NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS 8ECTION3.
Hi. SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Srcial, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
* Due Consideration.
Ground hr.s been broken in Pair-,
bury for a Cathciic church to ecs:
. $20,000.
The Merchants National bank of
Nebraska City last week celebrated
its fiftieth anniversary.
Dr. S. M. Stewart of Lincoln has
been appointed assistant physician of
the feebie minded institute at Beat
rice.
The overway wagon bridge sen,.:.
the railroad a mile southwest of
Table Rock caught fire, and was en
tirely consumed.
The Rock Island depot in Beatrice
was badly damaged by fire and hud
a close call from total destruction
owing to the high wind.
Rev. C. C. Hermann, for a long
time pastor of the German Episcopal
church in West Point, ha? resigned
his pastorate and accepted a call to
Pueblo, Col.
At Papillion. R? F. O’Brien was
tried before the county judge for sel
ling liquor at Manawa, in Sarpy eoun
ty. and found guilty. He was fined
$100 and costs.
I ne rededication of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Bladen took p ace
last Sunday. The church was built
in 1900. The new wing with pastor’s
study has just been completed.
The Fremont canning factory close.1
down for the reason last .week, at;?
a campaign of six weeks. The rtir.
of corn this year was smaller than,
usual, but it was of good variety.
The German Methodist conference
has returned Rev. H. A. Hohenwaid
to the Humboldt charge for another
year, much to the gratification of
members and the public in general.
Rev. Robert \ Paxton pastor of the
Congregational church in Ainsworth,
tendered his resignation Sunday to
take effect on or before October la.
His failing health is given as the
reason.
The new Shafer theater at Tckama
is nearly completed and Manager
Shafer is negotiating for a good
troupe for the opening r.ight. This is
one of the best theaters in that part
of the state.
Mrs. Isabelle Kimmel. one of the
pioneers of Nebraska City, fell as she
was getting into her carriage and
broke her right arm. As she is quite
advanced in years, it will be some
time before she recovers.
Herman Boche of Norfolk, alleged
slayer of trank Jarmer, has secured
enough' signers to his bond to permit
bail and will probably be released
from jail. His bond represents se
curity amounting to $75,000.
A brakeman working on the Mis
souuri Pacific out of Atchison lost
both legs at Padonia. He was be
tween two cars, and in some way
fell across the rails. The train passed
over both legs above the knee.
A stranger who gave the name of
G. T. Durst and said he was from
Krongatown, Ind., passed ?. worth less
draft for $200 at the city ticket office
in Fremont. He made his escape
from the building, and got away.
For several months past there have
been a number or burglaries in Lin
coln and most robberies were of
places of business. The burglars
were smart enough to take only
money in most every instance and
leave all goods alone.
Every bird dog and every hunter
who could get a gun and go hunting
were out after prairie chickens Mon
day and Tuesday, says an Anslcy <
dispatch. Reports are that prairie
chickens are very scarce and hard to
find. Some think that coyotes and
skunks have robbed the nests and de
stroyed the young birds, while others
are of the opinion that the June bugs
killed them.<
After running up big bills in almost
every store in Valentine, borrowing
and never returning and living off
their neighbors in general, G. H. Hig
strom. brother and wife left the coun
try for parts . unknown Saturday
night. The family came from Norfolk
about three months ago and the two
brothers secured employment in Stet
ter A Tobien’s meat market, which
firm Is out $80 for standing good fcr
that amount
Twelve complaints under the Slo
cumb law were filed in Justice Arch
er’s court at Plattsmoutb by County
Attorney Rawis. These complaints
come up under section 32, chapter 50,
of the law, which prohibits any per
son from treating or offering to treat
•ny other person, or accepting or of
fering to accept any treat or gift of
intoxicating drink whatever in any
saloon or public place where such
liquors are kept for sale.
Edward Brown dishonorably dis
charged from the United States army
at Fort Logan, Colo., has been arrest
ed on the charge of trying to cash a
forged' cheek and is in the Lincoln
jatl.
