MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD fN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUNDABOUT THE WORLD
Of triplet* Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from At I Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For
eign Items.
All of the European aeronauts, whc
are to compete in the Janies Gordon
Bennett cup race to start from .St
Louis, are now in this country.
In rhe first game of the world’s
series os its own field, the Detroit
American league team was beaten by
the Chicago Nationals by the score of
6 to 1.
Placer mines fjeaf Lender, YVyo.,
were found to have been salted and
T. L. and J. F. Greenough, prime mov
ers in The mining company, offered to
redeem at cost price all the stock h;ld
by investors, who had paid more than
a third of a million dollars for it.
Physicians attending Emperor Fran
cis Jose}.it- of Austria announced that
his condition had taken a change for
the worse, and it was reported he had
lung disease and tflcvosis of the ar
teries. '
The jury at Los Angeles, Cal., in
the case of the Santa Fe Hallway com
pany. charged with rebating ship
ments. rendered a verdict of guilty on
all counts enumerated in the indict
ments found by the grand jury.
Bonansinga, a balloonist of Quincy,
111., was probably fatally hurt at Alat
toen. 111., by falling 400 feet from a
lmrsted balloon. • •
Rev. Maxwell .1. H. YY’alenta. pastor
of the German Reformed church of
Brooklyn, and Mrs. Louis A. Bauer,
a parishioner and the wife of an elec
trotyper who. Air. YY’alenta said, was
his affinity, were arrested and in court
held for an inquiry into their mental
condition.
Mtes texas unman, leaning laay
with the "Simple Siniou" Theatrical
company, accidentally shot herself in
the side during the petformance in a
theater ai Gallipclis, O.
President Roosevelt, not having
found any bear, changed - his camp
to a site near Neweilton. La., where,
the big game was said to be more
plentiful.
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon
jumped into the Charles river near
Bo»; on and rescued a drowning bay.
11. ii. Howard, a wealthy coal deal
er rf Hartwell, a suburb of Cincinnati,
who had been missing, was found in
a railroad coal shed, apparently mur
dered. *
The steamer Fred Pabst collided
with the isteamer Lake Shore in the
St. Clair l iver and sank.
Henri Rochefort, the well-known
French journalist, severed his Conner- !
tiun with the Interanssigeant, which
he founded in 1880. and assumed the ■
editorship of the Patrie.
Two companies of Dutch troops !
were ambuscaded and tnassacred by •
natives ot ‘Celebes.
John TV Rockefeller gave $600,000
toward the building of the Harper
memorial library at the University of
Chicago.
Sixteen Hdytians were sentenced to
death for conspiracy to overthrow
the government of the republic.
A Frenchman giving the name of |
Posse, but who later was identified !
as Gorcho Spira, was arrested in Lon- ;
don on suspicion of being implicated ;
with the Thomases of Clermont-Fer
rand.- France, in the theft of church
treasurers.
One man was killed and several
persons injured when a west-bound
Pennsylvania train plunged into a
crowd at Bourbon, Iiid.. where the
victims were awaiting the arrival of
an east-bound train.
Charles H. Nichols, a wealthy real
estate man of Chicago, aged 60 years,
married Miss Lillian A. Kinsella, aged
22, art Salem, Mass., the young wom
an’s home.
Mrs. Clifford W. Hartridge. wife of
on® of the attorneys who defended
Harry K. Thaw in his first trial, is
missing in New York. She was ill
and it is feared she committed suicide.
Arthur Herbert Osborn, a young
New York broker, asserted that in
1905 he was secretly married to
Helen Maloney, the missing heiress
who is said to have married Samuel
Clhrksor. of England in Montreal.
Prof. David Todd, who passd foui
months in Chili with the expedition
sent from the United Slates to ob
serve Mars, believes the planet is in
habited.
Railway Commissioner Williams,
after an inspection of the Missouri
Pacific tracks in Nebraska, pro
nounced ibe roadbed unsafe.
