The Somerset County star. (Salisbury [i.e. Elk Lick], Pa.) 1891-1929, August 31, 1905, Image 2

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    RUSSIAS PEASANTS BEVOLT
Agrarian Disturbances Assuming
Serious Aspect.
RIOTERS SLAIN BY COSSACKS
Peasants Attmepted to Force * the
Nobles to Give Their Lands at
Rental. {
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There is a great in the]
agrarian agitation in various parts of |
Russia, notably in the Caucasus, |
where there have been serious dis-|
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turbances. In the Gori district the |
peasants forcing the nobles, under the |
menace of death, to announce to the |
newspapers that they are “handing |
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over their holdings to the peasants |
freely, or are accepting one-tenth in-|
stead of one-quarter of the crop |
yield. |
The refusal of the peasants in the |
village of Inchadedshan to pay Prince |
Inukhransky the proportion of the erop |
to which he was entitied led to a
serious conflict between the peasants |
and Cossacks. The Cossacks fired |
on the peasants, killing and wounding |
19, |
increase
according to an official account,
and according to an unofficial ac-
count, 70.
Peasants from the mountains came
to the assistance of the Yillagers, re-
sulting in fresh .conflicts, in which one |
Cossack was killed. Prince Inukhran- |
sky himszalf had a narrow escape from
shots fired at him. |
RUSSIA REFUSES INDEMNITY |
Czar Informs President That He Will
Not Pay One Perny Tribute to
Janan. {
Ambassador Meyer communicated!
to President Roosevelt Emperor |
Nicholas’ last word and his ultimatum
Sy
that Russia will not pay one penny |
of indemnity fo Japan in any. guise |
whatsoever.
Russia is ready to agree to a ai- |
vision of Sakhalin, Japan retaining
that portion previously belonging to
her and Russia retaining the north-
ern portion.
Russia will pay for the maintenance
of her prisoner but will make no
other concession in addition to those
already made.
If Japan does not accep these
terms, peace is impossible and the
war will continue.
Saturday’s session at Pecrismouth
was fruitless and as the Japanese
envoys had received not answer at 10 |
o'clock Sunday night the meeting
was postponed by mutual agreement.
Hanged.
John Moore, a negro, 20 years old, |
was taken from Craven county jail |
in Newbern, N. C., and lynched by
a mob of 100 masked men, armed with
rifles and revolvers. |
With his hands tied behind him. the |
negro was led out about a third of |
a mile from the jail to the draw of |
Neuse river bridge, hanged to one of |
its braces and his body riddled with |
bullets. |
Moore entered the country store of
Georg: Eubanks at Clarks, seven |
miles from Newbern, last Friday when |
the proprietor’s wife was the only]
one in. The negro attempted robbery
and struck Mrs. Eubank on the hand
with a meat ax, fracturing bones and
inflicting injuries which, "if they do
not prove fatal, will at least caus2
not only disfigurement but lifelong |
suffering.
Warsaw Under Martial Law.
The whole government of Warsaw
has been placed under martial law. |
A bridge on the Vistula railway near
Radom has been blown up and com- |
munication is interrupted. The So-|
cialists have declared a general strike, |
to begin at Lodz. Since martial law
was declared, hundreds of arrests have |
been made, mostly of Socialists at
Lodz and that vicinity, where dis-
orders still continue.
20 MEXICANS KILLED
Carelessness in Use of Dynamite Said |
to Have Been Cause.
Twenty Mexican laborers were kill-
ed and a number injured by the pre-
mature explosion of a quantity of dy-
namite at the port works at Manzanil- |
lo. The bodies of the Killed were |
horribly mangled. The remains were |
buried in a common grave at Man-
zanillo cemetery.
It is said that the explosion was
the result of carelessness on the part
of some of the laborers. The families
of those killed have been indemnified |
by Colonel Edgar K. Smoot, the con-!
tractor in charge of the Manzanillo
port works.
Will Order Boycot: Stopped
J. L. Rodgers. the American con-
sul general at Shanghai, had an in-
terview with the Taotai, who said it
was his intention to issue a proclama- |
tion ordering the Chinese merchants
of Shanghai to resume their trading |
in American goods. Apparently, how-
ever, local officials are making
only half-hearted efforts to stop the
boycott.
the
Cholera at Manila.
