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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD.
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BIG TOWN DESTROYED
Fernie, British Columbia, is Laid
Waste By Btuh Fires.
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOSl
Over a Hundred Square Mile* a Seeth
ing Man of Flame---Greateit Con
flagration in Car.ada'i Hit lory.
Forenie, B. C., Canada.—As a re
mit of bush Arcs that started Sun
day, Fernie, B, C., is wiped off the,
map; Michel, fourteen miles distant,
is in flames, and Hosmer, Olsen and
Sparwood, intervening townsfi were
damaged.
More than 1(H) lives were lost, 74 of
them in Fernie. A territory 100
square miles in extent was a seething
mass of flames. Through it were
scattered hundreds ol lumbermen ar.d
prospectors, so that the actual loss
of life will not be known for days.'
Much property of the Canadian Pa-|
rifle and the (ireat Northern rail-
roads was destroyed, including bridg
es and rolling stock burned, so that
it was impossible to enter or leave
the .burned and burning area. Inhab
itants of the affected town fled to
the open county to seek safety. The
railway camps placed all available
trains at the disposal of refugees. The
whole of the Crow's Nest i’ass eouu-
trj was abandoned to the flames.
The flames were driven by a gale, 1
making it impossible to put up
a fight against their advance. The
conflagration is the greatest which
has ever visited Canada.
There were thousands of mines and
prospectors' claims in the track of the
Are.
Fire-fighting apparatus was of no
avail, for the air was fUied with frag
merits of burning wood, and sheets of
flames seemed to leap ahead of the
conflagration as if the air it Keif were
in flames. The heat was intense, and
many of the firefighters went down
ahead of it.
Ottuwa, Ontario.—Sir Wilfred Lau-
rier received the following telegram
from Cranbrook, II. C.:
“Disastrous fire Kootenay Valley.
Fernie, Hosmer, Crow's Nest and oth
er places almost completely burned.
Not less than 5,000 people homeless.
Canadian Pacific railway carrying
them to Elko and Cranbrook. Every
effort is being made locally, but these
are utterly without food or shelter.
Fire covers 70 miles. Seventy lives 1
lost. Immediate relief required. Tele
graph instructions at once.
“THOMAS ROBERTS,
“Liberal Association.
*’J. H. KING, M. P.’’
Fernie, B. C., is a thriving town of
over 10,000 inhabitants in the heart
of the Canadian Rockies. It Is the
center of great industrial activity, i
and the mines of the Crow's Nest
Pass Coal Company, one of the larg
est companies of Its kind in the world,
are located here. Since this town was
founded in 1898, it has been totally
destroyed four times by bush Arcs,
but has been rebuilt after each con
flagration better than before.
DEFY COMMERCE COMMISSION.
New Orleans Challenges Authority of
Government Body.
New Orleans, La.—A challenge of
the authority of the interstate com-j
merce commission over municipal
railroads in interstate business wars I
issued by the Public Belt Railroad
Commission of New Orleans. This
belt is a new railroad owned by tlie
city and lying entirely within the city
limits, and it will attempt to handle
'business coming from every railroad
here. The decision to handle this
business is in disregard of a telegram
from the interstate commerce com
mission, informing the public belt au
thorities that they must observe the
thirty days’ notice clause requiring
advance tiling of the rates which are
to be charged over their route. The
belt road’s formal notice to the com
mission of its intention to operate its
line has been filed only three days.
Tile belt commission announced
that it expected to carry its conten
tions into court.
FOURTEEN KILLED IN MEXICAN FIGHT.
Troops and Rebels Clash in .Battle
Near Texas Border.
Comstock, Texas.—A band of 100
Mexicans, claiming to be revolution
ists, were cornered on the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande, six miles
south of here, by a force of Mexican
troops. A brisk fight took place, re
sulting in the killing of nine insur
gents and the wounding of several
others.
Five soldiers were Klliod. The rev
olutionists managed to escape
through the lines of the troops and
are believed to have crossed into Tex
as, „
FROM ’FRISCO TO NEW YORK.
Sergeant Walsh Has Completed His
Long Walk.
New York City.—Completing a walk
from San Francisco to New York in
sixty-three days and twenty-three
hours, which he said was a record,
Sergeant Walsh, of (he United States
array, on a furlough from his station
at the Presidio, walked into the may
or’s office in this city. Sergeant
Walsh said he made the walk on a
wager that he could not cross the
great divide twice, and he added that
he had already crossed it once going
west. Walsh lost fifty pounds in
weight during the trip.
felltohTsTeaTh.
