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THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER MM UMMRY PLAINDBALBR OO. *|lcHENRY, :l9B=SSS ii^mors. -TOLD IN-: PThe Bank of Paris and the Nether- 14nds has subscribed for $1,000,000 of the $2,000,000 capital of the San Raf­ ael Paper Manufacturing Company of the City of Mexico. Fire damaged the Mackintosh* " Helhphill company plant, or FJort Pitt foundry, as it is better known, at , Pittsburg, to the extent of about $200>- •00, fully covered by insurance. Laymen of the northwest Iowa " Methodist conference at Sheldon passed a resolution urging the employ­ ment of evangelists at fixed salaries hereafter, Instead of permitting them to take all the money they can col­ lect. ' Mrs. Mafy O'Hare of Cherry Valley, -Mass., walked into a pond with her 11-month-old son in her arms, and .vtooth were drowned. . William Van Houten, .11 years old, (bf Des Moines, committed suicide be- ; cause his father would not allow him • feed the chickens. ' . . - • Ambassador Casasus, who expected to leave Mexico City for Washington, l» confined to his bed with a severe Illness. Senator Heyburn of Idaho, who has keen ill at Washington with a mild form of appendicitis, continues to Im­ prove, bat is still confined to his apart­ ments. M. E. Mathias and J. G. McFadden, Working night shifts in the Sagfnaw mine, Deadwood, N. D., were found dead In the tunnel, having been killed by a premature blast. J. A. Howells, a Jefferson, O., news­ paper man and brother of the novelist has been tendered the position of con­ sul to Turk's Island, West Indies. Mr. Howells will probably accept the posi- tkm. t A congressional committee has be­ gan an investigation of the ' Illinois itver to decide if it can be made a deep water way. Nearly 100 persons, doctors, nurses, attendants and clerks at the St. Louis City hospital were taken violently ill from ptomaine poison resulting from eating oysters. None was seriously affected. „ | Postmaster General Cortelyou has tUturned to Washington from his an- %ial vacation, most of which has been fflpent on Long island. Ida M. Tarbell has accepted an in­ vitation to speak at a banquet given fez the Knife and Fork club of Kansas ,City. She will be the first, woman javer entertained by the club. • The International Union of Bridge- <Men and Structural Iron-Workers of America elected J. P. T. Butler, H. •¥. Legleitner and O. H. Hill delegates "to the convention of the American 'Federation of Labor. . The President has named Dr. Law- fence F. Flick, director of the Henry -Phipps institute of Philadelphia; Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltimore and 8. A. Knopf of New York to represent America at the tuberculosis congress 1ft Paris Oct. 2. A report from Naples says more than 10,000 houses were wrecked by recent earthquake and more than 160,000 people are homeless. The new Franco-Russian commer­ cial convention was signed at St. 'Petersburg Friday. It becomes ef­ fective March 1, 1906. A tornado Thursday night destroyed .Malmesbury, a town of 3,000 inhabit­ ants, thirty-five miles from Cape Town. jA number of persons were killed. Fifty thousand Bengalese, assembled at the Temple of Kalighat, have sworn by the Goddess of Kali to boycott •British goods as a protest against the (Partition of the province of Bengal. The International Union of Bridge- (men and Structural Iron Workers, la |convention in Philadelphia, elected F. ,;M. Ryan of Chicago president. ,William J. Hussey, the noted as- -.^ponomer of Lick observatory, has "accepted the chair of astronomy in {the University of Michigan, to suc­ ceed Professor Aesop Hall, resigned. •r The case of Frederick A. Peckham . |af New York, who was arrested in Jconnection with the cotton report acandal, has been indefinitely post- jponed. Fire destroyed the greater part of •the business section of Vermillion, 111., Including the postoffice and Odd Fel­ lows' building, causing a loss of $27,- LATEST CASH MARKET ftCPOftTfc Chicago Produce. Butter--Extra creamery, jobbing. 29c; prices to retailers, 21c; prints, 32c; firsts.] 