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Chicago Wttlher Today Fair: showers on Monday. The Only Repub 'ian, Newspaper in Chicago. VOLUME XXXVI. NO. 280.

CHICAGO, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1907. EIGIIT PARTS. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WORLD'S LARGEST CLOTHIERS great reductions on all broken lines of fine holiday goods have made this sale a signal success men's clothing formerly odds and sale price marmot, men's x-ti Ly aft '19 men's made of pure wool lined with button newest men's of pure plain nobby cut in box, length all odds and price men's lined with ing for $55 sale price wool two-tone shades, Christmas at $5 and $6 odds and ends sale price men's fine trousers, made of neat striped and checked worsteds and all-wool fancy tweeds, cut in regular and peg top styles, perfectly tailored, sold for $4 and $4.50 before Christinas odds and ends sale price j7.s KJiJ men's silk lined tuxedo suits, made of strictly all-wool black thibets, lined with pure dye silk, faxed with heavy gros grain silk coats cut In latest style, trousers made in fashionable semi-pegtop style regular sizes 34 to 44. stout sizes 37 to 44.

lone ends sale price youths' and boys' little- fellows Russian and suits, 2 to 10 years, all nicely Jots that sold at $4.59 and now sl little fellows Russian overcoats, years, nicely trimmed, small lots that sold at $4.50, now. boys' knickerbocker suits, .7 coat with or without belt, actual $5 and $6 values, now selling boys' knee pants suits. 7 to dependable cheviots, in neat dark suits that actually sold for $3, selling at. sailor to 16 youths business suits, single or double breasted, 14 to 20 years, nicely tailored, sold all season at $8 and $8.50, small lots of Qf broken lines, now selling at aOe youths' overcoats, 15 to 20 years, in black or oxford friezes, cut long and full, our $8 and lines, now girls' and misses' coats, 10 to 16 years, a few broken lines of very fine garments, man tai lored, and sold all season at $15, $18 and $20, now youths' boys' furnishings headwear youths' and boys' sweater jackets, 26 to 34 sizes, broken lots, from lines worth $1.50, now $1 youths and hoys' gloves, odds and ends from 75c and 50c lines, now selling at 39c youths and boys' underwear, broken sizes from regular 50c lines, now selling '2 ATI" JZTS boys and girls fleece lined stockings, fine and heavy ribbed Black Cat brand, regular 25c lines, now selling at JL 3 hats, caps and leather men's up-to-date soft and stiff hat, values up to ends price "uv all-wool cloth caps, worth up to $1, now selling 1A Baltic seal fur caps, Detroit I -U il. ssv reg.

