Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 June 1909 — Page 3
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UNCLE SAM IN JUST ISSUED.
REPORT
GOVERNMENT CRUSADE DESCRIBED
Measures Suggested That Will Help
to Lessen the Number of the Varmints.
Wellington, Special: "What can a
rat I" ' r. speaking more accurately, Wh.it un'i a rat do?" Is tho theino 3 a niorit remarkable report Just
isüik'J t) the Dopurtment or Agricul tun-
Tin graphic and startling accounts
of deprivations by rodents that fill
lb j of this pamphlet show that rh. ai is a powerful engine of de-
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in. i'f the principal crusades of the Ii. , , tiin-nt of Agriculturo during
mo i an a year past has been dift 1 i against the common brown rat. A lt". ij of the most skilled scientists id !!) department was instructed by S(: uv James Wilson to go forth 8i.. -nidy tho rat, to learn Its habits and .1 rtain o what extent it dum-BK- - K'piTty and menaces public be.il'h The result of this Investigate:! i now laid before the public in an i! 'M rated pamphlet of Hfty-four pa-- - "f cltlng reading matter. !n!.' enumerating an enormous
f depredations caused by rats, nernment scientists are careful i"de the theory that the rat ever ijuarrel with a human being or luldron when they are asleen.
t .! '.Tiling the per capita cost of n.ui lining rats the report says: rliiipnts show that the average
"rv or grain consumed by a füllen -at is fully two ounces dally. ...Thrown rat eats about half as li .i an adult. Fed on grain a rat 5 : tv-iivo to fifty pounds a year, !i .t!'ut CO cents if wheat or $1 .SO ; ....ii. Fed on beefsteaks worth .!.- a pound or on young chlckMpmbs with a much higher S'tne value the cost of main- - a rat Is proportionately inI Granted that more than half food of our rats Is waste tho '- cost of keeping one rat is ! ward of 25 cents a year. ' .in accurate census of the rats T'nited States were possible a
'i iMv correct calculation of the
mi cost of feeding them could
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Improvement Club Seeks the Aid of a Preacher of Great Faith. Omaha, Nob.. Special: Tho Row Charles W. Suvidge. pastor of the Poople-B Church of Omaha, is one of the strongest believers In tho ellicacy of prayer. Knowing of this falih. an mprovement club, of which he is a inomber, has invoked his prayerful "i... ,n,eciVinB tho removal of a barn ,,' t fifteen years has been an eyesore. ." , 'd all legal methods anu Having been unsuccessful, the property owners and tho Improvement club members have called Pastor SavIdge In, and he has promised to see what ho can do in the way of barn moving. The first act has been performed.
j"i .ti u recent meeting of the club
III? Ulieretl im a nr.nvor lincnnnliln
trie Lord to take a hand and see that-
tnuuKANCE AND DISTANCE CON
TESTS HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS.
EVENT HIGHLY SPECTACULAR
Nine Aviators Engage In the "Sport of
Kings" Before Great Crowd at Hoosler Capital.
Indiananolls, imi Rnonini. tk
durance balloon contest under tho au
spices oi me Aero Club of Indiana, tho first of two big aerial races started
,:. oegan at 3:50 p. m.
im me unio in the
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----- " ilium uuu eu uiui,! ,iio.,n .. . " " the oi,j red bnrn Ret8 dowu aud outl fd Ä8 was econd at 3:55, -while
without further ado.
G EE AI HE
A. Cocy, pilot;
ROOSEVELT ARRIVES MID CHEERS
OF THE POPULACE.
TEDDY DELIGHTFD WITH SCENERY
Koosevelt Party Now to Hau Thlr
First Real Experience of African Jungle.
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! from this data. If tho rats
red by the people of the United w.re equal to the number of ii animals on the farms, horses, !i"t'i and hogs the minimum r ?edlng them on grain would ml of $100,000,000 a year. To -ii h enormous total every farmi indeed every householder who it." on his premises, contributes -rlentlsts summarize their recrelations of steps that might i 'lv be taken toward the abatetho rat nuisance, as follows: "fiction of hawks, owls and - predatory mammals the nat-..-niies of rats.
