The jFulton County News McConnellsburg, Pa. THE NEWS Martin A district, in c Domestic IThc International aviation meet sched uled for Garden City, L. I., next Octo ber, may he called off by the promoters; jewing lo lack ol adequate tm.inciul sup Jrt. Martin A. Morrison, of rrnnkfurt unanimously riMmminiitcil fo, Uie Democrats of the Nintl convention at libation, lnl. TV? main warehouse anil machine shoo' tf tbu Santce River Cypress Lumber Cunipany. at Ferguson, S. C, worn de stroyed by fire. Loss, IfHO.noO. By forming a human chain, three po Ucenjcn rescued a fireman on a harbor rfthter from drowning in the Fust River. New York. Thirty-two students of a buincs JrhiHil in Cologne, Germany, arrived in New York for a tour of this country. A young man registering as K. Nathan M.New iork, committed suicide in a h or IcIUh Cheyenne, Wyo. ,'fhe European-American Hank of Xew lYoVjt, a smull institution, ha closed if doers. i The name of John Mifr'n'11. formci esident of the United Vim-worker ol America, was mentioned t.i Colonel Jleosevelt ax a possible candidate for tin Republican nomination fur uovprnnr ol jljow York, but hp would not express nil opinion fiirthpr than to state that hf ioia Mr. Mitchell very highly. Three railroad men were killed anil eleven refrigerator oars piled in a hear aVotit a locomotive in a wreck on the Eiio Railroad, at Middletown. X. Y. Fifty-six railroad cars were wrecked wljen a Delaware, Lackawanna and West An Railroad train ran away down a MUntain side at Stroudshurg, Fa. Thp Kikcr and liegeman Company, rpp resenting a merger of Xew York drug interests, will operate in Baltimore. Hugo Breul, a portrait painter ol Providence, R. I., committed suicide bj inhaling gas in his studio. Seven foreigner were snfTocated by Smoke while they slept in a lodging house at Jamaica. I.. I. Enraged because his wife had tiled suit for divorce, .John Devilbisi, ajred fiO, o'. Cbadwick, 111., shot and killed the woman and himself. , Henry Yamagachi, a Japanese hoy, if charged with murdering Knoch Kendall and his wife and Thomas A. Kendall! their son. , Suit has been brought against the llali timore. and Ohio in rittsburg for per mitting employes to work more than II hours. Charles A. Hopper, an ex-convict, del pondent because he could not get work, hanged himself at Puterson. X. ,1. (Seven oflieials of the United Wireless Telegraph Company were indicted by a Federal grand jury of Xew York, on twn charges of conspiracy in connection with sales of stock of the company. But ten of 300 applicants for the mounted constabulary of Pennsylvania succeeded in passing thp examination. Erwin .1. Wider, cashier of the Russn Chinese Rank, of Xew York, pleaded guilty to robbing the bank of $500,000. Dr. If. Walden, an amateur aviator, 'dropped SO feet while trying a new mono plane at Garden City, L. I. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, back from Eu; rope, denies that she will marry Lord Curon or any mnn. ' Robinson IJrothnrs, bankers of Pitts burg since 1803, have gone out of busi, Hess. Personal President McCrea, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, sailed from Xew Y'ork for a aix-wek vacation in Kurope. S. R. I'ealp, a former State Senatnf of Pennsylvania, was killed by a horsu falling on him. John 1). Rockefeller was served with a ummons to appear in damage suit brought against his Standard Oil Com pany. J. Edward Simmons, the Xpw York bunker, died suddenly at Mohonk Lake President John if. Walker, of the I Hi: Jiois iine Workers, has been enjoined by Judge Wright, of Danville, from inter fering with the operation of the mines in fialine county. i ("apt. John Whiteside, of the steamer Arcadia, was killed by the breaking of a derrick on that vessel while the boat wai in Port Arthur, Out. ilis home was in Buffalo. Arthur F. Allen, alleged deserter from the Navy, escaped from his captor whil traveling from Xew Orleans to Norfolk James I!. Watt, the oldest telegraphei in the service of Uie Associated Press, is dead at Xashville. ! Erwin J. Wider, the defaulting New York cashier, denies having '-salted" an.) of the money he tole. ' Mrs. C. A. Mucus, the widow who reevalcd the whereabouts of Josepil YVendliug, allcyed slayer of Alma Ki-ll-ner, of Ixmisvillc, claims the reward of' fered by the police. ; Itev. W. It. Wright, a Ruptist clergy nan, of Alamo Gordo. Texas, is accused of shooting Joseph Hcnson in a moun' tain feud. Foreign The cholera epidemic, is increasing in Russia, particularly in St. Petersburg, where the daily average of new cases is 'about HO. From July it to July 30 there were 1S.244 cases and 11,044 deaths , of cholera in St. Petersburg and th 'fwuthern mining districts. Tim auti government demonstration which was to have taken place today at Hun Sebastian, Spain, has been called oil by the Catholic committee. Sir Wilfred Laurier's special train was in a collision with a freight near Kcgina, Kask. Sir Wilfred waa shaken up, hut not injured. King Alfonso had a narrow escape when Kir Tbomss Lipton's yacht, Shamrock, on which the King was sailing, was di-y Banted. Hubert Latham flew in his tnonoplam from Chalon ur Mai ik1 to Paris, a dis tance of 87 miles, making two stops. ' The Cunird Line has decided to revert to Queenstown a port of call, whil contiuinug to call at