Parachute Broke and Aeronaut Fell
Two Thousand Feet.
Jackson, Mich.—William Oliver, • a
young aeronaut of Mason, Mich., was
killed while making a parachute drop
at Hague park, on Vandercook lake,
near here. Just as the parachute fill
ed.. the strings on one side snapped
and the aeronaut dropped 2,000 feet
to Ills death, the parachute trailing,
a useless rag, after him. Oliver land
ed near a crowded merry-go-round and
lived five minutes after being carried
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
In a letter to William J. JJryiin.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota, j
national democratic committee for j
places himself at the disposal of the |
speaking purposes. He says he will |
be available about September and i
will go where wanted.
Gossip among insurance men in
New York has it that a stock ex-j
change house has taken out a policy ~ . „ ., . e .... , M .
on the life of William H. Taft for Court Ho,tU That Sol.ctat.on by Mail i.
$100,000. In the Roosevelt-Pat ker
campaign, a Republican, who had bet
on the candidate of his own party and
figured that he could not lose except
in the death of the Republican noml- . . , , .....
nee .took out a policy on the life of 10 '’ sod as an agent in the solid-
Mr. *
CANNOT USE THE MAILS
Letters Soliciting Liquor Orders
Illegal in Georgia.
1$ FAR REACHING DECISION
Same as by Person, Therefore
Constitutes a Crime.
Atlanta, Ga.—That Unde Sam can
EXPRESS THIEVES ARRESTED.
Baffled Detectives {or Months—-Used
Bogus Tags.
New York City.—Following the
arrest of throe men charged with be
ing members of a gang who in the
past few months have robbed the
Adams Express Company of trunks, in
which were goods valued at $ 100,000
6r more, the detectives of Brooklyn
said that three more arrests would
be made, and the chances are that
Eomo of the stolen goods will be re
covered.
According to the detectives, the ex
press company has been roblyed
tbroueh a system of bogus tags and
checks made by a job printer in
league wfHi the gang. When a trunk
Roosevelt, running to election latton of orders for liquor to be ship
day. The rumor said that the pie- ped to Georgia was decided by the 1 was given to a driver at some of the
in him charged by Lloyds for the Taft court of appeals in a decision hand- j express depots In Brooklyn, he would
ed down In the cast of R. M. Rose vs.
insurance was five per cent.
Complete leturns in the Fifth con-|,jj e state of Georgia
grestlonal district, Texas, show that
Representative S. R. Cooper, of Beau-, . , .
mont, wa defeated for renomination teresttng and far-reaching since the detectives and Pinkertons had dim
by Martin Dies, of Kountze. All of the adoption of the prohibition law, and eulty in getting a clew. Reports came
This decision is one of the most In
put on the bogus tag and check and
deliver the trunk to the house of an
accomplice.
So clever wore the thieves that the
present Texas delegation wore re
nominated with this exception.
In regard to Judge Ta/t's speech,
Mr. Bryan said
its Interpretation by the supreme dally of the loss of some valuable
court. * 1 trunk or parcel. Then It was dlscov-
The prohibition law prohibits the erod that a large part of the stolen
being disposed of In
as I deal with the various sub
jects upon which it treats.
For instance, In a speech at Topeka,
BARS “SHEATH” GOWNS.
The law governing unmailable mat- ” ri,lwh Uusiness man, as typified by
r, passed by congress, prohibits the , le members of the London Lloyd b
i ... liquors does not believe that “sheath ’ gowns
ter
shipment
t
of intoxicating
u! T-.'.o.i 'o'V.wi 1 sa * e of liquors in Georgia, or the goods was
of’ acceutance‘' Mr Divan said •'! soliciting or taking of orders for the Brownsville and the detectives arrest-
will read it and* shall ' discuss it of Nquors in this state. The court cd Alfred Wilfert, John Uook and Al-
of appeals now holds that solicitation * ie d Moule.
may be made by letter, and that when
such a letter from a seller in another
between now and the first of Septem- Is received and opened by a citl- , ., R f t0 i n6Ure p 0 nularitv
her, I shall discuss the guaranty of of Georgia U is as much nolle ta- u °y d 8 Refuses to 'osure Popularity
hank deposits and contrast Mr. Taft's 'ion us though the writer of the let- Y ori» ritv Kvidentlv the
position with the democratic position. ,pr h »'' <" — I NeW ' ° rk C,t >' L ' idenlly the
In tny Labor day speech at Chicago,
September 7. 1 shall discuss Ills at
titude on the labor question. In
other speeches I shall discuss his at
titude on the tariff question, the trust
question and other questions upon
which ho has expressed himself.
