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The Yale expositor., 1906-04-06
WASHINGTON
REPORTS
ALL RECORDS BROKEN BY
CONGRESS DURING
THIS SESSION.
REVIEW OF THE WORK SHOWS
ALL IMPORTANT MATTERS
ARE STILL IN THE AIR.
THE REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT is
SMALL AND EARLY ADJOURN
MENT AFFAIR.
Many Bills. Few Passed.

The fifty-ninth congress has broken
all records in just one respect: The
members have introduced more bills
and have passed fewer Of any great
importance than any other congress
in the history of the United States.
OF course, the most important and in
teresting piece of legislation that has
occupied the time Is the railway rate
problem. Every phase of the propo-
sition has been discussed at great
length in both the senate and the
house, and still it remains unpassed
and there is no understanding when
a vote will be taken in the senate, and
the question of an agreement between
the house and senate conferees after
the bill is passed by the senate is eX-
treInely problematical
The statehood bill is up in the air.
The only possible compromise is
bound to be in favor of the senate.
There is absolutely no possible chance
for an agreement in favor of Speaker
Cannon's two-state bill unless the
house consents 10 the adoption of the
Foraker amendment granting referen-
dunn to Arizona and New Mexico.
The San Domingo treaty. the pass
age of which the administration has
urged, is still tied up in the senate
and the counting of noses does not in
dictate that it will receive the favor
able consideration of the senate this
session.
The expected insurance investiga-
ton did not materialize and the Pan
ANA canal question has not been set
tied. The cry for tariff revision has
not met with the approval OF any
great number OF members and no leg
islation along this line will be enacted.
Only one appropriation bill, the de-
ficiency bill, has passed both houses.
The Smoot case is still in the senate
committee on privileges and elections.
All Of the testimony has been heard
and arguments will be made next
week. 1t will be some time before
the committee will make a report to
the senate.
The pure food bill has passed the
senate and is now before the house
committee.
The Philippine tariff bill passed the
mouse, out was plReOnnOleQ IN the
senate committee and there is not
much chance for its resurrection.
The ship subsidy bill has passed the
senate, but is being held up in the
house committee, where it is liable to
remain indefinitely unless some decker
is made between the senate and house
managers.
There has been plenty of District
of Columbia and local legislation, and
the pension appropriation bill has
passed the house. Also a number Of
claims have been considered and
passed upon, and both houses have
passed the consular reform bill.
That about tells the story of the
/ fifty-ninth congress TO date. There
has been an abundance OF interesting
scenes and of heated arguments, but
this congress is certainly short on re-
suits.
Speaker Cannon picked May Is for
adjournment, bit It is hardly probable
that the members of congress will get
away before a month later
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Murder a Mystery.

The mystery surrounding the six
grewsome murders which so terrified
the citizens of Minneapolis Thursday
was only deepened next day by the
arrest in Duluth of eleven Bulgarians
who were residents of the house in
Minneapolis, where the crime was
committed. The prisoners are eight
men, two boys and a woman.
Cross-examined individually. five Of
the eleven prisoners tell the same
story and maintain their innocence of
any completely in the crime and even
their ignorance of it until they were
enlightened by the police. II their story
is true, the Minneapolis police have
struck the wrong trail and it skaters
all theories of the murders which have
hitherto been held, and leaves the po-
lice absolutely at sea for even theory
for the motive for the crime and the
identity of the criminals.
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Died TRYING 70 Save Others.

Reed City was panic stricken early
Saturday morning. when the wall of q
tnree-story building which was burn
ing collapsed and fell on a wooden
structure in which several men were
supposed to be. Two men were killed.
and until noon it was feared there
were other victims, but there were
not. Three buildings were completely
destroyed.
e. +. Bollacker died in trying TO
save others. His friends entered his
shoe store In an effort to save his
goods from burning. He went in to
warn them to get out, as he feared
the wall would fall. The warning
came too late for Plato Lacy. With
a crash, the heavy wall caved In the
roof of the one-story frame structure
and both Bollacker and Lacy were
caught.
Mr. Bollacker's body was the first
recovered. He had barely gotten in
side when the wall fell. His body
was burned beyond recognition. The
remains of Plato Lacy were identified
only by his keys. He was telegraph
operator for the Pere Marquette aud
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroads.
He was the son Of +. ID. Lacy, of Mir.
vana, was 30 years old. He leaves a
widow and two small children.
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The Rate Bill.

