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TI1K VALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, FEI5. 7, 1008.
BRIEF REVIEW OF
II WEEK'S EHEHIS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
IZED FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Cathered from All Quar
ters of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.
King Carlos of Portugal and the
crown prince, Luiz Philippe, were shot
to death as they sat In the royal car
riage, by a band of revolutionists. Ills
iuaje8ty, accompanied by Queen
Amelia, Crown Prince Luiz and Prince
Manuel, were returning from the Villa
Vicosa, where they had been tempo
rarily residing, when a company of
men leaped from behind a barrier and,
leveling carbines at the royal family,
lired. No revolutionary outbreak fol
lowed the murders, and the second
son of Carlos was proclaimed kins un
der the name of Manuel II.
Harry K. Thaw was found not guilty
of murder, on the ground of insanity,
and was at once committed to the hos
pital for the criminal insane at Mat
teawan, N. Y.. where he will remain
until set free by a lunacy commis
sion. The four-story brick building con
taining the mechanical department of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer Publishing
company was practically destroyed by
lire.
Five persons were injured, one fatal
ly, in a lire which destroyed a three
story apartment house in Kansas City.
Tlie plant of the Atlantic Compress
company, with between 2,000 and
2,r00 bales of cotton, was destroyer! at
Americus, (la., by lire. The loss is es
timated at $150.U(0.
The Detroit accommodation train
on the Wabash railroad was thrown
into the ditch near Adrian. Mich., two
women being killed and many persons
injured.
A revision of the College of Herald
ry of Georgia, Transcaucasia, has re
sulted in the uncovering of monster
forgeries of princely titles. Among
2,000 registered hereditary coats of
arms COO have been found to be bogus.
Traffic has been opened over the
Julfa railway connecting Russia and
Persia. This line clinches Russian
hold on the north Persian provinces.
Alfred Kling, Mrs. Alfred Kling and
the former's brother, Ora Kling, were
killed at Rennett's Switch, 13 miles
south of Peru, Ind., by being run down
by an interurban car.
Henry Oliver Collins, until recently
editor of the Missoulian and In former
years associate of Eugene Field, Opie
Read and Charles Hasbrook in Denver,
died in Missoula, Mont., of pneumo
nia. A handsome woman, supposed to
be Almyra Wilcox, who conducted a
millinery establishment in Milwaukee,
was found dead in her room at the Ho
tel Chelsea, New York, from an over
dose of some narcotic.
David Barrie, Sir Thomas LIpton's
representative in this country when
the Irish baronet raced Shamrock I.
and Shamrock II. for the America's
cup, was killed in the Jersey Central
depot in Jersey City, slipping on the
ice and falling in front of a locomo
tive. Rev. Dr. Frank Bristol, pastor of
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church of Washington, had a narrow
escape from death in his pulpit, a
heavy ornament falling on him from
the ceiling and knocking him sense
less. Recause the girl to whom he had
been engaged refused to talk to him
John Mollet fatally shot himself while
standing at the telephone In his broth
er's grocery store in Chicago.
William Brace, a well-known Chica
go lawyer, was found frozen to death
near his suburban residence.
Dennis O'Sullivan, the Irish actor
and singer, died In a hospital at Col
umbus, O., after an operation for ap
pendicitis. A. II. Sheldon, for many years a
prominent Republican politician and
a leading business man of Janesvllle,
Wis., and well known throughout the
state, died of a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Eva Toms, the one hundred
and seventieth victim of the Boyer
town theater fire, died of burns.
In the United States circuit court
for the district of Utah, United States
Attorney Hiram E. Booth filed a bill
In equity which has for Its purpose the
dissolution of Harriman's network of
railways, which consist of more than
16,000 miles of main track and of his
allied steamship lines.
In Lublin, Russian Poland, the po
lice unearthed a band of robbers com
loosed entirely of women and the lead
ers have been taken Into custody.
E. O. Anderson, alderman, coal deal
er and prominent citizen of Aberdeen.
S. D., was arrested charged with be
ing a receiver of stolen coal.
The Illinois house passed the direct
plurality primary bill already adopted
by the senate.
Practically complete election re
turns gave J. V. Sanders a lead of be
tween 14,000' and 15.000 votes over T.
S. WIlker8on in the Democratic guber
natorial primary In Louisiana.
Judge F. M. Powers at Denlson. la.,
sentenced Joseph and Solomon liars
san to a term of 25 years each in the
penitentiary for the murder of their
cousin, Fred Nawfal, last January.
