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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. l!K«l NUMBER 4« SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S EVENTS Latest News of Interest Boiled Down for the Busy Man. Domestic. District Judge Loyal E. Knappen, presiding in the branch of the fed eral court at Marquette, Mich., has entered a decree in favor of the com plaint in the case of Arctic Iron com pany vs. the Cleveland Cliff Iron com pany and William Mather, its presi dent. More than one million dollars is involved in the decision. A campaign for a constitutional amendment for prohibition in Ala bama was launched at Birmingham at a conference which was participated in by several hundred prohibitionists, anti-saloon league members and par tisans from all over the state. An official statement was made prior to the beginning of the meeting that the conference represented no political faction or set of politicians Right Rev. William George McClos ky, bishop of Ixtuisville and the oldest living Catholic prelate in the I'nited States, is seriously ill at Louisville, Kv. He is eighty-six years old. Mrs. E. H. Harnman has been made the sole beneficiary and administrator of her husband's vast estate, which is estimated to be valued at from $.">0, 000,000 to $200,000,000. Four cadets at the Annapolis naval academy have been dropped from the rolls at the direction of President Taft because of inaptitude, which was said to have been demonstrated on the practice cruise of the corps this sum mer. Judge Corey, of the probate court, made an order distributing to Mrs. Anna Spreckels, widow of the late Spreckles, her share of the sugar king’s estate, which is estimated to be worth more than $3,000,000. “Haley's” comet has been located by Herbert D. Curtis and photographed with the aid of reflecting telescope at luck observatory. It will grow rapidly brighter, according to a statement made by D. W. W. Campbell of Lick observatory. That the railroads are confronted with a shortage in the supply of tim ber for ties is indicated by a warning sounded by the roadmasters and main tenance of way association of America, which is holding its convention in Washington. The convention declared that stone ballast crushed and prop erly screened, proved most valuable for railroads carrying heavy traffic. In order to insure the Hudson-Ful ton celebration stamp being on salt at all post offices desiring it on Septem ber 25, the date of the opening of the celebration of the centennial in New York, the post office department has decided to begin the shipment to the various offices on September 20. The edition is limited to 50,000,000, and, therefore, may be in great demand by stamp collectors. It is said to be one of the most beautiful stamps ever is sued by the department. The strike of the flatteners and cut ters of the American window glass works at Jeanette, Pa., and Mononga hela. Pa., is taking on a serious aspect. Attempts to import workmen have met with resistance, and clashes have occurred. William Cramps Sons & Co., formal ly awarded the contracts for construct ing one each of the new American Dreadnoughts of 25,000 tons to be of ficially known as the Wyoming and the Arkansas. John R. Early, the leper, so-called, has been struck from the rolls of the pension as he has been found to be entirely free from any disease, having recovered from the skin erruption which was declared by eminent physi cians to be leprosy. Early, at the time his name was dropped from the rolls, w'as receiving $72 a month on account of total disability. He was recently examined by a medical board in New York. They found no skin erruptions or any disability. V. P. Von Erl it. a business man of Seattle. Wash., shot and seriously wounded himself in his room at a Kansas City hotel. After the shoot ing Von Erlit answered a long distance telephone call. He talked business for several minutes, but becoming weak from the loss of blood, pleaded for a physician. He will recover. “C. B. Rogers, vice-president and general manager of the Gulf Coast line, has been elected president and general manager, with office at Kings ville, Tex.” The above paragraph from the Railroad Age Gazette tells how a Nebraska railroad man has made good in the south. Mr. Rogers John W. Eitcomb, for a number of years connected with the United States fish commission as assistant in charge of the division of fish culture, has resigned to engage in private busi ness. R. S. Johnson, superintendent of the Manchester, la., fish station, has been selected to fill the vacancy! Robert S. Lovett has been elected to succeed E. H. Harriman as the head of the executive department of the Union Pacific John W. Castle, president of the Union Trust Co., of New York, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. George W. Fishback. formerly Amer ican secretary of legation at Buenos Ayres, has been appointed a special commissioner by the directorate of the Argentine agricultural exposition to enlist interest in that enterprise. An effort is to be made to secure an ap propriation of $25,000 by congress to transport the agricultural exhibit now at Seattle to Buenos Ayres. Wiliam Davis, a farmer of