SANTA FE FINED $390,000
Court Says Case Made Smallest
Fine Impossible.
MUST SUPPRESS THE PRACTICE
Judge Wellborn Declares Rebating
Evil Must Be Extirpated
i: at All Costs.
Judge Olin Wellborn in the United
Btates district court at San Francisco
ined the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
¥e Railroad Company $330,000 for re-
®ating. The fine was what the court
denominated ‘‘an interm diate penal-
§y,” the maximum which might have
Been assessed being $1,320,000, and
the. minimum $66,000.
The court reviewed the case in a
written opinion, in which it was stat-
ed there were sufficient doubtful and
extenuating circumstances to pre-
elude the possibility of a maximum
mentence, and yet sufficient intention
of wrong-doing shown to make impos-
sible a minimum penalty.
The Santa Fe Company was con-
victed on October 11 last by a jury
fn the federal court of granting re-
Bates to the Grand Canyon Lime &
Cement Company of Arizona. It was
found guilty of all the 66 counts
eharged in the indictment after but
amr hour's deliberation.
The rebates which were given on
shipments of lime and cement from
Welson, Ariz., to Los Angeles, ranged
fn amount from 35 cents to $15.
The company claimed that these
amounts were not rebates on the
wogular freight rate, but were in the
form: of damages to goods which were
mllowed after such claims ‘had been
regularly presented and proved in
each instance. *
“It 4s hard to helieve,”’ the court
eontinued, ‘‘that the agents of the
eorporation did not know that they
werc violating the law. In any event
guch ignorance of the law is almost
‘pquivalent to a criminal knowledge of
Immediately after the fine was an- |
for |
movnced, W. E. Camp, solicitor
the company, moved a stay of judg-
ment needed to prepare a bill of ex- |
eeptions.
Judge Wellborn fixed the stay at
peremptorily called the next case on
the docket.
' TEXAS SUES OIL COMPANIES
National Transit and Five
Sued for Six Millions Each.
against
eerns of the Standard Oil Company
fn Texas for penalties, for forfeiture |
of charter, and for a writ of injunc- |
tion restraining the defendants from
wemoving any of their property from
Texas, also asking for the
ment of a receiver for each concern
sued.
The state has secured a temporary
writ of injunction against the con
eerns named, and the application for
the appointment of receivers is set
or January 6, 1908.
The snits are against the Security
il Company, Navarro Refining Com-
any, Standard Oil Company of Indi-
na, the National Transit Company
f Pennsylvania and the Union Tank
Line
Damages to ‘the extent of $6,000,-
000 is asked in each case
IRON MINES SEIZED
Properties in Which Schwab Is Inter-
ested Are Forfeited.
The Mexican government has made
official announcement that the
mines situated in Tower California,
which were purchased about three
years ago by the Pacific Steel Com- |
pany. in which Charles M. Schwab
was said to be largely
Rave been taken charge of
gederal authorities.
Because the company failed to pay
the taxes on the property the “aines
by the
will be sold at auction by the gov-
i them.
ernment December 1.
TO DIG FOR ART TREASURES
Resume Excavation
Herculaneum.
The proposal to continue the work
of excavation at Herculaneum has
become so popular as a result of the
efforts made by Charles Waldstein,
professor of fine arts in Kings Col-
Jege. Cambridge. England, that -the
Rtaly Will
ftalian government is about to take
the matter actively in hand.
Signor Rava, minister of public
fnstruction, has prepared a bill to. be
presented to parliament, which pro-
vides for an appropriation of $100,000
for the purpose of removing the
houses forming the modern town
laneum, and an appropriation of $2,-
000 a year for the actual excavation
work.
$150,000 Blaze in Toronto.
practically destroyed the An-
derson and MacBeth office building
on Bay street, Toronto, Ont.
Joss is $150,000. Among the firms
Fire
Beth, wholesale hats; Drake, Hambly
& Co. notions; John Fisher, Son &
Co., woolens: Phillips & Wrinch, no-
tions and underwear.
Central American Peace Pact Made. |
Nicaragua, |
Presidents Zeelaya of
Pavila of Honduras and Figueroa of
Salvador, in conference at Arapala,
agreed to forget past differences, and
declared fraternal relations existed
mutually, and previous treaties of
friendship were in force.