An outbreak of cholera in Manila
has been reported. It is thought that
it is due to green vegetables from
Hong Kong. Two soldiers died at
Camp McKinley, wlich is now quar-
antined.
The Foresters of America in bien-
nial convention Buffalo, N. Y., unan-
imously passed a resolution favoring
exclusion of Japanes from the
United States along the same lines
as the present Chinensz exclusion.
| section of Brooklyn, only one main be-
| Bay side of the burning structure did
| mittee of the bund, whose headquart-
| drunken soldiers.
| 200
| mation of an organization to be known
| lowing report from
dated August 22:
| ated in the
| is mentioned as a possibility.
| Trinidad,
asrarye
| Agriculture,
BiG. WAREHOUSES BURN
Lightning Causes Loss of Half Million
Dollars in Brooklyn.
A loss of more than $500,000 was
caused by a fire started by lightning
at the extemsive plant of the Bush
Terminal Warehouse company at the
foot of Forty-fourth street, Brooklyn.
Filled with thousands of bales of cot-
ton, the warehouse burned fiercely and
stubbornly. The fire department was
handicapped by a lack of water in that
available. Fireboats from the
the most effective work. .
When lightning struck the stores
the shock was felt for several blocks.
Almost immediately. flames leaped
from the low-lying structures. A larg:
number of trans-Atlantic freight
steamers, lying at the Bush company’s
docks, were in peril, but their captains
immediately cut loose and floated out
into the stream, being subsequently
picked up by tugs or®gotten under
way with their own steam.
SLAUGHTER OF JEWS
Drunken Soldiers Kill 60 and Wound
Hundreds at Blalistok.
The New York representatives of
the Russian Jewish Bund got this
cablegram from the European com-
ers is at Geneva, Switzerland:
“In Blalistok on August 12
Jews were shot by
many |
a company of
Sixty are known
to have been killed and more than
wounded. Among these are
many women and children.
“In various other towns the soldiers |
parade the streets and do not allow |
the Jewish workingmen to
through or congregate.
“In Berditschev 60 were wounded, in |
Home! 20, in Pinsk three were killed |
and many wounded.”
TO WIND UP ROYAL ARCANUM
New Society Forming to Secure Re- |
ceiver for Old One.
There has been inaugurated at
Hagerstown, Md.,, a movement ‘intend- |
ed to be national, looking to the for-|
as the National Fraternal Alliance,
those at the head of the movement |
being members of the Royal Arcanum
who are dissatisfied with the conduct |
of affairs of that order.
One of the projectors said that an
object of the new alliance would be]
to apply, as members of the Royal]
Arcanum, for a receiver for that or-|
ganization with a view to the profi
distribution of the order’s emergency |
fund to the beneficaries of members |
whose deaths occur while litigation is |
in progress.
Drives Javanese from Several Posi-|
tions Checks Their Advance.
The emperor has received the fol-
Gen. Linevitch,
“Advanced Russian detachments on |
August 20 drove back.the Japanese
from three positions. One detachment
in the Tzinche valley occupied the vil-
age of Lagvontzeakzy, another oper-
direction of Schimiadazy,
and a third dislodged the Japanese
from their position to the southward
of Mopeyschan. The three Russian
columns drove the Japanese back to
their position near Sendjan.”
Gen. Linevitch also reports the re-
pulse ‘of a detachment of Japanese
which was advancing on Kiaujoroujou,
in Korea.
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Church Wrecked in Race War.
As the result of a race war at|
Carlisle, Ind., the negro Baptist|
Church was destroyed by dynamite, |
which was placed under the altar.
Bloodhounds have been put on the
trail Of the dynamiters. Threats
are being made that if any arrests
are made every negro in the town
will be driven out,
Another Russian Minister Resigns.
The Emperor of Russia has accept-
ed the resignation of M. Bouligin as |
minister of the interior. Count Alexis |
| Ignatieff, a member of the council of |
the empire, and ex-governor general
of Kieff, it is thought, will probably
succeed him, although Gen. Trepoff, |
Fatal Cloudburst in Colorado.
