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SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED
Summer Visitors are Lost While
Boating at Deer Island.
11U NO BALLAST UrtLLnUI
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When Gole Struck Craft It
Three Men S av \ rt Were Unable to
H Help 1 m.v, Others on Account . H High .c, baa.
Deer Isle, Maine.—Seven summer
visitors out of a party of ten were
drowned by the capsizing of a 3o-foot
sloop in Penobscot Bay, off this
island. The drowned are: Miss Al
ice Torro, Washington, D. C.; Miss
Eleanor Toro, Washington, D. C.;
Miss Kellog, Baltimore; Lutie Kel
logg, Baltimore; Mrs. Lucy S. Craw
ley, Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth G.
Evans, Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mas
sachusqtts; Jason C. Hutchins, of
Bangor. Those saved were: Captain
Haskell, Deer Isle; Professor Edwaid
Crawley, Philadelphia, husband of
Mrs. Crawley; Onry 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 was of
the "open” variety.
It had no deck forward and no
cabin and it S contained we5h“?d no ballast as :
the party of the boat
down uo \n quite at iteheavllv neamy, anu and Captain e p Has
wlterT nC n g
thought that * the craft would
be well balanced The party had
scarcelv been gone an hour before the
wind freshened up keeling the sloop
well over and dashing S the sprav P ’ upon 1
the occupants
Ail the party were perched high on
the weather side as the sloop cut
through the waves with the water al
most coming over tlie gniiv/Eiles 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. j
For one brief moment it was every
one for one's self. Weighted down
with their water-soaked clothes and
chiiletl through by the cold water, the
women were unable to keep them
person “nearest
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 reseu
ers worked vigorously over them all
efforts to restore life failed, The
bodies were taken ashore. i
UNIQIE FIGURE IN HISTORY.
General Diaz, of Mexico, Cannot Get j
Away. * I
City of Mexico, Mexico.—From the
state of San Luis Potosi comes the !
first boom of the candidacy president,* of Gener
al Diaz for another term as
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 by citizens call
ing 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.—Thomas L. His
gen, independence party candidate for
president, was notified of his nomina
president, at the same time, but Mr.
cm account - of - poor “ b,e health. v* V____
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, ,
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Frenchman Sought Money By Trying
to Scare the President.
Bordeaux, France.—An
nary story was told at the courtmar
tial of a member of the military am
bulance bulance corps, corps, Camille Camille Marquet, Marquet, who 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,” wthout other specifications,
$2,000 “on account of services render
ed during the presidential election”
and promising further “immense
help.” the
The president har.ded letters to
the French consul general, who com
nrunicated with ihe French police,
MAYGR CHARGED WITH ARSON.
Porto Rican Official Arrested for
Causing Great Fire.
San Juan. P. R.—Heraclio Mendosa,
mayor of Cayey, was arrested, charg¬
ed with arson. It is alleged that a
recent fire at Cayey, in which many
buildings were destroyed, was caused
by Mendosa. His arrest followed the
entering of a suit by him to recover
$33,000 from insurance companies for
damage done by the fire, He was
held in $10,000 bail.
OF POLITICAL INTEREST.
It is announced that Mr. Bryan will j
not come into the south during the j
campaign, but will devote all his time,
to the doubtful states.
“k puts a premium on reckless
i in »S res ponse ^! to a direct question state
| what, in his opinion, is the vital on
•’ ectio ' 1 t0 tile proposedl P ank * g .....
anty deposlts !n naUOna ' ‘
Eugr.e W. Chafin. prohibitionist _ .
cand.date for president, in a speech
at Minneapolis, Minn., said : “If I am,
elected president of the 1 nited btates ■
and inaugurated on the 4th day cf
next March . , will call a special ses- j
sion of the congress of the l nited
States the next day and ask the mem-j
bers to legislate the liquor name o t
°f existence. i
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. i
^ monument in the Bethel ceme
tery near Montgomery, Mo., has this
memorable appeal for Mr. Bryan as
an ep jtah for the late B. H. Norris: |
“Kind friends. I’ve left behinu,
^ ast )' our vote for W. J. Bryan.” ,
Sacred to the memorv 190-0.* of B. H. Nor-j
ris, died April 9, Age 50 years.
Arrangements foi \\ >' u H. Tnft Uafts -„
trlp t0 Toledo " here ne will attend
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the G - A - R ‘ reunl0n > have been com
pleted. A special car will carry Mr.
