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. companies doing business in this state | . the same conditions and requirements + foreign companies have their t Get Your Office Su % HOUSE MEASURE FIXES PENALTY FOR HUSBANDS GUILTY OF NON-SUPPORT. PROVIDES THAT THEY MAY BE SENT TO PRISON FOR TERM OF THREE YEARS. St. Paul, Feb. 19.—A three-year prison sentence will face husbands who do not support their wives and children if a bill introduced in the house by C. B. Miller of Duluth (by re- quest), is passed. His only recourse will be the giving of « bond to support } his family. The bill provides that any man, who, without lawful excuse fails to furnish proper food, shelter, clothing or medical attendance to his wife or to any child under fifteen, shall, on conviction, be found guilty of felony and be punished by imprison- ment for not exceeding three years. Sentence may be suspended for a term of three months or longer, at the discretion of the court, if the husband will give bond to support the wife or children. The wife, child, or the butcher, grocer, baker or any one else furnishing the necessary food, shelter, clothing or medical attendance, may sue upon the bond for breach of any of the conditions of the bond. Of if the husband fails to live up to the conditions of the bond he may be brought before the court again and the sentence ordered served. In order to be “pure food” it not only will be necessary that food be free from coal tar dyes, preservatives and adulterants and properly labeled, but, if a bill introduced in the house by J. Gates of Kenyon is passed, it must be made of pure and fresh in- gredients. His bill makes it unlawful for any person to deal in or sell for use as food any filthy, decomposed, diseased, tainted, or otherwise un- wholesome meat, flesh, poultry, fowl, fish, eggs, fruit, vegetables, milk, cream or dairy products, either in their natural state or manufactured, mixed or prepared. Will Become State Property. Logs and other timber submerged In the lakes and streams of Minnesota will become the property of the state unless they are removed before May next year under a bill Introduced in the house by J. G. Lennon of Min- neapolis. More stringent regulations for the prevention of the importation of diseased stock into the state are pro- vided in a bill introduced in the house by C. W. Glotfelter of Waterville. The bill makes it unlawful for any trans- portation company to bring horses, mules, cattle, sheep or swine into the state for working, breeding, feeding or dairy purposes unless they are | found free from any contagious or in- fectious disease. A gross earnings tax of 4 per cent on the entire receipts of express com- panies in Minnesota is provided in a bill introduced in the house by Swan Nelson of Minneapolis. This percent- age is to be paid upon all business in the state and upon a proportion of in- | terstate based on mileage. At pres- ent the express companies pay a 6 per cent tax upon their net receipts, the amount left after paying the rail- road companles for use of the cars. By a slight amendment, the house altered entirely the effect of the bill introduced by W. F. Dower of Wade- na to prevent judges or clerks of pro- bate from giving advice in cases be- fore the court. The amended bill wi! restore the provision that existed be- fore the enactment of the new code. The house passed the Ramsey and Hennepin county bond issue bills. The bills provide for $800,000 bonds for high schools and $300,000 for graded schools. More Land for the University. Authority is given the board of re- gents of the state umiversity to ac- quire by purchase, gift or condemna- tlon additlonal lands for the univer- sity and to issue certificates of indebt- edness for this purpose in a bill intro- duced by Senator J. T. Elwell of Min- neapolis. The bill also provides for the levying of a tax for the payment of the certificates. The bill authorizes the regents to acquire such lands for the campus and other purposes, to- gether with the buildings thereon, as they may deem necessary, and there- after to deal with the land as they shall determine the needs of the uni- versity require, The establishment of a standard of measures and tests for milk and cream is provided for In a bill introduced by Senator S. A. Nelson of Lanesboro. The bill provides that the standard pipette for the measurement of milk | shall have a capacity of 17.6 cubic | centimeters. All cream shall be tested by welght and not by measurement, | and the standard quantity for any test shall be a sample weighing eighteen grammes. The bill is intended to es- tablish a‘uniform standard of test and measurement and to do away with the multiplicity of tests which are now in use. Senator George R. Laybourn of Du- luth, chairman of the insurance com- mittee of tho senate, presented a fa- vorable report on the bill presented by Senator V. B. Seward of Marshall, ‘which imposes on foreign insurance i fmposed on Minnesota companies do ing business in the state wherein such home office. | Woman Suffragists to Organize Polit- ical Party. Chicago, Feb. 20.