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DAKOTA COUNTY MJEM.AJ T o MOTTO All Tlio News When It Is Ncirs. VOLUME XV11I WORLD'S DAILY HEWS CAREFULLY COLLECTED AND CONCISELY STATED CARS RUN AT NIGHT stakt i'xdkr ;r.iu or kky. stom: st.ui: idmck Churchmen Offer a IMuu Siijcsto." Hoard of .Vihltriitlon to. Nettle Trouble Matlif Will Be RrU-rr1 to Director r Company. Surface cars -were operated on the principal streets of I'hl'udelphia until mldnlKht Thursday for tho first time since the hesinnliiK of the present strike iigaJimt the Philadelphia Rapid Trunslt company. Sinc-e Saturday all oars were withdrawn from service at nightfall, but tonight, guarded by members of the state )olice, the cars continued to run, even through the turbulent mill d'stricts of Kensington and Prankford. Although the company reported Thursday nlnht that 81 ears had been stoned during the day, no violence was permitted to attain serious conse quences. Outbreaks were quickly quelled by the police and not a riot all was sent In. During the day, nccordir.vr to the ftrmpany's Inures, 74 4 ears were in Ieratlon and .66 of these continued to run until midnight. 'Increased serv ice is promised by the company, which announces that 400 new men, many of whom were formerly In the employ l the company, were hired Thursday and wi"l take out cars. Officials of the company refused to comment on the request from the committee of churchmen that the grievances of the strikers be submit ted to a board of arbitration. It will be referred .to the d'rectors of the company. This proposal for arbitration, which was made by representatives of twen-ity-six distinct religious denominations, including tthe leading clergymen of the city, ha been approved by the trlkers, who suggest, however, that one of the seven members on the pro posed board of arbitration be a repre sentative . of .organized labor. .ABSCOMIKIt l-XDKR AKRKST. J'fiil(hi; i:i picks Company CuHlilcr Was Wearing a "Wig. Wearing u wig and a pair of blue bogles, George Cupron, 32 years old, who Is charged with absconding with $5,000 of the funds of the United States Express company, for whom he was cashier at the ISnglewood branch in Chicago, was arrested Thursday. When he left Chicago on December 24 a woman is said u'eo to have dis 4ipeared and the two were supposed to .have -sojourned at Palm Beach, Kin. At the hotel where he was ar rested Capron was posing as a bank rupt business man, saying he had come to .Chicago to rehabilitate his finances. When he was accosted by a detective lie denied his identity, but the deteutlve reached over and pulled off his wig Capron then broke down oind beygeel to be given a chance to reimburse the express company. KKXSATJOX IX MlvT PKOI1K. Ah Allcgoil Attempt to try to Hi-ilm rroscciilion. An attempt has been made to bribe l'roseculor Uarvon, of Hudson county, K. J to drop the prosecution of the meat packers, according to a state ment made Thursday by an official of Air. Oarven's office in Jersey City. The allegation is that two men from Chicago "had approached an ucquaint since of Mr. Oarven's and Indirectly itnggested that the .prosecutor could re tire a rich .man iif ihe would drop the prosecution of the packers. The official declined to give the name f Mr. Oarven's friend who was approached. When the report -of the alleged at tempted bribrey was brought to Mr. Oarven's attention, lie made no state ment regarding its truth or falsity, but remarked: "No bri1e will go and I will push the beef trust to the limit." Conductor is Killed. John Lawler, street car conductor, was instantly killed; Motwman John Corcoran was probably fataJly injured and 15 passengers were severely hurt in Chicago Thursday In a eolJislon be tween a street car and a Chicago, Mil waukee and St. Paul railway passcn ger train. Sioux City Mve Stock Market. Thursday's quotations on the riioux City live Btock market follow: Top hogs, $9.30. Top beeves, $6.0. .hkn Higher Wanes. Demnads for increased pay have been presented by the engineers, tire men and telegraphers of thw Delaware And Hudson company. The