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TWO LAWYERS LYNCHED Masked Men Drag Col. Taylor and Capt. Rankin From Hotel. SIO,BOB BEWAiffl OFFERED By Govarnor of Tennessee—Regulation !of Fishing Privileges in Reelfoot Laki Was Cause of Trouble. Union City, Tenn.—Judge R. Zaeh Taylor, aged 60' years, and Captain Quintin Rankin, of Trenton, Tenn., two of the most prominent attorneys in the state, were called from their hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn., by a mob of eighty men, and later Captain Rankin’s body, riddled with bullets, was found hanging to a tree on the edge of Reelfoot Lake. Judge Taylor is believed to have been drowned. Another theory is that he is being held so that the Reelfoot Lake Fishing Company will offer a ransom for his return by agreeing to allow free fishing on Reeltoot Lake. Trouble has been brewing there over fishing privileges. Rankin and Taylor organized and represented the Reelfoot Lake Fishing Company, which leased the fishing privileges from the West Tennessee Land Company. From Circuit Judge Harris they secured an injunction against fishing on Reelfoot Lake with out permission. Harris was twice shot at and lives in fear of assassina tion. Governor Patterson has offered a SIO,OOO reward for the assassins, and has cancelled all his dates to speak in the present political campaign. Two companies of state troops have arriv ed at Walnut Log and two more com panies are under arms at Memphis, awaiting orders from the governor. Taylor and Rankin were accompa nied by a surveyor, who is also miss ing. The lynching is said to be the work of night riders. COMMISSIONERS Ur AFittICULTIiRE Urge That Boys Be Educated to Farm, Not Av/ay Frcm It. Nashville, Tenn. —The annual ad dress of President Hudson of the Southern States Association of Com missioners of Agriculture, delivered •at the tenth annual convention of that body, which is in session here; ad vocated diversification and the inten sive system as a method of growing cotton as a surplus, and recommended that agriculture be taught extensively and steps be taken to acquaint the farmers of the work of the associa tion. “A mistake of the schools of the age,” said he, “has been that they have been too prone to educate the boys not to the farm, but away from it.” He stated that if the cotton crop could be grown as a surplus, and the farmer enabled to hold it until his own good time to sell, that much bet ter prices could be secured, stating that under the present method of farming, the farmer must sell his crop within a few weeks after it is gather ed, in order to supply his family with the necessities of life. PHYSICIAN SAVE WOMAN From Premature Burial Body Was Ready for the Grave. * Ellis, Kan. —The timely intervene Lion of a physician, who was not sat isfied with the appearance of the body prevented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, 60 years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart disease. The body was pre pared for burial, but was not .embalm ed. A few minutes before the coffin was sealed, a physician requested per mission to see the body. An examination confirmed his sus picions that the woman's body was made rigid by suspended animation. The woman was removed from the coffin, placed in bed and revived. While her heart is weak, it is believ ed that Mrs. Chapman will recover. UALt WRECKS TRAIN. Caboose Torn Lqcsc From Couplings and Carried Over Fill. Cheyenne, Wyo.—As the result of ! an unprecedented accident on the Union Pacific at Lone Tree creek, thirty miles west of Cheyenne, six laborers are known to be dead and several others probably met death, while twenty-five or thirty others were injured, many very seriously. A terrific gale picked up the ca boose of a work train, tore it away from its couplings and carried it over the edge of the fill. It dropped thirty feet with its forty occupants, nearly all of whom were section laborers, and the men were piled among the wreckage when it landed. BRIDEGROOM AGED 80 Aced Captain Manton Thwarts Rela tives and Steals Bride in Auto. Providence, R. I. —Captain Benjamin D. Manton of Colonia, Uruguay, hale aud hearty at 80 years, and reputed one of the wealthiest land owners in that part of South America, thwarted the opposition of his relatives here; dashed away with his fiancee in an au tomobile and in Fall River married Miss Sara E. Hartman of Philadelphia, a writer about half his own age. The romance which thus culminated in the captain’s fourth matrimonial venture, had its inception in Uruguay a year or more ago, when Miss Hart man, in search of historical data, met Captain Manton. MAM FALLS TEN FLOORS. Says ‘'Gracious! What a Fall;” Gets Up and Resumes Work. New York City.