Mr. Knox, speaking on the railroad
rate question, dealt almost exclusively
with the legal features of the problem.
He indicated several provisions of the
house bill which he considers uncon-
stitutional and expressed the opinion
that Mr.. Bailey's amendment depriv-
ing the United States circuit courts of
the power to grant temporary injunc-
tions would not stand the test of the
courts. The speech was awarded the
most careful attention and at its close
the speaker was very generally con-
graduated by his colleagues.
When Mr.. Knox concluded the SEN
ate entered upon the consideration of
the conference report on the bill regu-
lating the final disposition of the af-
fairs of the five civilized tribes OF In
dams and much objection was ex-
pressed to many of the changes. Some
of these were criticized on the ground
that the conference committee had
transcribed its authority by the inser-
ton OF new matter.
There was a renewal of the discus
sion of the disposal of the coal lands
In Indian Territory and several SEN
ators, including Messrs. La Toilette,
Clark (Wyo.) and Tillman expressed
disapproval of the conference provis-
ion authorizing the secretary Of the In
terror TO lease lands.
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Your Life
Current.

The power that gives you
life and motion is the nerve
force, or nerve fluid, located in
the nerve cells of the brain.
and sent out through the
nerves TO the various organs.
If you are tired, nervous,
irritable, cannot sleep; have
headache, feel stuffy, dull and
melancholy, or have neuralgia,
rheumatism, backache, peri
odical pains, Indigestion, dys-
pepsia, stomach trouble, or the
kidneys and liver are inactive,
your life-current is weak.
Power-producing fuel is need
ed; something to increase nerve
energy-strengthen the nerves.
DIR. Miles Restorative Ner-
vine is the fuel you need. 1t
feeds the nerves, produces nerve
force, and restores vitality.
when 1 began taking Or. Miles
Restorative Neryine and Anti-Pain
Pills / was confined 10 my bed. 4
lad severe nervous spells, the result
Of two years illness with malaria.
gradually grew so weak that l was
unable to sit up. The spells would
would become weak and almost help
less. My circulation was poor.
had doctorcd right along but grew
weaker and weaker. The Nervine
seemed TO strengthen me right. away
and my circulation was better. have
taken in all seven bottles Of ths
NcrVine. aud I ~ entirely we'll"
ROSA IL. WEAVER, Stuarts. IA.
Dr. Miles, NerVlne Is sold by your
druggist, who will guarantee that the
first bottle will benefit II 1t fails, he
will refund your money.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
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Settle the Strike.

Prospects are considered good for
an agreement between the miners and
operators of the Michigan district.
No unusual scenes marked the shut
ting down of the mines, the men SIM
ply bringing out their tools. Presi-
dent John Harris. on returning from
indianapolis, called a convention OF
Michigan miners In Saginaw. A scale
will be formulated and as soon there
after as possible joint conference be
tween operators and miners will be
held to effect an agreement II posi-
BILE. In the meantime pumpmen, en-
gineers and firemen, necessary to pre-
vent destruction of mining property,
have been ordered to remain at work.
President Harris said: "The set.
Element or agreement, IL made. and
see no reason now why 1t should not
be, must, of course. be on the basis OF
1903, as decided at Indianapolis"
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SENATOR ALGER.

Senator Russell A. Alger has been
very Ill for the past two weeks at the
Marlborough hotel in Atlantic City.
and Friday and Saturday he was al
most on the verge of death.
Capt. Fred M. Alger, who recently
came home from Washington, went
down to Atlantic City Wednesday.
where one of the daughters was al
ready. Friday kilograms were sent to
Russell A. Alger, Jr., to Mrs. Pike
in Chicago, and TO another daughter
in Harrisburg, Pa, summoning them
all to their fathers bedside. However,
the generals constitution, with the
skilful attention of DIR. James Kerr, OF
Washington, enabled him to rally SIM
day, and 1t is thought that he can be
moved to Washington.
The generals latest breakdown be-
gan with a slight accident in his room
at Washington two weeks ago. He
arose at night and was walking about
the room when, seemingly bewildered.
he stumbled over a chair. In falling
he fell on his face against the sharp
corner of a bookcase and suffered a
painful injury TO the eye. II was a
comparatively slight accident, but he
must have been III at the time, his
friends think, and the shock brought
back his old heart trouble, character
lied by great activity of the heart with
POOR circulation.
Gen. Alger is still very ILL.," said a
member of the family Monday morn
ing. although not nearly so bad as he
was Friday and Saturday. Friday he
was very, very low, and the calls sent
TO his sons and daughters to come to
his side were absolutely imperative"
Gen. Alger was 20 years old Feb
ruary p last.
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Presidents View.