demands. It was learned Thursday, rnjige from t per cent to "0 per cent, but he aver age increase approximates 20 per cent. Sugar 1m Advanced. All grades of refined sugar went ad vanced 10 cents a hundred pound in Htm York City Thursday. J tate Historical Sodefv MILK TIU'ST ;ivi-:n a nuiw. New York (iruiiil Jury TihIU-I I'.lgbt Directors. The so-called milk trust was Indict ed in New York City Wednesday. Af ter a grand Jury investigation extend ing over a period of weeks, a blanket Indictment was handed down In the criminal brum h of the state supreme court, named li',ht of seventeen direc tors of the Consolidated Milk ex change, a New Jersey corporation, and charging that they met June 29, 1909, In New York and conspired together and with others to fix the wholesale price of milk, and did tlx It, at $1.40 for a 40-quart can of milk." One year In prison and 11 tine of not more than $5,000, or both, Is the penalty for each offense, which l-c n misdemeanor. liench warrants werv Issued for the eight directors. They are: Walter K. Comfort, Thomas O. Smith, Frederick K. Seiter, Itanlel liailey, Jfyhn A. Mcllride, Henry K. Iluntemnnn, James A. Howell ind George Slaughter. Nine other directors of the exchange escaped Indictment, having earned Im munity by testifying before the Brand Jury . and before the state Inquiry Into the- milk trade, which Is still in pro gress. The Consolidated Milk exchange was formed under the laws.of New Jersey soon after the supreme court of New York state annulled the charter of the old milk exchange, limited, In 1895. Wednesday's indictments are the first specllic results obtained by the state since it began its investigation of the milk trade in Greater New York. A commissioner appointed by the attor ney general's office has been holding hearings on the matter at which evi dence was obtained to warrant its be ing laid before the grand Jury. ovi:n $1 10.000 iTssixt;. Miortage Oinxcs Closing or 'Maxsiichu sctts rtiiuk.. llecause a shortage, said to lie $144,000. was discovered In the ac counts of the National City bank of Cambridge, Mass., that institution was closed Wednesday by order of the controller of the currency and Nation al Bank'Examlner Kills S. Pepper was appointed temporary receiver. George W. Coleman, bookkeeper of the bank, has been absent from Cam bridge for eeverul days. The last heard from Coleman was that he was in Kansas City. The closing or the bank was a sur prise to the depositors, most of whom are small business men. The president of the bank. Edw'iri T Dresser, Bald of the failure: ' "Of my own knowledge I don't know of any shortage, but the examiner was at the bank Monday afternoon and he worked there' all day Tuesday. We took no deposits after Monday noon, when an investigation was started by our directors. We suspect a mun who left Cambridge Friday ufternoon. lie has sent -word to friends in Cambridge from Kansus City that he would be back Thursday. TIIIKTY TIldrSAXI) PICNIC. Tbf Auutiul Giillierinx of llavkcc in Southern California. Thirty thousand sons and daugh ters of the state of Iowa, seekers of health and fortune in California, gath ered at Kast Lake park In Los Angeles Wednesday In the -annual picnic of the Southern California Iowa association.' It was the largest crowd ever gathered on a similar occasion. There was a brief program early in the day, which was followed by the election of offi cers. Steven 1 1. Tuft, of Ioug Bench, who lived for many years in Iowa, and was founder of Humboldt college, in Humboldt county, of that state, was elected honorary president. The other', officers -ere: Dr. E. Henderson, Po mona, president; Judge E. J. Richel, Hollywood, vice president; C. P. Par sons, Artetfla. secretary; P. H. JClchols, Los Angeles, treasurer. com.hmkk with ktkkkt oak. Two I'cixcm Killed ami a Score 'More Injured in Collision. Two persons were killed, two are believed to kiave been fatally injured and twenty others ware hurt In a wreck Wednesday afternoon between a Union Pacific passenger train and a street -.ar in iJenver, Colo. The accident occurred at Forty-sw-ond avenue and Josephine street. The locomotive of the puanenger train, which was running at 'high speed, struck the front part of the street car, hurling the car across the tracks. The mo tor man and a unman )iussenger were killed. It is feared a lutimher of the injured may die. Tnft Will SM-ak. With the strict injunction fh-at he was not to be represented as favoring votes for women, President Tuft ac cepted an invitation to address the opening session of the annual conven tion of the National American Wom en's Suffrage association, to be held in Washington April 14. 