The losses by fire in the United
States and Canada during the month
of October aggrezate $13,350.250, or
about half a million less than was
charged against the same month last
year. 5
| has encountered many
| the German school ship Blucher, 15
80 days, with the privilege of an ex- | men we-e killed and 30 dangerously
tension if a sufficient showing should |
Pe made at that time. The court then | . :
absent maneuvering with the tenders
{ at the time of the explosion.
| vessel was lying near Murwick when
| the accident occurred. :
{the German vessel
Others |
| Licut.
Attorney General Davidson, on be- |
half of the state of Texas, filed suit |
the alleged subsidiary con- |
appoint- |
| Steven R. Moore's application for an
iron
interested, |
| riddled with bullets.
| hemes the bandi's, ot the
at
| pletely
, number about 4,000 in Karatagh and
| of Denmark.
of |
Resina, which is located over Hercu- 1
only
The |
| torney and John Abernathy, United |
which suffered are Anderson & Mac- Siates marshal for the Western dis- |
TO RELIEVE PUBLISHERS
President Promises to Recommend
Repeal of Tariff on Print
Paper.
President Roosevelt indicated to
members of the committee on paper
of the American Newspaper Publish-
ers’ Association that he will recom-
mend to Congress the abolition of the
tariff on press paper, wocd pulp and
the wood that goes into the manufac-
ture of paper; also that he will make
a recommendation to the department
of justice that it take immediate
steps to ascertain whether the anti:
trust laws are being disobeyed by the
manufacturers of paper.
The promise of the recommenda-
tions by the President was obtained
after he had listened to the represen-
tations of the members of the com-
mittee, and to a petition from
the national organizations of printers,
stercotypers, pressmen and etchevs,
all of which set forth the evidence of
a combination on the part of the man-
ufacturers of paper for the purpose
of controlling the outvut, regulating
and greatly increasing the price and
otherwise making hindersome regu's-
tions governing the source of supply
and delivery of paper.
The call upon the President was
made in pursuance of resolutions |
adopted by the American Newspaper |
Publishers’ Association at a special
meeting held in New York Septem-
ber 19 last.
The President was told that the
present plan of increasing the price
of paper had its inception 20« years
ago in a proposition to unite the
paper mills into one pool or corpora-
tion. The first step in the program
was, it was stated, accomplished
when the promoters induced Con-
gress to fix a tariff duty of $6 a ton
on news-print paver.
It is this tariff, it is understood,
the President promised to urge Con-
gress to repeal. The next step, which
delays, has,
the President was told, just been con-
summated by the creation of a com-
bination to exhaust the surplus stock
of paper, to cause a paper famine and
to raise prices.
BOILER EXPLODES ON SHIP
Disaster Occurs on a German School
Vessel Near Murwick.
In an explosion of the boilers of
injured.
Three hundred of the crew were
The
Upon learning of the disaster to
Blucher, Secre-
Metcalf sent cablegram to
Commander W. L. Howard,
American naval attache at Berlin, di-
recting him to express to the officials
of the German navy the sympathy of
the American navy over the loss of
life and the wounding of so many
men.
tary a
FOOTBALL NOT PUGILISM
Court Refuses to Enjoin Sport In-
dulged in After School.
Judge Hooper in the circuit court
at Kankakee, Ill, denied Attorney
injunction restraining the playing of
football by high school students on
the ground that it is prize fighting.
Judge Hooper ruled that boards of
education have no right to interfere
with the pleasures or training of
school children after school hours,
and, that a private citizen has no
right to interfere in such malters un-
less he has sustained some pecuaiary
injury
ROBBERS HOLD UP TOWN
Crack Bank Safe \Waile Their Guns
Keep Citizens at Bay.
Seven armed bhardits blew up the
cafe in the Titerstate National Rank
at Canova, S. D., secured $6,500 and
escaped. OGucupants of a hotel across
the street were arouse( by the ex-
plosion, but the robbers opened fire
and drove them back. The hotel was
burning in
puint of
guns, forced the owners to extinguish
Wher= lights were
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS 14,000
All Villages in Neighborhood of Ka-
ratagh Destroyed.
Thé first direct reports from the
scene of the great earthaunke at
Karatagh, Russian Turkesi:n, about
three weeks ago, reached St. Peters-
bure. November 10, from a corres-
pondent who accompanied the relief
expedition. He says:
“The town of Karatagh was com-
destroyed. The vietime !
about 10.000 in the adjoining district
All the villages in the
vicinity were wrecked. It is prob-
able there n.o hundreds more dead
in these villages, but investigation is
now delermining the approxi-
mate number.”
