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Fulton County News
., McConnellsburg, Pa.
SCHOOLS IN PUBLIC PAHKS.
' Boston's finance commission hat
graced Itaelf upon record as favoring
the building of one of the public
bohools In one of Boston's public
twits. If the suggestion should be
beted upon by the Boston city govern
ment It would probably Involve a
unique experiment. A schoolhouse Is
tt be built In a portion of the city
Cher property Is high-priced, and
-en at a high price It Is dimcult to
ket a suitable site. In Washington
Wrk the city hus nn area of 306,125
quare feet In such location as to
(nuke an Ideal site. Fays the St. Paul
Dispatch. The commission argues that
Ibe school building will occupy but
11,000 square feet of this space, and
Unit the curtailing of tho breathing
we a will, then fore not be serious. On
the other hand, the fact of having a
School In the park will attract to It
maximum number of children and
rproniote thp object of the park.
While the lin.-incc commission does
not wish to make lis recommendation
A precedent, it has In It a suggestion
of value. The plan might be worked
both ways, locating schools where con
venient in public parks so as to give
the children a maximum of ground for
recreation, and tinning the grounds
about such building Into breathing
tipots for the use of the neighbor
5oods, especially In vacation times.
A Brooklyn woman lately wrote to
the marriage licence bureau of that
-lty to know If she could be supplied
with a good, honest, sober husband.
The clerk in charge explained that,
"while he had a few model men on
band, they were nil married and the
upply was entirely too limited for
the demand. The fact that the matri
monial market Is understocked with
Tnonest, sober husbands may be one
reason why the divorce courts are
overcrowded.
The pessimist can always find food
for gloomy thought. The facts that the
census shows a big Increase In popu
lation while the death rate Is de
creasing will prove to that individual,
-who. like the proverbial Scotchman, is
sever happy unless he Is miserable,
that the nation is going to be over
crowded until somebody has to be
hoved off the earth to make room for
tie rest.
Those who have been wondering as
to whether America would produce a
new race have their answer. The
kobbk) skirt race has been inaugura
ted on Long Island. It was won, in
even falls.
That marriage Is the worst kind of
failure is the opinion of a Gotham
broker who is paying bis first wife
tt40 a month alimony and whose sec
ond wife wants alimony to the tune of
500 more.
Trust science to rise to every emer
ency. It says we are all going In
aae from living in flats, and now a
Wench surgeon is going to saw open
four beads and scrape away the foolish
ifanclea.
A Japanese scientist claims that be
eaa educate oysters to produce per
fect pearls. This may be glad news,
bow that the season is open to the
gwtrona of the restaurant pearl flab-tries.
Football this year will have to com
pete with aviation, hut as there seems
to be no good way to use a college yell
to connection with an airship the grid
Iron sport will have some advantages.
A Tokyo cable announces the Japa
nese will make a dash for the south
pole to try and beat the American and
iBrltlah expeditions. The more the
ncrrter. And may the best man win.
Otrto caught shoplifting In Philadel
phia explained that "they wanted to
Im stylish." In order to satisfy that
(desire they should have confined their
fcnledeeds to smuggling.
A western man claims he is Insane
Ism brings forward as proof the fact
.that be was married three times In
Ware months, "insano" Is an inade
qwate word, we opine.
New York baa formed a league to
tmolsb French from the bill of fare.
.Merely to call a chef a cook would be
m groat gain.
We gather that the Brooklyn worn
wbo named sixty-three co-respon-dents
in her divorce suit, really de
serves to win It
New York bulldog turns on the gas
mnd commits suicide. Even a dog
cant stand the dog's life a New York
er leads.
Now the sultan of Sulu says that
tuae wife Is a plenty. Thus be destroys
ills usefulness as a comlo opera proo.
'i Sauerkraut Is superior to beans as
V diet, says Button scientist Bos-
tonlans will tako Heps to deport blm
to the Fatherland. .
President Simon of Haiti refuses to
ride in an automobile, which Is proof
"enough that be likes bis Job and wants
to bacg on to It.
U seems to be the opinion that a
man can drink a quart of whisky all
right, but ibal h can't carry It far.