18*4 @19c; seconds, 17c; renovated, 18«i 18%e; dairies, Coolevs, 18^c,; firsts, 17c;; ladles, 16M:@17c; packing stock, 15%©16c.j Eggs--Fresh stock at mark, new cases included, 15%@17%c; cases returned, 1501 IT&c, firsts, 18^c; prime firsts, packed In* whitewood cases, 20*4c; extra high grade,, packed for city trade, 2£%c. Cheeses-Full cleam, daisies,ll^c; twin*, lllg)ll%e; Young Americas, ll%c; Ion* horns, ll*4c; Swiss, block, 11 Vic; drum,« 13V4c; limburger, choice, 9c; off grades, € ©8c; brick, 10%@llc; off grades, 7&$c. Fish--'Black bass, 15c; carp and buffalo,1: 2e; pike, Sc; pickerel, 5c; perch, 4c; sun- fish, 2@3e; croppies, 3@4c. Live Poultry--Turkeys, per lb.. 12@ 16c; chickens, fowls, 10c; roosters, 7c; springs 11c per lb; ducks, 10c; geese, $4@8 per dos. Fruits--Apples, bu boxes. $1@1.75; brl, Jl@*.25; crabapples, $4.50@5.50 per brl. Peaches, per 6-basket crate. fl®1.25; Michigan, 75c@$1.50 per bu; 10@2ac per 1-5 bu basliet. Pears. Michigan, $2.75@5 per brl, $1.75ff?2 per kepr. bu. S5c(<??] Plums, case, 25@60c; 1-5 bu basket, 12V4 @20c; grapes, 10@12c per 8-lb basket'. Melons--Gems, crates, bas­ kets. lrs^ssc; Osage, f>0o(S$l per crate. Green Vegetables--Carrots,home-grown, Jl@1.25 per 100 bunches; cabbage, $1.15# 1.25 a crate; celery, 25@65e per boT; rad­ ishes, 73c@$l per 100 bunches; spinach, 25 @35c per tub; tomatoes. 35c@$l per bu box: lettuce, head, 50c@$l per tub; leaf, 15@20c per case; beets, $1 per 100 bunches; turnips, 35@60c per sack; string: beans, f>0e@$l peT sack; cauliflower, 75c@$1.75 per crite: green onions, S^flOc per bunch; onitm^, 35<fi50o per b(u; Spanish, $1.10 per ciate; sweet corn, 2"«@o0c per sack; kohl- rgbl,,;11.25@l..-50 per 100 bunches; potatoes, car lots on track, 27@48c per bu; mush­ rooms, 40060c per lb; squash. 75c@$l per doz; water cress, 25c per box; horseradish 60@65c per bunch; eggplant, 3f>@50c pai doi; pumpkin, 50c per dot. STATE BANKERS » »» i ui > t § uuvi v«« --Flrim; extra creamery, to extra, 17(f^2.1c. T New York Produce. Butter- common Cheese--Quiet, unchanged. Eggs--Steady; unchanged. Grain Quotations. _ . WHEAT. Qllcajf»--No; % red, 86#86%c. • New York--No. 2 red, 90c. • Minneapolis--No. 1 northern, -84@84He. St. Louis--No. 2 red, S7^@88%c. Duluth--No. 1 northern. 81 %c. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 77%@82c. Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 85%@tte. Toledo--No. 2 red. 8514c. , CORN. ! Chicago--No. 2. 61%@52c. Liverpool--American mixed, 4s 10d. New York--No. 2. 59V4c. Peoria--No. 3, 51%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 52c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, OMeOSle. Milwaukee--No. 3, 52%tc. OATS. Chicago--Standard, 28^4(®29c. New York--Mixed, 32%@33Hc. St . Louis--No. 2, 27%c. - Kansas City--No. 2 mixed. 88c. Milwaukee--Standard, 28%©28*c. Live Stock. CATTLE. Chicago--$1.50@5.75. Omaha--$2 @5.15. Kansas City--J1.75@5.S5. St. Louis--$2 @5.55. St. Joseph--$1.80@5.60. New York--$1.75<®5.90. HOGS. Chlcagch--$2.25@5.85. Omaha--$4.75@5.40. Kansas City--14.50@5.50. St. Louis--$5@5.70. St. Joseph--$5.25@5.39. New York--$6 20#6.25. SHEEP AND LAMBS. Chicago--$2 @7.60. Omaha--$4.20(5)^.75. Kansas City--$3.7f>??7. St. Louis--$2.25@7.2.r>. St. Joseph--$4.75(fi!6.90. New York--$4.50@8.50. Professor L. Eddy, a teacher at the jtentucky state school for the deaf at Danville, dropped dead in the school­ room. Professor Eddy was a noted as- itronomer. ;|v B5. C. Carry, a Cincinnati detective, Jfcaa brong-bt suit against tlie county ^commissioners in Newcastle, Ind., to Recover a reward of $500 offered for *the arrest and conviction of the mur- ##erer of Mary Starbuck. * The German Evangelical 8ynod se- ilected Burlington, Iowa, as the place . {for its next quadriennial meeting In (1909. •v Joseph Levins of Baltimore has t&een arrested on the charge of kid- {Happing his thirteen-year-<dd daughter jln Mahanoy. Pa. • f Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kirklatd eelebrat- {•d their golden anniversary at their Ifliome near Litchfield, 111. The fifty-sixth year of the Univers- jlty of Wisconsin begins with an ea ijrollment of nearly 3,500. The attend jifence is expected! to approximate 4,000. i The sixty-eighth year of the Univer I' |jpity of Michigan opened with fully 14,200 students enrolled in the various {departments. : J Secretary Hitchcock is back in ~ V tWashington from his summer home at ||donadnock, N. H., where he jepent the past three months. ^ | Teresa, a daughter of General Santi- Jjago de La Guardla, minister of war, [is married to P. L. Fellinger, manager *©f the Panama Banking Company. ^Charles E. Magoon, governor of the Icanal zone, was one of the witnesses Ito the marriage contra:t. Alice Hegan Rice of Louisville, KyH has received a letter closing the deal for the production in London by an original company