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•-FrM AS2£*?V!V'- 1i*| 1 K * ;j^,v - jm .npj& " • >%., ~» ,4 , "V* ;?r ;> 'S H'S0 * * r v • . - - ; - ' . M f v « . . J ' V ' i .• C™J ; ' ̂ ^ Stv ?>: -. flRii of Happenings Alf Parts of the State. PROBESALLEGED COMBINE $ r Chicago But*au of the Federal J>a- ~,,l*a»5trnenf.^of Justice Revelations ^j^flttiiting at an Attempt to ,»b,' Control Food Prices. •.'.*. »PWcago.T^|j»vestigiition of an al- ^ leged combine of grocers and jobbers "wji^ started, by Htnton G. Clabaugh, *iiead of the local bureau of the federal ^ department of justice, following reve- ^atwii8 which indicate an attempt to ^ co*ftrol^ prices in at least four states 4<i tiie middle West. The investiga­ tion is in connection with a similar one under direction of C. F. Clyne, U. S. district attorney, who had before him representatives of small co-operative , .jgrocers throughout the state, who al­ leged that they have been boycotted by 'member of $he national and state wholesale associations becadse they re- * 1ftU at lower prices. If the evidence 'warrants it, the federal grand jury - which convenes here November 8 will !>e asked to investigate. Meanwhile a •i «city council,, committee is hearing charges that eight commission brokers ^ijfcre holding in storage here 475,000,000 £ggs. The brokers accused, however, 5 "Xleny thejt are in «?a combine and say they have fever eggs in storage now "£ $han at/this time last year. , f ^ / ! < • . s> Cbiftjgo:--Edward W. Morrison, the / "penniless millionaire," repeated to Federal .J^dge Carpenter the history of the trafe&fer of his property to Jrffties- R. Ward, his former counsel. Th,e hewing Was on the petition to .have l^r. Morrison'declared a bank­ rupt. Under questioning by Attorney James Rosenthal, counsel for the Cen- tfal Trust Company of. Illinois, re- j, ceivers for Morrison's property, Mr. - Morrison sjftd that he had transferred g>'-ail his property to Ward on condition that &tf. Ward pay his debts. "Didn't V you expect he would turn all property over to yon, after the debts were paid?" Attorney Rosenthal asked. , really don't know," the feeble old man •sjnswerea. "I supposed that he would ^<do something for me after everything •wp^i settled. ' Mollne.--Potl^e and .railroad detec- ^ *ive^Awere searching for the person who threw a switch in the yards of • : the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul .. *¥aJU'oad here, and caused the wreck­ ing of west-bourid passenger train No " ^25, known as th'e Southwest Limited, Chicago to Kansas City, with the loss v ' «f one life and the Injuring of a score « ,«r more of trainmen and passengers. ;. Piretpan Leo J. Miller of Chicago was Sillied and Engineer Pay Skuse of Chi­ cago is hear death In a local hospital. t Jlis left' leg was amputated. :. Chicago.--Frank Zalek, twenty-two • 'years old, 285)0 South Avers avenue, (baker employed In the Hotel La Salle, ~ ̂who surrendered to the police and ad r ffni|ted that hie was driving the auto- - <iinobile^>vhich struck and killed Miss Catherine Wosak, was held to the r> jgrund. jury on a charge of manslaugh­ ter by a coroner's jury.. The automo­ bile 1st owned " by Zalek's brother, Jo- . iseph Zalek. Zalek was turned over 'So the ,New City police, in whose dis­ trict Mis® Wosak was killed. Chicago.--Discovery by members of bis congregation that "Rev." George H. Harveyt*long pastor of Faith Con- jgregutianal church and who has per- :j„ ^formed numberless marriage"* cere- inonies here, has caused consternation. ' ivfekiiy Chicago* couples united by the 'X>2Sjtor are making efforts to learn ff they are legally married and at least two couples have signified their lnten- / tlon of 4tlrting another ceremony per- ;*»• formed. Rev. Harvey has resigned as *7^ia result of the revelations. Pontlac.--A'-" child welfare confer- ^^jence of the Illinois Congrfess of Moth- " ItJjers'and Parent Teachers' associations jjjjpF §- k:' ^*."7. ^^will be held here November 10 at three ST.'o'clock. This is to be a meeting of associations i^the vicinity of Pontlac •- hs the guests of the Pontiac associa­ tion. Mrs. O. T. Bright, vice president ' <pf the Natlonai Congress of Mothers, „ ,and Mrs. ,B. T. Langworthy, president • of the Rllnols Congress, will be among • "the speakers. Granite Cltyt--A big land deal will • result in extending Granite City one juiie n'opfhward from Twenty-third | Street. The'^Ka.therine Vorwald es- -•V ; *ate of 125 acres will be platted into ^ lots at once and streets made. if,: :PlttSfl«dd.