which the national government has
Jurisdiction; the repeal of the inier- |
nal revenue tax on alcoholic liquo ‘|
1
]
THE GOVERNESS WAS
LURED TO HER DEATH
Mystery Over Pretty Girl Found
THE PRESIDENTS
ARE * INVOLVED
“Plots in the Several Central American
ARMY TO ASK FOR
BALLOON MONEY
Want Million Dollars To Study
EUGENE W, CHAFIN
NAMED FOR PRESIDENT
Chicagoan Heads National Prohibition
WAS MURDERED THEN
HANGED TO A TREE
| Farmer 64 Years Old Wanted to Wed
and the prohibition of the or
state trafic therein,
“3. The election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people
“4, Equitable graduated
States.
UNCLE SAM CHECKING THEM.
Attitude of the United States Cools
the Warlike Schemes of the Several
Rulers— President Cabrera’s Plan
to Encompass the Downfall of
President Zelaya.
Panama (By Cable) Central
Americans who are now in Panama
and who are in in the
tion brought about by the revolution.
ary movement in Honduras, are con-
vinced that the presidents
of the republics are involved
affiair, the ramifications of
reach far back. According
these Central Americans, President
Cabrera, of Guatemala, following the
_ conspiracy against his life,
which he believed President Zelaya
of Nicaragua, to he the promoter
conceived a plan for Zelaya's
fall. Fearing that without
could not succeed in this, he er
ored to interest his neighbor,
dent Figueroa, of Salvader, who
an old grudge against Zelaya, whom
he charged with giving openly some-
time ago, men, arms and money tc
Dr. Prudencio Alfero for the pu
pose of invading Sa
For a time
was undecided, but event
Manuel Bonilla, ex-presid«
duras, who was deposed by the
lution promoted by Zola
peared on the scene He
mended that they
by r ing hi
Honduras, this merely
inary step Later all thy
{Honduras, Guatemala
dar), he suggested, coul
in an attack upon
Prior to
dent ‘I
Mig
prisoned
pose
terested
of sever
in
aid he
wdeay-
Presi-
lvador.
President Figueroa
Ge
Hon
rey
1t5 11
Medi)
nt of
%
also
i
beg:
eplac m as
5
a
UNANSWe!r
Hondurs
tions
tin
along
moveni
who we
& chan
e endeavori
ge in
the
brine about
the government of Hon-
duras, revolutioniste, invadix
that nry from the Gusmtemalan
and Salvadorean fre
Zelaya was taken
movement and i
but he wliately
his ment
help ¢
ran go
Nicarauga
in the han
among whom
prominent and
quietly awaited
President
qualities cour
be prominen t
spark would
lutionary #
alarmed
Hondur
further
Hi
cout
saw
Pade
poss it
ent, Z ara increased the
Army and pliced arms
Salvadorean refugees
wer i
11 r
'e @a number
ubledl]
18 as he Hondu
¥
g of
popular
de
Figuers
eaders
ments
Age 18
at
iB
to
nduraz
n the
Honduras
the Centr:
tice
Costa
harges
mala
gaping time
bringing )
attent lan these republics the pos-
gibility American intervention.
Shortly after the presentation of
these ¢} ges the United States eru
ser Albany left for Amapala with
force of marines and other warships
were announeed a: being under or-
ders to proceed to the scene of th
trouble if necessary, aud as a
of the attitude of the United States |
the belligerent sentimeats of the |
various Central American presidents |
cooled considerably, for, although
bearing no love .for each other and
standing in constant fear of an at-
tack from some undetermined quar-
ter, they prefer anything to haying |!
the United Statos interfere In
tral American affairs Az the matter
now stands, each accusing
other and all are making
having neutral
prominent
1ar
"
2
result
.
Cen- |
one is the
claims t
g be
kl. Marines Roady,
Colon, July 10 The 1
Des Moin
Gauntanamo
Lieutenant Ce HN Cole, cominand
er of the marines on the
Isthmus of recently rece
ed hington to have
160 immediate |
field wileved that |
the patch these |
ma the cruiser
Des
n
S.
t ‘+
ited
ite - |
cruise: a ed here fron
orders i
marines
erviee
intention
rines to
Moines
ready for
jt wa i
was {to di
Honduras on
Lightning Kills Two, .