Bert Swan, a wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley, la., committed sui
cide by cutting his throat with a razor.
President Roosevelt transmitted to
congress what Is considered the
"warmest" and best message he has
written since he entered the White
House. It urged re-enactment of an
employers liability law, dealt with
the abuse of the injunction in labor
cases, asked for laws to secure better
federal control of corporations en
gaged in Interstate commerce, scored
the high officials of the Santa Fe and
the Standard Oil company in connec
tion with rebating, flayed the great
law-breaking corporations that have
been attacking the administration and
vigorously repelled the charges that
the policies of the president have been
the cause of business depression.
Republicans and Democrats alike in
the house of representatives wildly
cheered President Roosevelt's message.
W. J. Bryan In an Interview praised It
highly, and Chancellor Day of Syra
cuse university denounced it as rant,
slander and vituperation.
Mrs. Annie Ackerly of Brooklyn, N.
Y., was sentenced to 14 years' Im
prisonment for arson.
Gov. Joseph K. Toole of Montana
resigned because of ill health and will
quit office April 1.
Dr. Samuel R. Millard, the oldest
physician in Chicago, died, aged 92
years.
The American battleship fleet en
tered the Strait of Magellan and an
chored for the night In Possession bay.
Six persons were killed outright by
a cyclone which laid waste a strip of
farming country three-quarters of a
mile wide and several miles long just
north of Wesson, Miss.
Intense cold and heavy snowfall
were reported from many points in the
northwest.
J. S. Klehle, a student from Minne
apolis, lost his life in a fire that de
stroyed the Alpha Tau Omega fra
ternity house at Cornell university,
Ithaca, N. Y.
The Hamilton Tourist hotel at
White Springs, Fla., was burned, with
several cottages. Guests barely es
caped with their lives. The loss is
$100,000.
James and Charles Llpsy, brothers,
of Raymond, 111., committed suicide
with the same revolver.
A credit of $:.000,000 was received
from New York by the Hungarian Dis
count and Exchange bank at Buda
Pest, for the account of the Count
and Countess Laszlo Szechenyl.
Speaker John N. Cole of the Massa
chusetts house of representatives was
indicted by the Essex county grand
jury on a charge of violating the pub
lic statutes in requesting a reduced
rate of fare on the Boston & Maine
railroad for a large number of stu
dents. While walking on the thin ice which
had formed in the Hudson off Nyack,
N. Y., Evans Steele, aged 21; Hans
Kraft, 12, and Harold Dixon, 11, broke
through and were drowned.
Dr. Andrew W. Riley, professor of
practice of medicine of Creighton
Medical college, Omaha, Neb., died of
blood poisoning caused by Infection re
ceived from an erysipelas patient.
The Rock Island railroad station at
Topeka, Kan., was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Bluefield, W. Va destroyed
eight business houses, the railroad
Y. M. C. A. building and three resi
dences. At Beaver Falls, Pa.. Vella Mylie,
aged 17, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
R. C. Mylle of Wilklnsburg, Pa., and
Robert Patterson, aged 22, of New
Alexandria, Pa., students at Geneva
college, were drowned while skating.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes, whose
nomination for the presidency by the
Republican national convention In
Chicago next June Is being urged by
the New York county committee and
other Republican county committees
In New York state, made open declara
tion of his views of national issues and
principles.
It was announced that steamboat
passenger rates on the upper lakes
will be advanced this year.
The Oriental bank of New York,
capitalized for $750,000, closed its
doors after a run.
Five men were Injured, three of
them seriously, by an explosion in the
shrapnel department at the United
States arsenal In Philadelphia.
Edward Cromwell, for many years
prominent In business and philan
thropy, died In Denver, aged 87 years.
One man was killed and five injured
In Los Angeles, Cal., when a train
struck a street car.
Rescued from their vessel after she
had become disabled in' midocean,
carried to Genoa and thence to Ixm
don, Capt. Kelly and the five members
of the crew of the brigantine Aquila
arrived at Halifax, N. S., on the Allan
line steamer Sardinian.
That no necessity exists for a re
duction In the prices of Iron and steel
and that none will be made was the
general understanding arrived at by
representative manufacturers of pig
iron, iron, and steel at a meeting hejd
In New York.
The flag of the American man-of-war
Chesapeake and the "Balaclava
bugle," two of the most valuable war
relics of a collection of antiquities
that belonged to the late T. O. Middle
brook, were secured at the auction
sale of the collection in Ixndon for
American buyers.
It Is estimated that the steel plant
to be built at Hankow, China, by Chi
nese capitalists will cost $6,000,000.
