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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-06-21

The Academy and Industrial School
of the Immaculate Mother held its first
annual commencement in its new au-
ditorium Wednesday evening. The eX-
ercises were exceedingly good The
small children who took an active part
in the programme were we'll drilled.
Credit and honor should be given to
their instructors. AS we know when
the school was first opened there was
a great complaint made by some of
the. citizens of the city because such
a school was opened for Negro youths.
Too much can't be said of the noble
women who came from the North to
establish school for our people.
The programme is as follows:
Overture C. H. Fisher) ........
Alexine Walker and Sandella Hale
"O'er the Hill, Ger the Dale" $3.50.
... ....,k Stephen Glover
Welcome .... 1855 Hellyn Bate
Elbow He Saved Michael,s'
Evelyn Crosthwait
March, OPP. ] 60 Crtipp) ,.......
...... Buelah and Hazel Sharber
Sister and I"...s..... Susie Hatchie
Anchored" (Watson) ............
..... ...... Chorus of young ladies
"The Pride of Battery B" Juveniles
Dancing Toys" (Francis Behr)...
Pearl Winston and Abbie Burne
The Hunchback" Eugene Woodfork
"Roses are Blooming Again"
Lavinia McLemore, Louella Cald-
well, Willie Flowers, Sandella Hale.
Chorus . a......... -. Boys
Serenade (Smith) ........ .......
Novello Anderson and Ernestine
Brady.
A Little Boys Lecture ..............
....... Edward Hammond
Lullaby. -. .....s..,.....L lCCle loCs
Scarf Drill ........... Junior CLASS
March Ca G. Garland) ..........
Lavinia McLemore and Florence
Montague
Flag Drill .......... ......... Boys
Gold medal for Christian doctrine
awarded to Evelyn Crosthwait.
Gates Ajar.
TABLEAU.
Father Bryant addressed the audi
ence with a short address but full Of
logic. He said for the school to be a
success the parents should heartily CO.
operate with the teachers and give
their children a home Christian train
| ing, for without the assistance of the
parents the school would not be very
much. He said they had met with
much oppression but by the help OF
the Almighty they meant to succeed
''This is only our beginning" he said
but you all have been highly enter
tanned by these girls and boys and,
and we should feel proud of her who
has her whole soul in the work
Though across the ocean, her heart is
with us tonight. l had letter from
her and she asked about the com
mencement, and said God had made
mankind to enjoy all the good things
of life regardless of color" Father
Bryant told the young ladies he would
award a gold medal to the young lady
next year who was the best cook OF
seamstress. He told the class no mat
ter what their call should be, to dc
their very best if they desired to sue
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
Cost of Living Higher,

Beginning with the increase of I cent
q pound on the wholesale price of beef,
within the past fortnight there has been
a general advance in the prices of nearly
all the necessities of iife-inilk, butter,
eggs, bread, fruit, canned gasas, etc. The
increased price of fruit and vegetables is
credited to a short crop in nearly all sec
tons. due to an exceptionally dry sum
mer. The price of milk has been advanc-
ed in several cities to 8 cents a quart,
retail. During the season there has been
a 20 per cent advance in the price of
aimed goods of the best quality. and it is
said that the pure food law is partly re-
sponsible for this by compelling the re-
tirelnent of many cheap mad a~dulterated
articles. The tomato crop is said to be go
per cent short. and this, too, will figure
in the increased price of canned tomatoes,
which are expected to go from 50 cents to
81 a dozen, wholesale. Sweet corn in
the can has already gone from 40 to 10
cents a dozen. Prunes are expected to
advance one-third over the average price
for the past five years, as the crop is only
a little more than one-third Of last years.
Peas and beans will share in the general
upward trend.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25

The American Tobacco Company has
fled it's answer in the suit begun by the
United States Government last July. The
answer of the trust and of the co-defend-
ants, including Thomas F. Ryan, James
B.. Duke. Oliver II. Payne and Anthony
N. Brady, directors, is that while the
trust has combined many companies and
interests into one it has no power TO con-
troll the industry in which it engages.
The trust holds that so long as brands of
cigars remain in existence competition
cannot be destroyed, because it is a strug-
gle between brands, and not between fac
tories. 1t holds that brands have their
strength in the fact that tobacco is a lux
ury, the consumer desiring only that his
taste shall be satisfied. The trust danies
that the United Cigar Stores Company.
which aims to m~onopolize the retail trade.
was started by the American Tobacco
Company. 1t credits this vast retail
business to George j. Whalen and asso-
GATES, and says that they entered the
field in spite Of the opposition of the
trust. It is admitted that now the trust
owns 100000 out of 100000 worth of
stock in the United Cigar Stores Com
pany.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
All Around the Globe.