At the Avery brick yard in Papilli n
a team belonging to Charles Hoobck
became frightened by a dog mantes
out and biting at the hcelt of the
horses. The neck yoke broke an 1
one end of it ran into the breast cf
one horse and killed it. The horse
was worth $150. Suit will be brought
unless the matter is settled.
Burlington freight No. 47, westbound
ran into a push car loaded with rails
aud under the control of the section
men on the section east of Seward.
, killing Engineer L. Graves of Lincoln
and seriously injuring the fireman.
\> W. B. Gue, an old resident of
• Beatrice, committed suicide by taking
au ounce of laudanum. Hi3 wife h?.d
been out of the city and when she
returned home after supper she found
Mr. Gue lying on a louug# uncon
scious. Physicians were hastily sum
moned and worked over the man foi
several hours, but to no avail.
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HAINER BERATES COMMISSION.
Attorney for Big Creameries Is An
gry at Mew Order.
Lincoln—Attorney E. J. Hainer,
whp represented the centralized
creameries of Nebraska in the hear
ing on cream rates before the rail
road commissioneis, visit'd the board
and was exceedingly angry over their
recant order. At -the hearing Mr.
Hainer suggested if the board intend
ed to enforce a new schedule they
should base rates on the Rock Island
tariff, then in eifect. Instead, the
board took the schedule of the Bur
lington and, with some changes, pro
mulgated it as their order. The re
sult is to give the smaller creameries
of the state an opportunity with the
larger ones and was practically a dis
tance tariff.
At the hearing, Mr. Hainer said he
and his Clients would be satisfied
with a tariff -based on mileage, and
the members of the commission re
minded him of the fact.
There are nineteen cream shipping
stations on the Rock Island roai and
the rates enforced by the railroad
commission raise these rates in only
six instances.
Senator C. H. Aldrich, v;ho has
been retained as special counsel of
the board in the grain cases, came to
Lincoln and reported that the people
in Butler county were well pleased
with the new rates. They were es
pecially pleased, as they gave small
creameries an equal opportunity with
the larger ones.
ADDRESS ON PURE FOOD LAW.
Commissioner Johnson Tells What It
Is Expected to Accomplish.
Columbus — Food Commissioner
Johnson, on the pure food law, says:
“The pure food law t is an effort on
the part of the state government to
establish integrity ns to foods. There
was a time when big corporations
and big business Interests moved for
ward according to their own sweet
will. Now there is a time of control.
Through national and state legisla
tion, laws are being enacted that
reach out and take hold of business
and business concerns, saying to
them, as this pure food law says to
the grocers of Nebraska, ‘You must
be honest.’ Public sentiment, which is
90 per cent of the power behind ev
ery law. is keyed vp to the highest
tension on this matter of honesty in
business.
“And I love to think, not only be
cause it is a pleasant thought to me
as a citizen of this state, but because
I believe it literally true, that there
is no place in alt this peopled world
where the public conscience is on a
higher plane or the public will be more,
free to assert itself than here, righa
here in this prosperous prairie state,
Nebraska.''
Mrs. Knox Denies Charge.
Mrs. Knox, county superintendent
of Cheyenne county, has written Gov
ernor Sheldon that she has not defied
the law in her own county as has
been alleged by State Superintendent
McBrien and that she would like an
interview with the governor. She is
at present in Iowa, where she was
called by the illness of her son. On
her return she will stop off at Lincoln
and desires to straighten matters out.
State Superintendent McBrien has con
sented to let the case rest until that
time.
Baptists to Meet.
Hastings—Beginning October 5 the
Nebraska State Baptist convention
will continue in this city for five
days. Piominent Baptists will be
here from Chicago. Boston, New
York. Philadelphia and other places.
Missionaries from China and other
foreign points will also be in attend
ance. The effort to secure Governor
Hughes of New York was unsuccess
ful, on account of pressing official
business. Four hundred visitors are
expected.
Fifty Yeats in Harness.
