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11 i f Ä P. M. (T L. Q. TN. M. "T F. Q. glst. Vj 8th. yrlöth. j 23rd. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telegraphic Information Gathered by the Few for tha Enlightenment mi the Many. Took All the Cash from Bank. The First National Bank of Tipton, Ind., one of the old financial Institutions of Northern Indiana, Is closed and its assistant cashier, Noah R. barker, has disappeared, taking with him between $30,000 and $60,000, which was all the cash that was in the bank's vaults. Marker, after sweeping together the money, set the time lock ci the safe so that it could not be opened for some time and left on a traction car for Indianapolis. Marker left a note on the desk of his brother, William Marker, cashier of the bank, saying that he had gone forever and that he had taken "enough money to pay his expenses." The fact that he had emptied the cash box of ' nearly $G0,000 was not known until the time lock gave admittance to the Tault. Whether or not Marker had previously taken money from the bank's funds and had covered up the defalcations by making false entries In the books cannot be learned until the arrival of a national bank examiner. Robert Pitcairn Is Dead. Robert Pitcairn is dead. He passed away quietly at his home, "Carincarque " Ellsworth and Amberson avenues, 'Shady si de. Pa., surrounded by members of his family. Mr. Pitcairn was in his seventy-fourth year. Three years ago he retired as resident assistant to the president or the Pennsylvania railroad. However, he continued In business for himself. One year ago he started to decline physically, although he retained his bright mental activity. His breakdown was rapid, and three months ago friends realized that death was a matter of a few weeks. He came from Scotland when a boy ard went to work in a store. His llfcfbng friend and boyhood companion, Andrew Carnegie, waa at that time working in Pittsburg as a messenger boy, and he induced Mr. Pitcairn to give up his place iu the store and take a position on the messenger force. This was really the beginning of the life which afterward turned out ec brilliantly. Auto Plunged Down Bnak One Dead. William S. Meredith was killed, George Blackwell severely hurt and Harry Styner painfully Injured when an automobile driven by Styner dashed down an embankment near the Wabash river and was wrecked against a tree. The three men were returning to Lafayette, Ind., from an amusement park. Airship Company Formed in Ohio. The first airship company formed in Ohio has Jost beea chartered by the Secretary of State. It is the Bostel Airship Company, of Cleveland, capital stock 25,000, which Is authorized to manufacture and sell airships, aviators, aeroplanes and to transport passengers and freight through space. Woman Gave Birth to Five. Mrs. Thomas Reuwick, of Newark, N. J.. 35 years old. and already the mother of three children, gave birth to five infants, four living and perfectly formed, though very weak, the fifth malfonred and dead. None lived more than fifteen minutes. Two Killed by Street Car. Enoch Rees, city agent of the Pru dential Life Insurance Company at "Winnipeg, Man., and E. O. Olleit, a laundryman, in trying to avoid a street car, ran in front cf another going In the opposite direction and both were killed. Political P.iots in Mexico. Over two hundred arrests have been made, a score more or less seriously injured, including two Americans, and two are reported dead a3 a result of political riots in the city of Guadala jara, Mexico. Oldest Catholic Priest in the World. Stanislaus Machorski, deacon of Lis sewo, died at Thorn, Prussia, at the age of 102 years. He was the oldest Catholic ecclesiastic in the world. Former Mistress of White House Dead. Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge, the daughter of President Zacharyx Taylor, and a former mistress of the White House, died at Winchester, Va., after a brief illness, aged 86 years. ' Louis Bleriot Crosses Channel. Lotus Bleriot, the French aviator, successfully landed at Dover after a flight in his aeroplane across the Eng llsh Channel. He is reported to have teen slightly injured. ; Strike in Muskogee. Six hundred teamsters and laborers mployed on street paving and sewer contracts, struck at Mutkogee, Okia., following a 15 per cent reduction as m result of enforcement by the State Board of Labor Commissioners of the giight-hour law. Interurban Goes Over Embankment. A south-bound limited car on the Winona & South Bend road ran over the embankment at Milford, Ind., and ;was nearly turned over. The passen sjers were not injured. She Had Jilted Him. Because she had Jilted him, Private Chas. O'Neil. of the Thirteenth Infan try, stationed at Ft- Leavenworth, Kas., shot and killed MInnio Schar bora, aged 23, a French maid em ployed in the home ot Captain Mur pry. O'Neil escaped. Princess Not to Marry Manuel. The report published in the Lisbon newspapers that King Manuel, of Por tugal, is to be betrothed to Princess Alexandria, of Fife, is given authoritative denial In London, England.

