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;i£ ^ . ' C *• «• #.*"** \PT+ s. r <> w&&»'•*• -.wV^ »i UL *3* 4! rfw** *"VsT^ '" 4v * ^A» ^ Tke Hclfery Plaindealer. rvBuratD BY g>. » 8CHBBIKBS. UcHENBY, ila-INOS. It Is better to lose Four cash than > > Jr&iir character. China and Japan together produce #.000 tons of |tlk annually. Every inch of the human skin con­ tains 3,500 perspiration pores. The strike fever has hit Sweden, and many workmen are said to be yumpisf their yobs. A young plant is 75 per cent, water and the remainder carbon, which it has taken from the air. Admiral Yamamoto thinks we are Bice people, but he is .going home through Canada instead of by way of 8aa Francisco. . In the population of New York city there are 789.000 persons of German parentage, 735.000 of Irish, 250,000 of Rossian and 223,000 of Italian. A Fiorlda farmer is said to have cleared $1,200 in one acre et cabbage this spring. Perhaps he sold it for dear Havana Key West goods. Arnold Daly says that Bernard •haw is "intoxicated with words and delirious with ink." We thought that Arnold Daly was one of Shaw's ex­ ponents. It has been discovered that Noah Webster wrote the dictionary with almost no assistance, but undoubted­ ly he had helped his wife use many t>t the words. "Matrimony as a profession" is not a bad idea. And the divorce lawyers should be broken of the habit of per­ suading people that it is for amir team only. A railroad president announces thai bis road is out of politics and done with lobbying. Well, really, when you come to think of it, there doesn't seem to be anything left to fight for. The Washington preacher who says JUiat heaven is in the star Alcyone now comes forward and says that It is built up with brick houses. Hell Is brobably made up of three-room flats. Peter Cooper Hewett is going to tkke us from New York to London in 30 hours. When a boat of that sort runs Into an iceberg the monster of the deep will know that something hit it The Maryland farmer who discov­ ered that his hired man was the head ©f a large business concern in Phila­ delphia was not necessarily surprised. Hired men have such a way of know­ ing how the universe should be run that the average man who comes in contact with them often wonders if they are not captains of industry out lor a quiet vacation. In a railroad collision a congress- turned a double back somer­ sault over two seats and escaped with­ out serious injury. A little thing like a railroad smash-up is no embar- vassment to many acrobats who are accustomed to adjusting themselves to the eudden and violent changes that are constantly occurring in con- sessional districts. p.: ftv- Charles Dudley Warner advised every one to be born "in a little red flurm house with a stone wall around ft." We are not particularly .tenacious about the stone wall, and we enter a decided exception to the color of the house, but we indorse the senti­ ment. The records show that farm­ ers' sons are those most likely to suc­ ceed .in business and professional life. Health, vigor, self-reliance, ambition and the habit of work give them their advantages in the race for success. Money orders to the enormous • amount of 446,000,000 were issued by the New York post office last year. Three millions of this amount went abroad, mainly sent by immigrants to their families. As money orders are commonly for comparatively small Sums as compared to traffic through banks, this total shows the wide dis­ semination of prosperity. It is not, after all, remarks the Indianapolis Xews, the few great fortunes of s&lch we hear so much that form the IKSalth of the country. How delicate are the instruments Which record earthquake shocks may be judged by the reports, which came along simultaneously from many sources, of the recent slight disturb­ ance in Ecuador. Prom Havana came the report that "tlie seismograph this morning registered an earthquake 14,000 miles distant, the waves propa­ gating from southwest to northeast. The indications are that the center of the disturbance was located be­ neath the waters of the Pacific, near Central America." From other far- distant points came similar reports long before the news came of the ac- location of the earthquake. ; A London publisher is bringing ont * Dickens