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N. M. tv F. Q.F. M. I L. Q. V?9th. j 16thAsL23d. Vj 30th. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. TTelc graphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Han j. Car IM nage lato Niagara Gorge. Four heavily- loaded freight cars "were hurled from the lofty steel arch used by the Grund Trunk railroad into Niagara Gore, plunging more than two hundred feet into Whirlpool Rapids. The train was traveling rapIdly across the- high bridge when the cars suddenly left the rails. Part of the side guard was torn away. The engine and tender remained on the track. No one 13 known to have been hurt. Sinters Meet Tragic Death. Three sisters of Mrs. Albert Swarm, who died of burns at Elkhart, Ind., were victims of unnatural deaths. Amelia Ott was killed by lightning in J. P. Heasley's home west of Elkhart In 1896; Pearl Ott died after being kicked in the abdomen by a calf, and Eadie Ott died of an abscess in the head caused by a fall. 9200,000 Lom by Fire In Brooklyn. Several hundred employes were thrown out of work by a fire which destroyed a four-story warehouse and lactory occupied by the New York and Baltimore Coffee Company and several other firms on Furman street, Brooklyn, Is. Y. Loss, $200,000.' Four' firemen were overcome by gas while fighting the fire. Killed by Brother. Ralph Whitbeck, 4 years old, son of Bert Whitbeck, of the Detroit, Mich., fire department, was accidentally shot and killed by his older brother, Cecil, aged 8. The dead child had been sitting on his mother's lap when Cecil pulled the trigger of a 22-caIibre rifle. The shot penetrated the brain. Robert Allan PInkerton Dead. A dispatch from New York says: Robert A. Pinkerton, head of the detective agency, died on board the steamship Bremen on August 12, at sea. He was en route to Germany for his- health, and was accompanied by Mr. Florence Sullivan. aevea Hart la Aoto Crash. In an automobile accident at Wabash, Ind., seven persons were Injured, several seriously. . Arthur N. Mc Cracken, an attorney, was driving the machine in which several were riding. The oar, was one of those donated to a chuich festival. Bla- hlrt Factory Fall. Application was made in the Federal cor.rt at Utica N. Y., for a receiver for the Curtis-Leggett Company, maker of shirts, collars and cuffs. Assets, nominally $2,0')0,000. Liabilities. $11,000,000. The company employed 14,000 people. Buboale Plague la San Francisco. Bubonic plague has broken out In San Francisco, Cal., and already one death has resulted from it. The first intimation of the plague was received from San Francisco by the marine hospital service at Washington, D. C. Fatal Ant Accident. An automobile containing five persons from Bristol, Conn., collided with a New York & PIttsfield express train at Ashley Falls, a crossing near Great Barrington, Mass. Three were killed Instantly and two hurt. VUlas-e Almost Destroyed by Fire. The village of Hubbell, near Hancock, Mich., was nearly wiped out by lire. Twenty-two dwellings, four stores, the hotel, the postofflce and the coal sheds were burned. Loss $100,000. Aeronaut Dashed to Death. An aeronaut named French was dashed to the ground while making a descent at Sabin Rock, Conn. The parachute f ailed to open. Arraaced for Funeral mmd Dropped Dead Captain Elijah Blackford, 82 years old, after making all arrangements for his funeral, dropped dead at Warsaw, Ind. Steel Plant Detroyed by Fire. The plant of the Cumberland Steel Company at Cumberland, Md., was totally destroyed by fire of unknown origin. The loss is estimated at 250,0C3. Miners Fall Fonr Hundred Feet. By the overturning of an elevator cage at the tipple of the Sonman Coal Company near Johnstown,' Pa., five miners were ki.led and six injured. The miners fell 400 feeL Cracker Combine Planned. Plans arc said to hare been completed for the organization of a big cracker bakery combine, which will be known as the General Biscuit Company, and which will take over about one hundred of the leading independent cracker bakeries of the country. Hacked Men Bob Railway Station. The Baltimore and Ohio station at Ellwood City, Pa was robbed by two masked men, who bound and gauged the night aent, stole about $200 in money and escaped, locking the station door! behind them. Steamships Crash in Fog. During a fog the Portland and San Francisco liner City of Panama, en route from Portland with a full list of passengers, collided with and sank the steamship Alliance, from Coos Bay for Portland with passengers and freight. School Is Bomb Factory. The Moscow police searched the Imperial Technical school and discovered the central revolutionary laboratory for manufacturing bombs of a new pattern and tremendous explosives, regular supplies of -which were being shipped to various interior points.

