Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 September 1909 — Page 2

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T L. Q.TN. M. P F. Q. F. M y 6th. vr14th. V 22nd. v 23th FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN , AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thing are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to snake it Complete. Dr. S. W. Brown is Dead. Dr. Selah V. Brown, noted traveler, pulpit orator, lecturer, educator and author, died at his home, 339 Sandusky street, Fostoria, Ohio, after about two years of. failing health. Dr. Brown was a native of New York State and was almost 78 years of age. lie came of a family of Methodist ministers and was' given the title of "Jerusalem" Brown early in life, because of his determination to visit the Holy Land, although, at the time the dream appeared impossible of realization. He made trips, not only to Jerusalem, but to almost every known land, as well as every point of interest in his own country. He crossed the continent approximately twenty times, and was for a number of years a member of the faculty of the University of California and of the Methodist Conference of that State. Dr. Brown was a pulpit orator of wonderful force and power and was known as a lecturer on foreign lands throughout the country. One Man Killed and Several Injured. One man was killed, nine others seriously injured, while several more received cuts and bruises when the wall3 at the Blanck Transfer and Storage Company's building in" Pi tsburg. Pa., recently destroyed by Ar-, collapsed, demolishing two adjoining buildings and burying more than u dozen men in the ruins. The deaJ man, Herman Tiege, an employe of v Pittsburg paper, with those who were seriously injured, was in a two-story hotel next door to the walls when the accident occurred. The hotel was demolished and policemen and firemen worked several hour3 before all the men had been remove! from the debris. A Dastardly Black Hand Crime. Black Handers are believed to be responsible for a- terrible crime unearthed at Utica, X. Y. Three children, kidnaped from their homes, were found under a big culvert near St. Agnes cemetery by a passing milkman. One of the children, Teresa Percopla aged 8 years, had been shot to death. 'Another, Fannie Infusino, aged 6, was suffering from bullet wounds in hei arm, while the third, Freddie Infus! no, aged 2 years, was dying from a wound In the abdomen. Runs a Block with Clothing Ablaze. With hi3 clothing a mass of flames, Earl W. Bailey, aged 12 years, ol Pontiac, Mich., ran a block through Court street in Hamilton, Ohio, finally falling in the kitchen of the Eck stein Hotel, whera Mrs. Eckstein ex llnsuished the flames. The boy was hurried to a hospital, but it is said that be can not recover. He was visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Janeer. and was playing about a fire in the rear of a store when the accident occurred. Sailors Scalded to Death. While en route to Honolulu two men of the Colorado, of the Pacific fleet, were scalded to death when a steam pipe burst. The Tennessee broke all records for a jdurney from San Francisco, Cal., to Honolulu, making the trip in four days and seventeen hours. Two Killed when Trains Collide. Passenger train No. 89 on the Chicago, Curlington & Quincy, southhound, and an extra stock train were In a head-on collision at the station of Burnham, four miles southwest ol Lincoln, Neb. Two mev were killed outright and nine Injured. Lightning and Fire Destroy Church. Saint John's Catholic church, Dryados and Clio streets, New Orleans, La., was almost totally destroyed by fire as a result of a bolt of lightning. The loss will amount to about $200,000, -partially covered by insurance. John W. Castle Commits Suicide. John W. Castle, president of the Union Trust Company and a director of other well known corporations, committed suicide by cutting his threat at the Grand Union Hotel In New 3Toik City. William Lloyd Garrison Dead. William Lloyd Garrison, son of the great abolitionist, and widely known as a publicist and reformer, died at his home in Lexington, Mass., at the age of 71 years. Ex-Shah Goes Into Exile. The denosed Shah of Persia has left the confines of the Russian legation at Teheran and started his journey to 7tssla. He Is to live In exile, probfelCy at Odessa, l:. 1 Both Legs Crushed. Peter Blesh, employed at a stone yard In Evansville, Ind., had both legs adly crushed by falling stone, and amputation may be necessary. Mrs. Roosevelt Going to Khartoum. Adolph Mayer, of Abyssinia, who is at Dresent In Benin, Germany, with a commission from the Abyssinian gov ernment to purchase supplies, said that Mrs. Roosevelt had engaged a house at Khartoum, where she would meet her husband when he comes out of the Jungle. ' T Picture of Founder of Kokomo. A portrait of David Foster, founder of Kokomo, Ind., was presented to the Citv Library of that place by Mrs. Thos. Daker, a daughter of the pioneer. Orville Wright Makes Flight. Orville Wright made a public flight lasting twenty minutes at the Templehof plain, Berlin, Germany, which was witnessed by a large crowd, including many officers of the engineering de partment of the Imperial army. Wright ;was given a rousing ovation after ne

