THE NEWS
Domestic
Tho Interstate Commerce commis
sion lias refused to mspoi.d tin;
operation of tin- new freight classi
fication, which Involves over G.uuu
Items.
Koynl K. Cabell, eomti'.lsa;i;n"r of
Internni Revenue, ordered a de'ail
Of eight additional special nger.ts to
hunt down moonshiners.
The naval hoard of Inquest de
cided that the two midshipmen who
were drowned in the Severn died In
tho line of duty.
The President has signed several
proclamations eliminating nearly
half a million aires of lands from
the natlonul forests
Railroads operating out of Ihiffalo
have heen permi'ted to advance rates
on flour.
Judge O'Snllivan. In l: -r-liar Jinr
the Rockefeller spertal grand Jury,
which lound that there Is tin or;i.n-,
ration engaged in while .-hiveiy i'J
New York, declared the metro;.
to he the gieati..' and ci" inest ci'j
In the ji lil.
Hishop William Mi.liekcr, of thft
Protestiin' Kplsi opal dlorese of Rhode
Inland, died at his summer home at
Beverly, Mass. :
The Cumberland Tele;Ciune Cotn
panv, of Mississippi, found guilty of
Violating the State anti-trust law,;
was fined $17",, mil).
Tbaddtus K. York, said to he want
ed for forgeries in nearly all the
large cities, .van capture 1 In Chicago.
I'nited States Senator Samuel
Douglas MelOnery died suddenly at
his home in Now Orleans.
Attorney John S'linehlield revulved
a fee nf $suO,nno for tho acquittal
Of K. Augustus llelne.
Dr. Henry. II. A Heach. for many
years a l.-ad'tng sur-von, died in Hus
ton. I'e'er K 1 i 1 1 1 y , of Hammond, III.,
was drowned hy an auto plunging
Into a ciek
The Chicago jury tryititr Legislator
Lee O'Ncil Browne, charged with
bribery in connection with the elec
tion of William l.orimer to tin!
United States Senate, disagreed aft
er deliberating 11 " hours and wore
discharged.
A a'er spaniel paved nine mem
bers of tin' tarilly of Mrs. Caroline
Rolph, of New York, from death hy
fire.
V K. Powell, of Scotland Neck,1
N. C, was sentenced to 30 years In
prison for the murder of Chief of
Police Dunn.
Colonel Roosevelt and Senator LaJ
Follette, of Wisconsin, conferred foij
over two hours afer which Senatoi
LaFollette said thev had talked poli
tics, and then added: "Colonel
Roosevelt is the greatest living
American and in fighting trim."
Louis Levlne, head of the so-call-.
ed Arsenic Club, which exacted black
mail by poisoning horses, was sen
tences in ll'.-ooklyn to not more than
15 years and not less than seven
years in the state nrls in. :
Reports that an opeiation Is to
he performed on the throat of Theo
dore Roosevelt are denied by the
secretary of Dr. Walter K. Chappell,
who was said to have made an en
gagement to attend the Colonel.
The senior class of the College of
the City of New York presetted to
Slayer (,nnir an "Kphehle." oath,
swearing neer to bring disgrace up
on the city.
Due of President Tal't's autos,
driven by h! son, Robert A. Ta!t,
Htrck nn Italii'ii strict laborer, frac
turing hi.- "kill!, in the streets of.
Beverly. Mas-:
One of tt.e I.yuri ( MusO handits
was arraigiie I and he!d for the grand
Jury. The -econd one is still in the'
hostiital. with lit 1.. hope of recovery.
The Inti rs'ate Commerce Commis-i
slnn announced that, the federal law
re.'tula'Ing the hours of service of
train crevs was declared constitu
tional by .Mdge Morris, of Iowa, In
a test cme brought by t he Illinois
Central Railroad.
The appropriations made by the
session Congress just closed'
amounted to $ 1 ,i2 7. 1 ::::,! 1 1',, accord
ing to an official announcement made
by the House Appropriations Com
mliuo. The Stat- Department wants the
manufacturer In 'he I'nited States
to participate In 'he great Interna
tional Industrial cxp'.dtion to be held
at Turin, Italy.
A BIG RAILROAD
STRIKE IS FEARED
The Siluiition on the Southern
IJoiids Serious
Foreign
Kmj.eror William hai accepted the
resignation of llaon von Kheinbabcn.
the Prussian minister of s'ate anil
finance, and Wilnelm von Schoen,
secretary for foreign affairs, liaiou
von Noehte was appointed secretary
of st-ite for foreign affairs, von
Hehoen being appointed amhas.-ador
to France
Trial of the suit Institute,) ,y
Rudo'phe Fraucke Hgainst Comtnan
der Peary, ( onc-rning the disposition
of Arctic 'rophies was begun in a
Ilerlln court. I'rancke was ass eiat
ed with Dr. Cook la polar e.,, Ora
tions. Prime Mlnls'er Anq'il'h Introduced
In the House of Commons tiie bill a'
terlng the form of the religious dw
laration required of the kin-.? epiu
his coninatl'in The bill passed Its.
first reading hy a vote of lis.! to i.
