Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 October 1908 — Page 2

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TN F. Q.F. M. (T I Q. ff ,N. M. 3rd. v9th. Vj 16th. :r 25 th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS 3EEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Conditions of Thine re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to take It Complete. Line Put Out of Business by an Owl. The Indianapolis & Cincinnati traction line was out of business one night recently for more than an hour, but the cause was not made public until Alfred Lee, chief lineman, stated that a screech owl had fallen on a wire which ran Into the substation at Prescott, Ind. It caught by one of its wings and Ita feet, touching another metal piece connected with the building, causing the wire to ground. It was mode than an hour before the discovery was made. 'Fatal Gas Explosion at Dayton. One person Is dead, two are dying and two others are seriously injured as -the result of an explosion of gas in the rooming house conducted by Mrs. Eliza Wagner In Dayton, Ohio. Ray Harshman, 3 years old, was killed. Mrs. -Wagner and her 2-year-old daughter Viola were fatally hurt and Edward ITilllard and Mrs. Delia Harshman were seriously injured. A leak In the gas pipe caused the explosion when a natch was struck. The building was badly wrecked. Oldest Lodge of Masons. Ceremonies which are to n rk the cme-hundred-and-seventy-fifth nniversary of the founding of St. John's Lodge, A. F. and M., ot Boston, Mass., the oldest lodge of Masons in the country, are in .progress. Nearly four thousand Masons crowded Tremont Temple for the opening religious services. In the gathering were fourteen grand masters, representing the thirteen original States and Maine. Fire in Cincinnati. Fire destroyed the five-story brick building at 127 West Sixth street. Cincinnati, Ohio, occupied by one of the tores of the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, and slightly damaged the adoining buildings of the A. J . Conroy & Co. Furniture Company, the Fair department store and Jos. Geitile & Co.'s fruit store. The total Ios is $50,000. The Kroeger Company places Its loss at about $35,000. Accidentally Shot Dead. Wallace Dye, 40 years old, was instantly killed In Bedford, lud., at his place of business by the accidental discharge of a revolver in the hands of Charles Harvey, a young man 16 years old. Young Harvey became so affected over the tragedy that he was removed to the City Hospital for treatment and to prevent him from doing himself InJury. $500,000 Glass Works Fire. An explosion of gas at tn'e plant of the Pittsburg Plate Glass' Company's Works, No. 2, at Tarantum, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., resulted In a loss by fire of $300,000 and threw 800 men out of employment. Half of the plant is In ruins. The fire was caused by the bursting of one of the joints of the train gas line into the works. Me its Horrible Death. By the accidental overturning of a lao-'e of molten metal at the works of the Grand Crossing Tack Company in Chicago, one man was killed, two were seriously Injured and several others less seriously hurt. The accident wa3 caused by the breaking of a chain. Insane Man's Bloody Deed. While temporarily Insane, Jacob Hempfling, aged 70, a prosperous farmer living at Atwood, Ky., about eighteen miles from Cincinnati, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded his wife and then shot and killed himself. Could Not Give Bond; Dies. J. E. Morris, a prominent merchant of Moscow, Fulton County, Kentucky, committed suicide by taking poison. Morris was recently elected cashier of the bank-of Moscow, but was unable to make bond. Thieves Took Everything. The postoffice at Wllliamstown, a tittle hamlet three miles north of Dunkirk, Ohio, was entered and robbed the thieves taking everything but the bail ding. Rabbi Sonnensohein Dead. Rabbi Solomon Sonnensohein, one of the best known Jewish rabbis in the Mississippi Valley, .'s dead at his home In St. Louis, Mo. Death was due to the bursting of a bh od vessel in the brain. Because County Went Dry. Ted Hancock committed suicide at bis home in East Liverpool, Ohio, because Columbiana County voted "dry" last week. High School "Frats" Loser. Ruling against high school fraternities and sororities, Judge Windes in the Circuit Court in Chicago sustained the contention of the board of education that it is empowered to exclude from the schools pupils who are members of secret societies. Oklahoma Limits Telegraph Charges Telegraph tolls in Oklahoma are cut to a flat rate of 25 cents for ton words, with 2 cents for each additional word, day rate, and 1 cent, night rale, to all points within t;e State by a proposed order signed by the corporation commission. Escaped Idon Kills Cows; Is Shot. A full-grown African 1'on escaped from the winter quarters of Leon Washburn's circus, located between New Brunswick aid Bound Brook, N. J., and after havingbeen hunted by keepers all night, was shot and killed by Edward Rädel. Before its end the lion killed two cows ind a calf. Nat Goodwin Is Divorced. Nat C. Goodwin was granted a divorce from Maxins Elliott at Reno, Ner in the record time of eleven minutes and the judge held a legal residence in the State unnecessary.

ROBBER A "JACK IN A BOX.

