Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 August 1908 — Page 2

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3 F. Q.F. M. (T 5th. VSVllth. Vj L. Q. rN. M. 18tb. 3 2Gth. PAST AND PJKESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for the Enlightenment of the Many Three Killed in Trolley Collision. Three persons were killed, five were probably fat'Jly Injured, and nineteen seriously injured when two trolley cars crashed together between Sidney and Piqua, Ohio, on one of the lines of the "Western Traction Company. The accident was due to a misunderstanding of orders. Both cars were due at Dayton at the same time, but as the southbound car was late orders were given to pass at a siding about ten miles north of the city. The impact of the two cars was so terrific that but one of those on the cars escaped injury. Many automobiles from Piqua and Sidney were rushed to the scene and carried those Injured to an Improvised hospital at the Shelby County Infirmary and to their homes In Sidney and Dayton. The dead: James Kayoe, Dayton; Williah McClellan, Lockington, Ohio; William Bailey, motorman. Pi 'if a, Ohio. So far as is known the only man who escaped without a scratch was P. F. Sarver, of Sidney, Ohio, a merchant. He says he must have been stunned for a few minutes Immediately after the crash, as a farmer was desperately digging Into the debris when he pulled himself frcm under a seat. Four Children Die in Flames. Four children of one family dead and ten other persons seriously burned or Injured is the record of a fierce blaze that swept through a crowded tenement in East One Hundred and Twelfth street, New York City. Scores were carried down ladders from the blazing building by firemen and wild scenes of panic ensued as the scantily clad tenants rushed to the streets. Ibe dead all were the children of Vincenzo Saus to, janitor of the house, aged from 8 months to ten years. Frank Sausto Is dying from burns and Sausto and his wife are both suffering from severe burns about the face and body. The police declared that the fire was. undoubtedly of incendiary origin, as a strong odor of kerosene was detected in the lower hall where the blaze started. This fire is one of several fatal blazes that have recently terrorized that neighborhood. Two months ago thirteen persons were burned to death In a tenement house fire near by. -vi.. wain III llflici, Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibitionist candidate for president, narrowly escaped drowning while swimming In the Y. II. C. A. pool at Lincoln, Neb. Great effort was made to keep the accident quiet and Dr. Chafin now refers to It as "groping about in the bottom of the pool." Th9 young men rescued him. One of them, Maurice Hyland, vouches for the statement that Chafin was perfectly helpless after he sank in the deeper part of the pool. After being brought to the surface Chafin speedily recovered. 1 Priest and Merchant Killed. When an automobile plunged over a steep embankment on the Mitchaw road, two and a half miles west of Sylvanla, Ohio, near Toledo, Charles W. Pohlman, a wealthy Cleveland importer and merchant tailor, and Father George Vahey, pastor of St. ColumbkU's parish, Cleveland, were Instantly killed. Mrs. Charles I'ohlman, her daughter Florence, and F. D. Dietzel, a Cleveland dentist, were in the touring car, but were saved from Injury by the high back of the tonneau. Dozen Men Killed in Explosion. Twelve men were probably killed and a score or more injured by a boiler explosion In the Rolling Mills at York, Pa. Five bodies have been recovered and firemen aie searching for the other dead. The shock of the explosion was felt all over the city, breaking glass in a number of buildings. The mill is demolished. Strikers Fire on Train. Three men were instantly killed and eleven injured, two of whom will probably die, when striking miners fired Into a passenger train on the Birmingham Mineral railroad at Blocton, Fatal Accident on the Reading Road. Spread' ilia caused the engine and bar of a Philadelphia & Readln r train to go over an emban :x Wllliamstown, Pa. The en, 1 fireman were killed. T .uls Rudinl Dead. The I , Di RudinI, who at var ious tlr ad held the positions of premier Jster of the interior and minister of foreign affairs, died of caacer of the liver at Rome, Italy. Bogus Customers Bob Dealer. Ucconscious froia blows on the head, Frank Spalaro. a wholesale fruit dealer in Boston, was found by his employes in a basement to whioh he had gone with two pretended customers, and $2,000 which Spadaro had in 'his pockets was missing. Four Killed in Train Wreck. Four persons were killed and four others were injur d, two probably fatally, when an engine on the tramroad of the UviiiJTston IiVr Coni;.i:i struck a cow autl plins: d into a denp ravine noar Livingston. Texas. Cash for Cats and Parrots. Half a million doHars out of an estate of $JOiUJJO is jriven to charity by the will of the late Mrs. Annie L. Lowry of Philadelphia. The will direct that $..0K) b. invested end the inoonip paid to Violet Pealk. a cousin, for the care of cats and jiarrots that belonged to Mrs. Ixvry. Tloor Falls; Three Boys Dead. James Fox, 11 years old, and Francis Crbanski, aged 7, were killed and Walter Urowski, aged 10, was seriously injured when a temporary floor of the new Italian Catholic church in Terth Amboy, N. J, felL

