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PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear
ages are paid, except at the option of the pub
lisher.
Papers sect out of the county must be paid
•or In advance.
Even the kaiser has gone the fate
ful way of ordinary men and has been
■writing letters.
Too many men, remarks the
Charleston News and Courier, take the
"'rest cure" for poverty.
"Ohio Scientist Dies While Study
ing Flora," is tho headline in an ex
change. Flora must be perfectly
killing.
"Never spank the children before
your wife," advises a contemporary.
Yet if you spank your wife you are
liable to divorce proceedings.
The growing disinclination of sep
tuagenarians. octogenarians and nona
genarians to celebrate their birth
days is getting noticeable. The old
codgers are too busy.
Still, it is a fairly reliable test of
the real freshness of eggs that is af
forded by the price on the basket. If
you see them coming out of the 20-
ceut basket they might be fresher.
Second Lieut. Glen E. Edgerton of
Manhattan, Kan., stood at the head of
his class of 108, graduated from West
Point this year, three months earlier
than the usual time for graduation.
Still, we goon burning up children,
•with occasionally a mixture of adults,
for no especial reason that can be dis
cerned except that it is cheaper to
build flretrapß than safe buildings.
A railway through the mountains
north of the Adriatic sea, constructed
by the Austrian government to build
tip the trade of Trieste, though only
130 miles long, has 679 bridges and
viaducts. It also runs through 49
tunnels.
A Philadelphia palmist says that In
his 24 years of practice it was a
poor day when he did not make sls
or $lO. The stronger sex are said to
be the most gullible victims, while
the women are hard to handle and not
so ready to be convinced.
It seems strange, says the Brooklyn
Citizen, that American heiresses who
long for a title do not take advantage
the fact, often stated, that baronial
and other titles can be bought In
Germany and Italy for S2OO and up, in
stead of paying a million or so for a
bankrupt estate and a worthless spend
thrift thrown In.
Now that the Greenough statue of
Washington, which has shivered in in
clement weather in front of the cap
itol for so many years, is to be put
under cover in the Smithsonian insti
tution, why not give it a kimono, too?
According to Mr. McCall, the figure
has been trying to reach out and
grasp its clothes since 1841.
Some idea of the present impor
tance and value of great tracts of
timber land may be gathered from the
fact that art Australian company has
secured a concession from the Rus
sian government to take out 30,000,000
•feet of lumber a year from Siberian
forests. Prices are so high in Aus
tralia that the Siberian lumber can be
transported 8,000 miles to Melbourne
at a handsome profit.
The inventor of that odorless onion
has conferred a great boon on man
kind if he can make onion-eaters be
lieve that it is just as pleasant to the
palate and as entirely anti-scorbutic
a-: the old kind. Hut we have our
doubts. Your real onion-lover is not
likely to believe in the complete gen
uineness of that bulb unless it ad
vertises itself to visitors for a full 24
hours after consumption.
Two naval records were made the
other day. A gun crew, in command
of a young officer who has been out of
Annapolis less than two years, made
a hit with every one of 25 shots from
an eight-Inch gun, and fired nearly
three shots to the minute. The Ches
ter. a new scouting cruiser, steamed
; .venty-six and fifty-three hundredths
knots for four hours on a trial cruise,
and proved itself the fastest boat of
its type in any navy in the world.
It is said in England that the ad
vance in democracy has resulted in an
Increase of books dealing with the
peerage. Debrett, the older book of
geological reference, now in its one
hundred and ninety-fifth year, with
Jts 2,500 pages, is a very different
hook from the original record. Since
the date of Queen Victoria's accession
no fewer than 340 peerages and 460
baronetcies have been bes.'ov/ed, mak
ing an average of five of the one and
*even of the -.'her per annum.
ISSUES ARE JOINED
BRYAN AND TAFT PLATFORMS
COMPARED.
Questions of the Coming Campaign
Pretty Well Laid Before the Vot
ers in the Ohio and Nebras
ka Declarations.
