The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. XXXVII NO. G3. f OMAHA, FRIDAY MORXIXG, AUGUST 30, 1907 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COrY TWO CENTS. V l n 4 V 1 CREAMERIES IN COURT Western Railway Enjoined from Pat tin; New Bates Into Effect. NEBRASXANS FILE COMPLAINT Buttermakers of Several States Join in Suit at Chicago. CASE TO COME UP IN OCTOBER Until that Time Old Rates Must Apply in West. COMMISSION NOT RAPID ENOUGH Interstate Commerce Bod 7 Has Pro teat Before It, feat Plaintiff Fear . t Cannot -tde of - CHICAGO. Aug. ,ial Telegram.) In the United St .Tilt court today Judge KohUaat ' t temporary In junction against, S n railway com panlea and Ave ' c" " oompanles which operate In Illin aska, Iowa, Kan sas and Mlnnef J" training the com panles from pu - .0 effect a rate on butter, cream .k other than that now In effect on . .e roada. October S la the date act for hearing the case on ap plication for a permanent injunction. In the bill of complaint It la alleged that the companies have given notice that a new rate will be effective September 1. and that auch rate la unreasonable and unjuat to the complalnanta, and that said rate, If enforced, would drive many of the cream eries out of business. It la alao alleged that the express and railroad companies have combined for the purpose of putting this unreasonable rate into effect. A protest against the proposed action of the railway and express companies had besn filed with the Interstate Commerce commission, but according to the creamery people It cannot be considered by the com mission within a year. The suit Instituted In Chicago was begun at the Instance of the centralised creameries of Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. It Is merely to restrain the railroad and express lines west of Chicago from putting Into effect the high cream rate pending a decision on the rea sonableness of the rate by the Interstate Commerce commission at Washington. The rates would have gone Into effect at an early date and the suit was deemed the only way to head them off. E. J. Halner of Lincoln, who represented the Nebraska creameries In their hearing before the Ne braska Railway commission, waa In Chi cago, and Is one of the Interested attorneys (or the Nebraska plaintiffs. RUNYAN TELLS OF THEFT Defaulting; Bank Teller Principal Witness Aanlast Woman W ho Got Cash. NEW.rpRK, Aug. 29. Chester B. Run yan, tt). defaulting, teller of the Windsor Trust company, had known Laura M. Car ter only two weeks and had been In her company lea than twelve hours altogether when he gsve her $15,000, according to his testimony at the trial of Mrs. Carter to day. Mrs. Carter Is charged with having received money which she knew to have been stolen. Runyan was the principal witness against her. 'Asked If he did not think he was Inviting disaster when he . showed the $79,600 which he had taken from the bank to a woman he had met upon the street only two weeks before, he replied "I don't know. I don'i think that evur occurred to me. I Just took the chance." Ms said that up to the time he offered Mrs. Carter $5,000 to keep him out of the way of the police for two or three months he had never thought of deserting his wife and home. At that time he did not have a dollar. When he left the bank with the suit case stuffed with bank notes he had no Idea how much money It contained. The packages of bills had been picked up at random and thrown Into the suit case. The first time he knew the exact amount of his defalcations was when he counted '.he money In the presence of Mrs. Carter 'it the flat which she had engaged aa a refuge for him. ACCIDENTS AT DES f MOINES Boilers Bnrst and Three Persons Are Probably Fatlly Injared M Result. (Prom a Staff CorVespondent) PES MOINES, Aug. . (Speclat.) Fred Kelley of Chicago and' J. Price of Des Moines were seriously and perhaps fatally scalded In the baaement of the. Savory hotel - yesterday by the explosion of a boiler. The accident happened at 9:30 In the morning. Just twelve nours before a boiler In the Edison electric light plant exploded and seriously and probably fa tally scalded the .engineer, E. E. Black Biff. The explosion In ths 8avery base-1 nient was such that all escape of the two men from the steam and hot water waa cut off for a time. The" explosion at the Kdlson plant took place while tlje en gineer was turning steam Into an extra boiler for the night. The explosion resulted In all the steam escaping and the city waa In darkness for a long time. At theaters and stores peoplo were In great danger of being panic stricken. In some places gas lights helped out. In the theaters people were In agony for fear there might be an alarm of tire and on the streets there was great confusion for a time because of no light. Mr. Kelley of Chicago, who waa scalded at the ftjyery. was engaged In put ting In mechanical stokers. CHECK CLERK PLAYS RACES ff.Atployo of New York Brokers Is Now Aeeuecd 'of Stealing; Cash. NEW YORK. Aug. . Charged with the larceny of $5,000 