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The Washington herald., 1907-02-26
Fortiacation Report In.

Representative Smith, of Iowa. pre-
scented the conference report on the fo~ti-
fcstions appropriation bill 10 the House
yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-26
MEXICANS SUSPECTED
Hinted that They We're Riot
erS at Brownsville.
MCDONALD TO BE sUBPOENAED

Foraker VIII Have Opportunity 20
Examine Texas Ranger Captain.
Hearings TO Go over Until After
March 1.-THE Officers WIZ Testify
TheE-Yesterday's Evidence.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-26
STATION BILL KILLED
Anti-smOke, Broad Tire, and
Railway Bills Lost.
IT WAS BABCOCK's BUSY DAY

Three Times House Majority FAN
Trying TO Get 3-cent Fares, Uni
NersaI Transfer, or Two Tickets for
Cents-District Chnirmnn's Tao
tics and House Rules Win the Day.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-26
ADOPT SUBSIDY RULE
House Leaders Prevail by a
Vote of 1913 to 122.
FINAL BALLOT FRIDAY NEXT

Five Hours General Debate TO he
Followed by Consideration Under
Bills and Conference Reports TO
Have Precedence at All Times.
The Washington herald., 1907-02-26

Senator Latimer. South Carolina-O I
do not favor government ownership Of
railways % I think the present law
regulating interstate railway traffic is suf-
ficiently strong provided it Is properly
enforced. 80 I do not favor a plank on
this question in the next Democratic ma
tional platform.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
BILLEK is TO HANG.
CHICAGO WIZARD CONVICTED OF
KILLING MARY vRZAL.
Crime for Which He VIII Pay PEN
atty with His Life Only One of
Serfes-Quick Decision by the
Jury.

Herman Billek, self-admitted faker
and mixer of mysterious potions, was
found guilty of numbering Mary Vrzal
20 years old, by arsenical poisoning
and his punishment fixed at death, by
a jury in Judge Barnes court in Chi.
cago.
Four other members of the Vrzal
family met death by poisoning. They
were Martin, the father, Tillie, Is years
old, Rosie, IA years old, and Ella, /:
years old. Five indictments were re
turned against Billek, and this was
the first case to be tried
When the verdict was read, Billek
who was standing against wall neal
the jury box, staggered and put his
hand against a pillar for support. After
the usual motion for a new trial wa.
entered the prisoner was led from the
court room to Jail. He refused to make
a statement.
When the verdict wos read Edna Bill
lex, years old, daughter of the con
victed man, between sobs exclaimed:
They have beaded my papa,"
Mrs. Billek tainted and was escorted
from the court room by her sons, Franz
| and Herman
On the, other side of the court room
Mrs. Emma vrzal Niemann, the eldes
vrzal child. stood with Jerry and Ber
tina vrzal. They cried when the verdic
| was read.
History of the Crimes.
Martin VrZal was milk vender, liv
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25

ing with his family at CIT West 10th
street. When he met Billek in the
summer of 1904 Billek informed vrzal
that rival milk yender was his enemy
and offered to cast a spell that would
protect VrZal from harm. Vrzal agreed,
and potion of white fluid was brewed
on the Vrzal stove and strewn across
the gateway of the Donosky home
across the way. For this service Billek
accepted loan.
Shortly afterward Vrzal became i'll
and Billek administered medicine to
him. vrzal suffered from symptoms re
sembling the effects of arsenic poison
Ing and died i'm few days.
In July, 1905. Mary Vrzal, the eldest
daughter, and for whose murder Billek
was convicted, visited Billek and told
him she was i'll. He gave her medicine
and she died from arsenic poison. In
rapid succession the deaths Of other
members of the family followed.
Charged by her neighbors with a
guilty knowledge of the manner of the
deaths, Mrs Vrzal swallowed chloro-
form and died Dec. 3, 1906.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
GREAT EXPRESS LOOT
PROCEEDS OF ROBBERIES WILL
REACH 100000.
Warehouse of Adams Company In
New York systematically Robbed
for 3-Year-Old Widow
WEEDS Man of 80.

