THE NEWS.
Domestic
Commercial orgnnlzntions In the
Mississippi Valley have launched a
scheme which calls fir an assemblage
of a whole Meet of bat' lesnips In tl'tJ
Mississippi River next November.
Congressman .1. M. Cox forwarded
to t.V entire diplomatic corps in
Washington Invitations to be fwnt
at the Wright brothers celebration
on June 17, at Dayton.
Lady Harrourt, widow of the lata
Sir William Harrourt, who was chan
cellor ot the exchequer In Great
Britain, readied New York on the
Majestic.
John Klrby, Jr., of Dayton, newly
elected prosi lent of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, says he Is
the friend of law-aMriing workmen.
Three wool morehonses connected
with the George A. Talbot & Sons
mill at Norton, Mass. were burned,
causing a loss of J l uO.OOO.
Thirty leading business men and
trade experts of Japan, their wives
and families, ui.l reach Seattle from
Yokohama S v1' inber 2.
Governor ll'iciies vetovid the llama
Automobile the chief provisions
of which were the abolition of spe
cific speed limitations.
(Jeoriic K sak. wht lost both let's
In the 1'i.rr Jervls yards of the Erie
Kriliua., recovered a verdict for
;:... (Hie.
.1. IV Morgan & Co are financing
the newly organized I'nlted Dry
Goods Companies. h s a capi
tal iii $".1.0O0.0nii.
Charles Champ, nf Kennett, Mo.,
while kneeling in pr;-.;. .r, was shot
nnd killed by a bnrher-i:i-law.
The proposed $.".u,imhi,(mjo in'or
tiatlonal conibina'.i'ni of fertilizer
manufacturers litis been abandoned, j
Mrs Anna Cleveland Hastings, bis
ter of former ri'-sid'-nt Grover Cleve
land, died in Hartford, Ct.
r'ollowlng a heavy rain for two
days, snow s-'t in In the Northern
Black II. IN. S'luth Dakota.
Filliplnos employed In the navy
yard at Civi'c, Phllllppines, have
been caught :l "alini?. '
Dr. Jan.es II. Krazer, of Baltl- i
more, caused a stir in the General
Assembly (,f the Presbyterian Church
by declaring family worship to be a
"thing of the past."
Charles S. Cameron, president of
the Tube City Railroad, of Pittsburg,
was sentenced to two years In the
Penitentiary for offering a bribe to
a city councilman,
S.x persona were drowned in the
Yazoo River, Miss., by the capsizing
of a launch that was returning to
Vicksburg from a saloon on an Is
land in the river.
Congressman William Lorimer,
formerly a laborer, was sent to the
I'nite 1 States Senate from the Sixth
Dis'rict of Illinois after !)4 fruitless
ballots.
Klorenz Zlegfield. the husband of
Anna Held, has been sued for $20,
000 by the keeper of a gambling ca
sino in France.
No settlement of the fireman's
(strike on the Georgia Hallway has
been made, and the situation Is be
coming tuise.
Four sticks of dynamite were
found stuffed in a discharge pipe of
the steamer Frank T. lleffeillnger, o
Buffalo, N. Y.
Two men were blown to atoms by
the explosion of a nitro-glycerine fac
tory at Howard Junction, Pennsyl
vania. William M. Barrett, of New York,
lias been elected president of the
Adams Express Company.
The Standard Oil Company has se
cured control of the Citizens' Hank
of Chicago.
Women participated In the rioting
Incident to the liatniakers' strike in
Orange, N. J.
CHP.G0 THE CENTER
OF UN EARTHQUAKE
The Shock is Felt Throughout Five
States.
PICTURES DROP FROM THE WALLS.
Telephone, Communication Inter
rupted Uy The Swaying Of
Wires t oIIcko Pudding, Rock
Violently Cfmlrs Are Overturned
And Gas Fires Shaken Out
Shocks Felt In Illinois, Indiana,
Wisconsin And Iowu.
r oreign
The decision of the Superior
Court oi Paris on Count Uonl de
Castc-ilane'K appeal of the case
brought by him fur the custody of
bis children is a partial victory for
the Count.
, hillippe H, Kor, former speaker
of the Quebec legislature and pres
dent or the Bank of St. John at
Montreal, was convicted ot falsifying
returns of the bank s condition.
The Furness lir.e steamer Almorl
ana arrived at st. Johns, N. F., with
her bow badly damaged from a col
lision with an in-berg.
The French ministry approved a
formula of reciprocal regret regard
ing the Casablanca incident, and the
dispute between France and Ger
many is thus closed.
Three thousand scholars of inter
national repute are in London to at
tend the seventh Inu rnaijonal con
gress of applied chemistry'.
The Cincinnati, the new steamer
of the Hamburg-American line, sail
ed from Hamburg for New York on
fcer maiden voyage.
Thirteen men found guilty of com
plicity in t.e revolutionary outbreak
in Constantinople were hanged.
Edward H .lsey Sat.dford, who kill
ed Inn. seif in Paris, was the son of
u New York lawyer and his wife,
from whom lie was divorced, was a
daughter of the late Governor Hoff
man, of New York.