Policeman Anton Bachman of Ciu
cinnat. was shot and killed by Peter
Garrlty, a plumber, who was intoxi
cated.
Forty of the 42 defendants in the
government's suit to dissolve the so
called powder trust entered an ap
pearance in the federal court at Wil
mington, Del.
A dispatch from Berlin asserts As
sistant Secretary of State Bacon is
the probable successor to United
States Ambassador to Germany Tower.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad company announced an in
crease in the^wages of all telegraph
operators on the system.
With delegates present representing
every phase of the cotton industry and
including representatives of many for
eign countries, the international con
ference of cotton spinners and grow
ers met in Atlanta.
Gen. Nord Alexis, president of Hay
ti, was reported to be dangerously ill.
r E. ij. Harriman arid# his policies
were indorsed in a resolution passed
iat the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Union Pacific Railroad
company in Salt Lake City.
West Springfield (Mass.) boarding
housekeepers formed a boarding
house union and decided to raise the
price, of board' from five to six dollar*
THE THAYER MONUMENT.
Ha3 Been Accepted and Will Dedicate
It October 27.
The monument purchased by the
| state of Nebraska in hcnor of John M.
Thayer has been accepted, and ar
rangements have been made to dedi
cate it October 27. General John C.
Cowin of Omaha and George Geo.ge
L. Sheldon will deliver orations. The
monument ha--been erected in Wyuka
cemetery.
The legislative committee, compris
ing O. C. Bell, C. X. Baiid, C. M. Par
ker, J. B. Strode and F.* A. Truell, in
spected the monument iast_week, after
its completion, and for:iflHly accepted
it. Major General Ernest H. Phelps,
as a representative of the governor,
and Assistant General A. M. Trimbie
for the department of the Grand Army,
were present.
The monument is a simple but an
imposing piece of work. It is almost
eleven feet in height, and at the base,
six feet square. It is in the shape of
a square column, pointed at top, rest
ing on two bases made of granite, with
undressed faces. The west side bears
in large raised letters on the second
base the words. ‘'John M. Thayer.”
On the same side of the monument a
bronze tablet iwo feet ill length is
set in th? granite. The tablet hears
a life-size pi .idle in relit i of General
Thayer, under which is written. Bo, a
in Bellingnanr. Mass.. January, 24,
i 182". Came t > Nebraska January,
’854. Prominent in earlv Indian wars.
I Colonel Fir.si Nebraska Volunteer In
fant rj. Brigadio; and Major General,
18G1-G3. First United States Senator
from Nebraska. 1.S67. Territorial Gov
ernor of Wyoming, 1875. Governor of
Nebraska. 1SS.7-91. Died in Lincoln,
Neb., March 19. 1906."
On the south side of the mouiunent
a bronze G. A. R. emblem is set in the
face, and on the north the words.
"Erected by a Grateful State."’ are
carved. ,
The monev for it $1,250. was apprerp
The mone yfor it, $ 1.25-0, was approp
riated by the last state .legisiat.ire.
The selection oi the design was left
with t^e commission designated in the
law. ail veterans of the-civil war, to
serve without -compensation.
REPORTS ON STATE LANDS.
Al-r.oct Two Million Acres, All of i
Which Ic U:iacr Lease.
Land Commissioner Eaton Inis com- ;
piled c report on the educational lands
~'i the state. On 25.669.95 acres aj»
Fraised the county appraisers placed a
valuation of >325,556.59. This was
increased by the state bomd to $! 16.
'84.69. r.n increase ci $60.988.1(». On
December 1 I960. The state had on
hand 1,842,402 arc . of which all but
eighteen acres was trader lease. De
cember 1. 1906, there was due the
state on sale contracts $258,742.17.
Alter January 1. 1968, the principal on
com racist will draw 5 per cent inter
est instead of 6 per cent. The follow
ing shows the educational lands sold
by counties from Decembei T. 1906,
to October j . 19i>7:
County. Acres. County. Acres.
