Chicago Defender

Greatest Circulation OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE MIDDLE WEST. $1.80 A YEAR. VOLUME V—NUMBER 5. GREATEST MILITARY ENTERTAINMENT AND BALL. GREATEST MILITARY ENTERTAINMENT AND BALL. Ever Given in Chicago by the 8th Regiment, Illinois National Guard, St. Valentine Night, Monday, Feb 14, 1910, 7th Regiment Armory, 34th Street and Wentworth This entertainment and ball is given by the 8th Regiment for the purpose of raising funds to apply on the purchase of ground for the new armory. The site has been selected, contracted for and plans have been drawn. A supreme effort upon our part is being put forth to raise the necessary amount of money to pay for the ground, and the following organizations are assisting us and will attend in a body: First Regiment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias. Twelfth Regiment of Patriarchs, G U. O. of O. F. Comn y F. Seventh Infantry, Illinois National Guard. Knight Templars and United Brothers of Friendship. Come and see the zouave drill, the exhibition drills and the sham battle exercise. COL. JOHN R. MARSHALL. Chairman. Eighth Regiment Band of fifty pieces. Admission 50 cents. WHICH? THE BANK OR THE STOCKING LEG? The bank is the answer. For when we weigh the pros and cons for and against we must decide for the bank. The bank is safe from fire and thieves, the stocking leg is not; your money grows in the bank, in the stocking leg it does not. We may search the records of our Negro banks throughout the country, and you cannot trace a failure. A trying time was the panic of 1893, when the True Reformer pulled through those straining times, we are forced to admit of, and should feel proud of, the excellent methods our Negro banking institutions pursue, and with our united efforts they will be enabled to continue in their unstained course. This was the controversy overheard by our reporter on an L train between two men well known in the community. SECRET ORDERS MAY EXIST IN ALABAMA. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 25.—The people of Alabama are overjoyed at the decree of the legislature in the fact that, it is said, they may wear their uniforms and have street parades, but no swords must be worn or carried at any time in that State by a black citizen. If a negro is seen with one he must have a permit from the county authority or some reputable white man in the community. By the looks of things, the Negro is practically in slavery again, not as of yore, but he is the slave of every white man. We as men must shake off this stigma, and by the gods that made me we will. We are at the point now where we have decided to die if needs be. CATHOLIC ORDER OF FORESTERS INSTALL OFFICERS TO-NIGHT. The Catholic Order of Foresters will install their newly elected officers. It is said that they have a baked shoat and a lot of other good things after the meeting is over. DR. DANIEL H. WILLIAMS LEAVES FOR NASHVILLE. Dr. Dave Williams leaves Chicago to-night for Nashville via Clarksville, Tenn. Sunday he will, with Dr. Robt. T. Burt in his infirmary, at Clarksville, operate on a number of important cases. Monday morning the work will begin at Meharry and last the entire week. Hundreds of the graduates of Meharry will be present from all over the South, many of whom will bring cases for care in Mercy Hospital, which is the clinical institution of Meharry Medical College. Dr. Williams will return to Chicago next Sunday. RAILROAD MEN MEET. The Railroad Men's Association had lively meeting on last Saturday ring at Jackson's Hall, with Mr. Our Wells in the chair. The meeting was enthusiastic throughout. O men w represent, and t encouragegly s the like employes. The Chicago Defender. AMERICA'S TIMBER MINE. One in New Jersey in Operation One in New Jersey in Operation More Than One Hundred Years. The wood mines of upper Tonkin, China, are not any more curious than a wood mine that has been in operation in New Jersey for more than 100 years. This mine is at Dennisville, in the swampy region of south New Jersey, and yields cedar such as grows nowhere on this continent to-day. The fallen and submerged forest is believed to be prehistoric. Logs have been mined from it more than six feet in diameter. These ancient cedars have a delicate flesh-colored wood, and if it is a tree that was alive when it fell, the same pungent flavor when cut as pervades our common red cedar. The dead trunks are odorless. The ligs lie in heaps or layers, and it has not been determined yet how many layers there are below the top stratum the miners uncover. When these prehistoric cedars were first discovered and for 80 years afterward they afforded remunerative and constant employment to many persons who mined the logs, and to-day they are a source of considerable income to those who continue to raise the logs. The cedars are cut up into shingles and staves and made into pails and tubs and other wooden vessels. The great endurance of the wood is noted in shingles made from it a century ago and which are as sound to-day as when they were first put in use. Near the Delaware river, eight miles west of Dennisville, cedars of the same variety have been found at a depth of 12 feet. At Cape May, on the Atlantic coast, 20 miles east, in drilling an artesian well an alluvial deposit similar to the Dennisville swamp was found at the depth of 90 feet and the drill entered a cedar log and bored into it more than six feet before its diameter was entirely pierced. This tree was alive when it fell, no telling how many thousands of years ago. THE AMERICAN WORKMAN. His Condition as Compared to Eng- lish and German Letters Ish and German Laborers. J. B. Street, statistician for the British department of commerce and