AGED BENEFICIARY DEAD. Woman Who Received $15,000 a Result of Girls' Compact. Mrs. Margaret Castens, 91 years old. who received $15,000 three years ago as the result of a 'unique compact of sixtyfive girls in a ierman convent, died at the home of her daughter in St. Louis the other night. Seventy-five years ago Mrs. Cantons was a pupil in a convent near Stuttgart. (Jcrmany. The girls agreed jiift before they graduated to pay a certain number of marks a year into a Berlin bank and the entire amount was to jro to the last ' surviving member of the class. Three years ago Mrs. Castens found herself the only one of the class remaining. She wrote to the bank, believing she would receive a few thousand dollars. The amount she got was in excess of $15,000. : "MOTHER" STEWART IS DEAD.

Noted Temperance Lecturer Expires at Her Ohio Home. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Stewart. th- noted t:mierancc advocate, and known til over the country as "Mother" Stewart, died at her home in Ilicksville. Ohio. "Mother" Stewart was 92 years old. She devoted her life to the temperance cause. Mrs. Stewart established the first W. C. T. U. in Ohio at Osborn in 1873. In 1876 she visited England and organized the first W. C. T. I', in that country. Following the Civil War she lectured extensively in the Southern States on behalf of the war sufferers. Five years ago "Mother" Stewart became interested in the teaching of Alexander Dowie and visited Zion City, where she remained one year, since which time she has lived with friends at Ilicksville. PREDICT WAR OF REPUBLICS. Central American States Approach the Breaking Point. According to passengers from Central American ports arriving at San Francisco on the Pacific Mail liner San Jose, relations between the various republics are strained almost to breaking point. Salvador, Honduras and (Juatemala are near an jopen rupture, though it is declared that it will be. hard to forecast where the trouble will start if it does come. At Corinto, it is stated, the gunboat Momotombo and the army transport Nicaragua are held ready for immediate service by the Niearaguan authorities. In Salvador the cruiser Empire is also kept ready for action and the President, another cruiser, is being reStted. JEALOUSY CAUSES DEATH. Man Shoots Farmer He Sees with Hia Divorced Wife. David Alexander, 'J0 years old, was shot and killed near Coffeyville, Kan., by William Hill, aged 2S. When Hill saw his divorced wife drife past in a buggy accompanied by Alexander he secured his shotgan and started in pursuit lie overtook the couple and discharged a loaJ of buckshot at Alexander, literally blcwing his hejvl ofl". The woman was wounded slightly by stray shot. Hill escaped. Both men are farmers. Kills at Station; Nearly Lynched. Frank McConnaek, a hotel bus driver, was shot and instantly killed by James (Joodlove, proprietor of a rural hotel, at the Pennsylvania railway station at Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A mob attempted to lynch Goodlove. Women on the depot platform fainted and a panic, followed the shooting. The men had long quarreled over business rivalry. Woman Falls 900 Feet. A tree broke the force of a fall of 000 feet when Mrs. Eva Jones, balloonist for a carnival company in Abbotsford, Wis., wa precipitated toward the ground through the breaking of a parachute rope. She landed in the branches of a huge tree and sustained serious injuries, from which she will recover, however. Blast and Fire Follow Suicide. After an explosion and fire which de stroyed his home in Toledo, the body of Charles Polscher was found in the ruins. Polscher was a merchandise broker at 324 Fourteenth street. He had been despondent and as two gas jets were found open after the fire the coroner thinks he committed suicide. Ironing Is Fatal to Boy. A woman ironing on the second floor of a tenement house at Passaic, X. J., accidentally dropped a fiatiron, which bounded out of a window, and in its flight to the ground struck the head of Joseph Itendzio, 8 years old, who was playing in the street. His skull was fractured and he will die. j Saloon Foe Is Under Arrest. C. W. Trickett, assistant attorney general of Wyandotte county, Kansas, was arrested at his home in Kansas City on a State warrant, charging malfeasance in office. The specific complaint is that Trickett has accepted fees and settled cases lefore the defendants were arraigned in court. Steamboat Sinks; 200 Escape. The steamship Cincinnati struck a submerged spile in Chautauqua lake, N. Y., .when within twenty feet of the Chautauqua dock. The collision tore a great hole in the side of the boat. There were 200 passengers on board, but all were soon landed. The boat sank. Corn Nearly Ruined by Drought. The terrific heat which has prevailed at Beaver City, Neb., for a week was followed by bot winds, and the corn crop is nearly ruined. No rain has fallen in the Beaver valley for two weeks, and the Urougbt 'is becoming serious. . Vinegar Works Destroyed by Fire. The Monarch Vinegar Works, at Nichplson and Wstkins avenues, in the East !ttoms. Kansas City, was destroyed by ire. The !oss is $100,000. John W. fSpeas is ptesident of the company. Dies in Political Meeting. Dr. O. T. Pratt died in the Auditorium at Los Angeles, Cal., where 2,000 people were gathered the other night to hear Alton B. Parker of New York open jbe Democratic national campaign. Ohio Factory Destroyed. The J. S. McConnell Company factory at Mount Vernon. Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire. The los will reach $00,t)00, while the insurance is estimated at j?40,000. Fivo Resorters Drowned. Five C'hicagoans were drowned Sunday while on summer outings. In one case two brothers and their wives sank in the Mississippi as the result of rescue attempt. Senator Allison 13 Dead. Sicator William 11. Allison of Iowa is dead and (low Cummins announces his candidacy for the vacant seat. Seven Hurt in an "Auto." Speed ins on the outskirts of Philadelphia. , seven persons were hurled from a skidding automobile and six were injured, one of them perhaps family. Miss Ina Iro.n. 1! years old, who ?as pinned beneath the car after it turned turtle, is suffering from concussion of the brain, and may not recover. Boy Lynched; "No Excitement." Charlie Lokie, a negro boy about 18 years of age, was lynched at Tifton, Ga., for making insulting remarks to young white women. No excitement was caused by the lynching.