Gov. Hughes was strongly Indorsed
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency and the administration of
President Roosevelt was commended
In a resolution unanimously adopted
by the Republican committee of New
York county.
Charles II. Klpp of the wholesale
grocery firm of Kerr, Klpp & Co., of
Hastings, Neb., committed suicide, as
the result of overwork and worry, by
shooting himself in the head with a
shotgun.
After a struggle of five hours against
cold and a turbulent sea, the life
savers of the Coslata station, near
Nantucket, rescued the crew of the
Newport brigantine Fredericka Schepp,
which was wrecked on the north side
of Coat ue beach.
Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, premier
and secretary for native affairs of
Cape Colony, has resigned. He as
sumed these offices in February, 1904.
Fire wiped out the village of Twin
Lakes. Minn., over 200 persons beiug
made homeless.
A proposal for state-wide liquor
prohibition was rejected in the Mich
igan constitutional convention by a
vote of 55 to 39.
In a dispute over a horse, Philip
Kastner. aged 62, shot and fatally
wounded his son George, aged 32, at
Jasper, Ind.
The office of the superintendent of
poor at West Seneca, N. Y., was be
sieged by 500 men begging for food.
Four men were taken to the county
hospital Buffering from starvation.
The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature passed a measure prohibit
ing the smoking of cigarettes In the
state.
William S. Wood of the firm of
Lloyd & Wood, one of the best-known
lawyers on the Pacific coast, died at
his home in San Francisco.
Nine miners were killed by an ex
plosion in the New Rivery colliery
near Hawk's Nest, W. Va.
Because he was angry with his wife,
William Meutsch of Chicago killed one
of his children and fatally shot the
two others.
Col. Burr Bobbins, the old time cir
cus man, died in Chicago.
King's court, one of the show places
of Ijakewood, N. J., a residence built
some years ago by George Gould for
his son. Kingdon, was destroyed by
fire. The building was valued at
$500,000.
Liquidation of the State National
bank of New Orleans was decided
upon by a vote of Hie stockholders.
This bank is nearly 100 years old.
The superior court at Paris refused
to giant an absolute divorce to Maud
Gonne from her husband, MaJ. Mc
Bride. The schooner Helen E. Taft of
Thomaston, Me., was run down and
sunk by an unknown steamer 10 miles
southwest of Cape Lookout lightship
off the coast of North Carolina.
Pearl Harper was acquitted at
Cadillac, Mich., on the charge of mur
dering her stepfather.
Arthur W. Fergusson. secretary of
the Philippine commission, died su 1
denly of heart disease in Manila.
The Diamond Window Glass factory
at Gas City, Ind., was destroyed by
fire, resulting in a loss estimated at
$100,000.
The American torpedo boat flotilla
sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punta
Arenas.
Dr. J. C. Brlgham perished In a fire
that destroyed eight stores and resi
dences in GIrard, Ga.
Two financial institutions of New
York city, one a national and the
other a state bank, closed their doors
The New Amsterdam ' National bank.
capital $l,000,000,'was taken in charge
by the representative of the comptrol
ler of the currency, and the Mechanics'
and Traders' bank, a state institution,
capital $2,000,000, announced the de
cision of the directors not to open.
Both banks announced their ability to
pay all depositors.
The $100,000 estate of Capt. Hooker
of Rochester, N. Y., who left a will
bequeathing his proierty to Gales
burg, 111., will be distributed, the sur
rogate having denied probate to the
will on the ground that Capt. Hooker
was mentally incompetent.
Peter F. Clark of Girard, 111., plead
ed guilty to the charge of murdering
Mrs. Ollie Gibson on a trolley car near
Virden March 25, 1907, and was sen
tenced to serve 40 years In the peni
tentiary. Marshal Ilalstead, former United
States consul at Birmingham, Eng
land, and son of Murat Halstead, died
in Cincinnati following an operation
for appendicitis.
Gen. Benjamin Rush Cowen, for
over 23 years clerk of the United
States circuit and district courts for
the southern district of Ohio, assistant
secretary of the Interior under Presi
dent Grant and formerly editor of the
Ohio State Journal, died in Cincinnati.
The coroner's Jury In the case of
the theater holocaust at Boyertown,
Pa., asked for the prosecution of Mrs.
Monroe, owner of the stereoptlcon ma
chine, and Harry McC. Bechtel, the
deputy factory Inspector, on the
charge of criminal negligence.