D. S. GOVE
TO TAKE A HAND
Geo. Valladares Will Have
Vacate Amapala.
to
OPEN DEFIANCE OF PRESIDENT DAVIU
Outlaw Commandant Of tlie. Island
Of Amapala, the Pacific Tort. Of
Honduras American tJunboat
Princeton Lying Off the Place
Tort Closed und the Island In
State Of Siege On. Valladares
Hates Americans.
Tecuclgalpa, Honduras (Special).
Gen. Jose Valladares, the outlaw
commandant of the Island of Ama
pala, the raciflc port of Honduras,
still holds the western entrance to
the republic. He has assumed a
"come and take me" attitude. The
American gunboat Princeton lies off
tho town of Amapala, and Comman
der Hayes will likely take steps to
prevent further trouble.
General Valladares, whoao Impla
cable hatred of Americans led him In
to offenses against foreigners general
ly, bas long held undisputed away on
Amapala, which, being tho site of the
customhouse, now affords him an ex
cellent strategic position. At the
solicitation of foreign interests Presi
dent Davila, who has bad reason to
have a wholesome irespect for the
General's fighting abilities, recently
persuaded Valladares to come to the
capital, and exacted a promise that
he would surrender his office as com
mander of the Amapala garrison.
The President thereupon appointed
Gen. Callxto Carias as commandant
of Amapala.
On Tuesday Valladares returned to
Amapala, ostensibly to transfer his
eommand to his successor, and to
pick up his belongings, with the Idea
of leaving the Island permanently.
However, the General was no soon
er back on his old stampjng ground
than he took command of the garri
son of the fort, and announced his
rebellion against the government of
Honduras.
President Davila subsequently
called upon him to surrender. Val
ladares promptly, and emphatically
refused, and apparently Is preparing
for hostilities from whatever source
tbey may develop.
The Honduran government bas a
very small army, and, as Valladares
has several hundred armed followers
and Is reported to have several mod
ern machine guns, it is thought that
President Davila will ask the assist
ance of this government in its efforts
to get rid of the trouble-maker of
Amapala.
Noted for his hatred of foreigners,
Valladares recently publicly announc
ed that he had named his dog "Tart"
In order to show h's contempt for the
American government.
BROKEN NECK NO BAR
Football Colleg'tn Hop?s to Get in
the Game Again.
Richmond, Ind. (Special). Al
though his neck was broken 13 days
ago in the game between Cincinnati
University and Karlham, Kenneth
Brooks Is back at his studies In Earl
bam College without having his neck
in a sling, and he wants to play foot
ball again. But he is prevented, from
doing so this fall by strict orders
from his physician, who told him,
however, that he could get back on
the gridiron next fall.
When Brooks was carried off the
field after making a hard tackle In
which he was bent back, the X-ray
showed that one of the cervical verte
brae was out of Joint, but not far
enough to press upon the spine. His
neck only had to be kept In a sling
a few days until the dislocated and
reset part should rtow stronger.
KNEW WHO BLKW IP MA INK.
Francis Atwater Says He Kent the
Facte To Government.
Merlden, Conn. (Special). Form
er State Senator Francis Atwater, of
this city, who was publishing a news
paper at Havana, Cuba, at the time
the Maine was blown up, commenting
on the statement of Captain Brady at
Kansas City to the effect that the
ship had been blown up from the
outsido and that the government
knew the details of the happening
years ago, afllrmed the story.
Mr. Atwater says he sent a cable
gram to this country on November 4,
1899, telling of Zalvadb's destruc
tion of the warship and his accom
plices, the Information, according to
Mr. Atwater, having been given him
by a detective, who told him also that
Zalvado had been poisoned and that
one of his accomplices stood ready to
confess the full details of the plot.
At that time all the information
obtainable, said Mr. Atwater, was
sent to the then Secretary of War,
but while the letter was acknowl
edged, no further notice was taken of
It so far as Mr. Atwater knew.
FOR THE RED CROSS
A $2,000,000 FUND
President Taft Names Special
Committees to Act.
FOR ANSWERING EMERGENCY CALLS
The General Committee Will Consist
Of Endowment Subcommittees In
Every Large CHy To Have Charge
Of the Campaign For liaising That
City's Fort inn Of the Endowment
Fund.
