Yr Lk BLE Tl 0 ne F TRI ALE RESULT OF POLITICAL FiGHT. » - d Li Relative of Foire Victim Declares —_— Facial Resemblange Led to Argentine Will Not Submit to] Fatal Mistake. 1sdowne, aged 27, form | G , Smolensk-Like Tactics. inthe Idterfial Ravenuo Eri nt of the evinaton (Ky.) SURPRISED BY TROO dragged himself several hun- atter receiving a fatal stab = — the heart, and died soon Insurgents Are Defeated and Their the threshold of his / y | I street, Covington. He Vessels Captured by Uruguay- { jroet 2 rar y \rugus) that John Lieberth, an Government. 1 erth, Collector | | | i | | Sf ~ma iia . | of Internal Revenue ia the Covington | Aes osm : district and veteran Republican. ieader, Revolutionary vessels are extreme-| paq stabbed him. ly active. ' They are carrying men, | John I.eberth was arrested within horses and arms, and searching all| gn hou r, charged with the murder. passenger boats. _ An Argentine war-| pro o lienlv declines to discuss the ship threatened to fire on the revolu- matter, further than to declare that Uonary squadron, if it intercepted | pe did not cut or stab anybody. The vessels flying ‘the flag of Argentine. ! y, etd m is a son of Mrs. Lansdowne, A great sensation has been “n= waars puhlic librarian in created here, owing to the surpris- COvinetan. and his father was promi- ing, by troops of the government of pen: in politics and postmaster at | Uruguay, of a Uruguayan insurrec- Grayson, Ky. Wallace Lansdowne, a tionary force numbering 180 men, brother, is a storekeeper gauger in| fully armed and equipped, under tne intérnal revenue district. About | Colonel Pampillon, on a steamer on | the Uruguayan coast but in Argentine territory. President Ordonez, of Uruguay, had been warned that preparations were activity’, a year ago Wallace fiied with Presi- dent Roosevelt charges of in politics George R. Lieberth, are now being investigated by a gov-| | Trades “pernicious | against Collector and the charges | €Bce. | the packers will being made for an insurrectionary ex- crnment officer from Washington. pedition and despatched two forces yyajlace Lansdowne said of the mur- | with armed vessels to waten for the ger. expedition. At night the government “It is all a horrible mistake. 1 am the troops attacked insurrec:ionists satisfied the intention was to kiil me | | quarreled while engaged with a continuous and merciless fire. | pecause of the charges I made against | Many of the latter swam ashore, but | Collector Lieberth. My brother | eight badly wounded, were -captured.| john and I resembled each other | The fate of the others is not known. atly in facial expression and in ary vessel was also e.” captured and with ii a considerable Collector Lieberth deeply deplored quantity of rlegraph’ apparatus. | the murder, saying: “My brother | Diplomatic relations between Argen- has been in poor condition mentally tina and Uruguay have become much fo; some time, and only shrdiushrdiu strained owing to this incident. { for some time and I asked the police GETS DIVORCE IN HOUR’S TIME. 4 : idan tid be found. Mrs, Felzer Given ,Hern., Child and .gowne's $20,000 Cash. . ta ing In a suit which occupied less than | an Loup fromathe time of filing, Mrs. | Mary E.. Fetzer, of tChicago, was -di- |. vorced by Judge Brentano from John C. Fetzer, financier and managing re- loaded his i him 0 a sanitarium. . 8 5 tha 1 he could be He could not 1 am satisfied that Lans- charges against to do with the crime. me had noth- Son Fins Down Assassin and Shoots ceiver for thé Chicage. Union Traction | - Him as [He Passes by on Company. Lhe charge brought by | Train. . Mrs, Fetzer was desertion. Mrs. Fel-| gam watson, of Bluefield, W. Va., zer was given $20,000 cash and the | ¢pot and killed Frank Underwood, a | husband agreed -to pay her $15,000 pani pos He fled to the mountains more within five years:: Mrs. Fetzer | 5,4 was foll owed by a posse of eizht | was given éustody of-her 10-year-old 'p..pn he by a son ' of Underwood. daughter. ‘the couple was married mney got within shooting distance of 19 years ago in Ottumwa, Ia. They | {yo pygitive twice and each time | lived together until May, 1902, when | Young Underwood fired at him, but they separated. | missed. Young Underwood noted | ~: we { carefully the