EST Domestic Suit for $10,000 for alienation of flections has been filed by Mrs. Wil- Is R. Boland, of West Eaton, N. Y., against Mrs. Grace R. Roberts, who is also a regident of West Eaton, Mrs. Wilhelmina Protze, aged 83 years, committed suicide in New York. She made preparations to kill herself after having celebrated her birthday anniversary alone. The body of Mrs. Ashton Harvey, chvered with a fortune of jewels, was found in a private pleasure lake on the estate of Stewart Hartshorn, at Shont Hill, N. J. Roger O'Mara, trustee of Harry K. Thaw in bankruptcy, and his at- torney, ex-Governor Stone, of Penn- sylvania, conferred with Thaw in the Poughkeepsie Jail. George W. Fitzgerald, accused by the Illinois authorities of the theft of $173,000 from the sub-treasury at Chicago, was freed by Judge Chet- lain. Announcement is made that Prof. George A. Coe will resign as profes- sor of moral and intellectual philoso- phy at the Northwestern University. Mrs. Nellie Busch Magnus, daugh- ter of Adolphus Busch, the wealthy brewer, was secretly married to Jacob W. Loeb, of Chicago, June 6. Fire destroyed the Proctor Fur- niture Company's building at Asbury Park, causing a loss of $60,000. Emil Keehm was blown to pieces as the result of an explosion of an oxygen tank in Detroit. Policeman David E. der of Barbara Reig. Receiver Austin, of the failed brokerage firm of Cameron, Currie and Company, of Detroit, asked that certain members of the Boston brok- erage firm of Hayden, Stone and Company be sent to jail on the charge of contempt of court. Second Vice President Collings, of payment of money to secure inform- ation concerning the shipments of competitors. One man was burned two women were seriously and several others painfully injured during a fire which destroyed two Club. Mrs. Barbara Barrett, an woman, of Lost Creek, Pa., and John Gilks, aged 21 vears, of Newark, N. J., were killed by a fall of earth while they were standing in a mine breach. Mrs. Mary Bedell ably fatally wounded Stephen Bedell, a boatman, a quarrel at their home, in City. Dr. shot during Frederick J. Mayer told vet- érinarians that they can do much to prevent the spread of consump- tion and other disease among human beings. The recently enacted at the annual convention of the In- ternational Stewards’ Association. Capt. Walter Auble, of tie Angeles police force, fatally shot by two burglars. Foreign A daring attempt was made Guilford, Eng., to steal valuable Jewels belonging to Mrs. John Ward, daughter of Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador. the Glasgow Council Chamber when a deputation of the unemployed sub- mitted their demand for work. A German arrested at Orleans, France, on the charge of being a py confessed that he was In the pay of the German authorities. The municipality of Sebastopol conferred the freedom of the city on Count Leo Tolstol and named a school after him. The police charged a gathering of rioting coal miners in the town of Wanne, Germany. were wounded. lin, members of the Nationalist par- ty, left Queenstown for the United States, The breach between Germany on account of the Moroe- can affair is growing wider. Princess Matilda, of Saxony, was thrown by her horse near Dresden, and severely injured. rraine were coneluded. Silvio Ricel, who is aceused of throwing the bomb that panic in the courtyard of the Grand Mosque, in Constantinople, in 1905. Alsace was arrested, Congress, in steps of the mosque, The Trade Union Nottingham, Eng., passed a resolu tion condemning the British work- men who engaged themselves as strikebreakers In Germany and the colonies. The fraudulent acts of M. Alberti, of Copenhagen, have caused the loss of millions of dollars, and is a hard blow for the peasants. The German adminfstration Is pre- paring the public mind for a plan the imperial debt. Dr. Cornilieff, a socialist member of the first Douma, was séntenced to two years’ Imprisonment in a fort ress, Gen, Leonard Wood was Yresent at the German army ma vers, Asiatic cholera is showing signs of gpreading in Russia, Liverpool has a library of 280. 