Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 January 1909 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT SRE S e | W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher | WALKERTON. - INDIANA S S B 0 G O s AoTRTR IR B, England’s turbine fleet already lincludes 62 warships and 44 vessels of the merchant marine. ‘ When the hens get good and ready they will show what they can do to the alleged corner in eggs. China present?s Mrs. Roosevelt with‘ a tiger skin. Her husband wil! do the rest, as soon as he gets a year off. Chicago has at last made a step toward driving its tramps out of town, Free lunch in the saloons has been abolished. s At Sholapur, British India, a factory Is successfully xﬂaking matches with sticks of a peculiarly stiff form of native grass. Chauncey Depew showed up at the opening of congress with a new story and seems to think that that is all that was required. In Munich a woman fainted under the weight of her hat. Women shouldn’t wear the heavier-than-air <SEHIS. 4 erry Jids. i Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been made a major on the staff of the governor .of Connecticut, but mnot for meritorious work as a carpetmaker. } ——————————————— ‘ After reading the enormous estimates of the value of American crops the farmers are sure to be more curious than ever about who gets the‘ money. Doubts as to whether interest in athletics may not interfere with scholarship will never go so far as to tempt Prof. Hadley of Yale to root for the opposition team, TR R ————— More than 30,000 workers were killed: in American industries last year. Civilization may come high, but the price should be much less when reckoned in human blood. l A New York automobile speeder who flashed a SI,OOO bill in a Harlem police court and got the justice all worked up was in luck that the episode did not occur in some western court or the judge might have had sufficient presence of mind to make the fine SI,OOO. One of the judges of Chicago’s municipal court confessed recently that it was not until he was elected to the bench that he found time to read Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the- Roman Empire.” And yet it would seem that with so much crime in Chicago there " would hardly be much opportunity for Judicial leisure. A woman swooned on the street in Munich, Germany, and the doctor said it was because of the weight of her Merry Widow hat. Probably her hus- 1 ~ band swooned not because of the weight of the hat but the size of thej bill. Yet there are women who in the | close atmosphere of a theater will keep these hats on. e e S——— The total amount of pensions paid by the United States between 1866 and 1908, inclusive, was $3,654,663,364,42, and the cost, maintenance and expenses of the organization for the payment of these pensions during the same period were $122,574,462.96, a total of $3,777,237,828.38, exceeding the an.ount of money in circulation in this country in 1907 by more than $1,120,000,000. Experimerts recently made by the war department in Washington may result in providing soldiers in the Philippines and other trepical countries with orange-colored underwearl and hat-linings. The tests demon: strated the fact that black goods,and red, absorb the sun’s rays, white, blue and green disintegrate them, and or‘ange, although it contsins some red, almost entirely prevents the passage of heat rays. ‘ New testimony to the truth of the} proverb that honesty is the best policy | is furnished by the offer of a noted counterfeiter to surrender his outfit ~ and give up his criminal calling. Incidentally the proposition attests the vigilance of the United States secret service, for the counterfeiter says he is hunted down so energetically that his business does not pay. Doubtless many another “crook” can bear thel game witness. | Because Mr. Cleveland’s two terms as president were not continuous, there has been some confusion in the numbering of the presidents. Properly 1 he was the twenty-second president, Mr. Harrison was the twenty-third and Mr. McKinley the twentv-fourth. On the memorials at Columbus and Buffalo he is called the twenty-fifth. Yet surely McKinley was the twentyfourth man to be president, and Mr. Taft will be the twenty-sixth. ‘ Almost any steamer afloat in the merchant service can now go to Man- | chester, England, the deepening of the ship canal to a uniform depth of 28 feet having been completed after over three years’ continuous work. Maj. McKenzie, the army officer in charge of Mississippi improvements, says a 12 to 14-foot? ship channel from | the lakes to the gulf will cost about $320,000,000. That does not encourage hope that the undertaking wiil be begun at once by the national government, | Nothing caused Tolstoy, the boy, | more annoyance about this time than | the knowledge that he was very plain. featured. To be revenged on 1;;1?111’61 he determined to make himself Stilf“ uglier, and witk this end in view cut off his evebrows. l . An auto speeder got 30 davs in jail and a fine of $250 in New York. The vunning-amuck business is getting layed out. It is proposed now to re vke a chauffeur’s license on the third wviction. By that time he ougkt te on trial for manslaughter. |

