LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH HE STOLE OVER A Domestic Arthur P. lloinze, brother of F. Augustus Helnze, tho Montana cop per man, obtained a further delay in the execution of tho sentence of aO days' Imprisonment and $2."0 tine Ikiposed for Impeding the adminis tration of Justioe by the mutilation of the books. Tho will of Horry Dexter, million aire founder of tho American News Sttmpany, bequeaths $10,000 reward ftor the murderers of his fon. Or fjio P. Dexter, killed In the Adl rondacks In 1903. The steamer James Swltney. from Nw York for Boston, or the Met ropolitan Line, went aground on the Kiddle Ground In Vineyard Sound Vlth her cargo on Are. 1 Tho Lackawanna Railroad man ejrement has come to an amicable fatreomcnt with Its engineers, grant- ( tfyg them an increase wntcn win av rage 13 per cent. ! Nothing has 'woned In the Penn sylvania strike situation to Indicate tt the broach between the em ployes and tho officers of tho road ik closing. Dr D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, who has given away J6.000.000. Is .bout to sell li's home in an effort to die peni.ile.ss. Arthur barmstaedtler, of Detroit, was killed ty being thrown out of no automobile racing with an elec tric ear. An uttempt to blow un the West End Holt Line's now bridge shook the city of Pittsburg. United States Commissioner Shields, of New York, held for extra dition to Washington, D. C, Edward R, Boggs, Richard E. Preusser, Leo Mayer end Robert A. Guy, members f tho firm of E. 8. Boggs & Co., with offices in New York, accused f being connected with the opera tion of a chain of bucketshop. The Pennsylvania Railroad wage conference resulted In no agreement. It was announced that the railroad linen have left the time fop calling Ik strike In the hands of a committee ,f six, headed by Presidents Garrett aon and Lee. ) Colonel Roosevelt announced his itineraries for his Western tour, to ike made during the late summer, and the Southern trip, to be made , 'In October. President Taft will attend the dedication of the monument to the IPWgrim Father at Provlncetown, Mass., on August 5. Former City Councilman A. V. Simon, of Pittsburg, was sentenced 'to serve eight months In Jail on 'traft charges. i Three hundred spectators were overcome by the heat while watch ing the Elks' parade In Detroit, Mich. One human life was lost and 150 horses were burned to death In a lire at Portland. Ore. The French colony In New Or leans celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Baatlle. Joseph It. Stauffer, a millionaire coal and lumber operator of Penn sylvania, is dead. Pastures withered by the heat may Increase the price of milk for New Yorkers. Mayor White, of Salem, Mass., was sentenced to three years in the house ot correction and fined $1,000 for conspiring to secure confirmation of his appointment for chief of a Are department. The body of Col. Silas E. Comfort, vice president of the Pennsylvania Military College, and prominent in city affairs, was found In Lelpervllle Creek, in the rear of the Colonial Hotel at Loiperville, Pa. Theodore Roosevelt says he hopes the JefTries-Johnson fight will be the last In the United States, and that the exhlbtion of moving pictures of the contest will be stopped. Mrs. Antoinette Skora, of New York, wns shot by a former lover in a stiirtde pact, the latter falling to end his life bocause tho revolver missed lire. Howard Oswald, who was Injured In the liig Four wreck at Hamilton, O., is dead, making the twenty third victim of the accident. The gunboat Caatine, rammed by the submarlno Bonita, during ma neuvers oft 1'iovlncotown, Mass., has been floated. Wlll'am K. Vanderbilt, Jr., Is be Ing appointed assistant to the presi rent of the Vanderbilt railroads. Ralph Wc.-icott was killed bv lightning striking an iron boat dur ing a cloudburst at Llmo Luke. N. Foreign Earl Grey sailed on the Empress or Britain, from London ton Canada where he will temporarily rexume the duties of his o'lice as governoi general. Lieutenant General Vi.-count Ter auchl left Seoul to nx.-uin,; his duties as Japaneso resident general ol Korea. vJ?0. "";?t('3 " Colowan Island hoisted a Mag of truce in order that they mlsht remove their wounded. Tho American. British, Krench and German legations ut Peking pre sented notes to the Chinese Foreign Office, asking the promulgation ol an edict completing the Haukow Sze Chuen Railway contract. Premier As;ulth stated lu the Mouso of Commons that it was the British government's desire to corns i - inunuiy agreement with Ger many looking to the curtailment ol armaments. Eorno 780,000 people, Including thousands of American tourists wit nessed the annuar French military review at Longchamps. The United States cruiser Tacoma has sailed from Cuba for Bluoflelda ,to relieve the Peducah, -which bai ea ordered