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Loup City Northwestern V OLUME XXV LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY . SEPTEMBER 24, 11KJS NUMBER 40 MUCH IN SMALL SPACE FOR THE HURRYING READER. f ft \ Something cf Congress. Political Gcs sip He-e and There, and News and Nctes of General Character. Political. At the publican league meeting it Cincinnati this week Judge Taft v 11 i aitead. W. j. Bryan, in speaking in Dele- 1 ware. ,• «i that officials of Steel. 1 trust purchased immunity from prose cution t y contributing to republican campaii.g fund. .Mrs. Carrie Nation called upon Judge Taft in Cincinnati, but did not get a y promises, prohibition or other wise. Harvey Lindsay of Lincoln has in charge the matter of arranging the itenerary of Taft through Nebraska. Speaker Cannon opened the repub lican campaign in Kansas in a speech in which he* defended the rules of the house. He says they have been prac tically unchanged for a generation and that the speaker can be removed at any time by resolution. Democrats of New York nominated J.. S. Chai.’er for governor and select ed af full state ticket after an agree ment had been reached between Chair man Conners and Charles F. Murphy. Senator Beveridge will make a speaking ‘our from New York to Port land. Ore . and will reply to speeches made by Mr Bryan at different points. The itinerary of Wiliam H. Talt through Nebraska on his forthcoming western tour has been arranged^ though subject to change. Judge Taft and William J. Bryan wiil meet at the Chicago Association of Commerce banquet in that city Oc tober 7 after ail. according to an an nouncement made by Chairman Dixon «*f the republican speakers' bureau. General At Washington the airship of Or ville Wright fell to the ground seven ty fi tv feet, killing Lieutenant Sei fridge and badiy hurting Mr. Wright. United States court of appeals at Richmond. Va.. ruled that private freight cars must be counted as part of percentage of equipment in dis tributing car to shippers. Samuel Ooiupers on the witness stand said he hurried the publication of his paper wth the boycott list in order to get it out ahead of a court order. Pivsid n: Roosevelt received a ntim ii ; of his friends at Oyster Bay in preparation for his departure for Washington. Complete returns of the Maine elec tion give the republican candidate for governor a plurality of 7.S36. Filipinos are busily engaged disin ferring Manila in order to have the city safe when the fleet arrives in October. The Illinois Central has decided to try electricity for its terminals in Chicago. Five hundred people in Omaha are going to make united search for Mrs. McGuire, wbo recently wandered away. Fort Omaha has been selected as site to make experiments with the con k struction of airships. P .The German diribible baloon col lapsed when on the way to Patsdam to be inspected by the emperor. Harriman and Rocefeller have taken steps to get control of the Wheeling A. I-ake Erie r.diroad. ► * f Republicans of New York renomi l.ared Governor Hughe.-?. Judge Taft’s itinerary for the west era trip has [><-;:» announced. He will speak in Omaha the night of Septem ber 20 and will make a daylight 'rip th-ouai N- -f t the following day. Mee-ing Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanitary Boards in Wash ington recommended a number of im portant changes in laws fo fighting dis eases amt ng animals. Governor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahon a in a signed statement ans wered Hie charges brought against him by Beam Randolph Hearst on Labor day. that he was “interested in the Standard Oil Company,” and was • an enemy to labor. ’ Revelations in connection with the business of she A. Booth Packing com pany show that statements for three years have been falsified by someone intimately connected with the. firm’s business and banks v.