DISASTER IN JOE LEITER’S COLLIERY AT ZEIGLER. GAS IGNITED BY SPARK Owner Pensonally Conducts First Relief Party to Rescue Bodies— Victims Were Clearing Away Debris. Duquoin, Ill.—A disastrous gas explosion in which 25 men lost their lives occurred at an early hour Sunday morning at Zeigler. A spark from a trolley pole of an electric motor coming in contact with a pocket of gas is assigned as the cause of the explosion. - The Americans killed by the explosion include: Willis Warner and Albert Kerr, foremen; James Patterson, Joe Richardson, Fred Morgan, J. O. Erans, Gilbert Jones, Joe Tate, James Philipps, John Cassay, Aaron Jereoll, Thomas Hubbard, Cebe Pucket and Charles Smothers. Eight bodies yet remain in the mine, but will be recovered before many hours, it isjtzlgpught. ‘Mr. Leiter per- | The lont~sarvivor Or THE e som| | Was an Italian youth, who escaped unRPN Y e : - An expert who had been experimenting with the gas in the mines at Zeigler left Wednesday, confident that he had placed the mine in safe condition to be operated. The men entombed were engaged in clearing away the debris caused by the recent fires in the mine and it was expected that operations would be resumed at once after two months’ suspension. '~ Mrs. Leiter was at the mine with her husband, and gave coffee and food to the widows and other relatives of the victims and comforted them. HADLEY IS INAUGURATED. | He is First Republican Governor of | Missouri Since 1871. Jefferson City, Mo.—Herbert 8. Hadley was inaugurated governor of Missouri Monday. He is the first Republican governor of Missouri since 1871 and the Republicans enlisted the state militia to make the inauguration a brilliant affair. Columbus, O.—Gov. Andrew L. Harris of Eaton was succeeded at noon Monday as Ohio’s executive by Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, attorney general of the United States during the second term of President Cleveland. Indianapolis, Ind.—Gov.-elect Marshall and Lieut. Gov.-elect Hall were inaugurated at noon Monday in the south corridor of the first floor of the capitol building. Gov. Hanly called at Mr. Marshall's home with a carriage and took the governor-elect to the state house for the ceremony. Simplicity to a marked degree characterized the ceremonies, all pomp and ostentation being dispensed with at the request of the incoming governor. CHURCH FALLS; MANY DEAD. Ancient Edifice in Switzerland Collapses, Burying Worshipers. Berne, Switzerland.—During divine service Sunday an ancient church near Sion suddenly collapsed, burying the worshipers in the ruins. Practically all the members of the congregation were killed or injured. A wild panic followed, those who escaped rushing through the fields shouting that an earthquake had over taken the village. Other villagers joined in the outery and were with difficulty calmed. After an hour's exertion the fire company of the place extricated 40 corpses, but it is believed that there are still a number under the timbers. Sixty persons were badly injured. The collapse of the church was caused by the time-worn pillars in the underground crypt giving way. Dean Howard Poisoned. Des Moines, la.—Dr. Howe, special examiner appointed by Coroner Iver G. Newlen to look into the sudden and mysterious death of Dean Frederick Howard of Drake university, Thanksgiving day, reported Wednesday night that the distinguished professor was a victim of poison. Quantities of morphine were found in the intestines. The report says that there are marks pointing to asphyxiation. As to who administered the poison or whether it was self-administered, is not known. Mississippi Negro Lynched. Poplarville, Miss, — At 11 o’clock last night a mob stormed the jail at this place and lynched Pink Willis, a negro, who Saturday evening at seven o’clock attempted to assault the 14-vear-old daughter of for- ; mer Sheriff J. A. Moody. The body was afterward shot full of holes by the infuriated mob of 100 men. Young Proses a Suicide. i 'Frenton N J.—( Tanby, proi fessor of Greek and at the Lawrenceville Preparatory chool, com- ‘ mitted suicide late Saturday by shooting himself through the right temple. He was a graduate of the University ’ of Kentucky and of Oxford university, | being a Rhodes scholar at the latter | institution until last June. 1t is be- ; lieved that he was suffering from over- | study. The dead man was a resident | of Hopkinsville, Ky., and came to Law- ; renceville as professor last September | when barely 26 years old. ? Afghan Army Invades Persia. § Teheran.—There is a persistent ru!mor in circulation here to the effer*t‘ | that 6,000 Afghans with six guns have | crossed the Seistan frontier into Per[Sin, The Seistan frontier is at the | *,j:mmi(m where eastern Persia and? lwnnhm’su'm Afghanistan .meet. ‘ e l Courthoust Sold for Two Dollars. i Kankakee, lll.—The Kankakee coun- | ty courthouse, built in 1871, was sold | at auction Friday for two dollars to a; local contractor. It will be replaced *by a SISOOOO building. l

