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NIGHT KMR CONFESSED
“Ted” Burton Names Men Who
Lynched Captain Rankin,
IMPLICATED MEN ARRESTED
Burton Tells How ths Lynching of Ran
kin Was Planned and Executed.
Denies Complicity in KiLing.
Tiptonville, Tenn.—“ Ted” Burton,
self-confessed night rider, told a re
markable story of night rider depre
dations in the vicinity of Reelfoot
Lake, confessing to the part he play
ed in the outrages which reached a
culmination in the putting to death
Captain Quentin Rankin, a prominent
attorney of Trenton, Tenn., on the
banks of the lake a week ago, and
implicating men prominent in this
section.
Of the number he declares that had
a part, in the killing of Captain Ran
kin more than half are in custody at
the military base near Samburg.
While Burton denies that he was
present when Captain Rankin was put
to death, he admits that it was
through information bv him that the
band congregated and secured the at
torney while he slept at the hotel at
Walnut. Log. According to Burton’s
confession, Toni and Garret Johnston,
under arrest, and William Watson, un
der bond in connection with another
raid, were the leaders of the Lake
band.
Bur to declaies that the first part he
played as a member of the night rider
band was when he aided in the burn
ing of a fish dock at Samburg, and.
several weeks later was one of a party
who crossed the county line from the
Reelfoot Lake district into the adjoin
ing county of Lake and whipped Jus
tice of the Peace Winn, an aged man.
Coming to the killing of Captain
Rankin Burton declared that he saw
•Captain Rankin and Judge Taylor at
the lie .el in Walnut Log and that he
communicated with the night rider
leaders and told them of the visit.
Burton says he then left Walnut Log
and went out into the lake to fish.
He states that he was fishing when
he heard shots which ended the life
of Captain Rankin.
In the course of his confession, Bur
ton gave the names of no less than
forty members of the night riders.
The majority of those implicated by
Burton are under arrest, but as to
their identity Sheriff Hains would not
say further, fearing that to do so
would cause additional excitement and
provoke an outbreak on the part of
the friends of the prisoners.
COTTON GINNED TO OCTOBER 18.
Government Report Shows 6,233,780
Bales —Far Above Last Year.
Washington, D. C.—The census re
port on cotton just issued shows a
total of 6.283,780 bales, counting
round as half bales, ginned from the
growth of T 903 up to October ‘lB, and
a total of 25,440 active ginneries. This
is as compared with 4,420,258 bales
ginned for 1907, 4,931,621 for 1906,
4,990,5-66 for 1905 and 6,’417,894 for
1904. The number of the active gin
neries in 1907 were 24,926, for 1906
was 26,125 and for 1905 was 26,577.
Round bales included this year, 115,-
438, as compared with 97,957 for 1907,
132,144 for 1906, and 146,574 for 1905.
Sea island bales aggregate 32,462 for
1908, 18,775 for 1907, 12,091 for H9OG
and 31,487 for 1905.
The report by states giving bales
(counting round bales as half bales)
and active ginneries respectively is
as follows:
Alabama, 690,788 bales and 3,295
ginneries.
Arkansas, 347,108 bales arid 1,931
ginneries. •
Florida, 34,577 bales and 231 ginner
ies:
Georgia, 1 ,‘119.617 bales and 4,250
ginneries.
Kentucky and New Mexico, 56G
bales and 2 ginneries.
Louisiana, 206/127 bales and 1,499
ginneries.
Mississippi, 621.423 bales and 3,190
ginneries.
Missouri, 20,234 bales and 66 gin
neries.
North Carolina, 276,173 bales ar.d
2,443 ginneries.
Oklahoma," 131,578 bales and 862
ginneries.
South Carolina. 659,076 bales and
*3,046 ginneries.
Tennessee, 132,227 bales and 581
ginneries.
Texas, 2,041,570 bales and 3,978 gin
neries.
Virginia, 2.816 bales and 63 ginner
ies.
The report also announces that the
corrected statistics of the quantity
ginned this season to September 25
are 2,590,639 bales.
TWICE HONORED IN A WEEK.
Sergeant Seth T. Weld Gets Medal
and Lieutenancy.
