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Battle Ending in Senator-
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'LOEMER'S RISE IN POLITICS
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field by the Aid of Many
A ' . Democrats.
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The deadlock on the United States
senatorship , which ended Wednesday
with the election of Congressman Will
iam Lorimer of Chicago , and which is
without precedent in Illinois political
, _ history in many important particulars ,
began Jan. 20 , when the first ballot
was cast in joint' assembly , Hopkins
< receiving 89 votes , Stringer 76 , Foss '
16 , Shurtleff 12 , and Mason 6.
Many attempts were made during
the first month of the deadlock to
break the Hopkins strength. Frank
O. Lowden sent an agent to Spring-
field and maneuvered- a month in
the hope of breaking in. William B.
HcKinley and Lawrence Y. Sherman
were introduced as dark horses , but
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failed to get more than two or three
votes. W. J. Calhoun enjoyed a brief
period of .mention. Edward D. Shurt-
leff , starting with twelve Republican
votes , gained occasionally.
April and most of May passed with
out development. The second week in
May William Lorimer began actively
-working 'for himself as a candidate
for Senator , having Mr. : Shurtleff's
, support , and claiming sixty Demo-
, crats.
. Up to the ninety-first ballot , 135
. I : . . . men : had been voted for during the
: " deadlock , 114'being Democrats and 22
_ , Republicans. Of the Democrats John
. . , , C. Eastman received the highest vote ,
49 , outside of Lawrence B. Stringer ,
the regular nominee.
William Lorimer is a Republican
-and is serving his seventh term in Con
gress. He was born in Manchester ,
England , April 27 , 1861 , second son
of a Presbyterian minister , and came
to Chicago with his parents in 1870.
His father died in 1871 , leaving the
family in straitened circumstances. ,
Soon : after his father's death young
"Billy" began to earn a living. He
worked his way from selling newspa
pers , shining shoes , through positions
at , the stock yards , and as conductor
on the lines of the Chicago street rail-
way to political control in the old
Sixth : Ward.
BIGGEST : DRY GOODS COMPANY.
Jnpitnl of Xew Concern Launched
in Xevr York Is 51OOO,000. .
.The world's greatest dry goods com
bination was launched in New York
Friday. Its capital is $51,000,000 , three
times that of the Associated Mer-
chants' Company , up to this time the
* * * largest aggregation of capital in the
.dry goods business. John Claflin , pres
ident of the Associated Merchants'
Company , is head of the new company ,
which has been christened the United
Dry Goods Companies of New York. .
The incorporation papers were filed in
Dover , Del. Two of the three direc-
' tors named in the papers are Eugene
D. Alexander of New Brighton , S. I. ,
and Kenneth McEwen , clerks in the of-
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-rector is Thomas F. Bayard of Wil-
-mington , Del. , counsel for the company
in thh.t State. There 'was much uncer
tainty as to the exact purpose of the
new company , but it is understood it
will take over the already tremendous
'business of the Associated Merchants'
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TOWN GETS FIRST CHURCH.
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House as Only Ifluce of Worship.
The corner stone of the Methodist
. church , the first Christian place f of
l - worship " \ . in Hawthorne Nev. , was laid
t ' Wednesday. ! A tov/n of 1,500 persons ,
; / ' prosperous , , formerly the county seat ! ,
17 : and in the heart of a rich mining dis-
trict , Hawthorne never has had la ( ° 1
. . . - . ( . hur h. The only religious edifice has' l
"been a Chinese joss house , which was
pract.ically abandoned more than a
year ago. . Several years ago Goldfield 1
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BANDITS BOB TRAIN.
Force Engineer to Apply Brakes and
Clerks Give Up Mail.
Four masked men held up and rob-
bed Union Pacific train No. 2 , known
as the Overland Limited , a few miles
west of Omaha just before midnight
Saturday and secured a number of
registered mail pouches. The exact
number of sacks taken is not known ,
but they are believed to have contain
ed a large sum. The robbers are be
ing sought by squads of Omaha police
in automobiles.
The hold-up occurred about a mile
west of the city limits , in a deep cut
along the recently constructed Lane
cut-off. The robbers climbed over the
tank , forced the engineer to stop his
train and then proceeded to the mail
car. The clerks were forced to open
the door and hand out a number of
pouches of registered mail. Once the
robbers secured the bags , they hurried I
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away in a southerly direction and per
mitted the train to proceed. The pas
sengers were not molested. As soon as
the robbers left the train proceeded to
Omaha.