home. The fire from the Portugese gun. ,hat dislodged the Chinese from 'their fort on Collowan Island, and many of thorn were killed. ' It Is roportsd that Dr. Lowronce Burgbeltn, at American, Is held a .prison by the liadrlx forcoi In Nica ragua. A. Rawllosen, the English aviator, .fell with his biplane st bournes- worth. England, and was seriously i Injured. Tblrty-flvo thousand shipyard .workers tt Hamburg have demand ed an Increase of 10 per cent, in wages, Horr P.: rack, an aviator, fell with a monoplane at Dulaberg. Rhenish ' Prussia, but escaped Injury. Bpanbh troops are being concen trated in the prlvnoa of Valencia In i preparedness to more Into Catalonia feecsuse ot the reported Intention I of the Spanish refugees to cross the I French frontier with arms. - And Kept This Up For More Than a Year and a Half. LOUISVILLE MS A BIG DEFAULTER. Moro About The Methods Employed By AiiKiist Ropke In Robbing The Fidelity Trust Company Would Have Ix-ft Only An Empty Shell If He had Not Been Found Out. Was Very Economical In Ills Private Life. Louisville, Ky. (Special). Little would soon have been left of the Fi delity Trust Company but an empty shell If the busy bands of August Ropke, now In Jail on the charge of making false entries, had not been stayed in their dishonest operations. The partial report of the expert ac countants now in the bands of J. W. Barr, Jr., president of the Insti tution, shows that Ropke was dip ping Into the banks' funds at the rate of $30,000 a month for the past year and a half. The great bulk of his peculations came In the last two years, during whloh period ho is alleged to have stolen more tr.an $500,000. The ex amination by the experts who have been at work on the books shows that his early thefts were In Large pert restored and were compara tively insignificant alongsde his op erations since 1908. From this period up to the time of his detection the size of the amounts taken grew by leaps and bounds. They started at a few thou sand a month and increased until tho gigantic sums of $30,000, $35, 000 and even as high as $50,000 were stolen In a single month. The books tell In minute detail how Au gust Ropke, the $1 ,800-a-year elern. bookkeeper and assistant secretary, became stricken with a frenzied fear, only to steal staggering sums in the hope of winning back the early losses. At the rate Ropke was with drawing money from the bank in In creasing sums, had he gone on unde tected for another two years, It would have taken millions to replace the peculations. Nearly A Million. Although Mr. Barr has issued no statement of the exact amount of the thefts from the bank's strong box, he has figures, It Is said, which are within a few thousand doilars of being final. When the official statement Is given out oy Mr. Barr it will be seen, It is said, that the bank's total losses run in excess of $600,000. From one- source conies the statement that the sum may reach $6.r.0,000, but will not go as high as $700,000. The directors of the trust company, It Is stated, nave decided to issue $1,000,000 of ad ditional capital stock at par, and in well-informed circles this Is taken to indicate that the shortage will be in the neighborhood of $1,000, 000. The examination of the books have taken a backward course. The size of the shortages of the present year filled the bank's officials and directorate with a panic which con tinued to lessen as the thefts rapid ly decreased upon further retro spective examnatlon. It was thought at first that Ropke had been stealing at the clip of $30,000 a month for years, and the thought of what the shortage might be was staggering. But the farther back the experts wont, the smaller the shortages be came, until at the end of a few years they became lnsignftcant, and It was seen that the defalcations could be easily weathered by an Institution with the firm financial foundation of the Fidelity. Sentence May He Forty Years, There has been much speculation as to the maximum punishment that might lie meted out to Ropke unon conviction. It is apparent from the examination of the bank's books that Ropke Is liable to indictment upon as many as 20 counts. Following a conviction upon each count and the assessment of the minimum penalty of two years for niakng a fase entry, Ropke now faces a cumulative sen tence of 40 years. The opinion around the Criminal Court Is that Ropke and the bank officials will probably agree upon rertain of the counts and possibly a maximum length of Imprisonment. Avengers Kill Wronn Man. Kendall ville, Ind (Special). Al bert Lehr, 38 -yea's old, was killed by five Italians, employed on a sec tion gang, whKi standing on the platform of the Lake Shore depot. The shooting is thought to be the outcome of tho accidental killing of an Italian by a Lake Shore freight train three weeks ago. The Italians blamed