Adams ... It! it Howard .. COO
Ant'-top- 1.660 Jefferson.. 920
Keene .... 1.04O Kearney .. so
l-ioyd . 1.3i It Keith .... 617.10
Buffalo ... 660 Knox . II.6X.60
Bur' . 3 60 Ixuaeaster. 224.24
<6e r ... .. '000 Lincoln . . 2.176.72
Cuming .. 16 Merrick .. 94.6.S
Custer ... 1.920 Pierce .... 2u0
’hikcjta ... 69.76 Platte .... xo
Hawscin .. 762.07 VoIU 160
•'ed . 200 Red Wil'w 2.290.30
Pundv ... >0 Rich a rdsn.
l- I'lkilil .. 400 i-'alir.c .... 120
Frontier .. 1.2X0 Hir vrana .. ' 910.61
i-’urnas ... SOo Stanton .. xo
CaitiuUi too Tltay-t- ... 437.23
(Tosper ... 286 Vo 11 .... 480
tireejey ... 2.720 Webster .. 1,040
1 lari an ... 266.10 Total .. . 26.60a.96
,J,ilk Adulterers Fir.cd.
Lincoln—In a letter to Food Com
missloner Johnson. Count-' Attorney
Livingston of Otoe county stated that
three Arms of Nebraska City—Field &
Johnson, E. E, Hal! anl Johnson Bros
—had pleaded guilty of selling m'lk
containing formaldehyde and had been
fined S10 and costs each. Other com_
plaints had been dismissed by reason
of the compromise made with them
Mr. Johnson spoke highly of the celer
ity of County Attorney Livingston in
pushing these suits as soon as com
plaint was fixed by the .food commis
sioner.
Ca‘tle Bellow Over Baby.
Ciofton — Crofton citizens are
worked up over the finding of a baby
Crofton — Crofton citizens are
The bellowing of some cattle drew
people to the spot. A flock of crows
rose as the place was approached and
the badly mutilated body was then
discovered. Investigation has so far
failed to bring to light any explanation
of the affair. »
Ruling on Pure Food Law.
Deputy Food Commissioner Johnson
has sent out a letter that where a re
tailer sells butter packages not prop
erly stamped as to weight he will not
be prosecuted if he has a written
statement of the correct weight from
the w holesaler, provhl'ng the tatter is
a resident of the state.
Prospecting for Oil.
Falls City—The project of boring for
oil in this territory has been dis
cussed for a long time, but no actual
steps have been taken to investigate
the matter. Men experienced in the
cil fields say that from all indications
the same strata of oil bearing rock
w-hich goes down into Kansas passes
under Richardson county. A proposi
tion is now on foot to organize a com
pany, to s’nk a well to whatever depth
it is necessary to determine the.ques
tion of whether oil and gas underlay
this territory.
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NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUGHED UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
.Due Consideration.
The new Catholic church at Sutton
was dedicated last week.
Corn husking is now in progress in
some portions of the state.
Barbers of Nebraska pity have de
cided to advance their prices.
Robbers operated at Plattsmouth,
securing $15 from one store they en
tered.
The first lecture in the course at
Pawnee City will be given by Senator
l>aFollette of Wisconsin. '
Free mail delivery is expected to be
established in North Plante as soon as
the houses are numbered.
After being closed for several months
for repairs, ihe Mode! Milling com
pany at Tecumseh is again at work.
Henry -Meyers, despondent and*said
to lie mentally unbalanced, committed
suicide at Lincoln, taking carbolic
acid.
Ait r the summer vacation all the
chun hes have resumed aggressive
work and tire busily engaged in for
ward movements.
At Lis annual auction sale. A. E. {
Sum. residing near Avoca, Cass coun
ty. sold forty-seven T)uroe Jersey pigs j
in one hour and thirty minutes for
$1,107.
A burglary was committed at
Clarks. robbers entering the office of
Hie Foster Lumber company and
rifling the safe, securing $12 in cur
rency. The robbers left no clue.