Nebraska City—The Merchants' Na
tional bank, of this city, will celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of its existence
on next Thursday. H. N. Shewell.
president of, the bank, has been with
the institution since its organization
and his son is assistant cashier.
New Corn in Market.
Beatrice—William Floyd, a farmer
living six miles west of Beatrice,
brought in a load of new corn which
he sold for 50 cents per bushel. He
has gathered nearly 200 bushels of
the grain which is of an early variety
and well matured.
Bullet Enters Man’s Heart.
Lincoln—While handling a revolver
he supposed was -unloaded, John J.
Haul, son of N. J. Haul, president of
the St- Paul State bank, accidental
ly shot himself through the heart.
He was 23 years of age' and a di
rector in his father's bank.
Big Shipments of Stock.
Valentine—Valentine is • experi
encing its busy time these days now
■ that,-the stock season is on. There
were nine stock trains on the North
western tracks at a standstill, every
rail of trackage being occupied. Pas
senger trains and regular dead
freight! are steadily behind time, the
latter being abandoned for two or
three days at a time. Every avail
able engine is being pressed into ser
vice and the company- is having a
hard time to find crews.
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Big Enrollment at Kearney.
Kearney—The state normal school
is preparing for a large attendance
this year. During the summer the
squipmont has been extended and
many changes have been made which
will enable the school to accommo
date the larger number of students
with gi-eater ease. President Thomas
has spent most of thhe summer in the
city attending to the correspondence,
which |ian been very huavy.» Several
members will be addeil to the fac
ulty.
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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN „
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For
eign Items.
In the federal suit against the
Standard Oil company it was disclosed
that John D. Rockefeller owned 247,
692 shares of its stock, or nearly five
times as much as any other individ
ual stockholder. The methods by
which the trust coerced the independ
ent refineries were related.
Judge Lochren at St. Paul tem
porarily enjoined enforcement of the
new commodity rates and called the
recent rate legislation in Minnesota
vicious and disgraceful.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, a Chicago
kindergarten principal, was strangled
to death in her room by a robber.
Eleven men were killed and seven
fatally injured by the falling of a cage'
660 feet down a mine shaft at Negau-,
nee, Mich.
Five members of the Parkamite sect
at Zion City, 111., were arrested for
torturing to death an aged woman in
an effort to drive out the devil with
which they believed her possessed.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois appointed
Dr. Cyrus H. Anderson, of McLeans
boro, superintendent of the asylum
for Insane criminals at Chester in
place of Dr. Walter E. Singer, who
died.
The Wisconsin railway commission
ordered the La Crosse Gas & Electric
company to raise its rates for elec
tric lighting.
Frederick McLeod, of the Midlothian
elub of Chicago, won the annual tour
nament of the Western Professional
Golfers’ association on the Normandie
club's links at St. Louis. His total
for the 72 holes wds 305 ’strokes.
Advices from Peking intimated that
Wu Ting Fang will be sent back as
minister to Washington.
The South Dakota board of railroad
commissioners adopted a resolution
reducing fares in South Dakota from
three to two and one-half cents a
mile, to become effective October 15.
John Hustis, a pioneer of Wiscon
sin, and one of the leading spirits in
the development of the state, died at
Hustis Ford, in the ninety-seventh
year of his age.
The will of Robert A. Pinkerton, the
detective,'left an estate of $3,000,000
to his widow and children.
An angry mob of citizens of Whit
ing, Ind., prevented the granting a
60-year franchise to a street car com
pany by driving the aldermen from
the council chamber.
Capt. James R. Lindsay and Capt.
Henry S. Wygant, both of the Thir
teenth infantry, have been arrested by
their colonel for indulging in a list
fight while on board an army thansv
port en route to San Francisco from
the Philippines.
The American government has in
vestigated the ill-treatment of Hindoos
at Bellingham and Everett, Wash., in
response to a note from the British
government, and the jocal authorities
insist that they are entirely capable
of dealing with the situation.
The new law providing an eight
hour day for telegraphers has been
declared unconstitutional by the cir
cuit court of Cass county, Missouri.