direction Watson took, STARVING IN Tug FLOODS. | left. kh ‘companions and walked across Five Thsusand Persons Without Food the mountain to Switchback. He had in Western Districts. Word from Reno, Nev. states that | cloud bursts and washouts in Tono- pan and Carson and Colorado Rail- roads are the most disastrous in the history of these districts. People a Tonrajzah and Goldfields are on the verge of Siaryanion, They are being temporarily relieved by the rushing in of rin A via Croon Springs, Sil- | mined dale and si Young son boarded a freight was riding on top of a gon- dola as the train was nearing Switch- rwood ca Unde to shoot Watson on sight. 1 ght of him as the train passed. aim at Watson and pulled A brakeman looked around né to see Watson fall headlong the bottom of the car. and the train + ime up, gun with buckshot deter- | Wat- rain at Coal- ught He the He climbed turned Watson over and ver Peak and Candelaria by wagon d the engineer trains. Ga : | ped. Underwood ca But this js noly temporary, and as | ihe car over 5,000 people must be fed in tl *] abot Bt vow iffo to A tre i , as- Feadre Seas oT different camps, extraord nary meas but the shot was too s ures must be taken for their relief. hays killed Food supplies are practically exhaust- Wats so vaison so edi: No lives have been .lost. | St. Petersburg Builds Hopes. l The latest information from the Engl front is summed up in a dispatch from | E Caifu, showing that the Japanese ir the assaults on-Port Arthur August 21 and 22 were again repulsed i heavy losses. The feeling grows that (he ferocity of the repeate iarks and the defeats must be ually dissipating the energy of th siegers, and har the Japanese find that ‘they on the stones of id t pears that the balancé of s the East is thoroughly upset pendn the arrival there of the Baltic squad- ron, which, with the. exception of the battleship Orel, left Kronstadt cn a | 10-Jays’ cruise. At the business Ringgr'd cavalry at Frederickt ow, it was decided to hold next year’s af Washington, Pa. This year's fe Sviiis ended with « big camp fire on the public square. tr Wi { wr Ir ap- | they the meeting of its. reunion ‘at General Beaver Sezioas fy 1. BURY General James A. Beaver, former : Governor of Pennsylvania and at pres- Bandits Minister you and I am glad twice before, iL Now 1 of it.” ’ i! Deliver Orders from Rus’ ia to ‘Commander of Smolensk. Balfour announced gnimerce. ted to jvernment’ ine Was *n ‘gover S$ n e ment has or- {rem the squadron pe; without de- ian volunteer Peters- or- that ‘with and them the eriere premier was appoint- of the The 2 meet- by the of tne ded by rep- others in- r East. at ¢ FiLIPINOS ALIVE. been ent a Judge of the Superior Court, Cz dangerously ill at his home in Be! etail © fonte, Pa. Last Saturday General Has Beaver fel] downstairs and injured the iol l. » Ambuzh Constabulary, Killing ptain Barrett. native contabulary ambushed eyte by a superior force of of on the stump of his amputated leg close to Captain H. Barrett, of the the body. Abscesses formed and Gen- killed in the fight- eral Beaver’s condition grew worse. jpg There ta been trouble in the The family admit that s resul's | nroyince of Misamis, island of Min- may ensue. danao, where bandits have looted sev- men erd] towns. The native authorities Will Fight Into Winter. | were defied and Pablo Mercado and According to the correspondents of the London Daily Chronicle with Gen- eral Kuroki’s army, the japanese are not likely %o retire into winter quar- family with t Th I were kidnapped. do was accused of being too friendly he Americans. ree Chinese stores Merca- were burned. ters. Rather than to thus give the | pg,. natives were murdered, three of Russians a breathing space they will | them being buried alive. Colonel prosecute a vigorous winter campaign. | 3-hord, of the constabulary, is now The correspondent says that the Jap-| 5p the trail of the bandits. Lieuten- anese are accumulating immense stores, ammunitiecn and guns at Hai- cheng. Another Steamer Stopped. : News has reached England that the | Russian auxiliary cruiser Ural stopped and examined the British collier Pen- | Pen- ant Thornton, met death by drowning near Dagupin, of the constabulary, has )rplau Or Lae auitual pration Of ile ound