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PRICES UP IN ALL COUNTRIES.
Statistics Show Advance In Meat
Figures Throughout World.
Tlio advance iti tin- price of meats
In t lie I'nltcd States in recent years
seems to correspond, in a measure at
least, with conditions which have
caused Increases in meat prices
throughout the world, not only In
those countries which do not produce
much meat, hut also In Argentina,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada and
other countries which produce a sur
plus for export. The government has
gathered some Interesting statistics
upon the subject. It Is found tha the
advance In the price of fresh meats Is
lo-ss than !n salted and preserved
meats, and In nearly all rases the ad
vanre has hern less In beef than In
pork or mut'on.
In Australia beef preserved by cold
process advanced In export price from
S'i.23 per 100 pounds In 1893 to $5.40 In
JD08, mutton and lamb from $3.82 per
100 pounds in 1S39 to $6.47 In 1908.
Frcm Canada the value of fresh beef
exports advanced from an annual aver
age of 6.1 rrnts per pound in 1898 to
8.2 cents In 1909, that of mutton from
6.1 to 11.2 cents; pork from 3.3 to 9
cents and butter from 18.1 cents to
24 rents.
All the European cities show, wher
ever statistics are available, higher
wholesale prices In the local markets.
In Moscow, Russia, beef of the first
quality has advanred in price per
pound from 8.6 rents In 1903 to 12
rents In 1908. Berlin shows an ad
vanre In beef from 13.2 In 1896 to 16.5
rents In 1908, pork from 12.9 to 16.3
cents.
GENEROUS JOHN D.
Oil Magnate Said to Be Planning tc
Give Away Money.
John D. Rockefeller has naked U
aid of Congress in disposing of a large
part of his wealth for the benefit ot
mankind. The first step was the in
troduotion of a bill to incoriwrate the
Rockefeller Foundation In the District
of Columbia. The bill was Introduced
In the Senate by Senator Jacob H. Gal
linger, of New Hampshire. It was re
ferred to the committee on Judiciary
The scope of the foundation Is broad,
although Its purposes were embraced
in a short section of the bill Intro
duced. This section reads: "That the
object of the said corporation shall bt
to promote the-well being and to ad
vance the civilization of the peoples
of the United States and Its territo
ries and possessions and of foreign
lands In the acquisition and dissem
ination of knowledge, In the preven
tion and relief of suffering, and In th
promotion of any and all of the ele
ments of human progress." Mr. Rock
efeller is silent, for the present as t
tbe purposes of the Incorporation.
KILLS 82 RAILROADERS.
Avnlnnrhe on Canadian Pacino ItnaA
Buries Ht-orn ( Worker.
Ninety-two Canadian Pacific tranl
men, track men and laborers were
burled by an avalanche In Rogers Pass
on the summit ot the Selkirk range ot
the Rocky Mountains. All probably
are dead. Only five bodies have been
recovered. They are thoBO of Road
master Frnzer, Fireman Griffith, Con
ductor Buckley, Engineer Phillips and
a Japnnese. Work of recovering the
dead and opening the track was great
ly Impeded by a blizzard raging In the
pass. There was another big slide
of snow nnd rock a mile east of the
spot where the men were over
whelmed. It destroyed a portion of a
snow shed and burled the track for
400 yards to a depth of sixty feet.
Thero were no victims in the last ava
lanche.
IDENTIFIED AS TORTURER.
A -cd Victim Acpoiri a Prlaoner 14
Yrara After Ilobberr.
"TUIs is tlio man that bound rue and
my wife and burned out feet until we
told where we had hidden our money,"
said John Wagner, 80 years old, as
he picked Frank Donahoe out of a
line ot eight men at the Etna police
station. Pittsburg. "It was fourteen
years ago, but I shall never forget his
face." Donahoe was sent to Jail to
await trial for burglary. Two com
panions are serving terms in prison
for the crime, but Donahoe fled and
was captured on' his return home. As
the prisoner was being led away the
aged man wept and said: "I have
prayed that the guilty one would be
captured, because those men were re
sponsible for my wife's death."
POLITICAL COMMENT.
Former Governor Klrod, of South Da
kota, has formally announced his can
didacy for the governorship of his
State on a platform of rigid economy
In administration.
