NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
BJ. SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious. Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical ar.d Other Matters Given
Diie Consideration.
The Union Pacific is building two
large ice houses at. North Piatte.
bather Sigmon, found dead In a
corn field near South Omaha, formerly
resided in C; js county.
A burglar entered the plant of the
Fremont Seed and Irrigation company
by kicking in the door cf the engine
room, and secured $70 in money.
f new town has been laid out in
JcfTe-sin county. It is known ns Shea
and is located between Eadicott and •
Dlller ou the Burlington railway.
Miss Myrtle Fletcher, aged 15, of
Tekamah. eloped with Walter Mason,
Mason has been In the employ of the
Tekamah Ditch company for the lest
jf~tr.
The project for securing the perma
nent location of the Lutheran semi
nary at. Lincoln is still hopefully con
eld ored,
Auditor Searle has been enjoined by
the district court of Garfield county
from registering school bonds to the
amount of ?roi for school district No.
27 of that county.
At Kimball a petition is being circu
lated praying the village board of
trustees to call an election for the pur
pose of voting water works bond3 to
the amount cf $17,000.
The Catholics cf Crab Orchard and
neighborhood have decided to build a
nbnrcb in that city. Two lot3 have
been purchased, the church peo;:’?
paying $'100 fur them.
Her.ry Mi:chow and George Brandt,
the tiro Hastings saloonkeepers who
were arrested on the charge of selling
liquor on Sunday, were given a hear
hug and fined each $50 and costs.
Some of the f '.raters near Stella are
getting from fifty to 100 bushels of
gcaitan apples from their orchards.
Earlier in the season it was thought
the apple crop would be an entire fail
ure.
Business men of Hastings who are
booming the new $150,000 hotel move
ment haven't taken kindly to et-Sen
ator Dietrich’s proposition to remoaei
the Boostwick and sell it to the new
company.
At a large meeting held in Mullen
more than ?S00 wa3 raised with which
to construct a telephone line from
Mullen north to connect with the J. L.
Uosebsrry line, which has a northern
outlet at Valentine.
The leaders of the United Brethren
’•hurch of Nebraska and Kansas are
considering the advisability of purchas
ing Hepnerien’s hospital at Beatrice,
to b$ supported by the conferences
adjacent to that territory.
Rev. W. A. Mathews, pastor of the.
Bark Place Baptist church at Aurora,
HL, after accepting a call to Fremont
to become the pastor of the church
there, has decided not to come. He has
accepted a call to a Chicago church.
7 Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews of the
slat? university flatly refused to dis
cuss the resignation matter. He as
serted that he had not thought of such
a thing. He had no intention of re
signing. “As for my health,” he de
clared. “it was never better.”
t Superintendent McBrien has now rec
ognized sixty-three high schools in
which normal training will be taught
in conformity with the law enacted by
tho late legislature, appropriating $50,
<100 for this punrpose. In addition to
tjie schools already named and pub
lished, he has named the schools or
(Jtd and Randolph.
A lot of laprobes, whips and over
coats. stolen from a school house
nine miles southwest of Beatrice, were
found in a draw near Wandersee’s farm
fty Sheriff Trade, with the assistance
of the Beatrice bloodhounds. A farm
hand working in that vicinity admitted
that he and a man named Cool, living
near the Kansas state -no, tool: the
property.
Tne 4-ycar-old son of Fred Mll’er, a
farmer of Richardson county, suffered
•death in a peculiar manner. He had
accompanied his father into the corn
field and ran on the opposite side of
the wagon to pic- up an ear of corn
which fell to the ground. As he did
this the team started and the little
fellow wa3 crushed by the wheels, dy
ing instantly.
At a meeting of Lyon Post No. 11,
Grand Army of the Republic, Grand
Island, consisting of resident mem
bers of the Grand Army and not con
nocted with the Soldiers’ Home, res
olutions were adopted by unanimous
vote endorsing and asking the Board
of Public Lands and Buildings to res
cind the rule recently adopted regard
ing the pensions of the Inmates of the
. Soldiers' Home.
