BENTH OF MAS. CHADWICK
In Financial Affairs
Dies in Prison.
HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER
Mer Health Failed Soon After Cen:
viction and Sentence to Serve
Ten Years in Prison.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, whose amaz-
fag financial transactions culminated
fm the wrecking of an Oberlin bank,
died in the woman’s ward at the Ohio
penitcntiary on the night of October
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley,
was a native of Woodstock, Canada.
She first came into public notice in
Toledo, O., about 20 years ago,
where she told fortunes under the
mame of Madame Daviere. While in
this city she forged the name of
Richard Brown, Youngstown, O., and
for this crime was sentenced to the
penitentiary at Columbus for nine
years.
She served -but a portion of this
sentence, and then located in Cleve-
Band, where she married a man
mamed Hoover. Her second husband,
was Dr. Le Roy S. Chadwick of
€leveland, a man of good family and
excellent standing in his profession.
In the latter part of 1902, or early
in 1903, Mrs. Chadwick, in the pres-
ence of her husbond, gave to Ira
Reynolds. the cashier of the Wade
Park bank of Cleveland a box con-
gaining notes signed with the name
of Andrew Carnegie. These forged
motes are alleged to have amounted
fo $7,500,000. Reynolds gave a re-
eeipt for the papers, which described
the notes and the signatures upon
them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Rey-
molds as an explanation of the notes
the statement that she was a natural
daughter of Carnegie.
With the receipt of Reynolds _in
Mer posscssion, Mrs. Chadwick went to
different banks and many capitalists,
making loans and paying not only
high interest to the banks, but heavy
bonuses to bank officials who loan-
ed her the money. The extent of
these transactions will never be fully |
Known, but they ran into the mil
Yions. They involved men of high |
standing in the financial world and |
eaused heavy losses to many banks.
In November, 1904, she was sued
By a m:n named Newton of Brook- |
line, Mass. from whom she had bor-
rowed a large amount. Other credi-
tors came down upon her and soon
—she was arrested by the federal au-
thorities on the charge of conspiring
with Charles Beckwith, president,
and A. B. Spear, cashier of the Na-
tional bank at Oberlin, O., which had
been substantially looted. Mrs. Chad-
wick had obtained from this institu-
tion such large sums that it was
eompelled to close its doors, causing
heavy losses to the depositors and
ruining many of them.
Mrs. Chadwick, Beckwith and
Spear were indicted for a variety of
offenses against the national banking
laws. Beckwith, died before coming
to trial. Spear was found guilty, and |
sentenced to seven years, and is {
mow serving time at Columbus, 0. |
Mrs. Chadwick was brought to |
trial, March, 1905, and after a hear-|
ing which lasted two weeks, was |
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud |
a national bank, and was sentenced to |
10 years in the penitentiary. Her
Realth, which was not good at the
time of her ‘trial, failed steadily after
fts conclusion.
Mrs. Chadwick left one son, Emil |
Hoover, born of her first marriage. |
He is now about 20 years old.
While lying in her bed in the hos-
pital ward of the Ohio penitentiary, |
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, who is serving |
a term in the Ohio penitentiary for
wrecking the First National Bank at
Oberlin, O., was baptized in the Ro- |
man Catholic faith by Father Kelly,
chaplain of the prison.
Three zeis of artificial hearing in-
struments have been shipped irom
New York to Buckingham Palace,
London, for the use of King Edward
and Queen Alexandra.
LIVE ON HUMAN FLESH
Startling Tales of Famine and Can-
nibalism Are Brought Back
by Traveler.
Cannibalism and famine among the
matives of Northeastern Canada, be-
tween the eastern shore of James bay
and Labrador, are brought back by
J. A. Osborne, editor of The Fort
Prancis Times, who has just complet
ed a trip of exploration in that coun-
While at Moose factory the explor-
er met a young man who fled hither
$a terror of his uncle, who, he said,
Bad killed and eaten eight human
deings. There, too, he saw a woman
who last winter killed and ate her
two children, so great was the fam-
fne. This lack of food primarily was
Prought about by the fact that the
woods seemed almost entirely with-
put the usual number of deer and rab-
®its, upon which animals the natives
erdinarily subsist.
