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110 MEN ARE DROWNED
When the Star of Bengal Goes
Beneath the Waves.
TWENTr-SEVEN WERE SAVED
The Vessel Struck Rocks Off Coronation
Island and Was Dashed to Pieces.
Carried Cargo of Salmon.
Seattle, Wash. —Advices received
from Alaska, by the United States sig
nal corps, say that one hundred and
ten men, including nine whites, were
drowned in the wreck of the Ameri
can bark Star of Bengal, on Corona
tion Island, west of the Prince of
Wales archipelago.
Twenty-seven of the vessel’s crew
and passengers were saved.
The Star of Bengal belonged to the
Alaska Packers’ association, and was
on her way from Fort Wrangel to San
Francisco with a cargo of 45,000 cas
es of salmon.
In addition to her crew, she carried
one hundred Chinese and Japanese
who were employed in the canneries
of the company, taken aboard at Fort
Wrangel.
The Star of Bengal was being tow
ed to sea by two tugs and was blown
ashore on the west shore of Corona
tion island. The tugs were obliged to
abandon her in order to save them
selves.
GUN ON WARSHIP EXPLODES.
Thirteen Men on French Cruiser Kill
ed While at Target Practice.
Toulon, France. —During gunnery
drill one of the big turret guns on the
French armored cruiser Latouche Re
ville exploded with terriffic violence,
completely wrecking the after turret
and killing outright the entire gun
crew of thirteen. A number of men
were seriously injured, some of them
probably fatally.
The accident was similar to that
aboard the gunnery schoolship Cour
onne, off Les Salinas d’Hyeres, Aug
ust 12 last, when, by the bursting of
the breech of one of the guns, six men
were killed and eighteen injured.
The drill had been proceeding for
a considerable time, when, without
warning, the whole turret seemed to
r-blow out. Dismembered bodies were
thrown in all directions, and several
of them were hurled into the sea
through the great breach caused *
the explosion.
The horrible, the dead
■a. ■**wg£ouifi:led r together with shattered
arms and legs, littering the decks. A
call to quarters was sounded, and as
speedily as possible the wounded were
cared for. The gun that exploded was
7.6 inches bore, of which the cruiser
carried two.
Happening so soon after the acci
dent on the Couronne, this explosion
has caused a sensation in naval cir
cles, and doubtless will lead to a most
rigid investigation. The Latouche
Treville carries a complement of three
hundred and seventy men.
WANT BLACK DOLLS.
Negro Baptists Want Factory Which
Will Turn Out Negro Dolls.
Lexington, Ky.—At the meeting of
the colored National Baptist associa
tion, composed of negro leaders from
all parts of the world, in session here,
the following resoltuion was passed:
Whereas, our people for nearly half
a century, because of the uncomely
and deformed features of negro dolls,
have spent thousands of dollars on
white dolls for Christmas, etc.; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we do here and now
give our indorsement and hearty ap
proval of the negro doll factry, and
not only urge the patronage of the
people of our churches as Baptists,
but of the race at large throughout
the United. States.”
EXAMINE THE CHILDREN.
Incorrigibles May Be Afflicted With
Throat Troubles.
New York City.—When a child is
incorrigible don’t send him to the dis
ciplinary school offhand. Have his
throat examined bv a health depart
ment physician. You will find that in
many instances his incorrrigibility
.and truancy can be traced to Adenoid
growths in the throat. That is what
the superintendents of schools, Dr. W.
H. Maxwell, told a hundred principals
who went to the Dewitt Clinton high
school for a heart to heart talk about
intimate school matters.
Dr. Maxwell said: “No pupil should
til he has been tried out in two
ibe sent to the school for discipline un
schools and then I want such a one
examined by the health department
physicians before he is sent.
MADMAN KILLS TWO.
Growing Suddenly Violent .Maniac
Murders Man and Woman.
Washington, D. C. —In demoniacal
fury, Andrew Lightfoot, a mulatto in
mate at the St. Elizabeth asylum for
the insane, killed Patrick Maloney
and Millie Follin, an inmate of the
asylum, and severely injured
Robinson, another inmate.
The murderer escaped from the
grounds and fled to the swamps near
by. He was finally caught, after the
police found it necessary to shoot
him, inflicting wounds in the leg.
Lightfoot was forty years old, and
has been a patient at the hospital for
eight years, and was regarded as of
a harmless nature.
