DAKOTA COUMTY' I r tt nOTTO-All Tfca Hem tTto It U Cot. Statc "toorical & T0LU1IE XVII DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1909. in 18 ictV, LATEST BY TELEGRAPH SUMMARY OF THE NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. DEATH ROLL GROWS iio.ooo rr.iusu at mkssixa and KRGCIIO ALOKK. King Moved to Tear by DUm-Msing; Scenes Wltnesncd In Messina Res cue Work of Soldiers anil Bluejack ets Praised by His MnJesty. The Immensity of the disaster In southern Italy and Sicily can only bo measured by the fact that It Is now es timated that 110,000 people perished In Messina and Reggio alone. A score of other towns have been devastated and thousands of victims In theso places must be added to the roll. In the face of these awful totals, all Italy stands appalled. King Victor l2mannuel and Queen Jtftena were In Messina Wednesday. The king: explored the ruins regardless of the danger to which, he exposed himself. He was often moved to tears at the heartrending scenes he ciime uim)ii ut every turn. The king was loud In his praise of the splendid work accomplished by the Italian. Russian and English bluejackets, who saved many persons who otherwise would have Inevitably perished. The queen spent the day In the wards of Impro vised hospitals vjsltlng the wounded many of whom have lost all that was clear to them. Her majesty did her best to cheer them with womanly words of consolation, often breaking Into sobs aa she listened to their dreadful tales of suffering. The king left for Regglo Wednesday night. Cntanla, the I;u,ct city marc-i to tho scene of the disaster, is crowded with refugees, and the continuous stream of fugitives . coming in, the sight of the wounded and repetition of Teal or imaginary; quakes have so alarmed the population that they are becoming uncontrolable. There Is no longer any place where the refugees may find shelter. IU CAU SIGN SWINDLE. fraud Order Issnerl Ag-ulnst Number of Companies. -The postmaster general at Washing ton, D. C, has issued a fraud order against Theo. Kharas and various movable car sign companies promoted by him, among them being the Omaha and Sioux City companies. The In spectors report Kharas has received probably at least SSO.OOO from syndi cates formed to promote movable street car signs, but that practically nothing has been done to put the de vice in operation, except at Alton, 111. Kharas is charged with having falsely pretended to have patents and foreign' rights he did not possess to Induce In vestments In the enterprise. His one patent Is declared of small vulue. Ad vertisements of his promotions stated his signs were in operation In street cars of Davenport, Muscatine, Clinton and Sioux City, among other cities, but the inspectors report none of the signs are used In the cities named. Kharas is said to be chiefly Interest ed now in promoting the Central Mo bile Sign company, of Omaha, alleged to have millions of dollars capital, sev eral officers of which are women sten ographers and clerks In his ofilct. Since his arrest on an Omaha Indict ment Kharas Is said to have admitted he was without financial backing and that he was once a magnetic healer. His companies are now barred from use of the malls. MINK HORROR IN VIRGINIA. Mfty Men Believed to Have Perished In Explosion. The fatalities in the Lick branch mine at Ennls, W. Va., as the result of the explosion Tuesday probably will reach fifty. Twelve bodies have been taken out. According to the mine foreman, there are thirty-eight men still In the mine, with little chance of recovery. The cause of the explosion is unknown. There is no excitement at the' mine. Practically all the women and child ren of the victims are bearing their Krlef in silence at their homes. To Preserve Its Forets. A policy of managing Its timber lands so that there will be a permanent growth of spimce timber was adopted by the board of directors of the In ternational Paper company. The de partment in charge of the forests own ed by the -company was Influenced to put Into effect a pUni of practical for. estry. Sioux City Live Stock Murket. Wednesday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow: Top beeves, $5.00. Top hogs, $5.65. Beheads His Mother. While in a fit of insanity. Arthur Trotter,, S3 year old, killed his aged mother, Mrs. Ann Trotter, by behead ing her with an ax and a knife, in her apartments In West Nineteenth street, iNew York. Supply Ship nt fcuex. The American supply ship Culgoa put In advance of the battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry. The