MURDERER AND "PAL" TAKEN.

Saloonkeeper Shot to Death After Detecting Eurglars Robbing Him. Twelve hours after lllarei Widcisz haul been shot to death in his saloon in Chicago by two burglars the slayer and his accomplice were arrested and confessed. They were captured by Detective August II. Iyoula. who, although on a vacation. re;nrted for duty as soon as he learned that one of his countrymen had been killed. The murderer, Joseph Sovinski is only 20 years old, and his accomplice, John Byzup, is 21. Widcisz detected the men while they were robbing his saloon at 4554 Justine street. A fight followed, during which Sovinski ran behind the bar and grabbed the saloonkeeper's revolver. He fired four shots at Widcisz, two of which struck him, causing almost instant death. The two robbers escaped, but were seen in their flight by Mrs. Mary Walonke, wlw lives in the building where the murder occurred. According to the confessions of the two men Sovinski had entered Wideisz's saloon through a window and was passing out bottles of whisky aud wine to Byzup when they were discovered by the saloonkeeper. BLACK DYNAMITES IS LYNCHED. Taken from Jail and Hanged to Tree by Mob in Alabama Coal Fields. Just as a inass meeting was being held at Brighton, ten miles south of Birmingham. Ala., near the Woodward mines, the other night, deputies brought in Will Miller, colored, charged with connection in the dynamiting of the house of Finley Fuller. The next day when a deputy sheriff was sent to Brighton to get Miller to bring him to Birmingham it was discovered that the little calaboose had been broken into and the body of Miller was found in the woods hanging to a tree. He had been lynched. The greatest excitement prevails around Brighton and further trouble is imn v.ient. Another house has been blown up at Wylamin, the western part of the county, but no one was hurt. The Governor conferred with the sheriff and the commanding officer of the military lajer and may call out more troops. MANY CASKS OF WHISKY BURN. Supposed Incendiary Blaze Destroys Kentucky Distillery. Midway, Ky., half way between Lexington and Frankfort, was the scene of a conflagration that for a time threatened the town with destruction. The fire, which is believed to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed five warehouses of the S. J. (Jreenbaum Distilling Company, entailing a loss estimated at $300,000. The amount of insurance is not known, but it is believed the low? is amply covered. The distilling company is a Louisville concern, of which Morris S. (Jreenbaum is the head. The flames caused by the burning of the thousands of barrels of whisky, which turned a creek into a fiery stream, could be seen for ten miles. 15 HURT I if DYNAMITE BLAST. Viaduct Is Partly Wrecked and Labor Troubles Recalled. Fifteen people were slightly injured and windows in all houses and factories within the immediate neighborhood were destroyed and the Harrison avenue viaduct in Cincinnati suffered a $10,000 damage as a result of an attempt to destroy the viaduct. The viaduct is in course of construction and has been a matter of much contention during the last two city administrations. There has also been considerable labor trouble, and it is claimed by some that a union labor fanatic is the author of the explosion. It is thought tl. at nitroglycerin was the explosive used. The explosion was heard for a radius of five miles. Suicide Closes Two Banks. Following the suicide of John G. Lund of Minneapolis, "the land man" and onetime millionaire, two banks, of which Mr. Lund was president, closed their doors in order that the accounts might be checked and the securities examined. The banks are the Robbinsdale State bank and the First National bank of Belle Plaine. It is declared by those in charge that the closing will be temporary. Tries to Kill Sultan. A special dispatch from Geneva says: "The Sultan of Turkey was stabbed in the breast on Monday night by a minor palace official. The coat of mail which the Sultan always wears deflected the blow. The would-be assassin was arrested. Apparently he had been bribed to commit the act, as he had a large sum of gold in his pockets and his baggage was packed ready for fl'ht." Two Shot in Election Feud. On the eve .of the State primary election Roy C. Woods, a wealthy real estate dealer of Wellston, a St. Louis suburb, and a candidate for the Republican nomination for public administrator of St. Louis county, shot Alexander Steube, a butcher, and within cn hour was himself fatally wounded by some one unknown to the police. Admits Killing Husband. Mrs. Alexander Sutherland, whose husband was shot and fatally injured at their home in Buffalo, admitted that she did the Khooting. She says 6he began telling her husbanil of her purpose to commit suicide, and in the scuffle which ensued she accidentally shot him. Three Killed by Train. Three laboring men who were walking on the railroad tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at Pratt's Crossing, two miles east of New Britain, Conn., were struck by a local train from New Britain to Hartford and instantly killed. Mills in Receivers' Hands. The Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company has been placed in receivers hands by action of the federal court at Minneapolis as the result of friendly proceedings to effect a reorganization, but its operation will not be interrupted. Explosion Kills Three Men. Three men were killed by an explosion at the stone crushing plant of Charles Kehoe on the outskirts of Hazelton, Pa. Two of the dead are Italians. Thomas Kehoe, a son of the owner of the plant, was seriously hurt. 1 European Travel Falling Off. The ebbing of the tide of travel to Europe is shown by the marked falling off in the passenger lists, while a corresponding increase in westward travel is seen in the heavy lists of incoming liners at New York. Turk Arrested for Murder. Yousof Ilassaneir.an, an aged Turk, lias been arrested in C'ricago as the alleged murderer of Tuffa Shishein. the l.'t-year-old boy whose di.un-inlri-d lody was fjund in the river ind the drainage canal. Girl Fasts Six Weeks and Dies. Miss Amanda Murphy of Lima. Ohio, died at a hospital from the effects of a religious fast which she had maintained for six weeks. During the time she had taken no nourishment, declaring that she would not touch food until commanded by the Lord to do so. Bonaparte May Step Down. Rumors of Attorney General Bonaparte's resignation are once more aflcat in Washington. The report now current is that Attorney C-eneral Wade Ellis of Ohio is likely to be made Attorney General after the election.

