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: Witliin a few days two mere checks
i ! I , . from Porter to Pcckbam passed through
the usal channels of the bank. By the
simple feat of dividing the amount of
1 ! each check by the current quotation on
l : i I , Traction , Wheaton was able to follow
! 1 Porter's purchases. The price had re
, i ; mained pretty steady. Then suddenly it
! i : ' fell to thirty. lie wondered what was
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I E \ i I ' pany , readily attributed it to a lack of
! confidence in the franchise. Wheaton
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'i i evening , and remarked casually :
t i I "Traction seems to be off a little ? * '
: . , , ! . , ? I "Yes ; there's something going on there
( i i that I can't make out. I imagine that
, ' : ' : the fellows that ivcre buying got tired of
jl ! I i I ' \ . -stimulating the market , and have thrown
I 1 a few . bunches back to kedp ' the outsiders
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j , i -guessing. "
I "Right now might be a good time to get
: in , " suggested Wheaton.
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"I should call it a good buy myself.
" i I guess tliat franchise is all right. Bet
I ! I ter pick up a little , " he said , tentatively.
! I ! "To tell the truth , " said Wheaton ,
I' j II' ' 1' choosiug his words carefully , "those out
; f I of town people I spoke to you about have
'II ' I E written me that they'd like a little more
.4 : i ; if it can be got at the right figure. You
j , might pick up. a hundred shares for me
" I ; .at the current price , if you can. "
li' ' I "How do you : want to hold it ? '
.it . ! "Have it made to me , ' he answered.
J I . He had debated whether he should . do
4' this , and he had been unable to devise
I .any method of holding the stock without
I letting his own name appear. Porter
1 would not know ; Porter was concealing
, 'I his own purchases. Wheaton could not
I : see that it made any : difference ; he was
, I eurcly entitled to invest his money as he
liked , and he raised the sum necessary
' . , in : this cas by the sale of some railroad
c' bonds which he had been holding , and
' ; , , on which he could realize at once by send-
ing them to the bank's correspondent at
i , , ' , Chicago. He might have sold them at
i I I ihoine ; Porter would probably have taken
! them off his hands ; but the president
I i : : new that his capital was small , and
; t .might have asked how he intended to re
invest the .
4 : n'est proceeds.
A few days later Burton sent I for
"Wheaton to come to his office. One hun-
< dred shared had been secured from a
ranchman. Wheaton carried the pur-
chase money : in currency to Burton's of-
. fice ; he was as shrewd William Por-
I , ter , and he did not care to have the
clerks in the bank : speculating about his
i -checks.
He locked his certificate , when Burton
1 ; igot it for him. in his private box in the
ij vault , and waited the rebound which he
i . firmly expected in the price of the stock.
t I I His sole idea was to inalp a profit by the
, I ; purc"lase. He felt confident that Porter
' j j' I ihacl ; bought Traction stock with a defin-
: ite purpose ; he still had no idea who
i , ' were the principal holders of Traction
' etock or bonds , and he was afraid to
! make inquiry. A man who was as se-
cretive as Porter probably had confiden
tial sources of information , and it was
mot safe to tap Porter's wires. His con
I science was easy as to the method by
I "which he had gained his knowledge of
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: I I ' , 1 other s purchases ; he certainly meant
no harm to Porter.
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f Timothy Margrave was , in commtiu *
phrase , a good railroad man. He had
advanced by slow degrees from the in-
. ' \ cumbency of those lowly manual offices
: i ' filled jobs , to the performance of those
' I r/atfrier ; functions known as positions.
Margrave's : elevation to the office of third
! i - vice president and general manager was
. . due Jxj hjs ! pull. lie had resolved that
[ Lff ' trnlroad was getting too much out
of him and l that he must , do more to
I ' promote his own fortunes. The directors
: " were pooil fellows , and they had cer-
1 1 .1 tainly treated him well ; but it seemed
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within the pale of legitimate enterprise
for him to broaden his interests a trifle
( , without in any wise . diminishing his zeal .
If \ for tucTrauscontincnfcil. 1 The street rail
way business was a good business , and I
e Clarkson Traction appealed to Margrave : ,
'i moreover , on its political side. If he re-
organized the company and made himself
its president : he could greatly fortify and
etrongtheu his pull.
