Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 7, 1907, Page 3

By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA, MINNESOTA TAKES — PRIZES STATE EXPERIMENT STATION KEEPS UP REPUTATION AT LIVE STOCK SHOW. St Paul, Dec. 5. — Minnesota prize winners at the international live stock show in Chicago are upholding the past reputation of the state, and in two days of the show the state farm experiment station has secured $740 in prize money, Andy, the champion Aberdeen An- gus bull, was a star performer, carry- ing off the championship and first pre- ums in the Aberdeen Angus class. Eclipse, another Minnesota, was sec- ond, and Blaylock, also from the farm school, took third money. It was all Minnesota in this class, the station also securing first premium on the herd. The experiment school Herefords took third money in the class judging, making the total prize money for the first day $510. Yesterday afternoon a telegram was received from Chicago stating that the station had taken $230 in prizes on the second day’s judging, getting cham- pionship honors on the steer and two- year-old herds, also the reserved grand championship premium on _ the: re- doubtable Andy. SEVEN INJURED IN EXPLOSION. Acetylene Tank Blows Up— Woman and Five Children Among Victims. Osseo, Minn., Dec. 5.—Seven persons were more or less severely injured in the explosion of an acetylene gas gen- erator in the home of Sidney Potzin t Osseo. Mrs. Potzin and her five children, with Joseph Chouinard, were all eut and bruised by the force of the explosion, which wrecked the interior of the house, The family was just sitting down to The gas generator was in the sement directly under the din- ing room, and that room received the full force of the blast, The explosion was heard for two miles, upper. BOY IN JAIL; MAN MAY DIE. George Egan Admits Hold-up Near Bruce, Wis. Ladysmith, Wis., Dec. 5. — George an n jail here and admits having held up and robbed Daniel Fox near Bruce last night, securing $30. Fox, who is about sixty years old, is in a recarious condition from a blow dealt him on the head by Egan with a sewing machine casting. Egan was about to board the limited last night when arrested. He is little more than a boy in years and says he is from Mexico. DRIVER’S FALL FATAL. Man's Back Is Broken and Several Ribs Are Fractured. St. Cloud, Dee. 5.—Aug. Bachman, aged forty years, was fatally injured yesterday in falling from a brewery wagon. His back and several ribs are broken and he cannot survive. It is thought that he fell from a wagon after turning the horses too short. Bachman has been an employe of the Brelas & Wimmer company for the last fifteen years. A large family sur- vives. HOTEL HAS HELP FAMINE. Hostelry Has to Close Its Doors, Al- though Business Is Good, Arlington, S. D., Dec. 5.—Help is so scarce at White that the Park hotel, although enjoying a good business, has’ been forced to close its doors this week, it being impossible to get din- ing room and gitchen help. Half the girls of White are said to have been married during the last six months, and the others are teaching school. RESCUED WITH LADDER. Saves Family From Their Burning Home. West Concord, Minn., Dec. 5—Swan Swanson, a farmer living two miles north of this village, saved the lives Farmer of his family from his burning home | only by the use of a ladder, which he raised to the second-story window, en- abling the persons in the house to es- cape. Not even the clothes of the fam- ily were saved. HAS NEW INDIAN AGENT. Maj. C. W. Downs Is Succeeded by C, W. Rastal! at Cheyenne Post. Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 5.—Maj. C. W. Downs, Indian agent at Cheyenne River Indian agency, has retired from the position. His successor is C. W. Rastall, who for some time has been connected with official affairs on the Cheyenne reservation. The new agent has had much experience with In- dians. Winnipeg Mayor Re-elected. Winnipeg, Dec. 5. — James H. Ash- down was re-elected mayor of Winni- peg without opposition. There will be contests for aldermen and con- troller in every ward excepting the First, where F. W. Adams was elected alderman without opposition. Accident With Gun. Arlington, S. D., Dee. 5, — Charles Steinel, fourteen years of age, was tere ribly wounded at his home near Vien- na through an accident in cleaning a gun. Rerald-Review. {CONGRESS HEARS FROM PRESIDENT — MESSAGE DISCUSSES RECENT FINANCIAL STRINGENCY AND ITS CAUSES. FINANCIAL REFORM 1S NEEDED ANTI-TRUST LAWS, INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND TARIFF DIS- CUSSED, ‘The following is a synopsis of the pres- ident’s message: In opening his message the president refers to the financial stringency as fol- lows: Gag “No nation has greater resources ours. and I think it can be truthfully said that the citizens of no nation possess greater energy and industrial ability. In no nation are the fundamental business conditions sounder than in, ours at this very moment; and it is foolish, when such is the case, for: people to hoard money instead’ of keeping it in sound banks; for it is such hoarding that. is the immediate occasion of money strin- gency. Moreover, as a rule, the business of our people is conducted with honesty and probity, and this applies alike to farms and ‘factories, to railroads and banks, to all our legitimate commercial enterprises. “In