THE NEWS. Domestic Dr. Oorge W. Crlll. a specialist in abdominal surgery, a hospital rot and two tanks of oxygen, which arrived at E. H. Harrlman's retrial, in thn mountains, pave rlHe to rumors that the flnanclor was to be operated on. The steamer Ohio, which loft Seattle for Valdcz, Alaska, August 1!4. with 13i passengers, rtruck a rock i)lt Steep Point, Alaska, antl sank, with a loRs of five lives. The dead include the Ohio's witelrss Op erator nil! Hill" Macabee. of Baltimore, aged 105 yearn, and sole survivor of Hie crew of the Conftlt iition, now in Hie I Tn I ted States Naval Home, at Philadelphia, Is III w:tli a fractured tilled. Hlvert W. Shirk, president of the First National Hank, of Tipton Ind , afl arrested a, the Calumet Clin. Chicago, charir d with misapplying $34. ".V.1 of the bank money James .1. 11:11 declares that while Hie wheat crop of the Northwest will lx ;.0.M)0,U(i bushels lareer than that or many previous years, it w::i not be a bumper crop. Pructu-ally all the available water power sites In Northeastern Michigan have dei'n obtained by Kustern inter ests lil'-ntifled with pas and electric properties Miss Edna Schaeffer. a Philadcl phln school teacher, ill from nervous troubles, eluded a nurse and leaped off a brilge to her death. Miss Eleanor Kennedy, a public school teacher, was stricken wltii lieart trouble while bathing at Ocean City, N. .1 , and rti,l. H. Clark, a colored convict, after killing u member of a Georgia posse, u Hliot. to death and burned Frank Walsh, aged 16 yearn. was killed during a fist fight with Eugene Ha hill, aged lti years, In Philadel phia. Tho lirst National Conservation Congress met In the Alaska-Yukon-Pnelfh: Exposition Auditorium at Seattle, with delegates present from all putts of the United States and C.-uiadu. Klrina a single rharge of buck shot at two Hupposed chicken thieves, Charles Hartshorn, Sr . of Newark. ., distantly killed John Weekly and William Trace. The Hible Is not original with Its Hiipposcl compilers, according to opinions expressed by Prof. Herald It. Smith, of the University of Chi cago Chieugo is to have nn institution lor medical research similar to that founded within recent years in New York by John I). Rockefeller. Kile originating in the Whitney Hons", at Truckeo, Cal.. consumed i be theater and threatened to wipe out (lie business quarter. Charles M. Schwab, president of the Iteihlehem Steel Company, was In Chattanooga en route from New Or leans to New York City George Kultledge found a pearl in the Wabash River, near Mount Ver non, III., weighing 4fi grains and which he sold for $2,'i0(. Governor Campbell, of Texas, will not be present In Kl Paso at the meeting in October of Presidents Tatt antl Diaz. A stampede was begun to Rlue Cloud Gulch, west of Helena, sinco rich placer gold strikes have been uiaile there. The submarine torpedo boat Tar pon exceeded every contract require ment in her trials just completed. Ida County, Idaho, voted "dry" un der local option law. Five hundred dollars for a dinner "with liquid refreshments" to bo nerved nt hla funeral was among tho bequests in the will of the late Au gust II. Karutz, of New York. Kar uti stipulated that heirs who failed to attend tho funeral banquet should be disqualified. William Taggart. of Philadelphia, broke an engagement to marry in order to inherit $15,000 willed him an condition that he remain a bach elor. Plans nre afoot to organize the SOU. ooo steel. Iron and tinplato workers of the United States into the Order of the Sons of Vulcan. C. R, Curtis, a former naval ofH rer, a victim of smallpox, was sent to quarantine on arrival in New York from Naples. .Mrs. Mnry McGuire was thrown over u cliff of the Palisades, landing tin a ledge, which saved her life. One thousand coal miners in the Toaghiogheny Valley have refused to work in mines using earbonfte. The mother of Marlon Hleakley, the "Incubator baby," is said to be an net rss. Foreign EI ltoghl, tho rebellious subject of the Sultan of Morocco, was march d through the streets of Fez In an iron cage strapped on the back of d camel. During the celebration or a sol rmn requiem mass at Melllla the Moors made a tierce attack, and the Fort Camellos replied with a can nonade. The Irish Land Bill, as introduced into tha I lousy of Commons March 30. pawned through committee with out serious amendment. All records for airships wert broken by Karman. at Rhelma. lie covered over lis miles and was uf In the air over three hours. Klvo coal miners wore killed and twelve others seriously Injured by tbn falling of an elevator cage in a