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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD. FIRED ON TROOP TRAIN OF POLITICAL INTEREST. Both Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft are DEBATED CONSTITUTION ! much pleased at the results obtained Three Men Killed and Eleven from .he use of the phonograph for Of the United State*~No Better 1 the dissemination of their political ^ — ? hol. - Governed Than Empires. Wounded by Strikers. LOG PLACED ACROSS TRACK Over One Hundred and Fifty Shot* En tered Car«--Conductor Wu Killed. Eight Arrests Made. Birmingham, Ala.—Three men were instnntly killed and eleven Injured, speee Missouri has come to the front with a rush in the Taft baby naming con test. W. F. Heavner of Lebanoh, Mo., announces himself the pfoud father of twins. As a good republican he has undertaken to perpetuate the Whole tional ticket and the state ticket by naming one boy Howard Taft Heav ner in honor of Judge Taft and the other Hadley Sherman Heavner, to honor the second place on the ticket, two of 'whom will probably die, when 88 we " 88 M ‘ 8BOUl1 ' 8 ropubll- strlklng miners fired into a passenger, cau candidate for governor. VV. .1, Bryan is considering the sug- THE CAPITAL WELL GOVERNED Though Not Democratic-—Admiration is Ex;rjssed for Our Supreme Court and Other Institutions. London, England.—The “constitu tion” congress which has been in ses sion at tlie Franco-British exhibition discussing safeguards for the various constitutions to provide for maintain train on the Birmingham Mineral rail road at Blocton, Ala. gestlon of Harvey Garber, national i,ng personal liberty and responsibility, The dead are: Conductor Joe T. Col- ! chairman of Virginia, to place a per- has closed with a debate on the con- line; o. Z. Dent, deputy sheriff; Wll- «onal letter iu the hands of every i stitutlon of the United States. During lard Howell, non union miner. The In- voter In every doubtful state. Kdgai the course of the discussion Professor jured are: Major F. H. Dodge, super- B. Schmidt of Dayton, Ohio, went to Albert Venn Dicey of Oxford referred intendent of safety, Tennessee Coal Lin col nto especially place the idea to what he described as a “melancholy company, wounded In hand and leg; before the candidate. paradox.” He said that, while the E. E. Cox, superintendent of mines, "Just call me Mr.Taft and if you drop United States started with an advan- Tennessee Coal company, slightly into colloquialism, call me Bill.” This tage unknown In any other country— wounded in knee, A. E. Cross, chief was Judge Taft's laughing leply when with a constitution designed with clerk, superintendent's office, wound- granting an audience to a number of more care, more skill and more slic ed in arm and knee; .1, C. Johnson, newspaper men, who had severally ad cess than almost any other constitu- deputy sheriff, slightly wounded in dressed him as “Mr. Secretary,” “Gov- tion deliberately designed by man— side; A. C. Bryant, deputy sheriff, | ernor” and “Mr. Taft.” yet the candid American citizen would Richard V. Oulahan.'for manv years I Fa .v 'hat, on the whole, they are little a leading writer with the New York ! better governed than the besl Europe- slightly wounded in side; .1. B. Cor nett, deputy sheriff, wounded in the hack; \V. il. McAttly, soldier, slight injuries; M. A. Pearson, soldier, wounded in left shoulder; J. C, Mar tin, wounded in head, back and arm; A. J. Mver, laborer, wounded in leg; Robert Sigmon, wounded in arm and breast. The train was a special bearing nonunion men to the Blocton mines under guard of soldiers ar.d deputies. J at the Minnesota stutc fair, provided On the outskirts of the town the eu- Sun, will have general charge of tne literary work for the republican na tional committee. Senator Taylor of Tennessee has charge of the plan by which a straw an slate; while the candid European critic would put it that the United States is not much' worse governed than the best states of Europe. That was the paradox of a country filled with noble people who were governed t'ho^nn'lim ^ taUen eVe °' Btale ,n , in a way that would not for a moment ; be tolerated In Paris, London or Uer- Mr, Bryan bus consented to speak Un. The city of Washington Is well ad- no admission to the grounds is to be ministered, continuel Professor Dicey, gitieer suddenly saw a log across the charged. because it was not democratically gov- * rack and at once a fuslladc was fired The campaign for the election of erned. It Is governed by commission- Into the train. '1 he engineer did not Estate officers of South Carolina has era appointed by congress, a body not stop, but let the cowcatcher throw stirred up a hot. light between the nearly so democratic as the crown of the log front the track and put on ministers and politicians of that slate. England. Professor Dicey expressed full speed. 