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armory
SERRE
FOREST FIRES SWEEP
CANADIAN VILLAGES
Seethting Flames Rendering Many
Hundreds Homeless.
LARGE TERRITORY DEVASTED
Appeal to Premier Laurter for Food
and Supplies for the Stricken
Peuple.
.
Winnipeg, Man.—More. than one
hundred persons have been burned to,
death in forest fires which are devast-
ing the Crows Nest Pass country
aiong the line of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad in British Columbia.
The town of Fernie was destroyed
Sunday and at least seventy persons
are reported dead, there. Only 17
houses remain standing and 3,000 of
the town’s inhabitants are homeless.
Michel, *4 miles from Fernie, is in
flames.
Hosmer, Elko, Sparweod, Olson and
Cokato are reported to be destroyed |
by the fire.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad is
rushing relief trains with doctors,
nurses, food and clothing to the desti-
tute.
A bulletin from Michel says: “This
town- is doomed -unless the wind
changes. Canadian Pacific Railway
is making up special trains to carry
. .
inhabitants to safety.”
6.000 Are Homeless.
W. V. Tuttle, Mayor of Fernie, has |
of Winnipeg |
elicf, saying there are 6,000 home- | *
jor red dying 1 e | its way through the rear, overpower-
wired Mayor Ashdown
less.
Cranbrook has been
ward all available provisions
wired to for-
brook to the Crows Nest. The
wind is blowing a heavy gale and all
available men are fighting the fire
and west of Cranbrook it is under
control. Telegraphic communication
with Fernie, Hosmer and Michel is
cut.
Four men lost their lives trying to
save the huge Great Northern Bridge,
15 miles west of Michel, but it was
destroyed. Two men from Spar-
wood were taken to the Michel hos-
pital. It is feared Michel also is
doomed, as the fire is sweeping east-
ward down the Crows Nest, and un-
fess the wind shifts the whose Crows
Nest country will be laid waste.
FOUR NEGROES HANGED
Mob Wreaks Vengeance on Sympathiz-
ers With Murderer.
Russellville, Ky.—Four negroes,
Virgil, Tom and Robert Jones and Joe
Riley were taken from jail here and
hanged to a tree on the edge of town.
No shots were fired by the mob,
which was composed of about 50 men,
and the people of the town knew noth-
ing of the aifair until daylight reveal-
ed the four bodies dangling from a
tree just outside Russellville on the
Nashville pike. The following note
was found pinned on one of the
bodies:
“Let this be a warning to you nig-
gers to let white people alone, or you
will go the same way.”
The negroes were members of a
lodge and at a meeting recently it is
said they approved of the murder of
James Cunningham, a white farmer,
by his negro tenant, Rufus Browder.
This murder vccurred in the south-
ern part of Logan county and it is
supposed here that the mob was made
up of men from that part of the coun-
ty.
BIG SUIT AGAINST WABASH
Federal Judge Orders Re-Opening of
Oyd Claim.
Cleveland.—Federal Judge Tayler
ordered that suit be placed on file that
may cost the Wabash Railroad $456,-
000. Adelbert college and 39 other
holders of old Toledo & Wabash raii-
way bonds brought the action. The
suit is an interpieader in the case of
James Compton, probably the oldest
case in the history of federal and state
courts.
Compton fought the ‘Wabash
throvgh state courts and won in the
Bupreme court of Ohio. He then
fought through United States courts
and won in the highest tribunal. He
got a verdict for $800,000 due on the
same issue of bonds and interest from
November, 1862. The railroad re-
sisted Compton over 20 years, ques
tioning that the securities constituted
a lien because of the way they came
intc Compton’s possession.
A Sr
OBALDIA IS ELECTED
Pznama Electors Register Unanimous
Choice of Voters.
Panama.—The electoral campaign
ended August 2 when the electoral
boards met in the capitals of the sev-
en provinces to elect a President. to
serve from October of this year until
1912. The election of Senor Don
Jose Domingo de Obaldla was unani-
mous.
The assessed value of the land in
the boroughs within New York has
a little more than doubled during the
ten years of consolidation.
Sultan Goes Out Alone.