The court ruled that the law is class
legislation.
Mme. Emma Calve, who arrived in
New ’Pork on the Pannonia, devoted a
large share of her time during the
voyage from Gibraltar to making rag
dolls and hats for children in the
steerage.
Col. William Goddard, chancellor of
Brown university, and one of the best
known residents of Rhode Island, died
at Providence
Joseph Labriola, said to be the last
murderer to be put to death in New
Jersey by use of the noose, was hang
ed at Cape May, N: J., for the killing
of John Buiglio, bis brother-in-law.
The First. National bank of Gary.
Ind., organized a year ago by Elkhart
men and established at Gary last
March, has been sold to steel men at
a handsome profit.
Dr. H. L. Getz, former president of
the International Association of Rail
way Surgeons and city physician of
Marshalltown, la., attempted suicide
at the railway station at West Liberty
by slabbing himself over the heart. He
is believed to be insane.
Japan claims the' right to occupy
Pratas island, near the Philippines,
because it is “no man's land," having
hitherto been unclaimed.
The marriage of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Miss Jean Leckievtook place
In London. Only relatives of the cou
ple attended.
Nurse, bride and widow all within
a few hours was the experience of
Mrs. Adler of New York. Her fiance,
a glove manufacturer, was stricken
with typhoid fever. She nursed him
,tn a hospital,, at his request they were
married as he lay dying *nd three
hours after he was dead.
Chicago's new city charter, the re
suit of many months' work by com
mittee/ and organizations, was defeat
ed in the special election. The vote
was two to one against it.
Director General Barr of the James
town, exposition resigned because of
disputes with President Tucker.
Four men were killed in an automo
bile accident in Colorado Springs, Col.
At Mldal, Saskatchewan, Mrs. John
Anderson, a farmer’s wife, killed her
three sons, aged respectively 18
month, six years and eight years'. She
has religious mania and * says the ,
triple murder was a blood sacrifice.
The awful prophecy is made that
Chicago in the future will be a city of
women, as the strenuous life is killing
off the men. This fact may somewhat
dampen the ardor of the young men
[ of the east to follow the historic ad
vice of going west.
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READY FOR THE PLUNGE.
GAGE FALLS AND ELEVEN DIE
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT IN MINE AT
NEGAUNEE, MICH.
Brake Fails to Work—Miners Hurled
Down 75 Feet—Seven Found
Alive But Fatally Hurt.
Negaunee, M.ich.—By a cage plung
ing 75 feet down the shaft of the
Jones & Laughlin Cteel company
mine, 11 men were killed and seven
fatally injured Friday.
The cage with its human freight
was being lowered on its first trip
for the day when the brake on the
hoisting drum suddenly failed to hold.
Two other men sprang to the assist
ance of the one at the brake wheel,
but their combined efforts did not
avail and the wire cable continued to
unreel from the drum like thread from
a bobbin.
The cage shot down a couple of
hundred feet before a kink in the too
rapidly paying out cable caused it to
part and from that point the cage had
a sheer drop to the bottom of the
shaft. The safety catches with which
it was equipped failed to operate.
Workmen at the bottom of the mine
immediately set about the grewsome
task of removing the dead. Seven
men were found still alive, but they
are fatally hurt.
Thousands of people soon congre
gated about the mine shaft. In the
crowd were (he wives and children of
the 200 men who are employed in.the
-mine.' Each thought that husband or
parent or a son was in the cage. There
was no way of relieving the suspense,
as the fallen cage blocked the exit.
It was fully two hours before the
cable was adjusted so that the
cage could be raised to the sur
face.
When all the miners came from un
der ground and many anxious wives
and others failed to find members of
their families who worked in the
mine, the scene was awful. The priests
and ministers moved among the peo
ple consoling them and begging them
to be calm.
LOW FARE LAW HIT AGAIN.
