&REAT WALL STREET MELON CUTTING.
OIL KIHO 13 SUMMONED.
CHINA 13 GRATEFUL.
A CRY FOR HELP.
4boaaads of Mm Needed In flpl4 ' Carle Bam Make Her a Irean at
lr Umwlng Norlhnriit, I Man? Mllllana of lolla.
Once nio'f a cry for hrlp Is going u& I Through hor representative In Wash
from the West. Twerty thousand men Ington China has expressed her gratl
re needed by the lumber mills oper- ' tude to the United States for on ex
tlng In eastern Washington and Ore- hlbltlon of consideration not often dls-
tron and northern Idaho, nud a nianv ,
more are wanted by the Northern Pa
cific and other railroad companies,
building lfnes In part of the Northwest
The situation baa become so acute
that unless men can be secured at once
much construction work will be delay
ed and many of the nillla will be forced
to close, sending their laborers into
the woods. . II. N. Kennedy, general
agent of the Northern I'aclflc Railway
Company, has a dozen representatives
scouting for men, but, he says, they
are not securing more than half of the
numlier required. The Western Tine
hlppers' Association will send several
agents across the continent as far as
Maine to engage men.
W. C. Ulford, president of the asso
ciation, gave out this stntcinont at the
quarterly meeting a few days ago:
"It will require 00,000 men to keep
D0.000 men at work, and we will give
steady employment at good wages to
every man we can find. We want skill
ed labor and men of capability and sta
bility, who will not quit their Jobs
very few days. To men with families
the members of our association, who
cut more than 1,000,000,0(10 feet of
lumber In 1000, will pay a higher wage
than Is offered In any other part of the
United States end Canada for similar
work. The men In the woods receive
from $45 to $75 a month and board,
while In the mills the scale ranges from
13.50 to $10 a day.
"Probably the best answer to the
question of the slwrtnge of men is 'too
much prosperity.' We cannot get men
for railroad work for the reason they
are offered higher wages In other
branches of labor. This Is felt also
In the clerical department, where cv
ry little while some of the employes
leave to go to better paying positions.
X have canvassed the situation careful
ly In the last ten days, and I can say
that no able-bodied man In the North'
west Is Idle except through his own
choice."
Gov. Hughes of New York has signed
the bill making sixteen hour the maxi
mum day's work for all trainmen or oth
ers connected with train service.
The representative of eighteen Missouri
railroads has asked the United States
District Court of Kansas City to restrain
the State from enforcing the 2-cent pas
senger rate law, and also from enforcing
the live stock rates enacted by the last
, Legislature The new passenger law was
to go intoeffect Friday. .
Unresisted by Harrlman, the'Rock Isl
and Company has declared its purpose
of running the Alton system hereafter
without the help of the Union Pacific,
the Joint control to be cancelled after a
trial period of two years. This action
Is understood to be due in some measure
-to the investigations of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
By sustaining the constitutionality of
the Dufflold act taxing second-class rail
road property at the local tax rate, the
New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
saves millions of dollars to the State,
which must come from the coffers of the
railroads. The same prluciple Is involved
In the Perkins law taxing the main stems
at the average tax rate, a law still before
the State Supreme Court.
Stuyvesant Fish, former president of
the Illinois Central, who had been adver
tised to address the Economic Club of
New York on the subject, "Is the Over
capitalization of Railroads an Evil?"
recently, surprised his
hearers by sn-
hminrlnf thnr: hA rmihi tint twnlr nn thai .
ubject because he did not believe the of 'ort wlth lntTi'Ht at 4
railroads were overcapitalised. Henry , cent. Uncle Sam s share af $23.