—After falling ten floors through a shaft in a building which is ’being erected John Stokes scrambled to his feet, rubbed his right shoulder, upon which he had landed, and said: “Gracious! What a fall. He protested against being taken to a hospital for fear of losing his job. Beyond a possible dislocated shoulder, he has escaped uninjured. IATEJVIWSJNOTA Gen iral. I. H. Whale> ox Knoxville, Tenn., was struck and killed by J. W. Green, a blacksmith. Green struck Whaley under the jaw with his fist and Whal ey’s head struck a railroad rail as he fell. Whaley died an hour and a half later. The national convention of the League of American Sportsmen, in tenth annual meeting at Lawton, Okla., was addressed by Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, through an interpeter. He deplored the slaugh ter of American game by white men. The jury in the trial of Uhland Cul pepper at Opelika, Ala., charged with the murder of Mary Elvin Haaen, who w r as shot and killed near Phoenix City, Ala., several weeks ago, by a bullet believed to have been intended for her father, returned a verdict of guilty. Culpepper was sentenced to life imprisonment. Six buildings were totally destroy ed and a number of others damaged by a fire of incendiary origin at Olive Hill, Carter county, Kentucky. The loss is about SIO,OOO. D. O. Seaman, a farmer, of Golds berry, Mo., went to the district school called out his two sons,, aged 10 and 12 years, respectively, shot one of them dead, mortally wounded the oth er and then shot and killed himself. The cause of the tragedy is not known. George Harold, of the El Paso. Tex as, city detective department, who worked up the cases there and in Cni huahua against the Mexican revolu tionists, found a rudely constructed bomb at the front door of his resi dence with a charred fuse attached. Harold has received several unsigned notes informing him that he is mark ed for death. Several girls were slightly injured and one hundred mere had a narrow escape from death when the ferry steamer Ariel, running between Walk erville, Out., and Detroit, Mich., col lided in a fog with the small freight er Energy. There were about one hundred girls, employes of local fac tories aboard the ferry, and a panic reigned among them for a few min utes. The store of the Merchants’ Gro cery company at Mobile, Ala., was gutted when fire broke out in the sec ond story among paper bags. The building was damaged about SIO,OOO, covered by insurance, and the stock is a total loss amply covered by in surance. Two firemen were injured. The Jenkins lumber mills plant at Elaine, Wash., was almost complete ly destroyed by fire. The loss is es timated at $500,000. A freight engine on the Southern railway exploded at Mayo, Va., killing the engineer and injuring the fireman and several of the crew. One-half of the business portion cf Bonner Springs, Kans., a watering resort, twenty miles west of Kansas City, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. After sixteen years of divorced sep aration. during which each had re married and had each been bereft through death, an aged German cou ple in New York City, who were mar ried in their fatherland forty years ago, procured a marriage license in order to at once re-enter for their de clining years, the ties they had legal ly set aside so long ago. Conrad Knubert’s second wife died in New fcork not long ago, and when he heard that his former’s wife’s hus band had also died in Germany, ho wrote the partner of his young years, asking her to come to New York and marry him again. She cabled her re ply—that she was coming, and on Ihe next steamer, and when she reached there the ceremony was performed at once. The women of Mexico have organiz ed a mother’s congress, which will hold its first meeting in December. The president is Signora Luz Gonzal ez Casio de Lopez ,and the object is to aid all mothers who need protec tion. advice or assistance. Thirty-one counties with a popula tion of more than a million peaple, have voted to go dry in Ohio in the first forty-one days of the operation of the Rose county local option law passed by the last legislature, and within the next thirty days eight hun dred and thirteen saloons and whole sale liquor houses will have closed las the result. There are now thirty : five counties entirely dry in the state. The battle of Guilford Court