--4|>out 500 persons ,at- tehded tiie ceremonies of the unveiling ' ©f the soldiers' monument at Summer -Hill. Grand Army men from various surrounding bounties took part in th^ i. - 'exercises. . '•; 1' J Staunton.--Harold WUloughby was scalped when he fell off a bicycle and under an automobile driven by Henry Fritz, nineteen years old. Freeport.--faul Liggett, while dem- onstrating to friends how a new auto- tnatlc shotgun he just had purchased - - Vas operated, discharged the weaiton ' (] blew off his left hand. Sycamore.--Alighting from an anto- triobile before it had come to a stop, " fWEi's. W. B, Sdiforcl' fell^ striking her ;fcd on the curbstone and suffering injuries from which she died. Spjrkigtfeld-J>rhe General Excursion % • C'oinpuny of Quincy was Incorporated iwiith a capital of $10,000 to run excur- • JBions on the Mississippi river. The in- Corporators Are H. E. Wisherd, Charles TROOPS BACK FROM BORDER Fly* Hundre# Women,^Mothers, Wives, CMIdren and Sweethearts Rush Am dig Trains at Chicago to Welcome Soldiers. Chicagd.--Five hundred women tap vaded the ftrelght"1 yards of the Chi­ cago & Alton Railroad company to greet 127 returned Chicago soldiers--> Company A of the First battalion of engineers and Field Hospital Com­ pany No. 2. The moment the train came to a stop the. women charged into the yards, and for half an hour the switching crews and the engineers of incoming and outgoing trains had trouble to keep from running over mothers and wives, children and sweethearts of the men in khaki Capt, Lawrence S. Marsh commanded the engineers and Maj. G. M. Blech the hospital cprps. The men were mustered out of the federal service at Springfield and as soon as they had checked ip their equipment at their armories here were free to go home. S 0**%3. Wettel and Lawrence D, Smith. Ludlow.--Ai Clbugh..when, his slxty- 'K': tfWrd birthday rolled, around, mapped OUt au endurance contest just to show ;|iis hearttq^^, and shoveled 47% tons S 4tf cru^h^Pstone In "ft h^urs and 15 •• - fnlnutes- Mount Morris.--Mother Qpose actu- ^-*':*|iiiy' might nave "swept the cobwebs < V le^if thfe sky" had she been here a few •'-i i|ays ago. wfien - myriads of cobwebs Jldated' Isalloo^like through the air. - Belyidere.--In a basketball game be- twe^n the Bgividiere Mutuals and the V;*' ifwlrkland -high school teams. Albert <v«lcb. ^ fra-tmred, >r^«v8So Ciafc *«« bruised, severe^r. ' "'-'v -'KsS Peoria.--An isolation hospital cost­ ing $13,000 will be built at the Guard­ ian Angel orphanage, a Catholic in­ stitute here. . * Mount Steeling.--Amps Mayfield, Sr., was shot In the face by his son, Amos. The father and son had lusted themselves to go hunting. < Bloomington.--When his automobile upset In a muddy road, Harry Oster- man of Mlnonk was killed, but his eleven-year-old son leaped to safety. Belvldere.--A movement to unite the two Belvidere churches is under way, as the memberships do not warrant the maintaining of two houses of wor­ ship. Charleston.--Rev. Charles P. Green­ field of Springfield has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of this city, effective Decem­ ber 1. Springfield.---L. B. Newman of El­ gin, assistant state food commissioner, has notified the state civil service com­ mission of his resignation, to take ef­ fect January 1. Vlrden.--The Serbun ft Hargrove elevator and flour mill at Lowder was destroyed by fire; loss, $12,000. The property was owned by F. G. Serbun and J. N. Hargrove. Chicago.--Way Babb, a vaudeville actor, was Indicted on a charge of il legally marrying Mrs. Grace Rothbert on her death bed in an effort to obtain control of her $60,000 estate. Ottawa.--Grlnnell Oswood, seven years did, was attacked by two bull­ dogs as he was on his way to school and bitten go badly about the face and head he will be disfigured for life. Decatur.--Lost from her parents since the Civil war, Miss Agnes Bothoms has just located her father through the aid of the pension offices. The father, now ninety-one years old, returned home at the end of the war and found his wife dead and daughter gone. Chicago.