It is reported that a cloudburst at
Tabasco, a coal mining camp near
Col, flooded the town and |
drowned nine persons. Considerable’
damage to property was caused al
so. All communication with Trini-
dad was cut off after the report was
sent.
Fresh Agrarian Disorders. |
Fresh agrarian disorders have brok-
en out in the Elizabethgrad and
Alexandria districts, Russia, .and the
| peasants are destroying the property
of the land owners. A big estate at
Butzky has been entirely demolished.
The president of the Elizabethgrad
zemstvo has asked permission of the
government to convoke a meeting of
i berry Hill,
iandlerds with a view of settling the |
nn guestion.
Holmes Indicted.
S. Holmes, Jr., of Washing-
ton y, until recently the
statistician of the Department of
but who ' was dismissed
in the investigation
associate
outcome
into the leakage
reports; has been indicted by the
grand jury on a charge of conspir-
acy to defraud the government.
as an
KEARSARGE IN COLLISION
Big Battleship Hits Schooner, Which
is Caonsized.
Whiie the battleship squadron was
returning from maneuvering outside
the harbor at Newport, R. 1.. the
Kearsarge, Capt. Rodgers, command-
ing, collided in a heavy fog in the
outer 1 a two-masted
schoone schooner eapsized.
The Kearzal was brought to anchor |
and men boats rescued all the
members of the crew of the schooner.
The battlesh was not injured.
| darmes.
in the cotton crop!
| killed.
DIRECTORS WANT INQUIRY
Will Assist State in Investigating
Equitable Affairs.
SOME BAD LOANS WERE MADE
Excessive Salaries Paid, Secret
Pensions and Inside Deals
for Private Profit.
The Equitable Life Assurance So-
ciety joined with the state of New
York in asking for a full investiga-
tion in court of its directors and of-
ficers and their alleged wrongdo-
ings in managing the money of the
society. The document which an-
nounced this determination was the
answer of the 49 Equitable directors
to charges made against them in
connection with ‘a suit brought
against the Eguitable Life Assurance
Society by the state. This answer
was filed with Attorney General
Julius. M. Mayer.
Admission. is made that some of-
ficials of the Equitable have been
guilty of improper and illegal acts.
In all 13 charges are answered by
the directors. Among these an-
swers , they admit the $250,000 loan
to the Depew Improvement Compa-
ny. They . admit the $685,000 loan
of the Mercantile Trust = Company,
but waive responsibility in this loan
so far as the board of directors is
concerned and indicate Messrs.
Alexander, Jordan and Deming as
the person having the most intimate
pass | knowledge of these transactions.
The charge that excessive salaries
were paid to officers of the Egquit-
able is not directly answered, but
admission is made that
to certain Equitable .officials who
were also directors in other compan-
ies. In defense the answer states
that these practices were not known
to the whole board of directors.
Outlining their belief as to the best
policy to pursue in fixing the blame
for the Equitable scandals the direc-
| tors say first that the blame for al-
leged cases of misconduct will be
found to rest on individual officers
and not upon the directors as a
body. Having made this explana-
tion the answer then admits in a
general way the wrongdoing charged.
MANY PRIESTS SLAIN
Attack Christians and Their
Churches.
Word is received of an outrage in
Burn
{ Yamnan province, showing the revival
TATE | of fanatical antagonism to Christain
LINEVITCH REPORTS PROGRESS | colonization. A
— | Lamas, by a
mob of Buddhists
preconcerted arrange-
to drive the Christains out of
their province, attacked the various
French Roman Catholic establish-
ments on the coast of Sawaho, wreck-
ing one church and Killing many
priests, the number being variously
stated at between 18 and 23, with
others wounded. The French minis-
ter at Peking has made strong pro-
tests to the Chinese minister, de-
manding effectual punishment.
ment
PRESIDENT TAKES DIVE.
Goes Under the
marine Boat.
President Roosevelt
scent in Long Island sound, on board
the submarine torpedo boat Plunger.
He was aboard the vessel about
three hours. At one time the little
boat was submerged for 50 minutes
and 'in that time was put through
all the submarine feats of which
she is. capable. The president ex-
pressed to-night his "delight at the
novel experience and said that he
was immensely impressed with the
boat and with the manner in which
she was handled.