Attorney General IIadley filed with
Chief Justice CAN'T Of the Missouri Su-
preme Court an information alleging that
sixty-nine FIRE insurance companies and
forty-eight lumber companies have en-
tered into a pool to control prices.
The San Francisco authorities have
broken the immunity contracts given the
former board of supervisors, and three of
them, Andrew NJ. Wilson, S. r. Nichol-
son and Michael Coffey, were Indicted On
charges Of. accepting and agreeing to ac-
cept brides.
The reports of thirty-nine railroad COM
panies operating in Ohio made to the
State railway commission show that in
the main the 2-cent law has been an ad-
vantage TO them.
Thu Kansas Supreme Court ordered the
STANDARD Oil Company and the Interna-
tional Harvester Company to answer the
list of questions submitted by the Attor-
ney General
What is believed to have been a DELHI
crate attempt to wreck Southern Railway
passenger train II g. 10 al Union, S. c.,
was made the other day and the engine
and baggage car jumped the track, .njur-
ing two Of the train crew.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
New skyscraper Limit.

In the opinion of Ernest Flagg. archi-
tect of the new Singer building at New
York, the tower of which is the highest
building in the world for occupation, the
probable limit of height for these build
i.gs in New York City will be 1000 feet,
with a tower 100 feet square. or nearly
400 feet higher than the Singer building.
Differing with the president of the New
York fire underwriters, who recently
warned the public that there was danger
Of a great ~confagration IN the upper
stories of the tall buildings beyond tho
reach of existing 6re-6ghting apparatus,
Mr.. Flagg says that the only limit Is
financial practicability. He insists that
buildings of the type Of the Singer are the
safest as regards a r~oof-top CONFEDERATION.
because of the space about the tower,
which occupies only one-sixth Of the lot
space. Were all the skyscrapers con-
structed with the same proportion Of
space around the upper stories, he argues,
the danger of a destructive FIRE in that
upper region would be reduced to a mimi
mum. Another point of limitation to
which Mr.. Flagg calls attention is the ele-
vator service. He says one-haul eleva-
tors can be constructed to cover 1000
feet, but beyond that probably cannot b
made effective. Those in the Singer
building are of a new type, known AZ
traction elevators, with the weight at tho
bottom and the motor at the top. They
will make the fortystory trip In q little
Ass than one minute.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25

tains divided by Paint creek. The vein
located was a comparatively thin one,
lying in the heart of a thick seam Of the
bituminous coal. The company was busy
with its operations when the Civil War
broke out, but continued at work for
some time thereafter. The saperintend-
ent was a blunt old Englishman named
Gordon, who had a handsome daughter,
Rowena, who was the delight of her faith
ers heart and the despair Of the young
men of the neighborhood. There was the
usual counting and flirting. with the
usual final selection of one man and the
inevitable preparations for the wedding.
The lucky man was one Adkins, a native
of the mountains, a strapping young fell
low, who had won the fathers favor as a
workmen even before he won the daush-
ter's esteem as a lover. Thus the course
Of true love seemed to run smooth.
But the war came, and the Paint creek
section was as badly torn by opposing
factions as any other small part of the
entire country. Thu natives were of the
South, while most of those who had come
to work in the mines were Union men.
OF the latter was old man Gordon, while
Adkins vas a regular Gre-eating son of
Dixie.
Adkins was forbidden to enter the
Gordon home, and Rowena was ordered
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
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8@tA 5000