MRS. ERB AND MRS. BEISEL ARE ACQUITTED BY JURY. Defendants Scream and Fall Into Each Other’s Arms When the Verdict Is Announced. - Media, Pa.—Mrs. M. Florence Erb, wite of Capt. J. Clayton Erb, who was well known in political circles all over Pennsylvania, and her sister, Mrs. Catharine Beisel, who were | charged with the sensational murder of Capt. Erb on the night of October 6, 1908, walked from the Delaware county courthouse Thursday free women. After the jury had been out nearly 18 hours it brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of each woman, both of whom had been ! charged separately and jointly withi shooting the captain. Thus ends a‘ trial that has held the interest of the people of the country for more than a week during which much scandalous evidence was brought out, some of which did not reach the reading public. Judge Johnson took his seat just as the jury was escorted into the room. There was absolute silgnce. Then the court clerk went through the usual proceeding of asking whetcher the jury had agreed and the ﬁm j announced the verdict of not guilty fn | #ffence, then, with a half scream, the | ‘sisters fell in each other's arms. | Everybody in the court room was on his or her feet and women wept as they looked at the pathetic scene. Surrounded by Wild Crowd. In an instant the women were surrounded by friends and their attorneys | and overwhelmed with congratula- | tions. I Harry Beisel threw his arms around ! his wife and his sister-in-law, Mrs. | Erb, and tears came to their eyes.§ This scene lasted several minutes. ’ The jury was not polled, and after ; Judge Johnson had thanked them, | Mrs. Erb hurriod from her seat to | Dickinson, the foreman, and wrung | his hand. Mrs. Beisel did likewise, | and they went down the line of the | 12 men. Tears stood in the eyes of | most of them and the thanks of the women were sobbed out in brokea syllables. » EXILE CAUSE OF DOWNFALL? Overthrow of Yuan Shi Kai Blamed | on Qusted Reformer. ! New York. — Special cable advices from Penang, Straits Settlement, says that Kang-Yu-Wei, China's exiled reformer and leader of the Chinese Empire Reform association, claims credit for the overthrow of | i e TN | e > }n( | piz | Y N | ﬁi,'.’ Dt . . .”—..,.\ l\ .2o;c ( "'_,.. i r \] ' ‘.. \ g i L ATR T A\ | ¢ ﬁf’/} ‘éﬂ:{@b w"’f B | N &7/ @ Tl { vy . | &‘/ N) Tb , A ,% E RO T Ry SR NIR ‘?‘“:x» X1 -' | .g,?;;'.?‘f_. e U | i Yuan Shi Kai. ‘g Yuan Shi Kai, the eminent Chinese statesman, as member of the grand ! council. ; According to the dispatch Kang-Yu- | Wei charges Yuan Shi Kai with com- | plicity in the death of the emperor. | He is quoted as follows: “We know Yuan Shi Kai paid a physician 40,000 taels (about $33,000) ! to poison the emperor. Yuan Shi Kali, seeing the dowager empress’ death impending, feared retribution at the hands of the emperor for his betrayal a decade ago which forced my flight and resulted in the dowager empress seizing the reins of control.” Accused of $1,000,000 Forgeries. Oakland, Cal. — F. B. Signor, real estate promoter and mining broker of this city, was arrested on complaint sworn to by James . Murray, a multi-millionaire banker and mining man of Montana, Salt Lake and Seattle, but more recently of Monterey, Cal,, charging Signor with forgeries aggregating nearly $1,000,000. Signor is alleged to have forged Murray’s name to four notes of $100,600 each, as well as to numerous other negotiable documents. . i Shoots Chum and Kills Self. | Chicago. — Crazed by the belief | that the affections of Bertha Ya- | stowed her love were being diverted. : stomed her love were heing diverted | to a man, Anna Rubinwitch, 715 West | Thirteenth street, shot and seriously | i wounded the object of her unusual de- | votion yesterday. Then she wounded | herself so seriously that she died a | few hours later. l Another Real Daughter of Revolution. | Deer Isle, Me.—Mrs. Salome Sellers, ¥ 108 years old, a real daughter of the | revolution, and said to be the oldest | person in New England, is dead at her | home in this town. Mrs. Sellers was | born in this place. | Well-Known Racing Man Dead. i San Antonia, Tex—W. H. Sims, | president of the International Fair as- | sociation of this city and a well-known | racing man, died at his home here Sunday following an operation for ap- | pendicitis. Woman Freed of Murder Charge. | Newark, N. J.— Mrs. Josephine ' Amore, who had been on trial here on a charge of having murdered Michael ‘ Martellanen on August 5 last was aec- | | quitted Friday night. The woman’s ; defense was that she shot the man in i } defense of her honor. ! 1 e s i Dates for the Confederate Veterans. ! | Memphis, Tenn.—By a unanimous | {\'otu the executive committee having } in charge arrangements for this year’'s | | confederate reunion Friday declded ! 1011 June 1. 2 and 3. |

