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.pr,. f' SMvm THE McHfcNRY PLAINDEALER M. JlcHENRY PLAtNDBALKR COiH McHENRY, ILLINOIS. FIEE I IBS i 'i ELEGRVPHiC BPEvrriEy1 >«*• ' Tired out after a long vigil at the 'bedside of a patient, Dr. John Edward Janney of Winchester, Va., drank chlo­ roform by mistake for whisky and died. W. R. Re*, a prominent Democratic politician, died at St. -Joseph, Mo., of pneumonia. He was 40 years old and for many years lived in Chicago. Andrew Swanson of Twin Lakes, Wis., who disappeared two weeks ago ; . . after selling his farm for a woman not %• his wife, was found murdered and If; robbed in a snowdrift near Kenosha, ^ffy Eugene Cropper was probably fa- |fer tally injured and five other persons se­ lf K ••V. SSgpfTO SEAL PORT ARTHUR.'."9,^ Japanese Plan ^Another Attempt to Confine Russian Fleet in the Harbor--Big Naval Engage- ment "' Looked FoiV. Sfc-^vy M e r g e r D e c i s i o n " F a r - R e a c h i n g By Opinion Declaring Northern Securities Company Illegal. Supreme Court Settlfs for All Times the Right of Congiresa to Regu' l&t0 Inter -St&te Commerce London, March 21.--Japan Is about to make a sensational attempt to bot­ tle up Port Arthur once and for all, it is reported here. Fifteen big steamships are being propared at Sasebo for this new ef­ fort. They are being loaded with stone and are to be linked together with chains and wire cables. They are to steam toward Port Arthur in a line, and it is immaterial whether they are sunk by Russian guns or are blown up by their own crews. In either event they will thoroughly block the entrance to the harbor, ac­ cording to the belief of the naval of­ ficers who are engineering the plan. ripusly hurt by the explosion of a gas tank which wrecked Cropper Brothers' restauraEt at Pittsburg, Kan. The Canadian Pacific steamer Queen -;r, City is overdue at Victoria, B. C., and It is feared she has met disaster in the recent gales. The Dominion steamer Quadra has been sent in search of her. In a quarrel over exchanging tobacco at Lee's Landing, Ky.. lienry Stucker. Jr., was shot and killed by Richard Crofton, an engineer. Crofton fled to Indiana. John Schahn, aged 75, was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio mail train when attempting to walk across Shoal creek bridge, near Carlisle, 111., and was in­ stantly killed. The paper box factory of M. Molitor ft Co., 124-126 Huron street, Milwau­ kee, Wis., was gutted by fire. The loss on building and material is $30,- ' 000. The Greve Show Printing Com- P't pany, which occupied part of the same building, suffered a loss of $25,000, and , Charles L. Klewert & Co., next door, jfcj ' $10,000. Five unknown tramps, who were |||; stealing a ride, were killed in a , freight wreck on the Colorado & (' Southern railroad at Mayne, Colo. The "..-accident was caused by a broken rail, jfl v-' The consolidation of the Colonial , National and National banks of Cleve- feV land has been ratified by the stock- II t '* holders. E. H. Bourne is president, ° and the combined capital is $1,600,000 y. and the deposits $10,000,000. ji. Rear Admiral Coghlan, commanding jj§?/'^-'*the Caribbean squadron, soon will be ' relieved from service on the isthmus 1%;- of Panama by Rear Admiral Sigsbee, pj'v^ commanding the South Atlantic ^ - squadron. Admiral Sigsbee has left Pensacola for Colon in his flagship Newark, accompanied by the cruisers Detroit and Montgomery. A mail pouch, said to contain checks, drafts, etc., valued at $40,000, en route from Memphis to St Louis, was stolen Feb. 27 near Poplar Bluffs, Mo. Two sacks of registered mail, including several thousand dollars, were stolen from a Milwaukee train |£: v;" • at New Lisbon, Wis., last Wednesday " night. |j|iC, "Love's Carnival," an English ver- !0fs'-\ sion of the German play. "Rosen Mon- tag," was produced by George Alexan- ^4' , der at St James' theater, London, as |$f ' a successor to "Old Heidelberg," which ran for over 200 nights. The characters are all military and there fis only one female role, that of the 'vk"' ' ** heroine, which was played by Lillian Braithwaite. The play proved to be !|;;]-a gloomy one, with a tragic ending and it was received with a storm of Wf-. disapproval by the gallery. Rev. Dr. J. W. A. Haas of New j.