victhi ground under bridge. Fiends Kill Prey by Placing Body Under Rocker. What is believed to be one of the most ingenious anil grewsome murder mysteries Jer disclosed in Chicago was discovered Thursday when, crushed to a horrible death in the massive machinery of the Randolph street bridge. the mutilated body of an unidentified man was found under the structure over which thousands of people were passing. The body was ground to a pulp and little remained to show that it was that of a human being. A hand, a part of the head, the lower part of a leg and the clots of blood nd flesh ptessed upon the steel girders were all that remained to afford a clew to the mystery. The only mark of identification upon the supposed murdered man was a membership card of the Young Men's Christian Association of Grand Rapids. Mich. TV card U nuniliered iV3 ind was issued July 113. The body is that of a man about 4." years old. The coat is green with age and shoddy, and the trous?rs were black, with diagonal stripes. The man's face was Ion?, with a large nose, and he had a large, brown mustache, black hair and a dark complexion. The body was crushed between the steel balance rocker and the bed of the bridge, every bone and fiber otthe body ground by the weight of 300 tons as the immense bascule bridge closed and opened. The police are working upon the theory that the man was either robbed, beaten into insensibility and laid in the death jaws of the bridge by his assailants while still alive, or that he was the victim of a murderer who chose this fiendish way of disposing of the body and covering up the crime. The bridge is of the Scherzer bascule type and the body was placed on the immense girder which forms the top of the foundation. A newspaper was carefully laid over the body, making a bed of the girder, which is just wide enough for a body to lie on. Over the body hung the massive balance rocker, nnd as the bridge was opened the mass of steel closed down slowly and surely uikq the body until its crushing weight had ground out every spark of life and met the girder beneath it. WIFE KNOCKS OUT ROBBER. Woman Uses Baseball Bat on Thief and Saves Hidden $1,000. Mrs. Thomas Cooper of Jefferson, Ta., beat an armed robber with a baseball bat and saved $1,000 which was hidden in her house. che was alone when the man knocked at the door. As she opened it a revolver was thrust in her face and "throw up your hands" was the command. Mrs. Cooper seized a ball bat and struck the man, knocking the revolver from his hand into the parlor. The intruder forced his way into the room and then fought with Mrs. Cooper until she became exhausted. To gam time she told him the money was in another room. He wentMo get it and the woman got a shotgun and locked herself in the parlor. The man broke down the door, but was overawed by the sight of the gun and ran away. Mr. Cooper stood guard until her husband arrived from the fields. Thpn she fainted. WRONG CORPSE; STOP FUNERAL. Mother Discovers Mistake After Sermon on "Death." At Union City, Pa., just as a minister was concluding services over what was supposed to be th4 remains of Thomas Kelly, who died in' Galveston, Texas, the mother of the young man discovered the body was not that of her son. The body was shipped to "Erie, Ta., from Galveston in a metallic casket, and the funeral was being held. The preacher had finished a brief sermon on "Death," when the undertaker opened the casket for the first time to allow the relatives to look upon their dead. The young man's mother was the first to see the body, and saw) in a moment that an error had been made.

Court Upholds Church Union. The Supreme Court of Georgia has handed down a decision holding that the general assembly of the Cumberland church acted within the scope of its constitutional authority when it voted for union of all of the Cumberland Presbyterian churches in the United States and that the action of that body with reference to church property is to be recognized by civil courts. All Telegraphers Quit.) Monday the telegraph operators in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Baltimore and other cities of the East joined the strikers, and the trouble spread through the South, grew' worse in the West and extended to Canada. Operators on Associated Press circuits walked out, cripping the newspaper service of the country. Guardsman Killed by Lightning. During a violent thunderstorm while at brigade headquarters in St. Joseph, Mo., arranging for the review of the Missouri Mtional Guard by Gov. Folk Sergt. Major Mil'er of Battery A. St. Louis, was struck by lightning und instantly killed. I'rivates Thomas and Ulrich were severely shocked. Evicted Tenants Bill Ruined. The British House of Lords carried sweeping amendments to the Irish evicted tenants bill, which, according to the Liberals, will destroy the usefulness of the measure. The government declares the House of Commons will decline to accept the amendments. Report Missions Are Safe. United States Ambassador Leishman has received assurances from the Porte that the American missionaries at Urumiah, Persia, are in no danger from the Turks, who recently crossed the frontier near Urumiab. Gets Life Imprisonment. The sentence of "Lord" Frederick Seymour Barrington, who was to have been hanged at Clayton, Mo., Aug. 20, for the murder of James McCann, June IS, 1903, was commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Folk. Goynor, Convict, Is 111. J. F. Gaynor, convicted with Greene of complicity in the Savannah harbor frauds, is critically ill in jail at Macon, Ga. He and Greene are awaiting the outcome of their appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Big Company in Trouble. The Pope Manufacturing Company, makers of automobiles, with a capital of $21,(WO,000, was forced into the hands of a receiver by inability to float its loans owing to the tightness in the money market. Cozey to Lead New March. Gen. Coxey,' leader of the famous hobo march across the country to Washington a few years ago, is planning to start a new pilgrimage, but he refuses to tell its destination or iti purpose. Mrs. Sage Gives $50,000. Mrs. Bussell Sage has given $30,000 for the ... ction of a Young Men's Christian . :r tion building for the employes of tr-e I j ns Island railroad at 'Long Island City. Three Generations In Jail. With the arrest of David Keys, a Civil War veteran and a resident of Milton, Pa., for many years, for complicity in many robberies, representatives of three generations of the Keys family are lodged in jail. There are now eight of the Keys ring in jail, and more arrests are expected.

GIRLS FORCE A REST.