JAPANESE TRANSPORT SUNK
Collides With British Steamer in In-
land Sea—160 Are Drowned.
A message from Nagasaki, Japan,
the British steamer Haralong |
says:
and the Japanese transport Kinglo
collided August 22 in the inland sea.
The transport was sunk and 160 men
| were drowned.
LIGHTNING HITS OIL SHIP
Explosicn Foliows Explosion on Burn-
ing Vessel.
Struck by lightning, the ship Mul-
laden with case oil and
naptha, lying in the stream midway
| between Tompkinsville and Stapleton,
under guise |
of salaries excessive fees were given |
made a de-
PROHIBITION TICKET
Democratic Candidate for
Treasurer Indorsed.
At the Pennsylvania State Prohibi-
tion Convention in Williamsport by a
vote of 120 to 70, William H. Berry,
the Democratic candidate, was nomi-
nated for State Treasurer, his op-
ponent being Dr. Charles W. Hunting-
ton, of Williamsport. The choice was
made unanimous amid the protests of
the friends of the Williamsporter.
An effort to nominate John Stewart
State
for Supreme court justice failed and
was:
John D. Gill, of Greensburg,
placed on the ticket instead. It was
decided to name only one candidate
for the Superior court, and Homer
I. Castle, of Pittsburg, was selected
by acclamation.
At the mass meeting William H.
Berry and Homer L. Castle accepted
the nomination tendered by the con-
vention. The State Central commit-
tee held a meeting and elected David
B. McCalmont, of Venango county, as
State chairman.
The declaration of principlds as-
serts that the traffic in intoxicating
beverages is the most important
political ‘issue in this or any other
State, it arraigns the license system
as wrong, demands the repeal of all
laws governing the same, pledges al-
legiance to the National Prohibition
party and charges that false registra-
tion, etec.,, and unclean methods prac-
ticed by managers of our State and
municipal affairs are prompted by the
saloons. The present management of
the Republican party is held responsi-
ble for the fact that Pennsylvania is
recognized throughout the country as
the abode of political graft and plun-
der. Legislative distribution of ap-
propriations, regardless of institution-
al merit, as a reward of party fealty
or as personal perquisites of legis-
lators is declared to be in essence
bribery and embezzlement.
RAILROADS BUSY
Large Additions to Working Force
in Car Shops.
One of the most significant evi-
dences of the heavy freight traffic
that is being handled by the railroads
this season appears in the statement
that the Pennsylvania“ lines west of
Pittsburg have been compelled to in-
crease the repair forces working in
the car shops to keep the freight roll-
ing stock in good = condition. This
statement was made in the general
offices of the Pennsylvania lines, ex-
plaining the additional forces that
have been put on at the various large
car shops of the Pennsylvania lines.
The addition to the car repairing em-
ployes amounts to several hundred
men, distributed over the two sys-
tems. Northwest and Southwest,
where the disabled cars have accum-
ulated.
Ordinarily, from 1,000 to 1,500
freight cars are turned out of the re-
pair shops of the two system daily.
In spite of this large output the num-
ber of cars requiring attention from
the repairers, has been growing in
the past few weeks, until, lest there
should be felt a shortage in the sup-
ply, and also to forstall congestion
in the mechanical department, it was
decided to increase the number of
men employed at the repair shops.
Repairing is being concentrated at
Crestline, Toledo, Ft. Wayne, and
| other points.
Water on a Sub- |
|
i
| other two cases
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Despondent over her husband’s lack
of work and the fear of losing a finger
Mrs. Joseph Lozier, 323 Huntington
street, Cleveland, took arsenic and
died at St. Alexis’ Hospital. She was
aged 24 and had been married but four
months.
The Pennsylvania Steel Tube com-
pany, now located on Second avenue,
Pittsburg, has purchased 10 acres of
land from the Colonial Land Company
at South Monaca, and will erect ‘ a
steel tube plant on it at once.
The - United States government
building at the Louisana Purchase
exposition, erected at a cost of $500,-
000, has been sold to a wrecking
company for $10,500. The steel
trusses in the structure alone cost
$100,000.
of yellow fever have
Gregory, Mo., within
the last 24 hours. All the victims
are Italians. One has died. The
were discovered
Three cases
developed at
| August 21st.