Oklahoma's Officials.
The President announced the fol-
lowing appointments for the new |
state of Oklahoma: John H. Cotteral,!
judge: John Embry, United States at- |
trict; Ralph EK. Campbell, judge; Wm.
Greig, United States attorney, and
Grove A. Porter, United States mar-
shal for the Eastern district.
Millionaire's Wife Indicted. |
Mrs. Evelyn Ronadka, wife of the
millionaire trunk manufacturer, of |
Chicago, pleaded guilty before |
Judge Brenton to five indictments.
Three of the indictments charge
burglary, the remaining two charging |
larceny. Sentence will be pro- |
nounced Saturday.
Messrs. Stevens and Glidden, in a
balloon ascension from
Mass, encountered a storm and rOSe |
| Hopkins was
FE KILLED IN EXPLOSION
Boiler of Dinkey. Engine Blows
Up at Steubenville.
THREE WORKMEN ARE INJURED
The Mangled Body of the Engineer
Was Picked Up Fifty Yards
From the Scene.
By the explosion of a dinkey en-
gine boiler at the LaBelle iron works
at Steubenville, O., five men were
killed and three perhaps fatally in-
jured. A portion of the open hearth
plant, directly opposite the place
where the explosion occurred, was
wrecked. :
The dead: Harry Andrews, 22
years old, engineer; Charles Reed, 22
years old, engineer; William Smith,
4) sezrs old; Daniel O’Brien, 30
yoars old; William Scott, 35 years
old.
The injured: William Carnahan,
James Sanders, James Edwards.
All the victims lived in Steuben-
ville.
The dead men’s bodies were -ter-
ribly mangled, and portions torn off
by the force of the explosion were
thrown among cars in the yard and
have not been found.
Ambulances hurried the injured to |
the hospital, where. it was feared
none would recover.
Engine No. 6, which exploded, was
standing several yards behind engine
No. 5, and when the boiler let go
the forward engine was wrecked.
A portion of No. 6 engine's head
crashed through the cab of the other
| rate of
IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS
Money Coming Out of Its Hiding
Places—Europe Is Trying to
Check Gold Exports.
Inguiry at the offices of R, G. Dun
& Co. elicited the information that
trade conditions throughout the Unit-
ed States during
shown quite a marked improvement
over the preceding seven-day period.
The issuing of Clearing House cer-
tificates and checks in communities
where the circulation of currency has
been restricted has had no apparent
effect on the volume of trade. ' Espe-
cially is this true in the retail lines,
where the demand generally has been
steady and of increasing volume as
the season advances. The tone of
we incoming weekly reports is one of
healthy industrial and financial condi-
tions in every section heard from up
to date.
The magnet of high premium rates
for currency is attracting the money
hoarded by depositors in steel vaults
and strong boxes, and within the last
two days more than three million dol-
lars has been enticed from its hiding
places.
The :oatest of the European money
markets to retain their gold resources
was indicated by the simultaneous
action of threz of the large central
banks of Europe, and a call for a
meeting of the governing board of a
fourth. The Bank of England ad-
vanced its rate of discount from 6 to
7 per cent, a rate which has not been
reached since 1873. The Bank of
France advanced its regular discount
rate from 31% to 4 per cent. The Na-
tional Bank of Belgium advanced its
discount from 53% per cent
| to 6 per cent, and Dr. Koch, governor
of the Imperial Bank of Germany,
calied a meeting of the governing
engine and “tore the steam dome
from - its fastenings. This caused a
rush of scalding steam and water, |
which literally cooked the bodies of
the front engine's crew. +]
The mangled body of onc engineer |
was. picked up 50 yards from the
scene. while others were found un-
der portions of machinery which |
were thrown across several tracks. |
The injured men were standing |
some distance from the engine, and |
when the explosion occurred they |
were showered with portions of |
wreckage which pinned them to the |
ground . |
Owing to the dense fog of scalding |
steam that arose from the debris, |
rescue work was slow. The shock |
destroyed windows in the plant and |
was felt throughout the city, causing |
hundreds of persons to rush to the
scene.