of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." ; Robert Bacon of New York, who is to succeed Francis B. Loomis as first assistant secretary of state, is in Washington preparatory to assuming the duties of that office. M. De Thai, second secretary of the Russian embassay in Washington, has been temporarily transferred to Mex­ ico as charge d'Affaires of the Russian legation there. Prince Kudacheff, who was with Baron Rosen at Tokio, has been attached to the Washington embassy. The pope has received in private audience Rt. Rev. Herman Joseph Alerding, bishop of Fort Wayne, Ind. Secretary Wilson has accepted an invitation to address the Notional As­ sociation of Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges and other insti­ tutions devoted to the negro education at its meeting in Richmond, Va, Dec. 27, 28 and 29. The annual banquet of the class of 1907 of the United States naval acad­ emy, which was to have been held Friday night in Washington, has been postponed until next Friday night on account of diphtheria at the academy. The crown sheet on a locomotive hauling a west-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad blew out at Cleveland, Ohio, and badly scalded the engineer, J. H. Blackburn; the fire­ man, S. T. Brennan, and the brake- man, J. S. Flaze, all of Cleveland. Three hundred and twelve structur­ al iron workers employed on four large buildings in Baltimore were or­ dered out. William -Scarbaugh, a traveling salesman of Evansville, Ind., while resisting arrest was shot and instantly killed by Night Marshal Trappe at Carmi, 111. The sixth biennial convention of the Masonic Relief association for the United States and Canada, in session in Syracuse, elected Charles F. Strum of Buffalo president. The Carnegie Technical schools an­ nounce the appointment of Henry Hornbostel, Ph. B., to a professorship in architectural practice in the school of applied science. By unanimous vote of the German Evangelical synod at Salem church at Rochester, N. Y., Rev. Jacob Pister of Cincinnati vas re-elected president for a term of four years. Walter Freibert of Stillman Valley, 111., killed himself while temporarily insane. Miss Anna Rogers and Mayor D. B. Parr of Areola, 111., have been married. The bride is superintendent of schools of that county. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa­ dor, is expected to return to Washing­ ton by the beginning of next week. John Carlson, a prominent farmer, was found dead two miles east of La- con, 111. It is supposed his team ran away, but not a mark was found on his person. At a meeting of Boston .citizens it was deceided to erect a memorial to tie late Mayor Patrick A. Collins. Mayor Rose of Milwaukee called as a witness before the grand Jury, re­ fused to take the oath of secrecy. The federal government plans an extension of the steamboat inspection service in the Illinois and Desplaines rivers. The grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Minnesota, Jtave elected Carroll S. Bartman, St. Paul, grand chancellor. Fred Davis, aged 25, employed as driver at the Scales coal mine, near | Booneville, Ind., was fatally injured 1 fer a mule falling upon him. Lieutenant Governor of Illinois Addresses Financiers Bfoomington. :FI ATTRIBUTES OF THE BANKER Man Who Handles the Money, of the People Must Be Prophetic and Keep In Touch with the Businesa of the World. Stoomingtctti* I1L, dispatch: The ac­ cusations of a New York financial magazine, aimed at bankers, and call­ ing them corruptors of Legislatures, was taken up at the closing session of the Illinois Bankers' association Wednesday. President Durham poured hot shot into the magazine for Its recklessness. He denied the. -uilegation that money had ever been used by the bankers to influence legislation. He referred to the investigation of all proposed legislation in former Legislatures, lie declared that the committees appointed always had act­ ed in the holier that it was foolish to seek to buy legislation for the reason that it would not stay bought. President Durham emphatically de­ nied that any money had ever been used to influence legislation, and de­ clared that bribery never iad been resorted to or even considered. The expression^ of the president met with hearty approval. The speech of President Durham and that of Lieutenant Governor Sher­ man were two of the many interesting features of the day. The Lieytenant Governor apologized fpr the absence of Governor Deneen and expressed his appreciation of the