The first bale of “factors' cotton,"
or that received In the
course of business for thi
was bought at the Savannah, Ga., ex
change by Murray M. Stewart for tho
Bryan Democratic club of that city.
It was immediately compressed, pla
carded and shipped to Charles F.
Murphy, leader of Tammany hall.
New York. The placard announces
that It Is the first bale, and concludes
"hs surely as cotton is king, Bryan
will be elected president." The hale
is to be auctioned off in Tammany
hall and the proceeds will be devoted
to the Bryan campaign fund.
William Jennings Bryan has issued
a statement regarding the platform
of the Independence purty. in which
ho declared that a voter of that party
can not possibly accomplish anything
but the defeat of the very reforms In
which he Is interested. The state
ment is an intimation that the Hearst
party is aimed solely to injure the
Democratic national ticket and to aid
the Republicans.
feeling
somewhat sceptical as to just how
well the latest Parisian costumes
would take with New York women,
hrough the malls. Hereafter in Geor- are destined to become popular in
gia, under this decision, no soliclta- '* 10 Y n * ,ed States. At any rate, the
tlon by letter looking to the sale of °J tbe . faniou * insurance
liquor In Georgia may be sent through company refused to issue a policy for
the mails In this state. The crime of $ 10,000 on a consignment of sheath
° ending such a letter is committed at gowns recently Imported from Paris
, ’ i the point where the letter is received, b - v a local department store,
s Reason,' and takeg eff(jct | The up-town merchants,
The decision rendered says: “The
state may punish for a crime com
mitted through the mails as a medium ... . ,
without in any sense infringing the asked an insurance broker to obtain
undoubted richt of the national eov- a Policy insuring the sale of the
gowns—in other words, to insure the
popularity of the “sheath” gown.
The Britisher, knowing that the
London Lloyd’s were willing to write
a policy on anything from a presiden
tial election to the safeguarding of
an automobile race course, or the
fluctuations of the stock market, very
promptly applied for a policy on the
"sheath” gowna. To his surprise,
however, lie was, to use his own
words, “turned down cold.” He ap
plied to several other companies with
the same result.
undoubted right of the national gov
ernment to control the mail. Freedom
to use the mails does not extend to
their use as a means of committing
crime." The solicitation of orders for
liquor is a crime in Georgia. There
fore, such solicitations sent through
the mail, even though they be mailed
outside of the state, become a crime
when the letters are received within
this state. As to whether or not this
is a violation of intersttae commerce,
Judge Russell in this decision declares
“the exercise of such state regulation,
so far from being in conflict with the
power of congress to regulate inter
state commerce, is expressly allowed
by law.’’
LARGE SUM MADE BY MAIL ROBBERY.
At the union railway station In
Washington there arrived, tied to the j Two New York Men
back end of a train, a large shoe di
rected to “Bill Taft, Washington, D.
C.” The shoe, which is about a num-
Are Arrested
and Confess.
New r York City.—By robbing mail
ber 14 size, is reported to have come | boxes, raising checks found in let-
all tlie wav from San Francisco and lerB , and cashing them by means of
to have been started on its journey forged indorsements, two young men
by railroad employes. On its trip' arrested have obtained between
from San Francisco the shoe has had $7,000 and $10,000 from moie than a
attached to It several hundred cards, score of hanks In and near New
bv railroad employes at various sta- York, within the last six months, the
tions. Some of these greetings to police say. Six other men were ar-
judge Taft are complimentary, some rested on suspicion of having been
are ironical and some are intended ; implicated in the robberies.
to be funny. They are from both
friends and opponents, politically.
Charles W. Bryan remitted to Gov
ernor Haskell, treasurer of the nation
Robert Cohen and William Bradley
the first two to be arrested , made
written confessions, it is said, and
upon these the other six men were
al democratic committee, the sum 'of ,akeu
$1,504 95, given by 101 contributors ^ VtilVeit, Willllm’ Esmond Jos^
w J h n . campaign fund. Governoi , Devlin and Joseph Sullivan. Their
Haskell telegraphed two hours after 1 from 19 (0 05 vears of
his selection as treasurer had been fl ^ b ' •
announced that $2,780 was contribut-1 ag ^’
ed by sixty-two residents of his town.
