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
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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.
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