000 volumes. The number of books taken home during the last year was 1,362,000, while 1,410,444 were used for reference In the Hbrary. In othe or words, each book was on the average used 10 times, The first electric ferryboat in Ger- many has just been launched at Duis. burg. It has twin screws, which are propelled by an accumulating cur- rent from two electric motors of 60- horsepower capacity. The boat can carry 645 passengers, besides horses, automobiles and vehicles, COURT RULES OUT THE COMMODITY LAW Railroads Win in Fight Against Hep- burn Rate Law, : JUDGE GRAY GIVES THE OPINION. Roads Owning Coal Mines Sustained in Possession of Properties in Opin. fon Handed Down by Federal Circuit Courtof Appeals, Which Declares Pro- vision of Noted Act Unconstitutional. Philadelphia (Special) .—The com- modity clause of the Hepburn Act was declared unconstitutional by the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals, the judges of which are George M. Dallas, Geo. Gray and Jo- seph Buffington. The court was divided on the ques- tion of the constitutionality of the Hepburn Rate Law commodity clause. The opinion declaring it un- constitutional was handed down by Judge Gray with Judge Dallas assent- ing. Judge Buffington filled a dis- senting opinion. The opinion of the court invalidating the law makes 20,000 words. Agrees With Roads’ Counsel, In the main, the majority opinion upholds the arguments made by the distinguished counsel which repre- sented half a dozen of the big mine- owning railroads at the hearing last May, and, by inverse reasoning, de- clares the commodity clause te be unconstitutional. This was done Ly summarily dismissing the bills of camplaint filed by the government through Attorney General Bonaparte. Briefly the constitutionality of the law is attacked on the ground that it is contrary to State's rights and, therefore, illegally Interferes with the power of a sovereign common- wealth to conuct its own business. From beginning to end the ma- jority opinion is a clean defeat for the government. Discriminates In Favor Of Lumber. ralliroads from transporting with decision it, A ied or produced by ception of lumber. { compelled the anthracite coal | roads to divorce themselves frem the coal companies which all of them { own and control. tion made by John G hearing last June to the i the commodity clause lumber from the provisions i act, is discriminative This decision does Philadelphia and however, as at the beginning of hearing Attorney General Bonaparte announced that the suit against the | Reading will be tried separately, | since the organization of that com- pany presents a situation entirely | different from that of the other rail- | roads. It is understood that Attorney General Bonaparte will take an ap- peal from the decision and will ask effect of affect not the {ted States Supreme Court ] PLAGUE IN SQUIRREL'S BITE. Into Boy Friend. Los Angeles, Cal ¥ hoy covered here. The named Mulholland, Three weeks ago a sick squirrel in the park and pick- ed it up. The squirrel bit the Loy in the hand. Sickness followed and the attending physician declared it to be bubonic plague Other phy- sicians were called and discovered that the squirrels in the park have the disease No other cases have developed. and i it is believed by the authorities that there will be no spread of the di- scase, patien®, a iz convalescent. the boy found OPPOSE THAW'S REMOVAL. Stand Taken By State Commision In Lanacy. Albany, N. Y. | tempt to take Harry | the Duchess County Jail, at Pough- keepsie, to Pittsburg or any point (8pecial).—Any at- i the State Commission a Lunacy Dr. Albert W. Ferris, president of ! the commission, returned from a long European trip, and announced the po- sition the commission would take re- garding the order of Referee Hlair, of Pittaburg, that THaw shall be tak- en to Pennsylvania to be examined {in the bankruptcy proceedings insti- tuted in his behalf. THREE HELD FOR ARSON, Charged With Starting Great Fire In New Orleans, New Orleans (Special). — Julius Lipps, manager; Abe Wolf, secretary | and treasurer of the Central Glass Company, of New Orleans, and Johu Eckert, an employe of that company, were indicted by the grand jury ou the charge of arsom in connection with a fire which about 10 days ago burned over a portion of three bincka in the business section of New Or- leans, causing a loss of $1,500,060, The fire originated in the build- iflg occupied by the Central Glass Company. Pardons Japanese, Washington (Special). The Pres ident has granted a pardon to K. Yoshida, a Japanese, convicted Jau- uary 