Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1911 — Page 4

News Notes of Nearby Towns

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REMINGTON. 1 WEST j TRAINS j EAST 7:35 aml Local passenger 111 :18 a m 6:44 pm! Passenger & mail | 6:10 pm 12:58 pm! Local passenger I 6:53 am

Wm. Ott has bought a new Ford tonring car. Ur. and Mrs. Lex Fisher were Rensselaer visitors Saturday. Miss Frances Nelson of Delphi visited her brother Bert Nelson and family here last week. Mrs. Jasper Guy and brother, M|ton Roades, • visited relatives in Kempton, HI., last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins were called to Shelbyville last Tuesday by the critical illness of her father. Mrs. Charles A. Baleoin, who has been in critical health for some time, died Thursday at 5:30 a. m. Little Anna Goodrich is suffering with a broken arm. caused -from falling from a cherry tree one day last: week. Mr. and Mrs. Geib of Fairbury, 111., visited here last week with their daughter. Mrs. Harvey Williams, of west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bellows and Mr. j and Mrs. Will Beal attended the wedding at rvenssei-: aer last week. . j Lex Fisher, proprietor o f the j Remington ■ and Wolcott cream stations, has been doing an excellent! growing business all season. ;ae stockholders Oi .u* Farmers’ Elevator Co., have declared a - peri cent, dividend for the first ■.■six’ months of its bu.-iness. Not so bad.! is it? 1 - A. G. Edvard fell from a cherry: tree Tuesday morning and broke 1 both "bones of his right leg above: the ankle, the bones protrude through the flesh. Recent births: June 17, to Mr.: and Mrs, Sanford Casey, a dughter;j June 1. to Joe Blanehett and wife,! a daughter: June 37. to 11. B. Robins and wife, a son.

Trustee Bonner of the C*. A. Ba-1-com bankrupt estate, has asked for an order from the federal court to sell the goeery stock which .has lately .been invoiced. The 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Rhoades fell from a fence last Monday while picking cherries and broke his right arm just below the elbow. J. M. Ott and daughter, Miss Daisy Ott, and Misses Margaret Johnston and Gertrude Besse went to Rensselaer Sunday and there joined The Democrat's' party on its eastern tour. Miss Eva Rodman, the 19-year-old daughter of Mrs. J. W. Rodman of West Lafayette, died in a hospital in that city June 24, following an operation for appendicitis. She and her mother resided with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Marquess of West Lafayette. She was a neiee of Mrs. W. H. Broadie of Remington and was well known here. The funeral was held the following Monday from the Marquess home in Lafayette.

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GOODLAND \ (From the Herald.) Several from here attended the band concert at Remington Tuesday evening. Chas. Spinney is expected home from the Dakotas this Friday or Saturday. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Treanor at Wolcott last Saturday. Paul Scheutte unloaded a self feeder Thursday. Same is to be attached to his threshing separator. Mass Gertrude Capes went Tuesday to Monticello to visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank Wafson and family. - ■ ,t - ' Miss Lottie Johnston of Knightsville, Ind., will make her home for the present at least, with Mrs. B. F. Butler. Vesta and Ralph Thompson, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., visited this week with their brother, Earil and family oast of town. Mrs. J. B. Johnson came up from Tuscola, 111., for a few weeks visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hall. Dr. S. K. Avery has purchased the Cat Nicholson lots on Jasper street and will erect a modern house during the summer. 'Mrs. Claude Humston and little daughter of Pieasantville, Ky., came Saturday to visit with Dr. M. L. Humston and family. James Babcock, student at Lake Forest College at Lake Forest, came home Saturday afternoon to spend a fe% weeks with home folks. Mrs. John Hinchman and little daughter Eva of Craig, Colo., are the guests of her mother, Mrs. Z. F. Little, and brother, Harry Little, and family. , Dare Condon of Grand Rapids, Mich., was down looking after his interests here the first of the week. Dare has a good position at Grand and is enjoying the best of Lcalth. The old Spinney store room which was Closed by Win. Eikenberry is to

be opened to'tjie public again about the middle of July with a complete stock of goods, under the firm name of Rich & Tedford.