mine at Cardiff, Wales. Former Vice President Fairbanks was received In private audience by I he Prince Regent at Peking. Meet. Count Rocca was thrown from bis horse and killed at the Italian Army maneuvers. The Turkish government will not send a warship to the Hudson-Fulton relebration. Charles M. Cooke, a multi-million-ire of Honolulu, died after a Ions Illness. The wheat yield of Western Can ada l estimated to be 107.000.UU0 bushels. George ManTllle Fenn, the novelist, is dtal. Add reuses wtre made by ureal toll of the various sections of the Ur.tlsU Association for the Advance ment of Science, In session tn Winni peg, .Manitoba. Ha ron Rosen, the Russian ambas sador to the United States, will leav St. Petersburg next week for Washington to resume his duties. Th Czar has become patron of thn Aero Club of St. Petersburg. Building operations of all kind were practically suspended In Paris as a rault of the strike of 111,000 masons. A satisfactory settlement of the recent boundary dispute betweea Pern dad DolWla Is probable. Premier Asqulth explained to the lion- of Commons plans for (he re modeling c.f the Nary. MANY LIVES LOST IN RAGING FLOOD Death Roll May Reach One Thousand Property Loss Heavy. The Victim. Who Wcr Mostly Of The Poorer C'lnwes, Swept Away From Their Huts A HiiMi To Iflglier Ground Recently In stalled Industrial And Electrical Plants Seriously Dnmngecl The Railroad Tied l'p lltresing Sc.-utci In The Flooded Section Torrential Rains Finally Ccne The I lend rnhiirieil. t . rrttcvious flood disasters. Galveston, Texas. September S, 1900. 6,00(1 killed. Property Iofs, $::o.oin,ooii Pensncola, Kla., Mobile, Ala., and other places along the Gulf Coast, September L'7 and 2S, IHtlfi. More than 100 killed. Millions of dollars' worth of property lost and more than 50 vessels wrecked. Along the Florida Kevs, Oc tober 20. l0fi. 1,600 killed; millions of dollars' worth of prop erty Wist. Mexico, October. 1906. 1 2ri killed; property loss heavy. Cincinnati and vicinity, Janu ary, KM)". No fatalities; proper ty loss. $500,000, due to over flow of Ohio River. Kastern Ohio and West Vir ginia. July IS. 1&07. Nino killed Dallas, Texas, and vlclnltv. May 24 .and 25. K)0S Four killed. Prnnertv loss heuvv J caused by overoflw of the Trinity I River. Laredo, Tex. (Special).--With partial re-establishment of communi cation with the flooded section of Northern Mexico, previous reports as to loss of 1 i f and property danage were confirmed. Semi-official ad vices state that 400 dead bodies were recovered In Monterey Sunday. Direct communication with .Mon terey was re-established by the As sociated Press at 10.30 Sunday. The operator at that point states that the number of dead will reach 1,200. The Monterey News was compelled to suspend publication for two dayn owing to high water. The flood waters of the Santa Catarlna River continued on their rapid course throughout the night, and to add to the horror of the sit uation rain commenced to fall, anj caused untold Buffering to the thou sands of homeless peons who had congregated on the various plazas. Tlie destructive flood, due to the continued fall of rain for the past 'Mi hours, swept everything before It, and hardly a vestige Is left of what bb a few days ago a conglomera tion of smnll huts swarming with .'amllles belonging to the. poorer classes. The number of dead, which rannnt be accurately estimated for Jays---perhaps weeks Is variously placed at from 400 to l.OOe The Iciinis were from the poorer class es. The flood reached Its creast be tween 1 and 3 o'clock Saturday morning. Many families were swept to death, with hardly a chance for their lives. With the onrush or the waters pandemonium reigned, and as ihe victims were swept from their homes, nn Ihe tops of which many had sought shelter, never anticipat ing that the water would reach an unprecedented height, pitiful appeals for assistance could be heard by those on higher ground, but nid of any kind was Impossible. Sunday night every effort was made by kind-hearted people to shelter homeless women and chil dren. Privnte homes were thrown open to the sufferers. The police station, many hotels and clubs, ns well as the rooms of several organi zations, were placed at the disposal of the authorities. Though most of the women and children were thus enred for, many men were compelled to sleep in the open in the various plazas. Doth Zaragoza and Hidalgo plazas were alive with people throughout Ihe nigh', and a vast throng congregated In this vicinity, which iR on high ground, in order to watch the Hood as it swept on