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T*'i ••' > r :vr*' t< » 1 '*> >'<• *• * '" WE Mchenry plaindealer ' , McHSNRY PLAINDBALER 00. i'., ' *eHENRY, - ILLINOIS. & ls:i ' m NEWS OF THE WOULD • Political, Domestic and Fardfi -Vy . Happenings of Minor Importaaot ; Told In Parajircphs. • The governor of Washington has Signed the law making gambling a felony in that state. A 7-year-old cousin accidentally killed the 15-months-old child of John Knapp of Carbondale, 111., with $ shot- fun. The infant was almost decapi­ tated. The flood situation on the lower Mississippi is very grave and it Is feared levees will break. Every possi­ ble precaution is being taken. The Kaskaskia in central Illinois Is far be­ yond its banks and has forced many to leave their homes. While resisting arrest at Brazil, la., James Murphy shot and painfully wounded Policeman Darrah. A posse overtook Murphy, who fired upon the men. They returned the fire and Mur­ phy was probably fatally wounded. He Is in jail at Centerville. President Roosevelt received Hallie Erminie Rives, the southern novelist, Miss Dorothy Flynn, daughter of D. T. Flynn, and Miss Maude De Haven Ogan at the white house. Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett, M. P., is dead at Windlesham, Surrey, fol­ lowing an operation for appendicitis. The February statement of the Lon­ don board of trade shows a decrease of $5,600,000^" in imports and an in­ crease of ?7,316,000 in exports. R. F. Patterson, United States con­ sul general at Calcutta, reporting up­ on the cotton crop of India in 1902- 1903, estimates it at 2,500,000 bales, an Increase of 100,000 bales over the crop of the year previous. Attention is called to the extension of area placed under cotton. \ The Berlin Reichbank's report for 1§02 shows a turnover of 147,500,000, a decrease of $305,250,000 compared with the figures of the previous year. The net earnings were $9,223,250, a decrease of $1,946,750 from 1901. The dividend paid was 5.47 per cent; against 6.25 per cent in 1901. Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy received in private audience United States Consul General De Castro and Mrs. De Castro. The queen showed considerable interest in the large num­ ber of Italian emigrating to the United States and expressed satisfaction at the fact that there were now so many Americans in Rome. Vicar General Mooney is ill with grip at his residence in New York. 2t is hoped he will be about in a few days. Coffee planters who have just ar­ rived at San Francisco from Guate­ mala state that the war preparations la the country are still goiDg on. Earl Shaw and Lee Shellenberger were killed at the Warren mine, near -Joplin, Mo., by a bowlder weighing a ton. Miss Katherlne Kidder, the actress, lias recovered from a slight attack of pneumonia at Little Rock, Ark., and will resume her Texas tour at once. - Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis was knocked down and covered with debris by the explosion of an asphalt repair machine he was inspecting at Toledo, but escaped serious injury. ^ .Marie Greenwood Guiberson, a vo­ calist of national reputation, entered •nit for divorce against her husband, Will Parker Guiberson, at Memphis. 8he charges he cruelly beat her at Des Moines and wrote false charges against feer to her father, reflecting upon her character. The official trial trip of the torpedo boat destroyer Worden over the Cape Henry course resulted in the speedy craft exceeding by a very good mar- Sin the thirty knots required in the contract. Dr. William H. Hale of Jackson, Mich., charged with forgery in the sec­ ond degree, has been held for the % .grand jury at Rochester, N. Y. Fire at Fairhaven. Wash., de­ stroyed the Murchison sawmill and the Hill-Webon wharf and two Northern Pacific passenger coaches. Total loss, i ' #130,000; insurance, about one-half. v ; & John D. Rockefeller has given $30,- 4 600 to a negro college at Marshall ton, '• .v"^Pex. •v • ," ' The total of cattle losses due to the sheent blizzard in Texas are now esti- I "Mated at $200,000. The storm raged continuously eight days. The Montana house passed a bill requiring that newspapers shall once a month print a statement of ownership and that editorials shall be signed. Dr. George E. Vincent of the Uni­ versity of Chicago has boen selected to deliver the commencement address at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. Hugh Dixon, aged 70 years, commit­ ted suicide at Pittsburg by jumping from the Forward Avfenue bridge to the ground below, a distance of 135 feet. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Ill health and the recent death of his wife caused the deed. C. H. Demary of Houghton, Mich., was killed by a savage bear while blazing a trail to his homestead in ..?31m River. The brute overtook and .brought Demary to the ground after a ^Wrter.of a mile chase. A compan- •-r^fon came up and struck the bear with •^Vjpm ax, finally driving it away. f Mrs. John Greenwood and her three children--girls aged 16 and 12 and a Jboy aged 11--while walking across the """'"Big Four trestle at Springfield, O., •were struck by a freight train. The tnotber and eldest girl were killed and the other two fatally injured. Dr. H. Soper of New York has gone to Ithaca to make a thorough investi­ gation of the typhoid situation for the board of health. t - ^ - The plant of the Loyd Sugar and Molasses Company, near Alexander, was burned. The loss Is $65,000; ^insurance, $40,000. sfe11 ** eetImated that ov©r 3,000 head Of cattle perished in Kansas during • •&!*' the recent storm. A. B. Turner & Brother, broker on the Boston exchange, failed. Strin­ gency in the money market is the ascribed. r.i: m m Seventeen sugar-laden vessels ar­ rived at San Francisco from Hawaii during February, the total receipts for the month being 61,848,900 pounds. The total receipts at the port for the first two months of the year foot up 97,365,000 pounds, against 77,170,600 pounds for the same period last year. The Bon Homme Mining Company of New Orleans has filed suit in Den­ ver, Col., against James F. Steinbeck to recover possession of mining claims said to be worth $500,000. Steinbeck is charged with having allowed several of the company's most valuable claims to be sold for taxes and fraudulently securing to himself title thereto by purchasing the tax sale certificates. Sheriff Bruch of Missouri, who holds requisition papers for Collins and Ru­ dolph, the men accused of bank rob­ bery in Union, Mo., has left Hartford/ Conn., with the prisoners. The $8,635 found in the prisoners' apartment has been attached in behalf of a guarantee corporation, which claims that it paid the Union bank $10,000 burglary in­ surance. Senator M. EL Rudolph of Canton, S. D., whose death was reported at Pierre during the closing houzsLof the general assembly, is not dead^5 When the legislature heard the report of his death it adopted resolutions and ap­ pointed a committee to attend the fu­ neral. Senator Rudolph has been seri­ ously ill for some time. Rev. William E. Hlnshaw, sent to prison for life on the charge of mur dering his wife at Belleville, Ind., in January, 1895, soon will be released from prison on parole. Hlnshaw was found with his breast cut and a bullet wound in his side. His wife was found unconscious from a bullet wound and died without speaking. Hln­ shaw's story was that burglars did the deed. Christian Scientists won their fight before the general assembly of North Carolina when the law to define the practice of medicine and surgery, which makes illegal the practice of their faith In North Carolina, was amended to read: "Provided that this act does not apply to any person who ministers or cures the sick or af­ flicted by spiritual means only, prayer to Almighty God, without the use of drugs or any material means." By giving to Yale's library an ex­ ceptional collection of Russian and Slavic literature, and more recently a small library on music, the later J. Sumner Smith, Yale 1853, so impov­ erished his fortunes that Yale gradu­ ates have taken steps to raise a fund for the ai<^of his widow. The govdwlment of Victoria has ap­ pointed Thomas Taft, traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific railway, to be chief commissioner of the Victorian railways. Sir Edward Bertram Bates died at Bombay of enteric fever. He was head of the firm of Bates & Sons, Liv­ erpool, who own a number of steam­ ships plying between Liverpool and Boston and Galveston. He was in his twenty-sixth year. A. J. McMillan, managing director of the Le Roy mines, will sail from London for Canada to visit British Co­ lumbia to consult the management of the Crow's Nest Coal Company re­ garding the effect that the strike among the coal miners is having upon the mining interests in British Colum­ bia and the bordering American states. The royal commission that