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THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE. PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q CO., - - Publishers

1908 SEPTEMBER 1908

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3) P. Q.5F. M. I' 3rd. vlOth. Vj L. Q. "N. M. 17th. r 25 th. PAST AiTD FRESEKT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. ' Telesrrapblc Information Gathered by the Few for the Ealichtenment of the Many. Fatal Collision on Northern Pacific. As a result of a head-on collision between west-bound passenger train No. 5 on the Northern Pacific and a freight train near Paradise, seventy miles west of Missoula, Mont., both engineers and both firemen and five unknown tramps are dead and Head Drakeman Dixon, of the freight train and one tramp are seriously Injured. The passenger train was running about thirty miles an hour when the accident occurred. The collision Is said to have been caused by the failure of Operator Mitchell at Penna to deliver an order to the passenger train, he having received the order after the train had passed the station. Ketchell Knocked Out by Papke. Stanley Ketchell, of Michigan, former middle-weight champion of the world, was knocked out In the twelfth round at Jeffries Veron arena, Los Angeles, Cal., by Billy Papke. of Illinois, who is now middle-weight champion of the world. It was a case of the Illinois -thunderbolt" against a "Michigan kill er," and the thunderbolt won. Both men entered the ring In apparent per feet condition and neither had ever fceen knocked out Ketchell had a de cision over Papke in the previous ten round bout. Both men are as clear looking fighters as anyone sees, but the bout ended as one of the blood lest in ring history. - This Horse Likes Autos. Louis Johnson, a farmer living south of Owensville, Ind., owns a fine spirited buggy v horse that fairly loves automobiles. Every time a . machine passes the animal it tries to turn around and follow the machine. Most of the farmers in the community are experiencing considerable difficulty In getting their horses accustomed to meeting automobiles on the public highway, but this Is not the case with the horsa driven by Mr. Johnson. His greatest difficulty seems to be In keeping the horse from following motor cars. Fanner Doubles Meet. John S. Eurgess and Jesse Long, two old farmers casually met In Corydon, Ind., a few days ago and someone, observing their resemblance, induced .them to get on the scales. It was found that they were the same weight. They measured and were exactly the same height. It developed that they were exactly the same age, both havIng. been born in this county on the. 15th day of May. 1836. They hae the same complexion and the same gait, but are not In any way related. Brains with Flatiron. Jesse Woodruff, 63 years old, of Brookville, Ind., crushed his wife's skull with a flatiron, causing her death. He then fired one bullet into his own body and another into his head. Hi3 death is only a question of a short time. The double tragedy followed a domestic quarrel. ' Spider's Bite Kills Woman. Mrs. Horace Brown died at her home in Noblesville, Ind., of blood poisoning, the result of a spider bite.' While on her way home last week from Yellowstone National Park she arose from a Pullman sleeper to find her lip swollen from the bite of a poisonous spider. Second Crop of Blossoms. Mrs. Rosana Crawford, of Milroy, Ind., has a natural freak in the way of a cherry tree which is in full bloom. The tree bore a crop of fruit in the ipring and is now preparing for a second crop. She also has some raspberry bushes which are bearing a second crop, having bloom, green berries and ripe ones on them now. Automobiles Wrecked by an Explosion. A gasoline explosion In the basement of the Taylor-Palmer garage, a three-story structure, in Boston, Mass., practically ruined nearly eighty automobiles and wrecked the interior of the building, causing a loss estimated at $200.000. Sixty-Six Suicides in One Week. There were sixty-six suicide cases in St Petersburg, Russia, last week. A large proportion of that number was working girl3 between the 8ge3 of 19 and 23 years. Forest Fires Raging. Forest fires are again raging in Minnesota, and tho town of Snowball with 100 inhabitants ha3 been wiped out .Fires are sweeping toward nibbing, and other towns are threatened. Hew State's School Law Had. Judge A. II. Huston, in the District Court in Guthrie, Okla., declared unconutitutional the Oklahoma separate school law providing separate school boards and iw-parate schools for negroes in the new State. Shooting Victim Improves. The condition of Charles 15. Roberts of Baltimore, who was shot on the hoard walk in Atlantic City recently, continue to improve, and his recovery is -pe :'ted. Tin police have made no progress. .i tic:r (Torts to apprehend the r.ssrrilant TMr. Roberts Potato Bugs Stall Trolleys. Fotato buss on rails et Lazy Lane, Conn., sta'led eight trolley cars laden with excursionists hound to Lake Curapout.ee recently. In spite of the terrific slaughter the bugs h-ld possession until the car men could sand the tracks. 800 Persian?" Slain in Battle. A special dispatch from Teheran says it U repoTTTd from Tabriz that Satar Khan has inflicted a decisive defeat on the troops of the Shah in which the government soldiers lost 800 men in killed and wounded. Civil war is ratio anew in Tabria province.

nUNT POISONING BAND.