-ho hold short time notes will Iosp heavily. Forty dollars a loaf will be the price paid for prize winning bread at Nation al Corn show next December. The public ceremonial procession in London planned by Eucharistic con gress for the day was abandoned at the request of Premier Asquith. The official canvass of the vote r.f Nebraska at the stale primaries shows that Sheldon for governor who had no opposition received 50,282 votes The state supreme court of Nebras ka holds that the anti pass law is good. Far along towards the completion of the circuit of the globe the battleships Maine and Alabama, the vanguard of the American Atlantic fleet, arrived in Naples and were given an enthusias tic welcome. The Douglas County (Neb.) canvass ing board refused to recount the vote on governor at the request of Berge, holding it could not change the general result. Orville Wright broke the aeroplane record by remaining in the air fifty seven minutes Detectives in New York arrested Pasquale Capionari. an Italian banker, who is alleged to have absconded from this city a year and a half ago with about ... belonging to depositors. Mach timber in the vicinity of Fort Meade and Lead, tv D . has been de stroyed by forest fires. Bryan told Maryland voters there j was nothing to f at in the democratic platform. The repub’.:' an ticket in Maine was ! elected by a plurality of about tight' thousand. The republicans also car ried the legNIa':::•>• and elect. „ all four congressmen. Judc-v Taft will make a trip Through ‘ S atx r 2.'.. lasting 'en days. He will probably titake several speeches in Nebraska rdent the middle of October. Sioux City won tit3 Western league ' I er.uaat by taking the final game from Omaha. S to '. Secretary of Agriculture James Wil son. may be called upon to be the j stand-pat candidate for senator in op position to Governor Cummins . _ ; Farmers of Nebraska are organizing • to fight the claim of the I’nion Pacific j , -ty.i feet right-o£-wa. along the main j tine. The final dividend to creditors of the national hank of North America in New York, of 25 per cent, was de- i dared by the comptroller of the cur- • rency. This makes payment in lull to creditors and interest at 6 per cent. The democrats carried Arkansas by i about Sh.OtMi majority. The United States circuit court in Philadelphia handed down a decision holding the commodities clause of the j Hepburn rate law is void. St. Paul. Minn.—Incomplete returns show that James A. Tawney, James McCIeary and Clarence B. Miller are rhe winners for republican congress siona! nominees in the hree disputed districts of the stare. The fire in the Swift plant at St. Toseph was gotten under control be fore damage exceeding $6CmKM> had been done. Admiral Sperry, commander of the Atlantic fieet according to estimates made at the navy department, will have saved $75.oOO in coal consump tion by the Atlantic fleet by the time the fleet reaches the east coast of the United tSates front its voyage around the world. Washington. The executive council of the Ameri can Federation of Labor at a protract ed session unanimously adopted the report of the labor representation com mittee calling on "the workers of our common country to stand faithfully by our friends, oppose and defeat our enemies, whether they be candidates j for president, congress or other offices, whetln r ex entice, legislative or ju dicial." Lawrence 1. Murray, controller ot' the currency, in a statement regarding the closing of the Cosmopolitan Na tional bank of Pittsburg, said: "Judge F. F. Oldham, the chief of the insol vent division, whom I sent to Pitts burg before the dosing of the Cosmo politan National lank, has returned and state- that the conditions of the bank justified i s closing." Before leaving for New V rk Judge Alton B. Parker : ok cognizance of a report that he would be willing to make the race for governor of the state of New York at the approaching election and said in so many words that he was net so inclined. Foreign. The pope received a company of pi' grims from Venice under the leader ship of Cardinal Cavallari. The pope ^poke feelingly of his happy days in ! Venice. “I will always sigh for dear Venice." he said. The American fleet will he in Manil la in October and the long jaunt will soon be of the past. The Socialist created serious dis turbances during the eiieharistie pro | cession which was held in connection with tlie Carholii congress sitting in ' Budapest!). A dispatch received in Vienna from Agram. Crotia. retorts the arrival there of Suleyman Pasha, the Turkish commander in Novipanar, who fled af ter they had threatened to kill hint. The forces under Suleyman Pasha mu tinied a shGrt time ago. and made an attack on the commander, hut he suc ceeded in making his escape and later barricaded himself in his residence Detectives in New York arrested Parquale Caponiari. an Italian banker, who is alleged to have absconded from city a year and a half ago with about flnO.huO b longong to depositors. At the request of Germany and