The death sentence of Oscar Sla
ter, extradited from New York and
convicted at EJ.nburgh, Scotland, of
the murder or .Ml.-s .Marlon Gilchrist,
aged S- years, was commuted to life
ImprisonuK nt.
Thrie mom y b nders were found
guilty at Hamburg, Germany, of prac
tising usury against l'.to oifioars of
the army, and fined and Imprisoned.
The Russian Dauma adopted an
interpellation, charging Dr. Dubro
vn, president of the Dugiio of Kua
nian Pi oplc, with organizing murders.
The Kusiti.u Douina discussed a
law legalizing Hie teit of Old Be
liee:s. which in various f.iruu em
brace 1 .'i.noo.oou worship' s. i
In an iiiciwr :i:int be: ween Santo
Domingo tnx.ps i.ud revolutionists
there wo:c considerable lossus on
both sides.
Tho ice blockade has again clos
ed the pert of St. Johns, N. F., and
five "t-amcn are unable to niako the
harbor.
Howard House, the blrtliplaoo of
John Howard tn Ktri'.ttord-on-A von,
England, has been Irted up as a
Wlllseimi.
Tho Council of ttio Sarbonuo In
Pa: Is conferred upen Andrew Car
;icg e a medal in recognition of his
founding of the Curie scholarship In
JSMJfi.
(leu. MaRMu Parra and Col. Cabrlo.
Ouerra. who were convl'-ted of con
spiring apaintt the provisional gov
ernment in Cuba last year anil sen
tenced to three years' Imprisonment,
but later released under the decree of
amnesty., were again arraigned before
a special Judge on the charge of con
spiring again to overturn tho tsovero
mrnt. The federal Parliament of Austra
lia was erened at Melbourne, toe
I'arl of Dudley, governor general, an
nouncing the Introduction of legis
lation i rov ding" lor progresMve tax
ation of unimproved land wltb a view
t Lrtcking up l;te csaUs.
Chicago (Special). A slight
earthquake shock, lasting only a few
seconds, was felt In the States of In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa and contlnguous territory be
ginning at 8.41.30 o'clock A. M.
Early reports covered a territory
from Springfield, 111., through Daven
port, la., nnd Janesvllle, Wis., north
to Muskegon, Mich.
Reports of the vibrations were re
ceived from Helolt, Wis.; Peoria,
Kenwanee, Rockford, Jollet, Dixon,
Streator, Galena, Freeport, Bloom
ington, Mollne, Elgin, Aurora,
Springfield, 111., and from James
vllle, Wis., Davenport and Dubuque,
la., and Muskegon and Kalamazoo,
Mich.
Throughout the territory affected
snly minor damage was reported.
Several small fires were started by
the overturning of stoves and many
tthlmneys were lazed. Aurora, 111..
Is said to have suffered particularly
In this respect.
In Chicago the shock was general
ly felt, but In the great majority
of cases was attributed to the ordi
nary causes, such as the passage of
street cars, elevated trains, blasting
In distant quarries or tho passage of
structural iron on big trucks through
the streets. It was not until news
papers made their appearance with
the story that the public learned
that there had been an earthquake.
Damage in Chicago, as elsewhere,
was confined to the breaking of dish
es and ornaments shaken from man
telpieces or tables. No fires of con
sequence were reported. In the out
skirts of the city several email fires
were started, but were extinguished
by householders.
During the period of the vibration
It was nlmost impossible to get cor
rect telephone connections owing to
the swaying of the wdres, damp from
rain, against each other.
At Bcloit all the college buildings
rocked violently and many persons
experienced difficulty remaining on
their feet.
At Jollet chairs and other light
objects were overturned, and at Dix
on gas fires were shaken out. At
South Haven and Benton Harbor,
Mich., windows rattled violently and
much china was broken. At Du
buque, la., the vibration seemed to
have the effect of two shocks. Dav
enport, la., also felt two shocks, the
first, shock being the more violent.
Professor Cox, the weather fore
caster, said that the lights in his
oflice swung from north to south dur
ing the shock and the chairs and
light desks showed tho effects of the
vibration.
Although the disturbance was felt
everywhere in this city it was not
until newspapers were on tho streets
that citizens were correctly inform-1
ed of what had happened.
A young woman stenographer in
the Federal Building thonght that I
somebody had come up behind her
and given the chair a shake. "You
stop that," she said angrily, turning
around, only to discover that there
was nobody behind her, nnd that the
rest of the office force was observ
ing the shaking of a large chandelier.
PRESIDENT TFT WILL
INSIST ON ECONOMY
Uncle Sam To Cut Expenses In the
Departments.
Secretary Of Navy Tells How Ho
Will Reduce Expenditure The
Semite Pruning Committee Is Kx
K-cted To Slash The Budget Aid
Hell Outlines Work And The Mem
bers May He In Session Through
out The Summer.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
The new Committee on Public Ex
penditures, which the Senate hag
created and which Is expected to act
as a revising body and a final board
of estimate of all appropriation bills
is to settle down to work at once.