All the rail mills of the United
| States Steel Corporation have sold up
| their entire output of steel rails for
was burned, lighting up the bay from |
| Sandy Hook.
The crew of 24 men left the ship
just after the fire started and landed
at Stapleton. The lightning hit the
mainmast and passed down the steel
pole into the hold, wheie there was an |
explosion. Five minutes after the
alarm was given one of the hatches, |
about amidships, blew up and the fire
‘settled down into the hold, where ex-
plcsion followed explosion.
Rebels Renulse Russians.
Fighting has taken place
Retimo district betw=en
troops aid revolutionaries.
sians were repulsed near
los, losing 20 soldiers and
The revolutionaries,
ward running
retired to Retimuc
ed another band.
Russian
The Rus-
Atsipopou-
20 gen-
after-
they join-
- loss was six
TELEPHONE BEATS CYCLONE.
Family in Minnesota Warned in Time |.
{in the
to Escape.
Warned by a telephone message
from a neighbor away that a
cyclone was com the family of
Frank G. Sanders near Winona, |
Minn., rushed from the dinner table
to a nearby clump of willows, where
each lay face downward. They had|i
scarcely ''r ces of
safety befor 2
molished the house
in the |
ammunition, | OI
! sists of a
this year and are now taking orders
for delivery in 1906.
3 Yellow Fever Record.
$ The official report of the Yellow Fever :
$cases in New Orleans up to 6 o’clock p.m.
August 27 is summarized as follows: 3
2 New cases, 31. 4
. Total to date, 1,743. 2
3? Deaths, 18. 3
2 Total deaths to date, 25. 3
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Pennsylvania Heir.
William O’Hara, of Westmoreland
county, Pa., has been declared the
rightful heir of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
O’Hara, both of whom were murdered
near Brighton, Col, in January, 1889.
O’Hara’s estate consists of a lot on
Market street, Denver, valued at i:
000, and $262 in money. The estate
of his wife, Mrs. Mary O’Hara, con-
valuable ranch near
Brighton, $2,265 in money and consid-
erable jewelry.
Indian Kills His Relatives.
Clarence Brown, a full-blood Indian,
old, of Stonewall, I. T., is
federal jail, charged with the
1 . . :
{ murder of his father, his mother and
his brother. The officers say that
| Brown confessed that he shot his rela-
|
{
| family
|
uck and de-|
tives at night as they lay asleep so
he would come into possession of the
estate.
While emptying cinders from a car
yards of the National rolling
1 McKeesport, the car up-
nd four laborers, all forgigners,
badly burned
Pa.,
‘chase money, together with the sum
JAPAN MAKES CONGESSION
Attempts to Bargain with Russia
Over Sakhalin Island.
ROOSEVELT’S PLAN REJECTED
Russia Claims That All the Points
Involved in the War Have Been
Conceded.
When the peace envoys met on
August 23 Baron Komura in a few
words explained that Japan in her
great desire for peace was ready to
make certain “modifications” of the
original articles in the hope the Rus-
sia could find it possible to accept
them. He then presented in writing
to M. Witte the compromise propo-
sition which President Roosevelt had
suggested.
It offered to withdraw article 9,
providing for the payment by Russia
of Japan's bill for the cost of war, on
conditions that Russia would accept
article 5, which provides for the.ces-
sion of the island of Sakhalin, so
modified as to include an arrange-
ment for the purchase by Russia -of
the northern half of -the island for
1,200,000,000 yen. In addition it offer-
ed to withdraw entirely articles 11
and 12 (surrender of the interned
warships and limitation upon Rus-
sia’s sea power in the far east.) It
was the president’s compromise and
M. Witte knew its contents as well
as Baron Komura. The question of
whether he had been “buffing” was
put to the test.
Without a moment hesitation M.
Witte explained that the modifica-
tion proposed was merely a sham, a
diplomatic attempt to ask Russia to
pay war tribute under another name.
He could not accept it. He told
Baron Komura Russia wanted peace.