—A national wo- man’s political party, with state and county committees in every state and { county and ward and precinct cap- tains in every city—with all the para- phernalia of the politicians except the right to vote—may be the outcome of the national woman suffrage conven- tlon, just closed here. The plan, which involves a reorgan- {zation of the National American ‘Woman Suffrage association along lines which, even to the reformers, seem radical, was broached at the convention in the report of the na- tional membership committee given by Miss Laura Clay of Lexington, Ky. “We have been an overgrown Wwo- man’s club long enough,” said Miss Clay in her report. *“This system of gauging a person’s devotion to the cause of woman suffrage by his or her attendance at meetings and pink teas and things isn’t going to advance our | cause much farther.” WOULD BUY FROM COLONIES. Great Britain May Reduce Contracts for American Beef. London, Feb. 20.—The war office is taking steps to ascertain the possibil- ity of obtaining for the British army larger supplies of canned meats from Australia and New Zealand, so that the contracts with the American packers may be reduced in the near future. When the government was ques- tioned in the house of commons as to whether the colonies could not be given the first chance to obtain the next contracts Mr. Buchanan, finan- cial secretary of the war office, sald that in anticipation of an increased demand and in view of the storles re- garding American canned meats last i summer, as well &s the government’s desire for a wider area for supply, a representative had been sent to Aus- tralia and New Zealand to report on the methods of packinghouses there and the capacity of those colonies to furnish canned meats. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Willlam J. Duffey, aged sixty-five, a veteran theatrical manager of New York, is dead at Norfolk, Va. Assistant Paymaster W. P. Sypher, U. 8. N, has been dismissed from the navy on account of technical embez- zlement. The French chamber of deputles, by a vote of 389 to 88, sustained the gov- ernment’s policy in regard to church and state separation. Kansas City jail physicians state that Frank Hoitman, the condemned murderer. who Monday attempted to commit suicide, will recover. John Wilson, convicted for the fourth time for robbery in Minneap- olis, has been sentenced to serve thir- ty-five years in the state penitentiary. The total amount of foodstuffs that reach London yearly, according to the secretary of the public health commit: tee, Is between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 tons. Forest fires are burning over a wide territory in Mississippl. Settlers in remote places have had desperate fights to save their homes and build- ings. Charles Barnard, the well known boat builder, is dead at Madison, Wis., | at the age of eighty-five. He was born | in Germany and was a veteran of the| Mexican and Civil wars. General Winfield 8. Edgerly, U. S. A., who returned from the Philippines last week and is now visiting in Los Angeles, Cal, has been ordered to Atlanta to take command of the de- partment of the Gulf. W. Leon Pepperman has resigned from the position of chief of the Washington office of the isthmian canal commission to become assistant to Mr. T. P. Shonts in the Interbor- ough-Metropolitan company of New York city. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Feb. 19.—Wheat—May, 8% @783c; July, 78%@T79c; Sept., 77%c. On track—No. 1 hard, 80%c; No. 1 Northern, 79%¢; No. 2 North-| ern, 77%c¢; No. 8 Northern, 713@75¢. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Feb. 19.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, 80%c; No. 1 Northern, 793ec; No. 2 Northern, T7%¢; May, 79%c; July, 79%c; Sept., 777%ec. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.20%; May, $1.22%; July, $1.22; Oct., $1.18%5. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Feb. 19.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; common to good, $4.00@5.00; good to choice cows ' and heifers, $3.50@4.75; veals, $4.50@ 6.75. Hogs—$6.60@6.70. Sheep—Weth- ers, $4.75@5.25; good to prime spring lambs, $6.50@ @17.15. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Wheat—May, 77 @77%c; July, 77%@77%¢c. Corn— May, 463sc; July, 4634 @46%ec. Oats —May, 40%c; July, 363 @367%¢c. Pork —May, $16.77%; July, $16.87%. Butter ' —Creameries, 22@32%c; dairies, 20@ 30c. Hggs—22@24c. Poultry—Tur- keys, 1lc; chickens, 1lc; springs, 10%e. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@6.90; cows and heifers, $1.60@ b.25; stockers and feeders, $2.50@ 4.70; Texans, $3.65@4.75; calves, $6.00 @17.50. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $6.76@17.05; good heavy, $6.95@7.05; rough heavy, $6.75@6.85; light, $6.76 @6.97%; pigs, $6.10@6.75. $3.40@5.50; lambs, $4.50@7.60. Sheep, ! MAKES n- A FEI_[]NYE DECIDE ON AGGRESSIVE ACTION.| JAPS REGRET NEW LAW! AMENDMENT TO AMERICAN MIGRATION BILL CREATES DISSATISFACTION. M- PLAN OF ACTION NOT DECIDED ON FEAR SAN FRANCISCANS WILL NOW ASSUME AN OVERBEAR- ' ING ATTITUDE. Tokio, Feb. 20.—The official text of | President Roosevelt’s amendment of | the exclusion bill has been published ‘ere. As expected it has created the strongest dissatisfaction among the interested parties, although the move- ments of procedure have mnot yet as- sumed 2 definite shape. The Japanese residents of the Ha- wailan islands have telegraphed Pres- ident Roosevelt and the Hawaiian rep- resentatives in the house .indicating the seriousness of the injury which wili be caused to their rights and in- terests by this legislation. The lead- ers of opinion here are aware, how- ever, that under the circumstances the only alternative is to calmly resign themselves to the situation, hoping that the government can arrange with the American authorities to reduce the sacrifice in the interest of Japanese emigrants to a minimum. They re- gret the new law, lest the San Fran- cisco people, glorying in their success, should assume an overbearing atti- tude. News of this kind would only tend to injure Japanese susceptibilities, which President Roosevelt has been specially careful to avoid. SCHOOL QUESTION SETTLED. Terms of Agreement Ending the Con- troversy. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—The basis of the agreement reached between Pres- ident Roosevelt, Secretary Root, Mayor Schmitz and the members of the San Francisco school board on the Japanese school controversy has been made public by Mayor Schmitz. Briefly stated the agreement is this: Japanese children are to be admit- ted to the white schools of San Fran- cisco under certain restrictions. Skilled and unskilled laborers com- ing from Japan are barred from the mainland of the United States. American laborers, skilled and un- skilled, are excluded from Japan. This agreement means that the schools of San Francisco will be con- ducted in the same manner as they were before the board of education adopted the resolution last October providing for the segregation of the Japanese, except that adult Japanese who are pupils in primary grades must continue to attend the Oriental schools and that Japanese children under sixteen years of age will be admitted to classes with white chil- dren of their own ages. ‘While the resolution of the school board as amended reads “children of alien birth,, it is freely admitted by Mayor Schmitz and his associates that the resolution will apply only to the Japanese children and that the change in the wording was to make it plain to the Tokio government that no dis- crimination was intended against Japanese children. NICARAGUANS VICTORIOUS DEFEAT ARMY OF HONDURAS AFTER MANY HOURS OF SEVERE FIGHTING. Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 20.—The troops of General Bonilla, president of Honduras, attacked the forces of Gen- eral Zelaya, president of Nicaragua, which were guarding the Nicaraguan frontier. After many hours’ fighting the army of Honduras was defeatgd. EXPLANATION _SATISFACTORY. President Had Criticised Michigan Dis- trict Attorney. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—United States District Attorney Frank H. Watson of the Eastern district of Michigan has made an explanation to the president of his course in the recent trial of a person in his district for sending al- leged obscene matter through the | mails. The sentence imposed by the court, the president thought, was not severe enough. To Mr. Watson, who was in the city last week, the pres- ident freely expressed his opinion of the conduct of the district attorney’s office in the management of the case. Mr. Watson’s explanation was satis- factory to the president and he asked | Senator William Alden Smith, who | talked about the case with Mr. Roose- velt during the day, to telegraph Mr. ‘Watson to that effect. Pays Fine of $15,000. | Toledo, O., Feb. 20.—The Ann Arbor Railway company appeared ' in the United States court during the day and paid the fine of $15,000 imposed by Judge Tayler for violation of the interstate commerce law in granting rebates to the Toledo Ice and Coal | company. NO MOTIVE IS ASSIGNED. Defense and Prosecution Refuse to Discuss Peculiar Murder Case. New York, Feb. 20.