-.
THE COST OF MILK
HAS BEEN INCREASED
Figures Given In the Census Bureau
Report.
FLOUR AND GRIST MILL REPORTS.
Cream Has Particularly Gone Up as
the Result of the Curtailment of the
Supply to the Factory and the In-
creasing Market in the Larger Cities
Smaller Creameries Absorbed.
Washington (Special).—That the
cost of milk, and particularly cream,
has advanced enormously since 1900
as the result of the curtailment of
supply to the factory and the in-
creasing market in the large cities
is indicated in a census bulletin just
issued relative to the manufacture
of butter, cheese, condensed milk,
flour and grist mill products and
starch for 1905 A substantial in-
crease in the manufacture of all these
products is shown since 1900,
247.9 and
statistics
Cost of cream increased
milk 3.7 per cent The
given include only such establish
ments as were engaged primarily in
those industries, plants engaged pri-
marily in selling milk or in separat-
ing cream from milk not being
garded as engaged in manufacturing
According to the statement there
were 8.926 establishments engaged
in the butter, and condensed
milk industry 1965; aggregate
capital, $47,250, employing 15 -
Bb7 wagearners, who received
412.937 in wages The cost of ma-
terials was $142,920,277. and the
products were valued at $168,182.
789, With the exception of
lishments, all of these items show
creases since 1900, that in value
products amounting to $37,399
representi an increase of 28.6
cent., or « one-forth
re-
cheese
in
566:
estab-
in-
of
ier
ng per
wer
Consolidation,
The decrease in n
tablishments was principally
the consolidation
smaller creameries into large:
The hand separ
the farmer to
cream, was a prominent factor
tendency centralization, en
easier hauling and making it pos
ble for a single creamery
its supply from a wide ter
a resuit the larger plants,
butter was manufactured
expense, gradually crowded
absorbed smaller
The
creased
a decrease
or 1.4
milk used
increase
384,512,513
cent.
Condensed mi
tween the censuses of
increased in quantit)
and in cost 64.5
tity of butter produced incr
26 per cent. and over
cent. Great Britain and Canada are
the chief foreign market for these
products. Importation of
shown a steady growth, both i
tity and value
Flour And Statistics,
The statistics for flour
nill products include
turns of establishments
merchant milling At the
1905 there were
chant flour and grist n
United States; t capital, '
117,434; employed 239,110 wage-
earners, paid 319,822,196 in wages,
consumed $615.571,161 worth of ma
terials, and manufactured products
to the value of $713.033.295 These
figures represent an increase of over
6 per cent. in number of establish-
ments, 40 per cent. in capital and
2 per cent. in value of products
At the census of 1905 the grain
reported as used by the
flour and grist mills of the country
amounted to 754,945,729 bushels and
cost $5505.065,087. Wheat
over 65 per cent. of the total quantity
and 78 cent, of the f
grain.
11
the number of es
due to
or absorption of
plants
which enables
own
ator,
separate hi
in itnis
tO abling
10
ritory
in wi
at
out
total
aver
per cent
in ma titer, and
+ quanti
pounds
all
of cream of
ured be-
1900 and
milk
per cent
The quan
per cent
cheese
cheese |
Grain
and
only the
engaged
CONBNE
of the mer-
1ills in the
$263 .-
¢
total
per total cost
Woman Burned To Death,
Columbia, 8. C., (Special).
Rose, the girl
tan,” a freak which has
Wild
monkey from Yuca-
been on ex-
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic.
The Pennsylvania Railroad
pany in an official report of the in-
vestigation of the aceident to the
Chicago special near Johnstown, Pa.,
says the only tangible evidence of
the cause found was the broken brake
hanger
James McClure, aged
clerk and treasurer of the Pennsyl-
vania Rafllroad auxiliary lines, died
of heart disease in the West Walnut
Street Presbyterian Church, Phila
delphia, during service
Fire partly destroved the
House, at Middletown, N. Y.,
guests had narrow escapes
firemen had their hands
frozen and two others were
falling walls.