1 he place where the at- 'Cho ministers have taken the stump admiration for the supreme court, I tack was made was iu a cut, the an dare bitterly opposing what they which he said was "one of the most ground being on a level with the low- term "ring rule.” successful institutions,” but he doubt- er part of the windows. The assuil- Mr Tuft - H fatal Klft of ,b eauty has ed whether the balance of power ex-' Soi?n b : h mJniS^1?e^Ktiri^ ^ “ n " ld “*'"‘ “> ‘ sU »« ln ,he U " ltPd C0Uld ex ' the windows and at the engineer. Practically every window In the train was broken, and shots struck all parts of the engine and cab. The train pro ceeded to Blocton and the dead and Injured were returned to Birming ham. Dogs were hurried to the scene, and took trails through the woods direct ly to the union quartern. Eight men were arrested and other arrests are expected. Governor Comer held a hurried con ference with Lieutenant Colonel Hub bard, commanding the militia, and an other company was hurried to Bloc ton. The trouble caused widespread In dignation. and a general demand is being made that more strenuous ac tion be taken looking to the preser vation of order. Battleships reach Auckland. American Fleet Drops Anchor in New Zealand Port. Auckland, New Zealand.—Sixteen whlto ships, comprising the battleship division of the United Stntes Atlantic fleet, under command of Rear Admi ral Charles S. Sperry, arrived here at 8:40 o’clock Sunday morning and an chored in two columns in the road stead abreast the city, after a voyage of thirty-three days front San Fran cisco. When the warships entered the har bor the usual salutes were exchanged Mr. Tuft's fatal led an Indiana butgla _ _ thousand of his campaign buttons. ist 111 any European country. Mr. Bryan has issued an appeal to ?? yot ’ A th f e French , P°, lllica ! ec °"°- the “common people,” asking for earn- ml8 and former minister of public pulgn contributions ™ orka - thought the constitution of | . . n , . ^ America has many advantages for a 1 .John 1 envple Graves, candidate of democratic country, and, though pos- the independence party for vice pres- sibly loo rigid, on the other hand, it ident, underwent a slight operation prevented wild enterprises. In a private hospital in New York city. n AMERICAN GUOUS WANTED. The democrats of New England in tend to make a tight to keep their section out of the republican column. Henry Watterson lias written sev eral thousand letters to democratic editors waking them up to the im portance of getting in behind Bryan. Mr. Taft has received from a Bhil- this city, who lias just returned from adelphia admirer the left hind foot of a four months’ trip through all the a rabbit, gold mounted. The gift was principal countries of Europe, includ- accompauied by a note expressing the ing European Russia, lie said that hope that the rabbit toot would offset he sought out and met men of every the luck given to Mr. Bryan when lie class and interviewed bankers and was presented with a horseshoe. | government ministers in nearly all the it is announced that William Ran- **apitals of Europe, dolph llearst will start a daily paper I “1 found practically no hostility to in Atlanta, Ga., in the interests of the 1 Americans or American institution Foreign Dealers Favor United States- Made Products. New York City.—Optimistic views on business conditions abioad and the outlook for American enterprises there were expressed by Darwin P. Kingsley, a prominent financier of Independence party. Alton B. Parker, democratic candi date for president in 19U4, delivered his first speech of the present cam paign in behalf of Mr. Bryuti and Mr. Kern before an audience of 2,000 per- he continued. “On the contrary, the products of American enterprises are today more largely in evidence than ever before. In every considerable city there are hnndsome plants offer ing successfully American plows, reap. sons at Temple Auditorium In Los e, ' s and all klnd3 of agricultural imple- Angeles Cal. j ments, sewing machines and insur- Lincoin, Nebraska. Typographical | Government regulations are strict, | but friendly. 