- couple of hunters who could find
— nothing else to shoot at killed several
-fine pullets belonging to Ed Essam of
Gags county. The latter gave chase
and compelled the nimrods to pay for
the fowls or get arrested, and they
oaid.
After changing his plea four differ
ent times from “guilty" to “not guil
ty” in his trial before Judge Cornish
at. Lincoln for stealing a set of har
ness, Charles Burns finally declared,
“Well, I' guilty ah right,” and receiv
ed a sentence t* one year at hard la
bor in the penitentiary.
Counterfeiters in Geneva worked the
merchants for $50 or more. The one
tgjho possessed a counterfeit $20 at
Reeve & Co.’s store is described as six
feet tall, dark complexion, smooth face,
about thirty-four or thirty-five years
of age.
Hon. A. C. Shallenberger, of Alma,
•n«i Thomas Andrews & Sons of~Cam
bridge, who sold Shorthorn cattle last
week, broke all previous records for
home-bred cattle, selling thirty-nine
bead tor $7,435, an average of $190.64
per head. The top of the sale was
$606.
(SAMPLE BALLOTS SENT OUT.
Secretary of State Furnishes County
Clerks with Form.
Lincoln—Secretary of State Jankin
mailed sample ballots to the county
clerks. These sample ballots are to
be used by the clerks as guides In
printing the election tickets. The'sec
retary placed the names of the can
didates for regents, for the reason, he
said, the railway commission became
a part of the shite constitution after
all the other state officers and there
fore shoald Je last cn the ballot The
republican state convention placed the
railway commissioners in nomination
even before the governor and imme
diately following the nomination of a
candidate for the United States sen
ate. At the top of the sample ballot
the prohibition comes last, following
the socialist, even though the prohi
bitionists cast 5,106 votes and the so
cialists only 2,999 at the last election.
The law requires the secretary of state
tc place the candidates on the ticket
according to the number of votes cast
by the party. That is the party cast
ing the highest number of votes comes
first on the ballot, and so on down the
line. In the body of the ballot, how
j ever, the prohibition party is placed
I ahead of the socialists. The secretary
followed the law hi mailing up the
candidates on the ticket and followed
the ballot used last year in preparing,
for the straight party vote at the head
of the ballot J. L. Clafltn, a leading
prohibitionist, btad his attention called
to the matter and said no objection
would be made by the prohibition
party to being last on the head of the
ticket.
BRIEF IN RAILROAD CASE.
Attorney General Thompson Files'
Same in Federal Court.
\
• Attorney General Thompson has
filed his brief iu the federal court of
appeals in the case wherein the rail
roads appeal from the decision of
j ^.rdge Monger, refusing to enjoin the
state railway commission from fixing
rates on grain and other commodities.
The brief fellows closely along the
lines of the argument in the case be
fore Judge Munger, and the decision
of the court in the case. It is main
tained that the law and court de
cisions thereon c’early give the com
mission the right to fix rates, and that
the firing of rates, being a legislative
ac t, is beyond the province of a court
of equity to enjoin. The inquiring
into the reasonableness of any rate,
it is contended, is a judicial act and
could be enjoined; but decisions of
federal courts, including those of the
supreme court, holding the fixing of
rates to be a legislative act, are cited.
That the court may enjoin, cn a
proper showing, the putting into effect
of the rate after it is fixed, is ad
mitted. hut not the act of fixing the
rote. It is therefore urged there is no
reason for the granting of a tem
porary restraining order pending the
appeal or the giving of a bond.
Palmer Loses Postmaster.
Central City—Congressman Foyd
has notified R. Tooley, republican con
gressional committeeman for this
ccunty, that he has received the res
ignation of Eenj. Colborn fiom the
office of postmaster at Palmer to take
effect the first day of next January.
Mr. Colborn gives the press of other
duties as his reason for giving up the
office. The office pays about $1,000
per year.
Corn in Good Condition.
Falrbury—The recent frosts have
put the corn fields in shape for fall
harvest and farmers are beginning to
get busy with this branch of their
work. So far there have not been
many reports filed on average fields
since the harvest started, but former
predictions place the average for the
entire county at twenty bushels to
the acre on a low estimate.
Children Burned to Death.
