Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 July 1910 — Page 2

SM PLTIITRIBUiE PLYMOUTH, IND. HENDRICKS Q. CO.. - - Publ-shers.

OLD-AGE PENSIONS. The expected has happened. A bill for old-age pensions has been introduced in the house of representatives. The introducer is William Bauchop Wilson of Biossburg, Pa., former coal miner, former international secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, -who now makes a living for his ten children on a farm, when he is not lucky enough to be drawing a representative's salary, says Brooklyn Eagle. The provisions of the bill give $120 a year to each man or woman over the age of sixty-five who has jneither property worth $1,500 nor an Income of over $240 a year. Modesty is to be expected of an entering wedge. But Wilson's measure is too jmodest by half. This' is a rich country. How can it expect a person over sixty-five years old to live comfortably ion $120 a ye;:r? If the old-age pension in each case were fixed at, say $3,000 a year, more money would be put In circulation and anyone would have a jnotlve for seeking longevity. Nobody would be silly enough to nurse thrift or to pursue industry any farther than would be needed to keep life going till the age of sixty-five should be reached, por that matter, why not make the age forty? This is an era of humanitarian (experimentation. The inosqalto season Is at hand, and 2ew Jersey, where the objectionable Insect most &kunds, 13 moving in the tnatter of destroying the pest. Bayonne js one of the towns in which energetic and organized action has been U-ken. Infested sections arc to be oiled and Iditched, and it i3 believed that by the pethods employed millions of larvae rwill be killed and thus grave consequences will be averted. It has been ;shown that combined and systematic ffort, including the most scientific means cf fighting the evil, can be very Jeffective, and New Jersey, which has ibeen a great sufferer from the ravages cf the mosquito, may add vastly to jhealth and comfort by general war jaimed at exterminating the mosjquito. Is Cuba to furnish the means of safeguarding the forests and producing paper at a moderate cost? It Is announced from that Island that experiments in manufacturing paper from jBugar-cane fiber have proved entirely successful, and that the product can "be turned out at much less cost than from, wood pulp. Of course the cane Is what Is left after the sugar has been extracted, and thus another by-product comes Into play. It has also been asserted that American cornstalks may be converted Into paper. As there is practically an unlimited supply of such rnaterial, making good the assertion phould be a very important step In conserration. Crossing ths English, channel in an I Ul - a 1. - 1 a. mi snip beiiies 10 &ave oecome almost a habit. Louis Bleriot led the way fcearly a year ago and vas followed by Jacques de Lesseps May 21 last. Both those aviators were Frenchmen, and they Cew from France to England. Now Charles Stewart Rolls, an Englishman, has made the trip from England to France and back again without a stop, and therefore holds the record H thi3 particular line of achievement. And he did the trick In a Wright aeroplane, so America gets at least part pf the credit Dispatches from Seattle report an almost unprecedented rush to the gold fields of Alaska. This does not look ps though there were general acceptance of that story that a Scranton alchemist has discovered a method of ransmuting baser materials intc gold and silver, which, if actually done, jRould Inevitably minimize the value pf the yellow and white metals. In fhort, the modern prospector or speculator has no u?e for the philosopher's ftone, so eagerly sought by the ancients. The movement for the devising o', sanitary nile3 for all passenger trains and railroad stations is not aimed at the carrying operations, because it originated among them, and was suggested by Dr. W. A. Applegate, chief Surgeon of the Southern railway. The railroads have always been leaders In promoting the safety and comfort of the traveling public, and they will cooperate earnestly with the United States public health and marine hospital service in combating germ diseases. How will coming generations get their physical exercise in outdoor recreations? The motorcycle has played jiob with the bicycle, and tne power boat has the' sailing boat and the oars men on the run. A tiny motor now pushes the light Indian canoe over the shallow lakes and streams, and for tome the paddle is too strenuous or jtoo slow. Shall wo next see the pedestrian tuck a motor in his pocket and get over the ground without the labor of moving his feet? 1 Down In Connecticut recently a woman died decause a fortune had been left to her. People who are waiting for rich uncles to pass away will agree that her action was wholly unjustifiable. A Boston gentleman has succeeded in breeding a blue rabbit In other towns, certain men have been able to produce polka-dotted ones, without having a single Burbank up their sleeves. A southern paper propounds the problem, "Was Napoleon a lover or a liar?" Is there anything in history or nature to prevent him from having been both? A Virginia parson tell3 us that "life Is one grand process of liquidation." He has his financial Jargon mixed up. Life makes u, pay cent for cent After solemn consideration science has admitted that microbes are the least dangerous features of kissing.

