LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic While bt was having a tooth pull ad Senator Adam LltUepage, of Charleston. W. Va., had hi jaw broken. The last rnan to be hangel In Virginia, Lee Strothent. was execu ted Friday at Madison. James O. T. Reed, usslstant post master at Newport News, Va.. ac cused of embezzling $6,462 was held for trial. Alt us Flower, said to be the son of Dr. R. C. Flower, had a talk with Mrs. Hagaman, who Is hold by the police In Richmond, Va. The Pensylvnnla Railroad counts on running 1.00Q. trains Into the Manhattan Terminal as soon aB the tunnels are completed. An Iron ore deposit, containing 600.OO0.UOO tons. Is said to exist In New York State. Charles E. Davis has been rear rested on the charge of killing Dr. Frederick Rustln, at Omaha. Suit for tio.000 for alienation of flections has been filed by Mrs. Wil lis R. Unland. of West Eaton, N. Y.. against Mrs. Grace R. Robert, who Is also a resident of West Eaton. Mrs. Wilhelmlna Protze, aged 83 years committed suicide In New York. She made preparations to kill herself after having celebrated her birthday anniversary alone. The body of Mrs. Ashtop Harvey, covered with a fortune of Jewels, was found In a private pleasure lake on the estale of Stewart Hartshorn, at Shont Hill, N. J. Roger O'Mara, trustee of Harry K. Thaw In bankruptcy, and his at torney. ex-Governor Stone, of Penn sylvania, conferred with Thaw in the Poughkeepsle Jail. George W. Fitzgerald, accused by the Illinois authorities of the theft of $173,000 from the sub-treasury at Chicago, was freed by Judge Chel lain. Announcement Ls made that Prof. George A. Coe will resign as profes sor of moral and intellectual philoso phy at the Northwestern University. Mrs. Nellie Busch Magnus, daugh ter of Adolphua Busch, the wealthy brewer, wbb secretly married to Jacob W. Loeb. of Chicago, June 0. Fire destroyed the Proctor Fur niture Company's building at Asbury Park, causing a loss of $60,000. Emil Keehra was blown to pieces as the rpsult of an explosion of an oxygen tank in Detroit. Policeman David E. Shellard. of Brooklyn, was Indicted for the mur der of Barbara Reig. Receiver Austin, of the failed brokerage firm of Cameron, Currle and Company, of Detroit, asked that certain members of the Boston brok erage firm of Hayden. Stone and Company be sent to jail on the charge of contempt of court. Second Vice President Colllngs, of the Standard Oil Company of Ken tucky, denied giving orders for the payment of money to Becure inform ation concerning the shipments of competitors. One man was burned to death, two women were seriously injured and several others painfully Injured during a Are which destroyed two buildings of the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Mrs. Barbara Barrett, an elderly woman, of Lost Creek, Pa., and John Gilks, aged 21 years, of Newark, N. J., were killed by a fall of earth while they were standing in a mine breach. Mrs. Mary Bedell shot and prob ably fatally wounded her husband, Stephen Bedell, a boatman, during a quarrel at their home, in Jersey City. Dr. Frederick J. Mayer told vet erinarians that they can do much to prevent the spread of consump tion and. other disease among human beings. The recently enacted pure-food law was warmly praised by speakers at the annua! convention of the In ternational Stewards' Association. Capt. Walter Auble, of the Los Angeles police force, was probably fatally shot by two burglars. THIRTY PEOPLE INJURED IN TRAIN WRECX New York Express Leaves Track a: Mead villi. OFFICERS INVESTIGATING WRECK. Strikes Open Switch While Run ning Over Fifty Milts an Hoar Majority of Those Hurt Are Its -tan Laborers - Three Trainmen Injured. Meadvllle. Pa. (Special). Thirty persons were Injured In the wreck ol Erie train No. 4. Chicago to New York Express, at Geneva, Pa., a small station eight miles west of here, the wreck, railroad officials believe, being due to enemies of the company opening a switch shortly before the passenger train arrived. All of the Injured were brought to this city and 23 of them were taken to Spencer Hospital. Five of this number, after having their injuries dressed, wore discharged during the day, while 18 still remain at the hospital. Three of tho Injured were railroad employes. A majority of the paseen gors were Italian and Greek laborers. It Is not believed any of the vic tims will dlo from their Injuries. The train is due here at 12.50. but was about one hour late and was running over SO miles an hour. Upon striking the open switch the entire train left the track, the loco motive turning over upon its side. Two of the cars, a combination smok er and baggage and a day coach, were demolished. A majority of the In jured were riding in the