Defects in the boiler are thought |
to have caused the explosion. |
|
ROBBED EXPRESS COMPANY
One of the Gang Employed in the
Office Addresses Packages
to Others.
Six men were arraigned in police
court at New York, charged with |
robberies from the Adams Express |
Company, which, it is alleged, will |
aggregate between $30,000 and $60, |
000. The prisoners are Charles Mec- |
Carthy and Max Pope, employes of
the company, and Jacob Levy, Wolf |
Levy. James Zuckerman and Henry |
Moskowitz. McCarthy and Pope are |
charged with larceny and the others |
with receiving stolen property. !
It is charged that when McCarthy |
or Pope came into possession, in the |
course of their duties, of packages |
addressed to persons outside of New
York city they posted another ad-
dress over the one on the package,
sending the package to one vf the
other four. It is said that parcels!
worth $6,000 addressed to the four
were found at the main depot of the
express company. The prisoners
were held in $3,000 bail each for ex-
amination.
Orders Twenty-five Locomotives.
The Pennsylvania railroad gave a
rush order for 25 engines to the Bald-
win locomotive works at Philadelphia,
additional men are wanted at the Bal-
timore & Ohio shops, whie other
shops are also running full turn of
heavier operating forces than ever
before and third, traffic officers from
western and southern roads bespole
a good out'sok despite the financial
flurry and stringent laws that have
been passed.
KILLED ON RAILROADS
Five Thousand Passengers and Em-
ployes Lose Lives in One Year.
The interstate commerce commis-
sion bulletin on accidents upon rail-
ways of the United States during the |
year ended June 30 last, shows total
casualties of 81,286, or 5,000 persons
+*kifed and 76,286 injured.
This shows an increase of 10,352
casualties, or 775 in the killed and
9,577 in the injured, as compared with
the previous year.
These figures include only acci-
dents to passengers and to employes,
while actually on duty on or about
trains.
Heavy Losses by Floods.
The rainstorms and floods through-
out Italy continue. Raiiroad trains
are being carried away in
| minister
| $15,000.
several |
ploces, and reports are being receiv- |
board, which is expected to advance
the discount rate of the bank from 6
to 7 per cent. These movements in
Europe are regarded as an indication
of the ability of New York to com-
mand gold and the: efforts of Euro-
pean banks to protect themselves
| against this de nand.
Each mail brings to Washington
large numbers of requests indicating
that the demand for increased circu-
lation in all parts of the country is
increasing rather than diminishing.
For the last five working days since
November 1 the Treasury Depart-
ment has increased circulation to the
amount of $7,567,450, and this is like-
ly to be largely increased within the
next few days.
MACEO’S SON CAPTURED
Though American Citizen,
guans imprison Him.
Seized by a detachment of Nicara-
gnans, after being driven out of his
hiding place on the Pacific Mail liner
San Juan at Corinto, Elizardo Maceo,
an American citizen, and son of the
famous Cuban general, was captured
during the outward trip of the San
Nicara-
| Jueh from San Francisco, and thrown
into prison at Managua, Nicaragua,
despite the protests of the Brazilian
to the Peace Confercnce
and 200 American passengers.
Maceo, who several years ago led a
revolution against -Nicaragua, travel-
ed under the name of Morris. He was
found in his cabin with a revolver
pressed to his temple.
C.,, B. & Q. Fined for Rebating.
The United States circuit court of
| appeals at St. Paul affirmed the judg-
ment entered by the United States
circuit court for the western district
! of Missouri against the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy railroad, for grant-
|
he past week have |
ing rebates on lard shipped from Kan- |
sas City, Kan., to New York and Ho- |
boken. The judgment
road be compelled to pay
transaction was about $146.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Charles Frary and his
aged couple of Saybrook,
“killed by a Lake Shore
train near Ashtabula. Both
his wife were over 80.
Orders for 250,000 tons
rails are to be placed by
having headquarters
now that the financial situaticn has
begun to clear itself.
panies’
| specifications.
{ The five whaling vesscls the
| Pacific coast fleet, which were
| thought to have been caught in the
Arctle ice fioes, are safe.
The official organ of the vatican
wife, an
0., were
passenger
Frary and
of steel
railroads
of
was that the!
a fine of |
The amount involved in the |
STHTE ELECTION RETURNS
Result of Contests for State and | Was
League ticket for associate
Municipal Offices.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTS SHEATZ
Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland De-
feats Congressman Burton—Tam-
many Wins in New York.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Republican Candidate for State
Treasurer Elected.
