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H. H. LURTO N DEAD Supreme Court Justice Passes Away at Atlantic City. IN COURT IN CLOSING DAYS Interment Will Be at Nashville. Tenn, —Most of Court Away From Washingotn—Was Named by Taft—Had Been Promised Place by Roosevelt, Who Afterward Recanted. WASHINGTON — News of the death of Justice Horace H. Lurton at Atlantic City came as a shock to official Washington. The justice has been in poor health for several months but sat in the court in the closing days 1 and read opinions. The last opinion he read from the bench was that dismissing the petition of the state of Louisiana asking permission to file the suit enjoining Secretary McAdoo from putting into effect the raw' sugar duties under the Underwood-Simms tariff act. Justice Lurton’s body will be brought to Washington this evening. The funeral party will leave here by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at 11:10 o’clock and go to Louisville, Ky., and then take the Louisville & Nashville to Nashville, Tenn. The interment will take place at Clarkesville, Tenn., the home of Justice Lurton where he began the practice of law. , All of Justice Lurton’s associates in the supreme court have been notified. Chief Justice White has advised the marshall of the supreme court, from White Sulphur Springs, that he will join the funeral train at that point and proceed to Tennessee. Justices Lamar and Vandervanter are the only members of the court now' in Washington. Justices Day and Pitney are near enough to Washington to make it possible for them to attend. The mar. shall of the court, J. M. Wright, will accompany the body to Tennessee. Justice Lurton had seen but little more than four years’ service on the supreme court bench. Appointed by Taft. Although a Democrat, he was appointed by Taft, who had been associated with him in the circuit court of appeals for the sixth circuit and had a high opinion of his judicial ability and integrity. President Taft departed from a rule be laid down governing the appointment of judges when he named Justice Lurton, who was sixty-six years of age at the time of his appointment. In doing so President Taft felt that he was righting a wrong that had been done his friend, Justice Lurton, when President Roosevelt had practically agreed to appoint Mr. Lurton to the -supreme bench and then changed his mind on the ground that he had been > unfriendly to labor in his decisions and had accepted favors from railroad companies. FREDA. BUSSE PASSES AWAY He Was Formerly Chicago Mayor and Illinois Treasurer. CHICAGO — Fred A. Busse, former mayor of Chicago, former postmaster of Chicago and former state senator and state treasurer of Illinois, is dead at his home at 4852 Sheridan j road. The cause of his death was valvular disease of the heart from which he had. suffered four and one-half months. Politicians declare he had the largest personal following of any man in local Republican politics. He went to the mayor’s office from the postmastership, to which post Theodore Roosevelt appointed him. He had pre. viously held the position of state treasurer. He was a power in political circles and his friends fondly referred to him as “the burgomaster.” Men associated with him in his administration from 1907 to 1911 declare he was the best mayor Chicago ever had. BRYAN OFFERS $3,000,000 Costa Rica’s Opposition to Nicaraguan Treaty Leads Him to Plan Payment. WASHINGTON — Opposition by Costa Rica to the proposed Nicaraguan treaty, it became known, has been met by Secretary Bryan with an offer to pay |3,000,090 for any rights it may have in an interoceanic canal route byway of Lake Nicaragua. The Costa Rican opposition is based __ on a claim to jurisdiction over a small portion of'the proposed route. As the treaty provides for an allowance of 53,000,000 to Nicaragua, the state department, without according full recog. nition of any claim, decided that Costa Rica should be placed on the same basis as Nicaragua. TOT IS VICTIM OF SLAYER ’ Lured From Home by Stranger and Later Found Dying. CHICAGO — Hazel Weinstein, four yes/rs 'of age, 2634 West Madison street, who was lured from in front of her home by a strange man and a vhort time later was found dying at ute. rear of 2638 Warren avenue as the result of an assault made on her. The police arrested Boswell C. F. Smith, who confessed he committed the crime. * -n..

