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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
WHEAT SLIDES DOWN
OVER I CENTS MORE
Traders Fear Bull Leaders Will
Get Out of the July
Option

CHICAGO, April 24.-Remnants of
the famous Gates line of May wheat
were thrown upon an unsupported
market on the board of trade here to-
day, adding a further decline of ~
cents to the sensational liz cents
break of Saturday. This recession from
the dollar mark, the last price of the
previous session, was rapid and spec
tacular and was accompanied by dem
onstrations in the pit almost equal to
those of Saturday. When the final bell
closed the days operations May wheat
was being offered at SO cents, a net
loss of cents on the days trading
First trades on the May option today
ranged from 90 cents to 9S cents.
p. A Valentine of Armour & Co. was
seemingly giving the market heroic
support. His best efforts. however,
availed little in the way of a rally, the
only effect being temporary check to
the downward plunge of prices. The
trade appeared to suspect Armour OF
wishing to bolster up prices in order
to make a market for the remainder of
the Gates line of May wheat. From all
sides wheat was offered in overwhel-
ming volumes. When it was found
that support was useless CLIQUE"
houses unloaded on the sinking market
holdings estimated at several million
bushels. The price was hammered to
80 cents within the first hour. Before
midday 921R cents was reached.
Get Out of July
Meantime a new fear had taken pos
session OF the traders in general. Many
operators had bought largely of July
wheat because Armour was said to
have taken 100000 bushels of July
delivery during the closing days of last
week. These operators 10 all appear
ance suddenly detected a movement on
the part of the bull leaders to get out
of the July option. This caused
bear raid on the more distant options.
followed by cent decline the price
of July dropping from S6A cents to
S4A cents This weakening in July
was regarded with more concern by a
large element in the trade than was
the days crash in May values.
During the last hour of trading the
market held comparatively steady, de-
mand being OF good character Ar
mour & Co. were credited with heavy
purchases of both May and July wheat
Pit traders in general also bought free
ly. the opinion being quite universally
expressed that the price of the May
delivery had now reached a firm foot
ing. The market closed steady with
May at SO cents. Final quotations on
July were SAX and S47s cents, a net
loss of 2 cents.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
CONGRESSMAN SHOT
He and Two Others Are Killed
In Texas Affray

HEMPSTEAD, Tex, April 24.-Bit-
ter feeling over the prohibition ques-
ton, which has been felt for several
years throughout the county, ended in
bloodshed tonight AT a mass meeting
called for the purpose of petitioning
the governor to send rangers to enforce
the local option law, j. n. Brown, a
leading lawyer and -prohibitionist,
began shooting. In an instant the
shooting became general. Three men
were killed. one man fatally injured
and two others seriously wounded. The
dead are:
j. n. BROWN.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN NJ. PINCK-
NEY.
TOM PINCKNEY, brother of the
congressman.
John Mills, leading prohibitionist, it
is feared, cannot survive the night
Armed men parade the streets. The
governor has been notified and rangers
are on the way. Tonights affray may
be traced chiefly TO the recent election
In which the -prohibitionists suf-
fered defeat Since this election the
county has been divided into factions.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
WOODRUFF AND MISS
MORRISON MARRY
New York Politician and Bride to
Have Second Wedding in Family

NEW YORK, April 24.-In the pres
ence of a distinguished gathering for
mer Lieut.. Gov. Timothy l.. Woodruff
and Miss Isabel Morrison of this city
were married today in the New York
apartments of the bride. The cere-
mony was performed by Rt Rev. Bish-
op Gabriels of the diocese of northern
New York The bride was given away
by her brother, Esteran Morrison.
Miss Eugene Watson was maid of
honor. Mr.. and Mrs Woodruff will
sail June for Europe. accompanied
by John Woodruff, the groom's son,
whose marriage with Miss Eugene
Watson will take place May %. The
four will make an automobile trip
through Europe. Mrs. Woodruff is the
daughter of John E. Morrison. banker
who died several years ago.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
REPAIR OF THE FERN
IS A TRIFLE COSTLY
Globe Special Washington Service