tho engineer and threatened vengeance against him. Lehr was probably mibtuken for the engineer. Woman Saves Children.' Gloucester, N. J. Special). Fire at the home of George Setter, 510 Eaint John Street, gutted tho house end d'd damage to the extent of $.:00. The fire started from a ket tle boiling over. Mrs. Sotter, who was at the store, rushed Into her iiouo and rescued two small children and then fainted. Louis Letzgus was overcome by smoke and was rescued V Policeman Baker. Head At The Wheel, New Orleans (Special). The big transfer boat of the Southern Pacific, the Harrier, while crossing the Mis sissippi, ran into the New Orleans dry dock, and then the steamship Moerle. A deckhand rushed to the pilot-house to see what was the rause of this reckless steering and found the pilot, Capt. Albert W. Averill, dead, but still grasping the steering wheel. Captain Averill was a native of Dresden Mills, Me., and had for 4 0 years been a success ful pilot st New Orleans. THE MURDER OF . BELLE ELMORE Indian I-aiid Frauds. tMorre, 8. D. (Special) Congress man Burke, chairman of the House Committee appointed at the last ses sion of Congress to Investigate chsrgcs of fraud In sale of Indian lands, niade by United States Sena tor Gore against William McMurray, attorney of McAlster, Okla., has notified members of the committee to aise-ibla at Muskagee,- Okla., on August 4. The Investigation will bek.ln on that date. Senator Core has agreed to be present at the meet ing of the committee, according to .Congressman Uuiko, Detectives Hunting. Dr. Crippen, the Actress' Husband. Tho Finding Of The Mattered Body Of The Once Beautiful Music Hull Artist Covered With Quicklime In The Cellar Of Dr. Ci-lpix-n's House In London He Wrote His Wife's Relatives In Brooklyn That She Died In California They Were Married In This Country. London (Special). Police and music hall circles In this city are worked up over the murder of Belle Elmore, the beautiful and popular singer and vaudeville performer, whose body has been found in the cellar of the residence of the wom an's husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, t North London. The woman was an American, so is her husband, who has had a varied career in American cities. The detectives of Scotland Y'ard are hunting for htm and they have cabled the New York depart ment to keep a close watch upon all Incoming steamers for him, as It w-as reported he sailed for New York Saturday. The case is strikingly similar to that of the Charlton murder at Iake Cpmo, Italy. Both women were ac tresses who left their American hbinns to meet death by violence in a foreign land, and In each instanco the police pursued the American hus band to tho shores of his native land. Porter Chanlton was arrested In Hoboken, but In the absence of an extradition treaty between the United States and Italy specifically providing for the return to either country of a citizen of the other country who has committed a crime abroad, may go free. No Legal Loophole. In the present case no such com plications are probable, as the Brlt-ifh-American extradition treaty leaves no loophole of wheh a sus pected criminal may take advantage. The London police have made a defi nite charge against Dr. Crippen, and propose to get him with the co-operation of the American authorities. Dr. Crippen, who Is a dentist, 60 years of age, has made his home for sometime at 39 Hilldrop Cres cent, North London. Sometime ago his wife. Belle Elmore, a vaudeville actress and treasurer of the Music Hall Artists' Guild, disappeared, and subsequently a notice of ber death appeared In the local papers. The fact of her demise was generally credited, but there was more or less gossip among the weman's intimates, and this finally leached the ears of the police. The latter visited Dr. Crippen and the Interview appeared to be satisfactory. Saturday noon last Dr. Crippen disappeared and since then the po lice have no been able to locate him. A search of the Crippen house was made and the battered body of a woman was found buried In the collar. It had been blaced In quick lime and was burned beyond recog nition, but the finding of the body together with other discoveries has left no doubt In the minds of the authorities that the murdered wom an was Mrs. Crippen. It is stated that almost all the bones are miss ing. The viscera is sufficiently pre served to enable an analysis to be made. A quantity of long hair and some halrpalns have been found. Sir Melvil'e XlcNaughton, chief of the criminal Investigation department of Scotland Yard, took the matter In hand and developments followed rapidly. Woman In Malo Attire, The first thing the police did was to cable to the police of American ports asking tham to search incom ing steamers for Crippen, who was described with the alia.ses of Peter Crippen and Franckel