Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 8, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE s the most powerful business getter in the west, because it goes to the homes of poor and rich, OMAHA, THURSDAY THE OMAHA DAILY BEE . WEATHER FORECAST Nobraska—F Fa weather r Fo I in west portion port ses page 4 fowa For MORNIN®™ APRIL 8, 1909—-TWELVE PAGES, REVISION WILL BE DOWNWARD Senator Aldrich Denies the Report That the Senate Will Re! Tariff Rates. ¢ kA GOOD PROGRESS BEIN @ Xk - %% b MANY PERSONS WANT HEARLGZ Says Taxes on Necessaries : Will Be Reduced. Ohio Senators Introduce Delegation of Coal Producers. POTTERY AND CHINA SCHEDULES That Protection on In Much Greater Tarite Importers Innint Finer Grades n Indieated in Laws. WASHINGTON, the Onslaughts by e Aprll 7. upon senate committee on finance members of congress have %0 vigorous since it became known work of inserting rates in the bill prominent ne that the soon to be reported has actually begun, that there is danger of revision being de- cededly of an upward trend, it is said, un less doaf cars are turned to importunte in- The only by the committee are senators, delega- tlons introduced by senators, the fore- noon. Many other delegation wait about the corridors all day seeking the ears of individual committeemen during the re- cesses. Spite of being chatrman, that terests, persons now seen and in these conditions good prog- made and Benator Aldrich, sald today that he could when the bill fs reported it that the revision has been d, especially upom (he necessaries ross ls the predict will b downwa of lite, It fs probable that the senate session on Saturday in order the Payney bili from the house. A session of the finance committee then will be held in order 1o make up the amendments that have been deeided upon and send the bill to the printing office. The democratic members of the committee will be called in and an effort made to obtain an agree- ment with them that will permit the re- porting of the bill by Tuesday. There are many schedules that will lead to much de- bate in the senate. Wil Report Bill Tuesday. Many demands upon the finance commit- tee for changes in the Payne rates or for revision of certain paragraphs of the Ding. lay law were mude today. Senator Dick and Senator Burton intro- Auced delegation of coal producers from eastern Ohlo who ship their products to Ontario and other Canadign provinces, who Gesire to retaln the reciprocity clause in the Payne bill. A number of concerils manufacturing gas in the New England states oppose the pro- viston which Indicates slack coal in the same paragraph with bituminous coal, maR- ing both dutiabloe at 67 cents. This amounts to increase on slack coal from the will be in to recelve an present rate of 15 cefits, and it Is asserted | wouldl result fn increasing the cost of gas to consumer. The s'ack coal ugually comes from Cape Breton. Potter and China Schedules. The pottery and finé china schedules wer considered today. The views of the Na- tloftal Association of Wholesale Dealera in Pottery were represented by Jerome Jones of Boston, E. H. Pitkin of Chicago and Gearge W, Kinney of Cleveland. They con- tended that the actual protection to Ameri- can pottary manufdcturers is m thah representod by the specified rates of 55 And W per cent bedause the pac whith the goods ar elmported and It I8 claimed the uctual amounts Lo % per ceht on de 20 per cent on white china. They ask a reduction to 40 per cent ad valorem on wiilte and 4 per cent on decorative china Thé delegation had been received previously by President Taft dr. Jones talked 1o speeches dellvered that it dutiable ative and the president about him in the recent campaign In which the president declared that the potlety Industry needed greater protection. ‘Fhe delegation gained the im- pression from Mr. Taft that he was speak- ing generally of the pottery Industry and had no special reference (o the manufacture | of fine china. It is satd there is a dispo; tion in the senate to still further Increase the duty on china. dordon Dobson of Maine asked the com- mittee to again take cardél woolens und provide for such modifications of the duties as would give protection on heavy shrinkage woolens. i sald (hat this Indstry has suffered by refson of the Increasing demands for fine worsteds, oN cocon REDUCED & Committee Makes ariff Schedules. V ASHINGTON, April 7.