any large body of men, however, there are certain to be some who are dis- honest, and if the conditions are such that these men prosper or commit their misdeeds with impunity, their example is a very evil thing for the community. Where these men are business men of great sagacity and of temperament both un- scrupulous and reckless, and where the conditions are such that they act with- out supervision or control and at first without effective check from public opin- jon, they delude many innocent people into making investments or embarking in Kinds of business that are really unsound. ‘When the misdeeds of these successfully dishonest men are discovered, suffering comes not only upon them, but upon the innocent men whom they haye misled. It is a painful awakening, whenever it occurs; and, naturally, when it does oc- cur those who suffer are apt to forget that the longer it was deferred the more painful it would be. In the effort to pun- ish the guilty it is both wise and proper to endeavor so far as possible to minimize the distress of those who have been mis- Jed by the guilty. Yet it is not possible to refrain because of such distress from striving to put an end to the misdeeds that are the ultimate causes of the suf- fering, and, as a means to this end, where possible to punish those respon- sible for them. There may be honest dif- ferences of opinion .as to many govern- mental policies; but surely there can be no such differences as to the need of un- flinching perseverance in the war against successful dishonesty.” Interstate Commerce. “No small part of the trouble that we have comes from carrying to an extreme the national virtue of self-reliance, of in- dependence in initiative and action. It is wise to conserve this virtue and to pro- vide for its fullest exercise, compatible with seeing that liberty does not become a liberty to wrong others. Unfortunately, this is the kind of liberty that the lack of all effective regulation inevitably breeds. The founders of the Constitution provided that the national government should have complete and sole control of interstate commerce. ‘Only the national government can in thoroughgoing fashion exercise the need- control. This does not mean that there should be any extension of federal authority, for such authority already ex- ists under the Constitution in amplest and most far-reaching form; but it does mean that there should be an extension of federal activity. This is not advo- cating centralization. It is merely look- ing facts in the face, and realizing that centralization in business has already come and cannot be avoided or undone, and that the public at large can only protect itself from certain evil effects of this business centralization by providing better methods for the exercise of con- trol through the authority already cen- tralized in the national government by the Constitution itself. There must he no halt in the healthy constructive course of action which this nation has elected to pursue, and has steadily pursued, dur- ing the last six years, as shown both in the legislation of the congress and the administration of the law by the depart- ment of justice. The most vital need is Rp connection with the railroads. As to hese, in my judgment there should now be either a national incorporation act or a law licensing railway companies to en- gage in interstate commerce upon cer- tain conditions. The law should be so framed as to give to the interstate com- merce commission power to pass upon the future issue of securities, while ample means should be provided to en- able the commission, whenever in its judgment it is necessary, to make a physical valuation of any railroad. The Anti-trust Law. The president points out the need for additional legislation looking to the ae control of business concerns engaged in interstate commerce, this control to be exercised for their own benefit and pros- perity no less than for the protection of investors and of the general public. He says: “The anti-trust law should not be re- pealed; but it should be made both more efficient and more in harmony with actual conditions. It should be so amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendment to be accompanied by, or to be an incident of, a grant of super- visory power to the government over these big concerns engaged in interstate business. This should be accompanied by provision for the compulsory publica- tion of accounts and the subjection of books and papers to the inspection of the government officials. A beginning has al- jTeady been made for such supervision by the establishment of the bureau of cor- porations. “The anti-trust law should not prohil combinations that do no injustice to fie public, stil} less those the existence of which is_on the whole of benefit to the ublic. But even if this feature of the jaw were abolished, there would remain as_an equally. objectionable feature the difficulty and delay now incident to its enforcement. The government must now submit to irksome and repeated delay be- fore obtaining a final decision of the courts upon proceedings instituted, and even a favorable decree may mean an empty victory. Moreover, to attempt to control these corporations by lawsuits means to impose upon both the depart- ment of justice and the courts an im- possible burden; it is not feasible to carry on more than a