Evidently economy Is to be the
watchword at the next session of
Congress. The President has In
structed every member of his Cabinet
to revise and cut down to Hip lowest
limit all the estimates of their re
spective departments and then the
Cabinet as a body is to revise the es
timates again. And with the Presi
dent revision means reduction.
When these estimates go to the
House of Representatives where all
appropriation bills must originate
there will be more reductions, audi
finally when the bills come to the I
Senate and have been considered by
the various committees, they are to
be turned over to this new Commit
tee on Expenditures for the last use
of the pruning knife. All of which
sounds encouraging. Secretary
Meyer has announced that In the
Navy Department alone the estimates
are to be cut $10,000,000 and Sec
retary Dickinson when he came to
his desk for the first time since his
trip to Panama nnd Havana, an
nounced that the War Department
estimates also would show a propor
tionate decrease. Every other Sec
retary In turn will announce In due
time thit he has cut down estimates,
and so when Congress meets at the
next session there will be every In
dication that tho appropriations for
the year will be many millions less
than they were last. year.
The Senate Committee on Expend
itures started out bravely. Mr. Aid
rich presented a resolution directing
it to make an Investigation as to
the amount of tho revenue of the
government and as to the expend!-1
tures of the departments and the
various business methods employed
by tho government. The committee
is to sit all summer, if necessary,
und Is to make reports from time
to time as to the result of its In
vestigations and to make recom
mendations. The membsrshlp of the
committee is impressive. At its head
Is Senator Hale, who has succeeded
the late Mr. Allison es chairman of
the Appropriations Committee. The
chairmen of the seven4 committees
of the Senate which report appro
priation bills are all members, and
there are in addition other strong
men like Burton, of Ohio; Root, of
New York: Cummins, of Iowa; Owen,
of Oklahoma; MeLaurln. of Missis
sippi, and Newlnnds. of Nevada.
Just how much saving even this
powerful committee can effect Is a
matter of grave doubt. For instance.
Secretary Meyer, as already stated,
announces that he Intends to save
SI 0.000,000, nnd mentions as one
of the methods of economy that the
navv yards at Algiers. Port Royal
and" Pensaeola are to be practically
abandoned.
17 SAFE F.XPI.OS1VKS.
BIG FKF. Ft) 1 5 I.ITTM', WORK.
Sherifr Gets $l,."oo For Carting Big
l ine Only siv Blocks.
Austin, Tex. (Special). Sheriff
George Matthews was allowed a fee
Df $4,542 by Judge Charles A. Wll
Jox, of the District Court for his
lervices in escorting the Waters
Pierce Oil Company's antitrust fine
of $1,803,4S3 from the bnnks to the
tate treasury, a distance of six
olocks.
The money was conveyed to tho
'.rensury in automobiles, which made
record breaking run up the street.
Sheriff Matthews nnd four special
leputies accompanied the money.
Tho amount will be paid out of the
eceipts of tho company from itr
Texas business, which is in the handd
if a state receiver.
PF.VUL IN IMS SHOK STUI.VG.
Tonvcrt Brings It Out Of The Water
After Hi Baptism.
Evnnsville, Ind. (Special). John
Morgan, living at Matinee, 111., on
:he Wabath River, near this city,
found a pearl in a very peculiar
manner. Ho recently professed re
ligion and was baptized in the river
it Maunee. lie wore n shoo in which
'.here was a loose strlntt and this
Jraggod over the bottom of the river
ind a missel closed on the string.
Morgan pulled It out on the bank j
jfter him. When he opened the
oiussel snel! he was surprised to find
i pearl on the Inside, wh'eh be soldi
to a dealer for t'oo,
Two M n Mown To Alow.
Bradford, Pa. (Special). nitro
glycerine factory of the DuPont
Powder Company, lasted at Howard
Junction, about the Miles nouth of
this city, exploded at 1.45 P. M.
Two men were at work at the time
and both are believed to heve been
blown to atoms. The concussion
shook the buildings in tl Is city and
much C'-mase is reported from the
vicinity o, the forti er factory. Ol'.l
?lals have i ushed to the locality in
automul.ller. to leant further dtitalU
ilatiler In .1 Bat.
Mason Valley, Nov, (Special).
The seven-year-old child of Andrew
Ingman Is critically 111. from the bi'e
ot small rattlesnake, which had
concealed Itself In a "rat," occasion
ally worn by an older sister of the
child. The snake bad entered the
bouse and crawled Into the "rat"
which was lying on the door of 8
cloet. The child picked the "rat"
up and was struck In the wrist by fie
rattler. The family dog attacked the
snake, which had dropped to 'he
floor, and was fatally bitten.
Government Has Tested Them For
Vsc In Coal Mines,
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Only 17 explosives out of 29 sub
mitted passed the test of the Geologi
cal Survey to determine whether they
were sale for use in mines, and iiav.
been put upon the Government's
"permissuble" list.
The f xplosives were given four
tests under different conditions in
the lurge steel gallery at the Pitts
burg station. This gallery is 100
feet long and six feet in diameter
and is filled with fire damp, air and
coal dust, or coal dust nnd air of
various mixtures, and the explosive
la discharged into each mixture 10
times. If it falls to Ignite the fire
damp or coal dust in any Instance,
It Is considered satisfactory and
termed a permissible explosive.