of hla employer's funds, Edward Phillips, a clerk for the stock brokerage firm of O. B. Salisbury t Co.. was , arrested today. The police asserted that' FMUIrs confessed that be began by losing money on the horse races and wound up ry speculating In bucket shops. It Is chaigiil that he has been using ths firm's funis for more than a year. . ritllllpa lad charge of the Arm's deposit check book, lis had been absent only two days on hit vacation when hla substitute discovered that the bank book and check book did not tally and that PhlUlps had beeu In the habit of depositing checks, but withholding cash deposits. The cash de posits were, however, entered In the bank book as having been made. SUMMARY OF THE BEE Friday, Aaanst SO, 1BOT. 1007 August 1907 sum mon nil. wed rim rsi sat T ' ' 1 23 4 5 6 7 8 9. 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 TKB WIATBIB. FORECAST FOR NEBRASKA Not much change In temperature. Temperature at Omaha yesterday: Hour. Dcg. Hour. Deg. S a. m t9 1 p. m fcl a. m M 2 p. m 82 7 s. m 3 p. m M S a. m 70 4 p. m S3 S a. m 75 6 p. m 81 11) a. m 7 if 6 p. m 80 11 a. m SO 7 p. m 7N 12 ni 81 8 p. m 77 , 9 p. m 76 DOMESTIC Secretary Taft spoke Thursday after noon In Denver after a day of western hospitality. Arrangements being per fected for his tour of the far east. rags 1 President Harahan of the Illinois Cen tral calls ex-President Fish a liar during a heated episode at a directors' meeting, during which Fish grapples with hit suc cessor. Chicago tax authorities are disposed to call Hetty Green before them to explain valuations of her' property. Page 1 Two workmen are killed at York, Pa., by a fall from a scaffold. Pag S Secretary Straus will visit President Roosevelt before he makes his trip of Inspection. Pag 1 Nine cases of bubonlo plague, with seven deaths, have been found in San Francisco. ' Page 1 Program for the dedication of the Mc Klnley obelisk Is being arranged at Buf falo. Pag 1 Des Moines state fair exhibitors and concessionaires suffer a loss of $100,000 by fire and wind. ' Page a Prince Wllhelm of Sweden spends a day In" the financial district of New York, first visiting a sailor who had been Injured. Page 1 Fourteen creamerlee of the west, among them the centralized concerns of Ne braska, enjoin the new cream express rate in the court of Judge Kohlsaat at Chicago.) Pago 1 Farmers' elevator merger of 200 con cerns Is contemplated In Minnesota. Page X Brewers of the country hold a secret meeting In Cincinnati to stop the grow ing sentiment for local option in the south. Pars 1 New York theater managers are making war on ticket speculators. Page a Frisco's- limited train, The Meteor, is wrecked near Tulsa, the third wreck near there In a week. Page I roxxiQzr. South American t radio managers Inform American shippers that they are care less in packing their goods. Page a Count Witte is out of politics in Rus sia, having accepted a business position. China enters protest against the Japan-French entente as aimed at its rights. Pairs 1 XZBBABXA. Kansas representatives of the railroad commission are in Lincoln securing data on the 2-cent fare law. Page 3 Statement barrel is on tap in Judicial campaign a pure fabrication. Sheldon commends coroner for promise to make effort to punish lynchers. Page 3 X.OCU. Interest rates on city property gen erally have been raised from 6 to 6 per cent within a year, and advances are threatened in farm rates. Page 4 Third annual tournament of the Ne braska Oolf association opens ao the Omaha Field club. Page Elimination of local trafflo on Overland Limited trains makes queer state of af fairs. Passengers wishing tickets ,to Omaha are sold tickets to Missouri Val ley, and may get off at Omaha If they wish. P Denver gets three of the latest Union Pacific motor cars. Page 5 JHfty Nebraska members of the Grand Army, including Department Commander Crelgh, will attend encampment at Sara toga. Pag 1 KOTBatXHTB OP OCXAJf STBaJUKXPa1. Port. krrirtA. ' Sll4. . PLYMOUTH Pnniylvnl ....I BREMEN K. V. Csclll HOVILLB Itort QUEBN8T0WN ..Iverul INTERNATIONAL LAW MEETING Association -Compose of Lawyers of Several Countries Holds Ses sion at Portland. PORTLAND. Me.. Aug". 23. Members of the legal fraternity representing the prin cipal countries of Europe and America are In attendance at the twenty-fourth annual conference of the International Law asso ciation which opened today. This Is the second time the association has held a conference In the United States. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Honorary president, Simeon B. Baldwin, Li D.. chief Justice of the su I preme court' of errors of Connecticut; ! president. Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Kennedy. LL P.,i court of appeals of Ixmdon: vice presidents. Cepress Brclnard of New York, Alton B. Parker of New York, Charles B. Elliott of Minneapolis. L. J. Laranger of Montreal; secrrtsrles, C. H. Hyde of Chi cago and G. G. Phlllimore of London. Kurty new members were elected. E. Evens Darby of London read a paper on "Intermittent Progress of International Arbitration." James Bryce, the British ambassador, made a brief address, stating that In his opinion the sentiments of the American people are In favor of those objects whose accomplishment Is' the aim of the International Law association. He believed the association was doing a great work in paving the way for points likely to come before courts of arbitration. The delegates accompanied the American Bar association delegates on a trip down Casco bay this afternoon. NINE CASES OF THE PLAGUE even Deaths Have Occnrerd at San Francisco aa Result of ' Bnbonlo Disease, SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. .-8lnce June IS nine cases of bubonic plague have been discovered here and seven deaths have oc curred. The federal authorities' have sent a marine hospital surgeon here and coast ing vessels are being Inspected by quaran tine officers. TAFT'S WELCOME AT DENVER Inspects Army Posts and Breakfasts with T. F. Walsh. MAKES ADDRESS THI3 AFTERNOON Arrangements Completed In Kew York for Secretary's Trip Through Russia on Spe cial Train. DENVER, Colo.. Aug. 29.-8ecretary of War William II. Taft was met at the Union ststlon on his arrival In Denver at 6:30 this morning by many of the state republican leaders, and was cheered by a large crowd gathered at the station when he left the train. A number of automobiles were In waiting, and In these the secretary and his party and thirty other Invited guests were taken to Wolhurst, Thomas F. Walsh's country place several miles south of the city, where breakfast wss served at 8 o'clock. During the forenoon Secre tary Taft made an Inspection of Fort Logan, near Wolhurst,, with a view to converting It Into a brigade post. At noon a general reception was given the secretary at the republican club In this city, and many democrats took advantage of the oc rsslon to shake hands with the . distin guished guest. Following the reception 100 of the. most prominent Colorado republicans sat down to luncheon with the secretary at the Brown. Palace hotel. Secretary Taft Is scheduled to make a. public address at the capital grounds at 4:30 p. m. "pedal Train Thronarh Siberia. NEW YORK. Aug. .-Secretary William H. Taft and his family will travel In a speclat car In a train de luxe on the trans Siberian railroad when they make the Jour ney from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg next November. Arrangements for that part of the' secretary's world journey have been made at Paris and at Vladivostok by L. J. Garcey, American manager of the company which operates the trains de luxe on the great Russian railroad. Mr. Garcey has Just returned from Washington, where he conferred with Brigadier General Clar ence R. Edwards, who Is to be one of Sec retary Taft's party. The Taft party Is shed uled to leave Vladivostok Nev. 12, according to the Itinerary approved by Secretary Taft. The only stop between Vladivostok and Moscow will be at Irkutsk Siberia, on Nov. 16. Moscow will be reached Nov. 23. and a two days' stop will be made there. St. Petersburg will be reached November 20: The Secretary's train will consist of a dinning car, observation car and three sleepers. SCIENTISTS MAKE PROGRESS Assistance Rendered by Government of Pern Greatly Benefits Their Investigations. LIMA, Peru. Aug. 29. Dr. Leo S. Rowe. professor of political science in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, who started from here August 24 for Cerro De Pasco, the silver mine In the center .of Peru, arrived at his destination yesterday afternoon and telegraphed to Foreign Minister Polo as follows: I thank you for your generous hospitality. I have enjoyed One of the most surprising excursions which It Is possible to make on the American continent. Please accept the thanks of myself and my companions. Professor Rowe, who . In June last re ceived the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Chile, which was b?stowed upon him personally by the Chilean president, Senor Montt, has been made an honorary member of the faculty of science of the University of Lima and will be banqueted by President Par do when he returns here from Cerro De Pasco. Some of the observations made recently by Professor David P. Todd of Amherst, Mass., head of the Lowell astronomical - pedttlon to South America, who arrived nere recently from his trip to the Andes, were made at an altitude of 17,600 feet above the level of the sea. AGREEMENT LIKELY TO COME British Proposition for Arbitration One on Which Nations May Come to Terms. THE HAGUE, Aug. I9.