Constantinople.—Sultan Abdul Ham-
id created the greatest surprise of the
long series of startling innovations
that he has inaugurated since the
granting of the constitution by walk-
ing unattended from his palace, the
Yildiz Kiosk, and mingling for an hour
with the jostling crowds on the
streets.
William Oliver a
kiiled at Vandercook,
of the parachute to work.
ped 3,000 feet.
and a |
relief train is now traveling with aid. and
Bush fires are raging from Cran- |
palloonist, was |
Mich, by failure |
He drop- |
i ed -at Hamadan.
MOB HANGS NEGRO
Jailer Overpowered After Beating
Back the Lynchers, Who Rally
and Successfully Storm
Prison.
Pensacola, Fla—Two men killed
and nine wounded, some of theny fa-
tally, is the record of a clash between
a mob bent upon lynching Leander
Shaw, a negro, and the sheriff, and
his forces in which the mob finally
overpowered the authorities. The
lynching was carried out in the most
prominent part of this city.
The dead—Henry C. Kelium, street
car motorman; “Bud” Nichols, a plant-
er; Leander Shaw.
_ About 20 others were wounded.
Shaw attacked Mrs. Lillian Davis,
a highly respected woman, near this
city during the absence of her hus-
band and after cutting her throat al-
most from ear to ear, clubbed her
over the head with a revelver which
he had taken from the house.
When it became know the negro
bad been arrested crowds began fcrm-
ing upon the streets and early in the
night they were reinforced by large
numbers of. men from the country.
The mob formed about 9 o'clock at
night and made an attack on the county
jail where the negro was confined. The
| jail gate was broken down by the mob
and the sheriff and his deputies open-
ed fire. Three men dropped with the
first volley from the sheriff's force,
who were using Winchester rifles and
shotguns. Volley afte; volley wag
then fired by the mob and the sher-
ifi’s force, but the mob was repulsed.
About midnight another attack was
made, the mob having been increased
to 1,000 determined men. The soc-
ond attempt was successful for the
reason that it was made upon ali
sides of the jail. Oné party forced
ed the officers and secured the tremb-
ling negro.
A noose was slipped about his neck
af*er being dragged for two
blocks he was strung up to an electric
light pole in the center of the park,
where fully 2,000 bullets completely
riddled his body.
WILL TRY STANDARD AGAIN
Attorney General and His Staff De-
termined to Rush Prosecution.
Lenox, Mass.—After an all-day con-
ference of the leading Government
prosecuting officers and Frank B.
Kellogg of Minnesota, one of the spec-
ial counsel for the government in cer- |
tain civil suits, it was announced by |
Attorney General Bonaparte that
every effort would be made to secure
a revision of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States circuit
gourd of appeals in the case of the
Stanflard Oil Company of Indiana, and
that an application for a reargument
of the case and a motion for a modi-
fication of the opinion would be sub-
mitted to that court.
Although no time is ‘fixed, this ac- |
tion by the government will be taken
at the earliest possible moment, while
the pending prosecution
Standard Oil Company and all other |
prosecutions in which the giving or
receiving of rebates is charged will
be pressed to trial. The decision to
take this action was unanimous on
the part of the five men who partici- |
pated in the conference, following
which this statement was given out:
“The government will make every
effort in its power to secure a revi-
sion of the recent decision and opin-
jon of the circuit court of appeals for |
the seventh circuit in the case of the
Standard Oil" Company
either by the court of appeals itself,
or, if necessary, By the supreme court
of the United States.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD MOVE
Financial Difficulty of Wabash Gives
B. & O. and Erie Systems Ad-
vantage in Pittsburg.
The action of Harriman and his
friends in going to the assistance of
the Gould interests when they faced
an insurmountable difficulty in
notes, which became due August 1 and
which, according to an, official state-
ment of George Gould will be paid,:is
among the most important railroad
moves of the decade. It means that
the Erie Railroad will enter Pittsburg
by wag of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
and the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminai,
and that the Baltimore & Ohio need
not spend something like $4,000,000 in
| the erection of a much-needed termin-
| al
building at Smithfield street and
the Monongahela river. An extension
of the Baltimore & -Ohio for a dis-
tance of two squares wiil permit that
line to use the fine station of the
| Wabash in Pittsburg.