These occurrences did not seem to
eause any stir in that region, and
Mr. Osborne has come to the conclu-
sion that cannibalism is practiced
epenly among the Indians and half-
Breeds. :
‘ITALY AFTER TRUSTS
Rome Appoints Commission to Keep
Down Price of Living.
Italy is also complaining of the
Righ cost of living, and the authori
ties will attempt to regulate prices.
In Rome retail prices of all pro-
visions are so high that a conmis-
sion has been appointed to fix a scale
of maximum prices, above which it
will be forbidden to sell provisions
under penalty of closing of the stores
| of political dictation or
| Bennett;
| Two
qui Indians.
where such sales are made.
LAKE VESSEL GOES DOWN
Only Cne Survivor of Cyprus’ Crew
Reaches Shore.
The steel steamer Cyprus, owned
by the Lackawanna Transportation
Co.. and on her second trip from the
lakes with a cargo of ore, was
wrecked Saturday night in Lake Su-
perior, off Deer Park, about 30 miles
from Grand Marais, and all of the
crew of 22, excepting the second
mate, C. J. Pitt, were lost. He was
washed ashore near Deer Park, lash-
ed to a life raft and barely alive.
is in a critical condition, and thus
far has been able to tell only that
the steamer was the Cyprus and that
he is the sole survivor. Several
bodies have been washed ashore at
Deer Park. Two are said to be those
of the first mate and the watchman.
The names of but five of the
drowned members of the crew are
known: Capt. F. B. Huyck of Sheri-
dan, N. Y.; First Mate John Smith
of Cleveland; Engineer J. P. Nor-
cross of Towanda, N. Y., and Wm.
Dundon and wife, cooks.
MAINE CARRIES OFF HONORS
With Twelve-inch Guns, Big War
Vessel Makes Score. of Over
67 Per Cent.
The battleship Maine carried off
the honors at the target practice of
the Atlantic fleet in Cape Cod bay.
Her record was due chiefly to the
remarkable showing of the 12-inch
rifles, which made a little over 67
per cent.
The Alabama's record was 50 per
cent, and the Kentucky nearly equal-
led that score. The Georgia made an
average of 40 per cent with 12-inch
and 8-inch guns.
The ranges varied between 5,000
and 9,000 yards. In the short range
practice the Minnesota won the high-
est percentage, making 90 per cent
with some of her guns. The Kansas
and Connecticut also made good re-
cords. ;
SMALLEST BRAIN FOUND
One Weighing 24 Ounces Taken from
Head of Normal Man.
In performing an autopsy at the
New York morgue Coroner's Physi-
cian O’ITanlon and Prof. John
believe to be the smallest brain in
point of weight ever taken from a |
normally intelligent adult.
The two physicians are entirely at
loss to account for the short weight,
as they could find no evidence of any
brain disease. The brain weighed
but 24 ounces, whereas the average
brain weighs from 48 to 51 ounces.
The head from which the brain was
taken was that of Daniel Lyons,
aged 46, a watchman who had been
employed in the Pennsylvania rail-
road excavations. —
STRONG AGAINST BOSSISM
Name
Rhode Island Republicans
Jackson for Governor.
After adopting a platform which
indorsed the administration of Presi;
dent Roosevelt, urged the re-election
to the United States Senate of Geo.
Peabody Wetmore and declared that
| the Republican party of Rhode Island
was unalterably opposed to all forms
“bossism,”
the Republican state convention nom-
inated the following ticket by accla-
mation:
Governor,
lieutenant
rous; secretary of state, Charles P.
attorney gengral, William
treasurer, Walter A.
the present
Frederick H. Jackson;
B. Greenough;
Read. Mr. Jackson is
lieutenant governor.
KILLED BY INDIANS
Wealthy Mexicans Are Am-
bushed by Yaquis.
Jesus Brocamento and Ricardo
Robles, members of wealthy Mexican
families, were ambushed by 12 Ya-
Brocamento was killed.
and his companion was probably fat-
ally wounded.