Mrs. J. W. Baer was operated on for gall stones at the St. Luke's hospital in Chicago Saturday. Mr.,' Baer returned to Goodland Tuesday j and reports Mts. Baer to be getting along as well as could be expected. Samuef Little, who has been in the St. Elizabeth hospital at Lafay-, eue for two weeks taking treatment' for his wounds inflicted on the morning of June eighth, was taken to an insane asylum at Indianapolis Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hawn and two children and A. J. Spinney, who have been at Selby, So. Dak.,j> re-j turned to Goodland Saturday after-] noon. It has not rained there for some time and they began to get prtty much discouraged. Miss Helen Gasparo of Austin, 111., visited last week and this with her aunt, Mrs. Henry Butler, and husband. Miss Gasparo vi&itei Mrs. Harry Butler who is taking treatment at Hunters Springs, near Attica for rhemuatism. Mrs. Butler is reported to be making marked improvements. On Thursday of last week Madison James received a telegram call-; ing him to the bedside of his father living at West Union, 111., who was not expected to live. He is eighty-! seven years of age. In the early] days of Goodland he, ran a grist i mill which stood on tire lot now occupied by Peter Brook s fine residence. I

HONEST MEDICINES VS. FAKES • .. !■'•:.•■' ... - ■ ' j President Taft's recent message ■uggesring an amendment to the Pure Food and Drug law in its region to Prepared Medicines, does not refer to such standard medi- - ine< as Foley's Honey and Tari Compound and Foley Kidney Pills, both of which are true medicines carefully compounded of ingredients whose medicinal qualities are recognized by the medical profession itself as the best known remedial agents for the diseases they are intended to counteract. For over three decades Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound has been a standard remedy for coughs, colds and affections of the throat, chest and lungs for children and grown persons, and it retains to day its pre-eminence above all other preparations of its kind, Foley Kidney Pills are equally effective and meritorious.—A. F. Long. N- ,

] MEDARYVILLE. j .. ■ (From the Advertiser.) Mrs. Charles Yundt is visiting relatives at Mulberry, Ind. Miss Ethel Weymer, living on West Main street, is very ill with appendicitis. Charles C. Parker and family will occupy the building just vacated by the F. D. Baughman family. Miss Alice Hancock, west of town, is ill with lung fever. She is now on the way toward recovery. Mrs. Adams, mother of Mrs. Grant Eldridge, and Mrs. Higgins of Francesville, left last Wednesday for West Baden Springs. Charles B. Foley of Los Angelew. Cal., was here several days'- this week in the interest of his mother, Mrs. Liza Foley, of Danville, Ind., who owns some land in Jasper county. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Reeve and daughter, Miss Clara, of Rensselaer, were the guests of Mrs. Reeve's sisters, Mesdames Sadie Domke and Eva Hunt, and other relatives here, over Sunday. M. C. Comer has packed and shipped his recently acquired general merchandise stock to Roann, Ind., this week. Mr. Comer thinks that the store business is somewhat overdone in this town and thinking that" he saw a good opening at Roann, he concluded to move there. Mrs. Etta Young and daughter Ruby and George Nicols arrived here last Sunday from Oakville, lowa, all looking rather pale and somewhat the worse for wear. They came home to be cured and recuperate from an attack of malarial fever, contracted in that marshy country near the Missouri state line, and where the dredges now are working.

A Peek Into His Pocket W’ould Show the box of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve that E. S. Loper, a carpenter, of Marilla, N. Y. always carries. “I have never had a cut, wound, bruise, or sore it would not soon heal,” he writes. Greatest healer of burns, scalds, boils, chapped hands and lips, fever sores, skineruptions, eczema, corns, and piles. 25c at A. F. Long’s.

-I 1FRANCES VILLE, |

(From the Tribune.) Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hubbard Friday evening, a son. H. A. Myers and family were enjoying an outing at Bass Lake last week. Mr. and Mirs. Andrew Hufford and son were visiting in Rensselaer Monday. IMr. and Mrs. M. A. Chase and sons of Laporte are the guests of Mrs. J. E. TiHett. Mrs. Sarah Adams gad Mrs. O. T. Higgins went to West Baden yesterday to remain two weeks. Mrs. William Hubbard of Hamlet, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.

