Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 October 1908 — Page 2

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PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q CO., - - Publishers 1908 NOVEMBER 1908

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-IN F. Q.F. M. (T I Q.ON. M. 1st, V$ 15th. X?23rd FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Things re Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Sorrow Instead of a Happy Reunion. There was a heart-breaking scene at Seelyville, west of Brazil, Ind., when Mrs. W. H. Morris, accompanied by her four small children, alighted from an interurban car and inquired for her husband. Just a little more than a week ago Morris and a man named Hunt were killed In No. 3 mine of the Miami Coal Company. Morris came to this country from England a short time ago, and the week before he was killed he sent money. and tickets to bring his family here. After his death, cablegrams were sent to his wife, notifying her of his death, but none of them reached hsr. She refused to believe that her husband was dead and fainted. The people of that town are raising a fund to send her back to England. Filipinos in Desperate Fight. In a desperate fight, prolonged for hours which occurred recently on the Shepherd plantation near Iligan, Island of Mindanao, nine Filipino laborers and their superintendent, also a native, were killed by Moro marauders and four other natives were wounded. "Whether or not the attacking Moros suffered any losses cannot now be ascertained. The bodies of the dead Filipinos were mutilated horribly. Before being driven off, the Moros succeeded In firing the plantation stores which with their contents were destroyed. Wright Ready for Another Flight. Orville Wright, the aeronaut, who narrowly escaped death in the accident to his aeroplane during the flight at Fort Meyer, five weeks ago, will soon be able to leave, for his home at Dayton, Ohio. His most serious injury was a broken thigh, and the . splint has been removed from this. It will be found upon measuring the left leg, the one injured, it is but a quarter of an Inch shorter than the other. An X-ray examination of the fracture showed that the knitting of the broken bones has been perfect. Gas Explosion at Vincennes. VIncennes, Ind., had Its first natural gas explosion when Miss Ida Badollette went into her room with a lighted match, where gas had been escaping all (lay in a small leak in a lamp. One whole side of the house, a two-story frame, was blown away. Miss Badollette was horribly burned about her face, head and hands and will die. Her father, Henry Bodallette, while fighting the flames sustained burns that caused the skin to drop off of both hands and arms. Two Men Killed by 'Train. While attempting to .avoid a Lvight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroadf Charles Case, 47 years old. and his nephew, Bert Bailey, 19 years old, stepped in front of the Indianapolis accommocaJon train No. 38, at Muhlhauser, south of Hamilton, Ohio. Both were instantly killed. Case leaves a widow and five children. The men worked at the Rlalto Paper Mill and were walking on the tracks. Hog Cholera in Henry County. Harrison Township, in Henry County, Indiana, has an epidemic of hog cholera which is spreading rapidly, and threatens to wipe out the hog supply c? the township. The disease is of a very virulent type. Fit of Coughing Fatal. Mrs. ü. C. Leach, aged 73, of Freeland, Wyo., is dead from couching. Contracting a hard cold, she was seized with a paroxysm of coughing that literally wore out her vitality in a few hours. 1 Big Cotton Mills to Resume. The West Huntsville Cotton Mill plant at Huntsville, Ala., will be put In full operation next week," igving employment to several hundred people. The mill Las been closed for some months. $3C0,C0O Fire in Toledo. Fire at Toledo, Ohio, wiped out the wholesale grocery store of It. A. Bartley and seriously damaged adjoining property. The loss is estimated at ?300,000. Fire at Purdue University. Fire destroyed the Alpha Tau Omega Greek fraternity house at Purdue University, Lafayette, lad., entailing a loss of $10,000. The firo originated from a defective flue. Quail Crop is Large. The quail crop in southern Illinois Is the largest In years and the little birds are so numerous near Carml that frequently they fly lru the city and stay In old gardens. Two Murderers Break Jail. Two Italians, Jose;. Yeltra and Bruno Carbone, recently convicted of murder iu. the first degree, eseaied from the county jail in Indiana. Pa., by rutting a hole iu the ceiling of their cells. Police with bloodhounds are after thorn. Canned Goodn Confiscated. A large quantity of canned apples and blackberries was ordered sold by the United States Court in Kansas City. The fjuit was prown in Arkansas, i-innw in Michigan and labeled Michigan "grown. Tiie court deeMeJ that this labeling was a violation of the pure food law. ' Madman Stabs Another to Death. James Keegan of Brooklyn, a patient at the Matteawan asylum in New York State, stabned and killed James O'Brien, also a patient. A remark angered Keegan and he plunged a carving knife 'into O'Brien's abdomen. O'Brien bled to death in ten mmutes. Two Men Killed by Train, viiih i1.Kinr across the Daltimore and Ohio railroad tracks at Derby, Tickaway county, Ohio, Austin Murphy's wagon was struck by an express train and the men in it Albert Lewis ai d Harry Dem- j Celdt were killed.

I2IDIA3IS KILL GAMS WARDEN.