Taft ’ correspondents and secretaries
and s j ,e< ; clles will be made from the
car P la t form -
On occasion to his visit to his
birthplace at Salem, Ill., W. J. Bryan
was greeted by an immense crowd,
Mr. Bryan inspected the Bryan-Ben
nett library given ’ay himself and Phil
U. S. Bennett, to the city of Salem,
The lihi ciry 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 which he stat
ed that he was no longer a democrat
and asked the club members: “Are
you 1902 democrats, or 19061 demo
or 1900 demociats, or 1904 dem
ocrats. or are you 1908 democrats?
Are you Cleveland democrats? Are
you P^~rats or are you Bry
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campaign committee acknowledging
«1».«8 turned In to the campaign
fund by five daily newspapers and
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan’s paper. I
Union labor’s equation in the dem
ocratic national campaign and the
plans that have been formulafed by
officers of the American Federation of
Labor to swing the labor vote to Wil-.
liam..!. Bryan, were subject matters! Wash-!
of a series of conferences in
ington, D. C., between National Chair
man Norman E. Mack and Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. Secretary Mor
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
illg and r ® ati ng before starting on a
6 ’ p ® ec J 1 * rna ^ I P® ,a Mary an
^ from 1 e 1 J 121 e ' ^ ’ 1 ’
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0 0I J! e ‘’i eX aS /v.« t ' /
the m fL 1 ,'V° ke eps .
™ u A , e toyman , T . , liv ,
’ nimreeiate
nu e wbn ° tn p
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The officials of the Georgia State
^ a * r have written Mr. Bryan offering
t0 contribute $50 a week to the dem
acratic campaign fund for the
’ege of exhibiting the famous demo
cratic trick mule at the state fair in
Georgia.
1 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
i ing Mr. Bryan, Secretary Strauss, of
the department of commerce and la¬
bor would answer the arguments for
the republicans.
“If elected I shall call the Sixty
first congress together in extraordi
aar >’ session to revise the tariff at the
very earliest moment I have authority
The foregoing is William H. Taft’s
.is ss
! im tai iff iff.
Mr. Bryan will make 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
j tangle. vitation He has "visit refused few politely the in
to a prominent
West Virginia towns in the mountain \
resort thirty miles from Hot Springs.’
The refusal is of such a manner as
t0 smooth the feelings of both fae
tions tions. . He gives as the reason that a
v j S it would ,be misconstrued,
It is said in New York that Tam
any Hall will not support Martin W.
Littleton for governor of that state.
This comes as a surprise to the dem
°<fi' a,s ° r *' ew ioik.
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
every ^residential election.
Thomas Watson, the populist can
(stop I didate for president, was forccffT to
in Athens, Ga.. for twenty-four
hours on account of the floods in that
district. He tried to hire a special
train to take him to Augusta where
he was to speak, but was unsuccess
ful.
Practically comnlet returns from
the democratic primary held in South
Carolina show that Governor M. F.
Ansel has defeated Cole L. Biease for
'-.overnor by a plurality of 19,174. 91
380 ballot J€ ■ing cast in this con
test.
STRIKE SETTLED
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Mate Interference (_»iven as the !
Reason by Laborers. j
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NEWS RECEIVED WITH JOY J
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All Strikers Will Be Re-En p oyed Ex-j
cept Those Who Have Committed
Acts of Lawlessness.
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^fflirniiiighum, Ala. An official ordei
ca llin#g * off the strike of coal miners
th Birmingham district was issu
e(1 tQ all the camps in th i s section.'
It was s i gne d by President Lewis, I
yj ce p res jdent White and Secretary
Treasurer Ryan, national officers of
the United Mine Workers of America. |
The order ends a strike begaii 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
govetnot of Alabama said that the
f nil ’ er ® aka ^ not be Permitted to live
| n tented camps and that Public meet
mgs shall not be held in the mining
communities of the state during this
strike. In other words, the strike : j
must end, regardless of the cost to |
the miners or any rights they have j
’be premises.
“ rhe United Mine Workers of
Ameiica is a law-abiding institution, I
[t is a defender of law and or^er. It
in the maintenance of the i
and tranqui i ity of eV ery com- I
.. nitv *‘ j
„ Si e the state authorities have ;
j ded to end the strike there is
for the United Mine Workers
do but to bow in submission to
mandates. Recognizing the futil
of continuing the strike under
circumstances, we have decided
declare it. off September 1st, and
take this means of notifying you that
strike is to be hi ought to s.n end
and you are advised to secure em
ployment.
