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SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED
Summer Visitors are Lost While
Boating at Deer Island.
BOAT CARRIED NO BALLAST
When Gale Struck Craft It Capsized.
Three Men Saved Were Unable to
Help Others on Account High Sea.
Deer Isle, Maine.—Seven summer
visitors out of a party of ten were
drowned by the capsizing of a 35-foot
sloop in Penobscot Bay, off this
island. The drowned are; Miss Al
ice Torro, Washington, i). C.; Miss
Eleanor Toro, Washington, D.
Mias Keliog, Baltimore; Lutie Kel
logg, Baltimore; Mrs. Lucy S. Craw
ley, Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth G.
Evans, Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mas
sachusetts; .Jason C. Hutchins, of
Bangor. Those saved were: Captain
Haskell, Deer Isle; Professor Edward
Crawley, Philadelphia, husband of
Mrs. Crawley; Henry B. Evans, Mt.
Holyoke, brother of Miss Elizabeth Ev
ans.
With Captain Samuel Haskell, the
party of light-hearted summer people
started out for a sail in Penobscot
Bay. The wind was from the south
west and squally. The sloop v. as cf
the “open" variety.
It had no deck forward and no
cabin, and it contained no ballast, as
the party of ten weighted the boat
down quite heavily, and Captain Has
kell, an experienced navigator in these
waters, thought that the craft would
he well balanced. The party had
scarcely been gone an hour before the
wind freshened up, keeling the sloop
well over, and dashing the spray upon
the occupants.
All the party were perched high on
the weather side, as the sloop jCut
through the waves with the water al
most coming over the gunwales on the
lee side, when Captain Haskell gave
a shout of warning that he was going
to tack and then threw over the tiller.
Just at this moment the boat rose
high up on a wave, exposing her to
the full brunt of the wind. An un
usually heavy gust struck her and
in a twinkling the sloop went over
on her beam ends, and the party of
ten were thrown into the water.
For one brief moment It was every
one for one's self. Weighted dow-n
with their water-soaked clothes and
chilled through by the cold water, the
women were unable to keep them
selves afloat. Some had grabbed the
person nearest them by the neck and
In some Instances they had gone
down together, clasped in each oth
er’s arms.
The three men in the tender found
that they were almost as incapable of
giving assistance in their boat as if
they had been in the water.
Of the rest, of the party but two
were in sight and the boat was
headed for them. They were Lutie
Kellogg and Miss Evans. They were
unconscious, and although the rescu
ers worked vigorously over them all
efforts to restore life failed. The
bodies were taken ashore.
UNIQUE FIGURE IN HISTORY.
General Diaz, of Mexico, Cannot Get
Away.
City of Mexico, Mexico. —From the
state of San Luis Potosi comes the
first boom of the candidacy of Gener
al Diaz for another term as president,
the first announcement of the plan of
the people to force upon the presi
dent the acceptance of another term
for the completion of the work he has
begun. It comes in the form of a
proclamation signed iby citizens call
in's upon the states of the republic
to agree upon a date, and in special
audience present to the president the
claims of the Mexican people upon
his services for another term of six
years.
The election takes place in 1910.
President Diaz has said he would not
again be a candidate. He has served
for thirty years.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE ACCEPTS.
Hisgen Formally Notified by the
Independence Party.
New York City.—Thopias L. His
gen, independence party candidate for
president, was notified of his nomina
tion by that party. It was originally
planned to notify John Temple
Graves, the party’s candidate for vice
president, at the same time, but Mr.
Graves was not able to be present
on account of poor health.
Henry A. Powell of New York made
the notification address and Mr. His
gen in accepting stated that he re
garded his nomination as a call to
public service. Mr. Hisgen went
right Into the main issues of the
campaign, and gave a vigorous out
line of the principles and policies he
stands for.
BLACKMAILED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
Frenchman Sought Money By Trying
to Scare the President.
Bordeaux. France. —An extraordi
nary story was told at the courtmar
tial of a member of the military am
bulance corps, Camille Marquet, who
■was charged with attempting to black
mail President Roosevelt. According
to the evidence before the court, Mar
quet wrote to the president on Janu
ary 9, demanding on behalf of “my
society,” wthopt other specifications,
$2,000 “on account of services render
ed during the presidential election”
and promising further "immense
help.”
The president handed the letters to
the French consul general, who com
municated with the French police.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
It is announced that Mr. Bryan will
not come into the south during the
campaign, hut will devote all his time
to the doubtful states.