Boy and Sqiaws Shoot State Officer While He Fights Braves, (lamf Warden W. F. Scott and Deptity Warden Henry A. Wasshave arrived it Missoula, Mont., with the body of Deputy Came Warden Charles S. Peyton, who was killer! in a fight with Indians Sunday in the Swan river country while attempting to arrest them for breaking the State frame laws. Herman Rudolph, ranch hand, who accompanied Peyton to a spot within forty feet of the Indian camp, says the deputy warden was shot by a 13-year-old Indian lad who was behind the horses of the redskins and was not noticed by Peyton, and by squaws. When Peyton told the Indians they were under arrest, one of them grasped him by the neck. Peyton shook him off and advised all to be peaceful. Another In dian then uttered a war whoop, aimed his rifle and was about to shoot, when Peyton shot him down. Two other In dians attempted to get their guns unsheathed, but Peyton killed them. Rudolph then saw the little Indian boy kneeling between the horses and aiming at Peyton, who fired at the redskin at the same moment, that the latter fired at the officer. Peyton was mortally wounded and the Indian boy toppled over dead. Squaws later ended Peyton's suffering with half a dozen shots from small-caliber guns. All the mountain passes are being watched for the fleeing squaw, who have with them the bodies of their braves. 300 FILIPINOS DEAD IN FLOOD. Cagayan Valley Devastated and Cholera Rages Among Refugees. Delated reports indicate that the storm of Oct. 12 in the Cagayan valley, Luzon, P. I., was the worst and most destructive within the memory of livin; inhabitants of the valley. Official figures are not yet available, as many places have not been heard from, but it seems certain that the number of dead will reach IWi). 1 litre was a heavy typhoon and torrential rains throughout the valley and in the mountains. The rivers were flooded and in many places rose to a height of thirty feet, sweeping everything before them in their path to the sea. Hundreds of animals and houses were swept away. At Apairi, which was almost completely under water, the American residents, headed by Lieuts. Tread way and Claik. Postmaster Foss and Knginecr Clark, formed a rescue brigade which saved scores of natives, taking many off their louses, which were floating down the river. BOY IN TRAIN HOLD-UP. , Two Men, One 5$ Cover Crew While Youth Searches Pockets. Two men, one 50 years old, followed by a boy of 14 years, pushed open the rear door of the caboose on the first section of a Frisco freight train as it was leaving Olathe, Kan., for Kansas City, the other night. "Hands up!" one said as two pistols -were pointed at Elmer (J. Du tcher, the conductor, and William M. Smith, the rear brakeman. The trainmen obeyed. "Now, sonny, go through them," the older man said to the loy. While the robbers kept the railroad men covered with their pistols the boy went through their pockets: The boy turned the trainmen's pockets inside out and took $22.50 and thvir gold watches. "We're old railroad men," they explained. "Hate to do this, but we can't find' work." The robbers tied the two trainmen with ropes found in the caboose and with the boy left the train as it neared Kansas City and disappeared. NEW PLAN TO REACH POLE. Explorer Baldwin Calls at White House to Tell President of Scheme. Evelyn D. Baldwin, the arctic explorer, was a caller at the White House the other day, but was unable to see the President. Mr. Daldwin came for the purpose of laying before President Iloosevelt a new and novel plan for exploring the arctic regions and discovering the north pole. His idea, which has been indorsed by Admiral Melville, one of the survivors of the Jeannette expedition ; Admiral Schley, and Sir Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is to utilize one of the many huge ice floes which drift from the Pehring sea across the arctic regions and eventually reach the coast of Greenland. These floes take about three years and a halt in their drift across. Executions In 1007 Are 627. The Rech has obtained and made public the official statistics of the executions in Russia during the year 1007 on sentences imposed by the military district courts. The total is 027, of which 81 were soldiers and 543 civilians. These figures are considerably below the earlier unofficial estimates, which were based on the condemnations reported in press dispatches. Thaw Will Stay in Asylum. The writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum recently issued by United States Judge Archibald of Soranton, Pa., against Superintendent Lamb of the New York State hospital for the criminal insane, which ordered the presence in Pittsburg of Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, to testify in bankruptcy proceedings, was dismissed by United States Judge James S. Y'oung. Elevators and Paper Mill Burn. A fire loss of more than $100,t00 was caused in Vineennes, Ind.. when the crain elevators of Dartlett, Kuhn & Co. of Ter'e Haute, along the river front. and the plant of the Empire Paper Com pany were destroyed by fires which at times threatened to get beyond control. More than fiO.OOO bushels of wheat and 1,000 bushels of corn were destroyed. Getz's Auto Explodes. George F. Getz, president of the Globe Coal Company and well known in club and social circles of Chicago, and two unidentified men may have met death in the explosion of Mr. Getz's large touring car near Hawthorne, III. Negro Murderer Is Slain. Charlie Mitchell, a negro murderer, was shot dead by Dock Rogers, a stonecutter, in a negro cabin at North Georgia quarries, at Lithonia. Mitchell bad slain a white man and was hunted down bv mem bers of his own race. Dies Trying to Save Pet Dog. Captain John Robinson of the barge Cutter was killed at Kelley Island, Lake Erie. Captain Robinson jumped into the water to save a pet dog and was caught between the .vessel and the dock and crushed. Burning Steamer la Beached. Fire did some damage in the forward hold of the Mallory Line steamer Colorado, bound from Tamia, Fla., for New York, and the vessel was run aground in Ilillsboro Day. The jwssengers are safe. Another Ohio County Dry. Coshocton county, Ohio, voted dry by a majority of oOl, after one of the bitterest local option contests so far conducted in (he State. The City of Coshocton voted "wet" by SSO. Ban on Sunday Work. The State Supreme Court sustained the legality of the Nebraska blue laws forbid ding almost all Sunday business transactions. The case came up on appeal of habeas corpus proceedings in behalf of John Ryan, an Omaha cigar dealer, and Jacob Caklwell, an Omaha barber, arrested under a State statute.