New York Coroner Says He Is on Trail of Gang-. That a baud of professional poisoners ns during the past few years in New York murdered many persons and drugged tnd robbed a great many more, was the t'irtling statement made by Coroner Shratly at the end of an inquist into the death of Jan Danice of South Amboy, N. J., a railroad employe, who was killed by ioison last November. The coroner further declared that he is on the trail of the hand and expects to bring its members to justice. The coroner's jury held John Kuiominsky, IVter Hermansky and Tiily Hermaiisky for a grand jury on a charge of homicide. Coroner Shrady added that the pe'-sons most wanted in the case are still at large and he nays that he has issued warrants for two arrests. At the inquest it was shown that Danice died just after leaving the apartments of Tilly Hermansky, where he had gone with a wan known as "Louis the .Tew." IVter and Tilly Hermansky both testified that "Louis the Jew" poured a powder into beer that Danice drank. Danice died shortly afterward, nnd it was found he had been robbed of $34. Through the conviction of a man named Schultz in connection with a similar poisoning eas the coroner got information regarding the alleged gang he is now trying to run down. Schultz, the coroner says, told him of tb operations of the gang and gave him the names of the three fersons who were held for the grand jury nd two other names. RAWHIDE IS WIPED OUT. - Business Cection of Nevada Mining Town Is Completely Destroyed. Three thousand people homeless, a score or more injured, and A property loss of over $750.000 is the result of jf disastrous fire which started, at 9 o'clock Friday morning in Dr. (Janlner's office, loated in the Rawhide Drug Company's building in Rawhide, Nev. Fanned by a gale, the fire swept rapidly south and east to Balloon avenue, and up Rawhide avenue to within fifty yards of he People's hospital. At 11 o'clock the business portion of Rawhide was a smoldering mass of ruins, the flajues being finally checked south of Balloon avenue. A partial list of the heaviest losers follows: First Bank of Rawhide, Bank of Rawhide, Mizpah Mercantile Company, Nevada meat market, the Northern, Texas Rickard's, E. K. Marks & Co.. Nevada Club, Downer Hotel and Kelly's dance hall. The fire destroyed the hoisting works of the Bluff Mining Compar:v, (Jrutt Hill properties and the fJrutt boys business office, the loss on these amounting to $10,000. BONANZA WHEAT FARMER DEAD Heart Disease Kills Man Who Cultivated 10,880 Acres of Land. Word was received in St. Paul the other night that Oliver Dalrymple, who was known as the "bonanza wheat farmer" of North Dakota, died at his ranch home at Casselton, N. D. Mr. Dalrymple lired in St. Paul, but had gone to his farm to superintend the harvesting of his wheat. The Dalhymple farm consisted of seventeen sections, embracing 10.SSO acres, and these lands have been devoted in the main to whoat raising. The cause of death is given as heart disease superinduced by age. Girl Gagged and Tied to Tree. Miss Joste Culp, organist for the camp meeting at Summerland Beach, (liio, was found bound and gagged and tied to a Luge walnut tree in Smith's Grove, about 300 feet back of the hotel, at 12 o'clock Sundiy night, and did not regain consciousness until 7 o'clock the next day. She had been drugged, and1 said that he remembered nothing that happened after C o'clock, and could not tell who her assailant was. New Railroad in Palestine. The new railway from Damascus to Medina, "the Holy City," was opened Tuesday with most impressive ceremonies. The imperial mission, sent from Constantinople for the occasion, prayed at the prophet's tomb at dawn and then proceeded to the railway station just outside the town, where a crowd of Mussulmans from all quarters of the globe had assembled. 3,000 Wyoming Miner3 Strike. Dispatches from Diamondville, Wyo "report that 3,000 miners in Kemmerer, North Kemmerer, Diamondville, Oakley, Clencoe, Alger, Carney, Monarch, Kooi and surrounding camps have struck under instructions from Butte. All engineers, firemen and pumpmen remain at work to keep the mines free from water. Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., Marries. Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., widow of the only son of the late Marshall Field of Chicago, was married at the Westminster registry office in London Thursday to Maldwin Drummond of London. Mr. Drummond is a member of a well-known Hampshire family. Ohio River Navigation Stops. Navigation on the Ohio river was closed Wednesday between Pittsburg, Gallipolis and Cincinnati for the first time in five years. The river is the lowest it has been for twenty years. Many boats have been damaged by striking rocks in the channel. Oxygen Tank Explosion Kills Man. John O. Clifford, president of the United Oxygen and Chemical Company. Niagara Falls, N. was blown to pieces at the plant of the company, in the presence of his 18-year-old son, Roger, when a tank of oxygen charged to 2,200 pounds exp!oRd. Descended from French Barons. John D. Rockefeller is a descendant of barons in the south of France, the family dating from as early as 1KV), according to the report of an expert made to a family reunion at Albany, N. T. Cuts Wife's Body to Bits. A Boston actor slew his wife, cut her tody u;, packed the torso in a trunk and tried to reach the water with it, but was trapped by the police on a hackman's tip. Sees His Wife Dead at Table. Mrs. Martha De Billier, wife of William De Billier, a broker, was found dead sitting at the dining room table in the De Billier apartments in New York by hfr husband. Coroner Dooley was told that Mrs. De Billier had been troubled with heart disease. Denounces Police aa Cowards. The Springfield grand jury denounced the ioliee as cowards for failure to quell riots, and four men were indicted and will be placed on trial. Vermont Goes Republican. Vermont on Tuesday went Ivpub!kan by 2S.(W., indicating. Republicans claim, certain sneers for the national ticket. Mother and Children Drown. Mrs. Richard Rudcrmacher, ?,Z years old, of Brooklyn, and Jier two children. Ida, 11 years, and Richard, 4 years old. were drowned in Jamaica bay. The children were fishint from a float when the boy accidentally toppled overboard. Ida jumped overboard to save him, and the mother dived after the children. Assassin's Brother Is Insane. John Czolgosz, a brother of President McKinley's assassin, wa sentenced in Sharon, Pa., to the workhouse for three months. The police claim Czolgosz is insane and his case will be investigated.