"iiter cleanliness about stables, grocery stores, warehouses, illeys and vacant lots In cities iges and like care on farms -i'uirban premises. This In- ! - the storage of waste and garni tightly covered vessels and apt disposal of It every day. in the construction of build1 1 drains so as not to provide ' and retreats for rats and tho nt closing of nil rat holes In ' i -es and cellars. "i " early thrashing and market- ' Krains on farms so that stacks as shall not furnish harborage ' "4 for rats. moval of outlying straw stneks of trash or lumber that har- ' i'- In the fields, i; it proofing of warehouses, marHis. stables and granaries for
' or provisions, seed grain and fs.
K.-.ing effective rat dogs, espo-
tu city warehouses.
v 1 1" systematic destruction of
t win-never and wherever possible. ' ?1 i ping, poisoning and organized n'lr. - Ihe organization of "rat clubs" ar.ii i 'h,r societies for svnloninllc wnr.
icuinst rats.
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Kljahe, British East Africa. Cabin i
Amid the cheers of American mission
aries, nil the porters of his expedition,
wno nau preceded him, and the general populace, Theodore Roosevelt and
party arrived here Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Koosevelt was delighted with the beauty of tho scenery, especially tho Itift Valley, on the way up from
Aairooi.
Tho travelers spent the night
under canvas in a camn that has been
established near the railroad station.
rlio expedition started for the Sotik
district Saturday.
.Mr. Roosevelt and Major Menrns
rode on the cowcatcher of the locomo
tive for 22 miles. On the way a hy
ena, which got on the rails was almost
run down.
Kljabo is 14 miles from Nairobi In a
southwesterly direction. Tho country
between Nairobi and Kljabo Is for tho
most part thickly wooded and high.
The greatest elevation of the KIkuyu escarpment Is 7.S30 feet. From this
point there Is a most magnificent view
Tho traveler looks down some 2.000 feet into the great rift valley a rift can be traced from the Zambesi to
Palestine, though it reaches its finest
development nt about this point Ele
phants are plentiful In these forests,
but they are fairly safe from the hunt
er, for the thickness of the growth
renders their pursuit very difficult.
On this expedition the members of
the Roosevelt party will havo their
first real experience of the African
Jungle; some sections of the Sotik dis-
trict arc very little known to the white
man.
SIX PLUNGE DOWN ALPS.
Climbers on Precipitous Peak With Fearful Mishap.
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WILSON TALKS OF THE FARM. Secretary of Agriculture Goes to Montreal to Get a Decree.
M "Ti'real, Can., Special: "The a n,. r s daughter should be educated
.. lo-n the parlor, advise in tho K' -V n and know herself." TtiM was one of the homely little tii .v ms with which Secretary Wilson, f.r -nr. Tnited states Department of i"iPure, regaled a largo audience a '.iMed nt St. Ance do Hellevue, r- ir li. rp. on the occasion of the dedn of Mac Donald College of Mciji.t l nlerslty. tMtetnry Wilson, who spoke from 'n- Mewpolnt of tho farmer, said it - wmnsnry that life on the farm bo ' !e leas of a struggle and that tho ' 1 t rs dally existence bo made more M-tivo This condition, ho ext.m.,1, could only result from tho ed--I'K'n of the agriculturist and the " d for such education he declared
Left Douglass High and Dry. t r- Muff. Ark., Special: By eating 1 vv.ir through a narrow neck of 31 making a now channel a short nee away, the Arkansas River a ' a cut off at Douglass. Ark., leav'p i a town three miles Inland. The c f hannol Is already 340 feet wide. Won't Pay a Cent. jTka Kan" Speclnl: Mrs. II. ,f, .! , I fas flncd one cc,lt flnd costs for styrblng another woman's peace, hr served notlco of an appeal and b Bho will go to the Supreme Court necessary to beat tho Judgment
Turin, Cabler One of the worst
accidents In the history of the Alps is reported from tho Grand Dent
rour Frenchmen are dead and two Italians will die as a result of their
unsuccessful effort to conquer this
inaccessiblo point.