ward. Alrondv muny bodies have been recovered, but it Is Itvoosible to state the exact number. A semireliable authority says the police records show that 400 bodies had been re covered up to noon today. Scores of other bodies are believed to be still lodged in various points along the stream, and It may be weeks before they are recovered. AERO LAURELS FOR UNCLE SAM Glenn H. Curtiss the Hero Rtieimes Contests. of the CLOSE OF A NOTABLE EVENT. America's Only Representative In The Competition Carried Oil The Lion's Shara Of The Honor An Accident To lllerlot Itcniot.d The American's Most Dangerous Competitor In The Tlirec-Lup Seed Contest Helicopter Sn pvlior To Dirigibles. Rheims (Special). A twilight vleion of Paulhan's graceful mono plane, like a great white bird soaring above the plain, so high that it seem ed to rise above the yellow harvest moon just rising above toe distant hills, and the fleeting Golden Flier, as the Curtiss machine has been dub bed, smashing another world's re cord In the, Prix (1b la Vitesse, were the closing glories of aviation week. The victory of Glenn H. Curtiss, the sole American representative in the contests, coming on tho heels of his great victory In the international cup, gives the United States the lion's share of the honors of the meeting. The Prix de la Vitesse, of 20.000 francs ($4,0U0, divl.led into four prizes, was distributed to the four machines making three rounds of the course. So kilometers, at the greatest speed, the first prize being won by Curtiss quite handily, not withstanding his penalization. Curtiss only missed winning the lap speed contest from Hlerlot by a small margin. He captured second place In that even, which was over the full circle of 10 kilometers, or 6.21 miles, raising his total money winnings for the meeting to 3K.000 francs, besides the International Cup. which goes to the Aero Club of America, inscribed with his name FF.WKU IDLE C.IRS. henry mm WINS IHE GR1DPRI1( PRIZE All Aeroplane Records For Time and Distance Broken. Further Dem-ane Of 17,7 In The Number Of Surplus. Chicago (Special). The American Railway Association, in its fortnight ly report on car surpluses and short ages, says that there has been a further decrease of 47,749 in the number of surplus cars, bringing the total down to 159.424. which In !i3,759 fewer than for the correspond' I Ing period of 1908. j Box cars decreased 21.141 and coal ami gondolas 19,328. There was also a decrease of 6,24 8 in miscel laneous cars, duo principally to a reduction in the surplus stock equip ment. There Is an Increase in the scattering stortaees from 169 on Au gust 4 to 2,00!) on August 18. Kills Woman And Heir. South Norwalk, Conn. (Special). Jam-i t'avanigh, a polisher, living in Spring Hill, a suburb or Norwalk, lirod two shots at his daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Cavauagh, Jr., after a family quarrel, and killed her in uiaatly. He then placed the muzzle of the revolver In his mouth and fired two shots. He lapsed lino un coi'sctoiisness at once and died alter beirg carried into the hospital. The murdered woman was about 30 years old, and Cavanugh was 75. Indians Hum Old Woman. El Paso, Te. (Special). Bellev ing a witch brought on the smallpox epidemic that caued the death of many of their cb'.Ui'en, the Indians or llurjotrlngo, near Puebla, Mexico, burned aged J nana Reralrej to death. Too Indiana barricaded all the exits or her hut, set Ore to it, and watched her parish lu the flamea. Executions In Roasla. St. Petersburg (Special). Six per sons wore banged at Odessa and even wre sentenced to death at otiter towns for armed disturbance. $10,000 TO THE BRITISH AVIATOR. Day or Great F.xcltemcnt On The Aviation Field At Rhelms Rec ords Made By Latham and Palli dum Dining The Previous Days Are Madly Smashed" Hethany Aviation Field, Rhelivts (Special). Henry Farman, the F.ng llsh aviator, a hitherto unknown quantity in the aviation contests, In n biplane of his own design, broke the world's records for duration of flight and distance in a heavier than air machine and won Ihe $10,000 Grand Prix de la Champngne the endurance teBt by a remarkable Might officially recorded at 180 kilo metres (111.78 miles) In 3 hours 4 minutes "6 2-!i seconds. He actually covered an extra ten kilometres and remained In the air ten minutes after 7.110 o'clock P. M., the hour at which the timekeepers, under the rules, ceased to keep a record of the flight. The other contestants finished In the order nnmed: Hubert Latham, in monoplane, No, 29, 154 kilometres 00 metres, time 2 hours 18 minutes 0 :t-."i seconds; Louis Paulhan, in a Volsln biplane, 121 kilometres; Count de Lambert, biplane, 116 kilometres; Hubert LatliHin, In monoplane. No. 13, 111 kilometres; M. Tlssandler, biplane. 