Pennsylvania’s Statute Once More Is
Declared Invalid.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The two-eeat fare
law, enacted at the recent session of
the Pennsylvania legislature, was ad
judged invalid, unconstitutional and
void in its application to the Susque
hanna River & Western Railway
company in an opinion delivered
Thursday at Bloomfield by Judge
Shull, of the Perry county court.
Britain to Burn Oil in Her Navy.
London.—According to information
from the inner circles - of the adrnir-,
alty, the government has decided to
substitute oil for coal at the British
naval bases throughout the world. It
is asserted that the government al
ready has made heavy purchases of
oil in Texas, Roumanla and Galicia,
and is also prepared to monopolize the
entire oil-producing field of Nigeria.
The latter is still undeveloped, but the
authorities are drilling on a large
scale in places where the surface
conditions Indicate plentiful oil depos
its.
. Bar Spinsters from Saloons.
Milwauk.ee.—A special from Wau
paca says that the common council of1
that city has passed an ordinance'for
bidding women to enter saloons un
less accompanied by their hus
bands.
Woman Tortured to Death.
Zion City. 111.—Five persons, mem
bers of the sect of Parhamites, are
under arrest here held on the confes
sion of one of them on a charge of
torturing to death Mrs. Letitia Green
haulgb, 64 years old, who had been a
cripple for over 20 years from rheu
matism. Two of the accused fanatics
are the son. and daughter of the vic
tim. The son said the five twisted
the woman's limbs and neck in order
to drive out the devil that they be
lieved possessed her. Soon after that
she died.
Alleged Grafters Arrested.
Harrisburg, Pa.—The long-expected
arrests of those held to be responsible
for the frauds committed in the fur
nishing the decorating of Pennsyl
vania's 113,000.000 capitol were made
Wednesday, the attorney general j
causing warrants to be issued for 14 |
of the 18 persons and firms named by
the capitol investigation commission
as being involved in the scandal. The
warrants were sworn out before Har
risburg aldermen, and nearly all the
defendants appeared, waived a hear
ing and gave bail.
WOMAN SLAIN BY ROBBER.
Chicago Kindergarten Principal Is
Found Choked to Death.
Chicago.—Mrs. Lillian White Grant.
40 years old. a widow, well known in
Hyde Park and principal of a kinder
garten, conducted in the building of
the University Congregational1 church,
was found murdered in her room at
5520 Madison avenue, Friday.
Every article of jewelry owned by
Mrs. Grant was missing and it is
believed robbery was the object of
the murderer. Her t>ody was found
lying across the bed dressed only in
night clothing. One of her own gar
ments was twisted tightly about her
neck and knotted under her left ear.
Death had been caused by strangula
tion or a broken neck.
The imprints of the fingers of the
woman's assailant were found on her
neck, which was broken by the mur
derer.. A colored man who had been
assisting Mrs. Grant in preparing to
move is being sought by the
police.
THIRTY KILLED IN WRECK.
Disastrous Accident Occurs on the
Mexican Central Road.
Mexico City.—There has been a dis
astrous wreck on the Mexican Cen
tral railroad. A freight train and a
passenger train came into collision at
Encarnacion, near the city of Aguas
Calientes, and it is reported that 30
persons were killed and many injured.
The passenger train was the regular
El Paso express, which left that city
Tuesday.
No train from the United States
came in Thursday over the Central.
It is impossible to get further details
of the wreck. The railroad officials
here admit that the wreck occurred,
but refuse to talk of the matter.
REJECTED SUITOR SLAYS.
Kills Girl Who Refuses to Marry Him
and Commits Suicide.
New York.—Because she had per
sistently refused to marry him Henry
Fischner, a baker, shot and instantly
killed Miss Johanna Hoffman Thurs
day and fatally wounded himself. The
shooting took place in the presence of
several persons in a bakery and lunch
room in Tenth avenue, of which Miss
Hoffman's uncle is the proprietor.
When the girl fell and several men
rushed at him, Fischner shot himself
in the head, inflicting a wound from
which he died in,a hospital.
ENTOMBED IN BLAZING MINE.
Terrible Predicament of Three Men
at Sparta, Minn.
