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Li >up City Northwestern V PLUME XXVI _LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , APRIL 22, 1909 NUMBER 24 < tant Events Here and There > Vttt <r w w w w ttt Foreign. Newspapers of Madrid express lit tle regret at the expiration three days ago of article four, of the treaty of Paris, which gave Spain equal com mercial privileges with the United States in the Philippine Islands. FVuring the voyage of the Cunard liner. Luscania. which sailed from New York April 7, for Liverpool, two young women (Americans i, who had occu pied a second-class together, commit ted suicide by shooting. Tue bodies buried at sea. With but a short distance separat ing them from their home port and a market for their catch, the :10o men comprising the crew of the sealing steamer Vanguard, were forced to abandon their ship and all on board, the results of a months’ strenuous work, when the steamer's main shaft was broken among the ice fields of New Foundland. A catch of 9,000 seals went down with the steamer. A dispatch irom Messina to a local newspaper declares that, notwith standing reports to the contrary, the king and queen, who recently visited the earthquake districts, are greatly displeased with the small amount of work so far accomplished. A permanent company for the pro duction in Germany of English plays in English, under the management of Madame Meta Illing. will open at the Royal theater in Wiesbaden, May 17. The French government lias in formed the state department of its determination to put into effect im mediately the declsoin to expel former President C. Castro of Venezuela from Fort de France, Martinique, and compel him to return to Europe. Genera?. , Turks have begun a massacre of Armenians in Asia Minor.' James A. Patten, in cornering the wheat market, was aided by seeing farther than most people and realiz ing that crop conditions for two or three years have been in his favor. President Taft sent a message to congress urging th° passage of a Phil ippine tariff bill. The high price of wheat will cause a boost in bread. The Brazilian government has con cluded permanent arbitration treaties during the week with the United States. France, Portugal. Spain and Mexico. frr - The senate ratified a. new patent treat* between the United States and Germany. On tiie seventy-first joint ballot for United States senator in Illinois Hop kins received 74 votes. Foss 16. Strin ger 57. Representative Scott (Kansas), chairman of the house committee on agriculture, introduced a bill to pro hibit dealing in futures of wheat, corn and other agricultural products. President Taft went to New Hum* to attend a meeting of Yale ccll^wtra tion. visiting in New York by the way. Bakers of Ohicago appeal to Secre tary Knox for assistance in their bat tle with the wheat combine. i ne raci mat nines nave oeen put on the free list indicates that the Mas sachusetts shoemakers ?re more pow erful politically than the agricultural west that grows hides. By a vote of 84 to 54 the Missouri house of representatives passed the bill submitting a constitutional amend ment providing for statewide prohibi ten to a vote of ihe qualified electors of the state. Benjamin Thaw, well known banker and half brother cf Harry Thaw, is critically ill from pneumonia at his home near Pittsburg. Pa. Vice President Sherman was a speaker at the Utica chamber of com merce banquet. President Taft has been urged to put a premium on sobriety in the army. Theodore Roosevelt, in a cablegram from Port Said to a Paris newspaper, denies that he gave any interviews to French correspondents at Naples. He says he never saw the correspondent of Le Journal, whose “interview” with Mr. Roosevelt was widely published. The season of aerial flights is soon to begin at Fort Mayer. A fire in Rochester, N. Y.. destroyed property worth $500,01*0. The summer home of President Taft will be a house on Woodbury Point at Beverly, owned by Robert D. Evans of Boston. ^ ' After the death of Boston Stainaker at a cheap lodging house in Parkers burg. W. Va„ it was learned that be had $100,ObO worth of property. Robert Rice, a wealthy planter, and his wife of Santa Anna. Tex., are dead from the effects of wounds inflicted by the same bullet. ' Lorando Taft, who has been award ed the commission for the Columbus memorial fountain to be erected in the Union Station plaza at Washington, D. C., receives the first prize of $20, 000. Crazy Snake is as hard to find as the traditional needle in the haystack. Thirty-two people were killed in a riot among miners in Mexico. Wheat prices continue to climb de spite the favorable wheat weather all because of speculation. Troops revolted at Constantinople, surrounded parliament and demanded resignation of the ministry. juua Tifif T Gov. Shallenberger of Nebraska has issued his Arbor Day proclamation. The time is Thursday, April 22d. The French government is to pre sent San Francisco with a commemor ative gold medal. Presidents of several of the anthra cite coal railroads held a conference to discuss the situation growing out of the failure of the coal operators to reach any agreement with the miners. A movement is on foot in Nicaragua to displace President Zelaya. A reduction of $20,000,000 is the esti mated effects of the house amend ments to the Payne bill on revenues. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson de cided that the claim of the New York Central railroad for $36,000 for ex penses in fumigating its cars under the foot and mouth quarantine order is unjust, and has notified the com pany the department will decline to pay the claim. At El Paso. Tex., Clay Radeliffe, 17 years old. shot and killed Blanche At kinson, 17 years old. because she had broken her engagement to marry him. Mayor I'nterkircher of Davenport. Ia.. issued orders that all the gamb ling houses and sporting houses in the city be closed and the tenants driven out of the city. Washington. The democratic senators will not delay the passage of the tariff bill. At their second conference there was a general consensus of opinion of per mitting the republicans to conclude the measure and assume the entire responsibility. The democrats take exception to the statement that the postponement, of proceedings was due to their request. Treasury estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1910, must be ready for submission to Secretary McVeagh on May 1 next, six and one hair months earlier than estimates for former years. Orders to this effect by Secretary McVeagh are in con formity with President Taft's ex pressed wish. Carrying out their pledge for a cleaner Washington, society women were out in full force supervising the clearing of the streets of all floating paper and debris not gathered up by the rubbish carts. The scheme was inaugurated by the women of the Twentieth Century club. A vacancy in the office of chaplain of the Davy will be filled by the ap pointment of a minister of the Metho dist Episcopal church, and Secretary Mever will ask the board of bishops soon to meet in Richmond to nominate a candidate. The Times of this city says that Mr. llryan will make the race for United States senator from Nebraska. Fruit jobbers of Omaha, Lincoln, Sioux City and the whole west are wiring their senators protesting against the proposal of the Aldrich bill to double the tariff on lemons. Senator Burkett notified the New England senators who are making the fight for free hides, that he will talk two months on the tariff bill before he will allow hides to go on tne free list. He is convinced that the live stock interest gets the benefit of this tariff and he proposes to insist that it be retained. Wool, hide and coal, in which Ne Jgsaska, Iowa, Wyoming. South Dakota and inter-mountain states are greatly interested, will be taken care of by the senate tariff bill. A medal in gold, the gift of the French government, commemorative of the restoration of San Francisco from the fire and earthquake of three yearsc ago. is to be presented in per son to the authorities of that city by Ambassador Jusserand between May 20 and 25. According to the official report of the department of foreign affairs of Japan. 307 more Japanese returned to their native country from the United States and Hawaii during March than entered the states and Hawaii. - Personal. Western senators say free shoes must accompany free hides. Delegates to the Kappa Delta con vention called on the president. School children of Des Moines have petitioned Roosevelt not to kill wild animals. Death is announced of Sir Donald Currie, the well known English ship owner. Gompers is going to Europe to study the labor situation. Rear Admiral Sakamota of the Jap anese navy visited the naval academy at Annapolis. - Wade H. Ellis was called into con ference by President Taft to help straighten out the tangle which exists in the filling of a number of federal officers in Ohio. Lord Kitchener will cross Canada 'this summer on his return trip from India. Tewfik Pasha has been appointed grand vizier, Rifaat Pasha. 7 foreign minister, and Ahmed Pasha, minister of war of Turkey. Grover Walker, president of the First National bank of Hoxie, Kas., : was so dangerously injured in a mo tor car accident that he died. Joseph J. Hanks, a cousin of Abra ham Lincoln, died at Bloomington, III. Mrs. Louise Ann Harris, a second cousin of President Jefferson Davis, of the confederate states, died at Mobile. Andrew Carnegie has given an Omaha church $1,000 toward securing a pipe organ. The remains cf ex-Secretary Hitch cock, who died in Washington, were buried at St. Louis. Governor Lilly of Connecticut is believed to be fatally ill. Cameroon Forbes is likely to be ap pointed governor of the Philippines to succeed James F. Smith. i TIE DEBATE STARTS SENATOR ALDRICH WILL MAKE GENERAL STATEMENT. SENATOR DANIEL WILL FOLLOW Democrats Will Urge an Income Tax As the Best Means for Swelling Government Receipts. Washington.