The Ohio Republican platform is
said to have been examined and ap
proved by President Roosevelt and
Secretary Taft, and the Nebraska Dem
ocratic platform had the immediate
supervision of Mr. Bryan. It is prob
able, therefore, that these two plat
forms anticipate pretty closely the
platforms that are to be adopted by
the national conventions, and it is in
teresting to note some of the differ
ences between them and the questions
upon which issue is joined.
The Taft platform calls for tariff
revision, but in doing so insists par
ticularly upon adequate "protection"
for American manufacturers, farmers,
producers - and wage-earners. The
Bryan platform demands that articles
entering into competition with ar
ticles controlled by trusts be placed on
the free list, that reductions be made
in the tariff on the necessaries of life
and that reductions be made "in such
other schedules as may be necessary
to restore the tariff to a 'revenue'
basis."
The Taft platform attacks the dis
franchisement legislation of the south
ern states and favors "the reduction
of representation in congress and the
electoral college in all states of this
union where white and colored citi
zens are disfranchised." Upon this
subject the Bryan platform has noth
ing to say.
The Taft platform calls for "such
modifications of the currency laws as
will provide for tie demands of com
merce, satisfy the needs of all portions
of the country and have at all times
the quality of undoubted security."
On this subject there will probably be
legislation by congress before the na
tional conventions meet. The Bryan
platform opposes both the Aldrich and
the Fowler bills, insists that emer
gency currency should be issued and
controlled by the federal government
and that it should be loaned upon ade
quate security and at a rate of in.
terest which will compel its retirement
when the emergency is passed. It de.
mands better regulation of banks and
specific security for depositors.
The Taft platform enumerates
among its policies the development
step by step of popular government
in the Philippines. The Bryan plat
form says: "We favor an immediate
declaration of the nation's purpose to
recognize the independence of the
Philippine Islands as soon as a stable
government can be established, such
independence to be guarded by us as
we guard the independence of Cuba,
until the neutralization of the islands
can be secured by treaty with other
powers."
There is agreement upon certain
of the policies with which the Roose
velt administration is identified, and
the Bryan platform, which is much the
longer of the two, touches upon sub
jects not mentioned in the Taft plat
form. Some of them may lead to par
tisan controversies, but issue is not
likely to be joined over others.
Aldrich Bill Amendments.
The senate passed the Aldrich bill,
much amended. Of course, the most,
important change was the elimination
of the provision authorizing the issue
of notes based on railroad securities.
Other amendments are the increase of
the permitted circulation from $250,-
000,000 to $500,000,000, and requiring
the banks to pay interest on govern
ment deposits. The reserve provision
is better than it originally was, for it
is now necessary that of the 15 per
cent, reserve required in nonreserve
cities four-fifths must be kept in the
vaults of the bank, of which amount
one-third may be in proper securities.
National banks are not permitted to
invest their funds in stocks or securi
ties of corporations, the officers or di
rectors of which are officers or di
rectors of the banks.
The amendment offered by Senator
Nelson, providing for a guarantee of
deposits very much on the line of the
scheme proposed by Mr. Bryan, was
voted down, and only two Democrats,
voted for it. The bill finally passed
by a vote of 42 to 16, five Republicans
voting in the negative. What are the
chances of this measure in the house
we do not know. In our opinion it has
little merit. The idea seems to be
that it is necessary to do something,
and congress is less afraid of the
Aldrich bill than of any other. We be
lieve that it will give little or no re
lief, when relief is needed, and that
it will prove to be only another ob
stacle in the path of real reform.—ln
dianapolis News.
Fruit of Republican Rule.