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~ i HORACE H. LURTON ~ Justice of Supreme Court Expires in Atlantic City. " 1 Photo by American Press Association. MARINES TO OCCUPY HAITI President Wilson Decides to Land Forces to Restore Peace. WASHINGTON — President Wilson and his advisers have decided to land American naval forces in Haiti in au endeavor to restore peace to that afflicted republic. It is possible also that San Domingo will be occupied by the armed forces of the United States. The unofficial report here os that a ! large force of bluejackets and marines will undertake the task. The marines will probably be taken from Vera Cruz and their place in the garrison there filled by soldiers from Galveston. This !i dicates that a complete occupation of either Haiti or San Domingo, and probably of both republics, will be effected by the American forces, and military control will be maintained until peace is restored and governments established. YIELD OR FIGHT, IS GARSON DEFI Ulster to Submit to Home Rule If Conquered. DRUM BEG, IRELAND — The Orangemen’s demonstration here culminated in a scene of immense enthusiasm around the platform where Sir Edward Carson, bible in hand, pledged the covenanters never to surrender to coercion, to remain loyal to the throne and never to waver in their support of their leaders in the fight against nome rule. In a speech which evoked tremendous enthusiasm he served notice on j the British government that unless it was prepared to leave Ulster alone it would soon find the Ulstermen recognizing no government except the provisional government of Ulster. He said he nad been given authority to act and, if necessary, that meant he was to exercise his powers without regard to consequences, to himself. The Ulstermen, he added, were not going to give way and were bound to win, because God would defend the I right. CROP YIELD IS EXCELLENT Government Report Puts Hve Grains’ Aggregate at 5>256,000,000 Bushels. CHICAGO — The five grain crops this year aggregate 5,256,099,000 bushels, of 705,000,000 bushels, equal to 13.6 per cent, more than the harvest last year. The three grains, wheat, corn and oats, show nearly 5,000,000,000 bushels. This is the showing made by the government report issued. It is the second best ever made, the record yields being 276,000,000 bushels more than the present estimates in 1912. With favorable conditions for the spring wheat crop in the northwest which is just coming into the healing stage in the southern sections, the 100,000,000-bushels mark may be reached in the final returns. “BILLY” BAXTER IS DEAD Famous White-Haired Minstrel Played Before Thrones. CHICAGO — “Billy” Baxter’s banjc is now still. The famous minstrel man, who amused the crowned heads of Europe with song and jest, who played with all of the large minstrel troupes in America, ana was one of the most widely known and beloved characters on the American stage, died at the Rhodes Avenue hospital. Wherever “Billy” Baxter went with his mandolin, guitar, and banjo mirth and pollity followed, and new friends were won. Born in Cincinnati on June 4, 1861, he turned early to the stage, where his musical talent soon won him a place among the stars of minstrelsy.

580,000,000 LOOTi ( ! .Commerce Commission Reports on New Raven Road. ACTIONS AGAINST DIRECTORS Immense Loss Through Mismanagement and Waste Laid to Them— Board Called Criminally Negligent and Evidence Is Sent to Prosecutors —Sees One Bright Ray. WASHINGTON —ln one of the narshest reports ever nanded down by I a government bureau the interstate I commerce commission held the direc-1 tors of the old management of the 1 New Haven railroad criminally neg‘i | gent and subject to prosecution under : the Sherman anti-trust and other laws? The commission has put the matter, cf criminal proceedings to Attorney General Mcßeynolds by referring to him a complete record of testimony! taken. The committee also has called the attention of District Attorney Whitman to possible violation of stat* laws. The commission estimates that j between $70,000,000 and $90,000,000 has: been lost to the New Haven stockhold-1 ers through waste and impairment of: | values under the old management. It i expresses the opinion that a part at least of this amount should be recoveted from the individual directors and others. ‘The result of our research into the financial workings of the former management of the New Haven system,” says the report, “has been to disclose one of the most glaring instances of maladministration revealed in all the history of American railroads.” The commission finds that the late J. P. Morgan and Charles H. Mellen uomiuated the affairs of