—The inquest into the death of Mrs. Ida Binge, the aged woman who is alleged to have died from sublimate poisoning ad- ministered while she was dying of cancer, will be held shortly. Mean- time her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Wallou, who is charged with the murder, is held in the Tombs without bail. There have been no definite develop- ments regarding a motive for the al- leged crime. Friends and relatives agree that Mrs. Wallou did all that a loving daughter could do for a parent, who was incurably ill of a lingering disease, and can give no explanation for the alleged crime, supposing poi- son was administered as the analysis of the chemical experts seem to show. Neither Assistant District Attorney Corrigan, who has the case in charge, or the attorneys for the defense would discuss the theory of euthanasia, that is, that the poison was administered as an act of mercy by some sympa- | thetic hand, as advanced in some quar- ters in explanation of the supposed crime. The attorneys for Mrs. Wallou, it is said, are framing a defense of sui- cide. It is stated that Mrs. Binge, a day or two before her death, was seen in the bathroom, where the bichloride of mercury tablets, the poison said to have been found in Mrs. Binge’s stom- ach, was kept. SALARY OF GIFFORD PINCHOT. Senate Gives It a Boost of Fifteen Hundred Dollars. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—As the result of more than five hours consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill, ! the senate increased from $3,500 to $5,000 the salary of Gifford Pinchot, chief of the bureau of forestry. The debate was devoted mostly to the methods of administration and general policy of the forest service and at times broadened to include the public land question generally. Practically no progress was made on the agri- cultural bill. GREAT NORTHERN INDICTED ACCUSED OF PAYING REBATES OF $14,599 TO SUGAR TRUST IN TWO MONTHS. New York, Feb. 20.—The federal .grand jury has indicted the Great Northern Railway company on 2 charge of violating the Elkins act by paying rebates to Lowell F. Palmer, traffic agent of the American Sugar Refining company in this city. There are two counts, alleging the payment in all of $14,599 in May and June, 1905. SHONTS BEFORE. COMMITTEE. Questioned Concerning Several Canal Matters. ‘Washington, = Feb. 20.—Chairman Shonts of the isthmian canal commis- sion and D. W. Ross, the commis- sion’s purchasing agent, appeared be- fore the house committee on inter- state and foreign commerce to answer protests from New Orleans that that city is being discriminated against by the canal officials in favor of New York and also to advise the commit- tee as to the truth of the rumor that the canal purchasing office is to be removed from Washington to New York. Mr. Shonts explained that he will leave the commission on March 4 and cannot speak authoritatively as to fu- ture plans of the commission, but he said that he did not know that any change in the purchasing office Is contemplated. ‘When asked why it is not possible | to operate at least one of the Panama railway steamers between New Or- leans and Colon Mr. Shonts replied that such a change would interfere with the regular service now main- tained, as the railway has only five vessels, all of which are required in the New York service. He also said that Mobile wants Panama steamers and has appealed to him, thus dis- proving the claim of New Orleans that Gulf ports are all agreed that New Orleans is the port which should have the canal business. VENEZUELAN REBELS SHOT. Latest Attempt at Rebellion Ends Disastrously. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—The state de- partment has been informed by a ca- | blegram from the American consul at Port of Spain, Trinldad, of the com- Dplete extirpation of the latest attempt- ed rebellion in Venezuela. The news is contained in the following dispatch: “General Antonio Parades, with sev- enteen others, were shot after being captured by government troops near Barancas, in the state of Bermudez, about the 13th inst.” Parades landed on the coast of Ven- ezuela from one of the West Indian islands about two weeks ago. His party consisted of about twenty men, . but it was stated that.he had ample funds and that he would soon receive # large supply of weapons with which to arm the natives, whom he expected to flock to his banner. _In Connection With Lottery. Dallas, Tex., Feb: 20.—General W. 1. Cabell, commander of the Transmis- sissippi department, United Confed- erate Veterans, has been placed under a bond for $5,000 in connection. with the Honduras lottery matter. The case will come before the federal com- | missioner March 2 for hearing. Ink Wells, Etc. Rubber Stamps and Pads, Fou Erasers, Kneaded Rubber Squares, Township Plats in book form, Fine quality colored Blotters, L Pens, Letter Copy Books, Paper Clips DENOUNCES POLYGAMY | REED SMOOT OF UTAH SPEAKS IN HIS OWN DEFENSE ON FLOOR OF SENATE. DECLARES LOYALTY TO HIS COUNTRY HAS TAKEN NO OATH CONFLICT- ING WITH DUTY AS CIT- IZEN OR SENATOR. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—Speaking in his own defense before the senate Senator Reed Smoot of Utah con- £smned polygamy in the strongest terms, declaring polygamy does not now exist in Utah and insisting that he had never taken an oath as apostle in the church which would in any way prevent him from discharging the du- ties of senator and citizen with the utmost fidelity. He himself had never had but one wife and would not think of giving his official or personal sanc- tion to any other arrangement in the case of other members of the Mormon church. In support of his contention that polygamy was a dead letter among the Mormons Mr. Smoot took up in great detail the early campaign against the practice by the govern- ment and the tacit agreement on the part of the church to abandon it. The Mormons, he said, at first defended their rights in this respect as a part of their religion. Finally, wishing to obey the law of the land, they agreed to stop the practice and in 1890 a manifesto was issued discontinuing plural marriages. Not only are there no more plural marriages, insisted Mr. Smoot, but Mormons in charge of the Utah courts have rigorously prose- cuted any members of their church guilty thereof, though forbearance on the part of the prosecuting officers re- sulted in leaving as they were the po- lygamous relationships consummated prior to the 1890 manifesto. Since that time, however, the church has steadfastly refused to recognize any form other than monogamy and fam- ilies where there is more than one wife are altogether of the old dispen- sation. Younger Apostles Monogamists. As an instance of how obsolete po- lygamy is becoming in his church Mr. Smoot said that of the seven apostles chosen since 1890 six are monogamists. ‘While admitting the possibility of some polygamous marriages being made since the manifesto Mr. Smoot declared the cases to have been rare and without the church’s sanction. In only one instance, he declared, has there been direct proof of such plural marriage and this occurred in a Mor- mon colony in Mexico. This was in defiance of the solemn commands of the church. Referring to the alleged treasonable features of the Mormon endowment rite to be entirely religious in char- acter and calculated to breed love of country rather than disloyalty. Be- ing sacred the rite is not divulged to outsiders, but at the same time there is nothing therein preventing a Mor- mon from being loyal to the United States. As an instance of how the Mormons love their country Mr. Smoot told of the large numbers of soldiers fur- pished by Utah in the Civil and Span- ish wars. The commander of the Utah Light infantry, he said, was a Mormon and had taken part in the endowment ceremony, yet where was a more loyal soldier than he? “In closing,” he said, “let me say under my obligation as a senator that I have never taken any oath or obli- gation, religious or otherwise, which conflicts in the slightest degree with my duty as a senator or a citizen. I owe no allegiance to any church or other organization which in any way intefferes with my supreme allegiance, in civil affairs, to my country—an al- legiance which I freely, fully and gladly gave.” NO REVISION OF TARIFF. President Will Not Summon Congress in Extra Session, ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—That Presi- dent Roosevelt will not call a special meeting of congress next summer to irevise the present existing tariff is now an assured fact. He gives as his reason that the popular demand for such revision is not great enough. This expression by President Roose- velt is accepted as furnishing the rea- son for want of activity among West- | ern representatives, who have been urged by their constituents to make a | stand for early tariff revision. Many | of these members declined to sign the i petition for a caucus of the Repub- | lican members of the house, the object * of which was to pass a resolution urg- ing the president to call congress In special session to consider the tariff question. PUSH SHIP SUBSIDY BILL. Result of Conference Held at the White House. F | Washington, Feb. 20.—At a confer- ence between the president, Speaker Cannon and Representative Watson it was . practically decided that there should be ar effort to pass the ‘ship subsidy bill and the evenings of the latter part of the week will probably ceremony Mr. Smoot declared that | )| love of their youth was rekindled, ®a ubber Bands, Letter EMPEROR OPENS REICHSTAG. 1 Outlines Various Measures Govern- | ment Will Propose. Berlin, Feb. 20.