111 kilo metres; Roger Sommer. biplane, 60 kilometres; M. Delagrange, mono plane, ,i0 kilometres; M. Kleriot. monoplane. 40 kilometres; Glenn H. Curtiss, biplane, 30 kilometres; M. Lefebyro biplane, 21 kilometres. Although Hubert I-uthani, with a different machine, took second and fifth positions, the aviation commit tee held I bat be was ineligible for two prizes and awarded the fifth to M. Tlssandier and the sixth to M. Sommer. Although Farman's brilliant rec ord as an aeroplanist should have warned the sharps that he was a dangerous compotltor, his victory was a complete surprise. He had been preparing his machine .secretly and had not appeared upon the field until today except for a few practice flights, and bad been almost forgot ten. Indeed, after he started about 4.30 P. M keeping close to the ground, while Latham and others were soaring spectacular fashion high in the air, Farman attracted no at tention until he had flown 0 kilometres. GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS Wireless Man, Calling For Help, Sinks With Ship. HIS LAST MESSAGE UNFINISHED. Five Lost When The Alaska Steam ship Company's Steamer Ohio Hits The .Rocks .Ami .Founders 128 Passengers Fseape In The Iloats Vessel (iocs Down In Three Min nies The Survivors Picked Up !ly Steamers. Seattle, Wash. (Special). Five lives were lost In the sinking of the Alaska Steamship Company steamer Ohio off Steep Point, Alaska. There were 128 passengers on hoard, but all these escaped, the victims being employes. The loss of the steamer and the cargo Is total. The drowned are Purser F. J. Stephen, of Seattle; Wireless Opera tor George E, Kccles, of Winnipeg: two seamen and the quartermaster, names not given. Stephens and Kech-s went down saWng the lives of pas-iengers instead of looking to their own safety. A wirelesB dispatch says the Ohio sank In three minutes. This probu bly means that she wbr on the reef a considerable time and that the pas sengers were all off before the ship slid into deep water, which she did so speedily as to carry down five of the crew. Some of tho passengers were tak en ashore in lifeboats and taken by the fishing boat Kingfisher to Swan son Bay. Others were taken on the Humboldt and Rupert City. The Humboldt's rescued passengers will be landed at Ketchikan, while the Rupert City Is taking her passengers to Vancouver It Is 320 miles from Seattle to Steep Point. The rocks where the Ohio sank Bhelve off rapidly into nn usuallv deep water. The Ohio was insured for $220,000. Capt. John Johnson, her navigator, was regard ed as one of the mo?t skillful on the Pacific Coast. Favor Sufi rage For Women. Pittsburg (Special). Adopting a platform, one clause of which favors woman's suffrage, the Prohibition State convention adjourned here with the nomination of the following can didates: Dr. Frank Fish, of Clays vllle. State treasurer; C. W. R. Smith, Delaware County, auditor general; Harcld B. Robinson, Uniontown, jus tice of the Supreme Court. Storm Kills Three. Chicago (Special). Three men were killed by lightning, many were injured and property worth thou sands of dollars was destroyed when the electrical storm swept over Chi cago and environs at 1 P. M. Those killed were workmen employed In a cucumber field west of Evansion. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH FOUR PEOPLE CRDSHED IH A HAD PANIC Factory Employes Pack the Staircases. Three Hundred Men, Women Anil Girls Fight To Kscnpe From A Burning Jtnilding At Waverly, la. Irf-np From Upper Stories, Strik ing Tho Prostrate Forms Of Fellow-Work men. Waverly, Ta. (Special). In a panic of 300 emplyes of the Kelly Canning Factory to escape from the second floor of the canning department, where a gasoline tank had exploded and thrown fire over the room, George McRoberls was killed, three persons wero probably fatally Injur ed and a score of others were severe ly hurt. The building was destroyed by the fire that followed the explo sion, causing $100,000 damage. While the canners wero busily en gaged in preserving sweet corn In the second floor of the factory a gaso line tank used for the soldering of cans burst with a frightful detona tion, hurling clots of flaming fluid over the large room. Most of the employes are women, young men and girls. All were excited by the show er of flames, and with cries of fear ran for the stairs and the windows. Many leaped to the ground in pell mrll