Dayton, O. (Special) Clyde Zar.
sed 29, and Walter Cowitz, aged 14
were killed by lightning on a
near Vandalia. The boys had taken
their horses inte a barn and Zar laid
down on the hay inside the barn,
while Cowitz stood outside, ning
against the barn, Lightning struck
an elm tree standing near the bulld-
ing, leaped to the barn and passed
through the body of the Zar boy, ras
down the hay and split the skull of
Cowitz. Another boy standing with
the latter victim was uninjured, but
horses on the wet barn floor were
killed
a
Saw ‘Her Hurband Drown.
Weirs, N. H. (Special). Walter
D. Martin, president of the Common
Council of Malden, Mass, who has
been spending the summer with his
wife and two children on Pine ls
land in. Lake Winnepesaukee, was
drowned im the lake while rowing
in front of his cottage and within
sight of his wife, His boat was cap-
sized in a sudden squall, When Mrs,
Martin saw her husband sink she
Dead in Pond.
N. YY.
the tragedy
(Special) .—Develop-
of Teal Pond,
the
Hazel
been
con
her
Troy,
ments
into
in
whose shallows
of pretty
Drew was flung after she had
mysteriously murdered, showed
clusively that she was lured to
death
The
gwampy
body 19-year-old
the
facts
authorities, investigating
crime, have unearthed certain
which they declare lead to no
possibility than that the girl
persuaded to start for the home
her uncle, who lives not far
where she was found dead, on a
| text to get her in that lonely part
Ren aer County
It now declared
in or assassins of
| woman known and,
District Attorney Jarvis
will be made soon
Died Defending Her
Deve in this,
ragic pitiful murde
laer Co inty
as almost §
hours ago were
slayer The
murder will out finds
vindication Clever
from
pre
s5el
is that the
the pretty
8 young
according
Pp
are
Honor,
mos:
in the
lopments ne
and most
yf Rens
80 swiftly
men who 24
a to
ne
ue the
OL
body
for the
and eff
rhar 2
lonely
yrs
the he
into ly
tae
*OV Oo Pir
oved balling
Man Hime i
tsbur
Kills
{ Special
£
Ethel
yvster
Is Ei
{ Spec!
Spec]
Roosevelt
Bay. N. ¥Y
Feary
ghteen,
of
President
was the 8
honor
celebr
took the
i number of her yo
nvited
+ 5
osevelt
party to
Ing friends
folks dancec
broad veranda at Sagamor
The President
0
and helped m
vo
INE
&
fun
ike
in the
ively.
Eddy 87.
{ Special) Mrs
Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder and
head of the Christian Scientist
Church, Thursday reached her eigh-
ty-geventh year, but beyond congrat-
ulations from members of her house-
ials of the church, there |
was no observance of the event. Mrs
Eddy is reported in good health. and
yaintain the same routine, which
ed her life at Concord, NX. H
several years
Mrs, Mary Baker G
Newton, Mass
or
A
during the past
overn
Town Wiped Out By Fire.
New Philadelphia, O (Special)
town of Baltic, T
containing 500 people
wiped out by fire
business buildings
destroved The blaze started
mill, and among the buildings
destroved are Huffman's restauran
Croyer's restaurant an. seveal loaded |
feight cars. The Joss 13 estimated
£100,000.
The uscarawas !
was
Forty
were
in al
County
swractically
homes and
flour e
+
a
Many Suits Follow Disaster
Pittsburg, Pa. (Special) Suits |
damages aggregating $950,000!
entered in the United States
Court against the Pittsburg
Coal Company, ag the result of the |
Darr Mine disaster, of December 19, |
1907, when nearly 300 men wers |
killed. There are 18 plaintiffs—the |
wives or fathers and mothers of the |
victims,
Nine Blown Up By Powder.
Tacoma, Wash. (Special). ~
powder magazine of the Northwest-
ern Improvement Company, at Clee
lum, blew up at & o'clock P M.,
while a gang of men were unloading
a car of powder. Nine were killed
————— A RN
Guilty Of Murder.