Springs Out When Henry Gibbs Opens Vault of Allen Company. Concealing Iii nisei f in the vault of the office of the W. I. Allen Manufacturing Company, KHK Western avenue, Chicago, the other afternoon, a thief stole $700 after committing a murderous assault on Henry Gibbs, the superintendent. The robber struck Mr. Gibbs on tiie head with a revolver when he opened the door of the vault to get the money, which was part of the pay roll. Thrusting the superintendent into the vault and making him a prisoner by turning the combination knob, the bandit leaped toward the door. The way was blocked by Miss Barbara Walters, the company's stenographer, and Henry Gallagher, the bookkeeper. "If you raise a hand to stop me I'll kill you both," the thief said as he leveled the revolver. Springing over a railing, the robber, who was masked, reached the door before Miss Walters or Gallagher could attract the attention of the large force of employes who were within hearing distance. He ran to Twenty-third street, where it is thought a horse and buggy were waiting for him. An examination was made of the vault and it was seen that the thief concealed himself there, lying out of the light on the top shelf. It was pay day at the factory, and Supt. Gibbs, according to custom, put a satchel containing the pay roll in the vault between 1 and 2 o'clock. Three hundred dollars of the money was taken out to pay off the foundry men, leaving $700 in the satchel. At 5 o'clock Mr. GibLs went to the vault to get the money, and as he swung open the big steel door he was confronted by the robber. NEW HAVEN LINE HAS DEFICIT. Pays Dividend of 8 Per Cent and Is Short $2,510,692. The annual report of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad shows a startling deficit of $2,510,002 for the year after paying a dividend of 8 per cent. This is made even more spectacular by the statement that seven months of the year ending July 1, 100S, show a deficit of $4,005,478. As the first fi months of the year showed an itfercase of $1,453,GS9, the total decrease is brought down to about $2,500,000. President Mellen says flatly: "The public have yielded, although most unwillingly, to a moderate reduction in service facilities. The employes have been, reduced in numbers, but not in their rate of compensation. The officials have had a cut in salines, but the great items that enter into the cost of conducting the affairs of a public service corporation are sti'l at the highest mark of the most prosperous times of recent sears, and unless labor and those controlling the price of materials share the necessary liquidation it is inevitable the price of transportation must advance in order that a reasonable return be had upon the money invested." 3IQ "DRY" VICTORY IN OHIO. Twelve Counties in Tenth District Vote Doom to Saloons. Twelre Ohio counties voted Tuesday under the Rose law, and all went "dry" by majorities ranging from a few hundred up to more than 2,000. The number of saloons affected is 2S0. Most of the counties which voted are largely agricultural, but Scioto and Lawrence counties have a large urban population in Portsmouth and Ironton, respectively. Altogether sixteen of the eighty-eight counties in the State have had local option elections and all have gone "dry." . The total number of saloons voted out is 300. The counties that went "dry" and the number of saloons affected are: Gallia, 10; Jackson, 41; Lawrence, 27; Pike, 0; Scioto, 05; Adams, 5; Athens, 71; Vinton, 4; Hocking; 27; Van Wert, 22; Nobel, 7; Guernsey, 35. Ohio Counties Vote Out Saloons. Perry count, Ohio, by a majority of 1,027, voted to banish saloons, of which there are fifty-six within its 'boundaries. This is one of the important coal mining counties. Brown county, on the Ohio river, also voted out the saloons by a majority of CS2. There are twenty-three saloons in this county. Nineteen counties have now held elections under the Rose law and all have gone dry, the total number of saloons affected being 482. Canada Bars Chicago Labor. The Canadian immigration officials at Emerson intercepted a party of machinists, car repairers and boiler makers at the international boundary and refused them admittance, turning them back to the United States. Some of the men had written contracts to work with the Canadian Pacific railway, contrary to the Canadian alien labor law. Their tickets read from Chicago to Winnipeg. Forest Firebug Is Unearthed. A deputy marshal has left Portland. Ore., for southern Oregon with a warrant for Lewis R. Webb, a hunter, who has a ranch near Deering, charging him with setting a fire which devastated 20.000 acres of timber land in northern California. It is charged Webb set fires in the government forest reserves to make grazing land for deer. Homeless Children for Farms. A carload of sixty bright looking boys and girls from New York reached St. Paul the other day. The unusual consignment desertftd by their parents and had been t-heltered in the foundling hospital o' the metropolis. They are being taken to the Dakotas, where homes have been found for them among the farmers. Actress Settles with Elkins. The suit for $100,000 for breach of promise, brought by Louise Lonsdale, actress, against Rlaine Elkins, son of Senator Elkins of West Virginia, has been settled. The terms of settlement are that Miss Lonsdale will be paid $50 a week for the remainder of her life. Sales of Government Land. According to figures compiled in the general land office in Washington, D. C, receipts on account of the sales of public lands during the last fiscal year amounted to $11,402,453. There were 201,953 entries, covering 18,938,830 acres. Chimmio Fadden" Is Honored. Edward W. Townsend of "Chimmie Fadden" fame received the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Seventh District of New Jersey at the convention in Bloomfield. Man Falls Into Boiling Dye. Robert McFellin, 25 years of age, of Passaic, was probably fatally scalded by falling into a vat filled with boiling dye stuff in the Laidlcn dyeing works at Newark, N. J. Fleet Fights Typhoon. The Atlantic battle ship fleet has safely outridden a hurricane which swept Manila bay for twelve hours and did much damage ashore. Two Women Burned to Death. Mrs. George Cook, aged 45, of St. George, and Mrs. Kate Floyd, sister of Mrs. Cook, aged 47, of Natick, Mass, were burned to death in a small firm house in a section known as Martinsville, in the town of St. "eorge. Me. Roth were widows. The origin of the fire cannot be ascertained. Lamphero Trial November 9. In the Circuit Court in Laporte, Ind., Judge C. Richter set down for trial on Monday, Nov. 9, the case of Hay Lamphere, charged with the murder of Mrs. Beile Günnes and her three children.