Pl e e ; CIERUNIE NIULRO BRI\ SIX GUILTY {F MURDER IN THE FIRSS DEGREE. Two Escape with Twenty Years for Second Degree Murder—Death I Probable for Others. ! Union City, Tenn.-—With a verdict !of.guilty in varying degree, the jury tin the night rider trials reported at | 8:45 p. m. Thursday night. The 12 ' men found Garrett Johnson, Tid Buréton, Boy Ransom, Fred Pinion, Ar ' thur Cloar and Sam Applewhite guilty -of murder in the first degree with mitigating circumstances, and Rud - Morris and Bob Huffman, the ocother - defendants, guilty of murder in the - second degree, and fixed their punish- - ment at 20 years in the penitentiary. ~ The punishment of the six first named defendants was left to Ihe§ - court, and may be death or life im-} prisonment. * ' The court probably will sentence the 5 six first named defendants to death. | - The defendants took the w-rdict% with ealmness, as they had been ex-| pecting it since the closing of the ar-| - guments. Attorney Plerce turned toz them when it was announced, and; said: "“We will tear this case to pieces % in the supreme court.” ‘ The state expected a verdict of first | degree murder in all cight cases, and | - was visibly disappointed. Bob Huff-‘ i man, one of the men to escape with 20i . years, is the man whe, according to lthe confessior of Frank Fehringer, fired the shot which killed Capt. Ran- [ ken as he was being drawn up by the - rope. ' When the illey’s readiness to report twas announced the military quietly - surrounded the courthouse and a def tail of soldiers, with revolver holsters open, was deployed around the walls ' of the courtroom, but there was no demonstration. The prisoners were | - quickly handcuffed and under mllitary' escort taken to prison. The verdict i is considered a compromise one, and ' no trouble is feared by the authorities. i s L ~ TOOK MONEY TO BUILD HOME. 1 - Embezzling Granite City Banker Sen- | tenced to Five Years. . Springfield, Il—Pleading guilty to the charge of embezzlement and giving as an excuse that he took the ' money to build a home for himself - and his bride, Wesley A. Martin, for- | merly a Granite City banker, Friday was sentenced to five years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., by Judge J. Otis Humphrey in the United States district court. Martin, prior to his arrest, was a social leader |of Granite City. He took $20,000, of ! the bank's money. The shortage was made good. His wife has stood by him, and she was at his side when he was sentenced. Accused of Stealing Bank Funds. Philadelphia. — Dewitt C. Hillegas, a well-known insurance broker of this city, was arrested yesterday by the United States authorities, charged upon the affidavit of Bank Examiner Folds, who accuses him with. misappropriating funds of | the Boyertown National bank in con- | nivance with Morris L. Hartman, the | cashier, and be{ing responsible for the | failure of the finstitution in June, | 1907 i waii} i ' ' Big Mai‘lﬁobbery in Paris. | Paris. — A mail sack containing | bonds, ete, iworth $200,000 was . stolen from a delivery wagon in the | Chaussee d’Antin in broad daylight | vesterday. The police have not the l slightest clew to the thieves. i Boy of Ten a Bank Robber. | Joplin, Mo.—Charged with looting | the Noel State bank of Noel, 40 miles | south of here, Oliver P. Billings, aged ;ten, was arrested here Sunday by { Sheriff Carnell, culminating a five weeks’ chase. The tot entered the Ibank through a rear window while | Cashier Kissler was at his noon-day | meal, and looted the cash drawer of | its entire contents, $92. The boy, in | his confession, bragged of taking the { money. He stated he was given a | nickel to execute the theft, but this ; story is scouted by the sheriff. | Bury 1,300 Quake Victims. | Messina.—A most impressive funeral ceremony was witnessed near here | Thursday when Archbishop Barrigo ! made his way through the ruins of the | city to the cemetery at Mare Grosso | and blessed a grave 100 feet wide and | 80 feet deep, tontaining 1,300 bodies. l The dead were piled one on top of the | oner and the bodies covered with | quicklime. The prelate was followed | to the cemetery by a large gathering lof survivors whoss lamentations ! mingled with the Latin words of the ‘ service and benediction.