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BIG FLYER OUT BY Fill Napoleon Fire of Air Loses Craft by and Explosion as Ha Triumphs. GALE CAUSES DESTRUCTION. Alpine Storm Upsets Eenzine, Which Ignites Gas Dag During Repair Work. Overwhelmed with disaster in his hour of triumph Count Zeppelin Wednesday saw the giant airship in which he has wrested the supremacy of the &:? from a .coro of competitors catch fire, explode and drift away a mass of wreckage on the wings of a resistless storm. Four men of the aeronaut's crew were badly burned, but Zeppelin himself escaped Injury. The end of Zeppelin $123,000 machine the fourth he has constructed cauie at the village of

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ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP WHICH BURNED IN MIDAIR.

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I'hterdlngen, near Stuttgart, anl only 05 miles from the finishing point of the l-mile aerial journey which the count was aiming to complete, where tens of thousands of persons were already gathered to greet him ns conqueror of the air. Orders have already been given by Count Zeppelin for the construction of another airship. Subscription lists for funds with which to provide the means luve leen opened in Berlin, Bremen, Stuttgart and other towns in Germany and Switzerland. Gel Cheek for f 115, OOO. While the airship was being destroyed Frivy Councilor Lewald was on his way to present Count Zeppelin with a check for $12ri.WX, the budget estimate for aeronautic experiments, which It had been decided to give to the navigator as a reward for his many years of sacrifice in the interest of the fatherland. Passing over Stuttgart at (1:30 in the morning on the last stage of Its voyage, and steering straight for Friedrichshafen, the Zepjx'lin airship moved along with the greatest ease. Five miles farther on, however, one of the motors suddenly devested defects and ti e balloon was brought to earth on a plateau hear Echterdingen. It was discovered that the cause of the breakdown was the overheating of the piston of the motor and the reduction of the gas In the balloon as the result of an ascension to an altitude of A Compoille Alrahlp. M. Malcot, a French aeronaut, has developed a new kind of air craft, which combines the principles of the balloon and the aeroplane. The directing part is the aeroplane of triangular tdiape. It in C2 feet long, with a surface of 420 square feet and made of bamboo and aluminum. In its center are the car and the apparatus for propelling and steering the whole. A twenty-eight horse-power motor drives a screw fan of walnut wood ten feet long aud giving l.LtX) revolutions a minute. The while weight of aeroplane and machinery is attached to a cigar-shaped balloon 100 feet long and 28 feet wide, which is designed to give additional safety and buoyancy to the whole. The first formal appeal of the Democratic candidates for contributions to their campaign fund has been made to the farmers of the land. It begins with the statement that the first contribution this jear came from an Iowa farmer, a naturalized Swede. Bryan's paper, the Commoner, is asked to call for and receive the offerings of the farmers, to be turned over to the national committee later. Bryan has been very busy receiving delegations at his Lincoln home and conferring with leaders. He made several speeches into a phonograph machine J. G. Thelps-Stokes, the wealthy young New Yorker, who married Hose Pastor out of the ranks of the worker, has been nominated for the State Assembly by the Kighth District, which is on the lower Fast Side of the city. His brother-in-hv, Itohert Hunter, prominent as a Socialist writer, is to run for Congress in another Fast Side section of the city. The New York World, though opised to socialism, has come out in support of Stokes, tüking the ground that "the best way to defeat socialism is to have its ubh'st 1 ndvot-ntes i-pent their detailed proraia to the public." Mrs. Stokes will take :he stump for her husband. After biting Sarah Weinstock, a 0-ycar-old girl, a supposedly mad do? ga:" reveral automobiles and motorcycles a livoly chase through the business section of IinneaioIis. It was finally cornered. and shot by a policeman, who 'had confiscated a speeding automobile and thereby overtaken the maddened canine. The Austrian government has accepted from Nathan Straus of New York the gift of a complete milk pasteurization plant for the City of Vienna. If this proves successful in operation Straus promises to install similar plant ia other towns of Austria,