GALVESTON 18 SAVED

BY ITS NEW SEA WALL Hurricane Attacks City, but Barrier Keeps Out Waters of Gulf of iMexico. NOT ONE LIFE LÖST "tf CITY City tactically Assured of Immunity from Disaster Like That of 1900. Attacked by a hurricane almost as severe as that which killed thousands of persons and practically wrecked every building in the city, Galveston on Wednesday weathered the storm with a los3 of life thought to have been only sixteen, and without greater property loss than would have attended the storm had it struck any other city of equal size. Not a life was lost in Galveston proper, so far as is known, but the hurricane demolished a new tarpon fishing pier on the north jetty, across the bay, six miles from the city. IT wa3 here that the fatalities occurred, and i is thought tha there were only thirteen guests on the pier. These perished, with Capt. Bettison, the manager, and his wife and daughter. Fifty other fishermen had a narrow escape from the fate that overtook tha guests at the new pier. Galveston is assured now of Its practical immunity from another dis aster like that of 1900. A general feeling of confidence has resulted from the splendid action ct Ihe sea wan, Which" resisted the onslaught of the sea, backed by the hurricane which beat in vain on the concrete wall seventeen feet high surrounding the city on the gulf side of the island. WEST NEEDS 50,000 MEN. Appeals for Harvest Help Heard at National Capital. A cry for help to harvest the sea son's crops comes from the West to officials of the Department of Com merce and Labor in Washington, one of whose duties is to find employment wherever possible for the throngs of aliens who come to this country. Fif ty thousand able-bodied men are want ed badly by the farmers, says Representative Stevens of Minnesota, who has been in conference with Assistant Secretary McHarg and other officials of the department. Mr. Stevens says the West is literally begging for help to gather the large wheat and other crop3. Although the officials are more than willing to assist, they are not able to do much because of the almost penni less conditions of irany immigrants. Mr. McHarg is heartily in favor of the suggestion of Commissioner Will iams at the Ellis Island station that immigrants should possess at least $23 on landing to prevent their becoming public charges. He believes that the problem of relieving the congested centers could be solved by the railroads if they offered to transport passengers at actual cost to sections where profitable employment could be found. The railroads would profit In the end, he declares because they would carry back the product of the aliens' labor. WOMEN FIGHT WOLF PACK. Mother and Daughter Found Ei haunted After Dattle for Life. Exhausted and on the verge of collapse from their harrowing experience, Mrs. W. J. Geoker, wife of the Salt Lake Railway station agent at Crestline, thirty miles east of San Bernardino, Cal., and her 11-year-old daughter, have reached their home after a two-day battle with a pack of wolves. For forty-eight hours they had been Imprisoned in a lonely cabin on a deserted sheep ranch eighteen miles from home by the hungry wolves. While the husband and father, aided by a gang of 150 section hands, ordered out by the division superintendent, searched for them, the women were beating off with clubs the attacks of the wolves which tried to get at them by tearing off the sides of the cabin and digging under its foundations. The mother and daughter were found totally exhausted.; They had sustained themselves with a few crusts of hard bread found in the hut. C. P. Shea Sent to Prtion. Cornelius P. Shea, formerly a Chi cago labor leader and president of the International Teamsters' Union, who was found guilty of attempting to murder Alice Walsh, a former Chicago waitress with whom he had been llv Ing in New York, was sentenced to not less than five nor more than twenty-five years in prison. Divorce to Xovellst'a Wife. Mrs. Ella Sterling Mighels was granted a divorce in San Francisco from Philip Verrill Mighels, a novelist of New York, on the ground of desertion. Mighels is a nephew-In-law of Robert Davis, editor of Munsey's. Neir Bedford IIa f 200,000 Fire. The plant of the New Bedford Cordage Company, In New Bedford, was partly destroyed by fire to-day. The loss is estimated at between $200,000 and $300,000. Oshkoah IIa 9100,000 Fire. A loss of $100,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the greater part of the yards of the Foster Lothman Lumber Company in Oshkosh. It is estimated that 2,225.000 feet of lumber was destroyed. The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin. CoMkuaitx Suicide at Sanitarian. W. 3. Kerr, 33 years old, of Key West. Fla., committed suicide at a Colorado Springs sanitarium, by taking carbolic acid. Kerr was despondent because of ill health. Sumatra IIa a Severe Quake. New3 was brought to Victoria, B. C, by the Norwegian steamer Tricolor from Sourabaya, Java, of a disastrous earthquake on the west coast of Sumatra, the second largest island 'in the Malay archipelago, in mid-June. According to the report received by the Tricolor COO lives were lost. Dvndits nob Hank Get f 1,000. The State Bank of Tulare, S. D., was robbed Wednesday. The safe was tlowa and $ 1,S00 secured. Three mei wer In the gang and they escaped.