MINISTER NOT THE VICTIM. Carpenter Was Murdered and Cre-mated-—Pastor Is Sought. Port Huron, Mich.—By means of | two false teeth it was definitely estab- | lished Friday afternoon that Gideon | Browning of Adair village was thef man who was butchered last Tuesday ! evening in the little “Rattle Run” | Methodist church in Columbus town-% ship. 1 With part of the mystery which has | enshrouded the brutal crime thus | cleared, the supervisors of St. Clair | county immediately oifered a reward.; of SSOO for the arrest of Rev. John H. | Carmichael of Adair, pastor of the lit- | tle church, who was at first supposed | to have been killed, dismembered and i then burned in the church stove. Strenuous efforts to discover some | motive for the destruction of the car- | | penter by the minister have been | gfruith-ss. Rumors that Carmichael | !hud been seen crossing the St. Clair; lriver into Canada could not be cor-! lmborated. An officer sent to St. | §'l'homas, Ont., reported no trace of him there. i i Mrs. Carmichael and Miss Carmi- | i chael, wife and daughter of the min- | listvr, were examined by the prosecut- | | ing attorney here and he stated after- | | ward that he was convinced they | ;knew nothing of the murder nor ;hei | man’s disappearance. ; l “FATHER” HORTON IS DEAD. | Founder of City of San Diego, Cal.,i Passes Away. i San Diego, Cal.—Alonzon Erastus Horton, founder of the present San | Diego and its oldest inhabitant, died | Thursday, aged 85 years, as a result} of infirmities incident to old age. In ; 1867 “Father” Horton, as he was uni- | versally known, surveyed, and pur-‘ chased at auction for 26 cents an acre, ’ the 880 acres of land around the bay l upon which San Diego now stands.g Every flag in this city is at half-mast. ! Beside being the oldest local inhabi- | tant, Horton was the second oldest | Elk in America. | ROBBERY CALLED A FAKE. ! e | Deputy Postmaster at Sault Ste. Marie i Arrested as Embezzler. E S | Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Deputy | Postmaster Frank L. Higgins was ar- ! rested Friday on a charge of embez- | zlement. The arrest is the outgrowth ; of an alleged robbery of which Hig- | gins reported himself the victim De- | cember 14. It was stated at that time | that three foreigners assaulted the; deputy postmaster with a sand bag | while he was alone in the post office | making out his payroll the previous | | evening, and that his assailants escaped with $2,500 of post office funds. 5 Four Battleships Reach Naples. % i Naples.—The United States battle- | i ships Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota and Vermont, under Rear Admiral | | Sperry, the commander of the Atlan- | tic fleet, arrived here at dawn Sunday. | | The admiralty sent a ship to meet the | vessels, to inform the American com- | manders that because of the national mourning and as a result of the earth- | quake the government and the duke ! | of Aosta would not require them to | | fire salutes on entering the port. | | Object to a Larger Navy. | Boston.—A remonstrance against further increase of the United States navy was sent to congress Thursday! | by the board of directors of the? | American Peace society. It was | | signed on behalf of the board by Rob- | ert Treat Paine, president, and Benja- | min A. Trueblood, secretary of the society. Boys Charged with Murder. | ; St. Louis.—Five boys, ranging ini | age from 8 to 13 years, were arrested | in their classrooms in the Shaw school | Friday and charged with the murder | of \William Wachter, a peddler, who | | wag found with his skull crushed. The | arrests followed information given to | the police by Mrs. Mary Goebthardt, | |1 5232 Wilson avenue, mother of two of | the prisoners. The boys are: Joseph | Leo, 13 years old; George Remmel, | 12 years; Frank Mamiec, nine yvears | old, and Henry and Arthur Goebe- | hardt, 11 and 8 years old. | Destructive Fires in New York. : New York.—The fire-fighting forces | in the down-town section of New York ;thad their work cut out for them eiThursday night by a series of fires »} within a radius of a mile or two. The : l fires were at 98 and 100 Hudson street, | at Hester street and the Bowery and eiat 134 Crosby street. Each assumed | threatening proportions and called [lout many of the city’s fire apparatus. | It required nearly three hours to subi'due the three fires, which caused a | loss estimated at $1,250,000. No lives | | were lost. ’