The attack occurred about 25
miles from Mexico, and in the vicin-
ity of the La Cordo mining camp.
The Yaquis escaped after robbing
their victims.
FOUR CLERKS DROWN
A Skiff Occupied by Seven Youths
Catches Fire and They Overturn It.
Four young residents of Perth Am-
bov, N. J., were drowned in Raritan
Bay. They were members of a party
of seven who left Perth Amboy in a
surf skiff to visit Keyport. The boat
caught fire and the occupants, being
unable otherwise to put the flames
out, overturned the skiff. Subse-
quently four perished, three being
saved, exhausted, by a passing steam-
er, after having clung to the over-
turned boat for more than two hours.
All were about 18 or 19 years old.
Those who were lost were Harry
Baxter, FEdward Olsen, Floyd H.
Chose and Charles Wicksburg, al]
clerks.
President Small Suspended.
President Small of the Commercial
Telegraphers’ Union was suspended
by the union’s executive compaittee,
following a day of sensational revolt
against the organization's chief and
a vote of many cities to continue the
strike. S. J. Konenkamp of Pitts-
burg, chairman of the executive com-
mittee, is talked of as Small’s succes-
SOT.
Salted Mine.
A story is current that numerous
Montana and Washington investors
have been mulcted to the extent of
more than $333,333 through the dis-
covery that certain placer mines near
Lander, Wyo., had been salted and
that the property in question is
worthless.
The National Paint, Oil and Varn-
ish Association at Cincinnati adopt-
ed resolutions favoring tariff revision
and a national pure paint law.
He |
E. |
Larkin of the College of Physicians |
and Surgeons, discovered what they |
governor, Ralph C. Wat-|
NEN SHORT LNETO LINE]... SENS FER MICH
Threaten to Shoot. |
A fire in mid-ocean while a gale
was blowing, a panic among the pas-
sengers, and an incipient mutiny
among some of the crew was the ex-
perience of those aboard the steamer
Liugia while. 700 miles west of the
Azore islands.
Fire was discovered in the hold of
the vessel at daylight on that day.
Although Capt. Cherubini at once or-
dered part of the cargo broken out
and water turned into the hold, the
fire continued. The passengers socn
learned of the danger, and a panic re-
sulted among those in the steerage.
Many knelt in prayer, while others
ran wildly about until cowed by the
officers. The officers and crew had
all they could well attend to in car-
ing for the ship in the heavy weather
and for a time it seemed that the
panic of the passengers would have
serious results.
Following this some of the crew
deserted their posts and attempted
to lower one of the ship's boats, but
they were told by the first officer
that he would shoot the first man
who tried to do this, and they re
turned to their posts. Men in the
steerage were compelled to assist the
crew in their work.
After the hold had been flooded
and a portion of the cargo thrown
overboard the fire was extinguished
in the afternoon.
Young Man Plans to Slay Prom-
inent Men with Dynamite.
Important M>ve M#&de by New
York Central.
ORIGINAL PLANS ARE CHANGED BANK PRESIDENTS MARKED
This Will Make the Third Line Into
Lorain Built Within a
Short Time.
to Wreck
a Large Part of the City.
Enough Explosive Found
Gov. Henry A. Buchtel of Colorado,
David H. Moffat, president of the
First National Bank of Denver, and
Charles B. Kountze, president of
the Colorado National Bank, re-
ceived through the mails infer-
nal machines containing enough
dynamite to have caused great de-
struction of lives and property, had
they been exploded; but warning
had been given to the recipients. of
the machines by Chief ‘of Police De-
luny, who had obtained a confes-
sion from Kemp V. Bigelow, by whom
they were mailed, and no one was
hurt.
Bigelow confessed that he had
sent infernal machines to Lawrence
C. Phipps and Edward - Chase, but
these were not delivered. :
The machines received by Messrs.
Moffat and Kountze were turned over
to the police. The one sent to
Gov. Buchtel was received = by the
governor's private secretary, Alfred
C. Montgomery, who removed
wrapper and disclosed. a box with a
sliding cover. His suspicions were
aroused and he reported the matter
to Gov. Buchtel, who then informed
him that he had been warned. by the
chief of police to be on the lookout
for an infernal machine.