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GOES WAY OF ALL FLESH t . w. rv- m. , a r . a no icon oi I rainc vvonu i;xinrcs at His Residence in Arden Surrounded by Family. WORLD LOSES FINANCIAL POWER The Cause of His Suffering 13 a Mystery Which May Never Be Solved. Edward Henry Harriman died at his home at Arden, X. Y., some time between 1:20 and 3:35 o'clock Thursday afternoon. His end removes from the railroad world of the day its supreme figure. It leaves the greatest railroad system in the world a system which he himself built up and welded together without a head. It marks the closing of a career unique in the financial his tory of this country. At 14 Mr. Harriman was an ofBea boy; at 23 owner of a seat in the Stock Exchange of Xew York, and at 33 a millionaire. At 49, though wealthy, he was still a mediocrity and in the wider sense unknown. In the ensuing twelve years occurred the meteoric rise that made him the undisputed emperor of the railroad business of the nation. His death at CI is an event that will make itself felt throughout the entire finan cial fabric of the world. While it has been known for weeks that Mr. Harriman was a doomed man the greatest mystery surrounds the nature of the disease from which he suffered. Stomach trouble was the name given to his illness by his doctors, but during the last three or four weeks the rumor gained wide circula tion that he had cancer. It has been intimated by men who were In a posi tion to know that he was afflicted with the same ailmenc that caused the death of the late William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago. The death of Mr. Harriman removes from the world its greatest single railroad and financial power of modern history. Ijike a story from "The Ara bian Nights reads the biograpny of EDWAIU II. HARBIMAX. this magician of steel rails and stock markets. In forty years, from poverty and obscurity to almost fabulous wealth and colossal power, from broker's cierk to master of more than 73,000 miles of railroad and steamship Unas, enough to belt the globe with a triple girdle; from market "scalper" to arbiter of more than $150,000,000 in cash and -with nearly a billion dollars in stocks and securities at his beck and call such is a bird's-eye view of the career of the '.'Napoleon o! the railroad world," as they call him, who has just gone the way of all flesh. How Harriman got his start has always been somewhat of a mystery to Wall street. The methods by which he bounded into command of the captains of industry have always been an enigma to his rivals and associates alike. Taciturn, mysterious, sphinxlike, but still wielding a wand that seemed to turn everything it touched into gold. Harriman was the psychological puzzle of the "street." MAJ. GEN. E. M. M'COOK DIES. Officer In Civil War Succumbs After Illness of Months. Gen. Edward M. McCook, two times Governor of Colorado when it was still a territory and a Major General in the army during the Civil War, died at the Chicago Baptist Hospital. Gen. McCock's home w?.3 in Denver, Colo. The body was taken to the general s former heme in Stcubenville, Ohio. Mr. McCook ccme to Chicago two months ago. He was suffering from Brlght's disease and went to the hospital for treatment. Gen. McCook was born in Ohio on Jane 13, 1833. Following his serving as Governor of the Territory of Colorado he was appointed United States MIniJter to Hawaii. Gen. McCook was a member of the family of "fighting McCooks," almost a score of whom have been military men of fame. He is active In the territorial legislature of Kansas at the time the State of Kansas was formed. On the first shot at Sutnter he joined the Kansas legion and sustained the reputation of his family throughout the war. He was eloquent as an orator and on the death of Gen. Thomas delivered the funeral oration. HALLEY'S COMET IS SIGHTED. German Astronomer Reports Obirrr. n nee -Missing for Seventy Years. Halley's comet, for which astronomers have been eagerly watching, has been seen, after an absence of seventy years, according to a dispatch received at the Harvard Observatory, from Professor Wolff of Heidelberg. The s?ght was obtained Sept. 11 56.42 In right ascension, 6 hours 18 minutes 12 seconds: declination, 17 degrees 11 minutes north. It could be made out only with a large telescope. BRYAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE. Accident to Motor Car IVenrly Causes Injury to Occupants. William J. Bryan narrowly escaped Injury in Springfield, Mo., when a motor car in which he was being taken to Deling Park to make an address get beyond control going down a steep hill in the park. The brake broke, but the car was stopped just on the edge of an embankment by R. P. Dlckerson, the driver. AU Dikea uro short sighted.