PLAYED WITH MATCHES.
POSTAGE OX MAGAZINES.
Higher Hate Not To Apply To Sci
entific Or Literary Heading.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
plan to Increase the postal charges on
certain magazines does not Include
such publications as are scientific,
literary or devoted principally to
reading matter. Postmaster General
Hitchcock purposes making the in
crease apply only to those so-called
popular magazines, of which adver
tisements form a large part. The
plan whereby such magazines will be
made to bear a larger proportionate
part of the expenses of the operation
of the mall service is now being
worked out under the direction of the
Postmaster General. The depart
ment, it is asserted, Has no intention
to curtail or impede in any way the
circulation of the scientific or liter
ary magazines in which advertise
ments do not figure extensively.
KILLS HIMSELF I.V HOSPITAL.
Cancer Patient Fires Ballet Into
Brain In Brooklyn.
New York (Special). Helped by
some friend, it Is believed, in secur
ing means to carry out his desire to
die, Charles Sembrecht, a cancer pa
tient, committed suicide by shooting
In the Seney Hospital in Brooklyn.
An engineer stumbled over his body
In the basement of the hospital. In
his right band was clutched a re
volver, and there was a deep bole In
bis right temple. No one in the hos
pital bad ever seen the revolver be
fore, and It is believed that some
friend of the sufferer bad smuggled
the weapon Into blm.
The Oldest Postmaster.
Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). Jos
eph Dreyfus, aged ' 80 years, post
master at Hales Corners, near Mil
waukee, died of general debility. Mr.
Dreyfus was said to have been the
oldest postmaster in the service, as
well as age, In the United States. He
had been a government official about
40 years.
Newspaper Plant Burned.
Macon, Ga. (Special). The
Macon Telegraph Building was al
most completely destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at $100,000,
with 180.000 Insurance. Raymond
Clay, of Knoxville, Tenn., a printer,
was burned to death. Only about
half of the files of the paper, dating
back for 76 years, were saved. The
fire, so far as can be learned, started
from a lighted watch carelessly
thrown Into some paper at the back
of the building.
Hugh J. Grant ltaad.
New York (Special). Hugh J
Grant, twice mayor of New York,
died of heart disease at bis home, 20
East Seventy-second street. When
be came home from bis office, Mr.
Grant complained of feeling 111, but
he said be thought the distress would
speedily pass away. Instead It grew
worse, and at about 10.10 o'clock
Mrs. Orant Insisted that his physi
elan. Dr. George Montagu Swift, of
10 West Fifty-fifth street, be sent
for. Before Dr. Swift reached Mr.
Grant's hoase bo was dead.
Two Boys Bnmed To Death and One
Seriously Injured.
Springfield, Mass. (Special).
Three small hoys playing with
matches started a fire that burned
two of them to death and Injured the
third so seriously that he is not ex
pected to recover. The boys burned
to death were Harry and Robert
Wheeler, aged eight and nine years,
respectively, and the third boy Is Wil
liam Knox, 10 years old.
Tho boys were playing In the cel
lar of the Knox boy's house, where
there was a quantity of paper and
excelsior In the cellar, and when the
little chaps started a fire the excel
sior caught and filled the celler with
flames.
Mrs. George Knox, the mother of
William, and her infant child were
In bed In an upper room when the
fire .broke out. Both were removed
in safety by the neighbors. The prop
erty loss was slight.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
President Taft announced the ap
pointment of a special committee of
eminent men in all parts of the coun
try who are to undertake the raising
of a $2,000,000 endowment fund for
the American National Bed Cross So
ciety. The chairman will bo Frank
lin MacVeagh. Secretary of the
Treasury, while Charles D. Norton,
private secretary of the President,
will be the vice-chairman.
The general committee will consist
of endowment subcommittees in
every large city, to have charge of
the campaign for raising that city's
portion of the endowment fund.
Tho Red Cross Society now has no
real endowment, and It is considered
very desirable that there should be
a permnnent fund of not less than
$2,000,000, which may be so Invested
as to net an Income of $100,000 or
$120,000 annually for use by the so
ciety. The principal Is not to be
touched, only the Income being used.