Thrilling stories of Black Hand
plots to murder enemies of that
ciety were told in court at the
beas corpus hearings granted to 14
of the 25 men arrested in Wilkes-
Barre, Pa
Union Station, at Sumter, 8. C.,
was destroyed by fire while both fire
companies were at the funeral of
Chief Graham, who was killed by
falling walls at a fire on Friday
Grover Cleveland delivered an ad-
dress in Chicago, attacking extrava-
gance and crimes in high places, and
Com
R
67, chief
Hussell
apd the
Several
and faces
hurt by
BO
and honesty of the davs of
ton
T. Curley,
D. Saunders, who
pointed judge of the
New Orleans, died
Mrs. Cora Stebbins
years, is unde:
dan, Mich., charged
her husband
The University
conferred the degree
laws on Dr. Howard A
The feet of a man
were found in a box
a New York tenement
Harry Pratt Judson, acting i
dent of the University of Chicago
elected president of that
to succeed William R
eased
The general tribal
eida Indians
partner of E
recently was ap
federal district
of pneumonia
Courter,
at
law gent
at
24 Sheri
arrest
with
of
of doctor of
Kells
and a
in the
woman
vard of
council of
On decided to
100 000
the
State
they from
the
them
and
due
government
Ray
i
}
vacht Adaline,
Layton, caught
explosion near
Layton was
was de
The of
New
auxiliary
York, Captain
fire from gasoline
Key West, Fla Mrs
slightly burned The
stroved
Mrs
1 by
“
ast
yeast
Fannie Rice Bassett, exhaust-
the ordeal on the witness stand
the trial of her suit for
Omaha and fell
on the
frainmen
£ix days, in
Ivor at collapsed
a faint
i
rom
o
tand
were killed and
betwe
train
road ne
re injured in a collision
OXDIess
Michigan Cent:
Mich
The Nebraska legislature has
the two ond fare
similar ITes are
hed th Minnesota
Indiana legi
Mrs. Lottie
the coroner's
thers
train and an ice
the al Rail
Ypsilanti
Pas
cent rail
meas
the
iatures
Wallau was
jury in New
soning hes
ested and gave bail
McDonald, wife
shot and
the
being
and
neh
gh
released
York
moth
Oy
Of
Mrs. Flora
millionaire
Fisher. who
Art
Rockaway
nanaged
in Chicago
Rolling Mill, the
town of Roek-
fire
widely
Louis
Compan
The
of the
N. J., was destroyed by
Dr. A. R. Alley, aged 63, &
known Confederate veteran,
Atlanta, Ga
in the divorce
ter was offered in which the Rev. E
Lawrence Hunt wrote to
that he intended to ask Mrs. Bassett
to marry him when she was free from
her husband
jassett case a let
a
foreign.
Zelaya, Nicaragua,
cables that Nicaragua has triumphed
four fights with the Honduras
forces, and his troops now occup
points in Honduran territor
Emperor Willlam gave audience
president of the Reichstag,
whom he expressed hig high satisfae-
n over the result of the
resident of
to
the
was burned
She was 45
died
and
by
left
so badly that she
years old, ignorant
idiotic, making her wants known
imarticulate sounds She was
alone, locked up in a room A dog's
frantic yells attracted attention to
the fire
Panic In A Church.
Chicago More than a
dozen women and children were in-
Jured, several of them seriously, in
a fire gcare in an Italian church here.
Two hundred persons became fright-
ened by escaping vapor from a radia-
tor, and rushed from the building
Most of the injured were trampled
OR or cut by glass from window
which was demolished.
{ Special)
a
Peacemaker Killed,
Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Mrs.
J. Oscar Richardson, wife of a sta-
tionary engineer, rushed between her
son and husband to save the son's
life at Rosedale, Kan., and was stab-
bed to the heart by the husband.
The family quarreled, when the son
took the mother’s part Richardson
attacked the son with a k.ife.
Theater Burned,
Altoona, Pa. (Special) .--The Lyric
Theater, conducted as Keith's vaude-
ville house, was destroyed by fire.
The fire is supposed to have been
caused by crossed electric wires on
the stage. The house was opened
last November. The loss is about
$60,000. Ex-Congressman J. D,
Hicks and D. J. Neff, whose law of-
fices were in the building, lost $10,
000 on their office furgiture and law
Hbrary. Several othei occupants of
the building lost heavily. The insur
ance Is only partial.
Five thousand families of Euro-
pean immigrants will locate in the
State of Nuevo Leon, Mex., as part
of a gigantic colonization scheme.
Jabez Bunting Snowball, lHeuten
governor of New Jrunswick,
dropped dead while on his way to at
tend service in the cathedral.
The Nicaraguan authorities claim
that after a hard fight many Hondu-
rang were Killed and wounded, the
Nicaraguans occupied San Bernardo
is reported that Salvador has been
aiding Honduras.