dictionary for the purpose Of making his writings more Intel­ ligible to the general public. Our fethers used to be able lo read Dick­ ens understanfjingly. Is such a work Heeded less than a generation after :m author's death? An English critic is shocked be­ cause we have bone buttons on our Clothes. At this season of the year, with our wives away, most of us are lucky to have buttons of any kind on our clothes. ^ plan to strengthen working- ' ^wv^tomen's unions by providing substan­ tial dowries for members who get married looks like a winning proposi­ tion. Presumably, prospective sult- o ors would have to show their union <fcards, so the men's unions would Stand a chance of getting a lot of members also. *. INDICT THE MAGILLS QSAffB JURY HOLDS EXSA&KSR AND WIFE FOR MUROER. MANY KILLED ON RAILROADS SHOCKING FIGURES IN COM­ MERCE COMMISSION'S REPORT. TAKING HIS PLACE. CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED State Now Contends Thst First Spouse of Clinton Man Was Smothered--Defense Wants Quick Trial. Clinton, I1L -- Fred M. Magill and his second wife, Faye Graham Ma­ gill, must stand trial on the charge of murdering Pet Magill. The special grand jury which has been investigat­ ing the death of Magill's first, wife re­ turned Indictments against both de­ fendants in Judge W. G. Cochrane's court Friday. Magill and his wife were excluded from the court while the grand jurors made their presentation. The indictment against each of the defendants contains six counts. They charge that Mrs. Pet Magill came to her death: 1. By the administration of strychnine. 2. By the administra­ tion of arsenic. 3. By being smother* ed with a quilt. 4. By a suicide com­ pact, with the advice and counsel of the defendants. 5. By poison with chloroform. 6. By some means un­ known to the state. ' - Counts Are Specific. Each of the indictments covers nine typewritten pages and the two are indentical in their charges. The tjiree counts charging the administration of poison specify two drams of strych­ nine and two drams of white arsenic, respectively, reported to have been given to Mrs. Pet Magill In a mixture of half a pint of beer and chloroform in large quantities and administered through the victim's nose. The count covering the smothering clause charges each defendant with exerting "a mortal pressure" and "of choking and strangling" the victlpa with a blanket. The count on the ̂ suicide compact charges that Pet Magill was "persuad­ ed" to take chloroform. The last count alleges that Pet Ma­ gill came to her death "In some way and manner and by some means, in­ struments, weapons, poisons or deadly drugs unknown to the jury," and that the defendants, "willfully and with malice aforethought did deprive said Pet Magill of her life." Magills Win a Point. Clinton, 111.--Judge Cochran Friday sustained a motion to quash the sixth count of both indictments against Fred Magill and his wife. He over­ ruled the motion to quash the other indictments, holding that they were good, The defense Immediately filed a mo­ tion to consolidate the* two cases, so that both husband and wife should be tried together, and the court took this under advisement. The defense then asked that the cases be set for trial as speedily as possible, and Judge Coch­ ran announced that November 9 would be the earliest possible date, but after considerable argument on this sub­ ject, the judge adjourned court until Saturday morning, by which time he will decide whether the trials shall be­ gin next week or in .November, The defendants were then arraigned and pleaded not guilty. OHIO 18 PLEDGED TO TAFT. His Csndidacy Indorsed by Repub­ lican 8tate Committee. Columbus, O.