—The tariff debate in the senate will begin Monday imme diately after the close of the routine business. Senator Aldrich, chairman of the committee on finances, will open the proceedings with a general statement in support of the bill and ' he will be followed by Senator Daniel, the senior democratic senator, who is expected to outline the democratic po sition regarding the measure. Sena tor Aldrich will go into detail in expla nation ot the various changes made by his committee and it is understood will undertake to show that the bill, as reported, will be a strong revenue producer. Senator Daniel and other democrats will take the opposite view. They de clare that the weakness of the Pavne AJdrich bill is found in that it-will not insure sufficient income to permit the governmental business to proceed without the addition of other features which will put money into the national treasury. The democratic senators will urge an income tax as the most rational and most prolific means of increasing the receipts. All of them will support an income tax provision and in addi tion some of them will strenuously urge a tax on all dealings in futures. They will have the support of some of the republican senators, but will not receive assistance from any of the members of the committee on finance as they take the position thai, with greater economy and improved* business conditions which all are pre dicting the bill will insure sufficient revenue to meet the demands of the' government. There will not he in the senate as in the house any sharp dividing line be tween general debate and the discus sion of amendments to the schedules, hut on the contrary at is expected that immediately after the close of the Al drich and Daniel speeches the readr ing of the bill will proceed with a view to considering amendments whenever they may he offered. If senators desire to make set speeches, even on the general sub ject of the tariff, they will he per mitted to do in connection with the consideration of the different sched ules. If it is found necessary, there will be a lengthening ol' the daily ses sions. The democrats profess as great anxiety as the republicans for the early disposition of the measure. Among the republicans who will speak on the bill are Messrs. Dodge, Brown, Carter, Cummins. Cullom, Heyburn. McCumber, Nelson and Smith of Michigan, while the. democratic ora tors will include Senators Bailey, Ba con, Bankhead. Clay. Gore, Johnston. Money, Newlands. Rayner and Smith of South Carolina. The house will be in session on Monday and Thursday only and no business will he done on either day beyond making provisions for the next census. MASSACRE OF TWO THOUSAND. Turcoman Tribesman Put to Death Men, Women and Children. St. Petersburg—Advices to the Russ from Teheran report a massacre of 2,000 persons, including women and children, by Turcoman tribesmen at Astrahad. There is no confirmation here of the massacre, but the Russian government is sending a detachment of troops to that place. The city of Astrubad in Persia recently was cap tured by revolutionists, who later were routed by the Turcoman tribes men. Col. Augur Dies Suddenly. Manila.—Colonel Jacob Augur of the Tenth cavalry died suddenly of apo plexy at Fort McKinley Sunday. He had called a meeting of the regiment's officers at 10 o'clock in the morning and soon after they had begun to gathered he was stricken and died at 7 o'clock in the evening. Cudahys to Give Bond. Topeka. Kan.—A formal meeting be tween United States officials and rep resentatives of the Cudahy Packing company, has been arranged to be held at Kansas City, Kan., when papers will be served on the corporation members and the $50,000 bond required by the court will be arranged. New Locomotives Ordered. Boston. Mass.—Orders for fifty new locomotives for the Boston & Maine railroad at a cost of half a mil lion dollars have been issued. Ne gotiations are pending for an increase in other lines of rolling stock. Joan of Arc Celebration. Rome.—In the presence of 30,000 French pilgrims, practically all the bishops of France, many cardinals and family descendants of the new saint, the solemn ceremonies in the beautification of Joan of Arc wTere carried out in St. Peters Sunday. Ac cording to the Rubric, the pope does not attend beatifications in person, but as a mark of special devotion he as sisted in the afternoon at a solemn benediction, which replaced the cere money of the veneration of relics, none existing in this case. GOING UP. IS DIE IN A HOTEL FIRE FRISCO HOSTELRY ABLAZE AS MATRONS SLEEP. Nearly 200 in Bed When Flames Start—-Bodies Taken frt>m Ruins. is - San. Francisco.