The party, which included noted mountain climbers, had been staying
In tho neighborhood for a fortnight
planning to ascend to the top of the Grand Dent, which has h'-retofore
been inaccessible.
Working along a circuitous route, the party of nine, all linked together, slowly worked their way toward the
clouds. When about two-thirds of the
way to the top one of the men in the middle lost his balance and toppled.
striking the man Immediately below
him. The sudden jar parted the rope which anchored the tourists to the guides, who had braced themselves
for the shock.
Galuing momentum, the six tourists
swept down the mountain side, which was incrusted with Ice, and, although
they frantically tried to check their
downward progress, they failed, and
all plunged into tho valley below,
making one straight drop of 200 feet
The horrified guides made their
way to thetr charges only to find all of "the Frenchmen dead and the Ital
ians, while still alive, terribly Injured.
Booming the Town Pump.
Ithaca, Mich., Special: Even the druggists In this local option county (Gratiot) have gone dry. At a meet
ing of the county druggists associa
tion at Alma, a formal resolution was adopted binding all the druggists not
to sell liquor even on prescription
nfter the expiration of their present
Government licenses, June 30. Marries Former Chauffeur.
San Francisco, C.H., Special: Mrs.
a mm L. McCartney, who, as Mrs.
August Chnmot, received a decoration
from the rrencn Kuvenimeni tor Heroic acts at the time of the Boxer rebellion, was married to her former chauffeur, August Rhemstrom, this week. John Followed Suit.
Joncsboro, Ark., Special: On rending a newspaper account of the sui
cide of John Pace, aged 10, of Batesvlllc, Ark., John Pace, aged 1C, of joncsboro. drank the contents of n half-pint bottle of turpentine. His girl had Jilted him.
the Chicago got away at 4:07.
iüq names of the balloons arfd crews In the endurance race are as follows:
The Chicago C. John Bennett, aid.
The Indianapolis Dr. Goethe Link, pilot; J. R. Irwin, aid. The OhioDr. H. V. Thompson, pilot; W. E. Mast, aid. Tho Ohio first loosed, swept to the south, the basket clearing the grand stand at the motor speedway by 100 feet, and proceeded over the city at a low altitude. It was followed In Just fivo minutes by the Indianapolis, which rose easily and took out after Its predecessor at a leisurely pace. The second contest In the air began at 5 o'clock. This was the national distance race for balloons given under tho supervision of the Aero Club of America. There were six entrants, as follows: The Indiana Car! Fisher, Capt. G. L. Baurnbaugh. Tho Hoosler Capt. Baldwin, Charles Walsh. Tho Cleveland A. H. Morgan, J. II. Wade. Tho St Louis III. A. B. Lambert
II. E. Honeywell.
Tho University City John Berry, Paul McCoIlough. The New York A. M. Forbes. Cant.
Harmon.
The starts were made under a flakw
clouded sky and a burning sun. Tho nine balloons, like great bubbles rising from the earth, stood moored until the
signals for the start
Surrounding the aviation field.
guarded by state militia, a big crowd watched intently the busy preparations of the aeronauts, the testing of their apparatus, and the adjusting of the equipment of their light little basket cars.
At the ground a ten mile breeze was
blowing towards the south. The government weather experts calculated that on the plane of the lowest of the flaky clouds there was a twenty mile wind to the south and that at a still higher altitude there was a much
stronger wind to the east.
The place where the big races be
gan was at the new motor speedway-
Just completed, five miles northwest of this city. The speedway, with its aviation field and aerodrome, is the
most elaboratelyequipped plant In the
world for motor racing and ballooning.
It has a machine shop, garages, a res
taurant, and sleeping quarters.