THREAD MAGNATE FINALLY GIVES VACATION. Ilupre Factories to He Cloned Down fur Seven Ua I'c n n a y 1 vu n I n 31 a a Doe Dulk of Farm Work with Auto. In order that 3,000 tip-to-d-itc factory girls may enjoy the tan ana sunburn and the hundred other joys which go with a summer vacation, three thread factories, the greatest of their kind in the world, will close their doors Aug. 21 and remain locked until Sept. 3. CYmpbell Clark, representing the Clark Thread Company of Edinborough and Newark and Kearney, X. J., declared that he had to close his immense plants to give the girls their outing. About two years ago one of the great, strikes of recent years was waged by these same girls i nd resulted in their getting a ten-hour day with a half-holiday on Saturdays. Two weeks ago a committee told a superintendent that 300 of them had planned to spend the last week in August at Atlantic City in a great camp which they had rented for the period and that he had better be looking for help while they were away. The official went to Campbell Clark with the information. It meant that one branch of the factory would have to close down. Mr. Clark bit his lips, but was silent. Later in the day another department head reported another section of the "cotton experts" hesded for Couey Island with like plans for the same period. A hurried council was called nnd the suggestion made that the shops close down for ten days to give the entire force a vacation at the same time. It was readily adopted as the easiest way out of the difficulty. ROADS IMMUNE TOR REBATING. Will Go Free In Return for Testimony Against Standard Oil. The immunity bath administered to the Chicago and Alton railroad in the rebate cases leads to the belief that similar immunity has been or will bo extended to other road that have been involved with the Staudard Oil Company in illegal traffic agreements, says a Washington correspondent,. In this matter the whole force of the government appears to be concentrated on the Standard Oil Company, on the theory that it is the great offender and that the railroads .tha,t have granted rebates to it have been compelled to do so by the overwhelming power of the giant trust. Former Attorney General Moody, under whose direction immunity was extended to the Alton by C. B. Morrison, the special counsel for the Department of Justice, always felt that the railroads were compelled to grant rebates by force of circumstances. His idea was that the railroads were more sinned against than sinning. Furthermore, it was believed that unless the railroads were given some assurance of immunity there would be no chance whatever to get evidence sufiicient to bring anybody to justice. Everybody knows how bard it is and always has been to get anything out of Standard Oil. Its books have been sealed documents and bföod from turnips would be easy of extraction compared to evidence or inside information from a Standard Oil official. The government realized that it would be worth while to concede a whole lot in some direction if only the greatest of the offending trusts could be reached in a practical manner. WHALES CHASE SHIP MILES. Passengers on Insular Line Vessel Are Awed by Many Sights. Unusual natural phenomena alternately delighted and awed the passengers of the Insular line steamship Brooklyn, which has arrived at New York from Porto Rico. The most remarkable of these was a school of fourteen whales which swam after the ship for scores of miles. One of the cetaceans even got so familiar a? to bump against the side of the vessel nnl had to be pelted away by the stokers with lumps of coal. Friday morning Ca piain Mclean, who was on the bridge, saw a comet appear. The skipper told his passengers and all got up before dawn on Saturday and saw the comet appear and vanish. Saturday afternoon the Brooklyn's passengers saw a third wonder of the sea. It was a waterspout and wat seen in the form of a great column ol water miles ahead of the steamer. LEG MODELS ARE SHOCKING. Omaha Women Demand Their Benioval from Store Windows. A number of women, representing the church societies of Omaha, requested the police to compel the managers of the stores to remove from their windows the plaster of paris leg upon which the fancy hosiery is displayed. The police did nothing, and thereupon the women appealed tc the tire and police commissioners. Th latter have taken no action, but the worn en declare that they will have the obje tionable legs removed. "The fire and police commissioners are making an effo" to clean up Omaha," said one of the women, "and yet they permit these horrid and -vulgar models to be displajed in store windows. They are disgraceful and immoral, and they must be removed." WORKS FARM WITH AUTO. Pennsylvania Man Finds Lots of Usi for His Motor Car. E. E. Cole of Elizabethtown, Pa., has found a new use for his auto. He is th possessor of a small runabout, and also a pet horse. When the potato patcb needed liarrowing a few days ago he decided to give the horse a rest and put the auto to work. He hooked a harrow tc the benzine wagon, and in this mannet cultivated his tubers, while he occupied a comfortable seat in the carriage. Mr. Cole declared that the work was don? justvas quickly and as well as by th old method. ' Violinist Joachim Is Dead. Joseph Joachim, the celebrated violin ist, conductor of the Royal Academy ol Music, Berlin, and music director of th Royal Academy of Arts, died Thursday, He had been suffering for a long tim from asthma and had been unconscious for several da. He was born in 1831. Kill 54 Officers in a Month. It is reported that 271 persons through out the Russian empire were exiled foi political offenses during the month ol July. It is also stated officially that W Russian officers and 95 privates werf killed and 47 officers and ."2 privates wounded while maintaining order during the same month. Thaw Trial Delayed. The second trial of Harry K. Thaw, charged with the murder of Stanford White, 'is not likely to take pl.ice until the Jauuary term of court. Find Clew in Finger Prints. Traced by finger prints discernible it an ink impression of a black hand signed to a letter received by Father Foretti, in which the ptfest is threatened with death unless he turns over $SOO by Sept. 1, Michael Yenzio, an Italian barber, wai nrmctod in Elizabeth. X. J. - .1 us a x - - - w f ( . Another Leak Reported. j Federt J officials at Washington are , mystified by reports that Wall street has j advance copies ol toe rresiaeui a loruicominj speech, and still more sc, that the brokers should find anything in it to cause a rise in stocks.