LITTLE FREE LAND IS LEFT.

Report Shows Only 83,339 Acres in Oklahoma Unappropriated. The rejMrt of the commissioner of the general land office shows that at the dose of the fiscal year there were but S4 ucres of unappropriated public domain in the State, only this small area remaining to be honiesteuded, out of the total area of 45,115,200 acres, aud as mountains streams, and, sandhills are included it can readily be seen that the opiortunity for securing government land in Oklahoma is very small. So great has been the demand for homes in the State that out of the twenty-six public land States of the nation twenty-two have unappropriated land greater in area than Oklahoma. Kansas, Alabama, Florida, Michigan and Louisiana each have over twise as much vacant land as Oklahoma ; Arkausas has over 1,000.000 acres untnken, and Nebraska, North "Dakota, Minnesota and Washington Lave over 2,000.000 each, while South Dakota lias 7,0otUMH, Oregon 17,000.000, Colorado 24,000,000, Idaho ami California :w.000.000, Wyoming and Utah 35,(X.000. Montana 45,000.000, and Nevada 01,000,000 acres of land subject to homestead or mineral entry. STATES TO FIGHT NIGHT RIDERS. Conferenco of Governors Planned to Concert Measures. A conference of the Governors of the tobacco and cotton growing States, in which night riders have been operating, will probably be held shortly after the election for the purpose of contriving measures to abate the evil, which, starting in Kentucky and Tennessee, has apparently spread and found lodgment in many other States. The suggestion that the conference le held came from Gov. Patterson of Tennessee and originated in the recent outrage at Keel foot Lake. Gov. Patterson in a published interview suggested such a conference, and his suggestion was brought to the att:tion of Gov. Willson of Kentucky by a telegram from a New York newspaper. A call for the conference probably will be issued in a few days, naming a date in Novem ber subsequent to the election. The Gov ernors of the following States and jossialy others will be asked to attend: Tennessee. Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. SNOW HOLDS TRAINS SIX DAYS. Tales of Hardship and Death Common at Medicine Hat. The first trains since Monday reached Medicine Hat, Sask., from the Kast Saturday evening. Riders got in from I he district south stretching to the Unite 1 States border, with fearful tales of hardship created by the storm. William Mitchell after riding since Wednesday just reached the city from his ranch, sixty miles south, and reported the second fatality as a result of the recent storm. Donald Cameron, sheep herder, with two o'.hers, were caught in the storm. They were forced to leave their sheep to perish and seek safety themselves. Cameron, however, became exhausted and died. After being sixty hours without sleep or nourishment 'he other two reached, a ranch in safely. It is feared that many other herders have perished. A band of 3,000 sheep were driven by the storm into Many Islands Lake and only SCO were saved. EARN SI 5 OR AVOID MARRIAGE. Harvard Expert Says Family Cannot Be Brought Up on Less in Cities. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor of economics at Harvard university, in an article printed the othc day says it is not in the interest of society or the laboring classes that men who cannot earn $15 a week should try to marry and bring up a family in a place like Boston. When persons who cannot earn $1.1 a week bring children into the world, the chance are that the children will be like them, he says. There will thus be a large suiply of unskilled laborers to crowd the market and make conditions worse for the superior laborers. II advocates the adjustment of the labor question and the exclusion of the ever-increasing stream of unskilled foreign laborers. EATS GREEK APPLES; FIRED. Soldier Must Do Hard Labor Six Months for Disobeying 0rder3. IIecau.se he ate green apples after repeated instruction from his superior officer not to do so, Private Rernard leiser of Dattery D, Third field artillery. U. S. A., has been dishonorably discharged from the service and sentenced to forfeit all pay and allowances due him and to be confined at hard labor for six months. The specific charge was "conduct to t!i prejudice of good order and military discipline, in violation of the sixty-second article of war." It was found rl at leiser ate the green apples after having received a lawful order from a sergeant to throw them away. Leiser will serve his sentence at Fort Myer, Ya. Beat Woman to Rob House. Three masked men cut the telephone wires outside of the Perkins home at Morristown, N. J., entered the house, knocked down one of the maid servants, attacked and choked Mrs. II. W. Miller, a sister of the ihree Misses Perkins, and ransacked the place. They obtained $2,0H) iu jewelry and soni'j money. Cholera on Gain in Manila. Seven new cases of cholera were retried in Manila for the day ending Sunday night. The increase in the spread of the disease is ascribed by the authorities to the nianj gatherings of the people od Saturday night and Sunday and the feasts that accompanied these assemblies The situation is not considered grave. Killed by Highway Robbers. Hugh MeGuire,' a well-known resident of Camp Hill, a Pittsburg suburb, wa? killed by highway robbers between that place and Carnegie. He was rendered unconscious by a blow on the head, and then thrown into the creek, where he drowned. MeGuire is thought to have had about $30 in his pocket. Promise $500,000 for Missions. An appropriation of $5oo.000 for mission work in the United States and in her possessions was pledged at the session of the convention of the Women'f Home Missionary Society of the Method ist Episcopal church in Philadelphia. Low Fare3 Are Beaten. Mayor Tom Johnson and his ."Went street-car plan- were beaten in Cleveland by a majority of 87.1 in a referendum vote. Used Stenographer as Dummy. Dank Examiner Moxey at trial iu New York charged C. W. Morse with bavin; used his stenographer as a dummy to borrow $125,000 from his own bank. Dies of Exposure in Open Boat. While trying to cross the harbor in a small boat from Motris Cove to Savig Rock, at New Haven, Conn., Howard II. Welch and Charles A. Prindle were carried out into Long Island sound by th wind and tide. Prindle died from exposure. Bank Cashier Indicted. Three indictments, containing thirtyeight counts, were returned by the federal grand jury in Pittsburg against William Montgomery, former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, which failed for over $1,000,000 recently.

