Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 8

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief.

Washington President Taft named Luther Conant, present deputy commissioner of (corporations, to succeed Herbert Knox Smith, resigned. The president also named Sherman Page Allen of Vermont to be assistant secretary of the treasury, vice A. Platt Andrew, resigned. • • • The unseating of Senator Lorimer ■creates no vacancy and Governor Deneen of Illinois has no power to appoint a successor. Thus holds Attorney General Stead in a voluminous opinion rendered to the governor. Whether a special session of the legislature will be called at once, so that Lorimer’s successor may be elected, has not been decided. * * • By a unanimous vote the Sulzer bill creating a department of labor with a secretary and cabinet member at its head passed the house of representatives. It is to be carved out of the present department of commerce and labor which is to be continued as the department of commerce. • • • The conferees on the river and harbor appropriation bill reached a complete agreement on an amended bill carrying a total appropriation of $33,000,000, The $6,000,000 appropriation for levee work along the Mississippi river was agreed to.

• • • Postponement of the house judiciary committee investigation of the socalled beef trust was Indicated at Washington when the committee met to consider a program. The United States senate by a vote of 35 to 23 adopted Senator Bailey's resolution declaring any attempt on the part of a president to influence the vote of any senator upon any •question a violation of the spirit of (the constitution. The resolution was prompted by President Taft’s interference in the Lorimer case. • • • A quarter of a million dollars was the estimate August Belmont, testifying before the United States senate committee investigating campaign ’contributions, placed upon his gift to the Democratic national campaign in 1904. He was not sure that was the sum, but was “satisfied to let it go at that.” President Taft will be officially notified of his nomination at the White House on August 1. This was decided by Chairman Hilles of the Republican committee and Senator Root, chain man of the committee on notification appointed at Chicago. » • • Senator Burton of Ohio addressed the senate in Washington urging the observance of the terms of the HayPauncefote treaty when the Panama canal tolls bill comes up for discussion. Senator Lodge supported his view and declared no action should be taken which would tend to destroy the work already accomplished in connection with the canal and particularly the foreign policy as to its operation.

* • * Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh ■will make a diligent inquiry into the reasonableness of the contract be 'tween the government and the United I States Express company of 20 years’ I standing for the transportation of I coin, currency and securities between the treasrry, subtreasuries, mints and banks. • • • The navy has begun the formation of a corps of efficient radio operators. Under an order issued by Acting Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop the assignments of wireless operators are to be permanent and the men must not. except in cases of emergency, be shifted to other work. • • ••. ' Domestic Joe Morris, a youth of Sulphur i Springs, Mo., was shot and killed by J. R. Raines, father of a girl for whose smiles Morris had just whipped another boy. • • • Three men were arrested in New York city in connection with the murder of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal, who was shot in front of the .Hotel Metropole a few hours before he was to give evidence against the police on gambling graft. • • • A sightseeing automobile got beyond control on the main thoroughfare of Coney Island and, after a wild run down the crowded street, smashed itseif against a curbing, throwing out Its 40 passengers and injuring 15 per sons. Mrs. Louise Llndloff, who is suspected of having poisoned two husbands and three children, was indicted in Chicago, charged with the murder of her son, Arthur Llndloff, fifteen years •Id. The grand jury reeommended J that the accused bg without ball l

PARKER HAD MILLION

CHAIRMAN SHEEHAN TELLS OF 1904 DEMOCRATIC FUND. Money Was Sent to Maine, Colorado and Nebraska by National Campaign Committee. Washington, July 19.—The Democratic campaign fund contained about $1,000,000 when Alton B. Parker ran for president in 1904, according to W. F. Sheehan of New York, who testified before the senate committee investigating campaign funds.

Mr. Sheehan was then chairman of the Democratic national executive committee. Money was sent by the committee, he said, to Maine, Colorado and. Nebraska. Mr. Sheehan assured the committee that sums sent to Maine, Colorado and Nebraska were not large. “How much was sent to Nebraska?" Inquired Senator Oliver. "I think about $15,000.” Mr. Sheehan said he remembered August Belmont was a large contributor that year, and Senator Oliver asked if Thomas F. Ryan were also a contributor in the same campaign. The witness responded that he was. Asked whether any big business alliance or trusts contributed, Mr. .Sheehan said “be thought not.” “We made it a rule not to accept money from the trusts,” toe continued. “That was understood by every one in authority. I don’t think any money was accepted from trusts.”