SEVELT GALLS ON THEPRES1DENT Present and Former Executive Meet at Beverly. ALL VISITORS ARE BARRED Only Persons at Hand During Conference Were Senator Lodge and Secretary Norton Meeting Is Most Cordial. Beverly, Mass. President Taft was at work in his library when the "honk honk" of the Lodge, limousine announced the arrival of Colonel Roosevelt. A smile swept over the face of the president as he rose and moved toward the veranda of the Burgess Point cottage. They met Just outside the door and simultaneously Taft clapped a hand on the Roosevelt shoulder as Roosevelt seized the president's hand in a strong grip. "Mr. President," exclaimed the one; and "Theodore," cried the other. "By George" continued Roosevelt, "this is fine. I am mighty glad to see you, Mr. President." Thus, after a separation of sixteen months, Taft and Roosevelt met again, at the Taft cottage here in Beverly, witb only Senator Lodge and Secretary Norton present, all the rest of the ' vorld being barred out Those who witnessed the meeting say it was characterized by all the oldtime cordiality of relations between the two that there was the best of feeling displayed and that the hearty bursts of laughter that proceeded first from the president and then from Roosevelt as they sat on the veranda and chatted for two hours and a half was strongly reminiscent of the old White House days. , As to the talk between them it covered a wide range of topics and there was .a period when the president and Roosevelt drew aside from the rest of the party and conversed In low tones. What was said must remain a secret, however, between them, for Taft declined to make any statement after the colonel had departed and Rcosevelt would say only that he had ha I a most delightful time. This fact did come out, which may be Important in future moves In New York state, that President Taft Is in full accord with Mr. Roosevelt in the matter of the Cobb bill for direct piimarles. It was not known at the time that the Cobb bill, despite the intervention of Roosevelt, had been defeated by the New York assembly, and Roosevelt had left before that interesting piece oi w ws was received here. There 13 believed to have been an agreement reached, however, under which Taft and Roosevelt will act as a unit In New York politics. Roosevelt did, too, stamp as an "absolute and ridiculous falsehood" the report that he had contemplated asking Hughes to run for governor Of New York. After they bad chatted a while on the veranda and they had had their private 'confab, Mrs. Taft and the children joined the group, which sat on the Salem bay side of the house, looking out to sea. Tea was served there and general talk indulged In until five minutes of six, when the colonel took a reluctant leave. PRINCE HENRY OFF FOR ARCTIC. Kaiser's Brother Heids Expedition to Arrange for Flight to Pole. Bremerhaven. The preliminary expedition to observe conditions in view of Count Zeppelin's polar expedition in 1012 sailed from this port today on the North German Lloyd steamer Mainz. The members of the expedition, who, with their servants, total 24, include Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the kalter; Count Zeppelin, Councilor Lewald, who was commissioner from Germany to the world's fair at St .Louis; Professor Hergesell and Explorer Drigalskl. When the expedition arrives in Spitzbergen it will tranship to the arctic steamer Phoenix. The first object of the expedition is to find a suitable headquarters for the Zeppelin dirigible expedition. Bryan Arrives In Quebec. Quebec. Que.--WIUlam J. Bryan arrived on the steamship Royal George from Bristol, England, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan. He appeared In the best of health. Mr. Bryan refused to dlscus3 politics. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan left at once for Montreal. Cashier Shoots Marshal. Tahlequah, Okla. As the result of an old grudge, C. L. Pratt, cashier of tho Bank of Kansas, at the town of Kansas, Okla., shot and rrobahly fatally wounded Robert Terry, a. former United States deputy marshal in this city Thursday. Boy Killed at Charivari Party. . Terre Haute, Ind. Cbauncey Bealmer, at Jasonville, aged fourteen, waa shof. and instantly killed by Jennings Wite, aged fourteen, at a charivari party for newlywedj Thursday. Wise says the shooting was accidental. Ex-Congressman Wächter Dead. Baltimore, Md. Former Congressman Frank C. Wächter of this city died Friday at the age of forty-nine years. Mr. Wächter served four successive terms in congress. He was a Republican. Hyde Denied New Trial. Kansas City, Mo. Dr. B. C. Hyde, convicted May 16 of poisoning Col. Thomas II. Swope, the millionaire philanthropist, was Wednesday denied a new trial by Judge Ralph S. Latshaw in the criminal court here. Congressman Booker Is Rcbbed. St Joseph, Mo. Congressman Charles F. Booker of the Fourth Mispour! district was robbed here Tuesday on board a train, and he couldn't oven negotiate a ham sandwich at the Union depot lunch counter. Two Hurt In $500,000 Fire. ' Paterson, N. J. Five hundred tbousand dollars' worth of property ia the business section of Paterson was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Two firemen were seriously Injured. Wife of Vice-President Beiter. Baltimore, Md. Mrs. James S. Sherman, wife of the vice-president, who is a patient at Johns Hopkins hospital, was reported Tuesday somewhat Improved, since her arrival, and that her case was not considered critical