Caught After Seven Years.
Macon, (in. (Special l. Seven
years almost to a day since when
the alleged crime was committed,
William Brown, who has been a citi
zen of Macon for two years, was
arrested, nnd upon requisition of
Governor Corner, of 41alir.mil, will be
taken back to Tuscaloosa to be tried
for complicity In a murder.
12 Firemen Badly Burned.
Cambridge, Mass, (Special).
Chief N. W. Bunker and 11 other
members of the Cambridge fire de
partment, suffered bud burns from a
gas explosion in the Boston and
Maine freight ynrd at East Cam
bridge. Chief Bunker's clothing
was burned from his body and he
was taken to the hospital. Three
railroad employes were also hurt,
IUilN First Gas Well.
Grafton, W. Va. (Special). The
Philadelphia Company drilled in its
first well on the George Franklin
farm on Horner's Itun, near Booths
vllle. It proved to be a good easier
and Riven evidence of showing
IS, 000,000 feet. This Is tho first
test In that section and means tho
opening of new territory.
Xew 92 Counterfeit Found.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Treasury ciriclala havo in their poo
gesslon a counterfoil $2 silver cer
tificate of the series 189ft. It boars
the check letter "A" nnd face plaf;
is No. 1110; has the portrait of
Washington, anc the signatures of
W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treas
ury, and Charles It. Treat, Treasurer
of the I'nlted States. The counter
feit is printed from etched plates and
Ih on a good quality bond paper,
hut no attempt has been made to
immltate the silk fibre effect.
Surrenders After 5 Ycais.
Lake Charles, La. (Special).
Former Sheriff and Tax Collector
John Perkins, of Cclcsselu parish,
who went five years ago to Hon
duras, leaving an alleged shortage
of $70,000, returned and surren
dered to the Sheriff. Ho was released
on bond. Ho disappeared while the
State auditor was cheeking up bis
accounts. Tha parish recovered
$20,000 from property left by Perkins
lu C'alcaseiu. Ha nays he did not
know that his property would not
cover the shortage.
COL ROOSEVELT IS
HAVING TIME OF HIS LIFE
Right in the Midst of Great Bunches
of Big Game.
SO REPORTS MAJOR T. SEAMAN.
Ono Day, Wliilo Hunting In Tho lie
jtlon Where The Roosevelt Party
Now Are, Tho Major Saw 0,000
Animals, Including Rhinoceros,
Buffaloes, Zebras And Gazelle
The Tsetze Fly And Sleeping
SlckncJis Schrln's Discovery. .
Paris (Special). Major Ixiula L.
Seaman, U. S. A., haa arrived here
from Mombasa, where he met the
Roosevelt party. lie says that Sel-
ous and Cunnlnghame are the best
hunters in Africa, and that tho for
mer President "is having the time
of his life."
Major Seaman, who hunted with
Dr. Guiteras, of New York, over the
Athi Plains along the Nairobi River,
where Mr. Roosevelt is shooting,
brought out 1C0 specimens of big
game. He reports animals so plenti
ful that after six weeks' hunting
he and Dr. Guiteras were romplo'e-
ly satiated with the sport. When he
left, he said, he would rather shoot
snipe on the wing thaii elephants.
"Never have the western cattle
ranges seen bo many animals," he
said. "One day we counted zebras,
gazelles and other animals to the
number of 4 50, within a segment
comprising one-tenth of a circle.
There were fully 5,000 in sight.
Nevertheless the animals are hard
to approach, aa the herds keep out
sentinels."
Major Seaman considers the rhino
ceros and the buffalo the most dan
gerous to hunt, as they Invariably
charge, which means death to the
hunter If the animal is not killed
or crippled. Lions, on the contrary,
be says, are natural cowards, add
ing: "My respect for the lion has dis
appeared since I went to Africa.
The lion never fights except when he
is wounded or driven to bay."
The most difficult element In
ehootlng in the equatorial belt is
tho deception of the range, caused
by the vertical tropical light and
the altitude. The nights are always
cool, and it is necessary to wear
flannels and to keep under blankets.
Major Seaman, who is an expert
in military sanitation, was greatly
Interested In the sleeping sickness.
He brought back the first news of
the discovery of Dr. Schrln, a Ger
man, which completely upsets the
theory of the English commission
that the tsetse fly only transmits the
malady. Dr. Schrln proved that the
fly becomes infected, thus establish
ing "a cycle," as Is the case with
the mosquito In yellow fever. The
fly remains inoculated for fifty days.
This discovery renders more difficult
the solution of the problem of ex
tinguishing the dread disease, as it
ends the hope previously entertain
ed of suppressing It by isolation.
The disease has claimed half a mil
lion victims, and, according to Dr.
Seaman, not a single person attack
ed has ever recovered. The chief
horror Is the long period of incuba
tion. The bite of the fly itself, when
not Inoculated. Is harmless. Dr.
Seaman r-p.n bitten on tho forehead
and suffered no bad effects.
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
IX)MT. AllMOl i: WKI.L.