YOUNG WOMAN IS KIDNAPED

Masked Bahdits Gag and Beat Victim When She Refuses to Pay $2,000 Ransom. New Orleans, July 19.—Following the receipt of threatening “black hand" letters demanding $2,000, which she ignored, Miss Bertha Cornier, a young business woman of this city, was kidnaped by masked bandits. She was found later bound and gagged in the rear of an abandoned house where her captors, after giving her a cruel beating, left her. She is in a serious condition. After kidnaping her the bandits demanded $2,000 for her release. Despairing of securing that amount they contented themselves with terribly abusing the defenseless girl.

Robert Shaw; Artist, Dead.

Wilmington, Del., July 19—Robert Shaw, the noted water-color artist and etcher, is dead here.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, July 18. Open- High- Low- ClosWHEAT- Ing. est. cst ing Jul y 97%-% .89% .96 96U Se Pt94-% M% .93% 93% Dec 96%-% .96% .95% .95% Corn— July 72-1% .72 . 70% 70%, Se Pt- ....66%-% 66%-% .64% 65% P ec --.56%-% .57% .56% .56% May 57%-% .57%-% .57 57% FLOUR-Easyjwirrter wheat, patent jute, [email protected], winter wheat, $4.6004.80; winter wh'eat, clear jute. $4 100 4.20; spring wheat." choice brands, wood. $6.30; Minnesota hard patent, jute, $4,900 5.00; Minnesota hard patent, straight, export bags. $4.7504.90; first clears, $4 0004 20second Clears. $3.3503.50; low grades, $3.15 @3.35; rye. white, per brl, jute, $3 9004 00dark, [email protected]. w . , BUTTER—Creamery, 25c; price to retail dealers, 27c; prints, 28c; extra firsts, 24%c----firsts, 24c; seconds. 23c; dairies, 24c; firsts, 22c; seconds. 24c; ladles No 1' 22c; packing stock. 20c. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included, 15@16c; cases returned. 14%@15% c - ordinary firsts. 16c: firsts. 17%‘c; extras candled for city trade, 22c; No 1 dirties’ 14@14%c; checks. 13c. NEW POTATOES— Kansas and Missouri early Ohios. 73075 c; Virginias, per brl. $2.5002.60; Tennessee cobblers, per bu 80c; Illinois. 70c.

„ New York, July 18. WHEAT—Lower, trade fair- No 1 northern, spring. $1.12; No. 2 red, $1.08%No. 2 hard, $1.06%; No. 1 Manitoba, July. $1.07%; September. $1.00%; CORN—Lower, quotations nominal; No 2, 8O%081%c; No. 2 yellow. 79%c. OATS—Firm, small supply; No. 2 white 58c; standard, 58c; ungraded, 57©61e. Live Stock. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $8.30© 9.50; fair to good steers, $6.4008.35- common to fair beeves. $5.1506.25; inferior killers, $3. <505.00; distillery steers, $7 50© 9.35; fair to fancy yearlings, $8.250915good to choice cows, $5.4007.40; canner bulls, $2.2503.25; common to good calves $4.5006.00; good to choice vealers s7ls® 8.25; heavy calves, $5.0006.00; ’feeding steers, $5.25(06.60; stockers, $4.0005.50; medium to good beef cows, $3.5005.50- common to good cutters. $3.0003.75; Inferior to good canners. $2.7503.00 fair to choice heifers, $5.5008.50.