Two of the robbers climbed into the
engine with drawn revolvers and
forced the engineer to stop the train.
The engine crew was ordered < out of
the cab and two of the robbers stood
guard , while the other two escorted
the 'engineer and fireman to the rear.
The quartette were apparently well ac
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quainted with the ground , as they
forced the train to stop in a deep cut.
There were eight clerks on the mail
car and they were forced to open the
door. The chief clerk was singled out
and asked to point out the registered
mail. ' This he did and the robbers
gathered up seven pouches and the
leader then remarked : "This is all we
can get into our automobile.'They '
left the scene quickly , walked down
the track 300 feet and clambered out
of the cut.
A continuous fusillade of shooting
was kept up during the robbery , evi -
dently to intimidate passengers and
crew. A flagman who went to the rear
narrowly escaped being shot. Several ]
passengers who had not retired started
to get out of the vestibules , but in no
uncertain tones the robbers ordered
them back into the cars.
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Judge Milton D. Purdy has resigned
from the United States District Court
bench.
J. Adam Bede is expected to make a
fight to recover his ' seat in Congress
from the Eight Minnesota district.
To the amazement , of West Virginia
liquor interests , the city council of
Charleston voted 22 to 7 , to make the
; ity dry.
That the census office has in its em-
ploy in one bureau the , -wife of the
secretary . of a representative in. Con-
; ress , the wives of two officials of the
War Department and the wife of a
prominent : official in the Treasury De-
partment was the charge made by Sen-
ator McCumber in criticising the con
: erence report on the census bill. The c
North . Dakota Senator saTd Washing '
ton ' was getting to be a 'city of official'
families , the younger members ' of ,
vhich . had never seen the , § tates to
vhich they were credited.'t
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OKLAHOMA TOWNS ARE FLOODED
Heavy Rain Jiiid Hail Storm Causes
Damage Over Wild Area.
One of the heaviest rainfalls In
northeastern Oklahoma in recent years
has swollen Grand River and other
streams to the flood stage , causing
much damage to railroad property and
farms and partially submerging the
town of Afton , twelve miles east of
Vinita. " At Catale , a portion of the
trestle work , of the St. Louis and San
Francisco Railway bridge has been
carried away. Other bridges are in
danger and train service is demoral-
ized. A terrific downpour following a
contiguous rain of four days caused
the Canadian and Arkansas rivers and
their tributaries to rise rapidly. The
streets and many houses in Muskogee
were flooded by the storm. Six inches
of rain fell in three hours in a terri-
tory : fifteen miles in length , extending
from South Haven , Kan. , into Okla -
homa. The rain was accompanied by
sheets of hail that beat the grain into
the ground.
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60 CRIPPLES SAVED FROM FIRE.
Doctors . and Nurses Carry ; Children
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from Burning Hospital.
Something more than heroism was
needed at 8:30 o'clock Saturday night
to save sixty spine-twisted children
when a fire started in their ward of
the King's County Hospital in Brook-
lyn , N. Y. And the something more
was forthcoming. Not only did the
doctors , and nurses get out every child
unscathed by the flames , but forty-two
of the patients were removed to safety
without being unstrapped from their
Bradford frames , contrivances for
molding bent bodies into shape. The
children's wards are in a three-story
brick building in the rear of the main
hospital. Spinal cases are all cared
for on the top floor of the rear build-
ing , and it was on that floor that the
fire broke out , in the surgical room ,
opening off the long apartment in
which the cots are placed.
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NEGRO IS HANGED BY : MOB.
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Three Hundred Men ynch Black at
Pine Bluff , Ark.
Lovett Davis , a negro charged with
attempting to attack a 16-year-old
white girl in Pine Bluff , Ark. , last
Friday night , was taken from the jail
at midnight by a mob of 300 men and
hanged from a telegraph pole on one
of the principal streets. Just as the
negro was being raised above the street
the rope broke and the body fell to
the ground , .but was raised again and
left hanging. Early in the night the
sheriff had secreted a number of heav-
ily armed deputies in the jail , but
they were overpowered and the jail
was entered with t sledge hammers.
Several prominent men made speeches
to dissuade . . the mob , but of no avail. - , : - ,
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DOG RESCUES TWO PREACHERS.