combination car. being foreign laborers traveling second class. The two tracks wore torn up a distance of over 100 feet. There were but 87 passengers on the train. The Injuries consist chief ly of fractured limbs and cuts and bruises. Railroad officials assert that they are convinced that the switch was maliciously opened for the purpose of Wrecking the train, but think it was done by persons having a griev ance against the company, rather than for the purpose of robbery. A key was used to open the switch, the lock hanging loose from the bar. The tracks were UBod as late as 11.30 P. M. Saturday by freight trains and officials state there was no occasion to operate the switch between that hour and time of the wreck. Among those Injured were the fol lowing: Mrs. Myrtle Baldwin and 5-year-old daughter Luetic, of Van Buren, Ind.: both pnlnfully bruised. John McDIll. of Meadvllle, fire man: cut and bruised all over body. Edward Cox, of Meadvllle; thigh broken and left tlba fractured; serious. Fred Jackson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; head cut and hips bruiBed; serious. W. P. Hamlin, Rochester, N. Y.; chest bruised. W. H. Chadick. Suffern, N. Y.; badly shaken up. COURT ROLES 00f THE COMM LAW Railroads Win in Fight Against Hep burn Rate Law. Foreign A daring attempt was made in Guilford. Eng., to steal valuable Jewels belonging to Mrs. John Ward, . daughter of Whltelaw Reld, the American ambassador. There was an impressive scene In j the Glasgow Council Chamber when a deputation of ihe unemployed sub mitted their demand for work. A German arrested at Orleans, France, on the charge of being a spy confessed that he was In the pay of the German authorities. The municipality of Sebastopol conferred the freedom of the city on Count Leo Tolstoi and named a school after blm. The police charged a gathering of rioting coal miners in the town ol Wanne, Germany. Ten of the rioters were wounded. John E. Redmond and Joseph Dev lin, members of the Nationalist par ty, left Queenstown for the United States. The breach between France and Germany on account of the Moroc can affair is growing wider. Princess Matilda, of Saxony, was thrown by her horse near Dresden, And severely injured. Silvio Rlccl, who is accused of throwing the bomb that caused a panic in the courtyard of the Grand Mosque, In Constantinople, in If 08. while the Sultan was descending i he steps of the mosque, was arrested. The German Army maneuvers In Alsace-Lorraine were concluded. The Trade Union Congress, In Nottingham, Eng., passed a resolu tion condemning the British work men who engaged themselves as strikebreakers in Germany and the colonies. The fraudulent acts of M. Albert!, of Copenhagen, have caused the lose' of millions of dollars, and Is a hard blow for the peasants. The German administration Is pre paring the public mind for a plan for Increasing taxation and reducing tbe imperial debt. Dr. Cornllleff, a socialist membei of the first Douma, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment In a fort ress. Gen. Leonard Wood was present at the German army maneuvers. Asiatic cholera 's showing signs o.' spreading In Russia. The first electric ferryboat in Ger msny has Just been launched at Duis burg. It has twin strews, which are propelled by an accumulating cur rent from two electric moturs of 60 horsepower capacity. The boat can carry 645 passengers, besides horses, automobiles and vulilcles Philadelphia (Special). The com modity clause of the Hepburn Act was declared unconstitutional by the United States Circuit Court of Ap pealB, the judges of, which are George M. Dallas, Geo. Gray and Jo seph Buftlnglon. The court was divided on the ques tion of the constitutionality of the Hepburn Rate Law commodity clause. The opinion declaring It un constitutional was handed down by Judge Oray with Judge Dallas assent ing. Judge Bufflngton filed a dis senting opinion. The opinion of the court Invalidating the law makes 20,000 words. .Agrees With Roads' Counsel. In the main, the majority opinion upholds the arguments made by the distinguished counsel which repre sented half a dozen of the big mine owning railroads at the hearing last May, and. by Inverse reasoning, de clares the commodity clause to be unconstitutional. This was done by .