Camp Atascadtro, Cal. —For gallant
conduct in ail engagement in the Phil
ippines Sergeant Seth T. Weld of the
pighth infantry, U. S. A., has twice
been signally honored within a week.
A few days ago he was presented with
a congressional medal of honor for
bravery and novv has received word
from Washington that the president
has appointed him a second lieuten
ant of the Philippine scouts. Lieuten
ant Weld, while seriously wounded in
both arms, rescued two wounded com
rades from a band cf Puiajanes on
the island of Leyte several years ago.
BRITISH VESSEL SEIZED
Crew and Passengers Detained as
Prisoners.
St. Vincent, B. W. I. —Word has
been received here of the seizure sev
eral weeks ago by the Venezuelan
authorities of a British trading vessel,
at Margarita, an island in the Carib
bean sea, belonging to Venezuela, and
the imprisonment of the crew.
The schooner was carried far out
of her course, and, while drifting off
Margarita, was seized by Venezuelan
officers.
TATE NEBS NOTES.
General.
Millions of grasshoppers have in
vaded portions of Etowah county,
Alabama, literally covering the
ground. Some fear is expressed that
the grasshoppers have migrated from
the west and will be felt in the agri
cultural sections of the country in the
spring.
That President Diaz has determined
not to be a candidate to succeed him
self as president of Mexico at the
coming election in 1910 was stated in
an article published by El Rio Del
Hegar, a leading newspaper of Mex
ico City.
An edict was issued by the Chinese
throne which sets forth that the gov
ernment has abandoned its monopoly
of the opium-selling business. The
license system is substituted.
More than 114,000 people who had
registered for the drawing of farms
of the rich Rosebud Indian reserva
tion found that Miss May A. Melzer,
a Kennebec, S. D., school teacher, was
to have first choice as a result of the
drawing of names.
Mexico's coffee crop this year will
be nearly three times as large as that
of last year, which was 33,000,000
pounds.
The Argentine government propos
es to promote the development of na
tional territories by the construction
of raihvays and the formation of
towns along their lines.
Reports from Mississippi indicate a
rapid increase in the demand for ex
port lumber at an advance of $4 to $5
per thousand over prices of a month
ago. Interior demand is also large,
at higher prices.
“Black Hand” letters threatening
to blow up the Moody church in Chi
cago w r ere received by the Rev. A. C.
Dixon, acting pastor of the church.
The letters demanded that SI,OOO be
left in a cigar box on the porch of
the church. At the hour set detec
tives watched for the appearance of
suspicious persons, but none appear
ed.
The wheat crop of Kansas has been
estimated at 70,000,000 bushels, val
ued at $63,000,000, and the corn crop
140,000,000 bushels, valued at $70,000,-
000. The board of agriculture of the
state has placed the total value of the
farm products at $50,000,000 more
than that of 1907, which value is due
not to increased amounts, but 20 per
cent higher prices.
Gus Rogers, the actor, one of the
famous Rogers brothers, died in New
York of appendicitis. Rogers had an
attack of appendicitis in Chicago in
1902, but he deferred the operation,
He was taken sick in Utica, N. Y., 3
weeks ago.
Fire destroyed the trunk factory
of Louis Goldsmith & Son in New
York City. Loss $500,000. Fire Chief
Astley and a battalion chief fell into
the canal to escape a falling wall.
Washington
The United States is one of the
best patrons of the British pottery
industry and it is estimated that forty
per cent of the exports of unmanufac
tured clay come to this country. The
estimate furnished the department of
commerce and labor shofrs that the
output of the British pottery is about
$30,000,000 annually, while the total
exports of manufactured pottery each
year approximates $12,000,000.
It is the intention og Comptroller
of the Currency Murray to increase
the number of bank examinations dur
ing the year, especially in the cases
of those national banks which have
been guilty in the past of an infringe
ment of the national banking laws.
The comptroller states that there are
a number of banks which view some
of the less important provisions of the
law of small consequence.
The total trade between Servia and
this country grew' from $36,582 in 1906
to $59,472 in 1907. Our exports are
only nominal, amounting to $1,873 in
1906 and $175 in 1907. The imports
last year consisted of $37,218 worth
of goat and other skins and $22,0 i 9
worth of other articles.