and people assembled at ome, nome picnic and im puder, Ling ol tue calenick on August 12. The oh Datong: fo dic He calenick was bound from Cardiff for Malta with coal for the British navy - $50,000 for Missions. Panic at Race Track The wui of Isaac Newton Topl ite, By the explosion of some dynamite who died recently at Syracuse, N. Y, caps and in the panic that followed it, 1 in Tigye pu) 0. The three perscns were injured at the a at pies Hawthorne race track at Chicago. It| slonary Wo! rod cr unocr is supposed that the caps were thrown | tne direction files laches on the floor of the betting ring with | of different ons the idea of creating a panic, during | which the cash boxes of the book- makers might be robbed. An attempt was made to rob one bookmaker, but it failed. None of the injured are seriously hurt. Tou a one KILLS MURDERER OF HIS FATHER | Packers Believe There Wili Be a Stampede for Old Jobs. NON-UNIONIST KILLS IKERS WISH 70 CONFER, ANOTHER. | | and Prominent Officials of Union Claim | the Trouble Can Be Settled in Fifteen Minutes. Joth’ the union officials and: the packers believe there will be sensa- tional development in the great strike of the butcher workmen. After five hours’ disscussion by the executive board of a line of policy to be followed in asking the packers for a confer- ence Whatever the butcher ly be plan is decided upon by workmen will undoubted- concurred in by the conference i;oard. aiterward President ask the packers for a confer- The answer to the request will be the critical point in the strike. The union officials believe that ‘if the Imme- diately Donnelly will RAINS BELIEVE Potato Crop Threatened by Rot and Blight. crop report, Bureau The drouth prevailing in the central valleys in the been relieved by ¢ drouth continues Western Tennessee, and is tobe) felt in the Middle Gulf States and over a considerable part of ‘Texas. The Central and Northern Rocky nountain istricts the North Pacific coast region are aiso suffering from drou.h, the prevalence of forest fires being re ported from Idaho and Montana The part of the week was toc cool in the rake region and unseason ably low temperatures occurred in the Northern Rocky mountain dis tricts and upper Missouri valley on August 21 and 22, but elsewhere east of the Rocky mountains the tempera DROUGHT. The the weekly issued’ by follows: portions of previous bundant in Cen Weather’ is as has , but and Ring week { latter i ture has been favorable. Allied | requests are granted the strike can minutes. None of discuss the question, contenting themselves with the state- be settled in 15 ment: “We will cross the bridge when we come to it.” Two negro non-union workmen, in a game of craps at the Schwartzchild & Sulz- berger * plant and Leonard killed Thomas Taylor. He escaped. Same One Blundered. In a heavily loaded accommodation trains on the Wheeling branch of the Balti- more and Ohio railroad, opposite Hays station, Pa., just across the Monon- gahela river from the Glenwood yards, man was seriously 4njured, and may die, three others were badly hurt, or while a, score { hurt. ! | | | | | ed to Irish 1S GRATEFUL. Thanks Americans for ! Given in Aid of Irish Cause. John BE. Redmond, the Irish leader, and those who came to America with him, Captain A." J. C. Donelan,” Pat- rick O’Brien, Connor O'Kelly REDMOND Mrs. Redmond, were tendered a re- ception in Carnegie Hall, New York, by the New York municipal council of the United Irish League of Amer- ica. Ten thousand dollars either subscribed or paid in cash to- ward the fund for carrying on the | Irish movement. Mr. Redmond said lin part: “It is now two years since I appeal- Americans for aid and for what you have already done I have nothing but thanks. The new of conspiracy whereby the Irish land lords sued the holders of the has been met, thanks to the aid of the American fund. Never again will free speech or trial by jury be denied to us or arbitrary imprisonment be - flicted.” How Russians Were Driven Back. “The Russians defending f.iao- Yang have retired upon the town, the Newchwang corres spondent of Lhe Daily Express wires. "his is the result of the retreat from Liandian- sian. After a reconnaissance in force by the Japanese they cecided that a general advance should bé