Twenty persons were injured by a
bomb explosion in a thea'er in
liuenos Ay rex The bomb was hurled
from the gallery Into the pit and
many persons were blown out of their
eats.
Ibrahim Nar.'lani. the a srisiln of
Haittros Pas'ia (ihall, the Kzyptlnn
premier and minister of foreign af
fairs was hanged at Cairo.
Iilcting occured at llllbao. Spain,
as a result of the strained relations
letwien" tho government and the
Vatlrtn.
MEOiATQRS ARE WORKING OVERTIME.
An AIl-Dny Conlerem c Of The I'lesl.
I dents Of lit Companies With
! Kniipp And Veill III lugs No lie
mi It t lb.' OMIdals linn And The
Employe Determined To Have
Higher Wages The Situation
i Very Acute;
j Washington, I). C. (Special).
; Within a lew days It will probably
be known whether the entire South
! eastern section of the country east
of t!ie Mississippi will be Involved
In a serious railroad strike. The
presidents of 111 railroad lines were
hastily called into consultation with
chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and Commis
sioner of Labor Nelll, and stayed in
session all day. The situation is
: admitted on nil sides to be acute.
, The situation (trows out of a con
troversy between tho Southern Rail
way, the Seaboard Air Line and the
: Atlantic Coast Line and their aflillat
! ed lines, including the Queen And
I Crescent Road, and their conductors
I and brakemen. The latter have de
, manded a material advance in wages
j approximating 20 per cent. They
have already taken a vote to strike
1 unless their demands are complied
i wlih. '
i About two weeks ago the general
; manager of tho roads and tho repre
sentatives of the conductors and
! brakemen agreed to submit their dif
ferences to Chairman Krinpp and
Commissioner of Labor Nelll, the
I mediators under the Krdmnn Act,
the terms of which act provided for
I the settlement of disputes between
; common carriers ami their employes.
; Hearings have been given to the rep
resentative of the men, some L'OO in
number, and the 10 general mana
gers. Harvey Marker, general mana
ger of the Queen and Crescent, being
the chairman of tho managers' com
mittee. Practically no headway was made,
the railroad managers asserting that
their earnings would not nllow of
the Increase demanded. The men
, were obdurate, and it appeared that
a break would occur, and the rep
' resentatlves of the conductors and
! brakemen would send telegrams or
; dering the men to walk out.
At this Juncture It was decided to
call In the presidents of the roads.
and this was done. President Fin
ley of the Southern Railway: Presi
dent Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast
Line, and President Meldrum, of the
Seaboard Air Line the chief lines
1 and the presidents of the other lines
I were In conference with the Medla
i Hon Board all day, and it appears
I that little progress was made, and
1 that unless one Bide or the other
makes concessions the entire south
i eastern section of the country will be
I Involved In a serious Btrlke.
j The men have urged that, lnas
I much as the conductors and other
trainmen on Northern and Kastern
. linos have received Increases, it Is
i only right they should receive the
same treatment, in view of the In-
creased cost of llvng.
While neither side will discus-?
the situation, it Is known that,
though the mediators admit that It
Is serious, they have not yet given
up hope of bringing the two sides
together and avoiding a strike.
A mi max iioori:i.
. I niveislty Of Michigan filves Hon
orary Degree To Ir. Itabcock.
Ann Arbor, Mich. (Special). Dr.
Robert Hall Rabcock, of Chicago,
who, though blind frdrn bis twelfth
! year, has risen to a position of emi
nence as a heart and lung speclalitt,
! wa i given the honorary degree of
' doctor o' laws at tin annual com
i menci nient exercises of the I'nlverst
1 ty of Michigan. Dr. Pabcock was
ig-rduited from the University of
, Mlchli an In the class of 1ST".
; Others receiving the honorary de
' gree of doctor of laws were Justice
j Aaron V. McAlvay, of the Michigan
Supremo Court: Circuit. Judge George
Hosmer, of Detroit, and Brigadier
General James Harvey Kldd, of
Ponla. Mich . a Civil War veteran
and Journalist,
i
I T.UT fJOKS TO IlKVKItLY.
DEFIES MILITIA UNTIL
. HIS MEJS RIDDLED
Desperado Kills Three , and
Wounds Three of Posse.
W. II. Host wick, Wanted For The
Murder Of His Itrotlier, Single,
blinded Drives Off Posse, Killing
Chief Of I'ollce And Two Sheriffs,
Of Invln County, tin. Troops Are
failed Out Kept Six Children In
House To Stay Itullets Militia
Fires Volley After Volley Into
Home Head With Hoots On.