LIFE INSURANCE FOR POOR.

Sage Trustees Consider Plan to Furnish It at Low Rate. Backed by the millions, of the Sage Foundation, to which Mrs. Russell Sage has already turned over $10,000,000 for alleviating the social and ecotiomio conditions of the 'poor, trustees of the fund are engaged in an investigation which may result in an extensive plan for providing life insurance at or below cost to those who are not able to pay for it at present rates, gince the luidle of last June Dr. Lee Franklin, who n well kuown in charitable organization work, has been in Kurope as the agent of tie Sage Foundation, studying the practical operation of government life insurance as practiced by the German and other governments. Dr. Franklin's associate in this work is Miles M. Dawson, actuarial expert of the Armstrong legislative committee, which, with Gov. Hughes as its counsel, brought out the extraordinary revelations of the investigation of 10O.V HYPNOTIZES TO GET TESTIMONY. Woman Charged with Shooting Husband Is Influenced by Doctor. Hypnotism and evidence secured by its means from Mrs. Charlotte IlitcHcock, accused of shooting lier husband, figured largely in the testimony before the lunacy commission in New York. Dr. I. T. Van G lea son testified that he had hypnotized Mrs. Hitchcock in a cell and oltained her first and only story of the crime. "Bob got a revolver and shot me three times," Mrs. Hitchcock said, according to Dr. Van Glcason's testimony. "I ran into the kitchen. My waist was on fire. He helped me p"t out the fire. When I crawled back and tried to get the gun it went off. Rob shot at me again. Then he stood up on the bed and shot himself three times. A dark man and a policeman came in and I told them I Lad shot Bob." Dr. Van Gleason said he thought Mrs. Hitchcock was insane at the time of the shooting, but was sane now. WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Falls Agrinst Gas Stove and Her Dress Is Ignited. Mrs. Mary Toohey, 4." years old, wife cf Policvruan Toohey of the Iavvndale station, was burned to death in her home, 211 West Van Buren street, Chicago. She is believed to have fainted and, falling against a lighted gas stove, her clothing liecame ignited. According to Toohty, his wife arose at J o'clock to prepare breakfast. An hour later, the policeman said, he was awakened by smoke. On oing into the kitchen he found his wife dead on the floor near the lighted gas stove. Her clothing had been burned off. "My wife had been subject to fainting spells for o'er four years," said Toohey. "I am satisfied her death was the result of an accident. I heard her getting up as usual to prepare breakfast, and fell asl;er again. It was soon afterward that siaoke awakened me." FDLIPINOS TAKE TO ENGLISH. 400,000 Enter U. S. Island Schools and Parents Discard Spanish. Dr. J. D. Burke, principal of a teachers' training school in Albany, N. Y., has arrived from -the Philippines, where he was sent with three other educalrs last February by the War Department to lecture before the public school teachers of the island. He kays he is convinced of the success of the American program in the islands; more than 400,000 school children, or one-third of all the children of school age, are enrolled in the jMiblic school j of the idands. More persons speak English than Spanish there at the present time. The primary teachers in the schools are natives who teach in English. Tammany Man's Death Puzzle. Philip McGovern, one of the best known Tammany captains of the Eleventh Assembly District, whose saloon on the northeast corner of Forty-third street and Ninth avenne. New York, was a favorite place for the political followers of The McManus, Tammany leader of that district, is dead from a fractured skull and his friends in the district are insinuating that he was the victim of a blackjack. Informer Slain in Prison. Gossans, a native, who was arrested with thirty others for complicity in the recent bomb outrages, and who turned king's evidence, was killed by two fellow prisoners in a cell of the Alipur jail iu India. The evidence given by Gossans reveals a widespread rebellious conspiracy, which included plans t assassinate the Viceroy, Lord Minto, and otlier high officials. Fire Perils "Mother of Forest.'-' News comes from Murphy, which is connected by wire with the Calaveras Big Trees hotel, that a forest fire has got into the grove of mammoth trees at the u,per end near where the "Mother of the Forest" stands, a monster sequoia 327 feet high and seventy-eight feet in circumference. Alabama Miners Defeated. An official order calling off the strike of coal miners in the Birmingham, Ala., district has been issued to all the camps in that section. The end of the strike means that practically all of the mines in the Birmingham district will be on a nonunion basis. New York Jews Aroused. New York Jews scored Police Commissioner Bingham for charge that race is responsible for half of the crimes committed in New York, quoted court records in rebuttal and called on that official to substantiate his assertion or retrict. . Suspected Negro Cleared. The negro whose alleged attack on a woman started the recent riots at Springfield has been declared Innocent by the victim of the assault and a warrant has been issued charging the son of the man lynched with the crime. Turk Tells of Atrocities. Zia Bey, Abdul Hamid'u one-time favorite, tells of wholesale murders and atrocities in Constantinople, and has fled from New York to England, fearing the power of the young Turks. Boy Killed Running After Ball.' Don IlarjHT, uged 10 lears, was instantly killed at the State League ball park in Lima, Ohio, falling nnd breaking his neck while running after n ball. Six Persons Are Drowned. Six women and one man, weil known in educational and social circles, were drowned when a sloop was capsized by the wind in Penobscot lay. Kaiser Arouses Europe. Kurope has been thrown into a turmoil by Ilmperor William's demand that Mnl.ii Ilafid be recognized immediately a-s S'iltnn of Morocco. . Abused Woman Slays Husband. Mrs. Arch Pickett shot and killed her husband, a well-known resident of .Tonesbo ro. Ark., beeause, she alleges, he was "mean to hr and abused her." Mrs. I'ickett escaped with her stepfather, a prominent farmer. I?oth were arrest" later. Mrs. I'ickett confessed. Workmen Hurt by Troin. One man was killed, two fatally injured and many others less seriously hurt by an incoming Northwestern passenger train, which ran through a crowd of workmen at Chicago avenue and Halsted street, Chicago.