Clews proposed that all Interstate rail- 40J19. by the time It was all paid,
roads employ a, man whose sole duty , would amount to nearly $41,000,000.
abould be to report crooked transactions ! The annual revenue of the Chinese
to the interstate commerce commission ' government Is only about $08,000,000.
and to the executive committee of the , Manifestly the exaction of such nn
road. It was the first meeting of the new enonnonB Bum n8 a(freed upon ln the
club composed of prominent business and tQCO, ,fl h d
professional men. similar to one In Paris . ., , . " ' """
and another in Boston, the purpose being not easlIy to be borne- President
to discuss public Interests sertously. , ooevelt and Secretary Root have re
,. D . , . . , ', vised our claims and find that our ac-
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pac fle m1 . ... , .
railroad pleaded guilt, to two of the tnBl Pndltnres, together with Inter
twelve counts of the Indictment brought et "P to date' would ue vered by
by the federal grand Jury at New York. , $14,000,000. China has already paid
charging rebates In favor of the sugar $0,000,000, and tho President and
trust. District Attorney Stlmtton said Secretary Root propose to release
that tho government would be lenient China from all further claims on pay
toward those roads which, by pleading ment of the baluueo of $S,000,000. This
guilty, showed that they Intended to obey U ia offect nmUIlg Chlna a pP,.Rent of
lh 7 .?!Ure . TT lmpW'1 lp"ly f -7.000.000.
fine of $1,000 each for the two counts.
President Hill of tho Great Northern is rMiort News Notes.
fighting the indictment on similar charges , All of the mail curriers of Rutte,
arainn his road, having filed a demurrer ' Mont., went on strike, the men dcclnr-
alleging that tho commerce act under
wmcn the cnarKPS are uroiiKlit "Is dls- a year, tbe waes now paid,
criminatory and unconHtilutional" he- I A severe earthquake shock was felt at
cause the same restrictions are not laid j Anglesey, England. Building were rock
agalnst comimules traiiNportitig wholly by ed, hut no dnmage was done. Sclwno
water; also in so far as it alms to pun- graphs in Austria and England record
Ish crln:ina!ly the defendant for acts done ed violent shocks at distances ot from
by Its n::. uts. I 2,500 to 7,200 miles.
Jumes J. Hill, president of the Great I Henry M. Walker, a resident of New
Northern, upon arriving ut New York Jersey, has sued Edward II. IlarrliuMn,
the other day, gave to thu press an in
terview, in which he suid that eventuajly
he believed that the government would be
forced to lend Its credit to the railroads
ln order to finance their uecesHities, based
upon tbe demands ot tbe public for butter
conditions of the service, and that this
would eventually lead to government own
ership of the railroads. He added, how
ever, that if such a thing comes to pass
It would mean the end of Republican gov
ernment. Representatives of the Carnegie and
Bethlehem Btecl companies have beeu in
conference at Pittsburg over the recent
general outcry of railroad men against
l Hi -. ,l. II . 1 I m
mcr neaa or nut i-i trust, suid It was
irue inai umiij u were uue 10 tne
poor finality of ra Is. He suid he wsnted
cot only an open-hearth rail made, but a
nickel nlloyed. or Harn-yUed. rail, which
be aepenoed on forever, lh sieel
pien say they hav agreed on a new de-
alga of rail to be submitted to the coot'
tnlttee of tbe Americau Railway Association.
i" qusuijr ot me runs won lurnisnea. stuay tc developments ln social leisla
In an Interview Charles M. Schwab, for- ' tion. He will visit the Uulted States,
nlnvcd lv a strong nation toward a
weaker one. The Empress Dowager
later will personally acknowledge
China's appreciation of our generosity.
It Is not joften that one nation practi
cally makes to another a present of
about $27,000,000, but that Is what
President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
projwse to do sad the people of the
United States will agree as to the Jus
tice of the act.
In 1000 there was a sort of rebellion
In China on the part of the anti-foreign
element. This Is known as the
Boxer outbreak. The legations were
besieged and lives and property en
dangered. The European powers and
Ihe United States sent soldiers and
these marched as a united army upon
Pekln, restoring jteace.