31, 1905, of murder, at Valdes, Alaska, and sentenced to ve 30 years at Fort Leavenworth, Yoshida has gone insane from homesickness since his Incarceration, an! the Unie ted States district attorne,; who pro- secuted him, and the warden of the prison recommended Lis pardon. Tne man whom Yoshida killed. waz the foreman of a canning factory. SAN AN ‘ al MADMAN ATTACKS FAMLY WITH AY Ae—————— Three Victims Dying of Wounds in Hospital. : Wilmington, Del. (Special). —- While temporarily insane, presum- ably because he had been for some time out of work, Pearson Talley, a ship carpenter, aged about 64 years, at 4 o'clock A. M., made a murderous attack upon the other members of his household, at their home, 402 West Sixth Street, His wegpon was a broadax, with which he cut his wife and his adopt- ed daughter, Mrs. Edith Johansen, aged about 30 years, and Andrew Johansen, aged about 30 years, the husband of his adopted daughter. All of the victims are at the Homeo- pathic Hospital and still alive, but all are expected to die, Talley was formerly a farmer, liv- ing near Wilmington, and had some means, About nine years ago he came to the city and bought the house in which he lived and in which the tragedy occurred. After coming to the city he secured work at the local plant of the American Car and Foundry Company. He had, how- ever, been unemploved for sometime, and this is thought to have affected his mind. Talley appeared spirits when the household retired, but he awoke about 4 o'clock A. M., while all of the others were asleep, and, ob- taining the axe and without a word, Attacked the wife and adopted daughter in their sleep. The com- motion awoke Johansen. Johansen grappled with Talley, but Talley ap- peared to be possessed of the strength of a maniac, and Johansen could not get the weapon away from him. John J. Farman, a neighbor, who heard the noise, came to his assist- ance and together they disarmed Talley, and though Johansen had his skull fractured in the encounter, he was conscious and ran to the street in good of the to be members clothes and summoned Dr. F. F. Plerson. After he had been disarmed Tal- ley's senses began to return to him, and he realized ghat he had done, had been Talley which bureau with the axe, back of a without a fight with the police. Later in WILL EXILE MANIAC KING. Wives To Death. Balgon, French Cochin China Cable). — Former King Than torturing several of his wives death or into insanity, will be exiled od. This is Than's second offense. the first he was removed from still under 21." Phy have examined the de. posed monarch say he suffers from attacks homicidal ma- gon, & youth of nia MAN BLOWN TO PIECES, Detroit, Mich An oxy- gen tank, five feet long and ten in- ches in diameter, used In connection with a tank of hydrogen in a weid { Special) Crucible Steel Casting Street, instantly Two other the Michigan Company oni Guoin killing Emil Keshm workmen were injured. blown to pieces Longworth Stable Burns, Cincinnati, Ohio (Special) story brick stable at his Grandin fire shortly before 2 o'clock A. With the stable five carriages burned, but saved the horses when the fire was discovered. Electric Chair For Smith, Norfolk, Va. (Special). Henry Smith, a negro charged with eriminal assault upon aged Mrs. Catherine Powell, of Portamouth, upon hig sec ond trial in the Norfolk County Cir cuit Court wag found guilty and sen- tenced by the trial jury to death. Judge Dain fixed October 13 for the electrocution, which will be the first ute of the death chair since its sub- stitution for the gallows in this state, March Of The Unemployed, Liverpool (By Cable).—The un- employed of this eity organized a procession and marched to the town hall. Two deputations were received by the lord mayor. They showed that 10,000 of the laborers of Liver pool were out of work, and request- ed relief. A relief fund has been started. AR AM Accidentally Shoots His Sister, Portsmouth, N. H. (Special )—Car- roll Hall, aged 14, of Danville, shot his sister, Flossie Hall, aged 16, with a shotgun. The charge entered he neck, and death resulted almost h- stantly, Young Hall was arrested. He says he did not know the gun was loaded. a Terrible Heat In Texas, Fort Worth; Tex. (Special).