BURGLARS HOLD UP TOWN
MOB KILLS MANY NEGROES
Bee ; |
Reign of Terror at Atlanta,
Which Blacks Are Slain.
FOUGHT LIKE TIGERS
Bold Cracksmen Rob Bank
While Citizens Look On.
Eight masked and heavily armed
burglars held the people of White
Cloud, a village 45 miles north’ of
Grand Rapids, Mich., at bay while
| they rifled the Newaygo County Bank
Eight
in
|
|
|
—— | and attempted also to rob the bank of
FE %
Blacks Were Dragged Forth From R. Gannon & Son. gi
y { The men rode into the town be-
Wherever Found and Kilied | tween 12 and 1 o'clock in the morn-
Like Cattle. | ing, surrounded the buildings contain- |
ae | ing the two banks and posted guards
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., dated | outside while other members of the
Sunday night says: Twenty-four hours | S488 WO! ked inside.
have passed since a race war of no I'he interior of the Newaygo Coun-
mean proportions began in Atlanta. | Bank was completely wrecked by |
In that period at least 10 lives have
been sacrificed, and the number of
injured will be at least 40, several of
whom cannot recover.
At 10 o'clock to-night the city
controlled by the police aided by near- |
ly a thousand of the State militia.
Every part of town is patrolled by the |
soldiers and the authorities seem to
have the situation well in hand.
This condition came as the result of
numerous and repeated attacks or at-
tempted attacks, upon white women |
by negroes. The list of an even doz- |
en of such attacks within the limits"
of Fulton county, within the last nine |
weeks, when four attempts
such crimes were reported. Flaring |
headlines in the special editions of
afternoon papers wrought the popu-
lace to a high pitch of excitement.
The usual Saturday night crowds
were largely increased by men and |
boys who thronged the downtown
streets. There was no leader and no
overt act until late in the evening.
| two explosions.
tween $2,000 and $4,000 cash.
mite was then used to wreck the Gan-
| non bank,
js | Were at work the townspeople gath-
ered
{ them present that the guards evident-
ly decided it was not prudent to wait
longer.
working in the bank before they could
get
| citizens
on horseback.
at | Proceedings to Bring Smith to Trial
| torney of Salt Lake county,
to appear in the criminal division of
the State district court before Judge
Armstrong and show why
not direct the issuance of warrants
for
president of the Mormon church, on a
The burglars got be-
Dyna-
but while the cracksmen
until there ‘were so many of
They called out the men
the safe open and, covering the
with guns, rode out of town
AGAINST MORMON PRESIDENT
for Polygamy.
S. Christiansen, county at-
was cited
Harley
he should
the arrest of Joseph F. Smith,
About 10 o clock a negro shoved a | charge of sustaining unlawful rela-
white woman from the sidewalk On | jons with one of his five wives
Whitehall street, in . the center of The citation was issued: on the
town \linost simultaneously a ne-| ,oiition You Mau |
isa 3 sl - | hetitior Jes. Mosty rons
gress made an insulting remark to a | DoUion Of anes a
white man on an adjoining street, and in ' id eer |
a ; . E hd mony against’ Senator Smoot in the |
he administered what he considere:d {
due punishment.
mob began its work of destruction.
Five thousand men and boys throng-
From this start the |
proceedings at
complaint making a statutory charge
against President Smith.
Washington.
On September 11 Owen swore to a
The com-
{
! |
ed the downtown streefs looking for plaint was based upon the fact that |
Do News that a riot had|,, nay 21 last, President Smith’s |
started brought thousands more from | forty-third child was born to Mary |
their ho mes in the suburbs and resi- T ‘Schwartz Smith the Morton |
ence riets on ss a? Hira)
Gone dis stricts, until fully ten thous- president's fifth wife, at her home in |
and men thronged the downtown sec- Salt Lake city \s witnesses to the |
tion. They made attacks on the in- | he complaint ‘cited the Tour |
ol ni o « 0 IQ dae aT 4 Ls 2 on & i
Wm Se a Tach car was ian. wives of President Smith and |
The (rolleys were pulled from the | Several apostles: and leaders of the
wires and in the semi-darkness of the
unlighted car negroes were beaten,
cut and stamped upon in an unreason-
ing, mad frenzy.
resistance, or
practically sure death.
filled with negroes,
an ouiside run.