Tecumseh—A telegram was re
ceived here from James H. Cochrane
who has been engag^l In bridge work
near Mitchell, South Dakota, to the
effect that his two children, a girl
aged three and one-half years and a
boy aged eighteen months, burned to
death. Eeding in a tent caught fire
while the mother had gone for a pail
of water.
Killed by Collapsing Cave.
Elwood—James Brown, a young man
about 25 years old, lost his life by hav.
ing a cave fall in on him. He was at
work for H. R. Phillips, two miles east
of town, cementing a cave. Having
finished it he went in to take out the
props, when the whole top fell in on
him, crushing him to death almost In
stantly. .
Dietrich Buys Hotel.
Hastings—J. D. Mines has sold the
proprietorship of the Bostwick hotel
to former Senator Dietrich, owner of
the building. He will retire about De
cember 1.
Insane Woman Hangs Herself.
Amherst—Mrs. William Wagner,
wife of the barber here, committed
suicide by hanging herself to a tree
near the site of old Stanley postof
flce, which is about two miles from
Amherst She had been mentally un
balanced for some time.
Appoints New Assistant.
Lincoln—State Superintendent Mc
Brien appointed W. D. Redmond as
his assistant, to succeed L. P. Harnly,
who died last week. Mr. Redmond is
registrar at the Peru Normal school.
Check for General Barry.
Lincoln—General P. H. Barry will
shortly be in possession of $2,500,
paid him by the government for his
services during the Spanish war,
while adju'ant general of the Ne
braska National guard.
Farmer Burned Out.
Plattsmoutb—JoIji Porter, living
south of here, started a fire and from
a defective flue the surrounding por
tions of the building caught fire and
the house was consumed. Some of the
> contents was saved.
GOING INTO THE TRU8T SUBJECT.
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A SECOND DREYFUS AFFAIR
FRENCH NAVY AND ARMY OFFI
CERS ARRESTED AS TRAITORS.
One Confesses—Possessed Many Na
val Secrets and Tried to Black
mail Minister of Marine.
Paris. — The arrest of Ensign
Charles B. Ullmo, of the French
navy, at Toulon Thursday, on the
charge of being a spy and his confes
sion to having abstracted a secret
naval signal book and the naval
cipher code, was followed Friday by
the arrest at Vendoiue of an officer
named Berton, who is charged with
negotiations with an agent of a for
eign power for the sale of military
secrets.
The arrests are creating a great
stir, and as Ullmo is a Hebrew, the
papers term his case a second Drey
fus affair.
It appears that Ullmo offered cer
tain documents to the minister of ma
rine for $30,000, saying that unless his
offer was accepted he would sell them
to a foreign power. A dummy corre
spondence was begun, ending with
Ullmo’s capture.
A search of his lodgings revealed
that he not only possessed the secret
code signals, but was in possession of
complete plans for the mobilization of
the French navy, the location of har
bor mines in the event of war, photo
graphs of the mechanism of France’s
famous 75-millimetre field gun, etc.
The cases of Ullmo and Berton
added importance to the debate
which opened in the chamber of dep
uties Friday afternoon cn the interpel
lations regarding the state of the na
tional defonsos, in connection with the
charges made in the book entitled
“Are We Defended?” recently pub
lished by Charles Humbert, an ex
army captain and staff officer of for
mer War Minister Andre, and the
magazine article on the same subject
of which Gen. Langiois is the author.
Mm. Gauthier and Lasies, authors of
interpellations, spoke at length on the
disorganization said to exist in the
army, citing statements made by M.
Humbert and Gen. Langiois and con
tending that this deplorable condition
of affairs was the result of the anti
military propaganda and the political
favoritism introduced since the days
of Gen. Andre.
COOKE AND M’REYNOLDS LOSE.
Illinois Supreme Court Confirms Con
viction of Two Chicagoans.
Springfield, 111.—The decision of the
appellate court affirming the decision
of the criminal court of Cook
county, which found John A.
Cooke guilty of embezzlement while
acting as circuit clerk of Cook county,
and sentenced him to imprisonment
in the penitentiary, was affirmed by
the supreme court Thursday.