(MWDEKLY.-"

HOO Frederic I. defeated by the Italians at Carceno. ' 131(1 Irish defeated at Athenry. 1519 Magellan started on his famous voyage of exploration. irTT) Cartier entered the St. Lawrence on his second voyage of discovery. l.V7 Spanish and English defeated the French at St. Quentin. 1007 First settlers from England landed in Maine. 102." King Charles I. of England dissolved Parliament. 1040 Arras taken by the French. 1U42 First commencement exercises of Harvard college. 1017 Irish defeated at Dungan Hill. KMi First ships built in Canada said to have been launched at Quebec. 107." Greenwich observatory commenced. UK 0 Limerick besieged by William III. 1704 Narva taken by Czar Peter of Russia. 1730 First newspaper printed in Virginia, at Williamsburg. -Orsova taken by the Turks. 1741 Frederick II. tooic Breslau. 17t3 British defeated by the Indians at battle of Bushy Run, in Michigan. 1701 Civil government established in Quebec. 1702 Attack on the Tuileries and massiere of the Swiss guards. 1812 Madrid entered by Wellington and his forces. 1 1S14 Commission from England and the United States met at Ghent to arrange a treaty of peace. 1821 Missouri admitted to the Union. 1S22 Suicide of lArd Castlereagh. 1S30 Louis Philippe proclaimed King of the French. 1501 Louis McLane of Delaware be-, came Secretary of the United States Treasury. , 1SC2 Gibbeting irons used for the last time in England. 1S.H5 Revolution in Madrid, and flight of Isturitz. 1S37 Seven lives lost by the falling of a suspension bridge at St. John, N. B. 1810 English Parliament passed an act prohibiting the use of boys as chimney sweeps. 1S12 Ashburton treaty signed at . Washington, defining the boundary between Canada and the United States. 1543 Natal annexed to the British possessions. 1544 Commemoration festival held at Ayr in honor of Robert Burns. IS-Vi Bombardment of Sweaborg. 1S."7 Napoleon III. and Empress Eugen! I arrived in Englan to visit Queen Victoria. 1502 Battle of Culpepper Court House, Virginia. 1S70 Absconding Debtors' act passed by British Parliament. .. .Ger ma m defeated the French at the battle of Woerth. 1SS4 Gordon held Khartoum. 1SS0 Mrs. Florence Maybrick convicted of the murder of her husband. 1800 William Kemeler executed at Auburn, N. Y., first to be loyally put to death by electricity in the United States. 1S02 Great strike of Rwitchmen began at Buffalo. Declared off Aug. 24. 1S1 Earthquake shocks felt at Memphis, Tenn....The President formally recoguized the republic of Hawaii. 1S07 Senor Canovas, prime minister of Spain, assassinated by an anarchist ....The Anglo-Egyptian army captured Abu-llamid on the Nile. 1S09 Dreyfus trial opened at Rennes, France. .. .Twenty-nine persons killed in trolley car disaster at Bridgeport, Conn. 1002 Outlaw Harry Tracy committed suicide in Oregon. .. .Coronation of King Edward VII. A fW Foundation Method. Th" läterary Digest quotes from a iforeign engineering paper the description of a new method of making foundations now used in all sorts of conditions. It is known as the compressol system. It connists hi making holes through the soft soil down to the hardpan by means of a tapering arm, which. is forced l.wn like a pile ilriver, and then filling these holes with stones and rubble in successive layers, each of which is firmly rammed down. The result is to produce a monolithic block of great strength. Xo ground is removed in the boring of the shaft, the sides ol which acquire great comiwtctnss. I.andln Ktlln Furniture Trout. On th same day . that JYdge Landis fined the Standard Oil Company he issued a perpetual injunction restraining the American Seating Company from ojwrating as a trust. The concerns operating under this name had been found guilty of violating the anti-trust law by combining to monopolize the school furniture business through agreements with school boards throughout the country. The order was not fought by counsel for the trust, as it was contended that the practices complained of had been stopped. C hicago's Male Death Hate. Health Commissioner Evans of Chicago in a recent bulletin makes tne statement that in the last seven months of 1007 about 12.000 men died, us compared to 8.1KX) women, nnd that the death rate as between men and women is now 18 per cent, as compared to 10 per cent twenty years ago. He attributes the cause of this to the strenuous life of the average Chicago citizen, contributory causes being the quick lunch, constant exposure and carelessness. The only remedy, in his opinion, is a return to the simple life of :ur fathers. Paid .230,000 Libel Damage. The outcome of the libel suit brought by the Lever Bros, against the Loudon Daily Mail and Evening News, owned by Alfred Harmsworth, now Lord Northcliffe. was the withdrawal of the plea ot justification by the defendant, and the agreement to pay the $2."i(),0X) demanded. This is said to be the largest damages ever paid for libel in (Jreat Britain. Mile Auto Record Broken. A 120 horse-power Thomas, driv;n by Montague Robert?, in the Atlantic City races, broke the mile competition record by going that distance in :402-5.

SPREAD OF STRIKE.