6,000 feet, made by the navigator af a final test of his craft. Having already lost all hope of making the twenty-four hour continuous flight demanded by the (icrmau government as a condition of the purchase of the airship, Count Zppelin recognized that time no longer Tiunted and determined to have thorough repairs executed before continuing the trip. lie therefore sent to Friedrichshafcn for .1 staff of mechanics to place the balloon in commission again. Storm Grip Alrnhlp. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, while the repair work was still in progress, a fierce thunderstorm swept down from the Alps and seized the huge air flyer in its grip. The wind upset a quantity of benzine which lay around the machine. In a moment thefluid blazed up. the flames reached the gas bag floating aloft, and there was a tremendous explosion. Simultaneously the hurricane tore the balloon from its anchorage and hurled it. a fiery mass, in a southeasterly direction for fifty yards. Then the rear end of the great fabric dropped, the motors and frames attached to the under sldo crashed to the earth, knocking down several bystanders, and all that remained of the great airship floated away on the gale, a mass of blazing cordage and material. The accident to the Zeppelin airship

recalls the end of the French military airship Patrie in December, 1007, which was then considered the finest dirigible balloon in existence. A sudden gust of wind struck the airship and the 200 men who were holding the guide ropes were -dragged for several hundred jards. ' The balloon shot up to a great height and disappeared. Five days later the Patrie came down In Ireland. Count Zeppelin's record-breaking voyage' with his great airship surprises no one familiar with the present state of the art of aerial navigation. That a modern motor balloon can be depended upon to make voyages of from one to two thousand miles, under fairly favorable conditions, has long been known to men who are familiar with aeronautics. Count Zepielin'a success is epoch-making in that it convinces a skeptical world of the practicability of airships and of their utility as engines of war and as Instruments of exploration of the upper air, as well as of parts of the earth otherwise Inaccessible, Hko the great unknown area surrounding the north pole. The recent demonstration, although it ended disastrously, without doubt will assure the rapid building of aerial navies by the chief military powers. In fact, Germany. France, Great Britain and the United States are already moving in that direction. France has the Lebaudy and La Kepubllque already in commission, and Zepielln's ship, it Is understood, Is to be taken over for the German arm 3. NEWS OF BCINOR NOTE. To prevent his marriage to a 13-year old girl William Williams, G4 years old, was murdered and his body hanged to a tree near Marydel, Maryland. S. T. Crum, a 'Seattle business man, accidentally shot and instantly killed .Albert Moody, a close personal friend, residing at Virginia City, Mont., with whom he w-as hunting ground squirrel! near that place. Henry Jones, one of the pioneers ol Minnesota, who built the first cabin oa the site where the village of St. Petei now stands, died recently at his home in Franklin Heights, Minneapolis, at the agi of 73 j ears. Itecently a little frame building ot Third street, near Market, in St. Taul, burned. It was the building in which, in September, 1801, Charles Eichler, th first volunteer Union soldier of the Civil War, was mustered in. A national referendum in Switzerland on the question of prohibiting t"e manufacture and sale of absinthe resulted in a majority of SO.OOO in favor of the pro hibitiön. This will mean a loss to th government revenues, as the most famoai brands of absinthe are made in Switzer land. A terrific earthquake occurred in th province of Tacna and Arica, in Chile, the southern part of Teru and Bolivia, Considerable destruction of property, bul no loss of life, is repoi-ted. The cabli between Arica and Lima has been broken and the telegraph lines to Bolivia an damaged. The British proposals concerning mili i tary questions in Macedonia will be exnmined by the German foreign ofilce io connection with Kussia's plans for judicial and financial reforms in that country, und the I'ritWi and Itussian notes regarding Macedonia will be treated bj Germany as a whole. The climax in the Uritish naval maneuvers in the North Sea was reporter when the S1Ö warship: comprising th largest single licet ever gathered entered upon the staje of a theoretical war, one section representing the enemy making an attack. The iicw feature of the practice was the entire control of the defensive fleet from the admiralty office in Ixmdon by means of wireless messages. The Right Itev. William Awdry, Anglican bishop of South Tokio, in a long letter to the London Times, repudiates the idea that the Japanese have any aggressive intentions towards the United States or elsewhere.