PRIMARY LAW LOSES IN NEW YORK SENATE

Measure Indorsed by Roosevelt Defeated Seven RepuWicans Vote With Democrats. Albany, X. Y. The direct nomination bill was defeated In the senate as it was in the assembly. It was one of Governor Hughes' "pet" measures and went down to defeat without any debate. The final vote was 23 ayes to 19 noes, seven Republicans combining with the Democrats against the bill. Twenty-six votes were necessary to pass the bill. The measure was killed after the amendments proposed by Lloyd C. Griscom, chairman of the New York corporation committee, and Indorsed by Theodore Roosevelt had been incorporated in the measure by a vote of 24 to 21. An' emergency message from the governor made it possible for the senate to vote on the amended measure. Th3 result of the fight in the senate was even a more positive refusal to accept Theodore Roosevelt's leadership in the matter than that of the assembly. The direct tax bill failed of enactment. GARFIELD SENDS WA1M LETTER. Sounds Insurgent Slogan In Accepting Invitation to Speak. Cl3veland, O. In accepting an Invitation to speak before the new progressive Republican organization of Cleveland on July 11, James R. Garfield, former secretary of the interior and warm friend of Theodore Roosevelt, wrote to the organization a letter defining his attitude on progressive Republicanism. "It is most timely to consider what the progressive movement means and what action it falls for," wrote Mr. Garfield. "Today political liberty is at stake, and the life of the nation is threatened by great special interests, who would control our political activities for their on benefit, regardless of the common good. There is no half way ground in the fight of today. The special interests must be driven out of politics and kept out The progressives of today will win the battle." 92 IN THE SHADE AT CHICAGO. Hottest Day of Year Eight Die of Heat Many Prostrations. Chicago. July made its entry into Chicago with the hottest temperature of the year, breaking all, the records of the hot spell by registering 92 degrees In the shade. The terrific heat, unrelieved by any appreciable atmospheric disturbance, left a harvest of death and prostrations unequäled by any single day since the hot spell began, about three weeks ago. Before the day was done eight Chicago persons had died and twelve had been taken to hospital or their homes suffering intensely from the scourge of the sun, while nine persons had been attacked by vicious dogs. JURYMAN SPARE SUES WAYMAN. Asks Damages of $50,000 From Chicago State's Attorney. Chicago. State's Atterney John E. Y Wayman wa3 made defendant in a suit for $30,000 filed in the suprente court by Attorney Max M. Goodman, representing Charles Spare, one of the jurors who stood for acquittal In the Lee O'Neil Browne bribery trial. The suit charges slander. Other jurors who were criticised by the state's attorney following the mistrial of Browne, are expected to take similar action. WRECKED BY A BROKEN BOLT. Wabash Fast Mail Goes Into Ditch One Man Killed. Montgomery, Mo. Wabash fast mail No. 1 was wrecked near this city and the accident waj caused by a broken bolt on a truck. Clifford Newman of St. Louis was killed and four others were Injured. Four cars and engine left the track, and It was remarkable that hundreds were not killed or Injured. DIPLOMAT DIES OF APOPLEXY. Ove Gude, Norway's Minister, Is Victim of Swift Death. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Mr. Ove Gude, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Norway, and one of the most popular members of the diplomatic corps at Washington, died suddenly of apoplexy last night in his summer residence In this resort. Loses Eye Making Fireworks. Bloom field, N. J. Frar.lc Christian, thirty years old, tried to manufacture home-made fireworks in a shed in the rear of his hom3 here. In an explosion which resulted, both his eyes were blown out and he was otherwise terribly burned. He will die. Masked Bandit Robs Stage. Montrose. Col. A masked bandit early Friday held up the mail and express 6tage which runs between Placerville and Norwood In San Miguel county. Several passengers were lined up along the road and compelled to surrender their valuables. Mizpah, Minn., Wrecked by Fire. International Falls, Minn. Fire Friday practically wiped out the town of Mizpah, 40 miles south of here. Many business houses and residences were burned. Loss, $60.000. No Increase on Burlington. Chicago. A report that the Burlington road is contemplating an Increase In the pay of its unorganized employes was emphatically denied by President Miller Thursday. Dixie Population Grows. Washington. That the census of 1910 will show the southern states, including Missouri and Oklahoma, to have made a gain in population of 21 per cent, since 19)9, is the estimate given out by the Southern Commercial congress. Missouri Rats Law Valid. Jafferson City, Mo. The law prohibiting railroads from charging more for hauling freight a short distance than for a longer distance In the same direction was upheld by the supreme court Tuesday. Phone Company Convicted. Water Valley. Miss. The Cumberland-Telephone and Telegraph company was found guilty of violating the state anti trust law by Judge I." T. Blount in the chancery court here and a fine of $175,000 was imnosed.