1'lrty Killed III a Panic, Fifty persona are reported to have been killed In u purilc following a fire In the municipal theater at TruJIIIo. a town of northern Peru. The tire start ed among the apparatus used In con nection with u moving picture show. A Japanese was killed at Amoy, hlna, Wednesday by the accidental Ifnltlon of a high explosive concealed In his clothing. It Is suspected that the man had planned an assassination. DAKOTA CITY, Vlct itioii.iis vsk homo. Qunkcr city Poller Narrowly r.capo Death. Fifteen poilcenivn quartered In the barn of the company at Hidgo avenue and York street. In Philadelphia, nar rowly escaped death Tuesday nighi. when the entire northeast corner of the .building was blown away with dy namite. The explosion occurred Just as C. o. Pratt was about to address a met ting of the enr meti at a hall at Kldge nxenue and Dauphin streets. How the dynamite was placed In the car barn is a mystery. The state fensl bles, after being harassed and beaten nil day by a mob of strike sympa thizers, were withdrawn nt nightfall. The militia had been powerless against the mob. but n half dozen mounted police had ridden up and down driving th rioters before them during the afternoon. Members of the fem ibles. nccordlng to Mayor Kcyburii. acted us If they were on n picnic, allowing girls In the mill district to wear their caps and cut the brass buttons off their cloth ing. At one point n group of rioters' captured a member of the fenclbles and carried him several feet from his post, where they stripped him of his coat, 'hat and cartridge belt and gun and threw them into a sewer. Only two cars were run on the Le hlgh avenue line during the afternoon, and both were badly shattered by stones. Policemen in this locality were llred upon by a strike sympathizer, who had concealed himsel In St. Si mon's church. This enraged the guardians and they returned the fire, hitting W. Collins in the groin. Three boys were shot and probably fatally Injured, while several received less severe wounds in riots which fel lowed the resumption of service by the company.. The shooting occurred in attacks on cars in the northeastern section. WITIjDKAWS XOMIXATIOXS. Due to Cut Math in Salaries Paid the Judges of Customs Court. The president on Tuesday withdrew the nominations of Alfred C. Coxe. William 11. Hunt, James V. Smith, orln M. Hnrner and Marcel Devrles to be judges of the court of customs ap peals. The explanation at the White House of the withdrawal of the nominations was that these positions were offered wjth'the understanding that they were to get $10,000 a year each, as provided In the Payne bill. Congress having refused to provide more than $7,000 each, the president felt U would be better to withdraw the names until he had time to Inform Hie men nominat ed of the facts and ascertain whether they were willing to accept under the new conditions. H Is known that snm or the proposed judges will not ncxt-ut at the reduced salaries. DMATII TO III-: PIOXAl.TY. Walter Kifeiibevs Is 1 "ootid ;iiilt, of Mnrrtcr. The Jury in the Jacob Davis murder case at Alnsworth. Neb., Tuesday morning brought In a verdict rinding Walter rtlfenberg. alias George Wil son,' guilty and fining the pcnaltr at death. Davis, vh was a tciol hull -proprie tor, was shot and killed on the night of December 27 while on his way home. Kobhery was the motive. The evidence pointed strotiuly towarfl Wil son and he was irrested. He was fa miliar with the Davis premises and knew that Davis carried a large roll of