Hshguard. Portugal has been added to the list ol "moat favored nation" by a tariff agreo nvnt which ha just Uvn concluded. Crown Prince Frederick William si Ocraiany will make a tour of the Km East, including India, in November. ' Tha international roail conference which ha been in session a week in ftriiBe, has adjourned. It i refKirted that a great upheaval li impending in Southwestern China jmilar to the Hosier uprising. The Spanish government I runhinp troops to Kan Sebastian, where the kricalt are determined, contrary to th government's order, to liava demon atration on Sundar. Kocretary Root continued his argument before llie Hague trlliunal ta the .New foundland flt'ierles rase. The Japanese government ha arranged To Buy number oi wrigni aeroplane (or the army. ; A LASTING PEACE BETWEEN THE NATIONS Resolutions Drafted To Be Used at ISrnsse!s. OPPOSED TO FORTIFYING PANAMA CANAL. They Were Preferred By Represen tative Bartholdt and Have Been Submitted for Approval to State De partment The Subjects to Be Discussed. Washington, 1). C. (Special). The American group of delegates to the con ference of the Interparliamentary Union at Krussels, August 20 to September 2, sailed from Xew Y'ork Tuesday. They will present several resolutions looking toyard the establishment of permanent jx-ace between the nations of the world. These were submitted to the State De partment by Kopresentative Richard Itartholdt, off Missouri, chairman of the American group. One of the resolution will ask the conference to request governments which are signatory to The Hague Peaco Con ference and the Ixindon Naval Confer ence to sanction the American proposi tion that the international prize court be invested with the jurisdiction of an International court of arbitral justice. Another resolution will ask the con ference to request each of the govern ments represented to appoint a commis sion, anaiagoiis to that recently appoint ed by the t'nited States. These commis sions would report to their respective parliaments, prior to the third Hague Peace Conference in lOl.i, a well-defined scheme looking to the perfection of a system of world federation, in addition to an international judiciary. The object of submitting the resolu tions to the State Department was to pre vent any possible conflict of opinion with the department on questions of interna tional pence. The American delegation consists of Representative Itartholdt, of Missouri, chairman; Senator Burton, of Ohio; Flint, of California, and Smith, of Michi gan; Representatives Keifer. of Ohio; Moon, Harchfeld. Hurke nnd Wheeler, of Pennsylvania; Richardson, of Alabama; Hanna. of Xorth Dakota; Kairchild, Cox anil fioldfogle, of Xew York; Parker and Kinkaid, of New Jersey, and Delegate Larrinaga, of Porto Rico. Chirman Itartholdt will make the prin cipal address in support of the Ameri can propositions. Representative Keifer will speak on the subject of fortifica tion of the Panama Canal, to which work he is opposed. All of the American delegates. Chair man Bartholdt said, were opposed to the cndiug of millions of dollars in fortify ing the canal. "The canal can he made perfectly safe for hundreds of years to come," said Mr. Bartholdt. "by a few hours' work in the chaie of an njrrppment between the I'nited States and other countries." THE FIRST WOMAN POLICE Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells Will Patrol Los Angeles. Los Angels, Cal. (Special). The ofliec of "policewoman," which wus created by a recent ordinance, will be filled at once bv the police commission. Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, formerly of Chicago, whose earnest anad persistent work, backed by ministers and clubwomen of IO Angeles, caused the creation of the office, will receive the appointment. She will be the first woman to hold a posi tion of this kind in Southern California. Mrs. Wells discussed her plans for fill ing the position. "My field of work will Ixs chiefly wherever young people gather for entertainment in parks, penny arcades, moving picture shows and dance halls," she said. "I will deal chiefly with the proprietors of such places, seeing that all (awe are obeyed and that the places are kept clean and moral. In the dance halls I may find it necessary to talk to some of the young people personally." Poisoned By Pencil. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). A. G. Young, traffic manager of the American Tinplate Company, is in a serious con dition from blood poisoning and ampu tation of his right arm may be neees ary. While in camp in Canada a week ago, Mr. Young pierced a finger with an indelible pencil. He treated the wound with "first aid" remedies, but it did not heal, and he waa forced to return to hi home here, where he went to a hospital. Plague in Canton, Victoria, B. C. ( Special ) .That the city of Canton is badly infected with plague is the news brought by the steamer Ningchow from the Orient. People are dying by the hundreds and it has been dillicult to get men to bury the dead. Kirorts were made to burn some of the affected quarters, but with little effect. The houses were so crowded and so dry that it was found dillicult to burn them without starting a serious conflagration. Germ of Leprosy. Honolulu (Special). Drs. Brincker- holf and Curry ami M. T. Mailman, of Honolulu, have succeeded in isolating germs of leprosy, it was announced here. 