ORDER FOR GENERAL WALK.OUT PROMULGATED, Cell to Qulf Include All Commercial Telegrapher In United States nud Canada Order, However, Adeln Few Ilecrnita to Strikers. The general strike order to all commercial telegraphers not working under union ngrcvineuts, which v;is issued by President Sylvester J. Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America at 1 :30 o'clock Friday morning, had produced almost no change in the situation Saturday afternoon, twenty-four hours after It had been promul gated. In fact the general order, heralded in advance as the crowning feature of the strike, hardly created a rinde in Chicago, according to a correspondent. The force of the Chicago nud Milwaukee Telegraph Company, which operates for public business between the Chicago Board of Trade and the Milwaukee grain excha'nge, six men all told, went out and five men employed on leased wires by Ilulburd, Warren & Chandler, a brokerage house, also left their keys. The situation in the stockyards and along the LaSalle street district otherwise was undisturbed, and there were, no new developments in tbe strife between the union and the two big companies, the Western Union and the Postal. All the reports which came in to Chicago over the wires of the Associated Press ami through other sources outside of the union were to the effect that there had lnen no change In the situation. Nevertheless union memlers were unanimous hi declaring that the country would feel the effect of Small's order. Advices from New York and Boston sii Id the order for a general strike had met with no responso from the men at work in either the Western Union or the Postal otlices or those in the Associated Press. The otncials of the two big companies said they had failed to discover that the strike order had had any elfect on the situation. The extension of coinmunlcatlon to the more remote and smaller towns was proceeding rapidly and business was being moved expeditiously. , It is estimated that nearly 15,000 men are on strike. The strike, It is said, will te confined strictly to the commercial telegraphers. The railroad operators wi!l lend their moral and financial support. There will be no sympathetic, strike of railroad telegraphers, who are working under contract and will live up to their agreements. Cause of the Bio; Strike. Higher wages, an eight-hour day, mora comfortable working conditions and the free use of tyiewrkers tese are the essential demands of the striking telegraphers. Ever since the union was formed, March 15, 1003, these have been its principal aims, and in both the matter of wages and working conditions substantial progress has been made. Much remains to be accomplished, however, in the way of securing further concessions from both the Western Union and Postal companies, the strikers declare, before they will be satisfied. In a letter addressed to President Clowry of the Western Union company iast May, President S. J. Small of the union demanded for the operators : That the standard of wagcg le fixed and that the increase of 10 per cent granted to some of the operators last Mürcn be given to all. That clerks and other employes be rOmunerattVl 'more liberally. That eight hours constitute a daytime trick." That seven hours constitute k clit day and night "trick." That seven hours constitute a day for etra work. That no "trick" shall he divided Into more than two parts. That no telegrapher be compelled to work more than four and one-half hours without being allowed thirty minutes for lunch. That a reasonable time for extra reliefs be Allowed. That the companies furnish typewriting machines to telegraphers in the operating departments. That all sliding scales, so-called, be abolished. "While the strike in Chicago was directly due to the refusal of the union operators there to work wires with nonunion telegraphers employed by the Western Union company in Los Angeles, the basic and chief contributing element was the unrest caused by the above grievances. With the strike in full force the telepra pliers are now, clamoring for an additional increase of 15 per cent in pay. Data furnished by International Secretary Wesley Russell of the union shows the following conditions among commercial telegraphers throughout the country: Number of operators 27,000 Number of local unions . ... 1"5 Numerical strength 20,000 Average pay $.10 a month Maximum pay $SH a month Minimum pay a month Day "trick" in main offices Nine hours Workday In branch offices.. .Nine to 12 hoart Split "tricks". .. .Seven and one-half hours Night "tricks". .. .Seven and one-half hours Workday for extra men.... ...Eight hours Day for overtime work Seven hours Conditions obtaining in the Postal company's offices are, to a large extent, similar to those la the Western Union offices. Newa of Minor Note Reports from Saranac Lake, N. Y., are that Itichard Mansfield, the actor, steadily is failing. Three men were fatally burned while repairing a gasoline engine by torchlight at Vandergrift, Pa. Gov Deneen has commuted the sentence of Stephen Quinn, whe is in Joliet for eighteen years. A hobo who wouldn't tell his. name saved two sons of a farmer from drowning in the old Morris canal, near Centerville, N. J. The New York Public Service Commission has decided to investigate the suburban railroad service of the New York Central railroad. Lord Sefton, who was appointed master of the horse when Sir Henry CampbeilIJannerman first formed his British ministry, has resigned. A purse of $100 has been presented to Troop F, Thirteenth cavalry, which found Kobert Parker, the 3-year-old boy, near Washington. Olga Molitor, daughter of Frau Molior, killed by Karl Hau, her son-in-law, at Karlsrhue, Germany, may be prosecuted on a charge of perjury. The United States maintains .'1.770 missionaries in Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, Ilurmah, Siam, India, Tibet, Fersia, Turkey, Egypt and the South American countries. Emil Jerome Simon, the student of Colombia University who was sentenced at Potsdam, Germany, to three months' imprisonment for killing Frau ShulU in an automobile accident, will withdraw his apThe Bible which King Edward Is to present to Bruton church, at Williamsburg, Va., on the occasion of its consecration on Oct. 10 next, was sent recently to Ambassador Brycc, at Washington, who will forward it to the church officials.