Smallpox has invaded the rural dis
trict southwest \of Fort Calhoun, be
ginning at the home of William Sierk.
Mr. and Mrs. Sierk both are Victims
of tiiis disease, Mi. Sierk being seri
ously ill.
Two unidentified robbeis entered
the farm house of John Kost, near
Norfolk, and leveled a revolver at
Mary Kost, aged 10. Site fainted
and they ransacked the house, getting
$21. and escaped.
At Tekainah, after being ottt most
of the night, the jury in the Butts
trial returned a verdict of guilty of
shooting with intent to wound, for
which the penalty is from one to twen
ty years in the penitentiary.
Governor Sheldon has appointed
United States Senators K. .1. Burkett
and Noiris Brown and all the con
gressmen in the slate delegates to the
combination and trust conference to '
be held in Chicago Oct. 22 to 25.
The new city airectory now being
published in North Platte will con
tain 2.100 names. Multiplying this by
2Mi. the usual ration in computing the
population from names obtained in
compiling a diiectory. tlie population
is found to be 5.250.
The fruit crop, and particularly the
apple crop, in Lincoln county was not
by an means destroyed by the early
treeezes. J. Q. Wilcox went to Suth
erland and mirchased the entire prod
uct of the Hunter oichard, amounting
in ail to 1,200 bushels. t
J. H. Pen tier *oi the Union State
bank, Beatrice, has returned from At
lantic City. X. .!.. where he attended
the meeting of the American Bankers’
association as a delegate from the Ne
braska Bankers’ association. He re
ports that the Nebraska delegation
Yvas one of the largest in attendance
and that the delegates front the west
were conspicuous in all of the deliber
ations of the convention.
A shipper who sent a carload of
stock beyond Alliance reports that he
was charged by the Burlington tiO
cents a bushel for corn for feeding at
Aurora, and that v.hn Alliance was
reached $1.80 a hundred was charged.
As this is almost more than 40 cents
a bushel mote at Alliance’ than at
Aurora, and as the Aurora charge was ;
held by him to be a rather stiff price,
he has made a roar.
Will the pi ice of land adapted to
ihe raising of corn advance to $160 to
$200 an acre within the next ten.
years? That is the prediction of John
]’. Thiesea, representative from the
Kairbury district, and one of the most
conservative farmers in Nebraska.
Mr. Thiesen does not marvel at the
price people aie paying for corn land
today, and he looks upon $100 an acre
as nothing out'of the way.
A sad sight took place in David City
when the family of John Weber was
separated. Mr. Weber was unable to
support his wife and three children.
The mother, not toeing able either,
was taken to the county farm, and the
three children were taken in charge
by Miss Louise Rankin, representing
the Home of Homeless Children. Miss
Rankin took the two boys and little
girl to Omaha; where she ■ will en
deavor to find homes for them.
An immense amount of apples have
been shipped from Tekamah this fall.
Buyers from Sioux City and Kansas
feity have canvassed the county and
purchased the apples for so much a
bushel on the trees. ^
The new ft eight depot of the North
western at Fremont is about finished
and will be ready for use by Nov. 1.
The Commercial club will celebrate
Its opening by a banquet in the large
central room on the first floor. The
building is conceded to be the largest
and best of its kind tyitside of Omaha
only in the entire state.
William Van Debergh, who is one of
the pioneers of Talmage. caused con
siderable excitement in the village, as
he threatened to shoot two of his rela
tives. He ha? been sent twice to Lin
coln to cure him of the drinking habit,
but the cure 1 as beep a failure.
Food Commissioner Johnson has
written a letter to the county attorney
of Douglas county ordering him to be
ein prosecuting the packing houses.
baaed on a
the managers
^ AN EVIL THAT IS ALWAYS WITH US.
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Uncle Sam—“Just as I'm getting in a pleasant and sane state of mind that
darn fellow bobs up and gets me loco.”
SAYS MINES WERE SALTED
SENSATIONAL FRAUD DISCOV
ERED NEAR LENDER, WYO.