$3 7 JL 7 men's and women's silk umbrellas, $5 and '6 Cr OE grades, now JJOaS'O shoes at saving prices men's patent colt shoes, JjIu-; and button styles leather lined box calf shoesr.bIucher style also velour calf shoes in lace, button and blucher styles these are all the latest and most up-to- date models, freak, swagger, potay and pick toes, broken lots from our regular $3.50 lines C1 CC odds and ends sale-V 0" special sale of haberdashery- fancy suspenders, $1 and $1.50 grades, in a box, odds and ends sale if Ap wa si fancy hose, imported fancy 1 isles, all 50c lines, odds fa? and ends sale Auv 8TATB JACK80N O.UINCY reduced fine hand-made suits, fancy brown mixed worsteds, cassi meres and Scotch tweeds, worsted serges, hand-made holes, hand-felled collars, cut in and snappiest styles worth and sold bv us at $15 and $16 K1IU $9.75 ends stylish overcoats, made wool silver gray and oxford kerseys, black and gray vicunas and brown mixtures, with inlaid collars, Chesterfield and extreme long styles worth and have been selling season at $18.00 and $20.00 ends sale CfV JJ JL J33 fine fur-lined overcoats, high grade muskrat and French garments that have been sell uctu sen- $39 odds and ends smokine jackets, made of all- fabrics, in wine, blue and green sizes 34 to 37 only telling before $2.50 sizes 35 to 40 odds and $15 clothing- (Second 'floor) blouse tailored, small $3.50 3 to 9 $2.95 16 years, $3.50 of colors, $2 small lots from $5.75 $10 (Second floor) boys' flannelette night robes, 4 to 15 years, broken sizes from 50c lines, now selling $39C youths and boys' silk mufflers and reefers, broken lines from regular- $1.50 grades, youths' and boys' caps, strictly all wool, regular $1 grades, now celling youths' and boys' fur in-, band and slide band caps, regular 75c lines, now selling at 39c goods- 'men's and women's yarn dyed taffeta silk um- JJ? brellas, $4 qualities, ijy MimJO men's and women's piece dyed taffeta silk umbrellas, $2.50 -genuine cowhide leather suit cases, $5 values "2 odds and ends, iJJ keratol suit cases, $3.50 value, now selling. $1275 at ladies' patent colt, vici kid: and dull calf shoes, lace, blucher burton, all styles and all lasts, broken from our $2.50 and $3 lines, mostly small sizes odds and ends sale CC JL Uu misses and children's patent colt and vici kid shoes, lace, blucher and button styles, broken from our regular $2.50 lines "I A EZ odds and ends price ajj JL s4u silk mufflers, black and white colors, regular $1 and $1.50 lines, odds and ends sale ff- all our 20c, l25c and 35c fancy handkerchiefs, odds 4 and ends sale price JL JL fw neckwear, four-in-hands and bat wines, all colors and patterns, regular 50c values, odds and ends sale CAMBRIA STEEL CO. REOPENS ITS PLANTr 4,000 MEI1 EMPLOYED Announcement Is Made That Big Mills at Johnstown, Re- sume Similar Action Taken at Union Switch and Signal Works. U. S.

STEEL CORPORATION TO FURTHER CURTAIL OUTPUT Financial Conditions Are Made Easier by Currency Movement Stocks Shrink More Than in the Last Year. v. Special Dbimtch to Intar Ocaaa. -NEW YORK. Dec.

28. There were ev-eral developments In the financial and Industrial situation, today which gave encouragement to the financial world. Chief among these was tbs aanouneement from Pittsburg that the Union Switch ani 8Ignal plant, which had closed Dec. 20. with plans to reopen Jan.

20, would reopen Jan. 2 on account of Important orders received. Another was that the Cambria Steel company's plant at Johnstown, one of the largest independent plants in the country, would reopen Jan. 2, and that 4,000 men would receive employment. These developments led bankers to believe that there is a tendency to return to more normal Industrial conditions.

-Calte State Steel Cwrtall Owtpat. Notwithstanding this favorable news, some discouraging reports were received. Among these the announcement that there will be further retrenchment by the United States Steel company, and that the present greatly reduced working capacity will still fee cut, bringing operations down to approximately 25 per cent of maximum. Bankers generally today expressed themselves in a more optimistic mood regarding the money situation than at any time since the panic. Supporting their belief that mosey conditions would gradually right themselves after the first year they pointed to various signs indicating a loosening up aof funds by the interior, as well as local developments calculated to Inspire confidence in the banking position.

Western Bamloera Seael amcy. One of the most significant features today was the large offerings of currency by Western backs to local dealers. Although the premium was still maintained at per cent, the demand was extremely limited and the bids for currency for next week's de-' livery were reduced to one-quarter ot par cent. Besides these offerings of currency by interior Institutions, some of the backs reported a heavy Increase in individual cash deposits as having been made within the last three days. One institution, for example, took in $800,000 cash from its depositors Immediately following Christmas, and another reported cash deposits from individuals of These developments were regarded as unmistakable signs that the hoarding process bad about come to an end and that the vast sums of capital now withdrawn from general use would soon find their way back to the regular market channels.