limited number of such suits. Such a law to be really ef- fective must of course be administered by an executive body, and not merely by means of lawsuits. The design should be to prevent the abuses incident to the creation of unhealthy and improper com- binations, instead of waiting until they are in existence and then attempting to destroy them by civil or criminal pro- ceedings. “4 combination should not be tolerated if it abuse the power acquired by_combi- nation to the public detriment. “No cor- oration or association of any kind should ye permitted to engage in foreign or in- terstate commerce that is formed for the purpose of, or whose operations create, a monopoly or gneral control of the pro- duction, sale or distribution of any one or more of the prime necessities of life or articles of general use and necoent Such combinations are against public pol- icy; they violate the common law; the doors of the courts are closed to those who are parties to them, and I believe the congress can close the channels of in- terstate commerce against them for its protection. Prohibit Unhealthy Competition. “Among the points to be aimed at should be the etree eae of unhealthy competition, such as by rendering serv- ice at an actual loss for the purpose of crushing out competition, the prevention of inflation of capital, and the prohibi- tion of a corporation’s making exclusive trade with itself a condition of having any trade with itself: Reasonable agree- ments between, or combinations of, cor- porations should be permitted, provided they are first submitted to and approved by, some appropriate government body. “The congress has the power to charter corporations .to engage in interstate and foreign commerce, and a general law ean be enacted under the provisions of which existing corporations could take out federal charters and new federal corporations could be created. An es- sential provision of such a law should be a method of. predetermining by some federal board or commission whether the applicant for a federal charter was an association or combination within the re- strictions of the federal law. Provision should also be made for complete pub- licity in all matters affecting the public and complete protection to the investing public and the shareholders in the mat- ter of issuing corporate securities. If an incorporation law is not deemed advisa- ble, a license act for big interstate cor- Porations might be enacted: or @ com- bination of the two might be tried. The supervision established might be analo- gous to that now exercised over national banks. At jeast. the anti-trust act should be supplemented by specific pro- hibitions of the methods which experi- ence has shown have been of most serv- ice in enabling monopolistic combinations to crush out competition. The real own- ers of a corporation should be compelled to do business in their own name. “To confer upon the national govern- ment, in connection with the amendment I advocate in the anti-trust law, power of supervision over big business concerns engaged in interstate commerce would benefit them as it has benefited the na- tional banks. In the recent business crisis it is noteworthy that the institu- tions which failed were institutions which were not under the supervision and _con- trol of the national government. Those which were under national control stood the test. ‘Would Benefit All. “National control of the kind advocated would be. to the benefit of every well- managed railway. “Those who fear, from any reason, the extension of federal activity will do well to study the history not only of the na- tional banking act but of the pure food law, and notably the meat inspection law recently enacted. The pure food law was opposed so violently that its passage was delayed for a decade, yet it has worked unmixed and immediate good The meat inspection law was even more violently assailed. Two years have not elapsed, and already it has become evi- dent that the great benefit the law con- fers upon the public is accompanied bv an equal benefit to the reputable packing establishments. The latter are better off under the law than they were without it. The benefit to interstate common carriers and business concerns from the legisla- tion I advocate would be equally mark- ed” Pure Food Law. “Incidentally in the passage of the pure food law the action of the various state food and dairy commissioners show- ed in striking fashion how. much good for the whole people results from the hearty co-operation of the federal and state of- ficials in securing a given reform. It is primarily to the action of these state commissioners that we owe the enact- ment of this law, for they aroused the people, first to demand the enactment and enforcement of state laws on the sub- ject, and then the enactment of the ted- eral law, without which the state laws were largely ineffective. There must pe the closest ‘co-operation between the na- tional and state governments in admin- istering these laws.” Currency Laws. The president again calls attention to the condition of our currency laws and urges on congress the need of immediate attention to this\matter. He says: “We need a greater etasticity in our currency; provided. of course. that we recognize the even greater need of a safe and Secure currency. There must always be the most rigid examination by the