President Roosevelt believes that
the bituminous coal miners are in the
right and the operators in the wrong,
and that the anthracite operators are
in the right and the miners are in the
wrong. This is the conclusion of those
who have talked with the president
about the coal trouble since it became
critical. Just what effect the presi-
dents divided opinion on the merits
of the cases OF the two branches OF
mining will have on his future action
1t is too early to say, but 1t may lead
to peace in one section of the country
and war in another. He was not led to
his conviction by desire to straddle
the situation, but by careful study
Encouraged by the presidents views
the anthracite operators may fight to
the end, believing that public opinion
will take color from that OF the presi'
dent. On the other hand, the bitumin-
Gus coal operators may yield rather
than fight against the presidents sym
pathy with their employees.
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Beautiful Ben-Macdhui, the 600-acre
summer home of John Alexander
Dowie at White lake, is to be sacrificed
to help out the depleted finances of
Zion City.
Convinced that reciprocity treaties
with Great Britain for the establish
ment OF closer trade relations between
the United States and Canada are out
of the question at this time, Secretary
Root has determined to abandon the
tariff question for the present.
Report has reached San Francisco
that the boycott against American
goods over in China is rapidly dying
out. and that there is a prospect of an
early and full resumption of business.
A policy which will prevent the ex-
port of energy developed at Niagara
Falls to an extent to starve Canadian
industries, has been announced By
Minister of Public Works LYMAN in
the Canadian house.
The Ohio River & Western railway
roundhouse at GAINESVILLE, o.. was
completely demolished by a landslide
of $50 900 tons of ice and debris. Two
locomotives were carried into the gull
ley below.
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DARING CRIMES.

The name OF Frank Castor, alias
Conrad, alias Connors, will go down
in the criminal history of Columbus,
o., in connection with two of its most
daring crimes-attempted burglary
and the murder of Detective Daniel
Il. Davis at the home of Horace l..
Chapman on June last, and the sub
sequent attempt at jail delivery in an
effort to accomplish Castor's release,
For the murder of Detective Davis
Castor may give up his life In the cleo
trio chair.
Castor is a native OF Flint. Mich,
and is &c years of age. His parents
who still reside in that city, visited
him at the penitentiary recently and
although they were deeply affected
Castor maintained that same dull In
difference that has characterized his
conduct throughout.
In 1901 Castor was caught in an
attempt at burglary in Michigan and
in the pistol duel which followed he
fired five times at Detective Fisher
For this crime he was sentenced to
prison for five years, but soon effected
his escape. He then came to Ohio
and operated extensively in this state
and Pennsylvania, but had never Wis
tied Columbus up to the time OF the
murder of Detective Davis.
He is also charged with having
killed Detective Patrick Higgins al
Erie, Pa, early in 1905. Higgins was
a bicycle man and caught Castor as
he was coming out of a house. The
two exchanged shots and several bull
let's took effect in Higgins's stomach
Castor is also suspected OF having
killed a detective at Altoona, Pa.
Canton, o., was the rendezvous for
Castor and his gang for several years
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Remarkable Case.

Fred Tuman, the Finn who sustain
ed a dislocated and broken spinal
column and fracture of both legs in
the Grandville gypsum mine Novem-
Der 2S, is slowly recovering. The man
was veritably hanged or done up in
plaster cast. He was laid away to
await the knitting of the column. The
cast was more than he could stand.
however, and a few days ago It was
removed. Tuman had no feeling in his
legs at first, owing TO the broken back.
but they have now knit nicely and he
has a sense OF returning vitality in
them.
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Slowly Starving.

Charles Herrick is slowly starving
because of peculiar malady. He left
his fine farm in Mundy township and
bought some property In Flint Some
time ago he went to California and
stay. He wrote for his wife to sell
the property and come to him, but she
was unable TO dispose of It because OF
mortgage. Herrick returned, but
was no more successful, and he brood
ed over the matter for some time.
Two weeks ago his mouth, throat and
stomach became paralyzed as a re-
suit of his dependency, and he has
not been able to take any nourish-
ment except few drops of water at
a time. Herrick is SO years old and
has a family of FIVE children.
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Shops Closed.