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Head of Nation's Highest Tribunal Dies Suddenly of Heart Disease at His Summer Home

Bar Harbor, Maine, July 4. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, died of heart failure at his summer home. The death of the chief justice was entirely unexpected, as he had been in apparently good health lately, and there had been no premonitory symptom of any kind of trouble. Yesterday he attended church as usual, and when he retired last night he was to all appearances in his customary health. Death came about G o'clock this morning. His daughter. Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, and Rev. James Freeman, who was a guest of Justice Fuller at his Sorrento cottage. "Mainstay," wee with the jurist when he died. The funeral services will be held at Sorrento and interment will be at Chi Johnson Proves Superiority by Knocking Out Jeffries in Fifteenth Round of Great Battle.Reno, Xev. John Arthur Johnson, a Texas negro, the son of an American slave, is the first and undisputed heavy weight champion of the world. James J. Jeffries, of California, winner of twenty-two championship fights, the man who never was brought to his knees before by a blow passed -into history as a broken idol. He met utter defeat at the hands of the black champion. The end came in the fifteenth round. While Jeffries was not actually counted out, he was saved only from this crowning humiliation by his friends pleading with Johnson not to hit the fallen man again, and the towel was brought into the ring from his corner. At the end of the fifteenth round, Referee Tex Rickard raised the black arm, and the great crowd filed out, glum and silent. Jeffries was dragged to Iiis corner, bleeding from nose and mouth and a dozen cuts on the face. He had a black, closed eye and swollen features, and he had his head in his hands dazed Incoherent. Johnson walked out of the ring without a mark on his body, except a slight cut on the lip. which was the opening of a wound received in training. It was the greatest demonstration the ring has ever seen of the failure of a fighter to "come back" after years of retirement. The youth and science of the black man made Jeffries look like a green man. Jeffries was like a log. Johnson was like a'black panther, beautiful in his alertness and strength. After the third round Johnson treaed his opponent almost as a joke. He smiled and blocked playfully warding off the bearlike rushes of Jeffries with a marvelous science, now tucking a blow under his arm, again plucking it out of the air as a man stops a baseball. Out of the sea of opinions and arguments that both bolstered up this fight and made it the talk of the world these pinnacles of fact have been cast up. The fight was on the square. Of that there was no doubt after the first round. There was on evidence of the famous "yellow streak" on the part of Johnson. The end was swift and terrible. It looked as though Johnson had ben holding himself under cover all the rest of the time and now that he had measured Jeffries In all his weakness he had determined to stop it quickly. Death and Damage by Storm. Rockwood, Ark. One person was killed and several injured by a destructive wind and rain storm which swept over thta section. Telegraph and telephone communication with the surrounding country is badly crippled and it is believed that thf damage has been heavy. Half the buildings in Gould, a neighboring town, were liamaged. Kidnaping Capital Crime in Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La. Kidnaping s to be made a capital offense in Louisiana, both principles and r.ccomplices being held culpable for the infliction of the death penalty. A measure to this effect was passed almost unanimously in the house and it was stated that no real opposition will develop against the bill in the senate. ' Plunges Over High Cliff. Valdez, Alaska. While prospecting seven miles from Valdez, Charles A. Osland fell five hundred feet to death. With a companion he had been prospecting along the edge of a high cliff. Bad Fire at Paterson, N. J. Paterson, N. J. Fi.e swept a block on Main street from Ward to Market streets in this city and caused a loss estimated at $."00,000. Five firemen were injured by a falling wall. Autoist' Burned to Death in Machine. St. Louis, Mo. Robert O. Abel was burned to death and Frederick Abel, his brother, and Harry Jessoni, were burned and bruised when an automobile in which they were riding ran Into a ditch, capsized and burned In St. Louis county. New Head cf Anr. Arbor. Ann Arbor, Mich. Harry "-irns Hutchinson has been elected president of the University of Michigan U succeed Dr. Janus U. Angell. Indianapolis Man Killed by Car. Indianapolis, Ind. Alonzo R Kit'chell, the owner of a restaurant and bakery at G3G Massachusetts avenue was crushed to death by a College avenue car in front of his place of business. He walked in front of the car according to witnesses. .New Trial Denies Dr. Hyde Kansas City, Mo.-Dr. U. c ilvde convicted on May 1C last of poisoning Co Thomas II. Swope, the millionaire philanthropist, was denied a new trial by Judge Ralph s. Latshaw in t'u criminal court here.

