Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 September 1908 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS a CO., - - Publishers 1908 SEPTEMBER 1908

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T F. Q.OvP. M. (T I Q.N. M. 3rd. vSylOth. 17 th.-A) 25 th. FEATURES OF ISTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Condition of Thine are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to snake It Complete. Chicago to Kentucky in Three Months By the first of the coming year traction cars will be running through Chicago and Louisville, Ky. This is the iredlctlon of C. L. Ruse, of Milford, roadmaster of the Winona Interurban Railway Company, who is ballasting the Winona company's tracks three miles west of Peru, Ind. Within this time, he Eays, cars will be In operation between Warsaw and Peru, and before that time traffic will be opened from South Bend to Chicago. Three large gangs of men are now zL work on the Winona line between Peru and Warst. w. Some little delay has been occasioned on account of the over head bridge at Warsaw. Dynamite in a School Fight. The Fairfield schoolhouse, near the line of Hendricks and Marion Counties, in Indiana, was blown up with dynamite. The building was demolished and there remains little to mark 111 former location but a mass of debris. The explosion was felt in Uooresville, five miles from the choolhouse. The attempt to wreck Che building is the outcome of intense riralry, which has existed for years between the school districts of Fairfield and Friendswood, the people of each district trying to force the erection of a school building in their district large enough to accommodate all the children in the two districts. $50,000 for a Concrete Tie Idea. The sum of $50,000 has been offered C. L. Ruse, of Milford, Ind., for his American patent on a concrete tie of his invention and Mr. Ruse has decided to accept the proposition made by the Commercial Treatise Company, of Denver, Colo. He also has patent rights in Germany, Canada and England. - Several of these ties are aow being used on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near Shakespeare. They are indistructible. Sample ties are now being made by the Winona Lake Concrete Company. Lights Fire with Kerosene. While lighting a fire with kerosene In the kitchen of her home in East Meadowbrook, L. I., Carrie Snyder, the 18-year-old daughter of David Snyder, a wealthy farmer, was so severely burned that she died. In trying to rescue her. her mother was burned from head to foot and is in a critical condition. Miss Snyder had been prominent in the Methodist chuich at Meadowbrook, which was donated to the town by Mrs. (). II. P. Belmont, and sang in its choir. Bear Attacks Hagenbeck. Wilhelm Hagenbeck, of the famous animal training firm of that name, was probably fatally Injured at Berlin, Germany, by a huge bear he wa3 attempting to drive into its quarters. Ills abdomen was ripped open by the enraged animal and his flesh torn and clawed la a dozen places. Attendants rushed to the rescue, but before they could drive off the bear Hagenbeck fell unconscious. He was sent to a hospital where It wa.i said his injuries would likely prove fatal. Made a Bank of Cook Stove. Mrs. Josephine Gordon, a widow washer woman living near Evansville, Ind., lost the savings of a life time when she built a fire in her cook stove and burned up $225. The money was In the oven and when the woman remembered about hiding It there she opened the door, to find only blackened ashes. The ashes will be sent to the Treasury Department in the hope that it may be redeemed, if possible. Four Persons Killed in Wreck. Four persons are known to have been lulled and twenty-six were injured la a wreck on the Yazoo & Mississippi Vulley railroad, two miles couth of Clarksdale, Miss., when two coaches of a passenger train rolled down an embankment. Two or three passengers are unaccounted for and It Is possible their bodies will be found under the wreckage. Many Gravel Road Petitions. During the la.it four months, ninetyeight petitions calling for the Improvement of 110 roads under the three-mile gravel read law, have been filed In Madhxm County, Indiana. Two Million Dollar Fire at Louisville. The plant of the Cosmos Dale Cement Company, located at Cosmos Dale, seventeen miles southwest of Louisville, Ky., burned with a loss estimated at $2,000.000. Freight Train Wrecked. Two colored men were killed, another was injured ant1 a white man is mUsing as the result of a wreck oa the Lake" Shore and Michigan Southern railway, which made kindling wood of fourteen freight cars, between Ifimn and Vermilion, Ohio. Killed by Eight-Story Fall. While attempting to close his office window on the eighth floor of the Publication building in Pittsburg, Herman A. S.hulz. 62 years old. a flour and grain broker, overbalanced himself nud fell to the ground. He was instantly killed. Another Suicide Row Death. Mrs. Sallie Hatfield, SH years o!o. com mitted suicide by jumping from t!.o second-story window of .ier home in Yjrk, Pa. Once be 'ore she wss prevented from jumping from a window by her son. Mrs. Hatfield was in ill health. This is the third suicide within a year in the row of ix houses in which Mrs. Hatfield lived. Killed bjr Gasoline Explosion. An explosion of gasoline wrecked tie dyesffiop of the Wildridge-Latimer Co npeny in Syracuse, N Y., killing Har.y Altenbrond and injuring a number of re-ple.

DR. RUSTIN TRIED TO DIE.