Italy Holland is to invite the powers re presented at the second Hague peace conference to participate in a further •onference at The Hague, probably in likdt. for the elaboration of a draft of a universal treaty. Personal. The memory of Bishop Henry C. Pot ter of the Protestant Episcopal dio oesc of New York, who died in Coop erstown. N. Y., July 21. last, is to be honored by an imi>osing funeral and public services in Grace church on October 20. next. Mr. Bryan says he is much pleased tver results in the Maine election. On the occasion of his seventieth nirthday Jas. J. Hill of the Great Northern was given a banquet by em ployes. Elihu Root refused to allow his name to be used in connection with the gubernatorial nomination for New g ork. John Temple Grave accepted the vice pr ■"idential nomination of the Jidepend : :ce party. Judge Taft will address the National League of Republican clubs at Cin cinnati September 22. DISEASE HAS FIRM FOOTHOLD IN ST. PETERSBURG. DEBUG MEASURES TO FIGHT CriL-sr Ssry Core tior.s Greatly Assist in Spread of Scourge and It May Be Hard to Suppress. St -■ • - Pel the era-.) of the A-iatic cholera, which already has exceeded in severity and numbers the visitation of 1893. The disease is increasing daily to an alarm ing ra'e and unless the authorities show in the future a greater degree of ability to cope with the situation than they have in the past, there is every r< ason to fear that it will get out of hand. The government's threat to apply provisions of martial law has driven the municipality officials to bend all their energies to clearing the city of manic voted $3r*ii.o00 to enlarge the hospital space, to purchase and distribute dis infectants, the supply of which in St. Petersburg is well nigh exhausted, and to expedite the interment of bodies, which has been notoriously slow. The dead houses are overcrowded and many c wpses arc unburied. Under his authority as prefect of St. Petersburg. General Draefceffshy pro hibited the sale of liquor throughout the city, including the government vodka shot s until September 32. and he has further ordered that after that the sale of liquor shall be suspended at 2 {-. m , on Saturday until 1" a. m. on Monday. This action has been tak en in order to diminish alcoholic ex cesses. which very materially increases the liability of cholera infection and the genera! spread of the disease. A beginning was made when public schools were transformed into hospital wards. A number of the grammar schools were closed and 4.000 students sent to their hemes. The department of war has opened stores to supply immediate needs and army field kitch ens have beetj dispatched to the poor er quarters to dispense free food. The situation assumes a graver aspect from the appearance of a very 'virulent type of the disease in two cases in which death followed within fifteen minutes of the first symptoms. As announced by the official bulletin the cases numbered 1140 and 'he deaths 148 during the t went?-four hours be tween Friday noon and Saturday noon. This wa-» cons' ierable decrease from the preceding day. but th- re is doubt of th« aec iracj < f the official sta e ment. The record for the same twen rv-fonr hours. as-~ rained from urn f ficial but reliable sources, shows the actual number to have been far in ex cess of that. PRESIDENT OUT FOR TAFT. Points Out Necessity of Electing the Republican Nominee. Oyster Bav— President Roosevelt in a letter to William B. McKinley, chair man of the republican congressional committee, appeals to disinterested citizens to join with the national re publican c-omraitee and th * congres sional committee, in a movement to elect Wiliiam K. Taft, as president and a republican c- tigress to support him. After reviewing som ' cf the im portant legislation of the last seven years, the president declares that Mr. Taft and the republican candidates for congress seek election on a plat form which specifically pledges the party to continue and develop the policies which have been acted upon for seven years past. All 'he aid that can be given tc per petuate the policy of the government as now carried on. the president says, should be given by every good citizen as it is far more than a partisan mat ter. Orville Wright Improves. Washington—Orville Wright, who was serif usty injured Thursday in the aeroplane acident which caused the Lieul tinues to improve. Start for Manila. Perh, W- st Australia—The Ameri can fleet of battleships passed this coast this morning cn the long run to i Manila. The fleet was proceeding in two columns, the Connecticut and j Louisiana leading. Signs Lease Bill. Atlanta. Ca.