Globe Special Washington Service
1417 G Street
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The as
sistant secretary of the navy has in
formed Congressman ]. Adam Bede
that $4,000 will be needed to COM
pletely repair the government tender
Fern, which has been offered to the
Minnesota naval militia for a practice
boat. The $500 recently appropriated
by the Legislature will serve to repair
the boilers and fix up the hull so she
can be sailed around into the great
lakes without danger, but it will take
all of that and more money will have
to come forward later to make the
Fern what she should be. The depart
nent is willing to add the $12, 900 which
is the states allotment for general mill
ia purposes to the repair fund for the
Fern, but will not draw on the general
fund. There is no precedent for doing
the latter. Walter E. Clark
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
JUDGE THAYER DIES
Wrote Decision in Northern
Securities Case

ST. LOUIS. April 24-Amos Madden
Thayer, United States circuit judge of
the eighth judicial circuit, who gained
national reputation by writing the
opinion of the United States circuit
court of appeals in the Northern Sc
curities case, died at his residence here
tonight, after an illness of four months.
Judge Thayer was born in Nina, n. Y,
in 1S41. He was educated at Hamilton
college.
Judge Thayer was appointed United
States district judge for the
eastern district of Missouri by Presi-
dent Cleveland in 1887, and in 1894 he
was appointed by President Cleveland
TO the United States circuit bench.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
MINNESOTA STOCKMAN
Is FATALLY INJURED
c. D. Goodrich Strikes Head on Bridge
While on Stock Train
Special to The Globe

Special to The Globe
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, April "a
c. d. Goodrich, a wealthy Minnesota
cattle man. is lying at Santa Fe hospi-
tai in this city. fatally injured, having
suffered a fractured skull and other in
juries last night while in charge of an
eastbOund stock train of the Santa Fe
near this city Goodrich was leaning
out of the window of the caboose and
struck his head on a bridge. The
shock jerked him out of the window
and he fell down 50 foot embankment
He was picked up unconscious and
rushed TO a hospital. Physicians say
he cannot recover.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
CALL STRIKE OFF
Garment Workers Don't Stand
by the Teamsters

CHICAGO. April 24.-The teamsters
tonight called off their strike against
Montgomery, Ward & Co. Refusal of
the garment workers, in aid of whom
the teamsters went on strike, to be
parties TO fight against only one firm
when they had grievances against a
number, led to disruption of the COM
mittee managing the strike and the
collapse Of the struggle.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
Carry OFF Naval Plans

PARIS. April 25.-The rooms occu-
pied by the director of naval construc-
ton at Toulon were ransacked last
night. The Journal states that valu-
ables and money were not touched, but
that documents and plans were carried
off
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
Pair Probably Murdered

RILEY. Kan. April 24-Mr and AIys
Herman PfeI were burned TO death In the
destruction of their home today. The
police advance the theory that the couple
N'He the crime. Pfel was u retired farmer.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
Killed by Fall From Window

FLORENCE, April 24-Miss Alice
Pearburn Of New York, % years of
age, fell from an upper window of The
most Immediately.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25

Continued on Third Page
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25
THE WEATHER

st. Paul and Vicinity-Fair.
For Minnesota-Fair today and tonor
row, fresh northeast winds.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-25

Continued on Sixth Page
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
DOES THIS SETTLE TIT

The Richmond Times Dispatch Is un- der the necessity of making other and further explanations on a certain deli cate point. Some time ago, in reply to "A Reader" who asked if a lady could be forced to return presents given her by a gentleman, The I'D. replied: No. and if any gentleman attempts such a thing in Virginia he had better pack his baggage and get ready to leave" Thereupon The York (Pa. ) Dispatch butts in and asks, respectful ly, if 1t is customary for gentlemen" to ask ladies to return presents in Richmond. This insinuation touched our Richmond contemporary. and it re- plies:
 There is no occasion for a Richmond gentleman to ask a Richmond lady to return his presents. No lady will re- oetVe gifts from a man unless it be entirely proper for her to do so, and having received them, she would not keep them for a moment, if she had the slightest hint, or the slightest req son, to believe, that he desired their return.
 