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cago. The date of the funeral has not yet been fixed. . Chief Justice Fuller was in his seventy-eighth year. For many years the chief justice spent his summers at Sorrento, a summer colony located on Frenchman's bay, five miles from Bar Harbor. To Chief Justice Fuller fell the honor for third rank for length of service as presiding justice in the highest tribunal of the American government. For twenty-two years he was. chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but Chief Justice Marshall presided over the court for thirty-four years and Chief Justice Taney for twenty-eight yea. With the future rests the determination of his rank among the eight chief justices of history for ability and accomplishments. Grover Cleveland sent his name to the senate on April 30, 1SSS, for confirmation as chief justice. Y DIE IN WRECK Passenger Train Hits Freight at Middletown, Ohio Nineteen Killed and Many Injured. Middletown. Ohio. Nineteen persons were killed outright, three probably fatally hurt and a half dozen more or less serioxisly hurt in a headon collision between a freight and a passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway here. Of the killed, eighteen were passengers, the other victim being a member of the passenger train crew. The trains were the Cincinnati section of the Twentieth century limited on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton &. St. Louis railroad (Rig Four) and the second section of a freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway. The latter was attempting to make a siding to give the passenger train a clear track when the flyer traveling at a rate of fifty miles an hour flashed around a curve and crashed into It. The Rig Four train had been detoured to avoid a blockade track on that road at Genoa, a few miles south of here, caused by a freight wreck earlier in the day. In addition to its regular crew it carried a pilot engineer of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Das-ton road who was practically in charge of the train. A misunderstanding of orders was the cause of the disaster. Pair of Elephants on a Rampage. Greely, Colo. Angered by the efforts of trainers to separate them from two smdl elephants, two big elephants belonging to a circus engaged in a wild rampage down the main street of this city. The elephants, which were chained together, finally crashed through a fence into the front yard of a residence, tearing up lawn and shrubbery. They were making straight for the house, which would in all probability have been wrecked in the collision, when they were brought to a stop by a stout maple tree on either side of which they were unable to pass. Toy Cannon Maims Boy. Greencastle, Ind. Greencastle's first Fourth of July accident occurred when Francis Cook, aged twelve, was badly injured by the explosion of a toy cannon, which he and several other lads were firing. Two fragments of the Iron struck the boy, one severing an artery in the left arm and another striking him just above the eye. There is fear that the victim will lose his sight as the result of the aceident. Youth Makes Perilous Dive. New York. A sharp featured undersized youth- In ragged swimming trunks, with a sklnjpy coat and an old pair of trousers thrown over them, dived successfully from the center span of Brooklyn bridge to the East river, 135 feet below, for $3.50 in cash, two new suits of clothing , and whatever fame the world may hold in store for a bridge jumper. He was rescued. Boy Hurt by Fall of Hayfork. Monroeville, Ind. Freddie, the e'.cven-ycar-old son of Charles Reauchot, was seriously injured while assisting his father in loading hay. The hayfork fell, striking the lad on. the back and lacerated him badly. Fire Captain Killed. St. Louis, Mo. Captain Michael J. Lyonsj of the fire depart;nent was killed and three other firemen and a workman were injured in a fire which destroyed a part of the Waters-Pierce Oil company's storehouse here. The fire loss was $200,000. Lyons was buried under falling walls. It was several hours before the fire was under control. The storehouse covers two city jlocks. Big Liners in Collision. New York. The steamship Baltic of the White Star line was In collision with the German tank steamer Standard, bound from Philadelphia to Copenhagen, some time last week while 1,800 miles east of Sandy Hook. Neither ship was seriously damaged. Gold Dust Coming From Alaska. Fairbanks. Alaska. Three million dollars worth of gold dust has been ...eived by tlio Fairbanks banks since reason opened, six weeks ago. Cotton Manufacturer Dead. Beverly, Mass. George Dexter, a multi-millionaire long identified with the cotton mill industry and a director of many corporations, Is dead at his summer home at Pride's Crossing following an operation. He was seventysx years old. Associate Justice Moody Moves. Gloucester, Mass. Associate Justice William II. Moody of the United States Supremo Court; who was a patient at a Spital In Brookline for several :iths, will spend the remainder of ti e lammer in a cottage at Magnolia,

IS DEAD IN VIRGINIA