MIT Item* of Interest Tfi from Surrounding Town. Tendy Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

Andy Hubbalrd, south of town, over Sunday. Misses Myrtle and Gladys Hudgens left Tuesday for; a two weeks visit with relatives in Lafayette end Stock well.

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Maxwell visited "With Mr. and Mrs. Lon Barkburst at Lafayette from Saturday until’ Monday. Tho marriage of Mr. Joseph R. Fox to Miss Orine Ford took place at the former’e home in * Francesville last night at 7:30. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Myers and family went to Bass Lake Wednesday where they will spend several months in theif summer /home. Misses Vera Hill, Laura Bagwell, Virgie Tillett, Ocie Coffel and Anna Fitzpatrick were the guests of Miss Nell Daly at San Pierre Sunday evening. J. L. Beesley went to Garden City, Kan, the first of the week to negotiate the sale of 160 acres of land which is a part of the Star Cox estate for which he is administrator. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ale and their neighbor, John Passwater, of Noblesville, came up on the excursion Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ale, west of town.

Mesdames C. A. Clark, T. J. Tpmlinson and Misses Myrtle and Gladys Hudgens were attending the Logansport District C. E. convention at Brookston Tuesday and Wednesday, as delegates from the society here.

Frank Nolan was quite badly bruised Saturday afternoon when he fell from a barn on the Joseph Pe’sey farm west of town while working as a carpenter. He is yet very sore and will not be at work for a week or more.

Parson's Poem a Gem. From Rev. H. Stubenvoll, Allison, la., in praise of Dr. King's New Life Pills. “They’re such a healtLy necessity. In every home these pills should be If other kinds you’ve tried in vain USE DR. KING'S And be well again. Only 25c at A. F. Long's.

! WOLCOTT. -■ (From the Enterprise.) Mfiss Irene Brirton of Lafayette came Friday to visit Miss Marvel! Clark. Misses Izel and Freda Whitehead of Cromwell came Saturday evening to visit relatives. Misses Marie and Lillian Fisher went to Lapel Saturday morning to visit relatives and friends. Miss Blanche Whitehead went to Logansport S:Vurday morning to visit friends over Sunday. Mrs. D. R. Ivy of Royal Center came Monday evening to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Blake. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Stanford of Forest. 111., came Tuesday evening to visit their daughter, Mrs. Otis Dart.

Miss McKoen went to Logansport Monday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. Perry Blake, who is in the Plummer Sanitarium. ! Misses Fleta and Mable Delze’.l \ went to Id avi lie Wednesday even-! ing to visit their grandparents, Mr.! and Mrs. Henry Delzell.

Mrs. Jessie Kuns and children W’ent to Medaryville Thursday morning to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and. Mrs. A. B. Schoonover.

Mrs. Groves, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. James Pemberton , for a few days, returned to hej; home in Remington Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Kinney and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kinney attended the wedding of their granddaughter and neice, Miss Bessie Davis, at Rensselaer Wednesday. Frank Peregrine and family, who have been visiting Mrs. Peregrine’s father, Mr. DuCharme, returned to their home in Mitchell, So. Dak,, Tuesday morning, accompanied by Miss Edna DuCharme.

Escaped With His Life. “Twenty-one years ago I faced an awful death,” writes H. B. Martin, Port Harrelson, S. C. “Doctors said I had consumption and the dreadful cough I had looked like it, sure epough. I tried everything I coaid hear of for my cough and was under the treatment of the best doctor in Georgetown, S. C. for a year, but could get no relief. A friend advised me to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. I did so and was completely cured, I feel that I owe my life to this great throat and lung cure.” Its positively guaranteed for coughs colds, and all bronchial affections. 50c and 31. Trial bottle free at A. F. Long’s.