made. more were slightly | Contributions | Duncan | El | interrupted harvesting. head-on collision between two | and | were | form | land | { { servic 2. So | the. reserve divisions which occupied | Liandiangian and supp orted the recon- 1aizsance were ordered to the firing | line. They made a forced march and | the -Rus§ian front was attacked in | places. The Japanese infantry under the cover of a tre- artillery fire and attacked with great courage advan ced mendous the Russian line Cowboys Start Fatal Affray. °* In a shoc ting affray at Silver City, i eto Ro grigues N. was. killed, y fatally and Patric Chenoweth badly who is foreman the cattie outfit, in an effort to influence several of § cophoys to return to the ranch, became involved in a fight which started the shooting. Believed from Charlestown. has been found in the park American Falls with a card on which was written, “Goodby, world; water won't tell, 822. The police learned that the key belonged to the Prospect House. It fitted the door of a room engaged by L. M. Halery of Charlestown, W. Va. who mysteriously disappeared. Tin Plate Millis Closes Down. 11alf of the 30 hot mills of the She- nango tin plate plant has closed down for an indefinite pericd. The others will also stop. It is unofficially re- ported that lack of orders caused the suspension, which is also due in part to scarcity of steel billets. Nunn nt Howard inded. Nunn, “Diamond A” WO of Suicide A key near the attached Making Cruisers More Formidable. Luxury will be sacrificed for formid- ability in the new authorized by the last Congress. The | water tight sub- division will be made complete and there will be no piercing of bulkheads by veatilating pipes or other openings. This change fis in the effort further to protect the ves- sels frcm the damaging effects of tor- pedo attack. Strikers Lose Support. | the “num | threughout The principal corn States have ex- perienced a week of favorable condi tions, abundant rains having fallen the corn belt, except in portions of Ohio and Nebraska. Corn has made satisfactory progress in the States of the Missouri valley and is generally improved in the Centra! Mississippi and Ohio valleys, al though a considerable part of the crop in the Ohio valley has been in jured beyond recovery. In the Mid: dle Atlantic States and lower Mis souri valley early corn is now prac tically matured. Spring wheat harv est is generally finished, except in North Dakota and Northern Minneso ta, where rust is continuing to cause great ‘injury. Rains in Nerth Da kota in the latter part of the week _ Harvesting is also nearly finished on the North Pacific coast. The reports respecting potatoes in dicate that a good ¢rop is generally promised in the more important pota to producing States. Drouth has impaired the outlook in portions'of the Ohio valley, however, and rot and blight are increasing in Pennsylvania. Throughout the central’ valleys and Middle Atlantic States the soil is in fine condition for fall plowing, which work is ‘in general progress and is well advanced in some places. NICHOLAS IS MERCIFUL. Corporal Punishment Is Abolished in Russia. inner Nicholas’ manifesto on the birth of an heir to the throne. abolishes corporal punishment among the rural classes and for first offences among the sea and land forces; re mits arrears owing to the state for the purchases of land and other di rect imposts; set apart $1,500,000 from the state funds for the purpose of forming an inalienable fund for the benefit of landless people of Finland; grants amnesty to those Finlanders who have emigrated without authori- zation; remits the fines imposed up: on the rural and urban communes of Finland, which refused to submit ta military conscription in 19062 and 1903, and also remits the fines im- i Done upon the Jewish communes in of Jews avoiding military The manifesto provides for a gen eral reduction in sentences for com INOR law pees while a general am- nesty is rded in the case of al political es with the exception of. those in whi jon murder has been done. i 3 "AT BCTTOM OF SEA. y Exciting Experience of Crew ,of New Government Submarine Boat. While the submarine torpedo bcal | Shark was being prepared for a sub run near Brentons reef light ship Monday afternoon, she