money most of the time. Money wns found on his person, in the Inside of his oscks, and a number f bills wero stained with Vdood. i.i:pi:k ham.y ihstitt tt:. Stranded in Xew York WlHiout T uiiCIh to Kciii rutnllv. John K. Early, former 1'nlted States infantryman,, whom the health authorities at Washington nnd mnny physicians have branded as a 'leper, is destitute In New York City with tin means of supporting his wife and two children. Dr. Hulkeley, f the New York Skin and Cancer hospital. wh has stood by the unfortunate ma throughout the controversy, said that; Early's condition was pitiful. Fleet to Shool at Targets The seventh torpedo division, com prising the torpedo boat dtutroycrs Smith, the flagship Held, Iarnaon. Flusser and Preston, arrived off pen sucola bar Monday night and entered the harbor Tuesday morning. The vessels are there for target practice. . Confesses to MnriliT. The authorities at Ijiwton, OkU.. fay that Alonzo IVntz, a Mexican boy, Tuesday confessed that he and John (ionzalc. another Mexican, murdered J. F. Mitchell, a school teacher, Ileal Fletcher last Sunday to cover up thel. theft of corn from -MIl bell'a cribs. Keccptlon to llrjau. William Jennings llryun dined Tues day with President Montt at Santiago, Chile. A reception was given In his honor at the American legation. Allicrlou Pusses Away. Charles Atherton. top boss of the St. Puul mine at Cherry, III., died at Iai Salle Tuesday of bullet Wounds inflicted several days previous by Ma las Mandritch, a disgruntled miner. $100,000 Fire In .Milwaukee. Fire Tuesday morning destroyed the structure on West Water street, Milwaukee, occupied by the Milwau kee Department store. The loa li e tlmated at 1100,00" NEB., FRIDAY, FKIIKUAUY 25, 1910. NEBRASKA 12 Doing of the Week in. Condensed Form EIEillilTIEjllE DKATII PF.XAl.TY Poll WlUSOX. Alnswortli Murderer Given Kxtrvmo Limit by Jury. At Alnsworth the Jury la the Iiavlsi murder case after deliberating ten hours and forty minutes Tuesday morning brought In a verdict of guilty of murder In the (lrst degree and Im posed the death penalty. Owing t'T the fact that It was a holiday the court could not set the date of execution nor the attorney for the defendant Hie n motion for a new trial, but he did ask for a day or two in which to ar range his uffalrs, and the court set February 25 as the time for hearing of motions, etc. Walter Itifenburg, alias George Wil son, convicted of the crime, received the verdict without a quiver, and when taken buck to his cell In the county Jail took up the work of writing letters. The crime of which Wilson was con victed was a most ati -nclmis one. J. Davis, Jr.. who confided a pool hall, on the night of December 27, last closed his business at 11 o'clock and started home. He was shut while pass ing through sin alley near his home, the bullet passing almost through his head. His pockets were robbed of about $22F. The body was then drag ged to u barn nearby, where Davia (must have partially revived. The murderer then took some sharp Instru ment and inflicted a number of serious wounds about the head. Davis lived but an hour or two and never regained consciousness. Wilson was suspected and placed under arrest, nnd when searched about $225 was found on his person, the most of it having been concealed in his shoes. At the trial, which occupied seven days, it was found that Wilson had deserted a wife und child at Iad, H. I)., and that he was ulso a deserter from the Fnited States army at Fort Meade, S. D.. hav ing been a member of Troop I Fourth cavalry. The evidence, though clrcum atantliil wus particularly damaging. Nine or the pieces of money found on Wilson contained blood spots, na did his hat and coot and the door knob of his room t the hotel. 