Tifton, Ga. (Special). The jury
in the case against Dempsey Taylor,
charged with the killing of A. Conger
at Banday School at Salem Church,
in Tift County. July 5, returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree and recommended the
mercy of the court, which means life
imprisonment. Jesse Taylor, a broth.
er of Dempsey, will be tried this
week for complicity In the killing
Both boys are algo under indictment
for assanlt with intent to murde:
in the shooting of Barney Conger
collapsed.
Aeronautics.
TO ERECT TWO BALLOON STATIONS.
If Cash Is Secured General Allen Will
Erect Two Airship Stations on At.
lantic Coast Interest in the Experi.
ments at Fort Myer Lend Impetus
to Dirigible Study.
D. C.
the
En-
interest
Myer
by
Washington, {Bpecial)
couraged by general
manifested the coming Fort
and the
of other nations in
Brigadier General James
signal officer, and
board ordinance and fortification
of War Department will recom-
the appropriation by
next winter of $1,000,000
nautics
With
! Proposes
tions on
York and
purchase
in
balloon tests prompted
advancement
| aeronautics,
Allen, chief
} of
the
mend
for aero
Allen
sta
this money General
two balloon
lantic Coast, a
Monroe, Va., and
balloons the iype
immense dirl
government
which
to
of
Was
iast winter
would
COS
from Con
loons, and
Senator
SIX HURT IN A RIOT,
Union And Nonunion Capmakers Use
Bricks And Clubs,
the cor-
West
union
union
gevera
al
Av and
rioters were
The
» for
owed an al
the strikers to
nonunionists
Bricks, ston¢
used on both
was turned in and*
police shortly arrived and
ihe freely on the rioters
f arrests were made
place
1 i hue
Sixth Street
and nonunion capmakers
ible {oll
4
s
4 a
y sad of
a squad of
their «
A
number o
Ww ASHINGTON |
The
pany,
Atlantic Manufacturing Com- |
Minneapolis, Minn, was de-|
barred from the mails by an order:
of the Postmaster General on
und that its operations
traudulent
Tustice
of
the
gro were
District
directing
‘atents of be
New York
Wright
issued man
the Commissoiner
guided by decision
{ou a
Of
Cour
Official
tions made
figures show
at the
the
recoet
appropria-
gession
2
of
00
1.543.568
The adjutant general of 7
as been informed in dispatches re
ceived from the Philippines of the
murder of Albert A. Burleigh, Com
C, Eighteenth Infantry, on June
Moros.
report of the Int
mn Commission
ives were lost and
were injured in
during the .three
March 31.
Orders have been issued by the |
Navy Department 'o the gunboat
Marietta to proceed to Puerto Cortez
Honduras, to investigate the revolu-
tionary activity in that place
The gunboat Paducah, now a!
Guantanamo, will be ordered to Hay- |
ti, at the request of the State Depart.
ment, to relieve the French warships
now in these waters.
The Interstate Commerce Commis.
sion decided that household servants
of rallroad employes may travel on
passes,
The National Conservation Com-
mission has begun preliminary work
on the task before it
The government is considering the
advisibality of sending a warship to
the northern coast of Honduras to
protect American interests from the
L revolutionists
Acting Secretary Newberry thinks
it may be fsable to remove naval
seadquarters from New London be
suse of treatment accorded men.
Secratary of War Wright, accom-
panied by several officers, made a
visit of inspection to Fort Wanting
thao
30 by
The
ree
Com
-
Fira.
erstate
shows that
14.73 persons
railros. accidents
meas 2ading
gon of the man killed,
SN.
Ticket.
MR. LEVERING'S NAME WITHHELD.
National Prohibition Convention at
Columbus, O., Makes Nominations,
Adopts Platform and Adjourns-
Rev. Wm, B. Palmore, of St. Louis,
Is Nominated for Vice President.
Columbus, O,
ident
CAgo
For
For Pres-
Chi-
(Special)
Eugene W. Chafin,
of
Vice President Aaron
i
Watkins, of Ada, O.