PRECIOUS METALS FALL OTP.

Value o Gold and Silver Produced i in tho United States in 1907. Tlit production cf gold and silver by tho mines of tho United States for 19:7 aggregated 4,"74.K27 ounces of fino gold, of the value of $:0,45,7M, and 50.514, 700 ounces of fine silver, of the commercial value, averaging 00 cents per ounce, of $37.2IK.7O0. As compared with the output of 1000, a decrease is shown in the value of gold of $3,! WS, WO. While the rroduction of silver in 1007 was only 3,2 X ounces loss than for 1000, the commercial value, on account of the decline in the price of silver, Avas $058,700 les. Colorado leads in the production of both gold an i silver, having furnished $20.807,M) 'f the former and $7.587,M K of the latter metal. Alaska produced $18,480,400 in gold, followed by California, with $10,858.500; Nevada, $15,411,000; I'tah. $5,121.600; South Dakota, $4,138,200; Montana, $3,472,000; Arizona. $2,OOt.OOO; Idaho, $1,255,!00, and Oregon, $1, 222.2O0. Next to Colorado in the production of silver was Montana, with $7,345.5(H); Utah, $7.528,500; Nevada, $5,405.100; Idaho. $5,200.300; Arizona, $1,010,000, and California, $1,019,400. PLANS FOR SUICIDE AT DINNER. Sick Man Makes All Arrangements and Then Kills Self in Park. While dining at the Plaza in New York with three friends, Ernest Giradl, the proprietor of a wine store, was planning the end of his own life and a number of ghastly surprises, making in advance every arrangement that his d?ath would entail. Before his death Girard wrote and mailed a check to cover his funeral expenses; arranged "that his friends, without knowing where Ihey were to go, should call at the undertaking establishment ; wrote and posted a death notice in the window of his establishment ; left a note for his wife, and kept a note in his pocket to identify him and shov that he had taken his own life. Girard shot himself in Central Park. A note in his iHx-ket said : "I have had caronic bronchitis, lung and liver trouble for some time, and the suffering has made me want to live no longer. SHOT BY BRIDE OF TWO DAYS. Louisiana Man Believed Fatally Hurt by Wife, Who Is Arrested. A. Sidney Bouteris, editor of the New Era at Patterson, La., is at the point of death in the sanitarium at Franklin with five bullet holes in his body, and his pretty young wife of two days, who was Miss Jessie Detnarest, is held in jail to await the outcome of his wounds, believed to b fatal. Joseph Stansbury, John Cisna and Roland Vitter of Patterson a!s are in jail, charged with being accessories. It appears that there was a "military marriage at. Franklin at 1 o'clock Monday morning, IJouteris, Miss Detnarest and the young woman's father being the chief actors. Bouteris refused to have anything to do with his bride after returning home, she returning to her father's home. While Bouteris was sitting at his desk in his office two days later, his bride walked in and began shooting, five bullets taking effect. JEWELS WORTH $50,000 STOLEN. Systematic Robbery of New York Diamond House Is Discovered. An -investigation which followed the discovery that a diamond sunburst was missing from the warerooms of Oliver M. Ferrand. a Maiden Itne diamond imIKrtcr, in New York, has disclosed what may prove to be one of the biggest robberies in the diamond district. Already, it is said, jewels valued at $50,000 are known to have disappeared and the inventory of stock has not yet been completed. It has been disclosed, also, that the robberies probably had been going on for years and it seems possible that when the inquiry has been completed the total will bo far in excess of the amount now known to be involved. While the investigation has been in progress Mr. Ferrand has been endeavoring to find one of hi oldest and most trusted employes, whe has been away from the city for several months. SCORES OF DEAD FOUND IN TREES Floods Sweep Away Thousands of Native Hou'.es in India. Thousands of native houses have been washed away and thre has been a heavy loss of life in the Hyderabad and Deccan districts of India as a result of the floods which followed an unprecedented rainfall. The River Musi rose sixty feet. All the bridges were carried away aud the country was devastated for many miles in either direction. Bodies are strewn everywhere and scores of dead have been found in the branches of trees, where they wer lodged by the swollen waters. The native hospital at IlyderaLad was undermined by the waters and collapsed and all the inmates were buried in the wreckage. EIGHT DIE, MANY HURT IN FIRE. Fifty Cut Off in Tenement and Parents Hurl Children from Windows. Eight persons were burned to death ant' many were injured, one mortally, in a tenement-house fire on the East Side, it. New York. There were fifty persons in the building when the fire started. The flames spread so quicklj' that their escape was cut off. In their panic at finding themselves trapped parents threw thefi children from the windows. Nearly a-J .the children were caught by. men on the sidewalk. Identification of the victims it impossible. Dies to Get Food for Family. Because he had been long unemployed and his six children were clamoring for food. Max Glock, 52, a lalorer, commit ted suicide by hanging at his home in Hamilton, Ohio. He left a statement that he had $1.000 insurance on which he wanted to realize to food his family. The insurance would soon have expired. Injury at Sea Kills Girl. Thrown down a stairway during a storm on the liner Graf Waldersoe, Miss Paula Herwig of Milwaukee died in New York from a fractured tkull. She suffered her injury ten days before at sea. Miss Berwig was accompanied by her mother, a practicing physician of Milwaukee. Fire Destroys Kinnesota Town. Foley, the county seat of Itenson county, Minnesota, a village of 1,000 inhabitants, was practically destroyed by fire Thursday night. The loss is estimated at $75,000, partly covered by insurance. Legislature Starts Inquiry. On demand of Gov. Hanly the Indiana Legislature has started an investigation into tha charge that the executive attempted bribery to secure the passage of the local option law. Will Reduce Army in China. It is now expected that Japan will reduce the large force of troops held in northern China to only two companies. By making this reduction in the Chinese forces Japan will be able to make a saving of 750,000 yen (about $375,000) annually. Patriarch Brother Is Dead. The Kev. Alexander Leclaire, 90 yean old, who for reventy-five years was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was possibly the eldest member of any nit-ret order in the United States, is dead at Lynden, Wash,