The postoffice in Warsaw, Poland,
was raided by terrorists, who killed
the postmaster, two postal clerks and
two soldiers and wounded a number
of bystanders.
The total number of members
elected to the new Russian pariia-
ment to date is 410, the results
promising a stormier session than
that of last year.
The British army estimates pro-
vide for the expenditure during
1507-8 of $138,800,000, a reduction
of about $10,000,000 compared with
last year.
A fall in prices in the Toklo stock
market is atiributed to a halt In the
speculative movement which was the
outcome of the war.
A correspondent who traveled
through three of the famine pro-
vinces of Russia gives a dark picture
of the conditions.
Ferreira, leader of the rald from
German Southwest Africa, and four
of hig followers were sentenced to
death.
Returns from the Russian elec
tions show a strong drift to the op-
ponents of the government's re-
form plans.
According to the representatives
at Washington of Mexico and Nica-
ragua, neither Hondufas nor Nica-
ragua declared war against the other,
In a fight between anarchists and
policemen in Baku, Trans-Caucasia,
there were casualties on both sides.
The foreign minister of Japan is
preparing a statement of the govern-
ment’s position on the San Francisco
school question.
mo
FORTY PERISH
Steamer Berlin Wrecked Off Hook
of Holland.
THE SEAS BREAK SHIP IN TWO.
The Wrecked Ship the Rotterdam Mail
Liner From Liverpool In a Frightful
Storm She Strikes a Sandbar ¢ ff the
Holland Coast Mountainous Waves
Prevent the Launching of Boats.
HUNDRED
A NORTH SEA HORROR
Of the
Captain Pa
Belfast, h
Known, the only sur
The Berl
steamer :
built
to
umimer
Captain Preci
der, had
company’
Nine
nan opera
closed an engag
had booked pas
and
board
Among those
Arthur Her {
foreign
board
Of
145 persons on
kinson, a mariner,
eland, is, son fai
vivor
in was a British
Hh fot |
tons
in 1864
known North Sea
{
Liles
neen
gery
men
compa
een
1!
©] ie) Wey
when
ihe
who per
bearer of imp
Russi
courts
The
diamond m
worth n
the ar
London
disaster
of the
ished ar
wreck
The ter
with
all efforts
been utter
i fie CRs broke
such awful
tO SEV
hopel
late hour
few
the
11 Ro
Ml Gay
SUrvivors
wreck. but
Ong
falled to reach ther
had m
the be aved remalr
that will
The Company's Advices.
The tory of
with dramati
f
OWing ¢ «3
aching Ha
Eastern Rallwa
of Hand The
handed
and
riin
Her
egnant
from the
*
fie Great
at Hook Hi
Rage
WAS the
MM
e He
in at Hook
’
'an a 10 OW
rt
:
7.30 and sald
The position of the
dangerous The heavy gale
§ We have tried to take
sengers with tugboats and i
but without ip to the
Berlin |
con-
f
{foe
¥
DOaLsE, CC EP5
The third
the Hook
wich at 8.40
was timed at
reached Har-
“The Berlin
Message
E22 and
at 7.52
It said
loss Her
Life-boats
save the pas
Crew
and
sen
total
board
trying
prove a
i
on
tURs
ge ra
The fourth message came through
London office of the railway
It was timed at the Hook
and It is impossi
reach Berlin to save the
passengers will do the best we
i
The of the zhip iz ander
are fo
8.10 said
the
We
poGp
at
to
water
A Total loss,
Then, at 10
last messeage:
tal with all
sengers. Nobody has been saved.”
No cause yet has been assigned
for the terrible accident, and it pro-
bably never will be known how the
steamer came to miss the channel,
which, although 300 vards wide and
well bouyed and lighted, is always
difficult of access in rough weather
It is
ment of the engines or steering gear
may have rendered the vessel un-
controllable, Captain Precious, of
the Berlin, had a good record of 14
years' service The list of passen-
gers on the fated steamer was lost,
and all the names of those who were
on board have not yet been learned,
but as far as has been as certained
there were no Americans among the
passengers.
36. the fifth and
Berlin is a to-
her crew and pas
Came
The
loss,
Prince Leads Life Savers,
Hook of Holland (By Cable).