In the supreme court of the Unitted
States Attorney General Bonaparte
made a motion for the advancement
on the docket of the anthreite coal
cases involving the constitutional val
idity of the “commodities” clause of
the Hepburn rate law. The chief jus
tice stated that it would be necessary
to take the request under advisement.
There was an echo of the Browns
ville “shooting-up” incident in the
supreme court of the United States
when a motion to advance the case
of Oscar W. Reid, on the docket, was
filed in Reid’s behalf. Reid belonged
to the Twenty-fifth infantry and the
president dismissed him without hon
or on the charge of being implicated
in the Brownsville riot of August 13,
1906. The suit is to compel payment
of Reid’s salary up to the expiration
of his enlistment.
The oil production of the United
States in 1907, say geological survey
reports just issued, was characterized
by a total output far in excess of any
previous year, and an unparalleled ac
cumulation cf stocks, in spite of
which the price cf all grades of oil
was kept at a high level. The sensa
tional developments were the great
increase in the new Illinois fields, the
phenomenal yield in Oklahoma, to
gether with increase in both quantity
and price in California.
Orders were Issued from the white
house to heads of all government de
partments directing that clerks and
other employes who wish to go to
their home states to vote shall be
paid off October 29 their salaries up
10 and including the previous day.
Officers of the federal immigration
service who have been investigating
records have made the interesting dis
covery that vast property holdings of
President Cabrera of Guatemala, have
been given the cloak of American pro
tection through Cabrera’s son, who
was first naturalized in that city,
where he resides, and to whom there
lias been transferred, it is said, a good
share of the plantations and estates
that make up the Cabrera fortune.
Diego Estrada Cabrera was natural
ised at San Francisco in 1907, hav
ing resided there for some years.
CASTRO DEFIES DUTCH
Venezuela Declines to Grant the
Demands of Holland.
WAR PREPARATIONS MADE
In Anticipation of a Demonstration by
Holland Preparations Are Being
Made to Defend Caracas.
Caracas, Venezuela, via \\ illemstad,
Curacao. —'President Castro, in his an
swer to the second Netherlands note,
has declined to revoke his decree of
May 14, prohibiting the trans-ship
ment of goods for Venezuelan ports
at Curacao which has been obnoxious
to the people of that island.
The president expresses surprise that
the Netherlands government should
ask for the revocation of this decree
after acknowledging Venezuela s right
to issue it. Continuing, he asks the
Netherlands to send a confidential
agent to Caracas to arrange the terms
of an amicable settlement of the dif
ficulties betiveen the governments.
The chief of artillery branch of the
Venezuelan army has completed the
preparations for the defennse of La
Guaira. In anticipation of a naval
demonstration by Holland before that
port on November 1, shells have been
distributed to all the modern guns in
stalled in the forts in Mountainside
above La Guaira,
THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN
Thanks President Roosevelt for Send
ing Fleet to Japan.
Washington, D. €.—“ l suppose heav
en helped us to join our hands firm
ly,” said Japanese Ambassador Ko
goro Takahira, with emotion, as he
discussed the visit of the American
fleet to Japan, winch has just come to
an end \
The following ts the text of the
message from the emperor, which Am
bassador Takahira conveyed to Presi
dent Roosevelt:
“To the President of the United
States of America; I thank you most
sincerely for your very kind message
which the American ambassador de
livered to me upon the departure of
the American fleet from our shores.
I was highly gratified to learn that the
reception accorded to the fleet was so
satisfactory and agreeable to you and
to the people of the United States. 1
desire to express my appreciation of
your kindness in accepting the invita
tion of my government for the fleet to
visit Japan, since, by that visit, I was
afforded an opportunity to testify anew
to you the assurance of my high re
gard and perfect esteem, and my sub
jects enabled to show fresh proof of
their sincere attachment for your
countrymen, and I am very happy to
believe that the memorable event will
surely tend to cement the bonds of
friendship and good neighborhood be
tween our two countries.
“I remain, your good friend.
“MUTSUHITO.”
BIG AUTOMOBILE RACE
Won by Robertson, in American-Made
120-Horse Car.
New York City.—The Vanderbilt
cup race, the greatest contest of speed
controlled by human agency the world
has ever known, was brought to a
close with a heart-stirring and hair
breadth finish in which an American
car, driven bv an American boy, won
through the unparalleled daring of the
driver and the comet-like speed of the
car in which he rede.