This sum, lie said, came without soli-1
| citation.
Discovery of the scheme was made
’ I through a check for $14 which had
SIX KILLED AND SIX1Y HURT.
In Fight Between French Strikers and
Government Troops.
Paris, Fiance.—Six dead and sixty
Injured is the casualty record of the
first day of a general strike declared
by the General Federation of Labor of
Paris, ns a demonstration and protest
against the killing of workmen by-
troops at Vigneux. The reports Indi
cate that fifty thousand men of the
building and allied trades, Including
electricians, stopped work.
Premier Clemenceau has instructed
the public prosecutor to proceed to
Vigneux to open an Investigation of
the riots and td vigorously prosecute
the instigators of it. J i
Addresses Must Be Plain.
London, England.—With the inten
tion of preventing public time beiifg
wasted over correspondence - bearing
“puzzle’’ addresses, the British post
master-genet al has issued •Instruc
tions that, although every endeavor
is to be made to effect the delivery
of letters and post cards which are
either insufficiently or badly address
ed the time and attention of his staff
been stolen from a letter box ami > ar( , no t to be spent over correspon-
halscd to $204. Payment was made i-dence, which is intentionally address-
\\ edged tightly into the telephone on young Cohen’s indorsement, but; e( j j n a puzzling manner, and any
booth at Hot Springs, Vti, William j n cour8e 0 f time the check was re-: KU ch letters or cards which are re-
H. Taft was taken out only after a
long delay and after a carpenter had
sawed away part of the booth. Mr. j
Taft went into the booth, which is of
ordinary size, and could not worm ills
way out when he hud finished his
talk. He called for help, but the
hotel carpenter had to be
to remove part of the booth
1 (he nominee for president
| ed. A special mammoth booth has
since been built, the contractor first I nies" of
turned as worthless.
COMMITTEE TO CHECK FIRE DUGS.
Millionaire Colonies’’ Near New
York Are Menaced by Fires.
ceived will in future be treated as un
deliverable.
Lumber Companies Restrained.
St. Louis, Mo.—A suit to enjoin the
proposed merger of the lumber com-
Great Neck, Mass., Fort' by Attorney General Hadley. Judge
| taking the physical measurements of j Washington and other towns in the 1 Kinsey granted a temporary injurfc-
I North Hempstead district of Long 1 Hon lestiaining the oiganization of
Mr. Taft.
I Invitations have been sent to Wil
liam H. Taft and William J. Bryan, j
island, that radical measures have
been determined upon and there is
I the rival presidential candidates', to |i alk J?Ll he formatlon of 11 v,gllence
attend the interstate fair and exhibi
tion in Denver in September and de
liver addresses.
committee.
Among some of the estates affected
are those of William K. Vanderbilt,
Jr., Clarence H. Mackay, Bourke
A rumor has been in circulation in Uochran, Howard Gould and Mrs. Sar-
J New York city for some time to the j terwhite.
I effect that George B. Cortelyou, sec- j ^t least one fire has occurred in
retary of the treasury, would allow district every day in the last fort-
, the use of his name as a candidate night and on several occasions the
for the republican nomination for j volunteer companies have been call-
governor of New York against Gov- [ e d ou t to subdue as many as three
ernor Hughes.
Returns from the Texas democratic
state primary show an interesting
change in the political attitude of
within the space of a few hours.
Man Sheds Skin Like Snake.
, . , , . „ , Trenton, N. J.—For the twenty-
!£ri£d 1 w iSS/E!;“s' 1111 w, .‘-
growing conservative.
An unknown person fired
Gould Road TakeE Up Obligation—
Consideration Not Made Public.
New York City.—Arrangements for
j shedding his skin like a snake, only ! meeting the $8,000,000 of Wheeling
abandoned^its radical attitude and is ,lam 11 • Cake, a linoleum printer, Is
the combine, and fixed August 17 for
the hearing.
Has Proxy Candidate.
New York City.—M. R, Preston,who
is serving a term in Nevada for mur
der, has notified the Socialist Labor
Party leaders in this city that he will
not permit his name to be used as a
candidate for president. This party
recently nominated Preston at its na
tional convention. A new name was
placejl on the ticket, which reads:
For president, August Gilhaus, engin
eer, New York, as proxy for Preston.”