--The candidacy of William H. Taft, secretary of war, for the Republican nomination for presi­ dent, was indorsed by'the Republican state committee Tuesday by a vote of 15 to 6. The indorsement carried with it a declaration that the Republicans of Ohio are opposed "to the elimina­ tion from public life of Senators For- aker and Dick." Although beaten by a decisive vote in all the preliminary contests, the ad­ herents of Senator Foraker in the committee refused to accept the olive branch extended by the Taft support- erg, and when the resolution, as amended, was finally adopted no ef­ fort was made to make the action of the committee unanimous. WONT FIGHT LOW FARE LAW. Pere Marquette to Accept the New Michigan 8tatute. Detroit, Mich. -- F. W. Stevens, general solicitor for the Pere Mar­ quette railroad, has sent a letter to C. L. Glasgow, state commissioner of railroads, announcing in behalf of Re­ ceiver Harmon and the road's stock­ holders that the Pere Marquette will not contest the recently enacted two- cent fare law. The law goes into ef­ fect September 28. Mr. Stevens says in his letter that the desire to abide by the public sen­ timent in Michigan In favor of a two- cent rate outweighs the "well-ground- ed belief of the management that such a rate is unreasonably low In Michi­ gan whefe applied practically to all roads without reference to passenger earnings or territory reached." Telephone Strike Is Lest. San Francisco.--The telephone op­ erators, who have been out on strike since May 2, will return to work un­ der the same conditions prevailing when they walked out The strike was declared off Friday. Noted ,Boaton Clergyman Dies. Boston.--Rev. Charles A. Crane, D. D., pastor of the People's temple, and one of the heat-known Methodist cler­ gymen in New England, died suddenly of heart disease at his home here Friday night. Automobiles may be bad for good . roads, but they are good for bad ones, .In this country. Every big auto race or tour gfres new impetus to the movement for better highways. 6. M. Stephenson, of Michigan, Dies. Menominee, Mich--S. M. Stephen­ son, of this city, ex-congressman and multimillionaire lumberman, died at his home here Wednesday afternoon as a result of a fall sustained sev­ eral days ago. Deaths for Three Months In Train Accidents Number 421 and in- rjured Nearly 5,000. Washington. --' Shocking railroad accidents, involving great loss of life and property, occurred during the three months ending March 31st, in the United States, according to' acci­ dent bulletin No. 23, issued Wednes­ day by the Interstate commerce com­ mission. While the number of lives lost and the number injured are some­ what less than during the previous three months, the record yet is appall­ ing. The bulletin shows that the total number of casualties to passengers and to employes while on duty, during the three months, was 20,563, as com­ pared with 20,844 reported in the. pre­ ceding three months--a decrease of 381. The total number of passengers and employes killed in train accidents was 421, and the number of injured 4,920, 53 less in the number killed and 20 less in the number Injured, as com­ pared with the record of the preceding three months. The total number of collisions and derailments in the quarter was 3,991 (2,078 collisions and n 1,913 derail­ ments), of which 323 collisions and 229 derailments affected passenger trains. The damage to cars, engines and roadway by these accidents amounted to $3,536,110. The number of employes killed in coupling accidents in this quarter shows a diminution of 25 per cent, as compared with the quarter last pre­ ceding or with that of one year ago. The other principal items in the pres­ ent record show no Important changes as compared with the last preceding quarter, which was marked by large aggregates of both killed and injured. However, the number of passengers reported killed in train accidents--126 --is 30 per cent, smaller, but the rec­ ord includes two collisions and two de­ railments, killing a total of 82 persons. BIGGEST TUNNEL IN WORLD. France Will Build It for Rhone-Mar- settles Canal. Piris. -- The ministers of public works has approved the project of the- department of bridges and roads for the construction of a canal to connect the valley of th'e Rhone with the port of Marseilles. As the hills separating the Rhone from' Mar­ seilles are too high to be surmounted by locks the project involves a tunnel seven kilometers in length at a cost of $6,900,000. This tunnel measured by the amount of dirt excavated will be the largest In the world. The width t)f the canal (permitting two barges to pass at any point) to­ gether with the towpaths on either side will be 66 feet and the height will be 42 feet It will thus involve the ex­ cavation . of 2,186,000 cubic meters, against 1,058,400 in the case of the famous railroad tunnel