1 found the foreign in- Union voted to make William Jen nings Bryan an honorary membei between them and the shore batteries The action of the union was nearly 'o!!,VI a*) iva* t'V' A me rk-a n ^ e o mil a e s' and the Australian flagship Powerful unanimous, such opposition as there! )f (h European countries has and the cruisers Encounter and Plo-|was being on the ground that the ac- |None of the fc ' uropean coumues nas neer tion might be construed as bringin I he city is elaborately decorated In j politics into the union. To offset this honor of the visit of tne Americans, j Governor Sheldon, who is a republi- and thousands of person's have al- ca n, also was made an honorary mem- ready come into the city in order to j her. assist in paying homage to the offt- j The headquarters of the democratic cers and men. The townspeople are national committee have been formal- enthusiastic over the visit of their ly opened In the Auditorium Annex, American ceuslns, and throughout the at Chicago. duy thronged the water front of the Thomas E. Watson, the populist city to view the stately ships lying at candidate for president, is busy mak- anclior in the roadstead. I ing- speeches in his home state, Geor- WORK FDR MANY MEN. gia. Mr. Watson is fighting for the electoral vote of Georgia. In order to relieve Taft of criticism adopted any laws unfa zombie toward the American companies, and they show no disposition to do so.” BEGINS GREAT WATERWAY. Land Condemned for Right of Way in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C.—Orders in seven eases of condemned lands for right of way for the inland waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort harbor, have been signed by Judge Thomas R. Purnell in the federal court for the eastern district of North Curolina. This starts the work on the great GERMAN AIRSHIP BURNS. Count Zeppelin’* Craft it Destroyed After a Remarkable Voyage. Stuttgart, Germany. — During a BtoVm the Zeppelin airship broke away from its moorings, took tire and disnppetjred iji the air. Several per- were injured. Count Zeppelin, ..ivSFT Is A eTi?f\i1?F Sf accidents occasioned by bad moods of nature and the fail ure of mechanical appliances combin ed was responsible lor the untimely end of the balloon, the flights of which have held the attention of the world. The Zeppelin airship had Just com pleted the most remarkable voyage in the history of aerlAl navigation. The flight was Bticceseful in a great many ways. The machine responded abso lutely to the control of its pilots, and was navigated over the Lake of Con stance, down the valley of the Rhine, over 8trassbufg nnd several other cit ies, and was returning to Friedrich- shafen, its starting point, when the accident happened. An explanation of the accident by experts is that probably one of the balloonettcs of which the immense en velope was constructed, burst, and a spark from the motor ignited the gas when the balloon was carried into the air. Count Zeppelin has devoted his life line and his personal fortune to the development of his airships. The ves sel that was lost was the fourth ho had constructed. When his money had become exhausted the German retchstag voted him $125,000 to con duct further experiments, and number four was the result. The German government agreed to purchase this ship on condition that it fulfilled cer tain requirements, the principal one being that it remain in the air 24 hours and land on terra flrma. This stipulation has not yet been fulfilled. But, on learning of the accident to the airship, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hell* weg, imperial secretary of state for the interior, after a consultation with iiis colleagues, decided to forward to Count Zeppelin $125,000, the proposed estimate in the imperial budget for aeronautic experiments, as a reward for the count s many years of sacri fice of this character in the interest of the fatherland. PYTHIANS ELECT OFFICERS. Texan is Chosen Supreme Char~ellor of the Order at Boston Convention. Boston, Mass.—Before adjourning the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Order, the Knights of Pythias elected the following officers: Su preme chancellor, Henry P. Brown of Cleburne, Texas; vice chancellor Geo. W. Hanson of Calais, Maine; supreme prelate, Rev. Dewitt C. Cob, Salem, N. J.; supreme keeper of records and seals, R. L. C. White of Nashville (re elected); supreme master of excheq uer, T. D. Meares, Wilmington, N. C. (re-elected); supreme master at arms, Samuel P. Davis, Davis, Oklahoma ; supreme inner guard, E. Allison Pow ers, Quebec, Canada; supremem outer ,guard, William D. Cameron, Merid ian, Miss.; board of insurance control for six years, U. S. G. Cherry, Sioux Falls, S. D., and C. S. Davis, Denver, Col. The supreme lodge of Pythian Sis ters elected the following officers : Supreme chief, Mrs. Nellie E. Mer- riam, Muskogee, Okla.; supreme sg; nior, Mrs.’Sarah I. Cotton, Weather ford, Texas; supremo junior, Mrs. Ida M. Johnson, Central City, Colorado ; supreme manager, Mrs. Cora M. Da vis, Union, Oregon. The uniform rank assembled, con sisting of twenty-six brigadier gener als, formally appointed Major General Arthur E. Stobbart of St. Paul, Minn., to succeed himself in command of the uniform rank. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW Bradstreet’s Crop and Industrial Report is Favorable. 70 LESS BUSINESS FAILURES Output in Ccrtiin Lit e* o' Cotton Good* Are Being Curtailed---Condition of the Corn Crop. New York City.-Bradstreet ’s review says; “Trade, crop and industrial de velopments of the week are mainly tnvorable. The first of the fall mer chants' excursions are reported in leading cities, theroby enlarging sales oy Jobbers and wholesalers. Indus trial reports are generally of increas ed time run, or enlarged output, and the leading crops have approached a week nearer harvest. Thefe are, however, some features accompanying these developments deserving of note. There are statements from quite a tow markets that early fall buying is hardly up to expectations, and tuut caution and conservatism govern buy er*’ actions. ■pin the industilals (here is percep tibly more doing in iron and steel, haidware manufacturing, western coal mining and the lumber trades gener ally. The rnilorads are certainly buy ing mote of rails, cars and also light supplies. The building trade evident ly turned the corner In July, but re ports of curtailment in output of cer tain lines of cotton goods are still prominent. "Business failures in the United States for the week ending August ti number 205, against 275 last week, and 157 in the like week of 1907. “Business failures in Canada for the same period number 19, which compares with 32 last week and 18 in Hie like week of 1907. Washington, I). C.—The crop-report ing boaid of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture find-, lugs, in a bulletin just issued, shows that the condition of corn on August 1. was 82.5 per cent of a normal crop as compared with 82.8 last month, 82.8 on August 1, 1907, and 83.1 the ton year average on August 1. - states the condition was: Illinois .. .. .. .. 77 J owa 83 Texas 86 Missouri 74 Nebraska 86 Kansas .. 76 Oklahoma 80 Indiana 75 Georgia 89 Ohio .. 85 Kentucky .. .. .. .. 83 Tennessee 84 Alabama 87 North Carolina .. .. 91 Arkansas 79 Mississippi .. .. .. 88 More Than $2,CCO,OCO Worth of Work Awaiting the Idle. I on account of the Brownsville sol-1 i, ; land W8l ? rw J ay .. t _ h . at . ® v ?I‘ tua / Pittsburg, Pa.—Calling for 24,000 diers, General Cor tons of steel plate, an order has been a hitherto unpublished placed with Pittsburg steel mills, fore-; Roosevelt, show ing idle machinery into action and came directly from the president. Mr. Bryan has an engagement to meet all the lending labor leaders of the country for a conference at Chi- cabo August 22. Mr. Bryan is availing himself of the cool weather by utilizing every spare moment of his lime in preparing the several sections of the speeches he or in round figures a value amounting j wlll mal<e . The one on tariff is ex- contract for the constiuction of 'be peeted to be an exhaustive treatment AmityvlBe pipei Rne.^a new^ water sup-1 °f t j ie su )jjoczt and will be one of the most important of his utterances dur summoning more men back to work. With Pittsburg steel plate manufac turers figuring on contracts for up ward of 7,000 tons of plates tor steel cars for railroad requirements, there comes another contract that is to be awarded in a brief period. New York City has awarded the or in round figures a value amounting ply main of steel. The tonnage is cs Corbin has given out !« lve a " ,nland water route to com- blished dispatch from mer( ' e f I? m t ‘ h « * r I e . at lake , 8 aad B ° 8 h wing that the order loa t0 North Carolina at least south of the dread Hatteras and perhaps to Florida. This will be the first link in the gigantic chain of canals. The contract has been let for the construction of this portion of the in land waterway and under the contract the work is to be commenced Decem ber 1. There will be about sixteen miles of cut. This canal will prob ably be dug before the deepening of Beaufort harbor. The inland water way will go on Pamlico liver, Neuse river, Core creek out into Beaufort harbor. Congress at its last session appropriated $550,000 with which to timated at from 24,000 to 21,000 tons j n „ iae campaign. The speech will be to fl,000,000. delivered at Indianapolis. I,begin the work. paXn manag^s'in aTn”2f daUy Tom ’ Traill Wreck CailSGS Three DCalllS. ference with Mr. Bryan over the long ■ Imboden, Ark.