not attempt to come ashore. I meet its margin obligations on the Chi- cago board of trade and has admitted OIL COMPANY TO PAY FINE lts inabiHt' to meet Its own obiiga- NATION'S INCOME M0RETHAN EXPENSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY MONTHS Washington, April 13. Since April toms receipts began to be noticeable. 1, for the first time in many months, should continue until June 30, the to- the government's daily revenues have tal deficit for the fiscal year will be exceeded Its expenditures, the average ' $9G,837,170, as against the deficit of daily surplus being $03,959. Comments $114,000,000. estimated at the begin CRUISER CHESTER WINNER Chicago, April 13. Two hundred sufTragettes of Chicago and other Illi nois cities beg their first invasion of the legislating today when they left here on an Alton special for iteieuta saiem ana uinningtiani in ai Springfield. Speeches will be made Hour Endurance Test, from the rear platform at several Newport, R. I.. April 13. The cruis points. The legislators have agreed er Chester won the 24-hour endurance to give the women a hearing. run at full speed, defeating the Salem regarding the increase in customs and other treasury receipts were made yes terday by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge. "The dall yaver age receipts from customs from Jan. 1 to April 10," he said, were $1,071,801. This is nearly up to the average for the corresponding period of 1907, which was $1,144,057. The average for the corresponding period of 1908 was only $S90,072. The returns from inter nal revnue have not been so favorable. The average daily receipts since Jan. 1 have been $750,223, as against $773,- 078 for the corresponding period of 1908 and $853,320 for the correspond ing period of 1907. "The average daily total receipts from all sources have been $2,007,889, as against $1,897,134 in 1908, and $2, 189,577 Jn 1907. The average daily total expenditure has been $2,303,800, as against $2,2GG,40O in 1908 and $1, 855,500 in 1907. The daily deficit has continued to diminish steadily. The average daily deficit since July 1, 1908, has been $374,900. Since Jan. 1, 1909, it has been $295,900. Since Feb. 10, 1909, it has been $115,700. Since March 10, 1909, it has been $63,200. Since April 1 the average daily . sur Pius has been $03,959. Many children accompanied the in- and Birmingham, according to a wire-1 , "If 'the average . daily deficit since vaaers as a refutation of the allega- less message picked up here today. , IFeb. 10, wnen the. improvement in cus nlng of the last session of congress, while if the average since March 10 continues the total at the end of the fiscal year will be $9C,203,082." Wind Damage at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., April 13. One is dead and a number of persons ser iously injured as a result of a severe windstorm in the city and vicinity today. Property loss will amount to thousands of dollars. The velocity of the wind is 52 miles per hour. Yesterday in Congress LUMBER MILLS OF SOUTH ARE TO CLOSE Thousand Will Shut Down Year If Necessary to Force Higher Prices. Kansas City, Mo., April 13. Follow ing a conference held in Kansas City yesterday it was. stated that nearly a thousand lumber mills in Texas, Lou isiana, 'Mississippi and Florida will be shut down for an indefinite period. . The efforts to shut down one of -he biggest industries of the south is the re ult of business depression, accord Ing to the men engineering the deal The combine members say they will force up prices and will remain closed for 12 months if necessary. "It is simply a case of no prices for lumber,: said F. Patterson of Kirby tllle, Texas. "There is no business ted, rather than sell at any price we gan get, we will force the dealers to pay our prices by cutting out the sup ply as long aa Is necessary." Waters-I'ierce Concern Will Turn Over Penalty of $l,O0O,OOO. Austin, Tex.. April 13. The refusil of the United States supreme court yesterday to grant the Waters-Pierce Oil company's motion for a rehearing of the case of the state of Texas against it for ouster from the state and penalties aggregating $1,090,000 is the concluding action in the suit. This big judgment for violating the anti trust law will be paid into the Texas state treasury as soon as the neces sary arrangements can be made. The I Washington, April 13. Following is Waters-Pierce company, through C. B. I a summary, compiled from the official Dorcester, yesterday paid to the state I proceedings, of the work of botl: controller $49,000 or delinquent gross houses of congress yesterday: receints tax. including nenaltv charss. I SENATE The tariff bill was renorted " ' 1 I i. 11. . - l-.I-.i. r .1 . . W.ishine-tnn Anril 1 ? Tho mIl-l"-, num me uummmee on wasmiigion, April u. ine man l ..,, an1 Thrsii.iv it win i, ii.n date of the supreme court .Of the! up for consideration. Senator Datiitl United States in Waters-Pierce Oil u?T1ocr1t,,,V'r)L,c,sm of t"c report I my fit lint hill T4 Iho uonntn n'ltli.ml .. company case was issued today. It I fording- the democratic members an op- is addressed to the attorney general I portunity to inspect it. Senator Aidrii h of Texas and upon its arrival will be wise would nave t.ntaiied Ion delay authority for the collection of the I and reminded the members of the min- t enn nAn ,o. k .tt ""'J repuDiicnn ma joriiy alone .,vv,vvv uuc ...,Foc wj ....c would he held resnonsible for lie larifT courts