1JCAHNING lOVf TO COOK. Wealthy JFuiiiIIIch Touching Daughters the Culinary Art, Appreciating the fact that perhaps the time is not far distant when It will be Impossible to find women who, ifor wages, will be willing to go into the kitchen and cook, many, of the ric h families of Omaha have induced the daughters to learn the secrets of the culinary art. As a result Miss Marga ret i:ornn, expert instructor al. the rooms of the Y. V. C A., has fc class of rich J'oung women, who, no to speak, are learning their A, If Cs in m5 couKing nne. as a rule the young women are making rapid progress, and Inside of two months Miss Collin will turn out thirty to forty proficient cooks. La'ssons consume un hour, and are glvea lully fur five days eac h week. Roundhouse llui'iiccl. hire cdestroyed the roundhouse of the Burlington at Table Koc-k. Every-' thing of value wns saved (from the building. The origin of the fire is sup posed ta le from the explosion of 11 lamp. The blue prints are already there for a new elght-stnn, brick roundhouse, as that was un old frame structure that h:n. done duty for a quurter of a century or more, and It Is supposed the lire win serve to hast en the ereicitJon rftre new structure. I'-dltor Wife JFxplrc-H. Follow ing an illness of more than a year, Mrs. John :B. Donuvun suc cumbed to:aneer at 'her home at Mad ison. Mrs. fbVcnovun had been con fined to her ted for twin months. She was the wife of J. . Donovan, for many years editor of the Mtnr-Mal and at one time president f the .Nebras ka Press association. Declamatory Context. A high school declamatory contest will be held at lica trior Thursday, March 3. Gold, silver and bronze med als will be given those winning firat plwe. The winner of the content wllj represent Beatrice at the annual de bate to be held there the last or March, during the meeting of the Southeast ern Nebraska Kdueutoonal association. Drops Dead at Kjile, Ed Watson, aged 62 years, living five miles northeast of I'tlca, dropped dead at Yaldelfelt's sale. He was engaged In conversation with a num ber of men and grew very muc h excit ed about the subjec t under discussion and, as he was troubled with heart failure, it is supposed this caused his death. Xcw PrliicijMil at fcxiiigtmi. Prof. D. F, Dlckerson, of the normal student body, hus ac cepted u position as principal of the high school nt Lex ington. Mr. Dlckerson la an experi enced teacher and last year held a like position at Atlanta, Neb. Moving Pictures for Insane Asylum. The state board of public lands and buildings will buy a moving picture machine for the amusement of the In- .oe patients at the Norfolk asylum- STATE NEWS I'llti: Loss AT AIXSWOKTH. I'.nrl.v Morning Itla.e Dock Damage to Amount or 9.YOOO. Fire In the J. Davis building on Main street in Aluswortlt at 4 o'clock Sunday morning completely destroyed that structure and Its contents, a num ber of pool and billiard tables and fur niture. It badly damaged an adjoin ing building owned by Den Fast and occupied by Charles Anderson as a restaurant and confectionery store. A building owned and occupied by Rucker Foster as a barber shop was razed to the ground by llremen to prevent the supread or the flames to the noith. r.urwell & Iteatty. under takers, h4so suffered the loss of cask ets to the amount of $500. The Alnsworth Telephone company Is almost out of commission on ac count of the lire, w hich destroyed the cables and wires which covered the west and north parts of the city and all but two of the country lines. The damage caused by the lire will aggre gate $5,000, only partially covered by Insurance. A strong wind prevailed when the fire was first discovered, but It died down and enabled the firemen by heroic work to confine the flames to the Davis nnd Fast buildings. The origin Is unknown, but It Is supposed the blaze started from a cigar stump or hot ashes. l'OK SCHOOL KIM KIT. Plans 1 .it Id to Hold Annual Banquet tc Boost This Plan Along. The fraternities of the state uni versity have decided to hold an an nual banquet each year for the pur pose of creating a stronger bond of university spirit among themselves. It Is planned to have every fraternity man active and alumni of Lincoln present at this annual dinner. Members of the Nebrnska fraterni ties feel that the school lucks 11 true university spirit and they are Inaugur ating they annual banquet scheme in order to bring the under cltuwmen to feel a strong