“Ne one can regret moie keenly
’ban ourselves this ending of J e
strike in Alabama
The United Mine Workers, as an
organization, will do now as a ways
has done for its striking mem ers
assist those in need, and p -
who cannot secure employment to ^
elsewhere^ The end o the strike means that
practical y all the miners in Bidming
ham !
of the union and officials of the
onerators^ assoc,aUon ^e held ,n
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operators wdl take , k ^ , all th
ai ® n - except " no na
ted acls ot , la " fc> ssness.
COTTON CROP SLOW TO OPEN. |
Damage Caused by Flood-Boll Wee
vils Active in Louisiana.
Memphis, Tenn.—The Commercial
Appeal sweekB co on crop summary
ls as 0 °" s :
Reports of the two Carolinas show
that with the close of the weok*maWy
of the lowlands were still under wa
ter. The crop on these lands has
been damaged, but to what extent has
n*ot been determined. The area cov
bv water was not larae In
m districts the cotton is raised on
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lhg lands and , he corn in the bot .
toms. The rains were long-continued
and the grade of the open cotton on
the uplands was lowered, but other- i
wise the damage was small. Only
few counties in northeastern Georgia
were affected by floods. The Georgia
crop is °P eilin g rapidly and the out
turn is not so heavy as was earlier
anticipated.
rp be cr0 p j n northern Alabama aud
Tennessee is excellent. There are i
n0 CO mplaints, and only some unusual
wea ther development can 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.
Boll weevils are active almost
throughout the state of Louisiana and
are the cause of much damage aud
apprehension. Elsewhere they are not
a factor.
; MURDERER COMMITTED SUICIDE.
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Became Insane as Result of Killing
! his son, Julius Turner, a farmer, com- 1
from his cot.
The shooting of Mrs. Turner and
ber 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
bis mother were shot while they were
j standing in the dark just outside the
village church.
Government Cotton Crop Report.
Washington, D. C —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
list 25, 1907; 77.3 on August 25, 1906
and 73.9 the average of August 25 con
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ditions for the past ten years
c iGSrS tOF OinGty Ot SIllD. _
San Francisco, Cal—Gravest f<ar<
ar e entertained for the safety of the
British steamer Aeon, which cleared
from this port for 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 Acoa.
$500,000,000 in United States Vault
Washington, D. C. — Uncle Sam i
enriched $500. 1 ,000 bv the provls
ions of the Vreeland-Aldrch nn-rgen- j
cy currency measure, has s > much 1
money on hand that he cannoi ait
for the ■
construction of the ne vaults I
the tieasuiy building, hut I rent-1
ed storage vaults in the Unit Trust
building and placed relays of armed
guards both inside and out mi! ‘ of the
hanking offices, protect mix
dollars awaiting the call an
that may never n erial
ize.
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STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE.
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Special Committee to Consider Prop¬
! osition of Simplified Form.
Detroit, Mich.—Action of great in
terest t0 insuran ce officials and fire
’ nsurance men all over the country,
" as ,a b en by the national convention
of insurance commissioners, when a
resolution was adopted calling for the
appointment of a special committee
which wil1 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.
TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP.
Colombia 'and Japan Also Arrange
Trade Agreement.
Bogota, Colombia.—The present ses
»I° n of lpe aa tional assembly has
come to an end and there has been
issued a statement relating that Co
lombia has adopted a treaty of
friendship and commerce with Japan;
another with Switzerland; a commer¬
cial and industrial treaty with Great
Britain and a fiscal convention with
the holy see.
BIG FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
Ce'.troys Two Mill on Dollars 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
t j ong 0 * t h ree blocks, destroying a
cf wholesale houses,
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 tp
tdve 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
anmlfl 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
m ent was in a position to make any
thing like a successful fight against
against’it the fire and even then the handicap
was added to by an inade
quate supply fire* of water
The was one of the most spec
tacular that has occurred in New Or
i ea ns during recent years. The sec
t i Qn devas t a ted 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
bv 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
^ plo , *f barrels m . } h o f thunderous whiskey . , and roars .brandy , which , ex
could u be heard for blocks and which
sh ° ok tk f walls of adjoining buildings
and endangered the lives of firemen
en gaged in fighting the flames,
11 was not until several hours had
ela Psed that the fire was gotten under
?°ntrol, and even that it continued to
burn well into the night,
lilNERAL A. P. SMART READ.