is to deal with the question of London traf­ fic has been clearing the way for its work. As the result of its prelimin­ ary decisions. Mr. Yerkes is left ab­ solutely in possession of the field as far as tube schemes are concerned and before any other scheme can be realized he will have all his lines built and working. Al. Wade was sentenced to be elec­ trocuted June 27 at Columbus, O., for the murder of Kate Sullivan two years ago. The Otis House at Watertown, N. Y., was destroyed by fire and neigh­ boring buildings were gutted. The loss Is $20,000, two-thirds Insured. Many narrow escapes occurred. J. B. Floyd, a prominent citizen of Canadian county, Oklahoma, was shot and killed by his step-son, E. C. Put- man, during a family quarrel. Attorney for Mrs. Lena Llllie, con­ victed of murder In the first degree at David City, Neb., for the killing of her husband last October, has filed a motion for a new trial. At Brainerd, Minn., Judge McClen- shan granted a stay of forty days to Ole G. Oleson, the condemned mur­ derer, who was to have been executed at Aitken for the murder of his daugh ter. Joseph Henry Shorthouse, the author of "John Inglesant" and other novels, died at London In his sixty ninth year. By a sheriff's attachment to enforce the collection of an account by the Western Montana National bank the wholesale and retail grocery establish­ ment of Pulliam Brothers at Missoula, Mont., has been closed. With reference to reports concern­ ing the pending release of Mrs. Flor­ ence Maybrick, it is officially stated in London that according to cus­ tomary usage in the case of prisoners of good behavior she would be lib­ erated in April, 1904, entirely apart from any special pressure exerted. Thomas Tooney of Chicago had his right leg amputated at the knee in a trolley car collision near Piqua, Ohio. Baron Rieger, the veteran Bohemian statesman and leader of the Czech emancipation movement, is dead at Prague. Members of the Finnish Relief so­ ciety in New York have just received some of the "bread" which is almost the only food that can be obtained by their starving countrymen at home. It is made of the bark of pine trees and looks like brown sandstone. It lasts for year in a palatable condition. Albert Heiden, a prominent business man of Chesterton, Ind., died sudden­ ly of blood poisoning, resulting from an ulcerated tooth, The Methodist Ministers' associa­ tion adopted resolutions commending President Roosevelt's negro policy. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany and his brother Prince Eitel Frederick passed through Milan on their way to Brindisl. They will make a tour through Egypt, Palestine and Greece and will go to Constantin­ ople, where they will be received by the Sultan. ROUTINE WORK Outline of Business Transacted by the Members of Both Houseff;-* % •..r- WITH NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Brief Summary of the Doings of the People's Servants in 8essfon at Washington Cleverly Condensed by Special Correspondents. Tues&ly, March .3. In the Benate the conference report on the sundry civil bill was agreed to. Mr. Quay asked unanimous con­ sent for a vote on the omnibus state­ hood bill, the Aldrich bill, the Philip­ pine tariff bill, the pure food bill and the conference report on tne bill to protect the President, but objection was made. It was agreed that the Philippine tarifT bill be taken up, displacing the Aldrich bill. After an executive session several minor bills were passed, and at 6 ^o'clock a recess was taken until 8 o'clock. When the senate reconvened the bill providing for the appointment of three commis­ sioners to report to Congress on claims of the Roman Catholic church to certain property in Porto Rico was adopted. The conference report on the omnibus public building bill was. agreed to. A joint resolution was agreed to transferring all the author­ ity and jurisdiction conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury by the im­ migration bill to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor. An amendmient was agreed to exclud­ ing from the free list cigars and cig­ arettes. The amendment increasing the duty on sugar and tobacco from 25 to 50 per cent of the Dingley rate was agreed to. The conference re­ ports on the naval and general de­ ficiency bills were presented and agreed to. The report on the immigration bill was adopted by the house. The con­ ference report on the sundry civil