Considering the per capita figures
of some other countries it is plain that
the average American has no ground
for complaint. The 48,000,000 of Aus
trians and Hungarians have only
sr>.o4 apiece or about oue-fourth of the
average holding of the American. The
43,500,000 of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland have only
$17.58, or about one-half of the Amer
ican average. Even in prosperous
Germany, with its population of 56,-
400,000, the per capita wealth is but
$22.46. The Japanese have each $3.92,
Hindus $3.05, while the Chinese, the
most numerous of all the peoples of
the earth, totaling approximately 330,-
000,000, possess the munificent sum of
$1.06 apiece. The per capita clrcula
tlon of the United States is $35.35.
CAMERON CO UN TV PRESS, "EHURSQAY, APRIL 30, 1908J
RECKONING MUST BE HAD.
Necessity That President Castro Be
Called to Account.
The Venezuelan question is at last
before congress. No one will deny
that the American government has
been careful, deliberate and patient
with President Castro and his ad
visers. No one will charge it with
jingoism or spectacularism in connec
tion with this vexed and obscure and
complicated question, which, upon
analysis, resolves itself into a series
of distinct claims and disputes. And
no one can doubt that if a greater
and more responsible power were in
volved in this controversy with the
United States our government would
have acted with far more vigor and
far less reluctance and hesitancy. It
is, in truth, the weakness and com
parative insignificance of Venezuela
as a possible opponent of the United
States that, have caused the latter to
overlook various manifestations of "in
difference and disrespect" on the part
of Castro and to rely on diplomacy
after all its other resources had been
exhausted.
It is extremely unpleasant for any
powerful, honorable and self-respect
ing nation to be forced into an open
rupture with a minor and reckless
power. Some aro bound to misinter
pret and misrepresent such a situa
tion to the advantage of the "poor,
Jhelpless under dog." Yet it i i toler
ably plain that -weakness is no excuse
for injustice, unreasonableness and an
offensive, contemptuous attitude. Un
der certain circumstances it may be
come the painful duty of the big
power to discipline and coerce one
that merely presumes on Its small
ness and insignificance.
In the case of Venezuela our gov
ernment has certainly reached a stage
where it must either use some form
of coercion or submit to what it be
lieves and feels to be grave injustice
to persons and corporations entitled
to its aid and protection. Secretary
Root has thrice demonstrated his good
will toward our neighbors in Central
and South America. He has made
conspicuously successful efforts to dis
pel suspicion and prejudice against
us and to establish friendly, fair,
frank relations among all the nations
of the western hemisphere. He is,
moreover, an able lawyer and clear
headed statesman. He has earnestly
considered every objection Venezuela
has advanced to the arbitration that
we have proposed to her 011 several
different occasions. He has made all
allowances and discounted every
claim that was of doubtful equity.
Enough, however, remains even in the
least meritorious of the claims to de
mand honest recognition from Vene
zuela.
Such recognition Castro has con
tumaciously refused even to consider,
and the time has come for appropriate
action in the premises on the part of
congress. Whatever is done should
be done thoughtfully, circumspectly
and soberly, however.
Mr. Bryan Saves Himself.
The national Democratic club ot
New York, through Congressman
Sulzer, invited William Jennings Bry
an to attend its Jefferson day ban
quet. Mr. Bryan accepted the invita
tions and requested that he be the
last speaker of the occasion, naming
"The Art of Government" as his topic
It then became known that a largu
element in the club was insisting
that, though Congressman Sulzer was
authorized to invite Mr. Bryan to at
tend the dinner, he was not author
ized to invite him to speak. And it
became known, furthermore, that a
large element of the club would insist
that Mr. Bryan should be informed
that he would be expected to be a
listener only.
Out of this misunderstanding a
heated controversy arose. Conse
quently Congressman Sulzer received
from Mr. Bryan the following brief
but expressive telegram:
"Have withdrawn acceptance. The
discussion makes it unwise to go."
Though a man in the very prime
and vigor of life, and capable perhaps
of as much endurance as any other
man of his age in the country, Mr.
Bryan, nevertheless, realizes that
there are certain strains which he
should not voluntarily undergo.