Hy a vote of 100 to 3, the House ot
Representatives of South Carolina
paused a resolution favorlnir am amend
ment permitting Congress to lay an In
come tax without apportionment
among the States according to popu
lation.
Tlio Central Federated t'nlon of New
York has decided to ask President
Qompera of the American Federation of
ljibor to IsHiie a cull for a nutlonr.l
convention of representatives of trm
unions to organize a labor party along
the lines of the ltrltish labor party.
In the hist Ibsuo of the Commoner,
Editor Bryan bus an editorful on tliu
"l.hiuor Question In Nebraska," de-
clurlnK tliut the Democratlo party
must divorce Itself from the liquor in
terests, as an alliance with the suloon
is an "ullianco with vice."
The federal Incorporation bill wh''h
was Introduced In Congress recently Is
not to be pressed for passage nt In
session. If the Mil ehould be p.-it.-M
President Tuft has stated bis wllllnK
iicss to stand us its sponsor, and to
take the responsibility for having rec
ommended it.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., will lie a
candidate for the Legislature of New
York from the Oyster liay district, or
from one of the districts of New York
City. His friends reard it us a posi
tive fact tbut be will be elected if he
enters the race.
President Tuft Is alarmed over the
situation in Congress, and has recent
ly expressed some concern over the
rate of his legislative program. He
continues to receive assurances from
Republican leaders In the House and
Benate that everything progressing
satisfactorily, but tbe President wants
to be shown.
MOB RULES DALLAS, TEXAS.
Takes Aged Colored Man from Court
and Fut Him to Death.
Snatched from before the Dar -A
Justice, where his trial on the charge
of criminally assaulting a 2-year-old
white child was about to begin, Allen
Brooks, an aged negro, was lynched
In Dallas, Texas, by a mob of &.000
men.
Brooks was seized in the courtroom
by fifteen leaders of the avenging mob
and was tossed through a window to
the main body, which waited like n
pack of ravening wolves for their
prey, in the street below. His broken
body was dragged through the streets
and he was hanged to the Elks' arch,
high above the heads of the avenging
citizens. The mob was led by an old
negro. With it all hardly a loud word
was spoken, not a shot was fired, and
above the dull murmurlngs of the aiob
could be heard the aged negro's pierc
ing shrloks for mercy.
After Brooks was hanged Dallas f-jr
nearly three hours was In the hands of
the mob. The Jail was stormed and
death Wfs threatened to three othor
negroes, held on charges of murder.
They had been spirited away, how
ever, and after "searching for them in
vain the mob dispersed.
The crime for which Brooks paid the
penalty was one of the most brutal in
the history of Dallas. His victim is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Buven.
SAVES THREE: LOSES OWN LIFE.
Crowd Wntebee IMttalturir Man Mu
Ir Die of Klerlroeullon.
Before the eyes of several hundred
horror-stricken promenaders who were
enjoying the sunshine in the pretty lit
tle Pittsburg suburb of Fair Oaks,
Charles Rommel was eleotrocuted while
attempting to save two of his young
daughters and a young playmate from
meeting the same fate. Rommel had
Just started from his home when, cross
ing the street, an electric light wire
dropped and the children became en
tangled In Its meab.es. He succeeded
In extricating them, but In throwing
one end of the broken wire, which was
dead, he Inadvertently came In contact
with the other end. This completed a
circuit, and the sparks darted from
the man's face and body by the thou
sand. It was fully half an hour be
fore the deadly current was turned off,
and In the meantime the horrified
croWd stood helpless, watching Rommel
die.
INDIANS BLOW OUT OAS.
Leader of Chlppewas, Agrd OK, On
of Victims nt National Capital.
One ot the .most picturesque chief
tains ot the Indian race, and his
nephew, both members of the Chippe
wa tribe In Minnesota, were found
dead In a hotel in Washington, the
victims of asphyxiation. The dead
chief was Pay-Baum-We-Che-Walsh-Kung,
more than 95 years old, and his
unfortunate companion was A-Ne-Way-Way-Aush.