After 20 hours of agony on the after
part of the wrecked steamer Berlin,
11 partly frozen and oxhausted sur-
vivors of the terrible disaster were
brought ashore by the heroic Dutch
life-saving men, who, encouraged by
Prince Henry, consort of Queen Wil-
helmina, had repeatedly risked their
lives in the raging, ley seas to res-
cue the few remaining of the 143
passengers and crew of the ill-fated
ship.
Earthquake Felt At Sea,
Astoria, Ore. (Special). Captain
MeCaron, of the the schooner Mel-
rose, which arrived from San Pedro,
reports that on February 3, while
off 8an Francisco, about 50 miles, a
severe earthquake was experienced
at 10.30 o'clock in the morning,
which lasted for several minutes. No
damage of any consequence resulted.
A half hour later there was another
lesser shock.
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told
Acireed To.
tion 1!
pi
Naval Bil
N Appropria
$100 WF Wis
Je Minutes
pill Cal
ed by
Ail the
agreed
Committe amendment Were
to
The only amendment
the fle
to the item
$1
orfolk
wlopted dur
added $2050
and tran
ing ration
a
con
for coal
sU. a6a for a pOwed
d
1}
Ya
ticed at
doubled
asked |f
Of 10 11
the Pre
it or
the
Jamestow
that
Ide in the habit of doing
rtheon t
ing Exposition at
Hale replied |
the expen of the na for am
munition in in 3! s Were
He believe that
Of
Hueco
large did not any
fund
Of the
siderable amount the
int
ithough 1}
be sed on
position, # he
LXpOsition
ing
1 into
than an
How
nator Stond
ied 10
length
nanu
con
A ral
sia
Qrgon
egiden
izations
House Lafol-
rather
that
nbstit
and that
i legislation at all
il
bil
no than
The President
of
House b
“ d
{
Ferry Signals During Fogs.
¢
fis
Bald g
HOGing
Important Bill Agree
Aft a conferences 3
th the ante
Upon
id Senate on
Executive
reed On A m
This
ial and have
AFUE carrying
1,450,000
when pass
Goon
in the
Hou
Di
Congress And The Departments.
Eulogies I tt
House on
entatives
The Washington meeting
American Tract Socicty was
First Congregational Ci}
The
Biate
Were red in h
He pre
Ketch
S86natos
Adams
the
held in
irch
House
and
passed
Committee on Inter-
favor-
nd bill,
it to ap- |!
ire into |
of all |
labor
Commerce
the Town
the Preside
sion to ing
the cause
capital ad
interstate com nerce
Foreign
upon
point a
make
between
affect
Senate
commi
public
The referred to the Com- |
the Dubols reso- |
directing that committee to
titutional amendment
gamy in the United
draft a con
The agreed to the confer-
on the Omnibus Light-
The Benate has already
report, and the bill
will now go to the President for his
House
DOT
house Bil
the
The President signed the Diplo-
and Consular Appropriation
Bill, the first of the regular supply
measures to be acted on by Congress.
The Military Academy Appropria-
tion Bill was reported to the Senate
It carries a total appropriation of
$1,947,383.
The House as in committee of the
whole passed 260 Senate private
pension bills at the rate 12 a
minute
Eli Smith, the Alaskan mall-car
rier, who has ben making a trip from
Nome, Alaska, to Washington, ar-
rived with his team of seven Eskimo
dogs and his sled on wheels. He
drove to the White House.
The Postofice Appropriation Bill
passed the House and all the salaries
of the postal employes that were
ruled out on points of order were
restored
The Naval Appropriation Bill, car-
rying $100,727,807, was passed by
the Senate. All the commitiee
amendments were agreed to.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations agreed to report favorably
the new treaty with Santo Domingo.
The Postoffice Depariment has
passed an order that post cards orna-
mented with mica or glass must be
in envelopes to secure transmission
in the mails,
Binger Hermann's counsel asked
the court to diemiss the case against
him because of the variance between
the indictment and the evidence.
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese am-
bassador, bad a talk with Secretary
Root anent the proposition to ex-
i
i
!
i
i
of
clude coolies,
SENATE STANDS
BY REED SMOOT
Majority of Fourteen For the Mor-
mon Apostle.
WOMEN OF COUNTRY DISAPPOINTED
Republicans, as a Rule, Stood by the
Senator From Utah and Voted in
Favor of His Retention of His Seat
Mr. Smoot H's Displayed Great
Tact and Diplomacy.
