Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 October 1908 — Page 2

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-TS F. Q.P. M. (T U Q.4.N. M. S) 3rd. ktii. Vi 3Gtl3.2öth. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. JkU Side and Conditions of Thins are Shown Nothing Overlooked to take it Complete. Says Hanly Offered Bribe. Luther W. Knisely, member from Da Xalb County, of the lower house of the Indiana Legislature, now in special session, signed an affidavit in support of a charge made by him on the floor of the House when he voted against the county option bill, that Gov. FranK Hanly had offered him a position, paying $2,000 per year, if he would vote for the bill. The affidavit explains the alleged transaction in detail, naming Senator Wickwire, a Republican, in connection with the charge and setting forth the alleged conversation with the GÖTernor. Senator Wickwire has denied the charge. Russian Train Robbers. A successful train robbery has been executed by a band of thirty men near Yllnau, Russia. No definite statement as to the exact amount of the booty is given but i'. is estimated to vary between $SO,000 and $100,000. In addition to this money there was on board the train valuables, registered correspondence and the day's receipts from all the Railroad stations between the frontier and Vilnau. The juard on board the train consisted of six men only. The robbers took possession of a small station before the arrival of Che train and shot down the train guards as the engine slowed up. They kept up a constant fusillade throughout the robbery to intimidate the passengers, a number of whom w ere wounded by broken glass. Burning Car Contained Powder. Since the fire which destroyed VierIlngs livery barn and adjacent property in Oakland City, Ind., several days ago, it has been learned that one of the freight cars which was standing on the track near the burning buildings and which was pushed, while blazing, down the track by a number of men, contained seventy-five kegs of blasting powder. While this car was burning BOO people were standing within a hundred feet of it. Boy Shocked to Death. A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: Joseph Knight, 11 years of age, was killed on his way to school and three other boys were severely shocked by a live wir. One of the boys may die. His name is Francis Vermillion. The boys cut across a lot to get to school and started to jump a wet iron fence. The wire had charged the fence. Robert Knight, a brother of the boy killed, ii one of the injured. Joseph Vheclock Dead. Joseph Wheelock, the veteran actor, died of heart disease at Highlands of Kavesink, N. J., as he was about to take a train for New York. Mi. Wheelock was about 63 years of a,;e. He was one of the founders of the Actors' Home of America, and serve 1 as its first president. His son, Joseph, Jr., is at present In the West. He fc:3 been notified of his father's sudden death. Drunken Mob's Work. At Authras Baptist church, near JelUco, Tenn., a mob of drunken men fired Into the congregation, just as It was dismissed. John Bennett, J. W. McKiney and Edward Thomas were killed. The Rev. J. Kling, the pastor, was fatally wounded, and a man named Gibson was injured. The church is near a blind tiger, where the men had been drinking. The Deadly Cholera Plague. Since the beginning of the epidemic there have been !.,6S3 cases of Asiatic cholera reported in Russia and 7,102 deaths. In St. Petersburg alone since tie presence of the disease was offlc'ally admitted, September 8, there bave been 4,931 cases and 1,875 deaths reported. Used Shotgun in School Class Fight. In a class fight between classes of the Delphi, Ind., High School, Harry Coble, president of the Junior class, was seriously wounded with a shotgun. $50,0C0 Fire at Vlncennes, Ind. Fire completely gutted the S. & I. Lyons department store in Vlncennes, Ind., causing a loss of $30,000. The loss on the building will amount to over $10,0w0. Several other tenants of the block suffered small losses. Twenty People Badly Injured. Twenty persons were Injured, two of them probably fatally, in a collision between two trolley cars in the Flatbush lection of Brooklyn. N. Y. Wills Governor Tort $250,000. Gov. Fort of New Jersey has been left $250,000 by the will of Mrs. Ab!y Reawoner, who was a close friend of the Fort family. She resided at East Orange, X. J. Her late husband was an ofDeir.l of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Indict Cashier as Embezzler. W. A. Lewis, former cashier of the Smithfield bank, at Smithfield, W. Va.. which was ricked recently by tbe State banking examiner, was indicted by t!;e grand jury on charges of emlezz!ement. The alleged shortage is about $55,000. Thinks Mrs. Cunnes3 Lives. C. L. Fish, a Chicago detective, wTio has been working in the Günnes case in the interest of the attorneys for Ray Lamphere, who is under six indictments for complicity in the woman's crimes at Laporte, Ind., declares that he is in iossession of uncontrovertible evidence that the woman is alive. Kidnap Boy in Automobile. A woman, heavily veiled, and a man in an automobile, kidnaped Theodore Thomas, Jr., son of a well-known Leavenworth naui, from the grade school in Leavenwcrtb, Kan.