Adjutant Gen. Kelly and officers of
the police department were called
and the box was carefully opened. It
was found to contain two sticks of
dynamite, to whieh were attached
Failure of the Wabash and the
Ramsey lines to secure good termin-
als at Lorain and the fight of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie to prevent the
Gould lines from obtaining the bulk
of the lake -tonnage from the Pitts-
burg district has resulted in the New
York Central taking up plans for a
new direct line from Pittsburg to
Lorain.
It was stated officially that the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie will not be
bnilt from Youngstown to Cleveland,
as originally intended, but will be
built from Youngstown to Lorain.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie will be
used from this city to Youngstown
and the new line from there to Lor-
ain will give the Vanderbilts a
through short line from Pittsburg to
one of the most important lake ports
This will make the third railroad
that has been built into Lorain dur-
ing the past year, each having a
direct line to the Pittsburg district
or a connection .with one of the local
roads. The Baltimore & Ohio, has
had .a line into Lorain for years. The
Gould interests recently completed
the Lorain & West Virginia, which
makes connection with the Wheeling |
& Lake Erie at Wellington, and the | bureau of statistics of the Depart
Lorain & Ashland, built south from | ment of Agriculture finds, from the
Lorain by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., and | reports of the correspondence and
his associates, it is said, will even-| agents of the bureau, as follows: The
tually invade the rich coal fields | condition of corn on Oct. 1, was 78.0,
south of Pittsburg and will have alas compared with 80.2 last month;
traffic. agreement with one of the| 90.1 on Oct. 1, 1906: 89.2 on Oct. 1
roads entering the city. | 1905. and a 10-year average of 79.6.
Pittsburg capital will play an The preliminary estimate of ‘the
portant part in the building of the average vield per acre of spring
Lorain line by the Vanderbilts, as| wheat is 12.1 bushels, which com-
Pittsburg capitalists organized the pares with 13.7 bushels as finally es-
company that will eventually give | timated in 1906; 14.7 in 1905 and a
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie an en- | 10-year average of 14.0 bushels. The
trance to that city. This extension |total indicated production of spring
can be built at a comparatively small | wheat is ahout 216,067,000 bushels,
cost, and will be rushed to comple-' compared with 242,372,966 bushels as
tion. finally estimated in 1906. The produc:
tion of spring and winter wheat com-
bined is about 626.567,000 bushels,
compared with 735,260,970 bushels, as
finally estimated a year ago. These
and other preliminary estimates of
yield are subject to revision when
the final estimates are made in De
cember.
The average quality of spring
wheat is 88.8, as compared with 88.5
in 1906: 89.0 in 1905, and 75.7 in
1904. An average yield of oats is
CROP REPORTS
Wheat Production Will Fall Behind
‘That of 1906, According to
Estimates. -
The crop reporting board Sf the
2d in black powder.
was lined. with sand paper, and
matches had been plated with their
heads in contact with the sandpaper.
The other infernal machines were
counterparts of this.
Bigelow gave no satisfactory ex-
planation of his motive for sending
the machines, and seemed to have
no other purpose than to cause a
sensation. Bigelow is 21 years old.
He arrived in Denver several weeks
ago and became a clerk in a book
store. He claims to be the son of C.
L. Bigelow, superintendent of schools
in Bryan, O.
Sunday night Bigelow notified the
police that he had overheard two
men talking about a plot to kill Ed-
ward Chase, Gov. Buchte] and other
prominent citizens, and that Chase's
residence was to be blown up that
night.
A search of the
disclosed a package containing 51
sticks of dynamite. Bigelow’s story
was regarded with suspicion, and he
was arrested. He confessed that he
had placed the dynamite near Mr.
Chase's house, and that he had sent
several infernal machines by mail.
Had this confession not been ob-
tained in time to give warning to the
men to whom machines were
those who opened
undoubtedly have been killed.
im-
CHINESE CUSTOM BROKEN
Women Took Part in Entertainment
of Secretary Taft.