Crippen. They state that he is accomDanied bv fKthel Clara Leneve, a Frenchwoman, whom he recently Introduced as his wife. This woman, the police Btate, is believed to bo dressed In male attire. liefore leaving Hilldrop Crescent. C ippon sent out a boy's suit, and this, the police surmise. Is now' being worn by his companion. The Indications point to a coolly planned murder. THIS IS FILTHIEST COUNTRY. So Declares Doctor Stiles, Head Of Rockefeller Commission Charlottesville. Va. (Special). As a nation tho United States Is tho filthiest great country In the world, according to Dr C. W. Stiles, head of the Rockefeller Commission for tho studv and prevention of tho hook-worn disease, In a speech on "flies" before the second day's meet ing of the Rural Life Conference at tho University of Virginia. He de nounced the failure of the American people to prevent the spread of dis ease through the observance of the simplest precautions. Revolution Pending. Mobile, Ala. (Special). Another Central American revolution Is lra mlgent. This time Honduras Is to be the battleground, and President. Davtla Is to meet In combat his old opponent and former president of the republic, Mamie' Boullla. This is the firm bellof of the Central American colony In Mobile nvsmtiers of w'M) were stirred by the sailing from Mo bile of the Norwegian steamer L'U stein with 113 cases of ammunition and other war material. Excursion Car Wrecked. Detroit, ,Mich. (Special) Eight passengers are believed to have been fatally Injured and 64 were cut and bruised when a special excursion car on the Detroit United Railways Detroit-Flint Electric Line was split in two by a work train. The col lision occurred on a share curve at Wolf's crossing, near Ortonvllle. Both the car and work train were running at full speed, It is said. Of the fatally hurt Willie Hibbard, aged 12, of Flint, is not expected to survive. Seven Hurt In A Runaway, Cincinnati (Special). Seven per sons were Injured and Mrs. D. C. Rea and an infant daughter of Mrs. Samuel Neoly will probably die. as a result of a runaway accident here The party were in a one-horse sunl rey and the animal became frighten ed and ranawav. Bombardment At Blueflelds. ' Blueflelds. Nicaragua ( Special V The Insurgent bombardment of the position of the government forces between Halfway Cay snd Blueflelds Bluff wan continued without result J. H. GUFFEY IN DIFFICULTIES Millionaire Pennsylvanian in Receiver's Hands. IS SAID TO, OWE ABOUT $6,700,000. Democratic National Committeeman And Oil And Coal King Of Pitts bui'K Has Unsecured Obligations Of $030,000 Worth Seventeen Millions The Odonel Declares His Assets Double Ills Obliga tions And That He Will Tay Every Cent He Owes. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). Col. James M. Guffey. a multimillionaire oil man, has gone Into the hands of a receiver, who was appointed by Judge Josenh M. Swearlngen, In the Common Pleas Court of this county. The action was taken upon a bill in equity filed by J. H. Galey and John 8. Wlllard. who Is familiar with Colonel Guffey's affairs, was named as receiver. The bill filed alleges that Colonel Ouffey's Indebtedness Is about 6, 700,000, of which about $990,000 is unsecured; that the defendant has no ready money with which to meet the payments due, and that certain creditors are threatening to sell his collaterals and enter suits. It Is further assorted that Colonel Guffey has assets of over $17,000, 000, a large part of whloh Is stock of the J. M. Guffey Company and the West Virgin'i Company, two coal companies, which own 136,700 acres of coking coal in the State of West Virginia. These properties are as serted to be worth at least $16,000, 000, and the bill in equity maintains that they are estimated to contain 2,000,000,000 tons of coal, which, at a profit of 1 per cent, per ton, would realize $20,000,000. . Other assets of Colonel Guffev to the value, of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 consist of stocks and bonds of other cor porations. All of these stocks and bonds are pledged as collateral, and the re ceivorhip as found necessary to pre vent a sacrifice of this collateral. The order of count restrains all creditors from disposing of any of the collateral securities or other as sets of Colonel Guffey pending fur ther order of the court. Colonel Guffey in a statement said: "I very much regret that to con serve all of my estates, a receiver phip became necessary. This course affords absolute protection for all of my obligations, as ell as protection for myself. "My assets are more than double the amount of my obligations. I don't expect the receivership to con tinue any great length of time. I have properties of great value, and it is only a question of being ner mitted to dispose of them without sacrifice to nay all my