OPRY R0Ä front ww u0$mV--. Z aj THE BASEBALL RACE TIGHTENS

POLITICS DEATH TOLL OF JULY 4. Day's Fatalities Now Number 163, with 5,623 Persons Injured. The death nnd injury toll of July 4 throughout tho I"nited States Is listed lu the. current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which for six years has tabulated the yearly tribute exacted by the toy pistol, the cannon Oracker and their kind. The greatest nunilier of deaths and 4njurics yet recorded occurred In 1908, despite the widespread effort toward a "sane Fourth." The most common cause of injury was the blank cartridge mid the hand was the member most frequently injured. While the medical fraternity congratulates itself upon the decreasing: fatal percentage of tetanus, the grim figures of 7." ior cent still . stand as the death toll of cases: The almost hopeless efforts of physicians in advanced cases of the disease make it one of the diseases most to be dreaded by them. The total deaths and accidents bystates, collected by the 'medical associa tion for six years, follows: 190.3 11M)4 1!0." li0; 1007 10OS Alabama ..271 2 1 1 Arizona ... 1 . . 4 T 1! ! Arkansas II 4 .. ft C'alirornla ..lOO IMS 142 !! 121 ia-5 Colorado... 3 44 20 X 25 1 Connecticut 102 1(13 1.12 IM S 10.Delaware ..1 5 14 8 10 12 IMst. of Col. 2 10 24 5 12 21 Florida .... 1 2 2 Georgia 4 2 4 I. l.i ho 4 4 3 3 4 4 Illinois 30 423 .".42 .VS 4 OS 5-".S Ljndlana ....100 211 217 2:o .. 2.11 flowa 1 10! 137 32S 2.V 231 174 Kansa .... 03 ss ."0 01 04 72 Kentucky .. 30 72 17 21 Is 33 lonisiana .... 2 3 7 S 4 Maine 31 32 2! 1. 11 10 Marvland 21 22 13 10 23 21 Mnsa 037 1!'3 407 320 ICS .430 Michigan ...144 1.'.7 2S.H 103 103 203 Minnesota .157 102 174 i5 .." 0.". Mississippi .. 2 2' 1 MUaourl ...147 H 218 325 2!! 375 Montana .. 5 17 40 3 O 11 Nebraska ..40 08 43 17 58 40 Nevada 1 2 .. 1 4 N. Hampsh e 37 23 ! 2! 13 13 New Jersev.22 201 350 3518 402 472 New Mexlto .. I 5 1 New York.. 522 510 500 681 752 647 X. Carolina. .. .. 1 1 N. Dakota.. 10 8 2! 11 8 13 Ohio 443 327 32 400 375 54.3 Oklahoma ..1 3 7 14 194 ! Oregon 1 13 9 11 5 9 Penn 533 744 721 909 491 987 It. Island .. 04 30 11 21 39 39 S. Carolin 1 S. Dakota.. 4 10 15 8 10 Tennessee .. 4 1 5 0 4 5 Texas 2 2 4 11 7 11 Utah ...... 23 22 25 18 30 12 Vermont ... 43 14 - 10 H 18 19 Virginia 11 5 8 .. 5 Washington. 21 25 15 25 22 38 V. Virginia. 19 10 34 4 27 29 Wisconsin 190 215 230 155 130 1S7 Wyouing .. 1 2 8 3 1 Firearms caused 481 accidents. Including 30 killed nnd .1 eases of. locklaw. Of the total number thus injured 101 were struck by stray bullets from the- reckless handling of firearms byothers. Toy cannons caused .109 injuries, including 7 killed and 4 caes of tetanus. FACTS FOR FARMERS. Members of the Manitoki Grain Exchange estimate the wheat crop of Western Canada at and not more than 100,'0,000bushels, and the oat crop at 80,000. 0fiO. Hot weather is blamed for the shrinkage. At a conference between the Minnesota health officers, dairymen and cattlemen in St. Paul, it was agreed to nsk for legislation prohibiting tlie-sa! of breeding cattle that have not been tested for tulwrculosis. Stockmen insisted that the tuberculin should also be tested. On the eve of harvest of the largest crop the northern part of the Red River valley has had for ininy a long year, a general epidemic of "pink eye," a species of influenza or distemper, is reported widespread through the north country, and many head of horses already have died of the disease. The committee appointed to locate the "dry farming'' experiment stations in western South O.ikota. is looking orer sites for the one to be located in either S.anley or Lyman county, and the towns of Philip. Kadoka, Murdo and Presbo are asking for J he location, and all will 1. visited on the trip. A general strike of the moi.ibers of fhc United States I!:-otherhood of Tailors was ordered at a meeting of the general executive board of the broth.-rhcod in New York. W. A. Taylor, of the department of plant industry at Washington, with an assistant, is stndjing the needs of Notth Dakota in the way of plant life. He wiil pay particular attention to the soil and climatic conditions. His trip probably will result in some important developments. After he finishes there he will go to Europe and northern Asia and will send plant specimens from there to try in North Dakota.

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH SEPTEMBER! '" " .M