Victim of Shooting Had Been Attempting Suicide for Three Years. The death by shooting of Dr. Frederick Rustin in Omaha recently, whether it was . murder or suicide, reveals the fact that j for three year3 Dr. Rustin had made rcj peated attempts kill himself in such a way that suicide would not be suspected. The first attempt was made in April, 1003, when he told several of his friends that he would soon be a dead man, but refused to say why or what would cause his death. A short time later he reported a malignant cancer in his throat. He rriert to have th's operation performed in Omaha but fail 1, and nothing more was heard of the cancer. The next attempt was made several months later, when he sent to the bacteriological laboratory of the University of Chicago and procured two test tubes containing pure cultures, one of tetanus and the other typhoid. These tubes he carried in his pocket for days, exhibiting them to friends and telling them what would happen should he take them. Two weeks later Rustin was taken down with typhoid. He grew worse and the physicians whom he called in could not handle the case. He sank until he became delirious and after a long, hard siege he recovered. Still another attempt at a novel suicide is reported on Ilustin iart, it being said he opened the reins in his wrist when a train on which he was a passenger was wrecked. He did not die, however, and was paid accident insurance which is sa:d to have been refunded by him. SEABED WITH HOT IRON. Fugitive Blember of Brutal Trio Is Wanted for Torturing Farmer. Detectives of the Lackawanna, the Erie, and the Ontario and Western railroads have been searching all trains in an endeavor to capture the third of the three men who tortured William' Hartley, an aged farmer of Glenwood, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. The day preceding the robbery the farmer sold a number of sheep and received $1,000. He sent his daughter to Montrose to deposit the money. Three robbers entered his home before the girl's return. They demanded the money of Hartley. He told them he had sent it to the bank. They would not believe him and, failing to make him reveal its supposed hiding place, they heated an iron until red hot and applied it to his feet. The men then searched the house and found $8.50. Enraged at not linding more, they beat the aged farmer until he was insensible and rode nwaj. Two of them wer captured. They gave their names as William Wundell and Oscar Piatt. The third is still at large. INCENDIARIES FIRING FOREST. Lynching of Men Responsible for Minnesota Destruction Possible. Following the firing of a tract of forest to the west of Chisholm, Minn., the other morning, a gang of Montenegrins appeared in Brooklyn, a hamlet on the outskirts of Hibbing, in the afternoon and attempted to fire several buildings. One of the gang had placed a quantity of shavings against a building and was pouring oil on them when he was discovered by a soldier. He escaped through the woods with his companions. Posses of citizens from nibbing, Monroe and Chisholm are after the incendiaries and if is almost certain that a public lynching will follow if they are captured. After being menaced for days by forest fires that were creeping up in a wide semicircle upon the helpless village, 100 miles from Duluth, Grand Mantis is reported to be safe. The wind, which had been driving the flames for hours toward the threatened village, finally subsided. LABOE ABEA IN CANADA Forest Fires Raging Along Duluth Extension Across the Border. The whole country along the line of the Duluth extension of the Canadian Northern railway, running to the United States border from Arrow river to Hymers, appeared to be on fire Friday. Already thousands of dollars' worth of damage has been done to timber. On Thunder Cae the whole section is lighted up with flames from forest fires. East of Port Arthur along the Canadian Pacific railway it is reported that the worst forest fires in the history of the country are raging and that - thousands of dollars' worth of timber is ablaze. According to a report received the -fire is only a short distance from the village of Hymers.'Forest fires destroyed the camp owned . by George Mooring on Pigeon river with the complete outfit. 'Jones Defeats Ankeny. LeU Ankeny has been defeated for reelection to the United States Senate from Washington by Wesley L. Jones, who has been representing the State at large in the lower House of Congress for ten years. Returns from thirty of the thirtyseven counties in the State on the direct primary election indicate that Jones has about 5,000 more of his party ballots than his opponent. Three Perish Fighting for Home. After sending his wife and two small children to safety at a neighbor's, half a mile away, Jacob Hernesnicmi, with his two older sons, respectively 12 and 14 years old, met death Tuesday while trying to fight off the forest fires that swept their homestead on Otter river, near Calumet, Mich., clear of every building and all the harvested crops. Thrashing Engine Explodes. Charles Olmstall, an enigneer employed on a thrashing outfit, was instantly killed and five others were seriously injured by the explosion of the engine boiler at New Rockford, N. D. Olmstall was working on the engine and was hurled a considerable distance and badly mangled. The others were injured by flying pieces of the boiler. Long Term for Bank Robbers. Bill Lennant and Harry Coleman, the young bandits who robbed the Chautauqua State bank at Chautauqua Springs, Kan., locking Cashier Waterhouse and Iel Easley, a customer, in the vault, were sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence of from ten to twenty-one years in tJio State reformatory. , Fire Kills Five Children. While the parents were away from home the residence of J. C. Burdette, near New Brighton, Minn., was burned, and five children, from 5 to 10 yetrs of age, were suffocated. Neighbors tried to save the furniture, but did not know the children were in the house. Accused of Doctor's Murder. In Omaha. Neb., County Attorney English filed a complaint against Charles K. Davis, charging him with murder in the .first degree in connection with the shooting of Dr. Frederick Bust in the morning of Sept. 2. Memphis Railway Station Burns. The Union passenger station. Main and South streets, Memphis, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,000, partly covered by insurance. The flames broke out on the third floor, at the top of the hotel, and spread with amazing rapidity. At least fire persons jumped from windows. Electric Chair Not Sure. Dr. George F. Shrady, coroner of the borough of Manhattan, declares that the electiic chair does not always kill, and cites the case of a man who recovered Bonsciousness after shock.

MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE SUICIDE.

Jewel Bedecked Body cf Mrs. Harvey Found in Lake. Th body of Mrs. Ashton Harvey, wife of a millionaire corporation lawyer of New York, dressed in white nd covered with a fortune in jewels was found in the private pleasure lake on the estate of .Stewart Hartshorn at Short Hills, N. J., by bloodhounds which had' been brought from New York to seek her. Mrs. Harvey, who was wealthy iu her own right, had been acting peculiarly severs' weeks, and her daughter Dorothy and ko Harold became alarmed on a recent afternoon when she left their country home dressed in white, even to her shoes and stockings, and wearing all of her jewels. About her neck she wore a $25.KJO pearl necklace and on her head she had placed a rich diamond tiara. Her breast was covered with sunbursts and other brooches set with dazzling gems, and her lingers were bedecked in jeweled rings. Mr. Harvey and his daughter searched the roads in their automobile until dark, when they called in the iolice. Bloodhounds from New York arrived at 2 a. m., and after au all niifht search the anir.tls pointed to the body in the lake. Mrs. Harvey's husband believes she committed suicide. She had been a sufferer from headaches for nine years. She had also grieved over the death of her eldest son. Ashton. 15,000 SEE AERONAUT FALL. Balloon Explodes When Directly Above Crowd. Fifteen thousand persons at the Richmond county (Staten Island, N. Y.) fair saw a balloon explode fifty feet from the ground and dash .William Cobey and a lion cub to the earth. Cobey, who is 18 years old. and whose home is in Milwaukee, suffered a badly injured pine and internal hurts. He was hurried to the Smith infirmary at Tompkinsville. It was said he would probably die. The boy recovered consciousness at the infirmary, and said he balloon had caught fire in some unknown manner. Cobey landed flat on his back and the lion fell on top of him. They came down in the midst of several thousand persons, who had gathered to sec the balloon ascension, which was the last event on the. program. The lion cnb was apparently uninjured by the fall. He slunk away in a dazed way. Frank Robinson. Cobey's manager, captured the cub. Mr. Robinson was arrested by order of Inspector Russell and locked up at the New Dorp police station. It was charged that the ascension was made when the apparatus was not in proper shape. NEW YORK "L" SMASH. Trains Crash and Passengers Thrown About, Then Rescued by Firemen. George Koellner, mot or man, was killed and about twenty-five passengers were injured in a rear-end collision of two elevated railroad trains on Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. One of the trains stopped at pome distance from a station because of a fire, and the second train, which came along at high speed, could not be stopped in time to prevent a collision. Passengers in both trains were thrown, from their seats and many were badly bruised. Instantly there was a scene of panic among the frightened ' occupants of the cars. By the aid of ladders the fi""r.:n carried many passengers to the stref. Limited Hits Open Switch. Thirty-four persons were injured when the Chicago-New York Limited train on the Erie railway was wrecked in the village of Geneva, Pa. The wreck is believed by the Erie officials to have been due to j rain wreckers. Bloodhounds have been taken to Geneva from Greenville in au effort to trace the alleged wreckers. j A switch that had beenleft open caused the wreck. Circus Act May Kill Her. - Mile. Marie la Blanche, one of the performers at the Toronto, Ontn exhibition, was perhaps fatally injured the other night. Her act was to slide, hanging by her teeth, down a wire stretched from a high pole to the ground. The other night she had hardly started when the pole began to lean over, causing the wire to sag aud throwing her to the ground. Her irpine was broken. Costly Fire in St. Paul. The Gribbeu Lumber Company plant. East' Seventh and Earl streets, St. Paul, was almost totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $05,000, partly covered by insurance. Several tenement houses and minor buildings were destroyed, including the office of the Herzog Iron Company. Several firemen were overcome by smoke. Body of Man Found in Well. Throwing a burning newspaper down an old well to. see how deep it was, a number of South WiiHamsport, Pa., boys discovered the body of a man lying nt the bottom. It proved to be that of William Booth of that city, who had been missing for a week. He had evidently fallen into the well and, helplessly injured, died from hunger. Supposed Thief Discharged. George XV. Fitzgerald, accused on the complaint of Private Detective Herbert L. Young of stealing $173.000 from Assistant United States Treasurer William Boldenweck as custodian of the subtrcasury at Chicago, was discharged and the charge against him dismissed by Judge Chetlain in the Criminal Court in Chicago. $100,000 Loss in Canadian Fire. A large portion of the business section of Altona, a town in southern Manitoba, near the boundary, was destroyed by fire. The stores of Yoerger, Freesen and Coblentz, three merchants, were burned, also the bank of Montreal, the Western Canada Land Company's block, the Commercial hotel, and the postoffice. The loss is $100,000. Sues Street Car Company. Mrs. Mary S. C. Logan, widow of Gen. John A. Logan, has filed suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court to recover $.1,500 damages for alleged personal Injuries. According to the declaration, as Mrs. Igan was alighting from a Washington street car May 20 last she was thrown violently to the ground. Dreyfus A.ant Acuitted. Louis A. Gregiri v, ts acquitted of the charge of attempting o kill Major Alfred Dreyfus during the ceremonies at the Pantheon in Paris, in connection with the canonization o Emile Zola last year. Gregori fired two revolver shots at Dreyfus, one ball laking effect in h!s writ. Leper Selling Theater Tickets. John Mouton. a leper, who escaped from the Louisiana leper home in Iberville Parish alout a year ago, was found in New Orleans selling tickets at a nickel theater, lie will be returned to the home. Slay Man from Ambush. Because John Murray, a well-known farmer who lived near Fayetteville, Ark., charged John D. Holt, 23 years old, with stealing watermelons and threatened to ruin the reputation he had as a "bully," Holt shot and killed Murray from ambush. Disbarment Suit Instituted. Disbarment proceedings against C. W. Trickett, assistant Attorney General for Kansas, were filed in tlhe District Court of Kansas City, Kan., by C. R. Cooksey, an attorney. There are fifteen separate counts in the charge.