Benton, j Kan., was robbed of $3,000 at the Mis j souri Pacific depot at Wichita by two men who jostled him in a crowd. He carried the money in a large pocket book in his inside coat pocket. The threatened speed war among ; the Chicago-Denver-California railroad systems is on. In anticipation of the cutting of schedules by the Burling j ton and other Hill lines the Chicago & Northwestern announced a reduc tion of two hours in running time between Chicago and Denver. Missouri Pacific through train No. 3, from St. Louis to Pueblo, was derailed at Swope Park, ten miles south of Kansas City. One man was slightly injured. The entire train, consisting of a baggage car, an express car, two | coaches, and two sleepers, left the ! track and ran for three hundred : yards on the ties. Judge Martin F. Morris, former chief justice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and one of the oldest and most prominent members I of the bar at Washington, died at his home in Washington, aged seventy four years. Judge Morris defended | John H. Surratt, one of the alleged conspirators against President Lln i coin. Postmaster General Hitchcock iu preparing to institute an inquiry to determine whether the approximately $50,000,000 which the government an nually pays the railroads for carrying the mails is loo much or too little for the service performed. Presenting a total membership of 200.000 in all parts of the world, the national board of the Ancient Order of Hibernians has unanimously en dorsed the home-going to Ireland in 1910 originated by Francis J. Kilkenny and members of the order are urged to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them to visit the Emerald Isle. Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife of Brodie L. Duke, thd tobacco magnate, was committed to the asylum for the insane at Kankakee. 111. The once brilliant «and wealthy bride of Mr. Duke appeared a complete mental and physical wreck and but ten minutes were required to impress the jury with the need of restraint of, and treatment for her. Count Hermann Oshelm, former heir presumptive to the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimer, who renounced his right to the succession, was married in London before the registrar. The bride signed her name as Wanda Paola Lottero, and gave her age as twenty-five years. Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage, on October 5. of Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice President James S. Sherman, to Miss Eleanor Millar. In a collision on the Burlington near Lincoln, Nebr., two persons were killed and several seriously injured. Fifty thouasnd acres of land situ ated in the Goose Creek valley in : southern Idaho were opened to settle ! ment. The lands are controlled by the Twin Falls l4Bd and Water com pany, which has commenced the con struction of an irrigation system to be completed in eighteen months, at a cost of approximately $2,000,000. Foreign. Word has been received that the condition of Bishop Thomas Hendricks of Cebu, Philippine islands, who or Saturday was reported to be danger ously ill, shows slight improvement Bishop Hednrick is suffering from in digestion of the kidneys. King Manuel will leave Portugal for England, where he is to visit King Ed ward November 20. He will stop foui days in Madrid, to return the visit of King Alfonso. It is generally un derstood that King Manuel’s be throthal to the daughter of the duke of Fife will be announced from Wind sor castle and that King Edward will confer the order of the garter upon King Manuel in honor of the enga.ge ment. Mrs. Morris, widow of the late Nel son Morris of Chicago, died in France from injuries received in a motor cat accident which occurred Septembei 10th. The ninety-ninth anniversary of the beginning of Mexico's independence was celebrated as a general holidaj Thursday through the republic. It the capital the observance was partic ularly enthusiastic. The decoration? were on a more elaborate scale tbar ever before, and the entire populact devoted the day to festivities and merrymaking. A dispatch from Teheran, Peisia says the pretender to the Persian throne, Abdul Hussein, has appeared at Duristan and proclaimed himself shah. He is receiving the support 01 the local population. The government has sent a detachment of troops with artillery to suppress him. Gen. Bernerdaro Reyes in an open letter says that he has never been a candidate for the vice presidentia, nomination and confirms his letter 01 July 25 He claims that as he is noi in sympathy with the policies of Pres ident Diaz, his nomination would bt the cause of trouble. D. E. Thompson, United States am bassador to Mexico, has secured con trol of the Pan-American railway, hav ing secured by purchase $9,600,004 worth of stock. The international Esperanto con gress closed Monday. The next con guess will be held in Washington. THERE’S ROOM ENOUGH FOR TV/O FLAGS AT POLE HE SAYS. A FURTHER REPLY TU PEARY Cook Says His Claim Has Been Ac cepted by Polar Bureau of Research at Brussels. On Board Oscar II.