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NINETY SAVED FROM DEEP. Steamer lilts Kock, but Patenters and Crew It each Safety. Thrilling scenes attended the loss of the Allan Line steamer Laurentian. bound from Boston for Glasgow, which piled upon the rocks near Cape Race, N. F., during a dense fog at 6 o'clock Monday morning. The vessel is a total wreck, but the lifty passengers and forty members of the crew escaped to land after a trying experience. The Laurentian as making about thirteen knots an hour when she struck the rock3. The ship rebounded heavily, the shock throwing most of the passengers, who were asleep, from their berths. They stampeded for the deck without stopping to dress, and for half an hour much excitement prevailed. Captain Imrie and his officers succeeded In quieting all hands. A stiff northwest wind banged the ship about, and the situation became so serious at 7 o'clock that orders were given to put the boats overboard, and passengers and crew were taken off In safety. FIGHT WITH KNIVES IN STREET. One of tbe Duelists Receives Dozen Gashes and Dies Other Escapes. In a knife duel fought in the street in Akron, Ohio, early Sunday an unidentified man inflicted injuries upon Jovan Kuruchich which resulted in his death. Kuruchich received more than a dozen deep gashes about his arms, chest, neck and head. Kuruchich Is believed to have started the fight. He was seen about the city late Saturday night armed with a large butcher knife. A few hours later he was found slowly bleeding to death. Kuruchich told an Interpreter that a neighbor had quarreled with him and a duel resulted. CUTS WOMAN; KILLS SELF. Jealous Man Wields a Ilasor In a Donble Tragrdf. Jealousy caused Christian Hettenbrook, 42 years old. to attempt to kill Mrs. Anna Carter, who had sheltered him for two years In her home at 137 South Torrence street, Dayton, Ohio. After drawing a razor blade across the throat of Mrs. Carter, Hettenbrook, who killed Charles Wessenlch In a fight here two years ago, cut his own throat, and died almost Instantly. The woman Is expected to die. Hettenbrook has three sons and a daughter in L03 Angeles. or Reports from Memphis are to the effect that John W. Schorr is once more to enter the racing game upon a large scale. Charles A. Comiskey, of Chicago, has spent $100.000 for new players this season and has about twenty-five youngsters on his staff. A crowd of 15,000 were present at Saratoga when Rocky O'Brien, owned by James McManus, won the $17.000 Hopeful stakes, six furlongs, at 40 to 1. R D. Little, former internationalist, won the New York State tennis championship singles on the courts of the Crescent Athletic Club. In the final he defeated Robert Leroy, Columbia University's Intercollegiate champion, 61, 36, 63, S 6. J. U. Handy, of the New York Athletic Club, and L B. Goodwin, of the Illinois Athletic Club, gave C. M. Daniels, the champion swimmer, a hard fight in the 440-yard event at the swimming meet of the New York Athletic Club. Uaniels won In 5:57 4-5. At the Wilmington, Eel., races the best race was wo'n by Ruby It., who defeated J. G. Hartman's Wesley, Jr. Ralph Hoa gland, of Chicago, won the golf championship flight of the open tournament of Grand Rapids by defeating Phil Stanton, former Michigan champion, 2 up and 1 to play. In a 36hole match. Chicago won the athletic meet In San Francisco with a total of 53 points. The Olympic team scored 49, and Doston 10. Snedigar, of San Francisco, won the broad jump with 22 feet 8', Inches. Leahy, of New York, won the hop, skip and jump with a mark of 43 feet 6 Inches. Sam Berger, manager of James J. Jeffries, has gone to the Pacific coast to look over the offers that have been made for the big bout between Jeffries and Johnson. Armstrong, of St. Paul, carried off the honors at tlie Mid-West tennis tournament at Omaha when b? took two out of three sets from HCerr, an experienced player of St. Lou's. Vll!am J. Clothier of Philadelphia, former national tennis champion, won the national tournament at Newport, R. I., when he defeated Maurice McLoughlin, the 19-year-otfi California phenomenon, who had beaten most of the old experts.