at Simplon which is 21.6 kilometers in length but only 24 feet wide and 18 feet high. The total cost of the Marseilles-Rhone canal will be $15^200,000. MlSS MATTHEWS A SUICIDE. I I im ' \ Verdict of Coroner's Jury In Colorado Springs Tragedy. Colorado Springs, Col--All sus­ picion against Amos R. Rumbaugh as the slayer of Miss Laura Matthews was removed through the verdict of the coroner's jury Wednesday after­ noon. The verdict reads: "We, the jury, empaneled to Inquire into the cause of death of Laura Matthews, find that she came to her death from gunshot wounds inflicted with suicidal Intent." An inquest was held later over the remains of Amos R. Rumbaugh, who shot himself through the head Tues­ day afternoon. The verdict was that he came to bis death by his own hand. Suspicion for a time pointed to Rum­ baugh as having caused the death of Miss Matthews, because of his appar­ ent infatuation for the young woman and his failure to appear at the in­ quest as a witness. THIRD VICTIM OF STRANGLER. Little Girl Killed and Shockingly Mu­ tilated In New York. New York.--"The graveyard," as the foreign-populated neighborhood on First avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, is known locally, gave up Thursday a fresh crime, rival­ ing in atrocity the mysterious butcher­ ies of last week. The latest discov­ ered victim was an eight-year-old girl, and, like the two young women mur­ dered, she had been shockingly mis­ treated before death and the body mu­ tilated when life was extinct. She was Katie Pritschler, daughter of a res­ taurant waiter. She disappeared a week ago and was killed that night. A ribbon placed about the throat and drawn so tightly that it cut the flesh showed how" she died. * Dry Dock Bids All Rejected. Washington.--The navy department Frtday rejected all bids submitted for the construction of a dry dock at Bremerton, on Puget sound, because they were not within the limit of the appropriation. The lowest bid sub­ mitted approximated the entlrp amount available for the construction of the dock, leaving nothing with which to purchase a caisson, pumping and other necessary appliances, which would cost about $350,000. The de­ partment wiH refer the matter to con­ gress. MX J} Snake Bite May Kill lowan. Waterloo, la.--State Senator Bryon Newberry, father of the Iowa pure food law, who was bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake Tuesday, Is in a crit­ ical oondltion and his recovery is doubtful 1 Tornado Wrecks Kansas Town. Wiehita, Kan.=The division office of the Missouri Pacific railway has been notified from Geneseo that a tor­ nado wrecked Marquette, a station east of Geneseo in McPherson county. All wires are down.. Bad Hail Storm in Michigan. * Detroit, Mich.--There was a serious hail and windstorm in central Michi­ gan late Thursday. Com and oats and fruit were badly damaged. Around Oakley, Chesaning and .Orion the loss ^aggregates $190,006, HALL ©F \\ ( FWBUR& NO PROTICnON AfiAUtST OTT CRIMES RECORD TO LAWLESSNESS fTi-outs Gepuat-K* JOHNSON DEFINES RIGHTS MINNESOTA GOVERNOR ISSUES 8TRIKE PROCLAMATION. Order Gives Workmen Access to Pub- lie Rosds, But Forbids Tres­ passing. St Paul, Minn. -- Gov. John A. Johnson has issued a proclamation defining the rights of the contending parties to the iron miners' strike and warning all to preserve the peace. The proclamation which was issued upon the recommendation of the commis­ sion which the governor sent to in­ vestigate conditions on the iron range embodies the agreement which the commissioners made with the strikers and the officials of the steel corpora­ tion. It prohibits the marching of large bodies of strikers and forbids trespass upon private property. The strikers are to be protected in their right to peacefully assemble in their halls and the public roads are to be open to them in small groups. Both Petriella and Acting President Ma- honey, on behalf of the strikers, agreed to have their ipen keep strictly within the limits laid down in the proclama­ tion, and the peace officers were In­ structed dot to interfere with the meetings of the strikers. Commissioner T. D. O'Brien stated that he believed the crisis had now been passed on the iron range, and that trouble which was threatened be­ cause of over-zealous