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I l 1 rV I A Kl jr f a An UAL CHICAGO. The labor holiday and hot weatiher to some extent affected the course of business. Movements of commodities are seen to be comparatively lower and crop marketings disclose a sharp fulling off, while the volume of payments through the banks makes a low aggregate. Otherwise, the dominant conditions remain encouraging, the recent improvement being sustained in the leading industries and distribution of general merchandise. Fall buying is now in full suing and extends to a wider variety of staples and finished products. Operations in dry goods, clothing and footwear run into gratifying totals, with thn attendance of outside buyers exceeding all previous records for the season. Heavy-weight apparel, woolens and blßnkets ordered for early forwarding oomiare favorably with a year ago, and there is a stronger demand for food products, furniture, leather goods and hardware. The general buying confirms previous advices that stocks at most interior points are low, but the replenishing process proceeds cautiously, and theic is no danger that anticipations of future requirements will be overestimated. Mercantile credits appear to be now in a healthy position, money is more plentiful throughout the agricultural sections, and tthcre is a growing tendency of buyers to secure all possible advantageous discounts on purchases at this time. Bank clearings. $195,55,1,059, include only five days, and are 10.5 per cent under the corresponding full week of 19J7. Failures numbered 21, against 32 last week and 17 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $3.000 number 0, against 10 last week and 3 in 11K)7. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. The advauce of the fall season and the notable enlargement of the movement of cereals and cotton to market at good prices have made for a further moderate expansion in jobbing and retail trade and collections." This is especially marked at western, Pacific coast and southern centers, but the ioint is made that agricultural sections have done better relatively than large industrial centers in the matter of retail trade, possibly because of warm weather or the reduced purchasing power of city workers and the high prices paid for farm products. Business failures in the United States for the wek ending Sept. 10 number 101, against 210 last week. 172 in the like week of 1907. 104 in l'JOG, l&S in 1005 and 107 in 1904. The total reported this week is the smallest noted siuce last October. Failure in Canada for the week number 21, which compares with 17 last week and 22 in this week last year. Itratlstreet's Commercial Report. "Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.70; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $7.22; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat. No. 2, OSc to $1.00; corn, No. 2, Wie to Sic; oats, standard, 48c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 70c to 70c; hay, timothy. $8.00 to $12.50; prairie, $8.00 to $ 1 1 .00 ; butler, choice creamery, 10c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 22c ; pot a toes, per bushel, OSe to 7Se. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.10; hofs, good to choice heavy, $.'.."10 to $7.20; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.7"; wheat. No. 2, 08c to 00c; corn, No. 2 white, 79c to 80o; oats. No. 2 white, 47e to 4Sc. St. Iouis Cattle. $4.50 to $7.50; hogs, $4.00 to $7.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn. No. 2, 70c to 81c; oats. No. 2, 49c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 70e to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.73; hog. $4.00 to $7.20; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 99e to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 81c to 82c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 52c; rye. No. 2, 78c to 70c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $4.50; hogs, $1.00 to $0.70; sheep, $2.50 to $3.85; wheat. No. 2. 95c to 07c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 83c to 84c; oats. No. 3 white, fjOc to 51c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 75c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.05; corn, No. 3, 79c to SOc; oats, standard, 40c to 51c; rye, No. 1, 73c to 70c; barley. No. 2, Tic to 74c; pork, mess, $14.73. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $1.00 to $0.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.30; Iambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $7.00. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $0.85; hogs, $3.50 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1X3 to $1.05; corn. No. 2, 88e to 89c; oats, natural white, 34c to 3Gc; butter, creamery, 20c to 24c; eggs, western, 19c to 22c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c to 07c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 70c to 81c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 70c ; clover seed, October, $5.82. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Heavy rains in many parts of the Northwest have greatly helped corn aud late potatoes. . The Tatterson Brothers' yellow ware pottery at Wellsville, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Ixss $50,000. Sailors from President .Roosevelt's yacht, the Sylph, were barred from a dance hall at Oyster Bay because it Is alleged they wore navy uniforms. The biggest suit ever filed in the Canadian Yukon couutry was filed the other day. A.. I). C urtis claiming $17,000,000 because the governor general canceled a ruining concession. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the three-story brick building in Portland, Ore., occupied by Peters & Itoljerts, furniture and mattress manufacturers. Loss $120,000; iusurance $05,000. Plans and estimates for the new Grand Central station in New York have been completed aud the total cot will reacL $20,000,000. A burglar who (had been fobbing a Brooklyn saloonkeeper was trapped, and upon attempting to use a knife was shot dead by the detective. He proved to be j Hugo Mierman, a tenant In the same building. Henry Tiirap, the Breathitt county, Kentucky, feudist who created a reign of terror there recently, when adjudged insane, by arming himself and defying arrest, wa.s captured and placed in an asylum at Lexington. A double drowning in Bum river was averted bv the nromn-t action of half a old. who caught Miss Gazel Goeldner and a j'oung woman friend, who waded beyond their depth and were going down the third time. The young women had grasped each other in their fright and were drawn to shore and resuscitated. It was an exceedingly spectacular rescue, as ! the boys handled the affair with the skill of old swimiuen. The private car of Col. W. C. Greene, the copper magnate, was seized at San ; Francisco in a suit to recover $112,000, and the trip of the family was delayed.