SULTAN OF

TURKEY

IGET Stabbed in the Breast in His Palace and Saved from Death by Armor. CAPTURE WOULD-BE SLAYER. He Is a Minor Official and Gold Found on Him Indicates He nad Been Bribed to Commit Act. Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey was stabbed in the breart at Constantinople by a minor palace official. Only the coat of mail which the Sultan always wears saved his life. This deflected the- blow of the would-be assassin's knife, and rendered it practically harmless. The Sultan's assailant was seized at once by the guards which came at the ruler's call. The Sultan's outcry as he grappled with the man aroused hundreds of palace attaches, and immediately the whole Ylldiz Kiosk was In an uproar. Soldiers came clattering in and formed a strong guard arc und 'Abdul's private apartments. The commotion was unusual, even for the palace, which has been the scene of so many tragedies arising from attempts and fancied attempts against the Sultan's life. The would-be assassin apparently had been bribed to commit the act, as he had a lnrge sum cf gold In his pockets and his baggage was packed ready for flight. Abdul Hamid is said to bo the most bated monarch in Europe, not even excepting the Czar of Russia, aud during his long reign he has lived In continual dread of assassination. He is credited with the blotting out of many lives because of his constant fear of his own life. His victims have been principally members of his household, who for trivial offenses were made targets foi the bullets from his beautifully jeweled revolver that he carries constantly on his person. Abdul has ruled over the people of the Turkish empire for more than thirty-two . years, having come to the throne In 1870 after successfully deposing his brother, Mourad V. Former attempts have been made o the life of Abdul Hamid, the most sensational being that of July 22, 1905, when unknown assassins threw a bomb at the red ruler as he was leaving the mosque where the celebration of Salamik had taken place. He escaped serious injury on that occasion, although thirty or forty people were killed. Ayain in October, 1900, when a report was spread that the Sultan was suffering from a serious illness, it was later learned that the real cause of his affliction was a bullet wound inflicted by one of his Turkish wives. SINGER'S FINGERS BITTEN OFF. Miss Emelie Gardner Has Encounter with Ferocious Beast in Dark. Her left arm frightfully lacerated and two fingers of her right hand chewed off, Miss Emelie Cardner, an opera singer. Is In n critical condition nt the Coney Island Hospital as a result of being attacked by n huge bull terrier. Miss Gardner has been spending the summer in her cottage at Seagate, Coney Island. -Her housekeeper, Mrs. Baugman, is the owner of a big female dog, which ehe kept in the rear yard. Sunday, on account of the heat. Mrs. Bangman transferred the dog and her puppies to the pantry in the basement of the cottage. At night Miss Gardner, who was alone In the house, entered the pantry. The room was dark, and as she closed the door the dog sprang upon her. Miss Gardner threw up her arms, but ihc 1eeth of the dog caught her left arm between the wrist and the elbow, crushing flesh and bones. As she struck at the brute with her right hand It snapped at the hand and severed the two first fingers. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. The balloon "Hamburg," of the Hamburg Aeronautical Society, met with an accident while trying to effect a landing at Lübeck. The Mexican government now claims to have caught the two chief instigators of the recent revolt in the northern section of the country. Correspondence between the republics of Nicaragua and Guatemala has been made public in showing that the most trained relations exist between the two coun tries. Business was at a standstill and a great throng of people assembled about the harbor of Honolulu, when the American battleship fleet arrived from San Francisco. Upon the advice of the American minister to llayti. Mr. Furniss, the gunboat 'aducab has gone to Haytian waters. The tovernment of Nord Alexis is again threatened with a revolt. The international miners congre, meeting in Baris, adopted a resolution in favor of the nationalization of miners, but ujHjn the condition that the miner be secured in their right to preserve their iiukiu organizations. To the influence of Queen Victoria of fpain h credited the recent order of the l-ving prohibiting women toreadors from faking part in the bull-ring ceremonies or contests. At Saigon, Cochin China, tJiree Annamite officers have been condemned to death, haying been found guilty of complicity in an alleged plot to poison the members of the local garrison. Soon after the adjournment of the French Parliament for the summer President Fallieres, aecouianied by Foreign MiniRter Pichon, started on the warship Verite for a state visit to Norway, Sweden and Russia.