bill was presented and adopted. The President veto of a Virginia claim bill was presented. A senate bill to authorize the Treasury Department to provide souvenir coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association was passed. Thu conference report on the omnibus bill was adopted. The con­ ference report on the bill to reduce the population requirements for "re­ serve" cities for bank deposits from 50,000 to 25,000 was presented and adopted. A bill Intended to give former soldiers and sailors preference for ap­ pointments and retention In the civil service was passed. A senate bill to pension the widow of Dr. Walter Reed of the army at $125 a month aid a bill to increase the pension of Mexi­ can war veterans from $8 to $12 a month were passed under suspension of the rules. Wednesday, March 4. When the senate convened Mr. Alli­ son presented a statement on the ap­ propriations of the congress. Mr. Bail­ ey called up a bill amending the rivers and harbors act so as to provide that the $125,000 heretofore appropriated for certain river and harbor Improve­ ments in Texas be used for the con­ struction of a channel in Sabine Lake. Messrs. Hoard and Lodge discussed the Philippine bill, the former saying that the failure of this legislation proves that "this nation is not fit to govern the destinies of people 8,600 miles away, who have no voice in the government," and Mr. Lodge disputing this statement. Mr. Mason took the floor and talked until time of adjourn­ ment, killing the Bailey harbor bill. Messrs. Allison and Jones were ap­ pointed a committee to notify the President that the Senate "was ready to adjourn. After their report and the adoption of a resolution of thanks to President Pro Tempore Frye the sen­ ate adjourned sine die. The conference report on the gen­ eral deficiency, the last of the appro­ priation bills, was presented In the house at 3 a. m., and adopted, 181 to 16, after a speech by Mr. Cannon. The house then took a recess from 3:50 until 10 a. m. When the house re­ assembled there were several calls to secure a quorum, after which Mr. Payne Introduced a resolution of thanks to the retiring; speaker, which was adopted without a division. The President's veto of a bill authorizing the use of the power of the Tenaes see River at Mussel Shoals, Ala., was presented and referred after Mr. Rich­ ardson had made an unsuccessful at tempt to have the bill passed over the veto. Messrs. Payne, Grosvenor and Richardson were appointed a com­ mittee to notify the President that the house was ready to adjourn. After this committee had reported and Speaker Henderson had delivered a j valedictory address the house was de­ clared adjourned sine die. Thursday, March % In obedience to the president's proc­ lamation the senate of the fifty-eighth congress convened in extraordinary 8eek Proof of Mutiny. Liverpool cablegram: The four sea­ men of the bark Veronica, held on a charge of having murdered the cap­ tain and crew and then set fire to the bark, were again remanded. The prosecution is looking for more proof. session at noon. An immense crowd '^witnessed the interesting ceremony. Echoes of the fifty-seventh congress had not died away when President Pro Tem Frye called the body to or­ der, and soon thereafter the Senators who were re-elected and those who were "to take their seats for the first time, With the exception of Mr. Gor­ man, who had seen long service in the senate, were sworn in. Friends and admirers of the senators^loaded down their desks with beautiful tributes. One of the features of the opening ipceremony was the ovation accorded TSfr. Hopkins. Mr. Cannon's speech in the house of representatives early Wednesday morning in presenting the conference report on the general de­ ficiency bill, in which he charged that the senate conferees had resorted to "legislative blackmail," and attacked the rules of the senate formed to the subject of some fervid remarks by Mr. Tillman and by the senate con­ ferees, Messrs. Hale, Allison and Tel­ ler. The senate at 3:15 adjourned un­ til Monday. KEEP 80LDIER8 IN CUBA. Washington Officials Will Not With* draw American Troops. Washington dispatch: Washington authorities again announce that there is no present intention of removing from Cuba the American troops now stationed there. This statement is made in view of the criticisms passed in the Ciiban senate in connection with the discussion of the reciprocity treaty. The Cuban government thor­ oughly understands that the United States always have intended to keep a few soldiers or marines in Cuba in­ definitely for the sole purpose of tak­ ing care of the naval and coaling sta­ tions which have been acquired at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda. The entire strength of this force is only about 800 men. FULLER MAY RETIRE. 