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
TIIE DEAD:
J. P. Mclnnes, sheriff, Irwin
County, C.a.
Steve Davis, chief of police, of
Ocllla. Ga.
Deputy Sheriff Sheffield, Irwin
County, Ga.
I W. II. Bostwiek, victim of
I shots fired Into his home.
THE INJURED:
James Gill, seriously wounded.
Deputy Sheriff T, C. Pass, arm
broken and shot In abdomen.
Deputy Sheriff Wyatt Tucker,
Injuries slight.
Irwin vllle, Ga. (Special). Fanatl
cally defiant, even while tho shad
ows of death closed around him and
volley after volley from the new
Springfield riles of two State militia
companies made a sieve of the walls
of his humble home, W. H. Bostwiek,
the white desperado who observed
his last Sabbath day by the murder
of two officers of the law and the
serious wounding of three others,
paid the penalty of death shortly
after a o'clock A. M.
He succumbed to many wounds re
ceived from the volleys fired Into the
building early In the night by a mob
of Infuriated citizens or from those
of the military which began an at
tack after 4.30 o'clock A. M. Almost
at the same moment Sheriff J. P.
Mclnnes, of Irwin County, who was
wounded while making a desperate
attempt to remove a wounded fellow
ofllcer from the range of Bostwick's
deadly fire, expired. James Gill, an
other officer, was added to the list
of wounded during the early morn
ing fusillade, but it Is believed he
will recover.
Surrounded by his six little chil
dren, whom he held prisoners almost
to the end of the siege, Bostwiek,
whp had declared Intention or dy
ing rather than submit to arrest on
the charge of attempting to. murder
his brother-in-law, fought the bat
tle to the last ditch. Knowing that
death was near, the desperate man
finally allowed the children to Jeave
the house, but they would not reveal
one Incident of the fight to the mili
ary officers.
SKTS HIMSK.LF OX FIHK.
President In Fine Trim, Heady To
Knjoy IIIh Vacation.
Washington. D. C. (Special). Pres
ident Taft left Washington over the
; Pennsylvania Railroad for Beverly,
Masn., where ho will spend his sum-
1 tner vacation. In his private car
were his secretary, Charles D Nor-
; ton. and his military aid, Captain
Arr'.i.b-ihl W. Butt. In another car
i were the corps of under-secretarles
j a mi stenographers. Ho will not he
back in the White House for at least
! three mon'lis
.The President's last dav In Wash
ington was a busy one. Callers pour
ed In clear up to the time of leav
ing HowlliiK Green, Ky Goes Wet.
Howling Green. Ky. (Special) In
a hotly contested election the city of
Bowiing Green gave a majority of
fi7 in favor of a return to license
pale of Honors. Three years ago the
It y went "dry" by 21!8 votes.
Frank Walters Coiiiinils Suicide In
Horrible Way At Fastou, I'a,
Kaston, Pu. (Special). Frank
Walters, 45 years old, ono of the
best-known hotel proprietors In this
section, ignited ills clothing while
many persona watched him and
walked to the mlddlo of the street
enveloped In flames.
As the fire reached the ton of tho
man'B bead ho fell, and before any
thing could be done to help him be
was burned so severely that death
followed.
The fierceness of tho flames In
dicated that before Betting fire to
his garments he had saturated them
with oil. Waiters bad been showing
signs of derangement.
Damage Hy Cloudburst.
Huntington. W. Va. (Special).
Great damage has been wrought
throughout the Cqa! River and the
.Mud River Valleys by heavy rains,
followed by a cloudburst. The riv
ers are at the highest stages ever
Known. i ne damage to crops ana
property will probably be $300,000.
Railroad traffic hna hnon Sllanonrlnrl
owing to many washouts and land-
snues.
"Killed His Girl."
New York (Special). Because
Jennie Mlnkoff, not quite 18, re
jected his attentions, Morris Nathan
son, a young grocer's clerk, lay In
wait in the hallway of her homo and
shot her through the heart. She
fell dead at his feet. NathanBon then
walked to a police station and re
marked that he had "killed his girl."
He was locked up.
Old Indian Fl-'tiler Dead.
Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Dan
iel Webster Field, who founded Glen
coe. Minn., and who has lived In Los
Angeles since It was a village, died
aged 7 7 years. Before tho Civil War
Mr. Field was an Indian fighter In
Minntiesnta. During the Civil War
he served with a Connecticut regK
nient.
Three Dead In Hotel Fire.
Seneca Falls, N. Y. (Special).
Three persons lost their lives and
another had a narrow escape from
serious Injury in a fire that destroy-
ea xne new reuuen jiuuhq nere. A
building adjoining the hotel was
also burned and the loss Is estimated
at $40,000.
UNITED STATES SENATOR
JOHN W. DANIEL DEAD
A THRILLING VOYAGE
IN ZEPPELIN'S FLYER
.