That On Adams Express warehouse in
New York City has been systematically
robbed for nearly year, the losses esti-
mated to total 100000, was revealed the
other day in the arraignment in police
court of three suspects. A woman is
also under surveillance by the police,
accused of receiving some of the stolen
goods. The stolen goods were taken from
a warehouse in st. Nicholas avenue. In
many instances. it is said, trunks and
packages were opened, part of the val
uables they contained distracted, and
then sealed. The police followed Joseph
Smith, an employee, as he was leaving
the warehouse. He spoke to Frederick
Bonitz, a driver. Bonitz drove to the
Harlem river bridge, threw off some bum
dies which Smith was waiting to receive.
The police caught both men. Albert Lift,
another employee, was then arrested as a
suspect. A letter in Smiths pocket, adj
dressed to Miss Catherine Norris, his
fancee, gave the police her address. They
looked her up and she confessed Smith
had given her stolen goods. Smith later
told the police the warehouse was being
systematically robbed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25

Weather conditions still favor season
able trnle and crops, and there is no more
than ordinary quiet noted in wholesale
lines as a result of midsummer conditions
and the reign of the vacation season. Re
tail trade especially is turning out rather
better than anticipated. One favorable
development certainly calling for notice
is the continuance of good reports as 10
collections. Fair activity, with firm
prices. is noted in wool. Large sales are
few. Conservative buying OF shoes and
leather is noted in leading markets.
In the leading industries there are some
cross-currents- Iron and steel are quieter
as a whole, with prices tending TO ease,
while copper is lower and stocks reported
accommodating. In the shoe trade business
is moderate. In the cotton goods industry
production is of record proportions. but
still insufficient TO meet demand
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July Is number III,
against 1S5 last week. 1SS in the like
week of 1906. 165 in 1905. 100 in 1904
and 1873 in 1903. Canadian failures for
the week nunoer &c. as against 2S last
week and Is in this week year ago
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25

from the Federal prison in Fort Leav-
enworth, Kan, Friday. Anderson re-
turned to Kansas City, Mo-, where he
will engage in business. He denies
report that he intends TO operate pool
hall. The case of January resembles
that of Victor Hugo-s hero, Jean Val
jean.
Anderson was convicted eleven years
ago of robbing an Oklahoma p0stofiice
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years. He escaped two years
later and went to Kansas City, assumed
the name of Anderson, married and
prospered. In April this year an ex-
convict who had known January in the
penitentiary notified the warden of the
mans whereabouts and he was rear
rested and taken back to Leavenworth.
Owing to the exemplary life Anderson
had led in Kansas City, his neighbors
started a movement for his release The
newspapers took up the case with the
result that a petition, which Is said to
have contained the largest number Of
signatures ever appended to an appeal
for pardon, was forwarded to Wash
ington.
President Roosevelt reviewed the
case, and, upon Recommendation of At
torney-General Bonaparte, granted q
pardon, effective at the expiration Of
three months from the time of his re-
arrest January has proved a model
prisoner. He says he will seek to have
his citizenship restored, and, if success
full. will then ask the courts to change
his name to Anderson for the protection
Of his wife and child.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
INTRIGUEs IN KOREAN CAPITAL.
Imperial Residence Hotbed OF Dis
sensiOn and chickering's.

kilograms from Seoul, Korea, state
that intrigues ON an extensive scale are
now in progress. 1t is declared that
the palace is a hOtbed of Illicit plots
and conspiracies. The placing on the
throne of the new Emperor has aggra-
waited the jealousy between his mother,
Princess Ming. and the mother of
Prince Wing, each having large follow
ing. This state of affairs is being taken
advantage of by politicians, who are
1istrustful of one another. Disaffection
Is spreading rapidly and riotings of the
people throughout the peninsula are ex-
pected.
The crisis provoked by the enforced
abdication of the Emperor is still full
Of menace The two government arsen-
ais are guarded by japanese soldiers,
although the number is not large. They
are under orders to explode the maya
zines If they find themselves unable to
defend them.
The Korean troops are frequently
harangued by civilian agitators who
take up their stand at the entrances to
the barracks. The Koreans possess
10000 rounds Of ammunition, of which
General Hasegawa, who has only $500
japanese troops in Seoul, has been IN
able to demand the surrender.
Two disturbing factors are, first, the
enigmatical presence in Seoul of Jap
nnese Foreign Minister Hayashi, whose
mission is believed blythe people to be
the abduction of the former Emperor
and his removal to Japan. Second,
domicilary contact with the new Empe-
ror and control and manipulation of the
throne by the ex-Emperor.
Japan's demands on the new Empe-
ror probably will include the revision
of the japanese Korean treaty or new
Korean constitution. In either case the
power of the japanese resident-general
would be so extended that he can in
tervene In Korea's internal administra-
ton. including the judiciary.
The demand also will be made that
the court be distinguished from the adj
ministration, making confusion between
the two impossible.
Another plan is to give the resident
general direct control of all depart
ments and make the cabinet responsible
to him, the Emperor retaining the pow
er of formal veto. In any case the
Korean military system will be aban-
doned
At the suggestion of Marquis Ito the
Sarious consulates have accepted jap
anese guards.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
REVOLT NIPPED IN BUD.
Cuban Patriots Claim Plot to Con-
tinue OCCUPATION.