8uc-Chlef Justice Is Likely to Be ceeded by Gov. Taft. Washington dispatch: Chief Jus­ tice Fuller will probably retire from the United States Supreme court with­ in the next year, and President Roose­ velt is said to have determined to ap­ point William H. Taft of Ohio, now governor of the Philippines, to suc­ ceed him. Governor Taft would have succeeded Justice Shiras had he not considered it advisable to remain at the head of the civil government of the Philippines for the present, con­ ditions in the islands being unsettled on account of famine and cholera and the stagnation of business due to in­ adequate currency laws and kbsence of effective tariff arrangements with the United States. Look for 8hort 8ession. Washington dispatch: Democratic senators express the opinion that the extra session will be brought to a close about April 1 and that there would be slight opposition to the Pan­ ama Canal treaty. The fate of the Cuban treaty is mere doubtful. The opposition to its ratification is not well organized and it will require time after the treaty is taken up for consid­ eration to develop how serious the filibuster against it will grow. The impression prevails among the mem­ bers that reciprocity has strong op­ position upon the Republican side a& well as among tho Democrats, and they do not expect any conclusion to be reached upon the treaty at this session. Merriam May Retire. Washington dispatch: A new di­ rector of the census is promised in David H. Mercer, who has ended, for the time being at least, his congres­ sional career as a representative from the Omaha district. Owing t6 a fac­ tional fight Mr. Mercer was defeated at the last election. He Is widely popular, having, as chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, made a host of friends. It is understood that Mr. Merriam, the present director, intends to shortly leave the census office, and Mr. Mer­ cer's friends are confident that he will be given the vacancy. American Consul Under Fire. Washington dispatch: Complaint has been made to the state depart­ ment of the conduct of United States Consul W. Maxwell Greene at Ham­ ilton, Bermuda, In connection with the casting ayray of the Madiana. It is alleged that the consul showed abso­ lute indifference. k Pencil Causes Babe's Death. New Rochelle, N. Y., dispatch: Chester, the 3-year-old son of William Bloom, is defd from blood poisoning, caused by falling on a lead pencil, which pierced his eye. The accident happened over two months ago. Enjoin Postmaster General. Washington dispatch: The Equity Court granted injunctions to restrain the Postmaster General from further refusing to transmit at second-class rates certain publications issued by the Bates & Gould Company of Boston and the Houghton-Mifflin Company, also of Boston. Pays South Carolina Claims. Washington dispatch: The treasury department has issued warrants ag­ gregating $89,137, in favor of the State of South Carolina in satisfac­ tion of its claims growing out of the war Of 1812. The payment was di­ rected by the general deficiency bill approved March 3, 1903. Troop* Guard Mills. Colorado Springs, Col., dispatch The military is still on guard at the mills. The city council appointed a committee to meet with General Manager McNeill, but McNeill refused to recognize the SmelteTmen's Union. IS BUSINESS Railroad Service Improves, Cars Being in Better Supply, v. :" M -?