?ouohkcepsie Police Make Arre3t, Charging Arson and Burglary. While sitting on the lawn of his beautiful country place at Rhinebeck. N. Y., with his wife, hi mother and his baby, Herbert It. Clark, son of A. L. Clark, wealthy grain operator of New York, was arrested, charged with burglary and arson. As Sheriff ("'hauler, District Attorney Mack. Fuder Sheriff Townsend and Chief of Felice Mi-Cabe advanced toward Clark and Sheriff Chanler told him he was under arrest, the nccused man fell in a .woon. II was revived and taken to Fotigbkeepsie in an automobile. The ck.irgc on which Clark was arrested is concerned with the fire of mysterious origin which last February destroyed the mansion of Robert Huntington at Rhinebeck. The mansion and $70.000 worth of furnishings was destroyed. The burning of a tool house on Clark's $3O.00 estate recently led to an investigation, in which Clark's name became connected with those of Roy Traver, 10 years old; Sterling Traver, 1", and A. Ii. Ellsworth. 21. all of whom have been arrested, charged with burglary. Mr. Mack said that he had obtained evidence which, unless disproved shows that Clark led a life in which there were contrasts as vivid as those which existed in the dual existences of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

TWO MEN ROASTED TO DEATH. Collapsing Kiln Buries Unfortunates and Burns Them to Crisp. Slowly roasting to death under tons of red hot brkks in plain view of their comrades, who were unable ro assist fhem, II W. Drake, Sr.. and Clarence Bailey met a tragic death at Ken mare, X. D. The big kiln of the Kenmare Brick and Co.il Company bursted early Wednesday morning when but ten hours from completion. Drake, the manager of the plant, was buried up to his arras in the red hot pile and it was more than thirty minutes before he could be reached by the rescuers. Bailey was completely entombed and was not found for an hour. His body was roasted to a crisp. A son of Drake was seriously burned in an attempt to pave his father. FLUE LOSS MAY BE $10,O00,C0O. Government Expert Says Minnesota Alone Will Suffer Huje Damage. A telegram received in Washington from, Kaymond W. Pullman of the forest service, who is in Minnesota investigating forest fire conditions for the government, estimates the loss in that State at from $5,000,000 to. $10.000,000, with fires still burning. He reports a hivy rainfall lasting five hours, bnt sas thirty-six hours of rain are necessary to put out all fires. "These Minnesota forest fires are due to a combination of bad conditions, local indifference and the lack of thoroughly effective protection," said Smith Riley, chief inspector of the national forest district, which includes the Minnesota national forest, who is now in Washington after a trip through the fire region. PIPE LINE IS AGAIN VICTOR. Prairie Oil Company Gets New Extension in Oklahoma. The l'rairie Oil and Gas Company has been granted the right by the commissioners of Tulsa county, Okla., to lay pilH across Tulsa county. Permits to cross Nowata, Washington and other counties had already been granted by their commissioners, and the building of the pipe line will be under way soon. This is tbe extension which Gov. Haskell prevented Attorney General West, from enjoining and which caused the hitter's controversy with President Roosevelt. That it will be built at once seems assured. Commerce Commission Wins. The application of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for a preliminary injunction to restrain the interstate commerce commission from -enforcing an order relative to, coal car distribution was denied by the United States Circuit Court in Baltimore. The order to. which the railroad company objected was one requiring it to include so-called "private" and "foreign railway fuel" cars in makiug.up its percentage of allotments of cars. Fire Damage in Michigan. Prof. Filbert Roth, State forester, who Las just returned to Ann Arbor from the fire districts of northern Michigan, said that 1,000,000 acres of timber had been burned. He estimated the loss on standing timber alone at $10,000,000 and said additional losses on merchantable timber, country residences and crops would run the losses above $ 10,000,000. Isles Swept by Typhoon. A typhoon of terrific velocity swept through the central part of the Philippine group, including part of the Island of Samar, northern Iejte, southeastern Luzon, northern Panay, Masbate and part of Uomblon. Wires are prostrated. It is evie'ent, however, that serious disaster followed in the wake of the sudden storm. King Consents to Abnizzi Marriage. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, as head of the house of Savoy, has finally given his royal consent aud sanction to the marriage of his cousin Louis, the Duke of the Abruzzi. and Miss Katherine Klkins, daughter of United States Senator Elkins of West Virginia. Bidder Succeeds Haskell. Herman Bidder, editor of the New York Staats Zeitung and vice chairman of the publicity bureau of the Democratic national committee, has been appointed by National Chairman Mack as treasurer of 'the national committee to succeed Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma. Collision on Northern Pacific. A special from Livingston, Mont., says that Northern Pacific passenger train No. 10, east bound, crashed into a freight train at Youngs Point and that twenty five persons, including the engineer, fire man and brakeman, were killed. Women Injured in Troy Fire. Five women were injured? one probably fatally, in a fire which practically destroyed the plant of the United Waste Manufacturing Company in Troy, N. Y, Damage $73,000. Gould Dies a Pauper. Melvin A. Gould, cousin of George J Gould, and once a favorite of Jay Gould, died the other day a pauper in the county hospital at Los Angeles, CaV, and friends saved his body from the jitter's field. Ends Life in Allegheny River. Jack Wilbraham, 25 years old, committed suicide by jumping from the Seventh street bridge into- the Allegheny river at Pittsburg. Slayer Ends Life in Cell. Milto D. Greviston. who ten days ago shot and killed John Coons, Jr., a college student, and wounded his companion, handed himself in hU cell in the jail in . - WW .1 .Manhattan, rvan. lie was to nave tecu arraigned at once, but being unable to secure funds to hire a lawyer became de spondent. Theodore, Jr., Goes to Work. It is admitted at the White House that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has gone to work, but no further information is forth coming concerning the employment in which the President's son is to engage.