labor, who has been investigating comparative conditions of working people throughout Germany, the United States and England, says that the American workingman lives higher, works lesser hours and has a better time all around than either his German or English brethren. "I find that the skilled man in the United States has a better and more varied diet than in any other country I have investigated," he said. "The English workman has as much meat, but he hasn't the variety of vegetables and sweets. His meals lack imagination." The German mechanic Mr. Street finds to be in the worst condition of all. His trades unions are the most complete and best organized of the three countries considered, and yet he works more hours, gets less pay, eats less, and is worse housed than any of them. They get 25 per cent less pay than Englishmen," said Mr. Street. "They work 10 hours a day as against nine in England and eight in the United States, and their cost of living is 18 per cent higher." The poor districts of American cities failed to horrify Mr. Street. He said they had worse at home. "I've been through your poorest section," said he. "It is much the same as one finds in all the large cities of the world. The difference here is that there is an appearance of energy and hopefulness in most of your poor people. The reason is, I take it, that they had enough enterprise and thrift to start with to get themselves over here with the intention of bettering their condition." Healthful Kinds of Work Breweries and tanneries and printing ink factories confer exemption from tuberculosis, and employees in turpentine factories never have rheumatism, says Harper's Weekly.煤矿 mining excludes the possibility of typhoid among the workers. Shepherds enjoy remarkable health. The odd odor of sheep appears to exercise some influence tending to the prevention of disease. Sheep are especially good for whooping cough, so that in a sheep country when a child is taken down with that malady it is the custom for the mother to put it among the sheep to play. The next day, it is said, the child will be well. Men and women working in lavender, whether gathering or distilling it, are said never to suffer from neuralgia or nervous headache. Lavender, moreover, is as good as a sea voyage for giving tone to the system. Persons suffering from nervous breakdown frequently give their services gratis to lavender plants in order that they may build up their vitality. Salt miners can wear summer clothes in blizzard weather without fear of catching cold, for colds are unknown among these workers. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1910 DO YOU WANT A COLORED ALDERMAN? Now that you have had full opportunity to digest all that has been said concerning the above question, and it has acted as food for your thoughts, we come again to ask you the question. Do you want a colored alderman? Or are you yet undecided as to whether it is of sufficient importance to you for you to go and register at the first opportunity that presents itself and thus place you in a position to come forward and play your part in the war of ballots? Don't think because you are working in that lunch counter downtown, or that hotel over there, or running on the road, that you are exempt from the effects of whatever laws may be passed. You have got to live under them and abide by them the same as anyone else, whether you like it or not. They wake up and take hold of your privilege as a citizen of this great country and have a voice in what is being done, either for or against you. The day is far spent and still many of you are sleeping over a red hot furnace that will soon burn you up if you don't draw the fire by the proper use of your ballot. Hundreds of you never go near the polls, because you don't think it is of much consequence. For the sake of the race of which you are a part, of which your fathers, mothers, sisters and children are members, arouse from your slumber and realize that on your shoulders rests a responsibility as a man. Step to the front and help push the cause of the Negro forward by seeing every position of advantage possible. Do you want a colored alderman? The mechanics of to-day are not as proficient in their lines as they should be. Few can successfully contract a job of any size, as they can not estimate correctly, not being educated up to that point. They learn the trade and the fine points are left to the whites. But this must be overcome. Still, too, in a good many cases our mechanics refuse to work in all kinds of weather, which is a setback to them in holding places. These things must be remedied if we wish to advance with this age of achievement. They are unable to give estimates in any line. Sometimes they run $20 or $30 behind and sometimes that much over. There is a young man in the city who claims to be from a Southern trade school, and to the minds of those who have come in contact with him he must have learned the trade on his father's farm. Chicago is in need of well educated carpenters, brick masons and plumbers of the race. Our real estate dealers can give the right man who can figure thousands of dollars' worth of work each year. The drone must get out. This city is no place for him. The best or noue for Chicago. There is lots of talk about swell barber shops, but a Defender reporter who has just returned from Atlanta stopped off in Memphis, Tenn., long enough to get a shave and a drive around the town. He was told to go to Brown's, on Beal avenue. When he arrived he got the first chair and the gentleman who separated our reporter from his wind penetrators, knew his business. This shop will put many a Chicago shop on the hum. Mr. J. H. Brown deserved great credit for having this most decent place of Memphis. Tenn. I am quite sure if such shops were more 'in vogue throughout the South for our men the race generally would be lifted up at least half foot higher than it is today. THE IDA B. WELLS WOMAN'S CLUB MEETS. On Jan. 20 the Ida B. Wells Woman's Club met at the residence of Mrs. McDowell. 