warship! are expected January 8. AOONV IN ITS TRAIL. All Italy In Gloom Over an Earth quake's Calamity. One hundred thousand dead; Mes sina In Hieily and Regglo and a score of other towns In southern Italy over whelmed; the entire Calubrlan region laid waste. This Is the earthquake record so far as Is at present coming slowly Into Rome on account of the al most complete destruction of lines of communication to the stricken places. The death list In Messina ranges from 12,000 to 60.000; that of Regglo, which, with Its adjacent vllloges, numbered 45,000 people, Includes al most the entire populutlon. At Palml 1,000 are reported dead; at Cassano, 1,000; at Coszeno, 500, and half the population of Ragnara, about 4,000. The Monelone region has been devas tated and Blpisto, Semlnara, San Gulo vannl, Scllla, Lazznro and Connltello and all other communes and villages bordering on the straits are In ruins. The king and queen of Italy left Tuesday for Messina, having sailed from Naples aboard the battleship Vlt- torlo Emmanuele. The pope has shown the greatest distress at the ca lamity, nnd he himself was the first one to contribute a sum of $200,000 to the relief of the afflicted. British, French and Russian warships are steaming towards the south and al ready several of the ships of Great Britain and Russia have reached Sici ly. Officers and men of these ships have performed heroic services In the work of rescue. It Is feared that many foreigners have been killed, as a number of ho tels at Messina and doubiless at other places were crowded with tourists. Lit tle Is known of the fate of the diplo matic representatives of the foreign powers stationed nt this post, although effort to relieve the anxiety felt on their account. There Is the gravest danger that a pestilence will follow the destruction of tho towns where, on ac count of the vast havoc wrought, bod ies will lie unburled vfor days and weeks.- Those who escaped death, many of whom are badly Injured, are making their way by the thousands to the nearest place of refuge. Their sttfft rlnps even new irn?t he Intense, as they are without food or clothing. Latest reports received state that 4,000 soldiers In the various barracks at Me?slna were buried under the ru ins. The Rock of Charybdls now blocks tho entrance to the strait of Messina. Tho tidal wave wrecked the lighthouse In the strait, including Faro Raecon, and they crashed into the sea. APPEAL TQ AMERICANS. They Arc Asked to Aid Earthquake " Sufferers. ' The American National JJrd Cross at Washington, D. C, Tuesday sent out telegraphic requests to all its branches for relief funds to be applied to suf ferers from the earthquake in southern Italy. The Red Cross will have to wait un til contributions are received In re sponse to the appeal sent out today, as the balance remaining In the treasury Is but $2,000, which will bo kept In reserve for emergencies In the United States. Contributions of clothing for the earthquake sufferers are not recom mended by the American Red Cross. Mabel T. Boardman, of the executive committee of the society, Tuesday re plied to an Inquiry saying It was not thought desirable to send clothing and supplies at this time, but that relief should be in the form of money con tributions, which should be remitted promptly to the American Red Cross. FAMINE IN PRINT PAPER. Drought In Paper Making Territory Hinders the Manufacture. That a famine In the news print paper Is Hke'y to result from a much longer continuance of the present dry spell in paper making territory is in dicated In statements made Tuesday by officials of the International Paper company. Many mills which have been compelled to run on hort time n several departments owing to low water, will bo forced to shut down entirely within four weeks unless rain falls, the officials eay. Such a shutdown would, It Is said, cut off shipments to. a number of big dallies and result In the laying off of thousands of men who only recently resumed work after being on strike for three months. Not the One lie Signed. President Johnson, of the American Baseball league, announced Tuesday that he would endeavor to have recon sidered the national commission's deci sion on the alleged ticket scalping In Chicago during the world's champion ship series. He declared the decision given out was not the one he had agreed to have his name signed to. Diiwoll Get Dwlslon. Jem Drlscoll, the English feather weight, outboxed Matty Baldwin, of Boston, at the Armory Athletic club In Boston Tuesday night, and