R S i B e S N R e AT T A S REV. CARMICHAEL A SUICIDE IN ! CARTHAGE, ILL. I HE CONFESSES HIS CRIME | . i Leaves Long, Weird Story of Being | Hyptnotized by Browning and | Killing Him in SelfDefense. Carthage, Ill.—Rev. John H. Car- ! michael, who last Tuesday night in | the little Methodist church at Rattle ] Run, Mich., killed Gideon Browning, the village carpenter, and then burned I the body in the stove, committed suicide here Monday by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. He died at the county hospital after #e had been taken from the boarding douse of Miranda Hughes, where as a stranger he had been living since last Friday. - In a long written confession which was found in his suit case, Carmichael told in detail the story of the killing -of Browning; how he had fallen a victim to Browning’s hypnotic power and - meeting him in the church Tuesday ~night, was compelled to obey every ~command, how finally when Browning ~attacked him with knives he, Cars michael, defended himself with a hatchet. After finishing his victim with the hatchet, he said, the red-hot stove in the church room suggested itself as the best method of disposing ~of the body. Before putting his body in the stove, however, he exchanged - some of the dead man’s clothing for - his own, which had become bespattered with blood. ~ Carmichael's death was almost as | horrible as that of his victim. When | ' he arrived at the Hughes’ boarding' . house he gave the name of John Elder and as he said he was a woodworker | - and had come here to start a factory ' no suspicion was attached to his ] presence. Once he went to a Catholic priest and declaring he himself wasi -a Catholie, asked the influence of the members of the church in helping him l in business. | ~ Although so far as he knew he was { - still beyond the reach of detectives, | the crisis came Monday morning when | -about 7:30 o'clock he informed Miss ! - Hughes that as no satisfactory site for ~his factory could be found here, he intended to go to Bowen, lIIL | “I think I will find a better site there,” he said. “I'll take the nine . o'clock train.” Saying this he went ' out into the back yard. There he cut | - his throat. | . TIRED OF BEING HUNTED. E Nebraskan Surrenders But Asserts | His Innocence of Shocking Crime. lg. . Los Angeles, Cal.—With the state- “ ment that he was worried to distrac- | tion with being hunted as the perpe- | trator of crimes at Minden, Kearney | county, Neb., for which a price cf % SI,OOO hung over his head, a man giv- | ing his name as Bert M. Taylor, sur- | rendered himself to a Southern Pacific | passenger brakeman at Redlands, Cal., 5 on whose train he was riding, and is | locked in the jail at San Bernardino, | awaiting word from the Nebraska of- ' ficers. i Taylor related a story of the death | of his two sisters-in-law after a brutal | assault upon them, and murder of one ! of them and the final destruction of ! the home by fire after kerosene had { been poured over the bodies of his | victims. The crime was committed on g April 18, 1908. Taylor denies his own | guilt and asserted that James Mar- | tin, with whom he had had trouble, | committed the outrages and then laid : the crimes to him. | QUAKE IN FAR NORTHWEST. . Bellingham, Seattle, Vancouver and | Other Cities Are Shaken. ! Bellingham, Wash.—Bellingham was | shaken by an earthquake at 3:45 | o’'clock Monday afternoon. Buildings ! in all parts of town were jarred but no | damage was done. § Hundreds of people rushed into the | streets. The duration of the shock | was about ten seconds. Brick build- | ings were so badly shaken that the . plaster fell to the floor and there was a panic. Only one shock was felt. | Seattle, Wash.—Reports of a slight | earthquake shock came here from Van- | couver, Victoria, Sumas, Tacoma and | Bellingham. The same trembler was | felt here at 3:44 o'clock and lasted | from seven to thirty seconds. No ! damage was done, but persons rushed i from buildings. | Twenty-Six Perished in Mine. ! Zeigler, IlL.—Of 28 workmen in the 1 mine owned bv Joseph Leiter, 26 were i killed by the explosion Sunday morn- | ing, according to official information | given out at the mining office. The i last of the bodies was recovered Mon- | day. Oklahoma Coal Miners Strike. | Fort Smith, Ark.