—The ways and nieuns committee today agreed to several portant amendments to the Payne tariff \ e duty on erude cocoa was reduced from 4 to & cents a pound Haryles was raised from 7 cenis to $1.50 a ton. Paragraph stricken out m copting toys of relating to toys, was 4 new one inserted, ex- rubber and porcelain which are taxed at % per cent ad valore provided that only those articles should taxed a8 toys which are manufactured things for cnilaren as pi ' rapli B8 was changed so as (o tax | tire fabrics, or abrics or pneumatie tires at 45 per cent ad valorem. This meant 10 tax long staple ¢ in the fab. ric. The steel and schedules, steel ingits, blooms and slabs were reduced from I cent to .8 cent and 4 to pound. The ad valorem duty on boller and plate iron or steel was stricken Some of them were made specific and others were slightly reduced. The paragraph of the Dingley law providing a duty of 5 per ctat ad valorem on silk bandiugs, which Liad been consolidated with the paragraph of the Payne bill which provides a duly of % per cent on laces was restored 1sed tton used tron out Wet Ticket at Alllance, ALLIANCE, Neb, April 7.-4Special Tei- CRIRm)-F. W, Harris, as mayor. entire wel ticket, with the exception of clty (reasurer, wan elected here Tuesday. C. W. Breunan, on the dry tickel, was Sosted Gy trewsures ch greater | ges in proteetion | it 3 cent a| and the | | done." Charles Metz Draws Record on Shallenberger “I Will Not Run Unless Assured of Liquor Men's Support,” He Said. Vow, Mr. Metz, T will not run for gov- ernor uniess you can me that 1 Jhave the support of the brewing and other Mquor Interests. I am not in favor of L \unty option, nor prohibition in any form, g T am opposed to making any revisions J#the Slocumb law that will impose greater restrictions on your business and that of other brewers and liquor men.” Charles Mets, president of the Metz. Brothers Brewing company of Omaha says Ashton C. Shalienberger made this state- ment to him before he was elected gov- ernor and repeated its import after “He was at the Paxton hotel.”” sald Mr. Metz, “and sent for me to call and see him. T did not call on the first invitation and he sent a second one. Then 1 went and this s the promise he voluntarily made “I had asked nothing of him, nor visited him or asked anyone to, matter was on the volition of lenberger. Ot course, it is putting it mildly to say that I, in common with other men engaged in the brewing business, am dumfounded at the governor's act in signing this daylight saloon bill. We had every reason fo expect fair treatment from him because he pledged us his word that we should have it. “What are you going to do in a case like this? Leaving out of all consideration for the time the merits or demerits of the biil, what are we to think of our governor under such circumstances?"” Baldwin Will Is Probated Estate of Late Turfman Is Valued at Over Twenty| Million Dollars LOS A S, April 7.—As uneventful as the settlement of a $00 estate was the probation today in the superior court of the will disposing of the millions of the late E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin. H. A. Un- rub, business manager of the famous turfman during his lifetime, and named by him as executor of the will, testified 4s to the making of the will, the sound- ness of Baldwin's mind and his freedom from any sort of undue influence when the instrumet was signed November 4, 1908 Mr, Unruh fixed the value of the real property at from $20,000,000 to $24,000,- 000, and of the personal property about $127,500. The net annual income from the property, said the executor, has been only $10,000 Attorneys for Mrs. Lilly Bennett Bald- win, the widow, and Mrs. Zola Selby, a daughter by another wife than the mother of the surviving daughters, were in court, but took no part in the proceedings. The assure had 1 The whole Mr. Shal- NORRIS LEADS OIL FIGHT Advocates of Free Crude Petroleum and Its Products Win Signal Victory. DUTY PLACED AT ONE PER CENT Countervailing Tariff Stricken Out by Practically Unanimous Vote. COMMITTEE I8 SUSTAINED Bailey Schedule Runs the Gauntlet Without Any Change. TEA