"It puts a premium on reckless
t banking and is an inducement to
i reckless banking.” Thus said Mr. Taft
I in response to a direct question, state
what, in his opinion, is the vital ob
jection to the proposed plan to guar
anty deposits in national banks.
Eugne W. Chafln. prohibitionist
candidate for president, in a speech
at Minneapolis. Minn., said: “If I am
elected president of the United States
and inaugurated on the 4th day of
next March. I will call a special ses
sion of the congress of the United
States the next day and ask the mem
bers to legislate the liquor traffic out
of existence."
The prediction of increased strength
in the national prohibition movement
this year is based on the remarkable
gains that local prohibition has made
in a large number of states. At the
beginning of the year there were six
prohibition states in the union—
Maine. Georgia. North Dakota, Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Alabama
A monument in the Bethel ceme
tery. near Montgomery, Mo., has this
memorable appeal for Mr. Brvan as
an epitah for the late B. H. Norris:
"Kind friends. I’ve left behind.
Cast your vote for W. J. Bryan.”**
Sacred to the memory of B. H. Nor
ris, died April 9, 1900. Age 50 years.
Arrangements for WW'®"' H. Taft's
trip to Toledo, where ne will attend
the G. A. R. reunion, have been com
pleted. A special car will carry Mr.
Taft, correspondents and secretaries
and speeches will be made from the
car platform.
On occasion to his visit to his
birthplace at Salem, 111., \s’. J. Bryan
was greeted by an immense crowd.
Mr. Bryan inspected the Bryan-Ben
nett library given by himself and Phil
C. S. Bennett, to the city of Salem.
The library is built on the spot on
which was located the house in which
Mr. Bryan was born.
William Randolph Hearst on being
asked to resign from the Iroquois club
a democratic organization of San
Francisco, sent in his resignation, to
gether with a letter in w’hich he stat
ed that he was no longer a democrat
and asked the club members: "Arc
you 1902 democrats, or 1906 demo
crats, or 1900 democrats, or 1904 dem
ocrats, or are you *I9OB democrats?
Are you Cleveland democrats? Are
you Parker democrats or are you Bry
an democrats?
A statement has been issued by
Treasurer Haskell of the democratic
campaign committee acknowiedging
$19,458 turned In to the campaign
fund by five daily newspapers and
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan’s paper.
Union labor's equation in the dem
ocratic national campaign and the
plans that have been formulated by
officers of the American Federation of
Labor to swing the labor vote to Wil
liam J. Bryan, were subject matters
of a series of conferences in Wash
ington, D. C., between National Chair
man Norman E. Mack and Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, Secretary Mor
rison. of the Federation, and Presi
dent McConnell, of the Machinists'
union.
Mr. Taft is spending the week on
Middle Bass island in Lake Erie fish
ing and resting before starting on a
speech-making trip in Maryland.
A large bale of hay reached Lin
coln, Neb., from the Bryan-Bailey
club of Forney, Texas, addressed to
the man w’ho keeps the democratic
mule, Lincoln, Neb. It was delivered
to the mule who seemed to appreciate
it.
The officials of the Georgia State
fair have written Mr. Bryan offering
to contribute SSO a week to the dem
acratic campaign fund for the privi
lege of exhibiting the famous demo
cratic trick mule at the state fair in
Georgia.
It is said that in the event of Sam
uel Gompers. president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, making
speeches during the campaign favor
ing Mr. Bryan, Secretary Strauss, of
the department of commerce and la
bor would answer the argnments for
the republicans.
"If elected I shall call the Sixty
first congress together in extraordi
nary session to revise the tariff at the
very earliest moment l have authority
to do so. I consider such action to
be my obligation under the tariff
plank of the republican platform.”
The foregoing is William H. Taft's
statement made in expressing his
views regarding the revision of the
tariff.
Mr. Bryan will a determined
effort to place New York state in the
democratic column. He will speak
in New York city, Syracuse and Ro
chester. between September 16 and
20, and early in October will again
speak in New York city and in Buf
falo.
Mr. Taft has foiled the plan to get
him into the West Virginia republican
tangle. He has refused politely the in
vitation to “visit a few prominent
West Virginia towns in the mountain
resort thirty miles from Hot Springs."
The refusal is of such a manner a*
to smooth the feelings of both fac
tions. He gives as the reason that a
visit would be misconstrued.