She had given the proofs in accept-
ing every article involving the fs-
sues upon which the war was fought,
but she could fight, and money for
tribute she would not pay, not a
kopeck. He asked a withdrawal of
all demands for tribute. And so the
plenipotentiaries separated to meet
again on Saturday, ostensibly to per-|
mit M. Witte to place in writing, as |
the rules of the conference require, |
his reply to the Japanese compromise |
proposition. In reality the adjourn-
ment over the two days was to give
each side an opportunity to consult
its government for the last time.
The suggestion of President
Roosevelt for breaking the existing
deadlock in the peace, negotiations
and rescuing the conference from
failure has become public. The Presi-
dent’s solution would ingeniously per-
mit the satisfaction of the Japanese
demands for reimbursement for the
cost of the war and at the same
time enable Russia to face the world
with the declaration that she had not
ceded a foot of territory or paid a
kopec of war tribute to the victor.
The solution, tersely stated, con-
sists in an agreement by Russia to
repurchase possession of either all
or half of the island of Sakhalin, now
in the military occupation of Japan,
for a sum the amount of which, if the
two countries cannot agr2e, shall be
decided by some method of arbitration
hereafter to be determined. The pur-
Japan would obtain from the cession
of the Chinese Eastern railroad and
the maintenance of the Russian pris-
oners in Japan, would, it is estimated,
about equal the amount claimed by
Japan as her bill for the cost of the
war.
Practically, therefore, the solution
offered by the President involves re-
cession by Japan upon article five,
the cession of Sakhalin and recession
by Russia upon article nine, indemni-
ty.
Panafma Merchants Act.
A permanent committee of three’
has been appointed by the mer-
chants of Panama to seek a modifi-
cation of the arrangement establishing
commissariats in the canal zone.
This committee will present to Gov.
Magoon a statement showing the
losses merchants are likely to suffer
and will endeavor to obtain an
equitable readjustment of the matter.
BIG GAS DEAL
Kansas Natural Gas Company Buys
y Out Rival.
The Kansas Natural Gas company
controlled by Pittsburgers, with T. N.
Barnsdall as president, concluded ne-
gotiations for the purchase of the
Peoples Natural Gas company of
Coffeyville, Kas. The price paid was
$900,000.
This purchase gives to the Kansas
company 43,000 acres of the best pro-
ducing gas and oil district in Mont-
gomery county, Kansas, the same field
in which the main properties of the
Kansas lies. The Peoples company
has a daily capacity of 550,000,000
feet of natural gas.
The purchase puts the Kansas com-
pany in a class by itself as a large
factor in the Kansas gas fields. 1
removes the only large competitor
and strengthens the position of the
company greatly.
Six thousand union carpenters of
Boston receive an increase of wages
under the decision of Judge George
1.. Wentworth as arbitrator. The
increase is from $3 to $3.28 for an
eight-hour day.
Three Killed in Explosion.
By an explosion of glant powder at
Paris Cal., Mrs. A. W. McRae, wife
of a mine owner, her son, George, and |
Oscar Duclose, another mine owner,
were instantly killed. Mr. McRae suf-
fered probably fatal injuries.
Frank Hartina was killed and
John Deepen fatally injured by an |
explosion at the powder mill onwed
by W. L. Conn:ll & Co,
near
Shamokin, Pa. The mill was demol
ished, entailing a loss of $100,000
sign.
| of the
| the
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CORN CONTINUES EXCELLENT
Improvement in the Outlook for
Apple Crop.
The weekly summary of crop con-
ditions issued by the Weather Bureau
says:
The previously reported excellent
condition of corn continues general-
ly throughout the principal corn pro-
No
ducing states and also in the At-
lantic coast and eastern gulf dis-
tricts.
The harvesting, stacking and
thrashing of spring wheat on lowlands
in the northern part of the spring
wheat region, where grain is fully
ripe, were interrupted during the
forepart of the week, the fields being
too wet for the reapers.
yields are generally indicated
the southern portion.
While cotton has improved in por-
tions of the central and western dis-
tricts, the crop as a whole has suf-
fered deterioration, which is most
marked in the eastern distriets.
Wet weather has proven injurious
to tobacco in Ohio and Indiana, but
most reports respecting this crop are
favorable, an improvement in Ken-
tucky, the middle Atlantic states and
New [tngland being indicated.