Pennsylvania
Haron Fternburg was arrested In
St. Petersburg on the charge of de
livering secret documents to c for
eign state.
Emperor Wi!liam Inspected the
tcamshlp Malm, which will carry
to ErltJtlergrn Inlands Count Zcppe
In'a preliminary North Polar expedi
tion. Conflicting reports of the result of
the recent fighting In Nicaragua
eome from the American consuls at
Blueflelrfi and Manague.
T.le Rusrflin Council of the Em
pire has ad' the Finnish bill.
A ppfiilon has been prtentd to
('neral Estrada, R ider of the o
ltlofi to the Madrli far Ion In
Mrnrnsra, proving fir the Interven
tion of the I'nited State.
Aleh Chr'at, an operatic conduct
or, ilot and killed Anna Sutter, a
court singer, In Berlin and killed
Mrrteif
T Chlrco nvernrent re 'used
ti p-Me to the demand of the dele
gats to the provincial M:nb!lei for
the itnir r-litita convention of a na
tion! parliament.
Tbe Due d'Alencon, grandson of
King Lou Philippe, died In London.
Opium Smuggler Confesses,
Savannah, Ga. (Special). W. H.
Rowe, special agent of the United
States Treasury Department, In
charge of the Savannah district, re
turned from Atlanta, where he as
tliited In placing under arrest Charlea
C. Chisholrn. for smuggling opium
Into the I'nited States from Mexico.
"I have a confession from ChUholm."
aid, Mr. Roue, "which Is sufficient
to convict firms or Individuals In
New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia."
Honoring Young ltounevelia.
rianta Barbara, Cal. (SpeclalL
Santa Barbara and M,onteclto society
paid homage to Mr. and Mra. Theo
dore Roosevelt, Jr., when tbe visitors
were made the guesta of honor at a
(Inner dance given by Mrs Frank
Duff Fraticr at tho I'otter Country
Club. This la tho first series of to
(I'M events planned for the itoose
v"a durlnr their month's stay here.
Otherwise the bridal pair are spend
ing a quiet honeymoon, ea bathing,
boning, and riding being tbelr prin
cipal recreations.
13,000,000 Leuther Merger.
Montreal, Que. (Special). An
other merger, this time In leather,
will be the Canada Leather Com
pany, Limited, with an authorized
capital of $15,000,000 of stock and
$a, 000, 000 bonds. Companies prob
ably are to be Included In the mer
ger representing 75 per cent, of tbe
total output of leather used In the
Canadian boot and shoe, trunk and
bag trades.
Abraham Lincoln's fortune was
$75,000.
Duel With Knives.
Tampa. Fla. (Special). Armed
with knives and keeping their word
to meet at sunrise in tbe woods near
Macfarland Park. In West Tampa,
Mario Adalo and another Cuban,
whose Identity has not yet been es
tablished, fought until both fell from
lota of blood. Adalo died within a
tew minutes. The unknown es
caped. Adalo came from Cuba. H
wa a labor organizer.
Wagon wheel spokes may be made
to fit tight by splitting the tennon
with a chisel and driving wedge into
tbe split.
Third Stroke of Paralysis Proves
Fatal.
FAVORITE SON OF COMMONWEALTH.
His Wife, Son And Daughter With
Him When The Fnd Came He
Had neen III Pracllcnlly All Win
ter, And Wna In The Keniite Only
To Or Three Days During: The
Last Session One Of The Most
Conspicuous Men In The Old Do
minion And Known All Through
The South.
I FACTS IN HIS CAREER.
I Born at Lynchburg, Va., Sep
I tefnber !, 1842.
I Served In the Confederate
I Army of Northern Virginia
I throughout the Civil War, and
I was wounded four times.
I Became adjutant-general on
I General Karly's staff.
I Studied law at the University of
Virginia In 1865-K6, and was ad-
I raitted to tho bar In the latter
I year.
Served In the Virginia House
I of Delegates In 1869-72.
Member of the State Senate In
1875-81.
Presidential elector In 1876.
Defeated for Governor of Vir
ginia in 1881.
Member of Congress, 1885-87.
I'nited States Senator since
i 1887.
Lynchburg. Va. (Special). United
States Senator John Warwick Daniel
died at 10.35 P. M. at a sanitarium
in Lynchburg, where he had been
rdiire his return from Dayton. With
him when the end came were his
wife and his son, Edward M. Daniel,
and his daughter, Mrs. Frederick
Harper, whose husband, also here,
was Senator Daniel's law partner.
Senator Daniel had been 111 prac
tlclly all winter, and had been In the
Senate only two or three days dur
ing the past session, that being short
ly after Congress convened.
Death was due to paralysis, the
last stroke being the third, the first
being last fall while he was In Phila
delphia, and the second at Dayton,
Fla., during the winter.
BALD EAGLF. ATTACKS CHILD.
Tries To Ciiify Off Two-Y'eur-Old
Hoy, Hut Is Foiled.
