THE NEWS. Domestic Application for the appointment of a receiver for the Deschutes Irriga- tion and Power Company, of Port- land, Ore., was made in a suit filed by John G. Deshler, of Columbus, of Washington, of the Bank and Frederick W. Ward, a business man of Pittsburg, were found guilty of conspiracy R. 8S. Lovett, vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a director of the New York, Susque- hanna and Western Railroad, to suc- ceed J. N. Hill, The incendiary who has been start- ing a number of fires in E vansville, Ind.. continued his work, and eight more barns went up in smoke. Alva Carter, under arrest at Fres- no, Cal, is wanted in parish, La., Wall, a farmer, W. FPF. Carter, “Clifford H Pénna., former of Coal Center, Drum, cashier eight vears general ago agent of ral lines, with headquarters died from peritonitis, John Horvatch was arrestéd in South Bend, Ind., on information from the police at Racine, charge him with four murders. It is estimated that the loss ac- companying the heavy frost in Mus- kegon and Oceana Counties, Mich will run up to at least $100,000. An order making Lionel Hare, New York, liable for damages gregating $62,500 was entered Judge Wilbur at Los Angeles Mineral land swindles in Northern Wyoming in two years have taken $400,000 out of the pockets of resi dents of Eastern States, George A. Johnson, who and assaulted by four robbers, at Norristown, Pa. Extensive damage was done to the tobacco crop of Western Wisconsin by frosts. Mrs. Wililam plumber living in Dunton, land, shot Dr. M. C. Hicks, nent physician of Jamalca, in the leg and then sent a bullet into her breast with the same revolver. The physi cian’s wound is not dangerous, bul the woman will probably di= Alice Webb Duke, former wife of the millionaire tobacco manufactur er, arrested in Chicago for fallure to pay a bill for automobile hire, was held until her mental conditions investigated The Brotherhood of Railway men on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railrogd have refused to handle strikebreakers destined for the Pressed Steel Car Company's plant at McKees Rocks, Pa Mystery surrounds the finding of the body of Mrs. Alberta Banta, di- vorced wife of former United States Senator John R. Phipps, in a public park at San Antonio, Tex Three trainmen were killed in a collision between a doubleheader freight and a construction train on the Huntington and Broad Top Rail- road. The national! and local officials of the miners’ union in Pittsburg have disagreed and parted in controversy over the use of explosives Four prominent young men of De- troit, Mich., were fined and sentence. to the House of Correction for 950 days for “joy riding.” The steamer Allegan) reached Boston after having been adrift with a broken shaft and a million dollars aboard. Forty-six prominent citizens of pan reached Seattle to tour the ted States in the interest of and commerce. The illness of Supreme tice William H. Moody rheumatism, according tary. Felix sergeant-at-arms Representatives, died in New York A cloudburst swept away 130 buildings at Squattertown, a settle- ment outside of Rawhide, Nev The United States torpedo boat destroyer developed a speed of 33.7 knots an hour. Eight stables and barns at ville, Ind., were burned-by cendiary. Bialville, a small town in was devastated by a cycione Foreign Beckert, the former chancellor of the German legation of Santiago, has Been condemned to death by the Cenrt of First Instance, The reluctance of the deposed Shah of Persia to cede his estates in Azerbaijan provines to the gov- ernment has heen overcome The authorities at Warsaw sup- pressed the Society for the Aid of Poor Scholars studying in Polish schools. Glenn Curtiss, now in Paris, de- cided to attend the aeroplane meets ing beginning at Brescia next Sun- day. George Cabot Ward, the newly ap- pointed secretary of Porto Rico, San Juan for the United States According to the official forecast | made by Tokio the rice crop this vear will be seventeen per cent. above the aver age of former seasons, The new naval station and dry dock at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, will be completed and ready to turn over to the Navy Department within 232 months Captain Samuel G. Shartle, newly-appointed American military altache at Berlin, was presented 1c Emperor William at the autumn ro view. A number of the men on strike i Stockholm have received notice t¢ leave their homes October 1 unless they return to work in the mean time. The admiral of the fleet, 8ir Bd ward Hobart Seymour, hoisted his flag at Portsmouth on the battleship eraiser