-The British proposition before the peace conference re garding obligatory arbitration has been so modified that it may lead to a general understanding on the subject. It leaves each nation free to bind Itself to submit to arbitration cases, a list of which Is furnished, which may arise between that nation and any other country or countries the signatory nation may select. SPECIAL PARDON FOR KOYAMA Assailant of LI Hans; Chan Given Ilia Release from Japanese Prison. TOKIO, Aug. 29. It became public today that Koyama. the Japanese who assaulted and wounded LI Hung Chang at Shlmone sekl In 1895 during the Chinese-Japanese peace negotiations, and who was sentenced to life Imprisonment in the Abashlri prison at Hokkaido, received a special pardon August 26. WITTE. IS OUT OF POLITICS Peacemaker of Russia Has Decided that Bnalneaa Life Is Hla Lot. LONDON, Aug. 29. Count Wltte, once the most powerful man In Russia next to the emperor, has accepted the directorship of the Bank of Russia for exterior com merce according to advices received here from St. Petersburg. This act. It is stated, marks the final severance of the ex-premier from the official life of his country. LA GUILLOTINE MAY RETURN Paris Murderer .Sentenced to Death ad Only President Can are Him. PARIS, Aug. 29. There Is reason to be lieve that the guillotine may again make Its appearance In France for the carrying out of capital punishment. The high court today denied the appeal made by Solellant. who was condemned to death In this city last month for ths atro cious murder of a little child. President Fallleres alone can now save the man. FIFTEEN MILLION FIRE LOSS Sixty Thousand People Rendered Homeless at Hakodate. In Blgf Conflagration. YOKOHAMA. Aug. 29. Advices received from the American consulate at Hakodate places the loss caused by the conflagration there at $1S,000.000. About 15.000 houses, varying in vslue, were burned, and 0,0u0 people rendered homeless. WILSON SEES BRIGHT PICTURE Secretary Kinds Ks Slant of Panic or Hard Times la the tYest. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. tSpcclal Tele gram.) Secretary Wilson of the Depart ment of Agriculture, who has been In the west looking over forest reserves, returned to Washington last night, optimistic over the prospect as he saw It In his travels through a number of states. "The people of the west," said Secre tary Wilson, "are not fearful of a panic or hard times. The west is prosperous. There Is plenty of money. . In fact, I have reason to believe the west Is loaning money to the east. Instead of the east to the west, and this Is being done at good rates of Interest. The people of the west are not worrying over Wall street and Its troubles. They1 scarcely know that such troubles exist, save as they read of them In the newspapers. The rest of the coun try Is no longer dependent or Wall street." Senator Warren of Wyoming Is the first member of congress to express his desiru to see the old frigate Constitution brought to the Washington Navy yard. In speak ing of the views of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry, who has suggested that "Old Ironsides" might be brought here and kept as a memento of by-gone days, Senator Warren said this morning: "I have noticed the suggestion and must say that I am .heartily In favor of 'Old Ironsides' being" brmrght to Washington. In the first place this Is where all such relics belong In the national capital and then, again. If It 14 to be moved from Bos ton, this Is certainly the logical place for It. Washington is the center of travet of the United States, and with the Interest that naturally Is taken In the old fr!nte it would be a (treat pleasure for visitors who come here." .Floyd H. Sharrar has been appointed regular and John L. Sharrar substitute rural carrier for route No. 1 at Creston. Neb. Nebraska Postmasters Appolnted-Carns, Keya Paha county, Charles T. Hornley, vice J. A. Nugent, resigned;' Dustln. Holt county. S. F. Farner, vice Riley K. Sosner deceased. HETTY GREEN UPON CARPET Chicago Board of Review Will Call Her to Ask- Abont Property. CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-Hetty Oreen of New York, who owns rroperty In Chicago worth between $4.P0.?.X and J5.0CO.0CO. may appear before the Board of Review early next work and submit to n questioning concern ing her exact holdings In real estate and the reasons why her assessments should be reduced. . ( This plan was formed by the members of the board last night, the question of Mrs. Green's taxes on down-town property worth nearly $2,000,000. having come up. The members of the board announced that they wished in this ease to deal dM rectly with the owner of the property In stead of the agents. This decision was reached, it came to light, after the read ing of several complaints against Mrs. Green's methods of! keeping her property In shape, . "We have derluedXsaM Chairman West, "that we would like to have Mrs. Green come before us personally. We have re ceived protests against her assessment from her real estate agents, but we are not sat isfied." The . other members of the board ex pressed the same sentiments. The -board has no power to compel the attendance of any one upon Its sessions, and there is a possibility thata Mrs. Green may Ignore the request entirely. In that case there Is a counter possibility that Mrs. Green may find the assessments on her other property In various parts of the city In creased from 10 to 30 per cent. 