gained the decision without being at any time In serious danger. Meet In Protest. Several growers of tobacco met Tuesday at Hartford, Conn., and de clared war on the proposition to lower .he tariff on tobacco. St. Louis to Raise) Funds. Lelghton Shields, of St. Louis, secre tary of the Missouri branch of the Na tional Red Cross society, took Imme diate steps Tuesday toward the collec tions of funds to be sent to the earth quake sufferers in Italy. Gov. Floyd Anks Alii. Gov. Floyd, of New Hampshire, In a proclamation Issued Tuesday night, called for contributions for relief of the earthquake sufferers In Italy, PEOPLE IN A PANIC. Southern Part of Italy Devastated by Earthquake, The three provinces of Cosenza, Catanzaro and Regglo dl Calabria, comprising the department of Cala bria, which forms tho southwestern extremity of Italy, or "the toe of the boot," were devuittated Monday by an earthquake, the far reaching effects of which were felt almost throughout the entire country. The town of Mes sina, In Sicily, was partially destroyed, and Catania was Inundated. In Mes sina hundreds of houses have fallen, and many persons have been killed. Owing, however, to the fact that tele graphic and telephonic communica tions were nlnviSt completely destroy ed It is Impossible to obtain even an approximate Idea of tne vust damage done. The fate" of entire regions with in the zone of the earthquake Is un known, but report, received at Rome up to a late hour Monday night Indi cate that the havno has been great and tho destruction to life and prop erty more terrible than Italy has ex perienced In many years. The uncer tainty of the situation for many thou sands has tilled nil Italians with the deepest distress, for they still have fear that the day nicy come when that part of the country which seems to huve becfi mutt bless-cd by nature will be destroyed by tho blind forccB of that same nature which nearly nine teen centuries ago overwhelmed Pom- pelt and Herculaneum. All reports show that the present catastrophe embrace a larger area than the earthquake In 1 905 The tid al wave which followed the earth quakes on the eastern coast of Sicily sunk vessels and Inundated the lower partof Catania. It Is known that a number of people .were killed at that place, but the rushing waters carried everything before them and caused such an indescribable confusion that it will be Impossible for some time to estimate thdamage and the lives lost. For a pi Mod the town of Messina and the' whole province of Regglo were completely Isolated through In terruptlons to the telegraph and tele phone, and landslides that obstructed the railway.). Absolutely nothing v. aa heard from Regglo throughout the day, whjle the first news from. Messina came in the form of a dispatch which a torpedoboat Hying nt full speed along the coast carried from point to point, always finding the wires down, untjl It reached Nlcotera, where the tsc graph lines were found to be intact. f BRIDE FOR SEVENTH TIME. A ' Madeline Marshal!, Actress, Marries Paterson Real lCstnte Man. Madoiioe Marshall, of New - York, a well know actress, appears again In the role of a "blushing bride" her seventh performance. The event took place In Hoboken, N. J., ut the home of Justice of the Peace Ivins, who of-ficated.- ' The bridegroom, Michael Coakley, a real estate man of Paterson, N. J., had led two other brides to the alter. Harry Kelley, "Miss" Marshall's stage partner, recalled that this was her seventh venture on the matrimon ial sea. Mrs. Caokley's maiden name was Devina Tara piesop. She Is still a young woman and has two daughters, who appear in a pony ballet. Jon n il'Ari! In a. Vision. The Itulia publishes a report, at Rome, which caused a sensation In ecclesiastic circles that Joan of Arc re cently appeared In a vision to the pope and addressed to him solemn words of encouragement, exhorting him to con tinue his present policies, which she promised would shortly be crowned with triumph. Holland Holds Her Hand. ,' The foreign office MtTnday at the Hague made a statement that the trouble between Venezuela and Hol land is regarded as provisionally at an end and that the Netherlands intends to hold Its hand pending the progress of the new Gomez admlnstratlon at Caracas. For Advancement of Science. With 2,000 members In attend ance the sixtieth annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened at Johns Hopkins university Monday at Baltimore. The seslons continue throughout tho week. Big Swindle la Alleged. Charges that