NORTH FORESTS BURN; TOWNS LUID Ii ASHES

Flames Sweep Through Minnesota Woods and Leave Ruin in Their Wake. PALL OF SMOKE IN CHICAGO. Homeless Settlers and Wild Animals Driven from Raging Forest ' to Lake Shore. Blown more tbau 500 miles by gentle, steady air currents and kept close to earth by tKHuliarly favorable atmospheric conditions, the smoke from Noithern forest .fires blow over Milwaukee and Chicago Saturday and Sunday. In Milwaukee Saturday its density bad increased until only the outlines of buildings four blocks distant could be made out. This is the first time in many years that Chicago has seen and felt the effects of the forest fires that rage in the far north every summer. The fires about Illbbing, Minn., and the Michigan copjK r country are more severe than usual, and the country within a radius of 200 miles of the blazing districts is covered with a pall of thick tsinoke. The epormous cloud drifted southward on a gentle wind. Peculiar atmospheric conditions iermitted the light smoke to descend until it covered the whole city, allowing the rays of the sun to filter down as through a light fojg. The smoke was thick enough to afford the spectacle of the sun hanging like a copper red disc In the heavens. Lake tnilhe was badly hnmiiered by the smoke, and the government fog whistles were put to work. Iietcnetl ly Naval Reserve. The dramatic story of the rescue cf the north shore settlers and the citizens of Grand Marals by the Duluth naval reserves on board the steamer Gopher, is tM by a correspondent who was aboard the vessel. The most heartrending scene were witnessed all along the north shore of the lake. Homeless settlors, with everything they itossessed licked up by the flames, fled to the lake shore for refuge, with little food and no clothing but what tltey carried on their backs. The Gopher coasted along ihe shore, picking up the refugees. The shore was alive with wild animals of sill kinds, driven out of the woods by the fires. Three men had been forced to take refuge iu the waters of the lake and were picked up by the Gopher. One woman with a pack on her iutck and a sick baby in her at;n)s fled throe miles from her homestead to the lake and was picked up by the boat. With Grand Marals, a town of 1.500 people, on the Lake Superior north Fhore, partly destroyed, and Beaver Bay, SO miles away, also attacked by the flames, and a dozen smaller towns ir gi eat peril, it was apparent Saturd; y that, unless rain came soon, the entire forest fire-swept district was doomed to total destruction. Among the larger places in peril were (Ylerain, B vey, Nashwauk, Warble, Hibbing. Buhl, Big Bay. Chicago Bay, Orion, Aurora. Maintain Iron. Henshall, Fort William, Ont.. Hymers, Out, Fort Arthur. Out., Cascade and Nutson. The Great Northern. Northern Pacific and all State railroads had fire trains out fighting to save property along the lines and protect bridges and stations. It was a battle In which all able-bodied men throughout the threatened territory took a hanL and hundreds wero near exhaustion as a result of the week's struggle. Scene Was Awe-InspIrluK. The scene along the shore Saturday right was au awe-inspiring sight as seen from the water. For a distance of more than ICO miles the flames np;eared to 1h? j'lmost continuous. The roaring of the fire could be heard for miles. Great fees were suddenly enveloped In flames, the fire rushing up balsams with a swish like a giant rocket. The great P?at IkhIs of northern Minnesota were a'l ablaze. In resionse to Governor Johnson's appeal $43,000 has been raised by the Iiuluth relief committee for the homeless refugees. The supply of food and clothes now seems to be ample. Relief measures are being taken in nil the cities throughout the State to help the fire sufferers. Along the north shore of Lake Superior 'the situation Is critical. Th rir Monster's Work. Here's a summary of the fire monster's work: Duration of fires, two weeks. Cause of fires believed to be incend.nrj. ' States and provinces visited by fires Minnesota. Wisconsin, Michigan and Ontario. Towns and mining settlements dHroved, alout ten. Towns: in imminent danger, twenty. Total Are loss (estimated), from $10,00000 to $15,000,000. People homeless, about 0,000. NEWS OF MINOR NOTE. In a jail nt Calcutta, India, a number of imprisoned revolutionists killed one of their comrades who bad turned against them and revealed iheir plot to assassinate high officials and start a general rebellion. In a desolate wood near Seven Oaks, a short distance from Loudon, the wife of Maj. Gen. Charles Allward Luard was murdered in a mysterious manner. No trace of the murderer has been found, but the motive npjears to have been robbery, valuable rings having been taken from the woman's fingers. Another encounter between the Arabs in Moraeco and the French troops was reported at Paris Wednesday, when the blockhouse nt Boudenih had been surrounded by a great horde of tribesmen. The latter wer-j held back by the deadly fire of the machine guns in the expectation that a relief column would be sent out. Melbourne, Australia, turned out with every evidence of joy and friendship for America when the battle ship fleet commanded by Admiral Sperry arrived. The city .was thronged with visitors and the Yankee sailors and officers were treated as heroes. Premier Deakin and other high officials joined in the festivities and thousands of troops were brought to take part in the grand review. A similar welcome had been extended at Sydney. Eight hundred quarts of nitroglycerin exploded near Belleville, W. Va., wrecking several houses aud injuring a number of persons. Two women were blown out of their homes and seriously hurt.