—All of the coal | miners in and around Coalgate, Okla., | walked out of the mines Monday fol- | lowing a dispute with the mine operators regarding the observance of a state law providing that only sufficient blasting powder for one day’'s use be | carried into a mine. Pioneer Telegrapher ls Dead. Ithaca, N. Y.—Otis Eddy Wood, who took the first telegraph message by i sound, died, Monday at his home at : Etna, near here, aged 77 years. ? Long Railway Strike Ends. Denver, Col.—The sirike of the shopmen of the Denver & Rio Grande system, which has been in effect since last March, was declared off Monday after a conference between railroad officials and representatives of the organizations. About 1,200 men will resume work. Dutton Hzads Western Hotelmen. i Salt Lake City—Samuel Dutton of Denver was Monday elected president of the Western Hotelmen's associa ’ tion, organized here.

M Valuable Conch Shells, | The conch shell is highly prized in India. In many of the temples they are blown daily to scare away the malignant spirits while the god receives . his daily meal. A conch with the spiral twistings to the right instead of - to the left Is supposed to be worth ' its weight in gold. Some years ago a . conch of that description was offered for sale in Calcutta, with a reserve price of a iakh of rupees placed on it. It was eventually bought in for $20,000. ' Deafness Cannot Be Cured ? »y local applications, as they cannot reach the dis. | eased portion of the ear. There IS only one way to cure deafness, and that {8 by constitutiona! remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of thas l mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thig | tube is inflamed you have a rumbiing sound or imi perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deat- | Dess is the resuit, and unless the inflammation can be | taken out and this tube restored to its normnal condi- | tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases { out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which s nothing | but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. { We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of | Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured | by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. | F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toleda, O, | BSold by Dm%gtszs. 75¢. ; Take Hall's Family Plils for constipation t S Ge e | A Toast. The latest thing in toasts comes from ‘““up-state,” and was responded to by the father of 12 daughters, who claims that he ought to know. ; “To the Ladies—to their sweetness i we give love; to their beauty admira- | tion, and to their hats, the whole side- | walk.—New York Times. Hon. 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Y. i e ———————————————————————————————— { I long to hand a full cup of happi- | ness to every human being.—Dr. PayE son. m | e § By~ DODDS |; ' ; AL : Vs - BN i - NI R A BN AEYT S EPC"QP 8 AR pISS B”;.*H NLR il o k 3 ol i el 3 p&® $ e " “ .:a. 320 Acres °ng™ | Land INWESTERN © | WILL MAKE YOU RICH - EEES SIN Fifty bushels per , RM R“ acre have been ! A Tﬁ ﬂ grown. General i as ‘p | averagegreaterthan w ‘N Eﬁ in any other part of ' G F R the continent. Under l new regulations it is | possible to secure a homestead of 160 acres ‘ free, and addition . 160 acres at $3 per acre. | “The development of the country has made { marvelous strides. It is a revelation, a rec- | ord ofconquest by settlement that is remarkt able.”"—Exfract from correspondence of a National | Editor, who visifed Canada in August last. | | The grain crop of 1908 will net many farmers $20.00 to $25.00 per acre. Grain- | raising, mixed farming and dairying are | the principal industries. Climate is excele | lent; social conditions the best; railway ad- | vantages unequalled;schools, churches and | markets close at hand. Land may alsc be | purchased from railwayandland companies. ‘ For “Last Best West"” pamphlets, maps and i information as to how to secure lowest rail- ! way rates, apply to Superintendent of Immi- | gration, Ottawa, Canada, or the authorized i Canadian Government Agent: | €.J.BROUGHTON, 412 Merchants’ Loan & Trust Bldg., ! Chicago, Ill.; W. H. ROGERS, third floor, Traction Terminal Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.; or T. 0. CURRIE, 180 3rd Street, Milwaukee, Wis. : : ” @}. 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