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MEN BEATEN IN LUMBER CAMPS U. S. Immigration Agent Says White Slavery Exists in Minnesota. That a system of peonage and white slave labor exists in Minnesota so pronounced that it may involve the federal government in trouble with Russia is the sensational charge made by John Clifton Elder of the United States immigration department in a letter to Governor Johnson. Mr. Elder charges that foreigners are tricked and beaten if they attempt to leave their employment, and in some cases the machinery of the law is used ,to detain these laborers. "When laborers owe transportation and try to leave they are arrested and forced to work out the Indebtedness," says Mr. Elder. "The writer has found a case in northern Minnesota of two subjects of the Russian government employed in a lumber camp who tried to escape and were taken before a justice of the peace and sentenced to thirty days." Mr. Elder says that these conditions are general In north ern Minnesota lumber camp FIGHT FOR THE FENNXUiS. Standing of Clubs In the Principal Dase Hall Leannes. j NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .94 36 Phlladel'a .63 6ft Chicago ...90 41 St. Lou's ..47 82 New York. 77 50 Brooklyn ..46 83 Cincinnati .CS 64 Boston ....36 93 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Detroit ...87 46 Chicago ...67 67 Phlladel'a .SI 50 New York .CO 70 Boston 77 56 St. Louis ..56 76 Cleveland .68 68 Wash'gton .34 97 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. ' W. L. W L. Mllw'kee ..S3 64 Ind'polis ..74 77 Minn'polls .81 68 Columbus .60 79 Louisville .78 71 Kan. City .67 80 St. Paul ..71 73 Toledo ....68 81 RAISING LARGER CROPS. Aurrlcultnral Daretta Head Finds Soil Is Not Wearing Out. Soils of the United States are not wearing out and the crop yields are increasing rather than decreasing. These facts are demonstrated in a bulletin shortly to be issued by the bureau of soils of the agricultural department in Washington, prepared by Professor Milton Whitney, chief of the bureau. The bulletin deals exhaustively with the yields of crops from 1867 to 190G inclusive. "We are producing more crops per acre than formerly," fald Professor Whitney. "This is undoubtedly due to better and more intelligent cultivation, more and better systems of rotation of crops and in later years to the intelligent use of fertilizers through measures of control in the hand3 of every Individual farmer." FIRES PLANT TO HIDE ROBBERY. Omaha Factory Manager Confesses Arson and Ilurg-lnr Plot. Guy Anderson, manager of the Nebraska cotton glove factory in Omaha, which was damaged by fire Saturday night to the extent of $10,000, has confessed that he robbed the safe and set fire to the building. In going over the ruins the police discovered that the safe was unlocked. Anderson was sent for on the pretense that his assistance was needed, and upon his arrival was- arrested and accused of arson. In his confession he would not say how much money he had taken, though he admitted that he had been robbing the business for more than a year. Seven Cars Holl Into a Ravine. The Burlington's St. Paul express, south bound, ran, into a washout four miles south of St. Joseph, Mo. Seven coaches were derailed and five of them rolled into the ravine. An unidentified man sprained his foot. 33 Die of "Infantile Paralysis." Three cases of "infantile paralysis" were reported to the health department of St. Paul, Saturday. One was Lillie Sundkunst, a girl of 19. A total of 13G cases and thirty-three deaths have been reported thus far. Four Held lu ''Incubator Case.' Mrs.' J. G. Barclay, Frank H. Tillotson, J. N. Gentry, and David Gregg were arraigned before Judge Simon in Topeka, Kan., on the charge of kidnaping Marian Bleakley, the incubator baby. All were bound over to the District Court. Tom Job n ion Itrnoml nnr(!, Toto L. Johnson, for the fifth consecutive time, has been nominated for mayr of Cleveland by the democrat!. His opponent was D-. V. W. Walz, a alderman. v

HUSBAND SLAIN; BRIDE HELD.