—Three persons were distance telephone. killed and four badly injured and a The action of the Western Tariff ntlmber of passengers slightly bruised Association in refusing to make ape- ! and shaken up when engine No. 210, cial rates to Lincoln, Nob., upon the! pulling ’Frisco passenger train 206, sued by tlie state crop pest commit- occasion of the notifleatioh of Mr. Bry- j was derailed twelve miles east of tee. The bulletin gives the results of an has caused much disappointment I this city. The engine dashed headlong some experiments made this year with among democrats who were prepnr- over a 12-foot embankment, pulling the the arsenate of lead, and mentions ing to take a monster crowd from mail, bagage and smoking cars with it. The gas tank in the mail car ex ploded and the mail car, with all the mail, was burned. A party of sailors put out the lire, which started in the baggage car, and saved the baggage. The dead are: Engineer Cooper of Memphis, Tenn.; Fireman Lee Booker of Memphis, Tenn.; man supposed to be H. F. Overs, residence unknown. DEATH 10 BULL WEEVIL Powdered Arsenate of Lead Will Kill the Pest. Baton Rouge, La.—That powdered arsenate of lead may prove the solu tion of the boll weevil problem, is the suggestion made in a bulletin is that in one instance it killed 70 per the east, cent of the boll weevils in the local- j a horseshoe bearing the inscription ity where it was tried. State Ento- “traveling across the continent to mologist Newell says that two applicu- bring good luck to Billy B. and the lions of the preparation will clear a j democratic party,” has arrived at New field entirely of the weevils. This is the first poison that the Lou isiana state crop pest commission has endorsed for killing boll weevils. Tattoo Wives and Stop Divorces. Warsaw, Ind.—“There would he fewer 'affinities and divorces if all married women in the United Stales were tattooed on the chin,” said Rev. Arthur Rawel, a native of Maoriland, N. S., addressing .an audience of 3,000 at W inona Lake assembly. He added: “Now that 1 am headed for Washing ton, I think that J. shall ask President Roosevelt to use his influence to have such a bill put through congress.” Orleans tied to tlie rear-end of a pas senger train. It was transferred .to another road and started on its jour ney to San Francisco. Frank Hitchcock, the republican campaign manager, is making almost daily visits to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. Judge Taft, accompanied by Mrs. EDISON QUITS INVENTING. Takes Up Study of Chemistry and Will Take Life Easy. New York City.—Thomas A. Edison has begun to gratify an ambition he has cherished many years and the | laboratory at Llewellyn, N. J., will | see comparatively little of him hence- ;forth. Mr. Edison’s ambition has been to [give himself a roving commission into public science and to steer clear of commercialism. He does not want to increase his fortune. He has got $25,- 000,000, which he thinks is more than enough. All his life he has been turn ing out money-making inventions. He will devote his remaining years to in vesting in anything that strikes his fancy, without regard to its financial productiveness. Now he proposes to devote himself to chemistry. Moreover he is going to take life more easily. He has prom ised his family and his friends to give up slaving night and day, Sunday and holidays in his laboratory. Not only that, but he is going to take jaunts about to see the rest of the world. He has bought, himself a place in Florida, where he will spend a couple of months In the late winter and spring next year. FATAL DYNAMlS EXPLOSION. One Killed, One Mortally Injured and a Number Hurt. Brewton, Ala.—Silas Maddox was killed and his brother, Lewis, fatally injured by the explosion of dynamite on a log train of the Cedar Creek Mill Company. Several others on the train were seriously Injured. The train was coming to town from the Fish Pond logging camp when a bucket of dynamite was ignited by a spark from the engine. Silas Mad dox attempted to throw the bucket from the car. It exploded just as it left his hands. There were about 150 men aboard the train. Scores Are Mangled by Hurricane Szegedln, Hungary.