regard for the various institutions 01 the big school. It Is thought that the students by this plan will come to have such u love for their sc hool that they will take n keen In terest. In the Institution after they are graduated atnd will do more than the present niunini for promoting the va rious Cornhusker Interests. CIIJLD KA1M.Y SCAI,)i:. In Kcrliaas CoiicIUhiu and May Kccovct. Xoi i.uiie j-nuip .McOunn, son of Mr, and Mrw. it. II. McOann. of Fremont was badly scalded -w hile playing steum engine with 11 number of other child ren. The children plugged up u. tin can fui'.l or water and built 11 hot fire under Jt. They were playing that It was the steam engine fur a bric k plant and were busllr engaged in making bricks out of mud and drying them over the fire, hen suddenly, with loan report, the can exploded. Hot water splashed over the little Phillip Mci unn s legs md they were badly scaldotl. Phyriiclans are not certain whether his liKe can be saved. If he lives. It w'll be necessary to graft sklr over Hie damaged places. IHI ISS13: MAY UK MADE. (.rand Ihhincl ToiitciiiplntcM ICttciiHloi. T Plant. Xotv.ithstanding the fact that with in the past five years over live miles of iidCttlonal rmnlns have been ' laid out of the general receipts of the mu-niclpar-jy oune.fl und operated water plant uk .Oraiid Island, the requests for further -extensions are such that a small tund issue is In contemi.h.ti,... by the 1 ity for the enlargement of the 1.11. in m.c.n na ii mains and as to pumping capacity. No definite prop osition tins as '.vet been made. The growth .f the clt 1ms In the recent years bwn mich ihat without n little additional capitml Invested th miinds oa tlv plat can scarcely be met. FaJI Wheat Injured. Many rarmers urotuid Nelson are ol the opinion that the fall wheat has been seriously injured, by the many sudden extreme change In tempera ture and the unusually aevere weather experienced this winter. Hy making a close Inspection, they say, it Is found that many of the young plants are d'.icl. JudKe II. 1). Travis was to have held a xpeciai term or the distric t court mi jveoraska City lust week, but wired C" awi" fro, lienver. Colo., that he wu. still fc "rr,' feeling ill and adjourned the court Ira N Morris until March 7. when the regular term j Arthur Meeker, will be held. ! Itm t., r-, .' Kcvlvul in 1'roitress. Revival meetings are being held In the l.'lr .v. ,, . . . ..1 ..Mthod",t 4hur h ,n Albion. The meetings are belnk- conducted 1, ! v. I imsior, jr. n. i. Millard. So faf the cold weather hus cut down the attendance. ' I Convention Hall. Kansaa City, Charles loung Man Mlsaiug. Ilegrlst performed the heretofore un Herbert lloldrege, a young man who ccompllshtd feat of turning a com until recently worked as a hotel clerk ullt fcc somersault froa the at Humboldt, left lust Sunday and Ma paUAd. whereabouts are unknown, ' PARALYSIS By STRIKE Walk-Out Which -May Involve ioo, 000 .Men Ordered and Attacks on Cars do On. POLICE SHOOT TWO YOUTHS. Bloodshed as Street Hallway Situa tion Gets Worse Organizer Pratt Held in $3,000 Ball. While .rioting which nmy cost tho ilfe of at least one victim was going on, the Central Labor I'nion of Phil adelphia declared a sympathetic strike of nil organized labor in the city affil iated with the central body. The union claims a membership of 10(1,000. Its action was the result of the arrest ami detention of Clarence O. Pratt, nation al organizer of the street car men. Whether the order will be obeyed by all cannot be told now. President Murphy of tho Central Labor Union declares that the order will not ro Into effect before It receives the ap proval of the presidents of the ttnlona. The Central Iubor body U composed of 300 delegates, said to represent 100 unions, In various trades. The labor leaders are holding conferences to de cide when the strike order shall go Into effect. If It Is carried out to the letter It will mean serious conse quences for the city, which probably will be felt in other places than Phil adelphia. ' Pratt was given a hearing and held In 3,0U0 ball, charged with