Chicagc@Cattie, common to prime,
$500 to $T.4o; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50: sheep, fair to choice. $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to Sl.O3;
corn, No. 2, 65c to 6Gc; oats. standard,
53c to 54c rye, No. 2, SIC to SSc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $3.50: prairie, 5000
to $500; butter, choice creamery. PIC
to 2Sc; eggs, fresh, 10c to 24c potatoes,
per bushel. 55c' to 65c.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime,
$500. to $4.T5; wheat, No. 2, $1.O3 to
$1.O5; corn. No. ? white, CSC to Coo;
oats, No. 2 white, 53c to 54c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $4.5O to s7.15;
hogs, $4.Oo to $6.55; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1,o7 to S1.os; corn.
No. 2, G4c to 65c: oats, No. 2, SOC to
&c; rye, No. 2. SIC to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $685.;
hogs, $500 to S6-93; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 3, S1.10 to Sill corn,
No. 2 mixed, Csc to G0c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 53c to 54c; rye, No. 2. Ole to 93c.
Detroit-Cattlc. $4.OO to S5.35: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 9, $1.04 to S1.06: corn, No. 8
yellow, Csc to roc: oats, No. 3 white,
Doc to 57c; rye, No. e. $50 to Ole.
Observation-Disclosures, No. 2 northern,
$1.15 to SLIT; corn, No. 8, Csc to 66c;
oats, standard. sac to SOC; rye, No. 1,
SSc to 8 c barley, standard, $1.1O to
Sill; pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50: hogs. fair to choice, S4.00
to $40; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to 1928; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SS.T5.
New York-Cattle. $500 to s6.75:
hogs, $500 to $500: sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, Sill to S1.13;
corn, No. ., T3c to 74c: oats. natural
white, 5Sc to 62c; butter, creamery, 25c
to 29c; eggs, western, lSc to 23c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. . mixed, S1.O4 to
S1.06; corn, No. 2 mixed, 65c to SIC;
oats, No. ? mixed. Sc to 5ic; rye, No.
2, SOC to Ole; clover seed, prime, SLOTS.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
background, a~nxiously awaiting word
from the relief corps.

background, ~anXiously awaiting word
from the relief corps.
Town Is Hopeless Ruin.
Tuesday morning Fontanet was Il
prosperous, coy little town Of 1000
persons. That night it was a hopeless
ruin. Every building, including homes.
stores, offices and factories, was shaken
into pieces. A hand of infinite power
sweeping all before it with denoniac
wrath could not nave worked greater
havoc.
The dead and more seriously hurt
have been removed to other points
most of them to Tere Haute, eighteen
miles distant. AT least 800 Inhabitants
Of Fontanet remain. however. Nearly
ell of them bear bloody traces of the
visitation. They are camping out in
tents hurried there by the Governor.
and must be fed and cared for during
many months to come. The town is
devastated. Yet it's people, so far as
possible, seem determined to remain
and make the best of their misfortune.
The explosions at the powder mills
came without warning. What caused
the first one is a mystery and may
never be explained.
Once the combustion had started
there was no stopping it and n by
one seven Mills were hot into the air
in splinters. Two hundred men yer
employed at the works. but luckily only
seventy-five were at their labors when
the first explosion took place.
Big Mill lis Shattered.
The big press mill was destroyed
first. This was at 9:15 o'clock. The
shock n defamation were indescriba-
BILE. The ground shook for GILES around
it is reported that the effect was felt
at a distance Of 200 miles-buildings
rocked as if riding a seismic swell.
And then within two minutes the
glazing mill was ruined. The building
timber. metal and glass in all directions
and killing many.
Next. the two coming mills and final
~, as an unspeakable climax, the mag
azine and cap mill were torn to bits.
The magazine was situated about 800
yards from the main buildings of the
plant and did not ignite for over an
hour. Then the flames which were
licking up the debris had so heated the
atmosphere that the magazine respond
ed.
There were 10000 kegs Of blasting
powder stored IN the magazine and
every one blew up seemingly ut the
same moment. 1t was this detonation
that shook to pieces the homes and
stores and factories In Fontanet and
which brought death or injury to scores
miles distant.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
TOWN rs WIPED OUT.
More than Six Hundred Hurt and
Scores of Others May Die.
DESTRUCTION IS WIDESPREAD.
Mysterious Blasts Ruin Village and
Spread Death and Injury.