By the exercise of all his will pow
er Mr. Bryan might be able to main
tain a dignified silence through much
of the speechmaking at this Jefferson
day banquet, but he knows that even
this would depend altogether upon
circumstances over which he could
have no control.
If the speeches were friendly tc
him and to his cause he might, by
main strength, succeed in holding him
self in his chair, but if, on the other
hand, they should contain favorable
references to Judge Parker, to Gray
of Delaware, or to Johnson of Minne
sota, he knows that one of two things
would be pretty certain to happen—he
would either be on his feet spellbind
ing the banqueters before they knew
it or he would be ou the floor in a fit
superinduced by a rush of oratory to
the head.
At this stage of the campaign Mr.
Bryan cannot afford to take any risks.
For a man of his habits to sit at a ban
quet table, listening to half a dozen
spellbinders, with the knowledge upon
him that the toast master would ad
journ the gathering without giving
him a chance to speak, would be will
fully to commit a suicidal act.
Mr. Bryan was wise to withdraw.—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Receiver for Democracy.
After Bryan's next nomination foi
president and his third defeat he wil
be the logical candidate for receiver o'
the Democratic party.—Topeka Cap I
ital. I
PUBLISHERS VOICE A PROTEST
THEY WANT TARIFF ON WOOD
PULP REMOVED.
Speaker Cannon and Congressmen
Dalzell and Payne Are Accused
of Acting in Bad Faith.
New York City.—At Wednesday's
meeting of the American News
paper Publishers' association a reso
lution was adopted thanking Presi
dent Roosevelt for his courageous
message in favor of free pulp and
print paper. Another resolution was
adopted which reads as follows:
"The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association, comprising repre
sentatives of daily newspapers print
ed in every section of the country
and gathered in annual convention,
protests against the subterfuge just
designed by Speaker Cannon and Rep
resentatives Payne and Dalzell, creat
ing a committee on paper inquiry and
thereby blocking the Stevens bill for
free paper and free pulp.
"We charge that this device was in
spired in bad faith. Since early in
December, 1907, a committee of this
body has been clamoring at the doors
of the ways and means committee for
an opportunity to show the power of
illegal combinations of paper makers
to raise paper prices, an effect of ex
isting tariff restrictions. Messrs.
Payne and Dalzell have repulsed all
such efforts. The speaker of the
house has turned away his face when
ever any member tiled to raise the
Issue on the floor of the house. We
are now amazed to find that Messrs.
Cannon, Payne and Dalzell have
changed their tactics and avow a de
sire to study the tariff phases of thi3
paper question. They say they want
the whole matter investigated thor
oughly, though they know that such
inquiry will carry over the entire
proposition to the next session of con
gress. They now pose as champions
who have been eagerly aslting for that
which for four months they had the
power to refuse and which they did
refuse.
"With the utmost respect and defer
ence for the authority of congress, we
respectfully state that we mistrust the
committee just appointed. We chal
lenge the intention of those who have
thus far succeeded in sidetracking the
Stevens bill. We charge that action
on the Stevens bill has been delayed
to the advantage of a combination of
paper makers who, in a desperate ef
fort to maintain artificial prices upon
a declining market, have shut down
nearly 50 per cent of their mills and
who, by throwing Into idleness a con
siderable number of their employes,
have shown the insincerity of their
professions that the tariff duty on
paper was needed to protect that pa
per."
DEATH CLAIMS STATESMAN
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Ex-
Premier of England, Passes Away.
I.ondon, England.—Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bannerman, former British pre
mier, died Wednesday at his official
residence in Downing street.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was
born September 7, 1836. He was the
youngest son of the late Sir James
Campbell of Forfarshire, at one time
lord provost of Glasgow. He assumed
the additional name under the will of
his maternal uncle, tho late Henry
Bannerman, who bequeathed to him
a large estate, in 1860 he married
Charlotte, daughter of Maj. Gen, Sir
Charles Bruce. She died in 1906, and
from that time Sir Henry's decline in
health may be dated.
