rt JN BLUDSOES N BEAL LIFE Blazing Steamer Held To Banks Until All Escape. WAS BURNED 10 WATER'S EDGE Capt. Swain Heads The Mississippi River Packet Fred Swain For Shore During Fire And Panic And Holds Vessel Against The Beach Until 40 Souls Escape—Engineer Sticks To Post Until Badly Burn- ed-—Escapes In Boat. Peoria, 111 The er Fred Swain, Captain Verne of the Peoria and Company, with 25 sailors aboard, burned { Special) steams- Swain, Packet and 15 the Lasalle passengers to wa- been piloted into four feet of bank of the Illinois River, up which the steamer was bound when it caught fire. No lives were lost, but Joseph Cas- ride, the engineer, was burned about the face and body, and Reicheberger, of Peoria, suffered broken arm. The loss Several of the passengers belongings. is lost their second deck, were partly vessel drew of row putting room on the reigned. Fears as the burning shore and scores seen hurriedly rescue, calmed boats out to water's edge when the steamer had been beached and one row boat aft- er another took off a load of pas- sengers and sailors. After two boats had loaded and started for shore gangpiank caught fire and fell away from the steamer, letting fifteen per- sons, including ral women children, into the Powers, of Peor the Seve ana water Thon . and BE. A. Caron, of Worcester, Mass.,, who were on the plank when it fell, each saved the lives of two children, half carry- ing and half swimming with the tots on their back and old tree stumps to await of rescuers The others who the water 1? the collapse of gangplank were taken in bos safety. Those still abroad the er managed to let out a way at a place farther flames, which were rapidly over the boat The fire was discovered room by Miss Furbish, a cabin gir She spread the alarm, but all efforts to subdue the flames proved fruit. less, the fire spreading rapidly Cap- tain Swain, realizing that the ves- sel was doomed, ordered Pilot Mar- tin Huston beach and in- structed his crew to deal out life pre- servers, Engineer ( jer, to boilers guard explosion went to the pump ing there until! flames lic face Severely burned and blind, he turned to escaj find that a rowboat which left for him had caught got into the boat, beating the f “4 rowing hard, was taken to a shoulders to arrival the Lait oO thors tht wer wn int v steam- from the creeping state in a rl to the boat ‘asrid after the ainst an to the kKed his almost only to had afire jowever, 1 1 him re ached snore oapital GETS CHINESE LOAN. American Syndicate In Bank- Victory OF Causes Satisfaction ing Circles, New York Great satis- faction is felt in banking circles here regarding the of Ameri- can participation of the Hankow-Sze- Chuen Railroad loan. The Ameri- can bankers are to get one-quarter of $30,000,000, The syndicate formed to handle the loan consists of the National City Bank, of New York: J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and First National Bank, of New York. { Sepcial) settlement Shot Girl Who Jilted Him. Portsmouth, Ohio (Special). raged because he had been jilted, Harry Biiss, 18 years old, shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowded street cor- ner Misg Clarke refused to return a ring, and Bliss shot her through the back, the bullet penetrating. the right lung. Bliss was arrested Savannah Wants Exposition. Savannah, Ga. {8pecial). ~The city government of Savannah has got behind a popular movement looking to an international exposition, to be held in Savannah In 1915, to eele- brate the opening of the Panama canal, and to combine with .it Southern commercial vantages to the South in the opening of the canal will be emphasized. Mosquito Plague In Texas, Galveston, ‘Jexas (Special).-—A plague of mosquitoes is now afict- ing the gulf coast, causing serious ing off in travel to the coast. Cattle by the thousands travel miles to the gulf, where they stand in the water starving. At Point Bolivar section hands flagged a train to escape the pests. The use of oil in Galveston has prevented serious annoyance, Gift Of Cherry Trees To Taft. Toklo (8pecial).—Mayor Ozaki of Tokio, has offered 20,000 cherry trees as a gift to President Taft, to plant in the new park on the banks of the Potomac River, Washington, D. C. Two Killed In Feud Fight, sanford, Conn. (Special). Addie Chapman and John Luttrell are dead and John Chumley and wife, the son- in-law and daughter of Luttrell, are seriously wounded as the result of a feud fight in Casey County, 1 i LIEUTENANT SUTTONS DEATH SELF INFLIGIED Court of Inquiry Cecides That Sutton Shot H'mself, The Decision By The Inquiry Court Which Investigated, For A Second Time, The Cause Of James N. Sutton's Death Is Approved By Acting Secretary Winthrop—Com- mander Hood Submits A Minority Report Criticising Sutton's Come « panions, THE SUTTON TRAGEDY. Sutton s the result 12. 