honor of being chosen to take his place. The speaker discussed the legal supervision of t'ie bank and its reasonable and unreasonable aspect. There can be no conflict, he declared between legitimate banking and the public at large. Sherman on Bankers. The legitimate and honest banker Is an important part 01 the community. He must be prophetic and keep in touch with the business public of the world. Judge Sherman referred to the state banking laws and the laws that ap­ plied to trustees. Nobody, he said, ob­ jected to a reasonable control of cor­ porate and private concerns, but you cannot always regulate the private individual in his business. "There is no liberty in this country unless it comes through well regulated law," said Mr. Sherman. "There should be no difference between labor unions and bankers in this respect, and if either survives, it will be through law. We are all created equal, but there is not always an equality of opportunity. "This applies to railroad rates. They are created equal, but do not always remain so. When there is discrimina­ tion equality of opportunity disap­ pears. When there is discrimination in the supervision of banks and the insolvent bank escapes the examiner the public suffers. "The state of Illinois is approach­ ing the period when it will be man­ aged with the same business acumen that marks the eontrol of the bahks. Each year sees an improvement both in Illinois and elsewhere, and the fu­ ture appears encouraging." New Officers Elected. The convention adjourned after electing the following officers: President, Thomas D. Catlin, Otta­ wa ; first vice president, N. H. Greene, Tallula; members executive council, Daniel Crabb, Delevan; Ira D. Btfsk, Peoria; O. T. Foreman, Chicago; John Farson, Jr., Chicago; E. Ei Crabtree, Jacksonville; W. J: T.ateer, Paxton; W. S. Stinson, Washington, T. C. O. McDonald, Fairbury; Chandler Starr, Rockford, and L. P. Scovell, Ravens- wood. The convention voted down a mo­ tion selecting Mackinac island for the next pieeting place of <he association. A suggestion was made by a member of the Association of Private Bankers for a state law requiring state examin­ ation* of such banks. PLANS CHANGE IN LAND OFFICE Department of Interior May Make Lawton, Ok., a Center. Lawton, Ok., special: While no of­ ficial orders have been received from the department of the interior, it is generally believed by local land office officials that after Jan. 1 all transac­ tions in public lands in the original reservations of the Comanche, Caddo, Kiowa, Wichita, Arapahoe and Chey­ enne Indians will be made at the Law- ton land office. There are now in this district nearly 600,000 acres of public lands unoccupied. The land offices at Mangum and El Reno, Ok., will be abandoned and the districts they rep­ resent abolished and attached to the Lawton district. COUNTY SCHOOL HEAD WILL SUE THE STATE: Superintendent of Tazewell Is Denied Voucher for Salary Because Ra» ; , port Is Said to Be Incorrect. .< Pekln, 111., dispatch: It is not un­ likely that the action 01 the state au­ thorities at Springfield in holding up the salary of County Superintendent of Schools William P. Mafity, because of an alleged discrepancy in bis re port, will result in a lawsuit which will be of interest to a number of cit­ ies in Illinois having special school charters. , The pay orrfie Tazewell county su­ perintendent is withheld for the rea son that, in the view of the state su perintendent, his report is Incomplete, The county superintendent denies this, but State Auditor McCullough is act­ ing under instructions of the state superintendent and until the latter says so he will not- issue the neces sary warrant. A suit in mandamus to compel him to act*Vill be necessary to determine the question at issue., If the position taken by the state superintendent, be correct, a number of county superintendents in the state will find their reports incorrect, for Pekin is not the only special school district issuing certificates to its own school teachers and permitting them to teach without certificates from the county superintendent The same course is pursued in Peoria, where for years the teachers have been exam­ ined by the local school officials. Un­ til recently . Springfield and Quincy and, perhaps, other cities did the same thing. HIDDEN PUZZLE PICTURE. ILLINOIS BANK ROBBERS MAKE WAY WITH $10,000 Explosion Wrecks Safe at Eldorado, Destroying All the Paper Money, Bandits Secure Gold. I&dorado, 111., dispatch: TKe bank­ ing house of C. P. Burnett & Sons here was entered by burglars about 2 o'clock Thursday morning. The safe was blown open and about $10,000 stolen. The report and jar of the ex- plosios awakened a number of citi­ zens in the immediate vicinity of the bank and, surmising what was up on account of the unusual hour, they se­ cured their weapons and arrived on the scene just as the robbers were leav­ ing with their booty.