inflexible. Senor Ferer, the man who ig accus ed of being responsible for the recep! rioting in Bareelona, has been ap rested. : The former chief of the Russian ice Department will be exiled tr Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The British Association for the Advancement of Selence, meeting al Winnipeg, elected officers, Two French captains fought » fieree duel with swords in Paris. York Cen at Toledo, "ia I8., of ag- by was shot died wife of a Long Is a promi. Condon, 18 Train- Jja- Uni- peace Court. Jus- is Jue to to his secre MeCloskey 40 Years Houde of for of the Evang- an in- Te Xas, the 08. FREDERICK A. COOX FINDS NORTH POLE American, ARRIVED AT POLE APRIL 21, 1908. Intrepid Ametiean Explorer is Now on His Way Home, After Achieving the Desire of Centuries, and Plant. ing the Stars and Stripes on the Pole Itself ~Wonderful Features of the New Country. br. FP. explorer, Pole April 21, telegram Office ial). American North to Copenhagen Cook, the reached the { 1908, according at. the | from Lerwick, Dr. Cook Spec @ Colonial here Shetland Islands. on board the government steamer Hans passed Lerwick at noon, route for Denmark. The telegram Cook's achievement Greenland official steamer, and reads “We have on boa traveler, Dr. Cook, North Pole April 21, arrived at Upernavik most Danish settlement on an island off the west May of 1808 from Cape York northwest part of Greenland, fin Bay) The Eskimos York confirm Dr. Cook’ journey.” Directo i received is en i which ® announcing Dr. by a the was sent on board as follows: rd the American who reached the 1908. Dr, Cook {the northern- in Greenland, coast) (in jaf- Cape of his on of & slory of the sald thai any far achieve ival of the Hau gol 1 The ves voyage Ry adm instr] pect to r berg, tion, [eco Greenland he did not ther details of Dr ment before the ary Egede at this port make no stops on Lerwick to Copenhagen Director Ryberg American Legatior minister, Dr. Maur Dr. Cook had reaches The announcem enthusiasia and any Ameticans leation to congratulate Among these was Alexander of New York, a warm of Dr. Cook. who said that believed the explorer had long ag) The legation rowded with visitors The noted explorer, Hovgaard, leader various Pole expeditions convinced the message that Dr. Cook reached the Pole was but marked that i: was strange that mention was made in the to whether or not there is he Pole. It is the intention people of Copenhagen, on Dr irrival here, to give him a most thusiastic reception ive Coo k's the proce ile ad and informed ice FF. Egan, i the North ent cause d Jie hroug Pole grea out nd had 1 eis pe rsonal he perish Was Commander North thnt Bad of nas true ré. cable land of the Cook's on- FIRST THOU GHT OF WIFE, Cook Hastens To Let Her Know Of His Safety. New Yor ul, well Fred." Full of meaning if BUC were interpreted to indicate had reached the North Pole, going cable message exaspera ts 1} riefnese, was received York from Dr. Frederick the American explorer iptest cable advices credit pg accomplished what no itd The message was sent not to any wientific society, nor to any of his 1ssociates interested in his expedition ‘from a scientific viewpoint, but to iis wife, who has been counting the favs and hours and praying for his wafety since his departure from this ‘ity on July 4. 1907. Dr. { Special). ‘|Ruyccess Address Copenhagen k r that he the fore- ting in in New Cook, whom the with hav- man ever A LIKE A NINEFOL D ADAM. Shooting Himself, Philadelphia he most io medical science was successfully wrformed at the Homeopathic Hos- pital here. Clifford Russell sent a bullet into ais lung Three of his ribs were shattered and the alr entered the avity rendering breathing nable to patch up the ribs, Tharles H. Harvey and Dr. H my removed nine of them, mly sf the heart and the lower floating rib The wound was tightly, o lodge in. Russell responded nice- ly and Is resting quietly { Special) One of Dr M then sewed up $15,000,000 STE AL C HARGE D. Taken Land From State. (Special), — Water-front i | Chicago | said to have been taken from of 8t. Louis, according to to Chicago from their trip Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, these waters border along this State The charges were made by John .. Flannigan, representative of St. Clair County. by changes of the course of the river, the original meander line being now several miles from the water's edge in some ‘Places. Liner Hit 70-Foot Whale. Plymouth (Special). ~The steam- er Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse ar- rived here from New York. Of the banks of Newfoundland she collided with a 70-foot whale that was evi- {ently asleep on the surface of the water. The whale became impaled on the liner's bows, and all its ef ‘orts to free itself were futile. Final. 