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L " - - "V IAL CHICAGO. Despite the telegraphers' strike and the acute effect of this and other adverse factors, trade conditions reflect no recession in activity and volume of demands in leading line. There is, however, as expected, more caution in approaching new undertakings of magnitude. -( It is excellent testimony to the healthy basis of commerce in this section that the returns make a gratifying exhibit in payments through the banks, in freight movements, mercantile defaults -and factory production, all these comparing favorably with high records a year ago. The banks successfully maintain ample reserves, but there is more urgent discount offering and crop moving needs involve heavy shipments of currency to the interior. Pressure nion available funds causes no discrimination against responsible customers seeking accommodation, yet close scanning of credits is in order, particularly with reference to commitments for the future. Notwithstanding a heavier tone pervades some quarters, current transactions sustain good feeling in the leading industries and wholesale branches. Distribution of finished materials and raw supplies is maintained at the highest aggregate, and jobbers' shipments show substantial advance. Earnings of Chicago railroads surpass all former gains, and lake traffic is enormously extended in ore, coal and lumber. Crude materials have not changed in costs, aside from another decline in copper. Crop reports again agree as to fine progress in corn and spring wheat growth, and the improving outlook . spreads throughout agricultural sections, where heavy outlays are made for farm additions and tools. This encouraging feature imparts more confidence to the buying of stap merchandise. Country buyers in unusually large numbers now rjake their selections here, and the bookings for early delivery run into large totals in the textiles, clothing, boots and shoe, furniture and food products. Total movement of grain at this port, (.017,l(i;l bushels, compares with 5.931,5kS bushels last week and 8,4G8,."KJS bushels a year ago. Bank clearings, $224,174.1, exceed those of the corresponding week last year by 11 .8 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered against ""( last week and '2S a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Growing crop. t-howy further good progress toward harvest, and fall trade tends to expand at leading western and eastern jobbing centers. Cross currents are vilblt in different industries. Thus while finished cotton fabrics are in demand and some inakes, notably bleached goods, have been further advanced, there are reports of smaller demand and lower prices 'for cotton yarns. In woolen goods, while high-grade worsted nnd fine "woolen fabrics have sold well, other grades are slower of sale, and there is talk of accumulation. In the leather trade there is more life than of late, and good, quality leather and hides are on better sale, as are also high-class Khoes." Low grades are slower of sale, and eastern shipments, so far, are 4 per cent behind 1900. In iron and steel the lack of new buying is still notable and prices tend to ease, as the mills nud furnaces fiad deliveries easier to make. Itusiness failures for the week ending Aug. 15 number 14G, against 157 last week, U'.l in the like, week of 190Ö, 147 in 1905, 203 in 1904 and ICG in 1903. In Canada failures for the week number 30, as against 18 last week and 22 in this week a year ago. Bradstrcet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.40; tdieep, fair to choice $3.00 to $3.05; wheat, Xo. 2, S3c to S4c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 54c; oats, standard, 48c to 49e; rye. No. 2, 74c to 75c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.50; prairie, $9.00 to $11.30; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 24c ; eggs, fresh. 14c to 18c ? potatoes, per bushel, 05c to CSc. . , Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 vto $7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.30; wheat, No. 2, $0c to Sic; corn. No. 2 white, 53c to 53c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 50c. St. Louis Cattle, $4.30 to $7.23; hogs, $4.00 to $(U0; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 83c to 84c; corn. No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2, 4Gc to 47c; rye, No. 2, 7Gc to 7Sc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $G.10; hogs. $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.23; wheat. No. 2, 83c to S4c; corn, No.A 2 mixed, 33c to 50c ; oats. No. 2 mixed. 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 82c. Detroit Cattle $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $G.23; sheep, $2.50 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, S3c to 84c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 5tc to GOc; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 52c ; rye, No. 2, 75c to 7Cc. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, 94c to 9Sc ; corn, No. 3, 53c to 54c ; oats, standard, 31c to 53c rye, No. 1, 73c to 7Gc; barley, standard, 72c to 74c; pork, mess, $1(5.43. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $G.5K ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.73; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.70; hogs, $4.00 to $7.25; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 89c to Ulc; corn, No. 2, 59c to Glc; oats, natural white, Glc to G2c; butter, creamery, 22c to 25c ; eggs, western, lGc to 19c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 83c to 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 57c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; rye. No. 2, 74c to 73c ; clover seed, prime. $9.S5. All Around the Globe. Southern Pacific railroad boilermakers at San Luis Obispo, Cal went on strike. A case of cramps seized John Fauley, a pioneer of Washburne, Wis., and he lay in the woods all night. Simon Ward, air brake inspector for the C, C. & L. railroad, was found dead under a car at Peru, Ind. Oscar Knolteight was fatally scalded and seven others injured when a threshing machine blew up near Peru, Ind. Bev. (ieorge Steed, a Methodist parson of Los Angeles, Cal.. got a vacation without salary for injudicious conduct. John Hoi ley, a well-known you'ig man of Woodlawn. Ala., was shot and killed there by Marshal Tow ler while in the act of robbing a drug store. The Wisconsin Central Bailway Company has taken an appeal from the decision of Judge Page Morris fining that railroad $17,iOO for granting rebstes. Theresa Sullivau, a St. Loute girl, aged 22,. severed the jugular vein of Michael Sanders, causing his death, because she said he failed to keep an appointment. Fifty-nine pounds of gold dust valued at $12,000 were stolen from a registered mail sack between Eagle nnd Rampart, Alaska. There is no clew to the thieves.

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THE WAR CN MOSQUITOES.