- " York has been elected president of Muhlenberg college, Allentown, Pa., succeeding Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Seip, deceased. Archbishop Farley of New York has •» left Rome for Naples, whence he will sail for home. The archbishop said he had been delighted by the kind way he had been treated during his • four weeks' stay in Rome by all, from the pope to the lowest prelate. Lord Milner, British high commis- , sioner in South Africa, has canceled tne permit granted to William T. Stead, the English writer, to travel in South Africa, owing to the char­ acter of the speeches recently deliv­ ered by Mr. Stead. ii The polling for a candidate to fill the vacancy fn the parliamentary divi­ sion of East Dorset caused by the accession of Humphrey M. Sturt to the British peerage on the death of his father, Lord Allngton, resulted in a victory for the liberals, C. H. Lyell, the libera] candidate, defeating Mr. Van Raalte, the candidate of the con­ servatives, by eighty-two votes. jfe*,.-... • Helen Gonld, according to a New py.v r York report, may resign her connec- tion with the St. Louis exposition be- cause of a rebuff for her plan for a fey-.' day nnrsery. Edward Rauer and his son Peter, front Jackson, Tenn., were asphyxiat- ! J ed in a room at a hotel at St Louis, Mo. The son is dead and the father was taken to the hospital uncon­ scious. Lake Tahoe, California, la higher than ever known before, and the wat­ er is still rising rapidly, threatening to carry away the big dam and de­ stroy the industries along the Truckee river, besides causing great loss to the farming lands which depend on the stored waters for Irrigation. Prairie Urea, started by a spark from a locomotive, have burned over 40,000 acres of range land in the vi­ cinity of Hemingway, Neb., ayi are still spreading. Several raMhmen have been burned out and many head of stock destroyed. One man was killed and four in­ jured in a premature explosion at the mining camp of R. N. Price, near Mid- dlesboro. Ky. Representative C. W. Thompson of Alabama is seriously ill with pneumo­ nia at hit hotel apartments in Wash tngtoo. • The action of the British house of commons In adopting by an over Whelming vote, 182 to 68, a resolution In favor of allowing women to vote for parliamentary candidates waB cheered cfeuaber of deputies of Rome. '• Russians Capture Japanese in the Vicinity of Wiju. Kobe, March 21--A body of cos- sacks captured a Japanese major and five other officers and two civilians in the vicinity of Wiju, it is reported here. All were sent to Irkutsk. Thp Japanese were supposedly engaged in mapping the country. The Russians in the neighborhood of the Yalu have sent a communica­ tion to the Corean authorities stating that any one supplying fodder or any military provisions to the Japanese elaborate preparations to hold New r placed in a position of defense, aa a Chwang, the plan being to withdraw Japanese force is expected to land on after burning the town if the Japanese attack it. A tew temporary forts, however, have been erected in the rear of the town. The first Russian stand will be at Liao Yang, where re­ inforcements are arriving. nightly. '* f St Petersburg Expecting, ' r Big Naval Engagement. St. Petersburg, March 21.--It is be­ lieved here that the Vladivostok squadron is making an effort to join that of Port Arthur and the idea prevails that a sea engagement may come at any moment. Severe Weather Hampers Ruasians in Manchuria. Tokio, March 21.--The military'au­ thorities here have received important information from spie3 in Manchuria, showing that the Russian forces are meeting with enormous difficulties in the work of mobilizing the armies. The Manchurian railway in many places is blocked by immense snow­ drifts, and in others the- metals have sunk to a considerable depth, and a number of bridges have collapsed. ' The weather is arctic in its sever- the coast west of that city. Four Japanese gunboats, three cruisers and two transports are re­ ported to have arrived at the mouth of the Liao river below Newchwang. They landed a party Saturday night, but after reconnoitering the doast line without molestation the Japanese soldiers reembarked. These movements throw light on the mystery of Japan's campaign. They indicate to military experts here that Japan is planning a double inva- scion from the Liaotung gulf--one west of Newchwang and the other on the west coast of the peninsula, be­ tween Port Arthur and Newchwang. While the latter force is attacking the railroad, the former, it "is expected, will advance on Newchwang and sweep away the small Russian force known to be there. It is a movement, military experts declare, well calculated to strtko the Russian fiank at two places and iso­ late Port Arthur. In the meantime the main body of the Japanese army is expected to stFike the other flank along the Yalu. A dispatch to the Standard from St MAP OF RUC3IA. ffirA SfCft'A *9 ^ * T ' » g T C H S S O U * . o "O»C0w OKHtrs KOwt q muw is. Jr*" eyiOM eqrstMiM tUhiA'l The Asd-ki which Showing the vast extent of hor territory on two continents, and the tantalizing way from any ocean port which is not icebound in winter. will be considered the enemy of Rus­ sia and will be liable to be shot on sight Rui fan Officers Look for War With China. St Petersburg, March 21.