, i Almost any day , he was told , the East-
i ern bondholders might pounce down and
' I put a receiver in charge of the company.
, , Margrave did not understand rere'cr -
j' , 1 ships : they were an excuse for pillage ,
: 11 and it was a regret of his life that no
I j ; ; ' " fat re ( ' eiverfchip had ever fallen to his
I Ii ' ; 1 lot. But he was not going into Traction
J I i I ! " ? , J . Iindh' . . He wanted to know who else
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\ ! .t was interested that he might avoid com
, ' ! I I ' phc ations. William Porter was the only
\ : i man in Clarkson who could swing Trac-
I \ ! , .1 tion without assistance ; he must not run
. I j i , afoul of Porter. Margrave was a master i
, , ; j ! - of the art of getting information , and he
, ; , decided , on reflection , that the easiest
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1 ! , ' . / ' . way to get information about Porter was
! : ,1 I to coax it out of Wheaton.
I ' t " He always called Wheaton "Jim , " in
I 'j" l " remembrance of the early days of Whea-
I. .t' . ton's residence in Clarkson when W" hea-
i in his office. He had
worked
, f ; TtI J ! ' ton had
I 1 .j I . watched Wheaton's rise with . interest . ; he l
! . , 'I , took to himself the credit of being his
" Wheaton called on his
11" e , -discoverer. When
-I S ; I daughter he made no comment . ; he knew
.j + ' .nothing to Wheaton's discredit , and he
' : . have thought of criticizing
; " . -would no more . .
. J ! . S 3Iabel : than of ordering dynamite substi
1 tuted for coal in the locomotives of his
! railroad. When he concluded that he
he began playing for
I oceded Wheaton
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him , just as If tht \ cashier had been n
councilman or a member of the legisla-
ture or a large shipper or any other fair
prey. He now resorted to that most in-
sidious and economical ! form of briber !
known as the annual pass. ,
Wheaton accepted the pass as a tribute
to iis growing prominence in the town.
He knew that Porter refused railroad
passes. on practical grounds , holding thai
such favors were extended in the hope
of reciprocal compliments , and he be-
lieved that a banker was : better off w itu-
out them. Wheaton , whose vanity had
been touched , could see no harm in them.
He had little use for passes as he knew
and cared little about traveling , but he
had always envied men ' who carried their
"annuals" in little brass-bound books
made for the purpose. Ho be sure it was
late in the year and passes were usually
sent out in January , but this made the
compliment seem much more direct ; the
Transcontinental had forgotten him , and
had thought it well to rectify the error
between seasons. lIe felt that he must
not make too much of the railroad's cour-
tesy ; he did not know to which official
in particular he was indebted , but he
ran into Margrave one evening at the
club and decided to thank him.
"How's traffic ? " he asked , as Margrave
made room for him on the settee where
he was reading the evening paper.
"Fair. Anything new ? "
-io ; it's the same routine with me
pretty much all the time. "
"I guess that's right. I shouldn't think
there was much fun in banking. You got
to keep the public too far away. I like
to be up against people myself. "
"But you railroad I people are not con-
sidered so very warm , " said Wheaton.
"The follows who want favors seem to
think so. By the way , I'm much , obliged
to botuc one fo'- an annual IU.H cur. , \ . ' ti
up in my mail the other day. I don't
know who sent it to me-if it's "OU- "
"Um ? " Margrave affected to have
been wandering in his thoughts , but this
was what he was waiting for. "Oh , I
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guess that was Wilson. I never fool
with the pass business myself ; I've got
troubles of my own. "
"I guess I'll not use it very often , "
said Wheaton , as if he owed an apology
to the road for accepting it.
"Better come out with me in the car
some time and see the road , " Margrave :
suggested , throwing his newspaper on the
table.
"I'd like that very much , " said Whea-
tonu. ,
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"Where's Thompson now ? Old man's
pretty well done up , ain't he ? "
He went back to Arizona. He was
here at work all summer. He's afraid of
our winters. "
"Well that " " " chance "
, gives you your
said Margravce , affably. "There ain't ;
any young man in town that's got a bet .
ter chance than you have , Jim. I be I
lieve there's going to be a good thing for
some one in Traction stock. Porter
ought to let you in on that. Margrave
didn't know that Porter was in , but he
expected to find out.