the New Hav-, en road and that the other members of the board of directors subordinated themselves to the will of these two. The commission refers repeatedly,' however, to the New Haven director-! ate and officers as the “Mellen-Morgan, j Rockefeller management.” Men Attacked. The New Haven directorate so harshly attacked by the commission was made up as follows: Wm. Rockefeller, Charles F. Brook, er, Edwin Milner, Wm. Skinner, D. Newton Barnes, Charles S. Mellen, Robert W. Taft, James S. Elton, James S. Hemingway, A. Heaton Robertson, Frederick P. Brewster, Henry K. McIlarge*. Alexander Cochrane, John Billard, Geo. F. Baker, T. Dewitt Cuyler, Theodore N. Vail, Edward Milligan, Francis T. Maxwell, Sidney W. Winslow, Samuel Rea, Laurence Minot, Morton F. Plant, D. M. Warner, the late J. P. Morgan and John D. Pratt. The commission characterizes the New Haven monopoly as thoroughly corrupt. The report contains one bright ray, however, for the future. It says: “The splendid property of the New Haven railroad itself will be called' upon for many a year to make the drain upon its resources resulting from the unpardonable folly of the I transactions outside the proper field in which its stockholders supposed their ■ money was invested. But honesty and efficiency of management of this property of the railroad only will undoubtedly in time restore its former standing.” BALLOON RACE TO GOODYEAR Pilot Preston Wins National Elimination Race. ST. LOUIS, MO. — The balloon ; Goodyear, piloted by R. A. D. Preston of Akron, 0., won the national elimination race to determine the third Amer, ’can entrant in the international races fcr the James Gordon Bennett cup, v.lich will start from Kansas City in October. This was determined when a message from E. S. Cole, pilot of the San Francisco 1915 reported that his ba’ loon had landed eleven miles southeast of McLeansboro, 111., a flight of l rt 6 miles. MERCURY KILLS CULVER MAN Lee Wade, Instructor, Rushed to Chicago After Taking Drug by Mistake. CHICAGO — Lee Wade, an instructor at the Culver military academy, who was rushed to Chicago in a special train Monday, succumbed to an operation performed for mercury poisoning at Wesley hospital. According to the boy’s father, Dr. Francis Wade, of Cambridge, Mass., he mistook a bottle of mercury for medicine he used and swallowed one of the tablets. Wade who is twenty-one, was graduated from Harvard lasj month. EXONERATED ON MINE DEAL Senators Chilton and Overman Not Responsible for use of Stationery. WASHINGTON D. C. — The senate subcommittee on the Gold Hill mine! investigation finds that Senators Chilten and Overman were not personally responsible for the use of the senate committee stationery of their respective committees and that they had no knowledge of it. The indications are., that the senate committee will leave Walter George Newman, the Gold Hill promoter, “holding the bag.”

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INDIANA SUTE NEWS Veteran of Two Wars Dies. I COLUMBUS, IND. — Captain Andrew Hilger, ninety-one years cf age, i a veteran of the Civil and Mexican I Wars, is dead at his home here. Cap- ; tam Hilger was born at Bavaria, Germany, but came to this country with j his parents, who located in Louisville, 1 Ky., In 1823. He came to this city in | 1874, where, until a few days ago, he I was engaged in the merchant tailoring i business. ! When war was declared with Mexico he enlisted in the First Kentucky Volunteer infantry, serving throughout j that war. He served in General Tayi lor’s command and made all of the uniforms for General Taylor and his staff. I Ke was the father of eighteen chik | dren. “Dig and Hoe for Kokomo.” KOKOMO, IND. — Kokomo now 1 has an official slogan. The Cham- ! ber of Commerce offered a prize of : $lO in gold to the one offering the best suggestion for a slogan for the city and as a result the Kokomo war cry I will now be “Dig. and Hoe for Kokomo.” Dr. B. A. Thompson, county health officer and coroner, won the ■' prize for the best suggestion. Kokomo merchants and manufacturers will use the slogan in their adverj tising and on their goods and the i Chamber of Commerce will use it in j the nation-wide campaign to advertise ; Kokomo. Mourned Fifty Years; Living. LAPORTE, IND. — Mrs. Sophia ! Frechette of Valparaiso has left for Liberty, Mo., where she will be re- ; united with a brother, Edward Lewey, whom she had mourned as dead for fifty years, having received indirect information at the close of the Civil War that he had been killed in battle. ■ Last year, a sister, mourned as dead ; for forty years was found in Okla- , ; homa, and it is now planned to have ; a reunion of the brother and two sisters in the little Missouri town. “Abduction” Believed Hoax. WASHINGTON, IND.