An old Roman coin has been dug up
at Springfield. Mass.. which Is discov
ered to be worth $1,500. '
The Parisian laundry building in
Detroit was gutted by fire, the loss
being estimated at over $200,000.
Robert S. Hewey was appointed re
ceiver for the Montana Grand Lodge
of Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The Crocker heirs gave a block on
Nob Hill,- San Francisco, as a site for
an Episcopal cathedral.
Because a portion of his congrega
tion objected to his breeding dogs,
Rev. I. Moore Smith, pastor of the
Scotch Plains (N. J.) Baptist church,
resigned his charge.
That this nation has reached the
point where It must decide whether
it Is to lose the use of the rivers in
the east and south through the non
preservation of forests which safe
guard the watersheds was the decla
ration of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, president of the American
Forestry association, which convened
in Washington.
. Night riders burned two large to
bacco barns near Adairsville, Ky.
Twu negroes who robbed and killed
their father near Commerce, Miss.,
were lynched by a mob of colored
men.
THE STATE III
GENERAL
SOME VOTING RESTRICTED TO
TAXPAYERS ONLY
NOW.
CON.-CON. HAD PROBLEM
If Vote on Acquisition of Public Util
ities, Granting of Franchises or
Raising Money Is Up, the Taxpay
ers Decide.
The proposal regulating the govern
ment of cities and villages being on
second reading Friday morning, the
provision limiting to taxpayers the
right to vote upon questions concern
ing the acquisition of any public util
ity, granting of any franchises, bor
rowing of money, or contracting of
debts beyond 1 per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the particular city
or village, was struck out. In plac3
of taxpaylng electors, was Inserted a
two-thirds vote of all qualified elec
tors. The vote on striking out was,
yeas 47, nays 41.
Thereupon other assaults on the In
tegrity of the proposal were stimulat
ed. Several amendments were offered
and things were in a fair way to
change the proposal In particulars in
consistent with the compromise effect
ed after two months of consideration
by the committee. Members became
alarmed at the situation. A reconsid
eration of the vote by which "tax
payers" was struck out and "two
thirds" was inserted, was taken.
The amendment was then rejected
and the original terms, confining vot
ing upon questions of money raising
to taxpayers, were restored, yeas 53,
nays 3.". The proposal then passed in
its entirety.
The Storm Was Fierce.
Though the cities have recovered
from the- effects of the big storm
which swept over Michigan, railroad
service in some sections of the state
remains demoralized. Many country
roads are impassable, causing the
abandonment of rural mail service and
postponing several funerals.
A passenger train on the port Aus
tin branch of the Pere Marquette left
Port Huron early Saturday evening
and was caught In a snowdrift which
completely filled a cut three miles
from Carsonville. The train crew kept
up the fires, though the diminishing
supply of coal and water threatened
suffering to the passengers. All night
the 45 men, women and children hud
dled together. Bread which had been
shipped from Port Huron to small
towns along the line was confiscated
from the baggage car.
Grand Trunk passenger train No.
31 arrived in Muskegon more than 20
hours late. The passengers subsisted
on food brought from farm houses,
and on bread confiscated from the
baggage car.
A train on the Gladwin branch of
the Michigan Central was stalled all
Saturday night near the point where
it left the main line. Farmers furnish
ed the passengers with food and It
was not until Sunday afternoon that
the train was released.
Married in Haste.
Ray Davidson and Idella Westover
Davidson have been found. They found
themselves. They are the Battle Creek
high school boy and seventh grade
girl, ages 17 and 15, respectively, who
disappeared several days ago; after
the boy had sold his cornet to get
money for a wedding tour and th
girl had donned a long skirt of her
sister's. The young couple went to
Toledo. It proves, and were there mar
ried. Wednesday night they appeared
in a Toledo police station, the boy say
ing that his money was all gone. He
asked that he and his giil be helped
home.
Miners Crushed.
Steve Banocker and Andrew Ander
son were caught under three tons of
slate In the Auburn mine of the Rob
ert Gage Coal Co., of Bay City, and it
required ten men to lift up one block
weighing more than a ton. Banocker
has a fractured skull and may die.
Anderson's hip was dislocated and his
hand crushed. Edward Kent's shoul
der was broken and his hip crushed In
the same mine the day before. Fred.
Lamb sustained a broken leg and
crushed hand In the Handy mine.
STATE BRIEFS.
Kalamazoo is to have a new ar
mory. A fall on the ice may result in the
death of Mrs. G. W. Stevens, of Green
ville. The constitutional convention killed
the proposal providing for a public
utility commission.