H is said in New York that Tam
anv Hall will not support Martin W.
Littleton for governor of that state.
This comes as a surprise to the dem
ocrats of New York.
In American politics none of the
minor parties has enjoyed so long a
life as the prohibition party. For
more than 35 years a prohibition na
tional ticket has been in the field at
eyery presidential election.
MINERS STRIKE SETTLED
State Interference Given at the
Reason by Laborers.
NEWS RECEIVED WITH JOY
All Striker* Will Be Re-En p'oyed Ex
cept Those Who Have Committed
Act* of Lawlessness.
Birmingham. Ala. -An official order
calling off the strike of coal miners
in the Birmingham district was issu
ed to all the camps in this section.
It vas signed by President Uewis,
Vice President White and Secretary-
Treasurer Ryan, national officers of
the United Mine Workers of America.
The order ends a strike began July 6,
and which has been marked by much
violence The news was received
with great rejoicing in Birmingham.
The official order, after reviewing the
history of the strike says:
• The climax was reached when the
governor of Alabama said that the
miners shall not be permitted to live
in tented camps and that public meet
ings shall not be held in the mining
communities of the state during this
strike. In other words, the strike
must end, regardless of the cost to
the miners or any rights they have
in the premises.
The United Mine Workers of
America is a law-abiding institution.
It is a defender of law and order. It
believes in the maintenance of the
peace and tranquility of every com
munity.
"Since the state authorities have
decided to end the strike there is
nothing for the United Mine Workers
to do but to bow in submission to
the mandates. Recognizing the futil
ity of continuing the strike under
those circumstances, we have decided
to declare it off September Ist, and
take this means of notifying you that
the strike is to be brought to an end
and you are advised to secure em
plovment.
“No one can regret more keenly
than ourselves this ending of \the
strike in Alabama.
"The United Mine Workers, as an
organization, will do now as it always
has done for its striking members —
assist those in need, and help those
who cannot secure employment to go
elsewhere.’’
The end of the strike means that
practically all the miners in Bidming
ham district will be on a non-union
basis. No conferences between offi
cials of the union and officials of the
operators' association were held in
Birmingham. It is known, however,
that operators will take back all the
men, except those who have commit
ted acts of lawlessness.
COTTON CROP SLOW TO OPEN.
Damage Caused by Flood —801 l Wee
vils Active in Louisiana.
Memphis, Tenn. —The Commercial-
Appeal’s weekly cotton crop summary
is as follows:
Reports of the two Carolinas show
that with the close of the week many
of the lowlands were still under wa
ter. The crop on these lands has
been damaged, but to what extent has
not been determined. The area cov
ered by water was not large. In
many districts the cotton is raised on
the uplafids and the corn in the bot
toms. The rains were long-continued
and the grade of the open cotton on
the uplands was lowered, but other
wise the damage was small. Only a
few counties in northeastern Georgia
were affected by floods. The Georgia
crop is opening rapidly and the out
turn is not so heavy as was earlier
anticipated.
The crop in northern Alabama and
Tennessee is excellent. There are
no complaints, and only some unusual
weather development qan prevent a
large yield. In the southern half of
Alabama and Mississippi moderate de
terioration has taken place, due prin
cipally to shedding. Reports, however,
indicate that this complaint is less
general than one week ago.
801 l weevils are active almost
throughout the state of Louisiana and
are the cause of much damage and
apprehension. Elsewhere they are not
a factor.
MURDERER COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Became Insane as Result of Killing
Wife and Son.
Clay City, 111. —Insane as the result
of having slaM his wife and wounded
his son, Julius Turner, a farmer, com
mitted suicide in the county jail here.
He hanged himself with the sheets
from his cot.
The shooting of Mrs. Turner and
her son occurred June 29. The mur
der was the result of insane jealousy
on the part of the husband. The son
was mistaken for a rival and he and
his mother were shot while they were j
standing in the dark just outside the
village church.
Government Cotton Crop Report.
Washington, D. €.—The crop report
of the department of agriculture
shows that the average condition of
the cotton crop on August 25 was 76.1
per cent of a normal. This compared
with 83 on July 25, last; 72.2 on Aug
ust 25. 1907; 77.3 on August 25, 1906;
and 73.9 the average of August 25 con
ditions for the past ten years.
Fears For Safety of Ship.