Scott Sprnuue, Who Wed Girl in ('Iileittco, Myterlouly Shot. Mystery surrounds the shooting and death early Thursday of Scott Sprague, a machinist, who came to Cincinnati from Williamsburg, O., and his bride of two weeks is being held by the police on suspicion. The shooting occurred in the sleeping room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Sprague at 225 West Sth street. The bullet entered Sprague's right side, penetrating his liver and lung. The location of the wound is said to be an unusual one to be self-inflicted, and this, taken with the fact that there were blood spots bn Mrs. Sprague's night robe, caused the police to place a charge of suspicion against her. Mrs. Sprague said she was awakened by the shot and found her husband huddled up in a corner of the bedroom in his night clothes. She declared her husband had no enemies, and she knew of no reason why he should have shot himself. Mrs. Sprague is the daughter of Frank Cross, of Rockford, 111. MEXICAN FLOOD IS DESTRUCTIVE San Juan River on Rampage Inundates Plantations and llntlroads. Word has been received from Xicotencatl, in the State of Tamlpaulas, Mexico, that the entire ountry was inundated along the Tampico branch of the Mexican Central Railroad between the San Juan River and La Cruz. Several towns report loss of life ranging from a few up to 500 persons in some instances. Below Xlcotencatl all the plantations on the Tames! River were destroyed and several towns wiped out. The destruction along the San Juan River was almost complete. All the irrigation works In and around Matamoras have been ruined and will involve a loss of millions of dollars. The Tampico branch of the Mexican Cen-. tral Railroad for several kilometers has completely disappeared between San Juan River and La Cruz. The school board at Hastings, Minn., have elected Miss Irene Cox, of Cloquet, as supervisor of music and assistant teacher In English. Prof. Charles Frazee of Richmond, Ind., was elected as a member of the faculty of the Duluth normal school by the Minnesota normal board. The Western College for Women, at Oxford, Ohio, through the efforts of its president, John Grand Newman, has raised an endowment fund of $250,000. During a recent electric storm the Charles City College at Charles City, Iowa, was struck by a bolt of lightning. No serious damage was Inflicted. Students must show an average of 80 per cent for their senior high school work in order to be eligible for a place in the freshman class at the Minnesota "U." Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist of the Chicago University, will go to Tokio, where he will appear as a Japanese shopkeeper. He will adopt the habits, manners and customs of the Japanese In an attempt to study Japan and its people. If President Taft consents, 300,000 school children of Chicago will form a double line of honor through which the President will pass when he visits Chicago, Sept. 16. Mornlngside College. Sioux City, has been given $10,000 In order to complete the $150,000 necessary for the. college to raise the $50,000 which had been granted conditionally by the American education board. Morningslde now has an endowment of $400.000. The county superintendents of North Dakota have appointed a committee to formulate a course of study in elementary agriculture for the rural schools of the State. If the course proves satisfactory an attempt will be made to make the work compulsory by State law. E. Clyde Robbins, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a member of the senior class of the liberal arts collr-ge of the Iowa State University, has been asked by a Twin City publishing house to prepare a book on the commission plan of city government. Mr. Bobbins was one of tliO debaters who debated this subject in the Iowa-lllinois debate last year. Closer to-operatlon between the University of Wisconsin and the normal schools of the State in the training cf high school teachers is the aim of the plan just adopted by the university after a conference with representatives of the normals. Tie board of education in Chicago will ma'ke war on all fraternities and sororities in the city schools. President Urion of the school board says: "The 'frats' are the bane of public school life, an injustice to hundreds of young pupils who are seeking an education, and they will not be tolerated as long as I am president of tho board."

TARIFF BOARD IS NAMED.