The mob dashed for the car.
sistance was made by the negroes,
who had not been apprised of trouble.
One car, half
Three negroes lay dead on the floor | | bordering
of the car when it was permitted to |
move on, and two more were seriously |
beaten and unconscious.
‘When the crowd seemed to be get- |
ting beyond control at about 10 o’clock |
Mayor Woodward mounted a car;
If a negro ventured |
remonstrated, it meant !
approached from
Re- |
| ing that private reports received by
Mormon church, including Senator
Smoot and Governor Cutler.
REBELS NOT FRIGHTENED
Secretary Taft Sends Gloomy Mess-
age to President.
Secretary Taft has sent a gloomy
message to President Roosevelt, say-
{him from the interior are that a state
|
upon anarchy prevails
throughout almost the entire island,
exception being made of the sections
on the coast.
The arrival at Havana of three of
the largest United States battleships,
| the Louisiana and the Virginia, and
platform on Peachtree and Marietta | two cruisers, the Cleveland and the
streets, and urged the crowd to dis- | Tacoma, in addition to those already
perse,
of the white women would be ade-
quately and promptly punished by due |
process of law.
Mayor Woodward was given a re- |
spectful hearing, but when he finish-
ed the werk
sumed.
In the fighting, negresses were the
most warlike, urging resistance to the
|
of destruction was re- |
declaring that the assailants | | there, has had little effect on the in-
| surgents in the field, and when the
leaders of the revolution were ap-
| prised of the big squadron now in
Cuban waters they greeted the in-
formation with Spanish expressions
to the effect that ‘‘they cannot come
| to the bush.”
|
|
It
has
is known that Secretary Taft
decided absolutely not to treat
mob and themselves fighting like | with armed rebel forces. This taken
Amazous. jo mean that American intervention
EEA TE ard American occupation must in-
CAP. HATFIELD SHOT ovitably follow.
Terror of West Virginia Wounded by | EXAMINE TAXATION LAWS
Younger Brother. TF
“Cap.” Hatficld, the state's most Governor Harris Appoints Men to
noted outlaw, who for years has! Recommend Amendments.
spread terror along the West Virginia = Governor Harris, acting in com-
border, especially among the McCoy
family, is reported dying at Wharn-
cliff. Mingo County, from two bullet
wounds said to have been inflicted by
pliance with numerous requests from
business and industrial organizations,
appointed the following commission
to examine the present taxation laws
Dr. Klias R. Hatfield, his younger Of Ohio and report to him with recom-
brother. | mendations as to needed amendments
“Cap.” as usual, carried a Winches- {in time for transmission to the gen-
ter rifle while the younger Hatfield | eral assembly at the opening of the
had a pistol. The men began shooting
when within 40 yards of each other.
The vounger proved the better marks-
man and put two bullets directly
through the chest of his o utlarwbdca
er. “Cap.” it is said,
than a dozen men.
SERIOUS DISORDERS
has killed more !
Persian Society Utterly Demoralized
by Continued Agitation.
According to information received
at St. Petersburg, disorders
with the constitutional government.
As vet there has been no bloodshed,
but the situation is regarded as most
serious.
The constitutionalists are intoxicat-
ed by the success of the political
strike and are disposed to resort te
such strikes on the slightest pre-
text. Persian society ist utterly de
maoralized.
Russia to exert a restraining influence
to prevent abuses of the ° ‘best’’ right
of sanctuary within their
grourds are urged.
Nobles Expelied.
At an extraordinary meeting at
have |
J | . o Ad i 2
broken out at Teheran in connection j burlap bag, was found in a hole 24
next session in January, 1908:
Attorney General Wade H. Ellis,
Ex-State Senator Alfred C. Cassatt,
of Cincinnati; George E. Martin, of
Lancaster; Thomas H. Hoggsett, of
Cleveland, and Allen Pomerene, of
Canton.
MUTILATED CORPS FOUND
New York Police Unearth Evidence of
Horrible Crime.
The dismembered body of a man,
apparently an Italian, wrapped in the
| feet deep forming a part of an exca-
‘vation at 604 West Thirty-sixth street,
| brewery is
York, where an addition to a
to stand. The discovery
was made by the day watchman for
the building contractor and later a
systematic search by the police re-
New
| suited in finding the parts of a man’s
legs from the knees down, and the
{arms and hands.