"Mr. \ Porter has a way of keeping
things to himself , " said Wheaton , cau-
tiously ; yet he was tlattered by Mar
grave's friendliness , and anxious to make
a favorable impression. Vanity is not ,
as is usually assumed , a mere incident
of character ; it is a disease.
"I suppose , " said Margrave , "that a
ma ; could buy a barrel of the stuff just
now at a low figure. "
"What's your guess as to the turn this
Traction business will take ? " asked
Wheaton. He had not expected an op
portunity to talk to any one of Mar
grave's standing on this subject , and he I
thought he would get some information I !
while the opportunity offered. ;
"Don't ask me ! If I knew ' I'd like to
get into the game. But , look hare" ! - ho
moved his fat body a little nenrer to
" 'heaton-"the way to go into that thing
is to go into it big ! I've had my eye on
it for a good while , but I ain't going
to touch it unless I ' can swing it all. ,
Now , you know Porter , and I know him
and you can bet your last dollar he'll
never be able to handle it. He ain't built
for it ! " His voice sank to a whisper.
"But if I decide to go in. I've got to get
rid of Porter. Me and Porter can't trav
el in the same harness. You know that.
Now , I don't know how much he's got ,
and . he's - - so . . . mysterious you can't tell
what he's up to * Xgu know how he is i :
you can't go to a fellow1 \ lij\e that and do
business with him , and he won't play 1
auyhdunless you play his way ) '
"Well , I' don't know anything about
his affairs of course , " said Wheaton. yet
feeling that Margrave's confidences must
be reciprocated. "Just between our-
selves , he did buy a little some time ago ,
but no great amount. It would take a
good deal of money to control that com-
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1 pany. :
"You're dead right it would ; and Por-
ter hasn't any business fooling with it.
You've got to syndicate a thing like that.
Qe's probably got a tip from some of
his Eastern friends as to what they're :
going to do and he's buying in. when he
can , to get next. But say , he hasn't any
Traction bonds has he ? "
Wheaton had already said more than
he had intended , and repented now that I
he had bet > n drawn into this conversation ; ,
but Margrave was bending toward him
with a great air of condescending inti
mac - . Porter had never been confiden- i
tial with him ; and it was really Mar I
grave who had given him his start.
"I don't' think so ; at least I never
knew of it" His mind was on those
checks to Peckham. which clearly repre
sented purchases of stock. Of course ,
Porter might have bonds , too , but having
gone thus far he did not like to admit to
Margrave how little he really knew of
> Porter's doings.
"That's all between us-that little mat- i
ter , " said Margrave. ' . !
"Certainly , Mr. Margrave. "
CHAPTER XII.
Porter went into Fenton's private of
fice and shut and locked the door after
him. He always did this , and Fenton ,
who humored his best client's whims per
force , pushed back the law book which he
was reading and straightened the pens on
his blotter.
"I didn't expect you back so soon , " he
said. Porter looked tired and there were
dark rings under his eyes.
"Short horse soon curricd , ' " , be remark-
ed , pulling a packet from his . overcoat.
Thore was something boyish in Por-
ter's mysterious methods , which always
amused Fenton when they did not alarm
and exasperate him. Porter sat down at
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chair opposite him.
"Which way have you been this time ? "
"Down in the country , " returned
Porter , indefinitely.
Fenton laughed and watched his client !
pulling the rubber bands from his pack-
age.
age."What have you there-oats or
wheat ? ! "
"What I have here , " said Porter , ,
straightening ' out the crisp papers he had
taken from his bundle , "is a few shares
. of Clarkson .Traction stock. "
"Oh ! " Fenton picked up a ruler an !
played with it until Porter had finished
counting and smoothing the stock certifi
cates.
"There you are , " said the banker , pass
ing the papers over to Fenton. "See if
they're all right. "
Fenton compared the names on the
face of the certificates with the assign
ments on the back , while Porter watched
him and played with a rubber band.
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" all straight
"The assignments are ,
said Fenton , finally.
He sat waiting and his silence irritat-
ed Porter , who reached across and took
up the certificates again.