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Sparta, Minn.—Three men are en
tombed in the Malta mine here, which
is afire. Firemen fought’the blaze all
Tuesday night and Wednesday, but
made little headway. The fire was
started by the careless throwing of a
lighted cigarette into the hay in the
underground stables.
Jail Delivery at Laporte, Ind.
Laporte, flid.—After knocking down
the wife of Sheriff Smutzer with an
iron rod wrenched from a bed, when
she stepped into the cell corridor to
give a drink of water to a sick prison
er Thursday night, Arthur Cummings
and John Edwards, awaiting grand
Jury action on grand larceny charges,
escaped from .the Laporte county jail.
Mrs. Smutzer, though badly'* hurt,
crawled to the outside door and locked
it, preventing the escape of 11 other
prisoners who were about to rush out.
8outh Dakota Fares Reduced.
Sioux Falls, ‘S. D.—The state board
of railroad commissioners Friday
adopted a resolution reducing the
maximum passenger fares In South
Dakota from three to two and one
half cents a mile, to become effective
October 5.
Wisconsin Pioneer Diea.
Hustis Ford, VVis.—John Hustis, a
pioneer of Wisconsin and one of the
leading spirits in the development of
the state, died here in the ninety-sev
enth year of his age.
Allegheny Family Poisoned.
Pittsburg, Pa.—A mysterious poi
soner probably afflicted with a mania
for taking life, is causing terror among
families in the neighborhood of Gerst
alley, Allegheny. Having been suc
cessful in causing the death of a num
ber of horses and dogB, the poisoner
is believed to fyive attempted Wednes
day to kill a whole family. The vic
tims are: Mrs. Maggie Hoffman, 44
years old; Fred Hoffman, 22 years
old; Charles Hoffman, seven years
old; Esthei* Hoffman, five years old;
Eveline Tuscher, ten years old.
TRUST FOOLS TEXAS
CORSICANA COMPANY BELIEVED
TO BE PART OF STANDARD.
TILFORD DOES NOT KNOW
Attorney Kellogg Say* Officers of Lat
ter Control the Former—Immense
Personal Profits of J. D. Rock
efeller.
New York.—That the Standard Oil
company is operating under the name
of the Corsicana Refining company in
the state of Texas, which has forbid
den the oil combine to operate within
the state, was indicated Thursday,
when Wesley H. Tilford, treasurer of
the Standard Oil company, under ex
amination in the government’s suit
against the company, testified that H.
C. Foiger and C. M. Payne, who Frank
Kellogg, the attorney for the govern
ment, states control the Corsicana
company, are prominent in' the con
duct of affairs of the Standard Oil
company.
Mr. Kellogg sought to draw from
the witness the information that the
Consicana company was really a
Standard Oil company and was oper
ating in Texas because the anti-trust
laws of that state would not permit
the combine to operate there. Mr. Til
ford replied that, so far as he knew,
the Standard Oil company had no in
terests in Texas. He said that Mr.
Foiger and Mr. Payne were both offi
cers of the Standard Oil company, but
he was not aware that they owned the
Corsicana company.
Another interesting development
was the official statement made for
the first time, of John D. Rockefeller's
personal holdings in the Standard Oil
company. Just to what extent the
reputed head was individually inter
ested in the great concern has long
been a matter of speculation. It was
brought out that Mr. Rockefeller
owned 256,854 shares, or more than
one-fourth of the total 972,500 certifi
cates of the Standard Oil company. *
Based on the earnings of the com
pany as placed on record Tuesday, it
is computed that Mr. Rockefeller’s per
sonal profits during the past eight
years have aggregated almost $125,
000,000. At Tuesday’s hearing it was
testified that in the years 1899 to 1906
inclusive, the Standard Oil company
had earned total profits of $490,315,
934.
A Big Profit in Oil.
New York.—More light was shed
upon the remarkable earning capacity
of the various subsidiary companies
of the Standard Oil company Wednes
day when Frank B. Kellogg, who is
conducting the federal suit, succeeded
in placing upon the record the profits
of 17 of the principal subsidiary com
panies in the years 190". and 1906.