--Several professors and students of the University of Chicago gave depositions before United States Commissioner Mark A. Foote which were forwarded to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the government is seek­ ing to prove that Mrs. Zella I., Perkins Edgahl has no right to 120 acres of land in Shoshone county. It is charged that while supposed to be living on the land for five years, as required by law, she was studying at the Univer­ sity of Chicago. Litchfield.--John Jackson Phillips of this city lost his fight for a share In the millions of the late John C. Phillips of Swampcott when Judge Dow, In the Essex probate court at Salem, Mass., ruled thut he was not a son of the deceased millionaire, Phillips, who is .a clerk, claimed he was the legitimate son of the late John C. Phillips of Swampscott, Mass* who died In 1896. He sought to estab­ lish a title to a sha^ of the $5,000,000 Phillips estate. Vandalia.--Rev. P. B. Neuman Is re­ cuperating from injuries received when he criticized a member by name from the pulpit of.the United Brethren church at Mount Carmel and was set upon and beaten by several of his hear­ ers. Fists flew before the astounded congregation and the minister whipped off his cou#t and fought back bravely. Blood was pouring down his face when pacificist members ended the melee, but he offered a prayer, led in the singing of a hymn and continued his sermon. Chicago.--In all 144 Chicago satoons have gone out of business since Mayor Thompson's Sunday closing order went Into effect October 4, 1915. That de­ crease means a loss of $144,000 next year to the city in revenue. City Clerk John Siman, who compiled saloon li­ cense figures for^the last three years, declared the decrease In licenses is "most significant from the standpoint of municipal revenue." Last year, from October 15 to October 31, there were issued 3,351 licenses. This year in the same period the number issued dropped to 2,864. In 1915 when Mayor Thompson was inaugurated there were 7,152 saloons in Chicago. Danville.--Whether federal officers erred in the battle of Missionary Ridge during the Civil war was discussed by John W. Smith of the cavalry in that battle, and S. J. Chappell, Infantry­ man in the same clash. The two mem­ bers of the Danville National Soldiers' home came to blows, Chappell being stabbed. Peoria.--Charges of funds misappro­ priated are made in a bill for relief which stockholders" of the American Assurance association have brought here against Charles D. Bralnard Of Peoria and Thomas !W. Wilson and Otho L. Caldwell of Springfield. Joliet.--Domlnlck Querto, night po­ liceman, who slept through dynamiting of the Odell & Co. bank at Braid wood; resigned. Querio refused to take any more chances, city officials said. A few days ago an escaped convict rob­ bed several stores In the city. Then came the bank bandits. Querio quiff Champaign.--J. P. McEnroe of To­ pe ka, Kan., fell 90 feet when 22** feet of a concrete stack at the Cleveland elevator collapsed. When Mcfcnrot was pulled from the wreckagi found be had only a broken and right arhi and had "not b unconscious by the falk T PITTSBURGH DISPATCH HE GETS NO APPLAUSE FUGUE HHPS ILLINOIS ANEW Six Cases and Three Deaths Infantile Parafysif at Decatur, ML NUKE STARTS ROADS ARE BLAMED RUSS ARE DEFEATED CARRIERS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR COAL PRICES. 8ult^ Fll«l In U. S. Court to Cars Returned to Horn* Systems. Have Chicago, Nov. 3.--Two suits were filed in the United States district court here on Wednesday which may result in the increasing or lowering of the price of coal to the consumer. The filing of the suits reveals^ ship­ pers' and carriers' war. The defendants in both suits are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and 141 other railroad companies, and their receivers. The plaintiffs in one suit are the Clinton Coal company and ten other coal companies, and In the other the Ayrdale Coal company and 16 other coal companies. The Clinton suit Is a bill In equity for an injunction requiring the return of local cars to the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois railroad for service of mines along the road. The Ayrdale suit is similar, except that it asks the return of cars to the rails of the Chicago, Terre Haute ft Southern railway. Both bills are Identical except for the names. The bills set up that the defendant railroad companies have failed and re­ fused to return coal cars to the proper lines; that cars have been wrongfully diverted and misused and confiscated, and asks that a restraining order be immediately issued, followed by a pre­ liminary injunction against the roads. PETROQRAD ADMITS THAT TEU- * TONS SEIZED TRENCHES. Berlin AaMrts That Troops UndOf Von Linsingen Took Positions by Storm. Petrograd, Nov. 4.