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Chicago Tribune. 1,000,000 RAIN HITS DULTJIH. City is Flooded by the Second Storm of Twenty-four Hours. Duluth was flooded in the night Wednesday for the second time In twenty-four hours, and the damage may reach $1,000,000. The damage to streets alone will be several hundred thousand dollars. Scores of basements are flooded. Twp and three-fifths inches of rain fell in about an hour and a half. The avenues were rivers. The water ran both ways on Superior street and for several blocks each side of Lake avenue. The water was two feet deep on the sidewalk on the lower side of Superior street. The water poured Into the floor of the Bijou Theater, where a performance was in progress, and a panic was narrowly averted. The street car service was demoralized. The St. Louis Hotel basement had seven feet of water in it and the house was In darkness. Automobiles were abandoned In the streets for the night. PRIEST BEATS BISHOP IN SUIT. Court Rutins- Allow Father Mnrphr to Hold Services In Nebraska. Several weeks ago Bishop Bonacum appeared before District Judge Dungan and secured a temporary order restraining Father Murphy from holding services in Ulysses or in any other Catholic diocese of Lincoln, Neb. The hearing came before Judge Dungan, and he not only refused to grant permanent injunction, but refused a supersedeas bond. The decision permits Father Murphy to hold services at any place in the xliocese. After the decision, and Efter receiving congratulations, he announced that he will say mass in his old Ulysses church. The bishop will appeal to the Supreme Court. LINES RESTORE SCALE OF WAGES Una tern Traction Company Rnamei Hour Hate .Without Request. About 3,000 motormen and conductors employed by the Interstate Railways Company on traction Hne3 in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware were surprised Thursday when the controlling company announced that after Aug. 1 there would be a resumption of the 18 cents an hour wage rate from which a reduction of Wi cent3 was made a year ago. The company's officials had promised an increase as soon as business would warrant. No demand was made by the workmen. or About 150 head of horses are now being worked at the Minnesota State Fair grounds. Some of the horses are attracting marked attention. PInte, P. T. Chlnn's Ethelbert-Yaque gelding, won the Canadian Derby at Fort Erie. Clambala, the favorite, got off badly, and never could get to the field. Yale Is strong on base ball, and it proved this conclusively in the recent contest with Harvard. Harvard was vanquished, the score being 5 to 2 in favor of Yale at the end of the ninth inning. A $2,500 cash prize has been offered by James Gordon Bennett, which will go to the winner of the championship cup in the international balloon races to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, next October. Mrs. II. C. Schneiter, of St Louis, has started on a 1,500-mile pedestrian trip to Boston. She is accompanied by her husband. They will travel about thirty-five miles dally, making the trip In forty-five days. Columbus and Toledo recently played the longest base ball game In ihe history of the American Association while dedicating the new field (Swayne field), Toledo's new ball park. Columbus won in the eighteenth inning by a score of 12 to 11. The two fastest trotters In training at any tracks of the country are at the Detroit tracks. The trotters are Hamburg Belle (2:04). and Jack Leyburn (2:044). S. C. Hildreth's Dalmation won the great trial stakes, alx furlongs, at Sheepshead Bay, defeating a highclass field of youngsters, Including J. K. Kee ne's hitherto unbeaten Survey. The Higglns trophy, ofTered to teams of the Women's Western Golf Association, went to the Midlothian Country Club, of Chicago, by virtue of the playoff of the tie between th&t club and the Ixa Angeles club. Manager Frank Hull hag planned a tour of the world for former champion John Lv. Sullivan. The tour will include Australia and the orient. Sullivan and Jake Klintin have been giving three-round boxing exhibitions in Canada. The big regattas of 1909 are over. and water racing honors belong to Harvard and Cornell. Cornell made two new records. One in the fouroared race and the other in the fresh man's race. In connection with the Cornell races there is a rumor that Wisconsin will hereafter conllne her efforts and activities to the Middle West.

THE CHURCH."