George Robertson won the race with
locomobile No. 16, a 120-horse-power
car.
It was the first victory that an
American car, or an American driver,
ever won in an international contest.
When the United States flag was run
up on the main staff of the grand
stand, the chorus of cheers that start
ed with the thousands there swelled
until the 250,000 spectators lined about
the course and sang the triumphant
anthem of American victory.
Summary —Driver, Robertson; car,
Locomobile; first; time, 4; 00:48 1-5.
Driver. Lyttle; car, Isotta; second ;
time 4:02:3G 2-5. Distance 258.06
miles. Winner’s average speed 64.3
miles per hour.
CREW HAD AFRICAN LEVER.
The British Steamer Hoilingside Limp
ed Into Port.
Pensacola. Fla—The British steam
er Hoilingside, after a voyage of over
thirty days, limped into port from Da
kar Africa, being manned by a few of
her crew, the remainder being down
with African malarial fever, among
them being tire master, who is serious
ly ill. These men who brought the
ship to port were hardly able to do
so as they had been attacked and
were only recovering from the dis
ease.
Patent Models to Be Preserved.
Washington, D. €.—Commissioner
Edward B. Moore of the patent office
denies that there has been an inten
tion on the part of the secretary of
the interior or anyoire else to destroy
the models of patents accumulated b
the models of patents accumulated by
the government up to 1880, when me
chanical drawings were submitted for
models in the filing of claims by in
ventors. Widespread publicity lias
been given to statements that this
collection of 157,000 models would be
destroyed or scattered and many pro
tests against such action have been
received here.
Can Sell “Near Beer>
Atlanta, Ga. —The privilege granted
by the state to confederate veterans
to be peddlers or dealers in any arti
cle not prohibited and to be exempt
from the payment of any tax or li
cense was held by the state court of
appeals to include dealing in non-in
toxicating “near-beer.” Under this
ruling Georgia municipalities will be
prevented from keeping out “near
beer” by means of a prohibitive li
cense. The decision was rendered
in the case of J. M. Burch, ~
BOOM AFTER ELECTION.
Close of Campaign Will Mark the End
of Business Repression.
New York City.—There was a de
cide propensity in the speculation last
week to look toward the close of the
political campaign, which is expect
ed to release the financial and busi
ness world from repression. Much of
the activity in the stock market was
based on the assumption of the good
results to follow. The movement in
volved not only notable advances in
prices caused by speculative buying,
but considerable subsequent reaction
due to realizing of profits, thus cover
ing the full cycle of a speculative
movement in advance of the event.
The extent to which the expected im
provement in business has been antici
pated in the stock market movement,
in fact, awakens some sentiment of
caution in the seasoned speculative el
ement over the possible large follow
ing which will be met in the move
ment to take profits when election
uncertainties are once out of the
way.
The week was one of anniversaries
of the incidents of last year’s *panic,
and this was made the occasion of
reminiscences and comparisons. In
the matter of price quotations of
stocks the approach during the pres
ent movement to tli£, high levels of
last year’s prices proves a surprise
to the inconsiderate. The advance in
price from the panic level shown by
the quotations current last week
shows some large figures. Union Pa
cific, for instance, sold more than 70
points higher than in the panic; Read
ing 63, St. Paul and National Lead 50,
Southern Pacific 45, Northern Pacific
43, Amalgamated Copper 38, etc.
The comptroller’s abstract of condi
tion of the national banks as of Sep
tember 23, gave an exhibit of the vast
restoration which has occurred in the
banking situation and in credit re
sources. Individual reposits, loans and
cash reserves all show heavy increas
es over the figures of August 22 last
year, which was the last abstract pub
lished before the panic. The enor
mous expansion in the items due to
and from national and state banks
and depositories also shows the com
plete restoration of the returns be
tween banks which were most violent
ly disturbed by the financial crisis
and wjere long in being resumed.
The more immediate events of the
week were of small importance or in
fluence on tli§ securities market. A
revived demand for copper was re
! garded as important. Placing or some
' orders for rails and equipment by the
railroad companies was of favorable
augury for the iron and steel trade
ZEPPELIN SEEKS NEW RECORD.