MILLIONAIRE IN TROUBLE
Indicted for Manslaughter After His
Auto Kills a Man.
Dayton, O.—A warrant
reanslaughter was issved for the ar-
gest of Colonel Herbert G. Catrow.
Cclonel Catrow recently struck Eu-
gene Sullivan, an aged laborer, while |
running his automwchile at a high rate |
of speed, as charged by the Coroner's
verdict. He is a millionaire resident
of Miamisburg and was Republican
candidate for Congress until about a
week after the accident, when he
withdrew from the race on account of
the notoriety in which the incident
invoived him.
en
Pope Company Again on Its Feet.
Hartford, Conn.—A reorganization
of the Pope Manufacturing Company
has been effected. The new capital-
ization will be $2,500,000 of preferred
stock and $4,000,000 of common stock.
The company went into the receivers’
hands August 13, 1907.
~
Sayyid Muhammed, the I
leader and foremost orator
Parliament, has been a
ionalist
he Per-
sian assinat-
against the |
of Indiana, |
: the |
$8,000,000 Wheeling and lake Erie!
charging |
WEST VIRGINIA STATE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Louis Bennett Heads the Ticket—
Strong Plank on Negro Suffrage.
GOVERNMENT BY WHITE MAN.
Extension of Franchise to Inferior
Race Was a Mistake Committed
by Republican Party.
Charleston, W. Va—The Democ-
cratic state convention nominated the
following ticket:
For Governor—Louis
Weston.
For Secretary of State—Adam Lit-
tlepage of Charleston.
For State Auditor—Oscar
of Wood county.
For Superintendent of Free Schools
—Ira B. Bush of Summers county.
For State Treasurer—J. A. Miller
of Ohio county.
West Virginia Democracy declares
emphatically for a white man’s gov-
ernment and the separate coach for
negrees. The action was taken after
an hour’s debate on resolutions which
had been recommitted to the commit-
tee on resolutions and were presented
again to the convention as the unan-
imous action of a committee, which
included Henry GG. Davis of [Eilkins,
and John W. Davis of Clarksburg.
When the State convention assem-
bled, lilies, white ribbons and badges
| bearing the words “Lily White’ were
evervwhere seen and the vote, which
stood 72 to 411, was no surprise. The
resolutions are as follows:
“Believing that the extension of
the elective franchise to a race infer-
ior in intelligence and without prep-
aration for the wise and prudent ex-
ercise of a privilege so vital as to
maintenance of good government was
a mistake, if not a crime committed
by the Republican party, during the
reign of passion and prejudice follow-
ing the Civil War for political ends
and purposes, we declare. that the
Democratic party is in favor of so
amending the constitution as to pre-
serve the purity of the ballot and the
eleclorate of the State from: evils re-
sulting@from conferring such power
and privilege upon those wha are un-
fitted to appreciate its importance, as
it affects "the stability and preserva-
tion eof gcod government. We favor
| the enactment of a law requiring car-
riers engaged in passenger traffic to
furnish separate coaches or compart-
ments for white and colored passen-
gers.”
Bennett of
Jenkins
{ John T. McGraw of Grafton as
State chairman, called the convention
| to order and introduced-W. E. Chil-
| ton as temporary chairman.
McGraw announced that in the en-
tir district of 112 delegates there
was not a contest. Speechmaking and
| the appointment of committees occu-
journment was taken till 8 p. m. The
new state executive committee, one
[*mernber from each senatorial district,
| follows:
F'rst—W. W. Beall, Wellsburg; Sec-
end. J. J. Slippner, New Martinsville;
| Third, Joseph M. Murphy, Parkers-
burg; Fourth J. H. Depue, Spencer;
Fifth, Ceorge S. Wallace, Huntington;
| Sixth, W. H. Stokes, Williamson; Sev-
enth, W. H. Sawyers, Hinton; Eighth,
to be chosen later; Ninth, C. W. Os-
senton, Fayetteville; Tenth, S. A.
