Li >up City Northwestern
V PLUME XXVI _LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , APRIL 22, 1909 NUMBER 24
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