Estimated returns from the
counties of Pennsylvania give John
O. Sheatz, Republican, of Philadel
phia, a plurality of 175,000 for State
Treasurer over John G. Harman,
Democrat. Sheatz made heavy gains
i whelmingly
NEW YORK,
Sufficiently complete returns show
Republican and Independence
League fusion in New York county
defeated. The Independence
justices
appeals was over-
beaten by the identical
tickets of the Republicans and Demo-
crats, and there is a slight change
of the court of
{in the makeup of the state assembly.
In New York city the Independence
League court of appeals ticket was
| defeated four to one, and the league
| vote up state was light.
i county
| canc
In the city interest centered in the
fight, in which the Republi-
and Independence Tl.eague
| forces opposed the Tammany ticket.
| supreme court with a wide
67 |
James W. Gerard was elected to the
margin
over M. Linn Bruce. Thomas F.
Foley defeated for the sheriff's of-
fice the fusion candidate, Maximilian
7 Thmsen, also prominent in the In-
{ dependence League.
Early returns
| gave Foley a big lead, but this later
Iwas scaled
| in nearly every county over the vote |
of William H. Berry, who was elect- |
ed Treasurer on a fusion ticket two
years ago, but fell behind the vote
polled by William I.. Mathues, Re:
publican, elected Treasurer in 1903.
In Philadelphia the proposed city
loan of $10,000,000 received a major-
ity of 42,500.
Returns show large
gains for Treasurer all over the
State, as compared with the vote for
this office two years ago.
plurality of 104,641.
The following Common
Judzes were elected in Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia county—F.
Bregy, (Rep.); John L.
(Rep.); Edward W. Magill,
William W. Wiltbank, (Rep.);
iam .C. Ferguson, (Rep.);
Audenried, (Rep.)
Kinsey,
(Rep.) ;
Will-
Republican |
down to about 30,000.
Edward T. Bartlett and Willard
Bartlett, nominated by both Repub-
licans and Democrats, elected to the
court of appeals over Reuben R.
Lyon of Bath, a former Bryan Demo-
crat, and John T. McDonough of Al-
bany, a former Republican, both of
whom were nominated by the Inde-
pendence League.
The new state assembly will con-
sist of 96 Republicans and 54 Demo-
crats, a gain of ‘six Democrats com-
| pared with last year.
Philadelphia county gives Sheatz a
Pleas |
| publican,
Amedee
lover
| gubernatorial
! chusetts
Charles ¥:1
| site
Allegheny county—Thomas J. Ford, |
(Rep.); John ' D. Shafer,
Thomas D. Carnahan, (Rep.); Josiah
Cohen, (Rep.); Josepn M.
gen, (Rep.)
Chester county—William
(Rep.); |
ah | preportion of about 3
Swearin- |
Butler, |
Jr., (Rep.); Crawford county, George {
F. Davenport, (Rep.); Dauphin coun- |
ty, S. J. McCarrell, (Rep.); Delaware |
county, William B. Broomall, (Rep.);
Fayette county, J. Q. -Swearingen,
(Rep.); Montgomery county, Aaron
S. Swartz, (Rep.)
These Orphans’ Court Judges were
elected: Philadelphia county, Ed-
ward A. Anderson, (Rep.); Fayette
county, James C. Work, (Rep.)
The following Associate
were elected: Elk county,
B. QGillouly, (Dem.); Huntingdon
county, William E. Lightner, (Rep.);
Columbia county, William Krickbaum,
(Dem.): Monroe county, John S. Bos-
sard, (Dem.)
OHIO.
Republicans Concede Victory
Cleveland's fayor Over
Theodore E. Burton.
CLEVELAND. —Mavor Tom L.
Johnson was re-elected for the fourth
i majorities.
| sional
| andria,
MASSACHUSETTS.
Gov. Curtis Guild of Bosfon,
was re-elected for a
by a plurality estimated at
100,000, the largest given a
candidate in Massa-
since the free silver move-
The balance of the Republican
ticket was also successful
and the party will again control both
branches of the Legislature by a
to 1.
Re-
third
term,
ment,
VIRGINIA.