'y the steamer had to go full speed Asters to get clear of the dying levi- athan | EARTHQUAKE ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA Has Not Been Affected In Any Way, | Buildings Were Occurants The Damage Say That fected, Canal shaken So That : In Terror Into But No Serious Done—The Reports Canal Was Not Af. fan Streets, Was The Isthmus earth extent The an Panama ( of Panama experienced shock extending of territory, No however, nor is it belleved canal has been affected Lieutenant Colonen G gave out the following “The seismographs on the isthmug 8 o'clock recorded earth m ments at various stations across isthmus, Hoowever, were sufficiently severe felt, nor to have an on any of the canal execution or in prospect.” The administration buildings both the government and the commission here and at Ancop 80 severely shaken that the left their desks hurriedly street They soon returned, ever, when it was seen that age had been done and that i first shock was not followed tsecond. The quake Aguadulece, In Cocle Pacora, in the points more than Colonel Goethals bh {following offic quake from ipecial) a large damage over done, that the in any way. W. Goethals gtatement Wis in at they 10 he injurious now effects WOrk in Of ranal wer clerks for the how- the by a was also felt at Province, and at province Panama, 100 n apart. thi * Of nile “ as rece van if the h- ial report Engineer ugust es raph ANG we ment, and hs scious to g rumbli At R o'clock mograph here corded a ere shock, but the pen ag knocked {from both the ‘100 K' The noted fat igth- at 11.¢ recorded obse rye A HEMNMOZ The » also r cone Was tha ree gov several and at J independs« pi ring ipal Was the y ingicate f uir: | eXPix tod BOYS TRY TO WRECK TRAIN Four Lads Say They Just Wanted To Kankakee, tempt fo ‘erowded Chicago bound, on the | road, was discovereg crew in time to prevent The boys had placed ‘and rail braces at a switct town i Werly Smith, Sam and and Clayton Robertson age from 14 to 16 { vauted near the scene of wreck, where they were | velopments They admitted structions on the they "J wanted See Smash. Iti ur by in ar- re intended awaiting de- Were piacing the ob track and said tha ust to see a wreck.” 531 Fatal Harrisburg, Pa Raliroad statistics cidenta in Pennsylvania six months ending June There were in all 551 5.427 non-fatal accidents talities 472 were on steam and 79% on electric roads were 3.687 persons injured on the steam roads and 1,748 on the trolley roads The tota! number killed on the steam roads was 53 less than in the corresponding period of 1908 and the injured 856 less. Accidents, { Special) The bas com railroad ac- during the a0 las: fatal and Of the fa- railroads State Commission piled of the Government Testing Concrete, Washington, D. C. (Special) crete as a bullding material has led to numerous investigations of Its strength when variously prepared and when subjected to various con- ditions An elaborate test is now Survey, The effort the comparative value granite, limestone and use in concrete. of gravel, cinders Sermon At Ball Game, Minneapolis (Special). Base land religious services were combined, for the first time it is believed, when the Rev. G. lL. Morrill! delivered a short sermon at the {ciation ball grounds prior game Sunday afternoon | Minneapolis and Kansas City {home team won 8 to 0. to The Woman Weighed 500 Pounds. New York (Special) Elephanti asis was a contributory caus death of Mrs. Theresa Habet!s of a restaurant keeper, who expired in a hospital here, aged 38 vears | Bhe weighed 500 pounds, and it will be necessary to construct a special casket for her body Until three years ago she was of ordinary size Walter Wellman At Tromsoe, Tromsoe, Norway {Special). | Walter Wellman, who recently made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole in a dirigible bal. loon, arrived here from Spitzbergen. He has left three men to guard the airship at the S8pitzbergen camp through the winter. IN THE WORLD oF FINANCE American Locomotive Company di. rectors authorized an Issue of $5,000. 