Oldest Democrat in United States Senate Dies After Continued Illness, of Cerebial Hemorrhage. Lynchburg, Va. Senator John W. Daniel died here of an attack of paralysis on the right side, the second attack with a few months. There was a cerebral hemorrhage late in the day, followed by complete paralysis, in which condition the senator remained till the end. This was Senator DanTs third paralytic stroke. He suffered the first last fall while in Philadelphia and the second in Daytona, Fla., during the winter, having gone to Florida to recuperate. He had not been in Washington for several months. Senator Daniel was sixty-seven years old. With Senator Daniel were his wife and his sot., Edward M. Daniel, and his daughter, Mrs. Fred Harper, whose husband, also here, is Senator Daniel's law partner. . The death of Senator John Warwick Daniel removes the oldest of the Democratic senators in point of service. Of the entire list he was the only one who could be said to belong to the old regime. And, as he was the oldest in service, he was one of the most conspicuous In popular favor. For the past few j'ears he had remained much in the background. His health had not been good and his growing years seemed to tell on him. 4 New Orleans. Samuel Douglas McEnery, United States senator from Louisiana, suddenly expired at his home here following an attack of acute indigestion. The senator arrived here Monday from Washington. He was seventythree years old, and death was superinduced by old age. In all probability Gov. Jared Y. Sanders will be chosen by the Louisiana legislature, now in session, as senator, McEnery's successor. It is thought that the leading figures In stato politics have figured upon the iged senator's passing for some time, but it was not anticipated exactly at this juncture. RAILROAD RATES ARE LOWERED. Interstate Commerce Commission Takes Important Action. Washington. Decisions handed down by the Interstate Commerce commission are country-wide in importance. They reduce freight rates both class and commodity on all transcontinental lines operating between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. These reductions run all the way from 20 to 50 per cent. The commission decided that the capital invested In railroad property and betterments shown by reports to the commission did not justify the advance in rates to the point marked in the new schedules Lied by the railroads.Tho decisions are of what popularly arc known as the Pacific coast cases. They were heard last autumn by the commission, on its six weeks' trip to the Pacific coast and intermountaln territory and have been under consideration ever since. The commission realized the Immenso Importance of the cases, not enly to the railroads, but to the shipping public throughout the country, and it prepared Its opinions with the greatest care. In every instance reductions in the existing rates complained of were made and in some instances they amounted to nearly 50 per cent. SUES FOR $1,O00,CCO DAMAGES. Complaint Is Filed Against Roosevelt and Others for Slander. ITew York. Idc Von Claussen, onco tho wife of Dr. William Franels Ilonan, whose coming to America to Sun Theodore Roosevelt and otter notables was announced from Pari3 a few weeks ago, appeared In the county court house with a complaint which she insisted on filing in the county clerkV, office. Her complaint charges Theodora Roosevelt, Robert Bacon, ambassador to France; Charles Graves, minister to Sweden, and Mrc. Alice Wright G. Graves, hU wife, with slander and conspiracy. She declares that through the machinations of these distinguished persons she was deprived of a royal marriage with Prince Eugene of Sweden as the bridegroom. Wherefore she deminds $1,000.000 darr.ages. 1 Airship Lights In Tree Top. Uusseltlort, Germany. Count Zeppelin's passengsr airship Deutschland, the highest developed of all tho famous aeronaut's models, lies on top of the Teutoburgian forest, pierced with pine tree Etems, a mass of deflated silk and twisted aluminum. Thirty-three persons aboard, after a wild contest with a storm, escaped uninjured by descending a rope ladder from the wreck on the pine tops. Cloudburst Toll Now 15. Saylersville, Ky. Fifteen people are known to be dead, fifteen additional are reported as having died and fully forty are missing as the result of a cloudburst in Magoffin, Floyd and Knott counties, Ky. Named by Prohibitionists. Meriden, Conn. Emil L. G. Hohenj thai of South Manchester, chairman of tho state central committee, was Thursday unanimously nominated for governor at the session of the Prohibition state convention. Two Schooners Burned. Richmond, Me. Two N four-masted schooners, the Henry L. Peckham and Young Bros., and two Ice houses owned by the American Ice company were destroyed by fire here Thursday. The loss is $150,000. Rolls to Fly in America. New York. Charles S. Rolls, the Knglish aviator, who flew twice across the channel a few weeks ago, has entered loth the international balloon contest and the International aviation contest. Arizona Election September 12. Phoenix, Ariz. Governor Sloan issued a nroc'amatiou Wednesday fixing; P. r -.tenter 12 as the date for the e!ec-1 vi delegates to the convention v.T.JCu win iru:.r; iuu;iuUüuu iuj . tb. new etate of Arizona. Ship Carrying 119 Is Overdue. Bombay, India. There were no tidings Tuesday from the AustrianLloyd steamer Trieste, which, with her' thirty-four passengers and crew of eighty-five, is eight days overdue from Trieste. Three ships are searching ths Arabian coast Inventor of Hoopskirt Dying. Ncv York. Joseph Thomas, aged eighty-three years, the inventor of the hoopskirt, is dying at his home in Hoboken, N. 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EWING WATTERSON GOES CRAZY. Son of Louisville Editor Mortally Wounds Hotel Proprietor. Saugertles, N. Y. Ewing Watterson, eldest son of Henry Wat-, terson, editor of the Louisville, Courier-Journal, who has been sufferJ ing from an affection of the mind for several years, beame violently in-; sane and shot and mortally wounded! Michael J. Martin, proprietor of the! Market Street hotel. The shooting! was done in the cafe of the hotel and,1 was without provocation. Watterson: ran up the street waving his pistolj wildly in the air and firing at every-i one who crossed his, path. He wasj pursued by friends of Martin, several! of whom had guns which they fired' at Watterson, none of the shots taking! effect Watterson was finally over-i taken and captured by a policeman aiid is now In the Saugertles Jail, where he raves constantly. Young Watterson owns a farm' about five miles from Saugertles; where he lives with his wife and! three children.