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The Way -Minneapolis Journal. ARMY Ol' UNEMPLOYED. Marked Distress ir. Shipbuilding and Iron Industries in Britain. Dritain to-day lias more money than work. Redundant capital lies idle or at the unproductive interest of one per cent. Redundant labor is idle at the season when employment chould be at Its best. The distress is most marked hi the shipbuilding and iron industries. Unremunerative freights account for 14 more vessels being laid up in the Tyne l;:st week, making the total 94 or 300,OOO tonnage. In shipbuilding only 35,000 are employed, compared with 45,000 last year. Mr. Thackeray, president of the North of England Iron and Steel Trades Conciliation Hoard, declared that he could not remember trade so bad for 40 years, except in 1SS0. The Mersey docks are full of laid-up vessels, and there are thousands of sailors without ships, while 500 ships' oUcvrs are walking the streets instead of the normal 50 or CO out of employment. From (1,000 to 7,000 doekhands are without work. The Glasgow Distress Committee estimates that next winter 0,000 head. of families will require providing for, but funds are exhausted. , Eight shiiyards are without work. Shipbuilders trace the "slump" to the abnormal eost of production and the shrinkage in freights. In Manchester the engineering and shipbuilding trades are in a very bad state. Tlie workloss number 1.1.0OO. The Boilermakers' Trade Union reports about 10,000, or 20 per cent, unemployed, mainly due to the shipbuilding trade depression. Intensified by the engineering dispute on the northeast coast of England. The prospect for the immediate future is very bad. as members largely depend upon the vvbuilding trade. PAPER MADE OP CORN STALKS Government Chemists Find a Substitute for WciI Pulp. The chemists of the Department of Agriculture believe they have solved the problem of cheaper paper that will (lisIHnse Itogetlier with the use of wood liher. The new material is tihe ordinary cornstalk now used only as fodder. The government chemists predict i ho. the manufacture of the new kind of pnper is started on a large scale it will le at least .10 per cent cheaper than the print paper now made from wood pulp. It also will put an end to the danger of a pulp famine, which already lias begin, to assume alarming proportions. Prodigal extravagance in the cutting down of forest forest fires, and the increased demanj for wood of the spruce tree causal b the growth of newspapers all over the uorld have threatened to exhaust all the world's bupply of paper material. Many experiments have been ma Je to discover some other material to r:"lace the wood pulp. Some .1,0:) different materials have been tested, but vainly. The chemistry' bureau of the Department of Agriculture has been one of the most anlest, workers in this matter for 3-ear$, but not until this week have the results been so ositively successful as to permit nnj announcement. The first practicable camples of the new pajKT have been ranufaetured by Dr. II. S. Dristol and 1c assistants. Dr. Dristol has carried htj; experiments to the point of making the paper in five shades. The white paper is made from the hard outside shell Ol' the stalk ami the yellow grades vfrorr. the pi till. The yellow grades have Oi.iel longer fiber and resemble the iKipcr mad'' from linen rags or cotton. This kujiJ of paper is soft and pliable. Millions ot tons of cornstalks will be available for this new manufacture. At present the uralks are cut and used only as winter fooj for the stock on the farms. The precox of manufacturing the new invention is ruch easier than that involved in reducing Atod pulp to paper. Grcnemt Bntterfly Collection,, . The famous collection of butterflie and moths, comprising nearly 100,000 Neimens, and said to le the greatest collection in the world, has been sold by the widow of the collector, the late lieman Strecker of Reading, Pa., to the Field Museum of Chicago for $20,000. Sirs. Halnn WnnM Divorce. Mrs. Claudia L. Hains is suing her husband. Captain Peter Hains, fo? divorce. Ilalns is In a Long Island Jail awaiting trial for killing William Minis of New York. He claimed AMiis and Mrs. Hains were lovers and lie shot him to death at the Day View Yacht Club's dock in July. Mrs. Hains strenuously denies that there was anything wrong between her and Annis. She will probably be a witness against her husband. Secret of n Longer Life. Dr. Doyen, the noted French scientist, before the Congress of Medicine at Geneva, told of his experiments tending to prove Miat man may prolong life indefinitely, thus carrying into the field of practical application tihe theories of Prof. Metchnikoft. who discoveml the phagocytoe composed of white corpuscles in the blood. Doyen says that in multiplying the white corpuscles, "we increase the coeSIicb nt of vital resistance." He claims to have found a liquid v.'hieh :finitcly multiplies the white corpuscles. It is applied surgically, but the method is :ot made public. Can Cur Locomotor Ataxia. Dr. lie Grand Denslow of New York announced to members of the medical profession at the Academy of Medicine that he had discovered an absolute cure for the disease known as locomotor ataxia. In effect this disease results in tihe failure of the muscles to obey the will. The new method attains the disease from solely a surgical standpoint, and the root of the affection is found to be iu the form of erosions in the urinary tract. Th average yield of wheat to the acre in England far exceeds that of any other in the world with perhaps oae exception Denmark.