Then came up the question of pun
ishment and Indemnity, for, of course,
the nations could not be expected to
stand the expense of the expedition
and suffer the wrongs of their citizens
to go unrlghted. Some of the Euro
pean nations were for slicing up China
nd dividing the slices, but Uncle Sam
frowned on this and the proposition
t.-ns abandoned. An agreement was
reached on September 7, 1001, by which
China bound herself to punish the of
fenders and to pay to the Injured na
tions the following sum:
Russia $87,500,000
Germany 00,000,000
France
United States
Great Britain
5fl,0iX),000
23,440,771)
24.000,000
22,500,000
14.000,000
30,550,221
0,000,000
Japan
Italy .
Austria, Spain and Holland.
Belgium
Total
.$333,000,000
This trempndnim Blurt i-na in ha nnl.l
i niin,n..i ,i .
Ing they could not live on $000 to $S50
tuv iiiiwi; lunuuiue, xor .XKJ.UOU dnui
ages for alleged breach of contract and
consph-aey to prevent the construction of
the rortlund, Nehalem & Tillamook rail
y of Oregon. t
Dispatches state that Florenclo Morales
and Bernardo Mora, the Guatemalans
ho assassinated Gen. Barrlllas, ex-pres-Ident
of Guatemala, have, after two days'
ttial, been sentenced to death. Mora con
fessed that he was instigated by Gen.
Lima, aid to President Cabrera of Guate-
iala, who gave him $500 to kill Barrillus.
It is stated that Count von Posadow
sky-Wehner of Germany, who recently
resigned as minister of the interior, has
' planned sn extensive forelsn tour to
. . .
France and England in his tour,
Thousands of soldiers have been thrown
( int0 the wine-growing provinces in the
; of FrBnt.e At Nartlonne MoIlt.
'jn.-r nnd other points, three persons
j W(.,.p Ui,11(, ,ua ulor, w i,ldiers
cMiu:m Injured, while similar rinly
were reported at othnr jiolnts. Seveial
of the leaders of tbe rsvolt were arrested.
Including Ferroul.
GREAT WATER DUEL.
Cornell Defeats C'olumnln Oaramea
After Desperate Slmsale.
In probably the greatest rowing rn"e
ever seen In tlil country Cornell Uni
versity won the big Intercollegiate
aquatic event over the Poughkeepsle
course on the Hudson River recently.
Columbia University made a tlseperntc
flght for the honor and was beaten
only by three feet. The two crews
rowed side by side for four long, hard
miles and the men In both boats were
thoroughly exhausted at the finish.
Columbia's grand showing was a big
surprise, as It was figured that the
struggle lay between Cornell and the
Annapolis crew. The navy could do no
better limn third. Pennsylvania was
fourth, Wisconsin fifth and Georgetown
sixth. Syracuse did not finish, her
shell being swamped In a big swell.
The water was unusually rough nnd
some of the a)ntenders were badly
hnndienpped by 'their shells' shipping
water.
Cornell won by a magnificent burst
of speHl In the hist ten strokes, the
nose of her shell Just sweeping across
the finish line nhead of the New York
ers. Rut from the first dip of the ours
at the head of the course until the
winning Ithacnns dropped their sweeps
nnd fell back, hnlf senseless, In their
victory, not twenty-five feet separated
either shell, and at the end the Colum
bians were so close up that the great
crowd on the banks thought the tri
umph was theirs. Unusual picturesque
ness was added to the scene by the
fact that dnrkness closed so quickly
that the glare of the great searchlight
from the United States monitor Arkan-
sag was thrown over the crews nt the
finish to old the Judges ln their de
cision.
Twenty thousand people saw the
great struggle from pleasure craft, ob
servation trains and various vantage
points along the course. Wisconsin wns
victorious In the freshman elght-onred
event nnd Syracuse triumphed ln the
'varsity four-oared race.
JUDGE LOVING SET FREE.