AND COFFEE ON FREE LIST Tax on Baytes 1 Seventy-five Ce and s to a Dollar Halt a Ton. WASHINGTON, April day for the republican organization of the house. By a coalition between some re- publican “insurgents” and the democrat the ways and means committee was bowled over and the advocates of free crude ol and its products won A signal victory whe an amendment by Mr. Norrls (Neb.) place ing the insignificant duty of per- centum ad volorem on those articles, was reported by & substantial majority. A decision of the chairman thgt amend- ments could not be offered (qythe oii schedule other than the one covered by the speciul rule of last Monday and which provided for the removal of -the counter vailing duty on crude petrolem and apply- ing an ad volorem duty of % per cent was overturned and not even a fervid appeal by the Speaker, In an endeavor to rally the republican forces was sufficient to stem the tide avowedly against the Standard Ofl company. By a practically unanimous vote the countervailing duty went out as the commitiee had recom- mended. On all other propositions the committee was sustained. The barley schedule ran the gauntlet without change. Tea and coffee were placed on the free list and duty on barytes increased from 75 cents a ton to} $1.50 a ton. A colloguy at first humorous, but later developing Into personalities developed be- tween Mr. Stanley (Ky.) and Mr. Clark (Florida) and was terminated only on an objection by Mr. Crimpacker (Ind.) that it was against the dignity of the house. The bill was laid aside and at 5:04 p. m. the house adjourned William Neville Dies in Wyoming Former Populist Congressman is attorney declined to make public any of the detalls of the settlement with Mrs. Selby and with the widow, Mrs. Baldwin of San Francisco, which averted a pos- sible contest of the will. The bond of the executor was fixed at $250,000. |Banker Mosher in Iowa Falls | Missing Chicagoan Said to Have | Been Seen in the Iowa City Last Week. CHICAGO, Apll T.—<Special Telegram.) ‘l'|lu|l Charles W. Mosher, the missing banker formerly of Lincoln, & roaming the | | west in a deranged condition, as his fam- |1y believe, is confirmed by a statement from Willlam Whitesell, a farmer near | lowa Falls, Ta. He writes that a man cor- | responding to Mosher's description ate at s house last week. |BOY GOES TO REFORM SCHOOL FOR EMBEZZLING TWO ENTS | Appropriated to His Own U [ [ [ SPRINGFIELD, Mo, April T.—Judge | John F. Phillips In the United States dis- | | tdict court here yesterday sentenced Cleve- land Carrol, a Bulaski county boy, Pm—‘ | the Missouri reform school for embesaling postal funds. Carrol is sald to have ap- | propriated 2 cents glven him to buy a | stamp. He destroyed the letter he was ml { mail | | an early resident of this city. | occurred Sunday | tion, | legislature, register | Douglas to practice law and has been liv- | ing there since. Stricken by Apoplexy at Home in Douglas, Wyo. 1 NORTH PLATTBE, Neb., April 7.—(8pe- | clal Telegram.)—Word has just been re- celved here of the death at oDuglas, Wyo., of William Neville, formerly conlressmanl from the Sixth congressional district and | His death | evening from a sudden | stroke of oppoplexy, but owing facilities his son Keith, who lives here, was notiffed only last night. Besides hls son here he has a brother, James Neville, in Omaha Mr. Neville served In congress from 1 to 193 as a populist. Previous to his ele he had served as member of the of the land office and district and supreme judge, being elected to the last position in 1896, He was a prominent member of the Grand Army. Six years ago he went from here to poor | to | LIQUOR MESSAGE BY HADLEY | vernor Says Legislature Shonld | Apply Test of Usefulness to Pro- | | hibition Amendment. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 1. Whether by submitting (o the voters of the statc a proposed constitutional amend- ment providing for state wide prohibition | and thus making the subject a maiter of | active controversy for two years, any use- | ful public purpose would be served, was | declared byGovernor Hadley today to be the up the subject Of| ioveq as a mall carrier, to six months in | test by which the legislature should treat | the measure. This opinion was expressed | In a special message which the executive | addressed to the general assembly and in which he discussed the liquor issue at some | length, | “And they plowshares and | hooks. Shallenberger has lost three of his colonels | by signing the daylight saloon bill Charles E. Fanning, V. F. Kuncl and Wil- | Mam Kennedy. Mr. Fanning is a contractor land leader of the Jim club, Mr. Keanedy | 1s advertising manager for the Krug Brew- ing company and Mr s a meat market proprietor All reside Omaha. These soldiers of peace and progress will sell thelr uniforms to th rag-picker and | follow the tip of 1salah, the prophet, as to their implements of war | These colonels believed the unfair to the interests of Omaha and be. ! lieved the governor should and would veto When he falled to do so they decided could longer stand with him in defending the old flag and holding up the arms of the government, so they have | concluded to quit the army and return to | the peaceful pursuits of life. | “Just say for me that | um so disgusted | with the governor and things in general ‘lhnl 1 could not stand it here any longer, lana am going away to stay until after election,” said Colonel Fanning. ‘“That | sovernor of ours told us In a speech in | Creighton hall the night before election that If the governor went down to his little town of Alma and tried (o tell them ow 1o run the town they would throw him In the river. Butl see what ‘he weut and shall beat their swords their spears into intoy pruning measure was 1t | they no Three Colonels Quit Staff | .~ Since Governor Signed Bill | “I have no further use for Shallenberger,” sald Kuncl, Opposed to Colonels Fanning, Kuncl and Kennedy, Colonel Ed P. Berryman says he will not resign. Colonel 4 Is secretary of the Jack club and the governor was formerly vice presi- dent of that organization. 3 Colonel A. D. Fetterman, another Jack und member of the World-Herald staff, refused (o say whether he would or would not resign, and Colonels P. C. Heafey and | Sophus N le, said ‘It is too bad.” about the governor sign fog the bill, but declined to say what they will do. These two pleaded for more time In which to make up their minds Colonel Kennedy attempted to get his brothers In arms together Wednesday morning to discuss the situation, but the colonels falled to mobilize. Another at-| tempt will be made in the near future, but Colonel Fanning will not walt for the whole body to declde as such, but said he would “fire in his resignation” before leav- ing Thursday morning for Hot Springs, Ark Unlucky as it may seem, there are thir- teen colonels on the governor's staff in Omaha. This Is the roster: B4 P. Berry- man, T. C. Byrne, Charles E. Fanning, Albert D. Fetterman, Edward Getten, Patrick C. Heafey, Willlam Kennedy, V. F. Kunel. B. F. Marshall, Fred Men- gedoht M. R. Murphy, H. W. E. Mac- Danlels and Sophus Nebie | This was a bad | | other | argument |fense to quash THE BUSINESS MAN’S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. polis Journ: RUSH DEFENDS HIS ACTION Omaha Attorney Denies Charge Made in Haskell Case. {DID NOT INFLUENCE WITNESSES Arguments Will Be Completed Toda on Motion to Quash the Indict- ment—Demurrer is the Next S# TULSA, Okla., April day's hearing of the Charles N. Haskell and the half dozen Oklahomans under indictment charged with fraud in Muskogee town lots began in the United Btates circuit court here today, Bylvester Rush, the special at- torney for the government, made his argu- ment for tho prosecution. He directed his against the motion of the de- the Indictments on the ground that he had conducted the grand Jury Investigation at Muskogee improperly. Mr. Rush severely arralgned counsel for the defense and denied that he had acted tmproperly or attempted to blas witnesses that had been called before the grand jury. He recalled that the grand jurors Wwho testified yesterday had said his con- duct had, on the other hand, been proper. Mr. Rush was followed by C. D. Stuart for the defense. It was belleved today that the argu- ments would be concluded late in the after- noon, and that Judge Marshall would hand down a decision tonight on the motion to quash. If the court overrules the motion to quash attorneys for Haskell will file a demurrer In fact, coples of the demurrer already have been submitted to attorneys for the prosecution. The demurrer will be argued immediately if the attorneys fall in their 7.