J. R. Marklay, E. D. Graves, D. W. Graves, John B. Wel come and Lee Mantle diverted large sums from the Mexican Plantation as soctiitlon to themselves are made In a petition at Chicago Monday by Joseph Sanders. PlaTf For Soldiers. Civil employment under the gover nment for soldiers honorably dlcharged after six years' service Is reoommended by Maj. Gen. Frederick D. Grant, com mander of the department of the lakes in his annual report made p&blic af Chicago Monday. Two SlUps hi Collision. The British steamer Advance and the British bark Iverna were In a col lision off Newcastle, N. S. W. The Ad vance went down, and with the except ion of her first officers all the mem bers lost" their lives. The Iverna put into Newcastle leaking badly. Riot Follows. An Edict. Orders were Issued Satutday to a' number of natives at Tungan, China, to cease planting opium popples. They declined to acquiesce and a riot fol lowed In which one officer and teq civilians were killed. A Divlno Commits Suicide, Rev. Robert Dougherty, pastor of the Congregational church at Buchan an, N. D., has commltttid suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. It Is believed he wax temporarily Insane, j NEBRASKA j STATE NEWS ! m ' a OFFICII OF NORMAL SCHOOL. Wayne Wllllnjr to Donate Private In stitution to tho State. The legislature Is ftolng tu be asked to approprlHtu $10Ui0 to purchase the property of the Nebraska Normal collego at Wayne.- The trustees of the college nt a recent meeting decided to offer the properly to the state. It Is arpuod that iit:rihei'.t N"bnlii lias no state eduii'.ioiiil limt'.tii'.ioi, uud needs one. 11 Already the truMees are sending out circulars as follows: Wayne, Neb., Dee. lit, lflns. Reso lutions passed and ir,ned by the hoard of trustees and president of Nebraska Normal college ut a meeting held on above date In the oMch of J. T. llres ler. of WH.vne: Whereas, The Nebraska Normal col lege, of Wayne. Neb., has been in suc cessful operation seventeen years and hua a well equipped nermul school plant, consisting of two recitation buildings, five dorrnitorle3, president's residence, central heating plant all supplied with complete lines of appro priate apparatus with a value of more than $100,000 and could not be duplicated at prei.c:it for that sum; and Whereas. The. trustees of said Ne braska college and educators of north Nebraska believe the educational In terests of this section of the state would bo advanced by estublltiiliig and maintaining a state normal school at Wayne, Neb. Therefore, be It resolved. Thut the trustees and tho president of the Nebraska .Normal col lege tender to the stute of Nebraska for $100,000 the entire property of tho college for the establishment and maintenance of a Vtate normal school by the slate. .'. This is signed by President J. M. Pile and Trustees J. T. Brow-h r H. ('. Ley. S. R. Theobald. A. A.. Welch. A L. Tucker, II. F. Wilson, Dun Harrington. H. C. Henney and R. Phlllco. KILLS CRIPPLED SON. Lincoln Father Then Commits Suicide. Hiul Been hi III Health. Herman Weidburg. of Lincoln, a hack driver, 35 years old, killed liia ,9-year-old son, and then shot himself, dying almost Instantly. The murdered child, who was u crip ple, never having been able to walk, was asleep with another brother. Ac cording to the story of the second sorf, the father came to tho bed. lifted little Sidney out, placing him on the floor, and Bhot him twice through the -heart. Satisfying himself that his boy was dead, the man turned the weapon on himself. Wledburg has for some time been in poor health, and his condition lately became worse. He called a doctor, who gave him little encouragement. Brooding over his own ailment and that of the boy supposedly prompted the act. STRAIGHTEN ELKIIORN RIVER. Made Necessary by the Changes Made In Ixgan Crock. The plan of straightening the Klk- ! horn river by cutting channels screw many of Its numerous bends, which hns been talked of for a number of years by farmers owning lands adjoining It Is likely to be realized. To accomp lish 'this will require the co-operation of both Douglas and Sarpy counties and it Is made practically n.eees.