sank tc bottom in 100 feet of water anc remained there for some time before the crew could move her. The cause of the sinking is not known. Lieutenant Nelson was in charge o he boat, with Lieutenant Shepley anc a crew of he men dis played no but tried of experiments before the conld be raised. Finally, afte: they succeeded by use of in bringing her te merged excitement, ber boat 40 minutes, the hand pumps the suriace. Boston Wool Market. The market for wool maintains ¢ firm tone, but the demand rules quie! | under a light demand from manufact armored cruisers | | striking urers. The strength from the mar ket comes from its statistical position hence, the result of the sales of wool ens will have much to do in deter the future price of wools Ohio delaines hold firm at a cut 3¢ to 361%; unwashed Ohio delaines 251%; to 286. Territory wools firm The scoured basis for fine is 55 tc 57c, with fine medium at 53 to 55 One quarter blood unwashed firm, 2§ @29c for Ohio, three-eights blood 2714 @28c; one-half blood 27@27%c. Mich igan and Missouri one-quarter bloods about 27@271,, mining Negroes for Iron Mills. For the first time in the history of the iron business in the Mahoning valley, negroes have been imported into the valley to take the place of white men who have worked for years in the iron mills. The men were imported to take the place of the Amalgamaied men at the Girard plant of the American Steel | Hoop Company. The members of the Chicago Teams- | ters’ Union who have been on strike for several weeks in the effort to aid striking buichers the yards held a meeting to determine whether or not they should withdraw from the strike. It was d the teamsters as a body would to give any further assistance the at refuse to the stock | cided that] strike, and the question of remaining on strike, or of going back (lo work] was left to the vote of the various lo-| | cal unions. | ing all their attention on Port Japanese Repulse Confirmed. According to the latest information from Port Arthur a furious Japanese attack throughout August 19 and Au gust 20 was repulsed with terrific loss. There has been no serious fight ing in this region, but there has beer a small skirmish at Anshanshan where Japanese troops attacked 2 Russian outpost and were driven of] with a loss of six killed. The mili tary inactivity is credited here to thé fact that the Japanese are concentrat: Arthur ‘it was when a [ DEATH VISITS PICNIC GROVE. Four Killed and Many Injured by Fall- RUSGIAN FLAG LOWERED ing Trees. Duri na Terrific Storm. ETT X | A most disa = Ss Storm, with loss of Ty passed over cen- ~ Tro, | of lite and pro; SD ; Czar Orders Disarmment ‘of T wo | tral Chautauqua coy, New York. Warships at Shanghai. | The very center of if was in the pic- nic grove, near thet viilage of BStock- = | ton, where 5,000 persons were attend- OUT OF THE T TILL THE END} the a 1] town picn Light- i 1g was incessant, rain 1 in tor: HE ents, trees were blown do houses Undsr International Law They Must, were unrgoled and in the picnic grove ; : #1 "3 where nien, women and Fares were emain n "Port ® Until the Ey fa > Rem : | nga ied in an effort at protection, war. is Over. | yirnes many nee Two —— rigs were crushed to the 1 : it Pe tal dling recs. . The ‘eorrespondent of th When the storm struck the grove Times at Shanghai in a August 24, says that g the utmost orders from there was no ad ea Emperor Nicholas have been conveyed! place of eas were scream- to Captain Reitzenstein commanding ing and ih ying, while men 9 vi ire ns ne ASS EG en TIS LD 3 de ‘themselves with Lim forthwith to disarm the cruiser! terror as they made repeated efforts Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer tg remove, the dead and injured irom Grozovoi and that “the flags on noth among the fallen timbers. « Several vessels were lowered at once. | horses were kiiled outright, ne effort THe fn a thur his being made to release the injured an- The fina) assault on Port gfchur Hs imals until the men and women who Imminent. Hundreds of Japangsep, pg’ yaopinhre were cared for; | Phy- guns coniinue to pour a destructive] siclune were on the giound ani every. ire into the city and harbor, along, thing possible was done for the relief the lines of forts and entrenchaments,| of