-ummarlly dismissing the bills of camplalnt filed by the government through Attorney General Bonaparte. Briefly the constitutionality of the law Is attacked pn the ground that it is contrary to Stale's rights and, therefore, illegally Interferes with the power of a sovereign common wealth to conuct its own business. From beginning to end the ma jority oplulon is a clean defeat for the government. Dlsi lIllllsHll In Fuvor Of Lumber. The Hepburn clause prohibits all railroads from transporting Inter state commerce any commodity own ed or produced by It, with the ex ception of lumber. A decision in favor of the government would have compelled the anthracite coal ral' roads to divorce themselves frcrn the coal compaules which all of them own and control. The decision supports the conten tion made by John O. Johnson at the hearing last June to the effect thai the commodity clause in excepting lumber from the provisions of the act, Is discriminative. GREGORI FREED, SHOT DREYFUS l- Kiii. - Advanced. Seattle. Wash. ( Special I . ,Seven steamship lines operating to the Ori ent from Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, have agreed upon an In creased schedule of rates to take ef fect November 1. The Increase Is to be on through shipments only. It does not benefit the steamship lines, but will fatten the recipts of the railroads lu conformity with a re cent ruling of the Interstate Com merce Commission. Law Causes Death. New York (Special). Believed to be a suicide on account of tbe antl bettlng law. which went Into effect here recently, Rubin Goldberg, long a Sheepshead Bay business man, wa found dead. His body was suspend ed by a clothesline from a beam in the cellar of bis house. Goldberg had built up a considerable dry goods business at Sheepshead Bay. enjoying not a little patronage from the raclug stables and tbelr conting ents, but with the passage of tbe new race track law it quickly dwindl ed away. ranch jury Acquits Man of Crime. Paris (By Cable). Louis A. Gre gorl was acquitted of tbe charge of attempting the life of Major Alfred Dreyfus. The verdict was rendered by the Jury after the Advocate Gen eral had made an earnest appeal for the conviction and punishment of the defendant. The defense was beaten at every :urn In Its effort to reopen the Drey fus case to show Justification for Gregorl's attack. All efforts to reintroduce the evi dence adduced at the Dreyfus trial were thwarted by the president of the Court of Assizes. Flnaljy Maitre Menard, Oregorl's chief counsel, de clared that as his client's defense de pended wholly on the general situa tion and sentiments that Burround the whole Dreyfus episode, which could only be shown by an exami nation of witnesses familiar with the story from its beginning, and that he hod no other recourse than to ap peal to the Jury to appreciate the president's act In preventing light from being thrown on the situation. The session began with a sharp duel of words between tbe president and Ool. Du Paty de Clam, a wit ness, who Buld Gregorl wanted to tear away tbe veil of mystery in which the government had deliber ately enshrouded tbe Dreyfus case, and that not only some such act as the shooting of Dreyfus In the Pan theon aould force these revelations. The president intervened, declar ing that be would not allow allu sions to the Dreyfus oase or critic ism of the government's attitude favoring Dreyfus. After a violent scene, in which there were heated remarks from all parts of the chamber, Col. Du Paty de Clam's testimony was barred out. The same thing happened to Lecocq, who lost April spat In the face of War Minister Plquart; Socialist Deputy Bletry. Editor Maeeard, of the Patrle, and Henri Rochefort. After each of these witnessee had spoken the president ordered his re marks sot aside, on the plea that they either assailed Dreyfuslsm or pleaded Gregorl's case without bring ing deflnlto facts to bear In justifi cation of his attempt on the life of Dreyfus. Gregorl was called to the stand and allowed to make a long Bpeech denouncing Dreyfus. Shortly after ward the verdiot of acquittal was brought lu. MURDERED IN CHURCH. Insane Lover Stairs Girl While She Plays Organ. Charlotte. N. C. (Special). A special to the Observer from Newton says that near that place Miss Bul llnger, 19 years old. was stabbed to death by Lon Rader, aged 21. The girl was at the organ playing the closing hymn at Sunday School when Rader sprang across several benches and with his pocketknife stabbed her in the back and breast. She died almost instantly. Rader was arrested and Is now in the Newton Jail. Some monthB ago he was committed to the State In sane Asylum, and In his ravlngB of ten mentioned Miss Bulllnger's name. Recently he was discharged as cured. The deed was probably prompted by requited love. In Jail this afternoon Rader said he killed the girl "because she was a witch." PLAGUE IN SQUIRREL'S BITE. Park Pet Inoculates Dread Bubonic Into Boy Friend. Los Angeles. Cal. (Special).