One hundred and fifty soldiers
guarded the balloons and no smoking
was permitted any where near them
Allen Hawley, of New York, In charge
of the field, early issued strict ground
rules and he had all the assistance
needed to enforce them
Some of the aeronauts equipped
their baskets with life preservers as a
precaution against dropping into one
of tho great lakes or a river.
PLANS A 2,000 MILE PARK.
Harrlman Will Create Green Strip
From Omaha to the Coast. Omaha, Neb., Special: Union Pa
cific officials have Inaugurated the
most stupendous campaign for beautl
fying the right of way of that railroad
that any railroad in this country has ever yet undertaken. Briefly, the
scheme Is to so embellish and adorn
the right of way that the passenger
trains will travel In a continual park
all tho way from the Missouri River to
the Pacific Ocean, a distance of nearlj
2,000 miles.
To carry out this project will cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars, but
when completed the Harrlman officials
expect the increased traffic soon to re
pay the outlay. Some of the benefits
which will accrue to passengers via the Overland route will bo an absolute
absence of dust and the pleasant sensations of riding for days through a
beautiful nark a park In which the
passenger will see, as ho is whirled along at rapid speed, all gradations of scenery from the placid farm mead
ows or eastern .NourasKa 10 tne tiarK canons of the Rockies and the tremendous waterfalls of the Cascades. Years will be required to carry out
and complete tho scheme, but a great railroad system pays little attention to time in matters of this kind. Al
ready work on the big project has
been commenced, Kearney, Neb., being tho starting point from which
place tho work will be carried forward.
BUILDING SIX FEET WIDE. Queer Little Structure In New York Will Cost Ten Thousand Dollars. New York, Special: Plans for a building six feet eleven inches wide have been filed with the bureau of buildings at Manhattan. The building Is to be erected at Delancey ami Chrystie streets and Is to be two
Tories nigh and 100 feet long. The plans wen? filed by Raphael Präger, to be built for Lowenfeld & Prager, upon a site made narrow by the creation of ihe Williamsburg bridge plaza. This six foot wide structure Is designed to have ground floor stores, and is to cost $10,000.
WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH WITH HUSBAND AFTER HER.
Kitten In Triple Tragedy. Paris, Cable: While a man and his wife were asleep In Paris a kitten became entangled with the tube running from the meter to the gas bracket In their room, causing an escape of gas. which suffocated tho man, his wire and the kitten.
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CRAZED WORKMAM RUNS AMUCK IN PACKING PLANT.
LONG KNIFE DEATH WEAPON
Sudden Insanity of Powerful Man
Comes Without Warning In Massachusetts Factory.
Lions Scatter the Crowd. St. Charles, Mo., Special: Two full-
grown nous running tnrougn me streets of St. Charles scattered a carnival crowd In terror and emptied the big car shops when they were driven
to bay In the shop yards. Showmen
captured the Hons an hour after their escape.
Princes In Fatal Mix-up. Tlflis, Cable: A fatal encounter be
tween the representatives or two
princely houses occurred at a formal dinner given at Tlflis. Prince Bagratlon, a descendant of Prince Peter Da-
gratlon, tho Russian general who served with distinction In the Napole
onic wars, considering himself Insult
Somervllle, Mass.. Sneclal: Fivo
men are dead and three others Injured as the result of an attack by a workman who became suddenlv Insane at the North Packing Company's plant The workman, whose name is Thnm.
as Murphy, was seized with the mania
wnue at work In tho slaughter house. Armed with the big knife he used in
us work, ho ran through the factory
umging at every one within reach. Five of tho eight men attacked wr
ainiosi instantly killed.