--War with China is fully expected by well informed military circles here. The opinion is freely expressed that Rus­ sia cannot avoid an open conflict and that it is the question of but a short time when hostilities begin. Just how serious the situation is those who know will not say, but thjsy make no attempt to disguise what they feel sure the outcome will be. Czar's Officers at Port Arthur Commit 8uieide. Shanghai, March 21.--Discouraged by defeat, the population of Port Arthur is thoroughly demoralized, ac­ cording to reports received here. Several Russian officers have killed themselves, growing despondent un­ der the strain of the reverses the garrison and fleet have met. More than fifty soldiers have been put to death for attempted desertion during the past two weeks. An elaborate system of barbed wire barricading, based on the South Afri­ can plan, has been constructed, en­ circling the land approaches. Dyna­ mite mines have also been laid, and guns from the disabled battle-ships have been mounted behind the new earth v/orks. The total casualties in Port Arthur to date are said to be 265. A cargo of cattle has been successfully landed and three more cargoes are anxiously expected. The Russians have not made any lty, with blinding snowfalls and fierce hurricanes. In consequence of these difficulties the Russians have already suffered enormous losses in men, chiefly owing to the lack of warm clothing and the breakdown of the commissariat arrangements. Entire Cossack Patrol Said to Have Been taken. Tokio, March 21.--There is a rumor here, unconfirmed by the war office, that a column of Gen. Kuroki's force has captured an entire Cossaek patrol in the mountains at the head of the Yalu river. The report comes from Port Lazareff, and army officers be­ lieve there is good foundation for it The division of Cossacks probably came down from Hunchun to rein­ force the Russians on the river. They probably fell two forces of the Japanese. The story comes by the ship Amstel from Port Lazareff, and was brought into that point by Core- ans, who say the encounter took place March 9. Tuman between Holland Bold Moves by Japan Alarm Russian Experts. " London, March 21.--Japan has land­ ed or attempted to land troops at He­ lena bay, half *ay between Port Ar­ thur and Newchwang, aod only six miles from the railroad. This news comes from St Peters­ burg. It is admitted that the Russian war department was startled by the intelligence. Russian troops are now being hur­ ried to Fuchow, twenty-two miles south of Helexia bay, to resist the ex­ pected landing. Newchwang is being hurriedly Petersburg says that 40,000 Russians are drawn up on the Chengcheng riv­ er, north of Anju, where an equal number of Japanese are believed to be. The latter's movements are close­ ly watched by large bodies of Cos­ sacks and the first land action is ex­ pected to tafce place in that neighbor­ hood. Gen. Llnevitch's recent reinforce­ ments are kept secret. Three weeks ago he had 32,400 men and fifty-four fieM guns, but it is expected that he will have 140,000 men by the middle of May, when the Japanese forces will be ready to advance against the Russian right flank. Russian. Outpost Annihilates 8imJlar Japanese Force. Shanghai, March 18.--The American cruiser Cincinnati, which arrived at Che-Foo, brings a report that 300 Russians encountered 200 Japanese near Ping-Yang, annihilating the Japa­ nese force. Jen Japanese war vessels were anchored off Chlnnampo March 10 and twelve transports are disem­ barking troops there. Thirty more transports are expected with 20,00 men. Admiral Stark Relieved; MakarofT Will Command. St. Petersburg, March 17.--Official orders have been published relieving Vice Admiral Stark from the com­ mand of the Port Arthur division of the navy, ostensibly on account of illness. No successor will be appoint­ ed, Vice Admiral Makaroff having de­ termined to serve as squadron com­ mander an well as commander in chief of the entire Russian naval fdrce in the far East N TRAGEDY OF THE TENEMENTS. Hew Little Waif Gave Her Name to Popular Book. 