Remarkable Recovery Of Child Oper
ated On By Dr. I.orenz.
Chicago (Special). Mlfs Lollta
Armour, daughter of J. Ogden Ar
mour, and sole heiress to her father's
millions, her physlcini s said, is al
most completely cured of congenital
dislocation of both hips. As evi
dence of her recovery, through the
operation cf Dr. Lorenz, of Vienna,
Miss Armour has enthusiastically
taken to riding her ponies about the
grounds of her father's summer
home in Lake Forest Her parents
are now in Europe.
Vliss Armour has long been a
horse show enthusiast, and her
ponies and cnit have captured rib
bons. in the Lake Forest exhibitions.
She was an incubator baby, and Is
now 14 years of age.
DOO IS STAGlvSTRl CK.
Runs way From Muster To Rejoin
A Traveling Show,
Indianapolis. Ind. (Special). Wil
liam Wocher paid r,0 for a bulldog
at a New York kennell several weeks
ago nnd last wee!: while a dog and
pony show was parading the streets I
Wccher did not l:ecp his dog at
home. He went to the show ground i
several times, but the dosr could
hardly bo dragged home, so infatu
nted was he with f'.og show life.
Sunday the f.hov left the city and
Wocher's dog disappeared nt ihe
same time. Telegrams sent to Kan
kakee, HI., brought Information that
Wocher's dog was with the show;
that all attempts to drive him away
hnd failed, but he would bo shipped
back to his maMer.
Klophnnt Scant Hornc To Death.
Norristown, Pa. (Special). Scar
ed at an elephant, a horse belong
ing to Milkman Howard Richards,
dropped dead In the shafts. The
elephant, a part of the Gentry
Brothers' show, was being lee'
through the street from the Frank
lin Avenue S'atlon to the show
grounds.
Just after the Senate aljourned
Senator Bailey of Texas, and W. S.
Manning, a representative of the New
York Time?, engaged in a fisticuff In
front of the Senate Committee on
Finance.
Minister Wu Ting-fang made a
farewell, call upon Secretary Knox
preparatory to going to South Ameri
ca. "
Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenkins, of
Cornell, Is mentioned as the probable
selection as minister to China.
A protocol for submission to arbi
tration of the Emery claim was sign
ed wdth representatives of the Nica
raguan government at the home of
Secretary of State Knox.
Senators Foster and McEnery, of
Louisiana, urged a tariff on sugar
and declared for the protection theory
generally.
The Senate confirmed the nomina
tion of William S. Washburn to be
civil service commissioner.
A delegation of Porto Rlcans came
to Washington to a,sk citizenship for
the islanders.
President Taft abolished the Coun
cil of Fine Arts created by President
Roosevelt.
All the departments are culling
down estimates to the lowest point.
Robert J. Wynne's resignation us
consul general at London was receiv
ed and announcement was made that
Consul John L. Griffith at Liverpool
would succeed him.
Director of the Census North tend
ered his resignation to President Taft
as the result of his recent controversy
with Secretary Nagel.
President Taft nominated Rear
Admiral William P. Potter to be
chief of tho Bureau cf Navigation of
the Navy Department.
Arrangements are being made at
the State Department for the meet
ing of the Congress of Hygiene and
Demography In 1910.
HF.RO Fl'XD IN FRANCE.
II HUNDRED MEN
TIE OP RAILROAD
Georgia Railroad Is Paralyzed By
Strike of Firemen.
TOWNS ARE' SHORT OF FOOD.
Traffic At A Standstill In Territory
170'Mil.' Lotm And IOO Miles
. Wide Three Thousand Pounds
Of Delayed Mull In Atlanta Post
office Fabulous Prices Are lie
ing Paid For Automobiles Wash
ing. ..n Anxious Over Situation
Talk Of Strikebreakers.
Carnegie AVIll Give 91,000,000 For
Its Establishment.
Paris (Special). Andrew Car
negie, of New York, has arranged to
give $1,000,000 for the establish
ment of a "hero" fund In France
under practically the Fame condi
tions as govern similar funds In the
I'nlted States. England and Scotland.
Formal announcement, of this gift
will bu made at a luncheon tit the
Sorbonne, at which Mr. Carnegie
will bo guest of honor. President
Fallieres will attend the luncheon.
During his brief stay hero Mr.
Carnegie is being showered with attentions.
A SAILOR'S CONFESSION.
Suys He Helped Mrs. Gunness Kill
Four Persons.
Chrlfltianla (Special). A young
American sailor is under arrest at
Frederikstad, near Christianla, as a
self-confessed murderer. He tcld his
captain that he helped Mrs. Belle
Gunne33 kill four persons on her
farm near Laporte, Ind., and that he
then killed Mrs. Gunness herself.
The man did not impress the cap
tain as being insane, but as one :
forced by his conscience to tell the j
truth. The sailor Is now under oh-!
servanco as to his mental condition.
Tho case has been reported to H. D.
I). Pierce, the American minister to
Norway.
WEDDIXfJ WAS LEGAL.
Minister Married Himself To Girl,
Making ContiiKt On Envelope.
Washington, Ind. (Special).