San Francisco, Cal. —Gravest fears
are entertained for the safety of the
British steameT Aeon, which cleared
from this port tor Sydney and has not
yet arrived here. The steamer Lord
Sefton. of the same ine, has arrived
at Auckland and reports no sign of
the Aeon.
BIG FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
Destroys Two Millioni Dollar* Whrth of
Property in Business Section.
New Orleans, La.— Fire, which
broke out in the center of the com
mercial district here, swept over por
tions of three blocks, destroying a
large number of wholesale houses,
manufacturing plants and small
stores. Originating at Bienville and
Chartres streets, the flames worked
their way north as far as Conti
street and west toward Royal, bring
ing about a property loss of over two
million dollars before they were final
ly subdued.
Several circumstances combined to
give the fire a headway which proved
hard to overcome. At the time the
alarm was turned in, the New Orleans
firemen were in the midst, of their
annual picnic at a suburban park,
and the engines and patrols respond
ed with a mere handful of men. It
was fully an hour before the depart
ment was in a position to make any
thing like a successful fight against
the fire, and even then the handicap
against it was added to by an inade
quate supply of water.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular that has occurred in New Or
leans during recent years. The sec
tion devastated was made largely of
old buildings, some over a half-cen
tury in use. They proved like so
much tinder to the flames, and fanned
by a high wind, the fire made rapid
progress.
Two warehouses, filled with wines
and liquors, were among the buildings
destroyed by the fire. As they burned
the barrels of whiskey and ibrandy ex
ploded with thunderous roars, which
could be heard for blocks and which
shook the walls of adjoining buildings
and endangered the lives of firemen
engaged in fighting the flames.
It was not until several hours had
elapsed that the fire was gotten under
control, and even that it continued to
burn well into the night.
GENERAL A. P. SMART DEAR.'
Was Lieutenant General in the Con
federate States Army.
Biloxi, Miss. —General Alexander P.
Stewart, one of the last two surviving
lieutenants general of the confederate
states army, died at his home
here. Although in his eiglty-seventh
year, and suffering from the infirmi
ties of old age, General Stewart’s
death was sudden, and came as a dis
tinct shock and surprise to his rela
tives, cosarades and friends. Death
was due So heart disease.
General Stewart was a native of
Tennessee, and lived the greater part
of his life in that state, but of late
years had been makkig his home in
Biloxi, where he found the salt air
and pine woods of great benefit to his
health.
When the civil war broke out, Stew
art was one of the earliest volunteers
in the confederate army. He offered
his services to Isham G. Harris, then
governor of Tennessee, who made
him a major in the artillery.
General Stewart participated in
many of the battles during the war,
being especially active in the Tennes
see campaign and in the battles
around Atlanta.
After the final surrender of the con
federacy, General Stewart returned
quietly to his home. For five years
he was engaged in business, when
once again his profession called him.
1-Ie was unanimously elected chancel
lor of the University of Mississippi.
He remained at the head of the uni
versity for twelve years.
A tribute to his steadfast character
is the sobriquet given him by his sol
diers in battle when the cry, “Follow
Old Straight,” would turn a rout to
a victory, a retreat to a glorious suc
cess.
General Stewart’s death leaves only
General Simon Bolivar Buckner as the
only surviving lieutenant general of
the confederate states army.
STATUS OF BOLL WEEVIL.
Special Investigation by Bureau of
Entomology.
Dallas. Texas.—The United States
bureau of entomology, has just com
pleteed a special investigation to de
termine the exact present status of
the boll weevil. In this work ento
mologists have visited thirty-four rep
resentative locallities. Of these lo
calities twenty-four were in Texas,
seven in Louisiana, two in Oklahoma’
and one in Arkansas.
The result of the examination in
dicates the damage by the weevil to
be considerably less this year than in
1907. Another important indication
is that the damage ,bv the boll \vbrm,
though extensive, will not offset the
reduced damage by the boll weevil.
At each of the places visited careful
examinations were given a number
of fields which were selected to rep
resent the general condition of the lo
cality. In almost all cases fields
were visited that had been examined
early in the season and also during
previous years.
STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE.
Special Committee to Consider Prop
osition of Simplified Form.
Detroit, Mich.—Action of great in
terest to insurance officials and fire
insurance men all over the country,
was taken by the national convention
of insurance commissioners, when a
> esolution was adopted calling for the
appointment of a special committee
which will make an exhaustive con
sideration of the question of the de
sirability of a simplified form of stan
dard fire insurance policy. The com
mittee will invite conferences with all
interested persons and report at the
next annual meeting of the insurance
commissioners, which seems likely to
be held in Colorado Springs.