This Is the second movement of
the kind in which the President has
taken an active Interest. He indors
ed heartily the plan to raise $3,000.
000 for the extension of the work of
the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion in foreign lands.
The Red Cross endowment fund, if
raised and invested, will place the
work of that organization on a sub
stantial basis. The society in the
past has been called upon suddenly
in emergencies and generally has had
to Issue a call for funds. By having
a large reserve fund the society will
be in position to do much more ef
fective work on the spur of the mo
ment when the call for help is made.
Many prominent financiers, business
snd professional men, besides jurists
and civic leaders, are to be placed
upon the committees, and It is be
lieved that little difficulty will be ex
perienced in raising the fund when
the purpose for which it Is to be
used is understood throughout the
country.
KILLED AT FARMER'S GATE.
OIL OX FIRE; FOI R DEAD.
Mother and Three Children Burn
From Kerosene Explosion.
Pekin, 111. (Special). An attempt
to start the kitchen fire with kero
sene cost the lives of Mrs. Mary No
voesel and her three children, twins
aged five years, and a five-months-old
baby.
Mrs. Novoesel was trying to pour
kerosene from a lamp, which Ignited,
and an explosion followed. With
her clothing ablaze she ran Into the
bedroom where hor husband and
three children were asleep. Her
husband had been making frantic ef
forts to smother the flames, but fail
ed to do so and the bed clothing
catching fire the children as well as
the mother were burned to death.
Young Woman's Slayer Himself
Fired At, Ho Says.
Fort Worth, Tex. (Special). Miss
Lula Williams, aged 25 years, daugh
ter of T. L. Williams, a prosperous
farmer, living six miles north of Ar
lington, was shot and killed by R. H.
Bates, Bged 40, a farmer. In front ot
Bates' home. Bates stated he was
called to the door and after a pistol
shot had been fired at him, bo seized
a shotgun and fired Into the dark
ness. '
There was no outcry although he
discerned a fleeing figure. An hour
later the woman was found dead In
front of the gate. She was dressed
In a man's overcoat and cap. Bates
Is under arrest.
PLAYER'S JAW BROKEN.
IN AIR FOUR HOURS.
Two Aeronauts Fly From Pittsfleld,
Mass., to Monterey.
Pittsfleld, Mass. (Special). The
two French aeronauts, Jacques Faure
and Walter de Munn, who made a
balloon flight from here In the bal
loon Pittsfleld, landed In Monterey,
twenty miles south of here, accord
ing to a message received here. The
balloonlsts were In the air more than
four hours. Both of the men took
a train for New York shortly after
landing.
Man, 82, and Bride, 48, Elope.
Sterling, 111. (Special). Jacob
Myers, a wealthy farmer, 82 years
old, and Miss Ellen Kraft, 48 years
old, eloped and were married.
Myers' son, 60 years old, objected to
the marriage. The bridegroom has
three great-grandchildren.
Mine .Explosion Kills Four.
Butte, Mont. (Special). Four
miners were Instantly killed and their
bodies blown to shreds by an explo
sion In the Leonard mine, one of the
properties of the Boston and Mon
tana Company. -
Two Killed In Threshing Accident.
Lapeer, Mich. (Special). Charles
Rltch and George Ovlatt were killed
and John Gordon was fatally Injured
when a threshing machine engine
boiler exploded five miles from here.
Ha Harbor Excludes Autos.
Augusta, Me. (Special). Bar
Harbor will continue to get along
without motor-cars. In the Supreme
Court Justice William P. Wbltebouse,
in a rescript, declared the so-called
Bar Harbor automobile exclusion bill
passed by the legislature last year to
be constitutional. Tho bill had the
support of many New York, Boston
and Philadelphia pople who have
summer homes at Bar Harbor, but
was opposed by some of the perma
nent resident.
Kastor. Footballer Does Not Discover
Injury During Game.
Bethlehem, Pa. (Special).' In a
football game here, Hale Francisco,
of Easton, a member of the Spartan
A. C. eleven, received a fractured
Jaw.
The accident occurred when Fran
cisco tackled Half-Back Fehr.
Francisco continued playing, and
when be returned home discovered
that his jaw had been fractured In
three places.