It Is expected that 'death wilf soon
claim Darius Smith, of Buchanan, one
of the oldest residents of the district.
Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., elected to
the senate from Kalamazoo, graduated
from the U. of M. law college In 1891.
Grand Rapids has given work to the
200 unemployed on the flood wall .it
the city market. They get 15 cents an
hour.
Rural free delivery route No. 1 or
dered established April 1 at Lincoln,
Alcona county, serving 300 people and
70 families.
Wishing to retain her communion In
theLngrave Street Christian Reformed
church, Grand Rapids. Mrs. Gertrude
B. Goss has afked the circuit court to
annul her divorce decree, granted on
the grounds of cruelty. The church
recognizes only statutory grounds.
A diamond which Frank J. Martm.
a Grand Trunk brakeman, was trying
to sell In a Port Huron Jewelry store
disappeared, and he accused the clerk.
Officers were called, and on searching
Martin found It In his clothes. It au
swers the description of one lost In
Lansing by Mrs. B. Anthony, wife of
a constitutional convention delegate,
and It was held until she could see It.
THE THAWS.
Now Harry Is in Matteawan and Eve
lyn May Be Discarded.
Harry K. Thaw has been acquitted
of the murder of Stanford White, on
the ground that he was Insane on the
night he did the shooting. The Jury
returned its verdict Saturday noon.
Four hours later Thaw started on his
way to the asylum for the criminal
Insane at Matteawan, having been
committed to that institution by Jus
tice Dowling immediately after the
verdict was returned. He will stay
there until It has been decided that
he Is no longer Insane and that his
freedom will not endanger public
safety.
The acquittal of Thaw on the
ground of insanity .makes it possible
for the Thaw family to do what It is
reported they have long desired to
do, to annul his marriage with Evelyn
Nesblt. The statutes of New York
state provide that a marriage con
tract where either of the parties was
of unsound mind at the time of the
marriage ceremony can be declared
null and void.
For that reason any application
made upon the part of the Thaw fam
ily will have to be submitted to the
court, which can act only as the law
provides.
Young Mrs. Thaw's friends told her
a long time ago. according to the
stories told in the uptown cafes, to
night, that In all probability the elder
Mrs. Thaw will pursue this course,
and If she should decide to do so in
view of the verdict rendered, young
Mrs. Thaw would be left without a
legal footing upon which to interpose
objections.
It would seem therefore that
should Harry Thaw's mother, or any
other member of the Thaw family,
see fit to begin such proceedings, the
marriage would be annulled without
either the consent or objection of
young Mrs. Thaw.
Thaw was bitterly opposed to being
sent to Matteawan, but gave up to
counsel that habeas corpus proceed
ings should not be instituted at pres
ent. A Tornado's Fury.
Extending 40 miles from west to
east, the path of destruction made by
a tornado, just north of Wesson.
Miss., Friday, was found to be a
worse disaster than was at first re
ported. In the tornado zone the dead
numbered eight and the fatally in
jured four, while at least 100 other
persons were hurt. The death list
may reach 1". most of those believe 1
to be dead being Negroes who have
not been accounted for since thelt
frail cabins were crushed. The dam
age may reach $.100,000. In the
wreckage lie four churches, six cot
ton gins and several country stores.
Shoponogons, chief of the Chlppe
was, has been sent to jail for beating
his aged wife.
THE MARKETS
rwrntt Cnttl'- Kxtra dry-fed steeri
Ami heifers. $4 7 ."filt: steera and heif
ers. l.Oiio to 1.2fto. tl 2.Vi4 75: BtP'TS
and heifer, fcoo to 1.000. $.'t 7MM:
xteera and heifer tlmt are fat. 500 to
700. tif i :,(; clioirf fat cows, $:i 7 ." 'Ji 4 :
srood fat cow. I.lffr.l T.O; common cows.
$2 2,iW3: canner. $1 2."i12: hotre
heavy hulls. $4; fair to (rood bolognas,
bulls. I.1W-.1 SO; utoek bulls. $2 7.'ffi"3 25:
choice feeding atecra. 800 to 1.000, $3 45
itl: fair feeding ateers, SCO to 1.000,
$3 50tf3 75; choice atocker. f.00 to 700,
$3 2"3 75; fair Mockers, 500 to 700.
(33 25: stock heifers, $2 R0i3: milk
ers. larRe. young, medium age. $40y50;
common milkers. $ 1 S fi 35.
Veal calves Market dull at last
week's prices; best. $7ffi7 50; others.
f0; milch cows and springers
steady.