disorder falling on each other Scores tried to descend the stairways with leaps and bounds, only to be come hopelessly entangled In the nar row ways. Those employes working on the first floor went quickly to the rescue, dragging the entangled persons from the Jammed staircases and fighting off the flames until the Injured could be carried to safety. When all had been taken from the building it was found that Mrs. Wal ter Davis, Irene Lockley and George Miller had been so severely Injured that they will probably dJe. The material loss Included 3,000, 000 cans of corn, not insured. EXCURSION STEAMER COLOMBIA IS SUNK Between 150 and 200 Persons Are Drowsed. .Nearly All Of The Crew Saved, While The Majority Of The Pas sengers Who Survived Are Men Passengers Were Asleep When The Crash Came And A Panic Kn Micd High Seas Made The Work Of Rescue Diflicult Bringing The Bodies Ashore. Bubonic Plngue In Hawaii. Honolulu (Special). Three euses of bubonic plague and one death from Ihe disease were reported from the Island of Hawaii. So far no rases or plague have been discovered on this iHland (Cahu). Finds 40-Gralii Pearl. Mount Vernon, III. (Special). George Rultledge round a pearl In the Wabash River" weighing forty six grains, and which he sold for $2, &00. The jewel is the largest ever taken from the stream. : France Want An Krteitslou. Paris (Special). The French gov ernment, in response to ' requests made by French merchants, baa op ened negotiation with Washington for an extension of the commercial arrangement with the United States until the month of August, or at least until February of 110. Killed By Unknown Men. Glasgow, Ky. (Special). Buford Profltt, a fanner, waa shot and killed by two unknown men at Lambs, Ky. The men escaped. The charges made by Congressman Bennett, of New York, of extrava gance In the purchase of paint sup plies for the Panama Canal were met by denials. A message of congratulation from President Taft was received at the Navy Department on the winning of the national trophy by the navy team. American-brewed beverages and liquors are practically without rivals In the market of Monterey, Mex. Henry Lane Wilson will be ap pointed to succeed David E. Thomp son as ambassador to Mexico. Smith American countries have recognized the wireless as useful in the conduct of government. The cigarette Is growing rapid'y In popularity In India. Ambassador Thompson is said to have engineered a deal by which the Pan-American Railroad of Mexico passes to the control of St. Louis mil lionaires. John R. Carter telegraphed the State Department that Great Britain will be represented at the Hudson Fulton celebration. The President commuted the sen tences of several men convicted in Pensacola of conspiracy to commit peonage. The State Department received In formation of the capture of Bulia mara, the Moroccan pretender. President Taft took cognizance of the charges made against P. 8. Glavls. chief of the Field Division of the General Iand Office. Senor Francisco de la Hurra, the Mexican ambassador, has made final arraugemcnts to sail for Kurope on September 4. A. K. Fisher, of tbe Department of Agriculture, said the house cats kill thousands of birds and few raU and mice. Acting Secretary of the Interior Pierce designated 60,4 50 acres more land as coming within the homestead act in Montana. The Indians are displaying a will ingness to work and to cooperate with their white brothers for local improvement. The consular agents were ordered to make collection or commercial laws or the Central South American republics. Instructions in first aid to injured will be given by the National Red Cross to employes of large corpora-1 ttna I No Amt-rlcan citizen suffered death as the result' of the collision at the entrance of .Montevideo harbor. Dr. I. F. Tlttman will represent the United States at tho meeting of the Geodetic Association at London. President Taft made it clear that census work and politics are not lo be mixed. Acting Secretary Norton said tho Western banks are overflowing with money. The seven canal commissioners may be legislated out of office this fall. Tbe Interior Department will not permit tbe Standard Oil Company to reduce tbe price paid (or crude pe troleum in Oklahoma. Secretary Morrison will ask an In vestigation or the conditions at the. Pressed Bteel Car Works at McKeea Rocks, Pa. ' Actlug Secretary Pleree ordered an investigation ot the conditions at tba Haskell Indian Institute. , Returning prosperity has made dif ficult tbe eollatlng of nren for tbe United titates Army. Montevideo (Special). In a driv ing