na- tional authorities. Provision should he made for an emergency currency. The emergency issue should, of course, be made with an effective guaranty, and pon conditions carefully prescribed by ie vovernment. Such emergency issue must be based on adequate securities ap- proved by the government, and must’ be issued’ under a heavy tax. This would nermit currency being issued when the demand for it was urgent, while secur- ing its retirement as the demand fell off. It is worth investigating to determine whether officers and directors of national banks should ever be allowed to loan to themselves. Trust companies should be subject to the same supervision as banks; legislation to this effect should be enacted for the District of Columbia and the ter- ritories. “Yet we must also remember that even the wisest legislation on the subject can only accomplish a certain amount. No Jegislation can by any possibility guar- antee the business community against the results of speculative folly any more than it can guarantee an individual against the results of his extravagance.” The income account of the nation is in a most satisfactory condition. Neverthe- less, the president says, there is an evi- dent and constantly growing feeling among our people that the time is ran- idly approaching when our system of revenue legislation must be revised. The Tariff. “This country is definitely committed to the protective system and any effort to uproot it could not but cause widespread industrial disaster. In other words. the principle of the present tariff law could not with wisdom be changed. But in a country of such phenomenal growth as ours it is probably well that every dozen years or so the tariff laws should be caretully scrutinized so as to see that no excessive or improper benefits are con- ferred thereby, that proper revenue is provided. and that our foreign trade is encouraged. There must always be, as a minimum a tariff which will not only al- low for the collection of an ample rev- enue but which will at least make good the difference in cost of production here and abroad. The question should be approached purely from a business standpoint: both the time and the manner of the change being such as to arouse the minimum of agitation and disturbance in the business world, and to give the least play for sel-'| fish and factional motives. The sole coy. sideration should be to see that the sun total of changes represents the pub good. This means that the subject ca- not with wisdom be dealt with in tk year preceding a presidential electio | because as a matter of fact experien has conclusively shown that at such time it is impossible to get men to tre: it from the standpoint of the public goo In my judgment the wise time to de. with the matter is immediately aft« such election.” Income Tax and Inheritance Tax “When our}tax laws are revised th question of an income tax and an inher itance tax should receive the careful at tention of our legislators. In my judg ment both of these taxes should be par of our system,of federal taxation.” Compulsory Investigation of Indus- trial Disputes. “Strikes and lockouts, with their at- tendant loss and suffering, continue to decrease. For the five years ending Dec. 31, 1905, the number of strikes was greater than those in any previous ten years and was double the number in the preceding five years. These figures in- dicate the increasing need of providing some machinery tv deal with this class of disturbances in the interest alike of the employer, the employe, and the gen- eral public. I renew my previous rec- ommendation that the congress favorably consider the matter of creating the ma- chinery for compulsory investigation of such industrial controversies as are of sufficient magnitude and of sufficient con- cern to the people of the country as a whole to warrant the federal government in taking action.” National Inspection of Grain. “The grain producing industry of the country, one of the most important in the United States, deserves special con- sideration at the hands of congress. Our grain is sold almost exclusively by grades. To secure satisfactory results in our home markets and to facilitate our trade abroad, these grades should approximate the highest degree of unl- formity and certainty. The present. di- verse methods of inspection and grading throughout the country under different laws and boards result in confusion and jack of uniformity, destroying that con- fidence which is necessary for healthful trade. Complaints against the present methods have continued for years and they are growing in volume and _in- tensity, not only in this country but abroad. I therefore suggest to the con- gress the advisability of a national sys- tem of inspection and grading of grain entering into interstate and foreign com- merce as a remedy for the: present evils.” Forestry. On the subject of forestry the presi- dent says: “We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. The mineral wealth of the coun- try, the coal, iron, oil, gas and the like, does not reproduce itself, and therefore is certain to be exhausted ultimately, and wastefulness in dealing with it to-day means that our descendants will feel the exhaustion a generation. or two before they otherwise would. But there are cer- tain other forms of waste which could be entirely stopped—the waste of soil by