--German troops captured advanced Russian trenches on the western bank of the Stokhod river, south of Witoniez, in Volhynla, after the Russians had repelled three previous attacks, says the announce­ ment Issued by the war office Thurs­ day. Berlin, Nov. 4.--The capture of Rus­ sian positions in Volhynla along with more than 1,500 prisoners by the Ger­ mans was reported on Thursday By the war office. The following official re­ pot was given out: "Eastern Front--Army group of Prince Leopold--The Westphaltan and Frisian troops under Gen. von Lin­ singen and Maj. Gen von Ditfurth have captured by storm Russian po­ sitions which had been pushed forward on the left bank of the Stokhod river south of Vitonles. In addition to heavy losses Inflicted upon the enemy we cap­ tured 22 officers, 1,50$ men, ten ma­ chine guns and three mine throwers. Our losses were small." VILLISTAS Kill 29 ON TRAIN Carranza Soldiers Acting as Guard Are Executed--Passengers Lined Up and Rqfebed. . Chihuahua City, Mex., Nov; 4.--Vll- Ilstas who held up and looted a pas­ senger train from Juarez at Laguna. 50 miles north of here, took off and Executed 20 Carranza soldiers who were acting as a guard for the train. The passengers were lined up outside of the coaches and robbed and the train was looted of all supplies which it carried. All passengers were cqpi- pelled to strip by the bandits, who car­ ried away all their clothing. The pas­ sengers included a number of women. JURY ACQUITS JOHN COPELAND Reports After Deliberating for Eighty- four Hours--Was Accused of Slay, ing Anti-Catholic Lecturer. Galveston, Tex.. Nov. 3.--John Cope- land, charged with the killing of Wil­ liam Black, an anti-Catholic lecturer, was found not guilty by a jury In the district court here on Wednesday. The jury reported after deliberating 84 hours. Black was killed at Marshall, Tex., February 3, 1915. Black was killed in a hotel at Marshall while Copeland, who was bank cashier of that place, and other men were calling on him in his room to ceaser his lec­ tures In Marshall. Yeggmeri Get $10,000. Calgary, Alberta, Nov. 7.--After cut­ ting all wires leading into Obotoks, 40 miles from here, yeggmen leisurely dynamited the Merchants' bank there on Saturday morning and escaped with $10,000. 1 Christen New Ocean Vessel. Superior, Wis., Nov. 7^--Afljia Kon- kei, nine-year-old daught?fof Mayor and Mrs. J. S. Konkel, on Saturday christened the Cleveland, the first ocean vessel to be built at th^ head of the lakes. Three Die, Two Hurt In Fire. Philadelphia, Nov. 4.--Two women and a man were killed In a fire which destroyed the third floor of an apart­ ment building here. Thfe dead are: Charles Meeney, his mother, and Mrs. Nellie Howard. %kM" Aeroplanes Fly to Bucharest. Bucharest, Nov. 4.--Five aeroplanes hnve just arrived here from the allied bate on the Isle of Imbres to protect the Aty from German air raiders. The hilled aviators Ittm all t*« way across the Balkans. " ^ ITALIANS REPULSE 5 ATTACKS Rome Statement Says 8,992 Austrianr Were Captured In Four Days' Fight­ ing--41,373 Taken Since Aug. 6. Rome (via London), Nov. 7.--Italian troops fighting on the Austro-Itallan front in the last four days have taken prisoner 270 Austro-Hungarlan officers and 8,722 men, says the statement is­ sued by the Italian war. department Since the Italian offensive started on the Julian front, August 6, the Italians have captured 40,363 Austro-Hungarl- ans. Including 1,008 officers. In the Travlgnolo valley, after at­ tempting a demonstrative .action on Mont Col Brlcon, the . Austrlans launched five successive attacks against the so-called observatory on the slopes of Ciima Boeche, according to the official statement Issued here on Sunday. They were all driven off with heavy loss and a counter-attack at the point of the bayonet evegfually dispersed the enemy, who left