rainstorm about 6 o'clock A. M., the Argentine excursion steamer Col ombia and the North German Lloyd steamer Schleslen collided at the en trance of Montevideo harbor. The Colombia was entering port and the Schleslen was outward bound ror Bremen. The Colombia's bow was crushed in and she sank almost im mediately. Between 150 and 200 persons were killed or drowned. The Colombia carried about 200 passengers and a crew of 4S men. Most of the passengers were asleep and panic followed the crash. Al most immediately small boats put out to the sinking steamer, but the work o( rescue was rendered very difficult by the high sea. About TO persons were brought ashore. Most of the dead are women and children. A majority of the survivors are men. The Colombia was. carrying excur sionists from Buenos Ayres to a fes tival at Montevideo and the disaster has caused the keenest emotion. The Uruguayan government, In conse quence, has postponed tho fetes ar ranged for the celebration of the In auguration of the port. The Schles len, which is only slightly damaged, has been detained here by the port authorities. Her commander attri butes the collision to the wind and the high seas which made both steamers almost unmanageable. Scores of bridles have been recov ered and are now lying at the cus tom house, but many of them have not been identified. The Colombia was an old steamer of 1.200 tons engaged in the regular passenger service between this port and Buenos Ayres. OIL KING TO GIVF. !M OO.OOO. Promises To Complete Fund For Academy In Rome. New York (Special). John D. Rockefeller has promised $100,000 to the $1,000,000 fund now being raised for the American Academy at Rome. His contribution will be made when other subscriptions have reach ed $DOO,000 and will be given in tbe name of the University of Chicago. About $150,000 Is needed to meet this requirement. Present contributors include .T. Pierpont Morgan, James . Stlllman, W. K. Vanderbllt. Henry C. Krlcl; and Harvard University through Hen ry L. Higglnson. YoulHcy Sued For Divorce. Ixington, Ky. (Special). Mrs. Mary Youtrey, wife of the only man who is now serving sentence for com plicity in the murder of Governor William Goebel In 1899. has entered suit for divorce. The papers were filed at Winchester, Ky. Mosquito Pest Of Deer. Duluth, Minn. (Special). The wet weather In this section has-pro-duced such a bumper crop of mos quitoes In sparsely settled localities that cattle and horses ar driven frantic by Ihe pests. Lightning Kills Two In Church. Lucca, Italy (Special). The vil lage church at Gello, a neighboring hamlet, was struck by lightning. The roof cf the building collapsed, kill ing two of the worshipers within and injuring fifteen others. Moor ltenew Attack. Melllla (Special). A Spanish con voy was attacked by the Moon at a point near Bldlmusa. After severe fighting. In which seven Spaniards were wounded, the convoy was ex tricated from its position. The Moors are receiving reinforcements in larg numbers. Restores Liberty Of press. Bogota (Special). Tbe first bill passed by the new Congress baa re stored tbe liberty of the press, which waa restricted during tbe regime of President Reyes. EOWARD H. HARRIMAN BACK SEEKING HEALTH Great Financier Little Benefited By Ms Trp Abroad. Remarkable Home Coming Of The Builder Of Railroads Kren Wall Street Marks Time As His Ship Draws Near F.nfccblcd By The Treatment Abroad, He Goes To His Now Summer Home For The "After Cure" His Indomitable Will Shows In Every Act. New York (Special). Edward II. Harrlman, genius of finance, leader of men nnd master builder of rail roads, came back to the United States Tuesday while the financial world stood on its tip-toes in anxiety and expectancy. He came hack as he left on .lum: 1. last a sick, tired man seeking health. Surrounded by his family and physicians at his magnificent, though uncompleted, summer home at Arden-on-the-lliulson, he has be gun the "after cure," which he needs after the enervating baths and dietet ic treatment he underwent at the Austrian resort, Bad Gasteln. How long he will remain in seclusion, how long It will be before he resumes his active direction of his vast railroad Interests, depends solely upon his health. He arrived feeble, face gaunt and voice weak, "And I have come home," he said, "for a cure and not for work." Many great Americans have re turned to their country's shores un der extraordinary circumstances, but never has there been a more remark able homecoming of a private citizen than E. II. Hsrriman's. Great stock market operators paused as his ship drew near, the