HOGS—Good to prime heavy, $7.5007'70good to choice butchers, $7.5507 70- fair to , g 2° d ,~ *£ Vy pack,n S- U.1507.40;' light mixed, 175 lbs and up, $7.4007.60; choice light, 170 to 200 lbs, $7.5507.65; pigs ioo to 140 lbs, $6.7507.20. P * ’ W East Buffalo, N. Y.. July 1R CATTLE—Market slow and steadybutcher ade « $3-0008.00; calves, cull to choice, $6.00© LAMBS—Market active 25c higher; choice lambs, $8.2508.50- cull to fair, $5.0008.00: yearlings, $3.0006 50sheep, $2.0005.25. HOGS—Market, lights slow, heavies active; Yorkers, $6.8508.05; pigs. $7.5007.60mixed, $8.0508.10; heavy, $8.15; roughs $6.5006.75; stags, $5.2505.75. South Omaha, July 18, CATTLE—Market steadier to easiernative steers, $5.8009.50; cows and heifers’ $3.7507.40; western Steers, $5.0008.00- Texas steers, $4.5006.00; range cows and heifers $3.0006.00; canners, $2.7504.25; stockers and feeders, $3.7506.75; calves, $4.0007 75bulls, stags, etc., $3.7505.75, HOGS—Market strong to 5c higherheavy, $7.0007.25; mixed, $7.0507.25; light s7'Sa Pi * B ’ ,6 00 ® 7 - 00: Of salej SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market steady; yearUngs, $6.0006.50, wethers, $4.2504 85•wm, $3.7504.20; lambs, $8.7507.35,

HURL HATCHET AT PREMIER ASQUITH

Arrival in Dublin Marked by Sensational Incident. REDMOND HIT BY MISSILE British Prime Minister Given Ovation by Crowds in Irish City Where He Speaks Tonight on Home Rule.

Dublin,. July 19.—Premier Asquith, who is to speak here tonight on home rule, was welcomed upon his arrival at the Kingstown quay last night by John Redmond in the presence of a great crowd. A parade of several nationalist bodies, 2,000 torch bearers and several bands was formed and the premier was escorted to his hotel. The police arrangements were the same as upon the occasion of the king’s visit, but Lord Mayor Sherlock, who refused to' welcome King George, was there to receive the king’s prime minister officially. Hurl Hatchet at Premier.

A sensational incident was enacted before the party reached Mr Asquith’s hotel. Some person, presumably a suffragette, from a concealed position on a roof Or an upper story, threw a hatchet at the premier as his carriage was passing. The hatchet fell between Mr. and Mrs. Asquith, who were on the rear seat of the carriage, and 1 hen to the floor of the carriage. Mr. Redmond was seen in a moment to be bleeding from a cut in the eye, but as nobody had seen the hatchet strike him, it is thought, perhaps, the handle of the missile had grazed the Irish leader’s eye just before it landed between the premier and his wife. Given Ovation in Streets. The crowds in the street-gave the visitors an ovation and upon arriving at the hotel insisted on a speech. . Mr. Asquith said this was the first time the chief minister of the crown had visited Ireland since the act of union and it was quite beyond him to thank the people for the magnificent welcome they had accorded him. He came, he said, on a mission of peace between artificially estranged people. They would not forget Grattan and Parnell now that they were about to enter into the fruits of the labors of these two leaders. The premier assured his hearers that he was the ambassador of peace between Ireland and Great Britain and he assured them in behalf of the liberal party and British democracy that the liberals meant to bring the cause to a speedy issue. Tries to Burn Theater.

Great excitement was occasioned by the attempt of a suffragette to burn the Theater Royal, where the premier will address the Nationalists tonight. While the audience which had been seen the vaudeville show was leaving the theater a blazing chair was hurled into the orchestra by a woman in a box. The curtain of the box was also seen to be in flames when the chair was thrown. The fire caused . semipanic among the audience and at its height the woman escaped. The theater attendants soon extinguished the flames.

EASY FOR JOE PATCHEN ll.

Takes 2:11 Pace at Kalamazoo in Straight Heats on Muddy ■ Track In Kalamazoo, Mich., July 19.—0 n a track made exceedingly heavy by a hard rainstorm. Joe Patchen ll” had little trouble in taking the 2:10 pace every heat of the race being run in exactly the same time. Summary: 2:10 trot, purse $1,000: Chatty Direct won; Elizabeth Ray, second; Dolly S., third. Best time 2:08%. Gordon Todd also started. 2:05 pace, purse $1,000: Branham Baughman won; C. the Limit, second’ Don Pronto, third. Best time 2 04 V,’ Six starters. ’ ’ 4 ’ 2:10 pace, Celery City purse $5,000: Joe Patchen 11. won; Knight Onwardo second; Nellie Darling, third. Best time, 2:06%. Eight starters.