'Joan of the Alley," by Frederick O. Bartlett has rather an add evolution­ ary history. A newspaper assignment once took Mr. Bartlett to the top of a city tenement, and there he discov­ ered, sitting in the sun, a mite of a girl In the last stages of consumption. Hopping about the flat roof was her only companion, a thin, sorrowful look­ ing white rabbit, who was also suffer­ ing from the same disease, contracted from his mistress. For three years this girl had lived there, going below only in stormy weather and at night What she saw of the world was simply her bird's-eye view from the roof-top. For days afterward the memory of this little girl haunted the young re­ porter, and he began to write her life. Then he met Joan, an utterly different type of girl, who lived a most aotlve life'In the very heart of things. In­ deed, Bhe swept all before her, and changed the whole course of the story. Tlit 'Ittle girl on the roof was not even mentioned, and she now seemed to the author only a shadow. One day he re­ turned to the tenement to see what had become of her. Bhe had gone, and only a rickety chair was left on tne roof and a little bit at dried-up carrot with the marks of tiny teeth in it Odd Earrings Not Smart. Since Mme. Calve appeared wearing earrings containing different kinds of stones jewelers have been besieged with queries as to the present size,, the possible growth, and the ultimate popularity of the fad. "I reply that the fashion of wear­ ing contrasting stones In a pair of ear­ rings is not a fad at all," says one dealer. "It is a freakish fancy, and it iBn't new. For many years women with more Jewels than taste have chosen to appear at times with ear­ rings that were not mates. Because of the rarity of such exhibitions, we never carry such earrings in stock. We fill any special orders, and several years ago a number of women con­ ceived the idea of wearing black and white pearls in their earrings, not mixed, but separately, the white stone in one ear and the blaok in the other. The effect was odd, but not pretty. I hare not seen the combination for some time. Net That Kind of a Lord. Two urchins were playing in front of a dwelling on the Upper West Side. The owner of the property passed and the larger of the little chaps sali$:i T "There goes our landlord." "No he ithn't" lisped the other. "Yes he Is," insisted the first. "He ithn't" repeated the smaller. "Well he is. My mamma said so, and she knows." "But he can't be," the other said. "The Ixjrd lives up in the sky." "That's another kind of a lord," ex­ plained the larger lad.--New York Press. Every contention of the Northern Securities company to legal existence, to the right to control three great railroad properties and operate them in harmony wsis denied by the Su­ preme Court of the United States March 14, Justice Harlan delivering a majority opinion. The decree of the four circuit judges of a year ago was affirmed and the first $1,000,000,000 railroad corporation, the first concern to centralize ownership of the great checked;' the crowning scheme of the age of consolidation has been re­ buked. A score of the same charac­ ter were ready for launching. The Northern Securities was a test of the limitation of financial combinations. In the railroad world it was a new feature; it opened up illimitable pos­ sibilities of controlling the traffic of the country, of controlling It with­ out the need of great, capital. The ' right of the corporation to bold the m. -A 8ketch From Life of James J. Hill, the Father of the NorthernJ&eearl* ties Company, Which the Supreme Court Declared to Be an Illegal Trust. Six Weddings in 150 Years. To Gloucester (Eng.) cathedral be­ longs the unique record of having had but six weddings solemnized within Its walls dnring the-past 150 years. carrying companies, is declared to he in violation of .the law against combi­ nations in restraint of trade. It is „not the first victory that the Sherman anti-trust act has scored in the Supreme Court, but it is the great­ est The railroad cases which pre­ ceded had to do with rate agreements; the decisions against industrial meth­ ods were directed against price sched­ ules. This recent opinion Btruck at the corporation itself; it went beyond the mere incident of a rate, of a spe­ cific violation of the law, and held that the formation of a company to operate competing properties, even though the announced Intention is one of economical operation, of lower rates or of greater benefits to the public, the thing itself is wrong. The Northern Securities company must disband, resolve itself into its units, the Northern Pacific railroad and the Great Northern railway. Its $400,000,000 stock issued for the for­ mer at 115 for 100 shares and for the latter in the proportion of 180 for 100 shares will be re-exchanged. The Burlington; the third part of th'e com­ bine, is controlled by the other two. The ownership will remain in the same hands, the management will not be