000 § per cent. notes The Pattens of Chicago having made a big killing in old wheat, now predict much lower prices for new wheat, United States Steel will this month smash all its records in the consump. tion of pig iron and in ore shipment. Without doubt the steel trade is humming. i i i i \ PLAN GREAT WELCOME FOR DR. FRED. A. COOK Event of National and Possibly Inter national Importance, PRESIDENT TAFT MAY BE PRESENT. Noted Explorers Expected To Cook In New York-—His Financial Backer Talks——Declares Careful Preparations For The Dash Were Made—Steward firms Statement, Many Greet (Special) Preparations here to make Dr, Frederick national, and importance New aleardy home Cook York are coming event the A afoot of an of international, e It | 8ibly | the plang outlined by {| Arctic Club are carried out, { come home which Dr, in New York will city, State and take part, while prominent explorers | Cook's former rivals—from of the globe will gather sonal tribute te . we fre} the wel Cook will re- celve be in which nation will all paris their per ment. Among who will in all probat greet Dr C on be Lieutenant Shaci resid Englishman, i plorations in the which he succeeded er to the South Pole previous explorer, make of world-wide prominent Members of the Arctic Presiden: Taft 8g repre Jook the most n of thos be here eturn will the In- ox toy Gok nay enti that nation I Dr "Such than fired Jour woul . one of { the placed the apex of the i Dd in er has Lhe perha a 2 i} view © world gguare nation 8 1s Among pected tl srritory the ex to take a ie welcome of the Nansen, Capt A WW Greely, Melville, and Cap Ca slorer Horey pro Oo Duke Bernier Osborn, tht Pp the said explorer weeks of ted fo: Copenh expe due in three if came Ne days.” sald Captain Osh straight Yor) w wil make geographi him to pass withont Ic w home John financial iakts pains to Brooklyn explorers the North Pole result of chancy goeveral polar ag the Arctic e Wie about our prenara fons for this brass band im aginable jde for akes and who had benefit wont thing aul gccompanin ontingency had been pros We studied out the misfortunes of other tried for the Pole, by thelr errors benefitted by their “T am not going cost was, but 1'H tell One single item of was 5.000 gallons of gasoline and another was two barrels of gumdraps An Esquimaux will travel 20 miles for a gumdrop. His sweet tooth Is the sweetest in the world "Now Cook has as much nerve man in the world, 1 guess: ha? he had something besides nerve to carry him through I'm not trying to take any of the credit; but I want to say he had the right kind of out- fit to take him through Conk will prove to the satisfaction of ewr: fair man that he has done exact! what he claims he did.’ ent, mist men hoping to and we certainly examnles tn 13 you th the equipment MRS, SU TTON GETS PERMIT. Restrictions It. {Bpec Order Hus No Appended To Washington, D. C permit was granted fo Mrs N. Sutton 'o have the body son, Lieut. James N. Sutton, which is buried in Arlington National Cem. disinterred and an autops; The permit | New ial) | otery, {the Quartermaster General of the the one issued on August that it was jssued by the Secretary it Moonshine Sul te Prison. Pittsburg (Special) Eight g the Western Penitgntiaey dismissed, it is uards at Linvn been ing of whisky In the big jr'son, Ac. cording to one of the dischurged guards, other employes at the pet. itentiary are implicated. The whis- ky was made from prune juice, yeast and sugar ss a Big Mine Cave-n, Scranton, Pa. (8pecial). The big: gest mine cave-in that has ever oc curred in Scranton took place when the earth settied over a large area in a thickly seftied section of the suburbs. ————— Tn SO ROA Two Dead In Grand Trunk Wreck. petroit, Mich. (Special). A pas. senger train wreck ia reported to have. happened on the Crank Trunk dflroad dear Capac Fireman Btraseon und Brush were killed and Engineer McAarous bad one log broken. E. H. HARRIMAN SAYS HE 15 ALL BIGHT Promises the Reporters to Keep Them Posted, Correspondents Camped Of Mountain — Reach Financier! Through Special Delivery Letter Told Of Wild Stories Being He Will Notify it At Foot! fy Circulated——Says The Serious'’ Happens, Newspapers Arden, N. Y. Edwar H. Harriman, ur resentatives (Special) ged by weary of the press, who IT a week, statement that Though brief, ghtforward a touch at the irve he has been subjects that the reporters wit} much for his sake, but who have been intercept coming to and from his residence zealous intervie latest bit of cludes thus should be the press deceived now withdraw | re ely on me.” The Mr to news titude« underwent interview that here out Monday he the came was all statement and explicit 3 of patient re ment ur lance to and requested draw, not for hi friend 80 dail} by ed WY Ww for informs It frank! anvthing know, and i thom them, | asl vi Chara aft able * nti IMMEeSERE" Wate Harriman's paper ri which i the t hie most Aw ur turned word "Gentil letter of tod low