'I'll i 4 means, it is said, the ultimate dis covery of a cure for the disease. The doc tors are attempting to make an anti toxin from the bacilli. Kxperiments at the leper settlement soon will be made. Challenges Caleb Powers. Louisville, Ky. (Special). Congress man Kd wards has challenged Caleb Pow ers to a, joint debate throughout the Kleventh district. The campaign is the most vituperative in the history of the district. SHAFT TO PILGRIMS. Cotton Crop Report. Washington, D. C. (Special.) The Crop reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistic of the Department of Agri culture estimate from the reports of it correspondents and agent that the aver age condition of the cotton crop on July 25, lttlO, was 75.5 per cent, of the nor mal, as compared with 80.7 on June 28, HMO; 710 on July 25, ltMlllj K3.0 on July 25, IftOH; 75.0 on July 25, 11107, and 70.4, the average of the last 10 years on July 23. Tied Hubby to Bedpost. Taeoma (Special). "My wife wouldn't let me see my own children, h waa so jealous. When my brother came to visit nie, she tied me to the bedpost so I could not go to him. To prevent me from going to Taeoma, she would bide my hat or coat." So declared John W. (ilover, of Kern Hill, on the wltnes stand In a plea for divorce from France K. t ilover. ''Once I cot a far a the station to take the car for Taeoma, but just before th rar came she came out and snatched my hat so I couldn't go." lie got the di vorce. Cerent Ir the Glover separated find divided their property. Thousands Throng the Old Bay State Town to Attend the Ceremonies, Provincetown, Mass. (Special). The granite shaft on Town Hill, erected to memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, was dedi cated at noon by President Taft. The cor nerstone of the monument was laid Aug ust 7, 1007, by President Roosevelt, its dedication attracting a crowd that taxed to their limits the narrow streets of this old fishing own. The principal act of the dedication of the monument was the unveiling of a bronze tablet over the door facing the harbor, which was given by President Emeritus Charlps W, Kliot, of Harvard. The town clock was striking nine when the Mayflower, bearing President Taft, came around the little white beacon at the end of Ing Point and passed in be tween the lines of battleships. As the Mayflower headed in the first gun boom ed from the flagship Connecticut, fol lowed by 21 guns from nil the ships. President Taft's dedication address was descriptive of the landing of the pilgrims at Provincetown and the causes which drove them from England. FLAMES CUT OFF EXIT SEVEN PEOPLE ROASTED Suffocated Ky Smoke in Their liods. TWO WERE INJURED IN ESCAPING. The Owner and His Family, Who Oc cupied Rooms on the Ground Floor, Escaped By Climbing Through the Windows to the Street Two Vic tims Women. Xew Y'ork (Special). Seven lives were lost in a fire which destroyed a three- story lodging-house in the foreign sec tion of Jamaica, L. I. The blaze stnrtcd in a hallwav, the only exit, and spread so rapidly that few of the inmates had any opportunity to escae. I he lodging-house w as occupied for the most part by poor workmen employed in the neighborhood. The owner, (leorge Dunbck, and his family, who occupied rooms on the ground floor, escaped by climbing through the' windows to the street. The dead five men and two women were all foreigners. They were asleep at the time and were nil suffocated by smoke as they lay in their beds. The property loss will not exceed $1,500. Two persons were injured in escaping. Stephen Marcus, a farmer, 3.) years old, jumped from the window of his room on the third floor nnd wus taken to a hos pital suffering from concussion of the drain and internal injuries. B. D. Tague. a laborer, was badly burned and partially suffocated by smoke. A passerby who discovered the fire turned in the alarm and called a police man, who found the hallwav closed by a wall of flame, fn the backyard he camo upon Dunbck, dazed and panicky, wring ing Ins hands in the midst of his family of six or seven. Apparently they hod not yet given a thought to the lodgers who had been traps'd on the upper tloors. Is everybody out? nsked the police man. Dunbck shook his head. He did not know. He bad seen two or three of his lodgers drop to the street from second floor windows whether all were safe or not he diil not know. There had been about 15 lodgers in the house that night, he thought. INDIANS TURNED DOWN BIG SUMS Chief McCnrrain Offered fourth of "Profits." One- HIS SON WAS ALSO APPROACHED. D. C. McCurtain, Son of Chief and a Delegate to Washington for His Tribe, Testifies that McMurray Of fered Him $25,000 In 1906 to With draw His Opposition to the Old Tribal Contracts Muskogee, Okla., August 6. Xot only Jake L. Humon, but .7. F. McMurray was named as a would bp briber in the inves tigation of the $30,000,000 Oklahoma In dian land deal, before the special congres sional committee here. McMurray is the holder of the contracts with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, to promote which in Congress Senator Thomas P. Gore charged he was offered a bribe. D. C. McCurtain, a Choctaw Indian and a delegate to Washington for his trilse, charged that McMurray. in 1 !