Joint measures by Great Britain and !
legation |
These were wrapped together in a
newspaper of the date of September
10, and bound about the bundle was
a strip of a woman’s skirt. All was
| neatly and securely tied with a string
Kursk, Russia, of the marshals of the
nobility, it was decided by a vote of
98 to 2 to expel from the ranks of the
nobility three members of the late
parliament, including Prince Peter
Dolgorcukoff,
lower house who
manifesto.
signed the Viborg
Year in Jail for Stealing Pies.
For the theft of two cherry pies
from the pantry of John Fallon, Frank
Price was sentenced at Sidney, to one
year in the penitentiary. William
Somers, who remained outside, con-
! Poland.
vice president of the!
fessed to eating half a pie, and got |
six months.
{ of the Mullins-Fleming factions
John Torrey Morse, the oldest grad- |
uate of Harvard university
survivor of the class of 1832,
his honie in Boston. He was 93
ofl age.
and sole ;
died at |
years |
| Fortv *shots were fired.
suggesting deliberate preparation.
Russian General Assassinated.
General Nicolaieff of the artillery
was assassinated at Warsaw, Russian
General Nicolaieff was
walking on Wiekla street in the
morning when he was surrounded by
five revolutionists and shot dead. The
murederers escaped.
Eight-Hour Law Extended.
President Roosevelt extended the
eight-hour law to apply to all public
work under the supervision of any de-
partment of the government. This
order affects more particularly work
on river aad harbor improvements.
In an engagement between members
in
Pike county, Kentucky, James Ander-
son, a member of the Mullin’s faction
was killed, and Hiram Mullins, lead-
er of the faction, mortally wounded.
DYNAMITE SHATTERS TOW
Twelve Killed and Many Injured
by Explosion.
REPORT HEARD FOR 20 MILES
Property Loss Will Reach Million,
While Many Who Escaped
‘Death Are Terribly Maimed.
Twelve deaths, the injuring of
scores of other persons and $500,000
damage to property were caused at
Jellico, Tenn., when a car load of
dynamite standing on a track near
the Southern railway depot exploded
with a report that was heard for 20
miles.
Buildings were shattered in the
business section of the town and
nearly every piece of glass within a
radius of one mile of the scene was
broken.
The explosion occurred at 8 o'clock
in the morning. The freight car, one
belonging to the Pennsylvania rail-
road lines, contained 450 boxes, or
20,000 pounds of high explosives,
consigned to the Rand Powder Com-
pany at Clearfield, Tenn.
Two causes are assigned for the
explosion. One is that three parties
were shooting at a mark on the car
and that a bullet entered the car and
caused the explosion. The other is
that while the car was standing on a
side track a carload of pig iron was
switched against it, and that the im-
pact caused the explosion.
The dead are: George Atkins, John
Cook, Walter Rodgers, John Gordon,
James Sharp, James Lovette, Ida
Kayne, James Reynolds, John Hoch-
ma and Joseph Sellers.
One body remains unidentified,
{ making ‘the total dead 12.
There is a bare possibly that other |
bodies may be recovered from
ruins of buildings,
probable. B. 0. Baird, the Mayor of
the city, is among the injured.
LIBERTY FOR RELIGIOUS SECTS
Another Promise That Russia will Re-
move Restrictions.
A member of the Russian cabinet |
is authority for the statement that |
the
freedom, removing
restriction and disability under which
the different faiths in Russia have
labored, will be promulgated. This is
the second point in the Stolypin pro-
gram. The. first, including measures
for the distribution of land, already
has been published.
Under the new laws, which will be
published while no parliament is sit-
ting, the varicus sects, unless they
indulge in criminal or immoral prac-
tices, may receive upon application
the sanction of the government. This
will confer upon their clergy practi-
cally the same status as is now en-
joyed by orthodox priests. They will
have equal rights with the orthodox
church in the matter of erecting
school and church buildings and the
receiving of proselytes.
The cabinet will next take up the
project of law enlarging the rights
of Jews, which has just been elabor-
ated by a commission.
READY FOR A SUDDEN CALL
Head of Army Desires t to Be Prepared
in Case of Intervention Being
Ordered.
Army orders cabled to Germany di-
rect Brigadier General Thomas H.
Barry, assistant chief of staff, and
Brigadier General W. H. Duvall, com-
mander of the Department of the Gulf,
to return to the United States at
once.
an army to Cuba they
the expedition force.