180, James N occurred, as of shooting, October at Annapolis Lieutenants Adams, Utley rode with Carve] Hall Hotel of the tragedy. During a fight near Academy, in which officers fought Sutton, ter met his death An inquiry was immediately held by a board of officers at the Naval Academy and it was de- cided that Sutton shot himself The mother of the dead man was not satisfled with the verdict and worked to have it reversed Her efforts and those of her daughter, Mrs. Parker, led to a new inquiry, which opened at Annapolis Mondcay, July 19, with Lieutenant Henry Leon ard as judge advocate number of witnesses, including the three lieutenants and the mother and Sutton, were examined ting Secretary of Winthrop approved sion that Sutton came to death, accidentally or fi saa 11 vw : 5 ’ 3 | Be tionaliv, by a shot fired | Lieutenant death and from scent Roelker Sutton to the the Naval the three the lat- fat or f sisier ol Navy deci the the Ano tragedy James N inquiry, death 8 Sutton when which investigat found that the shot himself, «ith. death at Annapolis, Young officer had er intentionally in an effort | shoot one of the officers restraining him jut the end not Mrs Sutton, the dead officer's mother, and Mrs. Parker, the sister, acting on the advice of their counsel, Henry E i Davis, declined to make any ment on the verdict excep that they were not surprises result Mr Davis indicated would be appeal either federal Congress urtain ral he or to is yet there the an to itself. erp er to the said, i young what court scrimmage” any involved inquiry exonerated {from responsibilit death of Lieutenant verdict of the iments Utley, th ent, is charged do his ant Sutton the the officers of are sralipit IPLICILY 1 styles or the Sutton the in VOivi court is merciless on officers senior officer with having in permitt tO run away and arn self; an, the officer of the gu likewise failed his duty in no disarming Sutton: Willing, officer of the day, similarly in his duty in not helping to disarm Sutton, but at the same time the court mended that no action be against them There ir a than Lit faile duty ing Li Bey to do failed rec oOm- taken unanimity of condem- nation in the conditons existing in the Marine Corps in both the re- ports, the indorsement by Judge Ad- vocate General Campbell and finally by Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop. While it is true that the court disposes of the charges that Lieutenant Sutton came to hig death by foul means, by stating that “"Lieu- tenant Sutton is directly and solely responsible for his own death,” thus exonerating every living officer, and while it is true that the charges of the dead man's mother and of his sister are dismissed casually, as “purely imaginary and unsupported even a shadow of evidence,” the ‘ verdict seems to fall hardest on the { Marine Corps itself. “The conditions in the camp of the Marine Corps at Annapolis and the details of the midnight brawl are in themselves shown by the language of the report of the court to have been disgraceful. But Commander Hood, the president of the court, goeg further, and after reprimanding Utley, Adams, Osterman, Willing and Bevan as showing a “deplorable lack of knowledge of their duties and obligations as officers.” goes on to say that Willing, Bevan and Utley should have been ;unished at the time for neglect of duty, and that Adams been punished “for engaging in a brawl unbecoming officers and gentle- men.”’ But severe as is this language, Commander Hood impeaches the dis- cipline of the entire Marine Corps when he excuses the offenses of the | officers on account of their youth ond inexperience, and ‘because of their being in a sense the victims of a sys. tem for which they themselves were not responsible.” a PAM OSs Forest Fires Great Waste, | Winnipeg, Man. (Special). — The | Government report on forest fires in { Canada last year shows that | damage to timber was $25,500,000, iand that 21 lives were lost. Forty i tue { by } | in British Columbia. i Start Miltary Auto, New York (Special).