MOB TAKES VENGEANCE IN SPINGFIELD, ILL. Maddened Citizens Burn Houses and Lynch Negroes—Stray Shots Hit Bystanders. STATE TROOPS CALLED OUT @olored People Chased Out of the City in Every Direction by Infuriated Mob. Springfield, Ill.—Rioting which be- gan Friday continued for two days amd resulted in five deaths and in- fury to a large number. The trouble arose over an assautt eommitted by a negro upon Mrs. Ma- #el Hollman, wife of a street railway eonductor. George Richardson, a young negro, was arrested by the sheriff's force eharged with the erime. The victim partially identified the prisoner. ©rowds quickly gathered about .the jail but Sheriff Werner's force ‘and the police were able to preserve order until nightfall without difficulty. ~ Shortly after 5 o'clock a successful ruse was worked by the authorities and Richardson was spirited away io safety. Along with Richardson was taken Joseph James, another negro prisoner in the county jail who is accused of killing Clergy Ballard, a state mine inspector. The mob on learning this went to Khe resaturant of Harry Loper, in tity of rifles, shotguns, revolvers and ammunition. themselves and started to march the streets. Then the rioting broke into serious form. Shots were fired and the air was filled with missiles. Many fell in the melee and it was fiere that Louis Johnsen met his death. After the mob had moved to other scenes Johnson's body was pick- ed up in the rear of L.oper’s place. After burning many houses in the negro quarter the mod, which be- eame niore and more desperate as the might passed, finally gratified its thirst for blood, when a negro, Char- les Hunter, who had been a porter at the St. Nicholas Hotel, was lynched at the cerner of Twelfth and Madison ts,. right in the heart of the so- ed “Bad Lands. Troops arrived at the scene too late to prevent the lynching. After a night of riot, arson and slaughter the state troops called out By ihe Governor succeeded in restor- ing a semblance of order and stop- ping the fire. "The Dead: “ Louis Johnsen, a boy, found dead with gunshop wound in the basement of Loper's restaurant. James Scott, an old man, who was shot by a stray bullet at Seventh and Washington streets at what was sup- posed to be a safe distance from the trouble. Charles Hunter, who was lynched. John Caldwell, shot In stomach. William Donegon, a negro 80 years wold, was lvnched by a mob of white men Saturday in continuance of the race war. The mob raided ‘“Done- ygon’s flats,” a negro house, filled yDonegon’s body with shots, cut his throat and trampled him almost be- yyong recognition. His body was then jhanged to a tree. Militiamen arrived i@ minute later, cut down the body ‘and dispersed the crowd. About the same time an unidenti- ified white man was killed by negroes, mear White City, two miles east of the city. Three other white men were beaten. THREE GIRLS DROWNED Unable to Swim, They Get in Over Their Depth and Go to Bottom. Grand Isle, Vermont.—Three young women who were staying near Adams Landing were drowned while bathing fn Lake Champlain. The dead are Miss Lucy Perry, of Plattsburg, N. Y.; Miss Sarah Disas- way, of Plattsburg, N. Y.; Miss Eliza- beth Disasway, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The young women were in the water together, when one of them stepped into a deep hole. The other two started to her assistance, but also stepped into deep water and all went down, none of them being able to swim. The bodies were recovered. Double Tragedy. Columbus, O.—Arthur Neidlander, 24 years old, and his wife, 19, were found dead Sunday morning, the for- mer in a room above his grocery store, mear the western corporation line, and ihe woman in the street adjoining the store The man’s body lay In bed. He had been shot through the left breast, the bullet leaving his body through the back. There were two knife wounds in the heart. Mutinous Regiment Kills General. > Hongkong.—One thousand soldiers stationed at Konghau, near Wuchow, anutinied because a comrade had been arrested for gambling. ‘The muti- meers murdered their commander, his elerk and secretary, and they attack- ed a camp of soldiers at Onyung. The mutineers pillaged the village, secur- ing $100,000 in money. Then they joined the rebelts in the Tsiking mountains. Bryan Will Make Speeches. Lincoln, Neb.