House W as reproduced at Greensboro, N. C., bv United States cavalry, infantry, state Tnalitia and a Gatling gun. The result of the battle, like that fought in 1781, was in doubt, both sides claiming victory. Colonel S. W. Miner commanded the British, while Colonel J W Craig commanded the Ameri can forces. About 25,000 people wit nessed the battle. Foster George was arrested in St. Louis, Mo., on a charge of stealing diamonds and watches worth $35,000 from S. F. Powell, a wholesale jewel er at 170 Broadway, New York. Twen ty-five thousand dollars’ worth of the jewels were recovered from George. The man was betrayed into the hands of the police by Mabel McCoy, a companion with whom he quarreled after refusing some of her requests for money. When the police raided George’s room diamonds were found in every possible hiding place. A ra zor case was stuffed with gems worth $3,000. In a valice were nearly one thousand small diamonds; in George's i shoes were dozens of gems, some of them as large as two carats. Captain Monroe and five of the crew of the British schooner Sirocco, who were supposed to have been lost when their vessel was wrecked off the Florida coast, on October 1, were land ed at Boston, Mass., by the fruit steamer Horatius. All of the mem bers of the Sirocco’s crew have now ! been accounted for, two seamen hav | il)g been landed at Newport News, jye The Sirocco, which was bound | f r qm Brunswick, Ga., to Abaca in the 1 Bahamas, was wrecked on Mantanilla S ree f in a tropical hurricane. TEACHERS POORLY PAID Georgia Educator Tells of Con ditions in the South. DEPOPULATE RURAL SCHOOLS Tendency is for Farmer to Send Fheir Children to City Schools—Average Salaryof Teachers $155 a Year. New York City.—That the average school teacher of the south was both underpaid and insufficiently educated for the position she held was the rea son advanced by Jere M. Pound, su perintendent of the Georgia state edu cational board, addressing the shidents of Teachers’ College, in explanation of the slow progress made in the southern states along .educational lines. “There are 736,000 school children in Georgia between the ages of 6 and 18,” he said. “Now the state has ap propriated $2,000,000 for their educa tion, or, in other words, each child in me state is educated at an annual expense of $2,82^. • This makes trie average salary of the common school teacher aboiu twenty-nine or thirty dollars a month, or $155 a year since the school term only lasts five months. The slate, therefore, pays its teachers less money man a drayman or a cook gets. “The result, of course, is that from 40 to 90 per cent qf our common school teachers have never had any education other than that of the com mon schools. Those who are really well-trained deserve better pay, and we cannot keep them. In other words those in charge of the school children are no better educated, on the aver age, than the child of thirteen or four teen years of age, with about four or five years of actual preparation. It is not strange, of course, that the av erage teacher lasts about four years and then leaves school to take up some more profitable business.” Mr. Pound concluded his remarks by saying that the school systems in the south were depopulating the coun try districts, instead of building them up. “The tendency,” he said, “is for the farmers to send their children to the city schools, where all consideration of their environment is neglected. WORLD TRIP ENDED. Big Battleships Anchor at Home After Remarkable Voyage. Portsmouth, N. H.—The battleship Maine, completing a voyage around the world, arrived at her dock here. The battleship Maine on swinging to anchor at the Portsmouth navy yard ended, together with the battle ship Alabama, which is docked at the New York navy yard, the most spec tacular round-the-world cruise ever made by a first-class, modern warship. During the voyage, which was start ed from Hampton Roads and ‘which consumed three hundred and eight days, the two vessels covered about thirty-five thousand miles. The Ala bama and the Maine left Hampton Hoads December 16, 1907, with the Atlantic Battleship fleet on its cruise through the straits of Magellan to the Pacific, the former as flagship of Ad miral Sperry, commanding the fourth division, and the Maine attached to the third division. After the successful conclusion of the fleet’s cruise to the Pacific it was announced that the warships would return to the Atlantic station by the way of the Philippine Islands and the Suez canal, and the Maine and Ala bama