That Laura Bunn Clark is tho legal
wife of the Rev. E. E. Davidson,
formerly pastor of the First Chris
tian Church, was decided by Judge
Houghton. Miss Clark, daughter of
a former mayor of this city, alleged
that Davidson and she were secret
ly married In a St. Louis hotel by
a private contract drawn up by the
preacher on the back of an envelope
Soon after publication ot this story
Davidson left Washington. Ho laf-t
was heard from at Toronto. He de
nied that Miss Clark was his wife.
Gored To Deuth By Bull.
L'tica, N. Y. (Special). Edward
Hotaling, aged 77, an inmate of the j
county home at Herkimer, was gor- j
ed to death by a bull. Ho'allng whs i
driving a herd of cows into a pas
ture when the bull charged him, !m-1
paling the aged man on Its horns
and then trampled him to death,
Atlanta, Ga. (Special). How loss
than 100 striking Georgia Railroad
firemen were able to stop practically
all train service In a territory 170
miles long and from 2i to 100 miles
wide was the knotty problem into
which United States Commissioner
of Labor Charles K. N1U plunged
Immediately after he arrived here.
As emissary of the National Board
of Mediation, he faced first, the race
problem, the force behind the strike;
second, an announced wibh of many
persons In this se.uion to have the
Georgians settle this t 'cation by ar
bitration, and third, the necessity ol
moving tne united States mailB ini
ireriiatoly. Within two hours after his ar
rival Mr. Nclll was In private con
ference with General Managor Scott,
of the Georgia Rairoad, with no In
timation as to when the negotiations
might bring results.
What a remarkable feat this hand
ful of union firemen accomplished
and what power was behind them
became apparent, when a consider
able, section of this Btnte was com
pelled to rely on automobiles for pas
senger, mall and express service, and
when the transportation of such ne
cessities of life as food dropped back
to the methods of a former degree
of civilization namely, to wagons
and even pack animals.
The four score firemen alone did
not produce this s'tuation. It wae
tho communities which the railroad
served that stopped every wheel of
the system during the past three
days; not the officials of these com
munities, but a few men who are
said to have fighting blood in their
veins, who came forward and an
nounced that negro firemen should
not be given seniority ver the white
firemen. From some hidden source
of public opinion these men have up
to now made good this racial ulti
matum. Few of these' men were firemen,
some did not even claim to be ac
quainted with striking firemen. They
accomplished the t'.e-up without seri
ous acts of violence, and, with a few
cases of throwing stones, which ap
pear to have been accomplished as
warnings of what might happen If
trains continued to run.
A settlement by arbitration should
not be difficult so tar as the strikers'
demands are concerned, Vice Pres
ident Ball, of the firemen's organiza
tion, raid, because the firemen are
not trying to exact a hard and fast
settlement. They struck because ten
white firemen were replaced by ne
gro firemen. The railroad officials
declare that the negroes were put in
these positions as rewards for faith
ful service, and that they are within
their legal rights In such action. Up
on this one crucial point of the con
troversy there has as yet been no
sign of agreement.
The officials of the road were in
almost continual conference Tuasdi. .
and it was reported that some of the
directors strongly favored Governor
Smith's proposition for each side
to select three Georgians as arbi
trators. General Manager Scott
would not say whether this offer
would be accepted.
Handcars, automobiles and inter
urban cars made little Impression
upon the 3,000 pounds of delayed
mails r.t the Atlanta postoffice. Here
and there In the strike district a
rural postmaster shouldered a. sack
of outgoing mail, and after hours of
hard work riding and walking, man
aged to reach an unaffected railroad
station.
Reports were current that the
federal courts might interfere and
place guards on trains, in order -to
get the malls through. No Bucb
action, however, developed locally.
Woman Sent To Prison.
Cleveland, O. (Special). Mrs.
Harrle t Beecher Bingham, of Spring
field, Mass., was sentenced to two
years In the penitentiary in Com
mon Pleas Court after pleading
guilty to the charge of manslaught
er. She shot and killed her common-law
husband, Lemuel. Bingham,
a few weeks ago. The woman pre
sented a long statement to the court.
In which she said her husband had
habitually abused her.
Mining Town Gets Chu-vli At Last.
Hawthorne, Nov. (Special). Tho
Ir.ylng of the cornerstone for tho
Met hod lat f'hurch here marks the
Invasion for the flra time of this
town's precincts by a Christian place
of worship. A prosperous town of
1,000 population, formorly the coun
ty seat and In tho heart of a rich
mining district, Hawthorno bas
never yet boustcd a church. 'The
only religious edifice has been a
Chinese, joss house, which was prac-
Hum uuauuontu more man a year
ago.
New Civil Service Commissioner.
Washington, D, C. (Special).
In executive session the Senate con
firmed the nominations of William
8. Washburn, of New York, to be a
civil service commissioner, succeed
ing James T. Williams, Jr., who re
signed after 10 days on account of
his health, and Henry Groves Con
nor, of North Carolina, to be United
State Qistrict judge for the Eastern
District of North Carolina.
Charles Morrison, one of the
wealthiest financiers In London, died
at the ago of VI.