_i — x 1MT. AYR. -i 1(From the Pilot.) Daniel Stutzman has a new Avery threshing outfit. Mrs. Miller of Chicago visited the Miller families in this port during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bengston of Foresman visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Makeever, Sunday. D. Guthrie blowed in for a short visit with his family. He is working with a dredging crew near Eldarado, ni. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Chicago Heights came down during the week and visited friends and acquaintances. There was a wedding at the parsonage Tuesday evening, when Mr. Coon of Brook and Miss Jenkenson, was united in marriage. J. W. Hammerton returned during the week from Rensselaer where he was doctoring. He has recuperated enough, so as to be on the 'job and officiate asi boss.

SMITH REPORTS ON STEEL TRUST

' J j Primarily for Restricting or Preventing Competition. STOCK WAS MUCH WATERED Prosecution Under Sherman Law Would Probably Be on Score of Controlling Mines and Shipping Facilities.

Washington, July 1. The reason advanced by officers of the United States Steel corporation for its crea. tion are swept aside by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, who holds that it was called into being primarily for the purpose of restricting or preventing competition. In his long-heralded report on the so-called steel trust, the commissioner charges further that the opportunity for reaping a huge promoter's profit was another consideration that led .to the launching of this giant corporation. Commissioner Smith finds, after aa investigation that has extended over several years, that the steel corporation when it was organized in 1901 was “heavily overcapitalized.”' The entire Issue of £508,000,000 of the common stcck, the commissioner declares, ,had no personal property hack of it and from cne-fifth to twofifths of preferred stock was likewise unprotected by tangible assets “Even granting,” says the commissioner, “that there may have been a considerable value in the intangible consideration it is reasonably clhar that at least the entire issue of common stock, except in so far as what may be termeff merger value may be considered, represented nothing but ‘water.’ ” The commissioner finds that in the years that have elapsed since the steel porporalion came into existence considerable of the “water” hr*- been squeezed out through additional investments, made partly from earnings. The pxcess of capitalization over investment at the end of last year as figured by Commissioner Smith was £281.051,222, as compared with $720,846.817” of “water” in 1901. T he report is unsparing in its condemnation of the commission paid to the syndicate which underwrote United States steel. This syndicate, he charges, got £62,500,000, of which onefifth, $12,500,000, went to J. P. Morgan & Co , as syndicate managers. The commissioner makes the statement that at least $150,000,000 of the steel Corporation’s stock, including £40,000,000 of the preferred stock In 1901 Went directly or indirectly, for promotion or underwriting servies The enormous amount includes, of course, the old commissions allowed promoters of earlier combinations which were finally embraced within the United Slates Steel corporation. The bureau of corporations’ report clearly indicates that if there is trouble ahead for United States steel because of the Sherman anti-trust law complications, it is likely to be on the score of the corporation’s control of ore deposits and the transportation facilities leading from the ore fields. The commissioner charges that the steel corporation controls 75 per cent of the “lake ores” on which the present steel industry of the country is based and that this advantage is materially enhanced by the corporation’s grip upon the railroad situation. He looks askance at the Great Northern ore lease, apparently viewing it as a move to prevent independent operators from reaching this supply. As regards the production of steel, the commissioner finds that the relative proportion of the business controlled by the trust has been gradually diminishing since Its organization The corporation, according to the government figures, now controls a little more than 50 per cent of the crude and finished steel production as against 60 per cent in 1901.

HARVARD WINS BOAT RACE

* Contest Is a Procession with Yale Clearly Outclassed. New London, Conn., July 1. —Rushing to the front almost with the first stroke, Harvard’s varsity crew led Yale all the way down the four-mile course on the Thames river here and won by more than fourteen lengths. It was a procession with Yale outclassed from start to finish. In fact, the New Haven crew made such a distressing showing that after the first half-mile had been rowed interest was lost, save for the bubbling joy Of the great army of crimson men from Cambridge. Mo+hcr Slays Children and Herself. Lockney, Tex., July 1. Searchers found the tody of Mrs. Maude McCrary of Los Angeles, Cal., hanging from a windmill in the rear of a house she had been occupying and the bodies of hei three children, with tbeir throats cut, in the weeds near the dwelling. « The woman left a letter which indicated that she was unbalanced. Shakespearean Bail Profitable. " London, July I.—The Shakespeare ball netted $60,000 for the theater fund. The theater Is to be a memorial so Shakespeare.