BANK CASHIER A SUICIDE.
Stab nimself When Inspector Starts
Examination.
Georgetown, Texas (Special).
When Bank Examiner Chambers ap
peared at the Weir State Bank to
examine that Institution, Cashier J.
I. Dester stabbed himself In the
throat and died within a few mo
ments. Weir Is a small town a few miles
from Georgetown. The condition of
the bank's affairs bas not been announced.
CHILD IS NOT PROPERTY
A New York Judge Rules it is Ward
of State.
New York (Special). Judge
Bischoff, In the Supreme Court, made
clear the status of a child whose par
ents have been divorced. Mrs. Alice
II. Snead, who obtained a divorce
from Albert C. Snead, applied to have
the decree as to the custody of her
six-year-old girl, Ruth, modified, so
as to give the mother the sole cus
tody. Mrs. Snesd Is now Mrs. J.
Morris, and her first husband bas
also remarried.
The mother now asserts that the
father taught the child to call her
mother Mrs. Morris, and in other
ways tried to alienate her affections.
Counsel for the father denied this.
"The child is the property of
neither parent," Judge Bischoff de
clared. "She Is the ward of the
state. To influence me to modify this
decree you must show me wherein
the temporal or moral welfare of the
child will be benefited.'.'
The court reserved decision.
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Anto and Car Crash.
Grand Rapids, Mich. (Special).
Charles H. Westover, conductor, wa&
killed, and Mrs. Westover, Henry J
Horrlgan, a prominent attorney and
member of the Republican State Com
mittee, and Mrs. jlorrlgan were seri
ously injured In a collision between
an electric street car and an auto
mobile orcupied by the Horrjgans
The auto rapidly turned a sharp cor
ner In front of the car.
Meat Pi-ices To Fall, He Says.
New York (Special). In the
opinion of Tatrlck Cudahy, a Mil
waukee meat packer Just returned
from Europe, there will be a drop ol
10 per cent, in the price of beef and
2 5 per cent, in the price of pork with
in the next year. He bases his opin
ion on the abundant corn crop. For
several years farmers have found It
more profitable t sell their grain
than to hold It cr fodder.
' Georgia Cotton Hurt By Cold.
Atlanta (Special). rCommlsslonei
of Agriculture Thomas G. Hudson
estimated the damage to the rotton
crop in Georgia from the recent cold
weather at $760,000. "I am now
convinced," said Mr. Hudson, "that
the total, production in this State will
not exceed 1,300,000 bales, af
against 1,900,000 or 2,000,000 tdei
normal conditions."
SWEPT BY
GIGANTIC WAVES
Mar Have Been Caused 15) Vol
canic Action. -
THE ISLANDS OFF' C0AS1 CHANGE
Peculiar Convulsion Of Nature On
tho Coast Of Alaska Volcanoes
Recently Spouting Fire and Lava
Hushing Water Carries Vessels
Over the Sandpits and Do Much
Damage Buildings On Xome
Waterfront Flooded.
. Germany Buys Aeroplanes.
Berlin (Special). The War Office
acquired aeroplanes of five different
types. These comprise the Wright,
gammer, Farman and Avatlk biplanes
and the Ettrlck monoplane. Various
tests of a far-reaching character will
be made with these machines and
the. Government will then make ex
tensive purchases' for the army.
Makes Home a Shambles.
Lawrencevllle, Ga. (Special).
Joseph Wallace, a prominent merch
ant of this place, shot and killed hit
wife and 13-year-old son, fatally
wounded his 16-year-old boy, drove
two daughters away from home, and
then turned tbe revolver on himself
ending his own life, at bis borne here
No cause baa been given for the deed
Kills Wife and Himself.
Chicago (Special). John Sekanl
M. who deserted his wife a year ago.
entered the little grocery conducted
hv the latter, shot and killed ber.
wounded the baby In her arms and
then fired a bullet Into his own bead,
dying instantly.'
takes "Not Worth a Ding."
New York (Special). Geraldlne
Farrar, the American opera singer, Is
evidently not going to marry a titled
foreigner, at least not a duke. The
soprano was Informed on her arrival
on the Kaiser Wtlhelm der Crosse
that It was reported she would wed
a duke. "Dukes!," asked Miss Far
rar. "I've met many of them and,
believe me, taking them Individually
and collectively, they are not woth a
ding."