- A hot chase fol­ lowed, in which'a number of shots were fired by both parties, but the robbers made their escape. . The force of the explosion wrecked the interior of the building to a con­ siderable extent. All paper currency contained in the safe was blown to atoms and the robbers were able to take only the gold. Eldorado is with­ out street lights and on account of the darkness the pursuers were unable to keep track of the robbers, who are presumed to have taken a northerly direction in their flight. A reward has been offered for their capture. --~ VICTIMS OF MURDERER BURIED IN ONE GRAVE Negro Suspect May Be Lynched If the Bloody Clothing Found in Hia Home Is Identified. Houston, Tex., dispatch: The bod ies of Mrs. A. J. Conditt, her 13-year- old daughter, and three sons, aged 6, 8 and 10 respectively, who were mur­ dered Thursday near Edna, Texas, by a negro, were buried Friday afternoon in a single grave. The discovery of a bloody adze with which the crime was committed and a bundle of discarded clothing found by bloodhounds a short distance from the scene of the tragedy are the only clews left by the murderer. However, as a result of suspicion against Hank Gibson, a 17-year-old negro boy, was was working in a nearby field and who gave the first alarm, his home was searched and a tablecloth with a bun­ dle of bloody clothing was found con­ cealed between the covers of a bed. If Mr. Conditt, the husband, is able to Identify the articles the negro will probably be lynched. , CLEVELAND TO BE PEACE ENVOY Roosevelt May Appoint Former Presi­ dent to Hague Conference. Washington, D. C., special: Former President Grover Cleveland will go to The Hague as one of the representa­ tives of the United States government at the second peace conference called by the czar if he will accept the hon­ or. While the formal invitation from Russia to the United States has not been received, the president is already considering the personnel of the rep­ resentatives of this government. In addition to Mr. Cleveland, other per­ sons considered in this connection are Gen. Horace Porter, Mr. Joseph R. Choate, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university, Brig. Gen. William A. Crozter, U. S. A.; Capt. A. T. Mahan, U. S. N., retired, and Gen. George B. Davis, U. S. A., re­ tired. FAMILY IS BLAMED FOR DEATH Jury Censures Christian Scientists for Dismissing Physician. Kankakee, 111., special: Mrs. How- land Wiltse, mother of the late Hart­ ford Wiltse, of Memonce; his two sis­ ters, Mrs. Hattie Monroe of Chicago and Miss Nellie Wiltse, who lives at home, were censured by a coroner's jury which held an inquest over Wiltse's body. The verdict declared that the man came to his death from typhoid fever and that the evidence showed lack of proper attention. ENDEAVORS TO SEE ROOSEVELT * rvV* Chicago Woman Requested to Leave Oyster Bay by Detectives. Oyster Bay, N. Y., dispatch: Mrs. Lee, the Chicago woman who has made several efforts' to see President Roosevelt this summer, came here again Monday and tried to hire a horse and carriage with which to drive to Sagamore Hill. She did not suc­ ceed and the secret service men were notified. She was requested to leave town and did so. i" • '> AMERICAN TO 8ERVE IN PRISON Costa Rica Court Gives William S. Albers Three-Year Term. Washington, D. C., special: Minister Merry, at San Jose, Costa Rica, cabled the state department that William S. Albers had been sentenced to three years in prison, but that an appeal had been taken to the supreme court. Mr. Donaldson, the American counsel at Managua, whose exequatum was canceled as an incident of this case, is on his way to Washington and is ex­ pected to arrive here early next week. Youthful Desperadoes. Greenwich, Conn., dispatch: Thom­ as Young, a 17-year-old burglar of Chi­ cago, who, with William M ell rave y, 16 years old, of New York, was taken from New York to stand trial here, attempted in vain to escape from jail. CP? Husband to Get Alimony. * Ijfticlnnati, O., dispatch: Mrs. Rob­ ert A. Newlyn was granted a divorce and was ordered by Judge Smith in Common Pleas court to pay Newlyn SI ,000 and $10 a week. < J" % J .V v , •; • V v ijf'ts. ' KS5 , * < •" \ ' '.vi A' * It;: I# ~1 • Three hundred and seventeen years two the Spanish Armada was d» •tiri&yed.'