Was Lieutenant General In the Con
federate States Army,
Biloxi ’ Miss.—General Alexander P
g tewart 0I]e of the j agt two surv iving
lieutenants general of the confederate
states army djed
bere Although in his eighty-seventh
year> an(1 gU ff er j n g f rom tb e i n fl rm j.
t j e ^ 0 j d age General Stew'art’s cll
deat h was sudden, and came as a
linct shock and surprise to his rela
J, comrades °“ r fles and a J ™ f iends d8 Death
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Stewarf h waf’a
General native of
_ Tennessee, and lived
the greater part
of his life in that state, but of late
years had been making 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 r -
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.
Generai Stewart participated in
many of the battles during the war,
kemg especially active in the Tennes
£ee ? ai ? pai8a and in lh e battles
aK ! l l ad Atlania.
“f ,ei the final surrender of the con
. |eracy,
(JC General ^lewart returned
£ uie v ’° ^ 11S kome. lor five years
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ivas engaged in business, when
« nce a S ain his profession called him.
He was unanimously elected chancel
Ge of remained l ^. e University at the head of Mississippi,
of the uni
ve A ^ 61 tribute f y . 1 5°, r twe to *J. his e years, steadfast character
* s ’be sobriquet given him by his sol
^ 01d . 1 1 ® 1 rs c Straight, , 1 , n ® wllea would ’be turn cry, “Follow- rout to
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. ’°ry, retreat
a vle a to a glorious sue
cess,
General Stewart’s death leaves only
General Simon Bolivar Buckner as the
oa ’y surviving lieutenant general of
e confederate states army,
STATES (IF BULL WEEVIL.
Special Investigation by Bureau of
Entomology.
Dallas, Texas.—The United States
bureau of entomology, has just eom
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
5pV pn r ’ in T miiKtnnn twn 1 Oklohoina n
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tnougn 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. >
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-—Just before leav¬
ing Washington for his farm in Iowa,
Secretary Wilson, of the department
of agriculture, said that this year’s
crops would exceed any ever produc¬
ed in former years. This statement flie
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 676,000,000 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 caluatlon of $7,412,000,
000 on the farm, and, in view of the
large yield this year and the good
pi ices 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, ^specially the farmers,
should be thankful for the 'bountiful
yield.
FATALITIES IN COAL HINES.
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
number or fatalities resulting from
mine accidents, is being^held here
Victor Watteype, 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 bo
made. Captain Desborrough of Eng¬
land, and Herr Meissner of Germany
both expert mining engineers, will’
join Mr. \\ atteyne in the investiga¬
tion for which congress has appro
priated $150,000.
DEULARES 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 l nited 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 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
t it\ and that it was impossible to
obtain enforcement of the statutes in
these respects.
National Storage ot 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 eitv 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 $661,076,286, a net decrease
of $17,634,683 from the figures of 1906.
n c *t* es showing a decrease in
building, New York takes the lead
With a falling off of $141,591,982 or
2b.94 per cent.
Woman Kurt a! Bargain Counter.
Logansport, Ind.—Shopping in this
city is strenuous. During a rush cf
shoppers in a five and ten-cent store
that was having a baragin sale on
granite ware. Miss Bessie Baker, 20
years old, fainted after getting a dish
pan. She was carried outside and her
first words on recovering were:
‘‘Where’s my pan; where’s my nan 9 ”
An unknown boy was knocked down
and trampled, suffering a fractured
arm. Many received bad bumps and
and torn dresses.
LATE NEWS NOTES,
General.