NINE DROWNED IN STORM

Mother and Six Children Lose Their Lives in Search for Husband and Father. Jacobs Creek, Pa., July 19.—Nine persons were drowned in Barren Run, on the farm of John Raymond, near here, in a cloudburst The dead are Mrs. Raymond and her six children; Mike Rovlnsky, her brother, and Mrs. Rovlnsky, her mother. In a heavy storm Raymond ,went from his house to the barn, located in a ravine. He did hot return, and after waiting two hours, the wife, hfer children and the other members of the family became frightened and went in search of him. As they reached the ravine a wall of water swept down and carried them away. Raymond was safe in the barn.and escaped. '

Declines as Aid to Taft.

Washington, July 19.—Granville W Mooney, former speaker of the Ohio assembly, has declined the post of assistant secretary to President Taft to succeed Sherman P. Allen of Vermont, who has be®n nominated for assistant secretary of the treasury.

AIDS DARROW’S CASE

LINCOLN STEFFENS GIyES IMPORTANT EVIDENCE? Believed Testimony of Magazine Writer Will Be Deciding Factor in Reaching a Verdict. Los Angeles, Cal., July 19. —Lincoln Steffens, the magazine writer, gave testimony in the Darrow case of the highest importance to the defense. Steffens testified that on Saturday before the arrest of Bert Franklin, on the following Tuesday, November 28, Darrow consented that if it was necessary in order to affect a settlement of the McNamara cases, he would let J. J. McNamara plead guilty, as well as J. B. McNamara.

Steffens testified further that this decision of Darrow was kept secret between himself and Darrow, and he went on representing to the citizens’ committee, which he had interested in the peace negotiations, that Darrow would not agree to any terms that did not include the discharge of J. J. McNamara.

Further the witness testified that on Sunday; November 26, he and Darrow and former Judge Cyrus F. McNutt of the McNamara counsel, went to the county jail and disclosed the plans to the McNamaras and secured their separate consent to the plan which involved changing their pleas to guilty. , .

Judge McNfitt died since the beginning of the Darrow trial. In consequence Steffens’ testimony on these two facts, it seems, can, in the nature of things, have no other corroboration than the testimony of Darrow himself. If the jury believes Steffens, his testimony probably will become the deciding factor in the verdict. The defense went into this line of evidence to show that with that understanding having been reached and arrangements practically completed for the McNamaras to plead guilty, Darrow could have no <iotive to bribe a juror. Steffens’ testimony was definite and positive.

GIRL'S SLAYER A SUICIDE

Nathan Schwartz Takes Father’s Advice and Kills Himself by Inhaling Gas. Ne v York, July 19,—Tortured by the remnant of a conscience in his disordered mind and carrying out the injunction given him by a broken-heart-ed father, Nathan Schwartz, the youthful murderer of little Julia Connors, ended his existence in a Chrystie street lodging house fly inhaling gas. Here on the fourth floor of the rooming house, within a stone’s throw of Sj police station and in the congested East side tenement section, teeming at all hburs of the day and night with people, the murderer successfully came and went for ten days until, overcome by remorse, he closed the door and window of his room, turned on the gas and reclining pn a bed littered with newspapers offering rewards for his capture, ended it all. Written in lead pencil on the youth’s collar were the words: ‘‘l am guilty and insane. I Was sorry the minute after I did it. So don’t cry for me.”

BERGER IN "WARNING” TALK

Entertains House with “Keynote” Speed on Socialism Which He Says Is Workers' Only Hope. Washington, July 19.—“ We must have r new constitution or we shall have a bloody revolution!” Victor Berger, the Wisconsin socialist gave this warning to his colleagues of the house in a "keynote” speech on the doctrines o; socialism. He described the Socialist ticket as "the international ticket of humanity.” “This country is divided into classes muc - as any monarchial country,” declared Mr. Berger. "Therefore, the working class must have a party of their own to take care of the interests of their own class.” Mr. Berger attacked "'ovemor Woodrow 'Wilson as “a creature of the bosses;” assailed President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt and referred to Williaia J. Bryan as a "dictator.” The only hope for the workingmen, he asserted, lay in the. Socialist party.

ROYALISTS ARE IN FLIGHT

Believed in Lisbon That Attempt to Restore Monarchy in Portugal Has Failed Completely. Lisbon, July 19. —It is believed here that the attempt of the royalists to restore the monarchial government of Portugal has failed completely. The government is advised that the rout of the royalists in northern Portugal is practically complete. The monarchists are fleeing over tha border into Spain, where they are being pursued by Spanish troops, who have arrested many of the Invaders.