((, offered him a brilie of $2.1,000 to with draw opposition to the old tribal Mc- .Murray contre.cts. which Biibe(Uently were disapproved by President Roosevelt. Green McCurtain, chief of the 18.000 Choctaws and a venerable Indian of (12 years with gray hair and brown plump cheeks, then took the stand and told the committee that one George W. Scott. whom he lielieved acted in the interest of McMurray, had offered him one-fourth of the "profits" to be realized from the land deal, provided he induced the tribe to withdraw all opposition to the deal. This offer referred to new contracts held by McMurray. which are the cause of the present investigation. The amount of the brilie mentioned by D. C. McCurtain, who is a son of the chief, is the same as that which Senator Gore alleges was offered him on May 0 last uy .itiKc llamon to put through the pending contracts which, according to Senator Gore, would result in the sellinu of 4.10.000 acres of coal, asphalt and timber lands, owned by the Indians, to a Xew York syndicate on a basis that would give McMurray nnd his associates an "attorney's fee" of 10 per cent, or $.1,000,000. The presentation of - the churncs UL'iiinst McMurray followed another day of sensational testimony, during which .senator Lharles lurtis. of Kansas, and Congressman If. S. McGuire, of Okla homa, appeared on the stand to refute statements they were interested in the lenl. -TWO PRESIDENTS MEET. Chili's Chief Magistrate Calls Upon Taft at Beverly. Beverly, Mass. (Special). The Presi dent of the T'nited States and the Presi dent of Chili met here with an exchange of formalities that were cordially in formal. Occurring as it Bid In the quiet and secluded precincts of Rurgess Point, where Mr. Tnft's modest summer cottage is located, the meeting was robbed of much of the pomp and circumstances that would have been the case in Wash ington or in any other capitol. The only suggestion of military cere mony came from the guns of the' Presi dential yacht Mayflower, which conveyed President Taft and Mrs. Montt and sev eral members of their suite from Boston to Beverly and paid them due honors. President and Mrs; Taft ' entertained the Chilean chief executive and his wife at luncheon. The other guests included the Secretary of State, Mr. Knox; Gov ernor Draper and Mrs. Draper; Miss Mabel Doardman, president of the Ameri can Red Cross; the Chilean charge d'Af faircs, Mr. Ynacham; Brigadier General Carter and Secretary Charles D. Xorton. THE CHARLTON CASE. SLUMP IN AUTO BUSINESS Bottom Seems to Have Dropped Out Notwithstanding Boosting Efforts of Manufacturers. New York. Indications point to the bottom having fallen out of the auto mobile business. The manufacturers, it is reported in trade circles, are making strenuous efforts to keep tip a show of continued prosperity, but it is also said that they are not selling their product, but are storing machines throughout the country at their various agencies to pre vent the public rculizinjf the true condi tions of the market. Several large concerns arc laying off men and giving all sorts of reasons for so doing except the statement that they are overstocked. Two or three of the largest factories recently closed entirely, ostens ibly for the pur)Hise of taking inventory, but the workmen were not given any definite time at 'which to again report for work, and it is not expected that these factories will aguin lie in operation this year. A well-known automobile agent of this city said yesterday that all cars would undoubtedly he selling at from 2.1 per cent, to 50 per cent, less than present list prices within the next two or three months. He added: "The trouble with the automobile busi ness is that the farmers and people of the smaller cities and towns have not taken as kindly to the idea as was antici pated. Tlie farmers find that the cost of keeping them in repair and operation la more tnun the cost of keeping horses to perform the same work, and while there was, for a time, a tendency among the farmers to invest in the maclu'nes, he demand for cars from this class of buyers has practically stopped, and 1 venture to say we will not again sell to the farmers to any extent-until prices ore materially reduced." Italy's Demand for Extradition Re ferred to Jersey Justice. Washington, D. C. (Special). What U assumed to be Italy's formal demand for the extradition of Porter Charlton, the young Americun in the Hudson County (N. J.) jail, charged with having killed his wife, Mrs. Scott Cnstle Charlton, at Lake Como, Italy, has reached the State Department. The papers came in a packet postmarked "Manchester, Mass." They were not even opened. Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson knew that they bore upon the Charlton case. Tha case has not reached the jurisdiction of the Department. Therefore, the papers were returned to the Italian Embassy, whence they came, and which has its seat for the summer on the Massachu setts coast. , Accompanying thp packet upon its re turn anil explanatory of the reason for the course taken by the Department was a note from Mr. Wilson submitting that the case lay with the Xew Jersey court, and that papers liearing upon it should be presented to the magistrate before whom the case was pending. X'ot until action has been taken by the court will the case of Charlton reach the State Department, when Secretury Knox may lie called upon to pass on the ques tion of extradition. Lightning Kills Three. Schenectady, X, Y. (Special). Spencer Lockrow, of Grooms,. Saratoga county, a farmer, and his two harvest helpers, Andrew Kcker and Simon Watson, wero killed by lightning. The team they were driving also were shocked to death. Nine Burned By Acid. Philadelphia (Special). Seven girls, a boy and a man were terribly burned by the bursting of several carboys con taining vltrol for use in chemical fire engines. The accident occurred on Ridge avenue, when a supply wagon belonging to the fire department broke down. The children were being given a ride by the driver, Kichard Grear, wno was serving the vitrol to the various firehouses when the axle of the wagon broke. The glass carboys containing the acid were hurled upon the nouiea oi the riuers. Ice Cream From Hailstones. Derbv. Conn. (Special). Twelvo hours after one of the severest hailstorms ever seen in this section. Representative ITart 8. Culver, of Seymour, picked up two large pailsful of hailstones. Mrs. Culver useu inem lo ireeza ine cream ior uinner. Madric May Flee. Blueflelds, Nicaragua (Special). A dispatch received here eaye that Es tradas army is at the gates ol Managua, and that President Madrta has a ship standing off the coast read to flee to Mexlpo. , Bees Go Through Hat. Watcrbury, N. J. (Special). The vaunted reputation of the "rut" as a pro tection against injury was destroyed in the swoop of a hand of rampant bees, when Mrs. Carlton Hendrickson was frightfully stung. Mrs. Hendrickson had gone into her lima bean patch, when John Pinska's bees attacked tier, stinging through her hair, and even through a large "rat" she wore. A daughter has been busy since then, picking "stingers" from her face and head. Last year about this time Hendrickson was similarly at tacked, as he was about to pick beans, and this year he decided to turn the picking over to his wife. 500 See Man Kill Himself. St. Louis (Special). A man identified from papers in his pockets as Henry E. Wasson, formerly traveling auditor of the Missouri Pacific, who has been missing from his home in Leavenworth, Kan., shot and killed himself on the baseball urounds of ,'aroiwiolet Park. Wesson's iirother in law had asked the police to assist him in searching for Wasson. rive hundred pieknickers saw the man kill himself. Clerk of Church Killed. Lexington, Ky. (Special). Henry Martin, clerk of the Bock Creek Baptist Church, in Whitley county, was killed in the structure, according to dispatches received here. Martin was shot in the hack as the result of a business dispute, it is said. The church is one in which Itev. Isaac Vannver and Kev. Isaac I'erry recently fought during an ecclesi astical trial, Yanover being killed. Oil Well in City. Pittsburg, l'a. (Special). Oil has been struck in the midst of the busy hum of the city. Within a few feet ui a street where the trolley clangs by every few minutes a well was brought in on the north side, and during the day flowed 00 barrels. Xinetecn years ago this loca tion was known as Jacks linn, and at that time oil was struck, but so many wells were driven that the' duvalopnient was soon exhausted. ' The strike has caused a flurry among the neighbors. The oil is of high grade, and is found in the hundred-foot sand. Killed Hit Benefactor. Oakland, Cat. (Special.) Despond ent because he believed he was about to be turned out of the house of friends with whom he had lived for some time, William Cooper, formerly of New York, shot and killed Mrs. Hurley Buss, dan gerously wounded her husband and fatally wounded himself. Conner slept on a mattress in the kitcheh. When Mrs. Buss came into the room to prepare breakfast, Cooper fired two shots into her head. She fell dead. Buss received a bullet In his neck, and the murderer fired the last shot in bis weapon Into bis own head. COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN A MINER'S HUT Travels Incognito to Study Life in Coal Fields. WANTS THE FACTS AT FIRST HAND. The Colonel Takes Up Sociology and Breezes Into Dickson, Pa., Unan nouncedTalks to Silk Mill Girls in Streets Accompanies Coal Be grimed Miner to His Home. Scranton, Pa. (Special). Mr. Koosc- velt has turned sociologist. He has for saken the field of politics for the time being and is now a social worker. He came into the heart of the anthracite coal regions of Central Pennsylvania to see how the miners live and what they do. The Colonel, with all of his charac teristic vigor and energy, spent 10 hours visiting the, homes of 'the workers, in specting the mines themselves and taking a look into the conditions of the young women who are employed in the silk mills near here. He had "a perfectly bully time. The mystery of his sudden dis appearance from Xew York has been solved. ; The Colonel admitted that on his way across the Atlantic six weeks ago he was attracted by an article in a mngazine describing the folks who live in these neglected parts. He thought that some thing ought to be done for the unfortu nates who hove no means of real legiti mate amusement when they emerge from the dark recesses of the mines or the study silk