NOTES ARE MET BY RAILROAD.
a shot instead of periodically casting aside and Lake Erie railroad notes, were
from a gun at the boat which Judge
Taft and a distinguished party had
chartered for a sight-seeing trip on
the Ohio River. Mrs. Charles B. Rus
sell, who was standing next to Judge
Taft at the time, was hit by several
shot but was not seriously injured.
James H. Budd, former governor
of California, and long prominent in
Democratic politics, died at his resi
dence of Stockton, Cal., after an ill
ness of a fortnight, of uraemia. He
I was 58 years old.
Judge Taft, has become a member
[ of Ihe InternationaJ Brotherhood of
; Steam Shovel and Dredge men. •
Wide publicity is to be given to
Judge Taft’s speech of acceptance and
to tho platform of the Republican
party by means of one million pam-
lets which are now in the hands of
the printer.
Candidate Taft is receiving daily
letters, stating that "We have named
the cuticle, Cake is likely to shed his completed by Kuhn, Lorb & Co. and
skin any time.
, Blair & Co., bankers, according to an
First he is taken with a chill, then announcement made by the bankers,
the skin dries up and cracks off on- It was stated that no issue of addi-
tirely within two weeks. During this tional security would be required un-
period he suffers agony. As soon as der the plan, but the consideration by
the skin has been shed, Cake is all which the Gould road was enabled to
rigid again. He has several children, meet the notes was not made public,
but none of them are afflicted with Neither would any of the parties con
any symptoms of skin shedding. Spec- nected with the transaction say
ialists have seen the man, hut none whether or not. the destiny of any
of them have ever
;ood.
done him any
of the Gould railroads was affected
by the terms of the new agreement.
FLEES WITH lEPERWIFE.
Veteran of Two Wars Steals Wife
From Hospital.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Determined that
he would not be separated from his
cate, made his first public flight in 1 wife, who is a leper, and has been
this country at the Brighton Beach confined at the county hospital, Brig-
race track. The exhibition was a adl ^ r General David K. Wardwell, re
success to the extent that it demon- ^red veteran of two wars, lias stolen
Successful Flight by French Machine
New York City.—Henri Farman,
who came from l’aris to give a series
of aeroplane exhibitions under the
9
management of an American syndi-
strated the inventor’s ability to fly jj er from the institution and rushed
our little boy after you and hope he’ll I llnder favorable atmospheric condi-! i iei . across the Mexican border, where
be as good a man’and as great a j lions * and entertained some two thou- |lie declares he will live with her uu-
„„„ „ sand enthusiastic spectators.
mail. 1
til death separates them.
STORM SWEEPS COAST
Center of Disturbance Reported
Near Wilmington, N. C.
UNKNOWN SCHOONER ASHORE
*
Winds Shifted Sands So at Cepe Henry
That Force of Men Were Kept Auiy
Clearing Railroad Tracks.
\VUmington, N. C.—The northeast
storm which has been central off the
const, reached its height and passed,
doing no serious damage. Some anx
iety was felt at Wrightsvllle Beach,
on account of the high winds and
tides, and a majority of the resi
dents and transient population left the
resort on special trains.
Norfolk, Va. — The West Indian
storm, which swept the Atlantic coast,
reached Hatteias, on the Carolina
coast, with a -wind velocity of fifty
miles an hour. The winds shifted the
sand so at Cape Henry thut a force
of men had to be kept at work clear
ing the railroad tracks to prevent the
blocking of traffic.
An unknown three-masted schooner
is reported ashore at New Inlet, 30
miles down the const from Cape Hen
ry. Although not on duty, the life-
savers stood by. The vessel was an
chored in the inlet, and the dragging
of her anchor caused her to go
ashore.
New Orleans, La.—In a storm here
four coal-laden barges, valued with
their cargoes at $12,000, sank in the
Mississippi river. The barges be
longed to the Monongnheln River Con
solidated Coal and Coke company.
The wind blew down trees in several
Eoctions of the city, while heavy rains
caused an Inundation of outlying parts
of the city. Skiffs Were used in sev
eral streets. Reports from the slate
Indicated that the storm was general,
and that the rice crops in western
Louisiana suffered much damage.
TESTED TORPEDO NETS.
Steel Me6h Withstands .Shock .of
Torpedoes.
Newport, It. 1.—Important secret
tests were made at Coddlngton Cove
and In Buzzard's Bay with the new
torpedo nets, a steel mesh, which is
supposed to be able to withstand the
shock of torpedoes fired at close
range.