4547 Champlain avenue. The club had fourteen visitors. After the business was over the following officers were installed: Mrs. Kennedy, ex-president of the Cornell Charity Club, was mistress of ceremonies: Mrs. Tressa Macon, President; Mrs. Darling, First Vice President; Mrs. Johnson, Second Vice President; Mrs. Eva Hooper, Transurer; Miss Fannie Smith, Secretary; Mrs. Contes, Assistant Secretary; Mrs. Mollie Tylier, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Rosa Gordon, editor of Club Herald. The next meeting will be Jan. 27 at the residence of Mrs. Rosa Gordon, 4941 Armour avenue. A NEW PUBLICATION. While making his rounds the other day, a reporter for the Defender was given, to understand that there will shortly be a new publication amongst us, entitled "The Sheltering Oak," issued monthly. We wish them success. --- JOHN H. HARRIS MR. FRANK W. KING, UNDERTAKER, On Tuesday evening at 10:20, while the town was seemingly quiet and everyone on the street passing along on the even tenor of their way, the Meteor of Death plucked from life's garden a useful life, a faithful husband, and a beloved friend in the person of Mr. Frank W. King, 3606 State street. Like wild fire the news spread over the neighborhood and in a short time the house was crowded with friends to do what they could to assist his beloved wife in her hour of sad bereavement. Hardly an hour had passed before representatives of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of Foresters and the Odd Fellows were on hand to make plans for the comfort of her --- A Pair of White Heads. The foregoing is a good adage and one that has held for years, but what are we to do with J. H. Montgomery and Robert Harding, who are neither young nor old and who are being slated for the city council? The gray-headed young men have given their consent to run. One has been tried in harness and has proven a star. The other has not, but shows class. These "Shetlands" of the Second Ward will make a fine team either spiked or tandemed for our next election. Think it over. Give them reins and see the city in good government and better public policy for once before we send Gov. Deneen to Washington. THE PUMA AND ITS PREY. The puma is so fond of horse flesh that in Patagonia it is difficult to breed horses, as the colts are killed by this American lion. A native told the author of "The Naturalist in La Plata" that on one occasion, while driving his horses home, through a thicket, a puma sprang out of the bushes to the back of a colt following behind the troop. The puma alighted directly on the colt's back, with one forefoot grasping its shoulder, while with the other it seized the head, and giving it a violent wrench, dislocated the neck. The colt fell to the earth as if shot. Next to horse flesh, the puma prefers mutton. He does not like veal, although he will kill a calf upon occasion. A cunning puma, which on cloudy nights raided a sheep ranch, used as a place of concealment the pen where a dozen calves were kept, while it was waiting to attack the sheep. But it did not injure a calf. Pigs, when in large herds, defy the puma by massing themselves together and presenting a serried line of tusks. The ass also resists successfully the puma's attack. When assaulted it thrusts its head between its fore legs and kicks violently until the puma is driven or thrown off. One day an Indian, while riding, saw a young cow watching his approach. Her manner showed that it was in state of dangerous excitement, and the Indian conjectured that some beast of prey had killed its calf. He began searching for the calf's body. While thus engaged the cow repeatedly charged him. Presently he discovered the calf lying dead among the long grass, and by its side a dead puma with a large wound just behind the shoulder. The calf had been killed by the puma, for its throat showed the wounds of large teeth. The cow had driven one of its long sharp horns into the puma's side while it was sucking the calf's blood. --- to whom the deceased was so devoted. His father, Rev. John R. King, of Oxford, Ohio, arrived in the city on Wednesday, and although he is a man in his 80th year, he is as brave as a general and is doing all he can to comfort his son's wife while she is grief-stricken. Arrangements were made to hold the funeral on Sunday at Quinn Chapel at 1 o'clock, and have the last rites said over him in this beautiful edifice. Out of respect to him the undertakers have done all in their power to assist Mrs. King and she has had practically nothing to do in regards to arrangements of any kind. Mrs. Clifford Johnson, undertaker, 712 State street, has full charge of the funeral and will conduct same on to-morrow at the church. Mrs. King begs to thank all those who assisted before and after her husband's death. Many of the ministers of the city will speak at the bier; and already the florists in the community are being overrun with orders for floral tributes to our brother citizen and friend. SOUTHERN REBEL KILLED IN JIM CROW CAR. Dallas, Texas, Jan. 28.