FREEDOM OF BULGARIA

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Ferdinand, Supported by Cabinet, Takes Action at Tirnovo, Ancient Capital. THE NATIONS ARE MEDIATORS. Powers Will Try to Prevent War Over Balkan Trouble, and Diplomats Confer. Bulgaria, a tributary principality under the suzerainty of the Sultan of Tin key, Monday proclaimed its indelendence of Turkey. This action was taken at Tirnovo by Prince Ferdinand, who was elected Prince of Bulgaria in 1S87. The Bulgarian cabinet was with the prince, having met him at the frontier and Journeyed with him to Tirnovo. Tirnovo is the nucient capital of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and it was there in the old days that the kings were crowned. Turkey is not Inclined toward war with Bulgaria, and London advices say that she will likely call a conference (( the powers to consider Bulgaria's proclamation of Independence. Indications from the other capitals are that Ihe powers will Intervene to prevent hostilities in the near East. France has decided to act as mediator for the purpose of preventing war, and Great Britain also has nmle. mediatory proposals to the governments of Turkey and BulANOTHER

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Hog3 Are the Highest Since 1903.

-Chicago Tribune. gsria. Germany, it Is announced at Berlin, has associate! herself with these proMvtals and will not counsel Turkey to go to war. The proclamation of Bulgarian indeIeiidencc was preceded by a conflict between Bulgaria and Turkey over the Oriental railroad In eastern Bunielia. Bulgaria took possession of this line in September because of a strike and began to operate it with her mil'tary forces. When the strike had been settled the refused to restore control to Turkey, which led to a sharp conflict. In spite of the endeavors of the power the military forces of both Turkey and Bulgaria prepared for eventualities. The action taken by Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary is condemned in oflicial and diplomatic circles of Loudon, but the British government is prepared to co-operate in any steps which may bo taken by the powers concerned. The principal purjiose Is the prevention of a warlike outbreak. News no less Interesting than that concerning the act of Prince Ferdinand Is brought In the Vienna dispatches to the effect that Austria-Hungary has decided to annex the occupied provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Emperor Francis Joseph has addressed an autograph letter to the heads of all the states in which he explains the necessity of changing the political status of these province. School of Sanitary Science. Much favorable common.1 is appearing in t"ie press for the propo,ai made by Dr. Norman E. Ditman in the Columbia. University Quarterly to create a school of sanitary science devoted to enlightening the public upon preventable agencies of death. Dr. Ditman brought to light the fact that over 400,000 lives are sacrificed in this way in our country each year. R,OO0 Men Apply for Work. The announcement made by John Wana maker that he would give employment to 1,000 men in the work of demolishing the old jiection of his store on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, beginning last Monday morning, brought to the place a throng of at least 5,000 men, who surged aliout the streets and so impeded traffic that the iMliee reserves had to be called out to make way for the cars. After the favored ones had been chosen the rest of the crowd dispersed without disorder. Rotterdam Record Loud. The Holland-American liner Rotterdam, which arrived nt New York recently, brought tho greatest number of cabin passengers ever landed by one vessel nt that iort. Besides the crew of 400, she had aboard 231 steerage and 1,000 cabin passengers. Among the newcomers was one family with thirteen children. Million for Itnston Parka. By the will of the late George F. Parkman of Boston, who died last week, the I larger part of Iiis estate, amounting to $S.OUU0O, is left to the city of Boston, for the improvement of its parks. PIuiikIiik C'aaae! II row n Failure. The examination into the accounts of the failed brokerage firm of A. O. Brown & Co. of New York brought out the confession of one partner, Buchanan, to the effect that credit given to the Pittsburg broker, Whitney, who failed hst January, had much to do with the Brown failure. The speculations of the Pittsburg plunger hid been carried under a secret name or number, so that lie had to put up no margins. Forest fires in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, destroyed 10,000,000 feet of logs belonging to one firm