In Coddlngton Cove the torpedo
■boats Morris and Gwynn fired torpe
does at different ranges and different
speeds at the nets, placed above the
water, while at Buzzard's Bay the
tests were made by firing torpedoes
under water, the second submarine
flotilla being engaged in the exper
iments. It was said officially that
the tests were satisfactory.
The nets are designed to be placed
aboard armored cruisers and torpedo
boats for protection in time of war
against torpedo attacks.
PRESIDENT’S YACHT IN USE.
Mayflower Sent to Hayti on Account
of Trouble in South.
Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Because of the
immediate necessity of gunboats and
small cruisers in the Caribbean sea,
where there is trouble In Ha.vtl,
strained relations with Venezuela and
Central America, and where the
watchful eyes of the American offi.
cers are required. President Roose
velt has had to dispense witli the use
of the cruiser yacht Mayflower for
the remainder of the summer. The
Mayflower, in command of Thomas
Snowden, left Oyster Bay bound for
southern waters. She will go to
Hayti to relieve the gunboat Patri
arch, which is at Port nu Prince look
ing after American interests. It Is
said that tho navy department needs
so many small vessels that several
gunboats now out of commission on
the Pacific coast will be brought, to
the Atlantic and probably be used in
the Caribbean.
TOWN ALMOST RUINED.
Hundred Kegs of Powder Explode.
Many Injured.
Huntington, W. Va.—At the mining
town of Stanaford, Raleigh county,
100 kegs of powder in a powderhouse
exploded. Nearly every building in
the town was wrecked and several
people were seriously hurt, the worst
injured being Postmaster Frank Mun-
roe. Several persons were blown out
of their houses. The damage aggre
gates $200,000.
Six Dead as Result of Riot.
Uniontown, Pa.—Six dead and 25
others severely injured, some of them
fatally, are the results of a riot be
tween Italians and Slavs at Gates, on
the II. C. Frick Coke company plants,
iiea*. Masontown. There have been
factional differences between the two
races for a long time.
Smugglers are Busy.
El Paso, Texas.—High immigration
officials along the-Texas border claim
to know positively that an organized
smuggling scheme is in existence, for
in the last month carloads of smug
gled Chinese have been caught at
Alma Gordo, New Mexico, and San
derson, Baird and Toyah, Texas, be
sides numerous small .bunches entered
here or near here. The officials be
lieve certain trainmen and govern
ment officers are concerned. It is
asserted that by hiring lawyers and
delaying cases in the courts eveh for
feiting the bc'.ids of Chinamen arrived
the smugglers’ organization is almost
blocking the work of the government
even after arrests are made.
Got Legacy, Died After Spree.
Phoenixville, La.—Joseph G. .Erb,
aged 37, is dead in the Phoenixville
hospital as a result of a $10,000 leg
acy left him ,'jy an aunt in Switzer-
11• 1 • I tl;r>. 1 moi.ilis :u;-
Erb was a silk weaver, employed
in a local mill, and received word of
the death of hts aunt, Mrs. Jane Pfau-
r.cr, of Berne, Switzerland, who fiad
made him her heir. Immediately on
receipt of the money ho proceeded
to “have a good lime" and succeeded
so well that he paid the penally in
ueath.
UTE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Owing to the breaking 0 f the ,
cipal water main in the citv nV m ‘
Portugal, is threatened with’a uS n ’
famine. The authorities instruct, t‘
populace to fill all vessels p.-u 6
before the reservoir became 1 ,
td. -USE-
fried 1 aUlesnaJve was the prh ,1
dish at a dinner eaten at a bet.
£s."ton, N. J., and the eight diner,
pronounced it sweeter than the ?
of an eel,
Itc6 ncy, an Irish setter own. ,j p ¥
Miss Mabel Olmstead, died at s> ring
Lake, N. J., was embalmed and taken
in a Eealed casket 10 the dog ,e me -
tery at Morristown,
Instructions’ have been forwarded
to the Brazilian legation at 1Pdon
to declare again that not one of the
three battleships of the Dreadtmnght
type now being conetructed fei i' ;a .
zll in England i3 for sale.