FINDS AGED MOTHER VICTIM

Conductor Threatens to Strike Motorman Who Ran Woman Down. Richmond. Ind., July 3. —Mary McLaughlin, seventy-six years old, the widow of Dennis McLaughlin, formerly, a prominent resident, was killed bv a city street car in charge of Motorman Stewart Taylor at Main and Third streets. John McLaughlin, conductor on an internrban car of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern company, was one of the first men to arrive on the scene of the accident, his car approaching at the time. He turned the body of the woman over to find it was bis moiher. He was so enraged upon making the discovery that other employes of the company had to restrain him from doing bodily harm to Tayior.

AGED PACKER KILLS HIMSELF

Albert W. Ccff.n of Indianapolis a Suicide After Breakdown. Indianapolis. July 3. —Albert W. Coffin of the Coffin-Fletcher Packing company committed suicide by shooting luMself in tke right temple at his home, 971 North Delaware street He was dead when bis body was found by Mrs. Coffin. Mr. Coffin was sixty-one years old ard for a number of years was connected with the meat packing industry in this city. Two years ago he retired from active business on account of a nervous breakdown and since then he had remained at his home most of the time.

PILLOWS CAUSE DIVORCE

Wife Ordered Three Pretty Ones, and Husband Wouldn't Pay for Them. South -Bend. Ind., July 3. Three pretty sofa pillows, displayed on a barga'n counter in a South Bend department store, formed the Tone of contention which resulted in the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Georee Crofot of Mishawaka, according to testimony in the divorce case. On tbe shopping expedition to this r'ltv the rife ordered the pillows and the husband refused to pay for them

SUICIDE'S NAME PHILLIPS

Slew Wife and Self Because She Would Not Live with Him. " i"" ; Spencer, led., July 3. Oden Phillips. it has developed, is the real name cf tbe glass blower known as John Berry, who committed suicide here after shooting and probably fatally wounding his wife. A letter which was found o® Phillips indicates the crime was comiritted because his wife refused to five with him.

General Search for Boy.

South Bend, Ind.. July 3. —Police authorities throughout northern Indiana have been enlisted in the search for Mark Du Bois, the South Bend boy, who made a sensational escape on the way to the Plainfield reformatory. His picture and description have been sent broadcast. The boy was last seen at Kokomo, where he eluded his guard and jumped from a moving train.

Wi[?]e Repudiates Husband's Trade.

Anderson, Ind., July 3. —Mrs. Sabra Long’s husband traded “sight unseen” with Purl Dean, Summittville. Dean got a SI,OOO stallion, and Long a mule which, when it arrived at Summittville, had to be hauled to the Long farm It was too weak to walk. Mrs. Long, it is rumored, was hopping mad. She has invoked the law to bring Dean to time.

Fatal Fall from Trestle.

Greenwood, Ind., July 3. —Frank Snow, aged twenty-eight, was instantiv killed, and Ralph Stewart, about eighteen years old, was seriously hurt on a trestle of the Indianapolis Southern railroad near Francis station. The two young men were on the trestle as a through freight went over it Snow was struck and Stewart was shaken off

First Fourth of July Mishap.

South Bend, Ind., July 3. South Bend s first serious Fourth of July accident occurred when Earl Koon, aged nine years, was seriously injured by the premature explosion of a firecracker, the powder entering the boy’s eyes. The boy thought the fuse would not burn and was blowing it when the explosion took place.

Sunstroke Kills Youth.

Lafayette, Ind., July 3. —Frank Atkinson, aged eighteen years, son of Wilbert Atkinson, a prosperous tanner living a mile and a half east of Atkinson, Benton county, dropped dead from sunstroke as he was trimming a hedge.

Life Sentence for Neal.

Bloomfield, Ind., July 3. —The Jury in the case of Daniel Neal, on trial for the killing of George Hutchinson, returned a verdict finding Neal guilty of murder in the second degree, whicl will give him a life sentence.