New York, July 2. Henry Watter son received the first news of his son's trouble at the Manhattan club, where he makes his hnmo whpn In' ew lorK. ine colonel was greatly downcast. He said that he and Mrs. Watterson had been expecting trouble from Ewing for years. BATTLE AT PARIS BEHEADING. Mob Tries to Rescue Apache at the Guillotine. Paris. An attack with revolvers and a bayonet charge on rioters marked the guillotining at daybreak today of Llaboeuf, the apache who killed a policeman several dajs ago. The Socialists had attempted to get a reprieve for the assassin, but this failed, and a violent manifestation byj the revolutionary Socialists occurred at the scene of the execution. At the' moment the blade fell several of the; rioters fired revolvers. Then tho police charged repeatedly with bayonets. A police captain was shot in the throat and more than eighty persons were wounded. The Guerre Sociale issued a violent: pamphlet Inviting alL workmen Socialists to meet at the Sante prison, where the guillotining took place. Pre-' feet Lepine hastily summoned the police commanders and drew up a plan to resist any attempted invasion of, the precincts of the prison or the guillotine. ' AMERICA NOT CHRISTIAN LAND.1 Conference of Rabbis Decides to Put 5 Views Before the Public. Charlevoix, Mich. The central conference of American rabbis, in session here, went on record to the effect that "this is not a Christian country," and warned against "the menace of sectarianism." The conference voted to place these declarations ' before the public in the shape of a tract. The matter ''was brought up in the discussion of the use of the Bible in the public schools, which the Illinois supreme court has just declared illegal. The conference also voted a protest against the caricaturing of the Jew on the stage. Individual effort to do away with it having failed, the rabbis will institute a collective campaign. ELEPHANTS IN WILD CHARGE. Mammoth Beasts Charge Through Streets of Greeley, Col. Greeley, Col. Angered by the efforts of trainers to separate them from two small epehants, two big elephants belonging to a circus engaged In a wild charge down ihe main street of this city. The elephants, which were chained together, finally crashed through a fence Into the front yard of a residence, tearing up lawn and shrubbery. They were making straight for the house, which would in all probability have .been wrecked in the collision, when they were brought to a atop bj a stout maple tree on either Bide of which they attempted to pass. CLARA MORRIS LOSES HER HOME. New York Supreme Court Orders Property Sold on Mortgage. Mount Vernon, N. Y. By an order of Supreme Court Justice Keogh, filed in the Westchester v county clerk's office at White Plains, the old homestead of Clara Morris, the former actress, at Yonkers, la to be sold Im-, mediately at foreclosure sale. Although Clara Morris is In a dying condition in the fine old mansion, yet th3 house is to be sold over her head by Lanman Crosby of New York, a referee appointed for that purpose. The sale will take place next month. Col. r. H. C. Bowen to Be Tried. Manila. Brig. Gen. Ramsay D. Potts, commanding the department of Luzon, ordered a courtmartial to tryCol. F. H..C. Bowen of the Twelfth Infantry, stationed at Fort William McKinley. The charges are not specified and the basis is 'not made public. Grandfather and Grandson Drown. Benton Harbor, Mich. A double drowning occurred here Friday in St, Joseph river. In attempt to rescue his' nine-year-old grandson, James Mitchell, past seventy, sank to his death when! he got beyond his depth. Balloonist Is Killed. Albany, Ind. When the parachute with which he was attempting to alight after a balloon ascension failed to open Friday, Ray Bradley, twentyfive years old, dropped 1,500 feet and met instant death. University Gets $500,000. Burlington, Vt. It was announced Thursday that pledges amounting to $400,000 for the endowment fund of the University of Vermont necessary to secure the $100,000 offered by the Rockefeller fund managers have been secured. Forest Fires Burn Station. Calumet, Mich. Forest fires Thursday destroyed the' Copper Range railroad station at E:m River, Houghton county. Fires arc raging all through the upper peninsula. Warship Hit by Lightning. Norfolk, Va. During a severe electric storm Tuesday night lightning r-truck the wireless mast on the battleship Delaware, tho only American dreadnaught, completely wrecking It and causing injuries to at least one member cf her crew who was knocked down a hatchway. Grandson cf Deposed King Dead. London. The Duke d'Alencon, grandson of King Louis Philippe, who was deposed in the revolution cf IS IS, died here Wednesday.