The supreme court also affirmed the
judgment of the criminal court of Cook
county, which found. George S. Mc
Reynolds guilty of embezzlement and
sentenced him to the penitentiary.
McReynoids had issued warehouse cer
tificates against grain owned by him
self and his own elevator, and depos
ited the receipts as collateral for
money borrowed from banks on the
grain, and when the receipts were re
turned there was no grain in the ware
house.
College Weather Bureau Planned.
Milwaukee. — A weather bureau,
comparable to that of the United
States government, is to be estab
lished by Marquette college of this
city. The Alumni association has
pledged itself to raise the necessary
funds, and Rev. James McGeary, who
recently came from Manila to take the
chair of physics and astronomy at the
college and who is one of the best
known weather observers in the coun
try, will take charge of the service.
Short Strike In New Orleans.
New Orleans.—Ten thousand cotton
and freight handlers went on a strike
which lasted four and one-half hours
here Friday. They were the men who
returned to work in the morning after
nearly a month-long sympathetic
strike against local steamship inter
ests. Friday’s strike was also sym
pathetic, called because part of the re
turning men refused io sign a three
year contract wiih the Illinois Central
railroad. The trouble was settled by
the railroad’s withdrawing its de
mand.
i Lusitania Makes New Record.
Queenstown.—The Cnnard line
steamer Lusitania arrived here at
9:30 Thursday evening. She has
broken the best previous eastern rec
i ord from New York to Queenstown,
i which was 5 days, 4 hours and 19 min
1 ates. Her time of passage was 4 days,
22 hours and 40 minutes.
Panama Coi;t\6t a' ’Suicide.
Panama F. O. Gross, of Ore
gon, a prominent dentist and for many
years a resident of + the isthmus, com
mitted suicide here'Thursday.
GERMANY WINS BALLOON RACE.
Pommern Captures Bennett Cup,
Traveling 880 Miles.
St. Louis.—Proclaimed as the most
remarkable ballooning contest in the
history of the world’s aeronautics,
with every racing record broken, the
second international cup competition,
which started from here on Monday
last, ended Wednesday, with Germany
accorded the winning laurels.
The finish of the race was the
closest and most exciting the followers
of the sport have ever known, the vic
torious German balloon, the Pommern,
which landed at Asbury Park Wednes
day morning, having but slightly
more than five miles the advantage of
the French contestant, L’Isle de
France, second in the race, which de
scended during the afternoon at Her
bertsville, N. J., a few miles from the
Atlantic coast and slightly northwest
of Point Pleasant.
Another German balloon, the Dussel
dorf, stands third in the race. Ameri- j
can entries are fourth and fifth, a
third German team is sixth, a French
team seventh, American eighth and
English ninth.
The unofficial estimated air-line
flight of the Pommern is 880 miles,
and that of the L’Isle de France is
875.
HELPED WIFE COMMIT SUICIDE.
James Wardell, of New York, Convict
ed of Manslaughter.
New York.—Charged with having
aided his wife Laura to commit sui
cide on June 7 last. James Wardell
Friday was convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree. Warden’s defense
was that his wife had committed sui
cide without his knowledge. The wo
man was found dead with a bullet
wound in her head, but an autopsy
showed that she had died from gas
asphyxiation and that the bullet was
fired into her body after death. War
dell, who is 23 years old, was remand
ed for sentence on Thursday next.
ALFONSO HAS TUBERCULOSIS.
King of Spain Will Consult Specialist
In London.
Madrid.—The alarming reports cir
culated earlier In the month regarding
the health of King Alfonso appear to
be confirmed. It is understood the
king, who will travel under the strict
est incognito as duke of Toledo during
his coming visit to London, will sub
mit to the examination of a specialist
in tuberculosis, from which disease his
father died. The king’s open air life
thus far has kept the hereditary dis
position in abeyance and an operation
was performed on him recently in the
hope of checking the growing symp
toms of consumption.
Liner Breaks Rudder at Sea.
New York.—The North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhem der
Grosse, which sailed from here Tues
day, broke her rudder while just east
of the Grand Banks of New Found
land, approaching midocean Friday.