PRINTERS GRANTED INCREASE.
Operators in Government Office Get
Sixty Cents an Hour.
Washington, D. C. —An increase of
from 50 to 60 cents an hour in the
pay of linotype operators at the
government printing office will be
put into effect on October 1. Public
Printer Leech says the experimental
stage of machine composition has
long since passed and that proficient
operators in that office are not re
ceiving the compensation equal to
that paid by private concerns in the
large cities.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Efforts to obtain information in
Georgia as to graves of men who
served in the Revolutionary war, or
were old enough to have served in it,
are being made by Daughters of the
American Revolution, in order that a
list of them may be published and a
personnel record kept of them, and
that unmarked graves of Revolution
ary soldiers may be provided with
marble headstones (which are furn
ished by the United States govern
ment), and proper attention given to
the graves when needed. All persons
knowing of such graves are requested
to communicate with Mrs. John M.
Graham, state editor Daughters of
the American Revolution, Marietta,
Georgia.
Reports that the great Mexican oil
well fire near Tampico has been ex
tinguished were brought to New Or
leans by passengers on the steamer
City of Mexico from Tampico. The
blaze, which has been compared to
a lake of fire, was put under control,
the passengers said, by the use of an
enormous piece of sheet iron, which
so reduced the volume of flame that
it could be smothered with water. A
high embankment is said to have
since been built around the well to
contain the flow of oil until storage
tanks can be erected.
Two hundred men were trapped in
the Windsor end of the Michigan Cen
tral tunnel at Detroit with the tim
bers of the tunnel ablaze between
them and their only exit, fought in a
mad stampede for life and air, dash
ing through thick smoke toward
greedy tongues of flames to life. Two
men, safely out once, went back down
into the inferno of roaring flame and
swirling smoke, hoping to rescue some
of their fellow’s w r ho might have been
suffocated or trampled dow T n in the
rush for aid. Those men died an aw
ful death as a result of their vain, taut
splendid effort to save their fellow’s.
The rest of the men escaped.
A pacificatory note was sounded at
the opening session of the states gener
al at The Hague w r hen in reading the
message from the throne on behalf of
Quenn Wilhelmina, who is too ill to
leave the palace, declared Holland
w’as doing everything possible to bring
about an amicable settlement of the
Venezuelan trouble. A large part of
the message dealt with the financial
condition of the country. The mes
sage w r as received enthusiastically.
n he remarkable s iccos> achieved
by Orville Wright in his record break
ing airship flights at Fort Myer are
looked upon by French writers on avi
ation Q*, tks foierunner or beginning
of the practical navigation of the air.
Columns are devoted in the newspa
peis to the records of the American
inventor, and it is unanimously pre
dicted that w’ithin a comparatively
short time the prize of SSO 000 offer
ed by the Loudon Daily Mail for a
fliglp from London to Manchester will
be captured y the Wr-ghts.
Alabama pig iron manufacturers an
nounce the sale of iron for delivery
during the first quarter of 1909 at sl4
per ton, No. 2 foundry, which is from
fifty cents to one -dollar per ton above
the prices which are now prevailing
for immediate delivery. All furnace
companies are quoting this year iron
at sl3 per ton and car lots, delivery
within the w T eek, bring $13:60 per ton.
No. 2. foundry. The aggregate of sales
for delivery during the last quarter
of this year is so large, it is given out,
that there is necessity for blowing in
all of the furnaces w’hich are about
in condition.
An electric truck, its movements ab
solutely controlled by wireless elec
tric waves, has been installed in the
yards of the Union Pacific railroad at
Omaha, where its operations startle
the uninitiated. Many people are
startled to see the motor truck, at
tached to several other trucks, heav
ily loaded, start along the tracks or
suddenly stop without any apparent
cause, making its way through the
big yards unattended.
By the terms of the will of H. L.
Hewitt, filed at Alpion, N. Y., the bulk
of the estate, valued at $32,000, was
left to foreign and home missions, un
der the control of the American Bap
tist Home Mission society and the
American Baptist Mission union.
In a boiler explosion in the Laura
mines at Aix La Chapelle, France,
five men were killed and a score in
jured.
Washington.
Surgeon General O’Riley of the
army has announced the appointment
of George Dawson Heath, Jr., of Lan
caster, S. C., as a first lieutenant in
the medical reserve corps. Mr, Heath
recently took the examination for a
lieutenant’s place and was successful.