rtr Pertieit Effort Xtn Jerier IIa Triumphed Over the Pent. By th intelligent expenditure of what -eemv like absurdly small sums of money when compared with the supposed difficulty of, the task to be performed, several of the parts of New Jersey that have long had a, national, if not an international, disrepute for the number and voracity of their mosquitoes have been practically cleared of the dangerous pests. The suggestion that the great llackensack Meadows could be freed, of the infects, and the joys of summer life in the cities around them thus be vastly increased, wai received with derision, and almost with indignation, only a few jears ago. Yet a few thousand dollars spent in digging ditches has done away with the stagnant' pools in which alone the mosquitoes could breed, and they are no more except in the benighted towns where the people l?.ck either the sense or the energy or both to avail themselves of the relief ko close within their reach. Incidentally ond it is incidentally a lot of worthless marsh has been turned into good dry land. What has been done on and around the I lackensack Meadow can be even more easily done almost anywhere else. It ought to be as disgraceful indeed, it is as disgraceful for a town to have mosquitoes as it is for a town to suffer from an epidemic of typhoid or diphtheria, for the mosquitoes, too, are "preventable," and their presence anywhere convicts their human victims either of gross ignorance or of friminal carelessness. And always it should be remembered that the use of oil in a mosquito campaign is justifiable, if at all, only as a temporary expedient, to be resorted to only for instant effects while the real work of extermination is in course of preparation and performance. Fnrmrri Form Labor Unloa. A number of the fanners of' Orange. ccunty, N. Y., have organized an association called the Orange County Union, its purpose being to cut out the middleman's profits and sell direct to consumers. . To this end they would form a company composed exclusively of members of the union and operate a large exchange in Newburg, selling farm and gardm produce slightly below present prices. To secure the co-operation of the labor interests the fanners have asked to join the Central Labor Union. The. novelty of this proposition has proved somewhat puzzling to the labor leaders, and a committee has been appointed to look into the matter. The union men of Newburg are enthusiastic over the project, but are not a little perplexed as to the proper way of labeling the products of the farmers' organization. Cuba's Annual Dudgret. Gov. Magoon report to the War Department that the expense of runnlc;: the government of Cuba for the n-xt fiscal year will be $23.309,530, or an increase of $1,800,000 over the previous year. . Winnipeg (Canada) carpenters are asking for an increase of 10 cents an hour. ; " The Plumbers' Union of San Jose, CaU has made a demand for an increase of wages to $0 a day. Brotherhood of Bailroad Freight and Baggage Men has established its national headquarters office at Boston, Mass. Canadian unions favor international rather than national affiliations, and this sentiment is prevalent in all trades. An expert who has been compiling data on strikes declares that the greatest number of strikes occur in the building trades. The first steps have been taken in Boston. Mass., for the purpose of organizing a union of the Hebrew painters of that city. It is said that Ceveland, Ohio, stands a good chance of being selected as the national headquarters of the Stone Cutters Union. Union molders in Milwaukee,' Wis., have appealed to the United States Circuit Court cf Appeals against the decree issued by Judgei Sanborn, preventing picketing. Leroy Parke, an agent of the United States War Department, who has been in Europe some months soliciting foreign labor for work on the Panama canal, has succeeded fince October rn shipping 4,300, nearly all Spaniards or Italians. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union will hold its convention in Bostoa, Mass., next year. In the interval special attention is to be paid to local organizing work by the local organizers and hlso by special international one& A joint conference of employers and workmen ia the South Wales tin fdate trade was held recently, when it was decided to renew the wages .agreement now in force for another year, dating from July J, 1907, with a few minor alteration. ' v The indorsement of the project for a lalor temple for Pittsborg, Pfu, by the Irtn City Trades Council has resulted in subscriptions for stock from fifteen new unions. There will be at least fiftf organizations represented at the annual election of officers. The annual conventiou of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will be held in Winnipeg, Man., from the lGth to the 21st of September. A large uimber of delegates from labor organizations throughout the dominion is expected ac tie annual meeting. Wages offered to immigrants at Toronto for employment on farms throughout the. province are about 10 per cent higher than last year. The Iron Trades Council of Pittsburg, Pa., decided to celebrate Labor day this year by giving a picnic instead of having a parade as in the past. In many of the eastern and southern cities almost every trade has a ladies auxiliary. In Atlanta, Ga., the ladies' auxiliary to the machinists is making arrangements for obtaining a concession for the restaurant privilege at the State fair, to be held 'at Piedmont. Dr. Joues, chief surgeon of the Union Pacific, urges forty years as the age limit fur employes as a precaution against wrecks, and greater care in the selection of men. His recommendations are to be considered at a meeting of the superintendents of the road. In all countries the employment bureau is found to be the most potent means of assistance for the unemployed, and many organizations, maintaining funds for. insurance against unemployment, maintain also free employment agencies and do not grant out-of-work benefits until convinced that no suitable employment can be founi fur the member in need. The brass workers' mference at Birmingham, England, bfls asked trades unions to join in choosing an "old-age pension day" on which national demonstrations could be held. The United Association of Plumbers, Gas Fitters and Steam Fitters of Chicago is urging a proposition to organize an association that shall build a home for the aged and infirm of the trade. The railroads centering in Chicago are now considering the advisability of establishing an employment bureau to secure a better grade of operating employes. It is stated that the labor organizations arc opposed to such a bureau, and declart that it would amount to a blacklist.