"I want to talk to you a little about
Traction. "
"All right , sir , " said Fenton , respect
fully.
"I've gone in for that pretty.deep this
fall. 7 started in on this down Easl ;
last summer. Those bonds all went East , :
but a lot of the stock was kicked around ' :
out here. If I get enough \ and reorganize I
the company I can handle , the new se-
curities down East all right. That's busi-i
ness. Now , I've been gathering in the
stock around here on the quiet. Peck
ham's been buying some for me , and he'q
assigned it in blank. There's no usa
in getting new shares issued until we'ra
ready to act , for Barnes and those felt }
lows are not above doing something nasty
if they think they're going to lose theij
jobs. "
"The original stock issue was five thoui
sand shares , " said Fenton. "How mucb
have you ? "
"Well , sir , " said Porter , "I've got about
half and I'm looking for a few shares
more right now. "
Fenton picked up his ruler again and
beat his knuckles with it. Porter had ex
pected : Fenton to lecture him sharply , bat
the lawyer was ominously quiet.
"I'm free to confess , " said Fenton ,
"that I'm sorry you've gone into this.
This isn't the kind of thing that you're in i ; ,
the habit of going into. I am not much
taken with the idea of mixing up in a
corporation that has as disreputable a
record as the Traction Company. It's
been mismanaged and robbed until th re' .
not much left for an honest man to take
hold of , they issue no statements ; no one
of any responsibility has been counecteJ
with it for a long time. The outside
stockholders are scattered all over the
country , and most of them have quit
trying to enforce their rights , if they may
be said to have any rights. You remem
ber that the last time they went into
court they were knocked out and I'm
free to say that I don't want to have to
go' into any litigation against the com
pany. "
"Yes , but the franchise is all straight ,
ain't it ? "
"Probably it is all right , " admitted the
lawyer reluctantly , "but that isn't the
whole story .by any manner of means. If ,
it's known that you're picking up the
stock every fellow that has any will soak
you good and hard before he parts with
it. Now , there are the bondholders "
" \Y cll. what can the bondholders do ? " '
demanded Porter.
"Oh. get a receiver and have a lot of
fun. You may expect that at any time ,
too. Those Eas rn fellows are slow
sometimes but they generally know what
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they're about. "
"Yes , but if they weren't Eastern fel-
lows - " .
"Oh , a bondholder's rights are as gcnd
one place as another. Those suits trt'e
usually brought in the name of the trus
tee in their behalf. "
"Now. do you know what I'm going to
do ? " demanded Porter. I'm going to
turn up at the next annual meeting and
clean this thing out. You don't think it's
any good ; I've got faith in the company
and in the town : I believe it's going to be
a good thing. This little gang here that's
been running it has got to go. I've dug
stock here that - "bod '
up some everybody
thought was lost. At the last meeting
ouly eight hundred out of five thousand
shares were voted. "
( To be continued. )
Important Point.
The man was suing a Southern rail
road for damages owing to a delay
which made him miss an appointment ,
and the ordinary preliminary questions
wore being put to him.
"Age. please ? " ' asked the judge.
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"Well , your honor. " . said the plain
tiff , "do you : want my , age when I got
on the train or when I got off ? " -
Yonkers Statesman.
XotIlil1 Doing.
The Burglar - - Hold up yonr bands.
Mr. e\nYecl-Sure ; but let me say
that I've just paid for my wife's new
hat.
bat.The
The Burglar - That's enough. On
your way. ,
Modern : Life.
"She is wonderfully accomplished.
She can ride fence , shoot , swim , golf
and cook. "
"Cook ? That's a queer fad. What
will the girls be taking up ne.xt-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Difference in Men. '
Mrs. Peckein - I guess my brother
will live and die a bachelor. He says
he's afraid to marry.
Peekem - That's funny. I never knew
what fear was when I was single.
Did the Telescoping.
"You say the train was telescoped ? "
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"It was. "
"But how did you escape injury ? "
"I was on the through car. " - Cleve -
land Leader.
A Sure Cure.
"My. why don't you wash your
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Marriage and Divorce.
Divorce without alimony makes
marriage a failure. - Augusta Chron-
icle.