—A military | automobile, with Malcolm E Parrott, ! of the National Guard of New York, | at the wheel, loft New York for San | Francisco bearing despatches from Major General Wood, commanding the Department of the Kast, to Com- | mander Weston, commanding the De- | partment of the West. The (sip will ‘cover 3,603 miles and cross 11 States. On its sucecss, it is sald, will largely depend the establish- ment of a regular automobile service for the Army. SA INJURED AT CAR WORKS The Pressed Steel Car Company's Plant Develops Into A Pitched Battle — The Infuriated Crowd Storms The Stockade And Troop. ers Fire After Four Of Their Men Are Killed «= Ambulance Contain. ing Wounded Is Attacked And The Horses Han Away. Pittsburg Pa and for: { Special) Orie trooper one deputy sherify shot and wild plant thres killed the gner Sunday night in were a riot Pressed Car in hienville, whose employes are now strike At least a of per- were seriously wounded, 10 fa- The rioting followed a out without warn- 8COTe tally The riot sC0Ne Was Mounted practically in- State troop- street with riot cracking the heads all loitering in vicinity of t mill, Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in the doors of houses, suspected of being ipathizers of and wholesale arrests were From 30 were drawn persons INACEeS Of the he syn strikers, made 11.30 s¢ arrested and in mill 9 10 Ores placed vards, of per BODs in ¥ y foe $ 3 WIX CAr jalis the Took Part, ly stages M8 i 1 Women During the earl: Ie « Arms trance rks cones ana rr TEND CHURCH Sixty Per Cent. of Church-Geers Are Women. The Census Burean's Report Shows A Remarkable Condition In The Religious Field — The Greatest Difference Is Fourd Among The Protestants — Nearly 33,000,000 Members in America. WW aghington, Standing on yallet Bureau ued by Cen- “Census of Re. Te Of 8 1 in entitled ike ue liigous Bodies.” the fact that out in the nearly maies formed consider- ably less than half of the total Of a total church membership r~ ported by the various religious bodies and classified by sex, 43.1 per cent, were males and 56.8 per cent were females Among the Protestants diffe~ence was greater, only cent... being males, while Roman Catholic Church the males formed 49.3 per cent, of the total membership. Fewer males than females were found among the Latter Day Saints, the Lutherans, the Disc ples, Meth. odists, Baptists, Presbyterians, and Protestants Episcopalians, the per- centage of male members decreasing in the order shown, and there being but 35.5 per cent. male among the Episcopalians. Among the Christian Scientists only 27.6 per cent. were males, and of the Shakers, but 21.3 per cent.: but in the Greek Ortho- dox Church. 93.9 per cent. were males Other salient features of port show that there were and a quarter dollars invested in church edifices, and that every day eight new church.z ro nt their spires skyward. Of the total estimated population of continental United States in 1906, the church members formed 30.1 per cent, as against 32.7 per cent. for 18906, Of this 6.4 per cent. in- ¢ Of a United +. 000.000, church mem mbership States in 1806, of the 39.3 in the per the re- a billion the remainder bo- nations, the Protegtants were credited 20,287,74%, nd the 12,070,142. bodies the th. Baptists, Lutherans, 2,112. 1,830,565, 1. 142,359, The rate of Increases shown with the the Presbyterians, 93.5 per cent, which is more than twice that for all the Protestant —— — — DUEL WITH ROBBERS. Hotel Clerk Shoots And Fatally Wounds Thief, Colorado Springs, Col. (Special). «Two men made an unsuccessful at- tempt to rob the safe in the office of a hotel at Manitou. James Morrow, the day clerk, shot one of the men, Edward Clark, through the head, fatally wounding him, and received a bullet througa his own clothing. The other robber escaped, but was captured. o * the a8 the In an effort to arrest ! pleked out of the crowd man one Willlams revolver on foot falling rades For the tion of the then opened Six strikers of was killed bullet, wore also into the arms instantly by a shot of and their first time since the strike the Btate volley fire on the fell at the first them are reported mob round Three fatally shot, The members opened fire with ei] troopers horses fatally en to the Ohio Valley 1 dying condition the mob then Two mount fron They Ho of rifle drog 1 yy shot were ak pital in a Attacked mad plant to the wounds tiooper , the ve and he driver life. The fright. attached to t wildly in Two men horses’ Ymbulance Agr ol from the car carrying hicle wag attacked forced to flee for hi ened team of horsos ambulance plunged about the crowd trampled under The ambulance the hospital troopers Shortly after a deputy yet identified. was crowd «f strikers attempt drew contents ambulance its