The News Domestic Bom anonymous person are writ tag letter attacking the reputation of Blanche Brunner, a Missouri girl. Who recently married Arthur W. Oodfrej . aon of a Boston millionaire. The suit brought by the State of Missouri to oust the Standard Oil Company from doing business In that Mate will come up In the Supremo Court at Jefferson City next Friday. Cousins of the late David E. Crouse. of New York, will attack the Hht of Dorothea Edgartta Crouse MoVlckar, who claims to be his daughter, to $4,000,000 of hla estate. The clearing house has come to the relief of the Mercantile National Bank and forced the Helnze, Moore and Thomas Interests out of clear ing house banks. The steamer Saruia, of the Atlas Line, which arrived In New York from Port Llmon, broke her hlgh Dressure Dlston rod on October 2, after leaving Cartagena. The Sarnla teamed 2,500 miles under the re malnlug two cylinders. The California Limited, east bound, on the AtchlBon, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, was ditched at Kail. Col., by a defective rail and the engineer was killed. Several pas sengers were hurt. The Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission has decided that Henry If. Whitney, of Boston, was legally nominated for governor at the Spring Held Democratic Convention. Thirty coastwise tugs are idle in the waters of New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and BoBton because of the engineers' demand for additional help. Walter Stock was sentenced to lifo Imprisonment in the Boston court for the murder of hla sweetheart, Mary Agnes Hates. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TELLS OF HIS Pleased at the Success of His Trip. HOW HE KILLED HIS BEAR. Fear of Alligators Could Not Keep Him From His Daily Swim in the Lake He Hugs lilt Companion for Joy After He Kill Hi Bear and Ghe One a Twenty-dollar BHL Stamhoul. La. (Bpeclal)--"We got 3 beam. 6 deers, 1 wild turkey, 12 sqlrrels, 1 duck, 1 opossum and 1 wildcat. We ate them all except the wildcat, and there were times when we almost felt a If wo could eat It." This was President Roosevelt's summary of the results of his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear Lake. He arrived at 8 o'clock Sunday af ternoon at the residence of Leo Shields, whore he will be a guest un til he departs for Vlckshurg. The President came In at a full gallop, and. accompanied as he was by about a dozen hunting compan ions, all mounted and attired in hunting garb, the cavalcade pre sented a tableau as picturesque as It was annimated. The President Is slightly more bronzed thnn when he entered the wilderness 16 days ago, but notwith standing this fact and the additional circumstances that his skin, as well as his clothes, hear evidence of con tact with the cane and other brush, he was never In better spirits in his life. "Yes; we got three bears," he added. "All that we saw, and I think It Is a pretty good record. I am per fectly satisfied." "You might add," Interjected one of the Metcalf brothers, who has ., I! ., OD.ict ' been the President's guide through- In the equity proceedings against ...,. i the alleeed anthracite coal trust to I i" ' ---- ' additional defendants are named. William G. Rockefeller testified In the government's suit for the disso lution of the oil combine. Three persons were killed nnd 37 Injured in a collision on the Southern Railway at Rudd, N. C. Four men wero drowned In the Illinois River by the overturning of a gasoline launch. President Roosevelt killed a black bear In the canebrakes near Bear Lake, La. Edward N. Kelly committed sui cide In a church in Seattle. Wash., after singing. Fred H. Maglll, accused of mur dering his first wife that he might wed Faye Graham, took the Btand and related In n matter-of-fact way the events that led up to Mrs. Ma glll'g death. The meeting of stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad was enliven ed by a dispute, In which the He was nearly passed, between Stuyvesant Fish and Charles A. Peabody. There has been no falling off of trade with Japan since the Japanese Russian war, according to James B. Morse, president of the American Asiatic Association. The allurements of commercial life and fear of the "ministerial dead line" are given as the reasons for the decrease of young men entering the ministry. A monument was unvalled at Val ley Forge to the memory of Maine soldiers, who were at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. A will made by Cassle Chadwirk before her criminal career became known would have dlspoeod of $1, 000,000 worth of property. David C. Briggs. vice president of the United Shirt and Collar Company, of Troy, N. Y., died in Chicago, of anaemia. Foreign George Klnculd, head foreman of the public works department. In Yu kon Territory, was arrested at Daw son on a charge of stealing $40,000 from a