—A special from Strawn, Tex., a mining town west of here, says that the thermometer there registered 112 degrees and is standing at 100 with a hot wind blowing from the south. All businegs has been suspended in Strawn. Waco reports a temperature of 101 for the past three days and that the intense heat there has caus ed wall paper to split from the walle of dwellings on account of the un- usual expansion. a —— FLIES OVER AN HOUR —————— Aviator at Fort Myer Breaks Aero- plane Record, TAKES A PASSENGER WITH HIM. On Third Trip of the Day Inventor Takes Lieutenant Lahm for a Six-minute Sall—Flight of 57 Minutes Made in the Morning and One of 62 Minutes and 15 Seconds in the Afternoon. PREVIOUS RECORDS, October 15, 1907 man. March 20 and a half -Henri Far- Farman made one miles with his aero- plane at Iss-Les-Moulineaux, May 3-—The aeroplane of the Wright brothers was flown three miles in three minutes. May 27-—Delagranges aeroplane flew ten miles. July 4—Curtiss’ aeroplane, the June Bug, flew one mile and won the Scientific American trophy. September 2-——Two Cornell stu- dents covered 8 miles in 5 min- utes in an aeroplane of thelr own making, Beptember 6—At Le Mans, Wil- bur Wright covered 15 mifes in 20 minutes In his aeroplane, i Washington, D. C. (Special) .-—Or- ville Wright, in three phenomenal flights at Fort Myer, established pew aeroplane records that not only as- sure the success of the official trials before the army board, but indicate that aerial flight is now only a mat- ter of development. War on land and sea will find in the aeroplane & valuable means of reconnaissance and possibly carnage. hour each, another flight in which two men were whirled alr for upwards of six minutes, were the achievements of the Wright brothers’ aeroplane Wednesday. That these flights, record-breaking as the y were will even surpassed by Or- ville Wright during his trials at Fort Myer, is confidently predicted First flight made Wednesday morn- ing. in which the machine circled the drill grounds at the fort 57 times in 37 minuteg and 31 seconds, was su in the evening when a flight be onds was made Not satisflad with istance and time rece ier-than-air flying | Wright took Lieutenant the aeronaut Corps, for a =pin around grounds and making a new record { for a two-man flight All this hap- pened so quickly and unostentatious that the speciaters, among | were members of cabinet high officers of the army could bardly realize that been made and that a the progress of the was begun The morning flight was witnessed | by only a handful of enthusiasts, but the news spread a0 rapidly that fully ia thousand people gathered on the | milliary reservation across the Poto- { mac from the national capital to see | the afternoon event At 5:16, as the sun was disappear. ing below the Virginia horizon, the latest invention of man to challenge i the laws of nature rose grandly into #pace and sailed over the green sward {of the drill grounds Higher and higher it rose, turned at a slight angle as the aviator brough: it | around at the far side of the field and | faced along at increasing speed here was hardly a quiver of the { aeroplane in the first few rounds of | the field, Mr. Wright evidently hav- {ing the steering apparatus well in hand Rising and lowering at will. the | #ight of the man-built bird was mos! impressive. Round after round the machine traveled on cutting short turns, shooting along the stretches | and presenting somewhat the appear- ance of an autemoblle racing abou: an imaginary course in the air. The aviator paid little heed ‘io anything but his levers Bor warp jing the surface of the planes i and controlling the planes which control the altitude of the eraft He seemed oblivious of the crowd below until, having broken record of 57 minutes and 31 seconds established by him this morning. breaking all yrds for a heav- machine Mr Frank P the Bignal the drill of whom and and navy, history had new era in civilized world 5 the him of his new achievement. Mr. Wright waved his acknowledge: ments, WASHINGTON | “A number of women scientists, authorities in research in their re. spective countries, will be accredited delegates to the Tuberculosis Con- gress at Washingtos. Naval officers are greatly impress. ed with the utility of the Wright aeroplane as an adjunct to the naval force and careful observations will be made. John 8. Early, the leper, received $165 from the Pension Department. He at once sent