the “injured. preparatory for the infantry assault. al It is evident that the Russian lines | NEWS NOTES. have been weakened and partly pene-| ” trated : in the viemay of Aniseman) Magistrate Richard C. Folk, of Sum- ond Jisoshan forte Tn Se ne ter; S..,C., was: shot and kilied by of | Russian deienses Immediately, oo, ney’ gnpervisor #W. HH. Seale at about the harbor are within range of Providence. &. ©. the Japanese guns. Bdward Whitman, aged 19 years, Japanese official channels of infor-| mation remain clesed, and the Navy Department’s announcement of the, striking of a mine by the batileship] Sevastopol and the firing upon the Russian forts by the cruisers Nissin and Kasuga yesterday are the only disclosures made for several] days. It| is believed here that both sides have suffered heavy losses, and that the! final record will make the siege the bloodiest since Sedan. y The Japanese are supremely confi- dent of the ultimate result The leaders of the government .await the, outcome in calm = assurance. The! people are everywhere decorating murde s, were ha on the same streets and houses and erecting jisies, seaffold at Roliing Fock, Mic: and flagstaffs in preparaticn for a na-! Marshal Woolum® of Hanging Rock, ri . ral ration ft} 2 ta ie-| = i celebration of the expected ric Q., shot and killed i Williams, of . «Kentucky, wtile trying to arrest him. The National Council, Daughters of Liberty, in convention ‘at Portland, Me., voted ‘to meet next year at Chi- cago.: &.f / was killed in an explosion of fireworks at. Manlkattan Beach. Judge Martin J. Wade was renom- inated "for Congress by the Democrats of the Second Iewa district. Democrats of the Tirst Indiana dis- trict nominated Albert G. Holcomb, of | Fort for Congress. Dr. Editund J. James, of Northwest- ern University, was elected president of the University of Illinois Henry B. Davenport, Va., was nominated by Democrats of the Third Congressional district. Albert Davis and. Dave Fields, wife ranch, of Clay, W. VOT rer nN Zo 12d PENSION OFFICE REPORT. Appropriation Exceeds the pmednl) Paid Out During Year. The annual repott of Pension ‘Com: ~By the overturning of a boat to re: missioner Eugene F. Ware, covering cover a hat blown ino the water, the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, three persons were drowned at Bos- shows that during the year the cost| ton. of maintaining the pensicn system of | Rev. Henry Baas, 73 years old, of the government has been $144,712,787.| Londen, who came to write a book on The appropriation for this purposs the fair, died at the Inside Inn after . was $146,419,296, leaving an unex- his return irom a walk. pended balance of $1,706,508. During! Joseph Zink was suffocated in a fire the year 47,374 persons were added tol the pension rolls, 326 by special act] of Congress, and the balance by the petnsion bureau. During the same period 49,157 pensioners were ot on from the rolls. Of these dcath claimed 43,020. The total number of pensioners on the roll, as covered by the report, is 720,315 soldiers, 273 841 y Q ; gy hax ® F 2 General Goodnow at Shanghai that yas 2nd dependents ans 606 army | on ws slips will not be used to en- yor force Chinese neutrality. Fire badly damaged the plant of the Domestic Coal Company at Axleton, Pai The loss is about $4,000, partly insured : . At Oquago lake, mear' Deposit, ¥., Robert Caufieid, of SN. 1. and Amelia : and of Brooklyn, N. Y., wer which destroyed the Salvation Army barracks at Stamford, Conn. William Ferguson was probably fatally hurt. St. Louis and San Francisco pas- senger train collided’ with a west- bound freight train near Sarcoxie and 11 passengers were injured. The United States notifies Consul ROB PAYMAST ER OF $5,000. Daring Crime in Which Thieves Are; : Well Repaid. Four masked men held up master White of the O'Rourke ‘Con: structicn Company on the Ridge rcad, near Patdson N. J., and robbed him of $5,000. The paymaster, acecmpan- General Prince Fussimi, ied by (vo other:men, was on his way irated. in .the battle of Kinchow, has to the office of the company in a been appointed imperial representa- buggy when the four men, one an! tive of Japan at the St. Louis Exposi- American and the other three Ital-: tion. ians, came out of the woods. sl