registered mall sack and committed suicide. The Canadian Pacific steamer Tar tar collided with the steamer Charm r, of the same line, at the mouth of the Fraser River and both ships were badly damaged. A movement of rock has occurred In the old mine workings under the country of vast extent, in which there were but five bears all told." Beaff Liver Was Best. "Was the 'possum good?" the President was asked. "Absolutely the best dish we had except bear liver," he responded with relish. The President stood on the lawn In fronts of Mr. Shield's house, the center of a group containing Mr. Shields and a number of guests. In the distance were gathered the negro hunters, cooks, teaniBters and mes sengers, while the horses stood In the yard and the dogs lay around licking their lacerated bodies, the re sult of long chaseB and contact with wild hogs, wild cats and other wild things. The President declared that his health had been perfect and his ap petite good. With the exception of a day or two lost on account of rain he had been In the saddle every day from dawn to dusk. He declared that he had never In bis life had finer sport. The arrival of the party brought out the foct that a third bear had been killed on Friday by one of the Osborn brothers, while it was In a fierce fight with the dogs. The bear slain by the President was killed on Thursday, and the kill ing was witnessed by one of the Mo Kenzles and Alexander Knnolds. They say that the President's bear ing was extremely sportsmanlike. The animal hnd been chaaed by the dogs for three hours, the President following all the time. When at last they came within hearing dis tance the President dismounted, threw off his coat and dashed into the canehrake, going to within 20 paces of the beast. His Shot Went Straight. The dogs were coming up rapidly, with the President's favorite, Rowdy, In the lead. The brute had stopped to bid defiance to the canines when the President sent a fatal bullet from his rifle through the animal's lights. With tho little life left In it the bear turned on the dogs. The President then sent a second bullet through the bear's shoulders, break ing the creature's neck. Other members of the party soon came up. and the President was so rejoiced over his success that he embraced each of his companions. Rnnolds said: "Mr. President, you are no tender foot." The President responded by giv ing Ennolds a $20 note. Saturday GETTING ON ft WAR FOOTING Activity la Both Land and Sea Berries. Washington (Special). Prepara tion for a hostile emergency in the Pacific is occupying the time and at tention of the military and nava authorities to such an extent that all other work has been suspended in some branches of the two services. The war fever la spreading through the personnel of the Army and the Navy. Many officers are now aware of the circumstances which led to the decision to send the battleship fleet to the Pacific, and with their eyes opened In that respect they are watchnlg the trend of events with absorbing Interest. The Idea that war Is coming Is apparently firmly fixed In the minds of some of thoBe having superior means of obtaining Information as to the government's attitude. Other, while depreciating the talk of war and Inclined to the belief that there will be no conflict, contend, however, that the prepara tions now under way are Justified by the situation as they understand It, and commend President RooBevelt for what they regard as admirable foresight on hi part. Under orders from the Navy De partment, the entire working force at navy yards on the Atlantic Coast Is being employed In making ready the vessels of the battleship fleet for the so-called practice cruise to the Pacific. Every class of labor that can be utilized In getting the fleet Into condition for Its long voyage has been withdrawn from its usual duties at the yards and put to work on the Bhips. The authorities of the Army Signal Corps are devoting them selves exclusively to arrangement for tho Intallatlon of electric fire control apparatus In the fortifica tions of Stiblg Bay, the new naval station established In the Philippines. The work Is being conducted to the detriment of other projects, but the orders to complete It, which are un derstood to have come directly from President Roosevelt, are Imperative. Htish Work On Defense. Under equally Imperative direc tions new fire control systems are being installed on the battleship which will go to the Pacific. A tor pedo company of the Army Artillery Corps has been sent to Sublg Bay to chart and mine that important body of waters and engage In torpedo practice. Army rifles of 6, 10 and 12 Inch caliber and 1 2-inch mortars are being Bent to Sublg Bay as faBt as they are completed. The trans portation of this ordnance Is being accomplished with significant dls- patcb. Contracts have been let for 50.000 tons of