Triumphal Reappearance and Ascen
• tion With 10 Passengers Aboard.
Freidrienshafen, Germany. The
reconstructed Zeppelin dirigible air
ship No. 1 made a triumphal reappear
ance and ascension with ten passen
gers. The trip in the air lasted for
three and a half hours without a
hitch. The balloon made an average
speed of 29.1 miles an hour at a mean
altitude of 800 feet. Driven alternate
ly by a single motor and then with
both' motors, the craft made easy pr.og
ress
Ascending from the waters of Lake
Constance almost horizontally for 500
feet, ilWte.ft started on a short v °u
age ’ a fresh north
east over the palace,
from the the king
of Wurtemburg Mean
while Queen the
royal yacht, followed its T^^iYers.
The air vessel seemed
to increase its speed,
surpassing the records of the one
stroyed at Echterdingen. While at a
height of ij ,000 feet the craft perform
ed most wonderful maneuvers. At an
angle of 35 degrees it turned to the
right and to the left and spun com
pletely around; then, all the time
steering with the wings opening and
closing like window shutters, it rais
ed at the bow and stern at will.
CHURCH IN BETTING RING.
Briahton Beach Race Track to Be
Turned Into Town.
New York City. —When a suburban
town arises on the site of the famous
Brighton Beach race track, a church
will occupy the corner which for
many years was the location of mu
tual pools. Thevcompanv which pur
chased the track and is cutting it into
building lots announces that they will
build a church and give it away.
RIOT IN GREEK COLONY.
Over Twenty-Five Persons Injured,
Some Seriously.
St. Louis, Mo.— Twenty-five men
and women and two policemen were
injured, some seriously, in a riot that
followed the arrest of William Sarkis
for fighting. The struggle took place
in the Greek colony. A dozen Greeks
were arrested.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS^
Details of a third huge graft of Cu
ban public moneys within the last
two months is coming to light in an
investigation of affairs of Miguel de la
Torre, treasurer of the fiscal zone of
Havana. He is charged with rifling
the safe of the treasury department
of nearly $200,000. He is under ar
rest, but refuses to state what be
came of the money.
Two students from the medical
school connected with the University
of Pennsylvania spent their summer
collecting rattle and copperhead
snakes in Arizona. They caught a
good many and secured $1,500 worth
of venom, which they are going to
ship to Paris for sale.
The supreme court of the United
States practically indicated its dis
approval of the efforts to bring that
court into politics at this time by de
nying the motion to advance the
hearing in the case of the Noble
State bank of Oklahoma against Gov
ernor Haskell and others, involving
the constitutionality of the Oklahoma
hank deposit guaranty law'. A spec
ial plea was made for the advance
ment of the case because of the
prominence in the campaign of the
question of the guarantee in bank de
posits, but ihe court declined to act
PLANS OUTLINED
For President Roosevelt’s Hunt
ing Trip to Africa.
NATIVES TO BE EMPLOYES
President Will Be Accompanied Only
By His Son, Ivermit, and Two
Naturalists.
Washington, D. C. —While President
Roosevelt’s plans for his African hunt
ing trip have not been entirely com
pleted, some general idea of his expe
dition was gained from Bishop Joseph
C. Hartsell, for twelve years in charge
of the Methodist church in Africa,
who spent some time with the presi
dent and talked over the hunting trip,
in addition to discussing the work of
the missionaries in that country.
The general route to be taken by
the president when he reaches Africa
is from Alexandria by steam through
the Suez canal, across the Red sea
and down the east coast of Africa to
the port of Mombasa, the capital of
British East Africa. At Mombasa, the
outfit of the expedition, which has
been purchased in London, will be
assembled and shipped by rail to Lake
Victoria Nyanza. The president and
his party will make to the trip to Lake
Victoria Nyanza by rail, stopping off
at various points along the route to
make hunting excursions into the in
terio, away from the railway. The
country traversed by the railway is of
the wildest sort, and all kinds of big
game can be found along the line.
The real work of the expedition
will not begin, however, until the
party reaches the plateau of Nganda,
after crossing Lake Victoria Nyanza,
where abounds game to be found no
where else in the world. It is not
known exactly how long the president
will remain in this region.