were detached from the fleet, upon the recommendation of Rear Ad miral Evans, and organized into a special squadron, under command of Captain Giles B, Harbor, commanding the Maine. Their places in the fleet were sup plied by the battleships Wisconsin and Nebraska. The detachment of the Alabama and Maine from the combin ed fleet was due, in the case of the Alabama, to her inferior engines, and in the case of the Maine to her limit ed steaming capacity. The steaming radius of the Maine without recoaling is limited to three thousand seven hundred miles. CHECKS MAILED DEPOSITORS. Second Dividend Has Been Paid by the Neal Bank of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga. —Nine thousand checks have been mailed out to the former depositors of the defunct Neal Bank of Atlanta by the Central Bank and Trust Corporation, receivers for this bank, aggregating $350,000, and rep resenting the second dividend of 20 per cent on deposits paid these depos itors this year. The bank hopes to make a third payment about the first of next year. Rescued Just In Time. Hull, England. —The German bal loon piauen, which left Berlin Monday in an endurance contest, was picked up in the North sea by a trawler. Clinging to the balloon were the two aeronauts, Hackstetter and Schneider, in an almost exhausted condition. The rescue took place about 240 miles from Spurnhead. Typhoon Damaged Amoy. Amoy. China.—A typhoon destroyed nearly all the buildings erected for the reception of the officers and men of the American battleships except the main reception hall. Many stores in the town were badly damaged, and the electric lighting plant is under six feet of water. Bull and Tiger Fight. El Paso, Texas. —A fight between a bull and a tiger in the Juarez bull ring, opposite El Paso, took the spec tators, most of them tourists, back to memories of the dark days of Nero. It was a furious fight between two maddened beasts, locked in an iron cage in the center of the Juarez bull ring. The bull, although hampered by lack of space, finally dispatched the tiger, not, however, until he had been wounded so seriously that he will die. X PERIL IN GREAT WASTE. Lumber and Coal Supply of the Nation is Rapidly Diminishing. Chicago, 111. —Over fifteen million people, or more than half the total wage-earners in the United States, are diiectly dependent for their live lihood upon coal, iron, timber, the soil and other natural resources which are rapidly being exhausted, ac cording to figures which have just been compiled by the Conservation league of America. According to the league, the avoidable waste of the nation’s wealth is reaching alarming proportions, yet few people realize the extent to which the country as a whole will be affected by measures designed to check this waste. It was w ith the intention of clearing up this point that the present investigation was undertaken, and the results, which are now made public, disclose some interesting facts. The first subject to receive atten tion was lumber. According to the last census report 962,876 persons in the United States are engaged in the lumber business, or as carpenters and joiners, cabinet-makers and the like, are dependent upon the lumber bus iness for their livelihood. These have already been affected by the exhaus tion of timber in the east and middle west and are vitally concerned in the efforts of the government to conserve as much of the remaining supply as possible. According to the experts of the forest service at Washington our present rate of cutting is three times that of growth, and at this rate the remaining supply of timber will hardly last thirty years. The coal supply is also threatened with exhaustion. Anthracite coal is timed to last but fifty years. Bitumi nous coal will not be exhausted un til later, but unless a check is put upon the present uneconomical meth ods of mining, which have already wasted as much coal as has been mined, it will not outlast the next century. The total number of coal miners, according to the figures now made available, is 344,292. to which are to be added over 200,000 coal and wood dealers and stationary engineers and firemen, making a total of 604,180 per sons w r ho are directly dependent upon coal for their w T ork, and who v T ould have to change their occupation if coal should give out. In addition to the workers in these iriiportant industries, the farmers are beginning to take a keen interest in conservation, in five or six different ways. Soil exhaustion, erosion, irri gation, drainage> w r aterwavs, and