washing, for instance, which is among the most dangerous of all wastes now in Progress in the United States, is easily preventable, so that this present enormous loss of fertility is entirely unnecessary. The preservation or replacement of the forests is one of the most important means of preventing this loss. We have made a beginning in forest preservation, but it is only a beginning. Every business man in the land, every writer in the newspapers, every man or woman of an ordinary school education, ought to be able to see that immense quantities of timber are used in the country, that the forests which supply this timber are rapidly being exhausted and that, if no change takes place, ex- haustion will come comparatively soon, and that the effects of it will be felt se- verely in the every-day life of our peo- ple. Surely when these facts are so 0) vious there should be no delay in tak- ing preventive measures. Inland Waterways. “The conservation of our natural re- sources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our na- tional life. We must maintain for our civilization the adequate material basis without which that civilization cannot exist. We must show foresight, we must look ahead. Ag a nation we not’ only en- joy a wonderful measure of present pros- perity but if this prosperity is used aright it is an earnest of future success such as no other nation will have. The reward of foresight for this nation is great and easily foretold. But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to in- crease its usefulness, will result in un- dermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. For the last few years, through several agencies, the government has been endeavoring to get our people to look ahead and to substitute a planned and orderly development of:our resources in place of a haphazard striving for im- mediate profit. Our great river systems should be developed as national water highways; the Mississippi, with its trib- utaries, standing first in importance, and the Columbia second, although there are many others of importance on the Pa- cific, the Atlantic and the gulf slopes. The national government should under- take this work, and I hope a beginning will be made in the present congress; and the greatest of all our rivers, the Missis- sippi. should receive especial attention. From the Great Lakes to the mouth of the Mississippi there should be a deep waterway, with deep waterways leading from it to the ~ast and the West. Such a waterway would practically mean the extension of our coast line into the very heart of our country. It would be of in- calculable benefit to our people. If be- gui at once it can be carried through in time appreciably to relieve the congestion of our great freight carrying lines of railroads. The work should be_ sys- tematically and continuously carried for- ward in accordance with some well-con- ceived plan, “I have appointed an inland waterways commission to study and outline a com- prehensive scheme of development along all the lines indicated. Later I shall lay its report before the congress.” Panama Canal, “Work on the Panama canal is pro- ceeding in a highly satisfactory manner.” Postal Affairs. *T commend to the favorable considera- tion of the congress a postal savings bank system, as recommended by the post- master general. The primary object is to encourage among our people economy and thrift and by the use of postal savings bank to give them an opportunity to hus- band their resources, particularly those who have not the facilities at hand for sepee teas their money in savings bank. Viewed, however, from the experience of the past few weeks, it is evident that the advantages of such an institution are still more far-reaching. Timid depositors have withdrawn their savings for the time be- ing from national banks, trust companies, and savings banks; individuals have hoarded their cash and the workingmen their earnings; all of which money has been withheld and kept in hiding or in the safe deposit box to the detriment of prosperity. Through the agency of the postal savings banks such money would be restored to the channels of trade, to the mutual benefit of capital and labor. “I further commend to the congress the consideration of the postmaster general's recommendation for an extension of the parcel post, especially on the rural routes.” Presidential Campaign Expenses. “Under our form of government votin; is not merely a right but a duty, and, moreover, a fundamental and necessary duty if a man is to be a good citizen. It is wel] to provide that corporations shall not contribute to presidential] or national campaigns, and furthermore to provide for the publication of both contributions and expenditures. There is, however, al- ways danger in laws of this kind, which from their very nature are difficult of enforcement; the danger being lest they be obeyed only by the honest, and dis- obeyed, by the unscrupulous, so as to act only as a penalty upon honest men. The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if congress provided an ap- propriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough or- ganization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the treas- ury should accept more than a_ fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.” The Army. Of the army the president says: ““Its standard