-mry by the proposed straightening of Lni-pe creek through Thurston, Burt ant' Dodge counties.' Logan creek Is 16H miles In length, but If the cutoffs pro i posed by the federal government en gineers are dug It will be reduced to only about sixty miles, and duiin" high water It will empty a larger flow Into the Elkhorn than that crooked eratlc stream can onrry. The plar proposed contemplates a new drainagr district under the Knowles law. BROKE THROUGH THE. ICE. II. T. Bowers Lose Life While KU.it lug at Lincoln. Despite the efforts of his compnil--Miss Janet Ramey. H. T. B:wor. "1 years of age, lost his life while skew ing at Lincoln park. He broke through tho thin Ice nnd drowned, more than a hundred skaters wliue.M Ing the tragedy. Miss Ramey screamed for help a. id at tho same time skated out on the thin Ice and attempted to reach Mr Bowers with a buanch th:U she ha-' caught up. His body wus rceove-c' three-quarters of nn hour after II sank. Bowers was prominent In so ciety and his family -Is well h'oivn. hl9 father - being state secretary ft.' tho GldoonsN Dentil nf WiNt Point Woman. Mrs. A mil oil us Derr. of West Point Is dead ot nn advanced nc;e. She tin been seriously ill for two yenr pa'" with nn Incurable malady, which ter minated In n severe hemni-rnairc of tlv lungs, causing death. She Iravm husband anil a family of frown child ren. Man Dies at Police Mm I Ion. J. E. Forties, who guvo his isli!i r as Council Bluffs, but about whom 'It tie Is known, died nt the police statl-i" In Omaha Snturd.iy from heart, fi'l' uro brought on by chronic ulcolntllsin Machinery for Lhtlit Plain. The machinery for Mct'ook's new electric light plunt arrived la:it wi-cl-on Wednesday. The new bulldlni are rapidly nearlng completion. Held for Diamond Theft. Jutus Soudder of Orr-nd IhIuikI l. awaiting trail ut Hastings on tin charge of larceny and forgery. He ! accused of having stolen a diamond from the Sims jewelry store while negotiating for Its purchase with n forged check. Poultry Show a Suct-ess. The chicken and pet stock show which closed Saturday at Nebruska City, was a success In every way. There were over 800 entries and the attendance was very larre. BOG IS GAME LAWS. Advertising Grafter Trimming Country Merchants. v Merchants out In some of the small towns of the state are patronizing a traveling advertising man, Instead of their local newspapers, and ' eonse quently are liable to get Innocent par ties Into trouble. The scheme being worked Is to print on u card the game laws for 1908-09 and veil advertising space on the cards to the merchant. Copies of the card have been received by Game Warden Carter, who de nounced the man who Is doing the business as a mighty bad man. Here Is what Mr. Carter said: "There are no game laws for 1908 09. The legislature which- Is shortly to meet may change all of the game laws on the statute books. The clreu 'itlon of these cards might get Inno cent parties Into trouble because they il!Tht think they are really the game laws of the ct.ite. The man who got up the advertising scheme did not even use the present game laws. I have written to I'overul parties who have sent me cards and told tbey are all wrong Insofar a they relate to the Fame laws." Mr. Curler received some of the card" from' Falrbury and they contained advertising matter from merchants of that town. LINCOLN'S CITY CHARTER. Mayor 'lliinks Commission Should Have Pny. Mayor Brown, of Lincoln, who has Just recently returned home from an absence of several weeks at Excelsior Springs, where he went to rest up af ter election, has bvgun to look Into the ma iter (f the city government by com mlf.sUui. Mayor Brown Is opposed to the l-'en of having a commission to serve without p:iy. He believes such h Cii.i.niliKion will not attend to the duties of tho city government and bu.-ine-s men should not be asked to give their time to the city for nothing. WhiV the inffktug of tho charter h;i Kone on In the absence of the mayor and with little advice or sug gestion from him, the people here now rcu!!::e th.-.l II In lme hi honor was helng consulted. Therefore a number of lending cll.'ssejis have dropped Into his i.f're during the la.'t few days to get !;.- advice. LIT BV THE .MILLERS. Attn !i h;-.':':ct:irv Wilson's Bleached Hour Ortler. Tho South Platte division of the Ne biat'kn Mlllcro' association In an ani mated meeting at Lincoln Tuesday af ternoon discufed pinna for appealing to the federal court for relief from So rotary WlNon'a order against bleached Hour. The millers asserted the ukase would cause the Nebraska millers heavy loss nnd would ruin the Industry In the state. They accused Wilson of gratifying o private grudge. It was tacitly agreed to Beck relief In the courts. The millers also framed an emphatic protest ugains.1 tho Increase In frctrlit tuivs aflted- fwjsvthc Nejjjraj- ka ra.in a.:s. WOMW AT DANNEBOHG KILLED I '(II Into a Cellar Way and Skull Is Critf-li.tl