--A case of bubonic plague has been dis covered here. The patlen', a boy named Mulholland, Is convalesced. Three weeks ago the boy found a sick squirrel In the park and pick ed It up. The squirrel bit the boy In the hand. Sickness followed arid tbe attending physician declared it to be bubonic plague. Other phy sicians were called and discovered that the squirrels In the park have the disease. No other cases have developed, and it is believed by the authorities that there will be no spread of the disease. OPPOSE THAW'S REMOVAL. Stand Taken By State Conrnrlsion In Lunacy. Albany, N. Y. ( Special ) .-Any at tempt to take Harry K. Thaw from the Duchess County Jail, at Pougb keepsle, to Pittsburg or any point outside tbe State will be opposed by lb State Commission u Lunacy. Dr. Albert W. Ferris, president of the commission, returned from a long European trip, and announced the po sition the cpmmission would take re garding the order of Referee Blair, t f Pittsburg, that Thaw shall be tak en to Pennsylvania to be examined In the bankruptcy proceedings Insti tuted In his behalf. Explosion Kills Child. Pomeroy, O. (Special). -A can of oil standing near tbe stove In the kitchen at the home of John G. Roush. In Mason County, W. Vs., ex ploded, and as a result one child was burned to death and Mrs. RouBb and three other children were so severely Injured that they may die. The house was consumed. I'urdous Japanese. Washington ( Special) .The Pres ident has granted a pardon to K. Yoshlda. a Japanese, convicted Jan uary 31. 1805, of murder, at Valdez. Alaska, and sentenced to serve 30 years at Fort Leavenworth. YoihlJa has gone insane from homcucknckf since his incarceration, an. I 'he Uni ted States district attorn:.' who pro secuted blm, and the warden of the pribon recommended his parJon. I'r.e man whom Yosh'ia killed, waj the foreman of a canning factory. ...iii .. Chancellor. Morriitown, N. J. (Special). A woman thought to be demented, In vaded the home of former Vice Chan cellor Henry C. Pitney, and had to be forcibly removed by the police. She Is a Mrs. Sbulte, of Lyndbursl, and on former occasions had paid Mr. Pitney visits regarding a case which be has bandied for her severs! ytars ago. Two patrolmen were kicked snd pummeled berore Mrs. Shulte was ejected. She was taken tn the countv Jail ORVILLE WRIGHT FLIES JED IN HOUR Aviator at Fort Myer Breaks Aero plane Record." TAKES A PASSENGER WITH HIM. On Third Trip of ths Dsy Inventor Takes Lieutenant Lahm for a Six-minute Sail Flight of 57 Minutes Mads in tho Morning and One of 62 Minutes snd 15 Seconds in the Afternoon. PREVIOUS RECORDS. October 15, 1907 Henri Far man. March 20 Farman made one and a half miles with his aero plane at Iss-Les-Moullneaux. May 3 The aeroplane of the Wright brothers was flown three miles In three minutes. May 27 Delagrangee aeroplane flew ten miles. July 4 Curtlss' aeroplane, the June Bug. flew one mile and won the Scientific American trophy. September 2 Two Cornell stu dents covered 3 miles In 5 min utes In an aeroplane of their own making. September 5 At Le Mans, Wil bur Wright covered 15 miles in 20 minutes in his aeroplane. Washington, D. C. (Specinl). Or ville Wright, In three phenomenal flights at Fort Myer, established new aeroplane records that not only as sure the success of the official trials before the army board, but Indicate that aerial flight Is now only a mat ter of development. War on land and sea will find In the aeroplane a valuable means of reconnaissance and possibly carnage. Two flights of approximately one hour each, another flight In which two men were whirled through the air for upwards of six minutes, were the achievements of the Wright brothers' aeroplane Wednesday. That these flights, record-breaking as they were will even be surpassed by Or ville Wright during his trials at Fort Myer, Is confidently predicted. FirBt flight made Wednesday morn ing, in which the machine circled the drill grounds at tbe fort 57 times In 37 minutes and 31 seconds, was sur passed In the evening when a flight of sixty-two minutes and fifteen sec onds was made. Not satisfied, with breaking all distance and time records for a heav-ier-than-air flying machine Mr. Wright took Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm. the aeronaut of the Signal Corps, for a spin around the drill grounds and making a new record for a two-man flight. All this hap pened so quickly and unostentatious ly that the spectators, among whom were members of the cabinet and high officers of the army and navy, could hardly realize that history had been made and that a new era In the progress of the civilized world was begun. The morning flight was witnessed by only a handful of enthusiasts, but tho news Bpread so rapidly that fully a thousand people gathered on the military reservation across the Poto mac from the national capital to sec the afternoon event. At 5:16, as the sun was disappear ing