The Taft Chrysanthemum.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Tbe
snow-white lustre of a large chrys
anthemum capping a 9-foot stalk,
with Its foliage of velvet green, at
tracted the attention of large crowds
at the flower show of tbe Department
of Agriculture. Known as the
"President Taft," tbe blossom Is one
of the three largest flowers In the ex
hibit. It bas been nurtured with un
usual care and la considered a horti
cultural triumph.
Burn Man At Stake.
R"ock Springs, Texas (Special).
Atony-Rodlgues, a Mexican, who con
fessed that he murdered Mrs. Lent
Henderson, was burned at the stake
at midnight. He said he killed ber
when she would not answer a ques
tion. Rodlgues showed no emotion
when tied to.the stake and died with
out a plea for mercy.
Budget For 1911, $174,070,838.
New York (Special). The budget
for New York for the year 1911, as
finally adopted by the Board of Esti
mates and signed by all ot the mem
bers of the board, toots up to $174.-
079,335, nearly $11,000,000 higher
than that tor 1910, which amounted
to $163,130,270.
70-Ccnt Drop In Tork Prices.
Cleveland (Special). Hog prices
have dropped approximately 70 cents
in th nast eight davs. according to
quotations on tbe local market.
Dealers say that further declines will
come before the end of the week, and
that the end Is not In sight Tbe
biggest corn crop In history Is assign
ed as the cause.
Ill Japanese Drowned.
Victoria, B. C. (Special). One
hundred and eleven Japanese fisher,
men were drowned off Western Japan
on October 11, wben a storm destroy
ed a large Beet or nsnmg boats.
Portugal Unearths Plot.
Madrid (Special). A special de
spatch from Lisbon to the "Corre
spondencla de Espana" says that
military conspiracy against the re
public bas been unearthed and that
thirty-two officers have been arrested.
French Wheat Crop Below Par.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Tbe
shortage In the crop of French-grown
wheat tbls year Is estimated In a re
port to tbe United States Government
by Consul Hunter Sharpe, of Lyon, al
85,000,000 bushels. .
Hero Loses His Life.
Lynn, Mass. (Special). -To savi
three small children who bad wan
dered onto tbe Boston and Mala
Railroad tracks In front of an ex
press train Stephen Jones gave up hit
life. The children were crossing th
tracks unaware of the approaches
train, wben Jones ran toward , th
spot and warned them of their dan
ger by his shouts so that they escap
ed. He. himself, bad misjudged tlx
speed and distance ot the express
and bis moment of hesitation befor
lesplng to safety cost blm bis Ufa.
Nome, Alaska (Special). A ter
rific surf, unaccompanied by wind oi
disturbance of the air, swept the
beach and across the Nome sandpit,
destroying two houses and 15 cablnt
and doing great damage to shipping.
Several schooners were wrecked. No
lives were lost, but many person!
bad narrow escapes. The watet
swept far up the streets, those neat
the shore being completely Inun
dated. Late at night the surf began to
subside. No one here Is able to ac
count for the phenomenon, which
some attribute to submarine volcanic
action and others to the recent
eclipse. The Water rose to the high
est point ever seen here, reaching fai
above the marks made when Bering
Sea and Norton Sound were lashed
into a fury by the Arctic storms.
The schooner Mary Sachs was pick
ed up from her mooring by the
mighty rush of waters and deposited
In a spit-dweller's yard. All the
other boats laid up for the wlntet
were swept far up on the beach bj
the wave.
Cellars In the stores on Front
street were filled with water and the
stocks soaked. It was only by piling
sand bags about the warehouse ot
the Pacific Cold Storage Companj
that the men were able to prevent
the building from being carried
away. The homeless are being cared
for by their friends.
For several months Mount Bogo
bIov and Mount Shishaldin.'near Una
mak Pass, bas been spountlng firs
and lava at short Intervals, and the
Bogoslov Islands have been under
going peculiar contortions.
Reports are anxiously awaited
from other points along the coast.
LAUGHS SELF TO DEATH.