The statement of the earnings of
the Standard Oil company of Indiana,
which was recently fined $29,240,000
by Judge Landis, of Chicago, for re
bating, disclosed that in 1906 the com
pany earned no less than $10,516,082
on a capitalization of $1,000,000, or
over 1,000 per cent, a year. The Indi
ana company in 1906 earned more
than any subsidiary company of the
big combine.
In a period of eight years, from 1899
to 1906 inclusive, the company, on a
statement spread upon the records of
Tuesday’s hearings, was shown to
have earned total profits of $490,315,
934, or at the rate of more than $61,
000,000 a year, and distributed to its
shareholders in the same period $308,
359,403.
CHICAGO’S CHARTER BEATEN.
Voters Reject the Instrument at the
Special Election.
Chicago.—Chicago's new city char
ter, the result of many months’ work
by committees and organizations, was
defeated in the special election Tues
day. The vote was nearly two to one
against it.
The efforts of the United societies
for. Local Self-Government, the South
Park board, the Deneen faction among
[ the Republicans and of the Democrats
generally, are credited with.the result.
The claim that the new charter would
result in much higher taxes had much
to do with its defeat.
Arrest 800 Men in One Raid.
Lodz, Russian Poland. — Troops
and police made a sudden de
scent upon the large cotton mill here
owned by Marcus Silberstein, who
was murdered b$- his employes Sept.
13, because he refused to pay them
for the time they were out on strike.
Eight hundred of the workmen were
taken into custody.
War on Greek Restaurants.
Joliet, 111. — War against Greek
restaurants was begun following
an. attack on Frarfk McFadden, col
lector for a laundry, by the proprietor
of the Royal restaurant in North Chi
cago Itreet. The restaurant keeper, a
waiter and a cook are under arrest.
New Head of Cheater Aeylum.
Springfield, 111.—Gov. Deneen Fri
day appointed Dr. Cyrus H. Anderson,
of McLeansboro, superintendent of
the asylum for insane criminals at
Chester in place of Dr. Walter E.
8inger, who died on Wednesday.
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- Dr. H. L. Getz Stabs Himself.
Marshalltown, la.—Dr. H. L. Get?,
former president of the International
Association of Railway Surgeons, at
tempted suicide at the railway sta
tion at West Liberty by stabbing him
self over the heart.
Arrested for Detroit 'Swindle.
Rochester, N. Y.—Upon his release
from the penitentiary Thursday J.
Laurence Miller was rearrested on a
warrant from Detroit on the charge
of swindling Fred J. Stone, a lumber
dealer. Miller formerly was a bank
clerk at Charleston, W. Va.
Fort for New Jersey Governor.
Trenton, N. J.—Supreme Cotlrt Jus
tice J. Franklin Fort was nominated
fo^ governor at Thursday’s Repub
lican state convention on the first bal
lot
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THE PRESIDENT TO CM
HE WILL SPEND 17 DAYS IN CANE
BRAKES OF LOUISIANA.
Region Abounds in Game and Ifr,
Roosevelt Will Have Some
Good Hunting.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. — Seven teen
days of real vacation, with none
of the duties of hiB office to worry him,
is what President Roosevelt is to bat e
wlun he goes into camp next month,
and it will be most welcome to him.
Though nominally on his vacation
at Oyster Bay this summer, there have
been but few hours in which official
business has not intruded. A physi
cal and mental recreation, as couipleti?
as his cares will permit, • is now ar
ranged. President Roosevelt will
pitch his camp in the northeastern
corner of Louisiana, on or about Oc
tober 5. The exact spot is yet to be
determined.
The plans provide for a “camping
trip,” but every one who knows north
eastern Louisiana knows that the
cane brakes shelter game worthy of a
huntsman of presidential calibre.
Those who have the good fortune to
make pleasant the president’s camp,
expect that the monotony of camp life
will occasionally be broken'by a hunt.
