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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
EDUCATIONAL
New York Against Whipping.

New York Against Whipping.
By vote of 81 to II the New York
board of education has rejected the
recommendation of special commit
tee in favor of restoring corporal pun
ishment to the public schools of that
city, thus ending a long and hot cam
paign for. the rod. in which SuDerin-
tendent Maxwell joined. AT the same
time 1t was agreed to have the plan of
special disciplinary schools In various
parts of the city taken up at once. The
consensus Of opinion seemed to be that
more attention to ethics should be paid
In all the schools. The superintendent
had taken stand solidly against whip
ping.
Roosevelt to Educators.
In receiving at the White House the
delegates to the superintendent de-
partment of the National Educational
society last week President Roosevelt
gave his views on educational methods
with considerable vigor of expression.
He thought the schools should train
toward and not away from the farm
and workshop and that it should be a
matter of pride with every girl to be as
good a housewife as her mother was
before her; that while the curse of
mere drudgery might be great it was
not SO great as the curse of vapid idle
ness, whether the idleness is that of
the hobo at one end of the scale or
the gilded youth at the other.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
COMMERCIAL
let Income of P. R. r. Reduced.

Net Income OF p. r. r. Reduced.
The annual report of the Pennsylva.
MIA railroad shows falling off of 3d.
090,244 in the net income at the same
time that the gross earnings increased
$16,572, 913. The cause appears In the
large increase in operating expenses,
amounting to $1S,064,S34. President
McCrea says that the first effects of
the panic We're not felt until the last
two months of the year. The sum
used for the New York terminals to
date of report was $39,541,414
Failures of Last Month.
Statistics compiled by r. G.. Dun &
Co. show that there We're 1,G21 com.
mercial failures in February, with ag.
gregate liabilities of $27, O64, 571, against
924 failures and liabilities of $102S3,.
TO In the same month of last year.
The note of encouragement is that the
defaulted Indebtedness was slightly
less than in January. There We're also
thirteen bank suspensions, involving
81, Cos, S24.
Fish Out of |. c. Board.
At the meeting of the Illinois Central
board Of directors the Hartman fac.
ton had majority of the 95O,O40 votes
and elected a successor to Stuyvesant
Fish. The latter stayed away from
the meeting and by SO doing prevented
Hartman from carrying out his plans
for the purchase of two branch lines,
as that required two-thirds vote
Tobacco Factories Burned.
A large part of the city of Tampa,
Fla, comprising the great tobacco fac.
tories and many residences, was swept
by fire March l, with loss estimated at
100000. Weak water pressure made
the efforts of the fire fighters futile.
Pullman Cars to Go Dry.
The Pullman Palace Car company
has decided to discontinue the sale of
liquors in its buffet and dining cars
throughout the United States. This
has already been put in force on some
roads, and 1t is expected that the ac-
ton will be made general in the near
future.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

based on an entirely different principle
from the other airships now claiming
the attention of the world. He says
that he has found the principle of bird
fight and applied it to man made ma
chinery. 1t is in substance to create a
rarefication Of the atmosphere directly
above the winglike planes by revolv-
Ing propellers horizontally in opposite
directions, thus causing the air to rush
from the underside of the wings with
q consequent uplifting power. Three
small gasoline engines of two horse
power will be employed, one being held
for emergency.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
E. Gu TIv
To Drive Out Anarchists.