Way hospital, ue and were hoofs to of the was fin lly driven a detachracont sheriff, not inded by lust o1# 3 SUrrol in a hims a de Spr. ts ficer the throwing 5 up 10 BaAYe his revolve r and into the crowd run away h the empticd of- th id ¥ : AUION« rioting H and two nition The coun he bodie deputy The treated are KILLED IN A RACE goer Oh Valle injured reporie gd fatal iO 10 a Mile a Mnute, THE CAR SWERVES INTO A FENCE Accident Marks Opening Of New Motor At Indianapolis ~=Men Were Running A Knox Car In 250-Mile Enacted In Speedway Contest — Tragedy In Front Of Thousands Grandstand—Skulls And Limbs Broken——ne Mile Records Broken. Crushed And Indianapolis, Ind. (Special) lives ken during indianapolis liam A car in 250-mile race, and Harry Holcomb, his mechanician, were kill- ed in the frenzied carnival of speed Barney Oldfield, driving a hieb- powered Benz, covered a mile in seconds, breaking De Pal. were lost two records bro and } ie inauguration of the motor Wil- th gp dwa y the te 1-10 ma's mark of 51 seconds. and Louis Caevrolel, in a Buick, negotiated 10 miles in the marvelous time of 8:66 4-10, cutting Oldfield’s time of 0:12 Both of these are new ican track marks Robert Burman, won the 250-mile race, of the day, and the contest which cost Bourque and Holcomb their lives, The winner's time was 4:38. 4-10 slow because of the many accidents that marred the race. The Stoddard-Dayton (Clements) was second, in 4:46:01 K-10, and the National (Merz) finished third, in 4:52:39 7-10. Another National, with Kincaid at the wheel, was the only other car of 10 starters to fin- ish the long grind. Were In Second Place. The American Automobile Associ- ation demands that the track be freed from its many dangerous ruts, which are claimed to be unavoidable in a new track, and that every inch of it be thoroughly oiled and tarred. Two records had been broken and the firat day of racing over the im- menge track bade fair to be an un- qualified success, when a pall was cast over the crowd of 12,000 ex- cited spectators hy the sudden death {of Bourque and Holcomb, The Knox car was in second place, with Burman in his Buick, leading. {It had covered nearly 150 miles when the crash came. Coming down the home stretch, the car suddenly swerved and tore into the fence at { the left of the track, turning com- i Metely over and pinning its two oe { cupants beneath it. Both men were | alive when taken from under the fll- fated machine, but Bourque died in the ambulance on the way to the | Emergency Hospital. Holcomb lived a few minutes longer, but was dead i soon after he arrived at the hospital, i na Burned In Their Cell, Charleston, W. Va. (Special). John Robert Johnson, 18 years old, charged with criminal assault, and Charles Bmurlow, charged with lar. ceny, were perhaps fatally burned in Kanawha County Jail, whea mat- tresses in their small cell were set on fire by cigarette stubs. They had been smoking and were asloep when the fire started. Before the cell could be unlocked both were burned #80 badly that flesh d from their limbs, and both inhaled the flames. Buick the feature in a ad 2 A UNITED STATES "BANK 15 FAVORED Majority (Opinion of Monetary Commission. UKE THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Revolution Of The Country's Bank. ing System Is To Be Proposed To Congress—The Minority Will Hand In A Separate Report—Committee Appointed To Special Features Of Of Investigate Banking System Canada. The Monetary York the apmpinted by New of i mission, (Special) bers National Congress ast | year 10 improve the cu syvslem | of | meetin rrency this who had an informa Plaza Hotel on Mon- for the last time until | LHe Com ion begin final mee! ings in ston early in October At this which was presided lgon 8. Aldrich, omission, plans coniinuancy comission Senator Ald- ountry at the ( re ” el Again | ove ! No { chairman of c | were mapped out for | of the work of ; It is understood 1} } rich and the majority of the mem- bers of the commission are in favor | the establishment of a central na- ! i | i $ Lhe the tional bank on the lines of the Bank of England, and that this bank have the only power to issu« currency Some of the members the commission, however, do not agree with the proposition and will oppose it when the makes ita report to Congress i These members of commiss jit is sald, are unwilling change {the present banking system of ths | country, but A to report recommend tion tal savings banks that al} nimission hoiild Houig shall papel of body the to vote 10r the 8 Weeks Hmission to