—On Jan. 22 an unknown colored man shot and killed a Southern white gentleman who had tried to make him stand up in the jimfow section of the car, which would make him sit next to his wife, who persisted on sitting next to the partition which divides the refined white folks from the colored. The seats in the car ran lengthwise, with a board partition, which made room for two seats for colored. The two seats were taken on both sides. A white lady told the gentleman to take the seat and let his wife sit inside, but he said when he speaks the d——n "niggers" must move, but this Negro would not, and he thereupon drove his list in the colored man's mouth. It was no sooner done when the Negro drew a revolver, placed it at the man's side and fired, the bullet passing through his body and coming out his shoulder blade. At this jn everybody broke and ran out car, leaving the dying man. gro got away, and even blo which were placed on his tr not do their duty. the d day morning, and his bod to Bony, Texas, on Rock 12. on Monday night, wi His wife is prostrated. ! my fault. Hamilton College has its endowment by $400,000 in year; $200,000 of the amount en by Andrew Carnegie in re of Elihu Root's service in aldi national peace. It is expecte the $100,000 of the amount, g the late John S. Kennedy, will to establish more freshmen Catching the A young teacher opinion of his ability pills tripping was examination. Cal boy" of the class "How many sigh "Four." "And a hexagon "Six." "And an octagon "Eight." "And a circle?" "Two, sir." "What?" exclaimed at the "Yes, sir, two— Use of rat skins of fancy articles i. year the trade in t amounted to $250,00 brown rat skins are lots of from one hur sand. It is proposed ness in Calcutta for s paring the skins of t be used, among a vari in the binding of book ing of purses, gloves ancles for women's use an supply of rats in Calcutte in inexhaustible. WEEKLnder. CHARLES STEWART LECTURES IN MEMPHIS. The Pekin Stock Company Stranded. (Special to the Defender.) Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 27.—Mr. Chas, Stewart, eminent lecturer, spoke in the Metropolitan Church last Tuesday afternoon and night. The church was filled to its full capacity. The Pekin Stock Company, which has been showing all through the South, taking in the large cities, aiming to make Memphis the strategic point from which they would return to Chicago and pay off, failed to make connections. The race-loving people of Memphis did not rally in force to see "In Montana," as played by the company at Church's Park, a beautiful little theater owned by Miss Church Terrel's of Washington. D. C., father. So Mamie White, Jerry Mills, Clifford Ross, Walter Ball, Pearl Brown, Nettie Lewis, Jennie Ringold and also John Boon found that they were broke and stranded. When Nettie Lewis was refused a ticket to Chicago for lack of the purchase price she sang her song, "I Don't Care," which seemed to che "the bunch some. MR. JAS. A. ROSS IN CITY. Editor Ross of the Buffalo Gazette and Guide tried to slip into town on Tuesday morning and visit a few of his friends and then slip out without the paper boys knowing it, but he was badly fooled. Because our time is slow it does not mean that the Defender reporters at least are. Well, he throw up his hands and said, "Well, you have me with the goods." He had two satchels, an overcoat and umbrella and was registered at the Keystone. He told our reporter that he had just returned from Cairo, Ill.; New Madrid, Mo., and Paducah, Ky., where he will open nickel shows. He shakes his head about the Cairo Negroes and especially the illiterate ones. JOHN H. FLETCHER Not Dead As Reported. When our reporter called Provident Hospital and told rumor that he was dead was he laughed and stated he was with them and felt very much and was doing nicely. They also rehearsed their act of last Saturday night when Officer Fletcher met his painful accident. The story runs when Officer Fletcher was ringing for the wagon his prisoner jerked loose and bumped into our reporter, who took up the chase with Fletcher. It was dark and as they turned a corner Fletcher slipped and fell so heavy that he broke a blood vessel, but prompt attention finds him rapidly recovering. Left Between Two Suns. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 29.—During the past week Hamlet Ashford, a saloonkeeper and sport and business man, was run out of this city because several white ladies thought so much of that he was permitted to call times, which they were rented. The white folks wanted his rentals over to a white man and this he refused to do jumped up this cat-hop. The man living in his house realie, so having no ground was made to leave the principles. HAMLET ASHFORD While passing Company's plant streets the other a conversation bettle and a colored man was trying to persu man, who was emplory, to go across the a drink. And here de manly answer that I gave: 'No, I thank but I am on duty, and I cannot accept your in a lesson, what a line those few words. And word IF in all of its some of our leading me the crafty promise-break friend of the Negro) Artician, why, no, I cannot invitation to drink and during this campaign, duty watching out for est of my race, whether a Republican or a D accept your livitrat myself to you. Be to accept an inv member (not as caucus, where ye me and my pe when this come of all that is for a represe man in one wards, where pority. H think that we have no contend f city of ashamed liberty say the Second not ei the q then face wat are ve the So the " case of poor to attit look auto came and ha other, "You know inside meals mistounter ing f courn stoc willooting thatdirecti of the ch removetufuel fory as lede watchr ple o de le State Editor. artistist. Society Editor. the Street GO. ILL. glass 3339 second-class matter Feb. A the Postoffice in Chil- act of March 3. 