—During a hur ricane which swept over this section of the country a large factory col- laft, drove forty miles across country j lapsed and a hundred workmen were in a buckboard to attend a horse show ! buried in the ruins. Four corpses at \\ bite Sulphur Springs, Va. I aiK i fourteen persons severely hurt, John Sharp Williams, nominee for Shave been recovered from the debris, senator from Mississippi, and former j Seventy persons are still missing. Sze- leader of the democratic minority in | gendiu is 96 milec southeast of Buda- 1 be national house of representatives, | pest, and after Budapest is the most absolutely refused to deliver a demo-: populous city of the kingdom. It has cratic partisan address at a Preston, an extensive trade and is noted for Iowa, Chautauqua. j the manufacture of food products, TURKISH SULTAN STABBED. Coat of Mail Saves His Life—Would- Be Assassin Arfested. London, England.—A special dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph com pany says; “The sultan of Tut key was stabbed in the breast by a minor palace official. The coat of mail | which the sultan always wears de flected the blow. The would-be as- | sassin was arrested. Apparently he had been bribed to commit the act, as he had a large sum of gold in Ais pockets _ jy , \ WANT RATES ANNULLED. Kalamazoo Merchants Object to the Southern Classification. Kalamazoo, Mich.—The Merchants’ and Manufacturers' Association has filed with the interstate commerce commission a protest against putting into force an Increase in rates for Ihe southern classification territory proposed by the railroads to go into effect this month. The increase, Vice President Shepardson of this city, who announced the filing of Ihe protest, says, ranged from 10 to 25 per cent. The protest declares shippers in a thousand towns are affected, and says; “We trust your investigation on thin subject will enable you to annul the tales in southern classification terri tory the day they are to take effect.” Bloody Kentucky Fight. Harlan, K.v.—A pitched battle was fought at the Howard store at Lay man. John Blanton was killed. Sher man Blanton was shot in the arm, and Stokley Osborne was mortally wound ed; Lee Russell was seriously wound ed, and a young man whose name is not unknown, was also shot. He ran into the timber, and has not been found. The trouble was caused by long standing enmity between the Taylors and the Blantons, which dates back several generations. Dealers Object to Army Methods. Chicago, 111.—Manufacturers of the west are severely criticising the methods employed by the war depart ment in awarding contracts for army clothing. The special board to pass on all bids ordered a special sample of twenty yards of cloth to lie used in the uniforms to be furnished. The manufacturers, in an informal protest, declare this virtually creates a mo nopoly, as the cost of manufacture of a special sample is prohibitive for small dealers. 47,000 Barrels of Whiskey Destroyed Midway, Ky.—Fire threatened to wipe out this town. It destroyed five warehouses of the S. J. Greenbaum Distilling Company, entailing a loss of about $300,000. More than 47,000 barrels of whiskey were destroyed. Captain Guthrie a Suicide. Savannah, Ga.—Captain A. H. Guth rie of the schooner Frank A. Williams of New York committed suicide by jumping overboard eight miles west of Cape Lookout. The schooner was being Brought from New York to, Southport, where it had been recent ly sold. The schooner was left with out a navigator, but ihe mate sailed it Eafely to Savannah. Passing of “Stage” Money. Washington, D. C.—Chief Wilkie of the secret service proposes to test the law in relation to the rights of per sons to make “stage” money such as is freely sold in the form of $100 bills. A case in which one of these $100 bills has been passed as lawful money has come to the attention ol Hie secret service and Chief Wilkie believes the issuance of stfch “stage” money will be adjudged unlawful when a test case is made against one of its manufacturers. LATE NEWS NITES, General. The Now York Central rail,, . . decided upon the Immediate ias lure of two millions of doll-,/' " di ’ Pittsburg, Pa., district for " ,h ° ments. ,ni i"ove- Aftcr saving her husband’ i if „ , wrenching a hammer with wl, h l 7 had been bealen into uncons, io ! J, h ® from the hands of her broth,, m? 9 !' Ira C “ d - V - and knocking him ground, Mrs. Wade ltiggnn wJ u and killed by Cody at , sh « Mississippi. lore . Wilber Wright ef Dayton, Ohio made a successful flight with his W oplane at Lemnus, France Th r ’ chine covffl-ed 2.17 miles ami ,i„ flcial time of the flight was ... ute and forty-six seconds. Becoming angered nt his wit | nhn Goolsby, a well-to-do farm, i ,7 ? foul, Mississippi, knocked lie, ,i„ u X n ' and while she was lying prostrate mated her clothing with nil He then set fire to the clothes, and she w badly burned before the flam,-, W e> extinguished by neighbors. The Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mm ing company has been placed in' th« bunds of a receiver. This i one of the largest flour making com , , ,, in the world. Hundreds of the Turkish K0VPrn ment officials of the old reginj.