PENSION INCREASE $18,G64,821.

Loss of 15,684 Person', from Pvoll, but Amount la Largest Ever. The report of the commissioner of pensions for the fiscal year ending on June 30 last, shows that during the year there were 34,'5.'53 deaths among civil war veterans who were on the pension roll. This falling off was equal to about 5 per cent of the total, and left 028.084 survivors on the roll. The nuuilier of deaths was 3.1S2 greater than during the previous year. The total number of pensioners at the end of the year was 951,087. During the year 51,35'' pensioners of all classes were dropped and 38.082 added, making a net loss of 54,iS4. The statement also shows that 1S8.44Ö widows of soldiers already have taken advantage of the law of the last session of congress increasing to $12 a month the pensions to widows. The actual exitouditure for the year on account of pensions was $153,093,080, but on account of the law increasing the rate to individual pensioners the annual value of the roll at the close of the year was $159,495,701, an increase of $1S,G44,S21 over the previous. year. The expenditure was the largest in the history of the bureau. The total number of applications for Iensions of all kinds pending at the close of the year was 123.583, against .15(1,181 at the beginning of the year. There are now only a little more than one-third as many claims pending as there were a year ago, and these are leing adjudicated as rapidly as the evidence necessary to determine their merits Is furnished. "Rival" Oll Traut Branche. While Vice President F. B. Squire of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio was on the stand in the oil trust investigation at New York, Lawyer Kellogg, for the government, showed how the Toledo Oil ASCENSION. Company and the American Oil Company had been operated for years as independent concerns, although in reality owned by the Standard. Squire admitted that this was done, but said it was to take advantage of the good will of the old names. Squire told how he had dismissed C. J. Castle, in charge of- the Cleveland business of the Standard, for giving rebates to customer Fred Beel, the wrestler, has lought an eighty-acre farm near Colby, Wis., and will wrangle with the stumps hereafter. M. II. (irifiin of Joliet, 111., who won second place in the discus throw in the Olympic games in London, will enter Be!oit college this year. Freddie Welsh, the English lightweight, krocked out Frank Carsey of Chicago in the fouflih round before the Pacific Athletic Club at Is Angeles. Macalester college this year has forty hu-ky candidates for the football team, and Carlisle lias thirty-live. The smaller colleges ought to put up some gool games this fall. At Nashua, N. H., Charles I. Van Zant, for several years a prominent baseball player and a member of the Albany club of the New York State league, committed suicide at his home by shooting. Mighty Koseben has probably run his last race. At least that is what Dave JoCinson and Trainer Weir s:yd after the Big Train had been badly beaten in the Flight stakes at Sheepshe.id Bay. It was a complete breakdown that caused Boseben's defeat. With a notable field of eleven horses, including CJeers' Teasel, Spanish Queen, Acquin and Hewitt, it took five heats and some sensational racing to decide the big race at the New York State fair, the Empire State stakes of $10,000 for 2:14 trotters. Magoffin, the new football coach of the North Dakota agricultural college, has arrived. He is from the Michigan university, where he was a star on the team for some time and a favorite protege of Coadi Yost. This will be Magoffin's first effort at coaching and he has a hard task to fill the shoes of Gil more Dobie. President O'Brien of the American Association suspended Catcher James Block of the .Minneapolis club for three days for delaying tl e game by refusing to leave the field promptly when ordered to do so by the umpire. The feature of the 2:01 pacing event for the $3,0JO Hainline purse at the Minnesota fair was the rivalry between Citation and Iifidy Maud C. for first honors. The horses had met at two previous race meets this year, and each one of them had captured a race, so that this was to lie the deciding event. Citation won two heats and the race. Iady Maud captured the other. Time, 2 :05, 2 :01., 2 :üi. The withdrawal from amateur athletic ranks of John J. Hayes, winner of the Marathon race at the Olympic games in London recently, is announced in a letter written by Hayes resigning his membership in the Amateur Athletic Association. The second day of the Great Western fall meet at Peoria, 111., was filled with interest, Tommy Swift, heavily backed in the 3-year-old pace, after winning the first heat in the remarkable time of 2:09:)i, the fastest heat in this class cf vhe year, broke in the second heat and was distanced. Katherine Direct and Earl Jr. fought the race out between themselves, tho former winning through the superior reinsmanshio of McMahon.