It also was learned that the New York banks had made a reduction of tll.OOO.OOO In the amount of clearing house certificates outstanding, and though the aggregate amount still Issued could not be definitely learned, it was reported that the figures stood around $60,000,000, of which approximately $21,000,000 represents advances made to the trust companies during their period of embarrassment. Secretary Cortelyou, It Is understood, baa- already sent out word to some of the banks requesting a return of public deposits to the treasury, and positive Information came from Washington that he would Issue a general call next month, withdrawing government funds, but it is known that he will do this In such a manner as not to inconvenience the 'banks more than to a minimum amount. Short terms notes of railroad and other corporations aggregating approximately $50,000,000 will have to be refunded during the first quarter of next year, and it Is probable that the city of New York will by the termination ot that period be In the market for another $50,000,000 loan. Holders of Consolidated Steamahlp 4 per cent trust bonds anticipating default In the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Summary of tte Day AUTOMOBILE. With tala Isaac a eelal aatasaablla holiday ealtloa at fowrteea waves.

Page. 1 Flaaaelsl sltaatlea. Mlealaraa llalaac ww far Caaaoa. Grief eaasea sasker's aalelde. Craae scares lack at charity.

Weds despite weaaa's threats. Clayton death stin Mystery -8 Rich straasrer raxes la cell. Flood la Gasre park. A ''Ship aaharc with pair at saakrapts. Ideatlfy- New Jersey aaardev victims.

Heat riots la New York. Yates la GaTeraorshIp flarht. Caaal flajht apeaa toasarraw. Editorial. Soath America to rect fleet.

plat ta sret waaaaa'a hasna eharared. Kewa af. the railroads. Basalts hold ap statloa aarcat. Sees aroad la raise af fleet.

Review af aalsrtaa; ssarket. 13 SrcrBda! Ooveraor scored. Great Jetties af tha Mississippi. iportixo. 1 Warlike baseball talk waace.

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of the sralf arrcca. Samall haats arc yapalar. teacss play taday, 4 Review af the terf seasea. Clark's haraess harse letter. Woodlsa wlas Plssters stakes.

MAGAZ1SES. This paper Is laeaatplete wlthaat the sjeaeral ssagaslae af ela-ht paves, pasie wesaaa's seetlea, fear pastes af ealered eossles, svad cable aad classified parts. MICHIGAN LINING UP FOR CANNON; KANSAS DECLARES FOR TAFT THE NATIONAL COSTUMEo Joe" Tries It On and It Seems to Fit. BOY'S THEFTS LEAD TO FATHER'S SUICIDE Ira Hoops, Wealthy Kokomo (Ind.) Attorney, Ends Life Because of Grief Over Robberies of Son, a Former Lake Forest Student. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean.

KOKOMO. Dee. 28. Broken hearted over the misdeeds of bis aon. a former student at Lake Forest university, who waa arrested for robbing homes at Evanston, Ira Hoopa, a wealthy attorney ot this city, committed suicide today by shooting.

Hoops entered the parlor of bis bome, lay down before the grate, and fired a bullet into his head His wife, who was la another part of the, house, heard the report, rushed Into the room, and found the lifeless body with a revolver beside It. In one of the pockets of the coat waa found a note asking that no inquest be. held, and that the body be not embalmed. Soa Presafaeat Socially. The aon whose misdoings caused the attorney to become despondent was Richard Hoops.

At the time of his arresfthe boy waa a sophomore, a member of a fraternity, and was prominent socially In Lake Forest. Several homes in the college town had been robbed, but it was not until he was arrested In Evanston that suspicion' was directed toward young' Hoops. His room in the fraternity house waa searched and a valuable assortment of gems The student then broke down and confessed his guilt. "I always wanted artistic things." he said. -t passed the homes of Mr.

Cbatfield-Taylor and Robert McOann, and when I saw the beautiful things my heart went out with a longing for them." Boy Atteaapte ta Rah. The boy admitted his attempts to rob both homes, but his connection with a $10,000 Jewelry robbery at the McOann residence was not established. The father, who had always supplied the boy plentifully with money, went to Evanston and succeeded la securing his son's release on the plea that he had from a bicycle and injured hi bead, and consequently was not la his right mind when he committed the robberies. MOTHER RESCUES CHILDREN FROM CHRISTMAS TREE FIRE Draperies Catch Ffre at Pest-Celebra tlea, Esdasseriag the Lives of Frar Girls. Four children.