Forty or more persons dead, almost
as many fatally burned or hurt, COO
others injured more or less seriously,
and a prosperous town Ieveled to the
earth-such was the harvest Of a
series of terrifying explosions ut the
Du Pont blasting powder mills near
Fontanet, Ind, Tuesday morning.
After the explosions, which followed
one another with frightful effect, came
fire. and what the one horror left un-
done the other completed. Thus, many
people who might have been dragged
from the ruins and revived were the
victims of the flames. How many
bodies have beer incinerated is a mat
ter of guesswork. but twelve hours
after the catastrophe the fatalities
were believed to be below fifty. The
worst explosion came when 10000 kegs
Of powder blew up. ".
Governor Hanly and n detachment
Of the Indiana National Guard at once
took control Of the death camp. Sol
diers paced up and down the wreck
crammed streets. In and about the
smoking ruins Of the great powder
plant privates in the ranks in detach-
ments endangered to discover the re-
mains of unknown victims. Scores of
women and children whose husbands
and fathers were missing were in the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25

not to see him. He enlisted in the Con-
federate army and marched out with
Wise on his famous retreat up the val
ley. This was in the spring of 1861. In
the autumn he returned home on a fur
Tough and sought to renew amicable re-
lations with the Gordons, but was repuls-
ed by both father and daughter. 1t is
said that in a spirit of revenge he set
fire to the farmhouse Of the mouth Of
the mine. The fire was communicated to
the rich vein of camel coal inside, and.
obtaining a good hold, has been burning
ever since.
Adkins returned to his regiment and
was killed in battle. The Gordons left
the country soon after. and their subse-
quent history is not known.
In the late sos a company was form
ed by Charleston men to e~xtinguish the
fire and reopen the mine, but, after spend
ing $4,000 in a vain attempt, the enter
prise was abandoned. 1t is probable that
the fire will be allowed to burn until the
entire vein of coal is consumed. Of late
it has been burning visibly at night, the
extent being perhaps 100 yards along
the face of the mountain.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
May Garry Typhoid Long.

DR.. j. II. Townsend of the Connecti-
cut Board of Health reports that the
bacillus Of typhoid may be carried for
years after an attack of the disease with
out any apparent Inconvenience to the pa
tient aud without his knowledge of the
fact. Kutscher, a German expert, is
quoted as saying that about 4 per rent Of
the typhoid patients become chronic car
riers of typhoid bac.lli. Although such
persons may be in good health, they may
infect those with whom they come in con-
tact. All this is confirmed by the recent
case of a cook who had served in several
New York families. In every family her
presence was followed by an outbreak Of
typhoid. 1t was known that the cook
herself nae suffered an attack of the same
disease formerly and an enforced exam
inat;on showed that she still carried the
bacilli,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
GAAAMkEE=RClN
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HSLa, Es5 No.
aEMANCLAL
CHICAGO.

The prevailing tendencies aifoT,i furthe
encouragement in the outlook for sustain
ed confidence in trade. In the crep re-
port this week the decreased growth OF
cereals Is made clear, but an offset Is
found in the greatly enhanced values and
almost certain markets abroad for sur
plus products. Less pressure is evident
in money and, with the rapid conversion
of grain into cash, there should follow a
substantial addition to deposits with the
banks and some easing of the discount
rate. Current activity reflects seasonable
progress, production in the leading indus
tries equaling that of a year ago, while
the distributive branches and transpor-
tation have become more extended. Aside
from the halt in new demands for rails
and pig iron there are satisfactory con-
tracts in structural steel, wire and pipe,
and deliveries of finished materials have
again risen 10 an aggregate.
Bank clearings, $249. 1916, 49,, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by as per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered "a, against % last week
and % a year ago.-Dun's Trade Review.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
The Cotton spinner., Congress.