10 Drive Out Anarchists.
AS if moved to action by the attempt
on the life of Chief Shippy Of Chicago
and by other recent acts of violence
the federal administration has begun
an aggressive campaign against all an.
archists or advocates of violence. Sec.
rotary of Commerce and Labor Straus
ordered all commissioners and inspect.
ors of immigration to confer with the
police and detective authorities in the
various cities In order to obtain def.
mite information about all alien an
archists. The order points out that any
such person who has been convicted of
q crime or misdemeanor may be de.
ported within three years after land
ing in this country. At the same time
added precautions will be taken to pre-.
vent the admission of anarchists from
other countries.
To Enforce the Nine Hour Law,
All petitions for the extension of the
time within which to comply with the
SO called nine hour law limiting the
hours of service for railroad telegra.
piers were denied by the interstate
commerce commission, and the law
went into effect March A. The commits
sion held that it had no discretion in
the matter and that it could make ex-
ceptions in particular cases after due
hearings. 1t had been intimated that
the railroads would close up thousands
of stations in out of the way places if
the law went into effect. In all the
larger places large increases in the
force of telegraphers were made neces-
sary.
New Record In Gunnery.
Lieutenant John H. Ferguson, in
charge of an eight inch gun engaged
in target practice at Magdalena bay,
has made the new record of twenty
five hits in twenty-five shots at the
rate of 2.0S shots minute.
National Expenditures Increasing.
q During the month of February the
expenses of operating the federal gov
eminent wen nearly $10OO0,OOO great
Ell than in the same month of last year.
making the current years deficit over
$27,0OO,OOO
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS
Many School Children Burned.


More than ITO children while attend
Ing the Lake View public school at
Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland, o.,
We're trapped in the stairways by a
fire and burned to death March a,
many Of their parents and friends look
ing on, helpless and crazed with grief.
The origin of the fire was not known,
and the flames spread SO quickly that
the fire drill could not be executed.
Deaths.
United States Senator Proctor of
Vermont died at Washington March 4
after brief illness from pneumonia.
Thomas 3. Wanamaker, proprietor
OF the Philadelphia North American
and eldest son of John Wanamaker,
died in Paris March 2 at the age of
forty-seven.
James H. Oliver Of South Bend, Ind.
who is known widely among farmers
rs the inventor and manufacturer of
the Oliver chilled plow. died at his
home in South Bend March 2 at the
age of eighty-four.
Day Must Face Charges.
Because he called the acts of Presi-
dent Roosevelt anarchistic and in other
ways condemned the actions Of the
chief executive the Rev. DR.. James r..
Day, chancellorsof Syracuse university,
must face charges made against him
by the Rev. George A. Cooke of Bran
don, Vt, a member of the Troy con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
INDUSTRIAL
Freight Business Picking Up.

EbVtSuk 0uStOSSS CtCktu9 OPs
Evidence of the gradual resumption
of business and industrial activities is
found in the order of the Pennsylvania
railroad to fire up fifty freight locomo-
tives on the Pittsburg division which
have been laid up on sidings for sew
eral months.
Montana Miners Made Happy.
Thousands of workmen at Butte and
Anaconda, Mont, paraded the streets,
sang songs and thronged the saloons to
express their joy over the announce.
ment that the copper mines and smelt.
ers Of the Amalgamated Copper com.
pany would resume operations at, full
capacity on March 0 and at the exist.
ing scale Of wages. Director Ryan
says that increasing orders for export
make the resumption possible.
Slips For 1000 Foot Liners.
At the Harlan & Wolff shipyard, Bel
fast, Ireland, work has been started on
new slips large enough to permit the
construction of 1000 foot liners for the
White Star company. The longest ship
now in service is the Cunard lines
Mauretania. which is 100 feet long.
A Sliding Scale Reduction.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
has proposed to the various labor I'm.
ions among its employees that they
agree to cut In wages with the under.
standing that when the revenues reach
$2.5OO,O0O month the present scale
will be restored.
Erie Machinists Win Strike.
Conferences between a. committee of
! the striking machinists of the Erie rail-
road repair shops and General Man.
ager Stuart have resulted In the agree.
ment of the company to try the per
diem system for at least six months
and to take back all the men us va
cancies occur, with 10 per cent reduc.
ton in wages. The strike, which be.
gan May l, 1907, was against the piece.
work plan.
Concrete Walk Begun.
Atlantic City has witnessed the be.
ginning of the great reconstruction
TASK OF replacing the famous board
walk with concrete promenade.
New Uses of Concrete.
The Cement Age says that the exper.
iment of the Lackawanna railroad with
concrete car bumpers has been made
with great success. They are of mono
lithic construction, with a granite block
face to receive the blow of the car
buffer. The rails Of the roadbed pro-
ject into the concrete, so that the i'm
pact force reacts against the weight of
the car. The same authority tells of
the successful operation Of an immense
fywheel, or, rather, two fywheels,
made of REINFORCED concrete, in a
pumping station near johannesburg,
South Africa. Each weighs G,O0O
pounds and is fourteen feet in diane
ter. The difficulty and expense of
transporting iron led to this surprising
use of concrete.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

