A —————— MILLIONS ARE LOST IN THE FOREST FIRES Lives Sacrificed in Fighting Sweeping Flames, THOUSANDS OF MEN ARE IDLE Hundreds of People Buffering From Throat Affection Caused by the Viti. sted Atmosphere—Numerous Indus. trial Plants Forced to Suspend Be- cause of Low Water. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special), — With losses aggregating several million dollars from forest fires and heavy damage to crops and live stock, the reported loss of a number of lives due to fighting timber conflagrations the enforced idleness of thosuands of workmen owing to the suspension of establishments be the healt} manufacturing of lack authorities epidemic of cause of water, anticipating a serious contagious diseases and dried up and obliterated, the drouth has held Western syvlvania, Eatern Ohio and West Vir- many small steams practically of 1908, which Penn day seriousne ginia in its grasp for more than months, remains unbroken, each = § v th increasing the ted during gradually of the unpreceden situation. Three ti tl the excessive dry spell have been very rains, ac and thunds slight th: aware convinced that it had shown evide } roofs. ere ocmpanied by mucl sr. but the rainfail at Tn person 1 ant i rain Epidemic Feared. Aside from the millions of I destrove loss to manufacturer probably the mo gituation ig threatened demic. A ma: 1 of Western Ohio and We suffering ed by the and the i and and gt serious pi timber 0 {is (is from LTO this city, almost the forest song in th are experien ing. It is fe does ¢ of filth streams, wit especially epidemic have soun lic to boil PIP nal p ome ses only cal ness 1 Next fore ed i} ¢ LiliS coal in icinity Cannot Ship Coal, vailable barge and fic ers the fleet points in the | employed in river Valley Fs sr th Monongahela of coal is the Weat and South will tally yrobabilities there i. espe ir the Northwest, vent the shipment cold weather sets in In ginla lumber plants, glass and iron and steel mills, along the rivers, are closed on ac- count of insufficient water. In Eas ern Ohio the same conditions preva ang fit feared great iron ar steel mils at Youngstown, Ohio, em ploving over 20.000 men, will to suspend operations unless drouth is speedily broken In all sections of th prayers are offered up daily and t] prayers will continue until thes rain } the coal befors West Vir- | factories i locate % is the 4 e dry answered with VANDERBILTS PARTED Decree Of Absolute Divorce Granted | Elsie French Vanderbilt. New York (Special) Justice Ger ard, in the Supreme Court, signed the final favor decree of absolute of Elsie French from Allred Gwynne the recommendation David McClure, The interlocutory decree was granted on May 26. The custody of the one child, William Henry Van- derbilt, now about six years of age, ! is given to the mother divoree in Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt on of the referee, | A Military Tragedy. Manila (Special).—A tragedy oc- curred at Camp Jessman Saturday night, resulting in the death of Lieu. tenant Edward J. Bloom, of the Fouth Infantry, and Private Suttles, Company K, of the same regiment. Suttles, for some reason, shot Bloom and then cut his own throat, Sut- tles died immeditely, but Bloom lin- gered until Sunday night. An ine vestigation of the affalr is being made by the military officers. A —— Dynamite Kills Five, Seranton, Pa. (Special), — Three Americang . and two [Italians were blown to pleces in an explosion of dynamite while working at Cross Keys Cut, along the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Rallroad, near Tobyhanna. The five men were tamping a hole containing 18 inéhes of dynamite, when Is exploded pre- maturely. The bodies were assem- bled by means of matching the cloth- BECAUSE HER LOVER DRANK Disheartened lowa Girl (om nitted Sulcide. Des Moines, Ia. (Special).— Unable to stifle the love ghe had for Bert Willitts, an employe of her father's farm, and unwilling to become the wife of a man she believed to be a drunkard, Miss Lucy Handley, 17 years old, living near this city, wrote a pathetic note to her parents and then drank carbolic acid. She was missed three days before her dead body, the emnty bottle and note by her side were found in an unused corn crib. It was believed at first she had eloped, as Willitts disappeared the day after she did. He was ar- rested Sunday in Des Moines, be held pending investigation, He con- tends he never made any protestation of love to the girl. The note to her parents, found by her side, reads: September 10, 1908 Dear Parents--l1 really do not what do. I am in sorrow and have hid it as long as possible. | do not just want to die I rather die than be a drunkard’'s wife, and cannot Ive him it 1 Willitts to My know io without who 1 Bert, for me ing of the victims. 110 DROWNED. tien Island. ANEW HERO FUND, Gives 81.250,000 For One For His Native Land. { By Cable} gticcess that bh London v the establishment of his America, Andrew Carnegie cided to found a similar nativ land.” To this about to hand over to $1,250,000 letter to the «1, Mr of my © of a tember sum trustees, Carnegie hero fund Continent } have decided to my native 0 Se SAYS upon I as iO The success i¢ North American been so great that | extend its benefits land.’ FINANCIAL The Guanajuato district of Mexico is now producing at the rate of $13.