The election in Virginia to-day was
only for candidates to both branches
of the Legislature. The Democrats
will control both houses by the usual
In the Eighth Congres-
district C. C. Carlin of Alex-
Democrat, was elected to
succeed Congressman J. F. Rixey, by
| an overwhelming majority.
Judges |
Thomas
NEW JERSEY.
Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of New
Jersey, conceded the election of John
Franklin Fort, his Republican oppon-
ent The latest figures give the
state to Fort by about 7,000. The
Legislatute will be Republican. in
| both houses.
of
| plete
{ Crothers governor
| state
time as mavor of Cleveland in a hard |
fought battle, in
can ticket
man Theodore E. Burton,
which the Republi- |
was headed by Congress- |
chairman |
of the house committee on rivers and
harbors.
Congressman Burton made consid-
erable gains over the vote of two
vears ago. when William H. Boyd
was the Republican = candidate, but
the gain was not sufficient to over-
come the strong Johnson lead.
CINCINNATI —The election of Col.
Leopold Markbreit, Republican,
| White
i cced himself for
[and by a plurality of
{ a Democratic lieutenant governor
| office with
for |
mayor, is conceded by the opposition |
parties. His plurality is not less
than 10,000. The entire Republican
city - ticket “was elected with “him.
Col. Markbreit is a veteran German
editor and former United States min-
ister to Bolivia.
COLUMBUS.
Charles Anson
| Bond. Republican, was to-day elected
| mayor of Columbus by
| day closing laws.
to make any promises
a plurality
ranging from 5,000 to 7,000. Mr.
Bond was opposed by Judge Thomas
J. Duncan, Democrat, who was pledg-
ed %0 enforce the midnight and Sun-
Mr.
during the
| campaign.
| .
Dayton's three-cornered fight seems |
in Philadelphia, |
and the com- |
engineers have agueed upon |
to be in favor of the Democrats,
their candidate, Burkhart, leading
the Republican and Independent can-
didates.
Mansfield
mayor, while
Zanesville,
elected
Canton. Youngstown,
Springfield, Findlay,
a
| Portsmouth, Ironton and Xenia seem
declares that the rumors of the ill-|
health of the Pope
without foundation.
health.
are
“ie
absolutely |
is in good | Bartley, Republican.
| crat,
For October the gross earnings of |
21 roads was $48,656,916, an increase
For lice clerk, which went Republican by
of $3,342,231, or ‘7.37 per
four months
| same 21
620, an increase of
10.06 per cent.
The St. Louis Democratic Club, rep-
resenting 10,000 voters, at a directors’
| meeting, adopted resolutions indors-
| ing Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleve-
| land, O., for President, and telegraph-
ed him the resolution and an invita-
tion to deliver an address under its
auspices.
cent.
ended October 31 the
$15,271,811,
ed of the destruction of houses and
‘he drowning of cattle. Several hu-
man lives also have been lost.
As a result of a quarrel over an
election bet, William Hopkins, son
of Rev. Thomas Hopkins, and Frank
Foley, fought a duel at Fernalda, Ky.
instantly killed and
| Foley is fatally wounded.
ONE DEAD; SEVERAL HURT
Passenger Train on Lackawanna
Runs Into Freight.
The fast eastbound passenger train
on the Lackawanna ploughed into a
freight wreck near Fargo, N. Y. The
passenger engine, baggage and mail
cars were wrecked. Engineer Wm.
F. Hammond was killed. Fireman H.
eral train hands were slightly hurt.
above the clouds to a height of 8,500 | None of the passengers was seriously
feet.
| injured. :
Nunzio Nasi, former minister of
[trial in Rome for having altered the
| public records and defrauded the
| treasury. His defense is that the
| money was used for political pur-
| poses, and that it was appropriated
| with the full knowledge of his asso-
| ciates in the ministry.
Asks $2,000,000 Damages.
| Henry L. Sprague, a New York
attorney, is suing J. R. Booth, rail-
| way magnate for 2,500,000 flor
breach of contract in connection
| with an offer made for the purchase
{ of the Canada Atlantic railway. The
| New York svndicate, headed by
! Spragug, put. up $500,000 to pur-
| chase the road for $30,000,000, but
Pittsfield, | J. Tompkins was badly injured. Sev-! failed to put up the balance in time
| and the half million was forfeited. It
is for this half million and $2,000,000
damages that Sprague is suing.
rcads show gross $167,103,- |
or |
|
to have chosen Democrats.