'FRISCO'S METEOR WRECKED Mall Clerk and Two Pasaengrers Seri ously Injared near Tnlsa, I. T. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Aug. 29"AFast Frisco train No. 409, known as the "Meteor," which left St. Louis at 2:60 yesterday after noon and due to arrive here at noon, ran Into an open switch near Tulsa, I. T., at an early hour this morning and was wrecked. One mall clerk and two passen gers were seriously Injured. The engine, two baggage cars and the mall car left the track. The "Meteor" Is one of the fastest trains of the 'Frisco system, and carries two Pullman sleeoln cars, two chair cars, cafe and observation cars, together with two baggage and one mall car. Today's wreck Is the third within a week In the vicinity of Tulsa. "WHITE SLAVE" TRAFFIC Mlsa Bullla Will Watch Immigrants at Ellis Island to Protect Women. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. On recommen dation of Robert Watchorn, Immigration commissioner at Ellis Island, N. Y., Mlfes Helen M. Bullls has been appointed an Immigration Inspector for the particular purpose of developing Information regard ing the white slave traffic. Miss Bullls re cently has been connected with the Travel ers' Aid society. Commissioner Watchorn says thst hitherto the victims have practically In variably avoided detection by reason of the thorough coaching they receive prior to embarkation. DEDICATION OF THE OBELISK International Character to Be Given Ceremonies for McKlnlcy Me morial Intelllng;. BUFFAIX. N. Y., Aug. 29.-E. H. Butler, chairman of the McKlnley monument com mission, has aigiounced the program for the dedication of the marble obelisk In Niagara square. September 5. Governor Hughes will be the orator of the day. Civil, military, political and Judicial honors will be paid to the martyred president, and an International character will be given to the occasion by the presence of a thousand Canadian troops. STRAUS TO VISIT PRESIDENT Secretary of Department uf Con. meroe and Labor to Discuss De tails of Inspection. - WASHINGTON. Aug. a. - Secretary Straua of the Department of Commerce and Labor has Informed the department officials from Salt Lake City that lie ex pects to resume his duties In the depart ment about September 12. He is now In the Yellowstone park. Before returning to Washington Secretary Straua will visit the president at Oyster Bay to discuss the details of his Intended Inspection trip. j CREIGI1 TO HEAD BIG ARMY Department Commander of Nebraska Will Lead Host to Saratoga. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO GO Antelope State Has Candidate for Na tional Commander-in-Chief In Colonel Clnre E. Adams f Superior. Army men, including Tepartment Com mnnripr Thomas A. Prpish. will attend the national encampment fo the Grand Army or the Republic Trom Omaha, to re nem at Rmrmtnn M V fl.nt.mhr S-14. 04her delegations will attend from different parts or tne state. Including a strong aeiegaiion from the Republican valley district, which will go In force to boom the cnndldacy of Colonel Clare E. Adams of Superior for the noiiltlon of national rommsnd or-in- chief. Colonel Adams' candidacy was hear tily endorsed by the slast Nebrsska de- nartment enesmnment at Fremont, and the entire Nebraska delegation will support him. Tn a .M..nt Ant laaneft hv Department Comma nrler. Creleh. the announcement Is made that no offlrtnl railroad route haa been designated from Omaha to Chicago, but from Chicago to Saratoga Springs ho has designated the Wabash railroad. It Is hoped to have a solid Nebraska train over the Wabash, West Shore and the Delaware rnllrnsda. from Chicago to Sara- tof?a. The department officials, with the department officers of the Woman neiiei rom and Ladles of the Grand Army of the Republic, now figure on leaving Omaha Saturday evening. September 7. end win leave over the Wabash from Chicago Sun day evening. September 8. Time of the Train. This train will leave the Wabash station, corner of Dearborn and Polk streets, Chi cago, at 4 p. m. Sunday evening, passing throngh Detroit that evening, crossing the Detroit river to Windsor, passing the Wol land ship canal, arriving at Niagara Falls Monday morning for breakfast. Most of Mrmrinv will he snent viewing the talis, a rate of one fare and a third has been named from all Nebraska stations to Chi cago. The rnto. via the route of tho special train from Chicago to Saratoga la $18.40- hi. ,.t make a rate of $33.40 irom Omaha to Saratoga. The dates of sale wilt h fientember 5. and 7. and win ne good to return, leaving Saratoga Springs i.ni.mh to 17. Inclusive, extension limits will be granted, however, not later than October . upon payment at Saratoga of $1 at the time of deposit. Arrange ments for stopover tickets can be made at Saratoga. The sleeping car rate from r-hir.n will be $4.50 for standard ana v.a for tourist sleeper, double lower berth. SarutoK-a Haa Arms Open. committee of arrangements has made elaborate preparations for tho great encampment. There is to oe no overcharging or overcrowding. At the principal hotels the rates will