Myrtle, IS years old: Grace. I years old; Hasel, years old, and Dorothy, years old, were resueed by their mother, MraLouIs-K. Kruse, from the first Christmas tree fire of the at their home, J7S8 Halsted street, last night during a post-Chrlstmaa celebration at which their Christmas tree waa relighted and gifts were distributed. i Following the celebration the four children were left for a short time by their mother, who owaa alarmed suddenly by the screams of Dorothy. Rushing into the room where the children had been playing around the lighted tree she found the curtains and draperies near the tree In flames.

The youngest child wss screaming with fear, while the oldest two were making frantic efforts to extinguish the flames with articles 'of wearing appareL Ex-Secretary Shaw in Letter Says Best Man Must Win, as Geographical Lines Don't Count. Follawlasr dealal by. Caaarressaiaa Ferdaey af Mlehlaraa that he Is Taft ass, state besrlas ta fall la llae far VSIBSS. Kaasas Repablleaas laderae Taft. Fsratr Secretary Leslie at.

Shaw la letter ta lewaas fosters ewa beoaa la-directly' by asaertlaa; that best saaa. sheald be picked Irrespective af state baaadarles. First Asslstaat Postmaster Gtacral Hlteheaek is said ta be oa pel at af re-sisTwlwsT to watch Taft baaaa la Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. SAGINAW. Dec.

28. "My first choice for President is Speaker Cannon. He stands for the sound policies of the Republican party that have ever spelled prosperity, and it (Continued on Page 4, Column LOVE SUIT DEFENDANT WEDS DESPITE THREAT J. T. Noake Ignores Sis-ter-in-Lavv to Make Girl of 19 His Bride- With a breach of promise suit for $10,000 filed in the Munieipal court in the morning by hla sister-in-law, Mrs.

Maude A. for a wedding present; with a threat of a visit from the woman who alleges that she has beea Jilted to bear him up through the ceremony, and with two policemen from the Woodlawn atatioa as wedding guests, John T. Noake ot the American Varnish company was married at :30 o'clock last night to Miss Jeanne Wallace. The wedding took place behind drawn blinds and with prodigious attempts at se-orecy at the homo ot the bride, 6241 Drexel avenue It was to have been an elaborate affair, and many invitationa were out, but they were recalled at the last minute and two policemen patrolled the paTement In front of the bouse to turn back any guesta who might come without an invitation. Mrs.

Noake had threatened to come and put a stop to the proceedings. Plalatlf Says She Has 400 Letters'. The plaintiff to the suit, who says that Noake wooed her shortly after the death of her husband, who was his brother, knew nothing of tbe intended marriage until recently. When she learned ot It ahe said that ahe would put a atop to it, and expected to be able to do so on the strength of 400 let- CRANE SCORES FIELD MUSEUM; RICH TOLD HOW TO GIVE Wealthy Chicagoan Declares Too Much Money Is Donated to Sci- ence and Not Enough for the Re lief of the Deserving Poor. ADVISES MILLIONAIRES TO STUDY DONATION WORK Assails Pacific Island Expedition as Extravagant Folly in Address at Opening of Day Nursery, in Which He Explains Views.

Richard T. Crane, millionaire and philanthropist; In an address yesterday at the dedication of the Mary-Crane day nursery arraigned the Field Columbian museum as an Institution which had diverted a vast sum from the work of saving manhood acd womanhood in Chicago in order that the curious might gase upon curios and specimens from the Pacific Islands. Mr. Crane's address wss several thousand words in kLgth, and what he said about the museum was only a of the advice he gave Chicago's millionaires relative to their work of "restitution" to the poor for the good things of life of which they had been de prived by the piling up of the "swollen fortunes" now so common. Tells af l'aelfle Trip.