Hays, Glenville; Eleventh, C. L.
| Shaver, Kingwood; Twelfth, -J. Caril-
| vance, Clarksburg; Thirteenth, M. M.
| Smith, Phillippi; Fourteenth, T. B.
| Davis,” Keyser; Fifteenth, John J.
I Cormwell, Romney.
The convention adjourned after two
| days and two nights of almost contin-
| uous work.
| The nominations were
| by the selection of A. J.
| Wheeling for Treasurer on the fifth
| ballot rand’ E. H. Morton of Webster
Springs for Attorney General on the
fourth ballot.” ia
13. L. Swisher of Morgantown and
Bruce McDonald of Logan, W. Va.,
were nominated for Presidential elec- !
| tors-at-large.
t State headquarters will be establish-
ed at Parkersburg and the new State
| committee will be called to meet
here for organization some time next
week.
| Just
| tion was adopted providing that in fu-
| ture the member of the National Con
| mittee be chosen by the convention
which elects delegates at large and
| not by the delegates as in the past.
| National Committeeman John T. Mc-
{ Graw seconded the resolution, which
| was adopted unanimously.
MANY PERISH IN FLOOD
1
| Landslide Adds to the Disaster in the
| Austrian Tyrol.
Viepna.—A series of terrific thun-
| der and rain storms has caused heavy
| loss cf life in the Austrian Tyrol.
| Corpses are floating down the swoll-
| en streams and houses and live stock
| have been washed away.
roll in Bukowina is said to be 50,
while in the Ziller Valley upward of
20 persons have lost their lives. The
village of Mehrn, near Brixlegg, has
been overwhelmed by a landslide and
16 persons are reported to have been
killed.
FORTY VESSELS WRECKED
Four Hundred Fishermen Suffer With-
out Food and Shelter.
coast last week.
of the crews reached shore, but fully
four hundred of these e ithout
food or shelter for and
their sufferings were intense.
were 0
several
pie! the afternoon session and ad-.
Taft Formally Notified
Great Crowd Attends Ceremonies
in Cincinnati.
CONTINUE ROOSEVELT POLICIES
Mr. Taft Says the. Next Administra-
tion Should Carry Out the
Work Now in Hand.
Cincinnati.—Standing on a flag-
draped platform’ in front of the old
Colonial portico of his brother's
home, Judge William H. Taft accept-
ed the nomination of the Republican
party to be its candidate for the pres-
idency. : :
The quaint old residence of
Charles P. Taft was the center of a
demonstration unequaled im Cincinna-
ti’s history.
Senator William Warner of Misgou-
ri, past commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, headed
the notification committee.
Senator Warner's speech of notifi-
cation was brief and when he had
concluded speaking there was an en-
Jhusiastic outburst of cheering as
Judge Taft stepped forward.
ation tendered by the chairman of
the notification committee, Judge Taft
launched at once into the very essence
of his declaration of principles, the
first portion of his remarks being a
declaration that Republican strength
lies in a maintenance of the ‘‘Roose-
velt policies.”
The main points in the declaration
follow:
The chief function of the next ad-
fect the machinery by which the
standards set by Theodore Roosevelt
may be maintained.
The progressive standard should
be maintained without interfering
with business interests.
Railroad should be restrieted to
fair profits by a just physical valua-
tion of properties. \
Unlawful trusts should be restrict-
ed with all the efficiency of injunc-
tive process, not destroyed to leave
myriads of workingmen without em-
ployment.
Tariff revision is necessary in
some cases to assure a reasonable
profit to home industries and to limit
excessive profit.
Mechanics have a perfect right to
organize, but they have no right to
threaten or damage the property of
employers.
Notice, as a general rule, should be
given before issuing an injunction—
suggests returning to old statute
makirg such notice mandatory.
A more elastic currency is abso-
lutely necessary; argues for postal
savings banks system.
Exposes Democratic canards re-
garding excessive government expen-
ditures, and shows that facts have
been misconstrued apparently pur-
posely.
Future safety of the country
pends upon building the army
navy to the highest efficiency.
- National law should provide for the
widest publicity of names of contrib-
utors to campaign funds.
Senators should be elected by di-
rect vote, but he does not consider
the question a party issue.