Investors Not to Lose—Prime Movers
in Organization Will Redeem
All Stock.
Helena, Mont.—The Record pub
lishes a story to the effect that
numerous Montana and Washington
investors have been mulcted to the
extent of more than a third of a mil
lion dollars through the discovery that
certain placer mines near Lender,
Wyo., had been salted and that the
property in question is worthless.
Thomas L. Greenougb, of Missoula,
and .1. !•’. Grecnough. of Spokane, who
were the prime movers in the organi
zation, have notified all investors that
they win redeem ail stock at the price,
paid, thus assuming the loss.
The discover} that the property was
salted was due to an independent ex
amination conducted by Speaker E.
W. King, of (In- Montana legislature,
and J. R. Neill, of Spokane, heavy
prospective investors, who foynd.
after removing a few inches of the
shaft walls, that the ground was value
less, as were the tailings, although all
previous experiments showed values
ranging from 20 cents to nine dollars, j
a yard.
A Chicago firm was so impressed
with the future ot the property that it
offered the Greenoughs f'j.500.000 for
their "interest, but Lhe offer was re
jected.
Water not being available, work had
been started from either end on a
tiinnel through a mountain so the
flow of the Pophoagie river might be
utilized. The discovery has created
the biggest sensation in the history
of northwest mining.
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS CITED.
Yeung of Minnesota May Ec Punished
for Contempt of Court.
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St. Paul, Minn.—Edward T. Young,
attorney general of Minnesota, was
served with an order Friday issued
by Federal Judge Lochren to show
cause why lie should not be punished
for conx.e.mjtC of court. The allege.!
contempt consisted of mandamus pro
ceedings brought in the district court
of Ramsey county to compel the rail
roads to comply with the commodity
rate law passed by the last legislature,
the enforcement of which has been
temporarily enjoined by the federal
court.
Trie* to Jump Into Ocean.
New York.—Herbert Fletcher De
Bon of Chicago attempted to end his
life by jumping into the sea in mid
ocean, according to a report made by
the officers of the steamer Moltke. I
which arrived here Thursday from
Genoa and Naples. The Moltke was
three days out when De Bon made
the attempt to hurl himself into the
sea. He was caught before he had
succeeded in carrying out his appar- I
ent intention and from that time until
the steamer arrived here he was kept
under constant observation.
Santa Fe Road Guilty.
Los Angeles, Cal.—After brief de
liberation the jury in the ca3e of the
SaDta Fe Railway company, charged
with rebating shipments, Friday ren
dered a verdict of guilty on all counts
enumerated in the indictments found
by the grand jury.
The maximum fine for the offenses
charged is $1,100,000 and the mini
mum is $66,000.
Sensational Shooting in Alabama.
Huntsville, Ala.—A sensational :
shooting occurred Friday near New
Market, the victim being John Fan
ning. a. prominent citizen, who was
fatally wounded by Dr. A. C. Allen.
Dr. Allen surrendered to the sheriff.
Rochefort Goes to La Patrie. , j
Paris.—Henri Rochefort, the well
known French journalist, Friday, at
the age of 77. severed his connection
with the Interanssigeant, which he
founded in 1880, and assumed the
■Klitorship of the Patrie.
Prince Murdered by Peasants.
Tiflis.—The body of Prince Tzere
teli, a cousin of Prince I. G. Tzereteli,
member of the late douma from Ku
tais. was found hacked to pieces in
the suburb of Gori Thursday. The
police have evidence that the crime
was committed by peasants.
Russian Prisoners Escape.
Kutais, Russia.—Thirty-six political,
prisoners broke' out of the local
prison here Thursday and- got away, i
They had been incarcerated in secret j
TMMrwPInlir 'Irr if ii i •' ’Mtrrrfn
TO ATTEND TRUST CONFERENCE.
Delegates for Illinois Are Appointed
by Gov. Deneen.