DAUGHTER OF ANSON ELOPES.

Runs Away to lloboken and Marries a Bank Clerk. Dorothy Anson, the 10-ycar-old daughter of Adrian ('. Ar.on of Chicago, th fonner baseball captain nnd later city clerk of Chicago, ran away from the home of her sister, Mrs. Walter II. Clough, at Monldair, N. J., and wa married at lloboken to Arthur C. Dodge, clerk in a Montclair bank. The young woman went with Dodge to the office of Justice of the Peace Samuel Bugler early in the evening. Both appeared calm, and when Bugler made out the marriage license Miss Anson asked him if county clerks had authority to perforin marriages in New Jersey. Bugler told her they had. Miss Anson said that she was 19 years old. the daughter of Adrian C. Anson, and that her home was at 103 Thirtieth street, Chicago. Dodge said he lived in Montdair. and was a bonk clerk. Neither Justice Bugler nor either of the persons he called in to witness the ceremony asked the bride or Rroom why th. y had come to lloboken to be married aud no one bothered to ask the young woman if she was the daughter of 'Top" Anson. BABY IS LEGALLY SOLD. Transfer for Consideration of $1 Is Made Under Old New York Law. For the first time in the memory of the oldest searcher of the court records of New York county a deed that transferred the ownership of a baby from its own parents to another couple was recorded by Registrar Frank Gass in the hall of record the other day. a boy 21 months old bein? the subject of the transfer. lie does not become the adopted child of his new guardians, but. instead, he is their absolute proerty during his minority, and should either of those who have purchased lim for a consideration of $1 die he would not receive a cent of their money under the law, according to Assistant Corporation Counsel Francis O. Neal. who represented the corporation counsel in the odd transaction. The indenture is dated Sept. 10 and is lotween Kugene Lebeuf and Marie Cecile Lebeuf, his wife, and Sylvia Bicard and Grizella Uicard. The child's name is Harry Sylvia Kugene Lebeuf. Mr. and Mrs. Bicard are the grandparents of the baby and the transfer, it is said, was made for rood leasons. LOSS IN TYPHOON HEAVY. Towns Destroyed or Damaged in the Philippines, but Deaths Few. More extensive reports regarding the southern typhoon that swept through the central seel ion of the Philippine group recently have been received, indicating that, while there was great damage to property, the loss of life will be slight. The gale dstroyed the town oi" Knbagan, on the Island of Samar, leaving many homeless. The town of Bomblon, on the island of the same name, was btdly damaged. Tacloban, in eastern Ieyte, with a population of over .1,000, suffered serious injury. A number of vessels are reported driven ashore at various points. Some were refloated and the crews of the others rescued without loss of life. Lieut. Bowell of the Philippine constabulary was drowned in the heavy surf off Vigan, northern Luzon. A large part of the town of Pasig, near Manila, has been destroyed by fire. FOND DU LAC HAS BIG FIRE. Flames Cause Loss of $250,000 Before Gotten Under Control. Tire which for a time threatened the entire city of Fond du I-tc, Wis., was extinguished the other morning after damage estimated at $250,0: 0 had resulted. The principal losses are: St. Joseph's Boir.'.in Catholic church and jarsouage, $100,OiM; Congregational church, $75,X0; Crescent garage and seven automo biles, $35,000; St. Peter's Lutheran church steeple, $7,000; Grant public school, 4! lO.OOO; former Mayor Mayham's residence, $10,000. The fire .is said to have started from an explosion of gasoline in the Crescent garage. With the aid of a high wind, the Haines soon communicated to the church property in that vicinity. Firebrands from the burning churches were blown over an area of ten blocks square, spreading to roofs of many residences. GIRL DEVOURED BY WOLVES. Attacked While on an Errand with Little Brother, Who Escapes. The young daughter of Peter Kobe, f. homesteader, living in the wild section along the Little Fork river, in northern Minnesota, was attacked by a pack of wolves while on an errand to a neighbor with her young brother and was killed and partly devoured. The boy escaped and gave the alarm. The children's mother hastened to the scene, I tit only found the horribly mutilated remains of her chilJ. Assessments Will Be Returned. The Oklahoma State banking board has voted to return assessments to the national banks that sought to take advantage of the bank dejnisit guaranty law, but were prevented from doing so by the ruling of the Attorney General. The resolution adopted by the board stated Mint the exiense of administering the guaranty fund lias bi-n exceeded by the income from it. Fire in National Forest. Forest fires Iiave broken out in the Minnesota national forest, says a telegram received by the forest kit vice in Washington from Supervisor Marshall, but the government officers appear to have the situation in hand. The fires are reported as having started mostly from the railroad. Disaster on French Cruiser. During gunnery drill at Toulon one of the big turret giins on the French armored cruiser Latouche Treville exploded with terrific violence, completely wrecking the after turret and killing outright the entire gun crew of thirteen men. A number of men were seriously injured, one of them probably fatally. Odd Fellows on Parade. Four thousand members of thelndependent Order of Odd Fellows and its women's auxiliary, the Rebckahs, who had assembled in Denver from all parts of the continent on the occasion of the eightyfourth annual session of the sovereign grand lodge, paraded the principal streets of the city Wednesday. Plot to Kill King Alfonso. The police have arrested several anarchists, who, with others, were engaged in elaborating a plot to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain when he passed through Biarritz, France, on his way to Paris. Haskell Tenders Resignation. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma has tendered his resignation ns treasurer of the Democratic national committee. Fifty Hurt In Car Crash. Fog was responsible for a head-on collision between two cars on the Southwestern Traction Company's line between Philadelphia and Chester, in which about fifty persons were injured, "several probably fatally. Threo Counterfeiters Taken. Fred Miller, John Miller and Minnie Hathaway, alias Mille:, have been arrested at Bella ire, Ohio, by United States Marshal Williamson on charges of grand larceny nnd counterfeiting. They are wanted at Hillsdale, Mich. When arrested the trio had molds for making nickejj

Lord Twcednumth. first lord of the British admiralty, is "in a lastly fix-" The Kaiser wrote him a letter and criticised the British naval program. It was only a ierfconal letter and Lord Twcednumth replied. To his horror, the next thing was the publication In the Times, England's greatest newspaper, of a sensational article nnd a bitter edito LOUD TWEEUMOUTII. rial demanding that he make the Kaiser's letter public. The other English newspapers followed suit, and everybody bojiaii to want to know what business It was of the' Kaiser's what England did about her navy, and why he da ml to write Lord Tweedmouth alMuit it. nnd how it could have happened that Lord Tweedmouth forgot himself so far as to reply to such a letter, and w hy Lord Tweedmoutlr couldn't let everylHHly know what was in the letter. -: :- One of the cleverest cracksmen that ever operated In London has leen arrested in the person of John Frederick Spencer, wellknown citizen and Sunday - school teacher. Only ' recently be was given prize of $500 as "most respected citizen." Had hot Spencer Ioen arrested while in the act of burglarizing few would have believed the charges against him. He has made a com plete confession. "I John f. btexceb. was caught red-handed," he said, "so there is no use denying anything. I am the so-called Mr. Raffles', to capture whom the municipality employed an extra force of detectives at a cost of $4,000" Victor Bosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee and member of the executive committee of the Itepublican na tional committee, is i native of Omaha, where he was ltoni in IS71, the year the Bee was established by his father, the late Edward Bosewater. Mr. Bosewar Y jthe public schools in Omaha, Johns Hoiklns university, at ., yfwk victob i:sEWATLK.iinitimore, and Columbia university. New York, taking the degree of doctor of philosophy at Columbia. Since 180.J he has been active iu newspaper work, being the ;jianaglng editor of the Bet from that year until the death of his father in August, 11K, when be siuxecded to editorship of the paper. Bert M. I-Yrnald, who lias Ihhmi elected Governor of Maine, is a wealthy farmer nnd proprietor of a large cannery. He has a farm of .TOO acres at South Poland that is one of the linest In the East, and lives on it because lie prefers It to a city home. !iS.:v.- ' Born on a farm, he lias lived on one all his life. Mr. Ferna Id is ."() years old. lie has wrvwl In the Leg- IH-RT M. kekxalo. Islature and two years ago sought the Bepublieau nomination for Governor, but was defeated. -: :- Lady Dorothy Howard, to whom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the young English statesman, Is said Tf5 to be engaged, is be the keenest ioIitichin in a large family that Is enthusiastically devoted to iM)lit!cs iii1 linti " in n l n 8ttÜ&'ELJ m leeches at street i-ADY Howard. corner meetings in favor of. the liberal Ihensmg bill. Her father, the earl, Is a unionist and the ninth of the title, which is one of the oldest In Great Britain. Henry M. Nevhts, who has been made commander-in-chief of the G. A. B., is a native of New Jersey. He was a law student with the late It. A. Alger, when the civil war brok out. He enlisted from Ids state, was promoted to a commission with the Seventh Michigan cavalry. He lost an arm in front of Frit Ste S0 vens. He has been department cominandcr for New ,,E3JBY M' XEVIM' Jersey twice. He has also been a Judj;e and president of the state senate. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. A log train of a lumber company was wrecked near Samson, Ala., nnd thrcv? persons wjre killed and twenty injured. Magistrate A. C. Marsh at Washington. Pa., discharged four bojs accused of turning in false lire alarms on the condition tint their parents give them sound thrashings. In an interview Mrs. William Astor, who recently, owing to her years, abdicate ! her position as social leader of New York, scores the so-called "society" women, whom s!n brands as notoriety seekers .I.o giv: cateriaium.'nts that belong in a cir. 'is t ni. A bear weighing -l.TO pounds, which was fleeing from the forest fires, was killed in the .streets of South St. Paul, Minn., the other day. Lack of water to flush the sewers is given as the cause of an epidemic of diphtheria at Greensburg, Pa., which has resulted so far in the closing of part of a school. k The United Btates army signal corps has established six wireless telegraph stations in Alaska at a cost of more than $100,000 and it is expected direct connection between Washington, D. C, and Alaska can now be maintained the year around.