Sheep and lamhs Market, lambs 15c
higher, sheep steady: market dull; best
lambs. $7; fair to good Iambs. $ti 25Ji
fi 75: light to common lambs, $5 50?i6;
fair to good butcher sheep, $4&4 50;
culls and common. $3iJi,3 50.
Hogs Market steady, last Thursday's
prices. IwHnge of prices: Light to good
butchers. $4 1 5 6i 25; piss. $4 10: light
yorkers, $4 15; roiiKhs, i 50; stags. 1-3
off.
Fast Biirf.tlo. Tattle r.est export
Meers $.V40ff6; best shlnplng steers.
$ I.S5T 5.50; best l.t'00 to $1.10O-b. $4 90
fff.VIO: best fat cows. $l?i'4 fiO; fair to
good. t3f?3.10: trimmers. J2(?i2.25; bet
fat heifers. $1 2575: few extra at $5 25:
medium. $3.25'!? 3.50; common. $2 5tr3:
best feeders. $3.75W4: stockers, $3.50
3.75; export bulls. $ 4.25; few nt $4 5;
bolognas. $ 3.50 It 3.75 ; stock bulls. $2.50
Si3: the good cows sold steady, but It
ts almost Impossible to sell 'common
cows on this market at the present
time; good cows. $35fH5; medium. $23
(i?33: common. $2oW23
Hogs Market HKu lSc higher: closed
steady at the opening, with a good
clearance for all that got yarded In
time for the market: medium, heavy
and yorkers, $4,704.75; tdgs, $4.75;
roughs. $4.10: stags. 13 2.50.
Sheep Market active nd higher;
best native lambs. $7.70tfi 7.75; culls.
ffifi'6.76: westerns. $7.40fi)7.60; year
lings. $fi.2"ff? 6 5; wethers. $5.50 6(6;
ewes. $4.r0(T 5.50.
Pest calves. $S.75f7 9; medium to good,
$C?G.50; heavy. $44.50.
(ruin. I'tc.
Tctrnlt--Wh nt Cash No 2 red.
S7c; May opened at $1 ft.l'i and de
clined to $1 01 ; July declined from
'.ix'.c to 9rtr-c; No. 3 red. 94ac; No, 1
white. 7sc.
Corn fash No. 3. 1 car at 55c; No. 3
yellow, 57c.
nats rash No. 3 white, 3 cars nt 64e
live Tah No. 2. S5c.
Itarley Fancy car. sample, at $2 per
cwt.
CMoverseed Prime spot. $11 20;
March, $11 25: sample, 40 bags nt
$10 75. 35 at $10 25 15 nt $10. ,it $! 2.V
nrlme nlslke. $10 5(: sample alslke, 12
bnrs at $! 50 7 t $S 75.
Timothy seed Prime. 40 bags at $2 10
iHtrMlXTt II DVTItOIT
Week boding February 8, 1'MH
Tturi.K T11 fatr k Ann WownKRi.An
Afternoon 2:1 .S. 10a to Vte: Krenlngt
K-c. to boa. "Tiit llm Dear.",
Wiiitkt ofrra Hot'sn Mutineer daily
ticept V'edndv. 10c, 2uc, 8 Jo. I.lttle
Heroes of the Ntreet.
Lyckcu Th iater-Krerjr Night Matt.
Hun., Wed., Hat. 15c, jc, 60c Geo. Ade'i
Just Out of College.
La fa TFTTr Matinees Hun., Tties., Tliurn
and Hat- Prices Xtc, tte and 75e. All
Matinee Except Munday C'AMILLK.
Henry C. Ward, the 'millionaire, who
was adjudged insane by Judge Klmor
nrown In the Oakland probate court,
through his attorneys filed nn appeal
to the circuit court. Doth sides ar-
preparing to summon more witnesses
in the next hearing and strengthen
their cases.
C. V. Stever. -n passenger engineer
on the Ann'Arbor railroad, died early
Tuesday morning In the university
hospital In Ann Arbor, of Injuries sus
tained many weeks ago when a train
carrying Sousa's band was derailed.
A part of his spine had rotted away.
He leaves a family In Owossc
WRECK
WABASH
FORTY-FOUR PASSENGERS ARE
INJURED AND TWO
KILLED.
BROKEN RAIL THE CAUSE
Fast Train Running to Make Up Time
Hurled into the Ditch With Disas
trous Results.
Two women were killed and 44 oth
er passengers Injured when a Wabash
train was ditched by a broken rail
about S:30 o'clock Sunday evening
eight miles east of Adrian and about
two miles east of Holloway.