Dies Instantly. Whllo doln somei Christmas shop ping In the ft ore -of the Danneborg Mercantile company, Mrs. Didrlk Jep son i'tej'ped into nn open cellar-way through Hie floor and fell to the floor below in ii('h n manner that the skull war crushed, and she lived only a few minutes after. She was one of the earlier Danish eel tiers, coming to 1 lunneM'nit,' in 1872. Her surviving husband has been confined to his bed for a long time by, serious illness. VALENTINE MAN MI RDERED C. V. M:iss:ii- ale Kl!!il at Eldorado, .i 1;., nnd Robbed. V. Masnlpgale, aged B0 years, of Vulci'tipo, Net)., who has been in El dorHdo, Ark., for several months, was robbed of about $200 Wednesday night find killed. His body was found near he .school building In Eldorado, Lee Coombs, a farmer living about four n-,l!oi from Eldorado, who was ar rested In Little Rock last summer, said have been charged with larceny. Is V Id in eonnoetlon with the killing. SHARE PROFITS WITH KM PLOYE8 I!vli!c M;.r 'Mum $ 1.000 Among 1 heir Workmen. In inli'ltliui to the distribution of 'fl! turkeys nmnim Its employes, the Dempster Mill Manufacturing com nny of I -'eat i Ice gave added reason 'or rrnny Christmas by declralng ho seni-nniiiuil profit sharing. Dlvl 'ends .iu-t distributed for the last half f the ye-r me' .''.fln.63. This year ".e rati- Is K per cent against 8 per "cut l:is! veer. " ' tiri!on for Clements. Lieut. G'.v; Hopewell has decided 'if! li l V. Clements, nf Sarpy cnun v e'louM 'e- v-e nit the remained rof :i slxtei n yi -i r term for murder. He us e:. iv! !," I of killing Luke Golden i the r'it I'tvls of South Omaha about f.vo yen i n n go. Ei.t "v 1 iV.Miucr Returns. .Ir.nic!' '. v. -on. who was In an '( re. ill k: wit'i VI!i:iin Held' at Mil- rii li'i-t cu-.ic er. in whk'h Held was f-!.bei inil uh i escaped from the c only 'ill a S( ward on the night of vptemt n- I". w:is returned to Seward eiinly Jail t y I'herlir (Jllan Thursday. S' V ' 1 !! licilrV Ht McCOOk. MeL'rnk'.N $r,O.H00 MiiKonlo temple it. em house project U nearlne; the mint '-f en-insure. It is hoped that e bnl'dlng Mill be completed by titiiy spring. For Fi'ii'K'fK liiMlttite. The county hoard of supervisors ot "timing county have appropriated 8100 for the purpose of holding a farmer.'!' Inttltute In the year 1909. Robber Promptly Captured. TIk. store of J. L, Hopper at Gibbon, 'inn robbed of money uud goods. The robber wan caught '.it Mlnden by Wal ler Summons, of Kearney. He ac knowledged the theft and told where hj htd hidden the g.mda. Vole Bond lor School. A school bond election was held UaU unlay afternoon at Shelby to issue 18,0(10 for a new school building Four thousand dollars hua been accumulat ed In four years by taxation, which will be added tu this fund. ATCCTAT CHICAGO. "The dominant fonture In business circles testify to mistnlr'.ed recovery In both activity nnd confidence. Statistics to some extent Include figures for one day less Uihu a year ago, but the com parison of averages Is gratifying. Pny nients through the banks maintain their recent high volume and trading defaults have declined. The returns exhibit unprecedented local sales of holiday goods, Increased dealings In foodstuffs and further gain In manu facturers. Conditions generally afford much encouragement. Important fac tors are the starting of the steel plant at Gary and enlargement at various points, all assuring employment for large forces of men and .machinery. New demands for pig Iron, rails, equip ment nnd structural materials come forward with less hesitancy. Heavy machinery and hardware lines report Inquiries which promise much work. Structural materials reflect -heavy ton nage needs In the near future. I.nmher yard stocks are less extensive for the winter . than heretofore nnd this strengthens values for grades In best demand. Wholesole merchandise de partments are In tlm lull Incident to the close of the year. Mall orders, how ever, for spring and summer wares reflect prompt country settlements. Grain growers still reap high prices nnd the ""growth of winter wheat and rye Is healthy. The total movement of grnln at this port, 8.00.1,112 bushels, compares with 8,ri0:i,0.'!.'l bushels lust week nnd 8118,205 bushels a year ago. Compared with l'-K)7 there Is decrease In receipts of 10.