Orders have been issued by the
navy department transferring Assis
tant Naval Constructor R. P. Schla
bach from duty at Norfolk to Charles
ton. He will not report at Charles
ton. however, until October .
An appeal to the supreme court of
the United States has been ordered
by Attorney General Bonaparte to be
taken from the recent decision of the
circuit court of appeals decisions de
claring the commodity clause of the
Hepburn act unconstitutional. The
brief will be prepared by Special
Counsel L. A. Wilmer and will be pre
sented to the supreme court at the
October term.
Inspector Harrison, in charge of
the Washington division of postoffice
inspectors, has received a telegram
from Inspector J. B. Robertson, at
Newport News, Va., stating that he
had caused the arrest of James T.
Reed, assistant postmaster at that
place, c*n the charge of embezzling
$6,440 of the postal funds
J. L. Edwards, chief clerk of the
general freight traffic manager of the
Southern railway, with headquarters
in has been appointed
commercial agent for the Southern
railway at Birmingham, Ala.
The department of justice has been
advised of the capture of between
thirty and forty seal poaching Japan
ese with two schooners within three
miles of the limit off St. Paul Island.
The revenue cutter Bear made the
capture. The men were taken to Val
dez for trial. Several hundred skins
were found.
SOUTH’S COTTON MILLS
Show Great Increase in Amount
of Raw Material Handled.
IRON INDDSTRY IS GROWING
Immense Improvements in Alabama.
Ultimate Domination of Cotton Crop
Utilization Predicted.
Baltimore, Md—The trend of the
iron and steel industry of the south
is emphasized in a dispatch to the
Manufacturers’ Record announcing ex
tensive improvements at the Ensley
plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company, upon which work
will begin at an early date. This an
nouncement of large improvements to
be made by the Tennessee company,
carrying out the broad plan of devel
opment work which has been under
way since that company was purchas
ed by the United States Steel Corpo
ration .indicates the spirit in which
the latter is carrying on its expansion
of the iron and steel industry in the
Alabama district. It has already ex
pended several million dollars there
and doubtless will continue to spend
a good many more millions.
Another interesting development in
the Alabama field is the blowing in of
one of the Anniston furnaces of the
Woodstock company.
Indications of the southward trend
of the American textile industry is
had in the fct that during the year
just closed southern cotton mills have
for the third time in the past ten
years taken more bales of American
cotton than the mills in the rest of
the country. The advantage of the
southern mills was gained first in 1903
which year, by the way, marked the
passing of the 2,000,000-bale mark by
southern mills, their million-bale rec
ord having been established in 1897.
In 1903 the southern mills were again
ahead of the mills in the rest of the
country, and in the year just closed
they took 2,193,277 bales, against 1,-
896,661 bales taken by mills in the
rest of the country, or more than 53
per cent of the total number of bales
of American cotton taken by American
mills. The past year was one of un
favorable conditions for the mills, but
it is interesting to note that, in spite
of that fact, they maintained the gen
eral tendency which should ultimately
make the sotuh as dominating in cot
ton manufacturing as it is in cotton
growing.
4,000 PERSONS HOMELESS.
Two Wisconsin Towns Destroyed by
New Forest Fires.
Rhinelander, Wis. —The towns of
Gagen and Woodboro are totally de
stroyed, their populations, consisting
of 4,000 men, women and children,
are homeless and the refugees are
joining with able-bodied residents of
Rhinelander in fighting anew forest
fire which threatens every minute to
bear down upon the town and con
sume it.
Men and women fought the blaze
for hours, but despite the aid of a fa
vorable change of the wind, little
progress was made.
Citizens of the town, terrified by
the fierce menace, have decided to
ask Davidson to call out the Wiscon
sin state troops to aid in saving the
town.
The fire is a fresh one and is not a
continuation of the forest fires which
last week did so much damage. The
forests are like tinder, owing to the
continued droughts, and the flames
threaten to consume them entirely.
Fearing the fate that befell Gagen
and Woodboro, the mayor of Rhine
lander requested Milwaukee to send a
fire engine to protect the city, and an
engine, half a mile of hose and a
truck soon were on the way on a spec
ial train.
The fire started in the woods in the
early morning and quickly reached
Gagen and Woodboro. Men, women
and children fought valiantly to save
their homes, but without avail.