ade Pp wi Was n and thie fogs covers Harriman On Himself, statement Mr. Har thi ind C Dr Walter the whole nothing ITeWwWer James esylt Serious re previously t and not me. and this COYEers Lhe if Lave res t One ti "Ts is RR a whole resentatives there i ished, On Wa the rep degire and be ac pl here; but now jillian the opers ¢ be withdrawn, not so much account of my fagily or myseif, the coming and going of *nds may pot be interfered gppreciate the interest show? fare by the and by n all sections perhaps 1¢ others it was ‘or shou vy be anything eer will jet the press know, have never deceived them | the press pow withdraw atives and rely upon re Rs io Com e of unt press and there ious 1 and as | that sent ask ile repre rams *° n WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Surgeon h | iarine Hos cable yw {over An Was General Wym pital Service, was of the appearance at L.aguayra, Venez attempt being hington Chamber to secure the next the capital Lieutenant the bs HL 1s made of aviation for rest Foulols will War Department: at the aeronautical confers represent niterna- ice al Nancy Assiflant War Secretasy. Diiver, of the Department, returned to Wash a month's vacation. President Gomes named fcan as head of the water system at Cienfuegos, ( Postmas “i pid Fewer uba tors were airecte mailing p: a . ¢ iu wrapped Cei8 LOT proj Geaeral Murr Wwetine the z Philippines, Haw Le coast. There was a in the Treasur: gust, as compared for July. Arranga nents Bae Lren sption of Srince and ahi Kuni, of Japan Efforts will be made 10 raise torpedo supply ship Yanktom, Maseachnsctts Coast The Swiss ministcv's residen ¢ will contain rare art treasures collected Brigadics ed from ingy ay CORE] 0G¢ ait sid a deficit of 87,411,728 Department for Au- with, $13,103,940 nade [or Princess the off Cuba's direrior general offices wil! confer with Genera! Fitcheoek Mexico directeq that all relief sup- plies for the Yood sufferers be admit. ted fred, Royal #. Cabell was sworn Commisrioner of the laternal nues Smithsonian scientists found the Roosevelt wiins from Africa in good shape. —- Only $254,780 wae coinsd by the United States ‘mints during August A dispatch to the State Depart. ment irom Tampico sald that a por tion to the north jetty and both Hghts at have boen destroyed, Scientiste raid the Panama Canal is in no danger from possible earth auakey. ; of posts Postmaster in as Revo I LONE ROBBER HOLDS UP AN EXPRESS TRAIN Gets 10,000 Lincoln Pennies instead i of Bags of Gold, THE TRAIN CREW WAITS ON Kim, 1 Halted At Narrows, Forces Crew Of The Gold Into A Bag But Drops The Pennsylvania Midnight In Highwayman Train To For Hime. senpes, Gold The Pursuit—Blood- hounds Start On His Trail Across Mountains, Express Lewistown Pou During To The Lewistown, Pa most oraerec ntied one the awakened r calm the train AWS tra gent Of train was “Good } OP gleam tha OER the y that pennies sex in curren CXpress eon 0 apnounete the amount their loss The robber iz described as 12 nbout 5 fert 8 inches ino height, and was dressed in dark clothing and wore a sionch hat. pulled well down his eyes He used excell ish, but slight foreign ar Bre missing. bul the pany officials 1 Oxaet refuse nf ! b eine aver ert Eng! had a cent Agent aent Dake? of Lewistown the scene of the gix bage of pennies seals had not been 3% robe { bery to sive ion which io broken COTTON CONDITION LOWER. Por Cent, Indicates Crop Of 10.500,000 Bales. Memphis, Tenn we Phe of the National Ginners' As- sociation, just made public, gives the condition of totton up to and includ. ing August 24, as 64.1 per cent “This the lowest condition in a number of years." the report says, “and indicates a crop of about 10.- 500.000 bales, An early frost wonld reduce these figures somewhat, and a late frost would probably increase the total vield to 11.0006.000 bales Pead In Slaughter Trough. §t. Charles, Mo (Spocial). = The Hands and feet bound with wire, the body of John McNealy, a butcher, was found in a trough in a slaughter house on the outskirts of this eity The head and face were partly sub merged in six inches of water, [It ig thought McNealy was murderad. { Special) i report iR Follows Roosevelt dea, Ottawa, Ont (Bpecinl). «= The Canadian Government has followed sx-Precident Roosevelt's suggestion by appointing a commission for the conservation of natural resources. it is made up of representatives of thi} Mederal and provincia! governments, the anlversities and men particularly skilled tn minerals, timber and oth natural resources. Hoa. Cliffo Sifton 1s chairman,
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