"I wss asked recently to contribute $30,000 for an expedition to the Pacific ialands to collect specimens for the Field museum," said the millionaire in his nursery speech. "I refused, but some one must have furnished the money, for the expedition is to be made. In the evening, before tbe Ethical congress at the Fine Arts building, Mr. Crane fixed upon $5,000,000 as a sum which could he acquired honestly by a man in a life time. "But I have also noticed, and with surprise snd regret, that the Juvenile Protective league has to struggle day in and day out to scrspe together a paltry or $1,000 a year to enable it to keep minors out of saloons and to- prevent saloon-keepers from further debauching and degrading habitual drunkards.

"For the saving of manhood and womanhood, for the savior socla. a hard-wrung dollar here and there! "For the gathering; of curios and anthropological specimens, thousands of dollars, Jusl for ths asking! "Mark the These were- of his address. The Mary Crane uay nursery was equipped by Mr. Crass and his children as a memorial to Mr, Crane's first It is to be re rated by the Chicago Relief and Aid society, in connection with Hull house, which is In the same block. The nursery is on Ewing street.

Dear Halsted, and will accommodate seventy-five children. It has. also a diet kitchen, where diets suitsble for the sick and convalescing will be prepared, and from which they will be distributed to different parts of the city. There are other featurea intended to teach mothers left widows in the rudiments of work from which they may earn their living and aupport their families. Address hy Craae.

Mr. Crane's address was In part aa follows: "I am glad of the opportunity this occasion gives me to speak plainly ot things that I have long had in mind things that very deeply concern the welfare of the whole body of society, from the lowest snd poorest to the highest and richest. "I do not consider that there 1MT a proper realisation of the relations that should exist between tbe rich and strong and the -poor and weak. Is too much of a display of effort to bring these different elements ot our social -fabric tog-ether at the top: not nearly enough of real effort to make them touch at the bottom. "1 have always held strongly to the position that the duty of society in general, and of the rich and strong In particular, toward the weak, the poor, and the criminal, should be thst of stewardship in its highest and broadest sense.

"It is pre-eminently the duty of every rich man and rich woman In thla country to ex. pend their surplus wealth largely In Improving the conditions under which the poor, tbe unfortunate, the degraded, and the criminal classes Hto. "Enlightened self-interest would point to this course, even where charity failed to do For If the poor are left in neglect, if criminals are allowed to thrive, there Is growing up from below a force that even- (Continued on Page J. Column .) Mrs. Jeaaae Wallace ters which she alleges he wrote to her, and which were couched in unmistakable terms.

But she did not put In an appearance, although she says she wrote to the Rev. William A. Quayle of St. James' Methodist (Continued on Page 2, Column CLAYTON GIRL SLAIN IS THEORY HELD BY POLICE Sheriff at Janesvllle, Delleves Chicago Woman Was Murdered, Body Thrown Into Sewer Mac-hole, and Washed Into Rock -River. LUNGS ARE FOUND FREE FROM WATER Stomach Will Be Examined To day tor Traces of Poison on Accouit ol Statement Mad by Husband That She Hast Been Despondent aad at One Time Had Attempted ta Take Her Life.

Mrs. Msdalyn Odell. Clayton of Chicago, whose mutilated body was found In Rock river at Janesrille, Friday, was murdered, according to the authorities of tha Wisconsin city, who spent several hours yesterday cross-examining the husband and mother of' the dead woman. The developments in the case which Jed to the adoption of the murder theory are aa follows: Sheriff Fisher of Rock county dtclsres that after thorough investigation he is certain the woman's body was not thrown Into tha river, but wss dumped into a manhole and washed through an eighteen inch eewcr to the place where it was found. Autopsy by physicists oiscloses to water in lungs, proving that woman -was sot drowned.