(1 per cent ami In crease in slitpinents of 4.7 per "wit. Flour receipts were barrels, against 174,801 barrels Inst week and 2i.'0,8o2 barrels a year a ?o. Live stock receipts, .14.1.r21 bend, compared with 40;j'lSl bend last week nnd "Otl.580 bend In 1007. Receipts of hides wci'o 3,571,25(5 pounds, nguinst 2,001,108 pounds Inst week nnd 2,00,3,10'.) pounds in 1007. Lumber receipts were 34.0(13, 000 feet, ngalnst 51,210,000 feet Inst week nnd 27,711,000 a year ngo. Wool receipts, 100,122 pounds, compared with 688,557 Inst week and only 32,000 pounds In 1907, Compared with the closings a week ago, cash prices are ttnehnngod In flour nnd hogs, but lower in t-holce cnttle, 85 -cents peK hundred weight, nud higher lit corn and dnts, ench cent n bushel; ' wheat cents ; ribs, 12' cents a barrel j Bheep 15 cents per hundredweight; pork, 20 cents a barrel ; nnd Inrd, 42' cents a tierce. Failures reported In the Chi cago district number 22, nnglnst 41 last veek, 22 in 1!K)7 and 17 in 1900. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number fl, ngninst 13 Inst week, 7 In 1907 aud 4 In 190(1. Dun's Review. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $1.00 to $0.12; sheep, fulr to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.02 to $1.03; corn, No. 2, 50c to C7c; oats, standard, ISc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 70c; hay, timothy, $8.00 to $13.00; prairie, $8.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 31c: ejtss, fresh, 27e to 31c; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to 70c. . Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; nous, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $5.(iO ; Bheep, .good to choice, $2.50 t fi.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn. No. 2 white, 50c to J0c; onts, No. 2 white, 40c to 51c. ' St. IiOuis Cuttle, $ 1.50 to $7.85 ; Iiorh, $1.00 to $5.05; sheep, $3.00 to $ !.''." ; wheat, No. 2, $1.0(1 to $1.07; corn, No. 2, 57c to 58c; oufs, No. 2, 48c to 49c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 70c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $.".85; Iiors, $4.00 to $5.95 ; sheep, $3.00 . to $4.15; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.07; com, No. 2 mixed, 58e to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, TSc to 80c, . Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $5.50; hosts, $4.00 to $5.5(1 ; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheal, No. 2, $1.(ri to $1.(H; corn, No. 3 yellow, 00c to tile; onts, No. 3 white, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 77c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.01 to $1.07; corn, No. 3, 58c to 59c; outs, standard, 40c to 50c; rye, No. 1, 74o to 75c; Imrley, No. 1, (He to tloc; loi'k, mess, $14.70. Huffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $0.75; hoes, fair to choice, $1.00 to $0.10; sheep, common to good mixed, $1.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5 00 to $7.85. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $5.90; bogs, $3.50 to $0.00; Ktiuep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.08; corn, No. 2, ft'lc to 04c; onts, natural white, 55c to 07c; butter, creamery, 29c to 32c; eggs, western, 2c to 32c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.03 to $1.05; corn, No. 2 mixed, 59c to liOc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78e; clover seed, $5.37. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Northwestern timber magnates have failed to complete the combine begun in Chicago some weeks ago. Another meet ing was held at Duiutb, but some of the large timber owners were still opposed to the consolidation. ' The C, A. Smith Timber Company, with headquarters in Mirueapolis, will apply the principle of reforestation to upward of half a million acres of timber land. This action results directly from the ac tion which la to be taken up by lumber men Ubrougnout America, , WORK OF I I CONGRESS 1; The postal saTlngs blink bill wns b ' or the Senate Thursday for over an bour, Senator Burkett of Nebraska making a comprehensive rgunii nt la favor of its pgrge. The Sen tio list ened nlso to the rending of a tucssag from the President recommending a rhnnge In the form of government of the. District of Columbia, by which a ilngle executive bead would take tha place of the bonrd of three commission era who now Jointly net as a governing oonrd. At 2 :30 o'clock the Senate ad journed until Saturday. By unanimous vote the House adopted a resolution presented by the special committee af Ave calling on the President for proof f his charge that members were fear ful of nn investigation by the secret lervlee agents. The remainder of the Say was given over to consideration of bills on the private calendar, a large lumbar of which were passed. The Senate wns not In session Frl lay. ' Because of the general exodus of members for their homes for tb ' Christmas holidays, the attendnhce in the House was far short of a quorum. Nevertheless a good deal of buslncsa ' was transacted. This consisted mostly of the passage of war claim bills, soma of them giving rise to considerable dla Tussion. , . t : A brief Senate session was devoted . to routine business In accordance wltn the agreement reached before the ad journment Tbursdny. Several messages on minor legislation were received trom the rrestdent and bills nnd other meas ures were Introduced. At 12 :50 o'clock the Senate adjourned until Jan. 4. 