peace officers had been averted. Duluth, Minn. --- All is quiet In the Hibblng and Eveleth districts on the range, and there has not been a sign of violence as yet Between 75 and 80 per cent of the usual night shifts were at work Thursday night, and there were fully 25 per cent, more men working at Eveleth Friday morn­ ing than Thursday. About the same increase Is reported by the independ­ ent companies. TROOPS TO MOROCCO. NEW COUN8EL FOR THAW. Martin W. Littleton Chosen to Suc­ ceed Delmaa in Murder Defenae. New York. -- Martin W. Littleton, former president of the borrough of Brooklyn and a lawyer and or­ ator of wide reputation, will be chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw when the wealthy young pittsburger again faces a Jury to answer the charge of killing Stanford White. Thaw an­ nounced the selection of Mr. Littleton after a conference with his mother and his wife. It is said that Mr. Lit­ tleton's fee'• will be $25,000. As chief counsel fot Thaw Mr. Lit­ tleton will succeed Delphin M. Del- mas, the San Francisco lawyer who assumed charge of the defense soon after the opening of Thaw's first trial, which resulted in a disagreement of the jury. He is regarded as an able trial lawyer. It was Littleton who made the speech in the last national Democratic convention at St Louis nominating Alton B. Parker tor the presidency. * Worms Found In a Glacier. Tacoma, Wash.--In their ascent of Mount Ranler, Prof. John B. Flett, of this city, and Prof. Cowles and a sci­ entific party from Chicago, discovered in the ice of Urania glacier millions of small worms. The discovery aston­ ished the scientists, who could hardly believe their eyes until they had cut Into the hard ice and removed some of the worms for microscopic exam­ ination. The worms were about an inch in length and the size of a hair and presented a wriggling. Squirming mass in the solid ice. Missouri Pacific Indicted. Jefferson City, Mo.--Seven indict­ ments against the Missouri Pacific Railway company for failure to oper­ ate trains on the Bagnell branch, running from Jefferson City to Bag­ nell, Mo., were made public here. Three Killed on French Ship. Toulon.--The breech-block of a hundred millimeter gun.was blown off Friday on board the gunnery school ship Couronne during target practice in rCwdstfiud an j *Vi T were killed and five wounded. pcrs Fatal 8trike Riots in Lodz. Lodz.--This city is again the scene of a strike movement, accompanied by violence, disorder and death. The troops have encountered the strikers in the center of the town and some 30 men have been killed or wonnded in tills fight alone.* New Cruiser in Commission. Vallejo, Cal.--With appropriate cere­ monies the new cruiser California, re­ cently completed, was placed in com­ mission Thursday. Capt. Thomas S. JPhelps will command the cruiser. France and Spain Are Acting Prompt* ly In Concert.' Paris.--The French and Spanish governments are acting In concert and with great promptness to meet the situation that has arisen in Mo­ rocco. A warship of each of these powers is now in the harbor of Casa­ blanca, and three French and one Spanish men-of-war are on (he way to Morocco. " France has proposed to Spain the immediate landing of French and Spanish troops at Casablanca, and in anticipation of a favorable reply has prepared three transports at Toulon to convey 2,500 men and 300 horses to Morocco. What further steps, if any, are contemplated have not been made public. Slight delay and embarrass­ ment in meeting^ the situation are caused , by the absence of Premier Clemenceau, who; is at Karlsbad tak­ ing the cure. A dispatch received here from Oran, Algeria,, reports that the State bank at Tangier has been pillaged and that a British consular employe has been captured between Tangier and Elksare. There is no confirmation of this n^ws from Tangier. Madrid. -- The government an­ nounces that in addition to the cruis­ er Infanta Isabel, which already has arrived at Tangier, the crusier Don Alvaro de Baxan, now at Las Palmas, has bepn ordered to the Mo­ roccan coast. TAKEN FROM "HOLY JUMPERS." Iowa Girl Convert is Ordered Re­ turned to Her Home. Waukesha, Wis.