Springfield, 111. — The follow
ing delegates were appointed Fri
day by Gov. Deneen to represent the
state of Illinois at the National Trust
conference to lit held in Chicago Oc-1
tober 23: John Mitchell, president
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ican; Wiiliam D. Ryan, ''secretary
treasurer of the Illinois District
United Mine Workers of America;
Charles Ridgiey, Springfield:' 'Prof.
.James W. Garner, University of Illi
nois: Charles Whitney, Waukegan;
Benson Wood, Effingham: Dr. Ed
mund .1. James, president University
of Illinois; John V. Farwell. Jr.; John
G. Shedd. A. C. Bartlett, B, A. Eck-_
uart, Alfred I,. Baker, George W.
Perkins, president Cigar makers
union; Harry Pratt Judson. president
University of Chicago; E. R. Wright,
^resident Illinois'’’ Federation cf La
bor; Marvin Hugiiitt, president Chi
cago & Northwestern railway; A. J.
Parting, president Chicago, Milwau
kee & Sr. Paul railway; Franklin Mac
Veagh. John S. Miller, W. J. Calhoun,
Abram W. Harris, president North
western unniversity; Charles G.
Dawes, former comptroller of the cur
rency.
LUSITANIA SETS NEW RECORDS.
Crosses in Four Days. 20 Hours. Aver
aging Nearly 24 Knots.
Xew York.—The Ctmarder Lusita
nia, with practically ail the transatlan
tic records to her credit, arrived
■abeam the Sandy Hook lightship at
1:25 a. m. Friday. i
Th ■ time for the trip from Haunt's
Rock to the Sandy Hook light, the offi
cial course over which the speed t rials
were made, was four days. 20 hours.
The last day's run was apparently the
fastest of the trip, the giant liner hit
ting tip her speed to 25 knots an hour
over a smooth sea with little wind to
interfere v ith her.
The Lusitania'S time averages al
most exactly 24 knots an hour for the
entire trip. Her arrival at 1:20, or
five mi (finer earlier than she passed
the lightship, would have made her
speed exactly 24 knots.
Actress Shoots Herself.
Gallipolis, O.—Miss Texas Guinan,
leading lady with the “Simple Simon"
Theatrical company, accidentally shot
herself in the side during the perform
ance in a local theater Thursday night.
How the revolver came to be loaded
is a mystery. Miss Guinan finished
the song she was singing before being
carried front the stage. She will
probably recover if blood poisoning
does not set in.
Missing Man Found Dead.
Cincinnati.—H. B. Howard. a
wealthy coal dealer of Hartwell, a
suburb, who had been missing for
more than 24 hours, was found Friday
afternoon in a railroad coal shed, ap
parently murdered. The body had
been covered with sacks and pieces of
coal and the head was battered in.
This is the second murder in the Mill
creek valley this week.
First Test Ride Taken.
Washington.—The first test ride by
army officers, which was ordered by
President Roosevelt to determine the
horsemanship of those of higher rank
than captain, started from Fort M.ver
at two p. m. Tuesday, and two and a
half hours later the party, 29 in num
ber. was back at the fort, having tra
versed something ovep 15 miles of
good and bad Virginia roads.
Balloonist Has Fatal ^all.
Mattoon, 111.—Bonansinga, & balloon*
ist of Quincy, III, was probably fatal
ly hurt here Friday by falling 400 feet
from a bursted balloon.. The para
chute failed to open in the short dis
tance to earth.
Lake Steamer la Sunk.
Detroit. Mich.—The steamers Lake
Shore and Fred Pabst collided early
Friday in St. Clair river and the Lake
Shore was badly stove in about the
l>ows, while the Pabst sank close to
shore.
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Rockefeller at Niece’s Funeral.
Cleveland, O.—It is stated that John
D. Rockefeller paid another unexpect
ed visit to Cleveland Tuesday to at
tend the funeral of his, niece, Miss
Laura R. Rudd. Mr., Rockefeller is
said to have returned east immediate
ly after the funeral services.