- , re scurrying to the other side „f the frontier. They nrc loaded with mil. Hons of which they have been ,,i un . dering the country for vent | t is estimated the graft has cost t wn million dollars. Godfrtend Probst, n worker In a Brooklyn restaurant, has been notified that he nnd his sister ate join, heirs to tin estate of nearly sixteen million dollars, left by their uncle, who died Intestate In Bombay, India. Seth M. Richereck, a former Indian- npolls banker, who absconded a year ago with something over a hundred thousand dollars of depositors mon ey, has been located’ut Johannesburg South Africa. He is living under an assumed name and is doing a bunking business. The Missouri Pacific railroad has is- sued an order for the reopening of its locomotive shops iu St. Louis, Sedalla, Vort Scott, Atchison, Osawatomie, De- Solo and Baring Cross. The reopening will provide employment for more than one thousand men. Notice has been given to the resi dents of Argenta. Ark., by the St Lou is and Southwestern railroad, ttint un less suits for $70,000 damages, alleg ed to have resulted from the construc tion of about a mile of trackage through the principal stre.* of the city, are dismissed, the traek will he torn up and all orders for improve- mens, including u depot to cost $200,- 000, will be annulled. A tornado which struck Dunning, Nebraska, a town of 1,000 inhabit- nrVs completely destroyed, all tele phone and telegraph lines in tile town and surrounding country. The tor nado laid waste to many valuable farms and several large buildings in the town were blown town, The American Tobacco Company has declared a quarterly dividend of 2 1-2 per cent and 7 1-2 per cent extra on the common stock. This compares with 2 1-2 per cent and 5 per cent extra three months ago, 2 1-2 per cent and 2 1-2 per cent ex tra six mouths ago and nine months ago, and 2 1-2 per cent und 7 1-2 per cent extra a year ago. George H. Sommers ,u conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was arrested by United States officers charged with violating an act ol con gress in carrying a passenger free while In charge of his tralfi. lie is held under $1,000 bail. Mrs. Ethel Gaylord of Rich mond, Va., has been inform* ed that he r husband, whom she though she had -buried in Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago, had turned up ah'* and was searching for her. The man buried in Jacksonville was found floating in the ocean at that city, and was identified by Mrs. Gaylord ub her husband. Twelve hundred mechanics employ ed by the Canadian Pacific railroad are out on a strike. The engineers and firemen are in sympathy wit!)'he mechanics and may call a sympathetic strike. Owing to the fact that Jap anese laborers are being used as strikebreakers, feeling is running high ;«* (1 serious trouble may result if the Japanese are not discharged. Washington. China has formally accepted m* date, January 1, next, and the selec tion of the city of Shanghai as w time and place for Ihe holding meeting of the international °P lu commission. The commission D make a preliminary investigation in the general question of the opium |r ‘ tie. It has no plenary powers, but » make recommendations for future tion by the various countries. President Roosevelt refused '» grant an audience to James M alson of Alabama, a midship' > whose rismissal from the Naval A emy was approved by 'he P'' ofc some time ago. Haralson Be,,me think that if he could lay his -before the president, he would a chance to be re instated. Major J. H. Russell, U. S. A., sergeant and ten privates ot tk p ama expeditionary regiment <> rines, have arrived in W a;dl ’ n f i( , a | and entered the new navy a* college hospital to receive the 1 ‘ 1M , treatment against hydrophobia officers and men were severely . or scratched by a puppy h 1 ' UB dog at Camp Diobolo on the h July 21 and 22. Honduras nas aecnnea to ' 11 with the wishes of the Amenta ^ eminent requesting the r , e 1 vot '' 1 , v ,vila, the decree issued by Preside it n canceling tlie exequaturs of An ‘ nSll i Consul Drew Llnard and Vh 1 { j ie Virgil C. Reynolds at Cdba, ° , n ground that they had In ' an d Ihe internal politics of Hondt @ that with the vice consuls o ‘ and Norway, they advised the - der of Ceiba to the revolu,i ° ,,-eflty The trademark and copy rig * )ia8 between American and JaI ‘ n at been passed by the privy c Taldo.