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E5I1E 3.12ÖUVES1NAYEAF1 Geological Survey Statistics Show 53M Persons Were Injured in 1907. WORST IN WEST VIRGINIA. Death Rate Among Miners in That State Is 12.35 Per ThousandBlasts Not Greatest Danger. Accidents in coal mines of the United States during the last calendar year resulted in the death of 3,123 men and Injury to 5,11 more, according to statistics made public by the geological survey. The death record among the coal miners during the year was,greaterby l,(tf3 than in 11KK1, and is said to have been tiie worst year in the history of the coal Industry. The figures do not represent the full extent of the disasters, as rciiorts were not received from States having no mine iusiieetors. West Virginia reported for 1107 the heaviest death rate, 12.33 ier thousand employes, and that State also showed the lowest production for each life lost (ri,0G9 tons. New Mexico stood next on the list with a death rate of J 1.43 a nil a production of 77.322 tons for each life lost. Alabama was third, with a death rate of 7.2 per thousand and a production of !i2,ro," tons for each life lost. Missouri had the lowest death rate, beading the roll of honor with .03 and 100,712 tons of coal mined for each life lost Statistics do not bear out the popular idea that most mine disasters result from explosions. Of the total number reported during the last year 1)47 dentils and iM.'J Injuries resulted from pas and dust explosions and 201 deaths and 41G injuries were caused by powder explosions. Tbo chief cause of death among the miners, the rernn-t claims, was the falling of mine roofs and coal. Such disasters caused 1,122 deaths and 2,141 injuries. II W. Parker, chief statistician of the survey, asserts that much benefit will result from the action of Congress in appropriating $130,000 to investigate mine disasters and take steps to decrease the number of accidents each year. He says one of the greatest needs of the mal minin.' industry is the enforcement of military discipline in the operation of the mines. Care of I he l"neniiloel. lleports continue to come in from the various charity organizations in American cities' telling of a gloomy outlook for the coming winter on account of the vast number of unemployed men and women. As bearing directly on this situation the II urea 11 of Labor at Washington has just issued a report on the policy of European countries toward the unemployed, derma ny has made great st tides by introducing public employment bureaus and by taking care of tramps. In Relgium, Netherlands and Denmark the incorrigible idle have been forced largely into work homes, where they are, however, well treated. All the countries of Europe have aioiuted special commissions to deal with this problem. Colonies for the unemployed are favorite remedies and public relief works are being started in some places. w - r Castro's refusal to permit the Itrazilian charge d'affaires to assume charge of French interests in Venezuela is the latent fuel thrown on the smoldering fire of Venezuela's international complications. Speculation is rife in Caracas as to whether or not I'razil will look upon this action as an insult directed at her and what France will do towards getting representation here for her interests after this rebuke. 'Hie international cotton congress, meeting in Paris, adopted resolutions inviting all confederated associations in the various countries interested in cotton to join in a harmonious curtailment during periods of distress arising from over or under production; another invites the European governments to study and advance the extension of colonial production of cotton; a third instructs the cotton contract commission to placo before the exchanges of Europe a recommendation for the substitution of the net weight ba."is of purchase for the present basis, which allows a shrinkage of .0 pouuds in a bale of 300 jounds; and a fourth looking to the introduction into Europe of the mutual mill insurance system in vogue in America. The funeral of the I.aron Speck von Sternberg, German ambassador to the United States, was held at Lutzchena, the family estate near Leipsic. At Nuremberg the (Herman Social Democratic Congress has hold its annual congress and the report showed a gain of 10 per cent in the organization. A delegate from the Eritish Social Democratic Federation spoke at length against allowing the governments of the two nations to decide on war or peace over the hads of the people. He argued that the socialists of both countries should work together for ieace. At the meeting of the Orientalist conpress in Copenhagen, Prof. Paul Ilaupt, of Johns Hopkins university of llaltimore, had an excitiug discussion with several of the Jewish rabbis, who were present. Prof. Ilaupt maintaining that Christ was not a Jew, but an Aryan. P.y the 'middle of the week over rK) cases of cholera had been reported at St. Petersburg and more than sixty deaths and several members of the upper class had been attacked by the disease. A council of doctors was held and all aloons were ordered closed after 3 o'clo. k, ns thor.se of alcohol is said to bo favorable to the advance of the scourge. The joint note signed by France and Spain to the signatories of the Algeciras Conference, favoring the recognition of Mulai I In fid as the Sultan of Morocco, was not answered promptly by Germany", and other powers were disposed to await the Kaiser's word. I.ut assurances that it would he treated in a friendly spirit were given to the French ambassador at Itcrlin. With the full sanction of the state department of the American government, and with promise of effective assistance from Holland, a well organized revolution is being planned to overthi-ew President Castro, of Venezuela-