be. with out bath, two In a room, $4 per day each; with. .bath. $6, American plan. Tha smaller kn-i twn in a. room. $2 and $3 per. day each, according to accommodations. Room ing and boarding houses, 60 cents, 76 cenis and $1 per day. Lodging and breakfast, $1. Board and lodging, $1.60 and $! per day. Meals at restaurants, 25 cents up. Free inrtirin will be provided for about 11.000 comrades, and applications for such should be made at once to Frank M. Sterrett, ex ecutive director, Saratoga Springs, N. x. A ronnral hosnltal Will be located at the Congress Hall ball room and places for temporary aid will be estamisnea, aiong th line of march. A fully equipped corps of the Red Cross will be constantly in at tendance to meet all emergencies. President Roosevelt to Attend. Campflres and other public meetings will be held during the week, at which there will be music and speaking. Monday, Sep tember 9, will be devoted to welcoming the comrades and locating them In their various quarters. Tuesday evening two Important events will occur. Including greetings to the visitors on the part of the state of New York and Saratoga Springs by the governor of the state, and. president of the city, and a response on behalf of the Grand , Army by National Commander-in-Chief Brown, and the silver Jubilee of the Women's Relief corps. At this last named event will be presented a suitable testimonial by the Women's Re lief corps to the Grand Army of the Re public' PreslSent Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to be present on mis even ing. On Wednesday evening Vlll be an il lustrated muster-in service at Convention hall by Memorial post of Cleveland. O. On Thursday evening the great camp flro will be held. The first business session of the encampment will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday. The great parade will occur on Wednes day, September. 11, at t p. m. The forma tion will be tn column of departments in Woodlawn park, at the head of Broadway. The line of march will be but a mile and a quarter tn length and will be for the most part along a shaded avenue. BREWERS FIGHTING OPTION Hold Secret Meeting; at Cincinnati to Prevent Spread of Sentiment la South. CINCINNATI. Aug. 2. United action by leading brewers of the United States against the spread of the local option Idea was begun in a secret meeting in this city yesterday, news of which developed today. It Is proposed to adopt a definite plan to stop the spread of local option, especially In the south. This was the prime object of the meeting. There was no formal call Issued nd no publicity of the fact that there was to be a meeting. Representatives of the big breweries of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati were present. The inroads that local option Is making, es pecially in the south, were thoroughly dis cussed and It was decided, that some ac tion would have to be taken. A committee was Anally appointed to report on ways and means for accomplishing the purposes of the meeting. DES MOINES JAIR WRECKED Wind and Flro Does fl 100,000 Dam age to Exhibits at Iowa Capital. DE8 MOINES. Ia., Aug. 3.-A wind storm struck the Iowa State fair grounds here early today, causing damage esti mated at $100,ou0. A live wire was blown against the Knabenshue airship and captive balloon, setting Are to them and totally destroying both. The big tent of the In- --"ationul Harvester company was blown down and the exhibit ruined by heavy rain and Or, CORRECTION 0F A MISTAKE So Loan Belnsr Xesrotlated for the New Hrsnilrh Bulldlnu; at Thl Time. The Item In one edition of yesterday's Bee to the effect that a loan was being negotisted In connection with the erection i of the new Brandels building was a mls- tske due to misinformation. When the building wss commenced the Brandelses made a contract for a loan asa matter of precaution by which they could call for any amount uupu tuo $400,000 at 4 per cent, but they have not yet found It necessary to take the money and may not take It at all. VISITOR'S MOTOR SPEEDED Swedish Minister Forced to Make Explanation to New York ' Police Court. NEW TORK, Aug. 29.-Having gone through a rather arduous round of social duties In New Rnglxnd, and having dis charged his official obligations by a visit to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, Prince Wlllielm of Sweden will spend the rest of his time here as Informally as he can. He has visited Coney Islsnd already and he took In most of the shows when he went there, a big crowd following him about. After the prince had returned from Oyster Bay yesterday a bicycle policeman halted an automobile containing the Swed ish minister, a Swedish naval officer, a ser cret service detective and a chauffeur on Broadway, en the ground that the chauf feur waa exceeding the speed limit. Not withstanding the protests of the detective the chauffeur was arrested by the police man, which necessitated Baron De Lager crants going to the station house to ex plain to the police lieutenant that the chauf feur meant no harm. The