Orders directing the
go to Havana were sent by wireless |
to the vessels. The Virginia and
Loouisana were off Charleston and the |
New Jersey was off the coast of the
State the name of which she bears.
It was no trouble to pick them up by |
wireless.
BY BOILER EXPLOSION
Parts of Engine Scattered Half a
Mile as Boiler Blows Up.
Through the explosion of the boiler
of a Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston
freight engine two men were killed,
four others severely
engine and caboose reduced to scrap
iron: The explosion
Houston run, four miles below Mon- |
ongaheia City.
The. dead: Amos Wilhelm,
neer; killed instantly; Lawrence Pat-
terson, fireman; died in tbe Memorial |
hospital two hours later.
KILLED
ductor; Ed. Morris, flagman: G. W.
Howermer, brakeman, and Alfred De-
vore, brakeman.
Skeletons Found in Trunk.
taining one complete skeleton and a
portion of another in the Mahoning
river at Warren, O., has given the
police a mystery to solve.
The discovery was made by two
men whose intention was first at-
tracted to the trunk by seeing a hone
protruding from a small crack. Break-
ing open the lid they were horrified to
find one whole skeleton and a portion
of the vertebae of another.
Gets Fifty Years and a Whipping.
Charles Conley, the negro who at-
tacked and seriously injured Mrs.
Beartrice Frankish and her daughter,
Miss Gussie Leitch, on a public road,
in Delaware, 10 days ago, was senten-
ced to 50 vears’ imprisonment and to
receive 30 lashes at the whipping
pest.
The ordnance bureau of the Navy
Department awarded to the Crucible
Steel Company of Pittsburz the con-
tract for %2 sets of three-inch gun
forgings.
.
but this is hardly |
{ been the heaviest in the
ls
|
within a few days law igi fanied her : ; 5 |
w days laws of religious | wind and sea and avoid being driven |
practically every | ashore.
Latest advices from Hongkong state |
|
| damage.
ONE AMERICAN SHIP WRECKED
Generally Believed That Bishop Hoar
Is One of Victims—Dead
Bodies Strew Coast.
It is now estimated, conservative-
ly, that the property loss caused by |
the typhoon at Hong Kong, will ap- |
proximate $20,000,000. Thirty steam-!
ships are known to have been wreck-
ed and 30 more were seriously dam- |
aged. Among the latter are the |
American vessel Hitchcock and two
Philippine steamers.
It was reported,
United States
at first that the
gunboat Callao had been
damaged, but this proves to be un-
true. She is unhurt and has done
gallant work in the rescue of the un-
fortunate natives.
The loss of life among the Euro-
peans was insignificant. Not more
than six are belicved to have been
killed. The native fishermen suffered
worst. The wrecks of their little
craft are everywhere along the coast,
which is strewn with huadreds of
dead bodies.
It seems to be established that Dr.
Hoar, the bishop of Victoria, is dead.
The searching expedition that was
sent out has returned and report that
no trace of ‘the bishop could be
found.
Three steamers, with over 400 pas-
sengers, are reported lost, and out of
all the passengers and crew but eight
are known to have escaped.
Business in the city is at a stand-
still and the confusion is such that it
has been impossible to obtain an ac-
curate idea of the extent of the dam-
age. It is known, however, that the
hospitals are overcrowded and temp-
orary morgues have been establish-
ed to afford shelter for the bodies of
the dead.
Several churches
ings in the residence
been wrecked. The loss of
and many dwell-
section have
life has
other native
typhoon also
ers and the junks and
craft in the path of the
WHEAT CROP BEATS RECORD .
Harvest of 1906 One of the
Greatest Ever Produced.
The London Economist, in a long
review of the wheat harvest this year,
asserts that ‘“‘the world’s cereal har-
vest of 1906, cannot fail to prove one
of the greatest ever produced.” It
remarks that ‘‘oats alone, among the
TRAINS 60 THROUGH BRIDGE
Cereal
Many Killed, Injured and Missing
in Rock Island Wreck.
TRAIN DROPS INTO RIVER
native quart- |
| Many Thrilling Scenes Attend Res-
cue—Some Float Fourteen Miles
Down the Stream.
Eight persons are dead, 20 more or
less injured and as many more miss-
ing as the result of the wrecking of
a Rock Island passenger ‘train three
miles from Dover, Okla.