While the details of the trip have
not been thoroughly worked out. the
main features were announced by
Secretary Loeb Thursday. The presi
dent will leave Oyster Bay- for Wash
ington next Wednesday and on the
following Sunday will start on his
western and southern speech-making
tour. At Memphis, Tenn., on October
4, the speech-making program will be
interrupted and the1 president will
start for the camping grounds. He
will break camp on October 21, going
directly to Vicksburg, Miss^ to make
his promised speech there. The re
turn to Washington will be begun al
most immediately after, and the
White House will be reached on the
afternoon of October 23.
The president will be ibe guest
while in camp of Civil Service Com
missioner John A. McElhinney. of
New Iberia, La., and of John M. Par
ker, of New Orleans.
Following the speech at Vicksburg
October 21, the president hits consent
ed to make an address at Hermitage,
Tenn., on the following day.
FOUR DIE IN AUTO WRECK.
Prominent Elks Are Killed at Color
ado Springs.
Colorado Springs, Col.—A powerful
racing automobile occupied by seven
prominent Elks and chauffeur and built
to hold only three passengers, while
running at a teritic rate, crashed into
a telephone pole at the bottom of tho
West Hurfando street hill here early
Tuesday and was wrecked.
Three of the occupants were killed
outright, a fourth died shortly after
the accident and others were more or
less seriously hurt. The bbdies of
the three dead were mangled almost
beyond recognition. The dead: John
S. Grey, formerly of New York, killed
outright: Britten L. Graces, druggist,
died shortly afterward; W. H. Ralston,
a dealer in electrical supplies, killed
outright; H. Winnal, killed outright.
The injured are James English,
George Buckley, F. H. Ward and A
WT. Markscheffel.
The party had been to the Elks'
clubhouse at Manitou to attend a so
cial session and was returning
home. *
NOVELTY IN LA CROSSE, WIS.
Electric Light Company Is Ordered to
Increase Its Rates.
La Crosse, Wis,—By a decision
handed down Friday by the state
raijway commission, the electric light,
ing rates charge.d by the La Crosse
Gas & Electric company are declared
to be too low and unremunerative and
the company is ordered to put a high
er'scale of rates into efTect. : ... . .
This is the first decision of this
kind ever made In the state. Under
the new state law, public service cpr
porations, as well as customers, may
appeal to the commission for relief,
and this step was taken by the local
corporation.
Wu Tung Fang May Return.
Peking.—It was announced Friday
that Liang Ton-Yen, who had been se-’
lected to succeed Sir Chen tun g Liang
Gheng as minister to Washington, had
instead been appointed assistant sec
retary of the wai-wu-pu or Chinese
hoard of foreign affairfi. While no
official announcement has yet beep
made of the name of the new minis
ter to Washington, it is understood
that the determination has been
reached to send Wu Ting Fang back
to that post, from which he was re
called four years ago. .
Employes Lose dock strike.
Galveston. — The strike of the
Southern Pacific dock workers has
ended. The company made minor
concessions, but the wage scale re
mains unchanged, 30 to 40 cents an
hour.
Elizabeth Holmes Found Insane.
New York.—Mrs. Elizabeth if.
Holmes, who was ejected from the
White House in January, 1906, after
a series of attempts to interview the
president, was adjudged insane Thurs
day by a sheriff’s Jury.
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Asylum Superintendent Dead.
Springfield, HI—Dr. W. E. Singer,
superintendent of the asylum for crim
inals insane at Chester, died at tjbp
institution there, aged 80 years. The
remains will be interred iu Belle
ville.
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Venezuela Paying Belgium.
Brussels.—It is doelared here that
the government of Venezuela has, paid
over to the Belgian legation at Cara
ca the first installment of the $2,000.
000 owed by Venezuela to Belgian
creditors.
Train Robbers Got $40,000.
Spokane, Wash.—Forty thousand
dollars, mainly in -large bills. Is now
declared to have been secured by the
robbers who held up the Great North
ern train near Rexford, Mont., Sep
tember 12.