- Find Admiral Drake.' was so dense that men could not be Sent below. Holes were cut In the decks and bucket brigades worked un­ til steam was up and the pumps were started, but the fire drove out the en­ gineer and the fire fighters. OF LIVES Reports of Fatalities in Philip­ pine Storm Are Growing. MANY VESSELS ARE WRECKED poast Guard Cutter Leyte Goes Down with Eleven Americans and Twenty- four Natives Aboard--Losses on Hemp Plantations. Manila cablegram: That the recent typhoon Which struck the Philippine islands was more deadly than at first supposed is borne out by reports which continue to reach the authorit­ ies and which indicate that scores of lives have been lost and that shipping has sustained heavy damage. In the waters surrounding Samar and other islands many coasting ves­ sels and island transports have been wrecked. The coastguard cutter Leyte is a complete wreck and eleven Amer­ icans and twenty-four natives were drowned. At the town of Sorsogon fif­ teen natives were drowned.. The loss on hemp-plantations is esti­ mated at $1,000,000. The army trans­ port Juan Rodriguez is ashore at L<e- gaspi. In the interior of the island of Samar thousands of natives are home­ less and the same report comes from many of the other small islands. The army posts in the southern islands have been destroyed. The civil and military authorities are rushing aid to the suffering people In the form of supplies of food and shelter. Owing to the destruction o£ the telegraph system reports received from other points are very meager. Gen. Corbin Reports. Washington dispatch: General Cor­ bin, commanding the division of the Philippines, cabled the War Depart­ ment further details of the damage done to government property there by the recent typhoon. . He says: "Temporary shelter posts at Hartshorne, Catublg, Tagabiran, Ta- viran, Gandara and Bualo were de­ stroyed. Camp Cannell was injured. Launches Hercules and Lorcha, with rations, all for Gandara, were blown ashore near Taranguan. The Lorcha was distributing coal ashore near Tar­ anguan. Baslan reports the Carmen ashore on the east coast of Samar and the insular government coast guard vessel Leyte wrecked on the west coast near Allen. All officers and six passengers on the Leyte were lost. Artificer Joseph L. Rulon, Com­ pany E, Twenty-first infantry, was killed and several officers and men in­ jured at Hartshorne. The damage to property in and around the city, main­ ly confined to unroofed buildings, can be repaired. The loss at Manila and McKinley Is about "$3,500; the latter not more than $700; the land tele­ graph system la demoralized." American Vessels Lost. Victoria, B. C., dispatch: Details of shipping disasters in the south seas were received by the Miowera. The largest ship built in American waters, the Roanoke, Captain Amesbury, was destroyed by fire at Nehoue, New Cal­ edonia. When the Roanoke had load­ ed 3,085 tons of a cargo of chrome ore, hoisting It in baskets from lighters, fire broke out forward. The thirty-two men of the crew, as­ sisted by the crews of the American ship Susquehanna and Norwegian bark Arabia, fought the fire. The smoke NEW GIFT FROM HELEN GOULD Will Erect $150,000 Railroad Y. M. C. A. Building at St. Louis. Detroit dispatch: Miss Helen Mil­ ler Gould has agreed to give $150,000 for a Railroad Young Men's Christian association at St. Louis. This an­ nouncement was the feature of the opening of the twelfth international conference of the railroad department of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday. The building will be a memorial to Miss Gould's father, the late Jay Gould. Bloodhounds Track Incendiaries. Harrisburg, 111-, dispatch: A largo barn belonging to Jefferson Duncan was destroyed by fire and four valu­ able horses were burned. Incendi­ aries are suspected. Bloodhounds ara being used to find the guilty parties. Start $500,000 College Hall. New York dispatch: Columbia uni­ versity celebrated its one hundred and fifty-second opening Wednesday. The feature was tjie laying of the corner- atone for a new college building. It will cost about $500,000. BANK PRESIDENT IS ARRESTED Officers Charge Minot, N. D., Official With Making False Statement. Minot, N. D„ special: President J. A- Erickson of the Minot National bank, now in the hands of a receiver, was arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Valentine on a warrant sworn qut in the federal court charging him with making a false report to the comptroller of the currency. Erick­ son waived examination and was held to the federal grand jury In the sum of $10,000. The alleged ' false state­ ment, it is claimed, was signed by President J. A. Erickson, Cashier Ole Erickson and Directors Slocum and Lloyd. Frank Chapman, national bank examiner, has been appointed perma­ nent receiver of the Minot National bank and from information at hand the belief prevails that the depositors will not receive more than 40 cents on the dollar. FRIENDS REJOICE OVER PEACE Indiana Yearly Meeting Praises Roose­ velt's Far East Efforts. Richmond, Ind., dispatch: At the session of the Indiana yearly meet­ ing of Friends the following resolu­ tion was adopted: "Indiana yearly meeting of Friends, now in sessioh, representing 20,000 members, rejoices with thanksgiving that President Roosevelt has been the instrument in the hands of providence for bringing about peace between Rus­ sia and Japan, that the sentiment of the nation and of the world so heart­ ily supports him as a peacemaker, and we desire his encouragement In the promotion by all proper means of the peace of the world." WILL SELL THE ADDICKS FARM8 Federal Marshal to Auction Property to Collect Judgment. Wilmington, Del., dispatch: In the United States circuit court Judge Gray dismissed the petition of J. Ed­ ward Addicks, in which he. asked a stay of proceedings in the $45,000 judgment recently obtained against him by Charles S. Hinchman of Cam­ den, N. J., and under which Addicks' personal property on four farms in this state was levied upon. United tttates Marshal Flinn thereupon mada arrangements to hold a sale of Ad* dicks' personal property on Oct. 11 and 12. NORWAY MAY SELECT CHARLES Storthing Likely to OfTer Crown to Prince of Denmark. Copenhagen, special: It is learned on high authority that should Nor­ way's offer of the throne of that coun­ try to a prince of the house of Berna- dotte definitely be declined during the coming week steps will be taken by the storthing to invite Prince Charles of Denmark to become king of Nor­ way. It is believed that not more than ten members of the storthing are opposed to Prince Charles' candida­ ture. King Christian and the British court favor it. Police Riddle Desperado. Ellabel, Ga., dispatch: Riddled with bullets from the weapons of officers of the law, whom he had defied for weeks, Will E. Simms, the desperado who had terrorized Bryan county, paid the penalty for killing Conductor Jul­ ius Landsberg of the Seaboard Air Line. FAIRBANKS BUYS OHIO THEATRE Vice President Interested in Big Deal at 8pringfie!d. Springfield, O., dispatch: A deal has been made whereby Vice Presi­ dent Fairbanks, his brother, N. W. Fairbanks, and a company of local Capitalists came into possession of the site of the old Fountain Square thea­ ter here. They paid $92,000 for it and announce that they will begin at once the erection of an eigbt-story office building and theater. Adopt Grade Insurance Plan. Washington dispatch: Tha Im­ proved Order of Knights of Pythias has adopted a scale of graded insur­ ance rates, after the manner of the regular insurance companies, to take the place of the assessment feature. Ferdinand Ward Sues Wife. New York dispatch: Ferdinand Ward, formerly of the banking firm of Grant & Ward, has bought suit against his wife to recover $50,000 placed in her hands for safe-keeping prior to the suspension of the firm. SEVEN CHILDBEI Slays Babies " by Throats With Ax as They Enter the House. - ^ '*> i STARTS FIRE IN Olt SOAKED BE0> Woman Cuta M«r Throat With KaM» •I!am* P'««a From Burning Homo ; Husband and Father Ends LMft .When Ha Learns of Crima. , Alpha, 111., Oct. 2.