Particulars have just leaked out of a
projected uprising in Oriente, Cuba,
which recently gave Gov. Magoon some
anxious hours. At the palace absolute
ignorance is professed of anything in the
shape of disturbance, but the interesting
fact remains that an uprising was pro-
jected to take place on July IL, and
would doubtless have been started had
j. not been for the vigilance of United
States army officers detailed on secret
service. All the trouble arose from the
efforts of Capt. Robert Alexander, Elev-
elth United States infantry. quartermas-
ter of the American garrison in MORO
castle, Santiago, 20 beautify the grounds
about the old fortress by setting out
trees. Unluckily he selected coco palm
for the purpose, and having secured from
an acquaintance 100 young trees, had
them properly placed. While the captain
was congratulating himself on his efforts
TO improve Cuban property without cost,
for all the work of planting was done
voluntarily by the soldiers of the garrison,
the rumor went flying through the whole
province that the Americans were plant
ing cocos on the Moro, and as it takes
six years for a coco to come into bearing,
it was, of course, obvious that the Amer
leans intended to remain for at least that
period. Patriots met in secret and decid-
ed to INVOKE the counsel of Gen. Loynaz
del Castillo of Havana. who is in a con-
dition of chronic agitation over the ques-
tion of the duration of the American
occupation. and that warrior dispatched
two emissaries to Santiago to investigate.
The excitement increased; more meet
ings were held; arms were distributed to
the number, it is said, of seventy-five
rifles with ammunition, and rising was
set for July IL under the leadership of
one Rodrigues of Santiago and Gen. Ca
macho of San Luis. The plan was to
begin operations by rushing" small iso-
lated posts of rural guards, massacreing
the men, and then, as the insurgent ranks
increased, attacking Santiago itself and,
If possible, wiping out the American gar
rison. The secret service officers went
to work and exposed the whole plot sew
eral days before the date set for the up
rising. To the leaders they read lecture
on the subject of arboriculture as prac-
ticed by American soldiers in Cuba. with
a solemn warning to abstain from any in
reference therein. This sufficed to check
their patriotic ardor and now peace reigns
throughout the Oriente.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
o. s. OPENS WAR ON "REDs."
Sims Cites 1873 in State Courts in
Chicago.