the check to his wife, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, has been hone ored by the first international con gresa for the repreasion of adultera- tion of food meeting at Geneva, Switzerland. A tropical storm raged through the West Indies, but will probably not affect the United States. Judge Parker was in Washington to confer with associate counsel rep- resenting Gompers and Mitchell in the labor contempt case, Orville Wright made two very suo cessful flights in his aeroplane at Fort Myer. Emile Berliner has lately con structed an experimental propeller of such power that, Jiaten horizontally, it is capable of lifting 460 Sal: in 8 eal straight up into the air. THE TRAGIC SUICIDE OF A DOCTOR No Money, No Work and a Starving Family . — New York (8pecial).—A man be- lieved to be Dr. C. H. Brooks, a can- cer specialist, of Portland, Me., com- mitted suicide in Mills Hotel No. 3 by taking some subtle drug, the na- ture of which could not be determin- ed, and {t was learned that the sul- cide was the same man who last Sat- urday night tried to end his life in the rectory of the Church of the Holy Innocents in West Twenty Sixth Street, Two priests at the rectory saw the man trying to cut his throat with a razor and held him until a detective arrived. In establishing the fact suicide and the man who take his life in the church were the same person a tragic story was revealed, After belng prevented from taking his life on Baturday the man, who sald his name was Dr. C H. Brooks, of Portland, Me. fessed to the priests the causes which led him to attempt such a rash act, He sald he bad come here seek work, that he had left his fam- fly in Maine in a penniless condition, and that it was worry over their suf- ferings that had made life durable. Daniel Madden, a hotel who had been called in priests, accompanied Dr. that the {0 by for him for two days The his living expenses, and believed they had reasoned him out of his desire to commit suicide. Polson On His Lips. the learned that a who registered at the Mills When man Hotel police as Dr. C. H. Brooks, Port- Me., had suddenly died, sup- of hemorrhages of th the coroner was called The investigation led ing of letters whi were alr convincing proof! in themselves he had killed himself, and confirmed this conclusion he found traces of pol the lig of the man There was one from the € f yf land, ¢ posedly e lungs to the find mos! tha the cor oner that On on bb lett apparently man's wi aying she h next let ing in the way uragemen!.” On the back of was written “1 don't as | did when I wrote Read between the lines I will write a better one Sunday Cheer up YO vill soon ¢ dead. The police remark, “You # that the Brook: and haps nies : a suicide pact with iim, and may now be dead herself The Jetter, which was dated at Portland, Me, Septem , reads A Pathetic “My Own Darling “Your letter and postcard written Tuesday received this roning. and uh may well imagine, their con- tents have made me very 1 “1 shall simply go crazy if next letter 't bring something in the way « ouragement. There is enough morphine here end all, and if 1 become des- pondent 1 shall take it and fake the children with Murderess and suicide will be beautiful things to gay abo but 1 would rather be dead than like this I had s0 hoped to hear something encour- aging it having anything and this letter me ed certain and cour- her body glamps 10 ' L111 BA would kill herself +7 ter brought pomething of en« the feel this vy ve lone £IAve 0 as bad letter niend in per- her 2 Letter. mo YOu y ge Your doesn of end 10 it much more me att, from you today id vesterday, fs not calcul Iy to keep a woman's heart but rather aol] for few clothes and write to her dear husband see the needn't before age up io a dark glide of everyti comment on this letter you write. but just brace up and do gomething so that we mas our way to be together i know I must love you whether | want to or not Nothing but love would have me stick to you as I have The thoughts of you having to sleep out- drives me mad a doors almost {Bigned) “YOUR LOVING ALICE.” W. L.. Ramage, in whose care the letters were addressed, said that he knew very little of Brooks. He said that he believed that at one time Brooks had been a practicing physi- but had later become a travel ing salesman. Jt is the theory of the coroner that the man, his knowledge of drugs, and took some rare poison prociared An au- positively the cause of death. Confesses He Is A Spy. days ago on a spy, confessed that acting in this capacity for several years past, under the direetion of the German military authorities of Alsace-Lorraine. THe man was tak- en into custody while attempting lo bribe a French soldier to abstrac’ important parts of a field gun te had been American Soldier of Fortune, San Francisco (8Special).