There is no improvement in the
general outlook for apples, nearly all
reports showing an inferior crop.
Much complaint of blight and rot in
potatoes is received from the lake
region and the northern part of the
middle Atlantic states, but the re-
ports from the Missouri and central
Mississippi valleys are more favor-
able. .
over
MARTIN A WINNER
| Virginia Democrats Rencminate Him
for Senator.
In the Democratic State primary at
Richmond, Thomas S. Martin was
nominated to succeed himself in the
United States Senate, and Representa-
tive Claude A. Swanson, of the Fifth
congressional district, to succeed
Andrew J. Montague as governor of
the State, hy large majorities. Chair-
man J. Taylor Ellyson, of the Dem-
ocratic State committee, was nomi-
nated for lieutenant governor by an
overwhelming vote. William A.
Anderson was chosen for re-election
as attorney general and J. D. Eggles-
ton, Jr. of Prince Edward county, was
nominated for superintendent of pub-
lic instruetion by majorities approxi-
mating those of the leaders of the
ticket.
by the Democrats to be practically
equivalent to elections, though the
Republicans have a ticket in the field
and propose to make a strong fight.
NOT AFRAID OF TAINT
Inventor's Wife Sues Standard Oil
for $50,000,000 Royalties.
A motion was made in the Supreme
Court at Boston for the appointment
of a commission to take the testi-
mony of John D. Rockefeller and
other officers of the Standard Oil
Company in the $50,000,000 suit
brought by Elizabeth F. Greenough
of that city, who alleges that amount
to. be due her as royalty on the oil
refined by the company since 1874.
The suit is based on an alleged
contract made with the late Benjamin
PF. Greenough, the inventor of a re-
fining process, by the terms of whica
Greenough was to receive one-quart-
er of a cent on every gallon of oil
sold by the Standard Oil Company.
H. H. Rogers, who is made ths
chief defendant, in his reply to the
suit says an agreement was made,
but that Mr. Greenough himself va-
cated it on January.1, 1875.
Boston Wool Markt.
The wool market is firm with fine
high cost wools scarce. The notice-
able strength of the market has been
found in half bloods. Territory and
Montana. Leading quotations follow:
Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above,
31@38¢c; X, 34@35c; No. 1, 40@4lc;
No. 2, 41@42c; fine unwashed, 28@
29c¢; unmerchantable, 30@32¢; 4-
blood, unwashed, 234@35c; 34-blood,
34@35¢; l-blood, 34@35¢c; unwashed
delaine, 30@31c; fine washed delaine,
39@40c. Michigan, fine unwashed,
27T@28¢c; Yblood, unwashed, 33@34c;
3%¢-blood, 34@35c;
unwashed delaine,
- 15-blood, 32@33c;
28c. Kentucky,
FATAL FEUDS
Four Killed and Others Wounded in
Tennessee and Kentucky.
A feud battle occurred near Alice
station, Tenn, on the Queen &
Crescent railroad, in which Frederick
Miller and his son John Miller, aged
3, and Fred Johnson, were killed,
and Henry Miller, another son of Fred
Miller, aged 18, was dangerously
wounded. For more than 20 years a
feud war has raged between the Mil-
ler and Rawlings families.
In a feud fight on Black creek, in
Powell county, Ky. Campbell Ander- |
son was killed and Tom and Cale
Morton, brothers, were seriously
wounded. Will Peasley and Troy
Plunkett were slightly hurt.
TO
FIGHT BEEF TRUST
Hotel Men and Butchers
Will Build Plants.
Chicago hotel men, wholesale
butchers. and restaurant keepers
have formed a combination to fight
the beef trust. Two plants, one cost-
ing $150,000 and the other $300,000,
are in course of erection and a third
to cost $500,000, is contemplated.
Conger Resigns.
Edwin H. Conger, of Iowa has re-
signed his post as American am-
bassador to Mexico to take effect
October 18, and President Roosevelt
has accepted the resignation. The
President authorized the publication
correspondence, which passed
between him and Ambassador Conger,
ambassador giving reasons per-
taining to his private business and
personal affairs, for desiring to re-
5 President Roosevelt praises Mr.
Conger for his services to the coun-
ry.
Chicago
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