She proceeded, steering with her
screws. The steamer Is due in Ply
mouth Monday, but may be somewhat
delayed by the accident, which, how
ever, is not considered serious.
Automobile Kills $8,000 Horse.
Pittsburg, Pa.—A horse valued at
$8,000 by its owner, H. Vervack, of
Buffalo, N. Y., sent here for the horse
show, which will open next week, had
to be shot Friday after an automobile
bad struck it, breaking both hind legs.
Kiowa Indian Agent Selected.
Washington. — After a confer
ence with the president Thursday,
Secretary. Garfield announced he
would offer Lieut. Steckler, of the
Philippine scouts, the office of agent
at the Kiowa Indian reservation.
Brunagh Arrested in Detroit.
Detroit, Mich.—Deputy Sheriff Clay
of Indianapolis arrested Friday after
noon at the Hotel Cadillac, Henry P.
Brunagh, said to be wanted In Indian
apolis to answer to a charge in con
nection with a recent paving investi
gation in that city.
Iowa Central Shops Burned.
Marshalltown, la.—Fire Friday night
destroyed the Iowa Central car shops,
! paint shops, machinery, stock, coaches,
i box and flat cars and lumber, entailing
j a loss of $300,000.
Gives Up Stolen Treasures.
Paris.—M. Larfhoy, one of the anti
quaries charged by Antoine Thomas
with having instigated some of the
recent church robberies, Wednesday
handed over to the authorities stolen
treasures for which he claims he paid
Thomas $4,400.
Bulgarians Burn Greek Village.
Athens.—News was received here
Wednesday from Salonlki to the effect
that a Bulgarian band October 21
burned the Greek village of Rakoven,
near Monastir.
MINOR BUS CLOSE
GENERAL FINANCIAL SITUATION
IS ENCOURAGING.
ALL PROBABLY SOLVENT
Savings Concerns Certainly Are Sound
—Stock Exchange Provided with
Ample Funds for the
Present.
New York.—Friday was another
nerve-racking day, but - the financial
institutions of New York showed ex
traordinary power of resistance to the
pressure put upon them. While it is
true that several minor institutions
have been forced to close their doors,
yet two things should be said about
them—first, that the amount involved
was not so great as to exert any
marked influence on the general situa
tion, as these banks were located in
residenxial quarters and did not come
into touch with the larger financial
Institutions of the metropolis, and sec
ond. there is every reason to believe
that these banks and trust companies
are entirely solvent, and their difficul
ties will prove to be only temporary
and due entirely to inability to secure
ready cash on the gilt-edged securities
in their vaults.
The institutions which closed their
doors Friday, with the sums due de
positors, were: The United States Ex
change bank, Harlem, $600,000; Inter
national Trust company, about $100,
000; the Borough Bank of Brooklyn,
$4,000,000; the Brooklyn bank, $2,300,
000; Williamsburg Trust company,
Brooklyn, $7,500,000, and the First Na
tional Bank of Brooklyn, $3,500,000.
In the light of the general excite
ment the savings banks thought it
wise to put into effect the rule requir
ing 30 to 60 days’ notice for the with
drawal of deposits. There was not the
slightest hint that any of the savings
institutions was in anything but the
soundest condition.
The most favorable Incident of the
day was that the stock exchange was
provided with funds ample to meet its
immediate necessities by the money
pool headed by J. Pierpont Morgan,
which sent about $15,000,000 to the ex
change during toe afternoon. The
stock market had held relatively firm
all day, but when the pool money was
offered in the loan corner there was an
immediate upturn of prices and the
market closed strong at the best prices
of the day.
Crisis Believed Over.
New Ycrk. — As a result of Thurs
day’s developments In the finan
cial world there is every indication
that the crisis in the banking and
trust company situation has been safe
ly passed. The Trust Company of
America all through the' day’s bank
ing hours paid out money to depositors
as rapidly 03 possible and closed with
all demands having been met.
A very favorable feature of the sit
uation respecting this company was
that ft was able to make its payments
with very little assistance, and an
other was that tlje company rechived
over its counters in the morning hours
in ordinary deposits mpre than $1,000,
000.
Three Small Banks Suspend.