Three Men Who Are to Assist in Enforcement of New Law. President Taft has appointed the new tariff commission or board, which is to assist him In the execution of the new tariff law, with especial reference to applying the maximum and minimum clauses to nations which are unfriendly or friendly in their relations with the United States. The new board consists of three members Professor Henry C. Emery of Yale, chairman; James B. Reynolds of Massachusetts, now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Alvin H. Sanders, of Chicago, at present editor and proprietor of the Breeder's Gazette. In announcing the selection of this new board, authorized by the Payne tariff bill, the following statement was given out at the executive offices in Beverly, Mass.: "The President and the Secretary of the Treasury have agreed upon the plan that these gentlemen are to constitute the board and are to be given authority to employ such special experts as may be needed in the investigation of the foreign and domestic tariff." The announcement followed a conference between the President and Secretary MacVeagh. Mr. Taft had left entirely in the hands of the Secretary the selection of the new commission, and simply approved the men recommended by Mr. MacVeagh. It had been a question as to whether the new board should consist of three or five members. GETS $100,000 FOR SAVING LIFE. Widow Will Come Into Lesracy as Ilesult f lreence of 3Ilnd. Mrs. Hattie Carhart Winders, a young widow living with her iarents in Edinburg, N. J., will shortly come into a legacy of $100,000 as a reward for having saved the life of a young man in a runaway seven years ago. For more than a year agents of the estate of William H. Anderson in England have been searching in America for Mrs. Winders. They finally located her through an advertisement. The story of the accident, which she believes was the cause of the bequest in his father's will, she told as follows: "One evening Mr. Anderson took me to Princeton. As we were leaving for home he had a sudden seizure and toppled back in the carriage. The horse ran away while I was trying to arouse him. Finally I got hold of the reins and brought the horse under control." v BUJXDING OPERATIONS GIGANTIC Enormous Increase Throughout Country During Past Year. Enormous increase in building operations throughout the country during the past year is shown by statistics compiled by the Department of Commerce and Labor. It is demonstrated that in the 100 largest cities the value of building permits for July, 1909, was 520.000,000 more than for July, 190S. There were noticeable gains in the receipts of wool and heavier shipments of boots and shoes. The total shipment of live stock is unusually low. Hogs show a decline of 10 to 20 per cent It Is also shown that there was a decided falling off in the receipts of foodstuffs and a general increase In the receipts of such products as soft coal, coke, ore and iron products. VOTES FOR COMMISSION PLAN. Campaign of Education Drlngrs About Adoption of Sew City Charter. A campaign of education clearly won a victory in St. Joseph, Mo., wheu a proposition for a new city charter was carried by a majority of 1,503. The total vote was 4,431, less than half the voting strength of St. Joseph. Instead of electing by wards, five Councilmen will be chosen at large. The initiative and referendum will be given thorough trial. The Mayor Is empowered to appoint the Board of Health, Utilities Commission, Park Board and most of the city officers. The city is to be governed largely through commissions. 'in; U. S. Seises Flour by Carload. Gordon Rockflint, United States marshal, seized a carload of flour at Mazomanie, Wis., and another at Madison, Wis. Other seizures have been ordered. All of the flour to be taken Is the output of roller mills at Columbus, Neb. It is alleged to have been bleached with nitrogen-peroxide, in violation of the pure-food law. Wooer Shoots Angry Father. George Hurd of Sioux Falls, S. D., was shot and killed while attacking his daughter's sweetheart, Eugene Radford, of Franklin, 111. While Eugene was being beaten his brother Charles came to his aid and after both had been severely pounded dharles fired two shots. The brothers surrendered and are in jail. Girl Dies After Fight with Lion. Mis3 Isola Kennedy, a W. C. T. U. leader, died at her home in Morgan Hill, San Jose, Cal., from injuries received in an encounter with a mountain lion near Madrone Springs on July 7, when she tried to save Henry Merkle and Walter Layne, two small boys. The Merkle boy died of his injuries. Cincinnati Physician Kills nurglar. Responding to a call for aid at the house of a neighbor where a negro burglar had forced an entrance, Dr. Robert D. Maddox, a prominent Cincinnati physician, shot and killed the negro. The burglar was identified as John Scott, who had senrert three years in the Frankfort (Ky.) anitentiary. Comrade Slain; Wreck Saloon. Ingman Pate, a sergeant of Company G, Second Kentucky Infantry, was killed in a tenderloin saloon in Frankfort, Ky. A mob composed of his comrades besieged the saloon and demolished It, firing many shots. Pate was from Somerset, Ky. too n Month for Mrs. Davenport. Alimony of 400 a month has been granted to Mrs. Daisy B. Davenport, former wife of Homer Davenport, cartoonist. Davenport testified he earned $15,000 a year. Three Men Die In Freight Wreck. L. I. Waters, of Dayton, track supervisor; Herbert Vandergriff, of Retro, and Monroe Hickman, a colored section hand, were killed in a freight wreck on a spur of the Queen and Crescent at Chattanooga, Tenn. rian World' Fair In 10S5. John D. Spreckels, Lyman J. Gage and U. S. Grant, Jr., head a company capitalized at $1,000,000 tö promote a world'8 fair at San Diego, Cal.. in 1915 to celebrate the opening of (he Panama Canal.