obligations." WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Steps have been taken by the De-, partment of Justice for putting Into effect the law enacted by Congress for paroling United States prisoners. Investigation has shown the State of New York to be a large loser in revenue from stock transfer stamps by an illicit business. Brodle L. Duke, the tobacco mag nate, has given his young bride a handsome business building in Dur ham, N. C. It is believed that a complete re organization of the Marine Corps will result from the recent con troversy. James Plerson, a farmer, was kill ed while in a buggy by a trolley car near Logansport, Ind. Wijllam Lyon, a handbook maker, committed suicide in his cell. The State of Utah Is granted title to U4.S23 acres of public lands. They are located In the Salt Lake City land district and represent in demnity to the state for the loss of school lands. The President has pardoned Rev. James R. Kaye, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for making molds in the similitude of silver coin. , The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has announced that advances lit freight rates on cattle and dressed beef had not been suspended. The foreign commerce of the Uni ted States for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 was $3,250,000,000. Another period of watching Im portations from South American countries to prevent the introduc tion of tho foot and mouth disease, has been inaugurated by the De partments of Agriculture and Treas ury. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion announced its intention to sus pend all tariffs, naming general and important rates advances, pending Investigation into the reasonableness of the proposed advances. The international opium confer ence to be held at TC9 He rue next fall will have a very general repre sentation of the powers, according to the latest Information reaching the State Department. , The Treasury Department abolish lshed the post of surveyor of cus toms at Port Jefferson. N. Y., out of pity for A. N. Randall, who want, ed to resign the office, but could not do so. ' An arrangement has been effected between the United States and Can ada by which a conference will be held shortly in respect to Interna tional railway rates. William Plttman, an American, raptured by the Madrls forces In Nicaragua, was found starving In a filthy cell In Mangua by Consul Oll vares. . Assistant Paymaster Lawrence 0. Haugbey, of Indiana, was dismissed from the Navy on a charge of em bezzlement. Postmaster General Hitchcock sailed from New York for Europe. An elaborate program is being ar ranged for the entertainment of President-elect Fonseca; of Braz.ll, when he visits the United States next month. Many banks throughout the coun try are filing applications for deposi tories under the Postal Savings Bank Law. The Italian government has sent a special messenger, with a request for the extradition of Porter Charl ton, wanted for the murder of his wife at Lake Como. Deposits of coal and oil on the Island of Trinidad are to be developed. BALLOON BURSTS AND FIVE mm KILLED A Frightful Aerial Disaster in Rhenish Prussia. Oscar Frbsloeli, The Inventor Of The Wrecked' Dirigible, Who Won The International Cup At The St. 'Louis Exposition Races, One Of The Victims The Balloon Had ,Met With Two Previous Accidents Gloom Caused In Avlntion Circles Dy Disaster. Leichlingen, Rhenish Prussia (Special). Falling through space a distance of nearly 1,000 feet Oscar Erbsloeh, noted aeronaut and In ventor, winner of the international balloon race held in America in 1907 and one of the most promising of German experimenters In aerial flight, and four companions were dashed to death In a field near Op laden. The dead are: Oscar Erbsloeh, Inventor and bal loonist. Herr Toelle, a manufacturer of Barmen. Engineer Kranz. Engineer Hoeppe. I Motorman Spicke. 1 The bodies of tho aviators were frightfully mangled. The gondola was torn to bits and the- motor bur led itself beneath the surface of the ground. The victims were men well known to all Germans Interested In aerial feats, and Erbsloeh gained an in ternational reputation when. In 1907, at St. Louis, he won the internation al cup in the distance race for. bal loons. The Erbsloeh was constructed last year and had had a dubious career. The first time is descended it crash ed into a clump of trees and Its occupants narrowly escaped Injury. A few days ago, during a trial flight, a propeller was broken. The bal loon, which was of the nonrlgld type, had Just been made over preparatory to the establishment of a passenger service between Elberfeld and near by points. Today It was Inflated for a final test by the crew. The ascent was made near Opladen and during a fog. There were few eyewitnesses of the accident. According to these the start was well made. The Erbsloeh