—~When the third case of Governor (Continued on Second Page.) People don’t have to be fooled into reading advertis- ing. To most peo- ple its as important as any news in the paper. What is more important to the average household than where they can get most for the limited amount they have to spend? Take the want ads, for ex- ample. The advertiser who tells what he has to sell and why you should buy of him, gets returns far out of propor- tion to the little he has to pay for a want ad. Why do they bring so much business Simply because people find advertising of live interest. They know reading want ads pay for the time spend a dozen times over. Have —you—read the waut ads Teltoday? WIRES DOWN EAST OF CHICAGO Windstorm Does Extensive Damage in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio ahd Kentucky, SEVERAL DEATHS NEAR DETROIT Two Boys Reported Blown Into River From Dock. CLEVELAND ALMOST ISOLATED Navigation on Lake Erie Made Dan- gerous by High Seas. FACTORIES DAMAGED AT TOLEDO Score of Persons Injured in Vieinity of Wabash and Peru, Ind.-« Man Killed Kentueky. Western CHICAGO, April 7.—~Wires east of eago as far as Pittsburg went down rapldly in today's gale, according to the telegraph companfes. Wheeling, W. Va., reported every st of that point or the numerous leased wires running east ot Chicago, but one was working this after- noon and conditions already sald to be Rrowing worse In this city by far the most freaking whim of the storm was to give a perilous ride to Samuel Holland, an clevated rail- road conductor. Holland was seated on the runway of a box car on the Metropolitan Flevated when the roof was lifted up by the gale. It maintained a horizontal posi- tion and Holland went whirling away Iike a fly on a piece of cardboard. He Mt over 100 feet from the starting place, none thie worse for his experience. The roof settled to the ground with comparative steadiness, considering its weight. Friends among the train crew insisted that the conductor must be internally injured and took him to a physiclan, but the latter confirmed Heis land's statement that he was unhurt, Several Deaths in Michigan. DETROIT, Mich., April 7.—A severe rain and electrical storm, which swept over lower Michigan carly last night was fol- lowed by a wind storm of unusual violence wire down Monster Petition Sent to Capital by Chicago Women Twenty-five Volumes Containing 350,000 Names To Be U*ed in Tariff Fight. CHICAGO, Amnranition April T—~A new against the Payne supply of tarifg b 1 as it applies to hoslery and gloves. a petition containing approximately 330,000 names which, when bound, will make twenty-five big volumes, was started for Washington from this city today. It left Chicago in the care of Mrs. Nathan B. Lewis, presi- dent of the League of Cook county clubs; Miss Helen Norris, secretary of the peti- tlon headquarters; Mrs. E. M. Henderson, recording secretary\of the lllinois Federa- tion of Women's ciubs, and Mrs, E. Brown. A committee of Washington women will welcome the visitors tomorrow, after which the Illinols congressional delegation will listen to some first hand information con- cerning women's wearing apparel and prices thereof. Taft Has Faith in Payne Bill Freeman the President Says New Tariff Measure | as Finally Passed Will Fulfill Pledges. WASHINGTON. April 7.- President Taft told Senator McCumber of North Dakota and other callers today that he believed the new tariff bill as finally passed by con- gress would fulfill the platform pledges made at the Chicago convention last June and would be a revision downward. BUACKMAILERS AFTER MOON Letter Writers Threaten Family of Boy Drowned In read Pond, Mich., Aprll 7 who wrote from Wis., have threatened the lives mother and sister of 10-year-old Moon, whose body was found last Satur- day In Thread Pond, unless L. N. Moon, the boy's father, turns over $3,000 to them. The letter gave no directions as to how the $3,000 should be pald. This causes some doubt whether it 1s genuine. FLINT. blackmailers Anonymous Delavan, of the Harold and many accidents and two deaths huve been reported. Near lonia, lightning shot into a