HISTORY OF SMOOT CASE
Reed
of the
elected 1p
Smoot, Republican; apos
Mormon Church
] Btates Benator
from Utah Janua ] 1903
took hi eat March 5H,
term expires March
Hear Senate
Privi
tle
1
iil
1 S02
190%
Committee
Elections began
ings hy
aon
January 14
Charge
or 3
eRe ana
1904
Tho t
That he
an organizat
ion hostii
rovernment
nanced
ath
oath
Wers
themselve in corridors
were free to expres
which did
Tact And Diplomacy.
oot, If m
they
With
Mr. Sn 181 said
with the tact ar
has helped him
tory Had
YEeRrs
SPECIAL WRECKED,
All Are
seriously.
Pa
people were
Penn
s«thound
the
Mineral
On Board Injured, Many
Johnstown {Specialy Over
fifty
when
No. 29,
ViVaniIa
we
left
from here
No one was killed
the passengers |
The three rear sles
over an embankment
maugh River
The track i= torn up for a distance
of 500 feet Conductor McFord, who
was in charge of the train, re
ported to have been unhurt No
names of the injured are obtainable
The curve one of the worst on
the Mne and is dreaded by trainmen.
The cause of the wreck is as vet un-
but it is said the speed of
was too great in rounding
is
is
the train
the curve
Train No. 29 is the 1
limited between New York
cago. It left New York
M., and when it pulled out of
toona for Pittsburg was more
an hour behind schedule time
the accident happened the train. it is
sald, was running at terrific speed
On leaving the rails the train tore
down all telegraph and telephone
poles for a distance of 500 feel, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad itself. in
order to get information, was oblig-
ed to send yardmen from Johnstown
with a yard engine.
hour special
and Chi-
P.
Al-
than
When
5 re
at $5.00
To Probe Express Cos,
Washington (8pecial).-—Represen-
tative Kennedy, of Nebraska, appear-
ed before the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce in
support of his resolution for an in-
vestigation of express companies by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Mr. Kennedy appeared at the request
of the Western Fruit Jobbers' Asso-
elaticn, which charges that the
Adams, American, United Statés, Pa-
cific and Wells-Fargo Express Come
panies are unlawfully organizing
BANDS PLAN WINS OUT
French Chamber of Deputies
Indorses It.
The Minisic;
the chair
Paris (By Cable).
President in
nanimously approved the agreement
Education Minister Briand
Clemenceau
leases of 1he
the priestg, and
mier supported M. Briand's
tion before the Chamber of
which by a vote of
dorsed the government's
M. Meunier, Radical
the opening of the
+ existence of a conspiracy 10 ove
the He sald
the digappointment of all
“E30
give sat}
.
Tallieres
between
Premier relative to
form of the
and
the
to
churches
the Pr “
doclara
Deputies
10 8% in
policy
Republican
parish
SR0
5
debate denied
ministry fe
Hs
fact that the
at the
hud meen fit to
faction 10 the bishop's it
Continuing
opposed
Catholic
Iracts
tum
aid a+
a | ognition
ima
M Meunier
10 ans
hierarchy, and
M. Clemences
writing during
i LO how that
had been
Ivocated b
: Premier
51
opp
£1
Bri
now fathers
ov]
al
Opposes Conciliation,
COT 11104
Liberty
STEAMER SUNK BY CRUISER
Accident In The Mississippi River At
New Orleans,
ort
and ities
and
Mich
York
Pan
tonnage w
Wyandotte
Now
by the
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD,
Harri
Oye
he
castiag its
One
60.000 shares «
work
Speculators
J. P. Morgan
stock market
Philadelphia bond
fairly good sales of
nia Railroad notes
Wage increases of the big Ws
roads will mean an extra outla
year of $20,000,000,
Wild tales of a possible wa
Japan were again used hy bear trad
ers for the purpose of breaking down
prices
coming man op
shadow
apitalist
§
generally
5 5
is still
3
hous!
Po
{hae
Pig iron at Pittsburg has deelin-
od $1.60 a ton In a month.
Wabash preferred on the sale of
S00 shares tumbled from 22% to
29%. Gould stocks generally lack
anything that looks like support.
A despatch from Chicago saye the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies contemplate a general ad-
vance in ordinary messages of &
cents,
Pressed Steel Car's annual report
for 1906 shows gross sales of $36.-
168,686, ard net profits of $3,281,
884. The latter compares with net
profits of $1.106,801 in 1006.