The engine, tender, baggage and
mail cars, smoking car and day
coach of passenger train No. 12, north-
bound, left the high bridge that spans
the Cimarron river and plunged into
the stream .which is flanked bY
Droachorges quicksunds. The loco-
motive disappeared almost immedi-
ately. The mail and baggage clerks
vscaped from their cars and swam to
the shore. ‘
The accident was due to driftwood,
which piled against the bridge and
swerved: it out of line.
The train was an hour late and was
running at high speed. The engineer
did not see the condition of the
bridge until he was within a few
yards of it. He shouted to his fire-
man and jumped. He landed on the
verge of ‘the river and escaped un-
hurt. ‘dhe fireman sustained severe
injuries.
When the engine struck the bridge
the structure collapsed, precipitating
the engine, smoking car and day
coach info the water. Two Pullmans
remained on the track. The current]
whiried the day coach down stream
and lpdged it against a sand bank. |
| 7 occupants were helped out
I'he
through the doors and windows. The |
smoking car floated to a sandbar and
four men were seen to clamber |
suffered most heavily.
Pearl river and the surrounding
waters were filled with native craft |
| and it is believed very few of these
| escaped.
The Empress of Japan,
was among the few ships to escape |
This was due to her partly
sheltered position, as well as to the
engines which en-|
her
resist the fury
of
io
strength
of the
that 5,060 lives were lost during the
typhoon and that the damage to prop-
erty, public and private, will amount
to millions of dollars.
were sunk, 24 were stranded, seven
craft in port were sunk. The ship-
ping trade has been paralyzed through
lack of lighters.
peans are missing.
YANKEE SWINDLES BRITON
Obtains Loan on Strength of Pretend-
ed Donation from Alleged Uncle.
gan, and representing himself to be a
member of the Harvard rowing club |
and a nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan,
has been remanded for trial at the |
Greenwich Police court, London, Eng
on the charge of obtaining ey]
ly a small amount of money from Dr.
Dickey, resident surgeon of the Miller
hospital.
Morgan signed orders on an ex-
press company directing the payment |
of $5,000 to the hospital and promis-
ing an annual payment of $125, to the!
institution, saying these were dona-
tiong from his uncle, J. Pierpont Mor-
gan, himself. Then Morgan told
Dickey he had lost his purse and Qb-
tained a loan. He is probably the
same young American who victimized |
several West End tradesmen out of |
If it becomes necessary to send | month
battleships |
Virginia, New Jersey and Louisana to |
injured and the |
occurred near |
engi- |
The injured are T. J. Hagan, con- |
The finding of a small trunk con- |
several hundred pounds sterling last
by posing as a member of
will be con- | the Harvard crew.
spicuous figures in the preparation of |
Connecticut Republican Ticket.
The Republican convention in New
| Haven, adopted a platform endorsing
| Roosevelt and dealing with State
issues. Following is the State ticket:
| For Governor, Rollin S. Woodruff;
| Lieutenant Governor, Everett J. Lake;
| Treasurer, Freeman I. Patton; Secre-
| tary of State, Theodore Bodeinwein.
TWO WEEKS OF GRACE
| Octcber 1 Fixed as Last Day to Set-
i tle Cuban Trouble.
| October 1 is the date set the
administration by which Secretary
Taft and acting Secretary Bacon are
to bring about peace in Cuba. If
their efforts are fruitless in the next
two weeks the United States Govern-
ment will intervene forcibly in the af-
| fairs of the island.
| It is learned on igh authority that
it this is the plan of the administration.
hy
Secretaries Taft and Bacon arrived
in Havana, September 18 on board
the cruiser Des Moines from Tampa.
| They were pet by Mr. Sleeper, the
charge d’affairs, and are already go-
ing over the latest developments of
the situation. ’
Judges Appointed.
President Roosevelt announced the
appointment of District Judge Joseph
| Buffington to be the United States
| circuit judge, to succeed the late
Marcus W. Acheson, of Pittsburg.
Judge Nathaniel Ewing of Uniontown
was appointed to succeed Judge
Buffington on the district bench.
Both appointments were recommend-
ed to President Roosevelt by Sena-
tor Knox.
Churchill Defeated.
After one of the most wonderful
fights in the history of New Hamp-
shire politics, Winston Churchill was
defeated for the Republican guberna-
torial nomination by Charles M.
Floyd, of Manchester, by a narrow
margin.