—Six bodies rewr ered and eight or ten others burled in the ruins: six injured, one fatally, and property loss of $125,000, are the results of a fire Friday that destroyed the St. George hotel, a lodging house for laborers at Howard and Eighth streets, and eighr other small build ings. The bodies taken to the morgue were so charred that identification was impossible. The hotel was a three-story frame building and burned so rapidly that none of the ISO guests had time to dress, and many escaped by jumping to the roof of an adjoining workshop. Scores clambered down the ladders of the firemen and the fire escapes, and at least four jumped to safety into the net held by the fire fighters. When the fire was discovered short ly after three o’clock. Night Clerk Ar thur Gronhk, three or four other em ployes, and Policeman W. F. Kruger ran through the house arousing the sleeping tenants. In the smoke-filled halls they direct ed the half-crazed men to the exits. Great confusion and panic prevailed, so that it was with great difficulty that men were able to find their way through the labyrinth of halls which threaded the 400 small rooms. Firemen and police worked he roically,and but for their efforts the loss of life would have been much greater. Two hundred people were in the ho tel when the fire broke out One hun dred and thirty of these wrere regular boarders, and the rest transients. Of the regular boarders 30 were unac counted for, but many of them es caped in the confusion, and neglected to report their safety. Rochester, N. Y.—The act of a fire bug which Tuesday rendered 1,000 per sons homeless, when flames swept the city, has caused terror here. The militia is parading the streets guarding the few articles of furniture saved by the victims. Swept along In the face of a 25 mile gale, the fire destroyed several sections of the city and did damage estimated at $1,000,000. It is believed the fire is of incendiary origin and the police are investigating. Prison for Soul Mater. Chicago.—Marion Grey of the Searchlight dub of Elgin. 111., must serve one year in a prison cell for her work in mating souls of rich but lone some men and handsome but lovesick widows. Judge Landis' sentence in the case was Tuesday affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals. No error was found in the records and the attorney for the girl matrimonial agent. Elijah N. Zoline,-who took her case after a reported squabble between Miss Grey and her trial counsel, was informed in the decision that "if any error was committed it was Invited error.” Egg Prohibition Preacher. Chillicothe, O —I^ev. C. W. Eldredge of Cincinnati, while delivering a speech in favor of “drvs" dt Adelphi. a small town near here, was given a shower of rotten eggs by a crowd of "wet" by standers. Mistaken for Burglar; Killed. Emporia. Kan.—Griffith Hugheys, aged IS years, died Friday as the re sult of having been shqf by his younger brother, Owen, who mistook him for a burglar and fired upon him in the dark. i 1111 SOUNDS ROOSEVELT PRAISE. Senator Cummins Places Ex-President Ahead of Washington and Lauds Aldrich and Cannon. Washington.—Senator Albert B. j Cummins, the strenuous former gover nor of Iowa, who succeeded Senator Allison in the upper house of congress, jarred the Men's club of Mount Pleas ~ant' Congregational church with the statement that Roosevelt was greater than Washington. While his hearers were trying to ad just themselves to that point of view. Senator Cummins ran in the statement that Daniel Webster was a dub com pared with Senator Aldrich,.and that Henry Clay was not in Speaker Can non’s class. , •'Theodore Roosevelt," said the sen ' ator in his talk to the church club. “I I consider a stronger man than George Washington, the Father of His Coun try.’ Perhaps this sounds like treason, but it is not meant for that. Theodore Roosevelt, it is well known, faced prob lems day after day which Gen. Wash ington could never have met with suc cess, but from which he would have had to recoil helpless. GOTCH AN EASY WINNER. World’s Wrestling Champion Defeats Turk in Two Straight Falls Without Trouble. Chicago. — Frank Gotch of Iowa, (he world's heavyweight wrestling champion, Wednesday night in Dexter Park pavilion easily defeated YusifT Mahmout, the latest inii>ortation of "terrible Turks.” Gotch won the match in straight falls. It took the champion only eight minutes to pin the shoulders of Mahmout to the mat in the first fall. The Turk stayed one minute longer when they faced each other the next time and went down after nine min utes of struggling. Gotch showed his superiority at every angle of the game and the great crowd was sur prised as well as disappointed at the poor showing of Yussif. Gotch won both falls with a crotch and half nelson and made no effort to get his famous toe hold on the Turk. Celebrated Defaulter Free. Ossining, X. Y. — A celebrated defalcation case was recalled by the release from Sing Sing prison oj Cornelius J. Alvord, formerly note teller of the First National bank of Newr \ ork city. Alvord was sentenced to a total ot 13 years' imprisonment on January 16. 