Accustomed to the light
from the camp fires of their primitive
life and later to that from the candle
and the lamp, It Is believed one of the
red men blew out the gas which end
ed their existence and sent them to
their "happy hunting ground."
a 1,000 llorae Kats t)7SO Clem.
Captain H. O. Burtlett, a veteran of
the Civil War and a wealthy Joplln,
Mo., mine owner, discovered an unsus
pected epicurean taste In King, his
J 1,000 black horse, when the animal
picked a four-carat diamond valued at
J'ilO from his master'3 shirt bosom,
crushed it between his teeth and swal
lowed It.
Vatnllr Iajured la Wreck.
Engineer W. A. dlimore and Fireman
Paul Ash were fatally injured In an
accident to a Burlington stub train be
tween Nebraska City and Nebraska
City Junction, lowu.
l)r. Louis Klopsck Dies.
Dr. Louis Klopsch. editor of the
Christian Herald, who has been ill
since the first of the month, in the
German Hospital at Prk avenue and
71M etree. New York, la dead. Re
underwent an operation for stomach
trauMs
LIVE-STOCK RECEIPTS FALL OFF.
dux rrnuient l lit urra jihow Drop
from I'revloue Yenra i 11 Janourr.
Internal-commerce movements In
January, according to statistics of the
department of commerce and labor,
showed heavy movements of coal and
coke In the east, increased grain re
ceipts at the Interior markets and
light movements of live stock in the
middle west and of cotton In the south.
At seven primary interior markets
live stock receipts during the month
aggregated 3,084,892 head, compared
with 3,70(5,892 and 4,02!).83S head In
January of 1903 and l'JOS. Receipts
ef hogs were 31 per cent below those
of January, 1909, and 48 per cent be
low the January, 1908, total, all the
cities sharing In the decline.
Shipments of packing house pro
ducts from Chicago aggregated 167,
3S0.123 pounds, compared with 189,
884,534 and 213,298,423 pounds during
January of 1909 and 1908.
23 KILLED IN ALASKA MINE.
Powder Magazine Explodes in Gold
Property on Douglas Island.
Twenty-three miners were killed at
midnight the other night by an ex
plosion of a powder magazine in the
1,100 level of the Mexican mine, oue
of the group of Treadwell gold prop
erties on Douglas Island, Alaska.
Eight men were seriously injured, of
whom it is feared four will die. The
last shots had been fired by the shift
of ien twenty minutes before the ex
plosion took place, and the men had
assembled at the landing on the skip
and were arranging to enter It and
go on top. The magazine, which con
tains 275 pounds of powder, was thir
ty feet away from the place where tho
men were standing, and every man
was killed or Injured.
ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS CAR.
Nearly 1,000 Paekaires on York
Central Tralu Broken Open.
When train No. 27 on the New York
Central reached Rochester the other
day it was discovered that one of the
ten American Express cars, a through
car, had been looted. Nearly all of
the 1,000 packages had been broken
open and their contents scattered. Just
how much the robbers got will not be
known until an Inventory is taken at
Buffalo. It is the belief of the express
company officials that the robbery was
the work of a gang that Is supposed to
have boarded the train at Utlca, get
ting off at Syracuse.
llecause of a shortage of wheat in
Mexico, tbe rate of duty has been re
duced by the Mexican irovernment from
S cents a kilometer to 1 cent.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
a Ijondon news agency stutes that the
powers will propose that Turkey sell
Crete to Greece as the best solution of
the difficulty.
The municipal election In Philadel
phia .resulted in a complete knockout
for the reform movement, the entiro
William Pann ticket being overwhelm
ingly defeated. The regular Republi
can organisation swept the city. Not
one reform councilman was elected.
Tremendous applause greeted tho
stutement of Gov. Hughes during the
banquet that Tuft would tie renomi
nated and re-elected. He said: "The
American people are fair enough Vi
recognise a greut man doing his duly
wltrr-absolute fidelity."
In the civil chamber Harold Vander
bllt. the young New York millionaire,
was condemned to pay a workman
named Gulsnard M.6S0 fur injuries suf
fered by him in 1807, when he was
struck by Vanderbllt's auto. Gulgnard
sued for $14,000. The court decided
that be was entitled to 11,160 for med
ical and doctor's bills and 11.400 for
d&msfts.