--Emperor William | opened the new reichstag during the day, reading the spcech from the throne in a clear, loud voice, with con- siderable elocutionary effect. Aliud- ing to the results of the recent elec- tions to the reichstag the emperor said: i “The German people were called upon to decide a difference of opinion ; between the, federated governments and the former reichstag and demon- strated their resolve to safeguard the people and property of the nation by | putting aside all narrow party spirit. The strong national feeling that united | our citizens, peasants and laborers will effectively protect the Fatherland in | the future. Just as I am willing to | observe conscientiously all my consti- | tutional rights and privileges so am I confident the new reichstag, composed f intelligent men ready to act, will | ~cknowledge that its highest duty is to preserve and strengthen our posi- tion among clivilized nations.” Continuing, the speech announced the approaching introduction of vari- ous government measures in parlia-; ment, among them being the supple- mentary budget for the expenses in German Southwest Africa, upon which the reichstag was resolved, and meas- ures providing for the construction of the projected railroad from Hetmans- kop to Kubub, the development of [ other lines of communication with and | in the colonies, the establishment of j a colonial ministry and the indemnifi- cation of the farmers of German ast 3 les, Invoices, Typ! \Copy Presses, Waste Paper Baskets, Rubber Type Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, & pplies at the Bemidji Pioneer Office Most Complete Stock West of Duluth lank Books, Ledgers, Journals, Etc., Stationery, Christmas Stickers, 1907 Diaries, Typewriter Paper, Scrap Books, Lead Pencils, Pens, Holders, [k s Legal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads. Document Files, Note Books, Time Books, Scale Report Books, Trial Balanoe Books, Rulers, riter Supplies, Postal Scales, ; ¢ CONCLUDES HER smnvi MRS. EVELYN NESBIT THAW RE- SUMES THE STAND UNDER DIRECT EXAMINATION. MORE OF WHITE'S ALLEGED PRAGTICES ' LETTER OF DEFENDANT TO AN- THONY COMSTOCK ADMITTED AND READ TO JURY. New York, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Evelyn ' Nesbit Thaw during the day concluded | Ber story of her connection with the ' Thaw-White tragedy. She was the { first witness called and before the ! luncheon recess was ordered she had Dbeen given into the hands of District Attorney Jerome for cross-examina- tion. Mr. Jerome reserved his right, saying he had not yet determined whether the cross-examination was needful as to the issues involved in * the case. ‘While Mr. Jerome thus released the prisoner’s young wife for the time be- | ing he soon found himself in a posi- | tion to indirectly attack her credibil- | ity, although in answering Mr. Del- ' | Southwest Africa who sustained losses | mas’ “objections he declared that he as a result of the rebellion in that|had no such purpose in mind. This colony. Mother and Child Perish. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 20.—Mrs. John Grimshaw and her eight-months-old son were burned to death in their house on a farm near Royal Oak, ten miles out. Grimshaw saved his five- year-old daughter by tossing her out of a window, but was badly burned himself and was unconscious when rescued. ONE HUNDRED MINERS DEA TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS IN A COLLIERY AT LAS ES- PERANZAS, MEX. EBagle Pass, Tex., Feb. 20.—A dis-' patch received from Las Esperanzas, Mex., says that it is now believed 100 lives were lost in the explosion Mon- | day in the mine belonging to the Mex- ican Coal and Coke company. Forty- | three bodies have been removed and ' more than sixty miners are still in the compartment where the explosion occurred.. Whether they are dead or not is not known. Many of the men who were killed were Japanese. i The explosion is thought to have' been caused by gas which ignited from a defective lamp carried by one of the miners. The accident is the most se- rlous that has occurred in the district since the mine disaster which occur- red in the Barratorna mines in this | district a year ago in which about the | same number of lives were lost. DIVORCE STATISTICS. Over One Million Decrees Issued in Twenty Years.. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.—Preliminary estimates made by the bureau of cen- sus as a result of the investigation of marriage and divorce statistics indi- cate that the number of applications for divorce filed throughout the United States during the twenty-year period from 1887 to 1906 will reach the enor- mous total of 1,400,000. It is estimated that three-fourths of the applications have been granted, so that the statistics when compiled will show that in the period stated more | than 1,000,000 divorces have been al- lowed. In the twenty-year period from 1867 to 1886, for which divorce statistics ‘were secured, the total number of di- vorces was 328,000. On their face the figures indicate a stupendous increase, but when the ratio they bear to the population is considered it is not so great, though still large enough to warrant the seri- ous consideration of the American Deople. EARLY LOVE REKINDLED. Couple Divorced Thirty-two Years Ago Remarried. Mount Clemens, Mich.,, Feb. 20.