Chester, Pa. (Special). A bald
eagle of enormous size attempted to
carry off Paul, the 2-year-old son of
William L. Zebly. of Bethel. Paul
was playing In the rear of his home,
when Mrs. Zebley heard her child
ecream, and was horrified to see
the eagle tugging at the lltle fellow's
dress. The boy, however, was too
heavy for the bird, which only suc
ceeded In lifting him about two feet
from the earth. Securing a stout
club, Mrs. Zehley attempted to strike
the bird. The eagle dodged tho
blows, and after making several
lunges at the woman It Hew away.
Mr. Zehley. who had arrived with
his shotgun, fired at tha bird, but
the shot went wild.
DIt. HYDF. IlKXIKII XF.W TRIAL.
Physician May Appeal To The Su
preme Court.
Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Dr.
B. C. Hyde, convicted on May 16
last of poisoning Col. Thomas II.
Swope, the millionaire philanthro
pist, was denied a new trial by Judge
Ralph S. Latshaw in tho Criminal
Court here.
The prisoner' attorney Immedi
ately filed a motion for arrest of
Judgment and the Judge set Tues
day as the time for arguments. When
this motion is disposed of next week
the matter of appeal to the Supreme
Court, and a motion to release Dr.
Hyde on bond will be taken up.
The South Made Big Gains.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
That the census of 1910 will show
the Southern States, Including Mis
souri and Oklahoma, to have made
a gain In population of 21 per cent,
since 1900 Is the estimate of the
Southern Commercial Congress. The
congress estimates the population to
be 32,415,297. The gain of other
states of the Union during the same
period Is estimated by tho congress
to have been 1 8 4j per cent. The
five states of the South which have
made the greatest gain In population,
according to the estimate, are Okla
homa, Texas, Missouri, Georgia and
Alabama.
A Flouting Federal Court.
Valdec, Alaska. (Special). The
revenue cutter RubIi, with United
State District Judge Edward E.
Cushman's traveling court, arrived
from Juneau. Besldea United States
Marshal P. H. Sullivan and United
States District Attorney C. D. Mur
nane, the members of the grand and
petit Juries will board the cutter
here. The traveling court will be
gone until August 17, and will touch
at Isolated station to tlm westward
as far as Dutch Harbor. Twelve
cases are to be tried along the route.
The Liability Of Employers.
Washington. D. C. (Special). The
commission created by Congress to
investigate the whole question of em
ployers' liability and workmen' com
pensation will hold It first meeting
either here or In Chicago during
August or September. A prelimi
nary conference of arveral of tho
member waa held, and It wa an
nounced that Senator Warner, ths
chairman, would call a meeting
later. Taft has yet to name two
member from civil life. .
F.nrt liureuu Of Equipment.
Washington, D. C. (Special) The
President signed an order abolish
ing the Bureau of Equipment In the
Navy Department and distributing It
function among the other bureau
of tbe department. In accordance
with the recommendation of the
Swift board.
Machinists (let Increased I'uy,
St. Paul. Minn. (Special) The 1.
400 machinist eninloyed on the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railways succeeded In securing an
lncreaae In pay of two cent an hour.
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
I The United State Circuit Court of
Appeals of New York denied the peti
tion of the Wright Company asking
a modification of the .decision dis
solving the temporary Injunctions
obtained by the Wright Company
against Louis Paulhan, the French
aviator, and the Herring-Curtis
Company, of Hammondsport, N. Y.
The first commencement at Har
vard University under the direction
of President A. Lawrence Lowell
came to an end with the annual
meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Fra
ternity, which had Governor Charle
E. Hughes, of New York, as Its
orator.
One police lieutenant, 6 sergeants,
a detective and 15 patrolmen were
charged with pilfering from tbe Po
lice Relief Association Fund by the
board of police commissioners of St.
Iouls.
An explosion at the DuPont Pow
der Plant, at DuPont, Wash., killed
Thomas Blake, foreman, of Wau
kesha, Wis.; George Strouse, of St.
Paul, and Edward Smith, of New
Orleans.
The Congressional Bonding Com
mission In aprelitnlnary report Just
completed, will favor the bonding of
all government employes by the gov
ernment Itself.
Ex-Senator Curtis Guild, of Mas
sachusetts, was appointed special am
bassador to represent the United
States at the Mexican centennial cele
bration. President Taft Is expected to name
ex-President RooBevelt as chairman
of the Peace Commission.
Cadet C. V. Boykln, of the third
class at West Point, was dismissed
for lying.
The Swing government has Issued
a decree postponing the prohibition
on the Importation of California sulphur-dried
fruit until July 1, 1911.
according to official Information re
ceived at the State Department.
Out 2S0 candidates who took the
mental examination for admission to
the Naval Academy only 104 passed,
according to reports received at the
Navy Department from the examin
ing board.
Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., former as
sociate statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, pleaded guilty
to connection with the cotton leak
scandal and was fined $5,000 In
Criminal Court No. 1.
The sailors of the battleship
Louisiana raised $1,559.25 for the
widows and orphans of the men who
were lost by the foundering of the
Naval tug Mina.
The State Department wants China
to ratify the $30,000,000 Hankow
railroad loan and has sent Instruc
tions to Minister Calhoun.
William T. Thompson, of Nebras
ka, has been appointed solicitor of
the Treasury to succeed Maurice D.
O'Connell, resigned.
A House bill amending the Imml
gation laws to permit certain persons
to complete their naturalization
without being subjected to the delay
generally Incident to the naturaliza
tion process was passed by the Sen
ate. Senator Smith secured the ac
ceptance of an amendment to the
Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill car
rying an appropriation for an inves
tigation into the feasibility of drain
ing tho swamp lands In Maryland.
Tho Senate adopted the Joint reso
lution, which originated In the
House, authorizing the appointment
of a peace commission.
Draughts Do Not Cause Colds.
London (Special). Dr. Sir Fred
erick Treves astonished the public
this week by declaring that "The
Idea that colds are caused by
draughts is absurd; no cold ever
had such an origin. Colds are the
result, not of draughts, but of
stuffy rooms." Other famous Lon
don physicians back up Sir Fred
erick In holding that no cold was
ever caused by a draught.
ODDS AND ENDS.
The placing of fuses on the out
side of street cars lessens the danger
of fire and panic when they blow
out.
With a production of 14.493.936
gross tons, tbe output of open hearth
steel Ingots and direct castings In
the United States broke all records
last year.
A.German dictionary for tbe blind,
printed at Vienna even though con
densed as much as possible, makes
five big volumes.
Four hundred thousand flasks of
tuberculin were distributed free last
year by the federal Bureau of Ani
mal Industry for cattleman to use
In tests for tuberculosis.
Slum, outside of Bangkok, Is most
ly Jungle and Its teak and timber
trade is the most important industry,
so that It affords a splendid market
for such machinery.
Banana oil. applied with a soft
brush to any metal surface after pol
ishing, Is a good preventive of rust.
Mrs. Pankhurst's society of Eng
lish suffragists has Just cleared $S,
500 at a suffrage bazaar held In Glas
gow, The members made about half
as much by their recent self-denial
week.
The output of molasses In Mexico
during the past year was 85,185 tons
or 2,000 pounds each. The State of
Morelos led with 21.000 tons, Vera
Cruz furnished 14,340, Mlohoacan
11,160 and Pueblo 10,750 ton.
The general use of the automobile
In a South African town has caused
the abandonment of a short railroad
and one of its station has been turn
ed Into a gar&ge.
The pine reaches a maximum age
of 700 years; the silver fir, 425; tbe
larch, 275; the red beech, 245; tha
aspen, 210; the birch, 200; the ash,
170; the elder, 145 and the elm,
180.
More than one-third of Turkey'
total trading Is done through Con
stantlnople. Havre maintain it position a
one of the great port of the world,
and tbe second In France, despite
recent labor trouble and certain
temporary Irregulartle of movement
In the foreign market for various
Important staple of which Havre la
tbe European clearing house
There Is In England relief map
of Uganda whlfh contain 2,000
qure feet, and the claim I made
that It 1 the largest In the world.
In 12 marriage out of every 100
one of the two ha been married before.
AIrslii) Deutscliland Now Lying
on Top of a Forest.
WAS CAUGHT IN TERRIFIC WIND STORM..
Thirty-Three? Persons, Mostly New
puiK-r Men, Who Sailed In Her
Fnm Dusselriorf After A Wildly
KxcitiiiR Experence Escape ny
Sliding Down Rope Ladder From
The Wreck To Get Out Of A
Whirlwind The I'ilot Shoots Up
The Airship 4,000 Feet.
Dusseldorf, Germany (Special).
Count Zeppelin's passenger airship
Deutschland, the highest developed
of all the famous aeronaut's models,
lies on the top of the Teutoburglan
forest pierced with pine-tree stem,
a mass of deflated silk and twisted
aluminum. The 33 persons aboard,
after a wild contest with a storm,
escaped uninjured, climbing down a
rope ladder from the wreck on the
pine tops. Herr Colestnann, general
manager of the new airship com
pany; Chief Engineer Duerr, of the
Zeppelin Company, and Captain
Kannenberg, who personally had
charge of the crew of 10, and 20
newspaper men sailed from Dussel
dorf at 8.30 A. M. for a three-hour
excursion.
The objective point wa Dort
mund, about 35 miles from Dussel
dorf, but a high head of wind pre-'
vailed and an effort was made to
reach Munster, a garrison town, so'
that a landing might be made on
the parade ground by the aid of the
soldiers, and It was realized that It
would require a large number of
them to hold the vast contrivance
of silk and metal against the wind.