For nearly 40 years he sat for the
same seat —the Stirling burghs—and
his record of office goes back to 1871,
when he was financial secretary to
the war office, which post he held a
second time from 1880 to 1882.
On the resignation of the Balfour
administration in December, 1905, Sir
Henry was summoned by the king
and formed a Liberal cabinet, himself
becoming first lord of the treasury
and prime minister.
The general election followed and
Sir Henry entered the new parliament
with the greatest majority ever given
to a British premier.
Throughout his entire life Sir Hen
ry showed a dogged determination
that won him many adherents and
countless admirers, and caused his
opponents to hesitate before throw
ing down the gauntlet to him. He
was able to withstand from
whatever quarter with stolid indif
ference and to come back to the fight
undismayed, as though nothing had
happened. His unfailing humor and
his good will towards all men en
deared him even to those who op
posed him or whom he opposed.
From the very beginning of the
present session of parliament Sir
Henry had been suffering ill health
and after the opening day he practi
cally had not been able to attend the
sessions at all, Chancellor Asquith
acting as premier in his absence.
President's Son Goes Up in Balloon.
Wilmington, Del. Balloon No. 10
of the signal corps of the army,
which left Washington Wednesday
afternoon, landed at 5:15 last evening
one mile above Delaware City. The
balloon was in charge of Capt. De For
est Chandler and had as passengers
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Capt. Fitz
hugh Lee and Capt. Robert Van
Home. The landing was made with
out accident, although in a previous
attempt to bring it to earth several
miles below Delaware City the anchor
caught in a tree aud broke off. The
passengers came to Wilmington and
boarded a train for Washington.
Wreck Caused Nine Deaths.
Ralston, Pa.—A work train on
the Susquehanna & New York
railroad near Laquin, Pa., was
wrecked Wednesday by a runaway
car which dashed into the train after
descending a steep grade. Eight lum
bermen were killed outright, one died
after being taken to a hospital, and 15
were seriously injured.
Lightning Killed Two Brothers.
Paris, Tex. James and Thomas
Trimrn, aged 15 and 22 years, respect
ively, were killed by lightning at
their home at Annoaa on Wednes
day. '
MUSI VOTE AS A
UNITFOII BRYAN
INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ILLINOIS
DELEGATES TO DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
FIGHT ON LIQUOR QUESTION
Was Made in the State Convention
and the Advocates of the "Great
est Personal Liberty" Were
Victorious.
Springfield, 111. The Illinois Dem
ocracy on Thursday adopted the
unit rule and Instructed its dele
gates to the national convention at
Denver to vote for William J. Bryan
and to "use all honorable means" to
secure his nomination.
After a hot fight in the resolutions
committee, which was carried into
the convention, the party adopted a
platform plank declaring in favor of
the "greatest personal liberty" to in
dividuals, provided such liberty did
not infringe upon the rights of other
people.
Instead of naming the usual four
delegates and alternates at large to
the national convention, it was de
cided to send eight, allowing each
man one-half of a vote. Two presi
dential electors at large were also
chosen.
The resolution indorsing Mr. Bryan
was adopted with enthusiasm and a
flattering demonstration followed the
action. For all that, however, it was
not worded entirely to the satisfac
tion of Mr. Bryan's most zealous sup
porters and in the last few minutes
of the convention Judge Owen P.
Thompson of Jacksonville, declaring
that Mr. Bryan had been "sold out,"
demanded that a stronger resolution
be passed.
He desired to have the instruc
tions so worded that Illinois would
be bound to support Bryan as long as
his name was before the convention.
His effort was made in the last few
minutes of the convention and it met
the usual fate of new business that
is sprung upon hot, weary, hungry
and thirsty delegates, who are anx
ious to catch trains for their homes.
It was overwhelmingly defeated.