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"There, are very few women archl tects." "Xo worder. Women do not relish being called 'designing creatures.' UNDEFEATED CHAMPION OF THE NORTHWEST. T. A. Ireland, Rifle Shot, of Colfax, Wash., Tells a Story. Mr. Ireland is the holder of four world records and has yet to lose his first match says he: "Kidney trouble bo affected my vision as to Interfere with my shooting. I became so nervous I could hardly hold a guu. There was severe pain ia my back and head and my kidneys were terribly disordered. Doan's Kidney Pills ?ured me after I had iioctored and taken nearly every remedy Imaginable without relief. I will give further details 'of my case to anyone enclosing stamp." Remember the name Doan's. . For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Protest of a Shipper. Jonah energed. "It wanted to increase the freight rates," he complained. Thus the first transportation protest was filed. Degrees of Misery. Two young ladles were talking the other day about a third who had just become engaged to a widower who plays the cornet and has four children. "What could be worse," exclaimed one, "than four children and a cornet?" "Nothing," said the other, "except, perhaps, six children and a trombone." Wrong Angle. "There's a bright side to everything." "A bright side! Bah!" "Well, there Is." "Do you mean to tell me, doctor, that there is a bright side to my baring had my leg amputated?" "Indeed, there is; and if you could put yourself In my place you could really see iL" ' Oh, Mr. Vriflhtl Wilbur Wright was talking to a Dayton reporter about the Dally Mail's $50,000 aerial race from London to Manchester. t "It was shocking, though," said the reporter, "that Graham White, an Anglo-Saxon flying man. let himself be beaten by a Frenchman." Mr. Wright Emiled. "Shocking?" he said. "It was more than that. It was a-Paulhan" The Luggage Question. . DeLancey Nicoll, lawyer. Is always a well-dressed man, and abominates a slovenly appearance. At the Union club he said of a westerner one day: "He has come on to New York for a week and 1 dont believe he has brought a stitch of luggage with film.' Here Mr. Nicoll smiled. - "Unless, indeed." he added, "he's stowed something in the large bags he carries In the knees of his trousers." Authority on Soup. A Jittle boy, promoted to company dinner at the family table, enjoyed his oyster cream hugely until he came to an unrecognized object at the bottom of the plate. "What is it? Oh, Just an oyster, dear," responded the child's mother, sharply appealed to. "Why did Dora put it in?" "Oh, to make the soup good. "She can leave It out next time." the tiny epicure decided. "The Roup's good enough without." Exchange. A Hibernian VerdicL A Now Yorker is the happy employer of an aged Irishman, who grows eloquent over the woes of the Emerald isle. Said the boss: "Pat, the king of England is dead." The old man was silent for a moment. Then he took off his hat. "Well," he said slowly, "as a man he was a fine bit of a boy. As Englishmen go, he was as good as yez can make them. As a king, there wa3 nobody on earth as could beat him. But Btill, I'll keep me eye on George." A "Corner" In Comfort For those who know the pleasure and satisfaction there is in a glass of ICE POSTUM Make it as usual, dark and rich boil it thoroughly to bring out the distinctive flavour and food value. Cool with cracked ice, and add sugar and lemon; also a little cream if desired. Postum is really a food-drink with the nutritive elements of the field grains. Ice it, and you have a pleasant, safe, cooling drink for summer days an agreeable surprise for those who have never tried it. "There's a Reason" for POSTUM Postnm Cereal Co., Limited. Battle Creek, Mich.