coal to be delivered in the Philippines. There are other thing that Indi cate the Intention of the government to place the Army and Navy on a war footing within the ability of Its present resources, although com plete evidence Is lacking that such Is the purpose of tho apparent activ ity In connection with these addition al particular matters. For example, recruiting for tho Navy Is being pushed with energy, but taken In connection with the fact that the fleet Ib 4,000 short of the authorized enlisted personnel, thl course of the authorities Is not necessarily signifi cant. In the Army, recruiting Is conducted with considerable activity, but existing conditions without refer ence to the prospect of a hostile emergency, appear to Justify strenu ous endeavor. The present enlisted strength of the enlisted forces Is approximately Til. 000 men, which is about 2,000 short of the desired peace establish- FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT Communication By Wireless Across ttie Continent. BUSINESS SERVICE IS STARTED. The First Message I Sent, Undtr Supervision of Marconi, From Glace Bay, N. S., to Cllfden, on Coat of Ireland Congratulatory Menage Exchanged. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH HISTORY. residential quarter of Newcastle, N. there was little hunting, because the 8. W.. and considerable damage has j dogg encountered a drove of wild been done. I hogs, which are more ferocious than Joseph H. Chnate, head of the ; bears. One of the . best dogs was I 184 2 Professor Morse signalled i across Susquehanna River without metallic connection j by means of wires stretched 1 along the banks. 1864 Clark Maxwell defined ether wave to the Royal So ciety, declaring wireless tele graphy possible by moans of electro-magnectlc diversion. 1886 Sir William Preece, of London, signaled between parallel telegraph wires four and -a half miles apart. 1892 Sir William Preece estab lished communication be tween Flatholm and Laver nock, three and a third miles apart. 1897 Marconi Introduced the high wire or aerial, and sig naled from Lavernock to Flatholm. 1901 Marconi signaled letter "8" from Cornwall to New foundland. 1902 Actunl wireless communi cation established between Cape Breton and Cornwall. Washington Glace Bay, N. 8. (Special). The inauguration of a regular transat lantic wireless service was accom plished by William Marconi and his assistants Thursday. Mr. Marconi stated that more than 5000 words had been transmitted between tho station at Fort Moreln, six miles from here, and the Irish station. Invitations to a large number of guests were issued for 2 o'clock P. M., but the world-wide Interest In Some Interesting Hap penings in Brief. President Roosevelt has ordered that action be suspended In the mat ter of cutting down historic trees In the botanical grounds In Washington. Porto Rico Is endeavoring to se cure representation In tho National Guard of the United State. The pura-food InvoBtlgtaors will examine Into tho method used In drying fruit. The Immigration Bureau ordered the deportation of Lizzie Rocks and Annie McGrogaln. Imported as fac tory girls by the Flnlayson Bplnnlng Company, of Grafton, Mass. Capt. Horten W. Stockle. Corps of Engineer, ha been ordered to the Isthmus of Panama to assist In the construction of the Oatan locks. Colonel Raspopoff, who was Rus sian military attache at Washington, has returned to St. Petersburg. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion continued the hearing of the LONG FLIGHT OF AN ARMY BALLOON Sails Five Hundred Miles Over Four States. WINNERS OF ThT LAHN CUP. United States Signal Corp Aero nauts Travel Over Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Into Wt Virginia Spend Two Day and a Night in the Cloud. shippers and commercial Interests I ,ahm Cup. St. Louis, Mo. (Special). Swing ing through the atmosphere at a speed estimated at 22 miles an hour, the United States Signal Corps bal loon No. 10, In which Aeronaut J. C. McCoy and Capt. Charles DeF. Chandler, of the United States Blgnrl Corps, ascended at St. Louis, pnBsed over Illinois and Indiana, and across Ohio, and probably landed In the vicinity of Point Pleasant, W. Va. Tho distance covered, on a straight line msuremcnt, Is approximately f.f0 miles, and the length of the voyage won for the aeronauts the on the uniform bill of lading. San Francisco people are prepar ing an elaborate entertainment for the battleship fleet when it reaches the Pacific Coast. President Andrews, of the Univer sity of Nebraska, denounced the mis representation of rich men. Tho American Association of Gen eral Passenger Agents adjourned af ter electing officer. The War Department has named a The balloon, with a capacity of 78.000 cubic feet of gas, was filled from the ga plant at Second and Rudgor Streets. A number of mem bers of the Aero Club of St. Louis and