the regulation of water supply by the for : ests on the headwaters and source streams of the larger rivers are all matters that directly affect the farm ers' pocketbook. For this reason fig ure of the total number of persons dependent for their livelihood upon the soil or dealing in the products of the soil is particularly interesting. It. reaches the enormous total of dO,- 644,134 or over a third of the total number of persons engaged in gainful occupations in the United States. Asa result of this investigation, Uncle Sam will, for the first time, know just the extent of his inheri tance and whether he has been using it wisely A REMifSfeUiiSEOYERY. After 1S Years Scatters Typhoid Fever Washington, D. C. —One of remarkable discoveries in tcry in connection with the source the spread of typhoid fever has just been brought to Ught as the result of an investigation made by officers of the public health and marine hos pital service into a recent outbreak of that disease in Georgetown, or West Washington, District of Columbia. The investigation discloses the fact that a woman milker at a neighboring dairy, who had typhoid fever over eighteen years ago, still throws off virile ty phoid fever bacilli, and was responsi ble for the spreading of the disease. With one exception, this is the first considerable outbreak of typhoid fe ver in the United States, traced through milk to such a carrier. A peculiar feature in connection with the case is that the examination de veloped large numbers of typhoid bac illi in the deiecta of the woman, al though she apparently was enjoying good health. Surgeon General Wyman says an important source of the dis ease has been developed, which here tofore has not been duly recognized. The case just discovered is deemed of special interest to health officers in tracing obscure cases of typhoid fever outbreaks. General Wyman states ihat this case establishes the fact that at least two percent of all recovered cases of typhoid fever become bacilli carriers for a longer or shorter pe riod. even while otherwise enjoying good health. ADMIRAL EVANS’ SON GUILTY. He Will Lose 150 Numbers and Be Publicly Reprimanded. Yokahama, Japan. Lieutenant Frank T. Evans of the battleship Lou isiana, who recently was court-mar tialed on a charge of absenting him self from his post while officer of the deck, disrespect to his superior offi cer and intoxication, has been found guilty of the two former charges. Rear Admiral Sperry received the pa pers while the battleships were at Manila and has just announced his verdict. The sentence pronounced provides that Lieutenant Evans shall lose 150 numbers and shall be publicly reprimanded. 800 BALES OF COTTON BURNED. Big Cotton Warehouse at Rock Hill, S. C., Was Destroyed. Rock Hill, S. C. —Another destruc tive cotton fire visited Rock Hill. The warehouse of Edw r ard Fewell w T as burned Nvith 700 or 800 bales of cot ton, with a loss of about $25,000 on the cotton, and $3,000 or $4,000 on the building. The cotton was insured upon the basis of market value of course. On the building Mr. Fewell had about $3,000 insurance. \ WARSHIPBATYOKOHAMA Noisy Welcome Given Amercan Battleship Fleet by Japan. STARS AND STIPES FLYiNS Streets of City for Mile* Were Walled With Entwined Americn and Japanese Emblems. Yokohama, Japan. —The American battleship fleet dropped anchor in the harbor at 9:30 o’clock Sunday morn ing. It w r as in the gray hours before dawn when the leviathans of Amer ica's great white battleship fleet were dimly discerned maneuvering off the entrance to Tokio bay, while sixteen warships, the pride of Japan, in som bre color, swung at their anchor buoys outside of the breakwater. From thousands of flag staffs and buildings at every point in the city floated the stars and stripes, and the entire lengths of miles of streets' were almost walled with intertwined Amer ican and Japanese emblems. The enthusiasm of the people was evidently sincere, though mixed with the natural curiosity to see the big fighting ships from America, the long and successful cruise of which has marked anew epoch in naval history. - Foreigners were in the minority in the crowds, but wherever they ap peared, they were treated with excep tional courtesy because to the Jap anese ail foreigners must be Ameri cans ,many of the Japanese being un able to discriminate between Ameri cans and those from other lands. When the fleet rounded Honmou point and came into full view of the city cf Yokohama, the sixteen assem bled Japanese warships began firing the salute