THE WEEKLY

1519 Cortex entered the Indian city of Tlasca. 1535 Cartier left his ship and proceeded up the St. Lawrence in boats. 1038 De Vries sailed from Holland on his third expedition to America. 1C71 Mediators between the colonists and the Indians met at Plymouth. 15S9 Count Frontenac arrived in Canada to reassume the govern io?nt of the province. 1593 The British army- adopted the ring-bayonet. 1737 The Hebrews disfranchised by a VDte of the New York Legislature. 177(5 Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Silas Dean and Thomas Jefferson commissioners to the court of France. . . .The new constitution of Pennsylvania was formally proclaimed. 1779 Paul Jones with the Bon Homme Hichard captured the British frigate Serapis. 17S0 Americans under Gen. Marion attacked a party of Tories at Black Mingo. 17S9 Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts became Tostmaster General of the United States. 1S03 First Catholic church in Boston, Mass., dedicated. 1813 Americans defeated the British in battle of Lake Ontario. 1815 First daily paper printed at Albany, N. Y. 1S2S A monument was unveiled in Charlestown, Mass., to the memory of John Harvard. 1S39 Treaty between France and Texas signed at Taris. 1S50 A Boston merchant paid $C2G for the choice of seats for the first performance of Jenny Lind in that city. 1554 A reciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada signed by the governor general. . .United States sloop Albany sailed from Aspinwall and was never more beard of. 1555 The corner stone of the Masonic Temple was laid in Philadelphia. 1802 Gen. Nelson shot by Gen. Jeff C. Davis at Louisville. lS'.il Confederate troops attacked Gen. Burnside at Knoxville. 1S01 Union troops victorious in a conflict with the Confederate forces at Athens, Ala. 1S05 The Bank of Concord, Mass., robbed of $200,000. 1808 Gow Warmouth's veto y of the negro equity bill was sustained in the Louisiana House. .. .Gen. McClellan welcomed in New York upon his return from Europe. 1S70 President Grant paid a visit to Boston. 1889 The judicial system of the United States established by act of Congress. 1890 A strike began on the Canadian Pacific railway. 1S39 Nava! parade in New York harbor in honor of Admiral Dewey. 1902 A $000,000 fire in Stockton, Cal. 1904 Earl Grey was appointed governor general of Canada. 1905 Bobert Bacon resigned as director of the steel trust to become first ' Assistant Secretary of State. .. .Disastrous fire in the -business section of Butte, Mont. .. .Highest court in Canada denied the appeal of Greene aud Gaynor rgainst extradition. 19W Kacc riots continued in Atlanta; tvro negroes lynched. ,. .Mayor McClellan of New York, announced that he would support William U. Hearst for Governor. 1007 Cuban agitators were arrested near Havana. FACTS FOR FARMERS. In Norman county, Minn, wheat has been threshing out 20 bushels to the &cre. Barley and flax arp exceptionally good. The State laud department of South Dakota has made the first offering of State lands in the old Fort Sully military reservation, which was practicaly oil taken by the State at the time it was thrown open to setteinent. While the South Dakota State veterinarian and the government authorities are watching the anthrax situation in the counties of the southeastern part of the State, the Governor's office is yet receiving complaints in regard to the situation, and demanding something more in the way of stamping the. disease out. All such complaints are turned over to the officials who have the situation in charge for investigation. From reports the indications are that the situation in that part of the State is of a "serious nature, and will require careful handling to get the disease stamped out. The Bed river valley is being invaded by r'-preseutatives of seed houses In the Southwest who are after the potatoes grown in this section to use for seed potatoes through Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Following out his declaration of Immunity to any one defending lives or property against night riders. Gov. Wilson of Kentucky granted pardons to Walter Duncan, who was convicted of Bhooting and killing Newt Hazlett at Jacksonville, Shelby county, in June, and Uiley Harrold, who was indicted as an accessory to the murder. Night riders are organizing in Northeastern Arkansas, for. the purpose of reducing the cotton acreage for next year, and compelling the holding of this year's crop for. the minimum price set by the International Farmers' Union convention which met at Fort Worth recently. The eighty grain elevators and warehouses owned by the Minneapolis and Northern Elevator Company, one of the concerns controlled by the PillsburyWas'aburn Flour Milling Company, which passed recently into the hands of receiver;, will be leased, for the next eleven months to Charles A. Amsden of Minneapois, the highest bidder. Renewed activity is being shown by the Northern Pacific in locating and securing for itself land to which it is entitled, according to the grants made by the government at the time the charter was issued and at later dates. Employes of the road are visiting the various government land offices aud looking up vacant land lying in the vicinity of their line, with a view to securing it for their road. Officials claim that at best the road's grant will be 3,000,000 acres short. The National Farmers Union, at its convention held at Fort Worth, Texas, reelected the officers who served during the past year.