James Keif Hardie
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nved house of (w? comm
at Montreal n ’ has &
ject nad of amalgamate Mr. Hardi’e’s ?n S da “ ls Thf -o
£ts the to ' t
a n trades un i°nisl ncan am
mt s and socia
ters V^kX'Thow ™ comu^ '»«« CiXn i. •N’eti
give the gas V
efit of the doubt, that the
is one that is tpo slow Vh! here the ’
that are too fast lere ai 'e tw
Croyion“ m wiU fir!? * he »Mive ,
lion of being the , ,,
profe
circl
mile
nvers. His destination Cl u v i kenzi
mi Hope, es within which the is about T Goa
not Artie circle
for propose to return i, 1 cl illati
patients at least three years and'E^f n !, o:
will be Indians
Declaring that he h»a • 01
message from heaven would in a '
the by a city terrible of New disaster York S? . h p°">
unless buildings it would tumble to theV In ltj '’ 1
has repented, to’ R ev cong^
announced his
SXSf 0 ” al ‘ e ,M " h ™ ;
Boston electrical engineering wanlnt'L*
perts have issued a
ers the placing and other of flagstaff* tall structures on sk ys2
declare nmg Is that great the and danger that, all from Sg
must be If removed not there from will the be high 2
phe the u a catastro
n near future which
high appalling smokestacks They also and insist chimneys on ! J
ing equipped with “spiders" a nrn
form of lightning conductor
Mrs. Mee Stone, wife of a wealth,
young business man of Wythevib
Tenn., who has been missing for to¬
days, and who, it is feared, has b
the victim of foul play, has becom
violently .insane. Not a trace ha
been heard from the young man.
With one of his own razors W c
Coulee, a St. Louis barber, commit.
ted suicide by cutting his throat
Conlee had been despondent for som
time, owing to the falling off 0 f hi
business, which he ascribed to th
use of safety razors bv former cus
tomers.
The return of Cardinal GibbonJ
from abroad will be a social epoch
With the Catholic circles of BaUimorJ
and the south. He is expected Octo¬
ber JO. Governor Crothers has an¬
nounced that he intended to assemble
his staff and hold a public reception
The mayor of the city will allso car
rv out a suitable recetpion for the
prelate.
Veteran printers of the United
States will be benefited by the old-ad
pensions to be paid by the Internal pent
tional Typographical union. The
sion of $4 a week for printers more
than 60 years old who have been
members of the union for twenty
years or longer has become effective,
and the first money will be paid out
of the pension fund.
As a result of a collision with a
sailboat as she was leaving London
the steamer Etruria, Cunard line, was
unable to leave on her trip to New
York. The sailboat was sunk and one
of .the crew drowned. A panic was
averted by the calmness of the crew
aboard the immense liner.
After a world-wide chase over three
continents, Bela Walder, said to be
a nobleman from Austria-Hungary,
accused of forgeries to the amount
of $50,000, was arrested in Chicago
and thrown into the county jail.
Washington.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sousa, the mother
of John Philip Sousa, the bandmaster,
died at her .home in Washington. She
was the widow of Antonio Sousa, who
was connected with the United States
marine band for years.
Records of the treasury department
show that the port of New York dur¬
ing the fiscal year of 1907T90S has a
larger balance of trade in its favor
than ever before. For the entire
United States the balance is $666,457,-
103, which exceeds by $ 2 000,000 the
, 1900
largest year before, which was
1901. ‘
David E. Thompson, American am¬
bassador to Mexico, was run down
by a bicyclist in the City of Mexico
and suffered a fracture of one arm
and contusions of the face. An, X-ray
examination was made to ascertain it
he had suffered any other injuries.
His condition was not considered to
be serious.
President Roosevelt received^ ca¬
blegram from the governor
of Australia thanking the America
government ' r sending the battleship
fle<?t to their coutnry.
The United States navy deparment
has adopted the policy which " a
suggested by the chief constructor
of the navy of installing at the prin¬
cipal yards modern facilities for
navy rlie
handling heavy weights , n
step in this direction ha's been
by inviting bids for the construrt
of a one hundred-ton derrick Puget
will be established at the
Sound navy yard.
The Portuguese chamber of deP u
ties has approved the extradition
between the United States m
treaty provides iw
Portugal. The treaty of
tradition for twenty-one political s ,
fenses. It excepts o 1
the authois ^
but specifies that be
tempts against rulers shall
considered as such.
John in R. tent Early, at a an leper isolated ,s J e f m f in
a
outskirts of Washing o -
discovered to be suffering 1
disease while Ji'ias a ’ a lth ^
lodging house. r ” e h „ a ‘ the
have ' t0
officers Carolina - 0 ]j.
of North the leper
permission to remoi* b
Lynn, N. C., his home- ser vit*
health and marine hospi ■ sutfcor .
co-operating with the b v thori
North Carc “? a ul M
If the o Ear iy
refuse to take care eC i.
will be sent to >ne *■
in Louisiana.