1901, for making false entries in the books of the first Na tional bank to cover up defalcations said to have aggregated $620,000, ex tending over a period of several years. Nelson to Fight McFarland. Chicago. — Battling Nelson and Packey McFarland Friday signed an agreement to light for the .'light weight championship of the world before James Coffroth's club at Colma, Cal.. July 5. The winner gets 75 and the ldser"23 per cent, of the receipts. They are to weigh 133 pounds at eight o'clock In. the morning and the battle is to take place at 2:30 in the after noon. Women Clean Capital Streets. Washington—Carrying out their pledge for a cleaner Washington, "white wings" in the persons of so ciety’ matrons and others were out in full force bright and early Thursday supervising the clearing the streets of the city of all floating paper and de bris not gathered up by the rubbish carts. The scheme which was in augurated by the women of the Twen tieth Century club, was that the city should be free of all floating debris. The appearance of the streets Friday indicates the movement w as a success. SLAVING OF TWO MOSLEMS AVENGED BY 6.000 ENRAGED TURKS. AMERICANS ARE IN DANGER Massacre Occurs at Mersina Where the Christians Have Missions— Mutinous Marines Lynch Vic.e-Ad- \ miral in Constantinople. Constantinople.—Reports fros/ Mer sina. a seaport of Asia Minor on the Mediterranean. Thursday, told of a massacre of Armenians by Turks, in which it is feared many were kilted. Enraged at the murder of two Mos lems by an Armenian and the fact that the assassin was not appre hended, the Mohammedan population of Mersina. which counts a total of 10.000 inhabitants, took the law into its own hands and attacked the Ar menian quarters. The Christian communities of Mer sina are ifj)phaling to the consuls here for help. Two -American missions are repre sented at Mersina. The trouble at Mersina is in no way connected with the political up heaval at Constantinople of the last two days. It involves a recrudescence of the Armenian question, which is religious and racial, and has nothing to do with the internal policies of Turkey. Mersina is 36 miles bv rail south east of the city of Adana. It counts 6.000 Mohammedans and some 3,500 Christians. It has a station of the synod of the Reformed Presby.erian Church in North America and an out station of the American Hoard of Com missioners for Foreign Missions. The record of 1907 shows that Rev. C. A Dodds. Rev. R. J. Dodds and Miss Evadna M. Sterrett were stationed at Mersina. The third day of the revolutionary movement in this city was marked by some disorders, the most serious of which was a demonstration by ma rines, who objected to the new min ister of marine. Vice-Admiral Adjie min Pasha. The marines gathered in force Thursday and seized and con vey ed to the palace Arff Bey. tom mander cf the battleship Assar-i-Tew fik, a member of the Committee on Union and Progress, who ordere-d the guns of his ship trained on the Yildiz Kiosk when the rising was at its height, with the intention of support ing the committee. Arrived at the Yildiz Kiosk the men lynched Arif Bey, notwithstanding the efforts of the palace guard to save him. Although public confidence is by no means restored by the formation of the new cabinet, an excellent impres sion has been produced by the appoint ment of Nazim Pasha as commander of the First Army corps, and this has been strengthened by the nomination of Memduh Pasha, another able Adrianople officer, to command the First division at Constantinople. Ed hem Pasha, the new minister of war, and Nazim Pasha made the round of the barracks in the city and exhorted the soldiers to obey their officers. They were well received and cheered. Constantinople. — Information re ceived here Friday from Adana, in Asi atic Turkey, declares that two Ameri can missionaries have been killed in the anti-Armenian outbreak at that place. Ambassador Leishman instructed the American vice-consul at Mersina, John Debbas, to proceed immediately for Adana and report on the situation. France has sent two warships to the scene. TWO BLOWN TO ATOMS. Explosion of a Nitroglycerin Factory at Gordon, III., Is Felt Twenty Five Miles Away. Sullivan, Ind.—With a detonation which was heard for 25 miles, the shock of which was felt in an area of 50 miles, the nitroglycerin factory at Gordon. 111., across the Wabash river from this place, was destroyed by a terrific explosion late Thursday after noon. Charles tleweis and Moses Lantz were blown to atoms. Owing to the fact that Gordon has no long distance telephone communication and that its connection with the farm lines was destroyed by the explosion, the fii*st rumors of ihe loss of life were exag gerated, one report putting the num ber of killed at 20. The fact, how ever, is that only two men were al lowed to work in the factory at one time. Old Battleship Made Over. New York. ■— After being out of commission for more than two years, the old battleship Massachusetts sailed out of the Brooklyn navy yard Thurs day with a full complement cf offi cers and men. The vessel was built by the Cramps In 1893 and has been largely made over so that she is al most as good as the battleships of much later types. Church War Reaches Court. Nashville, Tenn.—The federal courts have again been called upon to say who is entitled to possession, tie use and the enjoyment of property claimed respectively by Cumberland Presby terians and Presbyterians of the U. S. A., yvho went into the latter church from the Cumberland. Milling Company Elankrupt. Chillicothe, O.