INDIANA LAVMAKERS.

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 Representatives, and the scenes were truly dramatic. Massed about the Speaker's desk, extending around tbefour walls of the room and filling the lobby ani 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 6tood up to explain his vote. He was regarded as opposed to the bill, but as he proceeded the countenances in 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 shout 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. Represeutative Johnson of Vigo county attracted much attention when be rose to speak, lie had been counted upon as opposed t& the bill, and as he rose his daughter was seen to seat herself by his side. His voice trembled as he said life had been a burden fo 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 his voice fell to a whisper and he burst into tears, voting "Yes" as he sat down. Cheers resounded throughout the kill. Johnson's daughter smiled and every one knew to what influence he had succumbed. One by one the Representatives spoke and as the roll call proceeded the workers began to lake 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 55 to 45 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 option became a law in Indiana, The Senate Monday afternoon killed the prohibition amendment which was passed the previous week by the House. The proposed amendment provided for State wide prohibition and would have to be acted upon by two successive Legislatures before being submitted to the people for app.iral. The Democrats in the Senate supported the bill, but the Republican majority voted solidly against it. A number of ministers were present but they refrained from lobbjing for the measure. Gov. Hanly appeared befre the House Tuesdaj' afternoon and in excited tones, at times trembling with emotion, read a special message demanding that the attempted bribery charge made against him by Representative Knisely be investigated. His request was granted, a committee was appointed and the inquiry is under way. Knisely made an affidavit in which he charged that Senator Wick wire had offered him a position worth $2,000 a year, and that when Knisely demanded authority for the offer he said Wickwire took him to tlie office of the Governor, where the latter confirmed it, declaring that "it was the opportunity of his life." When the message had been read a motion was carried that a committee be appointed. Speaker Branch named Condo and Daily as the Republicans and Honan and Pierson as ihe Democrats. Gov. Hany. Representative Knisely and Senator Wickwire all appeared before the committee. The special session of the Indiana Legislature came to an end Wednesday afternoon after the committee appointed by the House the previous day to investigate charges of attempted bribery of Representative Knisely by Gov. Hanly and Senator Wickwire had reported. The committee exonerated the Goverior, but did not deal as leniently with Senator Wickwire. saying that if he did what Knisely charged in his affidavit he was without any authority for pledging an appointment for Knisely's vote. When the substance erf the reiort beceme known in the Senate, which had fixed 3:13 o'clock for sine die' adjournment, a large American hag was draped over the face of the clock in order to conceal the hands and a discussion of the report was begun. A number of the Senators took the ground that the . House had not treated Wickwire fairly and it was proposed to give him a vote of confidence. Wickwire took the floor and in frantic appeals begged the Senate to order an investigation, lie said the House had neither convicted him cor cleared him, but had left him nuder a cloud that would follow him from the Senate chamber wherever he went, unless some action was taken to set him right. While the Senators were impressed by Wick wire's utterances, they confessed that they could not conduct an extensive investigation with a resolution to adjourn at a time already passed and with the House already dissolved under that resolution, but at the suggestion of a member a committee was appointed to go over the evidence taken in the investigation and make a report. THIS AND THAT. . Wyoming was admitted to the Union July 11, 1S90. Men iu New York City smol e 1,104,000 cigars each day. A nea anemone has been known to iive for fifty years. London uses 50,000 tons of sugar annually for Jam making. The primrose and Hly-of-the-valley will stand the shade of trees -better than most other flowers. It Is generally asserted that In Norway every bride must exhibit a certificate that she knows how to cook. No bird can ily backward. The dragon fly, besides outstripping the swiftest bird, flics backward wit'j ease. New York City burns 110,000 tons of coal a year to pump water into the public reservoirs in Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond boroughs. Dr. Hans Richter, the famous musical conductor, Is a thorough believer in comfort in dress and not infrequently sets fabhlou at defiance. A blue garden, every plant bearing blue flowers, has been laid out at Soutti Lytchett manor, Dorsetshire, England, the residence of Sir Elliott Lees. While cattle are plentiful In Brazil, and pasturage costs hardly anything, butter in Itio Janeiro averages about twice In cost what it docs in the United States. Iu Massachusetts the illegal sale of street railway transfers Is made punishable by a fine not exceeding $50 or imprisonment for not more than tliirty days.