#* . :.!i vy* : . MILLS AND SHOPS ARE BUSY No Let-up in Production, With Spring Retail Trade Opening U)> Well in All Branches--Building Boom .J^sr- vades the Country. : ' Bank Teller Hangs Himself. Lockport, N. Y., special: Herbert Brim, 35 years of age, paying teller of the National Exchange bank, has committed suicide by hanging him­ self from a beam. No cause for. the suicide is known. To Launch Shamrock. Glasgow cablegram: Sir Thomas Lipton has gone to Dumbarton to in' spect his new challenger for the Amer ica's cup. Sir Thomas said that Shamrock III. would probably be launched on St. Patrick's day. Cut Off by High Seas. Brest cablegram: It has only just been learned that the Island of Sein, off the coast of Brittany, has been iso­ lated from the mainland for twelve days and it without food supplies, Morgan May Float Cuban Bonds. Havana cable: J. Pierpont Mor­ gan had a long talk with President Palma in regard to floating the pro­ posed $35,000,000 loan with which to pay the soldiers In the last Cuban rev­ olution or their heirs. Old Paper Suspends. Berlin cablegram: The Frankfurter Journal, one of the oldest newspapers in Germany, has suspended public* tion. Its age is not known^ but the paper was first mentioned in i67S. New York dispatch: "Further im­ provement in the movement of freight and fuel makes the general situation more favorable, although shippers are still constantly complaining and pig Iron furnaces are not able to run steadily. Numerous labor struggles also interrupt manufacturing, yet mills and shops are producing freely as a rule. Jobbers and wholesalers are busy, while spring retail trade has opened very well In many lines, nota­ bly wearing apparel." The foregoing la from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It continues: Building Increases. "Permits for building operations show large gains over last year's fig­ ures, giving additional strength to lumber and other materials. Prices of commodities scarcely altered In the aggregate during February. Foreign trade continues very heavy. "Conditions in the iron and steel industry need no other elucidation than the plans announced by the Unit­ ed States Steel corporation. The last week has brought out a large quan­ tity of newjprders, as is customary at S JIX SCALE tN ILLINOIS FIELD Disastrous 8trike Is Averted by Both 8ides Making Concessions in Minor Matters. The coil miners and operators of Illinois, who seemed to be on the verge of a disastrous strike, reached an agreement and adopted A wage scale and resolutions covering the en­ tire state, The result is a victory for the Illi­ nois coal operators. A straight in­ crease of 6 cents a ton was offered by the operators when the convention was opened. The scale in the greater part of the state was adopted without serious difficulty, but for several days the two parties have been in a dead­ lock over the scale in Williamson county and in the thin vein fields of northern Illinois. In Williamson county the miners were contending for an increase of 10 cents a ton. In the thin vein fields the miners contended for a similar in­ crease. They held, that the Increase of 6 cents a ton would net them only about 15 cents increase in each day's wages. In the thicker veins the 6-cent increase will" net the men from 50 to 65 cents a day increase. The principal concessions made by the operators was in the price to be paid for powder. Under the agreement the miners purchase powder from the operators- Last year the price paid was $1.27 a keg. Since that agree­ ment was adopted the price of powder had been increased, and the operat­ ors demanded that the price to miners be fixed' at $1.85 a keg. POPE'S HEALTH JSP????! 'A *:,y Condition of Venerable Pontiff* Does Not Allay Fear of * t Vatican Officials. ? CARDINALS REMAIN IN ROME; Postponement of Their Departure {0*^ Distant Posts Gives Rise to Rumor* That Delay |« Result of Leo's r> "• rious Illness. JILTED GIRL DRINKS POISON. Florence Zlmmerly of Elgin Leaves Letter for Claud Odlie. Elgin, III., dispatch: Florence Zlm­ merly of C15 Walout avenue, young< . _ QO U FEDERAL Vti , oo srmt-Tvf tVtM «M Of lOVWWWMU.AKO «lS MW ,of RMVWAY TiwuMfcM AW> BuomKrtioo o* » e AKVMIlTCLT Tu Loconcmve. SUMXH4, TH(. tnri.®"*** OV f»* oR. JUDOfc Adams "TVV* "<» IS THIS RIGHT OR MIGHT? Chicago Inter Ocean. this season. Among the leading fea­ tures were liberal purchases of pipes, tubes, agricultural implements, struc­ tural shapes and railway equipment. A heavy tonnage of steel rails was placed, particularly for trolley lines. Tin plates were advanced $4 a ton. Billets, bars and pig iron are still in great demand, and further imports have been arranged. This business would be still heavier but for the strength of foreign markets. With th% Spinners. 