below the Virginia horizon, the latest Invention of man to challenge the laws of nature rose grandly Into space and sailed over the green sward of the drill grounds. Higher and higher It rose, turned at a slight angle as the aviator brought it around at the far aide of the field and raced along at increasing speed. There was hardly a quiver of the aeroplane in the first few rounds of the field, Mr. Wright evidently hav ing the steering apparatus well in hand. Rising and lowering at will, the sight of the man-built bird was most impressive. Round after round tbe machine traveled on cutting short turns, shooting along the stretches and presenting somewhat the appear ance of an automobile racing about an Imaginary course in the air. The aviator paid little heed to anything but his levers for warp ing the surface of the planes and controlling the planes which control the altitude of the craft. He seemed oblivious' of the crowd below until, having broken the record of 5 7 minutes and 31 seconds icstablislied by him this morning, the crowd raised a cheer that told him of his new achievement. Then Mr. Wright waved his acknowledgements. MADMAN ATTACKS FAMILY WITH AX Three Victims Dylnp of Wounds HospitaL in Wilmington. Del. (Special). While temporarily insane, presum ably because he had been for some time out of work. Pearson Talley, a ship carpenter, age 1 about 61 years, at 4 o'clock A. M., made a murderous attack upen the other members of hla household, at their home, 402 West Sixth Street. His weapon was a broadax, with which he cut his wife and his adopt ed daughter, Mrs. Edith Johsnsen, aged about 30 years, and Andrew Johansen, aged about 30 years, the husband of his adopted daughter. All of the victims are at the Homeo pathic Hospital and still alive, but all are expected to die Talley was formerly a farmer, liv ing near Wilmington, : .1 trad some means. About nine ! jars ago he came to the city and bought the house In which he lived and In which the tragedy occurred. After coming to the city he secured work at tho local plant of the American Car and Foundry Company. He had, how ever, been unemployed fir sometime, and this is thought to have affected his mind. Talley appeared to be In good spirits when the members of the household retired, but he awoke about 4 o'clock A. M , while all of the others were asleep, and, ob taining the axe and without a word, attacked the wife and adopted daughter In their sleep. The com motion awoke Johansen. Johansen grappled with Talley, but Talley ap peared to be possessed of the strength of a maniac, and Johansen could not get the weapon away from him. John J. Farman, a neighbor, who heard the noise, came to his assist ance and together they disarmed Talley, and though Johansen had hie skull fractured In the encounter, he was conscious and ran to the street in his night clothes and summoned Dr. F. F. Pierson. After he had been disarmed Tal ley's senses began to return to him, and he realized what he had done, and begged those about him to kill him with the axe, which had been hidden back of a bureau. Talley was taken to police headquarters In his nlghtclothes, but not without a fight with the police. Later In the morning he was arraigned In the po lice court and held without ball. WILL EXILE MANIAC KING. Annum Monarch Tortured Several AVIves To Death. Saigon, French Cochin China (By Cable). Former King Than Thai of Annam, who has been on trial for torturing several of his wives to death or Into Insanity, will be exiled to Algeria by the verdict just render ed. This Is Than's second offense. For the first he wss removed from the throne two years ago In favor of his son, a youth still under 21. Phy sicians who have examined the de posed monarch say he suffers from periodical attacks of homicidal mania. MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. Detroit, Mich. (Special). An oxy gen tank, five feet long and ten In ches In diameter, used in connection with a tank of hydrogen In a weld ing process, exploded at the plant of the Michigan Crucible Steel Casting Company on Guoin Street, Instantly killing Emll Keehm. Two other workmen were Injured. Keebra was blown to pieces. Lonfcworth Stable Burns. Cincinnati. Ohio (Special). Con gressman Nicholas Longworth's two story brick stable at his Uruudtn Road home was completely destroyed by fire shortly before 2 o'clock A. M., causing a loss estimated at ::, 000. With the stable five carriages were burned, but the servantB who rlept in the stable got out safely and saved the horses. Mr. and Mrs. Long worth had just returned from a party when the fire was discovered. WASHINGTON Electric Chair For Smith. Norfolk, Va. (Special). Henry Smith, a negro charged with criminal assault upon