This ticket
| Prohibitionists
both
unanimous.
the
given
ballots
nominated by
National! Convention,
nominations were made
The full indorsement of
convention was not, however
to Mr. Chafin until after three
had ! taken
On the first two ballots Mr. Chafin
did not show amount
strength, receiv 45
1,083
was
een
a
ing
the
the
was
EIreal of
but
first
second ballo
assured
DEAD
1
and 3
t His
¥
oul iH
voles on Tt
on
nomination
when the
ballot
voted largely
of Peoria, and the New York
gation, followed by those of
and Wisconsin, came
Chafin, and on
received a total
Maryiand 4
of Joshua Levering
©X1
y out
of 1687
however
vr the ti
r the tg
which ha
Daniel R. She
all fo
own St
for
rolic
4
His ate 1
Ove]
rd
i been yo
sought in
the sel
ia Con
ng
eqguency
Mary!
hafin was
it. Louis,
the first
small
14 nt
coul
Ha
Palmore : ident
and named
mation ie 4d ned to
office, 1} wer, and persiste
nee,
al
titud
hi
ED
Fe
onte §
another
and m
iOus
fr
an)
pat
were
fUSpeENSIO
Finally
Aaron 8. Watkins,
named by
Was no opposit
moment, and Chairman Charl
On was on the erge of
Professor Watking the nomi
delegates In various parts of
bail broke in with flood of
tions, amendments BUS
of the rules
An extended de
ed in the
be accel )
fon nim
: OB Scar
declar
nee wi
"
and
vhate
restoration
and in a baliot for the
dency, Three men were named
Watkins, T. B. Demaree, of
and Charles 8. Holler, of In- |
Tae ballot resulted in the |
Watkins by an |
/, and he was!
thereafter, npon motion
Kentucky delegation, made
of the conven-
finalls
of
result
fuies i
presi.
Prof. |
Ken- |
the
vice
the
tion.
Both the presigential and vice
presidential nominees are candidates
for governor in their respective States |
The forenoon session
vention was devoted to
sion and adoption of a platform,
which iz probably the shortest on |
record, containing only 321 words
of the con- |
the discus- |
THE PLATFORM.
Brief Document Touches Upon Many
Important Subjects,
The national Prohibition platform
as agreed upon by the Committee on
Resolutions, follows i
“The Prohibition party of the Uni- |
ted States, assembled in convention |
at Columbus, O., July 15 and 16,
1808, expressing gratitude to Al
mighty God for the victories of our |
principles in the past, for encourage-
ment at present and for confidence
early and triumphant success in
the future makes the following dec-
laration of principles.and pledges
the enactment into law when placed
in power:
*1 The submission by Congress
hibiting the manufacture, sale, im-
portation, exportation or transporta-
tion of alcoholic liquors for beverage
purposes
“2. The Immediate prohibition of
the lianor traffic for beverage pur
poses in the District of Columbia,
in the territories, and all Pinces over
The President Greets The Boys,
Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special)
President Roosevelt spent Sunday
quietly at his home here. In the
morning, with Mrs. Roosevelt and
their son Archie, he attended services
in Christ Ep pal Church in the
village, coming into Oyster Bay from
Sagamore Hill id an automobile. A
company of boys In uniform, part
of a New York church organization
now in eamp at Lloyd's Neck, formed
on the bank of the driveway to the
church and stood at attention as the
President approached.
and inhertance taxes
“Hb. The establishment
savings banks and the
deposits in banks
“6 The regula
tions doing an
business
ae The
tariff
of postal
guaranty
tion of all
interstate
CRT
comme
creation
commission
of a permanent
{
}
The strict enfo
of the offic
license i¢ social
which prevails in many
with its unspeakable traffic
"ey Unifor marriage
laws
An equitable
employers’
Court
reement of law
tolera
instead fal
practical
nce and
of our
mn
YOorce
‘10
ant
Hiablliity
view
tional
*11
decd
12 The
labor in mincs,
ies
‘13 Leg
only intellig
read and write
14 Th
¥ TS POY 1 a §
{ TOR 3
1
islal
1pon
eral and forest
and the
Hell
FOOD FOR MOSQUITOES
Punishment Inflicted
Stealing
On A Man
Caught Frousers
MOSQUITOES KILL CATTLE.