TOLEDO. O.—Complete returns
give Whitlock 6,700 plurality over
Stevens, Demo-
ran a very poor third, polling
1,700. The remainder of the Iade-
pendent ticket was elected by a large
majority, with the exception of po-
a small majority. Independenis also
elected 10 out of 16 councilmen.
Anti-Mormons Win.
SALT LAKE CITY.—Municipal
candidates of the American
Mormon) party, probably will have
the largest plurality ever given in
Bransford for mayor, will have from
| 7.000 to 10,000 plurality over Plum-
mer, Republican, and Morris, Demo- |
| crat, whose strength is evenly divid- |
| ed.
| council.
| public instruction for Italy, is now on
The Americans will control the
They have been
for the last two years.
+ MISSISSIPPI.
Bond refused.
| lican,
| Peabody
OTHER STATES.
BALTIMORE. — Fractically
returns show that the
crats ‘have elected Judge Austin
and the
about 7,000.
appears to be safely
Democratic. Ex-Gov. John Walter
Smith defeated Gov. Edwin Warfield
in the primaries for the long term
United States senatorship beginning
in 1909. Senator William Pinckney
was unopposed, and will sue-
the short term.
R. I.—Gov. James
Democrat, was re-elected,
2,307 will have
in
with the
com-
Demo-
L.,
entire
ticket by The
Legislature
PROVIDENCE,
Higgins,
him this vear,
rest of the state ticket remaining
Republican. The next general as-
sembly will again be strongly Repub-
insuring the election of Geo.
Wetmore to the United
States senate.
LOUISVILLE, KY.—Kentucky
elected the entire Republican state
ticket, headed by Augustus E. Will-
son for governor, by majorities rang-
ing from 5,000 to 10,000. The Ken-
has
tucky Legislature will have a Demo-
cratic majority on joint ballot, and
probably will elect Gov. Beckham to
| the United States Senate.
WILMINGTON, DEL.—The vote
on the liquer question in the four
districts of the state shows that there
was a majority in the state as a
whoie for license of from 2,000 . to
2.200, but the actual result is that
license prevails in two districts and
| prohibition in the other two
Republican |
LINCOLN, NEB.—Returns
that the Republicans have
the state by a majority of
20,000.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.—The plan of
municipal government by commis-
sion, otherwise called the Galveston
indicate
carried
about
| plan, was defeated by a majority of
i 34 in a-total vote of 1,100.
)
|
|
{
(Anti- |
| created the leading roles in
| “Erpani” and “Attila.”
Reports from San Francisco show
the entire (ood Government League
ticket is elected with the exception
of county clerk and treasurer, and
possibly ene of the 18 supervisors.
Once Famous Singer Dead.
Vicomtesse Vigier, formerly Sophia
Cruvelli, the famous prima denna,
died at Nice, aged 81 years. She
Verdi's
The husband
| of the vicomtesse was an equerry to
in power |
| Napoleon IIL
Approve Tennessee Purchase.
The beard of directors of the Unit-
{ed States Steel Corporation approved
the purchase of the stock of the Ten-
| nessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Com-
The Democratic state ticket, head- |
| was made by E. H. Gary, chairman,
ed by E. F. Noel for governor, was
elected without opposition. The vote
was light.
Cure for Diphtheria.
Prof. Rudelf Emmerich, professor
of hygiene in the University of Mun-
ich, declares that he has discovered
a cure for diphtheria, which is. effect-
ive in “even the most dangerous
cases in a very short time after its
application. The remedy is called
‘pyocyanase,” and is produced from
the assimilation of the pyocyanaeus
bacilli developed in liquid cultures.
This matter is blown into the pa-
tient’s throat, and - completely de-
stroys all the diphtheria bacilli.
| after the meeting of the board.
| short of last year.
sany. Announcement to that effect
Mr.
Gary said the action was unanimous.
Apple Crop Is Short.
The apple crop of the United
States for 1907, as estimated by the
American Agriculturist in its report,
to appear on November 9, is a
scant 24,000,000 barrels, materially
New York state
has a good many apples, but they
will be needed.
Former. Councilman Geo. C. Linde
of St. Louis, recently indicted on a
charge of malfeasance in office,
pleaded guilty and was fined $500, the
maximum fine for the offense.