--The entire fam- ily of Clarence E. Markham, nine members in all, who lived on a fanif? near Andover, twelve miles north of this place, was wiped out Saturday by murder and suicide. Mrs. Markhan*. who is believed to have been tempo- rarily insane, first killed her seve» children w.ith an ax, set fire to th<* house in which the bodies lay and then cut her own throat, inflicting; wounds from which she died soon aft*'f * er, fleeing from the burning building^ •" The husband and father, several ; f hours after learning of the dreadful tragedy, committed suicide by shoot- > ing himself after tying a rope aroun# " his neck so that it would choke hias to death in case the bullet failed of Its purpose. Mother Kills Her Children* Mrs. Markham, after killing her children, the eldest of whom was p years and the youngest a babe in~arms^; f placed their bodies all on one bed*., saturated the bed with oil and set flrf . ^ to It The mother then hacked hei^ •* own throat with a knife and threw* herself upon the corpses of her littla> ; ones in the midst of the flames. " r> It was shortly before noon "vrhe#:,. neighbors saw smoke coming froo* the farmhouse and sent out an alarm.' ; Within a few minutes a score or mor*.. p e r s o n s w h o l i v e d n e a r b y - w e r e o n t h ^ i Scene. The first to arrive saw the womam ^ * rush from the house, which was then;, ^ enveloped In flames, and fall in th«K, yard. The neighbors found it impose sible to enter the house because th# ' ^ fire blocked every entrance. From re|SI2 marks dropped by the almost uncon~ scious woman suspicions as to th#:'.^| fate of the rest of the family wer^ aroused, and Sheriff Stlers was sum»- 3 moned by telephone, the woman mean-^ while being taken to a neighbor'*; home. Woman Tells Story of Tragedy. f Speaking with difficulty because of!.' , her injuries, she said: | "I called the children into the house* 1 one at a time, and cut their throatr with the ax. Then I put them In row on the bed, and, after pouring kerosene around the house, I set flr^ to the place. I cut my throat with th» ' butcher knife. This is the truth." Her story finished, she fell Into un­ consciousness and within a few mlnfe ,' J utes was dead. The building in which the chlldret# were slain was burned to the ground! The bodies of the seven were so char-* red they were unrecognizable. They were found- side by side in a pile of ashes in one corner of the little farm#-1- house where the mother In her frenzy had placed them. Mrs. Markham posted a letter in » rural mail box addressed to her hus­ band. In this she had written: "I did it to save the children.'* Father Ends His Life. The meaning of this statement ft* not known. The father had left home- as usftal early in the day, leaving his wife seemingly in good spirits. Hep had been made uneasy, however, by her conduct recently, and had kep€e the children home from school to be- with their mother as a precaution. When Markham heard of the trag­ edy he was inconsolable. He was: watched by friends, who feared ne- would do violence to himself, but, eluded them, and soon afterward It was found that he had killed iiimsellf : near the ruins of his home. The family lived on tha Alfred^ Johnston place aa tenants. HOLDS PURE DRUG LAW INVALIO Attorney General Decldea Illinois ls| Without Adulteration Statute. Springfield, I1L, dispatch: Illinois Is without a law for the punishment off persons who adulterate drugs. This. Is the Opinion of the attorney general, who decided that there could be no further prosecutions under the act ot 1901, which was the last statute passed in Illinois on this subject In that; act the seventh United States phar- macopia was made the authority on the purity of drugs. This work ha* been officially declared out of exist­ ence by the United States government and the eighth pharmacopla has been substituted for It. The legislature- having failed to change its statute ac­ cordingly Illinois is left without a basis for prosecutions. Bishop Coadjutor Is In Doubt. Milwaukee, Wis., dispatch: Dean Paul Matthews of Cincinnati, who was recently elected bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Milwaukee, stated he had not made up his mind in the matter of accepting the post. Decides Against Priest. Lincoln, Neb., dispatch: Tha aa- preme court of Nebraska has decided the Bishop Bonacum-Father Murphy case against the bishop, holding he has no standing in a civil court, pend­ ing adjudication by the pope. Bryan Sails for Orient. Francisco, Cal., dispatch 3 Among the passengers on the linen Manchuria, which sailed for China audi Japan, via Honolulu, were W. J. Bry- and family and D. J. Pokotllooff Russian minister to China. . -s^y^lSafe 'Blowera In Ohio. I&yten, Ohio, special: The saftF-Cf the bank of Osbdrn, a town ten miles from here, was blown by burglars who used nitroglycerin. Tha safe-blowera made their jastifce. mailto:1@1.75 mailto:1.50@5.75 mailto:J1.75@5.S5 mailto:1.80@5.60 mailto:2.25@5.85 mailto:4.75@5.40 mailto:14.50@5.50 mailto:5@5.70 mailto:5.25@5.39 mailto:4.50@8.50