Go 3,000 Miles Without Jt Cent.
Tolodo, Ohio (Special). After a
trip of 3,000 mi)os without a cent In
their pcckctB, Arthur Crane, aged 7,
and Joe Crosby, aged 9, both of
Saginaw, Mich., arrived here. Ac
cording to their story, the boys left
Saginaw last December, going from
there to Los Angeles, to San Fran
cisco, to Cincinnati, and then here.
Sirs. Taft Much Better.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Mrs. Taft, whoso condition has been
a cause of some conctm to tho Pres
ident during the pair week, la much
improved, being able to leave her
room and walk about the White
House. It is not likely, however,
that 6he will be able to accompany
the President to Pittsburg or to Gettysburg.
Killed While At Pruycr.
Kennett, Mo. (Special). While
kneeling In prayer at church ser
lets at Europa Schoolhouse Henry
Culp was shot and killed by his
brother-in-law. Charles Champ, 18
years old. Champ tired three bullets
Into Culp's body and fled. Citlrens,
headed by the sheriff, are searching
for him. Culp killed Harry Champ,
brother of tho slayer, last August
after having been driven from tome
by the Champ brothers. He was ac
quitted, the jury deciding his act was
justifiable.
Mall Carrier Run Amuck.
Wilmington. N. C. (Special). De
cause Bradley Parker, clerk of a
store at Parktrsburg. N. C, refused
to sell him ammunition with which
to "shoot up" the community, It Is
alleged, William Bass, a rural mall
carrier, shot and killed the former
with bis shotgun.
Bass, who had been drinking, then
broke Into an adjoining store, it Is
said, and later returned to his home,
where be was surrounded by a posse.
During tbe night he mado a sortie
from the house and) the posse fired
at him. Bass enraped Into the woods
but returned and surrendered.
Shot Bride Instead Of Bird.
Flint, Mich. (3peclal).--Arthur
Merritt; 10 years old. while walking
along the river, bank with a rifle
saw something white fluttering In
btibhes on the opposite tilde of the
stream and fired at it. Mrs. Llzzio
Atkinson, a brldo of a fow months,
received the bullet In her forehead
nnd died In a few minutes. Mrs. At-
I kinson was walking along the river
with her husband.
Severe 'Quake At Messina.
Messina (Special). One of tho
severest shocks since the great earth
quake occurred here Monday after
noon. The movement was both
vertical and horizontal and lasted
ten seconds. The shock was pro
ceded by a rumbling noise. The
populace were panic stricken and
the walls of the ruins In various
places collapsed.
CABLE SPiiRKr"
It is reported that Admiral Sir
John Fisher, senior naval lord of the
British Admiralty, will retire In Oc
tober, having been much annoyed by
recent criticisms of hl3 administra
tion. Moro than 60 vessels of the Span
ish fishing fleet were wrecked and
100 fishermen drowned In a storm
on the Bilbao Coast.
The Turkish authorities will likely
send the deposed sultan, Abdul Ha
mld, to an island In the Mediterranean.
. Strike Ties Vp Railroad.
Augusta, Gn. (Special). The
Georgia Railroad Is completely tied
up by the firemen's strike and the
ohicluls will not attempt to move
trains until the State affords ample
protection to tho strike breakers.
Bo many cases of malaria have re
cently occured In those sections of
Leipzig, which are adjacent to any
one of the four rivulets which flow
through-the city that the city council
baa decided to adopt stringent meas
ures to exterminate the mosquitoes
(AnoDheleo) that suited the disease.
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
Bradstreet's says:
Weather conditions continue ir
regular but a change for the better
aas occurred In staple crop condl
:lons and retail business Is slightly
mproved, though disappointing and
ihowlng evidences of the depression
heretofore evident. Reorder busl
aess from jobbers and wholesalers
3as been rather quiet, but there Is,
If anything, a more assured opti
mism permeating the reports as to
the outlook for the next fall and
winter trade. Best reports as to
retail trade come from the upper
?art of the great central valley and
its tributaries.
H. G. Dun & Co.'g Weekly Review
of Trade says:
Almost every development except
:he lengthening debate on the tariff
is favorable and the gains made In
spite of the tariff disturbance are
fair indication of what may he
axpected when that Is out of the
way. The domestlo agricultural
.'ondltions are excellent and yet the
price of farm products continue to
advance. The area of Improvement
in Iron nnd steel is rapidly widening,
and a notable event of the week is
the restoration of wages by tho in
dependent producers.
Wholesale Markets.
New York Wheat Spot steadv;
No. 2 red, 1.45 elevator; No. 2 red,
1.45 nominal f. o. h. nflnnt- Vn i'
Northern Duluth, 1.36 f. o. b. afloat'
No. 2 hard winter, 1.37 f. o. b
afloat.
Corn Spot steady; No. 2, 84ic.
Hevator and 81 f. o. b. afloat; No.
2 white. 84, and No. 2 yellow,
82 f. o. b. afloat, all nominal. Op
tion market without transactions,
closing c. net lower. May
closed 84c; July closed 78 '4;
September closed 75.