changed. The policy will not be altered, but the power of the court to go beyond dissolving the corporation was recognized. The corporate em­ bodiment of the scheme of unification alone is struck down. The apparent contradiction between corporation and individual holdings of securities of competing properties split the court, and the balance was against the great scheme of J. P. Morgan and James J. HilL The majority decision was support­ ed by Justices Harlan, Brown, McKen- na. Day and Brewer, the latter differ­ ing as to the method of reasoning, but agreeing with the conclusion. The minority likewise was partially dis­ jointed, Justice Holmes reading an opinion in which Chief Justice Fuller and Peckham united, Justice White delivering a personal opinion more radical than his fellow dissenters. But there is no hope held out in any of the dissenting opinions of a rehabili­ tation of the scheme. Justice White stands alone in opposition to the basic principle of the anti-trust act, which he characterized as "destructive of human liberty and destructive of ev­ ery principle upon which organized ~ society depends." Justice Harlan and his three asso­ ciates gave a wider latitude to the anti-trust act than previous decisions which were directed against specific violation of its terms. The Supreme court throws the mantle of the act over any company or combination which puts into a common ownership the stocks of competing railroads and inferentially competing Industries. It holds that euch consolidation or merger destroys and restricts trade and as such restrains trade and it is not necessary to cite specific acts. With five Judges in its favor, the construction of the law is absolute; there is no evasion; no escape. The reach for corporation power has been Grandson of the Mikado. Perhaps the most interesting small boy in the world Is the little Prince Miochi, grandson of the Japanese mikado and destined himself to be a mikado some day. He will be 4 years old next month.. The heir presump­ tive to the great eastern throne has the distinction of being the first baby of the royal house of Jimmu Tenno who has been allowed to grow his hair like an English baby. Both his father and the mikado, when babies, had their heads shaved daily by their nurses. JHas Right to Pray for Japan. At least one man in Missouri pious­ ly prays that victory may perch on the banner of the Jap in the war now being waged. This is Colonel John Sobieskl of Richmond, lineal heir of King John Sobieski of Poland. By-Products of Corn. The oil from the germ of a kernel of corn is worth five centa a pound, while the starch with which the ker- «0I is filled is Worth but 1% cents a rind. The m^lejominji , the h«U. ' ->v: stocks of two railroads would have carried with it, the right to hold a dozen or more, to issue bonds against stocks, to buy more properties, to is- SUP more' bonds. Three years ago tiffs month the plan was developed, while the gigan­ tic steel corporation was 'being float­ ed out into the rising market of speculation; It had to wait until some of the money invested in that Indus­ trial combination was realized. With- Supreme Court Justice Harlan. in two months oi its projection com­ petitive buying by a transcontinental rival, the Union Pacific, brought on the panic of May 9 and the pleasure of success was marred by relinquish­ ment of half the control of the Bur­ lington to its rival. Though the security scheme is killed the Hill-Morgan plan is not dead; through personal ownership, through combinations of individuals, much of the original purpose will be retained. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern and Burlington will continue to be directed by tJj same interests. When the legal • advisers have measured and weighed the opin­ ion It may be possible to accomplish the same result by lodging the owner­ ship of the stocks in some other rail­ road, as is now done in a score of similar cases, as the New York Cen­ tral owns Lake Shore, as the Penn­ sylvania owns-Baltimore and Ohio, as the Oregon. Shore Line owns the Southern Pacific, being in turn owned by the Union Pacific. As an Individual cannot be prohib­ ited from buying securities, so a rail­ road corporation cannot be prohibited. In the majority opinion there is no reference to this form of control. The question was not raised and non­ interference with the scores of cases where such control is held may be re­ garded as pointing out the way for the retention of the Hill properties. While the decision does not touch upon the ordinary method of holding railroads, it has a direct bearing upon the industrial situation. Many of the corporations formed along the