PREDICTS RECORD CROP
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Optimistic as to Outlook.
FARMERS ARE PROSPEROUS
Estimates 13,000,000 Bale Cotton Crop
Which Sold at 9 1-2 Cents Will
Bring in $600,000,000.
Washington, D. C. — before leav
ing Washington for his farm in lowa,
Secretary Wilson, of the department
of agriculture, said that this year’s
crops would exceed any ever produc
ed in former years. This statement he
said, he was willing to make not from
hearsay, alone, but from facts which
he had gathered from every section
of the United States.
That the secretary is not guessing
about the yield this year is borne out
by the fact that the corn crop, ac
cording to present estimaes, will yield
2,700,000,000 bushels, which, if sold
at 72 cents a bushel, the September
price, will bring in $1,700,000.
The wheat crop, with a yield of
about 675,000,000 bushels, at 93 cents,
per bushel, will amount to $627,000,-
000.
The cotton crop, which promises to
be at least 13,000,000 bales, will, if
sold for 9 1-2 cents per pound, bring
in $600,000,000.
All the crops of the last year were
estimated by the government ofay
estimated by the department of agri
culture at a caluation of $7,412,000,-
000 on the farm, and, in view of the
large yield this year and the good
prices generally obtained, it is only
reasonable to expect that this year
the farmers will produce net wealth
worth at least $8,000,000,000, if not
more. This amount has never yet
been realized from the sale of farm
products.
The farmers of the United States,
as a whole, are in a better financial
condition than they have ever been
before, according to statistics secur
ed by the census bureau and given to
Secretary Wilson, and, since fewer
mortgages exist, they will be enabled
to do still better next year by being
able to pay cash for all supplies and
other commodities required in their
work.
From the far western states, here
the large hay and corn crops are
made, and where thousands of bush
els of the yellow grain are soon to
be housed and later turned into mon
ey, reports come that the farmers are
preparing to take advantage of the
present good times by enlarging their
holding, erecting new buildings and
generally investing their earnings to
better advantage.
Just as Mr. Wilson was leaving
Washington he called a number of
workers in the agricultural depart
ment into his private office, and to
them and a group of newspaper men
said that from all indications there
would be excellent harvests this fall,
that money wouldl be plentiful and
that every one, especially the farmers,
should be thankful for the bountiful
yield.
FATALITIES IN COAL MINES.
Conference Dealing With Mine Condi
tions in America.
Pittsburg, Pa. —A conference deal
ing with mining conditions existing
in the United States and the great
rumber of fatalities resulting from
mine accidents, is being held here.
Victor Watteyne, chief of the Belgian
department of mines, is conferring
with Clarence Hall, of the United
States geological survey, who is in
charge of the government experiment
al station here, and J. W. Paul, chief
of the department of mines of West
Virginia.
A thorough investigation of the re
cent mine disasters in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Alabama will be
made. Captain Desborrough of Eng
land, and Herr Meissner of Germany,
both expert mining engineers, will
join Mr. Watteyne in the investiga
tion for which congress has appro
priated $150,000.
DECLARES WAR ON GAMBLERS.
Governor of New Jersey To Use Mi
litia Against Atlantic City Barrooms.
Seagirt, N. J.—Flagrant, open and
defiiant violation of the law" at At
lantic City, the largest pleasure re
sort in the United States, having been
charged in presentments made to Gov
ernor Fort, that official has issued a
proclamation in which he threatened
to restore order and enforce respect
for the law r by means of state troops,
if necessary. For some time it has
been charged that there has been no
observance of the Sunday laws nor
of the anti-gambling laws in Atlantic
City, and that it was impossible to
obtain enforcement of the statutes in
these respects.
National Storage of Wool.
Salt Lake, Utah.—Resolutions ap
proving the plan for national storage
of the western wool crop were adopt
ed unanimously by the National Wool
Growers’ association. The president
was authorized to select a city where
a central store market will be estab
lished and to form a corporation.
Building Statistics Issued.
Washington, D. C. —The total cost
of the buildings erected in the prin
cipal cities of the United States in
1907 was $661.076,256,. a net decrease
of $17,634,683 from the figures of 1906.
In the cities showing a decrease in
building. New York takes the lead,
with a falling off of $141,591,982, or
26.94 per cent.