farm house along a telephone wire and killed 8- year-old Benjamin Helmer and severely shocked two other children, while - the family was sittng at the supper {able. | Interurban traffic out of Grand Rapids was delayed by the storm. Dozens of barns In western Michigan were struck by lightning. The wind has averaged from fitty to sixty miles an hour. One child was severely {njured In Michi- gan avenue here by a falling sign. At Brighton Ray Miller was killed and his brother, Guy, was severely injured by being struck by the roof of & house which blew off today while the” boys were Ariy- ing by. " Two boys reported to the police that they saw two other little boys blown Into the river from a dock on Helle Tsle. Late this afternoon it was reported that | three Hungarians had been drowned in the river off Wyandotte by the capsizing of their boat in the high sea that is running on the river. Cleveland NO PRIMARY FOR ONE YEAR Nebraska Escapes Selection of Can- didates for State Ticket. FREE FIELD FOR SUPREME COURT Donohue Bill Will Reduce Race for Highest State Bench to “No partisan” Scramble in Which Any May Enguge. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 7.—(Speclal.)—Nebraska will have no state primary election this summer, though three supreme judges and two regents of the state university wiil be elected this fall. This Is due to the passage of the Donohoe nonpartisan judiclary and regents bill, which provides candidates for these offices shall go on the ballot without party designation. This year the platform conventions will be held July 27, the last Tuesday in the month, and at these conventions there will | practically isolated Clevelund from com- be promulgated platforms and state com-|munication with the east. The slxty-five mittees will be eelected for each party.|mile gale made sad havoc in all dir The conventions will be called by the state | tions. The telegraph and the telephone committees of the various parties, Wll{ch‘llrn‘n were reported down throughout the shall also apportion the delegates allowed | state. The dumage was vonfined to the to each county, based on the vote cast in|wires, according to early reports, Navi the presidential election. Each county shall | gation on the lake was made hazardous have at least one delegate. This is provided | Hgh s8¢ for by the amendments to the primary law | The barge Norman Kelley is reported to passed by this legislature, which also pro- | be adrift off Kelley's lsland with four vide that delegates to the state convention | men and a woman on board. They have |and county committees shall be selected {no power or provisions and are in immi- a county convention. The congressional, | nent danger o fbeing wrecked. Other boats | Judicial and legislative and state commit-|have not succeeded In reaching the craft. | tees, according to the first section of the Smaller ecraft upon the lake were com- | new law to be selected in a manner | pelled early to come into harbor. Many prescribed by the state committees of the | minor accidents were reported in and about various parties, but in another section it!the city. |15 provided the state committee shall be Factories Damaged at Toledo. selected by the state convention. TOLEDO, 0., April 7.—Hundreds of men A suggestion been get a |out of work, thousands of dollars damage | meeting of the delegates to the republican |done and many persons slightly injured | state convention to hold a meeting after | are the results of & hurricane that visited | the platform convention, before, and | Toledo and vicinity today | canvass the situation in regard The wind attained a velocity of sixty- | dMates for suprime judge. and this prob- | nine miles an hour In this city. The roof | ably will be the procedure of the demo- | of the plant of Massillon Bridge company, | cratic state convention. The convention, |180 by 40 feet, was ripped off and hurled | however. would have nothing more to do | into a fleld and 300 men were thrown out then ratify tho choice of the democratic |of employment until the damage can be re- bosses Dhired Under the Donohoe biil there is nothing | Pedestrians were injured by falling signs, to prevent a great multiplicity of candi- parts of roofs, chimneys and limhs of trees. dates for places on the supreme bench, Many women wera bowled over by the many of whom would be known probably | wind \:-lu\n:»’y‘. (O;l;u‘rlu;:“l‘lllt:“:llil\vn:;llv::"“:l'l:“ 8 con-| In small towns near Toledo considerable dates it is figured the strong ;.',..',rf' ot famags was dows. MAGK, RN - the candidates could be brought out and | ook, ") V'ENning and the oceupanta stunned, but there are no reports of fatal- o The it Second Practically Isolated. CLEVBELAND, O, April 7.