Saves John Wnnnmaker's Pastor and
Brother from Drowninsr. ;
Rev. Asay Ferry , pastor of Bethany
Presbyterian Church , Philadelphia ,
which John Wanamaker attends , and
his brother , Rev. Ebenezer Ferry , pas
tor of the Morrisville , Pa. , Presbyter
ian Church , were saved from drowning
by a shepherd dog. The brothers ca
noe [ upset in the Delaware River. They
could make no progress and both were
rapidly ! becoming exhausted when the
dog plunged in and swam out to them.I I
The . dog seized ' ' ? is master's collar in
his teeth and dragged him to shallow
watefr. ; The big shepherd went back I I
after .the Philadelphia minister and j '
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194 SAVED FROM SEA DEATH.
Woman Among Those Braving Dan-
gers of Alaskan Coast Disaster.
With 194 survivors , including one
woman , of the wrecked ship Columbia ,
the mail steamer Dora arrived at
Seward , Alaska , Monday. The wreck
occurred April 30 near Unimalm Pass.
The experiences of all on the Columbia
were harrowing in the extreme. There
was no wind at the time , but a ter-
rific surf was raging. On the vessel
were Italians , Japanese , Americans
and Scandinavians. All were passive
and obedient in the face of danger ,
except the Italians , who were in a
panic. These atttempted to seize the
boa.ts , but were restrained at the point
of guns. At daylight the feasibility
of a surf landing was established and
the boats were given to the Italians.
.They made land. Two days later they
returned for provisions and were com
pelled by revolvers to take only food
and refrain from looting. Two former
life-saving men , Christ Christopherson
and Ernest Anderson , on that day sue--
ceeded in establishing a life line to
the-shore. On 'May 2 'storm caused
the final abandonment the wrecked
Columbia. The same day' the ship
burned.
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American Sailor , Held In Norway ,
Says He Aided in Murders.
A young American sailor is under
arrest at Frederikstad , near Chris-
tiania , Norway , as a self-confessed mur-
derer. He told his captain that he
helped Mrs. Belle Gunness kill four
persons on her farm near Laporte , Ind. ,
and that he then killed Mrs. Gunness
herself. The man did not impress the
captain as being insane , but as one
forced by his conscience to tell the
truth. The sailor is now under obser-
vation as to his mental condition. The
case has been reported to H. H. D.
Peirce , the ' American Minister to Nor
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Gilbert , a retired French merchant ,
whose declining years have been made
miserable by speeding automobiles ,
has bequeathed his entire fortune to
churches in certain French cities for
masses for the repose of the souls of
the victims of the "diabolical ma-
chines which have' poisoned my last
days ? - ' -
The outbreak4 of the Albanian gar-
rison at Uskup , Tuesday , about 100
miles north of Saloniki , where the de
posed Sultan of Turkey is a prisoner ,
was believed at Constantinople : to be
the beginning of an uprising under
the leadership of the Sultan's son ,
Berrhen-Eddin , for the purpose of re
instating Abdul Hamid on the throne.
The commission which is taking an
inventory of the property at the im-
perial palace at Yildiz has discovered ,
according to the local newspapers ,
bank notes to the value of $2,250,000
and a large quantity of jewelry , In-
cluding one rosary alone valued at
$375,000. i 'Papers seized at the palace
show : ; that Abdul Hamid had -
over $5-
000.000 on deposit in foreign banks.
These refuse to give up the cash to
the Young Turks.
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SHOCKED BY A ijUAKE
Jolt Pronounced Most Severe Ever
Experienced Throughout the
Territory Affected.
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TREMOR FELT IN FOUR STATES
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Disturbance Noticeable Over Wide
Range in Middle States , but No
Serious Damage Reported.
An earthquake. the first in several
years. was felt in Chicago at 8 : 40
o'clock Wednesday morning , em-
bracing many States in its range.
From Springfield to Milwaukee and
from Burlington , Iowa to Kalamazoo ,
Mich. , reports of the progress of the
trembler kept wires busy in all direc-
tions. In Maywodd , Lockport , Joliet , .
Riverside. Downers Grove , Hinsdale ,
Naperville Elgin and Evanston dis-
tinct shocks were felt. No serious
damage was reported at any point ,
however.