- a year. i July 1 twenty company stocks Nevada min- Since i have advanced ing New York city sold $10,000,000 of | revenue warrants to run 80 days and per cent. interest. Pennsylvania Salt has declared the | regular semi-annual dividend of 6! per cent An interesting rumor was that | Harriman had come to the financial | azeistance of Rock Island. 8t. Paul directors are said to be | contemplating the electrification of | a large part of the mountain sections | of their road. Southern Pacific in July was able | to convert a decrease of $799,189 in| gross earnings to an increase Hf | $103,691 in net profits. Twenty-two raliroads for the sec-| ond week of September report a de-| crease of 5 per cent. in gross earn- ings, The Colorado Mining Company, of Tiantie, is declaring monthly divi. dends of. 12 cents a share The amount igtributed each month among shareholders fg $120,000. “American securities are being bought with confidence hy foreign investors,” sald Chairman E. H. Gary, f United States Bteel, as he arrived from Europe. A fourth dividend of £00,000 has been paid by the Engineers’ lease on the Florence pmoverty. The leasors are taking out $6,000 a day. As In the case of other Goldfield mince, the leasers are getting the ninney, FLYER PLOWS HEAD-ON INTO FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE All in the Smoking Car Dead or Badly Injured, Snow Prevented Engineer of Passen. ger Train From Seeing Signals Baggage, Smoking amd Day Coach Telescoped Or Wrecked Debris of Smoker Filled With Corpses. Ldvinzston, Mont (Special), — Plowing through a snowstorm, east- ward bound, a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passenger train, running over the Northern Pacific Rallroad, crashed headon into a freight train at Young's Point, where the trains were to pass, and in the demo-| lition that resulted, a score of lives were crushed out and a score persons were Injured, several prob- amy fatally The freight flagman | failed to signal 1hLe in | me prevent the is said, because # ol passenger collision, it BHOW to of the i UN ON FRENCH WARSHIP BURSTS The Entire Gun Crew of Thirteen Kid Outright FRENCH NAVAL DISASTERS. July 6, 1905—French subma- rine Farfadet sunk at 8idi Abdal- lah, Tunis; 14 lives lost. October 16, 1906-—8SBubmarine boat Lutin sunk off Biserta, Tunis; 14 lives lost. March, 1907 Cruiser Jean Bart sunk off coast of Morocco, March 13, 15%07-—Powder ex- .plosion on battleship lena, at Toulon; 120 killed, many in- Jured. August 12, 1908-—Gun ex- plosion on the gunnery schoolship Conronne, off Les Salins d'Hyeres; gix killed, 18 injured September 22, 1808 plosion on the crulser Treville; entire gun crew killed Gun ex lL.atouche of 13 The the Dress car telegeol and ries MOoOKINE Car talities and inju the Car over in latte; raised smoking ear, and ept the seats awa) in the smok r i with cuts and bruise Corpses Wedged Together, the tr {onches Wrecked. SUSQUEHANNA BRIDGE BREAKS WITH COAL TRYIN The Perryville End of B. & 0. Struc: ture a Wreck, Rallros nel of char which ie in lapsed bridge was ron d William Havry empic ge mass of igly In sjured man is i Stokes watchm Pe Street, an compans “ eet Mn when the down along twisted girders and He w exirieated from and hurried to his home, whete he is now lying in a critical cond’t ‘ suffering from shock and severe lacerations of the body and head The collapse of the bridge caused a slight delay In the regular sched- ule of the road but arrangements | were quickly made with the Pennsyl- | vania Railroad for the use of fits! tracks between Swan Creek and | At the former place, the traing were switched over to the main line of the Pennsylvania, | using the latter's bridge over the! with but a slight de- Crash cam was carried wit) " reci other debr the w= The accident caused considerable trouble for the Western Union Tele- graph Company, whose cables are attached to the structure. The lat. ter were broken by the collapse, and communication between that point ahd the North was temporarily cut Of. The Baltimore and Ohio has ar- ranged for the building of a tem- ville station of the Pennsylvania, on the east mide of the river, to Alkin, a station nn the malin line of the former road. Lieut, Selfridge Buried. Washington, D. C. (Special).—The funeral of Lieutenant Selfridge, who was killed in the fall of the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer a few days ago, was held at Arlington National Cemetery Friday. The Episcopal burial rite was observed at the grave and troopers from the fort fired a salute, The honorary pallbearers included Alexander Graham Bell; Major G. O. Squier, of the Signal Corps; Octave Chanute, Glenn Cur- tise, Capt. F. W. Baldwin, Percy Bradford and J. A. D. MeCuordy THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON Sentence Impose On August her. Who Killed His Aunt. " hard tremor To Orieans | Noel, of 3 pougibile End Night-Riding all Mississippi Rt (overnor speaking th of 38 t Brow otton 1 would the ¢ yee lt call for troops f« ia He would first JY r Noel said, aid eptraln ng necessary he eral Government ral { 1 and final jaw tor Black Hand Wory In Geneva, (+ NN. ¥X residence The ho Del ant neva (Special) tel and of Raymond Pappa. a wealthy Italian merch b ad 3 3 sractically destroy. M.. by the ex-| bomb, which | placed in| of the ! an ed at 1.40 af Ker, was } o'clock A a dynamite to have been room by a member Hand Society plosion in =» the bar Black up pose ad The Pest In Manila. Manila (By Cable) The epidemic of cholera continues to assume less alarming proportions. The daily av- 30. Josephioa Hall, an American infant, attacked sev- eral days ago, is dead. No Ameri cans have been stricken by cholera since the last report. ported is about Killed His Sister, Parkersburg, W. Va, (Special). Leo Black, who killed his sister while attempting to shoot his father, fol lowing .a quarrel with the latter, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a jury. Black's father and mother, in ‘accordance with a promise made {0 their daugh- ter on her death bed, testified in the defendant's favor. Convicted Murderer Escapes, Leadville, Col. (Special}. « S8her- man Morris, alias Frank Shercliffe, recently convicted of the murder of waJohn Walsh, 15 years ago, escaped from the gheriff while being taken to the penitentiary at Canyon City to serve a 20-year sentence. Morris, while handcuffed, jumped from a car window as the train was ap. proaching Canyon City. He was brought here for trial from Michi CHINESE GIFTS 10 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ——————— Ancient Porce!ains For the American Off cial, VASE TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tang-Shao.Yi, With a Large Retinue, Starts for the United States— Will Thank Government for Its Remission of Boxer Indemnity and Try to Enlist American Capital in Northern China. Peking letter (By the Cable). Bearing a of the States from the hand of the Emper- or of China, Tang-Shan-Yi, a Ch to people in- gan, & ese official of high America way time he returns made a tour ompanied gucceeds tanding, left of Japan to Peking of the wor Chi Wu Ly ave is ace Yew, who Chinese mi ny nister al Tang-Shao- America BLOW UP BANK AND GET 91000 Burglars Use Dyn:zmite in the Town of Crozet HOUR Railway frame the get orccupd through both expio gions, and J 7 (O'Neill and son, John, were the first to reach building. which was full of the front room wrecked and ! of blown off Th ters ete were in in kage he safe pers rities tact, the mobbers taking only ! The safe was “burglar-proof The entire loss was covered by insurance The bank was to go into its new | quarters within the next 10 days a handsome new brick building built | for ita use. The officers are Rus- | sell Bargamin, president; E LL. Way. land, vice president, and R. E. Way- | land, cashier. slept sm the safe chairs the wre of cee were found maones Killed His Sweetheart, Portsmouth, Ohio (Special) Clar- ence Richardson, of Ashland, Ohio, | shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss | Lysia Corbin after they had quar- | reled. Richardson fired two shots | at the girl. Need BS Licutenants. Washington, D. CC. (S8pecial).- Examinations of candidates for ap- | pointment as second lieutenants in the Marine Corps will be commenced on October 26. There are at pres. ent 58 vacancies in this grade. A Shooter-Up Shot, Wheeling, W. Va, (8pecial).— Jack Dawson, an oilman, was fatal- ly shot while attempting to “shoot up” the town of Jacksonburg, Wetzel County, in wild western style. Daw. son, with a pistol in each hand, drove all the inhabitants of the town off the streets and shot the windows out of a half dozen saloons, Dave Haught made an effort to capture the man, and in the pistol duel that followed, Dawson received wounds that will result fatally, while Haught ware ned unhurt, ¥ WASHINGTON . BY TELEGRAPH Capt. Edward H. Campbell, judge advocate general of the Navy, has been detailed by Secretary Metcalf to make a tour of inepection naval prisons at Portsmouth, and Mare Island The Postmaster General has dec ed not to take up man C Denham, postmaster Clarksburg, W. Va.. charged pernicious political activity, ter the election of the Boston A. 3 r the case of She inti President Roosevelt Secretary of Pierce to represen the Trans Congress n al fet BR 4 ere a 14 Comptroller assured the SAVES TRAIN FROM WERE! Men Rails. Farmer Awakened By Locesen Bolts In Har Ensmin 1 raced light saw lat wan this ped 1 rail of the express il the train wreckers f Dele Mills Resume, Pittaburg Pa open-hearth {urnac Steel { Special) The Car Homestead 8 Of the negie Rteel Works, at for the first time since it is said the Carnegie go on double turn during the week Sevoral thousand men are affected by the resumption turn Monday More than finished of the Milford, Me £.000,000 feet of partially jlumber, piled in the yards George W. Barker Company and the Jordan Lumber Company in this town, was destroyed by a fire. The lumber was valued at nearly $175. 000, the loss being equally divided between both companies, { Special) Colleries Forced To Close, Mahanoy City, Pa. (Special), The Buck Mountain and Vulcan col lieries of the Mill Creek Coal Come pany, two of the largest operations in the Schuylkill field, shut down Monday because of lack of water for the boilers. The mives will re main closed until the drouth is broken. Fifteen huadred minsworks ers are rendered idie The American Fisheries ABsocia- tion of America approved Ppesident Roosevelt's attitude toward the fish- aries and elected ollicers.
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