CHICAGO. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Chicago Trade says: "The growth In banking power reflected by the official statements this week adds further testimony to the improved commercial position. Loans are seen to have Increased considerably over this time last year and there are developments ia progress which foreshadow a stronger demand for money in the near future. The discount rate, consequently, gathers firmness. It is fortunate that credit? Zierate smoothly and make financing easier for the needs of the Industries and transportation interests now entering upon a period of greater activity. "Trading defaults again make an encouraging exhibit. Movements of commodities make a favorable comparison with a year ago. Increasing production is noted in iron, wood, brass and leather manufactures. No abatement yet appears in heavy contracts for railway equipment, rails, structural steel and pig iron. "Machinery makers report wider remand fo rnew outfits, especially for mining purposes, and the improvement is well sustained In electric lines, heavy hardware and furniture. "Despite poor export requirements the dealings in grain and flour remain large. Mail and road orders are exceptionally good, and aggregate booklags make a high total for dry goods, footwear and food products. "Bank clearings for five days, 231,000,334, exceed those of the corresponding period last j'ear by 18.3 per centf and compare with 242,951,602 for six days in 1907. "Failures reported in tbe Chicago district number twenty-one, against twenty-five last week, and twentythree in 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number five, against four last week, six In 1908 and five In 1907.'" NEW YORK. Operations in industrial lines are still expanding, and in some branches of the iron and steel trade record outputs are the rule. In fact, manufacturing is in the forefront as regards activity. Jobbing trade is good, and at some centers, particularly where fall festivals are held, purchases of dry goods, groceries and staple lines ia general have really Increased. The earlier gathered crops, such as wheat, cotton and oats, are being moved to market quite freely, and th2 good prices being realized from tho sale of these products will make for easier collections and growth in trade. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. 9 were 191f against 16G last. week, 191 In the same week of 190S, 172 in 1907. 164 in 19G6 and 188 In 1903. Failures in Canada for the week number 23, which compares with 33 last week nd 34 in the same weeic cf 1908. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $8.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $S.55; sheep, fair to choice, $4.25 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.04; corn, No. 2, 67c to 'C9c; oats, standard, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2, 70c to 72c; hay timothy, $8.00 to $14.50; prairie, $S.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to 65c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.03 to $6.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $8.50; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.08 to $1.10; corn. No. 2 white, 71c to 73c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Sc to 39c. St. Louis Cattle $4.00 to $7.5C; hogs, $4.00 to $8.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2, $1.08 to $1.11: corn, No. 2, 67c to 68c; oats. No. 2, 37c to 39c; rye. No. 2, 72c to 73c Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.65; hogs, $4.00 to $8.00; sheen, $2.50 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2, $1.06 to $1.0S; corn, No. z yenow, 7'c to 73c; oats, standard, 37c to 39c; rye, No. 2, 72c to 73c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.00 to $1.03; corn, No. 3, 59 to 60; oats, standard, 37c to 39c; rye, No. 1, 70c to 71c; barley, standard, 66c to 67c; pork, mess, $23.20. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.90; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.S0; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.00. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, J1.0S to $1.08; corn, No. 2 mixed, CDc to 71c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 39c; rye, No. 2, 6Sc to 69c; clover seed, $7.40. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, $4.00 to $8.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.0S to $1.10; corn. No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 37c to 3Sc; rye, No. 2, 71c to 72c. New York Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $8,60; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.07; corn. Xo. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, natural white, 40c to 43c; butter, creamery, 27c to 32c; eggs, western, 22c to 26c. Kansas banks show an increase of $20.000.000 in deposits over last year. This sum Is nearly $10.000,000 less than it was In March of this year, the shrinkage resulting from the withdrawal of money for the purchase of automobiles by the farmers of Kansas this season. The prison twine plant of Kansas is in danger of beinf? abolished because the farmers of Kansas do not patronize as the officials think they should. More than half f this year's output will have to be carried over until next season. James J. Hill's faith in the prosperity of the country has been revealed in a contract for fifty-seven locomotives which he has awarded to the Baldwin locomotive works. The cost of the engines is estimated at $1,000,000. The $100,000 headquarters building; of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America was dedicated at Indianapolis, being the first permanent home owred by either a national or International union in America. Sicily lost 60,000 Inhabitants by earthquake in 1693.

GEN. H. C. C0RBIN DIES. Operation Fatal to Veteran Army Man Upon Return from Europe. Lieut.-Gen. Henry C. Corbin, U. S. A. , retired, died in Roosevelt Hospital, New i York, Wednesday, after an operation for a renal disorder. Gen. Corbin would have been 67 year old in a fewdays. Mrs. Corbin and ex-Gov. Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio, were at the bedside when death occurred. Gen. Corbin had been suffering for two years from the malady which caused his death. He left a widow and three children -fry his first wife, Rutherford B. , of "Washington, Mrs. Parsons and Grace Corbin, of Wilmington, O. Lieut.-Gen. Henry Clark Corbin was born in Clermont County, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1842, the son of a farmer. He studied law for. a time, but deserted his practice for the army. He joined the Union forces as a second lieutenant in the Seventy-uihth Ohio Volunteers at the age of 19, and was with the Army of the Cumberland until the close of the war. rising to brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Gen. Corbin was mustered out of the service and entered the regular army as a 6econd lieutenant in the Seventeenth Infantry. Congress conferred upon him the rank of major-general in recognition of his services In the Spanish-American war. Xov. 6, 1901, he married Miss Edyth Patten and he was placed on the army retired list Sept 15. 1906.