STORM DEAD TWENTY-ONE. Fourteen Missing Along Gulf Coast and Property Damage $750,000. Twenty-one reported dead, fourteen missing, ten injured and a property loss totaling $750,000 is the result of the storm which raged over the southern coast of Texas Wednesday. Of those missing, thirteen are the members of the families of three brothers Abernathy, who left High Island Tuesday, intending to go to Sabine Pass. They traveled by wagon and were to camp out on the beach during Tuesday night, resuming their journey Wednesday. Part of their equipment has been found, the animals which drew the wagon drowned, but searching parties have found no trace of the three men, their wives or the seven children who made up the party. The storm practically demolished the town of Velasco, but only one life was lost. FRENCH CABINET OVERTHROWN. Cleniencrau ministry Goes Dona tu Defeat Suddenly la Vote. The Clemenceau cabinet fell suddenly Tuesday night under dramatic circumstances, at the conclusion of a violent debate In the French Chamber of Deputies over the naval scandals, extending over several days. On a vote of confidence In the government the vote stood 176 in favor and 212 opposed. M. Clemenceau and his fellow ministers immediately left the chamber. The premier proceeded directly to President Fallleres and offered his res ignation, which the President accepted. M. Delcasse, chairman ot the Investigating commission, had led the attack upon the navil administration, especially that during the Incumbency of M. Pelletan and M. Thomson, former ministers of marine. WYLLIE'S SLAYER TO DIE. Indian Student Found Guilty In Trial of Lea than Hour. Sentenced to death after a trial lasting less than an hour, Madarial Dhinagri, the Indian student who killed Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hütt Curzon Wyllle and Dr. Lalaca, in London, England, when asked if he had anything to say told the Lord Chief Justice his" sentence was illegal and would be avenged when India had the power now England's. Dhlnagri refused to plead or defend himself and said he was proud to suffer for his country. A. F. Hossley, publisher of the Indian Sociologist, was sent to prison for four months for publishing incendiary articles. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Progress of Pennant It ace In Do.se Ball Leagues, NATIONAL LEAGUE. nttsburg ..60 23 Philadel'a ..36 45 Chicago ...54 28 St. Louis ..34 47 New York.. 47 33 Brooklyn ..32 52 Cincinnati .43 52 Boston 24 59 assst MEKICAX LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Detroit ...57 31 Chicago 52 45 Phliadel'a .48 37 New York.. 39 47 Boston 51 40 St. Louis ..38 50 Cleveland .47 38 Wash'gton .25 59 AMEBIC A ASSOCIATION. W. L, W. L. Milw'kee ..54 45 Columbus ..49 50 Minn'polis .53 46 Toledo 45 51 Louisville .51 48 Kan. City... 44 50 St. Paul... 48 47 Ind'polis ...46 53 Loaf Branch Fire Swept. Fire swept across the southern part of the business section of Long Branch, N. J., and caused $100,000 damage. Starting In a livery stable near Second avenue, the flames spread rapidly to frame structures on both sides, destroying a dozen buildings. None of these, however, were of great value, with the exception of the Coulter House, which had not been opened this season. No one was seriously injured. Falls 200 Feet, but Lives. Falling 200 feet down Mount Tlmpanogas, In Provo Canyon, Utah, T. A. Davoud, an electrical engineer, employed at the Telluride Power plant, escaped with two scalp wounds and minor Injuries, from which he will probably recover. Train Kill Largest 17. S. SoliTler. Private George A. Hedgepath was killed at Fort Monroe. Va., by falling beneath a train. Hedgepath weighed 319 pounds and was the largest man in the army. Hurls Uofflb at Crowd. A dynamite bomb thrown into the midst of a crowd surrounding a street vender in Woonsocket, It. I., injured nine persons, one of whom will die. The bomb thrower was not arrested and the cause of the throwing of the missile 13 a mystery. Dlater In a Prussian Mine. Firedamp exploded in a mine at Mansfield. Prussia. Three dead and many unconscious miners have been taken out. It is not known how man7 still are in the mine.

ERIE TRAIN IS HELD UP.