rose gracefully, pushing Its way through the fog to a height estimated at sev eral hundred yards. At this altl tide a . series of evolutions was be gun. To the onlookers the airship appear to obey her helm perfectly. Suddenly there was a loud report, and at the moment the fore part of the vessel crumbled up and the gon dola was twisted about until it ap peared as though standing on one end. As the gas escaped from the forward compartment the prow swayed downward. For a flash the airship fluttered like a wounded bird and then fell swiftly to earth. The bodies of the vltcims were removed to the morgue. That of Erbsloeh would not have been recog nized had it been found alone. One of the engineers was pierced through the breast by a piece of the wreck age. The eyes of the other engineer were gouged out. Tho hands of all five were tightly clutched as though they had held desnerately to the car as it shot downward. All their limbs were broken. Their shoes were torn from their feet. A group of peasants who left their 'Work in the fields and rushed to the scene as the crippled balloon struck the earth say that they detected a sigh from one of the men. but no other sign of life. DEAD WOMAN STRANGLED.' . Found In Her Home, Arms And Ankles Bound New York (Special). Another case of a murder of a woman under strange circumstances was uncover ed when Mrs. Rosle Lucaschlck. of Jersey City, was found lying dead on the floor of ber home on Wash ington Street, her" arms and ankles bound and the marks of a stangler on her throat. ' A strange man was seen In her home shortly before the strangled woman was found. No arrests have been made. Hlg Corporation Tax, New York (Special). With the exception of $60,000, the whole amount of the corporation tax as sessed upon corporations in the Second internal revenue district, which includes Wall Street and the financial district of New York, was paid at the close of the business day on Monday. The corporations which failed to pay will now be sub ject to a fine of 5 per cent, and in terest of 1 per rent, a month. Charles W. Anderson, collector for the district, said that he had col lected $3,640,000 and that the total of the tax in his district will reach $3,700,000. Grent Britain Sobering 1f. Washington, D. C. (Special). The United Kingdom sobered up $54,000,000 worth within the year 1909, according to figures furnished this government by Consul General John L. Griffiths, of London, who reported a marked falling off in the consumption of Intoxicating liquors In the British realm during 1909. In that year the amount expended for liquors was $730,000,000. a de crease of $54,000,000 from 1908. Heat Caused Him To Troy. ' Passaic, N. J. (Special). His head turned by the excessive heat, Frank Vllna, of Garfield, .was found in the streets here crawling on his knees praying with a crust of bread in one hand and a rose In the other. He bad to be lifted, still In a kneel ing position, into an ambulance and remained in that position until he was admitted to the General Hos pital. Physicians worked over the man diligently and have succeeded In partially relieving him of bis strange mania for prayer. Thief Kills Chief Of Folice. ' Clinton. 111. (Special). Chief of Police John Struble was shot about midnight while trying to arrest an unidentified burglar, and died In a short time. Bloodhounds were plac ed on the scent In an hour, but the murderer has not been found. Struble had been chief ot police fur 16 months. . Old Indian Fighter Dead. Cheyenne. Wyo. (Special). Major John Talbot, United States Army, retired, a famous Civil War rstenan, Indian fighter and pioneer died at his home here, aged 78. OVER ONE THOUSAND HOUSES ARE The Great Conflagration at Campliellton, N. B. AH The Mills In Campbcllton, The Largest Cedar Shingle Center In Eastern America, Destroyed American Capital Largely Inter csted High Wind And Failure Of Water Main Makes It Impossible To Stay The Flames Neighboring Forest Burning. Dalhousle, N. B. (Special). A waste ot ' smoking ruins extending for two miles and seven Isolated buildings represent the town of Campbellton and the nearby village of Rlchardsvllle, which were over whelmed by fire driven before a gale. Two lives were lost during the ten hours the fire raged. Dr. Beverly Sproule, a dentist, while aiding with his automobile In rescuing women and children wss burned to death by an exploison of gasoline. An In fant was suffocated in the dense smoke. Five thousand residents of Camp bellton and 400 of Rlchardsvllle are homeless. One thousand buildings In Camp bellton and 75 In the village were destroyed. The combined loss In both places is estimated at $2,500,000. The total Insurance is $1,000,000. Some semblance ot order has been established and relief work was be gun. During the day special trains brought tents, food and other