—Sheriff Har- ’ man, Deputy Sheriff McCarty and l Chief of Police McCrisaken, pressed a search among the camping parties about High Rock, on the east fork of j White river, for “Nell Haworth,” re- ■ ported to be held a captive by fisher- . men. The officers returned empty i handed. They believe the note found ' in a bottle in. White river near Peters- ’ burg, which appealed for aid, was the ' work of some practical joker. Sparrow Blinds Woman. AURORA, IND. — Mrs. Florence V. Pulskamp, 42 years old. wife of William S. Pulskamp, a farmer, lost ■ the sight of her right eye w hen a sparrow flew through an open window into her kitchen and knocked over a bottle | of liquid lye, spilling it on the worn-: an’s face and head. Club Fire Loss $40,000. IbfDIAPOLIS, IND. — The main ■ buildings of the Country club, north-. • west of the city, were destroyed by i fire, causing a loss of $40,000. The club recently purchased new quarters ■ | and preparations were already under j way for the removal. SIOO,OOO Fire at Fort Wayne. FORT WAYNE, IND. — Fire destroyed the building occupied by H. Pfeiffer & Sons, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO, of which $70,000 was on stock.. Thousands of pine doors on the third floor made the fire hard to get under control. Worker Run Down. HAMMOND, IND. — While riding a bicycle to his employment at the Standard Oil company, John Kowalcyk of Whiting was run down by a touring car driven by H. L. Lowery,: a railroad man. Kowalcyk’s skull is fractured. SSO for “Blind Tiger.” MARION, IND. —A jury in the police court found William Dailey guilty of running a “blind tiger” in West Marion and fined him SSO and costs, to which was added a jail sentence of thirty says. Wahole &ke Gives Up Body. VALPARAISO, IND. — The body of Clarence Burke of Chicago, who drowned thirty-two days ago while bathing' in Wahole lake, has been re-1 covered. The body was floating in the I water. | Wounded Over Old Fued. LAFAYETTE, IND. — L. H. Harness, a merchant, and William Crowuer, a laborer, were wounded in a street fight at Lochiel, near here, which resulted from an old sued. Wades Into S3OO. BEDFORD, IND. ■— Gus Bergstrom opened a mussel shell, found while wading in White river near here, and found a pearl for which he has received an offer of S3OO. Stars Long Canoe Trip. I NEWCASTLE, IND. — William C. Schultz, a high school pupil, has started on a canoe trip to New Orleans byway of the Blue, White, Ohio and M ississippl rivers. Drunk at Funeral; Divorced. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Mrs. Wesley W. Ford has been granted a divorce because her husband recently became drunk at the funeral of his mother-in-law. j

TWO DIE FROM HEAT; ! NURSE IS PROSTRATED Red Cross Worker Ministering to Sufferer Falls. LOGANSPORT, IND. — Four prostrations, two of them resulting fatally, is the result to date of the intense heat which has prevailed here for the last seventy-two hours, the maximum temperature being 100, according to the government thermometer at Longcliffe. In the downtown district the temperature was higher. Miss Ida McCaslin, a Red Cross visiting nurse, while ministering to a i case of heat prostration, was herself prostrated and is in serious condition. John Olsen, prostrated by the heat, died from sunstroke at the quarries west of this city. James Rothermel was overcome by heat while playing ball at Spencer park. RALSTON TO GO “BRYANING’’ Indiana Governor Consented to Speak • Before Business Began Rushing. I KOKOMO, IND. — All arrangements have been made for the opening ot the Kokomo Chautauqua Sunday, Aug. 9. Governor Samuel M. Ralston will be the big feature on the opening day. Governor Ralston has been turning down invitations to give Chautauqua lectures all summer, but several J months ago, before the demand upon his time became so great, he promised T. C. Reynolds, one of the leaders of the local Chautauqua company, that he would appear here. Charles W. Fairbanks will be the , speaker the last Sunday. Mr. Fair-i-banks has promised to appear if his i health permits. On account of the j condition of his health he has been I doing but little public speaking this summer. SCHOOL CONTRACT IS VALID But Township Will Not Have to Pay Large Claim. SHELBYVILLE, IND. — After being out eight hours, the jury in the ' cases of Alvin V. Pickett and Philip :S. Hauck, against the Brandywine j school township and Albert Luther, • trustee, returned a verdict both for ' and against the plaintiffs. Pickett & i Hauck demanded $3,200 for materials I and work on the Fairland school bu,jld. I img. Work was stopped after three- | fourths of the construction was completed. The plaintiffs had received I $10,177.50. The contract was for $19,- ! 