The president’s party is to consist
of his spn, Kermit, who is to be the
official photographer of the expedi
tion, and two naturalists from the na
tional museum. No other persons will
be taken from this country. When he
reaches Africa he will employ the ser
vices of natives and guides. A cara
van will be organized for the trip
from the railway terminus in Uganda
to the Nile. The naturalists will pre
pare such specimens as it is thought
tlie national museum will want.
Whether Mrs. Roosevelt will meet the
party at Khartoum will not be defi
nitely decided until the trip is be
gun.
During the entire trip the president
will be on English territory, and the
English officials along the route will
do everything in their power to as
sist the party. ~
DIRECTORS MADE RESPONSIBLE.
New Order of Comptroller That Means
Much to National Banks.
Washington, D. C. To enforce
much greater responsibility upon di
rectors of national banks and to make
them pay more attention to their in
stitutions, Comptroller of the Curren
cy Murray has issued an order to na
tional bank examiners directing them
that upon entering a bank to make
an examination, to immediately con
vene the directorate and require an
swers to a formal list of twenty-five
searching questions. These inquiries
are to be put by examiners to each
director and are designed to bring
out clearly the relation of the direc
tors to the executive conduct of the
j&yik, the extent of their knowledge
paper, the latitude con-
them to bank officers in
the national banking law
their supervision of
the bank This is said to be
the first inquiry into
the relationship cjfcveen banks and
directors.
ADVEKISEMENT CAUSEIfeTERiA.
She Thought It Was
inine Admirer of Her Husba?^
Washington, D. C. —There is a
young husband living in the west who
believes that certain forms of adver
tising now used should be condemned
by the government and forbidden the
mails. Last week he received a let
ter addressed in a feminine hand.
Laying it upon the table, it was picked
up bv his wife, who read:
'“Dearest: After you left me yester
day 1 remembered that I had forgotten
to tell you to —”
The wife got no further, being over
come with hysterics, and has not yet
fully recovered. Asa matter of fact,
the letter was perfectly harmless, be
ing merely an advertisement in imita
tion of a woman’s handwriting, and
told of the merits of a certain remedy.
It is not likely that the government
will take any action, as there is no
law to cover the case.
$200,000 BRIBE REJECTED.
Ex Governor Miller Spurned Money of
Louisiana Lottery Cos.
Duluth, Mimi. —The death of ex-Gov
einor John Miller of North Dakota,
he’-e, recalls the famous fight against
the Louisiana lottery in North Da
kota.
Mr. Miller led the fight against the
lottery, and the story is told that a
representative of the lottery came into
Mr. Miller’s office and laid dow r n a
suit case containing $200,000.
“That is yours if you will permit
the lottery to enter North Dakota,’’
said he.
“My price is higher than that,’’ said
Mr. Miller, and threw him out of the
office.
WHY SHE WANTS DIVORCE.
Woman Objects to Changing Home
After Having Done So 39 Times.
Fort Wayne, Ind. —Because she was
forced to change her home thirty-nine
times in her married life, Mrs. Jen
nie E. V. Jarrett has asked for a di
vorce from James E. Jarrett. The
couple were married in 1891.
Mrs. Jarrett said the family had
been ejected for non-payment of rent
from sixteen houses, and had moved
out of others to avoid process.
THE WEEK IN POLITICS. ' I
“From a railroad stand -y ,
is but little preference m th? ' I
election this fall/’ S o H siaUol l I
president of the Santa Fe'nit
Topeka, Kans., “No matter i-i' 0 ?* 1, al 1
the national eletcion r - u - “
business conditions jun Y' 1 take
adjust themselves.” * ~ l 0n S to
Mr. Taft had breakfast in th
house, and President Koose eh T*
to the Unitarian church -•
They had a walk and then
After a long conference vir t f
ceived nearly two score of co
dents. He said he had two
the white house and ex needed !!:
one more. He said he expected
elected. He refused to detail h° be
versation with the president
said, was “not a pessimist nor ,
Mr. Roosevelt is said to believe
the socialist and independent
will poll 100,000 votes, mo- 0 f vf : '
otherwise would go to the demo-?
and to be confident of the elect}?
Governor Hughes.