INDIANA LAWMAKERS. The Senate on Wednesday passed the county local option bill by a vote of 32 to 17. One Senator, Koehne of Indianapolis, was absent. All the Democrats voted against the bill and they were joined by three Republicans Durre of Evausville, Gonnermann of Mount Vernon and Hugg of Indianapolis. There were cheers and songs when the vote finally was announced at 3 o'clock. "America" and other strains were sung by the people in the galleries and on the floor. Joyous as was the demonstration, it wa3 realized that the real battle was still to be fought in the House, where alone there has been doubt as to the bill's prospects. The bill was sent over from the Senate at 5:20 and referred to the committee on morals. The county local option bill passed one of its critical stages Thnrsday when it was advanced to second reading by a vote of ol to 40 in the House. Notwithstanding the progress made, the Republican managers are by no means confident that the bill will pass. Some of the men who support it are not enthusiastic, and the managers believe they consented to the advancement merely that there might be further argument on it and that it is their intention to vote against the bill when it comes up for passage. The bill provides that the county commissioner shall order an election to decide whether a county shall be "wet' or "dry" when 20 per cent of the voters shall petition for such election. Contrary, to general expectation and to the disappointment of some of the friends of the county local option bill, it was passed to a third reading in the House Friday without amendment. For some unknown reason carefully laid plana of the Republican managers came to naught, and tlicy are more in doubt about the passage of the bill than when it was thought that the bill would be amended to get Democratic votes by adding what is known as the dual feature, that is, providing for ward and township local option along with county local option. Only one amendment was offered and that was promptly defeated, but somehow the dual amendment got lost and w s not offered at all, and the bill went to .nird reading. County local option in Indiana is now a fixed fact. The stage setting Saturday was the most spectacular that was ever seen in the Indiana House of liepresentatives and the scenes were truly dramatic. Massed about the Speaker's desk, extending around fie four walls of the room sind filling the lobby and galleries, were eight hundred or a thousand temperance workers, keenly alive to every movement of the Representatives. The calling of the roll on the passage of the bill began in a silence that was almost painful. Printed lists of the legislators were in many hands and as the names were called by the clerk the most intense interest was manifested. A-Representative stood up to explain his vote. He was regarded as opposed to the bill, but as he proceeded, the countenances iu the lobby began to brighten. Was he going to vote for the bill? As he talked the tension grew. Then the words "I vote yes" fell on the ears of the listeners and a great sltout went up from hundreds. When a member who was counted for the bill voted against it there would be sighs and smothered groans from the crowd, but these soon gave way to shouts of applause when unexpected support came. Representative Johnson of Vigo county attracted much attention when he rose to ppcak. He had been counted upon as opposed to the bill, an ", as he rose his daughter was seen to seat herself by his side. His voice trembled as he said life had been a burden to him; he could not read, he could not sleep, he could not eat. He did not approve of the bill, nor could he have been elected if he had stood. upon such a platform. Then this voice fell to a whisper nnd he burst into tears, voting "Yes" as he sat down. Cheers resounded throughout the hall. Johnson's daughter smiled and every one knew to what influence lie had succuniaed. One by one the Representatives spoke and as the roll call proceeded the workers bejran to take heart. One more vote for the bill would insure its passage. Every ear was intent, every eye fixed on the members. Then that vote came from an unexpected source and the lobby went wild. The victory was won. And then the vote proceeded rapidly, finally standing 33 to 43 in favor of the bill,. six Democrats having voted for it and four Republicans against it. Within an hour Gov. Hanly had signed the bill, and county local opiion became a law in Indiana. At L.nt. Mrs. Silas P.ennett was a philosopher. On a certain dlsnnl occasion some of the neighboring women were condoling with her. With commendable, cheerfulness, says a writer In the New York Times, she replied: "I've raised four girls an' three boys, expect In every time they'd be twins and red headed like their Grandpa I'eunett, an yet they ain't. "An I've worried consid'ble over smallpox breakln. out in my big family. So for, 'taln't. "Lassuninier, durin' July an' August, an' mebbe part of September, I was real meloncholic, fearin' I'd got an appendix ; but I guess I ain't. "An' through It all, it never onct occurred to me that I'd be the one to fall through them rotten old meet In' house Fteps an break my leg In two places, put I be." Elevator Tnffy. The elevator boy was "swee.t" on the pretty stenographer. "You seem In a good humor this evening, Rilly Y' she commented as she entered the car at the tenth floor. "You bet," chuckled Eilly, straightening up his tie, "I feel like I am on a hunting trip." "Indeed! In what way?' 'Why, I am bringing down a 'dear. " And she blushed and said he was the nicest boy In town. Tho Secret Oat. "What," asked the young man, "is the secret of your success?" "I keep the people guessing," answered the groat statesman. Tho Itrnxnu Why, "Things look rather run down around here," remarked the man who had Just returned after many years to his native village. "Run down? I should say so," replied the friend of ids youth. "There's a motor ear comes through here about every Ihne minutes." Tlio Heal SulVerer.i. poplcigh Our baby is cutting teeth. Singleton So? Is the little fellow having much trouble? lVpleteh Oh, no; his mother and myself are having all the trouble. cluriiH Invention. Mr. Stubb This paper states that a genius should never marry. It says that a married man cannot Invent things like a single man. Mrs. Stnbb (sarcastically) Nonsense, John! I notice a married man never has any trouble Inventing excuses about getting home late.