--Olga Lundell, the 17-year-old Sac City, la., girl, who has been a member of the "Holy Jumpers" sect at the Fountain house in this city for several months past, and whose mother came here to se­ cure her release, was Friday evening, on the order of Court Commissioner Hemlock, given in custody of the sheriff of Waukesha county, who was ordered to take the girl to her home, despite the fact that she testified on the stand that she desired to remaiir with the "Jumpers," that being "the ^Lord's wish." The courtroom was crowded to suf­ focation and the order of the court was received with great shouts of ap­ proval by the citizens who heard the verdict. THREE WOMEN ARE KILLED. Trolley Car and Automobile Collide at Jackson, Mich. Jackson, Mich.--Three women were killed and two other persons were in­ jured when a suburban trolley car struck an automobile here Friday night The dead and injured all be­ long In this city. The dead are Mrs. Levi Palmer, Miss Bernice Oliver and Mrs. Pulver. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver were Injured. New Attack on 8ugar Trust. Trenton, N. J.--A bill in equity which calls upon the American Re­ fining company to give an accounting of its business for the past four years was filed before Chancellor Magie Friday on behalf of George EarleK Jr., receiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company, of Philadel­ phia, The suit, It is said, is the only one of the kind ever filed in this country and the step taken by the receiver of the Pennsylvania company may be the means of opening an en­ tire new field for investigating the trusts. Banker Dies in Swimming Pool. Philadelphia.--Edmund R. Watson, president of the Northern National bank and treasurer of the Henry Hess Blowing company, met death Thurs­ day in the swimming pool oT {he ,00* lumbia club. • * Morton's Butler Quits with $100,000. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.--Robert Stubbs, for years butler In the home of Levi P. Morton, has retired from his position with a fortune of $100,000, and has re- turiied to Saglaad, his waif* to live. ' w-- Massacre In Morocco. Tangier.--On the pretext that they* were displeased with the harbor works, three tribes Wednesday, raided Casablanca, one of the chief seaports of Morocco, and massacred the guards and seven Europeans. ^ Nsval Cadet Is Drowned, - Jackson, Mich.--Claude Heywood, aged 20 years, who had been attend­ ing the naval academy at Annapolis for the past two years, and who was at home here on leave, was drowned ffcdnesday at Clark's lakfc . MONDAY UNIVERSAL WASH DAY. Recognized se Such Over Almost All the World. ^ <7 ^ **• nearly all t!*e irfltzit World wash clothes on Monday? What has Monday to do with washing? it was oriMinaily the moon's day and Ww_ .v tue ut night. I read in a schoolboy's history that the Pilgrims landed on Monday and the good women immediately set about washing the clothes that had been soiled on the trip over. We might judge from that alleged fact that no washing was done aboard •hip: yet the finest place for such necessary work of sanitation and blessedness is out at sea where them Is plenty of water and flearly al­ ways a drying wind. The voyage of the little Mayflower lasted 63 days, I believe, and ^near­ ly as we can now reckon the landing was made at Plymouth Rock on a Monday, though some historians in­ sist on Friday. It must have been a •He and filthy vessel on arrival, with 302 passengers and crew going over two months without washing their linen. Linen? What did they wear in 1620? Can you realize how big was the Mayflower? A miserable lit­ tle bark of 160 tons (Capt. John Smith) or 180 tons (according to Bradford). 8|COND REPORT ON OPERATION# OF STANDARD COMPANY. m IT HAS RAISED PRICES ii THE NEW YORK LIFE'S PROGRAM. Esenomy, Publicity and the Paramount Interest of Policyholders. --* . President Klngsley, of the New Tork Life Insurance Company, says, In an address^ to the policyholders, that his plan of administration in­ volves these points: "First: Strict economy; second, the widest, fairest and fullest public­ ity; third, the continuance of the New York Life as a world-wide institution; fourth, such ^an amount of new busi­ ness under the law as we can secure while practicing intelligent economy, and enforcing the idea that the inter­ est of the policy-holder is paramount!." The Advantage of Reading. "Beg