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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*