Secretary of War Wm. H. Taft and
the members of his party arrived at
Shanghai, Oct. 8, from Japan on the
way to Manila. The Chinese and
the foreign residents of Shanghai
united in, giving the distinguished | ghout 23.5 bushels per acre.
visitor the heartiest welcome that An average vield of vats of about
has ever been extended to a foreign | 93 5 pushels per acre is indicated, as
statesman. > LAT compared with 381.2 bushels finally
Mr. Taft dedicated the building of | gstimated in 1906, 34.0 bushels in
the Young Men's Christian Associa-! 1905, and a 10-year average of 30.1
tion. bushels. A total yield of about 741,
The reception marked an epoch | 521,000 bushels is thus indicated, as
in the matter of the status of women | compared with 964,904,522 bushels,
in China, for Chinese women of aris-| finally estimated in 1906. The aver
tocratic families were present at the | age quality is 77.0.
receptiop and even presided at tables mi
whence they served refreshments.
Chase premises
CLERK EMBEZZLES $40,000
CUT FOR GLASSWORKERS Philadelphia Bankers. Make Good
Their Losses and Clerk is
Discharged.
Ervin & Co., bankers and brokers
of Philadelphia, recently sustained a
loss of $40,000 through the specula-
tions of a confidential clerk. T. H.
Dixon, head of the firm, said:
“It {s trué that some five weeks
ago the firm suffered a loss of some:
thing less than $40,000, for which a
BUYING TORPEDOES ABROAD
President Names 12 Per Cent Reduc-
tion After Conference.
Three days conference at Cleve-
land between the wage committee of
the Amalgamated Window Glass
Workers and a committee represent-
ing the window glass manufacturers
of the country, resulted in a com-
plete disagreement and final adjourn- : ¢
former employe was responsible.”
ment. : 3
President | The clerk, it is explained, speculat:
Immediately afterward I :
Faulkner sent out notifications to the | ed in the names of various custom
| ers, with whom adjustment was made
various preceptories that signatures | > Ey
should be secured from the manufac- | DY the bankers, and the employe was
turers along the basis of 12 per cent | discharged.
cut over the wage scale which has
been prevailing. The offer of the
men provides for a flat scale, which
Navy Department Cannot Sécure
Enough in This Country.
It developed that the ordnance de-
partment of the navy department has
an agent in Europe to purchase a
number of new Whitehead torpedoes.
This recourse to foreign manufacture
was necessary because the depart-
ment was unable to secure enough in
the United States to properly equip
the torpedo boats with this class of
armament, a contingency which will
be avoided, naval officers say, after
Jan. 1, when it is expected the gov-
ernment naval torpedo station at
Newport will be in operation.
E. H. Harriman and his policies
| were indorsed in a resolution passed
a number of eastern and western by the annual meeting of the stock
manufacturers, it is said, have all holders of the Union Pacific Railrpad
along declared they are waiting to, Co. The directors were re-elected
sign. without opposition.
PES
pedoes manufactured in this
try.
coun-
Favors Direct Primary Law.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois has sent to
the Legislature what is considered an
extraordinary special message.
governor recommends the passage of
a direct primary Jaw and asks the
Legislature to take up at this session
a number of reforms overlooked last
spring. Foremost in the list is the
anti-pass bill, which the executive
urged in his biennial message. Gov.
Deneen deals at great length with the
deep waterways project and re-em-
‘phasizes its ‘importance. He sug-
gests that part of the revenue de-
rived from water power development
be used in furthering the project.
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DOG LIES IN STATE JUDGMENT AGAINST THAWS
Expert on Insanity Awarded $1,581
for Professional Services.
Dr. Charles L. Dana was awarded
judgment for $1,581 against Mrs
Thaw and her son, Harry K. Thaw
for the amount of his bill as an ex-
pert in insanity in connection with
the Thaw trial for the murder of
Stanford White.
Dr. Dana alleges that he was re
tained on July 6, 1906, and accepted
$500 as a retainer; that he visited
and examined Thaw in the Tombs
many times until Aug. 1. His bill
was rejected and he sued. The
Thaws were not represented and
judgment was ordered by default.