The train, which consisted of eight
coaches,' was about 40 minutes late In
reaching Adrian. There were about
200 passengers aboard. After leaving
Adrian the engineer put on high speed,
in an effort to regalu lost time, and
it Is estimated the train was moving
SO miles an hour despite the poor con
dition of the rails when the wreck oc
curred. After jumping the tracks the engine
plowed along for some distance, tear
ing up the ties and twisting the rails.
The engine, baggage car and smoker
were left upright on the i racks. The
day coaches and two of the Pullmans
overturned, while the third I'lillman
turned slightly on its side. The dining
car remained uptight. A show car oc
cupied by the "Fight Hells" company
went over the embankment.
; The day coaches wen badly smash
! ed. Passengers were tossed about like
j chips and most of those who were
I hurt received their injuries iu this
! manner.
1 .Mrs. John Smith, the Milwaukee wo
man who was killed, was caught be-
neath the wreckage. She was dead
i when her crushed form was lifted out.
j She was oh her way home with her
I husband.
J .Mrs. Vargo. a Hungarian woman,
I was also crushed underneath the
wreckage. She was unconscious and
dying when removed and expired
shortly afterward.
The uninjured passengers turned to
the work of rescue as soon as they re
covered from the shock. The injured
were extricated from the wrecked cars
as tenderly as possible and made com
fortable In the coaches which still re
mained upright. Train men were sent
to Rritton for help, while messages
were sent from a nearby farm house
over the telephone to Adrian and De
troit. A relief train arrived from Adrian
at with Drs. C. Kirkpatrick. C.
A. Chase and F. K. Andrews and Trea;
aboard. The most seriously hurt were
brought back to Adrian. Mrs. Metz
was removed to Smith's hospital and
Lathrop to the Hotel Gregg. Shortly
afterward a relief train arrived from
Detroit and most of the injured were
taken to that city.
Grand Jury Called.
Judge Howard Wiest, of the Ingham
circuit bench, has called a grand jury.
There is as yet no public knowledge
of what is in the air. though It is not
thought to be at all likely that any
county affairs are coming up for a
probing. It looks like some more
"state cases."
The first known of the judge's inten
tions was when the county clerk re
ceived an order to summon the usual
number of jurors, they to report
Thursday morning to take up "such
matters as the court might lay be
fore them."
This will be the first grand jury In
Ingham county since the one in 1S!9
which dealt with the famous military
scandal, to the undoing of a number
of grafting state officials.
The Next Con. Con.
The proposal for new constitutional
conventions to be held every 16 years
passed on second reading. The pro
posal regulates ' the formation of fu
ture constitutions and leaves nothing
to the legislature, either as concerns
pay, limitation of time, date of elec
tion or time for beginning the ses
sion; the minutae ia all provided for.
In general the Ret creating this con
vention is followed. Three delegates
are to be chosen from each senatorial
district. The convention of the fu
ture is to begin work on the first
Tuesday of September and complete
It at its discretion. The pay is to be
$1,000 for the session.
Child Murder Charged.
Calvin Cummings. of Mundy town
ship, was arrested Saturday on the
charge of murder In connection with
the death of the new-born child of his
sister, Lulu Cummings. of Grand
Blanc township. Cummings admitted
at the Inquest that he had taken the
child from the home of Its girl-mother
shortly after Its birth and driven with
it three miles across the country to
his farm residence, where the Infant
died the same nicht and was buried
In a shoe box In the dooryard.
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.
Lewis Lahrlng. an old citizen of
North Argentine, owner of the largest
farm In that section, Is dead at the
age of SI years.
Walter flrephaw, of Sturgls. went to
Chicago two weeks aco and Tuesday
word was received of his death by a
street car accident.
The Mate tn oommlss'on has set
the d'tc s fc r th? followiTu; hrarines,:
WabaKh. Febnrrv 7: Michigan Cen
tral. February 7; Armour car lines,
February 4.
The Hungarian population of Mus
kegon Heights have organization tho
Hungarian Aid society in an attempt
to secure control of city affairs
through politics.
Maxim and Mallda Contnre, lh
former 9C years old and the latter
about "0. have brought action In a
Tort Huron court against their daugh
ter, Mrs. Nora Van Camp, who they
allege-hrfs forged their signatures to
deed for their little farm.
HURT HIS SENSE OK JUSTICE.
Youngster Considerably Puzzled Over
Distribution of Rewards.