Joke About Hobble Skirts Is Fatal
To Tailor Of 70.
Eagle, Wis. (Special). A newspa
per story quoting Dr. Ross, of the
state university, as declaring the
hobble skirt would be followed by
ribbons tied around women's noses
and slit cheeks, caused Edward Bos
singham, aged 70, a tailor, to laugh
blmBelf to death. Although physician!
declared that death was due to heart
failure, the heart failure resulted
from hearty laughing.
Tired from his day's work, Mr
Bossingham sat next to his wife be
fore the huge coal stove and laugh
ed while his wife read him the newt
of the day,- column after column
from a Milwaukee newspaper. The
hobble skirt story brought on the
fatal laugh.
00 DAYS ON WATER DIET.
Professor Who Lived On Peanut
Two Months Will Bar Solids.
Aurora, 111. ( Special) . Prof essoi
Thomas J. Allen, former president ol
Aurora College, wbo three years age
lived on raw peanuts for 60 days to
prove their worth as food, announced
that he will go on a 60-day diet oi
water without any solid food, barring
even peanuts.
Dr. Allen read three years ago
that a boy In the southern part ot
the state died from eating too many
peanuts. He said the boy could not
have died from that cause, and to
prove It undertook tbe 60-day peanut
diet, eating them raw. Each day
he allowed himself to be examined
by a physician. He finished tbe 60
days and then feasted on bananas.
Mine Watchman Killed.
Myersdale, Pa. (Special). Wil
liam Tressler, while on duty as
watchman at one of the mines near
here, was shot and killed, seven bul
lets , entering bis body. He Is
thought to have been killed by some
person found near the mine who was
trespassing on the company's prop
erty. To Rebuke Carillo.
Panama (Special). A special
meeting of the municipal council has
been called to dismiss from office Al
derman Antonio Carillo and to repu
diate the speech he made last night
denouncing America and Americans.
The occasion was Independence Day,
and Carillo bad been selected as tbe
official orator.
Suicide Ends Chase. .
Carruthersvllle, Mo. (Special).
While be was being trailed by blood
hounds for the murder of 16-year-old
Anna Austin, Martin Rollins com
mitted suicide by shooting. Rolllnr
shot the girl to death on Monday
last, sent the shells from which tb
fatal charges were fired to hei
mother, fired Sheriff Franklin's barn
and tben fled. Posses had since
been trailing him and bad be' been
caught there was danger ot a lynch
ing. .
P. M.'s Must Not Indorse.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
"Don't Indorse your patrons" li
the warning given . to postmasters
In an order Issued by the
Postofflco Department. It directs
that in view of the difficulties arlslns
through compliance with requests
from patrons for Indorsements, testi
monials or guaranties as to. their
honesty, reliability, etc., postmasters,
In their official capacity, should not
write or sign statement of any such
character. . ,'
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
Bradstreet's says:
"Retail demand and reorder trad,
with Jobbers In seasonable Unci t,
been quickened by the week's wm.
ther developmnts. Collections have
shown a certain degree- of Improve
mnt also and are classed as fair t
good, varying with the sections re
porting. In leading industrial Uw
there Is not much new to chronicle.
In Iron and steel a fair business l
doing and trade Is best in finished
lines, but In the crudor forms It bas
not developed greatly. Where muck.
Is done It is claimed to have been at
the expense ot prices.
"Business failures for the wouk
ended October 27 in the United
States were 220, against 197 ui
week, 217 in the like week of 19flj
241 In 1908, 223 in 1907 and 1(3
1906."
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
"While the volume of business Is
still below productive capacity, it tt
noteworthy that trade recession has
clearly been checked and a mors
optimistic view as to the future de
veloped, based largely on the great
corn and oats crop and tbe high val
ues of farm products. It Is true that
no marked advance has been mad
toward increased activity, but tb
mere stopping of the retrograde
movement is a notable gain, especial
ly as the railroad-rate controvert
Is still unsettled; the power of the
railroads for new construction and
now purchases of rails and other gup.
plies remains undetermined, while
the period Immediately preceding im
portant elections is not generally
favorable to a change of this char
acter. The financial situation still
largely controls the Industrial and
mercantile and much conservatium
prevails that situation is not jet
fully defined."