visiting aeronauts wore present when the ascent was made, at 4.1 U P. M. The balloon rose gracefully nnd suddenly veering as a sharp wind struck it, colliding with the timbers that supported a huge coal pile In the gas plant yard. The basket scraped a moment threaten- seacoast battery on the Presidio of ingly, but prompt work by the aero San Francisco, Cal., Battery Marcus Miller, In honor of Brigadier General Marcus P. Miller, United States Army. Commissioner of Internnl Revenue nauts In throwing out sand ballast caused the balloon to shake Itself free from the coal pile undamaged and shoot strulght up several hun dred feet. Then It swept toward the dnelrlerf thnt romnoiinrti. containing ! northeast, and was soon lost to view alcohol In such proportions as to ! The flrBt report received from the make them beverages must pay the i aeronauts was a message uroppei special tax, The use of the mallB has been denied the Press Publishing Com pany, of Boston, which offered 25, 000 diamond rings to increase circu lation. The One Hundred and Fifteenth Company, Coast Artillery, Btatloned at Fort RoBecrans, has made a new the undertaking brought a flood of record In target practice. messages In the early morning and the service was opened shortly after daylight. Among those present at the opening of the new service were representatives of a score of British and American newspapers. "I am entirely satisfied with the result," said Mr. Marconi. "A great many papers have wired me for a personal statement of the accom plishment of the object I have been working for for several years, but I am too busy to dictate anything. You can Bay, however, that every thing has worked splendidly; we are going to operate a limited service for a time, but we have nlready handled from 5,000 to 10,000 words on ac count of It being a special day and a large number of congratulatory and press messages having been exchang ed between London and New York. Regular Business Service. "You cannot call It an Inaugural or opening. We had our real open ing two years ago, when telegrams were passed by our system between the President and the King. We have not, therefore, addressed any thing to crowned heads, but we are Just quietly starting to do a regular business between Europe and Ameri ca in continuation of the old serv- Thomas Ryan, for many years as sistant secretary of the Interior, re tired from that position. Frank A. Leach, the newly ap pointed director of the Mint, took charge of the bureau. Director Ballln, of the Hamburg American Line, is said to have con firmed the report that his company will build a steamer of 47,000 tons, larger than the Cunarder Lusltania. Inability to settle the question of proxies caused a truce In the fight of Harrlman and Fish for control of the Illinois Central Railroad. Gross & Kleeburg. New York near Leesburg, O. The message stated that the bal loonist!: had dropped It at G A. M. and "that they were then traveling southeast rapidly. Later the balloonlsts were seer passing over Galllpolis, O., and by the middle of the afternoon the were in West Virginia, near Point Pleasant. There the balloon staffed up the Kanawha Valley, according to a telephone message to St. Louis. Member of the International Bal loon Contest Committee and other aeronauts said that the flight would esabllsh an epoch in balloon sailing. The Lahm Cup was insituted by the Aero Club of America soon aTtor the International races at Paris In 1906, when Frank P. Lahm won tho James Gordon Bennett Cup for the Aero Club of America. 8o Joyful were the members of the club at the victory that the cup was named for the pilot of the balloon United States, and It was put up by the club to be won by the aeronaut who trav eled more than 402 miles, the dlB- stock brokers, have suspended busl- j tance traveled by the United States nogs, following a decline in copper i in the Paris races, providing the stocks from $59 to $.16 a share. I start was made from American soil. Robert C. Clowry was re-elected ' Lieutenant Lahm has never held the president of the Western Telegraph PP- and this wa the first time it Company at the annual meeting of , was ever won- there 1 much activity, but It Is said to oe not greater than peace condi tion demand, and no orders have been isued to that branch of the army to prepare for troublous times. Ice. Sir Wilfred L.iurler sent two ment. In the quartermaster's depart- messages by our system. One waB ment of the military establishment i addressed to the British people. We also received a meBBage from Lord Strathcona, the Canadian high com missioner in London. We handled a pile of telegrams, which must have aggregated more than 5,000 words. I am, Indeed, pleased with the re sult." The inventor expressed absolute confidence in the triumph achieved in transatlantic communication and In the future of long distance wire