Father Who KI1U IauKhter'a Assail
ant Acquitted.
At Houston, Va., former Judge Wil
liam G. Loving of Nelson was acquit
ted of the charge of murder ln killing
Theodore Estes, son of Sheriff M. K.
Estes. Judge Loving shot nnd killed
young Estes on the afternoon of April
22, following a buggy ride Estes had
taken with the Judge's daughter, Miss
EllzalsMh living, who told her father
that her escort had drugged her.
Judge Btirksdale thanked the Jurors
for their attendance upon court nt
great sacrifices. He declared he be
lieved the verdict was In accordance
with the conscientious views of the
Jurymen. , Foremnn MeCrnw, n mer
chant nnd farmer, said that on the first
ballot every Juryman favored the ac
quittal of the defendant. When asked
whnt the basis of the verdict was he
said "Insanity," and that he and other
members of the Jury believed that
Judge Loving wns out of his mind nt
the time he killed young Estes. The
stress, he said, had been-brought on
by the story told hi in by his daughter.
Need of tbe Times.
Cardinal Gibbons, in a commencement
ndilresH at Holy Cross College, Worcester,
Mass., referring to the great need of our
times for the betteruieut of society, said:
"What tho times call for is men, sturdy
men, endowed with the courage of their
couvictions. Many a soldier who fearless
ly rushed to the cannon's mouth has
quailed before the tdiufti of ridicule and
the shouts of popular prejudice. The man
who calmly fulfill a duty against public
clamor displays greater courage than the
captain who captures cities."
Certain Democrats In Chicago and oth
er parts of the West who do hot care to
accept the leadership of William J. Bryan
are now trying to organize a movement to
nominate Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for
President and John A. Johnson of Minne
sota for Vice President.
Cardinal Gibbons says that whatever
the opinion of the French episcopate may
he with regard to the separation of
church and state, it would be better for
that country If they could enjoy the fecal
separation of church and state as W Is lo
i this country.
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LEMON
Melon-cutting time In Wall street,
New York, Is n pleasing function at
any time, but this senson the divide
Is the largest In history. Tbe July
dividend nnd Interest payments of cor-
porntloiMt reach the stuiK-ndous total
of $1.80,881,840. July and January nre
the months when the great hulk of cor
poration profits are up for division.
The prosperity that reached such great
headway Inst yenr and Is still under
way Is responsible for the mngn'lflcent
proportions of the July melon this
Yale Varsity eight Aucblneloss,
Me, No. 7; Boulton, stroke, and Bark
Y iir r .Y.
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Hurvurd Yurslty eight Tuppln, bow; Fish, No. 2; Falkncr, No. 3; Bacon, No. 4; Severence, No. 5; Glass,
No. 6 ; Richardson,., No. 7; Farley, stroke, and Rlagdcu, coxswain. ,
THE COST OF CRIME.
Ia One Year It Amounts to More
thao f l.OOO.OOO.OOO.
The detailed cost - of crime in the
United States presents some astounding
figures. In 1007 the cost of crime in
Greater New York was $35,502,133.24.
The Stute, county and city authorities
outside of Greater New York spent for
It $42,005,472.75. In 45 States (New
York excluded) the expenditure was
$007,080.1 NX I. Criminal losses by fire to
taled $ltX),(XX),(XH. By customs frauds
the national government lost $(o,(XX(,
OdO. During this one year the loss in
waKcs of 1(X,(HX State prisoners was
$J8,(KS0,(XX), while the loss In wages of
I504IX) prisoners in city and country
jails was $33,XX,0IN. The grand total,
therefore, of the cost of crime in the
I'nited States reaches the stupendous fig
utes of $l,O70,:t27.0O5.!0.