—Just at midnight Sat urday night, Governor Hoke Smith i signed nil- convict lease bill, which, ! hereafter prohibits the -leasing of fel 1 ons except by the consent of the gov ernor and prison commission. Senator Borah Coming. Des Moines—It was announced from the republican committee headquar ters today that Senator Borah will speak in Iowa for two days about the middle of the month of October. SMITH COMES TO NEBRASKA. Georgia Governor to Take the Stump for Bryan. Atlanta. Ga.—Governor Hoke Smith has been requested by Chairman At wood of the shakers' committee of th? democratic national committee to make speeches in support cf Bryan and Kern during the month of Octo ber in a number of eastern and west ern states. The governof expects to devote about two weeks to speechmak , ir.g in Missouri. Kansas. Nebraska and i Iowa. Miss Summer—Good-3y. Now That Y ou Have Had Your Recreation, I’ll Take Mine. SHIP CnUSSEO; THREE DIE STEAMER COLON BATTERED BY ■ FIERCE HURRICANE. Panama Craft Plying Between New York and isthmus Arrives in Port. However. Colon.—The steamship Colon, half masted and showing other evidences I of distress, came limping into port Friday. She had been badly battered by the hurricane encountered Sunday. Three members of her crew lost then lives while engaged in the hold in repairing a water tank. The Colon belongs to the Panama Railroad Company. She left New York September 10,and was due to ar rived here Thursday. She encountered the hurricane at a point 40 miles north of Watling island. The wind blew 100 miles an hour, and tremendous seas were soon sweeping over the vessel. The staterooms and the dining saloon were flooded, one of her smoke stacks was carried away, three boats were washed overboard, and the wire less telegraph apparatus was disman tled. Orders were given that no pas sengers be allowed on deck, and the travelers had to spend Sunday and Sunday night in the dining saloon. The water got to the mail bags, and the registered and ordinary mail was badly damaged. SSiuda.. niglit passed with the ship laboring through the storm and the passengers huddled be- j low in a state of panic. Early' Monday it was discovered ’hat salt water was making its way fnfward into the fresh water tanks. I Fearing that the fresh water would give out the second assistant engi- j neer, William Liley. and the ship's carpenter. J. Olson, were sent down into the hold Monday afternoon to change the tank connections. The two men were below- for an hour without giving any signs of re-1 turning. Anxious for their safety. R. j Barthl. a water tender, and A. Sands.] a junior engineer, volunteered to go j below and learn what had happened j when the disaster occurred. PEST GRIPS ST. PETERSBURG. Asiatic Cholera's Ravages in the Cap ital of Russia. St. Petersburg.—Three hundred and five cases and 115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera were reported for the 24 hours ending at noon Thursday. The municipal administrations are under fire from ail sides for their criminal Inefficiency in handling the : epidemic and for their failure to make adequate preparation for hospital, am bulance and sanitary services. Al though they had ample warning of the coming of the disease, no effective steps were taken to stamp out the scourge; even the elementary precau tions of disinfecting and cleaning were neglected. A recurrence of the out break in the spring in even greater proportions is considered inevitable. Six Killed in Explosion. Sedalta. Mo.—Six persons were killed and 2.0 injured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result of an explosion of a car of black powder at Windsor, near here, at 10:15 o'clock Tuesday morning. The explosion was caused by John Wesley, a negro, who threw a lighted match into a pile of powder which had spilled from a broken keg of the ex plosive. For his prank Wesley paid the penalty with his life, his body be ing horribly mutilated. Rain Checks Forest Fires. Duluth. Minn.—A heavy rain fell at Grand Marais extending westward from there 15 or 20 miles. While net extinguished, the forest fires were held in check as a result of the storm, and Grand Marais, Chicago Bay. and other north shore settlements that have thus far escaped the fames, are considered safe. Tries to Cremate Herself. Mobile, Ala.