—An involuntary peti tion in bankruptcy was filed by the Marfield Milling Company of this city Friday. ■■—^ CHARGE CUDAHYS WITH FRAUD PACKING COMPANY INDICTED ON 659 COUNTS AT TOPEKA. Federal Grand Jury Charges Use oY Coloring and Evasion of Law—De nied by Company Official. Topeka, Kail.—The Cudahy Packing Company of Kansas City. Kan., is charged in indictments returned by the federal grand jury Friday with de frauding the government out of $125. 000 by violating the law relating to oleomargarine. There are 695 counts, for each of which the penalty is $1,000. The revenue law provides that each pound of uncolored oleomargarine must bear a revenue stainp of a quarter of a cent, but that on each pound to which coloring matter has been added to give it the appearance of butter, a ten-cent revenue stamp must be at tached. It is charged in ihe indictments that the Cudahy Company has sold the col ored product under !he quarter of a cent tax and consequently has do frandod the government out of large sums. Inspectors have been working on the case several months and have se cured samples sold in towns and cities from New York to Seattle and from Duluth to Jacksonville. Every sample now in the hands of the government experts bears the identification mark of the inspector who purchased it, as well as the analy sis which shows that it contains color ing matter. it is claimed by the government of ficials that the Cudahy Company has succeeded in monopolizing the oleo margarine market by selling the col ored product and paying the tax on the basis of uncolored, there being a dif ference of 9}i cents a pound. By this means, it is claimed, they were en abled to undersell other manufacturer* and control the market. V While this criminal action, which provides for a minimum fine of $696. 000, will be prosecuted. District Attor ney Bene says it does not end the matter. He will bring a civil action against the company to have the plant and machinery used in the manufac ture of oleomargarine confiscated. Washington.—Internal revenue offi cials said government agents have examined a very large number of samples-of'--oJelfwnsirgHrtnp to many parts of the country sold by the Cuda hy company, and that while it would not be expedient to estimate the amount of taxes involved in the al leged frauds, it is known that the offi cials believe it will be in excess of $125,000, and possibly a much larger sum. OHIO RIVER STEAMER SINKS. Fifty Panic-Stricken Passengers Saved by Crew When the Virginia Goes Down. Pittsburg, Pa.—Following a remark able series of accidents and a tem pestuous voyage, the steamer Virginia, from Cincinnati, O., to Pittsburg, was finally wrecked in the Ohio river at Wellsville, O., Tuesday night. The boat, the largest plying the up per Ohio, went down close to shore after striking a rock and tearing a hole three feet long in the hull. The passengers, numbering 50, in a highly nervous condition as a result of minor accidents earlier in the evening, be came panic-stricken when the vessel met with the last accident, and it was with difficulty a crew of 75 men restrained them. Although handcapped by darkness, a high wind and drenching rain, the crew managed to place the passengers safely in boats and put them ashore. From here they were taken, scantily clad, to a fire engine house in Wells ville, O.. and later reached the warmth of a hotel in a patrol wagon. When some distance from 6hore the steamer struck an obstruction with terrific force. The boat jarred might ily and the passengers were thrown from their berths. HUB ILUNUIS BANK OF $1,900 Woodlawn Institution, However, Is Insured Against Desperadoes— Bandits at Wellsvilie, Mo. Mount Vernon, III.—The bank at Woodlawn. a small town seven miles west of here on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, was robbed Thurs day. Five masked men dynamited the safe, wrecking it and the interior of the building, and escaped with $1,900 4n currency. The bank was insured against robbery. Wellsville, Mo.—Four masked rob bers blew open the safe of the post office here and escaped with a small quantity of stamps and one registered letter. The explosion aroused the town, but citizens were held back at the points of revolvers. Secretary Wilson Is Upheld. Washington. — Attorney General Wickersham has rendered an opin Ion that the refer.ee board appoint ed by Secretary Wilson of the depart ment of agriculture to investigate foods and food products, was a legally constituted body. Adlai Stevenson Better. Chicago.—Former Vice-Presiden' Ad lai E. Stevenson, who has been a pa tient for the last week at the Presby terian hospital, has so far recovered that he expects to return to his home in Bloomington, 111., the first part ot next week. Gen. Stevenson came to Chicago last week and had a minor operation performed. Fatally Burned by Blast. Buffalo, N. Y.—Michael McGarvey was fatally burned in a fire in a room ing house on Hurcn street Friday.