The News Do mestic Some anonymous persons are writ- Ing letters attacking the reputation of Blanche Brunner, a Missouri girl, who recently married Arthur W. Godfrey, son of a Boston millionaire. The suit brought by the State of Missouri to oust the Standard Oil Company from doing business in that state will come up in the Supreme Court at Jefferson City next Friday. Cousins of the late David E Crouse, of New York, will attack the right of Dorothea Edgarita Crouse McVickar, who claims to be his daughter, to $4,000,000 of his estate. The clearing house has come to the relief of the Mercantile National Bank and forced the Heinze, Moore and Thomas interests out of clear- ing house banks. The steamer Sarnia, of Line, which arrived in from Port Limon, broke pressure piston rod on after leaving Cartagena steamed 2,600 miles under maining two cylinders. The California Limited, east bound, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, was ditched at Earl, Col., by a defective rall and the engineer was killed. Several pas- sengers were hurt. The Atlas New York her high- October 2, The Sarnia the re- the Massachusetts Jallot Law Commission has decided that Henry M. Whitney, of Boston, was legally nominated for governor at the Spring. field Democratic Convention. Thirty are idle in the waters of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston because of | the engineers’ demand for additional help. Walter Stock was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Boston court for the murder of his sweetheart, Mary Agnes Bates, In the equity proceedings against | the alleged anthracite coal trust 45 additional defendants are named. William G. Rockefeller testified in the government's suit for the disso- coastwise tugs lution of the oil combine. Three persons were killed and 37 injured i the Southern | Railway . | Four men were drowned in the] Illinois River by overturning of a gasoline laund in a collision at Rudd, N. ( on . the dering wed Fa) and rel: the gill’s death The meeting Illinois Central ed by a di nearly Fish events trade with Russian war, Morse, pr Asiatic Associ The allur and line” the before known 000.000 Davi the 1 t of Troy, anaemia. of Yu- rested Daw- aling $40,000 sack and foreman in at George Kind artment was ar son on a cl of ste from a committed The Canadian Pacific tar collided » he er, of 1 of the were ba A \ in the old m residential quarter 8. W., and considerable been done Joseph H. American dele tional final of tl} conference The Danish teamer Alfred Er- landsen ‘wag wrecked on the rocks off Castle Point, Scotland Twenty the crew were lost Twenty-seven or injured in a Orio, Spain, Gil Calderon, the notorious bandit, surrendered near Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Cantain Wittenmever of the United States Army, who is supervisor the rural guard. The statue of St. Baudine, stolen from a church, was found in the cel- lar of the thief, who was about to | ship it to an American purchaser. Andrew Lord Rose- | berry the | Philosophical Edin. | burgh on the A panic was caused in Naples by | the cessation of smoke from all crate ers of Vesuvius, In The Hague Peace were 38 votds In favor of the es tablishmient of a permanent court of arbitration; six countries abstain- ed from voting and Mexico and Bra- zil and ether Latin-American coun- tries voted against it because of the suppression of the worded in Article I, setting forth that the court should be “based on the juridicial equality of the states.” Twenty-six growers of prunes in San Francisco have pooled the prod- uct of thelr orchards in an organi zation and are holding it until the steamer Tar- | steamer Charme at the and both s mon rock has 1 under Newcastle damage Occur: workings of bead of the the Interna- giened the Peace ference, fet of killed | wreck ati persons were rafiroad of Carnegie made and addresses before institetion in negro problem. Conference market reaches thelr price, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TELLS OF HIS HUNT Pleased at the Success of His Trip. HOW HE KILLED HIS BEAR. Fear of Alligators Could Not Keep Him From His Daily Swim in the Lake—He Hugs His Companions for Joy After He Kills His Bear and Gives One a Twenty-dollar Bill “We got turkey, 2 and 1 except Stamboul, La. (Special) deers, 1 wild sqirrels, 1 duck, 1 opossum wildcat. We ate the wildcat, and there when we almost felt as eat it." This was President summary of the results on Bayou Tensas and He arrived at 3 o'clock Sunday af- ternoon at the residence of Leo Shields, where he will be a guest un- til he departs for Vicksburg. The President came in at a fall gallop, and, accompanied as he was by about a dozen hunting compan- fons, all mounted and attired in hunting garb, the cavalcade pre- sented a tableau as picturesque as it was annimated. The President is htly bronzed than when he entered wilderness 15 days ago, but notwith- 3 bears, 6 them all times could were if we Roosevelt's of his hunt ear Lake, more circumstances