755. The township alleged a conspir--1 acy to defraud, which the jury did not sustain. As a result of the verdict the town- ■ ship will not be compelled to pay the i plaintiffs $3,200 more for the work now j done. The Costs in the case were as- ! sessed against the plaintiffs. j COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE FINED Indiana Men Convicted of Charging Excessive Fees in Tax Collections. i WINCHESTER, IND. — Henry C. ■ Good, county treasurer, and his deputy, i Orville D. Cosier, were fined $lO and costs each in the circuit court here for having received excessive fees, and O. F. Sooy and Henry Behrman, both i of Indianapolis, were fined the same amount when found guilty of usurping a public office. ISooy and Behrman were arrested two months ago for charging excessively in the collection of delinquent taxes. Cosier, whose home is in Indianapolis, was sworn in as deputy treasurer to act during the time Behrman and Sooy were working in this county. LAWYERS QUIT GYPSY CASE Refused to Go on With Defense Because Accused Have No Money. GOSHEN, IND. —The defense .of the Mendes brothers, the igypsies indicted following a camp battle near here, collapsed, when their lawyers | withdrew because the prisoners lacked j funds with which to pay for services, i Judge Drake appointed Orrin H. Markel of Elkhart, pauper attorney, to defend Tony Mendes, indicted for murder. t Arrangements may be made for Mendes to plead guilty to a charge i of involuntary manslaughter and take a sentence of from two to twenty-one years, in which event the charges against his brothers will be dismissed THIS COW HAS SOME TAIL . Wraps It Around Milker’s Hands and Drags Her About Lot. ’ COLUMBUS, IND. — While Mrs. Frank Oberlies was milking a cow at her home near here this morning the cow, when switching her tail to ward off flies, wrapped her tail around the bail of the tin bucket and also around one of the milker’s hands. The cow then began running around the barn lot, dragging Mrs. Oberlies and the bucket with her. The flesh ' was torn from one of the woman’s ; fingers and her hand was otherwise badly lacerated. Varparaiso Girl Burned. VALPARAISO, I.Nd.— Miss Edna Sears, sixteen years old, was probably fatally burned today when her apron caught fire while she was preparing I '

AN ULSTER SOLDIER Type of Irishman Enlisted Against Home Rule. Photo bv Amorioan A««oelatlon | SHORT CUTS TO THE HEWS: A Mexican matador, Miguel Frey» was mortally gored by a bull in Madrid, Spain. A meteor weighing twenty pounds struck an auto near Petersburg, Ind. No one was injured. Suffrage for women failed of a favorable report In the Georgia house of representatives by one vote. In the central fashionable quarter of Paris several street cave-ins occurred after a heavy thunderstorm. The French submarine Calypso was sunk by the destroyer Mosque ton durij g maneuvers. The crew was saved. Fire destroyed the plant of the American Packing and Provision company at Kankakee, 111. Loss $200,000. Fire of an unknown origin destroyed the plant of the Havers Automobile company in Port Huron, Mich. Loss is $100,090. William Rufus, a wealthy St. Paul lumberman, will have to pay $17,425 to Miss Ada M. Cox, who sued him for breach of promise. Colonel Frank L. Denny, retired of the marine corps, was instantly killed when he fell over a balustrade in his home in Washington. Jan Kubelik announced the birth of a sixth child and first son. Kubelik said his heir “revealed distinct traces of talent for the violin.” A Pekin dispatch to the Daily Telegraph says that China is about to apply to the bankers of the five powers frr another loan of $100,000,000. Charles Armstrong and D. B. Longbaugh, oil well shot-firers, were instantly kill by an explosion at Findlay, 0., of several hundred quarts of nitroglycerin. The sale of the battleships Mississippi and Idaho for use in the Greek navy was closed with the delivery of a check for $12,535,275.96 to Secretary Daniels. Delay in the payment of a ransom ol $500,000 has resulted in the execution of Juan Velasco, a French cotton magnate of Atlixcon, Puebla, by Zapatistas. A world’s altitude record for an aeroplane carrying only one aviator was made at Johannesthal, Germany by Otto Linnekogel who attained a height of approximately 21,654 feet. Rosa Carson, a neqress, was taken from jail at Elleree, near Orangeburg, S. C., and lynched by a mob. She is said to have confessed the murder of the twelve-year-old daughter of D. F. Hall for revenge. While in a jealous rage, Melvin Johnson, at Ottumwa, la., shot and killed his wife, seriously injured his mother-in-law, Mrs. Seeley, and shot himself, dying instantly. Mrs. Seeley is not expected to recover. Six chinamen were arrested in Saginaw. Mich., charged with being in this country unlawfully and the police believe they have uncovered one of the main distributing stations of a powerful syndicate which has been smuggling hundreds of Chinese into the United States. Sir William Osler, regius professor of medicine of Oxford university, startled the large, audience attending the conference of the Association for Prevention of Consumption, jit Leeds, Prevention of Consumption at Leeds, England, by saying that almost all the persona in it were tuberculous. ,