prisoner was released out of courtesy to the minister. Prince Wllhelm of Sweden learned today that John Person, one of the sailors of the Fylgla, had fallen overboard from a landing In the Hudson river and was very nearly drowned. After being In the river for a quarter of an hour the sailor was rescued and taken to a hospital. The doc tors said Person would recover If pneu monia did not result from his lmmorslon. The prince said he wanted to visit ths sailor and It was arranged that he should do so at p. m. Afterward the prince planned to visit the financial district. This afternoon twenty officers and ninety men of the crew of the Fylgla will go to the horse races at the Empire City track aa guests of the track officials. Tha prince, however, will not accompany them. AMERICAN SHIPPERS WARNED Fall Often to Exercise Due Care In Packlna- Valuable Goods for Transit. iHW YORK, Aug. . Traffic managers of the steamship lines with regular ser vices to Central and South American porta and tho West Indies, have decided to make an united effort to Impress the exporters of Amerisan goods with the fact that thetf methods of packing are not up to' modern English and German standards and that If they expect to make headway In this trade they must compete on an equal baaja. Circulars to this efTect are being ' widely distributed among merchants and ex port re, - - i An example of the bad packing of Ameri can goods Is shown tn a recent consular report from Foo Chow, China, to which 222 separate pieces Of stained cathedral glass were shipped for use In a memorial church there. When the shipment arrived it was found that out of the entire lot only sixteen pieces were free from damage. As the church, in which they were to be used was neartng completion, and not enough of undamaged glass could be found for any one window, a fresh order had to be sent to the United States and a delay of five or six months must necessarily ensue before the building can be dedicated and used. FRANCHISE FIGHT RECALLED California, Witness Tells of "Fake" Company Stnrted In Tele phone Contest. BAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Aug. 28.-The task of showing that the Pacific States Telephone and TelegTaph company In 1906 sought to prevent the organising of -a "straw" Home Telephone company and obtaining for it a franchise, was resumed at the continuation of the Glass briborv trial today. Attorney William A. Beasly of San Jose testified that he had bid In tho franchise end furnished a surety bond of $2,500 to the Oakland council, and then .had signed and delivered through Halsey all of Ms stock holdings in the "straw" company to E. J. Zlmmer, who at that time was auditor of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company. Subsequently - the scheme was abandoned and Zlmmer went to the clerk of the Oakland council and caused the franchise to be forfeited and the bond released. He received for hla services $100 a month and about $11,000 for expenses. FARMERS' ELEVATOR MERGER On Planned a$ Minneapolis to Se cure Co-Operatioa of Two Hundred Plants. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 29. A big merger of farmers' elevators In Minnesota is to be formed at a meeting called to take place in Minneapolis September S, by pres idents and managers of several elevators throughout the state. The plan Is to se cure the co-operation of .200 farmers' ele vators in the state into one central or ganisation. It Is estimated that fully 20, 000 farmers will be representee at the meeting. The farmers surrounding the' towns where such elevators are operated usually own stock In them and are Inter ested In the movement to merge them tn order to secure better grading. better terminal facilities and better means of marketing their grains. TWO ARE DEAD FROM FALL Workmen at York, Pa., Knocked from Scaffold by Big Granite Block. YORK, Pa., Aug. 29. Two men were killed and two Injured, one probably fa tally, by the falling of a scaffold today at the York county Jail, which Is being re built. The scaffold was wrecked by an SoO-pound piece of granite falling on It and the men were precipitated to the ground, a distance of fifty feet. The dead ara: LDVS'AKD A. COOK, assistant foreman. WILLIAM FRET, stonemason. Injured: T. E. Cunningham, stonemason, York; skull probably fractured and Internal in juries. Emory Potterff, stonemason, York; leg broken and contusion on body FISH STARTS A ROW Former Preiident of Illinois Centra! Refnsed Permission to Speak. WANTED STRICT LNVESTIGATI011 Board of Directors Adjourn Mcetin, While He is Talking. HARAHAN CALLS FISH UAH Refutes Charge of Being Puppet of Harriman. MEN SEPARATED BY FRIENDS Neither Pnrt Will Talk of ths Personal Enconnter Which Took Place In New York " Wednesday. NEW YORK .Aug. 29. A blow from tha fist of Stuyvesant Fish, which landed n the Jaw of James T. Harahan, knocking the president of the Illinois Central Rail road into his chair, was the closing scene 'of the meeting of the board cf i directors of the Illinois Central, which was