to the rear admiral in com mand of the American fleet. The roar of the guns, the bursting fire works, bombs, the shriek of the steam sirens with the drone of the deep whistles of the liners, filled the air with overwhelming sounds. Ashore, bedlam broke loose and words fail to describe the enthusiasm of the assem bled thousands. When the American fleet finally came to anchor, it presented an impos ing spectacle. Thirty-two great war ships occupied four long columns of eight each. The Americans taking the place of honor in the forefront, the Japanese immediately behind them. As soon as the fleet came to anchor, a reception committee and attaches of the various foreign embassies and le gations and the jnayor of Yokohama put off from shore for the flagship Connecticut. Every vernacular newspaper in Yo kohama and Tokio printed special il lustrated editions containing enthusi astic articles with reference to the coming of the American fleet. MARKED ACTIVITY SHOWN. All Branches cf Industry Said To Be Moving Satisfactorily. New York City.—The National Asso ciation of Manufacturers announced that every branch of industry is show ing marked increases of business and that during the past three months trade conditions have taken on new activity. In an exhaustive canvass among the three thousand members of the association, the returns bear out the prediction that practically every manufacturing business will be i von a normal basis of production dur ■SSjtfS!). _ 1 CLT GOES TO ENGLAND. Will Also *2' -7 p rance After His Trip. London, Times is informed that Preafcit Roosevelt will visit England aU'AJLhjs African trip early in 1910. He \\T*jgg|Jiver the Romanes lecture at Oxfon&iymd on the occasion of the university*com memoration will receive the horßVyw degree of D. C. L., which Oxford nV\ already bestowed upon Emperor Wil liam. According to The Times, Pres ident Roosevelt also will visit Paris and deliver an address at the Sor bornne. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the lecture axe_yet known. FOR AN INLAND WATERWAY. Steps to Open Channel New Orleans to Brownsville, Texas. New r Orleans, La.—Announcement has been made that about one thous and delegates from Texas and Louis iana will meet here December 4 and 5, to make definite plans for an in land waterway from Xew Orleans to the Rio Grande river at Browmsville, Texas.' The plans adopted at this convention will be presented to the rivers and harbors convention in Washington, which meets December 9. Though! Gun Unloaded. Fernandina, Fla. —A terrible trag edy w r as enacted here, when Christi na Kelly, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly, w-as acci dentally shot by Barnard Cone, a lad of fourteen years, death resulting im mediately. Young Cone had just returned from a hunting trip, and was in front of his home with several children gath ered around him. He playfully rais ed his gun, which he thought to be unloaded, when the trigger was acci dentally pulled, emptying the entire load of shot in the -body of the little girl, who dropped dead without even a moan.. Cotton Seed Oil Trade. Washington. D. C. —Cotton seed oil has become the second largest article of export from the United States to Turkey, reports Ambassador Leish mann at Constantinople. He points out the possibilities in the Turkish market for this class of shipments, and states that w-hen America real izes the advantages of canvassing a market hitherto neglected the sales of cotton seed oil will be widely ex tended in Turkey, v THE WEEK IN POLITICS, . Every national campaign inva sion to men of original vent some catchy device v-hlh i"' cause of the interest engender'b 6- the national fight, will behold t" by thousand. One of the most- by ,h<! things put on the market tliis't.? 10115 a small tablet, like a medicine^, 18 which, when dissolved i n - bowl, resolves itself into a Taft or Bryan, as the case t " \° f Already thousands of these tin have been sold to New York S 8 and restaurants. Eugene V. Debs, in Phißrtainv said ‘"Roosevelt has reduced th* ‘f’ fice of president to the level 0 f k ward heeling politician. With the ? publicans it is Wall street ar.d rl' and with the democrats it L tO many and graft.” Mr. Bryan, in his speech before th* University of Nebraska, called cl ernor Hughes a ‘‘defender of trust called attention to the contribution of Morgan, Rockefeller and otherst! his campaign fund and described him as a doctor who laughed at the scription given by another physician though refusing to furnish a ires-"' tion of his own. Mr. Taft has finished his tour of Ohio, making sixteen speeches He k voted much time to the labor question and defended his decisions when 'on the bench in labor cases. li e labor conditions had thrived under ih law as he had laid it down. He repeat ed his woman suffrage sentiment? Mr. 