New York lunched together recently
was thought to be an incident having
an important bearing on national poll
ties. 1t was the outward sign that the
long rumored peace pact between the
mayors faction of the local Democracy
and Tammany had been achieved.
This would mean that the state organ
tzation would send an anti Bryan dele
CATION to the Denver convention and
that Mcclellan again might become a
party leader, possibly presidential
candidate.
Socialists Charge Plot.
The Appeal to Reason and other
leading Socialist papers are raising a
great cry of alarm over bill recently
introduced in the senate by penrose of
PENNSYLVANIA which would give to the
postmaster general absolute power to
exclude any publication from the mails
which he sees fit. The Appeal init
mates that this is part of the conspir-
acy directed against it by the govern
ment and that If this bill is passed an
attempt will be made to suppress the
Socialist press of the country.
Caleb Powers For Congress.
From his prison cell, where he awaits
pardon or another trial, Caleb Powers
has begun q canvass of the Eleventh
Kentucky district for the Republican
congressional nomination. He urges
that this viii be in the nature of vim
dication at the hands of his home peo-
Pile.
Taft Meeting at Boston.
Secretary of War Taft and Senator
Burkett Of Nebraska We're the chief
guests of the Republican club of
Massachusetts and addressed a great
gathering in Symphony hall. Burkett
insisted that the agitated condition of
the country was not due to radicalism,
but was "the proof of business dishon-
esty." He said the trouble with Wall
street was that it wanted to force its
measure of business morals on all the
rest Of the people. Taft was needed to
finish Roosevelt's work.
Socialist Membership $4,000.
National Secretary j. Mahlon Barnes
Of the Socialist party, in his official re-
port for 1907, says the sale of party
stamps indicate total membership
Of about $4,000 at the present time, all
though the average for the year was
only 1920. The party has forty state
or territorial organizations and 1000
,, locals. The states having the greatest
| number are in order named as follows:
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wis
consin, Ohio, California, Oklahoma,
Massachusetts, New Jersey and Mime
sofa.
Bradley Elected Senator.
Former Governor Bradley of Ken
lucky, the first Republican ever to hold
that office, has been elected to the
United States senate with the aid of
four Democratic votes after the with
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
scIE N TIFIc
Why More Boy Babies Die.

Why More Boy Babies Die.
DR.. Francis Warner, senior physician
Of the London hospital, has drawn at
fention to a curious sex problem. TAX
ing the births of 1905, he showed that
81 per cent were boys, yet the death
rate Of boys was so much higher than
that of girls that of five-year-old chill
dren only 43 per cent were boys.
Further statistics showed that 81 per
cent Of boys as compared with only %
per cent of girls died in the first year.
DR.. Warner attributed the preponder-
ance of females In England despite
the more numerous birth of boys to the
fact that much larger proportion Of
males had the same physical defect. A
minute examination of thousands Of
children showed that 8 per cent Of
boys were physically defective as
compared with Z per cent of girls, but
taking the children's medical wards,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

ana had the
support of the party's national leader,
Bryan. But this only intensified the
opposition of certain factions. Before
the vote was announced the four re-
bellious Democrats were urged to
change to McCreary or any other Dem
ocrat, but stolidly refused. Bryan's
comment on the result was, II cannot
see where the-selection of Mr.. Bradley
will have any effect on national poll
tics, but regard it as great mis-
fortune"
johnson In the Race.
After bitter fight the Democratic
state committee Of Minnesota, by a
vote Of GS to %, adopted a resolution
indorsing Governor John A. johnson
of Minnesota for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination. The Bryan men
gave notice that they would not be
bound by the action of the committee.
but would make fight throughout the
state for the control of the state con-
yention.
South Cardinals New Senator.
The South Carolina legislature con-
yened in special session has elected
Frank Boyd Gary to succeed Asbury
G. Latimer in the United States senate,
serving out the term to March 3, 1909.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
KEEPING TAB
ON THE WORLD