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolige and Chief Montgomery of the customs division of that department have presented to Senator Burrows, as the representative of the Senate committee on finance, the views of the department as to the changes believed to be necessary In the administrative features of the tariff law. Among the recommendations was one for an increase from $100 to $200 of the exemption made in favor of Americans returning from abroad. The department also would abolish the fee system now extensively employed throughout the customs service and put merchandise sent through the mails on the same footing as that sent through the regular customs channels. President Roosevelt has made public a letter to the Secretary of State advising hi in of the postponement until 1017 of the Japanese Exposition, which was to have been held iu 1912. The reasons given are that the short time between now and 1912 would necessitate a wasteful exiense and that there is a peculiar fitness in holding the exposition, the first In Asia, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the accession of his majesty to the throne. The President's letter lays stress on the tieculiar feeling of regard and friendship which this country has for Japan and says that we should do all in our power to help make the exposition a success. Ma j. Gen. Wood, who held longer than any other officer the command of the American forces in the East, and who Is now on his way home from Europe to succeed Maj. Gen. Grant a commander of the Department of the East, will suggest to the President, it is said, a plan for having a certain number of army officers sent to Japan and China to learn the languages of those countries. Ills plan contemplates the sending of four of the younger officers, not above Hie rank of -captain, to take four-year course in these languages, rigid examinations at the end of each six months to determine whether the men sent are peculiarly fitted to master them. A report prewired by the Department of Commerce and LnboT shows that the total imports for the month of July reached $80,414,., against $124,G21,Sfö for the corresponding month of 1007, and for the seven months ending with July, it showed $00S,8G3,704, against $875.001,070 for the like period of 1007. The exports for the same period showed a similar remarkable falling off, the total for July, 10O8, being $102,l!0,52f;, against $128,349,335 in July, liK7, and for the seven months ending with July, $f1047,ai9, as against $1.068,1)99,907. Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, predicts that the extra fission of congress which Is to ha called after the fourth of next March for the revision of the tariff, will be of long duration, and that it will witness many stubborn contests over the various schedules which it Is proposed to change. Mr. McCumber said that the West will demand that several articles which are now on the protected list shall be made free of duty, and he included lumber and coal as among those on behalf of which a strong fight will be made. :- Orders have been issued by the War Department directing Col. William F. Stewart of the coast artillery, who several months ago was sent to the abandoned military post of Fort Grant, Ariz., on account of "temperamental incapacity," to proceed to Fort Iluachuca, Ariz., to take the riding test prescribed for field officers. At the conclusion of the test he is directed to return to Fort Grant, Colo. Stewart is reported pleased with the order. The outcome of the prolonged consideration of the appeal of the eight West Point cadets expelled for brutal h:tzing is the announcement that upon the recommendation of the President, Secretary Wright had decided to let the dismissal of two, Kossell aud Weaver, stand, but to suspend for one year the other six who are youngei. The two who are expelled were members of the first class. The retirement of Bear Admiral Kobley I). Evans placed Rear Admiral Casper Goodrich, commandant of the navy yard at New York, at the head of the active list of rear admirals of the navy. Admiral Goodrich will be retired in January next. The position of senior read admiral will In no way be a material advantage to him. The summary of reports of the condition of the national banks at the close of business July 15, 1008, shows the total of the item ionds, securities, etc.," held by the banks to be $705,875.220. That there was a net increase of 200,000 in the population of the country as the result of Immigration for June, Is shown by the rejwrt of the department of commerce and labor. -: :- President Roosevelt has established a zone sixty feet wide along; the Mexican border, the laud of which Is withdrawn from settlement. The puriose of this action is to render it more difficult to smuggle Asiatics over the line into California. Secretary Straus has approved the action of the immigration officials of Boston in the so-called Mormon cases, win-rein a number of Immigrants were held upon the allegation of entering the country in violation of law. Capt. G. A. Merrlam, U. S. N., commandant of the Portsmouth navy yard, died following an operation for appendicitis. He was 58 years old, Twelve non-commissioned officers have just been commissioned as second lieutenants In the army a3 the result of recent examinations. tAn ante-election warning against political assessments was Issued to employes of the Treasury Department by Acting Secretary Beckman Winthrop.

BOMB MAILED GOVERNOE.