numer ous bodies, including those of four Of­ ficers, on the ground. i8ecretary of State Board of Health Declares the Disease Is Virulent or taf Physicians Ars L«x _l|n Regulations. -- * • Springfield. -- Infantile paralysis, which has claimed many victims '•throughout the state since July lust, apparently has croppel out with re­ newed virulence, out at ctx cases re­ ported to the state health department within the last ten days from Decatur, there have been three deaths. "The fact that a death rate of 50 per cent within the lust tr>u days has been reported from Decatur is proof of one of two things--either physi­ cians are not conforming to regula­ tions demanding prompt report of all cases, or the disease is becoming more virulent," said Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, secretary of the state board of health. Illinois has" beeu comparatively for­ tunate siuce the disease was discov­ ered In New York in July, according to reports of the state health depart­ ment. From the moment; of its ap­ pearance In this state Doctor Drake has been co-operating with health offi­ cers in the different counties and ^cities. The result of the careful cam­ paign waged against the plague has resulted in a small death rate of 10 per cent as compared with a rate of 22 per cent In New York. In Illinois 875 cases and 85 deaths were recorded. In Chicago, according to Health (Commissioner Robertson, there is little or no evidence remaining of the dis­ ease. Under Doctor Robertson's direc­ tion every measure of precaution has been taken to prevent the Bpread of the disease and to keep persons af­ flicted from entering the city. , "I am satisfied with the manner In which Chicago physicians responded to request for prompt reporting of all cases coming td" their attention and for their co-Operatlon in checking the epidemic," said Doctor Robertson. Many strange symptoms, often mis­ leading for a time, were noted in sev­ eral of the cases handled in Chicngo during the fall. Frequent reports of diagnosis on further investigation were found In error. Evidence of this was one tour of the city made by Doctor Robertson after ten supposed cases had been reported to him. The result Of his examination was that only one case was found to be authentic. "There Is no occasion to be alarmed because of the report from Decatur," declared Doctor Drake. "I simply wish to Impress--as I have tried to do ever since the first appearance of the disease in this state--that reports be made the moment a physician has made his diagnosis. I do not think that there is any danger of the disease {getting away from us as local heiltth 'officers throughout the state are very vigilant." TOWN CAPTURED BY FRENCH Damloup Falls Before Joffre's Drive In Verdun--Village and Wide Area East of Fort Vaux Taken. Paris, Nov. 7.--The great French drive beyond Fort Vaux swept throbgh the village of Damloup, adding a wide area east of Fort Vaux to the gains al­ ready made. The chief activity of the western front occurred In the Verdun sector, both the French and German reports recording heavy artillery action east of the Meuse. Banker Dies on Hunting Trip. Aberdeen, S. D„ Nov. 7.--Dr. F. L Pickering, a banker of Mansfield, ̂ as found dead by a farmer oh Saturday in a slough near Langford, S. D. He had been stricken with heart when-shunting. Dr. Liebknecht Loses Case. Berlin, via London, Nov. 7.--It was officially ann,,un<'ed that the Imperial military tribunal has rejected the ap­ peal of Dr. Karl "Liebknecht, the So­ cialist leader, from the sentence Im­ posed upon him by the court-martial. •Tafik" Cars for Border. San Antonio, Tev., Nov. 6.--A cater­ pillar tractor of the same make th&t has been adopted by the British for their "tanks," or armored cars, will be placed in the Big Bend district to solve the transportation problem. Take Alleged Blackmailer. New York, Nov. 6.