sup plies, and all who could not be ac commodated in Dalhousle and In farming districts were quartered un der canvas. Hundreds- of persons lost all they possessed and It was a disconsolate band . of refugees who camped on the banks ot the Restlt gouobe. Campbellton was the largest ce dar shingle center In Eastern Ameri ca. All the mills were destroyed, In cluding the big plants of the Shlves Lumber Company, Richards Lumber Company and the Moffat Mills. The property of these three concerns. In which American capital was Inter ested, was valued at $300,000. The fire started lp the mills of the Richards Lumber Company, and fanned bv a southwesterly gale spread to all parts of the town. The water mains failed at a critical time and even with aid sent from New Costle, Bathurst and Dalhousle, the Campbellton people were unable to make headway against the crush of the flames. The fire was the greatest in New Brunswck since the destruction of a large part of St. John In 1877. AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY. Frosecator Finds Oil Company Has Committed No Wrong. Berlin. The long and venomous campaign waged by German newspa pers and rival lndusrial interests against one of the German branches of the Standard Oil Company the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company has Just been brought to a victorious end for the Americans involved. A well known Hamburg newspaper for months printed such a series of attacks on the "American graft methods" alleged to have been prac ticed by the vacuum comnany in the conduct of Its German business that the public prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official Investigation with a view, to event ual Indictments. The prosecutor has now concluded his investigation, especially of the work of E. L. Quarles, Amercan manager of the German comDany's sales department, and announces that no necessity ex ists for pursuing the inquiry further. No evidence of anything warrant ing prosecution was found against Mr. Quarles, and the cost of the en tire inquiry will be borne by the State. The result of the Investigation constitutes a notable triumph for American interests in Germany. It Is not the first time that, Ger mans finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms have resorted to slander. TWO CHILDREN KILLED. Trolley Car And Mule Team Exact Their Toll Of Death. Pittsburg (Special) A trolley car and a delivery wagon each ex acted its toll Of Juvenile death In this section.. At Ford City the three-year-old son of Moarhard Szffran, a merchant, was ground beneath a trolley car. His neck and back wero broken. , Ho had escaped from his mother on a porch and the father, Infuriated at what be charged with being her carelessness, knockod her down, and was beating her when the police intorferred. She escaped, and is In hiding. At Cnnonsburg nino-year-old John Carmack was run over by a team ot mules and his skull was crushed. Ho ran from his father into the path of the team, and was killed before his helpless parent. Stock Exchange Seat For $05,000. New York (Special). A seat on the New York Stock Exchange sold tor $65,000, which Is $11,000 loss than the price paid for the last seat sold on the exchange. In Jail With Mother. . 'Springfield, 111. ( Special ).--The coroner's jury recommended that Mrs. Frank Stout, who confessed to haying shot and killed Deputy State Game Warden John O'Connor, be held for murder without bond. Her six children remained with her In the Jail annex all day Sunday. Mrs. Stout Is composed and expresses no regret at having assassinated O'Con nor, who she alleges made objection able advances toward ber. To the coroner's Jury she calmly told the dotails of the shooting. fii Aged Couple Killed la Runaway., Durham, N. C. (Special). News reached here that Mr. and Mrs., B. M. Sherman, an aged couple resid- tng here, were klllod lu a runaway, ear Oxford. Ther had driven from Durham to Oxford, about 40 miles, and were returning when they wens overtaken bv a storm. Their horses became frightened and the runaway and fatal accident occurred. t A sanitary mouthoiece for tele phones Is made flush with tb trans ml iter case to avoid gorm-catchitig comers. . COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and N Market Reports. Bradstreet'B says: Wholesale trade and industry ar quiet as a whole, the result partly of midsummer and holiday influences and also because of the desire of buyers to await more definite Infor mation as to crop outcome. Retail trade, on the other hand has been rather more active, being stimulate by favorable weather, but djspite this and clearance sales the volume of final distribution is not up to ex pectations. Industry has felt the Influence of lessoned demand and midyear shut downs for repairs, and less than nor mal time Is being worked In the iron