1879. ulation than ALL the * Combined. JANUARY 25, 1910. ICAGO DEFENDER r Year, Nothing More, nothing Less. like a few of our friends ! the Defender is $1.50 anyone saying that they or $1 is simply risking off after six months, volunteers and we will we have no friends ly that's another help build the De- ver promised it. or you on SAT- ! We have done yours by pay- once? she can slip is a few have a e Mid- pson he out he , badly icled I will not send thee will have his wife 15 on must be k company stars from on. g most of parties. are not ENCH FLOOD LOSSES OVER $200,000,000 Situation Caused by the Deluge Grows Worse, New Storm Adding to Disaster. Military Officials Are to Be in Charge of Different Sections of the Stricken Metropolis. Premier Briand and Finance Minister Cochery, after a consultation on Paris, France, estimated that the flood losses would exceed $200,000,000. Paris has been divided into five sections, each in charge of a military commander, who will control the relief and rescue work. The Selene continued to risk and the situation was growing worse hourly. A large portion of France is under water and chaos is the order throughout the flooded districts. Fears of outbreaks of epidemics are entertained, and the situation is looked upon as one of the greatest gravity. While the loss of life thus far has been small, the property losses are colossal. An estimate of the damage, owing to the widespread confusion, is impossible. The calamity is national. There are reports of improvement in a few provinces, but others are cut off from communication. Many towns and villages are completely isolated. The floods throughout the country continue their devastation, but Paris and vicinity seem to be the worst at all of the affected districts. The city faces a complete tie-up and damage grows each hour. The Seine rose three-quarters of an inch in hour. Famine is threatened in certain districts. In one place the bakers are without flour, and in another the butchers are unable to obtain meat. Authorities everywhere are busy devising remedies to meet the situation. The government has voted $409,000 for the relief of sufferers. In many places homeless hundreds are living in tents, which, because of the chill rain, afford inadequate shelter. The Red Cross Society is organizing aid for the sufferers. Subscriptions have been opened and the theaters are arranging benefits. $4,000,000 WON IN TEN YEARS Missourian, Who Will Wed Stenographer, Was a Day Laborer. George B. Nicholson, who, It is reported, is to marry Mrs. Anderson, a stenographer at the Planters Hotel in Louis, has a remarkable business. Ten years ago he was a day worker at Iola, Kan. Two years ago, when he left Kansas to make his home in Kansas City, he was reputed to be the wealthiest man in the Sunflower State. He is now rated at $4,000,000 and besides carries $3,000,000 life insurance. Last November, when he applied for $1,500,000 in a lamp, it was said to be the largest application for insurance ever made at one time. Nicholson recently started a movement to merge the cement interests of four states. NITROGLYCERIN EXPLODES Twenty Men Caught in Tunnel Being Dug to Supply Croton. Twenty men engaged in boring a tunnel through a small mountain near Cold Springs, to form a part of the aqueduct which is to supply water to New York City from the Croton dam were about to leave their tas er afternoon at 4 o'clock, to setting off almost a ton cerin, when the explosive teriously fired. Fifteen o men were killed and the were seriously injured. hours of rapid toil by bodies were reached at mouth of the tunnel. THE FORTUNE HUNTER. CONSUMER COST OF LIVING IVE GOT HIM UP A TREE - ALL I NEED IS A CAREFUL AIM FOOD TRUST HIGH PRICES RAWEN Iron Company with Two Allied Concerns Has Capital of $8,700,000. Receivers were appointed by Federal Judge J. E. Sater in Columbus, Ohio, for the three companies comprising the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron group of interests. A. L. Thurman of Columbus and William A. Barbour of New York are named receivers for the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company, A. T. Seymour of Columbus, receiver for the Columbus and Hocking Clay Construction Company, and F. N. Sinks of Columbus, receiver for the Columbus and Hocking Brick Manufacturing Company. The bond of the first pair of receivers was fixed at $90,000, that of Seymour at $25,000, and that of Sinks $25,000. The bonds furnished by a surety company and the receivers will take charge at once. The appointments were made upon the application of Henry D. Hotchkiss of New York, receiver in bankruptcy for Lathrop, Haskins & Co. of New York, for the first named receivership. The Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company applied for receivers for the other two companies. The stock of these companies is held by the same interests as control the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company. These companies are of comparatively recent origin. The brick company is just getting its products marketed. It has a capital of $1,000,000 and an equal amount of bonds. The capital of the construction company is $500,000. The Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company has a capital of $7,200,000, of which only the $200,000 is preferred stock. It has CHANT BOUND AND SLAIN. F chloreform Beside Body Found by Child. tittle Ferdinand Derosa, 6 cent into his grandfather's at 331 East One Hundred eet. New York, to get his enny something startled in for a policeman. Poey, who hastened back found the old man of a bedroom behind is strapped behind ed with a gas tube, chloroform with a it was found in S and ICIANS Illinois Legislation on the real fight a primary election the Democrats in session of Congress amount of the up and to vote against Minority Leader Missouri, in a recent lawney, of Minnesota, of notoriety voting drich tariff bill, thinks lessly misrepresented by the claims that he has, and that the press