'Sherman, speaking in New Jer sey, said Bryan was “dangerous" be cause he was sincere and would nor be if he were a faker. Governor Hughes in New York spoke at Oswego, Waverlv and Elmira to large audiences. He said the indi cations for the election of “Taft and Sherman, are very gratifying;” hat he would sign no bills for popularity and ‘‘my family is largely dependent upon the insurance companies if any thing happens to me.” Ex-Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana will stump for Bryan, whose election, he says, would help and not hurt bus iness interests. Samuel Gompers issued an appeal to laboring men to vote for Bryan. He called Taft the “originator and specific champion of discretionary government” and said “despotic pow er is as dangerous under ermine as under the crown.” The total registration in New York is 681,602, which is 6.759 less than in 1904, the last presidential year, and 22.382 greater than in 1906. Republican doctrine received unex pected publicity through democratic channels when two van loads of cam paign literature were unloaded in he mailing room of democratic national headquarters in Chicago. The litera ture intended for republican head quarters, a block away, was written in Bohemian, Lithuanian and Salvish and before it was discovered that the documents were appeals for the elec tion of Mr. Taft, most of the literature was mailed to the voters. “If we had twenty-five speakers ar.d SIO,OOO we could carry Georgia at this election,” says Eugene V. Chafin, pro hibition candidate for president in a speech at Logansport, Ind. “The par ty that is defeated will go to smash and drop out of existence. The only real issue in the campaign is prohi bition. There is no power on earth that can prevent the prohibition parry from electing a president in 1912. ’ Treasurer Bidder's figures showed that the democratic national commit tee’s Campaign fund figures up to Oc tober 9 was $248,567, of which all but $22,654 had been expended. Chairman Mack gave out a supplemental state ment showing receipts of $12,556 from seventy contributors between October 9 and 14. Mr. Bryan concluded his tour of Ne braska, speaking to large crowds, and left for Denver. He called P/esident Roosevelt an imitator, said every pre datory corporation in the coutnry is back of Speaker Cannon and that if Cannon’s most intimate friend, Sher man, was chosen to preside over the senate the people w r ould be unable to obtain any remedial legislation. Mr. Taft received a w-arrn walcome in Kentucky and made speeches :n several cities. For the first time in some time he discussed the question of guaranteeing bank deposits. Un fortunately a chair broke under him and he fell to the floor. His careful inspection of the next chair offered caused laughter. Ignoring the protestations and screams of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, who was disrobing for tee night, a deputy sheriff smashed in the door of the editor’s compartment of a Union Pacific train at Omaha. Neb., and served him with papers of the no tification suit for $666,000 that nad been brought against him for blan der and libel by Governor Haskel; ° Oklahoma. Mr. Sherman spoke on protection a Jamestown, N. Y. He seemed to en joy disobeying his physician’s dilu tion to talk only in whispers and jo remain indoors as much as possn a , by conversing with all who (, nnn along and by taking an autonu e ride. All the forces that the national committee can command * _ be brought into action within the nev two w-eeks to make a successful -t a for the democratic cause in ' n(ihJ and Ohio. It is further planned .j send speakers of national promn - -• including several United States tros, into the middle west to am the fight for Mr. Bryan. Thomas L. Hisgen is campaign l in Washington state. Labor is preparing a final onslaudut on the candidacy of Speaker ,( ’ G. Cannon. The political action com mittee of the Chicago Fedeiu>< < r Labor has planned to send a i - labor leaders into “Uncle . g district soon. In the last thie ]y , of the campaign there wdl Kan . fifty labor speakers in Danuii , kakee and the vicinity. Mr. Sherman made a campaigning tour in N e^ v several in which his machine kihed chickens, knocked down - " burst a tire. He talked -