Wild West Tactics Used Successfully Just Outside of Gotham. Reports of a hold-up of passengers on an Erie Railroad train in which western-bound immigrants were the victims, reached New York Fri lay night. The reports came from Middletown, N. Y., and said that the hold-up occurred just after the train had left the Bergen tunnel in New Jersey. The train is known as the Western Express and leaves Jersey City at 12:10 a. m. The varying reports of the affair say that either one or two men stepped into the first of two day coaches bound west and, holding the passengers at bay with revolvers, stripped them of money and valuables. Before the train crew discovered that there had been a robbery, it is said, the train was almost at Middletown, N. Y., the first stop after leaving Jersey City. The robber or robbers in the meantime had made good their escape. While the robbers were at work there was a wild scene in the car. The men, women and children, just landed in a strange country and unable to make themselves understood, became panic-stricken when the robbers covered them with revolvers and compelled them to turn over their property. Many of the women fainted, while the children added their cries to the uproar. SHEA MAY GET 25 YEARS. Former Head of Teamsters Found Guilty of Attempt to Murder. Cornelius P. Shea, 36 years old, of 222 West 13th street, New York, formerly president of the International Brotherho?d of Teamsters, who led the big teamsters strike in Chicago, was convicted of attempted murder by a jury in special sessions before Judg-3 Foster In that city. The prosecuting witness was Miss Alice Walsh, 24 years old. Shea's crime was one of the most brutal on record. He met Miss Walsh while leading the strike In Chicago and brought her back to New York with him. He quarreled with her in the apartment house at 223 West 13th street on May 21 and stabbed her more than twenty-seven times with a pocket knife. The woman nearly died from the severity of her wounds, but at last recovered and brought action against her assailant. The maximum punishment vfor tha crime of which Shea was convicted Is twenty-five years In prison. FROM '$5,000 A YEAR TO THIEF. eiv York Man Find Banker's Life Too Quiet, So Turns Ilurjjtlar. When Ralph Sherman was caught at Far Rockaway with rich loot taken from the home of Reuben Sadowsky he confessed to the police that In six years he had fallen from the position of foreign correspondent for the firm of Knautn, Nachod & Kuhxe, bankers at 13 William street, New York, receiving $3,000 a year, to the crimes of a burglar. Sherman is 27 years old, and speaks seven languages. In the police station-house a gold watch and six stickpins were found In his possession. As he said, he had turned burglar because he was tired of a quiet life in a bank. NON-UNION SLAYER ACQUITTED. Police and Coroner Find Cleveland Killing Was Justified. James G. Purvis, of Detroit, Mich., the non-union marine engineer who killed two strikers. Injured one other and barely escaped with his life at the hands of strike sympathizers who attempted to lynch him in Cleveland on a recent night, was discharged by both the police and the county coroner. The official found that Purvis acted in self-defense only. . r - ri -J1 Senator Tillman pleads for a duty on tea to assist the tea growers of South Carolina. The placing of petroleum on the free list by a substantial majority of the Senate apparently has not taken all of the fight out of the independent oil producers, and another effort in the direction of protection for this industry will be made when the tariff bill shall have been perfected in the committee of the whole and reported to the Senate. Senator La Follette has Issued a formal analysis of the Aldrlch bill from the insurgent viewpoint, based on the figures prepared by treasury experts. From these he estimates that the increases over the House bill would affect imports to the value of $146,125,000, while the decreases in the Senate bill would affect Imports to the value of $93,523,000, using the business of 1907 as the standard. It has been reserved for the American suffragettes at New York to originate some novel methods of summer campaigning. During the week two militant leaders have invaded the business section of the city with a street piano or hurdy-gurdy to attract attention to the literature which they wished to distribute, and a tambourine In which to collect pennies. Down In Wall street the women agitators met with a hostile reception and were compelled to retire. The President discussed with his cabinet the question of .the census patronage in the South. It was agreed that the iolicy would le to make these appointments without regard to political affiliations, but the appointees to be men of standing In their places of residence. Since the meeting of the President and Gov. Hughes during the Lake Champlain celebration, the rumor hap been given great credence to the effect that a tender of the first vacancy on the Supreme bench was made to th Governor by Mr. Taft. Friends of Hughes think it doubtful that he would accept the place in the near future. Wisconsin politicians are booming dpt. William Mitchell Lewis, of Racaie, for the governorship of the BadfjQT State and assure the former Yale foot ball star that he can become Governor Davidson's successor if he will only accept the nomination. Meetings of the citizens of Alaska. held In several of the larger cities. have passed resolutions asking that Congress divide the big northern country into three territorial governments, with respective capitals at Juneau, Fairbanks and Nome. They hold that the vast area of the country make it undesirable to have a satisfactory fonr of government from one point.