RECORD AGAIN BROKEN.
Wilbur Wright Stayed in the Air Over
Ninety Minutes.
Lemans, France. —In the presence of
the officials of the French Aero Club
of Sarthe and a wildly cheering crowd
numbering 10,000, Wilbur Wright, the
American aeronaut, captured the
world’s record from his brother, Or
ville Wright, with a flight in his pow
erful machine of one hour, thirty-one
minutes and fifty-one seconds, cover
ing in that time an actual distance of
98 kilometres, or nearly sixty-one
miles.
Owing to the recent accident at
Fort Mver, trial for the Michelin
cup, for the greatest distance covered
by an aeroplane in 1908, and the aero
club prize of SI,OOO for the longest
flight over an enclosed ground, at
tracted intense interest.
Noted Cartoonist Dead.
Philadelphia, Pa.—F. M. Howarth,
one of the best known comic artists
in the country, died at his home in
Germantown, aged 43 years. Death
was caused by pneumonia. He is cred
ited with having originated the com
ic serias. Two/of his best known se
ries were “E. Z. Mark” and ‘‘Lulu and
Leander.”
Mrs. Gould Asks Alimony.
New York City.—Mrs. Katherine
Gould, who is suing Howard Gould for
divorce, has applied to Justice Giege
rich for an order compelling Mr.
Gould to pay her SIO,OOO a year ali
mony and $15,000 for her counsel fees.
Eonelii Brought Hack.
New York City.—A. F. Bonelli, a
former banker of Cleveland, Ohio,
charged with the theft of $30,000, has
arrived here as a prisoner on the
steamer Afghan Prince from Sao Pau
lo, Brazil. Bonelli was a steamship
ticket agent and private banker, deal
ing particularly in foreign exchange
in Cleveland. He disappeared June
118 last. Complaints came soon after
of the failure of remittances to reach
Italy, where Bonelli claimed to have
correspondents.
MISSING BOAT IS FOUND.
Steamship Aaon Long Overdue Ha*
Been Heard From.
Victoria, British Columbia. The
missing British steamer Aeon, which
sailed on July 26 'from San Francisco
for Sydney, Australia, has been heard
from. A brief cable dispatch reached
Bamfield, the terminus of the Pacific
cable on Vancouver island, from Fan
ning Island, saying that the passen
gers of the Aeon were safe at Christ
mast Island, 100 miles from Fanning
Island. The word came from Captain
Downie of the Aeon, who had arrived
at Fanning Island, but containe-d no
details as to whether the Aeon was
wrecked or simply delayed because
of an accident to her machinery. Ihe
message read:
“Aeon’s people all safe at Christmas
Island. Captain Downie at Fanning
Island.”
Fanning Island is about 1,000 miles
south of the Hawaiian Islands, and is
in the course of steamships bound
for Australia. Christmas Island is
about 100 miles southeast of Fanning.
The Aeon left San Francisco on
July 26 with 6,000 tons of freight, and
although she was not supposed to car
ry passengers, ten persons shipped as
sailors and ship hands and steward
esses. She was destined for Sydney
and Auckland by way of Apia. From
that day nothing was heard of her
until the dispatch came telling of the
safety of the passengers on Christmas
Island.
It is supposed that the ship’s ma
chinery was disabled and that the
vessel drifted to the island in safety.
Atlanta, Ga. —Mrs. Netta Riddle, the
wife of Lieutenant Riddle, is an At
lanta woman, the daughter of Mr. and
M*t. J. J. Russell, of 50 West North
avenue. Some three years ago she
married Lieutenant Riddle. He was
ordered to Samoa, and as she was
refused passage by the United States
on the Panther, on which he sailed,
she had to take passage on the Aeon
in order to join her husband. Her
mother and father have not yet heard
from her.
BATTLE IN JAIL
At St. Petersburg, Florida, Cost Lives
of Two Men.
St. Petersburg, Fla.—dn a desper
ate battle at the jail here, Constable
E. A. George was killed by an un
known Italian, who was in turn
killed by Policeman Fletcher.
Upon arriving here from Tampa,
the Italian practically took charge of
the home of Captain Tuttle. The po
lice were summoned and the man
taken to jail. After arriving at the
jail the Italian made an attack on
Constable George.
Shots in the jail attracted citizens,
and when the police went to the scene
they were attacked by the Italian.