Dowie to Quit Zion City.
John Alcxander Dowie announced
a farewell service at Shiloh House for
next Sunday. Immediately after this
service Dowie will leave for Mexico,
and it is not expected that he will
ever see Zion City again.
which was |
{in the harbor when the storm broke, |
Twelve ships |
damaged and one-half of the native
Only a few Euro-|
A man calling himself Gerald Mor-
{ through the windows and pull them- |
| selves to the top of the car, calling
{ loudly for help. Those on shore were
| unable to reach them on account of
{the high water, and while they were
begging for assistance a mass “of
| driftwocod swept them away. Three
other men crawled thtough the rear
| door of the smoking car.
rescued.
{ The most authentic accounts place
| the number of passengers in the smok-
at between 25 and 30. With
have not been
They were
| ing car
| few exceptions they
accounted for.
| One man was fished out of the river
at Cashion, 20 miles from the disast-
er. He was almost dead. Others
| have been reported floating down the
| river.
The injured were hurried to King:
| fisher, where the residents have
| turned their homes into temporary
hospitals.
| It may be impossible to ascertain
| the exact number of dead for several
i days. Many of those reported miss-
ing may turn up safe at some point
down the Cimarron.
TRAIN JUMPS BRIDGE
| Accident Near Loidon Fatal to Ten,
With Injury to Sixteen. !
The crowded train on the Grand |
Northern leaving London was wrecked
outside of. Grantham at midnight. The
Bi shdita have stopped at Grant-
ham, bus: failed to do so. Shortly
after passing the station it left the
| rails and jumped a bridge. The en-
gine and several cars were dashed
| over the embankment, the engine turn-
| turtle. Several coaches immediately
| took fire.
| Ten dead and 16 injured have been
| taken from the debris. The fire has |
|
|
| been extinguished.
At the spot where the express was
| derailed there is a curve and it is
i supposed the brakes failed to act. The
| train appears to have gone upon a |
| siding, smashing the parapet of the
| bridge. : |
Pays to Reduce Fare. LY
An estimated yearly loss of nearly |
$750,000 to the New York, New Hav-|
en & Hartford railroad as a result of |
reducing its passenger rate to two |
cents already has been turned into
an actual gain in gross receipts as
compared with other years, through
an increased volume of business.
Big Four Will Lower Rates.
It is unofficially announced that the
Big Four will install its new inter- |
state rates, based on 2 cents in Ohio |
and 234 cents in other states traversed |
by its lines on October 1, thus taking
the. lead with the Erie in this regard.
The Baltimore & Ohio has announced |
that it will meet the Pennsylvania |
railroad’s reduction to 214 cents for |
local one-way fares on November 1°
east of Pittsburg, but has made no |
announcement for the lines west of |
Pittsburg. The Pennsylvania lines!
west are not yet ready to announce |
their intention, but it is expected that !
this announcement will be that the |
rate for every: mile of road west of!
Pittsburg will be 2 cents.
| Alleged Slave-Holders Freed.
Rex Smith and James E. Smith, two
| of the brothers who have been on
trial at Cape Girardeau, Mo., on a |
charge of peonage, were acquitted by !
Judge Pollock of any complicity in ;
the conspiracy to deprive about 40!
negroes of their rights.
The Turkish commander-in-chief at
Saloniki, is reliably informed that
Bulgaria is massing a large force in
the direction of Palanka.
ZION TURNS FROM DOWIE
Voliva Elected Spiritual Leader
Overwhelming Majority.
Ashen pale and with death hovel ing
over him John Alexander Dowie was
badly beaten in the election ordered
by the Federal Court to determine the |
spiritual head of Zion. Wilber Glen |
Voliva won easily in a tidal vote ap-
proximating 2,500. Propped up by
pillows on a couch at an open win-
dow in Shiloh House Dowie occasion-
ally pleaded with or cursed his once
faithful followers.
by
| pear
ber
! linois,
! Philippine Islands,
cereals in England, seem likely to
turn out below the average in product-
iveness.’
In most of the countries of Conti-
nental Europe the harvest is a good
one. The wheat crop is above the
average in the great producing pro-
vinces in the north of France, but it
has suffered from drought in the
south and west. It is thought that
France will need to import very lit-
tle, if any, wheat. Spain has reaped
a good harvest generally, while Ger-
many has good crops of barley and
oats, as well ‘as of wheat and rye.