Two inmates of an Iowa poorhouse
eloped and were married the other
day. Neither can accuse the other of
having "married for money , " at any
rate. - New Orleans Times-Democrat.
New York man arrested for kissing
his wife when the blinds weren't
pulled down. Moral : Be careful
whose wife you kiss when somebody
is looking ( in New York I ) . - Cleveland !
Leader. I
Texas preacher declares that every
girl should be taught the use of the
rolling pin. If she expects to get
married and hopes to maintain are.
spectable batting average , the good
man is right.-Toledo Blade.
Missouri court decides that a wife
has a legal riglit to kiss her husband.
But of course the husband has the
right to appeal. In some cases a per-
manent injunction would be easily ob
tainable.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Milwaukee woman is suing her
husband for a divorce because he got
on the water wagon and became mo-
rose , brutal and abusive whereas he
had been formerly affectionate and
agreeable though he got tight occa
sionally. There are sonre strange men
in this world. Also some strange
women. Houston Post.
Shots at the Senate.
While. Senator Aldrich may make
little claim to greatness as a speaker ,
there is no limit t the oratory he
inspires , Washington Star.
The conservative old Senate very
naturally : feels that the common or
garden variety of tariff revision is not
t be lightly discarded. - Indianapolis
Star.
Money and Root are farther apart
in the Senate than they are in the
biblical text in which' they became in
volved many years ago. - Brooklyn
Eagle.
In justice to the Senate it should
be said that i has nothing against
in moderate
the poor people , or those
circumstances. Not in the least The
Senators are merely there to see that
the rich are made richer.-Kansas
City Times. .
MISSIONABY GIVES WARNING.
_
White Women Xever Can Convert
Chinese , Declares Authority.
Miss Helen Clark , director of the
Helen F. Clark mision in New York
city , is an authority on Chinese mis-
sionary work. "There are many
things to be said on both sides of the
question , in defense as well as in ar
raignment of the Chinaman , " she said.
"But there is only one answer to it
all. White women must leave the
lives of Chinese men alone.
"For seventeen years I have urged
the folly of white women endeavoring
to Christianize Chinamen. All about
me I have seen the ruin and wrecked
homes - case after case that parallels
Elsie Sigel's , with the exception of its
tragic termination. I have believed
from the very beginning that it was
impossible for white women to prop
erly influence Chinese men. Why do
these women take up missionary
work ? Heaven only knows. unless it
is the well known kindness and gentle
ness of Chinamen t white women.
"There is one big truth of which I
was sure when I first took up the
work and of which years have made
me positive beyond argument - the '
white woman never can Christianize
the Chinese man. I she tries it , it
will be the West that is converted
to the East , not the East converted to
the West. "
Carneiie on His Iiihnirie.s.
Andrew Carnegie , in a recent state
ment for Collier's , h given t the
public the first accurate list of his
library gifts. - UP to December 31 ,
1908 , this list included l.SOO library
buildings , scattered among the Eng-
lish-speaking peoples of the globe , the
United States standing at the head
and _ ° OS branches ,
with 959 buildings branche
toward which $34,870,745 had been
contributed. Canada stood second . in
proportion t 'population , ' "t 86
buildings and 5 branches , at a cost
of $2,059,415. Then followed , in order
named , England a Wales , u-ith 329
buildings and 5 branches , at a cost of
$7,859,550 ; Ireland , with 42 buildings
and 21 branches , for $724,610 ; Scot-
land , with 105 buildings and 18
branches , at a cost of $2.075,080 ; and
the British "colonies in smaller propor-
tion , all making a total outlay of
$51,506,903 , including $3,653,753 for
college libraries. To the question
whether he is satisfied with his gifts
:11. Carnegie says emphatically that
he is. He says it is not only what a
library does in a community that
measures its value but what it pre
vents. He refers to the other pursuits
which would occupy readers. He de-
clares that "free 'ablic libraries are
the cradles of triumphant democracy. "
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1520 - Martin - Luther excommunicated , J . ' ,
1619-The first Assembly of Virginia
met at Jamestown. ' .
1654 - Queen Christina of Sweden ab
dicated. . .
1749 - The city of Halifax was estafr
lished by Lord Halifax. ' . '
174-Second colonial Congress met at .