Republican success means prosper-
ity, Democratic victory is business
disaster.
de-
and
FEAR CHOLERA OUTBREAK
Russia Makes Strenuous .Efforts to
_. Confine Dread Disease.
preparing for an outbreak of Asiatic
cholera all along the River Volga
completed |
Miiler of |
4
|
The death .
| is 100 miles.
i 1
St. Johns, N. F.—Reports received |
from Labrador indicate that at least |
forty fishing vessels were wrecked |
by the northeaster which swept that
All but three men |
from Nijni Novgored to its mouth and
| at the Caspian ports. The entire Vol-
| ga region and both coasts of the Cas-
pian, together with the territory of
the Don Cossacks, already have been
officially declared in the gholera zone,
| but the sanitary authorities hope to
its and prevent it from reaching Mos-
cow and St. Petersburg this year.
Nijni Novgorod is considered the
danger point, as the annual fair, the
rendezvous of the merchants of all
Russia and Siberia, has just
| opened. If the cholera appears there,
| which is considered almost certain, it
will be extremely difficult to prevent
| its general dissemination.
Considerable outbreaks
| are reported from Astrakhan, Tsarit-
syn and Kamyshin and isolated cases |
have occurred at villages some dis-
. | tance from the river, which convinces |
before adjournment a resolu- |
experts that the outbreak is not due
to direct infection but from contamin-
| ation of the water, the cholera bacilli
| having found many tributaries by
| which to spread last autumn.
| i — ee
| Rates to G. A. R. Reunion.
| Toledo, O.—A rate of one fare plus
a half fare for the round trip will be |
| the general rate made by the railways
| from practically all parts of the coun-
|. try to the next
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
to
i August 31.
15 for the return will be
| payment of one dellar.
Will Essay 538 Miles of Airship.
Denver, Col.—Rocy Knabenshue, the
Toledo (0O.) aeronaut, will attempt to
| lower the world's record for a dirigi-
| ble airship on September 12, when he
| wil] start from Denver for Omaha,
| 533 miles, The world’s record now
Automobiles will fol-
ow the airship.
Governer Johnson Offers His Voice.
St. Paul, Minn.—In a letter to W.
|
J. Bryan, Governor Johnson places his |
oratorial powers at the disposal of |
: ! | reported to have been killed.
|
the national Democratic committee.
| He says he will be available about
September and will go where wanted.
The national committee of the In-
Hearst as chairman;
Indiana, and M. W. Howard of
ba
We
Ald
of Iowa, secretary.
After formally accepting the nomin-
ministration is to complete and per- |
St. Petersburg.—The government is |
{| phoon which lasted two
Schuylkill, Persia, Powha- |
Charles Hardouin and |
| the British torpedo boat Whiting are
| ashore. .
| steamers
| tan,
confine the disease within these lim-
been |
| New York,
of cholera |
be held here the week beginning.
Exiension- to September |
made upon |
dependence party elected William R. |
C.F. S. Neal of |
Aja- |
vice chairmen, and Charles A. |
DESPERATE BATTLE
WiTH MOB Ii FRANCE
Workmen Pour Volleys of Stones
and Pistol Shots on Troops.
CHARGED BY THE SOLDIERS
Several Rioters Killed and Many
Wounded While Manifestants
Fight Tooth and Nail.
Vigneux, France.—A political strike,
called to last 24 hours, declared by
the General Federation of Workmen,
caused bloody rioting in this town,
where ‘most of the trouble centered.
The strike was ordered as a protest
against the killing of workmen by
troops in this town.
By 8:30 in the evening comparative
calm has been restored, owing to en-
ergetic action of the authorities. The
manifestants were driven from posi-
tion after position and finally took a
train for Paris, carrying their wound:
ed with thém. >
Lye witnesses describe the fighting
at the barricade as the most serious
incident of the day. The strikers,
they say, fought tooth and nail for
half an hour, showering missiles of all
kinds upon the troops.
The situation became so desperate |
that the soldiers were ordered to fire | € 1
terprises is denounced.
several volleys, first in the air and
then at the ‘mob. Two
killed And a large number wounded,
i5 of them seriously, by the fire.