GREAT TURMOIL II! THE POLITICAL ARENA

Three-Cornered Controversy Which Mas Aroused Intense Interest Throughout the Nation. FOEAKER AND HASKELL OUT. Summary oi the Charges and Coun ter Charges Which Have Been Made by Eminent Men. Chicago correspondence : The controversy between the PresI dent, Mr. Bryan and Gov. Haskell lies attained such absorbing violence, ?nd has ojiened up so many questions having no real relevance to the national issue, that the average man ierhaps feels somewhat bewildered . as he wades through the reams of language which the newspapers print because of tbe eminence of the persons who use It. The following summary has been made for the convenience of readers who may wish to know what the present uproar, from Washington even unto Oklahoma and back, Is all about : 1. W. R. Hearst of t!ie Independence party charged that Senator Foraker had been corruptly influenced in politics and legislation by money paid hitu by the Standard Oil Company, citing as proof certain letters which are said to have been obtained from that company's office files. . 2. Senator Foraker explained that 000 alleged tö have been paid him with corrupt motives haI not, in fact, been paid to him at all, but was a loan through liim to a man who wanted to buy a leading Ohio newspaper, and that these negotiations having failed, the money was returned to the lenders. With respect to other sums referred to in the Stand ird Oil letters Senator Foraker was less specific, giving the general impression tl.at they were fees for services as legal counsel services which began before he was lected to the Senate and which, he said, ceased before the Standard Oil Company was attacked by the White House and the Department of Justice. With that explanation, which many regard as somewhat inadequate. Senator Foraker withdrew from participation in the national campaign. 3. Thereupon the President entered the Vntroversy and endeavored to show that if some Republicans were wicked some Democrats were wickeder. He identiiied the "one Haskell," whom it had been alleged had made attempts to bribe Frank S. Monnett, one time Attorney General of Ohio, with Gov. C. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, treasurer of the Democratic national committee. 4. Thereupon Mr. IJfyan challenged the President to produce proofs that. Mr. Haskell had anythiag whatever to do with tihe attempts to corrupt Monnett or that Mr. Haskell's Ohio record was in any way impeachable. T. Then the President came back, discussing at length the alleged malfeasance of Mr. Haskell in connection with an Oklahoma ramification of the Standard Oil Company, in the matter of an "Oklahoma child labor bill, and with respect to the management of the Oklahoma State university. 6. Simultaneously Gov. Haskell issued a manifesto asking Sow the domestic affairs of Oklahoma became a national concern, and showing, as he says, that the favor he was said to have extended to the oil company was simply a recognition of vested rights conferred upon it by the Secretary of the Interior before Oklahoma was a State. 7. Next came Gov. Haskell's resignation as treasurer of the Democratic national committee. In his letter of resignation Gov. Haskell denied the charges made against him, but said lie resigned in order that nothing should be permitted to cloud the real issues hi the campaign and because he desired Mr. Bryan's election.- He declared he would subject both President Itoosevelt and Mr. Hearst to the "iH'nalties of the law." The Hamline university football team has established a training camp at Waconia. Twenty men are in training there this week. "I have rowed my last race and next year I will not defend the title I won back- from Harry Bennett." This is the statement made by national champion amateur sculler, Frank Greer. Melisande, a 2-year-old chestnut filly owned by James It. Keeue, smashed all previous records for the five and a half furlong course at the Empire City track by running that distance in 1:00 2-o. At Amsterdam, Holland, a race between Dutch and American dories was won by the American entry. The winning dory, the Tautog, was sailed by George Gardiner, and covered the five miles Li 52 minutes and 10 seconds. At Melbourne "Tommy" Burns, the American heavyweight pugilist, defeated "Bill" Lang of Australia in the sixth round. Iang was outgeneraled by Bums in the infighting and after the first two rounds the American ihad it all his own way. - ' John Ioell," captain of the Fscanaba baseball team, one of the leading contenders for thevlTpper Michigan championship this season, has been -tendered and has accepted the position of athletic director at the Northwestern Military Academy at Highland Park, Chicago, tihe coming year. At Sheepshead Bay, James B. Kecne's entries ran öne, two, in the great Filly strikes, six furlongs, when the Futurity winner Maskette won, with Wedding Hells second and Lady Bedford third. Maskette displayed a wonderful turn of speed. She carried top weight, 127 IKiunds, and, after being outrun to the bend, took the lead and won. Half Sovereign, owned by A. iTelmont, won the Ocean handicap at Sheepshead Bay. The filly stepiied the niile in the fast time of l::iS3-5. Big Chief, closing strong under a drive, was second, ha'I a lougth behind the filly. Kesligoucb-; was third. A well-earned victory by M. H. Iteardou's Indianapolis horse, Allen Winter, at the Beadville track, thereby capturing the largest share of the $O,000 American trotting handicap from the field of 33 starters, is believed will establish a new era in the history of the sport. The race was novel in its conditions whidi placed the horses at marks from one-quarter to three-eighths of a mile behind the usual Btarting point, on a handicap based on their -previous performances. Fete O'Brien, the Minneapolis Infielder, was traded for Eddie Wheler of St. Taul, the idea being an out-and-out exchange with no cash consideration.