Lte Telephone Marvel. A German inventor, (tustav Grzanna, has been astounding London with demonstrations of his device for sending handwriting simultaneously with the voice over an ordinary wire for considerable distances. He uses a low tension current of twelve volts and his apparatus can be made an auxiliary to any telephone. Aside from its sentimental value, this invention is exjMvted to prove of great importance commercially. Thus. an engiueer, in ordering parts for a structure in a hurry, can send along a diagram. A newspaper reporter enn send his account at the same time that an artist over the same wire is sending a sketch of the scene. This marvel is accomplished by means of a light ray passing over a sensitized -paper, the transmitter using a lead pencil with two electrical contacts, one fur horizontal and the other for vertical lines. As soon as the pencil is lifted a bulb glows and its ray is so reflectiHl on tiny mirrors in the receiving Jx as to reproJuce the movements of the jntint on a spjol of prepared paper. When the message or picture is finished the paper is automatically run through a bath so as to develop the photographed lines. In fen seconds the writing is visible. At the same time another film is placed in position to receive another message. Zeppclin'M Xfw Alrftlilp Itecortl. Although again failing in his attempt to make a continuous twenty-four-hour flight in his great airship. Count Zeppelin did break all records by the air journey which he took from Friedrichshagen on Lake Constance. Over the lake and many cities and towns the big aerostat sped, while guns were fired in salute anfl thousands of people gathered to gaze and cheer. Down the Rhine fo Maycnce it went at a speed of about tweut3--niue miles an hour on the average, and then turned homeward. Soon, however, the ship was brought to the surface of the river, while repairs were made in the mechanism, after which it proceeded. His continuous flight was 25t miles. The Iowa executive council has issued a certificate of nomination for Congressman J. A. T. Hull. The Typographical Union cf Lincoln, Neb., has elected W. J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate, to honorary membership. ' B. F. Nelson, president of the Minnesota Agricultural Society, has presented W. J. Bryan with a trick mule as a mascot. John Temple Craves, candidate of the Independence party for Vice President, underwent a slight operation in a private hospital in New York recently.. The Illinois Independence party State convention was held in Chicago and a slate named with George W. McCaskrin of Rock Island nominee for Governor. In the Oklahoma Democratic primaries Thomas P. (Jore, the blind Senator, was renominated by on overwhelming majorit', and this is equivalent to an election. Eigene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate, Is quoted at his Indiana home as saying that the Independence party is not likely to be an appreciable factor in the present campaign. In a letter to the secretary of the Socialist party in Boston, Supt. Plimpton of Tremont Temple refuses the application for the use of the hall to hold a Debs meeting' on Oct. i. Gov. Johnson of Minnesota in reply to a letter from Bryan has placed himself at the disjosal of the Democratic committee after Sepi. 1. It is not yet decided in what States he will speak. Chairman Hitchcock has announced an extensive speaking tour for the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sherman, in the West and middle West, covering jxmts where Bryan shall have spoken. The name of M. It. Preston, the Nevada convict, has now been taken from the bead of the Socialist Labor ticket, a. Iiis inclination to run was officially confirmed. In his place August Gilhatis has been named for President. In party council at Toneka the Kansas Republicans dec'ared for a State bank deposit guaranty bill, although the leaders pointed out the danger of this action to the national ticket in view of the avow ed opposition of Taft to that bank plan. A New York labor leader is given as the authority for the statement that John Mitchell has decided not to take the stump for Bryan nor to take any part in the campaign. At the same time comes the announcement from Secretary Easley of the Civic Federation that Mitchell henceforth" will devote his whole time to the trade agreement department of the federation.