has with things of which he of War Dickinson, accorda, will probably be a candidated States Senator to suc-B. Frazler, whose term ex- campaign for the re-election for La Follette of Wisconsin, insurgents are to assist, and the respond was Senator Clapp of vota, who spoke at Milwaukee. Sarah Platt Decker, the former of the National Federation of Clubs, is now being boomed out Colorado by the women Den, candidate for Congress. BRAIN IS LARGER DURING SLEEP Experiments at Ann Arbor Show Blood Supply Is Not Lessened. Experiments so far conducted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with the object of solving the mysteries of sleep seem to overturn a long-accepted theory that natural loss of consciousness is due to a lessened flow of blood to the brain. Prof. R. M. Wenley's experiment show the opposite. His summary of what has been demonstrated is that the size or volume of the brain increases when the individual goes to sleep and decreases when he awakens and that the size of the hands and feet increases when the man is asleep and becomes smaller when he is awake. One of the delicate devices used in experimenting records a "breathing wave" from the brain and hands and feet. GUNNESS FARM SOLD. Will Become Part of Boys' School Which Adjoins it. The fifty-acre farm of Mrs. Bella Guinness, who was burned to death with her three children in the fire which destroyed her home April 28, 1908, was sold in Laporte, Ind., to the superintendent of a boys school which adjoins the Guinness farm and of which it will become a part. Three Nathaniel Smith Associates Japan has notified China informally through the Japanese legation in Peking that Japan and Russia with concerted action will decline the proposal of the United States for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways. Japan charges China with having been responsible for the proposal, and thus of having committed an act unfriendly to the former. Woman Whites Man Robber A highwayman who held up Miss Lulu Van Fleet, teacher in Lincoln high school in Cleveland, was thrown into a snowbank by the woman and trampled on. In her agitation, on leaving the man, Miss Van Fleet left her purse where it had fallen in the snow and the robber got it in spite of being whipped by his victim. Baby Born on Fast Train. A baby daughter was born to Mrs. W. J. Venen on the fast southbound Big Four passenger train that reaches Marion, Ohio, at noon. The babe, daughter of Rev. W. J. Venen of Cleveland, was named Marion, in honor of the first stop in her little journey in the world. Ex-Trenuer of Ohio Soud Former State Treasurer Isaac Cameron of Ohio, president of the Columbus Savings and Trust Company and his bondsmen, were sued in the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county for the recovery of $211,000 alleged wrongfully taken from the state by him as interest on state funds. High School Teacher Shooting. A rille range has been added to the physical training equipment of the Montclair, N. J., high school. Ninety-five boys have been enrolled in a class in marksmanship. Educators to Meet in Boston. The executive committee of the National Education Association has announced that the forty-eighth annual convention will be held in Boston July 2 to 8, 1910. Aged Man Dies on Gold Hound. With his head pillowed on a box containing $15,000 worth of negotiable securities, Oscar Schoen, 70 years old, was found dead in bed in a squallid little room in Kansas City. In his hand was a half emptied vial of morphine tablets. Killed and Injured in Coating. John Hough, 11 years old, was killed; Walter Smith, 15, was fatally injured, and Marjory Houghton, 14, suffered a broken leg in a coasting accident at Theresa, N. Y. TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Canadian Pacific Train Plunges Into River and 48 Are Drowned. Forty-eight persons are dead and ninety-two are injured as a result of a wreck on the Canadian Paclie Rail road near Webbwood, Ontario, on the Sudbury branch of the road. Two coaches, a diner and a first-class day coach plunged from a bridge across the Spanish river. Not a person in the two cars escaped. All were caught like rats in a trap. They were drowned in the icy waters of the river. A few hours after the disaster the coaches lay in the river with only their tops showing above the ice. The bodies' of the victims of the disaster were still in the cars. The plunging of the diner and the day coach into the river threw the other coaches of the passenger train from the track. Some of these rolled down a steep embankment. The cars caught fire. A number perished in the flames. This added to the horror of the disaster. The wreck is the worst in the history of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. The wrecked train was No. 7, west bound from Montreal to Minneapolis. Spreading of the rails as the passenger train crossed the bridge is supposed to have been the cause of the catastrophe. The scene of the disaster is in a desolate, sparsely settled country. Telegraph facilities are limited. Details are hard to obtain. U. S. PLANS $5,000,000 HARBOR. Major Rees Gives Hints on Chengge Project to Be Mona Bubble Soon. Project to Be Made Public Soon. That a complete report of the plans, observations and recommendations of the corps of government engineers who have been at work for the past two months mapping out a scheme for the harbor development of Chicago will be ready in about thirty days was the announcement made by Major Thomas H. Rees, in charge of the federal engineering department in the city. The undertaking corsemplates the construction of a huge cement breakwater extending approximately about a mile and a half from north to south and located about two miles from shore. In