upon tne company ADOUt two-1 legislation o be enacted bv this con thlrria nt tho mim will bo rilv!lnl sress. a message irom the house iisk- , . . .ling for the return of the bill reached among the lawyers- Who prosecuted I the senate too late for action. Adjourn the cases while the remaining third ed at 12.' o'clock until Thursday. win go lu.iue oiaic. itwo hours and fifteen minutes. The first action taken was the adoption of a resolution calling: upon the senate for a return of the Payne tariff bill next Thursday In order that it might be cor- xoiun uno .ivengeu Uie in lieior-1 troleirm In the free list. During the confusion incident to the ravage of the Ossining, N. Y., April 13. For the provision was embodied in it. but it de- murder of his mother, Susan Carlin, injveloped that such was not the case, ai- her home in Brooklyn one year ago. tnciude these products along with crude Bernard Carlin, aged 22, Wa8 put to nd reOned petroleum. The house au- , . i .v, . i ,, thorized its enrolling clerk to make the death by electricity in the State prison correction. and he can make the change here at G a. m. vesterdav. Carlin had I within a few minutes, it win. there- , . . . i. l tore, cause no oeiay in lann legislation ueeu au inmate oi cucuimuiB ui reioi in-1 xhere was much opposition to two res atory institutions a greater part. oflutin. one to appoint several jani .... i . t. i itors and the other to appropriate for nis me, uegiunmg in iniancy, wnen the expense of the house incident to his father died. He blamed his mother I the extra session. The first was de- :,tI v. . . . i tvreated by being laid on the table, and for permitting him to remain In these tne 8econd was adopted only after Mr. institutions, and When he was released I Macon of Arkansas had forced a roll r it.-- : i. - I call on a point of no quorum. After irum lue leioruiaiuiy a jear su, lie gendin& the census bill to conference purchased a revolver, went direct to I the house at 2:15 p. m. adjourned until hla tnnllior'o hnma onH lHlld W . Iinursaay, Constantinople, April 13. The 'cab inet has resigned and their resignation has been accepted. It is reported Kai- mil Pasha former, grand vizier, has been charged with the formation of 'z hew ministry.- FAXit." IX CITV. Constantinople, April 13. 'Mutinous troops are demonstrating against the parliament building. A panic has seiz ed the people of Constantinople. All through the city shops are being hur riedly closed. Situation Im Grave. Constantinople. April 13. A ser ious disturbance of a revolutionary character has broken out here. The situation is grave. Troop Make Demand. Frankfort, April 13.. Constantin ople has been In full revolution sinc early this morning, declares the Constantinople correspondent of the Frankfort Zeitung. Two battalions of troops quartered in the ministry of war marched at dawn headed by their officers and proceeded via Divan and Kolu streets to the mosque of. St. Sophia from which point they sur rounded the building of parliament. They demand the dismissal of the grand vizier, the president of the chamber and the minister of war Strained for Weeks, Lerra5n;-April 13. The" situation at Constantinople has been extremely strained for several weeks past, owing to the great bitterness between the committee of union and progress or the young Turks and liberites over the recent attempt of the committee to control public affairs. The murder of Hassan Fehmir Effendi,' editor of the liberal newspaper, Serbesti, April 7, is thought to have been a climax of this political feud. The Serbesti had been carrying on a campaign against the young Turks. Quirted Ity I 'ro nil Mrs. Violent demonstrations both inside parliament and in the streets adjacent followed the killing of the editor. The grand vizier and president of the chamber were obliged to harangue the crowds outside and assure them ustice would be done. M MURDERER OF MOTHER DIES Peru Shaken by Quake. Lima. Peru, April 13. A severe KANSAS TOWN HAS A BLOW carthshock was experienced here a Aurora in Path of Cyclone and Much! five minutes past 3 o"clock yesterday Damage Is Done. - , morning. The movement was from Concordia, Kan April 13. Telephone east to weBt, and was accompanied by communication, reestablished with Au- subterranean rumblings 0RMER KEOKUK MAN KILLS SELF , L. ltoyles Drinks Carbolic Acid While Grieving Over the Death of His Wife. Muskogee, Okla.. April 13. M. L. Boyles, a lumber merchant, aged 71, committed suicide at a hotel here today drinking carbolic acid. Boyles left a note declaring the act due to grief over the death of his wife. He was formerly prominent in the lum ber business in Keokuk, Iowa. Worth $60,0CO,GOO; No Debts. South Bend, Ind., April 13. The wonderful grasp of details possess id by the late James Oliver, plow manu facturer and philanthropist of Sou1!! Bend, is shown by the settlement of his estate, estimated to be worth $C0. 000,000. Notwithstanding the size rf the fortune, not a ningle claim W3S filed against it and the' executor. Jos eph D. Oliver, son of the dead man. has been discharged. SAVE HICKORY TREE, IS SLOGAN OF NEW SOCIETY P5nfln Hickory association began Us first an-, nual meeting here today. The object. it was stated, is to devise a plan of co operation between users of hickory : wood, and the government to insure a supply of wood. The visible supply. It VDC Efliil ivill iQCt tnr IK raon unit 30 years is required to grow a ner hickory tree. . - .A