Albany , N. Y. J .
1764-First lighthouse established on
Sandy Hook.
1775 - ' Washington left Philadelphia to
take ccmmand of the army at
Cambridge.
177S - British array evacuated Phila
delphia and retreated toward
New York. .
17S3-r-Washington announced to the
governors of the several States
his intention to resign the com
mand of the army.
1793 - British made an unsuccessful
attack on Martinique.
1813 - United States declared war
against Great Britain.
1813-Virginia militia defeated the
British in battle at Craney Is
land , in Chesapeake Bay . . - .
Wellington defeated King Jo
seph of Spain at Vittoria.
1815 - Napoleon defeated at the battle
of Waterloo.
1825 - Cornerstone laid for the Bunker
Hill monument in Charlestown , '
Mass. .
1837 - Accession of Queen Victoria.
1S45 - The Texan Congress accepted
the terms of annexation to the
annexaton
United States.
1848 - Parades raised the standard of
revolt in Mexico . . . . Convention
at Utica nominated Martin Van
Buren for President of the Uni
ted States.
1851 - Large section of San Franoisco :
destroyed by fire. - *
1856-First nominating convention oi
the Republican party met in *
Philadelphia and nominated "
Fremont and Dayton.
+
I860 - National Democratic convention
met at Baltimore and nominated
, Stephen A. Douglas for Presi
dent.
: i , G2 - Union troops occupied Cumber
land Gap.
1863-Confederate cavalry under Gen.
Jenkins entered Chambersburg ,
Pa.
1864-The Federals were repulsed in. ,
attacks upon the Weldon rail . .
road in Virginia.
1865 - Lewis E. Parsons appointed gov
ernor of Alabama. I .
1866 Beginning of the six weeks' war
between Prussia and Austria. <
1867 - Maximilian , Emperor of Mexico- . . ; :
executed. ' * 'r' .
1870 - Brazil and Paraguay signed
siged a .
treaty of peace. "
1S7C - Rutherford B. Hayes nominated
. for President by the Republican
national . convention in Cincin
nati.
1887 - Failure of the Fidelity Bank of
Cincinnati.
1888 - - Republican national convention
at Chicago nominated
, Chiago Harrison
and Morton.
1893-Fire on the Mesaba range , in
Minnesota , caused damage to the
extent of $1,000,000..British
warship Victoria sunk by the
Camperdown in collisions . oftr- - .
Tripoli , -with loss of ' 462 6 lives. '
1896 - Madagascar ?
1896l\Iadagar declared a French , +
FrencI :
colony. 1' {
1897 - Celebration of Queen Victoria's ' > "
diamond jubilee. X-
diamon jubie. . " : .i i
1898 - American squadron under ' AtI t'
miral Sampson shelled the rOr f
at Santiago. . .
1900 - Foreign legations
190oForeign letons ordered to
quit Pekin.
1903 Memorial to Emperor 'Viliamj4
1 unveiled at .
unveie a Hamburg. :
198Unte States Senate approved > "
. of the lock canal for Panama
190S-The
1908The Pan-Anglican Church Con-
. gress convened in London . . . .
Million-dollar fire destroyed 300 ,
houses at Three Rivers , Quebec. . , :
. . . .
.William H. Taft
Wilam resigned as
a'
Secretary of War.
Trhnmel Ills C rn. -
William Dodd of Richmond
, Ind. ; ,
trimmed his corn with :
a
wih razor a few ' ' .
days ago. Blood poisoning .
developed -
and the man's le was amputated
-
S Ider ! n StrU"'herrle , i . '
A spider swallowed . by Katherint i
Degen , the therlxt
6-year-old
b - .ear-ol daughter .
of H . .
' C. Degen Louisville. Ky. , , Is believed'
'to have caused the little '
. ctsed , lttle girl' death. , '
At dinner she ate a saucer of straw- .
'
berries and while eating
etng the fruit re- '
frui "
cnarked at the re'
marke taile that she "thought
she had swallowed "
swal0We something" TWO
hours latr she
was taken
Jours ill
tken i and died
. lespite all the efforts of " _
efcrts ph sicians to"
save her. The latter believe the not
sonous insect caused her death.
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