addition, a large amount of dredging will be done, and when the undertaking has been completed, it is asserted, the total cost easily will reach $5,000,000. FROM THE FOREIGN WESTLANDS The Russian foreign office has received a memorandum from the United States government proposing as a solution for the Manchurian problem the neutralization of the railroads in Manchuria by their sale to China, financed by an international syndicate. The United States invites Russian participation in such a scheme. The supervision of the railroads would be placed thereby in the hands of the powers responsible for the financial arrangement which would see that the lines were conducted on a purely business basis and not used for political or strategic purposes. The reported merger of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company and the Aguilla Oil Company, of Mexico, is officially denied by President Landa y Escandon, of the Aguilla Company. The Aguilla concern is one of the largest in Mexico and controls the largest field in the republic. In common with the other European countries, Austria finds herself confronted with the necessity of imposing new taxes to meet a deficit in the budget. Among the measures introduced to make the income and outgo balance is a tax on bachelors and childless married couples with unearned income. ```markdown ``` $1,000.000.000 COPPER TRUST. Mortger of Butte Properties Announced in New York. The $1,000,000,000 copper combination Vail street has been talking about, and the formation of which was delayed by the possibility of interference on the part of the government, was launched the other day, and an official statement by John D. Ryan, president of the Amalgamated Copper Company, giving some of the details, was issued. The Anaconda Company will be the nucleus for the combination. It will take over the securities of the Cole-Ryan Amalgamated Copper Company and also the Guggenheim companies. The capital will be increased from $30,000,000 to $150,000,000. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company it was decided to call a special meeting of stockholders of the company in Anaconda on March 23 for the purpose of considering the proposition of increasing the capital stock of the company from the present authorized issue of 1,200,000 shares, having a par value of $25 a share, to 6,000,000 shares of the same par value per share, for the purpose of acquiring the property of other companies located in the Butte district. 20TH CENTURY WRECK KILLS. Engine of East-Bound Train Turns Somersault at St. Johnsville, N. Y. Two men were killed when the engine on the New York Central Twentieth Century Limited, castbound, from Chicago, turned completely over about a quarter of a mile west of St. Johnsville, N. Y. It slid 300 feet before it stopped. Under the engine pits Fireman Melvin J. Handville of Syracuse was crushed beyond recognition. The engineer, John Scanlon, of Fort Hunter, attempted to leap when the engine left the rails, but he was caught between the engine and tender and crushed. None of the coaches left the track, though the trucks of several of them were derailed. Most of the passengers were thrown from their births. The supposition is that a signal cautioning Engineer Scanlon to slow down was not seen by him in time to bring his train under full control, and when the locomotive struck the crossover the ponderous machine bounded into the air, turned upon its side, and then as it struck one of the rails rolled upon its back and plowed ahead through the rails, ties and ballast at least 300 feet. "STAND OR FALL TOGETHER." Miners' Leaders Determined to Ask Incense of Ten Per Cent. "Stand or fall together" was the sentiment of the convention of the United Mineworkers of America when it closed discussion in Indianapolis of the prospective strike of the bituminous coal miners. Union officials declared that the bituminous miners are determined to demand an increase of wages of 10 per cent or more, that no one district organization shall sign the uniform wage contract till all districts shall sign, and if a strike is inevitable in one or more districts, all shall strike. Francis Feehan, president of the Western Pennsylvania district, said his conviction was that the organization should issue an ultimatum that a strike in all districts will be called on April 1 if an increase of wages of more than 10 per cent be not given, to be into effect on that date. TWO BANDITS ARE CAUGHT. Sweetheart's Betrayal and Tale of Man Who Saw Train Robbery. C. O. Fames, chief of the Missouri Pacific Railway's secret service, says the identity of the robbers who held up the passenger train near St. Louis the other night is established. Clews furnished by a sweetheart of one of the bandits and information given by a tie backer who witnessed the hold-up from behind a bush betrayed the desperados. The girl is 18 years of age and lives in the mountains near Eureka, in the county in which the hold-up took place. Posses are searching the northern part of the county. Night Police Chief Gillespie received a long-distance telephone message from Matson, Mo., saying two of the band were locked up in a box car. "TOM" TAGGART IS SHOT Politician Accidentally Wounded by Secretary While Hunting. Secretary White Hunting. Thomas Taggart, of Indianapolis, Ind., National Democratic committeeman for that State and former National Democratic chairman, was accidentally shot while hunting quail near Natchez, Miss., by his private secretary, Harry Norton. Birdshot from Norton's gun struck Mr. Taggart in the face and his right shoulder. The wounds are not fatal, and it is said he will not lose his eyesight, as was at first rumored. BOY BUILDS BIG AIRSHIP. Bad Will Begin