According to the latest official esti-
mate, Austria-Hungary will. produce
a much larger wheat crop this year
than last. From Russia reports vary
greatly. The winter wheat crop has
-been officially reported to be a good
one, while the more important spring
wheat crop is a poor one in all but a
few provinces. Roumania is now ex-
pected lo produce a record wheat
crop, and Servia and Bulgaria have
good crops of wheat.
The Canadian wheat harvest on the
whole will not prove a very abund-
ant one. In Austrailia the crops,
sown under favorable conditions gen-
erally, have yet to undergo the haz-
ards of the spring and summer seas-
ons. India’s wheat crop harvested
last spring was the greatest but one
ever known.
TUBE TRUST IS SUSPECTED
Pneumatic Mail Service Will Necessar-
ily be Delayed.
Postoffice Department officials
ap-
to be up against a trust in the
matter of pneumatic tube service in
| the larger cities of the country. Bids
were asked for on July 27 for con-
tinuing the service in New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn and
Boston. Bids for establishing the ser-
vice in Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Balti-
more, San Francisco and Kansas City
and extending it in St. louis were
asked for. None was received, how-
ever. .
The bids for the maintenance of
the service in the cities that already
have it were so high that, if they
are accepted, the service cannot be
established in any of the others. For
instance, the contractors who own the
tubes in New York~asked $467,000,
which is more than one-third of the
amount appropriated for the whole
country, which was $1,250,000.
The bids for the maintenance of
service now in existence are all om
i the basis of $17,000 per mile. The
present contracts run from $13,500
mile to $15,000.
When these contracts were made
! there was no competition and a com~
pany believed to be independent of
the combination, now. suspected, got
thie contract. But the Philadelphia
company turned up with a bid identi-
cal with that of its supposed competi.
| tors. Ca
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS
Congressman Robert R. Hitt, of Il-
died at his summer home at
Narragansett Pier, R. I.
Jockey Freishon, a 16-year-old boy,
was killed before the eyes of 15,000
ie
spectators in the grand stand at
Gravesend.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany has awarded contracts for the
construction of 12,400 freight cars
at an estimated cost of $15,000,000.
Several men have been killed in a
mutiny on board the Turkish troop-
ship Assari-Tewfik, at Port Said.
Quiet has been restored.
Boston was selected as the ‘meet-
ing place next year of the convention
of the Supreme Council of the Scot-
| tish Rite Masons of the Northern jur-
isdiction.
Warren Riggs, 26
Littletown, W. Va., was accidentally
drowned through a skiff capsizing
while crossing the Allegheny river at
Henrys Bend.
Twelve ‘Japanese, arrested for poach-
ing on St. Paul island, off the Pribyloff
group, and convicted at Valdez, have
been’sentenced each to three months
in the jail at that place.
Two men were shot dead and an-
other man was severely wounded in
a saloon ip Hammond, Ind., as a re-
| sult of an argument over the merits
of Battling Nelson; and Joe Gans,
prize fighters.
The bureau of yards and docks
| awarded the contract to the Westing-
house company of Pittsburgh for sup-
plying the electrical equipment for
the Norfolk navy_-yard, at $91,995.
Contracts for all the structural steel
required for the new Palace Hotel in
San Francisco, have been awarded
with the assurance that the materials
will be delivered within four months
after the specifications have been
placed in the hands of the Eastern
years old of
{ manufacturers.
Maj.-Gen. John F. Qesteon, com-
mandin~ tha department of Luzon,
in his annual re-
41 stations have been
port <«svs
{ abandoned during the year and there
are 28 stations
American
troops.
The recently elected President of
i the republic of Chile. Don ' Pedro
Monti, was inaugurated into office,
with the usual ceremonies. Members
of the diplomatic corps and prominent
representatives of the army, the navy
and the bench were present.
0. B. Stollard, cashier of' the Peo-
ples State bank of Sedan, Kas., disap-
peared, leaving a note saying he was
a defaulter and had fled. The safe
is time-locked and the amount of
money missing is not known.
by 7,560
native
garrisoned
troops and 2,488
200 Condemned to Die. '
Arraigned for trial before a military
court composed of officers who recent-
ly organized the terrible massacre at
Siedle, 200 persons arrested while
the outbreak there was in progress
were condemned to death for alleged
acts of violence committed during
the massacre.
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