stock market itself marked time nnd the Industrial world turned Its eyes seaward, as it were, eager for a glimpse of the face of the man whose illness abroad has furnished much material for stock market rumors. filRL A HUMAN PINCUSHION. And Doesn't Know Where The Pins Come From. ' Paterson. N. J. (Special). Miss Adellna WyckolT, 18 years old, em ployed as a winder in a silk mill, has been found to be a human pln cushion. Within three daya 16 pins have been taken from her right arm and she cannot tell how they got there. Miss Wyckofl first complained about a year ago of a 'pain in her arm. Her mother found a slight abrasion, but thought nothing ot It. Later she concluded the girl was suf fering from rheumatism, and applied borne remedies, but the pain continu ed. Finally Dr. Flood waa called to examine the arm and be extracted a headless pin. curved like a fishhook. A few days ago, while tbe young woman sat in her home, she suffer ed intense pain in her arm. She found a pin protruding, and with the aid of scissors she removed It.. More pins made their appearance on the surface of the arm. Dr. Flood was ugaln called and before he had finished operating, 16 pins were extracted. All were shaped like the first one and blackened. Dr. Flood and the family of tho girl are puzzled, and are of the be lief that Miss Wyckoff must have swallowed a quantity of pins when she was young. THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. Judge Orders Newspapers Not To Print The News. Youngstown. O. (Special). For the first time In the history of Ma honing County, newspaper publishers were ordered by a court to refrain from publishing stories regarding the actions of a grand jury. Judge Robinson issued a special de cree shortly after the grand Jury, which hns the graft investigation in hand, convened, saying that no news should be printed about the Invest! gallons unless Indictments were re turned. The grand jury is composed of farmers and business men. The De Sagans Robbed. Paris (Special). A local newspu perpubllshes a statement to the effect that Princess Helle de Sagan was robbed of $5,000 during her recent stay at 1! helms, and her husband, the prince, was at the same time re lieved of $10,000. The robbers have not been arrested The Prince and Princess de Sagan went to Rheinis to witness the aeroplane flights. From Hoopskirt To Airship. Washington. D. C. (Special). From hoopskirt, with bustle attach ment, to airship runs the story of (lie Inventive genius of Capt. J. F. Chase, Union Army veteran, now here from his home, in Veteran City, Fla He has just secured a patent on his airship and It makes the forty-seventh that the patent office has dealt out to him. 1.1 Killed In Mine. Mexico City (Special). A special dispatch from Mateahaula says that 15 miners were killed and 30 impris oned by tbe dropping Ct a cage Into tbe La Paz mine there. The cable parted through failure of the brakes and the men dropped 1,500 feet. The cage was sent to the rafters of the shaTthouse and the strain snapped the cable, IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE The Baltimore and Ohio's gross earning last mouth increased $801, 315 and net earnings Increased $3fij 838. The street regarded the gal'u In net profits rs a rather poor show ing. When asked If J. P. Morgan & Co. were still trying to have United States Steel listed in Paris a member ot tnat nrm ropneo: . -we will not affirm the report. We do not rare to state whether or no such an effort la being made." A Chicago banker says the Read ing has $100,000,000 of qulok as set which it can distribute at any time. Reading officials have laugh ed at this statement. The "Iron Ago" makes this an nouncement: "Tbe event of the week ta tho opening by the United States Steel Corporation ot lu books for 19 10 delivery on atoel rails and the acceptance of order from a few Western road aggregating 100,000 tons. To the steel Industry' at large this points to very favorable condi tion for tbe coming year." SECOND AUTOPSY OH JAMES N. SUTTON'S May Exhume Body to Clear Lieuten ant's Name. DR. LA GARDE NOT INTERESTED. The Noted Authority On .i, 8hot Wound-. Refuses To Be hmtwr, Into The FIK,t Waged ny Victim's Mother Report Kv, Cardinal (ilbhons Hns Sanction The .Hurliil Of Sutton's Iknly ? (Vawerrateri Ground. Washington. D. C. (Special). Mrs. Rose Sutton, the imther 0; Lieut. James N. Sutton, Jr.. was killed at Annapolis by a pjstnl snot which a court of inquiry found au m-t-u iin-u uy nimspii, nas applUd to the War Department for permission to exhume the body. It Is umlerstoo.1 that she Intends