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Instead of $io or $20 an Acre Gov ernment Coal Deposits Will Sell Up to $500. RESULTS OF AN INVESTIGATION Wyoming Areas Classified Anew and Restored to Public Domain Announced at Washington. Announcement has been made that the Department of the Interior has classified cs coal land and restored to the public domain certain unappropriated areas in the Evanston land district of Wyoming, fixing the price for disposal of the tracts there in certain instances as high as $500 an acre. The land contains one of the best coal veins in the West. this tract was included in the lands involved in what was known as the Horse Thief canyon cases. Investigation several months ago by special agents of the department disclosed that the title to much of the most valuable coal deposits in that part ot Wyoming had been obtained from the government through a system of al leged fraudulent operations and suit vas begun against the patentees to re cover the land. The defendants reconveyed It to the government, paying about $400,000 for coal extracted. "This is a striking instance of re sults obtained through investigations by the special-service force of the general land office," it is declared in the Statement, "and under the policy of disposing of public lands containing coal at prices based upon their intrinsic value for coal. Under the former method these lands were subject to sale at $10 and $20 an acre, or a total price of about $459,000 for the township, If sold at the maximum price. At the rates now fixed the lands in this township are worth $S,134,000, or an increase of more than $7,500,000 above the former price." Daring June coal lands which had been withdrawn and the total value of which was $18,543,232 were classified and restored to entry. At the old prices they were worth $7,650,000. As about 0 per cent of these lands are subject to disposal by the government at the n.te fixed, the revenue derived therefrom will be about $8,000,000 in excess of what it would have been under the former policy. OFFER REAL BABY FOR SALE. Poor Parents Value Their Infant Boy at $50O. A really truly baby with bright blue eyes and a speck of black hair and as sturdy a pair of lungs as ever cheered a midnight floor-walking ma rathon, is for sale In New York. Five hundred dollars or the best offer. The boy's name is Tommy Beach, and he lives with his father, his 19-year-old mother and two little step-sisters, in a stuffy hallroom on the second floor of an 8th avenue tenement. Milk is a necessity for two-weeks-old babies Tommy is two weeks old and Tom my's pa cannot afford to buy milk. So he plans to get a good home for Tommy and at the same time If Tommy will bring $500 to help out the others. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Upon the suggestion of the grand jyry at Orange, N. J., a secret ballot was taken ly the striking hatters to determine whether the rank and file were willing to accept the terms of the manufacturers and go back to work without the union label. The result was an overwhelming majority for continuing the strike, the vote being 1,407 to 3. The tenth annual report of the American Smelting and Refining Company shows netvcarnlngs of $7,711,979, against $11,509,669 in 1907. The dividends amounted to $5,500,000, leaving a surplus of $1,843.000. Along with this report was Issued for the first time the report of the American Smelters' Securities Company, its subsidiary, showing net earnings of $3,626,426. Tha first of the crushed granite which the State of Minnesota is grinding at the reformatory at St. Cloud to be furnished free to counties that want to use it on the roads is about ready for shipment and from now on 'about eight or ten cars a week will go out from the crushing plant The Great Northern and Northern Pacific, who offered to haul the rock free, will begin carrying the stuff In the near future. The Teports of crops throughout the Northwest are good. Grain is doing well, "and the farmers are well along with their haying. The grass Is heavy and fine except where meadows are on low land. Corn is booming and potatoes are fine, with little complaint of bugs. Apples will be a heavy crop and small fruit will be quite abundant. Garden vegetables nr: better than usual, owing, no doubt, to the bountiful rains and warm weather. Prof. N. O. Leighton, of the geological survey, will soon begin extensive investigations in the Hawaiian Islands looking towards the conservation of the water resources of the Islands into available water power. A number of South Dakota cities are putting In electric lighting systems this season. Gas engines are used for generating and the electric fluid Is to be utilized for commercial purposes also. Herrled, Harrold and Wessington are among the cities installing these plants. The cost varies from $1,600 to $4,000. Work has been started on a $5,000 office and warehouse building for the Charles E. Wilhelm Company of Minneapolis, oil refiners, who are moving their headquarters to St. Paul. , Anthony Meyer, of Brooklyn, has struck a gushing oil well on his Ohio farm. He has recently been reunited with a long-lost brother, who is now a millionaire. The two mon will form a partnership. The public affairs committee of the Duluth Commercial Club is considering the question of inducing manufacturing plants to locate at the head of the lakes. The wheat fields of Kansas are in need of 16,000 men for the harvest fields this season. All told the harvest fields of this State will furnish employment for 30,000 men. The State free employment bureau Is doing swift work to meet the demand for help to save the wheat crop. The glass bottle blowers of the United States and Canada have been holding a convention at Milwaukee. Plans and methods were discussed for enabling the organization to check the prohibition wave which is held responsible for the non-employment during the past year of more than 3,000 members of the association.

SUTTON POSSIBLY IN DUEL.