“CUB” REPORTER LOSES JOB

Write* Hoax Story That Infernal Machine Had Been Received at White House. Washington, July 19.—A "cub" reporter who wrote a story of the receipt of an infernal machine at the White House is hunting a job. The "western newspaper man” who perpetrated the hoax upon the ycung man is still at work. The "cab” was told the story was a “fake” after he had written it, but it was then too late to stop its publication. No bomb was received at the White House. ”

WOMAN'S MISTAKE CAUSED COLLISION

Tower Operator Erred in Taking Telephone Order. WRECK COST THIRTEEN LIVES Mrs. Julia A. Wilcox Tells Coroner’s Jury She Misunderstood Calf— Led Her to Hold Trains Unnecessarily. Chicago, July 19. —Mrs. Julia A. yvilcox, former inmate of the Cook county hospital for the Insane at Dunning and tower woman at Western Springs, the scene of the wreck of two Chicago, Burlington & Quincy trains early Sunday morning, admitted that she had misunderstood a telephone order and by stopping two trains, unnecessarily, had caused the confusion out of which the wreck occurred. Her admission was wrung from a mass of evasive and argumentative testimony given at the coroner’s Inquest held at La Grange, 111. Wreck Cost 13 Lives. The inquest was a fourfold investigation of the disaster in which thirteen lives were lost. Besides the coroner there were represented at the hearing the Interstate commerce commission, the Illinois railroad and warehouse commissioners and officials of the railroad. Representatives of each body were allowed the widest latitude in getting at the facts, of the affair by Coroner Hoffman, who personally directed the inquest. After the examination of Mrs. Wilcox and a few other witnesses, including Engineer George M. Eno of the wrecked passenger train, the coroner adjourned the hearing until Monday morning, when, it is probable, Mrs. Wilcox will be recalled. Woman Explains Mistake. In explaining the mistake which, according to her own admission, was responsible for the fatal collision, Mrs. Wilcox said that just prior to the wreck she received a telephone call from Congress Park, which she understood to instruct her to hold passenger train No. 4 until freight train No. 74 had finished switching ahead. It developed that the person who telephoned this call merely asked her to inform Congress Park when No. 4 arrived. She threw up the block signal for No. 4, which went past; then she decided she must stop No.'2, a passenger train. No. 2 ran by without seeing the signal and stopped SSO feet beyond the tower. Ten minutes later the mail train. No. S, shot by, crashed into the rear of No. 2, and the engineer was killed, leaving the question as to whether he saw the signal a matter of conjecture. If Mrs. Wilcox had not misunderstood the telephone call and stopped No. 4 she would not have found It necessary to stop No. 2 and the wreck would not have occurred, according to her own admission.

PICKS 14 CAMPAIGN CHIEFS

Committee Is Named by Governor Wilson to Act as His Advisers. Sea Girt, N. J., July 19.—The campaign committee which is to run Governor Wilson’s campaign for president. as selected at the conference at the nominee’s summer home here, consists of fourteen members as follows: William F. McCombs of New York, chairman; Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, Judge Robert S. Hudspeth of New Jersey, Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, Colonel Robert Ewing of Louisiana, A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin, former Judge W ill R. King of Oregon, all members of the national committee; Senator Thomas T. Gore of Oklahoma, Senator James A. O’Gorman of New York, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Congressman Daniel J. McGillicuddy of Maine, Congressman Albert C. Burleson of Texas and William G. McAdoo of New York. Headquarters will be opened within a week in New York and Chicago and as early as possible in some city further west. Mr. McCombs will assume charge of the campaign immediately and make his office in the New York headquarters.

TARIFF BILLS VOTE FIXED

Senatg, Will Dispose of Wool, Sugar and Excise Measures July 25, 26 and 27. Washington, July 19.— The senate adopted a unanimous consent agreement for the disposition of the pending tariff bills. It was agreed the wool bill should be disposed of on the calendar day of July 25, excise bill July 26 and sugar bill July 27.

Uses Pepepr to Foil Hounds.