to lime a soron,i autopsy made In the hope of ptin. Ing by Indisputable in edict; evident that Lieutenant Sutton could not have shot himself. There will be am.jle time for th Sutton family to obtain the new. sary sanction from the proptr ources, ror Lieutenant llnniphrcv ui me wuariermasier nensnmpnt having Jurisdiction over Arlington, said that the permission to exhume tne uony would not he granted '. once, it is neneved that the delay in uue 10 jeuienam iium,)nrey i un willingness to act on the request 0f Mrs. Sutton in the alisenee of hli superior officers. Quartermaitfr General Aleshire Is away with bi family at West Point, but is ex pected to return to Washington soon. Both Secretary Hiekinson and Assistant Secretary Oliver are ab sent. It Is naturally desirable therefore, that the department win act with caution. There, is ever? probability that the Sutton case will get into the federal courts, and there Is also the prospect of a congres sional investigation. Moreover the Navy Department has practically d. clared the Sutton case a closed ep!- euue, so mat ine omeiais now on duty in the War Department prefer to await the return of respnnslbl" authorities. A report that an nutopsv would b made by Colonel LaOnrde, of th' Medical Department of the Aran, was denied by that oflleer. As i matter of fact, while Cntnnel Li- Garde was approached hv Mrs. Su'- ton and her counsel, Mr. Davia, to assist, in unraveling the mystery of Lieutenant Sutton s death, it w wholly imposslblo for him to set. Mrs. Sutton was most anxious for Colonel LnGarde's opinion as to the probability of her son having th himself, cither deliberately or ai- cldentally, for Colonel LaOarde li recognized as the foremost a'tthorltv In this country on gunshot wound!. ROOSKVELT KILLS AXOTHKH Rig Itnll Kleplinnt Falls This Time Before His Gun. Nairobi, B. E3. A. (Special). Col Theodore Roosevelt, who is no hunting in Kenya, one of Hip seven administrative provinces of the Brit ish East African protectorate, klllel a good bull elephant on Saturday. The. animal's skin is being taken care of by Edmund Heller, the w ologlst of the Roosevelt expedition, and E. J. Cuninghamc. tho British naturalist. Colonel Roosevelt li hunting without any companion to ward Mwcrn. Kermit Roosevelt and Leslie A- Tartlton, of Nairobi, arc hunllif along the Owaso Nyiro, the princtpa. stream in Kenya. Cigare4tei Costs Ten Lives. Key West, Fla. (Special). Ai i result of the explosion at noon ' 700 pounds of dynamite at Bnci- chlca, 12 miles from Key WeBt, or the Florida East Coast Railway, 1" men are dead and five probably tt- tally burned. Tho explosion wasM"' ed by a member of the railroad cor struction force carelessly thrown a lighted cigarette into a box r I uses. Carnegie (jives Another :;n,W0. Bloomington, III. (Special). Pre" ident Theodore Kemp, of lllinola Wet levari University, receive! notice thl Andrew Carnegie had given 130 000 to the univerelty for a new M enro building, Weslcyan nnvirg ro od an endowment fund of f o'J.ouv To Keen Out Illegal Goods. Montgomery, Ala. (Special). It' Senate passed the bili to prent fractions by foreign corporation State laws by shipping in goo which cannot bo legally sold bama, and making revocation M charter the penalty for violation! Police Frightens Hoy To Death the threat of a policeman1 fo "vi Mb inni" for nlavlns in a nark fn loir, hora Rnherfa Kims. 1 vet I year-old boy, ran terror atrlcketj I his home nenrbv nnd droppta"i a bis mother's feet. (unnesH victim ,- n Waukesha. Wis. (Special)." X. RelJinger. who was suppowj have been a victim of Mrs- nnnnB at T.n Porta. Ind.. '3 " and well on a farm near Freepor- Neb., according to a letter reef from blm. . 1,000,000 Children To C'elebraf New York (Special) . Elabo plans for the participation of 11 nearly 1,000,000 children of Cr!' New York in the Kudson-Fulton cbrntlon through memorial crflr parades and carnivals hue mapped out by tho children's fe committee, which finds anipH denco tkat they aro looking f-" with eager anticipation toihelrl 1 it. Saturday, October A lis f designated as the day fot tho"' dren's parades and play tjiralv" Fire Threatens ll! 1" Yoeemlte. Cat. (Speclui).- " est fire at the entrance to b 1foei ite Valley threaten desretl tho big tree grove, kncfirs w Merced Group, one or ; ihe L famous collection ot 8.k!'oI; pjl flaraos menaced tho hot p at fci tal. a $100,000 framl, tr" which I nl'.od with sum ner Sparks from a freight og!a " tbe Are. ?, There were six deal U fro cholera and l new :tUn '. W dam, . l
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