Coroner's inquest ordered for tomorrow morning, at which husband and mother will' be chief witnesses. Stomach to be examined today for traces of poison. Husband 'tells police wife had been hysterical, had attempted to commit suicide oa one occasion by taking carbolic acid, and had spoken of taking her own life. Huscsnd tells police nothing of rumor actor bad to ctty. Family denies report tbat a legacy awaited Mrs.

Clayton, as they aaid, when she disappeared, in advertisements for her return. Mother of girl returns to Chicsgo sfter telling police of life of daughter, but will return to Janesvllle for Inquest. Husband remains at Janesrille, and reported to be under police surveillance. Believes Sewer Held Body, Sheriff Fisher's startling theory is that Mrs. Clayton's body had not been in the spot where it was found more than a week, and that between the day of tbe woman's disappearance sJd the time her body was washed into tbe river it was contained in the sewer.

This sewer connects with the river lesa than ten feet, from where Mrs. Clayton's body was found There Is a manhole ot the sewer within fifty feet of the building in which Clayton's offices are located. The aewer ia ahown by tbe records of tha street cleaning, dep'artment to have been flushed a week ago, and Sheriff Fisher declares that it was at this time that the body was dislodged from the wbere.lt bad formerly been held and washed to the place wnere it was touna. Wstfr Is Ls. 1 The autopsy performed yesterday at Janesvllle showed tbat there was no water in tha dead woman's lungs, indicating that ahe was dead or unconscious when placed in tbe river.

Muskrata had eaten so much of the neck that had there been evidences of strangulation they would have been de-. stroyed. Th thtrr st first sAvsneA tlist Ur. Clayton had committed suicide was partially discredited by the fact that her body was-found In less than three feet of water, and that nowhere near by was the water deep enough for a peraon to drown under ordinary conditions. The statements of Frederick Clayton, hus band ot the dead, woman, and Mrs.

May Mc- Kay, her mother, increased the mystery. Clayton arrived ia Janesvllle yesterday afternoon and was cross-examined for several hours by District Attorney J. L. Chief ot Police Appleby, and Sheriff J. U.

Fisher. He and Mrs. McKay were examined together, and, after they left the police office, the woman returned to Chicago. Clayton remained in Janesvllle, where he Is said to be under police surveillance. Tell aC Salclee Attempt.

Both Mrs. McKay and Clayton declared Mrs. Clayton had at different times been despondent and spoken of suicide." Clayton said, further, that a year ago his wife had attempted aulctde by swallowing a quantity of carbolic acid and that ber life bad been aaved only with great difficulty. It ia because of this statement that an examination of Mrs. Clayton's stomach has been decided upon.

Clayton told the police his wife's pUrse wss missing and that it should have, contained between $10 and $25. He described it as a bead purse, with heavy brass Jaws. He gave the police tbe first definite infor mation they have received of the events of the last afternoon Mrs. Clayton was alive. He said he and his wife had supper at a restaurant down town snd went from there to his office.

In the afternoon, he said, his wife had been despondent and had wept, although she bad not told him the cause other grief. Mara Caearfal at Sapper. At supper, he said, she had cheered up and when they went to his office she was jolly; and laughed more than she had for several days. About 8 o'clock, he said, she had left him and gone back to tbe Jackman house, where they He said that from a con-versation he had later with Mrs. Jackman he learned that his wife removed her wraps and spent several minutes in her room.

Later he found a bit of sewing put aside on a chair and concluded that she had occupied herself with needlework. -At 8:30 o'clock, Mrs. Jackman told Clayton, Mrs. Clayton came from her room, fully attired for tbe street. She wore a long velvet coat and guantlet gloves, coming to her elbows, and hsd her purse over her arm by the chain.

She passed through the family sitting-room with the remark that she was -going out. Mrs. Jackman's aoa saw her go down the steps and start toward the bridge across which was the way to Clayton's office. Noj one saw her alive after that, Clayton said, and when he returned home and learned she was not at home he waa greatly worried. Mrs.

McKay returned from Janesvllle lata last night and went to her home, 611S Indiana.