r3 SPik i akty CHICAGO. Business activity responds promptly to the stimulus of seasonable weather, and, with the Kissing of the drought throughout the agricultural regions, plowing and seeding are vigorously advanced. A better tone develops in money, employment of funds has increased and recently bank statements testify to an abundance of resources for the normal requirements of commerce. Distributive trade shows fuvther recovery, lower temperatures helping the general demand for necessaries, and there is strong absorption of apparel, food products and house furnishings.' Forwarding of staple merchandise compare favorably with this time last year, and jobbers' house and mail orders remain of fair aggregate in dry goods, footwear, hats and cais, woolens and suits. Mercantile collections in the interior are fairly prompt, and an increasing number of country merchants take the best discounts on current purchases. Money is seen to be circulating more freely among the farming classes, and there Is less drain of currency shipments to move crops than a year ago, although marketings thus far hare been liberal. Manufacturing moves steadily forward, more machinery and hands being active, and there is notable decline in the number of M! DIM " f Movements of raw materials to some extent exceed those at this time last year, " while values mainly hold firm. The absorption of forest products steadily improves, and yard stocks being lower than usual, it is easier to obtain better prices for some varieties. The total movement of grain at this port, 9,508,199 bushels, compares with 10,2S3,373 bushels last week and 15,180,032 bushels a year ago. Compared with 1907, there are decreases in receipts of 3(5.4 per cent and iu shipments of 48.9 per cent. Bunk clearings, $220,493,030, are 13.9 per cent under those of the corresponding week in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago, district number 27, against 28 last week and 25 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number C, against 7 last week and 4 in 1907. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Cooler weather is the mainspring of the moderate improvement in retail and jobbing trade reported at most cities this week. Additionally helpful features have been the numerous fairs and festivals, which have enlarged distribution locally at many points. While there are reports of holding crops, notably at the South, where prices are much lower than a year ago, the crop movement is liberal as a whole. Reports from industries arc rather better as a whole. Good reports come from the lumber trade South and West, and a good volume of building is going forward. Election uncertainties are reported affecting demand for iron and steel, bufc cool weather has helped the coal trade East and West. The Lather and shoe trades are reported quiet, with cheaper grades in most demand. The wool trade reports tie largest week's sales for over year past, and from 50 to 00 ier cent of the leading interests machinery in operation. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. 1 numbered 255, against 207 last week, 177 in the like week of 1907, 130 in 1900, ISO in 1905 and 195 in 1904. Canadian failures for the week numbered 30. which compares with 32 last week and 32 in this week in 1907. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, fi.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 o $7.17; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $L35; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.00: corn, No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; oats, standard, 47c to 49c; rye. No. 2. 75c to 7Gc; hay, timothy, $S.O0 to $12.00; prairie, $S.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 2Cc; eggs, fresh, 19c to 23c; potatoes, per bushel, 02c to 80c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $.1.00 to $7.00: hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $7.20; hcep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.0i; corn, No. 2 white, 78c to 79c; oatF, No. 2 white, 50c to 51c. St. Louis Cattle, $1.50 to $7.23: hogs; $1.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $1.13;' wheat. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05; corn. No. 2, 75c to 70c; oats. No. 2, 47c to 48c; rye, Xo. 2, 77c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5I5; hogs, $4.00 to $0.90; sheep, $3.00 to K1.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2 mixed, 79c to SOc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 78c to SOc Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to $4.50-, bogs, $4.00 to $G.50; beep. .$2.30 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2. 99c to $1.01; corn. No. 3 yellow, 81c to 82c; oats. No. 3 white, 30c to 52c; rye. No. 2, c to 7Sc Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.00; corn, No. 3, 7Cc to 77c; oats, fctandard, 50c"toN5lc; rye. No. J, 75c to 70c: barley. No. 1, C5c to COc; Iork, mess, $14.95. Buffalo Cattle, choica shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.25; bors. fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.20; sheep, common to good mixed. $1.00 to $1.75; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.30. New ' York Cattle, $1.00 to $G.C0; hogs, $3.50 to $7.10; sheen. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.00; corn. No. 2, Sic to SOc; oat, natural white, 5-'lc to 55c; butter, creamery, 24c to 27c; eggs, western, 20c to 25c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2 mixed, 79c to Sic; oats. No. 2 mixed, 49c to 51c; rye. No. 2, 77c to 78c ; clover seed, October, $5.57. Go m per Required to Answer. Chief Justice Clabaugh rendered the decision of the District of Columbia Suorem Court holding that President Comoers of the American Federation of Labor must answer the questions put to him at the last hearing in the Buck Stove Company boycott case relative to matter published in the current number of the Fed;ra Monist. The court decides that it is .u5tomary for tuch questions to be answered and their relevancy to be decided by the court later. Gompers had justified his recent editorials on the right of free press and free speech. Record Motor Boat SI lie. Pixie II., the racing motor boat owned oy Ii J. Schroeder, sped over a measured mile on the Hudson at New York at the record rate of thirty-six and one-half miles an hour, her time for th mile Jeing 1 minute 54 4-5 seconds. The Dixie thus retained her title as champion motor boat of America. Later she won In tbt thirty-mile free-for-all race. Turkey, Persia and Russia have been invited by Secretary of State Root to participate' in the international opiuo conference to be held In Shanghai, Chifif beginnieg with the new year.

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