KEETING OF U. S. AND THE

JAP.

It Was Predicted and the Real Occurrence.

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

In the following table will be found- the number of votes each State is entitled to in the Electoral College and statistics of the result in 1904:

100S. States.

Electoral Parker Votes. Electors. Plurality.

Alabama .. Arkansas . . California . Colorado .. Connecticut 11 9 10 11 0 Delaware Florida . Georgia . 13 13 Idaho 3 Illinois 27 Indiana 1.1 Iowa 13 Kansas . Kentucky Louisiana 10 13 U 0 S Hi 13 9 Maine Maryland Ma ssacb uset t s Michigan 14 Minnesota 11 Mississippi 10 10 Missouri Montana OliTilSlvtl Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey IS S 4 12 39 12 4 ) 7 4 34 4 9 4 12 New York North Carolina North Dakota . Ohio . . .' Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania . Rhode Island . South Carolina 12 South Dakota Tennessee . . . 12 IS Texas ... IS Utah 3 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Washington 5 West Virginia 7 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 3 12 Totals .483 140 Electoral votes necessary to a The Royal Canadian Yacht Club has decfded to challenge for the Canada cup, now held by the Rochester, N. Y., Yacht Club, the race to take place in 1909. Imc 0. Weir, who as "Ike Weir the P.eUast spider" won the featherweight boxiiig championship of the world twenty .ve-ari? ago, is dead at Somerville, Mass. Arrangements for a Marathon race, the first to be held on the Pacific coast, have Is en made by the .Century Athletic Club. The course of twonty-five miles will extend from Eruitdale to Haywards over shaded roads and canyons. The race will probably be run Thanksgiving day. The Royal Automobile Club race on the Is!t of Man, which was won by W. Watson, probably will be the last to bo run on a public highway in Great Dritain. Opposition to it on the part of the generaj public has been strong and, were it not for lack of jurisdiction over the Isle of Man, the local government board, of which John Durns is president, undoubtedly would have prohibited the contest. Ituth Dillon, a 4-year-old Sidney Dillon trotter, owned by Sterling R. Ho!t of Indianapolis, and driven by Millard Sanders, surprised 15,000 race goers at Columbus by winning all three heats of the Hoster-Columbus stake, valued at $10,0K). Ruth was nowhere in the batting, beinff overlooked almost entirely and sellin?: at $10 in pools of $22.1. Spanish tjueni wns the first choice, while there was a heavy play on Aquin. Jerry P., the chestnut gelding by Argot Wilkes, driven by Cox, captured the big end of -the $5,000 purse hung up for the 2:13 pace by St. Paul business men for St. Paul day at the Minnesota fair. At Columbus, Ohio, lledgewood Roy, so strong a favorite for the free-for-all pace in the grand circuit card that he was barred in the first heat betting, was given a beating by Citation, but the Illinois mare had to set the world's record to do it. Her heats in 2:Ot?i and 2:03, followed by lledgewood Roy in 2:0211, are the fastest two ever paced by a mar in a race. Alleging that Rattling Nelson wcuM have been physically unable to. meet Joe Gam in the ring on July 4, if it had not been for his services as a physcia&. Dr. Hen Apple of San Francisco has fileJ a suit for $150. He says this fee i.i due from the lightweight champion o the world. Whether to allow open practice this j ear is the question which is lothring the University of Iowa football coaches at the present time. The abolishing of fa -ere practice will Increase the intorest of the student body and Coaches Catlin and tJriflith are seriously considering the change. It the free-for-all race for the 'American championship at the national motor boat carnival on the Hudson, E. J. SVhivder's Dixie II. and J. II. Iloadley's Den were the only starters. The Dixie II. von the race easily, defeating the Den 17 minutes S seconds. The course was triangular, of ten miles, covered three time thirty miles in all. The pixie II. .!vered the course in 00 minutes 51 secojds, or 30.95 miles an hour. A meeting of the presidents of the jocky club racing in Ontario and Quebec uns held in Toronto. From this meeting will develop the Canadian Racing Association, which body vill assume control, of the turf in the Dominion.