Postoffico Authorities Perhaps Save Life of New Jersey Executive. Prompt action on the part of the postal authorities at Philadelphia prevented Governor Fort of New Jersey from receiving an infernal machine which was mailed to him in that city. The contrivance was mailed the day after the utterance of the Governor with reference to his purpose to se that the law was enforced at Atlantic City. It contained enough explosive to kill the person opening it. The package was stopped in the office at Philadelphia because it lacked sufficient postage. The Governor was advised of the fact that the package was there, and a1? that it was believed to contain exp" sives, and he replied immediately j p.tLorlzing the opening of flie package. It was an ingenious contrivance of ni itches, powder and bullets, and would have inflicted severe injury upon the person opering it had it leen done in i!ie usual manner. The parcel had been addressed by cutting out the lines "Gov. Fort" and Sea Girt, N. J.. from a newspaper and pasting the same on the package. Pasted all over the explosive package were any number of inscriptions, such as "And the gun against this rotten government;" "Get right with God." and "You will know me better after -we are actruaintcd' All but the first of these had teen clipped from newspapers. That was printed with ink on a long strip of cardboard. There, was also a piece of red, white and blue ribmon and a button of a military uniform. Tasted on one of the lubes were the names of some five or six of the national trusts, including the whisky, rubber and tobacco trusts. Labor Controversies. More arrests have been maö in the Alabama mining district, where a strike of the coal miners for better wages has been in progress, fifteen men being charged with dynamiting the hous.'s of nonunion workers. In the Jellico mining region of Tennessee the whites have driven out many of the negro miners, some of the latter being protected by the sheriff and armed deputies. On the ISth a house K-cupied by a negro woman was burned, and she with her five children periled in the flames. President Lewis of the miners 'union has ordered the striking miners in the Hudson mine in Indiana back to work on penalty of forfeiting their charter. The new scale of wages accepted in the Pennsylvania Iron and Steel Mills makes a 10 per cent reduction. At New York about 10,000 coat tailors are on strike because of an alleged reduction in tUeir pay. Baldwin Balloon Stauda Teat. The United Stares Signal Corps began its series of steerable balloon tesrts at Fort Myev, Va., across the Totomac from Washington, the other day, with the ascent of the balloon constructed by Capt. Thomas S. Baldw n. " For seven minutes the big gas-snpported carriage glided over the parade grounds at a height of from 130 ta L'OO feef, moving up and down and turning abruptly with apparently perfect control by Baldwin, who sat at the tiller. Glen H. Curtis of Ilammondsport, N. Y., ran the engine which operated the 0-foot propeller at the front of the ship. It was the first time that Baldwin had used horizontal -planes for elevating and lowering the ship. This flight was only preliminary to the official test, and it had another try out later, when it was speeded up to twenty-five miles an hour. Other trials are to follow. Candidate Taft, in an address to a visiting Virginia delegation, made a special appeal to independent southern Democrats to vote with Republicans ou national issues. W. J. Bryan is having a lot of fan with the trick mule sent him as a mascot by Minnesota admirers. The beast's first trick was to throw a newspaper man who tried to ride it. In his address to the notification committee, Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for President, claimed one-third of the total presidential vote, which he estimated at 10,000,000 James S. Sherman, Republican vi presidential candidate, is succeeded as chairman of the congressional campaign committee by Representative W. S. McKinley of Illinois, who heretofore has held the office of "treasurer The new treasurer will bo Charles G. Dawes, the former comptroller of the currency. John W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, accompanied by an Indianapolis delegation, visited Milwaukee. The occasion for Mr. Kern's visit was a picnic given under the auspices of the Associated Rose clubs of Milwaukee, at which he delivered an address. The picnic was attended by thousands of Democrats from Milwaukee county and by visitors from tL? State at large. The primaries in Missouri resulted in the nomination of Attorney General Hadley, the Standard Oil foe, by the Republicans without opposition, and the probable nomination of William S. Cowherd by Jhe Democrats over Ball and Wallace. A delegation of members of the American Federation of Labor called on Chairman Mack in Chicago, and requested that the national committee select a member of the American Federation of Labor as head of the labor bureau of the Democratic national committee. Chairman Mack told the labor men that their request would be granted. The Iroquois Club of San Fiancisco, a Democratic organization, having demanded the resignation of W. R. Hearst on the ground that ha had decided to oppose the Democratic candidate for President, Hearst replied with a sarcastic letter of resignation. Chairman Mack of the Democratic national committee, after a conference at Washington with President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, said that a plan had been adopted to establish labor bureaus in several labor centers to secure the widest possible dissemluation of Bryan campaign literature among the working classes. James S. Sherman, Republican candidate for Vice President, in his address to the notification committee, declared In favor of an immediate revising of the tariff, but declared that the main issue of the campaign was the continuation of the Roosevelt policies by the election of TafL Congressman James Kennedy, who representsthe old McKinley district, with Secretary of the Interior James R. GarfijlJ, has visited Hot Springs to discuss the political situation with Taft. "Ohio will give Taft a majority of 100,000 votes at least," said Mr. Kennedy. "With the exception of the vote cast for Roosevelt, it will be a record-breaking one."