pardon, sir," said the weary hobo as he stood at the farmhouse door, "but might 1 sleep in your barn to-night? I haven't had a roof over my head for ten days." "I congratulate you," said the kind­ ly farmer. "That is a splendid thing. I have just read in one of my ten-cent magazines that it is not too much to say that to the delicate, highly-strung, easily-knocked-up individual the ad­ vantages of sleeping in the open air are enormous. Pallid cheeks take on a 'ruddy hue, colds are unknown, nerves are forgotten, and Irritability becomes a phase of the past. A small plot and a little perseverence are the only necessaries and the re*: suit is assured. You are very wel­ come to the use of my potato patch, and ray ajcy is at your • disposaL"-- Judges Concerning His Business. A Boston lawyer, who brought his Wit from his native Dublin, while cross-examining the plaintiff In a di­ vorce trial, brought forth the follow- ing: •You wish to divorce this woman because she drinks?" "Yes, sir." "Do you drink yourself?" "That's my bqsiness!"--angrily. Whereupon the unmoved lawyer asked: 4 'Have yon any other business?"-- Everybody's. Alt In Cold 8torsge. Aq Oregon attorney, representing a client whose title to a certain cold storage plant was under fire, closed an able argument before the Oregon supreme court recently with the fol­ lowing bit of pathos: "Your honor, there Is more resting upon your de­ cision than this cold storage plant: a human life is at stake. My client's life's efforts are in this cold storage; his life's blood is in this cold storage; his body and soul are wrapped up In thlB cold storage."--Law Notes. The Sad Sea. The thin, pale man in the large bathing suit, standing knee-deep in the water, sighed. "Why," we asked, "are you so sad?" "AJas," he answered, "the-sea is the grave of my first wife." Our lips curled superciliously. "But you married again," we mur­ mured. "Yes," said he, ' and my second wife won't go near the water." SOAKED IN COFFEE Enormous Profits Acquired by UnfSljff . s 'iand Unjustifiable Means, Says ^ Commissioner of Corpora- ' " v «ons Herbert K. fenf** ^0 Washington.--Significant revelations ;•£ were made public Sunday in a report4 ^ submitted to President Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of'; • corporations, concerning the opera- -J tions of the Standard Oil company. In a previous report the means and methods of the Standard were ex-ifil. plained. The present report sets ̂ forth the results of those methods and W" the effect they have had on the con- y :• sumer of oil and on the profits of the is* Standard Oil company. It deals with profits and prices, showing just how '~~4. the manipulation of the oil industry by the Standard has affected the pocket- books of the American "people. ? .,11^ Commissioner Smith says: ^ V , "The Standard Oil company is re» re­ sponsible for the course of prices of petroleum and its products during the % last 25 years. The Standard has con- ^ sistently used its power to raise the price of oil during the last ten years, fff" not only absolutely, but also relatively; to the cost of crude oil." The increase in annual profits of the Standard from 1896 to 1904 was fc; over $27,000,000. The report says: "The total dividends paid by the ? Standard from 1882 to 1906 were $651,- 922,904, averaging thus 24.15 per cent per year. The dividends, however; were much less than the total earn­ ings. It is substantially certain that the entire net earnings of the Stand­ ard from 1882 to 1906 were at least $790,000,000, and possibly much more. "These enormous profits have been based on an investment worth at the time* of its original acquisition not . more tlBn $75,000,000," In his letter to President Roosevelt, transmitting the report, Commissioner Smith says: "The following facts are proven: The Standard has not reduced mar­ gins during the period in which it has been responsible for the prices of oil. During the last eight years cov­ ered by this report (1898 to 1905) it has raised both prices and margins. Its domination has not been acquired or maintained by its superior efficien­ cy, but rather by unfair competition, and by methods economically and morally unjustifiably"- ANOTHER WOMAN ATTACKED. IS New York Crimes Continued--Two Men Beaten by Mobs. ' Ntew York.