Pay Roll Padder Let Off Easy.
Springfield, O.—George F. Niuffer.
former member of the board of pub
lic service, was sentenced Wednesday
to one year in the penitentiary for
padding pay rolls.
MIICHELLTO QUIT JOB
MINERS’ PRESIDENT WILL NOT
RUN FOR REELECTION.
HIS HEALTH IS TOO POOR
Announcement 1s Made in United
Mine Workers’ Journal—Has
Been Head of Organiza
tion Since 1898.
Indianapolis. Ind—John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, announced in the current issue of
the United Aline Workers' Journal
that he will not be a candidate, for re
election as president. He says in his
announcement that he does not re
gard himself as well enough to attend
properly to the office. None of the ex
ecutive officers of the organization
was in the city Thursday, but it is
said at headquarters that Mr. Mitchell
will finish his present term as presi
dent. which expires April 1 of next
year.
Mr. Mitchell underwent a surgical
operation about six months ago and
it is said that he has not fully recov
ered and lhai it is possible it will be
necessary to perform another opera
tion. lie went to Chicago Tuesday
and expected to*,go from there to La
Salle, ill.. T^hursdaj, to consult with"
a surgeon ’in regard to the advisabil
ity of another operation.
His* Formal Announcement.
Air. Mitchell's announcement is as
follows:
"To the Officers and Members of the
U. AI. W. of A.—Greeting: Inasmuch
as notices calling for nominations are
being sent out from the office of the
secretary and. in order that ail local
Johr. Mitehell.
unions and members thereof may be
in position to express their choice for
the office of president, I herewith an
nounce that 1 sh;di not be a candidate
for .the presidency of your organiza
tion.
“1 am prompted to arrive at this
decision because I believe that i am
no longer well enough to give your in
terests 'the consideration their import
ance demands.
“I shall explain in greater detail in
my annual report to oiy coming con
vention the causes which impel me to
give up the high office to which you
have elected me for so many years.
“I thank you for the confidence you
have reposed in me and I beg you to
believe that the advancement of my
craft has been my highest ambition.
“JOHN MITCHELL,
“President U. M. W. of A.”
Nominations Due November 5.
The nominations to which Mr.
Mitchell refers are to reach the in
ternational headquarters in this city
not later than November 5 from the
various locals of the organization.
The referendum vote on the elec
tion must reach headquarters not
later than 20 days prior to the con
vention, which will be held in this
£ity in January of next year. Mr.
Mitchell’s term, however, does not ex
pire until April 1.
Mr. Mitchell has been president ol
the United Mine Workers of Amcnca
since 1898.
Two Michigan Banks Close.
Kalamazoo, Mich.—The Union bank
of Richland and the Bowman bank of
this city, both private ^institutions,
have closed their doors with liabil
ities which are stated to total $195,
000. of whieffi those of the Union bank
amount to $120,000.
Reynolds’ Alaska Bank Fails.
Sesittle, Wash.—The H. D. Reynolds
bank at Valdez. Alaska, closed its
doors Wednesday. Boston and New
England capital, furnished largely by
school' teachers, formed the basis of
Reynolds' first exploitation in Alaskq.
President Kiils a Fine Buck.
Stamboul, La.—A courier who ar
rived from the president’s camp on
the Tensas late Thursday evening re
ported that the president had killed
a fine buck, but otherwise the hunt,
Thursday was* barren of results.
Mulai Hafid Arrests Notables.
Mazagan, Morocco.—Mulai Hafid,
who was proclaimed sultan of Moroc
co City some time ago, has caused the
arrest, here of six notable men belong
ing to the Azamqur tribe, one cf
whom is a protege of the German
consular officials.
Herr Bebel Coming to America.
Berlin—Herr Bebei, the socialist
leader in the reichstag, intends to
visit the United States next year and
deliver a series of speeches on social
ism.
CASSIE CHADWICK IS QEAtT
WOMAN BANK WRECKER EXPIRED
IN OHIO PENITENTIARY.