Posse Kills Resisting Desperado. Terre Haute, Ind., July 3. —Alexander Graves, while resisting a sheriffs posse at Linton, was shot through the body and brought back here to die. Graves was an ex-convict and desperado. Wheat Crop Earliest in Years. Kokomo, Ind., July 3. — The first load of wheat has been marketed here This Is the earliest trap in years.

CONFLICT SEEN IN TESTIMONY

Witnesses in Lorimer Case Disagree as to Facts. ACTION FOR PERJURY POSSIBLE Assertions of Funk and Cook Are De> nied by Hi.nes —Affidavits of Marquette Men-Also Disputed by Him.

Washington, July 3. —An amazing conflict in the testimony of witnesses thus far heard by the Lorimer investigating committee of the senate is revealed, a clash which was responsible for Senator Kenyon’s suggestion that “there ought to be prosecutions for perjury right here.” This committee has left the room in the senate office building, where the hearings have been held, to meet again on Thursday, July 13, in the same place.

On the one hand are the assertions of Clarence S. Funk, general manager cf the International Harvester company, that Hines asked for a contribution of SIO,OOO to reimburse an expense of SIOO-000 in “putting Lorimer over,” and of W. H. Cook that Hines said in his hearing over the long distance telephone that he would take down to Springfield all the money required. There also are affidavits of four men as to a conversation at Marquette, Mich., in which ‘Hines is alleged to have boasted of electing Lorimer and to have Spoken of an expenditure of $160,000 in this connection. U Mr. Funk’s testimony was confirmed by Cyrus 11. McCormick and Edgar A. Bancroft, president and general counsel respectively of the International Harvester company, and H. 11. Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago Rec-ord-Herald, to whom he had related the conversation to the first two named immediately after Its occurrence and to Kohlsaat some time later.

Mr. Hines admitted meeting Mr. Funk at the Union League club, where the harvester manager said the conversation occurred. He admitted meeting Cook in the latter’s room, from which the .long distance telephone conversation testified to by the Duluth lumber mar occurred.

Pi.t Mr. Hines denied absolutely that he asked Mr. Funk for any contribution and asserted on the other hand that the latter expressed a desire to pay a share of Lorimer’s ‘legitimate and honorable campaign expenses.” He did not testify to any such proposal when he appeared before the Heim committee at Springfield at that time denying emphatically he ever had heard of any suggestion of money in ’ connection with Mr. Lorimer’s election.

Mr. Hines denied also he had called last February at Mr, Funk’s office and attempted to place an innocent interpretation upon the Union league conversation as testified to by the harvester man. He swore he was constantly in Washington from Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, in 3909.

NEWS IN SUNDAY’S PAPERS

President again declared for ,general parcels post. Wife of Theodore P. Shonts, New York traction magnate, has begun suit for separation. Berlin mystified by failure of American government to send^'Ambassador Hill’s recall papers. Steamship companies and men came to partial agreement at Liverpool and end of strike is seen. T. P. O’Connor says lords are hastening own destruction by forcing veto bill amendments. San Francisco was thrown into ft panic by new earthquake that was so severe it rocked buildings. Interstate commerce commission ordered investigation of ail the express companies in the United States. Lorimer inquiry adjourned until July 13 at Washington. Hines and his aids revealed a conflict of testimony.

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE SLIGHT

Shocks of Saturday Affected Wide Area but Not Seriously. San Francisco, July 3. —Forty-eight hours have elapsed since the earthquake shocks of Saturday and reports from the shaken territory do not bring intelligence of. any considerable damage done. . In San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities in the affected area, panic seized upon crowds In stores and restaurants, and there was a pell mell exodus from the large buildings. It was felt to the northwest of Sacramento in the Sacramento valley, and to the east to Carson and Reno, Nev., the former place experiencing the heaviest shock in its history.

William J. Thompson Dies.

Philadelphia, July 3. William J* Thompson, the “Duke of Gloucester,*’ political dictator of New Jersey twenty years ago and owner of the Gloucester race track, died at Belfast, Ireland. his birthplace, to which he returned broken in health, entangled financially and with all bis old prestige