CR0P3 COME IN

E. P. SARGENT IS DEAD. Commissioner of Immigration Yields to Disease. Frank I'. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration, died In Washington Friday from stomach trouble and a complication of diseases. Frank Pierce Sargent was born in East Orange, Vt, Nov. 18, 1SÖ4. He attended the village school of his native Jjeztär jysxcn s&eazxr. town and then became a locomotive fireman. Becoming an enthusiastic lalxir union advocate, he was elected chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and held the ollice for seventeen years, his headquarters being at Peoria, 111. lie married Georgie M. MeCullough. In 1898 President McKinley appointed Mr. Sargent a member of the Industrial Commission, but he soon resided fr - that body, which made Its final reiiort in 1902, and in 1900 declined the position of chief of the bureau of printing and engraving, offered him by President McKinley. July 1, 1902, President Roosevelt apioInted Mr. Sargent Commissioner General of Immigration, and he has since held the office. Competition for Beef Trnnt. Chicago hears that a company hüs been formed to operate independent stock 3-ards on a large scale, beginning Oct. 1. It will be known as the Chicago Stock Yards and Transit Company, with $2,."00,000 capital stock. Already twenty acres have been purchased at Thirtyninth street and Forty-eighth avenue, and buildings are in process of construction. The new concern is expected to cut prices. A new school for children Is to be established at Fort Suelling this fall. There has always been a lack of suitable teachers among the command at the fort, necessitating sending the children of officers, enlisted men and employes to the public schools iu St. Paul for their education. At a recent meeting of the St. Paul school board a measure was adopted offering to furnish the requisjte number of public school teachers to place the fort school on an equal footing with the public schools in the city. The offer has been accepted by the fort authorities. James Keir Hardie, the Socialist leader in the British Parliament, whose failure to get the customary invitation to the king's garden party in Windsor Castle, has stirred up much bitter feeling among his associates, now declares publicly : "I shall allow no interference with my political conduct in or out of Parliament bv the king or the court." The nomination of Joseph L. Brist ow in the Republican primaries of Kansas, for the seat in the United States Senate now occupied by Senator Ijong is almost universally credited 1o the influence of Senator La l'ollette of Wisconsin. The summer session of the Minnesota normal school at Moorhead was largely -attended. During the firet .six weeks of the session the enrollment exceeded 400; hut many of these students dropped out at the beginning of the second halfterm, some having completed their studies, others going out to teach in the country schools. Differences between thV machine men of the Rhinclander, Wis., Paper Company and the management have been adjusted, the mill starting up with a full crew, but on a non-union basis. The capacity of the mill ia sixty tons daily.

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RESULTS OF 1ST STATE BATTLES AT TÜE POLLS