—-Passen- gers on the steamer City of Sydney, which arrived here {rom Panama and Central American ports, brought the news that Capt. Lee Cannon, a gradu. ate of Cornell, who is sald to be one of the leaders In the Honduran revo- lutions, was captured and has been sentenced to death. According to re- ports heard by the passengers, Can- gon killed 1§ men in his last stand, but was finally captured. A HI Carpenter Heir To Millions, Berlin (Special). — Friedrich Schmidt, a carpenter of Spindelhof, Upper Palatinate, tas been notified through the Bavarian legation at St Petersburg that ho is belr to $7,500, 000 In cash and to several estates in Russian, the property of a certain German soldier of fortune named Schmidt. The latter was in the Rus sian service during the Crimean War and was prom to be a ge ) He married a rich countess. fila ber neo. a War, FOREST FIRES AE DESTROYING MANY TOWNS Flames Rage Through Northern Minnesota Counties, HUNDREDS MAY LOSE THEIR LIVES, Hibbing, With Population of 12,000, Ia in Danger of Destruction, and Only a Change of Wind Can Save It—Grand Marais, With 600 People, May Be Totally Burned. Duluth, Minn special) .—Forest fires which have heen raging for sav~ eral days, threaten Hibbing, the larg- most pr on #8 HAVE Ev- and ig the bhing est and GED town the Mesaba be ery range 1 gett Closer ¥ DE place of men a ry ines, busines are all telegran ieiegran the A BAYS “The Northern fire ig vers BPUr on thi v fh mtilsssed vn a suburb of wind is blowing in o } wv ae city i has all available i and every man we can find ls fighting {the fire They ablished a | pipe line anc . i wo plugs, | The sky is el EmMmoke some- | what now, but hreatened on the north." , In response epar while the we can have ost 3 : 1 ins i e Du- to 1ilroad trains in readine Hibbing take e people away Smoke from the {« surround 80 dark that turned on +s Li the town there the | The very Near Grand Marais Grand Marais, is Aine S835 00 ad 5 ©, aon women ad the worst i ienneg ¥ n } irneg 1i8 party in a launc into Grand burned of their their teady For Flight - g Zens 3 The cit ing their paring for safe hou M13 MIEN aon 3 at 19 o'cl of Grand here todas covered bs along the nort rias, as far wes aba ranges fifteen north of the ranges ther Throughout the distance, a tory one hundred miles square, are raging and residents are burned out by the ht be impossible to ie loss for weeks to come very heavy miles of Dulut} as the extreme norther i and perhaps much far- terri- fires being It will the total It will be | THIS AND THAT to do every once in a while iz to { quit loving her and make love 10 her. Nobody could estimate how many timeeg 8 widow would have had 10 | be married to get over being so in- | nocent about men A man thinks he has fine business judgment when he guesses stocks are going up, and they do, unless he bought them. People who say what they have to do a lot of explaining Belgium bas a Sunday postage stamp, issued for those who do not wish to have their mail delivered op Sunday. All mail bearing the Sun. day stamp is held over by the car riers for delivery Monday. A proposition is taking form for the establishment in the Himalayas of a sanitarium on modern lines fos consumptives. The rich natives are manifesting a deep Interest in the scheme and seem to be ready to help financially in bringing it to a reali- gation, The seventeenth universal cookery and food exhibition of England will be held at the Royal Hortienltural ‘Hall, Westminster, from November 20 to December 1. There will be sections for foods and food products, cookery of all classes and dining- room accessories. When you hear people talking so loud that everybody in the block ean hear them, it's a sign they are *olling what they saw in Europe. | The average man isn't half as | What a woman wants her husband think of going to jall as to a ch plente. .