—The steamer Oscar II., with Dr. Frederick A. Cook aboard, will not arrive at New York until Tuesday morning. This is at the urgent request of the reception committee which is to meet Dr. Cook The steamer eould have reached Sandy Hook Monday afternoon, but a message from the reception committee asking that the arrival be delayed ow ing to the fact that it was impossible to change the committee’s arrange ments was received Sunday evening by wireless, and the captain consented to comply with the request. The Oscar II. is therefore under decreased speed and will reach Quarantine at about 7:30 Tuesday morning. Dr. Cook appears to exercise great self-restraint, but can hardly repress a natural annoyance at impeachment of his veracity without proofs. He requested the Associated Press to make public the following: “Commander Peary has as yet given to the world no proofs of his own case. My claim has been fully recognized by Denmark and by the king of Swed en; the president of the United States j of America has wired me his confld I ence; my claim has'been accepted by the International Bureau for Polar Research at Brussels; most of the geographical societies of Europe have sent me congratulations which mean faith and acceptance for the present, and almost every explorer of note has come forward with warm and friendly approval. “A specific record of my Journey is accessible to all and everyone who reads can decide for himself. When Peary publishes a similar report, then our cases are parallel. Why should Peary be allowed to make himself a self-appointed dictator of my affiairs? In justice to myself, in justice to the world, and to guard the honor of na tional prestige, he should be com pelled to prove his own cases; ho should publish at once a preliminary narrative, to be compared with mine and let fair ponded people ponder over the matter while the final records by which my case may eventually be proven are being prepared. “I know Peary the explorer. As such he is a hero in Arctic annals and deserves the credit of a long and hard record. To Peary the explorer I am still willing to tip my hat. but Peary's unfounded accusations have disclosed another side of his char acter which will never be forgotten “When Peary added that he had nailed the stars and stripes to the pole I immediately sen? congratula tions. I then believed, as I do now, that his work over a new route far east of my line of travel was a new conciuest of great importance and of course that his position at the pole would supplement my work with valuable data. There is room enough and honor enough for two American flags at the pole.” TALK OF DIVISION. _ Some of People of California Want State Divided. Washington.—The recent threat of a body of citizens in California to es tablish another state within California borders because of dissatisfaction with taxation methods, has attracted the attention of officials here. The United States constitution in section 3 of article iv, provides that “no new state shall be formed or erected with in the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junc tion of two or more states, or parts of states without the consent of the legislature of the states concerned, as well as congress.” Taxation was a great problem in California during the '40s and 50's. It was claimed that the southern part of the state from Montery downward was sadly neglected in early state legisla tion. The Omaha Street Car Strike. Omaha.—Sunday was a feverish day in the street ear strike, marred with some acts of riot and involving the forcing back of the crowd by the police, to permit the cars to operate during an exciting hour on Farnam street late in the afternoon. One con ductor was savagely assaulted on a Council Bluffs street car. but not se- 1 riously hurt. Five arrests were made, none of whom were strikers. ~ % . Land Office Receipts. Washington—Total cash receipts of the general land office for the year ended June 30 were $11,627,688, a de- ■ crease of about $1,000,000. Colonel Harvey Badly Hurt. New York—Colonel George B. M. Harvey, president of Harper & Bros., | publishers, was found Sunday to have suffered a triple fracture of the left collar bone when his automobile | turned turtle and fell upon him near , Barnegat, N. J., Saturday. Colonel Harvey was examined by X-rays at Deal Beach, N. J. His chest was found to have been crushed consider- i ably, rendering is difficult for him to i breath. His physicians say there if I no serious danger, but that he faces a ! period of suffering. MAY DAY AT THE POLE Program for the Explorers’ Picnic Next Summer in the Far North. MRS. HARRIMAN GETS ILL RAIL KING’S WILL MAKES WIDOW RICHEST WOMAN. Last Testament One of Briefest Ever Drawn to Bequeath Such Large Fortune. New York.