'Spinners are growing very conser­ vative in regard to accepting con­ tracts calling for distant deliveries of cotton goods, owing to the extreme uncertainty as to what the raw ma­ terial will cost. Even on present stocks there is an upward tendency in quotations While new business at first hands is only fair, there is much activity in Jobbing lines. Export trade is slow. Print cloths are higher. Fine cotton fabrics for the spring of 1904 are opened, although only a lim­ ited business has been done. Deal­ ings are small in woolens and wor­ steds, but mills are fully occupied. The spring clothing trade is satisfac­ tory, especially in staple lines. New lines of fancy worsted goods have not sold freely. A firmer tone Is reported In the dress goods division. Footwear has lost nothing in strength. 'Failures numbered 229 In the Unit­ ed States, against 176 last year, and sixteen in Canada, compared with sev­ enteen a year ago." 8URVIVE PERILS OF ICE FLOE Michigan Fishermen, Adrift for Many Days, are Finally Rescued. Marinette Wis., dispatch: A tele­ phone message from Sister Bay says three of the fishermen lost on an ice floe were brought from Washington island by stage. All the missing men are safe. The stage has started back for the remainder. Finds Lost Mail Pouch. New York dispatch: While hunting wild flowers in a cemetery near Mamaroneck, Nellie Tyler, a school girl, discovered a mail bag filled with registered packages and letters which was stolen four months ago. est daughter of Mrs. Bell of Charter Grove, 111., became despondent von ac­ count of the jilting she said she re­ ceived from Claud Colie and swal­ lowed poison. Among her personal effects was a pathetic letter to Colie, a young business man of the city. She admonished him to respect her mem­ ory and to refrain from going with her rival, a young woman of this city, for at least a year after her death. WEEP AS FATHER IS HANGED Children of Homer Bird Cry Bitterly and Wife Is Prostrated. New Orleans, La., special: While the Alaska law probably was satiated in the hanging of Homer Bird at Sitka, his devoted wife and little daughter, Bernie, and three other children sat in their cottage praying that some un­ foreseen power might save the man's life. Mrs. Bird, who has traveled the continent over and worked and prayed fojr five long years that her husband might be spared, Is prostrated by grief. OMINOUS INCIDENTS AT BURIAL Team Runs Away and Straps Break as Coffin Is Lowered. Waukegan. 111., dispatch: Two .un­ usual incidents disturbed the burial of Benjamin F. Porter, a prominent con­ tractor who died in Chicago. Just af­ ter the coffin had been removed from the hearse at the cemetery the team took fright and ran away. As the casket was being lowered into the grave the supporting straps gave way and it fell into the grave. Rev. Arthur Wilson Dies. Bloomington, 111., dispatch: Rev. Arthur Wilson, pastor of the First Christian church of this city, died following an attack of congestion of the brain due to over exertion in con­ ducting a revival meeting. Fire Causes Two Deaths. New York city special: Ellen Vail, fifty-five years old, and Elizabeth Vail, twenty-two years old, met death in a fire. The older woman was suf­ focated and the younger jumped from the fourth floor. Telephone Linemen Strike. Monde, Ind., special: All.the line­ men employed by the Central Union Telephone Company went on strike because the company refused to dls- chargf non-union lineiqan. To Tax Chinese More. Ottawa. Ont., special: It Is under­ stood that the government intends to introduce a bill at the next session of parliament raising the poll tax on Chinese frcm $100 to $300. This is In accordance with the request of the Chinese and Japanese commission. Women Are His Victims. New York dispatch: A. B. Doane, with gray beard and hair, was ar­ raigned In the United States District Court in Brooklyn, charged with deal­ ing in green goods, and sent to jail. Three women appeared against him. May Hang Chum's Slayer. Kansas City. Mo., special: Gussle Chatworth wants to spring the trap that will send "Bud" Taylor, who shot Ruth Nollard from ambush. Into eter­ nity April 17. She and thp mur­ dered girl were chums. Train 100 Hours Late. El Paso, Texas, dispatch: Rock Is­ land train No. 43, which left Chicago on February 25, arrived here at 10:20 March 4, 100 hours late. Provisions and water gave out entirely for about twelve hours. Count Boni Joins Wife. New York dispatch: Count Boni de Castellane, the husband of Anna Gould, has arrived from Europe. He has come to end the reports of an es­ trangement from his rich wife. Rome cablegram: There is growing; alarm over the health of the pope^/'. The condition of the pontiff, as showxi- on the day of his coronation, was not-, calculated