After robbing William Koeman a
wealthy wholesale fruit merchant’ of
St. Johns, of $27,000, gentiomaiuy
sneak thieves dropped the peeked ,k
in a loiter box and the money war re
turned next morning to the owner by
Assistant Postmaster Hamm, l
Rex Beach, author, is threatened
with the loss of his sight In ,
eyes. He went bear hunting in n l0
Copper river region near Seatth and
fulled to protect his eyes from the
sun glare. A film has grown over
both eyes and experts say he mav not
recover his sight.
Dr, Andrew Burden Cropsev who
tihot and killed his wife, Gertrude at
their home in Bath Beach, X. y ' I0 .
cently, died In jail in Brook!' n.’ Dr
Kessler, the prison physician says
heart disease killed him. A ph\sic'al
wreck, his heart broken by a full re
alization of his terrible crime, l.< had
been on the point of collapse for sov
ernl days.
The Takarado Oil company con
tinues its process of absorbing all its
rivals. Some time ago news was pub-
lished that It had puchared the Nam-
boku and Fuji companies for a sum
of 650,000 yen and rumors say that
It has now effected the purchase of
the Bokuyetsu company for 260,000
yen, of the Yamato for 100,0 0 yon
and of the Mlnku for 75,00u yen.
A feeling of less apprehension
seems to bo growing in Japan with
regard to the ultimate action of the
fiv e American railway companies
which threatened to raise their fares
on goods carried eastward from the
Pacific coast. A combined protest
having been made .by several Japan
ese steamship companies, it is
thought probable that the directors of
the five railways will reconsider their
decision.
Robbers secured about $15,000
worth of jewelry, diamonds and gold
by blowing open with dynamite the
safe of Thomas B. Dunn & Co. in
Chambers street, New York City.
The stable of Chambers k Co., a
negro pool room and two houses were
■burned at Lawrenceville, Tenn. Thir
teen horses and four mules lert tlulr
lives. Loss $6,000, Insurance $1,600.
Standing on a box at a window of
the county jail at Cripple Creek, Col.,
Miss Alice Hodson, daughter of
United States Marshal Hodson, was
married to Professor Hans Albert, a
prisoner at the jail. The couple
clasped hands through a barred win
dow as the pastor made them hus
band and wife. Miss Hodson and Al
bert eloped some time ago and 1®
was later arrested on a charge of in
sanity to prevent the marriage Miss
Hodson enlisted the sympathy of
Rev. Mr. Inman and after admission
to the jail was refused them, they
went around to a window where the
ceremony was performed.
An attorney representing all the
railroads of Arkansas has applied to
Judge Vandevender for a temporary
order restraining the state railroad
commission of Arkansas from enforc
ing the rate laws of that state until
their validity has been tested in the
courts.
Wathington.
Satisfactory assurance has been
given the navy repartment by the of
ficials and the citizens of New Lon
don, Conn., that there will be no
further discrimination against the en
listed men of the navy or the uniform
of the United States in the places of
public amusement in that city A
formal letter has been received by
Acting Secretary of the Navy Ne w '
berry from the mayor of New London
stating that amusement managers or
the city unite in extending a welcome
to uniformed men of the navy.
Tho Chilean government has paid
to date $2,818,480, United States gold,
for property appropriated for P uD ''
use in the reconstruction of the e |i y
of Valparaiso. This is done to 'y 1 ®
some of the streets, straigten otce
and to modernize that portion of
city that was so nearly a total <vre
Senor Creel, the Mexican ambassa-
ar, has presented to the state
irtment a strong appeal from
Mexican government to thal ot
nlted States for the latter’s e° op
ion in the work of suppfe 8
mds of revolutionists which
umber of weeks have been u" 1 '
lids on Mexican territory, lr°ni
merican side of the line. It lh 1
fie thal additional American troop
ill be stationed along the bird ’
id in the meanwhile the S 0V(I .
1 Texas and Arizona are being
1 redouble their exertions to p‘
recurrence of such raids.
The comptroller of the ‘’ini>‘’’
as advised of the suspension
Irst National bank of Fries ..
a., with a capital of _ $25,000.
arrelt has been appointed i‘
Assistant Secretary of Sta' 1 T ' al °
is left Washington for San J •
. R., to make an investigation
ie holding of certain property >.*
nlted States which has been n>
ite between the government an
itholic church. |t)fl
The sultan of Turkey, ,h !' 0, ‘ K y 0 rk,
urkish consul-general at *\ p ' ner »l
undji Dey, has proclaimed t- rC .
nnesty to all political fue ' ! j'tiis
irdless of race, in this coun ,' n uo*
dates to about 200,000 Ai