BY the closing down OF the greater
part OF the Pere Marquette shops in
Ionia more than 100 men are thrown
out of employment. Men in the ma
chine shop, the blacksmith and tin
shops and the boiler works were laid
of indefinitely. The paint shop and
the car repairing department will be
continued in operation. The reason
given for the shutdown by railroad
officials is that the general business
of the road will suffer materially from
the coal strike.
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> APID
* RAILWAY
l u SYSTEM
The Great Panoramic
Rcute Between
Port Huron and Detroit

lew Rates P&E1or Cars
Frequent Serv.os
Gears run on central standard time. Tims tabls
subject TO change without Dotice.)
oetroi.Port Huron Specials Daily, runnias
over new short line.
Nv Port Huron waiting room) 7:;0 m ssh IN.
Arrive At Detroit NJ Z. Depotl iO:O2 M. 6:e2 m
Leave Detroit IN. g. DepOtl 7:4S n. m. s;45 p. m
Arrive at Fort Huron waiting room 1880 .. N
6:20p m.
Time between Port Huron and Detroit City
Hall, two hours and thirty minutes.
Regular cars leave Port Huron waiting rooB)
for 81 Clair. Marine City. Algonac, Mt. Clemens,
Detroit and all intermediate points at 6:2o q. N.
and every hour thereafter until $50 p. m. cars
running over old route via Algonac
Direct connections are made I'm Port Huron
with Pere Marquette trains TO and from this
north, Rad Axe. Croswel AMI all way stations,
Also sations on tile Port Huron. saginaw and
Bay City Division.
Fare, Port Huron 10 Detroit one wav. co.
Round trip tickets can be purchased at Waiting
Room In Port Huron TO Detroit and return a
$3.50
For folders time tables. booklets. etc. address
Harry Bullen. Gen. Supt, Detroit, Mich, or
Geo. W. Parker. G.. 4. aud L. A. Detroit. Mica.
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*Small percentage Of railroads have
paid so far
The total taxes assessed in 1902.3-4.
is $13,901 ,72l.6S. and the amount
paid to date is $5,521 1882, leaving a
total unpaid OF $3.50, 437.74.
The railroad attorneys interested
will hold a meeting as soon as copy
of the decision arrives. but as the de-
cision of the United States court is
unanimous there is no possibility that
any motion for a rehearing will be
made. The decision dissolves the in
junction issued against the auditor gen.
eral, who is now at liberty to proceed
in such a way as is proper to collect
the money. The superintendent OF
public instruction will apportion the
money to the various primary school
districts.
Governor Warner, when informed OF
the decision of the supreme court, was
at his home at Pennington He said:
well, that's good. You can say the
governor is more than pleased. From
what had learned from the attorney
general l had great confidence that
the state would win the case and in
all my talks about the state have ex-
pressed that confidence to the people.
This certainly is a great victory for
the people of Michigan"
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Pontiac Republicans have nominal

Pontiac Republicans have nominal
ed for mayor Harry c.. Guillot; for
clerk, Joseph II. Thorpe; for treas
urer, Joseph ii. Fay.
The widow of Congressman NJ. II.
Ford is given the title to her home
in Grand Rapids which she had lost
through Thomas #. McGarry, who is
now in Ionia prison for completely In
the Grand Rapids water deal. Nc
Garry was Ford's law partner and af.
ter the latter's death took charge of
the estate. The home was mortgaged
by McGarry to bank without the
widows knowledge and the bank fore
closed.
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The Ohio senate passed the Aiken
house bill increasing the saloon tax
from $3.50 TO $1,000. amid unprecs'
denied excitement.
The laying of the cable between
Guam and Japan has been commenced
One team hauled 16 tons of bark
in one load from Grand Lake TO AL.
pena, distance OF % miles.
Rev. James Cool, pastor of the Bed
ford Congregational church, New
York, has made an innovation by Gov
ering billboards in his vicinity with
flaming posters telling about his
church.
Lieut.. Schmidt, who was shot al
Otchakoff on March 10 for his leader
ship OF the mutiny In the Black sea
feet, transferred, just before his ex
ecution, his whole fortune, amounting
to $4,000 to the revolutionaries.
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George Avery, one of best known
and wealthiest bachelor farmers In
vicinity of Bellevue. is dead.
Eight boys arrested In Springfield,
o., few days ago, charged with riot
ing. escaped with a fine OF 81 each.
The boys laughed openly in court, and
the citizens are indignant at what
they call a farce.
Don't worry about me-" says Sen
ator Plat, OF New York, when friends
pity him about his very shaky legs.
II have a brother up in New York
state who has had legs like these for
20 years and he's over so and doing
business every day"
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STATE WINS
BACK TAXES
SUPREME COURT SAYS
ATKINSON LAW is
VALID.
THE GREAT TAX CASE DECISION
is AGAINST THE RAILROADS
AND UNANIMOUS.
THE PRIMARY SCHOOL FUND is
sWELLED BY $4,000, 900 OF
UNPAID TAXES.