New York Pet Laid to Rest With
Impressive Burial Services.
After lying in state for a day the
body of Clyde Slate, the pet dog of
Hollis M. Slate, a real estate dealer,
of Athol, Mass. was laid to rest
with an impressive burial service.
The dog was laid out in a silk-lined
coffin, and around it was a profusion
of flowers. A long list of mourners
filed in to take a last look at the
dead pet, for the dog was a general
favorite.
Mr. and Mrs. Slate have no chil- |
dren and their affection has been |
lavished on their collie, Clyde. He |
died of old age.
Butchered by the Blacks.
Mail advices from Batavia report
the ambuscade and massacre of two
companies of Dutch troops by natives
in Celebes. Eleven men, sent to get
a native chief were butchered. Lieut.
Mathes and Lieut. Keis and 15 other
men also were set upon by a large
force of blacks and killed.
Big Dam to Cost $1,500,000.
The contract between Austin, Tex.
and a New York construction com:
pany for the rebuilding of the great
dam across the Colorado river at Aus
tin has been signed. The structure
will cost about $1,500,000. The dam
will form a lake 30 miles long and
one-half mile wide, and will afford
power for a large hydraulic electric
. plant.
Cholera Spreading in Tokyo.
The cholera outbreak is gaining
alarming proportions in Tokyo. Nine- |
teen new cases have been reported
recently. The municipality has is-
sued the most urgent instructions re-
garding the means to be employed
to prevent its spread and cautioning
the populace of their danger, and the
authorities are taking every possible
precaution.
Germany's minister of finance pro-
credit is sound, and to show that the
steries emanating from Paris and
London are unwarranted.
Rails for Panama Railroads.
Steel rail manufacturers, who sub
mitted bids to furnish rails for the
Isthmian railroad at Panama, have
been advised that the contract for
rails for 44 miles of road has been
awarded to the Maryland Steel Co.
There was sharp competition among
steel mills in all parts of the coun
try. The Isthmian company is now
putting out specifications for some
steel bridze work for the railroad,
bids for which will be opened Octo
ber 25.
Thief Gets $3,000 from Mails.
A registered package containing
$3,000, sent by the Bank of Rich-
mond, Va, to a correspondent in
North Carolina, was robbed and a
newspaper substituted for the bills.
The bank will not lose, as the pack-
age was fully insured.
the case of the Santa Fe Railway
Co., charged with rebating, returned
a verdict of guilty on all counts. The
maximum fine possible under the law
The case will be appealed.
000.
Two tramps were killed, Fireman
The jury in the case of Edward
2 ht Gilbet Ernest is missing and believed
Turner of Breathitt county, Ky.
charged with the murder of his wife
on Lockout Mountain, in April,
brought in a verdict of murder in the
first degree. J
and Brakeman Thomas were serious-
ly injured in a wreck near Weston,
jon the Northern Pacific.
the |
fuses and caps and which were pack- |
The sliding top |
sent |
the boxes would |
The cost to the government of the |
European manufactured torpedo, it is |
said, will be slightly less than of tor |
The |
duced figures to show that Germany's |
At Los Angeles, Cal, the jury in|
is $1,200,000, or the minimum of $66. |
to be dead, and Engineer F. N. Myres
STANDARD TRUST STILL EXISTS
Lawyer Kellogg Claims Evidence
Taken Shaws It Was Never _
Dissolved.
From statements culled from the
ledgers and books found in the of-
fices of the Standard Oil Co. Frank
B. Kellogg, counsel for the United
States government, succeeded in
placing on record the process
through which the combine passed
from the old Standard Oil Trust to
the present Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey.
Out of the maze of figures ‘develop-
ed in a voluminous mass from the
books and from testimony given by
Clarence C. Fay, assistant auditor of
the Standard, the government's coun-
sel says he believes he has proved
the federal allegation that the Stand-
ard is an illegal corporation and by
devious devices has maintained its
entity, and that is is under tho
same ownership as when it was
formed.