Oats Spot firm; mixed,"' 26 fT 32
lbs., 6162; natural white, 26ft
32 lbs., 6266; clipped whim,
34 42 lbs.. 62 68.
Eggs Firm; receipts, 21,125
;ases. State, Pennsylvania and near
by, fancy selected, white, 26c; do.,
.fair to choice, 2425; brown
and mixed, fancy, 24; do., fair to
choice, 22 23; Western stor
age packed, 22 23; Western
firsts, 2122; seconds, 20
20; Southern firsts, 2121U;
seconds, 20020.
Poultry Alive firm; chickens,
broilers, 27 30c; fowls, 17 18.
Dressed steady; Western broilers, 2S
tfii30; fowls, 1516; turkeys, frozen,
1525.
Potatoes easy; Bermuda, new, pei
brl., J3.505.00; Southern, 2.00fil
4.25.
Philadelphia Wheat 1 e. h igher;
contract grade, May, 143 145c.
Corn Firm; May, 8181c.
Oats Firm; No. 2 white natural,
63 64.
Butter Steady; extra Westerc
creamery, 27c; do., nearby prints,
28. '
Eggs Firm: good demand. Penn-
sylvanla and other nearby firsts, free
cases, 23c, at mark; do., current re
ceipts, in returnable cases, 22, at
mark; Western firsts, free cases, 23,
at mark; do., current receipts, free
cases, 21 22, at mark.
Cheese Firm; New York full
creams, choice, 1313c; do.,
fair to good, 12 13.
Live Poultry Firm; fowls, 16'4
17; old roosters, 11; spring chick
ens, 2630; ducks, 1415.
Baltimore Flour Winter extra,
$5.405.60; do., clear. 66.15,
do., straight. $6.25 6.40; do., pat
ent, $6.656.75; spring clear, $5.1
5.40; do., straight, 5.655.00;
do., patent, $6.30 6.55; city milli
best patent, $7.25; do., high grade
patent, $7.25; do., high grade
straight, $6.95; do., choice family.
$6.50; do., extra, $5 5.15. Rye
flour, medium to choice, $4.50
4.75; corn meal, per 100 lbs., iM
1.90.
Wheat Receipts, 23,755 bushel!
Western; shipments from elevators,
none; stock in elevators, 98,719 bush'
ois. southern wheat was nominal
No. 2 red was quoted at $1.48 at
:ne close, western opened firmer;
spot, $1.49; July, $1.15 sellers.
Corn Receipts, 11,392 bushels,
viz., 3,859 bushels Southern and 7,
533 bushels Western; shipments
trom elevators, 1,974 bushels; stuck
n elevators, 145,655 bushels. Sale
ot a cargo of white corn on grade
were at 8 2 Vic. for No. 2 and 7 8 sc.
for steamer, while a cargo of mixed
sold at 81c. and a cargo ot yellow
at sisc. per bushel.
Oats White. No. 2. 62 c; do.
No. 3, 61 62c; do., No. 4, 5'jS
59c; mixed, No. 2, 696Uc;
do., No. 3. 58 59c; do., No. 4
5757c.
Butter Creamery, separator, per
;b.. 20 27c; imitation, lb.. 22f
23c; prints, -lb per lb., 30 31c;
do.. 1-Ib.. per lb.. 30 31c; blocks.
2-lb.. per lb., 30 31c; dairy prints.
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
per lb., 16 17c; Virginia and Wesi
Virginia, store packed,, per lb., 16
16c; Ohio, store packed, per lb., 1
ft 17c; nearby, rolls, per lb., 17
18c; Ohio, rolls, per lb., 17 18c;
West Virginia, rolls, per lb., 16
17c.
Eggs Maryland, Pennsylvania
and nearby firsts, per dozen, 20Mi:.,
Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virgin'
la. per dozen. 2014c: Western first.
per dozen, 20 c; West Virginia, P
dozen, 20 c.
Live Stock.
Pittsburg Cattle Supply llgl
steady. Choice, $6.857; prime.
$6.606.85.
Sheep Supply light, slow sci
lower. Prime wethers, $6.106.2b
culls and common, $2.50 4; lamb'
$5.50 7.90; veal calves, $C.DD
7.25.
Hogs Receipts light and lowe'
Prime heavies. $7.657.70;
urns. $7.60 7.65; heavy York"
mm A t . t f A . li.L, XT , . . m t 1 II
7.20; pigs, $6.7y6.90; roughs,
o.eo.
Kurwtm rilv. fn. TflMln MarlT
steady to weak. Top, $7.00; chol-'
exports ana aressea beer steers, -7;
fair to good, $5.25 6"'
Western steers, $5 6.75; tocW
and feeders. $4 5.75; Soutlif'1
steers, $4 6.40; Southern co!
$2.754.60; native cows, $3,251
5.65; native heifers, $4.1506.4
bulls, $3.75 5.25; calves, U'
6.60. .
Hogs Re?elpts. 16,000 hea"
market 6c higher. Top, $7.82
bulk of sales, $6.707.25; het"
$7.107.82: packers and butO
era', ih.hw hi i.sd ; ngni. e.u
7.05; (Us. $5.406.70.