Having finished her afternoon's
philanthropic work in tho Fast sido
tenements, the voluntary helper
started for home. Tlefore she had pro
ceeded far, however, she discovered
that a small purse, which contained
the remainder of her money, about
four dollars, was missing from her
handbag. So, surmising she had either
carelessly mislaid the puse or been
lobbed of it, she retraced her steps to
the tenements. Her search over her
recent working field availing her noth
ing, she was about to turn again
toward home, when a tear-stained, sly.
acting youth came out of one of the
tenements and accosted her.
"Say, missus," he sniveled, point
ing across the street, where another
boy crouched in a hallway to exam
ine something, "if y' 're lookin fer
y' pocketbook, dat kid over dare's
got it!"
Acting on this declaration, the lady
hurried over and cornered the lad be
fore he was aware of her propinquity.
Seeing no chance of escaping with
the purse and its contents the boy
complied with the lady's demand and
handed over the pocketbook.
"Now, my honeat lad." she then
said, turning to the first boy, who had
followed her across the street, "there'
a dollar for pointing out the thief!"
As this boy ran off clutching his re
ward, the sec'ond lad squinted hard
at the lady.
"Say, missus," he said, "don't I get
nothin'?"
"Not a penny!"
"Gee," he rejoined in a kind of per
plexity; "an I stole do pocket book
from him!" Illustrated Magazine.
Selling Bread In Old London.
Bread, which, like coals, is advancing
in price, was also formerly a matter of
state regulation. In the thirteenth
century, for example,' an , enactment
was in force that the profit of th
baker on each quarter of wheat was to
be, for his own labor, six cents, and
such bran as might be sifted from
the meal. Again, in London, only
farthing and half penny loaves were al
lowed to be made, and it was a serious
offense for a baker to sell loaves of
any other size. Nevertheless, other
klnd3 of loaves were sometimes smug
gled into the market, hidden in vari
ous ways under a towel, in the fold
of a garment or beneath the arms. A
curious ordinance in the city of Lon
don forbade the baker, if he sold by re
tail, to sell bread in or before his
house, before the oven in which it
was baked, or indeed anywhere but
In the market assigned to him. Them
seems to have been a strange preju
dice against bread made In South
ward one reason given being "because
the bakers of Southwark are not
amenable to the justice of the city."
London Chronicle.
Expressing a Thorax.
Dr. Leopold Jaches of Cornell's med
ical school recently returned from a
study of the use of the Rontgen rays
abroad. Pausing In an account of his.
tour. Dr. Jaches said:
"Abroad, as here at home, the great
public's knowledge of the rays con
tinues rather vague. Investigators re
ceive all manner of queer letters and
requests. Thus I heard In Berlin of a
man who wrote to a specialist:
"'Dear Sir: I have had a bullet in
my thorax for 11 years. I am too busy
to come to Merlin, but hope you will
come down here with your rays, as my
case should be worth your while. If
you cannot come, send a packet of
rays, with instructions as to use, etc..
and I will see if I cannot manage to
work them myself.
"The specialist replied:
"Dear Sir: I am sorry that my
engagements prevent my coming to see
you, and that I am out of rays Just
now. If you cannot come to Berlin,
yourself, send me your thorax by ex
press and 1 will do the best' I can
with It.' "
Man at His Best.
At what age is a man at his best
and most likely to achieve his life
work? The Rev. F. B. Meyer once
put the age at 4G. That seemed late
to a critic, but Dr. Leonard Guthrie
at the Royal College of Physicians
supported this statement. He quoted
Jastro's table dealing with specially
precocious people, which showed that
the average age at which great ar
tists did their first work was 13.8;
their first great work, 28; their great
est work, 46.7; and that the average
age at death was CO.l. For poets the
figures in the same order were 13.C,
27.8. 43.9 and 61.C; for philosophers.
17.6. 32.1, 47.7 and 66.3. Here is
comfort for those who think of mid
dle life as flat prose.
Her Revenge.
Om a crowded street car recently
theto were several stout men taking
up uiore room tban they should. A
slip .if a girl got on and the conductor
called out "move up, please." They re
luctantly moved about six Inches and
the girl squeezed In. A few minutes
later a tremendously stout woman
ladep with, parcels entered and the
girl immediately offered her her seat,
which she accepted. The selfish men
were lost to view under 250 pound
of stoutness and the girl chuckled tu
herrVif.
Illiteracy In New York.
D Andrew S. Draper, commission
er if. education In New York, says
that Illiteracy Is much more general
In that state than in Germany, France,
Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandi
navia or Japan.