to allay the fears of Vatto can officials, and circumstances sincer- then have tended to increase rather than decrease the general anxiety*?: This is demonstrated by the fact that some of the cardinals who have com4k to Rome from* a distance have post­ poned their departure Indefinitely. Statement Is Significant. v In the Osservatore Romano, th«j£,i Vatican organ, an official note appears t stating that on the advice of his phyv. siclan the pope has decided to taket-" several days of absolute rest, and sea-~- no one. This statement is regarded , as significant by the general publie. „ Dr. Lapponl and the Vatican official**', are doing everything in their power'; to create the impression that ' thoP pope's health is comparatively good. They make the following explana­ tion of the note In the Osservatore^" Romano. i Yields to Physicians. The pope, they say, never succeed* ed in getting rid of the cold whicli. caused a slight cough and hoarseness. Dr. Lapponi, on visiting his holiness,, found that he was somewhat better,, but frankly told him that he must either consent to cure his cold or ho- would run the rlisk of something se< rious. The pontiff thereupon gave way and promised to suspend hie- audiences. To save annoyance, Dr. Lapponi advised the pope to publicly announce this determination through the Osservatore Romano. All in all, the condition of the pope, taking"into consideration his advanced . age, is not without danger aigd is- causing considerable anxiety. . i SEVENTEEN HURT IN A WRECK Rock Island Express Hits Passenger- Train Near Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., dispatch: Th* Golden State Limited of the Rock Is­ land railroad, running over the Union Pacific tracks, crashed into tha- smoker of another passenger train which was trying to make a siding at the Rock Island junction, just outsido- of the Kansas City yards. The smofc er was thrown from the track, turned over and smashed into kindling wood and seventeen passengers sustained injuries. Two other cars immediately after the smoker were derailed. LOSE HOPE FOB THE FISHERMEN \ Ice Field Breake Up With No'Sign of y Seven Afloat. >-4 Menominee, Mich., dispatch: Alt hope for the recovery of the seven fishermen who were lost on a de^ tached field of ice last Sunday has been abandoned. The ice field ha» broken up and there has been plenty of time for all who reached the shore- to communicate with their friends. THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS Wheat. New York--No. 2 red, 83%c. Chicago--No. 2 red, 75@76c. St. Louis--No. 2 red, 71%c. Kansas City--No. 2 bard, 69c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, *78c. Minneapolis--No. 1 northern, 77V&C. Duluth--No. 1 northern, 76c. Corn. New York--No. 2, 67 %C. Chicago--No, 2, 44c. St. Louis--No. 2, 42%c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, 38ftc. Peoria--No. 3, 39c. Oats. New York--No. 2, 40c. Chicago--Standard, 35®36c. St. Louis--No. 2, 34%c. Kansas Cify--No. 2 white, 33 %c. Milwaukee--Standard, 33%@34c. Cattle. Chicago--$1.75@Y.75. Kansas City--$2.50@5.20. St. Louis--$2.15@5.25. Buffalo--$5.25@G.50. Omaha--$1.50@6.05. Hogs. Chicago--$2.50 @7.25. Kansas City-- $6.55@7.10. St. Louis--$C@7.35. Buffalo--$5.25@7.40. Omaha--$6@7.05. Sheep and Lambs. Chicago--$3@6.90. Kansas City--$3 G0@6.70. St. Louis--$3 2f>@6.85. Buffalo--$4.50@7.10. Omaha^-t2@7. „ Wreck in Florida. Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch: Tho north-bound Seaboard limited was wrecked at Evergreen. Engineer Pierce and his fireman were fatally ^Jured and six of the crew were ser­ iously hurt. One passenger was hurt. "l/VRoad Collision. New York dispatch: A rear-end collision occurred on the elevated rail­ road In Brooklyn at Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street. There was a fog it the time of the accident. I Buy Extensive OH Lands. Lexington, Ky., dispatch: Transfers of 70,000 acres of oil lands from th«^ v Howard Flanagan syndicate to thfljl^ Great Northern Oil Company of ilich- 1CTn have just 'been completed. ICha I price paid is not stated. ^ _____________ ' • ^ , Suffer for Food. j Dublin cablegram: The inhabitants'• of the/Aran isles are in a state of ^ seml^tarvation in consequence of tho" *; prolonged 6torms on the west coast ••X r>- •4- mailto:2.50@5.20 mailto:2.15@5.25 mailto:1.50@6.05 mailto:6.55@7.10 mailto:C@7.35 mailto:5.25@7.40 mailto:6@7.05 mailto:3@6.90 mailto:G0@6.70 mailto:4.50@7.10