A Motor Fails.
It wa dangerous to attempt a
landing In an open field because of
the storm, as the metal was likely
to pound to pieces. In the high
wind one . of the motors refused to
work and the other two were not
powerful enough to make any prog
ress in the gale.
The airship drifted, swaying in the
violent gusts and sometimes leaning
to an angle of 40 degree, and all
the while the englnemen were at
work repairing the disabled motor.
When this was done all four screws
were driven at their full power, un
der which in normal conditions the
airship was capable of attaining a
speed of 4 0 miles an hour. But the
helmsman was unable to keep his
course, and the great craft waa
swung about at tho mercy of the
winds.
Colesman did not dare to turn,'
the ship around for fear of over
turning, and he decided to drift in
the gale, which was blowing at the
rate of 50 miles an hour, toward
Osnabruck, which la also a garrison
station. If he missed that he would
continue on to Senne.
X'p 4.000 Feet.
Suddenly he perceived a whirl
wind coming and ascended to a
height of nearly 4,000 feet to
avoid the worst of It. With the
whirlwind came an avalanche of
rain, After half an hour the
Deutschland came down to permit of
observations and It was seen that the
Teutoburglan forest lay below. The
forward motor again stopped and
Colesmann sent five of the corre
spondents to the aft gondola to bal
last the vessel.
The Deutschland sank rapidly,
having lost much gas in the high
altitudes, and dragged along the top
of the dense forest. A heavy branch
of a tree broke through the floor
of the cabin amidships, throwlne
two of the guesta to the floor. Other
branches ripped through the gas
compartments and the whole great
structure settled down 30 or 40 feet
from the ground.
"It Isn't the fault of the Zeppelin
system," exclaimed Herr Colesmann;
"that 1 all right. It is our own
fault, and our benzine ran out."
The airship, for which Herr Coles
mann's comnany had Just paid $137,
500, looked a total wreck. The
frame were broken, but the motors
were not damaged. The silk was
ripped and had fallen In a torn mass
on the tops of the trees.
MAN AND CHILD ELECTROCUTED.
Wife And Mother, Severely Shocked,
In Critical Condition.
Duluth, Minn. (Special). E. M.
Nelson and his 6-year-old daughter
were electrocuted here In the front
yard of their home at Lake Side, a
suburb. In the presence of tho wlfo
and mother;.
The cause was a llvo wire which
had been allowed to dangle from an
adjacent telephone polo to tho lawn.
"Oh, see the grass Is burning up!"
shouted the child to her mother,
and then grabbed the wire. In an
Instant she fell over dead.
The father saw the child fall, and
In an effort to extricate her met a
similar fate. Mrs. Nelson, while
trying to drag the bodies away, was
severely shocked and 1 in a critical
condition. ,
Still ExpelHnR The Jews.
Kiev, Russia (Special). Ninety
five Jews wero expelled from Kiev;
fifty-two from Solomenka and fifty
one from Demleffka.
A Triple Tragedy.
Bangor, Mo. (Special). Enraged
because hi wlfo had determined tc
leave him on account of hi violent
temper, David Downe ' shot and
killed her and her mother, Mr. Ivy
Woodard, and then killed himself
with the same rifle. . The tragedy oc
curred In a little farming community
near the rllltgo of Springfield,
about 70 mile northeast of Banitfr.
Downe wa 83 year old and hi
wife 28.
Ex-Mlnister Terrell Shoot Himself.
Ean Antonio, Tex rE. H. Terrell,
a wealthy business man of San An
tonio and former United State Min
ister to Belgium. Is dying at his home
here from the effects of a telf-tnfllot-ed
bullet wound. Mr. Terrell ha
been 111 (or several monf.is. 1 ,
Election - In Panama.
Panama (Special). Municipal
election were held throughout the
republic without disturbance of any
kind. The government won by a
large majority, particularly In Pana
ma Cdty and In Colon.
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Teachers Answer Complaint.
Reading. The difficulty between
the school authorities and the nar
enta Who are anxious that their soat
and daughters, who graduated on
Tuesday. June 14, should be given
their diplomas, has not yet been set
tled. The officers of the class ot
1910. which Is making high school
history, have come forth with a cer
tiflcation that all money due the class
ha been turned over, settling all
rumons and placing the girls In a po
Bltlon to secure their diplomas, in.
vestlgatlon In the case of the bnys
where It Is alleged that a cllqui
broke into the school building and
secured examination papers, is still
being carried on. The mntter hat
narrowed down to about eight or nine
of the boys, who are supposed to b
the guilty ones and these niav not
be granted a diploma at all. Princi
pal R. 8. Birch, of the Boys' High
School, arid Principal Miss Mary H.