Comatose When the End1 Comes—
Her Son Arrives Too Eate—
She Left No Statement.
Columbus, O.—Mrs. Cassie Chad
wick, whose amazing financial trans
actions culminated in the wrecking
of an Oberlin bank, died in the wom
en's ward at the Ohio penitentiary
Thursday night at 10:15.
Mrs. Chadwick had been ia *■
comatose condition for some hours
previous to her death and the end
came peacefully. No friends or rela.
tives waited at her bedside. Her son,
Emil Hoover, had been summoned
from Cleveland, but he arrived 15 min
utes after she expired.
Mrs. Chadwick's body was removed
to a local undertaking establishment
and prepared for burial. It will he
taken to Cleveland Friday by Emil
Hoover, but no plans for the funeral
Mr3. Cassie Chadwick.
iii that city have yet been announced.
Mrs. Chadwick embraced the Catholic
faith and was baptized a few days be
fore her death. Thursday morning
she received the last anointment.
The decline in Mrs. Chadwick’s
health began almost from the time
she entered the penitentiary on Janu
ary 12. 190tk sentenced to ten years'
imprisonment She fretted incessant
.y over her confinement and worried
about her troubles until it became al
most impossible for her to sleep. At
times she was so ;teev*.sh the patience
of the prison officials was sotely tried.
She was a robust and healthy looking
woman when she came to the prison,
but. she gradually wasted away and
had lost fully .50 pounds at the time
of her death. The physicians declared
she was the victim of a tota nervous
collapse, described in medical science
as neurasthenia.
LOANS NEWS TO HIM.
P. S. Trainor Never Heard of $20,000,
000 Charged to Him.
New York.—Loans of over $20,000,
000. which the books of the Southern
Pipe Line company show were made
to P. S. Trainor between 1399 and
1905. became more puzzling of solu
tion to Prank B. Kellogg, conducting
the federal suit against the Standard
Oil company, Thursday, when Mr.
Trainor, taking the witness stand in
the oil suit, testified that the money
bad never been paid to him and that
he had never heard of the account.
The Southern's books show that
unsigned vouchers were received for
these leans, and that the money was
never handed back to the company.
Mr. Trainor said that he was formerly
crude oil purchasing agent for the
Standard Oil Company of New York,
and. as such, purchased all the oil
and sold it to the refineries. He said
he acted in a similar capacity now for
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey.
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Pastor and “Affinity” Held.
New York.—Rev. Maxwell J. H. Wa
lenta. pastor of the German missioi
church of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Louis .1
Bauer, a parishioner and the wife- ^
an elect rotyper, were arrested Fr|m|
and in court held for an inquiry ft
their mental condition. The action ft,
instituted by Mr. Bauer and the ^B
ister's father. The complainants B*
sorted that Mrs. Bauer had ieft B^
husband and child and sought r*'^B
at the clergyman’s house. The Ife
were charged*A'Uh offending pftf
decency.
Students in Food Tests.
Minneapolis, Minn.—The restt^B
an experimental diet of cracl^B
milk and butter, on which five ft;
versity of Minnesota students lift
for four days, was announced WedtJB
All the men lost in weight, the 1<9
ranging from one-quartor of a pottB
to three pounds and a half. The me*
during the test, ate three meals a dal
each meal consisting of 100 grams 1
crackers, 780 grams of milk and 131
grams of butter.
Frame Up $10,000,000 Combine. ' *
N'ew York.—Announcement is matiB'
that an important deal, involving thRjjJ
combination or merger of some largH i
southern packing and canning intefl *
ests. has just been completed througBl .
George A. Young and associates. Thfl
deal involves the acquisition by th^ft?
Mcllhenny company of the tubascoS '
sauce business of E. Mcrihonny's SonsB
and the canning and packing business* |
of the Mellhenny Canning & Mann- B
fact uring company. The capitalization B|‘
i ;ew company will be $10,090,- ft
i declared.
er Flees from Asylum. c?
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