DUST EXPLOSION KILLS.
Two Dead, 28 Hurt In American
Maize Company's Roby Mills.
An explosion of dry starch powder
in the plant of the American Maize
Products Company at Roby, Ind., early
on a recent evening probably killed
two men, injured twenty-eight others,
two probably fatally, wrecked a three
story building and broke windows in
South Chicago and in Hammond, Ind.,
three and five miles away. Fire fol
lowed the explosion, but companies
from South Chicago and Hammond
confined the flames to the wrecked
building.
Thirteen of the twenty-eight ben In
Jured are in the South Chicago Hospi
tal. Ten were taken to their homes
Seven men are missing. Five of these
have been seen since the explosion, but
later disappeared, and the bodies of
two, the names not ascertainable, are
believed to lie under the debris of the
building. .
The explosion occurred a few min
utes before 6 o'clock, just before tho
night ahlft at the factory arrived, in
the dry starehhouse of the sugar re
fining plant. Thirty men work there.
The force of the explosion hurled most
of the men clear of the building, but a
number were rescued from under pieces
of wreckage. Flames shot high in the
air and bricks and timbers were thrown
for rods.
Calls for assistance in fighting the
flames that threatened the entire plant
were sent to South Chicago and Ham
mond, and two fire companies from
each place responded. The Are was
not extinguished until late in the
night. The damage is estimated at
150,000.
KANSAS TO OPPOSE HANGING.
State OflU-lals Will Aak Taft to Coin
mate O'Mel's Sentence.
Governor Stubbs and Kansas Staro
officers will appeal to President Taft
to commute to life imprisonment the
death sentence which was Imposed by
a jury in the federal court two months
ago on Charles O'Nell. an army officer.
Kansas has not had a hanging since It
became a State. Two years ago capi
tal Punishment was wined from tho
statutes. None of the Governors of
Kansas ever ordered prisoners hanged
who were sent up for murder. They
were permitted to serve life sentences.
When the verdict of guilty was render
ed In the federal court Judge John C.
Pollock ordered that O'Nell be con
fined in the Leavenworth County jail
until March 29, when he should be
executed. United States Marshal
Mackay is preparing for the execu
tion. KNOX'S SON TOO YOUNG TO WED.
Balked In Elopement, lie Hides on
Milk Train'' with Brlde-to-De.
After vainly trying for two days to
obtain a marriage license and get some
one to wed them. Miss May Boiler, of
Providence, R. I., tni Philander C.
Knox, Jr., sonvof Secretary of State
Knox, who ran away from the Rhode
Island capital the other day, passed
through Plattsburg, N. Y., in a day
coach on the "milk train" on their way
back to Providence. Mr. Knox, who
is under age, is a student in the Mor
ris Heights school, where he is pre
paring to enter college this fall.
I.labon lloinlie Kill 2 Injnre 7.
Two bombs were hurled Into a room
In which a party of clerical candidates
were dining in Lisbon, Portugal, and
the explosions killed two of the din
ers and wounded seven others, includ
ing the priest who was presiding.
Georgia Toaee Lynches .Negro.
C. H. Mann, Jr., of Cedar Crossing,
Ga., was fatally stabbed by a negro,
whose name has not been learned, who
entered the Mann home and attacked
Mrs. Mann. The negro was pursued
by a posse, captured and lynched.
American Held la Meilco.
Oscar B. Wood, posUnaster at Cham
berlain, N. M., is held by the Mexican
authorities at Juaret on a charge of
assaulting a Mexican official and a
Mexican policeman. Ha attempted Im
atoapa on a train, bat was capture d.
GENERAL STRIKE TIES
UP ALL PHILADELPHIA
General Walkout in Sympathy with
Street Car Men Takes Effect
at Midnight.
MILITIA IS HELD IN READINESS
Labor Leaders Assert 100,000 Union
Workers Will Obey Order Im
partial Estimate 40,000.
A general strike of the unions In
sympathy with the striking street car
men went Into effect In Philadelphia
at midnight the other night. Simul
taneously H became known, despite
the denial of Gen. Clay, head of the
police force, that every national guard
regiment in the State of Pennsylvania
has received orders to bo ready to
entrain for Philadelphia at an hour's
notice.