The troops finally made a deter-
| mined charge and dislodged the work-
men, who fled without attempting to
form again.
The military suffered severely from
stones thrown by the strikers, and
General Viervaire and a colonel of the
dragoons were struck by revolver bul-
lets, but not hurt.
Strikers on housetops threw a show-
er of stones at the soldiers as the
barricades were charged and captured.
One defender of the barricades was
shot and killed.
PEACE CONFERENCE
Advccates Urge British Government to
Summon the Powers:
London.—A resolution calling for
the general arrest of armaments was
adopted by the Universal Peace Con-
ference after the acceptance of an
amendment by Stanley R. Yarness of
Philadelphia, urging the British gov-
ernment to call a conference for this
purpose at the earliest possible mo-
ment... Another resolution, congratu-
lating the people of Turkey on the
recent granting of a constitution, also
was adopted. This measure was in-
‘trcduced by Ahmed Riza, leader in
Faris of the Young Turkey party.
The conference received a deputa-
tion, who submitted a resolution pass-
ed by the Lambeth Conference as fol-
lows.
© “phat the Lambeth Conference,
while frankly acknowledging the mor-
al gains sometimes won by war, re-
joices in the growth of
ethical perceptions evidenced by the
increasing willingness to cettle diffi-
culties among nations by. peaceful
methods.” The resolution urges up-
or all Christian peoples the duty of
allaying race prejudices,
by peaceful arrangements the conflict
| of trade interests and the promoting
| ameng all races of brotherly love for
the good of all mankind.
TYPHOON WRECKS SHIPS
Storm in Hongkong
Boats and Three Hundred
Chinese Die.
Hongkong.—As the result of a ty-
hours the
Leisang,
An unknown steamer and
several lighters foundered.
| houses in’ the fown collapsed.
The public gardens, the chief at-
traction of the city, were wrecked.
The British steamer Barra and the
German steamer Vandalia, both from
were in collision with
other ships in the harbor during the
typhoon, and each sustained consid-
erable damage.
The Chinese steamer
Ying King,
Only twelve of those
FIREBUG GETS THREE YEARS
George R. Gamble, Whos Burnt Own
Grist Mill, Sent to Prison.
Bellefontaine, O.—George R. Gam-
| ble was sentenced to the penitentiary
annual encampment |
for three years for arscn, having been
convicted of setting fire to his grist
mill in Zanesfield this county, 18
menths ago, for the insurance. Prior |
to coming to Bellefontaine, he suffered |
| losses at Boulder, Evans and Denver |
Colo., Urbana, Tuscola and Champlain, |
i Paso,
11l., and other points, a total of 15 fires
heving been charged against him. In
and was not suspected until after the
Zanesfield fire. When arrested for
this last fire he jumped his bond and
left the country, but was finally lo-
cated and arrested at Los Angeles,
Cal.
Landslide Wipes Out Village.
Innsbruck, Austria.—The village of
Mehrn-les-bains has been destroyed
by a landslide.
Mehrn
is in the Austrian Tyrol, one-half mile
| on the Alpbach from Brixlegg, which
Many |
| persons go to Mehrn for the baths. |
is a favorite summer resort.
An imperial irade made public con-
vokes the first Turkish parliament
under the new constitution for Novem-
ber 1.
men were | 1
or | should issue until after a trial on the
| merits, and that such trial should be
the higher,
of reducing-
Fifteen | j i
were floundering in the water.
each case he collected the insurance |
Sixteen persons are |
INDEPENDENCE PARTY MEETS
SAYS NEW PARTY IS NEEDED
Mr. Hearst Finds Serious Faults in.
Both Republican and Demo-
cratic Parties.
At the second session the Indepem-
dence party convention nominated
Thomas S. Hisgen of Massachusetts,
for President on the third ballot.
John Temple Graves: of Georgia,
was rominated for Vice President.
When nominations were in order
J. I. Shepherd of Kansas, proposed
the name of William J. Bryan. A
seene of riot immediately followed,
several delegates trying to reach the
rostrum to offer physical violence to
the speaker. A number of sergeants-
at-arms threw themselves across the
.aisle in front of the rostrum steps
and held back the infuriated men by
sheer physical strength.