The cost of religious work in the
I'nited States is enormous. The cost
of foreign missions,' comprising all de
nominations, is $7,0(10,0tNI ; home mis
sions expend the same Mini. We spend
for education, $2lXMXXI,XX); for church
expenses nnd ministers' salaries, $l.'S),
MK),(MHI. Hospitals nud dispensaries for
the sick poor cost us $1(H,(HXI,(XX) ; for
sanaloriuais of all kinds we spend $00,
(XK.(XH. City missions anil rescue work
of all kinds demand und receive $:t,(XX,
MX); humanitarian work of every kind.
$12,0H),(NN). Our Young Men's nud
Young Women's Christian Associations
cost $.",( mh I.OOO; while all other moral
und social work in the United States
requires an expenditure of $5,lKXMXN).
The total expenditure for humanitarian
and religious work ia, then, $54!,(XKUXX.
As against this, the total cost of crime
ln the I'nited States for the year reached
the incredible total of $1, 070,327.005.00.
That is to say we spVnd more than
$5lXMXX,(xx) a year more on crime than
we do on all spiritual, ecclesiastical, phy
sical, humanitarian, educational and heal
iug agencies put together.
Mrs. Mawe's l.atrat til ft.
Mrs. Russell Sage's latest benefaction
is an endowment fund of $300,(HX) for a
pathological Institute to Be run lu con
nection with tho New York city hospital
and city home on Blackwell's Island. The
purpose of the institute is to inquire into
the problems of disease, more especially
the diseases of advanced life, and the im
provement of the city's oorest sick and
aged in two of its largest Institutions.
The institute will be orgauixed by Drs. K.
G. and T. C. Jaueway, and will he under
their direction, ulllsjugh it is expected to
be closely associated with the department
ot cburitlej.
year. The payments nre $18,007,074
greater than those of last July. Some
corisirntlons that never before paid
dividends come up smiling with profits
for their stockholders. Others that
were.obllged to susikmhI dividends now
cheerfully renew, nnd many companies
announce nn Increase over their regu
lar dividend rates.
The dividends to be paid nre: Ruil
rond, $:i.750.08! ; Industrial, $41,017,
273: traction, $7.08(1.(!75 ; bank nnd
trust companies. $7.7(H),(hm ; total, $02,
553,037. The amount last July was
$so.753.331. The Interest payments
will be ns follows: Railroad. $71,050,
iKMt; industrial, $11,450,000: tractions,
$2,100,000; government. $3,528,808; to
tal, $88,328,808, ns compared with $83.
030,840 In July lust yenr. Among the
railroads the most notable Increases In
dividends have lieen made by the Vnn
derbllt lines. The largest amounts to
be disbursed by railroads ore Chicago
& Northwestern, semi-annual, $3,48(1,
OOt ; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern,
TALE AND HARVARD OARSMEN IN ANNUAL RACE.
,t, nrpter -'i.Mtef r
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bow; Mayer, No. 2; Rice, No. 3; Hop
low, coxswain.
I'arole System for Criminal.
At the recent National Congress of
Charities and Corrections at Minneapolis
a most interesting paper was read by
Harris R. Cooley, director of public ser
vice, division of charities and corrections,
of Cleveland, Ohio. He described the
workitfg of the parole system, which has
been greatly extended under the admin
istration of Mayor Torn Johnson. Dur
ing the six years of Mayor Johtxon's
term of office over 4.000 persons have been
pardoned or paroled. It is, the theory In
Clevelund thut for a man condemned to
prison for the first time there is a psy
chological moment in which help can be
wisely given. To act too soon would be
little the wrongdoing; to wait too long
would embitter and harden the individual
into n criminal. Only 14 per cent of the
paroled men have been returned to the
house of correction. According to the
statistics, this is less than the returns of
those who wcrti released after working
out their entire time in prison under the
old regime. The plan has been found to
work exceptionally good In the case of
men who neglected or deserted iheir fam
ilies. Mr. Cooley strongly opposed the
Imposition of n line as an alternative to
u term of imprisonment, lie claims tlnt
a man who tries to steal a franchise or
a canal or a million dollars Is in need
of correctional treatment just ns much
as the man who tries to steal a ham or
nn overcoat. He stated that there was a
growing sentiment in favor of moving
penal institutions to the country, where
more of tbe prisoners could work in the
fields under the open sky. This has been
tried in connection with the Cleveland
house of correction und there has liren
little trouble with escapes.