Mr. Kern spoke optimistically of*
situation in New York and said if ?
an received the labor vote in Com
icut. and New Jersey that he ?■,
carry those states. '
It was shown that the Standard r
company was' favored by the ? '
veil administration in the regnl? •
governing the operations of th? p .
lie Oil and Gas compam in 0 1?
ma.
Josephus Daniels, democratic n
tional committeeman from xmih . ?
olina, has replied to Attorney General
Bonaparte’s letter on “trust'busV?
denying the claims made that success
has crowned the administration’s
prosecutions.
Count Tolstoi wrote a letter to R f
Jennings of Philadelpnia exnressim
his wish that Mr. Bryan should ?
elected.
The problem of financing the work
of the National Woman Suffrage asso
ciation came up at the convention of
that party held, in Buffalo, \\ y
where it is said President Anna H
Shaw talked to the delegates in no
uncertain way as to their failure n
provide the national organization with
the means to carry on its work, it
was finally decided to make an effort
to raise at least $5,000 by voluntary
subscription. The contributions had
reached $3,350 when a messenger
handed President Shaw a letter from
Mrs. Catherine B. Lewis of Buffalo,
enclosing a check for SIO,OOO. Pn -
dent Shaw announced the contents of ’
the letter in a few happy words.
In an open letter to Senator Knox,
Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr. Bryan to de
clare whether he believes in legalizing
the black list and the secondary boy
cott, as Mr. Gompers asserts, or
whether the president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor was mistak
en as to just what the injunction
plank of the democratic national con
vention pledged the party and its can
didates.
William Jennings Bryan is devot
ing much time to labor in
Ohio. The crowds that greeted him
in the industrial towns along tk*
Mahoning and Ohio rivers were so
great that he declared he had wit
nessed nothing like it before. Women
fainted and the candidate’s voice was
lost in,the roar. He charged the al
leged attempt by New York Central
officials to influence their employe*
on the Big Four read as a “crinu
against American citizenship,
also called upon President Rooseyet.
to retract" his misstatement relate
to the democratic campaign turn
•Mr. Kern has been compelled to
close his campaign tour amumly on
account of the serious illness o> ; us
young son in Indiana. L- 1 - i,l( y
iiis remaining up-state dates and left
for his home.
More official heads have fahciii t
the result of the charges of peum"""
activity in the political campaigi
civil service commission ha* *
nounced that after thorough ne ;
gallon, J. H. Fordhom, a deput> •
lector of internal revenue at 0a g
burg, S. C„ has been repnma
and suspended without pay foi f
davs for active participation ’
republican state convention at
bia. Robert A. Stew air, f
deputy collector, who wa
chairman of the executive coinff
of Clarendon county, South
has been reprimanded.
Mr. Bryan, at Louisville fev
dared that the “purchase of \ ]
republicans” is now
wherever a purchasaole vote
found; demanded that the 1( P
congressional campaign
say whether it would make P ul, “
receipts, intimating that nione>
much tainted” for the
tional committee to accept * s the
diverted to the ‘blind pool o
congressional committee,
the high tariff a panic-breech.
Declaring that all means fo;' *
eradication of the diink ' v tr jed
absolute prohibition had ' aD d
without success in this jn
claiming that if “all pre to
prohibition in this countij ‘ rV
vote for me, I would receive
electoral vote,” Eugene W •
prohibition nominee for P*'-;
made a circuit of Connecticut du
ing political issues.
Mr. Sherman, at Elmira X. /' . j.y
iculed Mr. Bryan., extended
to Mr. Kern, who has been q{
stop stumping temporarily,
the illness in his famil}, aia cte
“Mr. Chanler is making nif "
for Gov. Hughes than ail tin*
lican orators combined.”
Detectives arrested at ‘ afl
Broughton Brandenburg, who' s "‘ wri ,.
article, purporting to haw t 0
ten by the late Grover Clew*
a New York newspaper. i- • , llr
that the’ article and signaiu.'
ex-president are forgeries.
• Mr. Bryan having heard 1 .[;) a ', are r
dent Roosevelt indorsed J eche s
Sheldon, charged in y tl:; ai*
in Illinois that the republican
trying to buy the elecu.m ltH j
chat notwithstanding kms lm e
to be elected.