—Each of the 100 words in the will of Edward E. Harriman is estimated to be worth $1,000,000 to bis widow, Mary W. Harriman, and probably makes her the wealthiest woman in the world. It is perhaps the briefest will on record for the disposal of an estate of such magnitude. All his property is left to Mrs. Harriman. Wall street estimates that Mrs. Har riman will inherit in realty and per sonal property between $75,000,000 and $100,000,000. Mr. Harriman's private fortune is supposed to have been greater than this by many millions, but there is reason to believe that his unmarried laughters, Mary and Carol, his mar ried daughters. Mrs. Robert Living stone Gerry, and his two sons, William \verell, and Roland, a boy of 14, to gether with his surviving sister, Mrs. 3imons, and other relatives, have all seen substantially provided for in ?ifts out of hand and trust funds set tside by Mr. Harriman during his life :ime. lhe will is witnessed by Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life nsurance Company, who drew it, and P. C. Tegethoff. Mr. Peabody was Mr. darriman's close personal friend and vas frequently a caller at Arden louse during his last illness. He re inquished a law practice commonly ‘stimated as worth $100,000 a year to issume at a smaller salary the execu ive direction of a company in which Hr. Harrlman was heavily interested, dr. Tegethoff was Mr. Harriman’s per ional secretary. On Mrs. Harriman's shoulders will low rest the management of the 43, 100 acres of woodland, pasture land ind fertile black bottoms in the Ra napo valley and on the steep sides of rower hill; the completion of the treat house on which its master had ilready lavished $2,600,000 without iving to see it finished, and those dans of public benefaction—parks and Orest reservations—which it is known hat Mr. Hai'riman cherished, though le makes no mention of them in his vill. Conference on Taxation. Louisville, Ky.—The third interna :ional conference on state and local taxation, under the auspices of the nternational Tax association, opened ruesday afternoon in the auditorium )f the Seelbach hotel. Forty-three states and five Canadian provinces are •epresented, and many governors and several premiers are in attendance, n addition there were present numer ous state and municipal officials and lelegates from universities and col eges. Eight Qie in Train Wreck. Nashville, Tenn.—As the result of i bead-on collision between passenger rain No. 4 and fast freight No. 51 >n the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway one mile west of Pe ;ram Station, Tenn., eight men were tilled, one seriously injured and a lumber of others reported more or ess hurt. No passengers were killed, rhe cars caught fire and several of :he victims were cremated. Chinese Minister on Way. Peking.—Chang-Yin-Tang, the new y appointed Chinese minister to the Jnited States in succession to Wu Ping-Fang, has left Peking for his lost. He expects to reach Washington iome time in November. Bank Robbed of $1,000. Burlington, la.—The First National >ank of Stronghurst, 111., was robbed if $1,000 in money and other valua >les, the thieves blowing open the lafety deposit vault. The bank safe vas not entered. 0 GOOD ROADS CONVENTION Men Interested in Improvement or Highways Meet in Cleveland for Three Days' Session. Cleveland, O.—The second annual national good roads convention began in Chamber of Commerce hall Tues day, under the auspices of the Ameri can Automobile association, the Na tional Grange, the United States office of public roads, several associa tions of automobile manufacturers and other national bodies interested in highway improvement. About 500 ac credited delegates and many other persons are in attendance. Of fhese a large number came In motor cars. Features of the convention, which will last three days, are practical demon strations of good road making and an exhibition of road making ma chinery. President L. R. Speare of the Ameri can Automobile association started off the first session with an opening address, after which the delegates were welcomed by Gov. Harmon and Mayor Johnson. George C. Diehl of Buffalo was the presiding officer. James C. Wonders, state highway com missioner. spoke on "Good Roads in Ohio, and Congressman R. P. Hobson of Alabama on "National Aid and Post Roads.” Other speakers were ex-Gov. N. J. Bachelder of New Hampshire, George S. Ladd and James H. McDon ald of Connecticut. TAFT UPHOLDS BALLINGER Takes Sidesx Against Pinchot and Orders the Discharge of L. H. Glavis. Albany, N. Y.—President Taft has upheld the secretary of the in terior in his controversy with Gif ford Pinchot of the reclamation serv ice, and in the upholding has criticised the methods of Mr. Pinchot to such an extent that it is expected that Mr. Pinchot will leave the government service. In addition, the president orders the discharge of L. H. Glavis, chief of field division of the general land office. Mr. Glavis made the formal charges against Mr. Ballinger that Mr. Pinchot has talked of in his speeches on the Pacific coast. He is discharged for filing a statement unjustly impeaching the official integrity of his superior of ficers. The president specifically exoner ates Secretary Ballinger from the charge of having used his office for personal ends. The president says conservation must be carried on with in the law, indicating clearly that in his opinion Mr. Pinchot has been going beyond the law. NEW APPEAL BY PATRICK; Again Sets Up Claim That Governor Had No Right to Save His Life. Albany, N. Y.—Albert T. Patrick, who is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing for the murder of William Marsh Rice in New York in 1900. has filed notice of an appeal from a decision rendered by the appellate division dis missing the writ of habeas corpus granted him by Justice Wifliam J. Gaynor last February. Patrick again claims he is confined illegally and that Gov. Higgins had no right to commute his sentence from death to life imprisonment. Sherman and Brewer Guests. Plattsburg, N. Y.