—Mrs. Margaret Brad ford. a widow, suffering from mental derangement, Friday morning saturat ed her bed with oil, set fire to it and lay down. She was horribly burned and physicians pronounce her recov ery impossible. Joliet Woman Killed by Auto. Joliet, 111.—City Treasurer Martin B. Schuster, while automobiling Fri day ran over and killed Mrs. John Lye. The woman became confused and stepped in front of the machine CONGRESSMAN LANING FREE. Ohioan Acquitted of Charge of Mis applying Funds. Fremont. O. — The jury in the leaning ease returned a verdict of not guilty late Thursday afternoon after considering the case less than an hour ail told. Following the return of the verdict there were congratula tions on al! sides between attorneys, jurors, judge, the defendant and oth ers interested. Mr. Laning is interested in many business enterprises in Norwalk, his home. He was a director of the Ohio Trust Company; through which his va rious financial matters were negotiat ed. and president of the Laning Print- ! ing Company, the plant of which was recently burned. This company did much of the state printing. Together, with J. C. Gibbs, man ager of the Ohio Trust Company, the j congressman was indicted on the charge of misapplying funds of the latter company and embezzling stock of the Norwalk Savings Bank Com pany. They also were accused of loan ing funds to fictitious real estate com panies. owned in part by officers ot the bank, it was alleged, and used as j a "blind" to cover persona! loans. HARD BLOW AT FORAKER. Hearst Makes Sensational Statements I About Him and Standard OiT. Columbus. O. — Thomas Hisgen candidate of the Independence party for president, and William R. Hearst addressed a meeting in Memorial hall Thursday night under the j auspices of the local organization of I the party. Mr. Hearst read letters [ which he said had been written by John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company, to Senator J. B. Foraker ot Ohio, referring to legislation pending in congress and mentioning two in closures of checks, one for $15,000 and another for $14.50tt. Cincinnati.—That he had been at attorney for tile Standard Oil Com pany several years ago, terminat ing such service before the federal prosecution of that concern, but such employment had nothing to do with matters pending in congress or in which the federal government was in terested. is the substance of a brief statement made Friday by Senatot Foraker in answer to rharges made by William R. Hearst in Columbus Thursday night. NURSE CARELESS: THREE DEAD Serious Case of Poisoning in San D ego County Hospital. San Diego. Cal.—Three deaths have already resulted from the carelessness of Mary Arthur, a 19-year-old nurse at the county hospital, a fourth death is expected and four other persons are seriously ill. The dead are: J. Young. Charles Kemp and Henry C. Shuette. All were taken sick Thursday after noon. and evidence Of poison was so great that an investigation was start ed. ending finally in a confession by Miss Arthur that she had neglected to throw out some water in which there was a quantity of atropine, and that her patients had got hold of it for their medicine. Miss Arthur is itt a state of collapse, but is kept under surveillance. Tabriz May Be Bombarded. Tabriz, Persia.—A decisive struggle between the sultan and the National ists for the control of Tabriz is immi nent. Ain Ed Dowleh of the shah's forces has sent an ultimatum to Satar Khan to lay down his arms and sur render the city in 48 hours, threaten ing otherwise that be would bombard the capital. Satar Khan flatly refused to comply. Foreigners here are in great danger. The Nationalists, think ing that their presence will interfere with the bombardment, refuse to per mit them to leave the city. Slayer Acquitted as insane. Trinidad. Col.—Charles W, Moore, who killed David Cohen, son of Rabbi Cohen of Detroit. August 11. in this city by blowing his head off with a shotgun, was acquitted Thursday of the charge of murder. His defense was insanity. Death for Negro Murderer. Sphngfield. 111.—Thursday evening the jury in the Joseph James case re turned a verdict of guilty and fixed the penalty at death. James took the verdict unconcernedly. LIEUT. SELFRIDGE KILLED BY FALL OF AEROPLANE. ORVILLE WRIGHT INJURED Breaking of Propeller Blade Causes Tragic Accident at Fort Myer in the Presence of Thousands. — Washington.