 etiquette, The Advertiser is not dis posed to cut into the game, and might consider the controversy closed, were 1t not for the fact that there are sev- eral esteemed contemporaries on the Atlantic slope which have not yet call ed for cards, and we can't understand a game going on and none of them in it. Anything that can be argued about, from a rabbits nose to the genealogy of Gains wife, will usually set them going, and we are waiting with more or less patience for them to begin elu- cidating the point in question. 9th erwise we suppose we may consider that The Times Dispatch has resolved 1t satisfactorily.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
MONDAY, JANUARY 2s, 1905.
DURATION OF LIFE.

Modern science is claiming that there is no reason why man should not live to be as old in this day as he did forty or fifty centuries ago. In Genesis. almost at the beginning of things &C., cording to the Bible, God said, speaking of the duration of mans life, that This days shall be an hundred and twenty years Almost three thousand years later King David declared: The days of our years are three-score years and ten
 Is 1t worth while to try to reconcile the time fixed by the Almighty as the length of human life with the fact that the immediate descendants of Adam lived for centuries? Methuselab, we are told, lived to be 9e9 years old, and others almost as much. Even after the flood we read that Abraham lived to be ITS years old, and Isaac 1sO. We cannot understand that the Lord in- tended to fix the limit of human life at 120 years, %or are we to understand that David presumed to set limit. He was speaking of conditions as they ex- isted.
 Now science comes along and tells us that we are to blame if we fail to live out the time fixed in Genesis. As it was in David's days. so it is now, that by our own imprudence, excesses, in- dulgences and want of rational living the days of our years are shortened and one is called old who lives to the period fixed by David. Science tells us that we should live to be at least 12O, and that it was not the intention of the Almighty that we should die sooner. Yet there are few who live so long. That is our own fault, says Science. and if Science doesn't know what she is talking about. who does?
 There is no doubt that people do shorten their lives by their method of living. yet here again we come face to face with some perplexing facts, not to say theories. We will read of one man who has lived rigidly temperate life in all things and has passed the cen- tury mark. Then we read of another who has practically been incorporate in all things and he lives to be a hun dred or more. That is calculated to confuse us. but it need not. If we lead a rational temperate life in every way we are, only doing what Is the duty of human beings. whether it greatly prolongs our existence or not. So. we may conclude that the proper thing to do Is to live rightly and hope for the best.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

nished by the State. The most thought full observation of all comes from The same Legislator who proposes a tax on bachelors. If I am walking along a country road" he says. and a man overtakes me in a buggy and asks ma to ride with him, l should consider it discourteous to refuse. It seems to me the same thing would be true with a railroad. If man accepted a pri- vate car or a special train that would be different. But if he goes on a reg ular train it does not cost the railroad company a cent The train is going anyway, and if the company asks him to ride with it he would be discour- teous not to do so."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
EVOLUTION OF THE OK.

There is an enthusiastic gentleman over in France who has sprung new one on the world. in the way of 0 sad dle animal. His favorite saddle horse is an OK. and he has already taught one to go all the gaits, except a 2:4O one. and no doubt he expects to accomplish that in course of time. He reasons that the horse was originally slow and clumsy animal. but that by centuries and ages of training. breeding and evo- lution he has been brought up to his present condition and movements
 We do not profess to know as much about the original brand of horses ss some of the scholars do. As far back
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
The Pass Question.
aw York Evening Post