—Vice-President James S. Sherman and Justice David Brewer of the United States supreme court, were the guests of honor at the annual banquet of the Vermont Fish and Game league at the Hotel Cham plain. , El Roghi Put to Death. Fez.—El Roghi, the rebellious sub ject of the sultan of Morocco, who re cently was brought here in an iron cage, was put to death in the presence of the imperial harem. HITS AT COOK AGAIN — PEARY INSISTS HIS RIVAL HANDED THE WORLD A “GOLD BRICK.” STANDS PAT ON CHARGES Gives New Facts About His Discovery j of the Pole—Says He Will Leave j the Controversy to a Competent : T ribunal. Rattle Harbor, Labrador.— (Via | Marconi wireless telegraphy to Cape Ray. N. F.)—Commander Rob ert E. Peary consented to talk fur ther concerning his successful cash to the north poie. He dwelt particu larly upon the observations taken at the apex of the world and the move ments of Harry Whitney, the sports man of New Haven. Conn., who has been described as the bearer of rec ords substantiating Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s claim to have reached the pole April 21. 190S. “We took five observations prior to reaching the pole." Commander Peary said. “Two of them were made and j worked out by the late Prof. Ross Marvin, who prepared duplicate rec ords in each case, and duly signed the duplicate certificates. To guard against accident I took one set of these pa pers and Prof. Marvin took the other. Took Observations at Pole. “When a distance of 125 miles from the pole, the third observation was made by Capt. Bartlett, who also signed the records and certificates in duplicate, he retaining one set and I the other. The fourth and fifth, ob servations were made by myself the last being taken five miles from the pole proper.” “Was there more than one observa tion taken at the pole, and by whom?" the explorer was asked. “There ware several observations.” be replied. “You must understand that the pole is a theoretical point, without length, breadth or thickness. Its ac tual location depends on the accuracy of the instruments employed and the conditions under which the observa tions are taken.” “You have stated, Commander Peary, that a copy of your records and polar observations was wra.pped in a piece of a silk American flag and deposited in an ice cavity at the pole; did any person witness this act?” To this question Commander Peary declined to make any answer at pres ent. Continuing. Peary said that Dr. Cook was expected by the world to submit to an impartial tribunal or board of arbitration a revised and au thentic signed statement of his al leged discovery of the pole. Dr. Cook soon would reach the United States, Commander Peary said, and he was glad at the prospect of the matter be ing submitted for consideration at an early date. uave world "Gold Brick.” Continuing, the explorer said that he had stated in a private message to a friend that Dr. Cook had given the world a “gold brick." This message had been allowed to leak out, and while he would have preferred a more elegant expression, he was willing now to let these words stand because they were at least emphatic. The ex plorer said also that he would turn over to a competent tribunal and the public certified copies of his own ob servations made on his trip to the pole, with all other information bear ing thereon. Peary does not care to exhibit these records at the present time for the reason that the informa tion contained therein, if divulged in advance of the placing on file of Dr. Cook’s authentic and definite state ment, might be of advantage to the Cook partisans. Cook Brings Proof. On Board the Steamship Oscar II., at Sea—(Via Marconi wireless tele graph to Cape Race, N. F.).—Dr. Fred erick A. Cook requested that the fol lowing message be sent to the Amer ican people as he neared New York Friday on the steamer Oscar II: “Tell the people of America to have the fullest confidence in my conquest of the pole. I have rec ords of observations made by me which will prove my claim. I shall be glad to again set my foot on American soil.” Dr. Cook discussed freely the asser tions of Commander Peary that he had never reached the north pole and spoke of the causes that brought dissensions between the explorers. In conversation with the passengers Dr. Cook has thrown some light on his experiences during the long jour ney to the pole and return. He has explained to them how the clothing of the members of the party wore down to rags and the Eskimos were obliged to devote their time to the making of fresh garments. The explorer and his companions possessed no thread with which to sew skins together and therefore unraveled their stockings and used the wool for thread. Gets Penal Servitude. London.—James Egan, who. accord ing to the evidence of the police, once served a long term of imprisonment in New York, was sentenced at the Old Bailey Friday to three yearn’ penal servitude, after having been found guilty of a series of frauds upon wo men. Powder Explosion Kills 200. Paris.