Animals In
ir Blood,
Clouds Of Insects Drain
Texas Of The
KILLED BY SCORPION
Iie A
Town From Bites
ity, Mexico
Many Persons in Mexican
{ Severity
Board
caused the
peopie in the town of
ing the last six months
The bites proved fatal
every case The Biate govern
offers a bounty of two cents for ever
pion killed Many deaths fy
the bites of the insect have also
curred In other parts of the
and in the mountain
isco
deat!
Du
have
es
Tar
EO
in nearl;
ment
or
State
towns of J:
FINANCIAL
Again
John D
next
Smelting
Approximately
shares the Now Ye
and Norfolk Railr
tO ihe
the report
Rockefeller
president of
Company.
a5 f 1}
Pp hilad
Have
Pe
of r'K.
ad
th
phi a
sented
vania
There
that the
anle 10 1
no longer seems a do
Westinghouse reorganiza
The compan
the banks approximately §5
000.000,
A former president of the Phil
adelphia Stock Exchange sald vester
day: “If they can keep Unite
States Steel moving, the general bul
market will take care of {itself
Some shrewd operators sa)
when such specialties as Missouri
Pacific. Westinghouse and Consoli-
dated Gas are picked out to boom
the end of the rise In stocks has ar
rived.
President H. H. Rogers, of the
Amalgamated, is quoted as saying
that the copper trade has not im-
proved nearly so much as the steel
trade. Mr. Rogers ig now back in
Wall Street “with his coat off’ ready
for business,
Pennsylvania's coal and coke ship
ments last week were 778,330 tons
or less than the average for the year
to date, which is 860,000 tons.
Directors of the J. G. Brill Car
Co. have declared the regular gaoar.
terly dividend of 1% per cent. on
the preferred stock and a quarterly
dividend of % of 1 per cent. on the
common stock. These are the same
as last quarter.
It is figured out that in the iam
fiscal year New York Central earned
5.4 per cent. net and paid 5.56 per
cent. in dividends, which is pretty
close hering even for the big
0
3
§ 4
Lila
Vande
a Miss of 13 Years.
mn RELATIVES ARE SUSPECTED.
| William Williams Found Jead From
Blow on Head and Strung Up as
If He Had Been Lynched- License
to Marry the Child, Elizabeth Walis.
Found in His Pockets.
heen
some
a
this
digpellied
that
When
body
POC E "ie of
the license for
Walle’ girl
imably
discovery of
ith that
some
inde m
ched the
they sear
and
to marry
fown
found
the
he clothes
Williams
is not
for her
in
WaE a
was
fam-
and
iplion
1 Dr
the head
ight that
family had
teens and
developod
hat kh .
the
onciy
the
the allair
any
1's
nee
1 "8
ceented
nn nn
ind
came to
ff Williams’
Op the match
the ground, it j& un
that a relative of the girl's
ushing the match in order to
hold on Williams and event.
get some of the latter's money
old man and the girl did not
in the same social circies
From the facie he gleaned
Suiith deemed it his duty to notify
Mr. George Whitely and Mr. Thomas
*. Keating. respectively the sherifl
and state's attoracy of Queen Anne
County They hurried to the scent
and Coroner 8 C. Faulkner held a:
inqueet, the jury finding that Wilk
flame came to hiz dealin by being
¢.ruck on the head with some blunt
instrument in the hands of a persor
or persons unknown to the jury,
wos on
ti fe 8
ne [emopere
bitterly
had taken
heen aed te
Thes
derstood
was p
eet A
rally
The
nove
Dr
snl
Mrs, Minor Morris Escapes.
Farmington, O. (Special) —A¥
Francois County was searched Wh)
county officers in the hope of finding
Airs, Minor Morris, who came inte
prominence through charges she
nade that she had heen foreibly
plected from the White House by
fpcret Service men and who escaped
eaturday from the State Hospital for
ihe Insane here. Mrs. Morris lower.
od herself from a second Sosy win-
dow by means of towels, and nc
trace of her has bean found.