The day was marked by three note
worthy episodes. First and earliest
in the day came the announcement of
trouble in three minor state banks In
Harlem—the Hamliton bank, the
Twelfth Ward bank and the Empire
City Savings bank. These banks
transacted only a neighborhood busi
ness and their suspension of payment
was absolutely without significance as
bearing on the general situation. The
Empire City Savings bank was con
trolled by a Tammany Hall politician,
and Its business operations were con
fined to a small area.
Although these banks were obliged
to close because of lack of ready cash.
State Bank Examiner Judson declared
that all three were solvent and that
their depositors would lose nothing.
The second episode was a run in
augurated against the Lincoln Trust
company. The run was steady
throughout the day, but the sums
withdrawn were not large. It is an
uptown institution, with a great many
women depositors, and carried mainly
personal household.accounts. At the
close of the day the company’s officials
announced that they were fully able
to meet all obligations.
Colorado Statute Held Void.
SL Paul, i Minn. — The United
States circuit court of appeals Fri
day handed down a decision that the
Colorado statute prohibiting any for
eign corporation from prosecuting or
defending a suit in that state unless
it has paid an annual license of two
cents for each $1,000 t>f capital stock
is unconstitutional if literally Inter
preted as to any corporation engaged
in Interstate Commerce.
Utes Kill Sergeant Baker.
SL Paul, Minn.—A special from
Sturgis, S. D., says that Sergt. Baker,
in charge of the distribution of rations
to the Ute Indians on the Cheyenne
rlrer reservation, has been killed.
Jailed for Publishing Untruth.
Odessa.—M. Inber, political editor
of the Odessa Novasto, has been sen
tenced to four months’ Imprisonment
in a fortress by the court at Eliza
bethgrad on the charge of having pub
lished an untrue statement
Winona Lumber Mill Burns.
Winona, Minn.—Fire which started
In the heart of the manufacturing dis
trict at five o’clock Thursday after
noon destroyed the lumber yards and
mill of the Schroth & Ahrens Milling
company. Loss is $100,000.
President Back at White House.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
reached the White House from his
southern trip Wednesday afternoon.
He expressed himself as thoroughly
pleased with his trip but glad to be
at home again.
Helen Gould at Leavenworth.
Leavenworth, Kan.—Miss Helen M.
Gould was present Wednesday at the
dedicatory services of the new army
Y. M. C. A. building at Fort Leaven
worth, given to the soldierB by Miss
Gould.
INSURANCE MAN CONVICTED
DR. WALTER R. GILLETE IS FOUND
GUILTY OF PERJURY.
Jury Suggests Mercy—First Convic
tion Resulting from Legisla
tive Inquiry.
New York.—The flr3t conviction In
the cases based on the disclosures In
the legislative investigation of Insur
ance affairs In 1905-1906 was obtained
by the district attorney’s office Thurs
day night when a jury in the criminal
branch of the supreme court found Dr.
Walter R. Gillete, former vice presi
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, guilty of perjury In the third
degree.
The verdict was accompanied with
a recommendation for mercy. The
maximum penalty for this degree of
perjury is ten yeafs' Imprisonment
Upon the report of the jury counsel
for Gillete moved for a certificate of
reasonable doubt and an arrest of
judgment. Justice Dowling announced
that he would hear the motion next
Monday and in the meantime remand
ed Dr. Gillete to the tombs. During
the trial the defendant had been at
liberty under $10,000 bond.
The jury was out one hour and 25
minutes.
Dr. Gillete is 67 years of age and
is well known In medicine from the
practice of which he retired some
years ago. He was bom in Philadel
phia. n
The specific charge upon which Dr.
Gillete was found guilty was that he
had testified falsely before the grand
jury on May 24, at which time he was
vice president of the Mutual. The In
dictment alleged that Gillete, under
examination by District Attorney
Jerome, stated that certain moneys
in the Dobbs Ferry bank were his per
sonal funds, and that subsequently
under a cross-examination he admitted
the funds were really the property of
the Mutual Life.
WESTINGHOUSE COMPANIES HIT,
Go Into Receivers’ Hands Because cf
Money Market Stringency.