The progress of the quake seems to
have been from south to north. The
oscillation of the earth was recorded
on the new weather bureau seismo
graph at Peoria at 8:38 o'clock. It
was 8 : 40 when the trembler gripped
the Federal building in Chicago and
8:45 : when it was felt in Iowa. Vari
ous descriptions of the effects of the
slight quake were given. Its duration
was estimated at between five and ten
seconds in Chicago , but outside the
time was given in some places at half
a minute.
Press dispatches brought ! a succes-
sion of accounts of the earthquake
from Springfield , Peoria , Freeport , Au-
rora , Bloomington , Kewanee , Geneva ,
Streator , Dixon , Rockford , Moline , III. ;
Milwaukee , Janesville Beloit , WIs. ;
Cedar Rapids , Dubuque , Burlington ,
Iowa ; Kalamazoo , Muskegon , Mich. ,
and many other points. Broken china
and windows were reported from
South Haven and Benton Harbor ,
Mich. Fires were believed to have been
started by the disturbance in Aurora ,
but no losses were : sustained. At Strea-
tor half a minute was given as the
duration of the quiver of the earth ,
the shake being accompanied by a
faint rumbling noise. Chimneys ; were
displaced in Joliet where apparently
were some of the most serious effects.
"The last earthquake of which the
Chicago weather office has any rec-
ord , " said Professor Cox , "occurred at
5 o'clock in the morning of Oct. 31 ,
1895. Quakes are very rare in this
locality but ' no place is immune from
the tremors occasioned by readjust-
ments of the earth's surfa' e. There is
no seismograph in the Chicago office.
It would be impossible to use such an
instrument effectively in Chicago , for
it must be removed from local , vibra
tions and nlust' be established ' 6n bed
rock. "
OPENS 800,000 ACRES.
President Provides for Homes for
Settlers in Western Reservations. :
President Taft has issued a procla
mation providing for the opening up to
settlement and entry of about 440,000
acres of land in the Flathead ( Mont. ) ,
200,000 in the Coeur d'Alene ( Idaho )
and between 50,000 and 100,000 in the
Spokane ( Wash. ) reservations. Reg
istration , which will commence on
July 15 and close Aug. 5 , must be exe -
cuted and sworn to at either Kalispell
or Missoula , Mont. , for the Flathead
land ; at Spokane for the Spokane land ,
and at Coeur d'Alene for the lands in
the Coeur d'Alene reservation. Appli
cation for registration must be deliver
ed through the mails only to the su
perintendent of the opening at Coeur
d' A ene , which will be the point of
I drawing for all three reservations.
The drawing will begin at 10 o'clock
Aug. 9 and will continue until com
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Fire at Long Island , Kan. , destroyed
four business buildings. Loss $100-
000.
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C. L. Hutchinson of Chicago was'
elected president pFthe , American Fed-
eration of Arts at , the Washington
meeting.
Ruth Mitchell , aged 5 , was instantly
killed at Highland , Cal. , by the acci .
dental discharge of , a revolver in the
hands of Harold , her brother , aged 8.
Fire , believed the result of trouble
giowing out of the strike in the East
Side bakeries , .destroyed tin plaut of
th ° Star Baking Company at . 10.S
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Thomas street , Brookljn , N. Y. Loss
$100,000.
Two hundred thousand dollaj- : > loss
- was caused by a fire which swept
through one end of a five-story build
ing at 433 to 537 7th avenue , New
York , used by : the Grand Rapids Fur
niture Company as a warehouse.
Surrounded by fellow fraternity men I
and distinguished guests , Frank W.
Carpenter , secretary to President Taft , '
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was tendered a banquet in Washington
by the members of the Georgetown Ac
I tive and Washington Alumni chapters
I of- the D in Hhi ( fraternities. : Ii I
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Delegates Meet in Washington w'i
Talk Over the Plan.
" ht'hours. ' " will .
A "daylight hours' conference
bi L held in Washington that It is hoped ,
by the delegates will influence the
United States Government to author-
ize a change in the working hours and'
In the standard time of the nation.
' The first delegation to arrive will be
that from Cincinnati , but there will ,
be delegates from most of the Eastern
and Middle Western States. They are
business men , as a rule at the head . ,
of large enterprises.
It-is their plan that the clock shall
be put ahead two hours all over the
continent , so that what has been o
a. m. shall be 7 a. m. The quitting . . L '
time of the work day will be pushed
two hours also , so that the' workers ,
after * he day's task is finished , shall
have two more hours of daylight.