aged Mrs. Catherine Powell, of Portsmouth, upon his sec ond trial In the Norfolk County Cir cuit Court waH found guilty and sen tenced by the trial Jury to death. Judge Dain fixed October 13 for the electrocution, which will be the first use of the death chair since Its sub stitution for the gallows in this state. A number of women scientists, authorities in research In their re spective countries, will be accredited delegates to the Tuberculosis Con gress at Washington. Naval officers are greatly impress ed with the utility of the Wright aeroplane as an adjunct to the naval force and careful observations will be made. John S. Early, the leper, received i' from the Pension Department. He- at once sent the check to his wife. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, has been hon ored by the first International con gress for the repression of adultera tion of food meeting at Geneva, Switzerland. A tropical storm raged through the West Indies, but will probably not affect the United States. Judge Parker was in Washington to confer with associate counsel rep resenting Gompers and Mitchell in the labor coutempt case. Orville Wright made two very suc cessful flights In his aeroplane ut Fort Myer. Emlle Berliner has lately con structed an experimental propeller of such power that, placed horizontally, It is capable of lifting 460 pounds In a calm straight up Into the air. Henry Gannett, assistant director of the Cuban census, bas almost com pleted that work. Owen T. Callis, an Insurance so licitor, whose home was 1402 B Street, northeast, committed suicide by blowing out his brains while In Hlanton Square. March Of The Unemployed. Liverpool (By Cable). The un employed of this city organized a procession and marched to the town hall. Two deputations were received by the lord mayor. They Bhowed that 10,000 of the laborers of Liver pool were out of work, and request ed relief. A relief fund has been started. J. Pierpout Morgan's yacht Corsair and the steamboat New . Hampshire were in collision in New York harbor. Tbe International Council of Wom en, membership in wblch totals 7,000,000, held Its opening session lu 1-fiDrion Killed In Wreck. Sandusky, O. (Special) .Two col ored men were killed, another was Injured and a while mau Is missing as the result of a wreck on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Hall way, which made kindling wood of fourteen freight cars, belweeu Huron and Vermillion. Terrible Heut In Texas. Fort Worth, Tex. (Special). A special from Strawn, Tex., a mining town west of here, Bays that the thermometer there registered 112 degrees and la standing at 109 with a hot wind blowlug from the south. All business has been suspended In Btrawn. Waco reports a temperature of 101 for the past three days and that the Intense heat there has caus ed wall paper to split from the walls of dwellings on account of the un usuul expansion. Love Causes Murder. Cleveland. O. (Special). Rivalry for the hand of a woman, which be gan In Sicily several years ago, re sulted in a murder here, when Angelo Mazzo, a Sicilian, was stubbed through the heart by Carmen Bulone, also a Sicilian. Both men loved the same girl In Porta. Sicily, but Mazzo married tbe young woman. Union, swore vengeance. In order to es cape Bulone's wrath the couple fled to America. Buone, however, follow ed them, and on a crowded thorough fare, killed Min with a stllleto. FOREST FIRES ARE DESTROYING MANY TOWNS Flames Rage Through Northern Minnesota Counties. FINANCIAL California's gold output In 1907 a: valued at $18,7!!7,U0.) and the sllvi : output M worth 1761,644. T. - price if sliver metal has aJ van iJ to M '.$ cents ,u. ounce. Wolverine Copper Company di rectors declared a dividend of " per share. Cripple Creek's gold production last month amounted to $1,329,000. Tbe tier capita bank deposits in the United States huve Increased from $95 to $152 In seven years, a gain of 60 per cent. The representative of a large life Insurance company made this state ment: "Life Insurance business Is Improving steadily and we regard this as a good sign, because experi ence has shown that depression in trade and transportation, also de presses insurance business." Anthracite coal shipments In Au gust were 4,599,000 tons, a de crease of 1,190,000 tons compared with August, 1907. The Wisconsin Central has order ed 2,600 freight cars. Foreign bond prices advanced as a requel to belter feeling over tbe Morocco affair. Ixuidon was a con siderable buyer of Erie, but it is said the orders came from Harrlman brokers in New York. In seven months this country Im ported $39, 46'.'. 