The labor leaders are shouting ex
ultantly that 100,000 men have lined
up with the striking motormen and
conductors. The police canvassers
make the figure less than 21,000. An
Impartial estimate Is 40,000, a little
more or a little less. ,
While the labor leaders are receiv
ing moral support from their fellow
workmen In all parts of the country,
many asoclatlons of employers have
sent letters and telegrams to the offi
cials of the Rapid Transit Company
and the city officials commending tha
stand taken and urging them to re
main firm' in their determination not
to submit to the strikers' demand for
union recognition. The struggle of
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany against the car men's union has
broadened Into a fight between em
ployers who Insist on their right to
run open shops and labor unionism.
From now on the issue Is the life or
death of labor unionism in Philadel
phia. All policemen, firemen and specials
who have been on duty since the strike
began received orders to remain at
their posts. The emergency automo
biles In the city hall courtyard were
increased in number and measures tak
en to send n force of men to any sec
tion of the city at a moment's notice.
Many of these machines are driven by
their owners, wealthy men, who have
volunteerd for police duty and have
been sworn in.
The outlook is ominous, even to the
most chereful observers. So much bit
terness has developed in the last few
days that the people of Philadelphia
ire preparing for any kind of trouble.
FIVE DEAD IN RACE RIOT.
Kcgro Slayers of Deputy Sheriffs
Lynched by Florida Mob.
With three negroes dead as the re
sult of a race riot In the neighbor
hood of Palmetto, Fla. the wrath of
the residents in that section seems to
be assuaged. The sum total of deaths
is three negroes and two white men,
with one white man In the emergency
hospital In Tampa with a bullet hole
through his head. The last of the
three negrr?s Implicated in the mur
der of two deputy sheriffs and the fa
tal wounding of the third was lynch
ed by a posse at dusk in the palmettos
on the banks of the Manatee River. Ho
had fallen asleep, and when he awoke
he was gazing, into the barrels of a
dozen rifles and shotguns. Even then
he showed resistance and reached for
his rifle. In a second he was riddled
with bullets.
MORE LANDS FOR FARMERS.
Irrl sated Tracts In South Dakota
Are Opened (or Entry.
Tho Secretary of the Interior has
announced the completion of the sec
ond unit of the Belle Fourche, S. D.,
Irrigation project, embracing 10,000
acres, divided into forty and eighty
acre farms. These farms now are
available for entry. No lottery system
Is to be employed, settlers being re
quired, after making choice of a farm,
to file their entries in the local land
office, with a cash payment of $3.40
per acre. The entire cost of water
right for a forty-acre farm la $1,200,
payable In ten annual Installments.
Hundreds See Acrobat Fall.
Fifteen hundred persons were hor
ror stricken at a Cincinnati theater
the other afternoon when a performer
named Augusta Fassio, while perched
on her brother's head eighteen feet
above the stage, lost her balance and
fell to the floor, breaking her neck. 8he
has little chance of recovery. The
man was on tables plied twelve feet
ibove the stage.
I.oota James In a roltapee.
Louis James, the actor, was stricken
with heart failure in his dressing
room at the Helena Theater in Helena,
Mont., and for several hours his life
was despaired of. The performance
was canceled and Mr. James was re
moved to his hotel, where it was stated
that his condition was slightly im
proved. ( inrlna Breaks Down.
The Empress of Russia has been suf
fering from a severe nervous attack
and her condition Is considered exceed
ingly unsatisfactory.
"More power to the interstate com
mission," whs urged by I'nited States
Senator Alliert B. Cummins In an ad
dress before the Traffic Club at Chlcn
to recently.
Buy Mapped Burns Slater.
Enraged because his 5-year-old sla
ter Doris slapped him, Morris Blond,
8 years old, deliberately set Ore to her
dress in Kansas City. When the moth
er ran In the child was fatally burned.
Unalneer and Miner Killed.
William Douglas, engineer of the
McAleater Coal Mining Company at
Buck, Okla., was killed, and Paul
Thlncher and Case Manual, miners,
were fatally hurt when a cage thsy
vara In dropped to tha bottom ot th
haft Thlncher died latr.