that his skin, as well as his clothes, bear evidence of con- tact with the cane life, “Yes: added. it is a pretty good record. fectly satisfied.” “You might add,” the Meteca brothers, President's hunt, ‘‘that we got three bears,” he I am per- interjected one who has through- hunted a of guide we the the all told.” Best, good?” but five bears Bear Liver Was ware the ‘possum : was aul As K ef party President was so success that he his companions BOON you are no tender- President responded Ennolds a $20 was little hunting, becar encountered a drove o which ferocious than One beat was ing note there 1 ¥ wri} GOES wild are more of the ed by a bear There were dally swims in the lake several members of party, the President was fine,” have fear ! geem to have.” dogs by the including The ‘and 1 iigators he said of al water did not that some the Suffocated In Pittsburg, Pa. James Marshall and daughter Mrs. Mary Wright, Ingram, Pa were caught in a folding bed, which closed them while they were Tuesday night. When res. cued both women were in a eritical condition Folding-Bed. { Special). her of on Oil Contractor A Suicide, Arkansas City, Kan. (Special). A. D. Davidson, oil contractor, was found dead hig room an in num and left a note, saying he was in financial straits and believed his mind was falling. Her Wound Fatal, Philadelphia (Special). Misa nie Sabold, aged 31 years, of Lans- dale, a suburb, died in a hospital here from a bullet wound received Monday night, when she was shot while walking in the crowded de partment store district by Walter Hallowell, of Bethayres, Pa. Hallo- well was employed about five years ago in an office where Miss Sabold wag a clerk. He apparently tried to rob her before the shooting. Ane GETTING GH A WAR FOOTING Activity in Both Land and Sea Services, Washington (Bpecial). — Prepara- tion for a hostile emergency in the Pacific 1s occupying the time and at- tention of the military and naval authorities to such an extent that all other work has been suspended in some branches of the two services. The war fever is spreading through the personnel of the Army and the Navy. Many officers are now aware of the circumstances which led to the decision to send the battleship fleet to the Pacific, and with thelr eyes opened In that respect they are watchnig the trend of events with absorbing interest. The idea that war is coming is apparently firmly fixed in the minds of some of those having superior means of information as to the government's attitude. Others, while depreciating talk of war and inclined to the belief that there will be no conflict, contend, however, that the prepara- tions now under way are justified by the situation as understand it, and commend President Roosevelt for what they regard as foresight on his part, Under orders from partment, the entire at navy yards on the Atlantic is being employed in making ready the vessels of the battleship fleet for so-called practice cruise to the Pacific Every class of labor that be utilized in getting the into condition for its long voyage the they the Navy working Coast has the yards ships. The Corps and put to work authorities of the are devoling exclusively to arrangements intallation of electric fire apparatus in the fortifica- Bay, the new on Army selves for the control naval the to th but which are have from Roosevelt imperative. Work On Defenses. rative work is being of other orders to complete it, derstood to President Rush conducted detriment projects the un- come directly are DAY OF SENSATIONS Follow The In «¢ opper Stocks. Three Failures Crash New York followed each gion in the flnar the resul the ted in the suspension of a as collapse of proje and brokerage The firm of on United Copper ent promin firm Otto suspended the F. Augustus Copper ma Lu ve ednesday Heinze & Co stock exchang Heinze, the resigned of Mercantile of New York Amalgamated at its directors’ quarterly dividend fr WAS gnate, dency the Bank The pany, cent io The ontant Copper dividend dividend of private & many, failed 500 000 The State Savings Bank Mont., of which the Heinzes principal strockholders, suspended. The private bank of T. W, H. of Houston, established made a general Liabilities over $2,000,000, Say Heinze Refused Stock, As a result of these sensations the stock market was halting and irregu- lar, but there was an apparent feel- Copper Come cut per meeting, ym 2 $ 1 per directors cen of the Boston and declared a in place of Company of $6 $12 banking firm of Hal- Co., of Hamburg, Ger- with liabilities of $7 .- ile are the clear- somewhat, and rallied before the close, corner in United Copper had ed the atmosphere the market Three Killed By Train, Lorain, O. (8pecial) ~~Mathew Glovoskl, five years old, and his sis down by a Lake Shore train and kill- ed on a crossing near Amherst, and their aunt, Miss Sophie Glovek, was fatally hurt. The three were walk- ing on the track, when the boy's foot became fastened in a cattle guard. In attempting to resue him his sis- ter also caught her foot in the guard, The aunt had stooped to unlace the little boy's shoe when the three were struck by the train. FROM CONTINENT 10 CONTINENT Communication By Wireless Across the Continent. BUSINESS SERVICE IS STARTED. The First Message Is Sent, Under Supervision of Marconi, From Glace Bay, N. B., to Clifden, on Coast of Ireland —Congratulatory Messages Exchanged. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH HISTORY 1842-—-Professor Morse signalled across Busquehanna RI without metallic connection by means of wires stretched along the banks Clark Maxwell defined ether waves to the Royal So- clety, declaring wireless tele graphy possible by means of diversion Preece, of between wires four t ver 18564 electro-magnectic Sir William London, signaled parallel telegraph and a half miles lished tween F 1885 apar 1882 Preece estab unication be m and Laver a third miles comm lathol nock, three and apart 1887 Marconi ntroduced the 1, and sig- to high wire or aeri led from Flatholm Marconi “8” from foundland Actual cation Lavernock 1901 letter New-~ signaled Cornwall to 1802 communi- between Cornwall shed Cape and between Ameri- nsconti- not be take up dealt with coasts of Tra Ir Washington Immigra- tion records for just miss- mark, just ed the hit statement jssned of nmerce and number of aliens various ports was ir of several thou- sand over September of last year They were distributed among near- all the nationalities of world italy shows a decrease of 26 and Japan of 500 The latter is a de- crease of 33 1-3 per cent. from last fo a : Department Labor. The exact admitted to $8,694, an cording hy the the nerease the fy iy Big Fire In Nashville, Nashville, Tenn gutted the of & Sons, dealers in and seeds, entailing a loss estimated at $80,000. John H. Hitchcock, was overcome by smoke and barely f Spex jal } store John wagons, harness damaged. Rallroaded To Prison, Toronto, Ont. verbial, but a case in the Criminal for Canadian courts. Horace Moun- tain a mall carrier employed in eol- arrested at 10.45 A, M., charged with robbing the mails. arraigned before the magistrate, pleaded guilty and within an hour from the time of his arrest had com- menced sorving a term of four years’ imprisonment. | Washington | Some Interesting Hap- penings in Brief. President Roosevelt has ordered that action be suspended in the mat- ter of cutting down historic trees In the botanical grounds in Washington Porto Rico is cure representation Guard of the United The pure-food examine into the drying fruits The Immigration the deportation of Lizzie Rocks MeGrogain, {imported as tory girls by the Finlay of Grafton endeavoring to se- in the National States investigtaors methods used in Bureau gon AA. y, Muss Capt Horten W Enginears, con Colonel military has ret: The War geacoast battery San Francisco, Miller, Marcus Arm: 1 ay ' Department on TRAGIC ENDING. Webh Syck Supposed To Have Murdered His Bride. ryert OuEn ymoon trip thr Killed By His New Auto. Morenci, Mich Special Arthur merchant was killed In an five we miles east of had and was in it His wife wore in the mad with While driving at speed he control of the machine in and it ran into a ing turtle and crushing him to death ler purchased mobile, taking and hine two children him lost way ditch, turn- high some de op IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD, six received ment deposits The Boston declared a quarterly a share and an $4 a share. This In have weeks Philadelphia banks $1.100,.000 of Govern- & Montana Company dividend of $2 extra dividend of is a reduction of The street very bearish cause credits Morgan motives, and to making it Japan, After the paying fits usual German-American Title & Trust profit account of $50,000 for the year. “Gunning for Gould” is a remark frequently heard apropos of Missour! Pacific's recent extraordinary decline, At the present price it yields the buyer nearly 10 per cent, LONG FLIGHT OF AN ARMY BALLOON Sails Five Hundred Miles Over Four States, WIKNERS OF THE LAHN CUP. United States Signal Corps Aero nauts Travel Over Illinois, Indians, Ohio and Into West Virginia Spend Two Days and a Night in the Clouds. 85t. Loul throug! WHEAT sein Below New Officers Elected. attanooga, { Se Editor Becomes Sheriff, Montgomen Ala { Special) Horace Hood litor and part of the Montgo f pal and one the oldest editors of the Alabama press, was appointed sheriff of Mont- gomery County, one of the best-pay- { ing positions in the state owner of A Million For A Lease. Newport, R. 1. (Special). « Mrs. Ogden Goelet, it is stated here, has | been offered $1,000,000 for a five- year lease of Ochre Court, the splen- (did summer residence she owns here | As no one who can pay such a rent would oceupy Ochre Court more than half the year, say from May to Octo- i ber, inclusive, $1,000,000 rent for {five years would be at the rate of | $38,320 a month of the actual ten | ancy, or about $1,100 a day.
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