.Murptiy is a pig killer. The knife he uses is as keen as a razor and has
a Diane about sixteen inches long. Those near him received no warninj
ui wiuir danger. Tbe first man at.
tacked was Dr. Hayes, a government
meat inspector, who probably was fatally injured by terrible cuts in the
neck and groin. Next John Cheever. a
roianucr, was stabbed over the heart
I bare was no chance to oppose the
crazy man, and in the next few min
utes rive men fell to the floor with stab wounds through the heart or in
other vital parts. Another got a bad
cut.
workmen out of Murnhv's nath
seized clubs and barrel staves and
rushed upon him, but ho ran down
stairs to the yard. There he "was sur
rounded, beaten down, and cantured.
ne is a powerrul man weighing about 200 pounds. Two of the dead men were negroes
anu ine otners foreigners. Murphy is
ou years old anu lives wjth his family
in mis city. THREE CHILDREN KILLED
By Mother, Who, After Cutting Their
Throats, Ended Her Life.
tarslcana. Texas, Special. At the
home of J. M. Green, one mile from
Richland, three children, the eldest a
girl of 12 years, and the mother, 29 years, are dead. Their throats were
cut with a razor.
Indications are that Mrs. Green
killed her three children and herself
about C o clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Green was married when 10 years old. A few days ago she charged her hus
band with improper relations with their twelve-year-old daughter. Green
was arrested and the grand jury in
vestigated the case, but failed to in
dict him.
MAN SAVED BY RESCUERS
Heroic Struggle Lasts More Than an Hoif Within Few Feet of Great Cataract.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Special: Louis Cohen saw his young wife leap into the river between Second and Third Sister Islands Sunday afternoon, only 150 feet above the brink of the cataract Without a moment's hesitation he followed her, caught her hand and struggled desperately to save her. Mrs. Cohen probably died In her husband's arms. Before It was posslble to bring efficient help an hour had passed, during all of which Cohen was making frantic attempts to reach tho shore. But the struggle against the current at this point It is about twenty miles an hour was beyond his power. Fortune aided him. With his wife clasped to him he felt himself bump Into a tree stump, and on this he got a grip with his one free hand. He lustily shouted for help and word was carried to the reservation police, but it was nearly an hour after Mrs. Cohen jumped Into the river that Officer James Martin arrived with Representative James S. Simmonds and three other men, carrying ropes. Three times they threw the rope before it was within Cohen's grasp. When he did catch it he was too weak to tie it about his own or his wife's waist The two were twenty feet away from shore and It was extremely difficult owing to the precarious naturo of the footing, to make a good cast. Pinned against the tree stump by the terrific rush of water, all the' strength he had was gone, and he had been unable to keep his wife's face above water. Once Cohen had hold of the rope, the men ashore began to pull and Officer Martin, who was in the front,
slipped and fell Into the stream, but
quickly regained his feet. When with
In fifteen feet of the shore Cohen lost,
nis grip on nis wire s body and it was carried off down stream and was lost
to view.
Cohen was so far gone when his res
cuers got him on shore that he could
not speak for ten minutes. His first
words were: "She Is out there, go and
get her. She Is dead. She died In my
arms. Tne womans uoay was re
covered.
OUR WHEAT CROPS Barely Sufficient Fcr Home Consumption, Argues Mr. Hill. Seattle. Wash.. Special: J. J. HUI. Chairman of the Great Northern Board of Directors, Is visiting tho Alaska-Yu-kon-Pacific Exposition Buildings. Discussing tho recent wheat corner, he said: "It is a mistake to say James A. Patten cornered the wheat market. He Is merely a case of a man taking advantage of an opportunity. It is but a few years since it was estimated that the average consumption of wheat per annum in this country was six bushels, but now the experts argue that it Is seven bushels and some pounds. The census of 1910 will show that we have a population of 90.000.000. which will mean that we will require for our own use 030,000,000 bushels hereafter. "We raise now probably G50.000.Ö00 bushels of wheat In the United States with good crop conditions. This will leave us but 20.000,000 bushels as a surplus for export, while in the past we have exported upward of 120,000,000 bushels per year. So you can see wo will need all our wheat to feed our own people. Within the next five years the wheat of Eastern Washington will be shipped eastward to feed tho people of the East and Central West "And In considering these facts It must be remembered that the number of live stock slaughtered last year was 1.000.000 less than the year previous. When farmers of Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska can get Co cents per bushel for corn at the country station, they will not endure the risk of hog cholera and the labor incident to hog raising, but will sell all their grain."