Inciting to riot, conspiracy and disorderly con duct. President Murphy was Indig nant acalnvt the city oflleials for tak ing Pratt into custody. Trouble was reported from Kensing ton, In the northeastern part of the city, the great mill dtatrict, where two boys were shot. A, crowd of youths lay In wait for a car and as It passed hurled a shower of stones. Two police men who were on the iUr aa protectors of the crew opened fire on the boya and when the youths fled It was found that two had been wounded. Both were rushed to a hospital and an ex amination showed that one had been shot In the chest and that the other had been Injured slightly. Coming , suddenly when least ex pected, this strike was declared agains4. the Philadelphia Rapid Transit by the imalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway employes the other lay. Two cars were burned the same night, a score of cars were attacked, forcing their crews to abandon them, ind numerous arrests were made. Ex cept In the central part of the city, itreet railway service was almost at 1 standstill. Oars running through the tentral stntlons were heavily protected, along Kensington avenue lumber and ttther obstructions were piled on the tracks. Two hundred and ninety-seven cars yrecked. scores of persons Injured, and ISO strike sympathizers arrested was the result of th second day's rioting In connection with the strike. The disorders stopped only when the com pany decided not to operate Its lines for severul hours. By the lime this decision was made conditions had be come so serious that Mayor rteyburn had sworn In 3,000 extra police and had Issued a proclamation enforcing Ihe riot act and placing the city un- ler what practically was martial law. CHICAGO PACKEKS INDICTED. 3rand Jury Votes True Bills Against National Company's Officers. The directors of the National Pack ing Company- practically all of them Chicago men were Indicted by the grand Jury of Hudson county. New Jersey, sitting in Jersey City. The in dictments are against the men as In dividuals. All the directors of the company are IncJuded with the excep tion of Kenneth K. McLaren, a resi dent of New Jersey and not active in the corporation. The corporations and Its directors are the same ones now the subject of a federal grand Jury Inquiry in Chica go. That Investigation has been un der way for several weeks and Is ex pected to continue for three weeks longer before the voting or bills. In the Jersey City grand Jury's Indict ment the National Company's direct ors are charged with conspiracy In mat tney kept foodstuff In cold stor age with the purpose of raising the price, ine indictments are to be handed up to Supreme Court Justice frauds J. Swavze. The directors of the Nations! Puck. ing company, according to the pub. Ushed records .are: '' l'ael Armour, I A Carton, K. K. Mcl.uren, T. 13. Wilson. C. If. Hwlft. I.. II. Heyinun, Humuel Mcltoberta J1'. A. Fowler. i. Connors. A. W. Armour. The votiug of the Indictments is be- lfAVJbif trk T.u II. f a ... m . " iviwuumc ui ma una- Ing of more true bills by the Jersey rrand lorv Torus a Double Bark Twlat. Before an audience of thousands In NUMBER 2G IMPERILED EY PAROLE DECISI03 It May Affect Many State AppolntlTfJ Officers and Commissions, The Illinois Supremo Court, by It opinion In the Joyce parole case, de claring the luw establishing the parol1 board to be unconstitutional, has caus ed a political panic In the Statehou.se, Interpretation of the opinion by Staf officers who prefer not to talk yet foJ publication Is that close construction of the Joyce opinion makes It extreme ly problematical whether more thatj one-half of the appointive officers and commissions of thn State are constitu tional or that the ni!n holding these places can lawfully draw their salaries. These officers and commissions are declared to be In tho Identical predica ment with (lie parole board, which wo4 wiped off the map by the Supreme Court decision. The board of administration of public harltles. The fire marshal. I The pure food commission. The Pontine reformatory board. The mining