--Another alleged member of the gang of blackmailers, George Bush, was taken into custody on the complaint of J. J. Klein, a Bal­ timore banker, wht accused hiia «# «*- tordng $18,000. Work Begins on New Prison. Actual work has been begun on the new Btate penitentiary i fewo miles nortwest of Joliet, which Will take the place of the old prison herjfl The new Institution, it is claimed, will be the model prison not only of the United States but of the world. Among the unique features of its erection is the fact that a large portion of the work is being done by "honor prisoners." The work Of these men Is supervised by civil service engineers and foremen. The prison Is being built on a 2,000- acre farm belonging to the state. It is on a high plateau overlooking the Des Plaines river. Expectations are that the close of 1910 will witness the completion of one cell house, which will enable the administration to house a sufficient number of men there so that the building operations can proceed rapidly. ^ „ One of the best features of the new buildings is said to be that there will be an outside.cell for each man. The cell houses will be circular, each cell being 6 fefet wide, 10V4 feet deep and 8 feet high, with a breathing atmo­ sphere of 504 cubic feet of air, which by the method of ventilation planned can be entirely renewed In 90 secouds. This Is a sweeping .departure from present methods and arrangements. The furniture will consist of stationary Iron beds, together with mattresses, ta­ bles, chairs, shelves and cupboards. The cell houses will be 150 feet In diameter. Eaeh house will contain 248 •cells, and there ^will be eight cell houses. e : The most modern prison equipment will be Installed throughput the peni­ tentiary! if present plaus are. com­ pleted; • • Standartfl*R«Ja*d. - la addition to the five years' school­ ing required for a certificate to prac­ tice medicine In Illinois, one year's fnterneshlp in a hospital will be neces­ sary after January 1, according to announcement made by Dr. C. St. Claire Drake, secretary of the state board of health. The provision for the six years' course will be passed by the state board at Its next meeting. This wUl.brlng Illinois up tp the high stand&rfi of other states! New Incorporates. Sigma Omega Mu fraternity, Chi­ cago; Incorporators, Maurice Gordon, Benjamin Gurney, Harold H. Gordon. Evan Evans company, Chicago^ cap­ ital, $5,000; incorporators, Wiliiatu 11. Dillon, Leroy Hackett, John T. Evans. General Engraving and Manufacture Ing company, Chicago; capital, $50,000; Incorporators, Bernard Shulman, Mey­ er Abrams, Edward Shulman. James S. White & Co., Chicago; cap­ ital, $5,000; incorporators, Mabel A. Pettlt. tifcOJCge T. White, James S. White. 0WN PART OF GREENLAND Comparatively Few Know That tht United States Territory Extend* That Far _to the North. Very few had any idea that the United States owns a chunk of Green­ land as big as. one of our average- sized states until they read the pro­ vision in the proposed treaty between afar country and Denmark whereby we are to pay $20,000,000 for the Danish West Indies and, in addition, relin­ quish to Denmark all our claims to ter­ ritory In Greenland. •» If you will look at a recent map of Greenland you will see the name "Pearyiand" across the upper part of It. This Is/the land discovered and * explored by Admiral Peary. He and other American explorers were the first to visit and map the coast line of the great% part of northern Green­ land and Peary discovered that It was an Island. It haq always been the recognized right of a nation to claim sovereignty over land discovered by its subjects. Spain got title to a big slice of Amer­ ica through Columbus. Under this title-by-dlscovery claim the United States could claim all of northern Greenland except the Danish settle­ ment of 34,000 square-miles and 12,000 population on the southern coast oppo­ site Iceland. But this is only one- twenty-fifth of the area of Greenland. Now Denmark wants it aH. The average American will be likely to say, "For goodness sake, let Den­ mark have It and good riddance; what do we want of that Iceberg?" The chances are that we don't want it, Cnd that it would never be any good to us. Still, there is another pos­ sibility. When the United States bought Alaska it was thought by the majority of people to be barren and worthless, but last year It shipped us In goods eight times the value of the purchase price, and now coal Is coming to theo Alaskan coast by rail to help lower the price In California. Spits­ bergen, far up beyond the Arctic circle, has recently become of immense value because of the discovery there of min­ erals. Dispatches have told of the return of members of the Stefansson Canadian Arctic expedition