less telegraphy. He said the work at the Cape Breton Station was now practically finished and did not long er require hi attention, which would be turned upon the problem of over land wireless communication between Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Ameri ca and other matters. Tranacontl- DAY OF SENSATIONS Three Failures Follow The Crash In Copper Stocks. New York (Special). Sensations followed each other In rapid succes sion In tho financial district Thursday as the result of tho collapse of the projected corner In United Copper and tho suspension of a prominent brokerage firm Wednesday WHEAT CROP OF EUROPE. the board of directors Judge McComas and his bride ar rived in inow tone on me sienmui ... ni. i tf v..... t.... r.oi Oceanic and will return to his home In Washington. Washington (Special). The for- Herman H. Leonard, former treas- eign crop report of the Department urer of the Evans-Snyder-Buoll Com- of Agriculture, which haB just been pany in cnicago, was convicieu oi lsBued saya tne Bhortage of the wheat crop in Russia, reported In the embezzlement. David Redfleld Proctor, cousin of the Vermont Senator and a pictur esque character, died In a Chicago lodging house. ili.WilC ENDING. (ien. Webb Syck Supposed To Have Murdered His Bride. Plkeville, Ky. (Special). Gen. Webb Syck, a Civil War veteran, it Is believed, murdered hla young bride of two weeks and then com mitted suicide at their home, in Fair- southward to Argentina, India and view, a suburb. Syck was found j Australia. The question how far dead In the yard, while his wife's those countries, can be expected six body lay In a bed. Both were cloth- I months hence to supply the deflclen ed only In night gowns. She was j cles of Northern harvests will soon formerly Mrs. Jane Burrls, connect- become a potent Influence on the ert with some of the most, nromlnent ! course of wheat oricea. With a mod- nental communication will not t I families In Northeastern Kentucky, crate Increase reported In the wheat first quantitative estimate of the Central Statistical Committee, was a surprise, and thut If tho Russian wheat production falls below last year's low level, only France and, possibly, Italy have surpassed ma terially the harvest of 190B. As both France and Italy are Importing countries, their larger crops can In crease only Indirectly the wheat sur plus available for the International market. The report adds: "Now that harvesting In the North ern Hemisphere is practically com pleted Interest Is being diverted The firm of Otto Helnze & Co. was j tne first question he will take up Tne shooting Is supposed to have ; acreage and favorable growth so far Kiinnondorl on the Rtoek exchnnee F. AugustUB Helnze, the Butte " "e course, ne says American delegation to tho Interna ttonnl Peace Conference, signed the final act of the conference. The Danish steamer Alfrod Er landsen was wrecked or the rocks off CaBtle Point, Scotland. Twenty of the crew were lost. Twenty-seven persons were killed or Injured in a railroad wreck at Orio, Spain. Gil Calderon, the notorious bandit, surrendered near (lenfuegos, Cuba, to Captain Wlttenmeyer of the United 8tates Army, who Is supervisor of the rural guard. The statue of St. Buudine, stolen from a church, was found in the cel lar of the thief, who was about to hip It to an American purchaser. Andrew Carnegie and Lord Rose berry made addresses before the Philosophical Institution In Edin burgh on the negro problem. A panic was caused in Naples by the cessation of imoktt from all crat ers of Vesuvius. In The Hague Peace Conference were 38 votes in favor of the es tablishment of a permanent court of arbitratlo.i; six countries abstain ed from voting and Mexico and Bra 11 and other Latin-American coun tries voted against it because of the suppression of tho words In Article , I, getting forth that the co;rt g'i.iuld he "based on the jurldlclal equality of the states." Twenty-six growers of prune In Ban Francisco have pooled the prod uct of their orchards In an organi sation and are holdl.ig It until the market reaches their price. Emperor William and a number of other royal personages have been summoned to testify In Count Moltke'B suit for tn-i against Maxl millian Harden, editor of a Berlin uewspaper. Tho records of terrorism In Russia during September show that 34 per sons were executed, 207, Including 73 officials, were murdered and 172 people wounded. Robert Wood, a young English art ist, 1 on trial In London on the eharg of killing Emily Dlmmock. wIioh nude body was found In her room. killed by a bear There were dally swims In tho lake by several members of the party, including the President. "The water was line," he said, "and I did not have the fear of al ligators that some seem to have." Suffocated In i-oiding-Bed. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Mrs. James Marshall and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Wright, of Ingram, Pa., were caught In a folding bed, which closed on them while they were sleeping Tuesday night. When res cued both women were In a critical condition Oil Contractor A Suicide. Arkansas City, Kan. (Special). A. D. Davidson, an oil contractor, was found dead In hi room at a hotel here. He had swallowed lauda num and left a note, saying he was In financial straits and believed hi mind was falling. Hat Wound Fatal. Philadelphia (Special). Ml An nie Sabold, aged 31 years, of Lans- dale, a suburb, died In a hospital here from a bullet wound received Monday night, when she was shot while walking In the crowded de partment store district by Walter Hallcwell. of Bethayres, Pa. Hallo well wa employed about five years ago In an office where Miss Sabold was a clerk. He apparently tried to rob he.- before the shooting. 1,000 Miles in 1,000 Hour. Cincinnati, O. (Special). Dan O'Leary, the old-time pedestrian, who Is 63 year old. finished at 7 o'clock A. M., at Norwood Inn, a few miles out, hi task of walking 1,000 mile In 1,000 consecutive hours, according to the Judges and official timekeeper and wa formally declared the winner of the task. O Leary said that ha felt all right, but bad lost 14 pounds during the endurance trial. The match wa ald to have been for a purge of $5,000. Copper magnate, resigned the presl dency of the Mercantile National Hank of Now York. The Amalgamated Copper Com pany, at Its directors' meeting, cut its quarterly dividend from 2 per cent, to 1 per cent. The director of the Boston nnd Montant Copper Company declared a quarterly dividend of $6 in place of a former dividend of $12. The private banking firm of Hal ler, Soehle ft Co., of Hamburg, Ger many, failed with liabilities of $7, 500,000. The State Savings Bank of Butte, Mont., of which the Helnzes are the principal stockholders, suspended. The private bank of T. W. H. House, of Houston, established In 1833, made a general assignment. Liabilities over $2,000,000. Hay Helnze Refused Stork. As a result of these sensations the stork market was halting and Irregu lar, but there was an apparent feel ing that the break of the attempted corner In United Copper had clear ed the atmosphere somewhat, and the market rallied before the close. Three Killed By Train. Lorain, O. (Special). Mathew Glovoskl, five years old, and hi sis ter, Lucy, eleven years old, were run down by a Lake Shore train and kill ed on a crossing near Amherst, and their aunt, Miss Sophie Glovek, was fatally hurt. The three were walk ing on the track, when the boy' foot became fastened In a cattle guard. In attempting to res no him hi sla ter also caught her foot in the guard. The aunt had stooped to unlace the little boy's shoe when the threr- were struck by th train. personally, but It will be dealt with 1 followed a bitter quarrel of the pre vlous day. General Syck and hla September Immigration Record. Washington (Special) . Immigra tion records for September just mi. ed the hundred thousand mark, ac cording to a statement just Issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor. The exact number of altenB admitted to the various ports was 98,694, an increase of several thou sand over September of last year. They were distributed among near ly all the nationalities of the world. Italy show a decrease of 26 and Japan of 500. The latter 1 a de crease of 33 1-3 per cent, from last year's record. Evans Not To K.tue. New York (Special). Rear Ad miral Robley D. Evans arrived here Sunday on his flagship Connecticut and later left for a visit with friends In Poughkeepile. The Admiral ha not let the rumor, already denied, that he was to retire at an early date worry hjm. He gald: "I have no intention of retiring at this time, and I never had such intention. I will go with the battleship fleet, If I am ordered to do o. I will be ready to move a soon as orders come If my health permits, and my health U good now." Big Fire In Nashville. Nashville, Tenn. (Special). Fire gutted the store of John Hitchcock ft Sons, dealers in wugons, harness and seeds, entailing a loss estimated at $80,000. John H. Hitchcock, Sr., wag overcome by smoke and barely escaped. The stock of McKay, Reese ft Co., wholesale hay and seeds, was considerably damaged. Railroaded To Prison. Toronto, Ont. (Special). The swiftness of Canadian justice ts pro verbial, but a case In the Criminal Court probably holds the record, even for Canadian courts. Horace Moun tuln a mall carrier employed,. in col lecting letters from street boxes was arrested at 10.45 A. M , charged with robbing the mails. At 11.10 he was arraigned before the magistrate, pleaded guilty and within an hour from the time of hi arrest had com menced serving a term of four years' imprisonment. Elope On Hundcar. Knoxvllle, Tenn. (Special) Miss Hazel Wilber, of