Shepherd was finally told to leave
the hall, which he did.
The Hearst Platform.
Following is a digest of the de’
mands made by the platform:
Direct nominations by the people,
the initiative and referendum and the
right of recall of elected officers;
legislation against corrupt practices
at elections and the prohibition of
the use of money at elections except
for meetings, literature and neces-
sary traveling expenses of candidates
are demanded. /
Tixtravagance of Federal” adminis-
tration is denounced and economy
urged.
Overcapitalization of industrial en-
It declared that no injunctions
is
had before a jury, and that no person
should be deprived of liberty in con-
tempt proceedings without a trial by
jury. z
The currency plank reads:
The Independence party declares
that the right to issue money is inher-
rent in the government, and it favors :
the establishment of a central gov-
ernmenta] bank, through which the
money so issued shall be put into gen-
eral circulation.
A demand is made for a gradual
reduction of tariff duties, with just
consideration for the rights of the
public and established industry.
The creation of an inter-State com-
merce court is asked, and a bill em-
powering shippers to compel railroads
to provide ample transportation facil-
ities is advocated.
All combinations for the restraint
of trade and establishment of monop-
oly are denounced.
Government ownership of all public
utilities, including railroads and tele-
graphs, is urged.
THREE DROWNED
Gasoline Launch Capsizes in Mononga-
hela River at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg.—Three men wére drown-
ed and thirteen others were saved
from a similar fate when the gaso-
line launch ‘Merry Widow” capsized
in the wake of a passing steamer in
the Monongahela river off South
Twenty-fifth street.
The drowned—Henry Schafer, 23
years old, of 2414 Sidney street;
Thomas Rhydderch, 50 years old, mas-
ter mechanic of the Keystone mills,
and a prominent evangelist and lay
preacher; home in Quincy street;
George Kimberly, 28 years old, of 60
South Twenty-seventh street.
The accident occurred cn the maid-
en trip of the little craft, which had
been pressed into service to ferry the
men to and from the Keystone mills
cf the Jones & Laughlin Steel Com-
pany. Just after she had put out
| from the shore the steamer Rival
| passed up the river.
Beaches Many |
The launch fol-
lowed a swift and direct course for
midstream and in a moment she was
being buffeted about in the wake of
the. steamer. Several of the work-
men were spashed and, anxious to es-
cape a wetting, they sprang to the
other side.
At that moment a powerful wave’
struck the launch, causing it to cap-
size, and in a moment the 16 men
BAR MILITIA IN ARMY
National Guardsmen Cannot Enlist
Under New Ruling.
Washington.—The attention of all
| recruiting officers is called to a cir-
| cular issued at the war department,
i forbidding enlistment i
engaged in the local passenger trade, | 3 I 1 he reguigt
| foundered during the typhoon. Three |
| hundred Chinese are known to have
| been drowned.
| on board were rescued.
army’of a man who has been a mem-
ber of the national guard of a state or
territory until] he presents satisfac-
tory evidence that he has been honor-
ably discharged from the service.
It is further ordered that in no case
shall an applicant known to be a mem-
ber of the national guard he accepted
at a recruiting station with a view to
enlistment. >
CHILDREN UNEARTH BOMBS
Warlike Store Had Been Concealed by
Mexican Revolutionists,
Fl Paso, Tex.—Deputy United
States Marshall Hillebrand found 60
bombs three miles northwest of El
where it is believed Mexican
revolutionists had hidden them.
Some cf the bombs had been uncov-,
ered by Mexican children, who were
playing with them. The bombs were
constructed of old fruit cans filled
with sticks of dynamite and iron
slugs with percussion caps and fuses
for exploding them. §
No Hard Times There.
St. Paul.—The Soo Railroad placed
an order with the State Free Employ-
ment Bureau for 7,000 men. They
| are wanted as harvest hands in Min-
nesota_and North Dakota at from $2
to $4 a day, with board.
The government of” India has ap-
| propriated over $1,000,000 for use in
the United Provinces in the way of
loans to farmers to enable them to
sink wells and improve embankments
| for irrigation purposes.
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