=The storm which prevailed in northern Ohio toda arc has made to or (Continued on Page.) Wlleat Breaks A'li li_ecords But One Jfficr)r Iwgnty Years CHICAGO, April 7.-On sensational opening wheat the Board of today touched the highest point, with one exception, In more than twenty First sales of May wheat were at 1.25%, the latter figure being 3% cents higher than the close Monday Opening figures for July wheat were 1% @%e to P@4c higher, sales being made at $1.10g1.1) Bxcitement was seething in the pit before the reverberation clang of the great gong announced the beginning of the day’s busi- ness. Yesterday was a holiday, owing to the municipal election, but during the spec- ulative ldieness bullish news accumulated at a rate which insured a record-breaking advance today. Lverpool advanced yesterday and con- tinued today, being reported 4GS over Monday's closing prices. An English au- thority startled the trade with an estimate that Burope would require 5,000,000 bushels from America within the next four months. Where this is to come from no trade was found today to explain. As indicating the shortage of the domestic crop is it stated that Kansas City, a great shipping a on Trade years 51240 o 3% Tornado at W WABASH, Ind., April 7.—The only tor- nado Wabash has known in twenty-five vears hit here last night, injuring & score of persons and doing thousands of dollar worth of damage. The storm struck the clty at § o'clock, passing through the north. east section of the town. A dozen houses were demolished Mrs, James Hayes and four children | were pinned beneath the wreckage of thelr home, which caught fire. The mother was | badly burned and will die. The children | were serfously hirt. Willlam Shepard, wife | and two children, were held beneath fallen | rulns until neighbors extricated them | Wires went down and the city was In dark- | ness throughout the night. The entire see- ond story of the dwelling occupled by Wil- liam Hines was carried away, leaving the family In their beds exposed to a drenching rain. The wind was followed by & cloud- burst and the river ro flooding low- lands. ny bridges were washed away The streets are impassable this morning owing to fallen (rees. PERU, Ind, April 7.--A tornado struck this town at § o'clock last night and de- stroyed four factories and several school bulldings and wrecked many small struce tures. Samuel Cornes was caught under the wreckage when his dwelling collapsed He has three 1ibs broken, a fractured arm and internal injuries, but may recover. Man Killed in Wes Kentucky, LEXINGTON, Ky., April T.—Dispatches say great damhage was dome in western Kentucky by & tornado which swept over point for winter wheat has been a héavy buyer at Minneapolis for her own miils. Rain was reported quite general in southwest today, but although beneficial, it is_declared doubtful If the crop will be matured in time for delivery on July tracts, owing to the dry autumn, which is sald to have greatly retarded growth. How much the congested condition of the May del ry has to do with present prices can be explained only by the man who controls the market, and his only word is that supply and demand. and not manipu- lation are responsible for the advance. In any event, If the estimate of 50,000,000 bushicls noeded for European consumption 18 correct, it s sald to be certain that that continent will have to pay a pretty penny to the American farmer to say nothing of the big trader who for months has been accumulating & line estimated at 3,000,000 bushels The highest previous price for May wheat within twenty yea wWas reached during the Leiter deal in 158, when the price reached $1.86. At that time the price of bread in Europe, notably Italy, advanced 80 that the peasantry suifered. Leiter, { however, lost heavily on the deal the | con-