Mistake Somewhere. Cleveland, Ohio, Special: John D. Rockefeller paid a $15 water bill In the village of East Cleveland, where his Forest HHUhome Is located, with a check for $7C.573.14. The check was mailed from New York, and evidently the envelopes became mixed. The Village Clerk, after recovering, mailed the big check back.
NEAR GOVERNOR'S MANSION
Negro Is Taken From Jail and Lynched
at Frankfort, Ky.
Frankfort, Ky., Special: Within
sight and sound of the Governor's
mansion, John Moxey, a negro, after
escaping from the hands of his own race, was later taken from Jail by a white mob and lynched from a bridge over the Kentucky River. Moxey was
discovored by Bert C. Bower, Wichita, Kan., superintendent of laborers with the Howe circus, in the act of ripping the canvas, and when ordered to de
sist, turned on Bower and shot him in
the abdomen.
A mob of colored laborers from the
circus at once attacked Moxey and
was endeavoring to lynch him when local officials succeeded In getting him
away and placing him in jail. While
further attempts at a lynching were feared, nothing was done to prevent It.
and a mob of masked white men sur
rounded the Jail, took the negro from
Jailer Bridges and escorted him to the bridge across the Kentucky River that separates North and South Frankfort
There, while the negro pleaded for
his life, a rope was placed around his
neck and as he was swung from over
the beam of an electric light pole his
body was riddled with bullets.
America to Get Masterpiece. London, Cable: Crowds of the curious stand dally before Holbein's portrait of Christina, Duchess of Milan, in the National Gallerv, wondering
how soon It will go to America, now its ultimate destination. The period of options for Its purchase by the nation has expired, but the promised subscriptions are now nowhere near the purchase price, which is fixed at $350.000. Indians Call On President. Washington, Special: A party of nineteen Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians from western Oklahoma Tuesday were presented to President Taft. They also called on Secretary Balllnger and requested him to have the trust period on their land patents extended. The matter vas taken under consideration.
Hamburger Steak is Deadly. Janesville. Wis.. Special: L. A. Moy, a farmer, is dead and his widow
and daughters are said to be dying as the result of oatlng hamburger steak
containing ptomaines.
Must
TEMPERANCE PLEDGE.
Be Signed By All Employes of
Big Steel Plant.
Pittsburg. Special: The sight of a
gray-haired employe of the Carnegie
bteei company staggering to work In
an Intoxicated condition caused Henry
C. Frlck to consult with various steel magnates of the city, with the result
that a temperance pledge has been
drawn up which all workmen will
hereafter be required to sign before
being given employment
Sixty thousand steel workers al
ready employed here will also be
forced to sign the agreement.
Preferred Death to Disgrace.
St. Louis, Mo., Special: Preferring
death to disgrace, Mrs. Martha Glaes-
ser locked herself In her bedroom with her two children and, after closing
the windows and retiring, turned on the gas, after her husband, John
Glaesser, was arrested on a charge of
embezzlement
GREAT GAIN IN POPULATION.
Increase of 193 Per Cent In United
States Since 1858.
Washington. Special: Among the
peculiar fa6ts concerning the growth
of the United States from 1S5S to 190S.
noted In the annual report of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, soon to
be issued, the following increases are
observed: Population, 193 per cent:
me weaun oi ine country, oii3 per
cent; public debt, 2.3i5 per cent; the
per capita debt from $1.51 to $10.70:
bank deposits, 3.4G0 per cent; receipts
of the Government. 1.1SC per cent:
war expenditures, 329 per cent; navy
expenditures, 1 45 per cent; Imports
per capita, from $S.3o to $13.70; ex
ports per capita, from $9.14 to $21.04.
and the consumption of wines and li
quors, 2CC per cent, or from C.42 to
23.2a per capita gallon.
Old Violin Brings $4,625.
uonuon, uauie: At tne sale of a
collection of musical instruments
$4,C25 was paid for a violin by Antonius Stradlvarius, said to be the high
est price ever paid for a violin by the famous maker. Another large price was $800 for a violin by Domenlco
Montagnana.