000 more gold than It exported. Jersey Central's receipts in July decreased l '31 and net surplus fell off $153,724. The latter was equal to about 27 ptr ceut. Union Pacific' gross earnings in July decreased $484,311 and net profits declined 1321.391. Southern Pacific was able in some way to con vert a gross decrease of $1,703,617 Into a net gain of $216,260. The International Smokeless Pow der St Chemical Company has de clared a dividend of 1 per cent, on the oommon stock and 4 per cent, on tbe preferred tock. Western I'n'.on's Inst quarterly report shows a uet revenue of $1, 700,000, cum; i. i with ,. deficit of $811,492 in the sauio quarter, 1907. A quarterly dividend of of one per cent . baa been declared. COMMERCIAL CflLOMl Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. HUNDREDS MAY LOSE THEIR LIVES. liibbing. With Popnlation of 12,000, Is in Danger of Destruction, and Only a Changs of Wind Can Save It-Grand Mara is. With 600 People. May Be Totally Bnrnad. Duluth, Minn. (Special). Fore3t flres which have been raging for sev eral days, threaten Hlbblng, the larg est and most prosperous town on the Mesaba range. The flames hav. been getting closer constant!?. "Ev ery place of business is closed and the men are all out fighting the flames. A telegram from Hlbblng says: "The Are Is very near the Great Northern spur on this aid a of Brook lyn, a suburb of Hlbblng. and th wind is blowing In our direction. "The city has all available hose out and every man we can find ll lighting the fire. They have established a pipe line and Installed two plugs. The sky is clearing of pnr':e some what now, but we are th: ,.iened on the north." In response to an n; si the Du luth fire department ..as gone to the scene, while the Mesaba Railroad has trains in readiness at Hlbblng to take the people away. Smoke from the forest fires which surround the town made Hlbblng so dark that the electric lights were turned on there In the day to onable the citizens to see tbelr way about. The smoke is Btifllng and tbe heat very oppressive. Near Grand Murals. Grand Marais, Minn., on the north shore. Is on the verge of the Are. The women are weeping with fright and the worBt part of the situation Is that there la no avenue of escape open. Al. J. Smith, county attorney of Hennepin County, who has been camping beyond Grand Marais, was burned out at his camp, and, with his party, escaped to Grand Marais in a launch. Settlers are walking Into Grand Marais, smoke begrimed, burned and exhausted, with packs of their moat valuable belongings on their backs and their families drag ging behind them. When Mr. Smith left the fate ol Grand Marais was In doubt. The citizens were loath to leave their homes and belongings without mak ing a flght for them, so many of them remained behind. Mr. Smith says that an east wind would bring on the destruction ol Grand Marais in an hour, and no power can save the town. If a fire comes before a boat gets there, the fate of the population will be in doubt. There has been no rain in parts of the fire stricken country for 14 weeks. Only a change of wind will save the village of Buhl with 1,500 people from being wiped off the map. The flres are steadily advancing on the little village in spite of desperate efforts to flght them oft and nothing but a change of wind will save it from corapleto destruction before night. Ready For Flight. The citizens of Bovey are pack ing their household goods and pre paring for flight. Coleraine is still safe but the streets are deserted, the residents helping the Bovey citizens to fight the fire and pack their be longings. Schools have been dis missed and everybody is ready for fight. Toconite 1b also In great dang er and may go before night. Bovey bas about 2,000 people and Taconite about 500. The Gopher left Duluth at 10 o'clock to rescue the residents of Grand Marais. Reports received here today Indicate that tbe region covered by the flres extends as far along the north shore as Grand Ma rias, as far west as the western Mes aba ranges, south to within ten or fifteen miles of Duluth and as far north as the extreme northern edge of the ranges and perhapB much far ther. Throughout the dlftaDCf. a terrl torj die hundred miles square, fires are raging and residents are being i burned out by the huitflre.ls. It will be Impossible to estimate the total loss for weeks to come. It will be very heavy. nradstreet's says: Fall Jobbing trade, and to a lesser extent retail demand, hat been helped this week by the ad vent of cooler weather, the opening of the season of fall festivals and the continuance of buyers' excur sions. Hence tbe consensus of re ports that distribution has expanded at leading Northwestern and South western markets, while there Is a further gain shown at maay South ern centers. Enlargement of crop movements, particularly In winter wheat and