The House to Probe Submarine
Scandal-FoWIer Bill to the
Front ~ Ohio Platform Sets
Taft's Pace, and Bryan Strikes
His Keynote In Nebraska Plat
form-War on Anarchists Fol-
lows Attempt on Life Of
Chief Shippy-Japan Rejects
Chinese Arbitration Proposal.
Russian Republic Proclaimed.
A Frightful School Fire.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

perfected a new
and cheap ma
chine for navi-
eating the air
and that he will
make a public
demons tration
of 1t by flying
from his home
to the New York
city hall short
ly. He gives
p a rite ulars
about his ma
chine, indicat-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

was killed in an
effort to assassi-
nate Chicago's
chief of police,
George NJ. Ship
Ply, at the home
Of the latter,
March l. Aver
buch called at
the door on the
pretense of de-
livering a letter
to the c h / e f.
Shippy suspect
ed trouble and
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
Best Healer in the World.

Rev. F. Starbird, of East Raymond,
Maine, says: I have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salye for several years. on my
lod army wound, and other obstinate
sores, and find it is the lest healer in
the world. ] use it too with great sue
cess in my veterinary business. I" Price
be. at P. A. elemmer's drug store. r
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

drawal Of Beck
ham had made
possible the
breaking of the
long deadlock in
the legislature.
Beckham. w no
served as gov
ernor after the
murder Of Goe-
bel and the
fight Of Gov
ernor Taylor,
had been named
for the senate
by the Demo
cratic primaries
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
CONGRESSIONAL
To Probe Sub

To Probe Submarine Charges.
After considering the matter for over
a week the house committee on rules
decided to authorize an investigation
Of the charges made by Representative
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

Lil!ey Of Connecti-
cut to the effect
that certain mem
bers Of the nava
affairs commit ttee
who voted for the
purchase of subma.
rines from the Elec.
trio Boat company
held improper rela-
tons with that com.
pany. A resolution
for this purpose
having been pushed
by the house. the
speaker appointed i,
committee to do the
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

Lilley. probing II was sal
that Lilley would be placed somewhat
on the defensive by being required to
prove his charges on penalty of being
censured- TWO men not in congress
who were implicated in the charges
have brought libel suits against Lilley
Sims Supports Warship Critics.
The senate committee on naval af-
fairs struck what nigh; be called
"pay dirt i'll its Investigation OF Oh.
charges published against the bureaus
responsible for the construction of the
navy when Commander w. H. Sims.
naval aid to the president, was called
to the witness chair. Sims is the
officer who was thought to have in
Spired the article in McClures by Art
list Reuterdahl. and Sims frankly told
the committee at the outset that he
was "the af5e of all this trouble"
The committee, however, headed off
his general statement and confined him
to particular questions of construction.
Sims said that for twelve years in his
official capacity he had been pointing
out the blunders of the navy depart
ment and contradicted the impression
given out tiilt he was either young
or-an ine:,peeiPnced officer. He franz.
~ accused Lear ADMIRAL Converse and
Chief Constructor Gappa with having
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17
LEGAL CRIMINAL

Tried to Kill Police Chief.
a young Russian Jew named Laza.
rus Ayerbuch, who came to this conn
try from Kishinev about three months
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

ago to live with his sister at Chicago
and who is said to have been identified
with the radical group of anarchists,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-17

1VetSUs 6uS1HeSS FfCk1Hg Up.
Evidence of the gradual resumption
of business and Industrial activities is
found in the order of the Pennsylvania
railroad to fire up fifty freight locomo-
tives on the Pittsburg division (which
have been laid up on sidings for sew
eral months
New-York tribune., 1908-05-21
1Of GIRLS SEE GHOST.
4nneors in S;.rth AUenue Cemetery
and Leares Crutch.