Pittsburg, Pa.—A flurry in local
financial circles, caused by the embar
rassment of four concerns of the West
inghouse interests, was quickly ended
here Wednesday by the prompt ac
tion of the Pittsburg Clearing House
association and the Pittsburg stock
exchange.
The Westinghouse Electric & Man
ufacturing company, the Westing
house Machine company and the Se
curity Investment company, a holding
company for tho Westinghouse inter
ests, were put in the hands of re
ceivers appointed by Judge'Ewing, of
ihe United States circuit court. The
Pittsburg stock exchange was closed
promptly.
Statements issued by George West
inghouse, prominent bankers, officers
of the stock exchange and the clear
ing house committee show conclusive
ly that the financial situation here is
sound, and there is no danger. The
se-rer stringency of the money market
is alone responsible lor tlia Westing
- house difficulties. The solvency of
the embarrassed companies is not
questioned.
CALABRIAN TOWNS RUINED.
'Tremendous Damage Wrought by
Earthquake in Italy.
Rome.—The details received here
Thursday regarding ihe earthquake
Wednesday in every way tend to
show that the damage done was
much more extensive than at first es
timated but that the loss of life has
not been great. The lowest estimates
place the number of killed at about
20 and the highest at 120.
The pope, when informed Thursday
morning of the destruction, was much
distressed and said with tears In his
eyes: “Are we having a repetition
of the disaster of 1905? God help the
poor souls.”
The pontiff has decided to send a
sum of money for the relief of the
sufferers.
Details of the earthquake show that
the shocks were especially severe in
the southern end of the CalabriaD
peninsula, but throughout Calabria
there are scenes of desolation and de
spair. The first shock was a tre
mendous one and was followed by
two others of longer duration, which
entirely destroyed two villages and
reduced many homes in several others
to a mass of ruins.
Soldiers Honor Miss Gould.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. — Miss
Helen Miller Gould was accorded the
honors of a general officer of the
American army by the officers and
enlisted men of Fort Leavenworth In
the review of troops Thursday. She
appreciated the compliment, the first
of its kind ever paid to a woman at
this post As the soldiers marched by
the reviewing point, the command was
given “Eyes right" They turned
their heads and looked Into the smil
ing face of Miss Gould. She showed
plainly that she felt the high compli
ment.
Busch Cffers Balloon-Race Cup.
St. Louis.—In a letter addressed to
G. H. Walker, Adolphus Busch an
nounced Friday that he will offer a cup
valued at $1,000 as the trophy for a
balloon race to..he held here next
year.
Col. Stephen L. Littler Dies.
Springfield. Ill.—Col. Stephen L.
Littler, a capitalist, died Friday of ty
phoid fever, aged 37 years. During
Gov. Tanner’s administration he wa3 a
member of the governor’s personal
staff.
French Ensign Arrested as Spy.
Toulon.—Ensign Charles B. Ulmo,
of the French navy, was arrested here
Thursday, charged with being a spy.
He confessed to having abstracted a
secret signal book and the naval
cipher.
Dynamite Explosion Kills Four.
Ashland, Wis.—A mixing mill of the
Atlantic Dynamite company, about six
miles from here, blew up on Thursday,
200 pounds of glycerin exploding.
Four men were killed and many In
jured.
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eign Note*.
The financial crisis In New York
was declared to be safely passed. An
association of trust companies anala
gous to a clearing house was formed;
secretary of the treasury directed the
deposit in New York banks of $25.
000,000 of government funds, and
John D. Rockefeller said fee would
lend the banks large sums.
Three minor banks closed In New
York but the general financial situa
tion was vastly improved. A pool
headed by J. P. Morgan lent millions
of dollars in the stoek exchange, there
by preventing a ruinous sacrifice of
securities. The Trust Company of
America successfully withstood an all
day run.
Six minor banking institutions In
New York closed their doors, but all
were believed to be solvent and the
general financial condition was im
proved. The Morgan pool lent $15,
000,000 In the stock exchange and
stocks moved up. The Union Trust
company of Providence, R. I., suspend
ed and there was a run on all the
banks of Pawtucket, R. I.