of efficiency and instruc- | tion is higher now than ever in the past. | But it is too small. There are not enough officers; and it is impossible to secure ‘ enough enlisted men. We should main- tain in peace a fairly complete skeleton ‘of a large army. A great and long con- ‘ tinued war would have to be fought by volunteers. But months would pass be- fore any large body of efficient volunteers could be put in the field, and our regular army should be large enough to meet any immediate need. In particular it is essen- tial that we should possess a number of extra officers trained in peace to perform efficiently the duties urgently required upon the breaking out of war.” The Navy. In the opinion of the president it would be most unwise for us to stop the up- building of our navy, in view of the fact that the proposition for the limitation of rmaments met with no favor at all at the Hague conference. He says: doa’ puild one battleship of the best ) nd most advanced type a year would barely keep our fleet up to its present force. This is not enough. In my _ judg- ment. we should this year provide for four battleships. =ee it_is idle to build battleships unless in addition to provid- ng the men, and the means for thorough (raining, we provide the auxiliaries for them, unless we provide docks, the coal- ing stations, the colliers and supply ships ‘that they _ne¢ ‘We are extremely defi- cient in _coaling stations and docks on the Pacific, and this deficiency should not lpnger be permitted to exist. Plenty of torpedo boats and destroyers should be fuilt. Both on the Atlantic and Pacific « . fortifications of the best type should be provided for all our greatest harbors.” ES IS CALLED HOME TO REPORT ON QUESTIONS IN WHICH JAPAN IS INTER- ESTED. RECALL HAS NO SIGNIFICANCE HAS NO BEARING ON RELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES } AND JAPAN. Washington, Dec. 5.—Viscount Aoki, ambassador of Japan, talked freely and unreservedly yesterday regarding the instructions given him by his gov- ernment to return home for the pur- pose of making a report on affairs in which Japan is interested jointly with the United States. The ambassador yesterday afternoon cordially received a representative of the Associated Press and appeared to be in a cheer- ful mood. : Many Things to Report. “T am going home,” the ambassador said, “for the purpose of making a ver- bal report to my government. There are many things to report on—things that I have heard and seen in this country. They can be made better verbally than in writing. There is no other significance to the visit. I shall discuss immigration in addition to other questions in which my govern- ment is interested. My return cannot be construed in any way as an indica- tion of unfriendliness on the part of Japan for the United States. The American government knows very well that Japan is disposed to be one of her best friends and to remain on terms of greatest amity with her. Any other idea or suggestion is foolish to entertain. Has No Significance. “The question of the adjustment of the immigration difficulty is not at all a serious one, and in my judgment it will be settled satisfactorily. My re- turn, I repeat, has no bearing on the relations between the United States and Japan. Our relations are friendly and I hope will remain the same, There is no reason why they should be otherwise, but, on the contrary, every reason why they should continue good.” The most positive statement is made at the Japanese embassy that Count Aoki’s recall is not the result of any dissatisfaction of his course on the part of his government, or that his re- eall in any way disavows his actions while here, GREETED AT ST. PETERSBURG. Taft Warmly Welcomed by Russians— Makes Speech in Banquet. St. Petersburg, Dec. 5—The Ameri- can secretary of war, William H. Taft, was accorded a hearty welcome here yesterday. He arrived in St. Pe- tersburg in the morning from Moscow and after a round of official visits and a brief rest visited the duma, where he spent half an hour listening to the debate on the ministrial declaration. He was greeted by the premier, M. Stolypin, and other high ministers, and was made the object of special attention by the deputies. Banquet in His Honor. In the evening Secretary Taft at- tended a banquet given in his honor by prominent Americans and made a speech in which he emphatically de- nied that his round-the-world trip had aught to do with a special policy of the United States, whose sole policy, he said, was one of peace for all na tions. A review of a famous corps will be given to-day at Tsarskoe-Selo for the benefit of Secretary Taft and later he will attend Foreign Minister Iswol- sky’s banquet and a reception of the diplomatic corps and Russian official society. The secretary is trying to ar- range his visit here so that he may catch the steamer President Grant at Boulogne Dec. 8 for his return home. JEWELRY STOLEN, $10,000 Worth of Jewels Taken From Passenger While Asleep. Richmond, Va., Dec, 5.—On a Pull- can car which left Jersey City Mon- day night attached to a train for this city over the Richmond, Fredericks- burg & Potomac railroad, a connection of the Pennsylvania railroad, $10,000 worth of jewelry is said to have been stolen from a handbag belonging to the wife of Dr. Edward Fribourg of Paris, who, with his wife, was on his way to North Carolina. The robbery was discovered when the passengers awoke Yesterday morning, while the train was between Fredericksburg and Richmond. The bag had been opened and relocked after the abstraction of the jewelry. DIPHTHERIA SCARE, Manistique, Mich., in Throes of Second Epidemic of Dread Disease. Manistique, Mich., Dec. 5.