Condemned Negro Lynched. Tallahassee. Fla., Special: Dang
ling from a limb In the County Jail
yard and within sight of the dome of
Florida's Capitol, the lifeless body of
Maik .Morris, colored, greeted the peo
ple of this city Sunday morning. Con
demned to death for the murder of
William Langslon, late sheriff of this
county, the prisoner would have paid
tne penalty or nis crime with his life
at the hands of the law June 11.
nrnwnsvllle, Tex., Special: The
first successful flight of an aeroplane .i
ever made In J ( WMace hero tofr -8truck lho latter ,n the face. Prince .Erlstoff drew a long dagger
invent. nnd k ed Prince Bacratlon on tho
fCCt nnu covureu a uisiauuu oi 6M Knot
Boys' Show Too Realistic. Atlanta, Ga,, Special: Playing at
moving pictures five small boys
hanged ono of their number, and two physicians worked an hour to resus
citate him after he was cut down. The
boys were playing In tho rear of tho Williams home on Spring street They were depicting tho career of a cattle rustler, and James Williams, aged 8, was the rustler. As a finale young Williams was strung to a limb of a tree. The other boys then went away and left the little fellow hanging.
A Woman's Reason.
St. Louis, Mo., Special: "Because."
the woman's reason, was the only ex
cuse for suicide offered by Miss Maude
Carmcan, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, as she was dying of acid poisoning.
BASEBALL STANDINGS. National League. Won. Lost PcL Pittsburg 29 12 .707 Chicago 2S 16 .C3G New York 20 17 .541 Cincinnati 23 22 .523 Philadelphia 17 20 .459 Brooklyn 1C 23 .410 St Louis 17 25 .405
Boston 12 27 ,308
American League. ' Won. Lost Pet
Detroit 27 13 .C75
Philadelphia 23 1G .590
New York 21 15 5S3 Boston 21 19 .125 St. Louis 17 21 .447
Cleveland 17 22 13G Chicago 1G 22 421
Washington 12 2G .310
American Association. Won. Lost. Pet.
Milwaukee 29 19 .001
Indianapolis 2S 23 5 19 Louisville 2G 24 ZtO Columbus 2G 24 5l'0
Minneapolis 24 23 .311
Toledo 21 27 43S
St. Paul IS 20 .409
Kansas City 19 27 .413
THE MARKETS. Indianapolis.
Wheat No. 2 red.... $1.52 Corn No. 2 white.... .5K
Oats No. 2 white.... .CO
Hay No. I timothy.. 15.00 Poultry Cocks .07
Old torn turkeys ... .124 Hen turkeys .17 Chickens .12 Ducks .ns .
Butter Country ...... .10
Eggs Fresh .19
Cattle Prime steers.. $0.40 8 C S5 Hogs Heavies 7.35 fä 1 CO
Lights i.lu it 7.33
Sheep good to choice 5.00 c 5 50
Com. to be3t Iambs. G.0O 8.00 Chicago.
Wheat No. 2 red $1.50 Q, 1.53
Corn No. 2 white GlAW 7S4 Oats No. 2 white.... .CO;
New York.
Wheat No. 2 red.... $1.544 Corn No. 2 white.... .77
Oats No. 2 white.... .GO
Had the Right "Hunch." San AntonloO. Texas. Special: Two
hours after expressing the opinion that the wearing of u wig would kill him
some day. Hugh Morgan, Assistant CJty Auditor, fell dead. Physicians pronounced the cause of Morgan's
death paralysis of the brain.
Mrs. Taft Saves Slayer. Washington, Special: Through a
direct appeal to her husband, Mrs. Taft has succeeded In saving from the gallows a man at Fairbanks, Alaska, who was under sentence of death for
murder.
Another "Meanest Woman." Springfield. III., Special: Hostility
against her husband during his lifo Is snld to havo prompted Mrs. Sarah Rlchman's alleged act of stealing the flowers from his grave and using them for decorative purposes.
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