and steel, cottons, woolen, Jewelry and in some sections coal-mining and flour-mllllng. Low water in the Northwestern streams is responsible for less doing in the output of lum ber. The price movement shows con siderable present Btrengt.h, follow ing very general declines In June, and the cereals and cotton are high er on the week. Collections feel the Influence of quiet trade in reports of only fair pnyments. While quiet and In many lines disappointment rules as to the curt rent volume of distribution, It Is worth - while to recall that the six month period now ended has had some quite fayorable results. Thus building expenditures aggregate only a small sum less than for the like portion of 1909 and creatly exceeded 1908. Wholesale Markets. New York. Wheat Spot easier; No. 2 red, 108c, c. 1. f., to nrrlve ele vator; No. 1 Northern, 127 f. o. b. to arrive. Corn Spot easy; No. '2, es'c. I elevator domestic to arrive; export sso. , e r. o. b., to arrive. Oats Spot .steady; mixed, 26fJ 32 lbs. nominal; natural white, 26 32 lbs., 451. S4 8c.; clipped white, 34i42 lbs., 4749i. Receipts, 4.5T5 bu. Cheese steady, unchanged; re ceipts 3,811 boxes. Poultry Alive dull; Western boilers, 22c; fowls,-16 16 ; tur keys, 10 14. Dressed dull; West ern boilers, 23 26c; fowls, 15 17; turkeys, 15 19. Potatoes firmer; Long Island, per brl., $1.25 01.60; Southern, 75c. $1.50. 'Philadelphia. Wheat steady; con tract grade, new No. 2 red. In ex port elevator, 9394c; old, No. 2, 98101. Corn c. higher; No. 2 yellow, for local trade, 68 69c. Oats e. higher; No. 2 white nat ural 46 47c. Butter firm; extra Western cream ern, 30c; do., nearby prints, 31. Eggs firm. Pennsylvania and oth er nearby firsts, free cases, 21 c, at mark; do., current receipts, in returnable cases, 20, at mark; West ern firsts, free cases, 21, at mark; do., current receipts, free cases, 20, at mark. Cheese Vc. higher; New York full creams, choice 1616c; do., fair to good. 15 15. Live poultry firm; fowls, 18 19c; old roosters. 1213; broil ing chickens, 23 27; ducks, H& 14; geese, 21 23. Baltimore. Wheat No. 2 red snot. 97 c; August. 98 nominal; ...September, 100 nominal; Decem ber, 103 nominal. - Corn Spot. 63c. nominal. Oats White No. 2, as to weight, 4545c; No. 3, as to weight. 44Vi45; No. 4, as to weight, 42 43. Mixed No. 2. 4444; No. 2, 43 43. Hay We quote, per ton: No. 1 timothy, $22.50 23; No. 2 timothy, $21.50022; No. 3 timothy, $18 20; choice clover mixed, $21.60fl 22; No. 1 clover mixed, $21 21.60; No. 2 clover mixed, $1820; No. 1 clover, $15016; No. 2 clover, $12 14; meadow grass and packing hay, $1012. Butter Creamery, fancy, 28 & 29c; do., choice, 2728; do., good, 25 0 27; do., imitation, 21 23; do., prints. 29030. Cheese We quote Jobbing prices, per lb.. 16 17o. Eggs We quote, per dozen, losi off: Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts, 20 c; Western flista. 20; West Virginia firsts, 20; Southern firsts, 19; guinea eggs, 10 01-1. Live Poultry We quote, per lb.; Chickens Old hens, heavy, 17c; do., small to medium, 17; old roost ers. 10 011; sprtng, 1 lbs. and over, 22; do., small'to medium, 20 M 21. Ducks Large, 13c; small, 12; muscovy and mongrel, 12 013; spring, 3 lbs. and over, 16017; do., smaller, 14 015. Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Market lower. Steers, $6:2608.55: cows, $4.25d! 6; belters, $40 6.50; bulls, $3.00 5.75; calves, $3 8.50; -stockers and feeders. $4 06.70. Hogs Market 10 25c. lower. Heavy, $9 9.15; butchers', $9 9.25; mixed. $9.1009.25; light, $9.3009.40; packing, $8. 3608. HO; pigs, $9 09.35; bulk ot sales, $8.75 0 9. Sheep Market lower. Sheep, $3.8504.7; yearlings, $4,76 4' 5.75; lambs. $7 0 8. Pittsburg, Fa. Cattle Choice, $7.8508.16; prime, $7.6007.80. Sheep Prime wethers, $4.90 6.10; culls and common, $2 03; lambs, $505.85; veal calves, $9- .75. Hogs Prime heavies, $9. SO 9.65; nfodlums, $9.8609.95; heavy Yorkers, $9.55 010; light Yorkers, $10010.10; pigs, $10.15010.26; roughs, $8 0 8.60. - Kansas City. Cattle Market steady to 10c lower; top, $$.16. Calves strong; dressed beef and ex rort steers, $708.16; fair to .good I, 4.75 0 6.95; Western steers, $4.75 0 7.40; stockers and feeders, $3 5.60; Southern cows, $2.7604.60; ' native cows, $2.60MO; native heifers. $4.2007.40; hulls $3,400 4.85; calves, $4 0 8.25.1 Hogs Market lO026d.,'l lower. Top, $9.17 bulk of sales, $8,80 0 9.15; heavy. $8 80 0 8.90; toker' and butchers', $8.85 0 9.16; light, 8.9B00.17; pigs. $8.7509.10. Sheep -Market weak to 25c. low er. Lambs, $7-6008.25; yearlings,. $506.50; wethers, $406; ewes, $3.76 .60 ; stockers and feeders,' $2.7504. 25. ' .( The Pacific Railway Company, In eon Junction wtth the Central Cor doba extension, Is employing over 1,800 -workmen on laud it is re jeUlmlng from tfcs River PUte in IjgueiMW Ajrs -
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