Several shots were fired and finally
the fire company was called out and
played a stream of water on the infu
riated Italian. After two hours of
fighting and the exchange of a dozen
or more shots, Policeman Fletcher
succeeded in shooting down the Ital
ian.
SHOT MISSED ITS MARK.
Ten-Year-Old Girl Was Victim of As
sassin’s Bullet.
Columbus, Ga. —A bullet fired in an
attempt to assassinate T. J. Haden, a
his home, four miles west
of this city, missed Mr. Haden and
struck his ten-year-old daughter, El
bin, in the abdomen. She died from
the wound.
The father and mother were seated
on the porch at the time and the child
was in the hall of the house.
No clew is known to the assSfcin
yet, though the officers are making a
diligent search.
M. V. Culpepper of Girard, Ala., was
arrested on suspicion of shooting at
Haden. The two had a fight recently
and bad feeling existed between them.
MAD BULLS STAMPEDE.
Twenty-Two Animals for Big Fight
Released Before Schedule.
Paris, France. —A dispatch from Lis
bon announces that a great bull fight
was to have been held at Nolita. In
the course of the proceedings some
body opened the enclosure in which
the bulls were confined and twenty
two of the animals rushed out and
charged the spectators. Seven specta
tors were killed and forty injured. Sol
diers who came to the rescue killed
ten of the bulls, but the remainder
escaped into the country.
MAY STOP FLEET’S VISIT.
Cholera Cases Develop in Manila at
the Rate of Sixty a Day.
Manila, P. I. —With cholera cases
developing at the rate of sixty a day
and one-third fatal, this week will de
termine whether the visit of the fleet
will be any more than a formal en
trance into* the harbor. The authori
ties are hopeful the disease may be
checked before the fleet arrives so
the program of festivities may be car
ried out.
SHOT FOURTEEN TIMES.
Woman Stood By Husband and With
Him Was Killed.
West Plains, Mo. —John Roberts
and his wife resisted a sheriff and
several deputies in a desperate fight
near Prestonia, when the officers at
tempted to arrest Roberts for killing
Obe Kessinger. Asa result the wom
an and Sheriff Mooney are mortally
wounded, and Roberts and two depu
ties are seriously hurt. Sheriff Moo
ney was shot by the woman, it is said.
Roberts and his wife defended the
building for hours under fire. When
the door was broken down, Mrs. Rob
erts, suffering from fourteen wounds,
was found dying.
COTTON MILLS CLOSE.
1,200,000 Operatives May Lose Work
Because of Strike.
Manchester, England.—All hope of
avoiding a paralyzing strike of the cot
ton industry and allied trades was
abandoned when four hundred cotton
mills did not open. The shut-down
came as a result of the rejection by
130,000 cotton mill employes of the
operators’ proposal of a 5 per cent cut
in wages. It is estimated the total
number to be thrown out of employ
ment as a result of the strike will
reach 1,200,000,
CONVICT LEASING ENDS
Georgia Legislature Passes Bill
Practically Forbidding Leasing.
COUNTIES TOWORK CONVICTS
On Roads—Governor and Prison Com
mission May Lease Surplus Convicts
to Private Parties.
Atlanta, Ga.—The general assembly
of Georgia passed the new convict
bill which takes the state’s criminals
from the hands of private lessees next
March and puts them upon the public
roads of the counties, where they will
work under the supervision of the
state.
Governor Hoke Smith has approved
the new bill whereupon it became the
organic law. and, unless future legis
latures change it, the selling of con
victs will be forever wiped from the
statute books of Georgia.
One section of the new law provides
that after all the counties have been
supplied, without cost,with all the con
v! ts they desire for working roads
and other public improvements, and
all the cities supplied with what num
ber they want at SIOO each per year,
and all the state institutions, state
farm or farms are filled with them,
then if any felony convicts remain
undisposed of the governor and the
prison commission may dispose of
them as they think the best interest
of the state demands, for a period
not to exceed twelve months from
March 31, 1909. As this section ap
plies solely to felony convicts, the
counties being compelled to take all
of their misdemeanor convicts, it is
the opinion of Governor Smith and the
leaders in the anti-lease movement
that no convicts will remain on hand
to be disposed of under this section.