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I DAY OR SO WILL ! SEE HUERTA OUT Sact Develops After £ inference of Bryan and Suarez. HUERTA ARMY QbiTT H 6 WEST Federal Commanders cn Picific Coast Making Exits While Rat . Communication Is Good—Evacuat ons, Armistices and Entry of Rebe s in Cities Constantly Reported. Washington, July 15.—J"' e state department has received a> vices, that Huerta s resignation is cc. ain within a day or so. This devek ed after a conference between Seer* ary Bryan and Minister Suarez ol C .ile. El Paso, Tex., July 15.—' errified x by the menace of death, i s isolated army on the Mexican wc t coast is abandoning the Pacific sl< oe to General Obregon’s victorious > ebels. The federal commanders fear t ey may be too late and find rail con munication with tire capital cut off. When Huerta resigns a: d the constitutionalists occupy Mex co City, it is' feared all federal office’s may be executed, driven from the country or immediately murdered in*; . isons. Rear Admiral Howard, c mmanding the Pacific fleet of the Amc ican navy, according to claims of coi jtitutionalist officers here, is conste itly in receipt of reports of evac%ati ns by federate, occupation of cteses ind towns by rebel forces, declarawoi > of armistices and the exchange of i 'isoners. Within a week, accordii.-i to pres- 8 ent indications Huerta wil hold only Mazatlan and Salina Cruz r i the west coast of Mexico. Mazatl: a is surrounded by constitutionals s to such an extent that the federal arrison is not only powerless but star ing. Salina Cruz, it appears, s held by the federate only for the • urpose of allowing a landing place so: the evacuating army from Guayn-.is and to send supplies when possible to the beleagured garrison at Maza’ an. The evacuation of Mazat ah is momentarily expected. With i » garrison landed at Salina Cruz and ea route to the capital by train it is ' kely that Salina Cruz will also be ev icuated. At Guaymas, the most important point in the gulf of Cali ornia, an armistice has been agreed on to expire at midnight July 20. FOUR MILBANK MENJiRHNUCTED Fraudulent Use of Mai's Is Alleged by U. S. Gram Jury. Chicago, July 15.—The special federal grand jury was reports 1 tp have returned four indictments i> painst as many private bankers. The men said to be indicted are: “Sollie” Lewinsohn, missii ' headybf the Traders’ bank and forn r professional bondsman. / Joseph T. Ashurst and V JliarriMU— Fosberg, copartners in the irookline Commercial and Savings bar : and the Midway Commercial and Savings* bank. Ashurst has disappt .red, but Fosberg was taken into cus ody several weeks ago. Jerome Smrz, at one time postmaster at Argo and owner of the adustrial Savings bank, a private ins‘ ution. All of the men are accuse of using the mails in a scheme t* defraud. Lewdnsohn is said to have solicited depositors for his bank by ueans of letters. KILLED ON EVE OF WADDING .Neil Barnett of Meaedc ia, 111., Electrocuted. Edwardsville, 111., July 1 .—Three days before he was to havt begun a vacation and .started for hit home in Meredosa, 111., where he wa. to have been married, Neil Barnett, ? lineman for the McKinley system, wr electrocuted while working on a lii > of dou-ble-feed wires at EdwaMfitevil j. Barnett had planneSro go to Meredosia Thursday, where pre arations were being made for his me riage to Miss Leia Baber of that towi on July 22, the birthday anniversary of both. Barnett, who was working with a force from Stanton, caused a hort cir. cuit» when one of his “< imbers” slipped while he was workin. on one wire, throwing* him against t ie other also. Machinery Expert Dead. Columbus," Ind., July r o hn N1 Kailor, age sixty-three, sup rintendent of the Emerson-BrandingJ im company, which formerly was Rieves & Co., the largest manufacture g plant in the country, died at his home in this city. Mr. Kailor had mv h to do with the success of the Ree\ ss company, and invented and d-veloped. many of the products made by it.