Result of Presidential Election in 1004.

Roosevelt Electors. Plurality. 57.3S5 17,574 115,822 34.582 38, ISO 4,351 10 .1 7 1S.732 50,400 3 27 15 13 10 29,303 305,030 93,911 1.18,70; 120,093 11.S93 42,542 G 1 10 14 11 18 S 3 4 12 39 30,791 51 92,070 227,715 IC.l.UM 50,1SI 11,137 13,159 SIJ.0S2 2.885 20.1S.1 S0.59.S 175,552 u . 255,421 42.931 5C5..119 10,700 50,11 1 41,079 4 24 4 4 50,00!) 20.284 115,958 29,033 30,082 73,442 31,7' Vi 1.10,057 11,559 3,CM 10,902 4 . . 5 7 o o2,7GS 52MS2 choice, in 190S, 242. APPLE CROP 25,000,000 BARRELS. Estimated Yield Is Fully as Large a5 1007 Despite Droughts. . If the apples harvested in the commercial orchards of the United States this year were converted Into pies there would 1 0,250,000,000 of them, which, placed side by side, would make a path of almost 975,000 miles. The total weight of this' mountain of pastry would be about 9,250,000,000 pounds, Including G,125,000,000 iounds of flour, lard and other Ingredients in the iopular American dessert. For transportation 151,100 cars of standard capacity would be required. Twenty-live million barrels, or 02.500,000 bushels, is the estimated yield this season, according to reports received by Harry J. Neely, secretary of the nat'onal apple show of Spokane, from 15,000 growers operating in the various belts In the union. The returns show that while droughts, excessive rains or pests wrought havoc in many districts in the middle western, eastern and several southern States, the entire crop is fully cs large as In 1907, and it is better distributed. Prices also lire higbe'r than last year. Mercury- for Tnlierrnloil. Medical Inspector Hibbett of the navy has transmitted to the department a paper written by Surgeon D. L. Wright on the treatment of tuberculosis with mercury at the naval hospital at Newport, R. I. From this it would appear that mercury, judiciously used, "is a specific in the treatment of tuberculosis in all its forms." In some of tjie cases treated the patients were almost at death's door. ALL AROUND THE GLOBE. Mrs. Warren, wife of Dr. Warren, Methodist bishop of Colorado, is suing the estate of Hannah E. Foster, former Denver red light queen, to foreclose a mortgage securing a loan of $5,009 seventeen years ago. President Roosevelt has received the resignation of Hamilton Fish, Assistant Treasurer of the United States nt New Y'ork, to take effect Oct. 21, Mr. Fish having been nominated by the Republicans of the Twenty-first District as candidate for Congress. Delegates from thirty-three States of the United States and. five Canadian provinces and the presidents of several universities were present at the meeting of the International Tax Association, umil this year known as the National Association, at Toronto, Can. The people and government of Scrvia were greatly excited over the annexation of Herzegovina and Dosnia by Austria and demanded from the powers guarantees that the independence of Servia be respected if it lie not possible to prevent the annexation of Jhcse provinces. The people are reported to be arming for a guerrilla warfare. In welcoming the Interparliamentary Union to Derlin, Chancellor Von Duelow said that his people longed for peace founded on right and justice, and bad proved their sincerity by years of peace keeping. Nineteen countries are represented in this year's session of the union. Prince Henry von Schonaich-Carolath was elected president and Congressman Dartholdt of the United States vice president. When the union reassembled Friday a message from the Kaiser was read saying that peace was dear to his heart. In the last half-dozen years the earnings of tin cable lines between Europe and India show an annual profit of $1 000,000 to $1,200,000.