different {of this the | and tions couniry winter yt nie io continu its investiga- LIQUID BGG UNDER BAN, | Dessicated Product Seized By Gove Food Experts BD. C dessicated erument Pare i Washington, Liquid mest TEE, Oor the approval of They NUE. reac not food experts the partment package was made 1 { jessicated here Of CER will CREn local in a hearing rmine whether found in for in thi as bakery tisand A food £100,000 BABY DEAD. Saved That Amount Bee To Parents, Birth queathed Kj 1ree-woeoks-old Frankfort { Special) The th laughter of J F and Clementine Deshon, the "$100 - 000 baby.’ their home | birth of } Mrs. Deshon of the died at It which saved Mrs. Clark, James A. Holt, the £100,000 farm in this county which wag to have gone to the Clark Masonic Lodge of Jeffersonville, . Ind., if they died i without issue Lawyers here gay the lodge no ¢laim upon the property countrs the child and was to neices late has Astronomer Grinds Scissors, Atlanta, Ga i { i {Special} After de- i voting O58 years of his life to the study of the solar system, Prof. J : H. Swindell, for many years profes. igor in a well-known Southern Uni- | versity, is a scissor sharpener on the | streets of Atlanta, Professor Swin- i dell became totally deaf several | years ago, and was forced to give up { his place. Even in his poverty he {continues his researches, and lately { he published a book To Bridge Kentucky River, | Tenn. (Special). | The Cincinnati Southern Railroad | awarded a contract of $125,000 for | the removal of 200,900 cubic yards {of earth in preparation for the con- | struction of a new bridge over the | Kentucky River at High Bridge, Kv. { The new bridge will be 306 feet | abawe low-water mark, one of the {| Chattanooga, highest in the world. C—O Fireman Saves Children. Wellston, Ohio (Special). — Two little children were saved from death by Charles Carpenter, a fireman on la Detroit, Toledo and Ironton switch { engine. Seeing the children at play tin the middle of the track, Carpen- ‘ter dashed out on the running | board and leaning far out from the pilot, caught them in his arms eb A SA A ASA AA 2R0,000 Children To Greet Him, Chieago (8pecial). When Presi- dent Taft comes to Chicago on Sep- tember 16 ig it planned to empty the public schools in his honor and have taken in an automobile, Each group of children will be allowed to wel. come the ident in its chosen way, EAR or pa onary an American : ‘PANIC CUT DOWN THE COAL OUTPUT Production in 1908 Short Millions of Tons. 5449938 WORKING DAYS LOST. The Record Of 1907 Showed The Largest Mining Figures Of Both Anthracite And Bituminous Coal In The Country's History—The Adjustment Of The Wage Seale Temporarily Delayed Work, Washington, D. effect of the (Bpe ial) financial depre sion, berinning 1807 and contin ing in 0K was the most powerful factor which cau in the production United wilh io stat IORICRI Su public in the 1 415,842,607 10 spot value of $5 total 74.347.10% spot i Pe nusyi 573,94 of $374,135 coal and tion of nous 3 y H lignit both anthraci COA r in the 1 a dec Of 1: of $52 vile 1808 ghowed short tons and cent quality per tion of bit GQecrense 1&6 168 Man And Woman Duke Of Abruzzi's Explorations ’ Allabad India (Sp pine ed mos Many Killed In Wreck, Chis Se miles norih of Santias gone were killed ! trains The monetary Ha0 Were com ed O88 Ww Taft To See Bull Fight, Mexico 1 here {io laurez {Specialy anthorities voted £20,000 city appr priate enteriais dentg Diaz and Taft when 1} on October 16 The cits profusely decorated A bull fight will be entertainment of the WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH 16% held for Presidents Henry E. Davis sharply eriticised the conclusions of the James N. Sut. ton court of inquiry. The tax of $7 a ton on built pleasure yachts will the revenue about $100,000. An effort will be made to drydock eight cruisers at Manila in seven days The first pilot chart of the South Pacific Ocean was issued United States Minister Dodge, at Tangier, stated that the Sultan's forces had routed the pretenders troops and that the pretender was a prisoner at Fes, Contracts were let by the Navy De partment to Philadelphia companies for dredging and other work inci- dental to the improvement of the foreign. increasa From the forest service headgquar- The Agricultural Department has | | § of the soll. Twenty barrels of mammal skins for the Smithsonian Institu- Hon were received from Col. Roose. velt, » Consul Ide 324 the a orhen of retagne la as sardine packers at one season and Irish lsce-makers at another season. 5