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HIGHEST CITY HALL.

New York to Have a 34-Story Tun!cipal Building: Costing $7,0C'J,C00 The New York board of estimates and Mayor McClellan are now passing finally on plans for the highest city hall in the Avorld. This 34-story building, to cost $7,000.000, will stand In the triangle of Park Row, Center and Dunne street?, and tower 553 feet 8 inches new York's raoposED citt hah. . i above the sidewalk. It will be twice as high as the Fiatiron and just a few feet shorter than the Singer building. The New York hall will house practically all the city departments and leavo 23 floors to be rented by the city as offices. It is expected they will bring In $o00,000 in rentals annually. Freneji renaissance Is the type, with exterior columns. Steel and stone is to be the construction. A peculiar feature of the building will be that all the rooms will le outside rooms and no Interior light court will be needed. New York's municipal skyscraper will differ from the ordinary ones in that it will not depend upon its tower for its great height. The height to the roof of the main structure Is to be 340 fett. From the roof to the head of the figure on the tower Is a distance of '210 feet S inches. The figure will be 24 feet high and the diameter of the clock face Is to be 2." feet. KOW TO RESTOEE A DROWNING MAN. Here is a simple and effective way to restore a drowning man : ' t The man should be stood on his head in order that all the water possible be gotten from his lungs. The old method of roiling him on a barrel is not a bad one for the same purpose. Then an effort should be made to induce artificial respiration. To this end put the person flat on his back and let some one catch hold of his arnn just below the elbow. Then raise the arms above the head tnd bring them down. As they reach the body, press in on the ribs to force out the air gained by lifting the arms. Keep this up at the rate of 18 times a aiinute. Then try to get the heart to moving by riving a stimulant like liquor or a hypodermic injection. Sometimes a slight fluttering of the ieart is sufficient to get back life. Get a physician as soon as possible. A delegation of French leather workers Is making a tour of American factories. Hebrew painters and pa per hangers of Boston, Mass., are reforming their old union. j San Francisco (Cal.) Building Trades Council has organized an athletic association. Carpenters of the City of Mexico hate organized a labor union affiliated with the A. F. of L. More union car men arc wearing the union button in Chicago to-day than evr before in the history of the organization. White and negro longshoremen at New Orleans, La have signed a five-year, contract with the stevedores and steamship agen!s. A receding organization from the Brotherhood of ltailroad Fraployes has taken the name of Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employes. The railway trackmen are planning for the establishment of a home for their aged and indigent members. It Is proposed to acquire a tract of 500 acres netr Fort Scott, Kan., as the location for the institution. St. Taul Typographical Union has decided to make a label exhibit at the Minnesota State fair, and will ask the Minneapolis union to join with it. Last yetr the St. Paul men made a label display which was very creditable. In New York State a bill which takes from the health boards of the first-class cities the inspection of mercantile establishments and places it in the bands of the responsible labor department was passed at the extraordinary session of the Legislature and will go into effect a Oct. I. The next convention of the International Brotherhood, of Bookbinders will be held during the second week in Jane, 1010, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Cleveland (England) ironstone miners have decided to press for a 12 o'clock Saturday; that is, that operations shall cease at the mines at 12 o'clock on Saturdays instead of 1 o'clock, but no stoppage of work is likely to result if the masters refuse to make this alteration. There has been no general strike of the Cleveland ironstone miners for more than thirty years. Initial steps are being taken by the Canadian Facinc toward securing the army of harvest laborers that is called for from the West every year. Advices frvm Montreal indicate that 25,000 men will be neded. Large crops are indict, d. At Hudson, Wis., by a vote of 4 to 4 the city council decided 'against issuing $30,000 bonds to build a coal gas plant. One member was absent, and the tie defeated the proposition, the mryor Slaving no vote under the present charter. At the spring election Hudson citizens decided by a vote of 4(57 to 1 .'Vi to erect a gas plant, but the final decision had to Le made by the city council.. The unions of the men of the trolley lines of the New York, New Ilavtn and Hartford railroad have been admitted to membership in the federated council of the organizations of the men of the shop, mechanical and other branches of the road's service. Candidate Taft has now taken his stand with Candidate Bryan definitely igainst the acceptance of campaign contributions from corporations. Ex-Gov. James H. Budd of California is seriously ill at his home at Stockton, Cal., and, according to the statement of his physician, his condition is alarming.