NNGW 1OTh ENenlnk GOSl.
 MT Bryan, in The Commoner, replies to some of the recent comments on Representative Bakers attitude toward railroad passes. asking, Hs it or is 1t not significant that a man who, being elected to represent the people in Con Rress. was so conscientious that he re- fused to accept railroad passes, brings upon himself the sneers and the jeers or Republican newsDapers?" Out in Indiana Governor Hanly discusses vie gorously this same pass question, and the reports from Indianapolis show that members of the State Legislature are In anything but sneering mood. Railroad passes are. as usual at the disposal of the lawmakers. Some of the new members" report says. are opposed to accepting passes. and really want to send theirs back; but are afraid to do so. for fear of being ac- cused of a holier- than thou attitude. Another group professes to regard passes in the same light as the ink. paper .and stenographlc service fur-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

as sacred or profane history speaks of them they have apparently been pretty much as they are now. All the writers speak of the speed. strength ana good qualities of the animal, and that's ail we really know about it. There may have been time. some millions of years ago. when horses were as slow and clumsy az cattle are now. for any thing We know to the contrary. We didn't live in those times and don't know much about it.
 It may be possible, too, that an OK can be trained and eyolated up to some- thing like the station now occupied by horses, but we doubt it. They are not built that way in any part of their anatomy, so far as we can judge. It is true that an OK can be ridden, for we have often seen it donea but it has always looked to us as a very poor sub- stitute for horseback exercise. An OK is about as far removed from the Arab steed as an animal we'll can be. and | when 1t comes to riding one we prefer walking. It's easier, yet this French chap, we are informed, has a saddls-ox which trots, gallops, leaps over bars and fences and otherwise conducts him self in quite a horsey way, if we are to believe. the reports.
 I But this Frenchman goes further and proposes to use the OK for a cavalry horse. It Is well known that in por- tions of Africa horses succumb quickly to disease, and to the bites of insects. It is proposed that the nations having possessions in that country. where they have to keep an armed force always in readiness, organize squadrons of OK cavalry for use in war and in scouting. That would be grand sight. squadron of horsemen armed with long lances was fearsome sight in the olden times. A troop of modern cavalry with drawn sabres is enough to make an enemy feel shaky in the knees. A horde of savage Indians with spears makes their pale-face foes several degrees paler.
 But all these sink into insignifleance when compared with line of fong- horned oxen charging at full speed. with heads down and eyes sending out red spaks as they lunge forward in a mad rush for blood or fodder. What enemy. savage or civilized, would stand firm against such an assault as that? Not one. They would turn at the first onslaught and break for cover, and mo- body could blame them. If the French mans enthusiasm is well grounded the nation that uses OK cavalry will down any enemy that tries to stand before 1t. The OK is the thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

to offer whenever Congress shall as- semble. Public hearings, such as have been held in the course of the prepa- ration of tariff bills in the past, will be scarcely necessary, as the statisti- cal bureaus of the government now are so thoroughly perfected and up to date that all the data needed in the fram- ing of a tariff measure are at the dis posal of the committee performing the work"
 Very vague, very dim are the as- surances held out here for such ma terfal modification of the tariff as will tend to interfere with any of the monopolies or so-called trusts. We hear a great deal about the iniquities of the Standard oil Company, but is there any reason to expect that the duty which the Dingley law puts on Russian petroleum will be taken off by a tariff revision in which Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, has a hand? Abolition of the needless duties on steel and iron is not openly advocated by any Republican newspaper or poli- tician in the land, so far as we know, nor is an effort being made to carry through any well ll-understood pro- gram of action.
 The tariff is to be revised "in the dark" It is to be revised ''by it's. friends It is to be revised without public hearings. When the process is completed it will be found that ten schedules have been raised where one has been lowered.
 In such tariff revision as this we take little interest. The President of the United States is represented to be earnestly in favor of tariff revision. What does he mean when he uses the word revision? Nobody knows. Tar if revision as it is likely to be accom- plished by MT. Roosevelt and his friends in Congress will be found to be scheme to secure increased priv ileges for the monopolies and a fur ther long postponetnent of any real relief from tariff burdens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
worId,u Money Center.