cotton, has also made for a further improvement In collections, which at many points are now class ed ns fairly normal. Business failures In the United States for the week ending Septem ber 3 number 210, against 236 last week, 130 In the llko week of 1907, 121 In 1906, 137 In 1905 and 144 in 1904. Wheat, including flour, exports from" the United 8 ea and Canada for the week aggregate 5,396,026 bushels, against 4,525,503 last week and 2,923,710 this week last year, corn exports for week are 40,051 bushels, against 39.109 lost week and 607.104 in 1907. Wholesale Market. New York Wheat Spot, strong; No. 2 red, 1.03 01.06 elevator; No. 2 red, 1.04 f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth, 1.13 f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.08 f. o. b. afloat. Corn Spot firm; No. 2, 89 ele vator and 90 delivered. Option mar ket was steady, but quiet, closing partly c. net higher. September closed at 89; December 79 79. closed 79; May closed 7 4. Oats Receipts, 73,500. Spot firmer; mixed, 26 32 lbs'., 53 64; natural white, 2631 lbs., 6667; clipped white, 32 40 lbs., 66 62. Rye Firm; No. 2 Western, 84 f. o. b. New York. Poultry Alive, weak; spring chickens, 16; fowls, 12; turkeys, 12; dressed, easy; Western chickens, 12019; fowls, 1214; spring turkeys, 25. Butter Steady; receipts, 6,488; creamery specials, 24024. Philadelphia Wheat firm and He higher; contract grade, Septem ber, 97 98c. Corn Firm; fair demand; No. 2, for local trade, 87 88c. Oats Firm and c. higher; No. 2 white, natural, 5655c. Butter Steady; extra Western creamery, 25 c; do., nearby prints, 27. Eggs Firm; good demand; Penn sylvania and other nearby firsts, f. c. 23c. at mark; do., current receipts In returnable cases, 22 at mark; Western UrBts, f. c. 23 at. mark; do., current receipts, f. o. 22 at mark. Cheese Firm and c. higher; New York full creams, choice, 12 12c; do., fair to good, 11 12. Poultry Alive, dull and weak; fowls, 12 13; old roosters, 9 9; spring chickens, 14 15. Baltimore Wheat Firmer; spot, contract, 9798; spot, No. 2 red Western. 1.00 1.00; Septem ber, 97 98; October, 98 98; December, i.001.00, steamer, No. 2 red, 94 95. Re ceipts, 52,399. Southern on grade, 9497. Corn Dull January, 68 Southern white corn, 82. Oate Firm; No. 2 white, 52 63; No. 3 white, 61 52; No. 2 mixed, 51 61. Receipts, 22. 427. Rye Steady; No. 2 Western do mestic, 79 80. Receipts, 1,922. Hay Easier; No. 1 timothy, 14.00 asked; No. 1 clover, mixed, 11.60 12.00. Butter Quiet, unchanged; fancy imitation, 20 21; fancy creamery, 25; fancy ladle, 20; store packed, 16 17. Eggs. Quiet, unchanged; 23. Cheese Quiet, unchanged large, 12; new, flats, 12; new, Mil. ill, 13. November, 6.8; Receipts, 10,083. 22 new, Lire Stock. New York. Beeves Receipts, 1, 852. No trade In live cattle; feeling easy; exports, 5,100 quarters of bee!. Calves Receipts, 295 head; feel ing dull. No good veals here. Com mon and medium veals, 7.25 to 8.00; buttermilks, 3.50. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 6, 395 head. Sheep quiet and steady; lambs very slow and 10 to 26c. low er; sheep, 2.50 to 4.60; lambs, 4.60 to 6.45; one car, 6.50. Hogs. Receipts, 1,993. Nothing doing; feeling easier on Buffalo ad vices. Chicago. Cattle Receipt esti mated about 6,010; market steady: steers, 4.76 7. 5; cows, 3.40 6.26; heifers, 3.00 6.25; bulls. 2.754.50; calves, 6.007.86; stockere and feeders, 2.60 4.50. Hogs Receipts estimated about 16,000. Market 10c. higher. Choice heavy shipping, 6.60 7.00; butch ers', 6.867.00; light mixed, 6.60 7.00; choice light, 6.75 6.90; pack ing, 6.5006.85; pigs. 3.7506.00; bulk of sales, 6.60 0 6.90. Sheep Receipts estimated about 17,000. Market 10c. lower. Sheep. 3.5004.66; lambs, 4.7606.00; yearlings, 4.360 4.86. ODDS AND ENDS. Tbe bouses of England, if placed in a line, would reach 27,000 miles. Liverpool makes nearly $800,000 a year by municipal trading. The number of new buildings in Buenos Ayres bos almost quadrupled in six years. Of the 361 sorts of birds (ound In Great Britain only 140 are resi dents all tbe year around. There are more women members of clubs In New York City than In any two other cities in the world. Conversation Is a good form of exercise for those afflicted with heart disease. There are In London a number of great houaea doing a worldwide bus iness in orchids alone. Most of the plants come from Brail). In tbe botanical gardens of Rio de Janeiro there are over 6.000 varltles of or chids. Over a thousand employes of an electrical engineering works ' Loughborough. Leicestershire, Eng land, have been discharged during tbe last three months, and the weeK ly wage Hat. bat. been reduced frotc $12,000 t'o $7,000. i
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