Intereatliitc News 1 tenia.
Roy Nonkin of Penbody, Kan., was
drowned In Big Sugar creek. He had
gone there with a party of fishermen.
Tho 10-year-old son of William I.ariu-r,
living near Dill, O. T., was instantly
killed in trying to stop a runaway team.
While handling a 5-year-old stallion
at his farm near Laredo, Mo., Ivl
1 tench, a prominent stock breeder, was
knocked down and badly trampled and
bitteu by the vicious animal.
Sixteeu cars of meat for Fort Worth.
Texas, were wrecked on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad near Puola,
Kan. The wreck is supposed to have
been caused by a gang of tramps.
F. D. Co'.iurn, secretary of the Kan
sas Stute board of agriculture, has ac
cepted uu invitation to address the New
York Slate Agricultural Society next I
cetuber. They want him to talk on ul-falfa.
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semi-annual. $2.fM!7,f!)0. nud New York
Central, quarterly, $2,080,230. The
largest amounts to bo distributed by
industrial companies nre United States
Steel, common stock, quarterly, $2,541,
512: Anaconda, quarterly, $2,100,000;
American Telephone & Telegraph,
quarterly, $2,031,028; General Electric,
quarterly, $1,304,314; and Western
Union, quarterly, $1,210,757.
Some of the banks and trust compa
nies have done very well. The Fifth
avenue bunk pays a ssv!al dividend of
150 per cent In addition to the regular
quarterly rate of 25 per cent. The
Colonial bank pays a senii-nnnnal divi
dend of lo per, cent. The New York
Trust company Increases Its dividend
rate from 20 to 32 per cent, New York
Life Insurance & Trust from 40 to 45
per cent. Bankers' Trust from 10 to 18,
Knlckerltocker Ice from 40 to CO, Trust
Compjiny of America from 32 to 40,
Metropolitan from 20 to 34, nnd United
States Mortgage & Trust, compnny
from 22 to 24 per cent.
pin, No. 4; Taft, No. 5; Howe, No. 6;
DEARTH OF FARM LABORERS.
Fully BO, OOO of Them Are Needed la
Xew York State.
Despite the establishment of agricul
tural colleges and the agitation for a
"return to the land," there nre 15.0(H)
fewer farms in the State of New York
ot the present time th:ui there were in
18!M. And it will possibly lie equally
surprising to the average city man to
learn that in spite of this decrease in
the number of farms, the shortage of
farm laborers bus grown to such dimen
sions that the State is advertising in 11
foreign newspapers for agricultural la
iMirers. These facts have been brought out by
Representative Bennett, who is the chair
man of a committee appointed by Con
gress to go abroad to study the immigra
tion question from the viewpoint of at
tracting more immigrants from the agri
cultural countries of l'liropc. In addi
tion to this, the Immigration Commis
sion is to make another investigation, the
siope of which n il include all parts of
the country, with a view to getting nt the
real facts as to the shortage of farm la
borers ( liti.iii; Itout tlie United Slates, and
by next winter's session of Congress its
members hope to be in possession of sta
tistics that will materially help to im
prove the conditions of employing agri
culturists all over the United Suites.
Bolton Hall, who is a missionary in
the cause of people taking up small farms
near tho large cities and of working tliem
011 scicntiiic principles, say the decrease
in the number of farms in New York
State is owing to two causes. One is the
great rise in land values near the large
cities, mid the other is the creation of
vast estates by rich men through the ab
sorption of many small farmers' hold
ings. Within the last year alone, ho esti
mates, l.tKHl farms were sold on Long
Island fur conversion into building lots.