Growers OF cotton and manufacturer
of cotton goods from seven different ma
tons nave met in convention of Atlanta,
Ga, James Il. Macoll of Providence, r.
L., presiding. Among other reforms fa-
vored by the convention was the advocacy
OF a uniform bill Of lading. President
MacoIl said that ways must be found to
enable the planters % sell direct to the
spinners, without losing The profit of the
middlemen. The planter must learn to
grade, carr; and finance his cotton as the
merchant now does.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25

has spread to almost every village.
Some idea of the extent of the business
may be gained when it is stated that a
man who has a booth at a seaside resort
near New York sells S45 worth of postal
cards a day. 1t in estimated that as much
as 100000 6 day is spent for picture
postal cards in the United States.
So large is the number of picture postal
cards passing through the mails every day
that special regulations have been adopted
for them. It was only recently that per
mission was given to write a message on
the address side. 1t is interesting to add
in this connection that the official esti-
mate of the number of souvenir postal
cards passing through the British post.
Offices Last year was O0,0OO,OOO. The
value placed on these cards was estimated
at S5,O00,OO0. The revenue to the various
governments from postage on souvenir
cards approximates millions.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
Power by wireless.

A young scientist of Lyons, France.
asserts that ne has discovered a means
Of transmitting electrical energy without
wires and experiments along that line are
now proceeding with a miniature car run
ming on rails, which is said to have been
propelled a distance of 200 yards by
means Of power from an electric trans
u,itteT, Details of the process are with
held for the present. Patents were taken
out in August and a syndicate of bankers
has been ferzned to develop the invention.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25

The evidence of these loans was found in
last years balance sheet, which was pro-
duced in court. When asked directly
what this account meant, Tilford replied
bluntly, Il do not know or II cannot
recall To secure this information the
treasurer Of the company, w. q. Rookie
Teller, son Of William, the brother of
John, was subpoenaed. 1t was thought
that possibly these vast loans. which Off
Gals of the Standard could not explain,
might conceal the purchase of ostensible
rivals. On a preceding day the specta-
Gle was presented of the head of an oil
company reputed to be a competitor of the
Standard, the New York LIubricating Oil
Company, refusing on cross examination
to put in the hands of the Standard coun-
sci the private papers and original con-
tracts of the firm. lie said he would not
thus put in jeopardy information which
could be used against his concern. TIL
fact was brought out here that all the
big railroads pay from 10000 to $780,
coo more for their lubricants bought Of
the Standard than would be the cost at
the rates charged by the independent
company. a complete balance sheet and
income account of the oil trust we're made
public for the first time. They showed
that while the company paid S40.0U0.OOO
in dividends last year, more than $685.
100000 was carried in the income ac-
count, leaving a surplus Of nearly $A,-
100000. This made a total surplus Of
$261,O00,0 00. The balance sheet shows
total assets about 1911 .664,532. The val
ues of the various subsidiary companies Is
given. Records of the liqsidating trustees
were introduced to show that the dissolu-
ton OF the trust, which occurred osten-
sibly in 1892, never occurred.
4 Bernard shaw Defends PoIysamy.
The columns of the London Times have
recently contained an animated CORE
spondence on the subject of Kulin polyg-
amy in India. The Brahmin practitioners
Of this social theory believe that a wom-
an should not be deprived OF the duty
and privilege of motherhood for mere lack
of a husband. Sir George B..rdwood, a
noted authority on Indian affairs, wrote
to the Times that the results of the pc
culiar practices referred to was an i'm
provement in the race, the selection of
fathers being on the principle of the best
breeding. This aroused a storm of pro-
test agninst what was denominated a RE-
voting and abhorrent" idea. Thereupon
George Bernard Shaw took up the cudgeis
in defense Of the Brahm.n practice, point
ing out its advantages from q social and
physiological standpoint over the conyen-
tionalisrns Of English society. In ex-
planning the Brahmin view he said: 1.-THE
Bengalis hold that It is a part OF the
general purpose of things that women
should bear children, and that childless-
ness is a misfortune and even a disgrace"
Football claimed two more victims in
the deaths of Thomas Rertram, 20 years
old, ut Altoona, Pa, and Eugene NJ.
Bourne. 10 years os1, at Salt Lake City.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-10-25
No spnninrd. for Panama.

The Spanish minister Of the interior,
Cierva, has caused to be posted through
out -ie provinces of Spain notices warm
ing e%migrants against going to Panama to
work on the canal, setting forth the dam
ger of the climate and the large death
rate. The government claims to have
proof that laborers on the canal are gross
ly deceived by recruiting agents, and are
compelled to live under abominable con
ditions. The complaints, however, are
said to be traceable to Spanish landlords,
who find Their laborers lured away By
prospect of better wages.