CHICAGO. Some irregularity is seen in the course of events, but the general trend of business is encouraging. Temporary reibacksare caused bj forest fires, delayed fall plowing and postponed demand in leading retail lines, all due to the abnormal drought. The volume of payments through the banks furnishes the best record in twelve weeks, and is considerably above that of the corresponding week of lOOvJ, when trade was remarkably active, while the comparison with a year ago shows only a mall loss. A health- indication is the firmer tone in money, whidi has caused en advance in the discount rate. Despite increasing shipments of currency to move the crops end reserving of funds to moot heavy October settlements, bank deposits remain at the best average of the season and resources are atopic for anticipated borrowing needs. Investment has widened in choice bonds,' although, the new issues are restricted, and sales of local securities almost equal those at this time last year. There is also considerable money going into real estate, mostly bought for improvement purposes. The total new building work and Sieavy construction compares favorably with this time last year, and labor finds more employment at good wages. Absorption of building materials steadily expands, and this strengthens the conditions in lumber, structural steel, wood work and quarrying, shipments having increased and prices being firmly upheld. Manufacturing discloses no significant change in production. More machinery and hands, however, are active aad new orders come forward as well as expected in iron, brass and electric lines. Bank clearings $237,013,073, are 3.7 per cent under those of the corresponding week in 11H)7. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 28, against 34 last week and 10 a year ago. Those wiu liabilities over $3,000 number 7, against 9 last week and 3 in 1007. Dun',s Review of Trade. NEW YORK. While events generally tend toward steady if slow Improvement, conservatism still rules purchasing in wholesale md jobbing lines, and at several large centers fall trade, notably in dry goods, has reached and passed its maximum. Taken as a whole, trade, though in a few. instances equal to a year ago at this date, is still generally below the normal, and the approach of the election ha a tendency to discourage all. but absolutely necessary purchases. . Western trade advices are good as a whole, fbough house trade Is on the wane and traveling sahsmcn are relied upon to take care of reorder business. There is , very general agreement that stocks are small in retailers' hands, and color to this is given by the many orderfgiven for immediate shipment, which throws unusual burdens in turn upon jobbers, wholesalers and manufacturers. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. 24 number 2C7, against 2M last week, 1G0 in tb like week of 1907, 1(W in !?, 1ST in 1005 and 170 in 1004. Failures in Canada for the week number 32, against 23 last week and o3 in the like week of 1007. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.( to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.rt0 to $7.4."; sheep, fair to choice, .53.00 to $4-3.1; wbeat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02: corn, No. 2, 70e to SOc; oats, standard, 47c to 4Sc; rye. No. 2, 17k to 7Gc; hay, timothy, $S.OO to $12.00; prairie, $S.O0 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 24c; eggs, fresh. 10c to 23c; potatoes, per bushel, f8c to tHc Indianapolis Cattle, flipping, $3.00 to $7.00; bogs, good to choice heavy, $3.r0 to $7V; sheep, common to prime, $2.0 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2. OSc to $l.t0; corn. No. 2 white, iSc to 79c; oats. No. 2 white, 50c to 51c. St. Louis Cattle. $4.50 to $7.40; hozs, $4.IX) to $7.4."; sheep. $3.00 to $4.15; whe.it. No. 2. $1.04 to $1.05; ccrn. No. 2, 7 k" to 77c; oats. No. 2, 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. 2, 77c to 70c. Cincinnati Cattle, $1.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $7.35; sheep. $3.r) to $3.05; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $l.a5; corn. No. 2 mixed. Sic to S2c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 78c to 70c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $4.50; hogs $4.00 to $l:00: fcheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2, l0c to $1.01 ; corn. No. 3 yellow. Sic to 82c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 51c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 75c. Milwaukee Wlieat. No. 2 northern, $l.ot to $1.07; corn. No. 3, 77c to 7Sc; oats Htandard, 4!c to SOc; rye. No. L 75c to 7Gc; barley, No. 1, C5c to C3c; pork, mess, $14.0.". New York Cattle, $4.00 to $.30; hogs, $3.50 to $7.20; sheep. $.3.00 to 4.00; wheat, No. 2 ml. $1.07 to $1.00; -orn, No. 2, Sic to 8c; oats, natural whit 53c to 55c; butter, creamery, 21e to 2V ; eggs, .western, 10c to 23c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 00c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 7Sc to 70c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 40c; rje. No. 2, 75c to 77c; clover seed, October, $-".70. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $ti.r0; hop, fair to choice, $1.00 to $7.70; sheep, common to pood mixed, $4.00 to $4.75; lambs, fair to choice, $.i.iO to $0.30. Trice of IIok Put Up. For the first time in nine yeirs th price of hogs rose even witli that of cattle in the Chicago stock yards last Monday, the figure being 7 cents or thereabouts. Scarcity of live sto-k aad the high price of corn is given as the cause of the rise. The price of pork, lard and tallow have gone up at the same time. Sven lied In Out of Tibet. Recent dispatches from Simla. India, brought to the western world news that the noted explorer, Sven Ilcdin, had esc?ped from the interior of the so-called forbidden land of Tilet, after a journey ' of 4,000 miles, extending over a period of two years. This was his third exploration of that strange country. His path lay over the nntrod section of the lofty plateau in Western Tibet. 2,000 feet higher than Mont Blanc, and word received ist January told of the loss of his entire equipment except the maps and notebooks. Many new lakes and eoM fields were located, also rivers and mountains. The explorer looked thin and worn, but was not ill. lie had not touched tolaceo 01 liquor during the trip and attributed to this his staying powers. The Tibetans , treated aim in me irinuuest manner. Speaker Cannon Retort. tIon being asked his opinion of tbe foregoing interview with Mrs. Astor and especially of her reference to uncouth American ttatesmen, Speaker Cannon spoke with respect for the life of the late Jerry Simpson of Kansas, and remarked that the first American Astor trapping in the wilds for furs probably didn't often wear socks either.