Inquiry Into Death of Lieutenant Will Be Searching One. At the second inquiry into the kill ing of Lieutenant James N. Sutton before a board of investigation in Annapolis, Md., the real strength of the evidence collected bj' the mother of the dead lieutenant and his sister, Mrs. Rose Sutton Parker, will develop. Mrs. Sutton and Mrs. Farker have de clared that the young naval officer was murdered and that they expect to prove so beyond a doubt. They now have all the opportunity they require to bring forth their proof. One report has it that a new and a strong witness will be produced in Thomas Lee, a foreman watchman at the academy, whose testimony was not heard at the first Inquiry. The report has It that Lee has told his friends that he heard five shots at the time the fight between Sutton and his brother officers took place on the dump. It is also said that documentary evidence will be submitted showing that Sutton was challenged to a duel. This information is contained in a letter which fell into the possession of Mrs. Parker. The talk is that the letter was signed by one of Sutton's fellowofficers, and an Annapolis man, a banker, who confirms the existence of the letter, declares that It closes with these words: "I will meet you and fight you if you so desire; but for God's sake let us cut out the firearms and fight it out like men." The inquiry will be of the most thorough nature and a number of witnesses will be examined exhaustively whose testimony does not appear on the records of the first investigation. Every step of Lieutenant Sutton's movements on the night of Oct, 13, 1907, when his body was found on the parade ground, will be traced. BOLIVIA-ARGENTINA AT OUTS. Both Republics Order Diplomat to Leave Relation llroken Off. The Argentine government has sent his passports to the Bolivian minister at Buenos Aires, ordering him to leave Buenos Aires within twenty-four hours. The government also has teleraphed Senor Fonseca, Argentine minister to Bolivia,' to leave La Paz Immediately. This action follows the refusal of Bolivia to accept the decision of Argentina in the matter of the boundary dispute between Bolivia and Peru. The Bolivian minister advised the Argentine government that Bolivia had decided to submit to parliament for consideration the arbital award rendered by President Alcorta, which In itself was considered a sufficient reason for, breaking off relations. In addition, however, the Argentine republic has taken offense at the action of the President of Bolivia, who. it is asserted, has sent circulars to the prefects throughout the country casting reflections on the Argentine government. Kills Woman; Injures Five. Mrs. Eleanor Hudson, an aged Los Angeles woman, is dead and five of her six companions in an automobile ride are seriously hurt because Howard McGann, 19 years old, who has been driving a car only two weeks, tried to cross ahead of a gasoline motor railway car at San Diego, Cal. McGann's 'injuries may prove fatal. Contractors Found Guilty. Michael J. Mitchell, former purchasing agent for the city, and Inomas F. Maher, a contractor, were found guilty by a jury In the Superior Court in Boston of conspiracy to defraud 'the City of Boston of $13,500 by signing contracts calling for excessive prices, for flagstones. Sentence was deferred. Girls Saved by Snnbonnets. , Using their sunbonnets as ballert when the boat in which they were being driven by a strong wind was filling with water, Miss Marion Weeks and Miss Harriet Lohman. of Yonkers, managed to keep the craft afloat until rescued at South Norwalk, Conn., by Captain Andrew Mills. Reaches for Hall Drowns. Louis Brown, 9 years old, while playing ball in Pittsburg, tried to catch a fly batted Into left field. The lad stepped off a steep embankment into the Allegheny River and was drowned. ,The body was recovered. Boys See Mother Slain. Nelson Tully shot and killed his wife at their home, Latonia, Ky. He then shot himself, Inflicting probably fatal Injuries. They had been separated. Their two small sons witnessed the tragedy. Manuel to Arrange Wedding;? King Manuel of Portugal is to make a trip abroad in the autumn, and !t is understood his purpose is to arrange for his marriage with Princess Alex andra, daughter of the Duke of Fife. Twenty Killed) Dntldlna; Falls. Twenty Russian workmen were killed and a larger number Injured by the collapse of a building in course of construction on Rasyesshaya street, St Petersburg. Loss by Fire Is f.100,O0O. Fire which started in L. H. Miller's department store in Masontown, W. Va., destroyed the Fanston and Maddas blocks, causing a loss estimated at $30.000. Fargo Spurns Kew Plans, Fargo, N. D., rejected the commission form of government by ninetynine majority. Rosa Nonehette Carey Dies. Rosa Nouchette Carey, novelist, died onday. She began as a novelist In 186S. Among her many works were "Robert Ord's Atonement," "Not Like Other Girls," "Other People's Lives and "The Highway of Fate." Adam Cod" Goes to Prliou. "Adam God," who was recently sentenced to twenty-five years In the penitentiary for the murder of Patrolman Michael Mullan, In Kansas City last December, has been taken to the penitentiary in Jefferson City. Has Curfew Law for A'egroes. The police commissioners of Mobile, Ala., established a curfew law for negroes. Commencing Wednesday night, all the blacks must be at home or in bod at 10 p. m. Any of them caught wandering at large will be locked up. This action is due to an epidemic of hold-ups perpetrated by negroes. Fire Damp Hxplosloa Kills One. In an explosion of fire damp in the Highland coal mine at Warnock, Ohio, Thoma3 Southern, superintendent, was instantly killed.