Six " The American shot the horse. The robbers covered the threes occupants of the buggy with guns and got away N. East Orange, Edna Kramer e drowned.: who partic- Pay- pleyes of the Buffalo, Roches- Pitts ilroad were seri- Rochester, N. ¥., by a handear, aon which they were 59 7) with the bag of money, which was in jumping the track. the bottom of the buggy. All of they Wiliiam Westbrook, of Mononga- ¢ 3 1 t} $, Of Tonor robbers were. masked and* wore blue bya, Pa., was sentenced to the West- oOo 2 ey : goggles. f rn penitentiary for four .years by:the 2 _— Washington county eoutt. He was + ~~ } Tit ” t Wages Advanced. | convicted of assaulting and robbing The > committee of the Amalg-| a pedcler. amated Window Glass Workers of Bayce, his wile: and their 6- menths-cld child were found shot to death in their home in New York city. Boyce is supposed to have Killed the woman and child, and then ended his Tife. America ‘has decide? to: ask the: man- utfacturers for an increase, which will bring the new wage scale 1p to where 28 per sont reduction the middle of last year. Negroes Kept Off Ticket. The Republican State Convention was held at Fort Worth. A full S ticket was nomina.ed, as Governor, J. C. Lowden; Lieutenant Governor, San Davidson; Associate Justice of the Court of Criminal Ap- peals, Lock McDaniel; Attorney Gen- eral, Charies W. Ogden; Comptroller General, John M. Clarkborne; State Treasurer, C. B. Dorchester, of Gray- son county; Electors at' Large, Charles A. Hoynton, of Melennan county; J. H. Kurth, "of Angelina county. The platform indorses the National Convention. The total! elimination of negroes from the State made 11 was it the nx ans g of the German Vet- n in St. Louis, Julius Dallas, Tex., was elected Wheeling, W. Va, re- 66 votes for the next conven- Joliet, Ill., winning with 84. John § Linch, of Cll City, Pa. 18 years old, was convicted of voluntary mansiaughter by a Venango county jury. Linch is alleged to have struck and killed Alfred Thumwood with his fist cn July 2 Dick. Brcoks, the alleged partner of Joe Laney, Jr., was arrested at Rome, lL.aney, who is only 16 years oid, under arrest at Atlanta’ charged with embezzling $1,000 from the West- As50 tate | follows: tion 1s ticket was a feature of the conven-| ern Union Te.egraph Company, at tion. i Dalias, Tex. —_— | May Devin is dead and Joseph Men- China Stops Repairs. z0.is critically ill at Augusta, Ga, as Consul-General Goodnow, at Shan- a result of eating bread which had ghai, cabled the State Department at been poisoned. Neal Williams is Washington, that the Chinese Taotai wanted by the police for alleged con- of Shanghai, through the British con-| nection with the poisoning sul, had ordered that the repairs to: ‘The Muncie, Ind. Trust Company the Russian cruiser Askold and the was appointed receiver for Central torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi be Coal, Oil and Gas Company, Gopher stopped. The order was made through | Oil Company and Laroca Oil Company, the British consul because of the fact | combined capital $1,250,000, on com- that the repairs were being made by | plaint of the Muncie Gas Emgine and the British Dock Company at Shan- Supply Company that the companies ghai. | are insolvent. Pneumatic Tube Mail Service. Idle Men Reinstated. Chicago’s pneumatic mail service | th the men employed on the Pan- was formally opened on the 24th. handle division of the Pennsylvania After the first batch of mail had been! sent through the bore the system was formally turned over to the govern-| ment and was accepted on benalf of the Federal] authorities by Postmaster General Payne. The: system consists | Lines West of Pittsburg are at work again. Early in the summer fully one-half of the men employed on that division ‘were laid off. They have all been reinstated and it is expected of nine miles of brass tube through | that more men will be employed in which bags of mail are transported; the near future because of the large by compressed: air to various stations,| amount of repair work to bec dene and including those located at all railway arge amount ‘of improvements Swpots. re to be made. 5 =! i WW If str SE CO pu ats Sie gil he of ms ja) 5 ori 0B
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