In the counties just north of New York
City many thousands of acres of farm
land have gone to make up great estates.
At the present lime 50,1 XX) farm la
borers could tind employment in New
York State. ,
llolmea llefeuda Himself.
The motion to acquit having beeu over
ruled iu tlie trial of Kdu ill S. Holmes,
former assistant statistician of the Agri
cultural Department, for sale of crop re
ports. Holmes took the si and iu his own
defense, lie directly contradicted the tes
timony of Broker Yau Riper as to the
giving of signals to confederates by the
height of his ollice curtain. He said ht
laid no relations with Theodore Price ex
cept to try to interest him in a private
Crop report venture.
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"Invitations" bearing the official
seal of tbe United States District
Court, for a "heart to heart" talk wit!
Judge Keuesaw M. Landls In Chicago
were Issued and dispatched to John D.
Rockefeller and other officers of tho
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
and the Standard OH Company of In
diana. From Mr. Rockefeller and the
oil king's confreres Judge Landls hopes
to obtain information concerning tbe
financial resources of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, aa well as tbe
corporation's relation to the holding
company, before imposing tines for the
accepting of concessions from the Chi
cago and Alton railway.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain LandUv
who Issued the subpauia for John D.
Rockefeller to come to Chicago and tes
tify In the Standard Oil case, has been.
United States district Judge since
March, 1U05. He was born ln Mill
vllle, Ohio, In 1800, aud for a time
was reporter on a Logausport (lnd.)
liiper. In 1800 ho was graduated from
a Chicago law school, and then he be
came an Instructor ln the Northwest
ern university law college. Judge Lan
dls wa9 private secretary to the late
Walter Q. Gresham when he was Secre
tary of State under President Cleve
land. The latter offered Judge Landla
a diplomatic appointment after Mr.
Gresham's death, but he preferred to
practice law.
Say llolmea Sold Reports.
The chief witness against Assistant
Statistician Edwin S. Holmes, on trial at
Washington for conspiring with F. A
Peckkam and Moses Haas of New York
to profit from' advance knowledge of gov
ernment crop reports, was Louis C. Van
Riper, a New York mining stock opera
tor. Van Riper told how he had been
introduced to Holmes at Washington by
Feci hum and how Holmes then explained
his ability to let out the crop statistics
in advance and how he had already made
$55,000 by selling such information to
Theodore H. Price, the well-known cotton
operator. The witness told further how
ho had subsequently paid Holmes about
$52,000 as his share of deals based upon
information furnished by him. After this
a regular brokerage business was organ
ized, known as Feeklmm & Mercer,
financed by the conspirators, for one ot
whom, Peckham, a seat on the stock ex
change wns bought. Witness told where
and when profits were divided, Holmes
getting his share.
Three Persona Killed by Lightning.
A death-dealing electrical storm, fol
lowing a day of sweltering boat, soaked
with humidity, swept over New York
City and surrounding territory, killing
three persons, injuring several, causing
many fires aud doing considerable dam
age. Inaanei Kllla Intimate Friend.
Rendered suddenly insane and imagin
ing lie was pursued by a mob. Charier
Adams shot and killed Robert Musgrove,
his most intimate friend, iu Zanesville,
Ohio.
SiOlt Per Cent Usprea Melon.
President Weir of the Ailums Express
Company issued a circular letter to
shareholders that the directors had de
cided to distribute the surplus, which
amouated to $24.(XiO,kn in 4 pfT ,vllt
bonds This would make a dividend of
200 per cent. For each share of tha
stock $2KJ iu the bonds will be paid 10
the holders in denominations of t.'SK) an.l
$UXS) or in scrip for fractional amounts.
This is the third distribution recently
allowed by the large express companies.
Wells Fargo and the American cutting
melons under pressure from minority
holders. This dividend coiue uusoMciteti
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