with news of the discovery of great fields of na­ tive copper in Prince Albert land, aa far north as Greenland. Canada is exploring the lands of tho Arctic with the intention of extending her authority all the way to the pole, on the chance of finding coal, Iron, copper and. possibly gold. But the development of those * re­ gions, if they nre ever to be developed, seems to be the province of the na tlons of the snows, like Norway, den, Denmark and Canada. Rodin's Meditations. * Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor, is noted as one who has wrought greatly, created greatly, reflected glo­ riously. He delights in reading, but he reads only old books. Above all he delights in books of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in their orig­ inal editions. To his thinking most modern books are not well enough written, not well enough printed and are not well .enough bound. Only his Intimate friends--aud his coachman-- know, it is sSad, how at times he is absorbed in himself and is oblivious of ail surroundings. At such times, it Is useless to speak to him. He answers no one. He must be let alone In his meditations. When he returns from Paris to the villa of Meudon the coach­ man opens the door of his carriage. Rodin is awake, but thinking, and his reverie must not be disturbed. So the coachmah closes the door, detaches the horses, and leaves the carriage with the man of genius In the middle of the coach yard, and there he will continue to dream, sometimes f* hours. Uncertain Humanity. "Briefly stated," we explained, "the story of Enoch Arden was about as follows: He went to sea and was shipwrecked on ah uninhabited Island where he remained for several years. When at last he was rescued Mr. Arden put out for home with considerable rapidity, onl.V to find that during his absence Mrs. Arden had married again. What do you suppose was his subse­ quent action? "Hard to flgger," replied Mr. Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark., who had been listening with deep interest to the recital. "You can't tell which way a toad will jump when you poke him, and folks Is just as peculiar. Prob'ly he either took a shot at his wife's second husband or else borrowed enough money off*m him to get back to his uninhabited islan<}, and I wouldn't bet a nickel on either horn of the what-d'ye-call it?"--Kansas City Star. Shipbuilding Revival. Shipbuilding on the Pacific coast is reviving. There are now being built in the Pacific north^e^ 37 ships with a tonnage capacity of 292,000.. Eleven of these are wooden vessels with semi- Diesel auxiliary power propellers, and the others are steel. The value of the vessels building or contracted for is $32,000,000, and a dozen shipbuild­ ing companies are interested In the work. A steel steamer was recently launched at Seattle with a dead weight tonnage of 8,800 and another is soon to be launched at that place with almost the same tonnage. The Manufacturers' Association of Seat; tie recently gave a banquet in honor of the shipping and shipbuilding in­ terests. c - T j - Radium Production in Bohemia. in the mining of uranium ore in Bo­ hemia, 25.720 pounds^of uranlnlte pre­ pared by smelting, having an average value of $471.50 per 100 pounds of an average value of the different uranium compounds, there were prbduced in the government mineJn Joaohiinsthal 2.325 pounds of an average value of $252.50 per 100 pounds. , The government factory for radlnm compounds produced compounds con taining 1.754 grains (27.07 grains) of radium elements having a total value of $209,364.60. The radium produc­ tion in 1915 represented an,,increase of 0.879 gram (13.5T grains), &s com­ pared with the production In 1914, the value of which shows an Increase of $100,000 In round figures. NEW YORK 8TRIKER SAYS MR PUT BOMB IN THE SUB­ WAY STATION. OTHERS ARE. HELD Captain of Detectives DeclaniS# >*0 Has information That the Funis far Many Outrages Came From t<e Car. men's Union. New York, Nov. <L--James Merna. a subway guard on strike, confessed to the police on Friday that he set off the bomb that wrecked the Lenox ave­ nue subway station on the moraine of October 25. "I would wllingly give up my life,* he said, "for the benefit of 11,000 worklngmen. No one else is to blasss tor the plot." . / • 1' Merna's father la a motorman la strike. V£'-::.