One hundred and one girls who work in a
Sixth avenue drygoods store are ready to swear
that a ghost walked from graveyard In the
rear of the building yesterday. The reserves Of
the new West 10th street police station hunted
for the ghost for half an hour and found his
cr,,tch-which was material, not ghostly-al-
though they couldn't find the ghost himself.
No one has been buried in this cemetery for
,hree-ouarters of a century. The store shuts 1t
IN on the east: high brick walls edge 1t on tho
side streets and the rest of the block is covered
with other buildings.
The girls say the old man had long white
uhiskers. and that of his legs was missing.
He carried a crutch. the girls declared after
ward. and after laying his tombstone In It's
MACE he hobbled across the graves to high
brick wall that fronts in 21st street. Then he
clambered over the wall and disappeared. "A
,,olicemsn found a crutch 1t was near the wall
:, DIST street A skull and crossbones had been
ont ON one side, and the wood was worn and
shiny with age
New-York tribune., 1908-05-21
say HE IS INCENDIARY.
Police accuse Nan arrested 1Cith
Oil Bottle an Pocket.

In the arrest of Daniel Godin, of No 342 West
30th street. the police OF the Tenderloin station
think they have solved the mystery of the many
incendiary fires which have occurred recently
in the five story tenements at Nos 13S and
140 West 29th street. On Tuesday night Mrs.
Annie Myers. who lives the top floor of No.
13S, looked down the elevator shaft and saw a
blaze in a pile of rubbish at the bottom. She
poured water down the shaft and put IT
out. An investigation revealed that the rubbish
was saturated with kerosene. and similar prepa-
rations had been made by the fncendiaries who
started other fires in the two houses.
Last night at dusk Mrs. Myers looked across
the areaway from her fiat and saw man NOV
ing around in a vacant floor at No. 140 She
ran downstairs and across the street and told
the firemen OF Engine Company 21 about the
visitor. Firemen Diadora and Gilbert and
Patroman Carroll went up TO the top floor of
No. 140 and found Godin- When asked what
he was doing he replied that he used to live
there and had returned to get something he had
left behind. quart bottle of kerosene was
found in his pocket The police found out that
he had lived in that fiat week ago. but he
could not give satisfactory explanation of the
presence Of the bottle of kerosene.
This makes nine times that attempts have
been made recently to burn this building
New-York tribune., 1908-05-21
MARK TWAIN's BIG SALE OF BOOKS
In Speech He Says 100000 Have Been Dis
posed of in Four Years.

The eighth annual dinner of the American Book
sellers Association the members OF which now
in convention in this city, was held at the rooms
last night. w. Millard Palmer president of the
association, the POSTMASTER.
Mark Twain, dressed in his suit of white flannel.
made a speech in which he said that the associa-
tion gathered together, "as suppose, to COM
plete the conspiracy against the public press
Now, have never had harsh word spoken to
by the police on either side Of the ocean until q
few weeks ago in this city he continued This
policeman wantonly discourteous, and 1 i'm
medately turned him over to the chief of police
not to be discharged; oh. no! but / Just asked
that he be transferred to some place where he
would be useful than where he
II asked General Bingham to transfer him to the
gallows-or somewhere else: and they read him
a lecture and transferred him to place where
hope he will be more useful
author told the booksellers that in four years
they had sold 10000 of his books. and he declared
This is a subject that vitality interested in. v.
He said his wife, who is dead edited every line of
his books before they went to the publishers, and
he remarked that she said that she struck many
crude lines from his works.
Il thank you for these efforts you have been
making for under the impression that you
were making efforts for yourself / stopped work
Ing three years ago. l have got five books that
are not finished but | thought l would take holt
day for thirty or forty years and then go TO work
again.