The state averages only 2,100 felony
convicts, and this number will be ab
sorbed, it is believed, by the several
plans provided in the bill. In pass
ing this bill the legislature accom
plished the work for which it had
been called in extra session and af
ter having struggled four weeks in
one of the bitterest fights the state
has ever known, the assembly ad
journed sine die.
FIRE CAUSES GREAT LOSS.
Paris, France, Postoffice and Central
Telephone Station Destroyed.
Paris, France. —Fire broke out in
the Central telephone building and
spread with such rapidity that the tel
ephone employees were forced, after
brief and ineffectual efforts, to ex
tinguish the flames, to fly hastily to
the streets. The entire building was
soon in flames and this, together with
the postoffice, which is located close
to the Place des Victoires, was total
ly destroyed. The loss is estimated
at $5,000,000, but a much greater loss
is likely to be involved through the
complete interruption of telephonic
communication. It will take more
than a month to re-establish the serv
ice, and even a temporary installa
tion will require a considerable length
of time.
The origin of the fire is believed to
have been due to a short circuit. It
is asserted also that it may have been
of incendiary origin, but nothing as
yet has been found to prove this.
Telephone employees, when they
first discovered the flames, tried to
extinguish them, but were forced to
desist on account of the volumes of
black smoke and the pungent fumes
from the burning gutta percha. In
a short time the flames enwrapped
the entire five stories and were
bursting through the room, leaping
skyward like a blast furnace.
AIRSHIPS ACROSS OCEAN.
Trip in Eighteen Hours Predicted by
Thomas A. Edison.
Salt Lake City, Utah. —“Within five
years airships will be carrying pas
sengers across the ocean in eighteen
hours, two hundred miles and hour.
AefiSt flights will be commercialized
in that time.
“The North Pole can and will be
reached in a forty-eight-hour trip.
The perfected heliocopter will be able
to encircle the globe-in a week.”
These statements were made by
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, in
the course of a talk on aerial naviga
tion.
“Neither the aeroplanes now owned
by the Wright brothers nor any air
ship built along that principle nor
along the idea of the dirgible bolloon
will ever be of practcal use or suc
cess commercially,” he said.
“The successful machine must be
automatic in operation. The human
part of it must be reduced to mere
mechanism, as in the case of the au
tomobile and steam engine. Otherwise
the dream of skimming the clouds
must ever remain a dream.”
Machinists’ Strike Off.
Birmingham, Ala. —A telegram re
ceived here calls off the machinists’
strike on the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad, which has been on
since May 29 ,1907. The men are
allowed to return to work if they
can get the work. The telegram came
from the headquarters in Washington
and is said to affect tlfe entire system.
Fraud On Large Scale.
Philadelphia, Pa. —Dr. George Mor
ton of New York was arrested at a
prominent hotel here on a fugitive
warrant from New York, charging
him with falsfe pretenses. It is alleg
ed that he secured $600,000 by means
of fradulent notes.
Yankee Tars at Vatican.
Rome, Italy.—The pope received in
audience seventy sailors from the
American battleships Maine and Ala
bama, which are at Naples. The pon
tiff, who is always interested in sea
going men, expressed pleasure at their
smart apeparance. Eight of the men
kissed the pope’s ring and received
from him a medal. The pope stand
ing among them made a most kindly
speech, in which he thaULed them for
their visit and prayed that God would
reward them with His grace.
OF POLITICAL I.YIEHEST
The itinerary of John W K Pr
ocratic candidate for vie* ’
has been made public a t. and!? 81(le ”'
headquarters in Chicago C T ratl
will speak in Birmingham \V Kera
tober 2; Macon, Ga..
ville, N. C., October 6 . G “ ; A >
N. C October 7; Wins'ton-Salea v'
C„ October 7; Roanoke Va n?’ ' V
7; Fineastle, Va., October "o. „ obet
mgton, W. Va, and other „oi n ' t “"f
named later. - as to be
Mrs. Carrie Nation raiion
Tatt at his Cincinnati home™
lor the purpose of discussing t >f mly
quor problem with him li ‘
received her, but refused to enter Taft
the discussion. ‘ r mto
Judge Taft is reported o. Ulp
the plank in the Kansas rennhi"
platform which proposes state in' **
ance of bank deposits.
The political strife which for mo
months has split the republican “ Dy
in New Hampshire into three faoti ny
came to an end when H-nrv n‘T’
of Laconia was nominated f or . y
or by the republican state convent?'
in session in Concord. Two hmi
were necessary for a choice ard
the decisive one Quinby had a man?
of only five votes.