Wholesale Markets
NEW YORK. Wheat spot steady;
No. 2 red, 98,4c elevator and 98
f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Dulnth.
114 t. o. b. afloat.
Corn spot easy; No. 2 corn, G6u.c.
elevator domestic basis to arrive c.
1. f. and 67 f. o. b. afloat. December
closed 65; May closed 67.
Oats spot firm; standard white,
37c; No. 2, 38c; No. 3, 37; No. 4,
36.
Butter firm; receipts, 6,769 pack
ages; creamery special, 32 032c.
Eggs steady; receipts 8,742 crates;
fresh gathered seconds, 23 24 He.
Poultry alive steady; spring thick
ens, 14c; fowls, 13 014; turkeys,
15 16; dressed steady; Westera
broilers, 16022; fowls, 1317V-j;
spring turkeys, 14 22.
PHILADELPHIA. W heat,
lower; contract grade No. 2 red la
export elevator, 93 94.
Corn steady; December and Jan
uary, 60 61.
Oats firm; No 2 white, natural. 38.
Butter steady; extra Western
creamery, 33c; do, nearby prints, 34.
Eggs firm; unchanged.
Cheese steady; New York full
creams, choice, 15c; do, fair t
good, 14 014; October fancy, UK
016; fair to good, 14914.
. Live poultry steady; fowls, 13
15c; old roosters, 1O011; Bprlne
chickens, 1314; ducks, 16&14;
geese, 14 015; turkeys, 17 19.
BALTIMORE. Wheat Salei a
grade at 85c. for stock rejected; 90c.
tor stock steamer. No. 2 red; Mc.
tor special bin steamer No. 2 red,
and 96c for No. 2 red. Small bit
lots, by sample, brought 94c. per bu.
Corn Spot, 54c nominal, year,
B0; January, 50; February, 50;
March, 51.
Oats No. 2 white, 36 37c;
standard white, 36'43; No. I
white. 3636U: No. 4 white, 3514
035. f
Hay No. 1 timothy, $2020.50;
No. 2 timothy, 119 019.50; No. i
timothy, $16 018; choice clover
mlsed. $18.60 019; No. 1 clover
mixed, $17.60 018.60; No. 2 clover
mixed, $14016.60; No. 1 clover,
$14 014.60; No. 2 clover, U
13.60.
Butter
Creamery Fancy 0"
Creamery Choice ....... 28 JJ
Creamery Good 26V6'
Creamery Imitation 22 61
Creamery Prints ........ 31 3
Cheese Jobbing prices, per Ik,
1717c.
Live Poultry Chickens Old hew
heavy, per lb., 14c; old hens, saH
to medium, per lb. 13; young, enolce,
pert lb., 14; rough and -poor, per H
12 013; old roosters, 10. Ducks
Old, per lb., 13 014; young hlt
Peklngs, per lb., 16 016; young Mh
c6vy and mongrel, per lb., 16 0
puddle, per lb., 14. Geese NesrM.
per lb., 13 0 14c; Western and South
era, per lb., 11012.
Live Stock
CHICAGO Cattle Market we;
beeves, $4.6007.80; Texas ateeri.
$3.305. 65; Western steers, MJ
6.75; stockers and feeders. $L20
6.60; cows and belters, $2.3'0
calves, $7.25 010.
Hogs Market rather slow; llM.
$S.669.10; mixed. $8.06''
heavy, $7.80 08.95; rough, I7-'
8; good to choice heavy. $8
pigs, $8.16 01.80; bulk of sal
$8,1008.85..
KANSAS CITT MO. Cattle '
kct steady to I0o, higher. DrM
beet and export steers, $6.25 ""'
fair to good, $5.26 06.15; Westart
steers, $4 06; stock era and f47
$3.50 06.60; Southern steers, $'
06.76; Southern cows. $3.76 0 'r
native cows. $2.75 06; native belle".
$3.4006.60; bulls, ss.ae-6'
calves, $3.6008.
Hogs Market steady to lOe. to
er; bulk of sales. $8.6O08.O; b7
$8.6008.66; packera and butebsrr
$8 6008.851 light, $8.790M- "
Sheep Market stead.