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Canadian River in Oklahoma Leaves 1 ,Its Banks Carrying Disaster to Scores of Farms. MANY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY. People Pass Night in Trees, Then, Benumbed by Exposure, Drop to Death in Waters. One hundred and twenty persons are reported dead as a result of a sudden overflow of the Canadian river iu Oklahoma, caused by a cloudburst. Huudreds of others sought refuge in trees and higher ground during the flood, and many of these have not been heard from. It is feared the death list will lie even larger. The disaster came as the climax of a long period of drought. The river was low, and the jieople had neglected the usual precautions against floods, which nearly always are threatening the Canadian valley. Overwhelmed by Cloudburst. Rain had been falling for several hours, when the greatest fall ever experienced in this region of changeable weather came down. The river at once became a raging torrent and went over its banks with a rush. Many farms were overflowed, buildings were carried down the stream, and people swept Into the water. One family, consisting of father, mother and five children, sought refuge on top of their house when it was surrounded by the waters. It was soon overwhelmed and all were drowned. Many thrilling rescues were made by those living on higher ground. Boats of every description were pressed Into service and iieriious trips made to the flooded district. Many people passed the night in "trees, and, benumbed ot last hy the exposure, dropped to death in the waters bflow. In the valley of the Canadian tie valleys for several miles between Shawnee and McLoud are inundated, and In several places the Rock Island, Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Santa Fe tracks have been washed cut MM Judge Wood of the Mississippi Chancery Court has declared unconstitutional the recent act of the Legislature which penalizes railroads which remove causes from the State to the federal courts. The cjuestion came up in the case of'the State against the Louisville and Nashville road. Officers of the anthracite railroads have notified sales agents in eastern citie that indications now favor a serious shortage in the domestic sizes of coal the coming winter, as the total output of the mines up to Sept. 1 was 2,000,000 tons less than at the same period last year. The mines will be operated at full capacity from this on. Asserting that its passenger business now results in a loss of $3,000.000 a year in consequence of 'he two-cent rate law, the Philadelphia and Reading railroad (lias begun suit to overthrow the Pennsylvania two-cent rate law. The recent decision of the Supreme urt of the State in the case brought by the Pennsylvania railroad against the same law was against the law, but only in so far as that railroad was concerned. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas and fifty-five ot2ier Western and Southwestern railroads filed a suit in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul, asking that the Interstate Commerce Commission be temporarily restrained from enforcing an order lowering the rates on cattle shipment from Texas, New Mexico. Oklahoma and Kansas to Chicago, St. Douis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph and New Orleans. The Federal Circuit Court at Philadelphia permitted the government to ai"peal from its decision against the validity of the commodity clause of the rate bill, which prohibited the coal railroads from owning or operating coal nines or other commodities, except lumber, carried as freight. The appeal to the Supreme Court is based upon ten alleged errors. It is denied that the clause is not a valid exercise of the powers of Congress and also that the measure would deprive the railroads of their property without due process of law. It is also contended that the Circuit Court erred in declaring the law discriminative and prohibitive rather than regulative. Counsel for both sides will ask the Supreme Court to give this case precedence over all others on ac-1 count of its great importance. Judge Bufilngton on the same day filed his dissenting opinion on the original case, holding the. law to be constitutional. The government's case against the coal railroads of the East, excepting the Pennsylvania, Delaware and Hudson, and the Ontario and Western, was resumed before Examiner Guilbert at New York, and J. S. Harris, former president and now a director of the Reading road, was the principal witness. WJien asked if the coal roads had ever combined to fix prices, he replied that he diad never heard of such a, thing. His memory failed him on nearly all of the questions implying anything to the contrary. Once he admitted that there had been an agreement to limit the output, but said it was never lived up to. President Finley of the Southern railway, in his annual report, draws attention to one quite significant effect of the industrial depression upon labor. He has discovered that his employes are more attentive and willing because they know that some one is waiting and longin? for their jobs. On this account he figures that so much more and better work has been done that the operating expenses have been greatly reduced. In the face of a decrease of $0:)2,O15 in gross earnings for the month of March there was shown a decrease of nearly a million dollars in operating expenses as compared with the same month of last year. Conferences between President Shaughnessy of the Canadian Pacific and the receivers of the Chicago Great Western railroad have convinced many observers that the Canadian Pacific is to take over the Great Western, and that a traffic alliance has already been formed. Attorneys for railroads which are threatened with a loss of millions of dollars in revenues as a result of the famous Missouri river rate case decision, are confident that a rehearing of the" case will be granted by the interstate commerce commission. A conference of the attorneys was held in Chicago, at which the preparation of a petition to the coa mission for a rehearing was begun.