A serious split developed in thp i
dependence party of Georgia
Chairman Suttler of the state exec?
tive committee announced that
electoral ticket would be put i n ?
field. At the same time, Nati oT J
Committeeman Clapp of the lia ', ,
filed with the secretary of state a com
plete list of state electors.
Mr. E. H. Harriman, the railroad
magnate back from an extended trin
through the west, is quoted as saving
that he found all through that Va
of the country a feeling of indiffer
ence as to the presidential campaign
Mr. Louis Stuyvesant Chanler, demi
ocratic nominee for governor of x ew
York, is now lieutenant governor of
that state, an office to which he was
elected on the “Hearst ticket” two
years ago.
There are two republican candidates
for governor in West Virginia, Messrs
Swisher and Scheer, and neither wili
consent to withdraw as long as the
other remains in the field.
When Mr. Bryan stepped from his
private car at Wheeling, W. Va., he
j was embraced and kissed by a man
who was standing close to the steps
of the car. Mr. Bryan was so taken
by surprise that he made no effort to
get away from the man until the po
lice arrested him. Later the man was
fined $lO and costs in police court for
being so affectionate.
At the recent elections in Arkansas,
Donaghey, democratic candidate for
governor, was elected, receiving 65,-
I 000 majority, an increased democratic
| vote.
William Randolph Hearst, in an ad
dress at Columbus, Ohio, read letters
which he said had been written by
John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil
company to Senator Joseph B. Fora
ker of Ohio, referring to legislation
pending in congress, and mentioning
two inclosures of checks, one for $13,-
000 and and another for $14,500.
The democratic nominee for govei
nor of New York has endorsed the
attitude of Governor Hughes on the
grand race and the betting laws, and
has favored his general reform policy.
Thus by his nomination the race
tracks in New York are certain of
defeat in their efforts to habitate no
matter who is elected.
Charges of frauds at the polls in
the election held in Little Rock, Ark.,
when that city was voted “wet," de
spite a strenuous campaign of anti-sa
loon people, have been filed in court
by the leaders in the prohibition
movement.
That he had been several years ago
an attorney for the Standard Oil Com
pany, terminating service before the
federal prosecution of that concern,
but that such employment had nothing
to do with matters pending in con
gress or in which the federal govern
ment was interested, is the substance
of a brief statement made by United
States Senator Foraker in answer to
the charges made by William Kan
dolph Hearst in Columbus.
Democracy’s presidential campaign
in Greater New York had its advent
when William J. Bryan, at a mass
meeting, under the auspices of lam
many Hall, spoke before 10,000 enthu
siastic people, who filled Carne D
Hall and overflowed into the street
In declining the challenge 01. Hon
orable John Temple Graves, vice pre
idential candidate on the in( J e P
dence party ticket, for a joint de
in Louisville, Honorable John Wonn
Kern, democratic vice preside!
candidate, said: “I have p ,
memory of the long conversation
you in July. We agreed pertec
everything except baptism. anu
is no longer the paramount - •
Come and visit me at Indianapolis,
promise you a good time.
William Randolph Heatt, 1U
speech at Atlanta, Ga., stated n
- had asked him to supp -
democratic ticket this e^c -on and
offered to support Mr. Hear t
1912 campaign if he won<> s “ m .
the democratic ticket 1 * jre m aie
paign. Mr. Bryan denies having ™
such a proposition to Mr. i
Rev. W. A. Cuddy a migratmS n .
gelist, attacked Taft and the: rep
can party in a speech a anl .
Maryland, and also circula P,.
phlet which may cause his 1
tion.
Another feature, besides
machine with records of the 1 - tbe
of candidates, has been addea -
novelties of the presidential ca
paign by the democrat! tbat
committee, which has an - p rva n
moving pictures of W llliam uld I be
in Chicago Labor day political
thrown upon canvasses - u’ben
meetings all over the counti; inc , t he
the pictures show ’ from
candidate’s voice w ill l , abor
the phonographic record or tu
day address. nl . laho ®
Governor Haskell of nation al
treasurer of the democi - niiscel
committee, has announce . ami , a igß
laneous contributions to Re
fund ranging from $1 tosl ’ 0 00 a
ing received at the rate v
day*