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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD. r' t 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