mills. He decided to come up nnd see for himself and travel incognito if possible. Mr. Roosevelt has done many things. He has shot wild game, played politics, tennis and ever so many other pastimes, but despite the hand he had in the dis putes of the coal miners he never saw at close range how they do it. He traveled throntrh the Lackawanna valley in an automobile, whizzed over dirty, hot roads, had lunch in a dairy establish ment, where there were not enough glasses to go around, and met the men who whooped it up for him until the Colonel beamed and beamed. The identity of the ex-President was unknown for a good part of the trip. Rough, hearty workers, covered with soot, grasped his hand and told him that he was the goods. He liked that, too. Mr. Roosevelt declared thnt his idea in coming up here was merely to inspect and nothing else. He said that any con clusions to be drawn from this flying visit will be drawn by him. NOT ASSASSINATED. Mayor Bousman Believed to Have Blown Himself Up. Roanoke, Ya. (Special). Mayor H. A. flousnuin, of Ridgeway, a small town in Henry county, B0 miles south of Roanoke, on the Xorfolk and Western Railway, who had both his legs blown off by dynamite while lying under a tree on the lawn of his yard Sunday night, July 24, and died several hours later, was not assassinated. The Mayor killed himself In attempt ing to blow off his feet, so that he might secure 0,0()0 accident insurance, to gave himself and family from poverty. Detective Joseph Funk, of the Baldwin Detective Agency, of Roanoke, the chief detective working on the case, after fol lowing numerous clues, decided that Iloiisman himself set off the dynamite that caused his death, and he so officially reported to the Town Council of Ridge way and his report has been accepted by the members of the council and by Bous lnan's friends generally. It has developed that Housman was in volved financially, iwo life policies, one for 1.000 and another for twice that amount were also taken out a short time ago, Bousman giving his notes for the premiums. It is believed all the policies will he paid. While the evidence that ho was the victim of his own act convicts the public mind, it can hardly be put he fore a jury in such shape to prove legally that his policies are forfeited. Detec tive Punk believes Housman held the stick of dynamite between his legs and lighted the fuse with his burning cigar. Uncle Sam Well Off. Washington, D. C. (Special). A grand total of cash in tho treasury of $1,733,. 067. HUH, a total balance in the general fund of R2,35o,224, a working balance in the treasury offices of $'IO02.824 and a decrease of $603,130 in the public debt during July is the way the monthly treasury statements show the situation. Admiral Schofield Dead. Stamford, Conn. (Special). Rear Ad miral Walter Keeler Scofleld, United StaU-s Xavy, retired, died at his home in this city of infirmities due to old age. He was horn In Stamford, April 2H, 18311, and was educated at Columbia. He en tered the naval servire in July, 1H01, as a surgeon and was advanced through the various grades up to that of director in 1800. He was retired in 1801 with th rank of rear admiral. He saw serv ice with Farragut's fleet off Charleston and off the coast of Florida. ' Met Death in Thrasher. Cellna, Ohio (Special). Two men are dead following the explosion of a thrash ing machine engine on J. A. Doner's farm, seven miles east of here. They are J. If. Vonderhaar, of Kort Recovery, and Wil liam RudhnfT, of St. Anthony. Vonder haaf was instantly killed. SudhorT lin gered until morning. , , Kill! White Groundhog. ' Branchville. N. J. (Special). Howard Cole killed a white groundhog with a club on John McDonald's farm, near here. It is te first white groundhog erer seen lo Busses county and Is to be aseuntcd. OR. CRIPPEN WILL FIGHT fOR HIS LIFE lie Will Make No Resistance to Extradition, ACCEPT SERVICES OF LONDON SOLICITOR, The Prisoner Declares, ' However, That a Sturdy Defense Will Be Put Up When His Case Comes to Trial In London Development of the Search for Evidence to Convict Him) Case of the Crown for Extradi-1 Significant' tion Completed Very Omission, Quebec (Special). Dr. Hawlcy II. Crippen cabled to Arthur Newton, of London, accepting the solicitor's offer to defend him on the charge of murder. The message ran: "Accept your offer. Secrecy will be observed." A second Quebec attorney sent word to the prisoner that he was ready to help him resist extradition. To the jailer who bore the communication Crip pen said: "My fight will not be made here. It will be made on the other side." Crippen made it clear that he would not accept legal assistance from anyone here. Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, said that the prisoner hud not confessed to the murder of Belle K I more, his wife. Joseph Morin, Crinncn's iniler, was equally positive that no word of con fession had come from the dentist s hps. Crlppen's acceptance of the offer of counsel would seem further to indicate that he intends to maintain his attitude of silence. And the few words that came directly from the prisoner himself indi cated anything but the mood of a self confessed murderer. He told one of his keepers thnt he would make no fight here, but was prepared to Relit when he came to trial in London. An effort to learn anything about the friends that the liOndon solicitor says are willing to pay the expenses of his defense was as fruit less here as it is said to have been in London. The hie ornv stone iail on the Heichts of Abraham, where Crippen is confined, nas Become the foremost of gucbec many points of interest. The "seeino Quebec, ' trolley cars stop nearby so that uie tourists wno throng the city tn sum mer may have a chance to gaze into the window of the corridor where the alleged wife-slayer takes hi's exercise. Miss Leneve did not future in the day's crop of rumors. She continues to spend niuu iiiii-ii(v in me prison innrmary and is said to be improving in health. She is beine keot there not because her condition any longer demands it, but that she may not come in contact with other women prisoners who might, the once lear, annoy her and so aggrevate er extreme nervousness. The pretty typist is better sunnlied with funds than is her mole companion. While but $18 was found on Crippen. the girl carried $00 in currency. A largo fart of this sum was used by the prison matron to purchase clothing suitable for her charge. The authorities continue their extremely considerate treatment of the girl, but continued reports that 8he has made admissions damaging to Crip-, pen or in the way of establishing her own' innocence are denied. Crippen's comparative calm cives. ae-i cording to his keepers, a positive refuta-i : . a ,, '.. . , , nun ui ma iiiicgauon mnue in ixinaon that he had been addicted to the use ol1 drugs. A Soft-Hearted Man. Lebanon, l'a. (Special). Rather than: press his fellow-citizens by process of law to pay delinquent taxes. Dallas F.J Shroff, of this city, gent a load of rabbit) shot into his body and died instuntly im the chicken house in the rear of his. home. The tragedy was planned with' such cool deliberation that the case is unique in the history of suicides of! Lebanon county. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. One hundred and twentv-four sail nrt. steam vessels were uuilt in this country! last year. j Census returns show the population of Houston, Tex., to be 78,800. I The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that during January, February and March of this year 1,100 were killed and 21,232 were injured on the railroads in-this country. One of the first questions the Sunreme Court will have to pass upon whed it convenes is the constitutionality of the Kansas Bank Depositories Guaranty Law. The church and State are working hand in hand in the Panama Canal Zone and accomplishing good results, accord ing to the latest issue of the Canal Rec ord. Horace A. Taylor, for many A ears an assistant secretary of the Treasury, died after an illness of six months, aged 73 years. Forest fires on the national forest ie- serves in Montana and Idaho will result in a loss of nearly half n million dollars. New Orleans is prepariiiL' a novel boom for the Panama Canal Kxposition by priiiiiiiK iuuipnn:i 111 r.jn-ruiil.o. The population of Porto Rico at siiowii by the census, is 1,118,012, nil increase of 17.3 per cent, fn 11 years. Postmaster General Hitchcock stated that he hopes to wipe out the nostul deficit by next year. Services were held throughout the Revenue Cutter Service commemorating the one hundred and twentieth anni versary of its establishment. The President granted a rrprlevo to lohn Wynne, an n i t on the steamer Rosencrans, who killed Third Assistant Engineer McKinnon. Mildew among the grape vines of th champagne district in r'rrncc is causing the vine growers serious concern. President Ta't has commuted the sentence of Arvi, B. TomI, who is dying in Fremont (Neb.), jail. Dr. Salinas charges that Zeluya money is being used to help Estrada in his fight against Madriz. Ihe new ccnus give Cincinnati a population of 304,403. The Virainfa Fru't Kxchnnire has filed complaint with the Interstate Commis sion against the 11. ft (., which advanced freight rates n peaches and apples 20 per cent. A central clearing house is to be estab lished in each Stato to settle all matters connected with the postal savings bank system, , , Geoige Otis Smith, director of the Geo logical Purvey, left lor Copenhagen to at tend the International Geological Con gress. Midshipman Raymond O. Tbomss was commended by the Secretary of the Navy for becole conduct. The first permit for the develonmcnt of water power sites waa granted to r oompany at Dulutb. I The covernment will build one of th two new Dreadnoughts at the New TorkV Navy Yard. , Pennsylvania Coatesville. That Charles Morton . roller in the 140-inch mill of the. LuUm Iron and Steel Company, still lives it considered a miracle by the physicians at the Cnntesvillc Hospital, and 'his ccap, from Instant death after a piece of Med about an inch square had passed entirely through his body is one of the nun! peculiar ever recorded from the mills here. He was pushing a plate throncli the rolls, when a piece of steel cracked and Morton was struck. He was takm to the hospital, where it was found that the missile had passed through his l,n,, and lodged In the skin in the hack. An operation was performed in which a rid and the steel were removed, l'livsicinm say that if blood poison dia-s nnt'develnp lie will recover. , Harrisbiirg. "Our