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CHICAGO. A favorable official crop report, lighter commercial failures and an increased volume of payments through the banks are encouraging developments of the week. Importance attaches to liberal orders h sued for rai's, thoee indicating that railroad manage.-s feel warranted in entering the markets tor necessary supplies, which to some extent were withheld until financial conditions became suitably adjusted. Trade generally is now seen to be moTing forward steadily, although the recovery is yet slow, particularly in lines of heavy production affected by the long spell of hot weather. New demands also disclose further, extensionin pig iron, wire, structural iron and lumber, and increasing specifications for early completion involve the employment of additional machinery nd hands at car, forge and locomotive works. Distribution of mill and factory products adds to the freight tonnage moved by western roads, and more activity appears in lake transportation of the raw materials, the latter leing heavier in re, coppv, lumber and various minor commodities. Country merchants now attend the wholesale markets in much larger numbers and their operations stimulate the absorption of dry goods, Wn furnishings, footwear, furniture and food products, aggregate bookings making a gratifying comparison with a year ago. , The tendency is to buy more freely for forward deliveries, interior stocks of merchandise being low and prices quoted for new goods having a firmer appearance. The clearances have been remarkably good in lightweight apparel, shoes, dress goods and millinery, j Failures reported in tieChicsgo district number 21 against 22 lasfwetk and 2G r. year ago. Those with liabilities over $.",000 number 4. against 5 last week and 7 in 1007. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Trad.. crop and industrial deve!opments of the week are mainly favorable. The first of the fall merchants" excursions are reported by leading cities, thereby enlarging sales by jobbers and wholesalers. Industrial reports are generally of increased time run or enlarged output, and the leading crops have approached a week nearer harvest. There are, however, some features accompanying these developments deserving of note. Thre are statement from quite a few markets that early fall buying is hardly up to exiectations and that caution and conservatism govern bjyers actions. In the industries there is perceptibly more doing in iron and steel, hardware manufacturing, western coal mining and tie lumber trade generally. Busiuet-s failures fn the United States for the week ending Aug. ß number 20C against 275 last week, l.'T in the like week of 1907. 137 in 100;, Id, in 1003 and KI7 in lOOi Business failures in Canada for the same ieriod number 10, which compares with 32 last week end 18 in the like week of 1007. USES Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.!p; hogs, prime heavy, JLOO to $G.fK): sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 03c to 98c; corn. No. 2, 70c to 80c: oats, standard, 51c to 33c: rye. No 2. 77c to 78c: hay, timotiy, $8.00 to $13.00: prairie, $8.00 to $10.50; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 21c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 73c to 85c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00: hogs, good to choice fceaTy, $3.30 to $7.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.30; wheat, No. 2, 04c to 03c; corn. No. 2 white, 70c to 80c; oat, No. 2 white, 30c to COe. Si. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.50; bog, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.23; wheat No. 2, 93c to 90c; corn. No. 2, ' 77c to 78c; oats. No. 2, 40c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 77c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $G.93; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, 95c to 96c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 78c to 79c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 51c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 80c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $3.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.90; süeepl $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, 94c to PGc : corn, No. 3 yellow, 81c to 82c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to GOc ; rye. No. 2, 75c to 7Cc. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.15 to $1.17; corn. No. 3, 7Sc to 79c; oats, standard, 53c to 34c; rye. No.-1, 77c to 70c; barley. No. 2, GOc to 70c; pork, mess, $15.23. , Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.20 ; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3-30; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $1.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $7.15: sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.02 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 87c to SSc; oats, natural ' white, 61c to 64c; butter, creamery, 10c 5 to 21c; eggs, western, 17c to 10c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 94c to 96c; com. No. 2 mixed, 80c to S2c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 77c ; clover seed, October, $SÄ. Where the Wladi Blow. "Is this section prosperous? 44 You bet It is," answered the Kansas farmer. 'I kin spread a net any time and snake a grand piano out of a cyclone." Pittsburg Post. Frensled Finance. Her Husband I saved $000 to-day. His Wife How did you do It? Her Husband Smith offered to sell tne his automobile for that sum, but I didn't have the money. As Others View It. Short I wouldn't trust a stranger. Iong Then you are not a believer in reciprocity. Short What do you mean by that? Long Why. only a stranger would be likely to trust you. Limit. Mrs. Stubb It states In this magazine, John, that the shortest men on earth are the Laplanders. Mr. Stubb Ii'ni! They couldn't be any shorter than au American man. after his summer vacation. As to the Delle. Pretty Girl Yes, I must say that I' have a host of admirers. Nnv Suitor More than you can' shake a stick at, ch? Trctty C Irl Er worse than that More than my father can shake a stick at. Mustn't Be Mlngry. The Siudeut Do you believe in po-r lltical economy? The Politician No, sir; political lib-i erality pays much better than political economy. j