trust line in the last ten years come under the desigantion of an unlawful combi­ nation as laid down in the dictum of the opinion. The Securities company as the head and front of those offend­ ing is Justice Harlan's keynote, and every combination of properties, every putting together of manufacturing concerns has been based upon the Se­ curities idea. The United States Steel combination exchanged its stocks for those of a dozen great corporations, many of which were in turn built upon many competing plants. This corporation, which is used as illus­ trative. of the others, derives its rev­ enue by dividends from the underly­ ing plants, each one of which is gov­ erned by Its own board, but under direction and control of the central power. From its promulgation the Sherman anti-trust act was understood as es­ tablishing a criminal offense to be proceeded against by form of indict­ ment of individuals and to bring a corporation to punishment in the in­ fliction of a fine. Instead of seeking a specific act of restraining trade by overcharge, rebate or extortion, the government profited by the trend of practice before courts and appealed to the injunction. The proceedings against the Securities eompany was to enjoin it from doing things feared' or alleged and the order of the cdurt below was in the form cf injunction, now affirmed by the Supreme court The Securities company being pun­ ished not for. what it has done bnt what it is capable of doing. The same procedure is imminent ^gainst any corporatioh which owns the stocks of two or moire engaged in the same line of business. The court declares there is but one remedy, the repeal of the law; if the enforcement along the line outlined In the opinion becomes fashionable Wall street trad­ ers will congratulate themselves that the blow fell after Security values had been brought down to the dollar for dollar basis and liquidation may possess an element of profit John Marshall Harlan, who handed down the decision in the Northern Se­ curities case, has been an associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States since Nov. 29, 1877. He was born in Boyle county, Kentucky, in 1833, was educated in Center col­ lege and Transylvania university, and was a county judge at the age of 25. From 1861 to 1863 he was colonel of the Tenth Kentucky regiment in the Union army, and from the latter year until 1867 was attorney general of the Blue Grass state. Justice Harlan waB one of the arbiters in the Bering sea case. He it was who handed down the decision in the famous Ne­ braska maximum freight rate case. I Great St*|ee of the American Natie n Which Have Been Under the Oi# trol of the Ra i I road Merger. Strong in Vitality at 82. Benjamin F. Manierre, at one time a leading Republican in New York City, and more recently a prominent Prohibitionist, is 82 years old, but is recovering from a surgical operation which might have killed many a man young enough to be his grand­ son. It was discovered recently that he waa suffering from hernia and an operation was found to be necessary. The venerable patient refused to take an anesthetic and while the surgeons were at wort laughed Mid told stories. Home far Yale President. By the death of Mrs. Henry Far- nam, who passed away not long ago, Yale will receive a permanent home for its president According to tho terms of the will of the late Henry Farnam, his handsome residence in New Haven is to go to the university upon the death of his widow and his son, Prof. Henry W. Farnam, to be used as the home of the president. The home is filled with art treasures which will also pass to the nni^eralt?. The dft is valued at $2o0,00S. > 8*nator Scott Tells of Travels. Senator Scott of West Virginia has published a neat little book bearing the title "Lettei^s From Rn-elga Lands." The volume tells with some detail of the senator's tour abroad lust summer, and is Illustrated. Some of the snapshots are unique. There is a group of Nubians wading out to the boat at the first eateract of the Nile. Then one photograph shows a **<rent view of a Spanish gentleman in re­ duced circumstances" and another "a reverse view of the same gentle­ man." V'4- Artist Leaves Fortune to Artists. Heinrich Vogel, a well-known Ger­ man portrait painter, who, however, has not done any work for three decades, has left his whole property valued at $250,000, for the trending of a charitable institution for artists. Rather Grewsome Reminder. Dr. August F. Reinhold of Saa Francisco died recently. His Tfldow has had his bones cleaned and articu­ lated and will keep them in her priv­ ate apartments, where she and her lm- fant son can see them constantly. M>a