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After his return from th trip to New England and Lake Champlain' President Taft gave out his plans for the coming extensive travels. He is to start from his summer residence at' Beverly, Mass., about the middle of September, for Seattle, to attend the exposition there, and making stops en route at Denver, Salt Lake, Spokan and other places yet to be determined. From Seattle he will go to San Francisco, visit the Yosemlte Valley and see a sister in Los Angeles. Thenc he will go by way of San Diego through New Mexico and Arizona to El Paso, Tex., where he has accepted an Invitation to meet President Dlas 01 .Mexico. Later at New Orleans ho will attend the waterways conferenceafter which he will tour the southern tier of States to Georgia cities, and stop on his way north at Wilmington, N. C, and Richmond. Va., Intending to get back to Washington about the middle of November. Commissioner Williams has been disappointing a lot of the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island by a strict enforcement of the law regarding nonadmission of persons likely to become public charges. He has taken the stand that any one arriving at that port with less money than $25 in his or her possession must be held up and deported unless friends on shore come forward with bonds. Several hundred would-be immigrants have thus beea detained under very tryicg conditions, and several hundred have been sent back. Charges of brutal ill treatment of those held have been made by them and tjir friends, and a test case has been taken to court to determine the constitutionality of the proceeding. A ruling was made at Washington by the Interstate Commerce Commission that "one carrier shipping fuel, material or other supplies over the lines of another carrier must pay the legal tariff rates applicable to the same commodities shipped between the same points by an individual." If carriers insist upon making or maintaining preferential rates, it may be confidently expected that such voluntary action will be accepted as evidence of the unreasonableness of higher rates. The plan favored by Mr. Powderly of the Immigration Bureau to have the government transport free of cost Immigrants to places where they can get work and also to give such free transportation 1 to any of the unemployed Is opposed by the Federation of Labor. A bill to authorize such transportation is being urged by the National Liberal Immigration League. The federation officials say that behind the plan they fear that a scheme to send strike breakers lurks. Among the appointments which have been made recently at Washington are the following: Frank A. Clause, of Salem, Indiana, superintendent of the public schools In the Panama ranal zone; Fred H. Abbott, of Nebraska, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs; Charles S. Sloane, now serving as Geographer of the census was appointed permanent geographer under the new census act. -: :- Government printers and pressmen have been shifted to a per diem basis. There are about 2.000 employes of the bureau of engraving and printing, and the change from the monthly pay roll to the new system carried out the ideas of Secretary of the Treasury McVeagh and Director Ralph, with a view to placing the bureau on a strict-' ly business system. At the request of the Mot Rev. Archbishop Ireland the United States government has consented to make the site of St. Charles, Minnesota, a "Monument Reserve." This will dedicate the spct to the memory of the pioneers of Christian faith and civilization in the Western country. , Almost on the eve of his departure for Europe, Samuel Gompers called on President Taft. He said he would return to this country in time either to attend the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor or to go to jail. :- The failure of Mr. Herring to deliver his flying machine to the War Department on July 1, the last day of his time extension, has forfeited the $20,000 deposit, and this sum may b? used by Gen. Allen la furthering the plans for flying experimentation. The Isthmian Canal Commission has given to Secretary McVeagh Its estimates of the cost of work on the Panama Canal for the year 1911. The total Is $48,000.000, or $15,000,000 more than the amount spent this year. Among the prominent speakers who addressed the Y. P. S. C. E. delegates at their convention In St. Paul, were William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, and Governors Davidson and Johnson, of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Famous French Soldier Dead. Gen. Marquis de Gallifet, former minister of war in France and head of the army during the Dreyfus scandal, died in Paris, Thursday. Woman Impaled on Fence, Mrs. John Czelka fell while washing a window at her home. 32 Evergreen avenue, Chlcapo, and was impaled on a fence for several minutes. The sharp iron pickets pierced her thigh as she hung suspended on the fence and she sustained serious Injuries. Petrined Cat Inder Porch. The petrified body of an Angora cat, whose disappearance three years ago was bewailed by Its owner, was found under a porch in Philadelphia. The body was In a standing position and examination proved it in a perfect state of petrification. Cattle niieane Kills Two Men. The second hi: nan being to be attacked by the disease of charhon. an epidemic of which recently has killed many cattle near Lake Charles, La., is J. l.reaux. a young farm hand living several miles from Lake Charles. T.reaux became inoculated after attendinp a cow that had died from the disease and his condition is critical. The first victim was Theophlle Burgue, whose death occurred a few day ago. Louisville's new water plant has been opened. It will give the city; 37,300,000 gallons of clear water daily, :