CANADA CLAIMS LAND TO POLE. Answer Returned to Question from House of Commons. Canada claims all land directly north of the American continent as far as the pjle upon which it would be possible to nail a flag. This position will be taken, it is semi-officially stated. In reply to a question asked in the British Houre of Commons as to the ownership of the north pole, soon after the result of Cook's and Peary's explorations became known. The question was referred to Canada for reply. Canada's answer in effect will be that all the territory between the North American boundary and the north pole must be recognized as Canada's hinterland. The islands. It Is maintained, have been formally taken possession of by Captain Bernier, Canada's arctic explorer, who is now lost In the far north. CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE. Family of IS Imperiled by Titling ' of 'Gasoline Stove Tank. Three children were burned to death when fire destroyed the summer cottage of Robert A. Walsh at White Bear Lake, Minn. The victims were: Constance Walsh, 9 months old; Robert Walsh, 4 years old; John Walsh, 5 years old. William, another son, 9 years old, was burned about the head, arms and chest in his efforts to save his brothers and sisters, six of whom were sleeping on the second floor ol the cottage. Sarah, another daughter, was burned about the arnu In her efforts to help the imprisoned babies on the second floor. The father was burned in the explosion of a gasoline stove when he attempted to fill the reservoir, supposing none of the burners was lighted. One had been left burning, and the gasoline caught fire. In all thirteen children and the parents were In the house at the time. SENDS RIVAL POISONED CANDY P Arrest of Ohio Man May Reveal Clash In Love Affair. The arrest of John R. Done at Findlay, Ohio, charged with sending poisoned candy to Fred O. Procter, promises to reveal rivalry for the affection of Miss May Routson, with whom, it is said, Dunn and Procter were in love. 1 Testimony against Dunn, when he it arraigned, will be given by Arthur Marks and Dayton Kahn, analytical chemists of Toledo. The report of tte chemists shows than In each cf the three pieces of candy they analyzed enough strychnine was found to produce death. Itob Dank Kucape on Handcar. The First State Bank at Foxhome, fifteen miles west of Fergus Falls, Minn., was robbed early Monday. Tho robbers blew open the safe and got all the money In it, about $2,000. They then escaped on a handcar, which they threw Into the river near Breckenridge. ' Eight Hart In Trolley Wreck. Eight passengers were Injured when a street car dashed through the gates at a Missouri Pacific ,grade crossing within the city limits of St. Louis, and was wrecked by a train. Three of the passengers sustained fractured legs, and the left foot of H. P. Xaglt was crushed. l,SOO Dead In, Mexico Floods. The town of Tua, in the State of Tiunaulipas, Mexico, was visited by another flood the other day. A number of houses were carried away and rich plantations destroyed. Abject misery prevails in the district. General Trevino places the deaths for the State of Nuevo Leon officially at 1,500. Brickbat Hurled at Harahaa. As President Harahan and other Illinois Central officials entered Jackson, Miss., en route to Xew Orleans, some one threw a brickbat through a plate glass window of their observation car. scattering glass over the occupants, but injuring nobody. Slayer of Girl Sentenced to Die. Harry Rife, slayer of Lida Gilmore, was sentenced by Judge Fisher, ia Eaton, O., to be electrocuted on Jan. 19, 1910. The Jury deliberated fourteen ' hours. Tvro Die In Traf a Wreck. Two men were killed, three injured and two engines and a box. car wert wrecked in a head-on collision In th Missoula, Mont., yards between a section of Northern Pacific passenger No. 3 and a switch engine. . Illff Fire at Arkadelphla. Fire destroyed the main building of the Arkadelphla (Ark.) Milling Company's plant, the Iron Mountain depot, ten box cars on a siding and damaged residences nearby. The entire loss ii estimated at $200,000. Wrights Dnjr Site for Plant. Wilbur and Orville Wright have purchased more than 700 acres of farm land northwest of Springfield, O., near Tippecanoe City, as a site for a park to be used in experiments with aerorlanes. It is reported that the Wright Intend to erect an aeroplane factory on the land. Boy Killed While Hantln. Ceroxo Johnson, 15 years old, while hunting In the woods near Beltsville, Md., was accidentally shot and killed by a companion.

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