--Another murderous as­ sault was added Sunday night to thei police record of recent crimes against defenseless women and girls. Sun­ day's victim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman of middle age, who was at tacked in her apartments in the Bropx, cruelly beaten and left in a helpless state. Her assailant escaped. Just before Bulger was 8S* saulted, George Kestner, a Rnsslan* charged with attempted afesault upoa an eight-year-old girl, was set upon by a crowd of men and all but killecf The clothes were torn from his body and he was taken to a station house> wrapped in a blanket. Another mob set upon Hylo Saloda* an Italian palmist, who was similarly accused, and only the timely Interven­ tion of police reserves saved him fron* summary punishment TROLLEY 8MA8HE8 MOTOR QAft Until Too Stiff to Bend Over. "When I drank coffee I often had sick headaches, nervousness and bil­ iousness much of the time, but when I went to visit a friend I got in the habit of drinking Postum. "I gave up coffee entirely and the re­ sult has been that I have been entire­ ly relieved of all my stomach and ner­ vous trouble. "My mother was just the same way. We all drink Postum now, and with­ out coffee in the house for 2 years, we are all well. t "A neighbor of mine, a great coffee drinker, was troubled with pains In her side for years and was an invalid. She was not able to do her work and could not even mend clothes or do any­ thing at all where she would have to bend forward. If she tried to do a little hard work she would get such pains that she would have to lie-down for the rest of the day. "At last I persuaded her to stop drinking coffee and try Postum Food Coffee and she did so and has used Postum ever since; the result has been that she 'can now do her work, can sit for a whole day and mend and can tew on the machine and she never /eels the least hit of pain in her side, in fact, she has got well and It shows coffee-was the cause of the whole trou­ ble. "I could also tell you about several other neighbors who have been' cured by quitting coffee and using Postum In its place." "There's a Reason." Look in pkg. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellvillfc- Three Wsll Known Young New Ysrte- ; srs Terribly Injured. New York.--Three well knowis young men were frightfully, If not fatally, injured Sunday when their automobile was struck by a surface car, and after being shoved along for a distance of 30 feet was smashed to fragments against an elevated railroads pillar. The victims are Swift Tarbell, son. of Gage E. Tarbell, who was formerly a vice president of the Equitable Life- Assurance society; Edward L. Wood- eson and William Catchlngs. > Forty Passengers Drowned. Angers, France.--Forty passengerSi la a third class railroad car and the- engineer of the train were drowned' Sunday afternoon in a railroad acci­ dent three miles southeast of this, town. The locomotive of a crowded local train Jumped the track when en­ tering the bridge over the river Loir» at Les Ponts-de-Ce. The stone rail­ ing gave way and the engine plunged into the river 50 feet below, dragging down with it its tender and the bag­ gage and third class car. Fortunately no other ears went Into the water. Whites and Blacka In Battls. New York.--The fighting element among the whites and blacks in the vicinity of One Hundred and Thirty- sixth street and Fifth avenue, lined up according to their raci&i prejudices again Sunday to settle a baseball dis­ pute, and when the argument was ended 50 persons required ihedlcal. treatment and of that number two will die. Probably 5,000 persons took part in the fight but the 300 police­ men who dispersed the mob after every one was fought out got only nine prisoners. a -i Eight Trainmen Are Injursd.-^/ Chester, Mass.--^fiight train hands were injured, three of them seriously* la the derailing of a freight train Sun­ day on the Boston and Albany divis­ ion of the N$w York Central railroad here. % 4$ • Funeral of ftt. Gauder^. ^,^4,, Cornish, N, H,--The funeral of Au­ gustus St. Gaudeas, the sculptor, who. -=:' ^ died at his home here Saturday even- ? ing, has been arranged for Wednes- ' ̂ day afternoon at "Aspet," the scalp- r ± tsr'shome. .. iiim * - rliriSi " "II •Im Sj&aSa