Indiana I Stale News'

STEER HAD TUBERCULOSIS. Animal Slaughtered at Rlrbsionl I'ooud to De Afflicted. A beef steer, suffering from tubercul sis, was slaughtered at a Richmond abattoir and the carcass was condemned when the government inspector cast his eyes on it. It was the fifth animal slaughtered for food that has been condemned in Ilichmond during the summer at the same place, and as the animals were ail sold by farmers in that immediate vicinity, the belief prevails that it is likely many diseased beeves have been slaughtered at houses where there is no inspection, and have been sold to consumers. rout mailt er Good Pedestrian. Michael P. Poling, postmaster of Nashville, having frequently asserted that be had walked from Schooner to Nashville, a distance of seven miles, in an hour, Manville Tomlinson challenged him to a pedestrian contest, and the contest was pulled off, PeliD? covering the distance ia fifty-five minutes, while Tomlinson reported five minutes laier. Wounded at Winona. Gujr Turpin, a member of the Winona Lake boy-city, a son of Charles Turpin, Indianapolis, was accidentally shot at the entrance gate of Winona Lake Park by Glen McDonald of Indianapolis, who in some manner discharged an. old Springfield rifle which had been discarded by the Indianapolis militia and turned over to the Indianapolis Boys Brigade. - Trolley to French Lick. Surveyors are at work a few miles above Millersburg, surveying a route for an electric line to run direct from Indianajwlis to Evansville. The proposed line will pass through French Lick. The road will be. a three-electric line, and will be used for both freight and passenjor business. . Rcüult of Kick at lien. Mrs. Charles Douglass, a farmer's wife, living west of Crawfordsville, attempted to kick a hen that was bothering her, and in missing the hen Mrs. Douglass fell to the ground in such a manner that her arm was broken, for the vigorous kick she gave caused her to lose her equilibrium. 3Iallclous Trespass by a Tramp. A tramp went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stevens, a farmer, near Lebanon, and after driving Miss Osborn away, he feasted on what suited his appetite and then deliberately wrecked the furniture and fixtures, breaking whatever he could lay his hands upon. Saves Her Umband. While in a fit of rage Orlo Miller, living two miles northeast of Homer, tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the presence of his wife, but the plucky woman, realizing her husband's intentions, seized the revolver in time to prevent him from doing so. v Jtay Get Fall Amount. All of the creditors of the People's bank at Brownsiown, which closed Its doors recently, will get the full amount of their claims, according to the report of C. W. Camp, a State bank examiner, if the stockholders of the bank are able to pay the assessment. Famtor Decries Old Maids. Bev. W. G. Archer of Evansville and superintendent of the local Chautauqua, says young men do not marry because they cannot support a family. He wants rll the shop girls' to go into kitchens ,lo avoid being oli maids. Ends Life In Jail. A Civil War veteran, who gave the name of Frank E. Taylor, and who said he came from the Soldiers Home at Marion, committed suicide by hanging in, the city jail at Richmond within an hour follow ins his arrest for intoxication. Danclna Caased Typhoid Fever. Miss Rosa Zipp, a well-known Evansville society girl and prominent in church and charity circles, died of typhoid fc?er brought on, the physicians state, from excessive dancing. Bank- Clones Its Doors. The 'People's State bank of Brownstown was closed by the State authorities and application was made for the appointment of a receiver: The total liabilities are $33G,000, with assets of $200,000. Elks Dedicate 50,000 Arcade. More than 300 guests took part in the dedication of the magnificent new $30,000 arcade, built by the Elks' lodge of Warsaw. Oae Xea-ro. In Crawford Coaatf. Archibald Boone, 83 years old, is the only negro in Crawford county, as shown by the present enumeration. Minor State Items. i An effort is being made to organize a company of the'Indiana" National Guard at Hope. Mrs. George B. Deining, 43 years old, while attending a Sunday school picnic near Poland, fell dead of heart failure. Spontaneous combustion of new mown hay caused the destruction of a barn ovrued by S. IS. Whittenberger of Warsaw. Mrs. Frances Lee of Terre Haute, sgod S2, pleaded guilty to assault and battery on 'ier neighbor, Mrs. Bailey, and paid a fin. The aged woman had given the other woman a severe beating. While Henry Lung was being tried st Warsaw on a charge of illegally bavin; a fish net. Constable Jams Stephenson, who arrested him, fell over dead in the court room. Fanners in the section around Boonville fear another short crop of clover seed, owing to the absence cf bumblebees. The bees are essential, because they carry the pollen from one clover blosnotn to another and fertilize the seed. Bum blebees became so thick a few years ago that they were a pest, and the farmers concerted effort to exterminate them resulted disastrously to the crop. F. T. Delashmut, receiver for the A. II. Whitsett Coal Company at Shelburn, was instantly killed by a gas explosion in the mines. Following discontinuance of the Borne City assembly. Methodists have purchased grounds at Winona Lake and will erect a $30,000 buil ling. While acting as peacemaker between Andrew Parker and Wenlock Reynolds, at Washington. Joseph Cochran was badly cut by Parker and will die. Clarence II. Smith, 14 years old, son of David II. Smith, was drowned in the Michigan City harbor by falling out of a boat. The body was recovered. Dynamiters des'royed the dam at th outlet of Winona lake, causing the lake surface level to drop several feet. The Winona assembly officials suppressed the facta pending investigation, but ctlled upon the county authorities to assist in capturing the guilty parties. The motive of the marauders U a mystery. Humiliated because of his arrest on a charge of fighting, James Ityan of London, Ont., deliberately starved liimself to death in the county jail in South Bend, having refused to take nourishment for three weeks. Several attempts were made to compel Ryan to cat, but without avail. When taken to jail he said he would never leave the place alive.

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