Mr. Kellogg says he is of the opin-
ion that, notwithstanding the gov-
ernment was unable to discover the
transfer books and stock ledgers of
liquidating trustees, the evidence ad-
duced shows that the Oil Trust only
pretended to dissolve under the order
of the Ohio courts in 1892, and that
the company's direction is still held
by those who had to do with the
formation of the Standard Oil Trust.
EAT DOGS IN ARCTIC
Polar Explorer Returns After Thrill-
ing Experience.
Details of the hardships experi:
enced by members of the Leffingwell-
Mikkelsen polar expedition, which
was ice-bound in Beauford sea for
nearly a year, a year ago, have
reached Chicago with V. E. Stephen-
son.
Ernest De Koven Leffingwell, rep-
resenting the University of Chicago,
who was jointly in command of the
expedition is safe in northern seas,
| with other members of the expedi-
tion. Although he was present when
the expedition’s ship, Duchess of
Bedford, went down, and at one time
was compelled to eat one of the dogs
which made up his team, he is re-
ported none the worse for the experi-
ence.
“The main object of the expedition
—that of discovering whether there
is any land in Beauford sea—has
been accomplished,” said Mr. Ste-
phenson. ‘Extensive cruising about
the sea and the taking of experi:
mental soundings convinced the
members of the party that there is
no land there.”
COAL SHIPPERS COMPLAIN
They Accuse Railroad Companies of
Being Unfair.
Two cases involving charges of un-
just and discriminatory regulations
respecting the distribution: of coal-
carrying cars among shippers, were
filed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The complainant in
both cases was the Illinois Colliers
Co. of Chicago, and the defendants
were the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis
Railway in one case, and the Chicago
& Alton Railroad Co. in the other.
The complainant alleges that the
railroads discriminate unfairly in the
distribution, particularly of “private”
and ‘foreign’ cars, and the commis-
sion is requested to compel the de-
fendants to conform to the law and to
issue regulations that shall be equit-
| able and just to all shippers.
Rhode Island Democrats.
| The following ticket was nominat-
ed at the Rhode Island Democratic
state convention: Governor, James
{ H. Higgins, Pawtucket; lieutenant
| governor, Chas. Sisson, Providence;
| secretary of state, Attmore A. Tuck-
er, South Kingstown: attorney gen-
| eral, Edward M. Sullivan, Cranston;
| general treasurer, John D. Archam-
{ bault, Warwick. The platform adopt-
| ed was devoted entirely to state is-
sues.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
American bankers will underwrite
a $25,000,000 loan to , China, the
money to be used in the improve-
| ment of public works in Manchuria.
| Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader in
the Reichstag, intends to visit the
| United States next year, and deliver
| a series of speeches on Socialism.
At the triennial council of the Con-
gregational church in Cleveland the
proposition for amalgamation of the
Methodist Protestant and United
Brethren with the Congregationalists
was referred to a special committee
which is to be named later.
Directors of the Northern Pacific
railroad declared the regular quarter-
ly dividend of 13%, per cent, payable
Nov. L. It had been persistently
rumored ‘that an extra dividend
would be declared.
One of the largest rail orders plac-
ed by any railroad company in recenf
months was announced by th~ Le-
| high Valley, which contracted ® with
| the Bethlehem Steel Co. for 15,000
{tons of open hearth steel rails, to
| be delivered in 1908. The price paid
|is an advance over the usual figure,
| for Bessemer rails—$28 a ton.
| The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Co. announced an increase
in the wages of all telegraph opera-
| tors on the system. This is the sec-
ond increase in wages the Santa Fe
operators have had in the last 12
months. The increases total about
| & per cent.
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| In a remarkable confession to the
| police, Mrs. Charles J. Romadka of
| Milwaukee, wife of a millionaire
| manufacturer, admitted that she was
| responsible for a series of burglaries
| and petty thefts that has baffled the
authorities for weeks.
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The Western Core Drilling Com-
pany has been organized, with a capi-
tal of $1,000,000, and with Ira Mac-
| Farland of New York as president
and John H. Wood, Jr., of Pittsburg
| as secretary. The company has leas-
| ed over 3,000 acres of oil and mineral
lands in the Goldfield district.