—For the second time within the last two months this city is in the throes of an epidemic of diphtheria. The public schools, theaters and churches, after being closed for ten days two weeks ago under the most rigid quarantine the city has ever experienced, have been opened but two weeks when a new victim of th dread disease was discovered. JAP AMBASSADOR — [¥RS. Brabuey 1s acquirtED WOMAN WILL SUFFER NO PENAL- TY FOR KILLING FORMER SENATOR BROWN. Washington, Dec. 5. — “Not guilty” was the verdict rendered yesterday by the jury in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of Former United States Senator Arthur M. Brown of Utah at a hotel in this city on Dec. 8 last. Amid the ap- plause of a crowd that filled the court room Mrs. Bradley, with tear-dimmed eyes, was discharged from custody and a trial that has evoked national attention during the past three weeks was at an end. Throughout its deliberations the jury, into whose hands the case was delivered by Justice Stafford in the United States criminal court No, 1 at 4:17 p. m. Monday, practically stood at 11 to 1 for acquittal until the final ballot, when the lone juror who was holding out for some form of punish- ment, Juror Julius H. Prigg, gave in and the verdict of acquittal was agreed on. SHOOTS SELF AND DODCTOR. Woman, Just Out of Hospital, At- tempts Murder and Suicide. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 5.—Dr, J. A. At- tridge, aged thirty-eight, and his pa- tient, Mrs. J. B. Griffith, aged thirty- five, were taken to hospitals last night from Mrs. Griffith's rooms in the Roy- court apartments, both shot through the head and in a critical condition, Mrs. Griffith had been in Harper hos- pital several weeks receiving treat- ment and had just been removed to her rooms under the direction of Dr. Attridge when the shooting occurred. The injured woman’s husband said last night that he and his wife had had trouble because of Dr. Attridge’s attentions to Mrs. Griffith, but it is said that the couple had _ effected a reconciliation while Mrs. Griffith was in the hospital for treatment. NO LIBERTY FOR ADAMS. Buckeley Wells Going to Rathdrum With Requisition. Denver, Colo., Dec. 5—With the ut- most secrecy a requisition on the gov- ernor of Idaho for the person of Steve Adams was secured late yesterday and it is believed that Buckeley Wells, for- mer adjutant general of Colorado, is on his way to Rathdrum to get the prisoner. Adams now trying to secure bail, pending his second trial for murder. It is thought that he will be successful in getting conditional freedom. In this case he will be arrested again at once and brought to Telluride to stand trial for the murder of Arthur Collins, manager of the Smuggler mine, which occurred in 1903. YOUNG ARGUES HIS OWN CASE. Attorneys Are Hopeful As to the Out- com Washington, Dec. 5.—The case of Attorney General Young, in the United States supreme court, reached an end yesterday as far as arguments of the attorneys on both sides are concerned. The principal argument yesterday was made in closing the case by the attor- ney general himself. Attorney Gen- eral Hadley of Missouri and John F. McGee of Minneapolis also made argu- ments in the case. The lawyers representing the attor- ney general and Minnesota in this con- test are very hopeful of securing a de- cision in their favor. SIX MEN DROWNED. Thrilling Experience in Upper Falls of Frazer River. Vancouver, B. C., Dec. 5. — H. Me- Laughlin has arrived here after a thrilling experience in the upper falls of the Frazer river, where with a num- ber of men he was at work on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. A party of eight left with him to come down the stream. Their boat upset at one of the Falls, and six men were drown- ed. Their names are not known. $10,000,000 BOY IN EUROPE. Richest Child in World Taken Abroad to Avoid Kidnapping, Newport, R. L, Dec. 5—John Nicho- as Brown, the $10,000,000 boy, has been taken by his mother to Europe. No reason was given for the sudden trip by the mother of the richest sev- en-year-old boy in the world, but stories of an attempted kidnapping of young John Nicholas will not down. The voyage probably is taken to avoid possible danger. FIRE IN ARMORY. Automobile Show in Chicago Threat- ened by Fire. Chicago, Dec. 5. — Fire broke out shortly before noon yesterday in the Seventh regiment armory, in a por- tion of which the annual automobile exhibition was in progress. Thou- sands of dollars worth of automobiles were for a time in jeopardy, but were removed in time to escape damage. The fire was soon under control. Barracks Destroyed. Leavenwoorth, Kan., Dec. 5.—A fire which is supposed to have originated from defective electric wiring last night destroyed the west wing of the barracks occupied by Company L, Thirteenth infantry, entailing a loss of about $15,000, Monks Hold Jubilee. Appleton, Wis, Dec. 5.—The local monastery of Capuchin monks, one of the oldest in the country, yesterday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the order.