The convention, however, showed
sincere enthusiasm for Bryan. When
his name was mentioned there was in
variably great applause, and the read
ing of the resolutions in his favor
was greeted with cheers.
Roger C. Sullivan, national commit
teeman, dominated the convention
from first to last.
RECEIVERSHIP IS ORDERED
A Chicago Broker Who Owes $200,000
Is Alleged to Have Defrauded
Many Clients.
Chicago, 111. Judge Bethea in the
federal court Thursday appointed
Edwin C. Day receiver for the affairs
of the banking and brokerage firm of
Wallace H. Hopkins & Co., on a peti
tion filed by three creditors. The pe
tition declares that the liabilities of
the firm amount to SIOO,OOO and places
the assets at SSOO.
F. A. Harper, who has been acting
as attorney for Hopkins, said that
the liabilities are not less than $200,-
000. He said he did not know the
whereabouts of Hopkins and that he
believed he had left the city. One of
the petitioners, W. C. Clark, charges
Hopkins with diverting $6,000 given
him to invest in board of trade trans
actions to the promotion of sales of
stock of the Consolidated Zinc Co.
Postoffice Inspector Stuart said he
has had the transactions of the bro
kerage firm under investigation for
several months and only awaited the
disposal of other business in the of
fice of District Attorney Sims to pre
sent evidence secured with a view to
having them passed upon by a federal
grand jury.
The Consolidated Zinc Co. stock has
been widely advertised by the Hop
kins company as syndicate managers.
The advertisements are declared by
the postofiice inspector to be highly
colored.
TORNADO CAUSED DEATH
Storm in Nebraska Kilied Three Peo
ple and Destroyed Several
Houses.
Bancroft, Neb. A cyclone swept
through Cumming county and in
to Thurston county Thursday and
three people are known to have been
killed, a number injured, and a num
ber of houses destroyed. Telegraph
and telephone wires are down and re
ports are slow in arriving.
The tornado struck the house of
John Mangleson, near Pender, Neb.,
and then swooped up into the air,
taking the wreckage of the house and
both Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson. Both
were killed, their bodies being car
ried a mile.
George Waacker and family were at
lunch when the twister struck their
house. Three of the family were se
riously injured.
The dead body of a baby was
picked up in a road ten miles from
Bancroft. The child has not been
identified, but undoubtedly was
brought by the cyclone from some
residence which was wrecked.
Explosion Killed Four Miners.
Pittsburg, Pa. Four men were
killed, three seriously injured and
100 others had a narrow escape
from death Thursday when an ex
plosion occurred in Mine No. 1 of
the Ellsworth Collieries Co. at Ells
worth, Pa. The dead are all for
eigners.
Ate Wild Parsnips and Died.
Kittanning, Pa. Two sons of Ja
cob Garuer, aged 10 and 12 years,
were found dead in a field at
Hawthorne, near here, Thursday,
death having been caused by eating
wild parsnips. , __ |
CYCLONE KILLED 100 PEOPLE
TERRIFIC STORM CAUSED LOSS
OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Portions of Louisiana. Mississippi and
Alabama Were Laid Waste by
a Tornado.
Atlanta, Ga.—A wind storm of cy
clonic proportions swept over por
tions of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama Friday, leaving a trail of
dead and injured. The number of
killed is estimated at over 150, and
the number of injured at over 400,
with many portions of the afflicted
districts to hear from.
Most of the dead are negroes. Per
haps half a dozen white persons were
caught in falling buildings and either
fatally injured or so seriously dis
abled as to require medical atten
tion. The loss of life was chiefly in
the quarters of colored persons where
the wind destroyed their cabins, bury
ing the occupants in the debris, or in
the farming sections of the country,
where trees were uprooted, telegraph
and telephone poles torn up and gen
eral destruction bcame an encore to
a storm which swept with almost tor
nado fury through the country.
