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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.