—After having drawn the attention of the world to his aero , plane flights at Fort Myer and having . established new world's records for heavier-thau-air flying machines, Or ville Wright Thursday met with a tragical mishap while making a two- 1 man flight. The aerop'.anist was ac companied by Lieut. Thomas E. Self ridge of the signal corps of the army. Lieut. Selfridge was fatally injured and died at S:10 o'clock at night. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but is expected to recover. While the machine was encircling he drill 'grounds a propeller blade snapped off and, hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism, •attsed the machine to overturn in the sir and fall to the ground, enveloping he two occupants in the debris. Wright Not Dangerously Hurt. After a hurried surgical examination t was announced that Mr. Wright was lot dangerously injured. He is suf ering from a fracture of his left Orville Wright. thigh and several ribs on the left side are broken. Both men received deep cuts about the head. Mr. Wright re gained consciousness at the hospital and dictated a cablegram to his brother at Le Mans. France, and re quested that the same message be sent to his sister and father at Day ton. O., assuring them that he was all right. Mr. Wright Wednesday replaced the propellers which hp had been using with another -pair, the blades of which are six inches longer. They were used for the first time in Thursday's disas trous flight, and many who have wit nessed Mr. Wright's flights at Fort Myer believe the- change of propellers caused the accident. An examination of the broken blade showed that it had been snapped off at a point one fourth of the distance from the hub. A deep indentation of the broken piece indicated that it had struck some other part of the aeroplane. FMlly 2.000 persons, including many array officers and scientists, were at Fort Myer and witnessed the tragedy. Selfndge an Enthusiast. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge was one of the most enthusiastic believers in aeronautics among the officers in the military service and through his own efforts succeeded in securing a detail with the aeronautical division of the signal corps. He was born in San Francisco 2t> years ago and was ap pointed to the military academy at West Point from that state. He was apjtointed a second lieutenant in the artillery corps in 1903 and commis sioned a first lieutenant four years later. ■% Military Funeral for Selfridge. Lieut. Selfridge s body was removed from the hospital to an undertaker's, where it will remain until the arrival of the young officer's father, who wired from San Francisco that he would like to have his son buried either at Arlington or West Point. Cause of Disaster Explained. Speaking for Mr. Wright. Mr. Taylor later said: "The accident was caused by an ex traordinary vibration of one of the wires running from the main planes to the upper steel fitting of the rudder. This vibration was so great that the wire got in range of the propeller and was struck by the blade, cutting a deep gash in the edge of the propeller biade about four inches from the end. This caused the biade to break. The other blade of the propeller flew around and in turn struck the same wire, breaking it. This made Mr. Wright lose control cf his rudder en tirely. and the loss of both blades of the propeller and the breaking of the wire caused him to lose control of the planes.” International Thief C2ught. Paris.—The police have arrested ar. alleged thief who went under the name of S. Pelisdorf of San Francisco. According to the police Pelisdorf is wanted in every capital in Europe. He made a specialty of stealing bank collectors’ wallets. President of Ecuador Recovers. Quito, Ecuador.—President Alfaro, who has suffered lately from heart trouble, has quite recovered and Thursday he assumed again the duties of chief executive. GOV. HUGHES REHCMINATEO NEW YORK EXECUTIVE NAMED ON FIRST BALLOT. Derrocrats Select Chanler to Contest for Place—Rest of the State Tickets. Saratoga. X. Y.