New York City, eloped with Monroe W. Deuderlck, Ron of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Deuderlck, prominent in East Tennessee. Tbey boarded a handcar at the 'Unaka Springs and rodo four miles to be married by a minister. Tbey re turned on tho handcar. The bride groom's grandfather wag at one time Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The young man met Ml Wilber while atudylng in New York a year sgo. bride had Just returned from their honeymoon trip through the South. Killed By His New Auto. Morencl, Mich. (Special). Arthur Onweller, a merchant of Lyons, 0.. was killed In an automobile aclcdent five miles eabt of this city. Mr. On weller had purchased a new auto mobile, and was taking his first ride In It. H1b wife and iwo children were In the machine with him. While driving at high speed he lost control of the machine In some way and it ran into a deep ditch, turn ing turtle and crushing him to death beneath It. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. In six weeks Philadelphia banks have received $1,100,000 of Govern ment deposits. The Boston ft Montana Company declared a quarterly dividend of $2 a share and an extra dividend of $4 a share. Thl Is a reduction of $6 In tho extra dividend for the quar ter. The street credits Morgan with very bearish motives, and to help along the cause making It appear that this country lg going to war with Japan. After paying its usual dividend the German-American Title ft Trust Company, of Philadelphia, shows an Increase In the surplus and profit account of $50,000 for the year "Gunning for Gould" I a remark frequently heard apropos of Missouri Pacific's recent extraordinary decline. At the present price It yields the buyer nearly 10 per cent. It wa the Heinle trouble in New York which caused the failure of their allied bank at Butte, Mon. Halle i Soehle ft Co., of Hamburg, Germany, which failed for over $3, 000,000, was a vory old firm, hav ing been formed perhaps 100 year ago. It bad loaned a great deal of money on European Industrial con cerns. Amalgamated Copper director did the usually expected thing and out that company's dhldend In half by declared a quarterly dividend of $1 instead of $2. a heretofore. At the present market price the stock stills yields eight per cent. COMMERCIAL COLUMN. Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reoorts. R. O. Dun ft Co.' Weekly Review of Trade rave A larger volume of bulnes Is be ing transacted than at thl time last year, although condition In 1906 were most favorable, and there I now the handicap of almost prohibi tive rate for commercial paper. Many contemplated undertaking await more normal financial condi tion, and securltle have fallen to the lowest point since 1904, but gen eral bualne throughout the country make fairly good progress. Retail ers report a very brisk movement of seasonable merchandise, and Jobbers continue to forward supplementary consignments, but reports of collec tion are Irregular. In agricultural district marketing of the crop at high prlcee make the payments sat isfactory, but at many Eastern cen ters there is complaint of delay In settlements. Several striken are still retarding progress, and some machinery 1 IJle at woolen mills, but most industrial plants are well occupied and are as sured of continued activity up to the end of the year at least. Argentina may possibly produce a larger surplus than last year. The wheat crop of India on a reduced area Is described as growing well, in spite of general lack of rainfall, al though In Bengal, on tho contrary, floods have caused damage. Austra lian conditions are much less prom ising. Insufficient rain has not only restricted sowings, but has seriously retarded plant growth." New Officers Elected. Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special). At the final business sessions of the ! Society of the Army of the Cumber land officers were olocted for the en suing year a follows: President, Gen. Gutog P. Thurston, Nashville; corresponding secretary, Orlando A. Somers, Kokomo, Ind.; treasurer, Gen. A. E. Carman, Washington, D. C. Editor Becomes Sheriff. Montgomery, Ala. (Special). Horace Hood, editor and part owner of the Montgomery Journal and one of the oldest edh.ors of the Alabama press, was appointed sheriff of Mont gomery County, one of the best-paying positions In the state. A Million For A Lease. Newport, R. I. (Special). Mrs. Ogden Goelet, It Is stated here, has been offered $1,000,000 for a five year lease of Ochre Court, tho splen did summer residence she owns here. As no one who can pay such a rent would occupy Ochre Court more than half the year, Bay from May to Octo ber, inrlugive, $1,000,000 rent for five years would be at the rate of $33,330 a month of the actual ten ancy, or about $1,100 a day. Paid S2B0 For Ear Of Corn, Chicago (Special). Two hundred and