Republicans Win in Vermont' by a Plurality of About 28,000. RETHENS FROH THE PRIMARIES. Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska Hold Significant Nominating Elections. Returns from the gubernatorial election In Vermont indicate that George H. Trouty, the Republican candidate, is elected by a plurality of about 28,000 over his Democratic opponent, James E. Burke. The State election was watched vrith the most intense interest by all of the national political flgurers. In the minds of many of them the final reports on November's election night were to be foretold by Vermont's voting. Whether the Republican plurality was to reach up to the landslide figures of 1S9-1, 1900 and 1904, or whether it was to drop below the danger line of 2o,000, absorbed the attention of Republicans everywhere. llie Republican vote is more than 8 per cent s'aort of that cast for Governor Bcli in 1901. The Democratic vote was 2 per cent short of that of 1904. Tractically the entire voting strength of the State was registered at the polls. Lieutenant Governor Prouty, who has been elected Governor, was opposed by James B. Burke, formerly known ns the "Blacksmith Mayor" of Burlington. The Republicans made a strenuous campaign in the State, and the Naüonal Committee sent in a strong battery of speakers. Mr. Burke made his fight practically alone, and while the Democratic national organization took a strong Interest In the turn of affairs, they sent In few spellbinders. For the first time the Independence I party had a gubernatorial -candidate. He ran ahead of both the Prohibition and Socialist nomineci. Vermont's rote has been one of the shining constellations in the political heavens by which political pilots have steered in national campaigns, &o soon as the towns and cities of the Stste had reported themselves on tlic night of the September election. But once since the wartime period has Vermont failed correctly to forecast the political color of the succeeding national administration, the entire proposition being based upon the axiom that If Vermont gives less than 23,000 Republican plurality In September the Democrats will win in the nation In November. That once was In 1S7C, when Vermont slippt up. There are plenty of Democrats who are still confident that Vermont was right at that exciting political period. Vermont's September plurality dropped to 2..735, nnd Rutherford B. Hayes was declared elected President by a majority of one electoral vote. Vermont' Paat Itrcord. Uep.riu.Uep.riu. rresbient Year. In Sent, in Nor. Elected. 1X76..: 23.73.1 24.078 Haye, lt. ISSOf 16.603 27,251 Garfield, TL. 1S84........2V.702 22.1S3 Cleveland. D. 188 '.28.095 2S.405 Harrison, ft. 1892 19,702 21.G7 Cleveland. I). ISUd 38.201 40.490 McKinley, IL It 00 31,312 20.710 McKinley, lw 1U01 31,557 30.GS2 Roosevelt, K. Victory Riven to Hayes by electoral commission, though Democrats claimed returns showed election of Tilden. Wisconsin. Early returns In Wisconsin indicated the defeat of the La Follette forces by a decisive vote. Senator Stephenson, formerly an ally of La Follette, but now hostile to him, defeated his nearest competitor for the senatorial nomination, Francis II McGovern, by a plurality of 10,000. McGovern and Samuel A. Cook, who ran third, both claimed the support of La Follette. Nebraska. In the contest for the Democratic nomination for Governor in Nebraska early returns showed Sffallenberger leading Mayor Dahlman of Omaha. Ninety-eight precincts out of 1.7S0 gave Shalleuierger 1,83d, Dahlman 1.2S0, and Berge 1,009. Dahlman Is Bryan's personal friend and the presidential nominee had exerted himself in his behalf. . Mlchlfran. At the Michigan Republican primaries where Auditor General James B. Bradley was contesting the nomination for Governor with Fred M. Warner and Road Commissioner II. S. Earle, unexpected apathy was displayed. Early meager ret urns setTacxl to indicate the nomination of Bradley. VolunlPfM Aa-alnNt ZVIght Rtder. A number of prominent business and professional men of Lexington, Ky., have volunteered to forih a cavalry company to be nsed in awing the night riders of the tobacco belt. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Robert Hunter, the wealthy New York Socialist author, has been nominated for the Assembly by the Sixth District. ( North Dakota nnd northern Minnesota are calling for thousands of harvest hands at wages ranging from $1.75 to $3 per day and board. The elevator men of the country north of Thief River Falls promise to deliver to the Twin Cities and other wheat centers 1,JjOO,000 bushels of wheat this season. The Young Men's Christian Association of Cincinnati, which is aiding the unemployed 'of that city, recently sent 200 men at one time to the South Dakota harvest fields. A disease,, believed to be cholera, is killing many hogs in the vic'nity of Corning, Iowa. Death usually follows within four days after the hogs come down with the disease. At a meeting of farmers in Deer Lake. Minn., to discuss the advisability of building a co-operative creamery, it was decided that the time is not yet riie for the project, but an organization was ierfected to promote dairying interests. ' Prof. William Seaver, who has been assistant in the botanical department of ihfc Noith Dakota agricultural co'leg, has received notification that be has been elected superintendent of the laboratories in the botanical gardens in Ne-.v York City. A number of Pefham, Minn., business men have formed a stock company, with a capital of $0,000, for the purpose of building and operating s potato warehouse. The people of that locality have begun raising potatoes on a largj scale and they will be bought the same at grain in future, instead of being handled fay the local merchants.