CQ1caRO.
United States District Attorney Sims
OF Chicago took most unusual action
when he caused 162 persons. nine of them
women, to be cited before the Circuit and
Superior Courts to show cause why they
should not be classed as anarchists. I'm
less these people can prove to the salts
faction of the court that they are not
enemies of all governments they will be
stripped of their citizenship and may be
deported to the European countries from
which many of them are said b, have fled
to escape the wrath of the government.
The suits, 116 of which were filed In the
Superior and forty-seyen in the Circuit
Court, are all taken as the result of al
legged violations of the United States inn
migration laws and according to Attor-
ney Sims, come under the jurisdiction of
the State as well as federal courts. The
fact that they have been brought in the
State courts" said Attorney Sims, "indi-
Gates that friendly feeling existing be-
tween the State and national govern
ments.' No definite charges are made
against the defendants, but they will be
compelled to swear that they are not
members of any anarchist organization
and that their ideas are not against the
principles of the American constitution.
In the event of any of the defendants
refusing to take the oath or to give sat
isfactory testimony, their citizenship will
be annulled and they will be compelled
to either take out new papers or get out
of the country.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
IE1S EkA2s&L5RS
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Chicago-Cattie. common TO prime.
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 1886; sheep. fair TO choice, $500
to 5000: wheat. No. .. 90c to Ole;
corn, No. ., 52c to CSC; oats, standard,
4oc to 43c: rye. No ., Soc TO SIC: hay,
timothy, S14.00 70 $1,000; prairie, $500
TO 1920; butter. choice creamery, 1oc
to pc; eggs. fresh. 12c to Ice; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 7Sc to SIC.
Indianapolis-Ca Cattle. shipping. $500
to $685.; hogs, choice heavy, 500 to
5000; sheep, common to prime. $500 to
$500: wheat. No. =, SIC to SSc; corn.
No. . white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2
white, Acc to 46c.
hogs. $500 to $685.; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. ,. Soc to 90c; corn.
No. ,. 52c to CSC; oats. No. >, 43c to
45c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Cincinnati-Ca $4O> TO 5000;
hogs. $500 to $500: sheep, $500 to
$40; wheat, No. ,, 92c TO 93c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, SIC to 56c; oats, No. 2
mixed, acc to 47c; RE. No. 2. SEC to Sc.
Detroit-Cattle. $40 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to 5000: sheep, 700 TO $JOO;
wheat. No. ., Ole to 93c: corn. No. 3
yellow, soc to SIC; oats. No. 3 white,
Acc to 47c; rye. No. 9, zoe to SOC.
Observation-Disclosures. No. 2 northern,
Csc to $102; corn, No. 3. 52c to 53c;
oats, standard, 45c to acc; rye, No. 1.
SIC to SIC; barley, standard. 69c to 70o;
pork, mess, $16.12.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers.
$500 20 $3.50; hogs, fair to choice. 500
to 1925; sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 TO 1928; lambs, fair to choice,
S5'O0 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to S6.60; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red. 96c to 97c;
corn, No. 2, 59c to 60c; oats, natural
white, sic to SIC; butter. creamery, pc
to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Toledo-Whest, No. 2 mixed, 90c to
Ole; corn. No. 2 mixed, 54c to SEC:
oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No.
2, 19c to soc; clover seed, prime. $9.92.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
@AXME|RCAl
zENANCA
CHICAGO.

Considering the hot weather which pre-
vailed business has maintained a steady
course. Commercial defaults seem to be
yet in excess of those at this time last
year and are due mainly to the pressure
of July settlements upon weak traders.
but the list includes none of special sig
is in wider request for mercantile pur-
poses and the banks are adequately able
to supply legitimate needs besides prepar-
ing for the approaching drain of curren-
cy 20 move crops, but the discount rate
may soon turn firmer.
Despite the high temperature and vaca-
ton season there is very little apparent
interruption to production in the leading
industries and distribution is remarkably
extended for this period, retail lines scor-
ing a gratifying reduction of stocks
Visiting buyers attend the markets for
staple wares in rapidly increasing num-
bers and their selections for early deliv-
cry rise TO substantial totals. Activity
expands in dry goods, boots and shoes,
clothing. furniture and food products, not
withstanding the advanced average in
price lists, as compared with year ago.
Conditions in the manufacturing
branches lose none of their remarkable
strength. Hides and leather move more
freely, hard woods are in better request
and shipments are larger of hardware,
plumbing goods, merchant iron and wag-
Ons.
The total movement Of grain at this
port. 6.934-24S bushels. compares with
7,S1S,947 bushels last week and 6.62S, 40
bushels year ago. Receipts are 36-5
per cent under faose in 1906. while the
shipments gained III per cent. Receipts
of live stock were 29S.329 head. against
6,99S head last week and 297, o3J head
last year.
Bank clearings, $237. 746. 630. exceed
those Of corresponding week in 1906 by 3
per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81, against % last week and
16 year ago.-Dun's Review OF Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
SUBMARINE BELLS WARN SHIPS
New Eystem Tells Captains of Ap.
proach to Danger Zone.

~" SySeSA- AcAAS OoPe"AAS "a -
proach to Danger Zone.
A novel method has been perfected of
advising ship captains of the approach
OF their vessels to the danger zone, in
connection with the use of the system of
submarine bell signals, in places where
the warning bell cannot be placed on a
lightship or lighthouse. In such cases
the electric bell is hung from tripod
set on the bottom of the sea on the edge
of the shoaf at the required point and
this bell is struck by mechanism OPP
Grated by current of electricity con-
veyed through a cable from the signal
station on shore. Such a station at Point
Allerton. Mass. and another at the en-
trance to Halifax harbor are operated
through cables over two miles long. The
bell strikes any code that is desired and
the sound travels through the water so
that vessels from FIVE to ten miles away
hear the bell and get directions accurate
ly in fog e- at night when equipped
with the receiving apparatus. The light
house board has completed arrangements
to place these submarine signals on all
lightships not already equipped. The
board also has arranged for electric shore
stations at the Delaware harbor of refuge
and at Detroit, Mich. the entrance OF
st. Mary's river and Lake Superior.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25