—Charles Evans Hughes was nominated Tuesday by the Republican state convention by an overwhelming majority and on the first ballot to succeed himself as gov ernor of the state of New York He received S2T out of a possible l.OOf* votes, as against 151 for James W. Wadsworth. Jr., of Livingston county, speaker of the state assembly, and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stewart of Montgomery. The nomination was made uuar.1 mous upon motion of State Commit teeman William Barnes. Jr., of Albany who has been perhaps the bitterest and most outspoken opponent of the governor's renomination. The governor's renomination fol lowed the utter failure of a desperate struggle on the part of a number of the county leaders who for fc^ir days spared no effort to discover a candi date upon whom they could unite to defeat him. The rest of the ticket was made up in the "good old-fash ioned way," as an organization “slate" announced an hour or more before the session of the convention began by Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman of the state committee, after a conference of the local leaders. Horace White of Onandaga was nominated for lieutenant governor. Samuel 5 Koenig for secretary of state and Edward K. O'Malley for attorney general. Rochester. X. Y.—As the culminat ing feature of the Democratic state convention, which closed Wednesday, there was a notable demonstration here Wednesday night in honor of the party's national standard bearer. Wil liam Jennings Bryan, who reached the city shortly before seven o'clock and addressed a mass meeting in conven tion hall and overflow gatherings out side. .vir nryan expressed nis grainuae for the nomination of Lieut. Gov. Lewis Stuvvesant Chanler as head of the state ticket and paid a personal tribute to him. The ticket in full is: Governor. Lewis Stuvvesant Chan ler of Dutchess: lieutenant governor. John A. Dix of Washington: secretary | of state. John C. Whalen of Monroe; attorney general. George M. Palmer of Schoharie; controller. Martin H. | Glynn of Albany; state engineer and ; surveyor. Phillip P. Farley of Brook ! lyn; treasurer, Julius Hauser of Suf \ f oi k. BIG ST. LOUIS FIRM ATTACKED. Receiver Is Asked for the State Trust Company. St. Louis.—Minorit y stockholders Thursday afternoon filed a petition ia the circuit court asking that a re ceiver be appointed for the State Trust Company, a St. Louis real estate firm capitalized at $ 1.000.000. The petition says that on May ft), 1907. the directors voted to increase the capital of the concern from $500. 000 to $1,000,000, representing that $750,000 had already been paid in. At another meeting, it is alleged, the di rectors voted to pay back to the stock holders the $250,000 that they paid into the company to increase its capi tal to $1,000,000. but the money has not yet been paid back. It is also stated that the principal assets of the company are $499,500 in real estate. This was subscribed by H. A. Yroo mau, president. It is understood that the company has been planning the erection of a large business block in St. Louis. G. P. MOROSiNI DIES SUDDENLY. j Banker and Noted Philanthropist Passes Away in New York. New York.—Giovanni P. Morosini, banker and noted philanthropist, died suddenly Tuesday of heart failure at his country place. Riverdale, in tha tipper section of the city. Mr. Morosini, who was 74 years old. is survived by a son and two daugh ters. His wife died in 1S92. Mrs. Vic toria Morosini Schilling, his youngest daughter, created a sensation a few years ago by eloping with the family coachman, and the aged banker disin herited her. Miss Giulia Morosini. tha other daughter, is a noted horsewom an. Otillio P. Morosini. the son. mar ried Mary Bond, a Virginia belle. Fire in an Insanv Asylum. Amitvville. L. I.—Not realizing their danger. 90 insane patients in the LcTng Island Home, one of the largest insane asylums in the state, fought against being removed from a section of the main building Wednesday when that •structure caught fire. The flames spread so rapidly that a great portion of the big building was ablaze in a few minutes and the in mates were almost cut off from es cape. Sixty keepers were compelled to use force to get the unfortunate men and women to safety and for sev eral minutes there was a scene of the wildest excitement. Fatal Explosion at Mare Island. Vallejo. Cal.—The explosion of 250 gallons of gasoline on board a barge moored abreast of the submarine boats Grampus and Pike at the Mare Island navy yard Friday afternoon resulted in the death of Chief Machinist Teddy May and injuries to Lieut. J. S. Town send. Chief Gunner's Mate W. H. l^eahy and Chief Gunner's Mate Mor rin. Both submarine boats were bad ly scorched. The tender Fortune and the tug Unandilla were also injured, the latter catching Are. The men wera forced to jump overboard.