Making Flights When Weather Moderates. Warren Grand, 14 years old, of East Orange, N. J., has completed an airship of the Bleriot monoplane type. The aeroplane is built of aluminum and bamboo and bears its name, "The Ghost," in glittering white letters across the front. Grand will begin making flights above his father's farm as soon as the weather moderates. Thlever Gist Auhemer Gemy Thieves Get Anheuser Gems, Burglarls broke into the home of Eberhard Anheuser in St. Louis and carried away almost everything of value that was portable. An uncom- pleted list of the plunder, consisting of diamonds and jewelry, amounted to more than $5,000. Henry Coutes, Edl Henry T. Coates for many years leading publishin phia, died the otl years old. Committee Will Submit Project for Union with Western Federation. At the convention of the United Mine Workers of America in Indianapolis the report of the tellers of the balloting for international officers was declared to be final. Protests by the opponents of President Thomas L. Lewis, re-elected by 23,597 majority over William Green, of Ohio, that the votes of certain local unions might be shown to be of questionable validity, were not pressed. The new set of officers, which will take charge of the administration on April 1, follows: President—Thomas L. Lewis, Bridgeport, Ohio. Vice President—Frank J. Hayes, Springfield, Ill. Secretary-Treasurer—Edwin Perry, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Delegates to American Federation of Labor—T. L. Lewis, Bridgeport, Ohio; John Mitchell, Spring Valley, Ill.; Edwin Perry, Oskaloosa, Iowa; Frank J. Hayes, Springfield, Ill.; E. S. Mccullough, Bay City, Mich.; W. B. Wilson, Blossburg, Pa.; John H. Walker, Springfield, Ill. A definite plan for the projected merger of the organized metal and coal miners of the United States and Canada will be laid before the convention by a committee representing the coal miners and a visiting committee sent by the metal miners of the Western Federation of Miners. STENSLAND IS LIBERATED. Totters from Prison, While Hering, His Old Cashier, Is Picture of Joy. On into the sunlight of a better day than he has known for three gloomy years, Paul O. Stensland, who wrecked the Milwaukee Avenue bank in Chicago, a tottering, seemingly dying old man, walked from behind the walls of the penitentiary at Joliet eight minutes after the prison whistle blew at noon Monday. Half an hour earlier, Henry W. Hering, firm of step, a smile on his face telling his happiness to the world, heard the steel gates clang for the last time, and this time from without. Stensland was taken at once to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Chicago. His adopted daughter, Mrs. Inga Stensland Sanberg, met him at the prison and escorted him to Chicago. Hlering's first trought was of his home. As quickly as train and street car could rush him there he went to the cottage at 2830 Prairie avenue, where his wife and family threw themselves into his arms in a hysteria of joy. His dinner that night, a family reunion, was the greatest pleasure of his life, he said. ROB TRAIN AND FLEE WITH SAFE Four Masked Men in Missouri Pacific Hold-Up Near St. Louis. Four masked men the other night at Eureka, thirty miles from St. Louis, Mo., held up and robbed Missouri Pacific Train No. 8, due in St. Louis from Kansas City all 10:10 p.m. With a red lantern the bandits stopped the train and pointed revolvers at the engineer and fireman. The baggage car and mail and express car were detached from the train, and with the robbers in the cab, the engineer was compelled to proceed toward St. Louis. The passengers were not molested. The safe in the express car is supposed to have contained several thousand dollars. It is believed the safe was blown open in some desolate spot and that the robbers fled. The district in which the holdup occurred is sparsely settled and the news of the robbery did not reach St. Louis until nearly midnight. BORDER FISHER IS SLAIN Canadian Game Inspector Admits Firing at Launch on the Niagara. John Weyand, 25 years old, of Buffalo, was shot and killed while in a fishing boat on the Niagara River. The shots came from the Canadian shore. Game Inspector Thomas Briggs of the Ontario Fish and Game Protective Department admits that he fired at a launch containing two men. He declares that they were dynamiting fish near the Canadian side. He ordered them ashore and they replied with gunshots. Briggs sent several rifle bullets after the launch with the intention of sinking it. He has reported to the department at Toronto and Captain Hunter has been sent to Fort Erie to investigate. Plant Under-Sen Pole Push. Dr. Anschutz Kemp of Germany will try to reach the north pole in a submarine boat. It is said that he has been working for a decade on the project and that he will build a submarine of his own design. It will be capable, it is asserted, of remaining under water at a great depth for a long period. "Old Abe's" Guardian Is Dead. Capt. Victor Wolf, who carried the famous eagle, "Old Abe," throughout the civil war as the mascot of the Wisconsin Eagle company, died the other day in Eau Claire, at the age of 86 years. Capt. Wolf was one of the few survivors of the Eagle company. Meat Boycott In Beginn. The boycott against meat as a blow at the increased cost of living began in carnest in Cleveland the other day. It is estimated that fully 125,000 persons in the city have either stopped the use of meat entirely or cut down materially their allowances. Cleveland Gets Three-Cent Fare. The franchises on seven of the most productive street car lines in Cleveland expired the other day, but the lines will continue in operation. The fare has been reduced from 5 cents to 3 cents.