adjourned before Mr. Fish concludej the reading of( a resolution offered by him which had for Its object a thorough Investigation of the affairs of the com pany from the .time E. H. Harriman became a factoreln the company. The meeting of the directors had been quiet from Its . opening. Mr. , Harahan was presiding. Nine of the directors were present. , Only routine business IiaJ been under discussion, and there had not been a sign of the rancor which had per vaded most of the meetings of the last year. Fish Offers Resolution. Mr. Fish, who had Interposed not tha slightest objection to any of the pro ceedings and had been aa agreeable as possible,' disturbed this serenity by ris ing and proceeding to, read a resolution. The other directors began to sit up anj take notice. The exact text of the resolution could not be secured. Mr. Fish would not give It out, and most of the others present were equally reticent in regard to the contents of the resolution. One of them did, however, let it be known that tha resolution was a sharp arraignment of the management of the road on tha ground that It was dictated In the in terest of the Harriman lines generally and not In that of the Illinois Central particularly. In a portion of it the charge waa made that the majority of the directors were the "tools and puppets" of Mr. Harri man. When Mr. Fish reached that portion of his preamble one of the Harriman di rectors, all or wnom were nageting un der hla remarks, made a motion to ad- Journ. Mr. Harahan put it instantly, de clared it carried and rose to leave tha meeting, the other directors also getting on their fees. , ' Mr. Fish was nonplused a moment, but , presently spoke out vigorously: Mr. Fish Protests. "Gentlemen, you can't adjourn In tha middle of a matter of business," he said. "This Is astonishing and surpris ing. I Insist that it Is contrary to all parliamentary procedure, more than that, an unheard of breach of courtesy, to Interpose a motion to adjourn in the mid dle ef a director's remarks. I Insist that' this meeting Is not adjourned and shall proceed with my resolution." "The meeting has been declared ad journed and stands adjourned," retorted Mr. Harahan, curtly, facing Mr. Fish across the table. "The meeting la not adjourned," Mr, Fish came back with Increasing warmth, "and I declare you cannot adjourn It unless you demonstrate what I have said, that you are Harriman tools and puppets,' and " "I'm not a 'Harriman tool." Mr. Hara han broke in, threateningly, "nor tho tool of any man. Anyone who says so lies." Mr. Fish is a big man. He weigh up wards of 210 . pounds, stands over six feet and is of brawny build. He has always kept himself In perfect condition and' la aa hard as he is heavy, and Is quick to a degree that belles his bulk. Hla weight accordingly did not Imped his movements as he Jumped Soros tha table and swung at Mr. Harahan, all In one movement. Director Leave Room, None of the other director interfered ex cept with good advice. The other present were Cornellu Vanderbllt, Robert Walton Goelet, Walther Luttgen, Charles A. Pea body, A. O. Hackstaff. Charles M. Beach and James DeW. Cutting. Only the latter two are conceded to bs Fish supporters. Mr. Goelet, It was said, left the room In stantly and hurriedly. Mr. Vanderbllt, ac cording to reports, attempted to qulot the fuss. All were In a state of Intense excite ment, but none of them advanced to take part In the fracas, and Mr. Fish, having now recovered his composure, walked over, picked up his hat, nodded pleasantly to the others and left the room without say ing a word. ' Mr. Harahan. after awhile, left the Illi nois Central offices and walked over to a lawyer's office. Men who saw htm say that his face was not marked except for a burning red spot on the right side of tho Jaw. Indicating the point of contact with Mr. Fish' ham-like fist. His mission at the lawyer's office could not be learned, but If It was In connection with arty legal proceedings meditated against Mr. Fish no papers or warrant of arrest were served today, . Mr. Fish Noncommittal. - Mr. Fish remained in his office until late In the afternoon. He was smiling and ap parently composed In mind and he wa willing to discuss all tubjocts except one. On that one he gave the aame answer to all: "I will neither confirm nor deny the re port of anything that took place at the di rector' meeting today." , Most of the other dlrtctors were quit a reticent. From their circle, however, ample confirmation of the fight was secured. The enly difference was one of verbiage and over the matter of the motion to adjourn. One of the directors was reported a contending that the motion to adjourn, though not put until after Mr. Fish began his remaiks, waa made before he arose to spesk. Mr. Harahan accordingly. It was said, acted properly In putting the motion. Kubeltk to lslt America. NEW YORK. Aug. 29.-Danle Frohman. who first brought Jan Kubelik to America, announces snother American tour for the violinist, btgiuiiiiig la till city tiovetu ber 10. V