<v Three associates of Merna have con* fessed they were implicated in the plot that resulted lh the destruction of tho Lenox avenue station, and that they plotted to cause explosions In the Times Square subway station and the Flrty-ninth street station at Columbus Circle. These exploits were to have been made on Friday, they said. One of the men confessing to this plot Is Michael J. Herlihy, twenty-ono years old, an elevated guard and finan­ cial secretary of a carmen's local. In all the confessions the men pro­ tested they meant no harm to human life and had set off the dynamite charge to make a "demonstration."* Five of the six men arrested am officials of the Amalgamated Union of Street and Electric Railway Em­ ployees. The sixth Is a chauffeur. The national association of this union has repudiated the plotters and condemned their work. After the arrests Captain Tunney of the detective bureau Issued this statement: "We have evidence that the funds financing this explosion, and other con­ templated explosions came from ttg> Carmen's union." .iwSI •r GERMAN SHIPS IN SEA RAID Small Naval Vessels Capture " Steamers on Trade Routes & tween Holland and Thames. Two Berlin, Nov. 6.--A raid was made tor German naval smalL^craft on the ship­ ping route between the mouth of the Thames and Holland on Wednesday night, the admiralty announced on Iti- day. Several steamers were stopped and searched and two of them were brought Into a German port The raiders were fruitlesslly shelled by four British cruisers while they were returning. "On the night of November 1-2, small German naval vessels advanced from, points of support on the coast of Flan­ ders against the trade routes between the Thumes and Holland," the state­ ment says. "They stopped and searched several steamers and brought two of them, which were suspicious. Into port. A third steamer, which was ordered to follow, has not yet arrived. "As they were turning, some of our torpedo boats were shelled for a brief time without success by four British cruisers. Our naval forces all ft* turn«l safely." 'SiM *•: < - . ̂ ' -*$ 'rfi! • -ir- a J-Jjp i; * ' t'i . ¥ •••*"'/ ' * V-< ; * 'l *? ' -'vl CALLS RUSS DRIVE A FAILURE Berlin Declares Offensive on Eastsni Front Did Not Aid the Rou­ manians. * - * Berlin, Nov. 6.--No soceefls ever was obtained by the Russians in their recent determined attack on the eastern front, which apparently was launched with the purpose of helping the Roumanians and may be consid­ ered the last of the ramifications of General BrusstlofTs great offensive movement, says an Overseas News agency review of the campaign. Petrograd, Nov. 6.--Infantry fighting continues in Calicia and In Volhynla, with slight successes in both regions for the Russians, according to the offi­ cial statement issued by the war offiet on Friday. rfar AVIATOR LANDS IN NEW YORK Carl strom Flies From Chicago » Gotham in Eight Hours and > ^ Thirty-Seven Minutea. ^ ' * New York, Nov. 6.--Aviator Otlt- strom, flying from Chicago to" New York, arrived at Governor's Island at 8:55 a. m. on Friday. He had been in the air 8 hours and 37 minutes, making two stops en route, one at Erie, Pa* and the other at Ilammondsport, N. Y. The distance covered was approximate­ ly 975 miles, which gives him an aver­ age of 110 miles an hour. *<??is. r- Peace Hopes Discounted, London, Nov. 7.--The last fortnight has witnessed an appreciable change in the war and peace odds at Lloyda. Two weeks ago 30 guiueas per cent was quoted against the war being oyer in 12 months. The rate now is 00. ™ Governor Drives Six-Mule Teas# Waco, Tex., Nov. 7.--With GOT. James Ferguson of Texas drivlag • six-mule team hitched to a wagon- load of cotton, the eleventh annual cot­ ton exposition was opened here with a parade through the principal streets* Lassen Volcano Active. Redding, Cal., Nov. 6.--Lassen peak Is spouting mighty balls of black smofcs at intervals of from flve to ten min­ utes. Those who have watched the mountain believe its crater is a boiling caldron. ,1 hj i;'-£ . *•/!** tS J' 2 '>*'4 ' -i&Zi > . c: 'nr# • •i -uJbl: it.! Capture 200,000 Tone of Wfch Amsterdam, Nov. 0.--When Vo« Mackensen topk. Constanxa tons of petroleum were captured, cording to the Frankfurt tiaasette. eluded in this amount were tons which the atUes Sad fcwgkkl