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INDIANA INCIDENTS

Record of Events of the Past Week FARMER BOY MAKES DEI1AXDS. Indiana Youth Tries to Blackmail L'nele and Other Farmers. After reading stories of how members of the alleged Black Hand organization secured money by threats, Barl Stitt, aged 20, a farmer, living in Warren county, wrote a letter to Edward Nail, hi? uncle, a farmer living nort:i of Columbus, demanding $500 under ienalty of d?ath. The letter also named forty-four other prominent farmers in that part of the State, and instructed Nail to ee that each one of rhem gave hf m $300. Nail was to drive with the money" to a lonely spot on a nearby river on the night of Sept. 5. He was to return home immediately. If any citempt was made to learn the identity of the writer, or if the request for the money, totaling $22.500, was r.ot granted, all of the men with their families were to be killed. Btitt brought the letter to tbe home of his uncle, left it there, and then went to a fishing camp, where the family was located. When they returned thej found the letter. An officer was called, Stitt confessed, and pleaded guilty to a charge of blackmail. PLOT AGAINST FOREIGNER. Qnlek Marriage Is Start of Troubles of YoaDg Russian. Alleging that he was lured into marriage within twenty-four hours after arriving in South Bend from Russia, Sam Hurwitch, 20 years old, told a strange story to the police and declared that bis present situation is tbe result of bis ignorance of local customs. According to IIurwiklTs story, be came to South Bend to work in a factory and bad hardly landed from a Grand Trunk train when he was introduced by his brother to a woman several years his senior and who promptly took actual possession of him. She immediately secured a marriage license and before the passing of another day he was married. Failing to secure work, he was turned out of their humble little home by his big bnde, with instructions not to return until he had a job. When he finally showed up at the house he learned that his wife had sold all the furniture and that a warrant had been issued for his arrest on the charge of wife desertion. YOUNG COLORED BOY A HERO. Stops Runaway Horse and Saves Two Girls at Risk of Life. Babe Ric'iey, a fourteen-year-old colored boy of Petersburg, stands to-day as a young hero in the eyes of the cftlzens of Petersburg. A hore driven by Albert Kellas, who was accompanied by his two young: daughter, became frightened and ran away. K clams was thrown from tue buggy and the lines became wrapped around his body. For half a block he was dragged on his head and side. Just as the frightened horse started to cross a bridge young Richey sprang at the bridle and held the animal until he got assistance. The girls were uninjured, but Kellam's skull was crushed and he is fatally hurt. SLAYER ONCE FOOTBALL STAR. C. S. Jordan Formerly m Papll la Indianapolis Illsh School. Chester S. Jordan, self-confessed murderer of his young wife, an actress, at Somerville, Mass., captured by the police iu Boston, was a former Shortridge high schxd pupil in Indianapolis and a star on the football team of that institution. Jordan was a. student for three yearo at the high school and in the fall of 97 played guard on the eleven. As a young man he was a giant in stature, standing G feet tall and weighing perhaps 100 pounds. HANLY CALLS SESSION. Indlann Leg-tslataro Is Summoned for Special Term on Sept. IN. A call for an extra session of tbe Indiana Legislature to meet in Indianapolis Sept. IS has been issued by Gov. Hanly to consider three subjects. They are county local option law, the repeal of th grant by the last Legislature of $120,348 nnexpended balances appropriated to State institutions by a former legislature from reverting to the general fund Sept. 30, which would hare occurred oa account of an error in the present law, and to give the Governor power to deal with troubles in southern Indiana that may be caused by night riders. FATALLY STABBED IN FIGHT. Whisky Rcsponstbl for CuMlnaA ft ray Near Oweasvllle.. Milton Iarkins, 21 years old, was fatally stabbed by William F.vans, aged 50, in a fight at Jimtown. Whisky was the cause of the trouble. A brother of Larkins was stabbed in the leg. Fvaus, known as the mogul of Jimtown, was heavily fined in Owensville several months ago on the charge of rioting. BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS. Thomas Hisgen, Jr., cousin of the Independence League candidate for President, was bot by his father-in-law near Petersburg, while hunting squirrels. The father-in-law mistook Hisgen's tan shoes in the brush for a squirrel. Hisgen Is badly wounded. In a fruitless endeavor to save i'roin the burning home $130 in silver sLe had hoarded, Mrs. Thomas Iowe, aged 83 j-cars, was fatally burned in Kokonv). rThe was carried out of the flames three times, but rubbed back to her death hoping to save the money. Some farmers in the vicinity of Winslow attracted attention the other day by thrashing wheat with an old-fashion flail.. The wheat, when harvested, was stacked, and the owners tan now thrash it at their leisure. This is the first time this method of thrashing Cias been used in southern Indiana for many years. Lacking but five days of realiting her ambition to live 100 yean. Mrs. Susan Inks died in Wabash. She left three children, each of whom is more than three score and ten years old. Jesse Woodruff, C3 years old, crushed his wife's skull with a flat iron, causing her death. He then fired one bullet Into his own body and another into his head. His death is a question of a short time. A shot fired from ambush injured Geo. Stewart, a rtonecutter, at Bloomington. Stewart was going home when a 32 bullet entered his right leg above the' ankle. He limped home and refused to tell who shot him, though he asserts he knows. Mistaken for a burglar, Lou Lofland, a young farmer living four miles north of Crawfordsville, was accidentally shot at 1 o'clock the other morning by his brother Alfred. The latter was just coming home, and as he started to enter the door met his brother coming out. He called to him, but receiving no reply, thought him a thief, and fired a revolver. The bullet passed through the breast of the young man within an inch of his heart. It is believed the wounded man will recover should no complications arise. While hunting in a wheat field near Evansville James Clements fell dead aa Sie shot at a rabbit.