reports fmni l over the State show that there will fa only about a half crop of apples in Penn sylvania this year," said State Krnnnnii, Zoologist Surface. "Frosts last spring Injured the trees in the western anI northwestern counties, but the yield - be larger in the eastern counties. I)rT weather has done some harm, but vhil the quantity is lowered, the quality it liettcr, and the growers will get holier prices than last year. Pennsylvania, n fact, is becoming one of the "het nppl. States in tho country, and dealers are roming hero for purchases who never Mime before." York. Charged with violating the eit v health laws, Dennis Crimminx. Jr., Im been arrested and sentenced to tin duvi in jail. It is alleged that Crimmins left his home while his daughter Myrtle was confined in bed with an attack' of dm),, theria. Crimmins alleges that he had to leave the house in order to get provi sions for his family and rather than pay fine of fifty dollars he says lie will go to jail. GAL. 1 NEWS 11:00 A. M. SAT. Chester. Five minutes after he cimk d a. joke with a member of the crew of tue Canadian steamship Yineland, at tin Keystone Plaster Company's wharf. Frank Simms, 35 years old, engineer nf the hoisting apparatus of a coal baipe, tripcd while descending a ladder, strik ing his head on the side of the nearby barge. The blow stunned him and he fell helpless into the water and drowned. Media. Justice of Oe Peace Howard Keidner, of Upper Providence, is now ia jail in default of $300 bail for alleged wife desertion. Justice Keidner. some days ago, it is alleged by his wife, mild out his effects and went to Philadelphia, Where it is charged by his wife, he has an "affinity." He was arrested in Phila delphia by Constable Lewis Doits and brought to Media. Ashland. An automobile owned ly John Krug, of Mt. Curmel. crashed into an engine on the P. & 1!. crosing at Third street, resulting In the instant death of Krug, the fatal injury of Wat kin Williams, and the serious injury of Miss Elizabeth Itoilly. Reading. Farmers living in lower Berks County have appealed to the au thorities for protection from chicken thieves. During the past month hen coops have been visited and a number cf chickens stolen. Media. John Sawyer, a retired busi ness man. of Providence, II. I., anil a veteran of tho Civil War, died at Wal lingford. He is survived by his wife, Interment will be on Saturday at Provi dence, R. I. Harrisbiirg. The State Railroad Com mission decided to ask Ford, Bacon mid Davis, its experts investigating the trol ley service in Philadelphia, to inqu.ro into the recent allegation that tho Philadelphia Rapid Transit Coinp.it.y ii needlessly distressing its patrons by re quiring them to ride in improperly venti lated cars. The complaint refcired to these cars as "tireless cookers." Reading. A severe cut ir. the left leg, as the result of falling out of a team, which developed lockjaw, caused the death of 13-year-old Charles Mogul, of this city. The boy fell cut of a wagon at Fleetwood, where ho was spending liU vacation. Chester. Leaning too fur out of tin second-story window of his home to ascer tain if burglars were trying to force an entrance into Herbert R. Wells' store, in the western part of the city, Peter Mur ray lost his balance and was precipitated to the ground. He sustained a compound fracture of the leg and lies in a serious condition at the Chester Hospital. Erie. The first presentation of fund's "Chantecler" in the United Mate wus given in Erie by Miss Katharine Johnston, a prominent dramatic reader and translator of French lyrics. Both translation and interepretution were muit highly commended by a critical auilifiu Reading. At Birdslioro Andrew Our, aged S.i years, afflicted with heurt dis ease, ran into his house for a gun t" shoot a neighbor's chickens which X"' into his vard. The exertion of runninz and Wring were too much for him and be '-I 1 It t.:1l...l it-.,, iirllH'u ueau. uuc was a pkiiu-u " worker. Chester. A score of employees at the Kddystone Print Works battled with supposed rabid dog that came dasliin; into the yard of tho plant at noon. Jul1" Baker and Owen Dougherty were bitten, while a number of women and boys hud narrow escapes, fleeing to places of safely on fences, boxes and barrels. Pittsburg. Fourteen arrests, among the number some of Pittsburg's men affairs, is the result of an anti-sidewalk spitting crusade inaugurated by the polics department. Officers in plain clothes r patrol ing the streets. A magistrate is discharging the arrested persons with a warning. Chester. St. Gabriel's Roman Catho lic Church at Norwood was entered by thieves, who carried away the silver mounted candlehras, several dollars fnaa the poor box, the priest's robe and other articles. Sanford. Because of a shortage ef or ders for goods, notices were posted in tat woolen mills of Kanford, Kennukunk sud Sprlngvale announcing that until further notice the factories will be operated but four days weekly. About 2,000 bunds affected. Chester. George J. St. Leger died sf ter a long Illness, aged 88 y". ft many years be bad charge of the Holly Tree Hall theatrical bouse and th Chester Free Library. Ue was a bseb lor and reputed to be worth considerate noney. , . '
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