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CHICAGO. Favorable develements become mor plentiful as a banis for continuing recor cry in business. Confidence is more generally felt that the tide has turned for the better in production and distribution. This is confirmed by steadily increasing demand for mill and factory outputs and a more notable absorption of fall and winter merchandise. Considerable rtrength is derived from the highly encouraging agricultural conditions, prices being maintained above those at times last year for the leading grains and assuring a further large addition to the purchasing power throughout the West. Movements of the breadstuffs exceed those of a year ago. Some decline again appears in arrival of hogs, causing smaller packing, but there is substantial decrease in accumulated stocks of provisions in store, and also gains in receipts of hides and wool, while lumber received is but slightly lower. Permits for business structures ia Chicago da-ing August numbered -11 and $1,o07,0(X in value, against 42 permits and $919,000 in value in same month latt year. Investment is heavier in interest bearing securities, sales of choice bonds and local stocks being more active, and a new city loan was successfully negotiated. Money Is yet quoted from Zj per cent to per cent. Currency shipments to more crops do not equal those at this time last year, but are now more widely called for. High-grade commercial paper remains in restricted offering, although mercantile borrowers increase. Bank deposits undergo but slight change, and there are ample funds available against the ascertained fall needs of the interior. Bank clearings, f 220,5S7,442, xcid those in corresyponding week of 1907 by 3.. per cent. Failuroj reported in Chicago district number 32, against 24 last week and 17 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $3,000 number JO. againet 5 last week and 5 in 1907. Dur's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Fall jobbing trade, and to a lesser extent, retail demand, lias been he!x-d this week by the advent of cooler weather, the opening of the season of fall festivals and the continuance of buyers excursions. Hence the consensus of reports that distribution has expanded at leading northwestern and southwestern markets, while there is a farther gain shown at many southern centers. Enlargement of crop movements, particularly in winter wheat and cotton, has also made for a further improvement ia collections, which at many points are now classed as fairly jiormal. But the weight of testimony is that trade i still below the same period of last year, when contraction was already in evidence. Conservatism, in fact, still governs buying operations, and there is a disposition to order mereh for immediate cr nearby necessities pending a clearer view of the political outlook and the leaping of the later autumn crops. Industrial reports show on the whole" an expansion iu output. Iron and steel production is from 00 to SO per cent of full capacity, and the settlement of the Alabama coal miners' and the New England papermakers' strikes has made for a larger output. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. .1 number 210, against 23d last week, 130 in the like week of 1907, 121 in 190G, 137 in VKi and 111 in 1904, and Canadian failu.es ' for the same period number 17, as agaiit 27 lat week and 1." last year. Bndstreet'8 Commercial Report. Chicsgo Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $7.00; hogs, .rime heavy, $1.00 to $0.8."; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $L2T; wheat, No. 2, 97c to 99c; corn. No. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, standard, 48e 10 49c: rye, No. 2, 74c to 70c; bay, timothy, $S.OO to $12.50; prairie, $3.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 20e; potatoes, per bashel, C2c to 7Gc. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $3.00. to $7.10; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.rX) to $d.9."i; sheep, common to prime, tZTiO to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2 white, 79c to 80c ats. No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.50; hogs. $4.00 to $7.10; sheep. $3.00 to $1.23; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2. 78c fo 79c; oats. No. 2, 49c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 79c to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $.1.75; hogs, $4.00 to $7.05: sheep, $3.00 to $3.S5: wheat. No. 2, 9Sc to 09c; corn. No. 2 mixed, Wc to 81c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 51c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 79c to 80c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $3.20; hog., $4.00 t $d.30: sheep, $2.50 to $3.50: wheat. No. 2, 90c to 90c; corn. No. 3 yellow. Sic to S3cx oats. No. 3 wh.te, 50c to 51c ; tve, No. 2, 73c to 75c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. N. 3, 7Sc to 79c; oats, standard, 49c to 51c; rye. -No. 1, 75c to 7Gc ; bailey, No. 2, 72c to 74c; pork, mess, $14.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $.50; hogs fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.25; theep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $3.30; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $rt.Ctf); hogs $3.50 to $7.00; sheep. $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.03; corn. No. 2, 89o to 90c; oats, natural vhitc, 55c to 57c; butter, creamery, 20c to 2le: eg?, western, 19c to 22c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 9 to' 95e; corn. No. 2 mixed. 79c to Sic; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 7Ge; t lover seed, Octoler, $0.02. Convict Lrca System tm Go. To the Georgia Legislature, which was convened in extra session at Atlanta the other day, the special commission which his investigated the convict lease system now prevailing in that State, made a scathing report in which the State prison commission is condemned for grave neglect of duty and for tolerating the cruel ar.d brutal practices ujkhi the victims of 1'se system. The report was acconipm-;-l by a message from Gov. Smith, urging th- nbolüion of the lease system and the n;t loyment of the cenvuts on road' and ovher public works. A Theater tor Cliarlty. Mrs. Mabclle Gi'man Corey, the actress -wife of the Steel Trut president, upon h-r return from Europe the other day an- i woiir.ced that sbewuld build, with the consent of her husband, a theater in New ; York, the profits of which will lw devoted to charity. She will oierate it to encourage young actors and will appear ia I operatic roles herself. At Huntington, L. I., the American motor boat Dixie II. won the interna tional motor boat race, defeating the Brit ish boat, Wolseley Siddeley, by forty-nine seconds over a thirty-mile course.

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