Louisville, Ky, July 19.—While the cashier of the band at Gilbertsville, Ky., was at lunch a burglar slipped in’ worked the day combination to the vault, and slipped away with |6OO, after sprinkling cayenne pepper around so hounds could not trail him.

Veteran Reinsman Dead.

Kalamazoo, Mich., July 19. —.Tames Flynn, the veteran California reinsman, died here ot heart failure. He was attending the local meeting of the grand circuit.

DENVER SWEPT BY STORM; TWO DEAD

Five Hundred Left Homeless When Creek Overflows. PROPERTY LOSS $2,000,000 Mysterious Telephone Message Warns People Along Swollen Stream In Time to Escape Rushing Waters. Denver, Colo., July 16.—One thousand persons homeless, two dead, two missing and fifteen ipjured and property losses estimated at more than $2,000,000, is the known sum total of a cloudburst that swept down through Cherry creek into this city and out into the South Platte river. It is believed the flood has reached its crisis, however, and all further danger to be temporarily at least over. While the foregoing list of casualties is believed to be practically complete, accurate figures on property damage still are incomplete and may run considerably higher. Individual estimates vary greatly and run as* high as five millions. Practically the entire wholesale and warehouse districts were flooded. Semi-official damage figures compiled are: City streets and sewers, $500,000; stocks in wholesale district, at least $1,000,000; tramway business and residence property, $500,000. The Denver chamber of commerce and the United Charities, have taken charge of raising a relief fund to give aid to the flood sufferers, of whom more than five hundred are homeless. Twenty-Five Babies Orphaned.

The big city auditorium is a refuge camp commanded by Fire Commissioner McGrew and Chief of Police O’Neil. Five hundred homeless men, women and children gathered there and were fed by the city. Twenty-five babies, from six months to six years old, whose parents are believed to have been lost, are in the care of the police matron. Had it not been for a note of warning sounded over the telephone to the city hall just before the crest of the flood reached the city, many could not have escaped death. The message, from as yet an unidentified person, was repeated along the course of the creek and some of the dwellers were able to flee, many in their night clothes. That many were caught in their sleep is the general beliaf. The crest of the cloudburst was preceded by a storm with a wind velocity of 48 miles an hour. In two hours a hard rain filled the sewers to overflowing, the tramway lines were out of commission, hundreds were marooned in the parks around the city and fifty miles of city roadway were destroyed. Hundreds of Homes Ruined. Hundreds of homes were in ruins. Mayor Arnold with volunteer relief parties directed the rescue work. Dazed families huddled in yards or marooned on roofs mingled appeals with the voices of their rescuers until gathered in. Hundreds of spectators, cut off from retreat by the flood, before they realized their danger, were rescued by volunteers, who dove into the flood and carried them ashore. Wagon after wagon was driven into the flood to return again and again with women and children in drenched night dresses. Those who insisted on saving effects were dragged from their homes.

GOTHAM GAMBLER IS SLAIN

Herman Rosenthal, Who Made Sensational Charges Against Police, Is Shot by Men in Auto. New York, July 16.—Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who a few days ago made sensational charges against the police, was shot and killed in front of the Hotel Metropole, at Broadway and Forty-third street, early today. Rosenthal was standing near the entrance to the hotel when six men in a slate-colored touring car rode up. One of them jumped out and opened fire on him. Rosenthal’s assailants, it was reported on the street, was whisked away in the car a second after the shooting. The car was followed by the police in a taxi-cab, but the men made their escape.

EX-PRESIDENT OF ROAD DIES

Henry Fink, Chairman of Board of Directors of Norfolk and Western, la Dead. New York, July 16.—Henry Fink, prominent in railway circles as chairman of the board of directors of the Norfolk & Western railway and formerly president of that road, died late last night in his apartments in the Hotel Plaza. Mr. Fink, who was in his 83d year, had been ill for seven months. Born in Germany in 1831 and a student in the Polytechnic School at Darmstadt, Mr. Fink began his career of more than half a century in railroad service of this country as a rodman and transit man for the Western Maryland railroad in 1851.

Ten Russian Sailors to Die.

Sebastopol, Russia, July 16.—Death sentences were passed on ten sailors by a courtmartial on the Russian cruiser Zlatoust today. The condemned men were charged with mutiny and are said to be revolutionist*.