—A special dispatch from Tangier says 200 men were killed by the explosion of a powder magazine near Mogador. FOR SAVINGS BANKS. President Taft Strongly Declares For Them. Milwaukee.—President Taft devoted his principal address in Milwaukee at the State fair to the subject of postal savings banks, which he strongly en dorsed before a large and enthusias tic gathering that overflowed the grandstand. President Taft said that the postal savings bank plank in the republican platform bound everybody who calls himself a republican. “Or if they do not like the platform itself they cease to be republicans or they are republicans with an excep tion, and that indicates a free and en lightened and discriminating people. “But i am here to uphold the doct rine of the postal savings banks (ap plause), because I believe that they will fill in this country a longfelt want. In the first place, it is said the postal savings bank is a very paternal institution; that it has a leaning to wards socialism, state socialism, and that it proposes to take the banking business out of the hands of private persons and put it into the govern ment. No. I am not a parternalist, and I am not a socialist, and 1 am not in favor of having the government do. anything the citizens can do as well or better, but there are conditions. “We have passed beyond the tide of what they call the laise faire school, which believed the government ought to do nothing but run the police force, and we do rec ognize the necessity for the interference of the government because it has great capital and great resources behind it and because sometimes it can stand the lack of an immediate return on capita) to help out. We did it in our Pacific roads. We have done it in a great many dif ferent ways and this particular postal savings bank business the government is especially fitted to do what no sys tem of private bankers can do (great applause.) “The great usefulness of the postal savings bank is the great encourage ment to thrift on the part of those who are just wavering in the balance whether they shall have the money or use it. because they do not know where they can put it safely.” (Ap plause.) The president said he did not want to antagonize the bankers, but he did not believe their opposition to postal banks was well founded. In some parts of the country, especially in New England, where for every two citizens there is one savings bank account, Mr. Taft said the need of postal banks was not felt. In other sections where the savings accounts amounted to only one in 157 citizens, the need of an encouragement to thrift was acute. Postal banks, paying only 2 per cent interest would not attract de positors from'public banks who were paying 3 to 4 per cent, but they would attract the accounts of those people who were wavering in the balance as to whether or not they should spend their money for the want of knowl edge of a safe place to put it. The president dwelt at length upon the fact that the deposits of the alien population now sent back to govern ment banks would be held in this country if there were postal banks with the government behind them to reassure the timid and panicky de positors of foreign birth and affilia tion. Troops Going to El Paso. El Paso, Tex.—General Albert L. Meyer, commanding the department of Texas at San Antonio, ordered 3,000 troops at Port Sam Houston to en train October 12 for El Paso to be present for the meeting between President Taft and President Diaz of Mexico on October 16. Roosevelt Kills Elephant. Nairobi, British East Africa.— News has come in here that Theodore Roosevelt, hunting in the Mweru dis trict, has killed a bull elephant with good tusks. Kermit Roosevelt has been hunting independently at Guaso Nyiro, and has been successful, bag ging five lions and three buffalo. He has now started out elephant hunt ing. Edward Felicitates Taft. London.—The birthday of President Taft was remembered by King Ed ward. who sent the honorable Arthur Walsh his master of ceremonies, to the American embassy with the re quest that his majesty's sincere con gratulations be conveyed to the presi dent. Suit to Stop Merger. Newark, N. J.—By two orders signed by Chancellor Pitney, the United States Leather company and the Central Leather company are di rected to show cause on October 4. why an amendment should not be is sued restraining the third attempt to merge the two companies. Big Grain Firm Fails. Little Rock, Ark.—The T. H. Bunch company, one of the largest grain concerns in the United States, filed a petition in bankruptcy. It is re ported that local banking institutions are involved to the extent of $300,000. Dirigible Making Good. Montlucon, France.—The fall man euvers of the French army in which 60,000 men are engaged are attract ing attention on account of the work of the dirigible balloon Republique, at tached to the army of defense. Al though the field of operation is hilly and wooded the Republique ascer tained and disclosed to the defenders the plan of the enemy’s campaign and prevented the former from falling into a skillfully contrived trap. One army is using successfully automobiles for supplies.