— Divoreed ‘thirty-two years ago Alpheus j P. Cowell of San Francisco and Mrs. Emeline A. Hunter of Cleveland have deen remarried at the Methodist par- | sonage here. Mr. Cowell was eight- een at their first marriage and his bride sixteen and they are respective- ly fifty and forty-eight. Both lived in ! Michigan when they made their first matrimonial venture, the groom at St. Johns and the young woman at Lan- sing. Both married again after their divorce, but death .deprived them of | their partners and recently when they | came -into correspondence again the their second marriage being finally #rranged. Trust Fund for Young Women. Cincinnati, Feb. 20.—As a memorial ‘to his daughter, Charlotte, who was killed in an automobile accident in Southern France last summer, J. G. ‘Schmidlapp, a widely known Cincin- nati banker and millionaire, has an- | Thounced the establishment of a trust of $250,000, the interest of which is to be devoted to the benefit of young be given to that subject by the heuse.,{ women. was when the defense had introduced { Mrs. J. J. Caine of Boston as a wit- | ness. t Mrs. Caine had testified to hearing ' Harry Thaw-ask Mrs. Nesbit that he be allowed to marry Ler daughter. She also testified to an incident at the theater in which Stanford White ap- peared, the object being to show the effect ‘White’s presence had on the defendant. i When Mrs. Caine was taken in ~hand by Mr. Jerome he began a | searching inquiry into her acquaint- | anceship with the Thaws and asked her all about their movements, direct- ; ing his questions particularly to the | trip which Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit | made to Europe. He brought out the j fact that Mrs. Nesbit had not accom- | panied her daughter on this trip and i next took up the moveménts of the | defendant and Miss Nesbit after their return from Europe in 1904. He asked about “the Hotel Cumberland episode,” referring to the time when Miss Nes- bit and Thaw were required to leave that hotel unless they registered as man and wife. Young Mrs. Thaw testified that she had told her husband of a statement May MacKenzie made to the effect that Stanford White had declared, “I will get her back.” This was when Miss MacKenzie had told the architect that Harry and Evelyn were most happy in their mar- ried life. White, it was stated, also said, “Pooh, it won’t last.” Mrs. Thaw identified forty-two let- ters written by Stanford White, but they were not offered in evidence ex- cept to be marked for identification. Mr. Delmas is believed to intend to bring out the contents of the letters later in the trial. Thaw’s Letter to Comstock. Thaw’s letter to Anthony Comstock was introduced in evidence and read to the jury. It complained of White’s alleged practices and described his studio in Madison Square Garden tower and those in West Twenty- fourth street, with the velvet swing and the mirrored bedroom, and a third place on East Twenty-second street. During her examination Mrs. Thaw described a dinner given by White at which a young girl in scanty attire was placed inside a large pie and stepped out of it onto the table in the presence of the guests. It was & “stag party,” Mrs. Thaw said, and she testified that Harry Thaw related the story to Her after he had con- firmed its truth. She also declared that Thaw told her that Stanford ‘White’s practices on the young wo- men whom he is alleged to have ruined were sometimes unnatural, but she flushed and declined to describe them ‘when asked to do so by Thaw’s attorney. Mr. Jerome resunied his cross-ex- amination of Mrs. Caine at the after- noon session, but owing to objections of Thaw’s attorney the most impor- tant questions were ruled out. He concluded his examination of this wit- ness at 2:45 and Mrs. Thaw was re- called to the stand by Mr. Delmas, who insisted that Mr. Jerome proceed with her cross-examination, protesting against further postponement. Mr. Jerome expressed a willingness to take up the cross-examination in a day or two, the defense to proceed: with its other witnesses in the mean- time. Mr. Delmas would not consent to the latter proposition and ulti- mately Mr. Jerome yielded and began the cross-examination of Mrs. Thaw. Laborers Want More Pay. Chicago, Feb. 20.—A committee rep-: resenting several thousand trackmen"® employed in construction and repair work of Western railroads met here: end prepared wage demands, which include a minimum scale of $2 a day: for ordinary section hands and $76 a. month for the foremen of “gangs.” Buffalo Manufacturer Suicides. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 20.—Josiah Ross, president of the Ross Manufacturing company, manufacturers of woodwork- ing machinery, shot himself while in his office, dying almost instantly. Il health is supposed to have been the <cause. 2 PLSRe e Hotel Cumberland Episode. 1 | | |