Charged with having aided his wife
Laura to commit suicide James War
dell was convicted in New York of
manslaughter in the first degree.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser W'ilhelm der Grosse broke her
rudder while just east of the Grand
Banks of New Foundland, but pro
ceeded, steering with her screws.
King Alfonso of Spain ha3 tubercu
losis and will go to London to consult
a specialist.
Sergt. Baker, in charge or trie dis
tribution of rations to the Ute Indians
on the Cheyenne river reservation,
was killed by the Indians.
A horse valued at $8,000 by its ow n
er, H. Vervack, of Buffalo, N. Y., sent
to Pittsburg, Pa., for the horse show,
had to be shot after an automobile had
struck it. breaking both hind legs.
Adolphus Busch announced that he
will offer a cup valued at $1,000 as the
trophy for a balloon race to be held in
St. Louis annually.
Col. Stephen L. Littler, a capitalist,
died in Springfield, Hi., of typhoid
fever, aged 37 years.
The Iowa Central railway shops at
Marshalltown. Ia., were destroyed by
fire, the loss being $300,000.
The arrest of Ensign Charles B. Ull
mo of the French navy at Toulon on
the charge of being a spy. and who
later confessed to having abstracted Jt
secret naval signal book and the nava>
cipher code, was followed by the ar
rest at Vendome of an officer named*
Berton, who is charged with negotia
tions with an agent of a foreign power
for the sale of military secrets. The
arrests are creating a great stir and.
as Ullmo is a Jew, the papers term hiw
case a second Dreyfus affair.
Hanson Penn Dilts, aged 50, novel
ist, poet and Journalist, died at Hop
kinsville, Ky„ of an accidental over
dose of chloral, taken to relieve pain.
James Kelly Cole, the poet-counter
feiter of Chicago, was given three
concurrent 20-month sentences in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan., by Judge Dyer in the United
States district court at St. Louis.
J. C. McAllister, white, aged 72, was
attacked by a mob of about 100 ne
groes in Columbus, O., when he had
been pointed out by Mrs. Henry Pace,
colored, as the man who had attempt
ed to assault her 13-year-old daugh
ter,
Samuel F. Whitlow was held in $10,
000 bail for trial for the murder of
Miss May Sapp at Moran, Kan.
Telegraphers in convention at Mil
waukee elected W. W. Beattie of
Washington president and he named a
committee to go east and negotiate
for a settlement of the strike.
, Thirty-three suits against the South
ern Pacific company have been filed
in the United States circuit court at
San Francisco for violating an act of
congress to prevent cruelty to ani
mals in transit on the cars.
Two men grabbed |9,000 in the sub
treasury at Philadelphia and fled, but
were captured and the money recov
ered.
It was estimated that 600 persons
lost their lives in the Italian earth
quake.
The conference on trusts Opened In
Chicago, Nicholas Murray Butler pre
siding.
James Lloyd Jones, a member of the
hoard of regents of the University of
Wisconsin and a brother of Rev. Jenk
ln Lloyd Jones, of Chicago, died at
hit home at Wyoming, Wls.
In a quarrel over money matters.
Mrs. Phoebe James shot and killed
her husband. George James at Howell,
a suburb of Evansville, Ind.
Feliciana Garza, aged 117, a Mexi
can who fought with Santa Anna and
witnessed the fall of the Alamo, is
dead at Stockdale, Tex.
William A. Forgey, a professional
strike-breaker, committed suicide in
San Francisco.
A colored revenue officer made a
desperate attempt to assassicate Nor- »
man Lockhart, colonial treasurer and
comptroller of customs at St. George.
Grenada, B. W. I.
The Texas Farmers’ Union Cotton
company announced that no further
advances would ba made on cotton,
and tho effort to hold the crop of the
state for 15 cents was balieved to be
a failure.
Secretary of War Taft was intro-'
duced as "the next president of the
C'nited States’’ when he addressed
members of the Manila assembly
gathered at a banquet in hl3 honor.
For five minutes the portly cabinet
officer cquld not make his voice heard
above the deafening cheers which fol-'
Jowed Gov. Gen. Smith's prediction of
White House honors for Mr. Taft