1909. After pnsslng a bill granting tha Southern Pacific Railroad Company a right of way across the Fort Mason military reservation in California, tha House, on motion of Mr. Payne, of $eH York, adjourned at 12:14 p. m. till Monday, Jan. 4, 1909. - rroreai ot Snrg-lcal Grattln. During the sessions of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, Dr. Carrel told of the wonders of medical surgery now being performed at tha 4 Rockefeller Institute of New York. - Re cently the leg of a dead dog was grafted en the body of another dog. so that in three weeks tOie wound had bealed and the dog was able to use tho new leg with perfect control. DrXarrel also told f V the transplanting of cats' kidneys, evea after the organs bnd been In storage sixty days. Unman arteries and jngular vslna . have been interchanged and the patients have not been able to tell the difference The chief difficulty in the way of apply ing these methods to saving human Ufa Is to find healtihy organs to transplant. ' Dr. Keen suggested that when a healthy. man died bis kidneys and other organs bo .' kept in cold storage until some patient tbould be in need of them. Already tha knee Joint from the leg of a dead man has been used to replace an Injured Joint n a living person. '' Lockjaw Sensations Deaertfce4. Dr. F. W. Grundman of St Loul who has recently recovered from tha dreaded disease, lockjaw, which ht eos traded as the result of a cut on tha knee, caused by a fall from a street car, givai an Interesting account of how he follow -ed the symptoms from the first Indica tion. About a week after .tha accident when the knee was all bealed, he noticed that he bad a slight fever and that tha muscles of his neck pained and were con stricted. Spasmodic Jerklngs at ttbe limbs followed, and soon the muscles al the jaw began slowly to contract. He sent for a doctor and used all his will power to control the muscles until the . physician arrived with tha antitexkg , . serum. In one day about a fluid ounoa was injected, and though the jawa eonp tlnued to lock, a victory was finally woi and the doctor lives to tell the story. A Post Card Panle. The post card business is serleqsly da pressed at present, while some at tha great foreign markets are bordering on panic. Over-production and wild specu- lafttan In the commodity are the causes. Tha public has watched the gradual en croachment of the souveulr . post card with surprise, perhaps, but wltheut re alising the enormous proportions af thai industry. In order to supply tha little stands in every store,, at every cross roads the country over, - aart Immense industry has been developed In practically all civ ilised lands. Incidentally the United States Imported from Germany In a sin gle year more than $0,000,000 worth of the bits of cardboard. The post card panic is most acute at present In Ger many. The card Industry lost heavily, is large orders were canceled. NEWS OF MINOR NOTE. " Twenty men were hurt in ' a railroad collision near Brussels, Belgium. Trustees of Columbia university, New York,' decided te gi-e tho alumni repre sentation on the board, i Several persons were hurt In a clash between artillery men and citizens at Port Townsend, Wash. Reports from Hawaii indicate a record pineapple crop for 1908 far la excess at iny production yet recorded.' . . . Woman nu'Tr.'sVH nrs said to be pre paring for a eriin.ide nt Albany when the New York legislature assembles. Rear Admiral Maaon, chief of ordnance, in bis annual report, says tho big guns en American warships are the equal of any In the world. Frederick J. M. Rhodes, cotialn of Cecil Rhodes, In an intarview at Mexico City, said ha considered war between England and Germany certain. Dr. Cyrus Northrop, president af tha University of Minnesota, will retire al tke end of the present college year. lie hag held the position twenty-five yean. i V