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CHICAGO. The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade, published by R. G. Dun & Co- says: Statistical comparisons now begin with the week a year ago when the depression started. Further evidence of sustained recovery is furnished by increasing payments through the Lanks and a commercial mortality which is lower than the corresponding weeks of 1007 and 1JWJ. Distribution of finiied products and general merchandise exhibits a wider volume, although variable weather retards a seasonable absorption in leading rwail branches here and at the inferior. Agricultural reports are more gratifying, corn being m good condition and rains ample for the completion of winter wheat seeding. The rirkets for the principal grains f&ow decline in values and the aggregate movement here is smaller, but flour sales remain exceptionally heavy, and there is strong buying of bo'a provisions end live stock on improved supplies. Wholesale markets disclose - a lighter attendance of outside buyers and house dealings in the staples are les active, although the comparison with this time last year is not unfavorable in textiles and fabrics, clothing and footwear. Manufacturing generally advances as well as expected, especially in iron and metal working, but the underlying conditions form & healthy basis Tor improvetaent in tfce near future." Delaj-ed contracts were closed this week for considerable tonnage of struc tural steed and rails. Rolling stock is now in better request, more cars being requisite to meet the expanding freight offerings. Money is in abundant supply and rates for commercial paper average about 4V per cent for choice needs. The outgo of currency to move crops has slackened, and there is 'quiet in investment operations, commitments being mainly suspended until the election is over. Rank .clearings, $2ÖO,023.r71, are C.5 per cent under those of corresjwnding week in 1007. Failures reported in Chicago district number 18, against 21 last week. 28 a year ago and 21 in ltJC Those with liabilities over $.",000 number a gab st 2 last week, C a year ago and 7 in 11XKJ. . NEW Y0EK. Retail trade still reflects the influence of warm weather and the approach of election breeds conservatism as regards heavy buying and the projection of new enterprises. Ilovtever, there is more doing and more confident buying of raw material by manufacturers, who apparently forecast a change for the better in tihe latter part of this year or the early part ,of next. , The large movement of wheat to market is responsible for the optimistic tenor of reports from . distributive centers in the Northwest. Effects of the drought are shown in almost total suspension of steamboat traffic on the Ohio river and its tributary, the holding up of large quantities of cord along that stream, the prevalence of destructive forest fires and the low stage of water supplies. "Reports as to collections vary, being best in the Northwest and poorest in the South. The situation in textile lines is interesting and not without encouragement. While jobbing trade is confined largely to small imnieuiiite vhipmert or filling-hv orders, there is fair activity in the Chicago district and farther west, where the breaking of the dronght lias helped sentiment. More interest has been developed in the iron and sieel market, nd considerable new business has been done in tue East in basic pig. Dusiness failures in the United States for the week ending Oct. 22 number 231, against 244 last week. 220 in the like week of 1!C7. 1S4 in 1000, 17S in 1003 and ISO in H. Rusincss failures in Canada, for the week ending with Oct. 22 number 81, which compares with 29 last week and iJO in this' week last year. Dradstreet's Commercial Report. ras Chicago Cattle, common to Tr!me. $4.00 to $7.00: (hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep,, fair to choice, $:100 to $1.40; wheat. No. 2, OSc to $1.00; corn. No. 2, 70c to 71c; oats, standard, 40c to 47c; rye. No. 2. 74c to 7.V; hay. timothy. $8.00 to $13.K; prairie, $8.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 20c; eggs, fresi. 23e to 2,V; potatoes, per bushel, o2c to 02g ' St. Iiouis Cattle, $4-V) to $7.2o; hogs. $4.00 to $0.00; fTjcep, $3.00 to $4.2."; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.0.1; com. No. 2, 01c to 0Tc; oats. No. 2, 4."c to 4ic; rye, Xo. 2, 72c to 7:c. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $."..0; hogs, $4.00 to $-".;): sheep, $3.00 to $3.7.".: wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2 mixed, 7ro to 70c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 48c to 4ic; rye. No. 2, SOc to S2c. Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $1.."X); bogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50; wfaeat. No. 2, $1) to $1.02: corn. No. 3 yellow, 77c to 70e; oats No. 3 white, 4:c to ."VOc; rye. No. 2, 70c to iic. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 , northern, $1.(3 to $1.0-"; com. No. 3, &c to 70c; oats, standard, ."0c to 51c; rye. No. 1, 73c to 74c; barley, No. 1, C3c to 04c; port, mess, $13X0. Duffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $G.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.2.i; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $4.7.": lambs, fair to choice. K.00 to $G.no. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $.'0; hogs, $3.50 to $o.ST; sheep. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.07 to $1.08; corn. No. 2, 70c to 77c; oats, natural white, 50c to 52c; butter, creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, western, 21c to 25c. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.00 0 $1.02; corn. No 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; oats. No 2 mixed. 4tc to .W?: rye. No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; clover seed, October, 4.03. Indianapolis-Battle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $0.05; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01 ; corn. No. 2 wtoite, 7Gc to 77c ; Otts, No. 2 white, 4& to 41c Four new steamships are to be built for the White Star line service. Two will be the largest ever launched. leing between 900 and 1,000 feet in length. In a fight over an estate left by their father. Joseph and Thomas Mattingly, aged 3S and 35. resjwtively, were killed at Cranesvillc, V. Va. John Dykeman. son of William N. Pykeman, of Rrooklyn, was seriously injured while taking part in the drag hunt of the Meadowbrook Club, near Hemp Ftead, N. Y. After the hunt he was foucd unconscious in a field. Physicians say he is suffering from concussion of the brain. Edmund II. Tost, a farmer of Webster, N. Y was arretted at Niagara Falls When he attempted to send a telegram to George J. Gould, claiming the hand of Miss Helen Gould in marriage. lie was committed to the State Insane Ar j lam la Buffalo.

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