New 1Ork sun.
 The city of New York is rapidly be- coming the worlds money center, and in the matter of secured bonds. not stocks alone, speculative or otherwise. It means a great deal when the New York Stock Exchange closes in 1904 with $1,037. .0S9,060 bonds sold during the year, as against s6S4,200, $50 for the previous year, an increase of $352. S00,- 900. or fully $1,00O,000 increase each working day. Sundays included The increase in bond sales. as compared with stock sales. since November 8, has been very marked showing how quickly capital responds to settled po- litical conditions. During the year New York did a large international loan business. Besides loaning ST. 5OO 900 to the London "underground," a good share of which comes back to us for electric machinery, etc., we had faith in prosperous Mexico to the ex- tent of $46,O00, 900; in developing Cu- ba, $35. O0Q; in world-amazing Japan for $55,000,O0O; in troubled Russia for S5. .000.0 1000.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
THE TWO CONVENTIONS.

The people of Montgomery are to have with them this week two of the most important conventions that have ever been held here. There will be expert and experienced horticulturalists and agriculturalists, men who have both the theoritical and practical knowledge connected with those mat ters which are of vital interest to the farmer. the gardener, the fruit grower and the home-maker. They will be men who know whereof they speak and who can both interest and instruct others.
 The Advertiser has been constant and earnest in commenting these movements. While they are for the good of the South and the country, these meetings mean much to Alabama It Is like a twice told tale to again refer to the subject, but we can con- fidently predict much good to our State from the meeting of the cane growers. Our most intelligent and progressive farmers know that they must diversity their crops to a greater extent than they have done in the past, for any thing like adhesion to an all-cotton crop is not good policy nor good busi- ness.
 A great portion of Alabama is we'll adapted to cane growing, and iE~ our farmers can grow good cane they can make good syrup and sugar. The world consumption of both these articles is constantly growing, and though imports will not stop there is no reason why we of this State should depend on the outside world for what we can just as well make at home. That the finest syrup can be manufactured in Alabama is an established fact, and the making of fine syrup is only a de- tail which offers no material dif- faculties. Alabama syrup and sugar for Alabamians is the proper motto.
 We hope that farmers from all parts of Alabama will be here. It will in- terest them, instruct them and pay them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23
MT. Roosevelt and the West.
New York World.

NeW 1OIh NOiAi'
 The Republican members of the House from Wisconsin held a meeting Saturday and adopted resolutions fa-
 voring an early revision of the tariff. The two Republican members of the
 House Interstate Commerce Committee who have battled most vigorously for President Roosevelt's rate bill are MT.
 Esch of Wisconsin and Mr Townsend of Michigan. Before electing him to
 the Senate the Nebraska Legislature
 has insisted on Representative Bur
 kett's making an address to prove that
 he is in sympathy with the Presidents tariff and railway policies.
 Indiana Democrats cheered MT. Bryan when he declared that he would personally oppose the reelection of any Democrat who stood in the way of MT. Roosevelts plans to regulate railway rates. Judging from these things and from newspaper interviews and editor
 ials the people of the Middle Western States seem to be standing shoulder to
 shoulder In support of the President
 and 1t begins to look as is there might
 be day of reckoning for any of their lCongressmen who seriously antagonize the administrations plans
 The States that were the stroneG
 hold of the granger movement, that
 made the Chicago platform possible,
 that have been called the cradle of
 Populism. are very earnest in their sup
 port of the President. Michigan, Wis
 consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indi- ana. Kansas and Nebraska gave MT.
 Roosevelt 2,495.220 votes, against l. 2l4,657 for Judge Parker-a plurality
 of 1,2S0,000. Half of the Presidents total popular plurality came from these
 States. and his vote was far more per sonal than partisan They are stand-
 ing by him now because they believe | that he is fighting for the things they
 have been fighting for. They are con fident that he represents precisely what
 their LaFollettes and Van Sants and
 Cumminses and Deneens represent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

A Connecticut newspaper has an idea about Congressman which some of them will not consider favorably. The paper tells its readers that what you want to do is to go after your Congressman
 your hired servant" Then 1t ad- vises or directs them to send letters to their Congressman and Senators, tell ing them what's what" because as the editor sees it. they want to hold their jobs Suppose a majority of the con- stituents of a member of Congress should follow that advice, would they not make life burden to him? Eaoh would probably want a different thing and each would have a different idea of whats what" We are inclined to think that under such conditions most of the members wouldn't care whether shax hsla tA4aE jobs or not