Germany alone sends to London an
nually 20.000.000 feathers of birds for
millinery purposes.
President Henry Hopkins of Williams
college is to retire and Prof Harry A.
Garfield of Princeton. son of the late
President Garfield, has been chosen to
succeed him.
The largest pillow ever built has been
successfully used on Texas ranch. The
implement clears a strip of ground seven
feet wide.
RESPONSIBLE heads Of lawless corpora
tons should be placed in prison, as the
present system of filming the corporations
is useless and absurd. says Woodrow
Wilson. president of Princeton university,
in a speech at the jamestown exposition.
Re-enforced cement is now the fayorite
material with British builders of large
chimneys. One already completed in
feet in diameter. with foundation 10
feet square.
One of the best architects in the world
is the oriole. Its graceful nest contains
four to six whitish eggs, marked with
black and brown.
Major General 1. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff of the army, explained at Leayen-
worth. Kan. that the something wrong
in the army" to which he recently re-
ferred was inadequate pay and insult
Gent number of officers"
A movement is on foot among Ameri-
cans in Paris to purchase the ssuse in
which Benjamin Franklin lived while
there and make il museum The house
bears on its front Franklin's name, sur
mounted by medallion portrait OF HIM
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
Interesting News Items,

The largest icehouse in New England,
containing $4,000 tons of ice, together
with large quantity of machinery and
forty box cars. was burned at South
wick. Mass, causing a loss estimated at
100000.
The Spanish chamber of deputies has
voted the electoral reform law, in which
are embodied the clauses the previous non-
acceptance of which by the government
had caused the liberal deputies at one
time to abstain from taking part in the
work of the chamber
In Germany sound-proof building
blocks are made of mixture of gypsum
with sawdust. coke, dirt or ashes Some
chemical skill is required to make the
mixture.
OF the tuberculous patients treated in
Pennsylvania Camp Sanitarium,'
which was established with the aid OF
the State, 75 per cent have either recov-
cred or been greatly improved.
Just 100 years ago the first evangelical
missionary went from England to China.
His name was Robert Morrison; he re-
manned 81 years, translated the Bible
into Chinese. wrote q Chinese grammar
and dictionary of 4,595 pages.
Miss Anna Eckstein of Boston pre-
sented TO The Hague peace conference
a petition signed by 100000 Americans
asking for a general arbitration treaty.
Two prominent Chinese from Shanghai
have paid a visit to Manila and placed
large orders with American firms for
farm machinery to be used in Manchuria.
An early American peacemaker was
Elihu Burritt, the blacksmith scholar
of Connecticut. 1t was mainly to his
efforts that the Paris peace congress OF
1915 practically owed its existence,
Though now almost forgotten, the same
principles were discussed and the same
propositions laid down as obtained at The
Hague in 1899.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
Bankers After Express. Men,

The express companies of the United
States have been called to account before
the Commerce Commission by the Ameri-
can Bankers Association for ''unjustly
and illegally encroaching upon the legiti-
mate field of the banks" They are also
charged with using their influence as
common carriers to discriminate against
members of the Bankers Association. All
this, say the bankers, is departure from
the purposes for which the express COM
panies were chartered.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
Girl strikers Violent.

A squad of police was called out to
disperse 1000 girl strikers. who. with
their friends, filed the streets for
squares away from three strike-bc1nd
silk mills in Scranton, Pa. During the
co.amotion stones had been hurled
through many windows of the plants.
The Saquoit, Hervey and Renard mills
are completely tied up by the strike.
Men and boys who work in the plant
are out in sympathy with the girls.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25
31 Excursionists Killed

Thirty-one excursionists met death and
over seventy more were injured, many of
them fatally, when an excursion train on
the Pere Marquette Road, carrying al
most 1000 employees of the Pere Mar
quette shops at Ionia and members of
their families, collided with local freight
train at Washburn Crossing, about two
miles east of Salem, Mich.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-07-25

The first of the Glidden tourists
automobiles reached the City Hall in
Jersey City, the end of their $500 mile
run, at noon Wednesday, half an hour
ahead of the schedule. Other cars
promptly followed. Although the off,
cial figures of the run were unknown,
1t was stated unofficially that the team
contest for the Glidden trophy was
won by the Buffalo Automobile Club,
OF Buffalo, N. Y.