investigating commit slon. The secretaries to the Supreme Jus tlccs. The greater scare- attached to th hidden paragraph In the Dunn opinion comes from a close reading of the Ju dicial view that an act creative of ra office or a commission, which Is silent In its title as to the salary or compen- - Ballon of the officer or board therein' named, but which In the body of the) bill establishes, provides, or appro priates for compensating of these offir ' cers. Is unconstitutional so far aa tt applies to payment. ZERO WEATHER CLOSES SCHOOLS. Indiana au Ohio Saonfjill' C IS Inches ('rosea as Mercmrjr Fmlla. . Zero weather froze solid the nine tj, twenty Inches of snow covering Indb ana. schools In Indianapolis and most of the smaller cities of the state werf closed. Travel on the lnterarban elec trie railways was slow and uncertain and many highways were blocked bf drifts. The . temperature dropped sharply at the close at a forty-eight hour snowstorm and registered froiti 2 to 6 degrees below zero in different sections of the state. The putfte schools at Marlon, O., were dismissed the other day, as practically none 01 the children was able to reach thd buildings. ,A snowfall of nineteen Inches oovers the streets. The heavy fall caused the collapse of the 10 000 frame auditorium at Zanesvlll! Complaints are coming In from centra Ohio farming districts that live stock; Is Buffering from lack of water, as th- imnll tfmAma n r aa fmvAH am KILLED AND HURT US' THJEATEB Floor iluddenly Collapse Uwummum ! Flames In Bumut, Five hundred persona attending a small theater at Patton, Pa., were pre clpitated Into the basement of the building when the floor collapsed dur ing a Arc, and one person was killed.' The fire started from an unknown orU gin, In the basement of the build ing, while the theater on the first floors was filled with persons watching 94 . moving picture show. Byi the tlm amoke begau to appear In the room the floor had already been weakened ' "J imo uauiro, nuu W UCU cut TUBU &V7 the doors began the floor collapsed, allowing the strutricllne crowd to drcS In a mass to the basement. The en (Ire structure was burned. A score) ire Injured seriously, several of them. atally. , TIME SAVES 9173,000 THXKP.. 3 statute of I.tuiltatloa Now Applies ta ChleaftTo 8abtreasary (tea. The mystery of who stole $173,000 from the United States subtreasnry In nicago three years ago may be solved onie day, but never In a criminal :ourt. The statute of limitations bail run against any sort of criminal aiK lon, and the much-sought thief is now free to come out and tell all about It without fear of being sent to Jail. Au- tbat Is now left .of the famous case la 1 libel suit instituted by George W. Fitzgerald, the former cashier in th tubtreasury, after he had been arrest id and dismissed without trial on the, fharge of having stolen the money, riie defendants to this suit are Wli lam Boldenweck. subtreaaurer; H. JV young, manager of a Chicago detectiT. tgency, and a morning newspaper. EXPLORER THOUGHT DEAD BACK Arthur T. Leila Retaraa to Wuk ImkIoii from Labrador'a Wild. Mourned as dead by his wife and Trlends for the last four months, Ar thur T. Lei tu, a geologist, explorer am Hunter, has returned, safe and welL from the frozen regions of Labrador lo his home In Washington. Mr. Lelta. itarted out last summer from the north. ihore of Lake Superior, with his brotn tr. Dr. C. K. Letth, professor of geolo iy In the University of Wisconsin; r 8. Ada-rns of Duluth and Hugh Roberts) Df Superior, WU. They went 150 mil en north of the Labrador trading post t Great Whales. Dr. Lelth and Mr. Rob erts made their way home In the faJL. but the other two men remained until Christmas and experienced terrlU tarduhlps. GIVE UP HOPE FOR KIN A. Marablpa Ordered, to IUeatlaaa Search fur Hlaslaa TaT. All hope that the missing UaHed States navy tug Nina, which left Nor folk Feb. I bound to Boston, with thirty-two persons aboard, la still afioaj, taa been abandoned by the nary & partment and the warships which have been searching for the Nina were id to discontinue their hast.