In Louisiana it is estimated that a
score of smal towns were destroyed or
partially wrecked. These include
Amite City, Arcadia and Independ
ence. Belle Grove, Melton, Lorman,
Pine Ridge, Quitman Landing, Fair
child's Creek, Purvis flnd Lumberton,
Miss., are reported seriously damaged'
by the storm. In Alabama, Dora waa
the chief sufferer. This town ia also
known as Bergen. Four or more per
sons were killed. Fifty persons at
the lowest estimate were injured.
Those most seriously hurt were hur
ried to hospitals at Birmingham, Ala.
One woman died on the train. Twc
other members of her family were
hurt. At Bergen cars were blown
from the railroad tracks and consid
erable other property destroyed.
Reports also say that the storm
struck Albertville, Ala., and destroyed
nearly the entire northern portion of
the town. A cotton mill was blown
down, the storm ranging northward,,
doing much destruction to life and
property. An unconfirmed report
from this section gives the death list
as from 30 to 35, with scores of per
sons hurt.
A TELEGRAM WAS FORGED
It Led to the Defeat of Bills to Pro
hibit Gambling at Race Tracks.
Elmira, N. Y. —An announcement
which was made here Friday that
the vote of Senator Cassidy against
the race track bill was due to a tele
gram from Congressman Fassett at
Washington, which had been tam
pered with, caused a sensation.
Congressman Fassett, who is here
to attend the congressional conven
tion, said that the story was true. On
(he day the race track bills came up
in the senate Congressmen Fassett
and Dwight united in a telegram to
Senator Cassidy, which when filed
read:
"John and I urge you to stand by
the governor on the race track bill',
owing to conditions in vour district.
"J. S. FASSETT."
That telegram, when it reached Cas
sidy, read as follows:
"John and I urge you not to stand'
by the governor on the race track
bills,'' etc.
The next day, when it became
known in Washington that the gov
ernor had been beaten by one vote,,
another telegram was sent to Cassidy
as follows:
"John and I think you have made a
serious if not fatal mistake. Get busy,
move to reconsider and pass the bill.
"J. S. FASSETT."
Mr. Fassett did not know until he
reached the state convention that the
telegram had been falsified. An inves
tigation was started and it was found
that the telegram had been changed
in Washington, Mr. Fassett said he
had a letter from the manager of the
telegraph company's office in that city
admitting the forgery and stating that
the operator responsible had been dis
charged.
DUN'S BUSINESS BULLETIN
Dullness Prevails in Nearly All Indus
tries, Notably in Iron and Steel..
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Light weight wearing apparel is in
better demand in response to more
seasonable weather, but retail trade
as a whole shows little alteration, and
the crops have not made sufficient
progress to encourage normal prep
aration for future business in whole
sale arid jobbing departments. Pay
ments are a little more prompt, ow
ing to the ease of mon£y. ,
Dullness continues in the iron and
steel industry, the outlook for the
year being indicated by a reduction
in the estimate of ore shipments to
20,000,000 tons. Several mills have
resumed, including some of the lead
ing rail plants, but these are not
started at more than one-third full
capacity. Although it develops slow
ly, there is much encouragement re
garding the outlook in the pipe trade,
easier money reviving plans for the
issue of municipal bonds for water,
gas and other public works.
Some increase in the attendance of
buyers is noted in certain primary
markets for cotton goods, and im
proved financial conditions cause less
question regarding terms of settle
ment, but the percentage of idle ma
chinery is larger.
Bank Robbers Stole $3,000.
Bandana, Ky. Four masked rob
bers, after taking possession of
the telephone exchange and beat
ing the operator into insensibility,
compelled Assistant. Cashier Hahs of
the Ballard County bank of Bandana,
to unlock the bank and open the safe
for them Thursday night. The rob
bers got away with $3,000.
Three People Burned to Death.
Corry, Pa. Three persons were
cremated and a fourth was prob
ably fatally burned Friday in a
fire which destroyed the home of D»-
Tid Wetherbee at Centervllle.