The United States supreme court
today decided the Michigan tax cases
in favor of the state. The decision was
unanimous, and by it the state will re-
ceive about $S,000,000 of unpaid taxes,
which money will go into the primary
school fund. There were 27 Of these
cases altogether, all involving the
validity of act No. 173 of the Michigan
legislature of 1901, commonly called
the Atkinson law, which was passed
under authority given by an amend
ment to the state constitution adopted
in 1900. This law changed the method
of taxing railroad and kindred corpor-
atoms from the old system OF eXacting
the payment of a certain per cent OF
their gross earnings to an ad valorem
system, providing for the fixing of the
tax value OF the railroads on the
average value at which other property
in the state is assessed.
The opinion OF the case, written By
Justice Brewer. is less than 200 words
long. The decision of the United States
circuit court is upheld in every partic-
ular, the fixing of a rate of taxation
by the state tax commission is
declared constitutional and there is
not one crumb of comfort for the rail
roads left. Justice Brewer said that it
was never the policy of federal courts
10 interfere with taxation fixed by a
state, unless there was something OBJ
viously unconstitutional in the meth
DDS employed. The court could find
nothing of the kind in the Michigan
case at issue. The decision of the lower
court was therefore sustained.
The total taxes as assessed under
the ad valorem law and those actually
paid under the old specific law are as
follows:
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William Rockefeller and his guests
have left San Reno hurriedly for
Havre, France. where Mr.. Rockefeller
will embark for America. upon the
urgent solicitation of his brother.
John D., whose health Is not "encour-
aging.
To settle the question of whether
eggs of a particular breed Of fowl
could be distinguished from ordinary
ones. an accommodating hen, game
bird. that was accompanied by a
rooster, decided the argument by lay
ing an egg in the presence of his hon
or in n Danville, H.. court. Tuesday
morning.
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The Empire Produce Co., one of the
largest commission concerns in the
state, has been sold TO w. Vernon
Booth. Of Chicago. The company owns
a cold storage and creamery plant at
Port Huron, and has branch houses in
various towns.
BY decision of the supreme court
1T is not libelous for a newspaper to
denounce business men as a class.
The case in point was where the
Michigan Trading Stamp Co., of Flint,
attempted to sue a paper for criticism
OF the trading stamp business. The
paper fled a demurrer, and II has
been sustained.
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AGREEMENTS IN DETROIT
Week Ending April, z. 1905.

TEMPLE THrkTER AND WONDERLAND After
noons2 Is i0c. TO 30; EveningsS;lS, 100. 70 bVc
Leon Morris Great Animal Circus.
LAFAYETTE THeAreR--Prices i0-25-3j-50c.
Mats Wed, and saturday.
''The Lady Of Lyons
WHtTNsy- EVENINGS 10 e0-3Oc. Mats. N-lS-2So
Black PATHS "rroubadours."
f.vcruM--Prices l5-s5-s,-5 -75c. Mats Wed
and Sat. David Harum."
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The wife OF Judge Nelson Sharpe,
of West Branch, is dead after an ill.,
ness OF several weeks OF cancer of the
stomach.
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Chicago-Cash quotations: No
spring wheat, 7G079c No. 3. 73@7ec;
No. 3 red sea- @Sthc; No. 2 corn. 43N
m43hc; No. 2 yellow. i4644Ac; No. 2
oats. 30bc; No. ? white, 80 &c: No. ;
good feeding barley. 37Ie 13Shc; fair
to choice mailing. 43d soc: No. flax
seed, 81 06; No. l northwestern. 81 -:
prime timothy seed, 80 l7hc; clover
contract grade. $13.
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Observation-Disclosures No. 2 red. S5c;
ssEc. 1000 bu at ss%c, 5000 bu at
sSHc: July, 10000 bu at SOhc, 5000 bu
S0Xc. 10. 600 bu at soc, 1000 bu az
s0Ac; No. 3 red, size: No. white,
corn-cash No. ., 47c; No. 3 yellow,
; cars at 4Sc.
oats-Cash No. 3 white. 33hc.
Rye-Cash No. 2, CSC asked.
Beans-March, 81 so; May. / car ~
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