It is the contention of the advocates
of daylight hours that the human , -
being is as much benefited by sunlight
as plants and animals of a lower spe- '
c es. They believe that the extra hours " -
in the sunshine in the afternoon will
make workers more fit for the next -
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day's task. The plan is to move up
the clock on each May 1 and to move ;
it back two hours on each Oct. 1. :
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NEW LEGAL POINT OKLAHOMA
Minor Claijns Marriage Has Given
Him Rights of Majority.
Proceedings were started in the Su- .
preme Court at Guthrie , Okla. , to de-
termine how far a minor's marriage :
gives him the rights of majority. The
matter was brought up by an applica-
tion of Franklin Springer for a writ
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of prohibition against W. T. Glenn
County Judge of Choctaw County , to .
prevent him from ordering the sale
of Springer's land. Springer states
that he is 18 years old ; that his
brother , Samuel B. Springer , was ap
pointed as his guardian on June 19 ,
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1907 , but that his marriage on June
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6 , 1008 , ended the guardianship.
A territorial statute gave a minor
the right to control his own property I
after marriage , but on account of the
abuse which had arisen in connection : : . . -J
with minor Indian lands on the east
side of the State , a bill introduced by
Senators Russell and Keys was passed
by the last Legislature modifying the
former statute. Under the modified
law , the . minor could receive title to
property , but could not convey. This .
suit will determine the exact effect of - :
Elie i law.
GRANDFATHERS RUN RACE.
Fourteen of Field of Thirty-six .Com- ,
plete Five-Mile : : Run.
It was a real grandfathers' long dis
tance race that was run ; in South Chi
cago when thirty-six men , all over 50 ,
started on a five-mile jaunt just to
"show the kid runners of the district
that they were- just as , good as ever. " . .
The course was from 88th street and
Buffalo avenue to the state line and
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return. Fourteen of the runners fin-
ished the race. ;
"I'm running to let Dr. Osier and r
these young athletes around here
know that a man over 60 can still
print Joseph Killduff , 67 , the oldest
entrant , said before the start. At the , '
finish it was seen that all over 55 had
been eliminated. The winner was
Charles Bittner , 52 , a switchman. John
Kane , 51 , a steel-worker , was second ,
and Joseph Gassner , 52. a switchman .
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FINDS GERMLESS MILK. ;
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Government Expert Make Xotable
Discovery at Cincinnati Show.
Dr. Clarence B. Lane , United States
in of the
government expert , charge .
contests at the National Milk Show ,
in Cincinnati , announces that for the
second time the government has found
milk which the tests prove is abso- '
lutely free from bacteria. The first
was in Chicago in 1906 , but only one
sample was found germless. The sec-
ond is in the Cincinnati show , and
San Francisco , California , carried'
away the honors.
A remarkable feature is that the
perfect sample of milk , in two quart
bottles , was on . the road eight days
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eral hours here without being iced ,
and : the warm weather , before the gov-
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Offer Money : iit Signal Mars. :
Two newspaper Owners of Fort
Worth , Tex. , having telegraphed 1 Prof.
Pickering of Harvard that the people
of Texas would undertake to ra"lse the
$10,000,000 necessary : to test the mirrdr
method of signaling to the planet
Mars , as outlined by him recently , the
professor replied that he would advise
waiting until further experiments :
were made to determine whether Mars i "
is actually inhabited by intelligent be
ings. For ' this purpose he would ad- {
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vise the creation of a great observa-
tory in Texas , where he and other as '
tronomers could carry on investiga-
tions of the whole subject. This could i
be done for much less than the sum , °
named. Next fall when Mars is to 'J' '
reach its nearest point -would t-2 -a . ,
good time to take such observations. ,
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To Fly Acro.Hw the Atlantic. ,
Henry H. Clayton a meteorologist
who recently resigned from the Blue
Hill Observatory , is planning to dem- ' .
onstrate his theory of a steady plane- y
tary air current from west to east at R
a height of two miles or more by at-
tempting to crCssthe Atlantic Ocean - . . _ . . . : . . !
in. a mammoth balloon. As a. pre- ; ! '
liminary test he proposes to try a bal- - ' r
loon trip..from San. Francisco to Nay' , _
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