fifty dollars was the world's rec ord price paid for a single ear of corn. A bushel at that rate would have sold tor $15,000. The ear. a "Boone County white." was sold to the highest bidder in an oxcitln; auction at the National Corn Expo sitlon in the Coliseum. Ae pur chaser was the man who grew It, 0f Craaklta. Ind., who has capfirod $7, 5 $6 In prise at the show. Wholesale Market. Baltimore. Wheat Sales of car goes on grade at 109c. for special bin No. 2 red; 109 for stock No. 2 red; 106 for Rpeclal bin steamer No. 2 red; 105 Mi for stock steamei No. 2 red; 104 for special bin re jected, 103 Mi for stock rejected and 100 for rejected to go through drier. The market for Western opened strong and lc. higher; spot and Oc tober, 108 Mi c; No. 2 rod Western, 111; December, 111. Prices ruled firm, but not much wheat changed hands. Sales 5,000 bu. December, lllc; 20,000 bu., do., 111; 4, 000 No. 2 red Western spot, 112; car No. 2 red Wegtern spot, 112 Corn Wegtern opened strong and MiC. higher; gpot and October, 72 c; year, 66; January, 65; May, 66- Demand was fair, but offer ings were light. Oat White No. 2, heavy, 68 0 69c; No. 2, light to medium, 66 67: No. 3, heavy, 66 57; No. 3, medium, 56 56; No. 3, light, 53 63 ; No. 4, light to heavy, 51 62 Mi. Mixed No. 2, 5464c; No. 3, 6363; No. 4, 5162. Butter Creamery separator, 31 32; imitation, 24 25. Cheese Market steady. Wo quotj Jobbing lots, per lb., 16tt16c. Eggs We quote, per dozen, lost off; Maryland, Pennsylvania and near by firsts, 25c; Western firsts, 25; West Virginia firsts, 24; Southern firsts, 22(f) 23; qulnea eggs, 1213, Live Poultry We quote: Chick enB Old hens, heavy, per lb., 13 Mc; do., small, per lb., 13; old rooster, each, 2 6 H 30; young, per lb., 14. Ducks Puddle, large, per lb., 12; do., Bmall, 11; Muscovy and mon grel, per lb., 11 12. New York. Wheat No. 2 red, 112 Mc., elevator; No. 2 red, 113Mn f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 Northern Du Iuth, 126 94, f- o. b., afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 116, f. o. b., afloat. Corn No. 2, 75c., elevator, and 74 Mi, to arrive, f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white, 75, to arrive. No. 2 yellow, 75 M, f. o. b., afloat. Oats Mixed, 26 ft 32 lbs., 55V4c; natural white, 26 32 lbs.. 57 M 61; clipped white, 32 40 lbs., 62 70. Butter steady, unchanged; receipts, ' 6,897 pkgs. Cheese strong; state, full cream, small, colored and white, Sep tember, fine, 15 c; do., good to prime, 15 15. Philadelphia. Wheat firm, 2c. higher; contract grade. October, 108109. Corn firm, c. higher; October, 70 71c. Oatg firm, lc. higher; No. 2 white, natural, 59c. Butter firm, good demand; Western creamery, 31 c. ; nearby prints, 34. Eggs firm, good demand; Pennsyl vania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 26c. at mark; do., current re ceipts, In returnable cases, 2 4 at mark; Wegtern choice, free cases, 25 at mark; Western fair to good, free cases, 24c. Live poultry quiet but steady; fowls, 11 14c; old roogters, 9; spring chickens, 11 14; ducks, 11. extra extra Live Stock. Chicago. Market steady; Bteers, $5.257.30; cows, $3.305; heif ers, $3fi5.75; bulls, $2.605; calveg, $3 8.50; stockers and feed ers, $2.40 6. Hoga Market steady; choice heavy shippers, $6.75 6.85; light butchers, $6.76 7; light mixed, $6.506.75; choice light, $C.757; packing, $5.75 6.75; pigs, $6 6.40; bulk of sales, $6.30 6.36. Sheep Market steady; sheep, $3.506.25; lambs, $5. 57?. 40; yearlings, $5.60 6. Kansas City. Mo. Cattle Market steady, 5 to 10c. lower: choice ex port and dressed beef gteerB, $5.90 7.00; fair to good, $4.906.75; Western steers, $3.755.66; stock er and feeder, $3.00 5.30; South ern steers. $3.00 4.35; Southern cows, $2.153.15; native cows, $2.004.50; native heifers, $3.00 4.75; bulls, $2.35 3.60; calves, $3.607.00. Hogg Top, $6.60; bulk of gales, $6.306.50; heavy, $6,25 6.40; packers, $6.30 6.60; pigs and light, $6.25 6.60. Sheep Market gtrong; lambs, $6.75 7.40; cweg and yearlings, $5.00 5.80; Western yearlings, $5.25 Ji 6.75; Western sheep, $4.60 6.50; Blockers and feeder, $3.50 6.20. Pittsburg, Pa. C a 1 1 1 e Choice, $6.156.30; prime, $5.806.10. Sheep Prime wethers, $5,600 6.76; cull and lambs, $&7.60; 8.50. Hogg Prime common, $2 3; veal calveg, $8 heavies, $7.10( 7. TO; mediums, $7,304). 7.85; heavy Yorkers, $7.30 tit 7.36; light Yorkers, $6.807.10; pigs, $606.40. ODDS AND ENDS. Punctuation marks we-e first used In 1490. A mouse seldom live longer than three years. The annual fish catch of England is valued at $53,960,000. The factories of Japan close on the 1st and 15th of each month. Fifty thousand dollars a year are spent on Regent Park In Loudon. The matregae used in tbo Oerman army are (tufted with little rolls of paper, and are aald to be a ureal tipurovnment on straw.
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