Mayer, of the Girls' High School
have made answer to the comtnunl
cation from a committee of tho par
ents requesting them to answer rer.
tain questions. The answer was
brief, acknowledging the receipt of
the communication and stating that
It was impossible to reply to all ot
the questions or to comply with the
request for the diplomas until a re-'
port had been made to Superintend
ent of Schools Charles S. Foos.
Can Rattlers Climb Trees.
Part of Columbia County says a
rattlesnake can climb a tree. An
other part of the same division of
this sovereign Commonwealth says
the rattler can do nothing of the
kind. State Economic Zoologist Sur
face, usually the court of last resort
in such questions, Is playing safe and
not taking sides. He inclines to the
opinion, however, that the rattler
can't get into a tree unless the trunk
Is at an angle of less than forty-live
degrees. Plenty of scientific dalu lj
at hand to show that the blacksnuke
and the greensnake can and do climb
vertical trees and that the water
snake can get Into bushes that nrs
not too high. Surface says, too, that
there la not tho slightest doubt that
the "horntallcd snake" can clinih a
tree. The blacksnake and other tree
clintliing serpents are able to do
so because of their long and slender
bodies and constrictor characteristics.
The rattler Is short and thick.
Samuel A. Crozer Dead.
Chester. Samuel A. Crozer, prom
inent In Baptist Church circles and a
wealthy manufacturer and land own
er, died at his home In Upland, near
here, aged 85. He was president of
the board of trustees of the Crozer
Theological Seminary, which his fam
ily founded and contributed liberally
to other Baptist enterprises. He
owned extensive coal lands In Vir
ginia, and was the owner of several
large textile mills in Chester and Upland,
Three Years For Murder.
PottBville. Because court tnougftt
the slaying of George Godhart, by his
brother-in-law, John Yost, was to
some extent Justified on the ground
of self-defense, Yost was sentenced
to only threo years for the murder.
The court was told th.it Godhart broke
in the door and threatened Yost, who
picked up a poker and hit the in
truder twico on the head. The quar
rel of the men arose over, a wheel
barrow, which each claimed as his
property.
Two Injured Hy Lightning.
Yellow House. Lightning aurmg
a severe thunderstorm, struck the
home of Isaac Marks, shattering the
chimney and the bolt followed tho
stove pipe to the kitchen, where it
tore the oilcloth on the kitchen floor
to pieces. Mrs. Marks was stunned
and the daughter who stood on the
oil cloth had her feet badly burned.
The house was saved from destruc
tion by fire by the heroic efforts of
the family.
Wills Gold Watch As Prize.
Lebanon. 'George W. Hayes, for
merly a city engineer of Lebanon,
who died last week, left a will which
was probated. In which It Is stipulat
ed that "my gold watch shall be giv
en to the graduate In chemistry and
pharmacy of the Philadelphia Col
lege of Pharmacy who is truly wor
thy and who graduates with the high
est honors from the said Institution
at the next commencement after my
departure to heaven."
Man Killed In Trolley Crasn.
Stonersville. Orlando A. Le, a
well known retired farmer, while
driving over tbe tracks of the Ohiy
Valley Traction Co., at JacksonwaM,
was Btruck by a trolley car. His
team was burled a dlstunce of fifty
feet. Lee was so badly injured that
bis death followed three hours after.
Tbe horse had to be killed. .
I'eteian Editor Injured.'1
Chester. Henry Fryslnger, tne
veteran editor of the "lelaware
County Dmpcrat," wag locking a win
dow when he fell against tbe edge
Of a table sustaining two broken
ribs. He Is nearly 80 years of age,
and Is said to be the oldest edtlor
of active service In the State.
Crane Crushes Out Man's Life.
Berwick. William Callk. aged 46,
was Instantly killed In the steel "hint
of the Berwick A. C. & F. Company
plant, when ateel channels, weighing
12,000 pounds slipped from the trav
eling crane upon which they were
being carried and crushed Callk be
yond recognition. ,
Drowned In Schuylkill Cannl.
Reading. While bathing In tbe
Schuylkill Canal, a short distance
from the Lebanon Valley Railroad
bridge, William Dlefenderfer, wvi
13 years, got beyond his depth and
wa drowned.
Falling Rock Kills Man.
Huntingdon. Four employe ot
Mount Union Silica Brick Company
were caught by a fall of overhanging
rock on Jack's Mountain. John l'at
tereon waa killed, William Kalnoy
badly Injured and two other ;Work
men cut In the face. i , '
Plant To Move To Kaston.
Lebanon. Tbe M. H. Treadwelt
Manufacturing Company, operating
large car building and heavy mnufac
turlug work here, and a large foun
dry at Myerstown, thl county, at
meeting decided to move their plant
to Easton when tbelr leese expire
here In December, 1911. The build
ing and ground axe owned br the
Lebanon Manufacturing Company
and the prooerty will probably be
old to another corporation. ' Lack
of apace for development la given a
the reason for tbe removal of tbe
company, which en ploys 400 men
here and 100 at Myerstown.
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