—After a long confer- ence between Mr. Bryan, Mr. Kern and members of the executive and textbook committee, it was decided that Mr. Bryan shall make an active speaking campaign and make most of ft east of the Mississippi river. St. Petersburg.—The ministry of railroads has put into effect a reduc- | | her marri: tion in fares amounting to 50 per cent fn favor of Japar emigrating to North or South An a over the Rus- #fan lines. With these they armed | DEATH OF IRA D. SANKEY “Singing Evangelist,” Who Supplied Hymns for Ail Christendom. New York.—Ira D. Sankey, known as an evangelist throughout the Chris- tian world, died August 13, at his | home in Brookiyn. Mr. Sankey was 68 years old. For the last five years he had been blind and had suffered from a complication of diseases brought on by overwork. But almost to the very last he con- tinued hymn writing. His tours throughout this country and Europe with Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, brought him into wide prominence. Sankey, it might be said, wrote the Gospel hymns of the world. In China, Egypt, India, Japan, in almost every language known to man, Sankey’s hymns are sung. He received a large income from his publications and leaves considera- ble of an estate. Among Mr. Sankey’s most familiar compositions are “The = Ninety and Nine” and ‘When the Mists Have Rolled Away. His songs are said to have a circulation of more han 50,000,000 copies. Mr. Sankey lived in Brooklyn for 27 years, and it was there that most of his songs were written. °*He was a singer from boyhood, and his voice attracted attention in the hamlet of Edenburg, Pa., where he was born August ‘28, 1840. At the beginning of his ‘active life Mr. Sankey was a Methodist, ,but for the. last seven years he had .been a Pr esbyterian, He is survived by his widow, Fannie V. Sankey, his two sons, I. Allen Sankey and “Edward Sankey, and two grand- children. It.was in 18 70, at a _Natjonal Y. M. C. A. convention held in Indianapolis, | that young Sankey, then a deputy col- whose automobile the prisoners had | Been taken away. and wrecked the | place. The mob broke into Eish-| man’s pawnshop and secured a quan- | lector in the internal revenue service, met another young man named Moody, who used to be a shoe clerk and was then the unlicensed pastor of a church in Chicago. While both were evangelist of an order, neither cne had become especially well known, but here they struck up a parnership in religious work. VICTIMS WERE BADLY MANGLED Boiler Lets Go in Rolling Mill, Bring- ing Death to Workmen. York, Pa.—Nine men met instant death and 20 more were bad in- jured by the explosion of a boiler in the York Rolling Mill. ; The dead are John Clency, York; Benjamin Bremer, Harry Seachrist, Paoli Puci, Alfred Struck, John Sloss- man, Harry Feger, all of Columbia, Pa.; Edward Fitler, Marietta, Pa., and Thomas Gallagher. The boiler was located in the cen- ter of the mill. The mill had been closed down for about a week and 30 men were engaged in making repairs to an engine. -* They were’ working close* to the boiler and when the ex- plosion occurred not one of them was able to escape. The shock demol- ished a large portion of the mill. While the injured were being look- ed after, the bodies of the dead were being carried from the ‘ruins of the building. © A majority of those killed had their.heads and limbs torn from their bodies and were so badly man- gled that identification was almost an impossibiinty. BIG CAR SHOPS PROJECTED C. M. Schwab Effets Merger Between- Bethlehem Stee] Co. and Har- lan & Hollingsworth. Wilmington, Del.—It was announced at the offices of the Harlan & Hollings” worth Company in this city that the local concern and the Bethlehem Steel Company has been consolidated for the purpese of establishing in Wilm- ington a plant for the manufacture of all kinds of steel freight cars. The name of the new company has not been determined, neither was the amount at which it is to be capital ized stated. The announcement followed a visit of Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and the directors of that concern. They conferred with the directors of the local company and the merger was then determined. The Harlan plant here will be re- built and enlarged and the largest car shops in the country erected. It is estimated that from 12,000 to 15,000 men will be employed. Work on the plant will begin at once. The Beth- lehem Steel Company will make the stee] and the cars will be erected in the local plane : ELECT FIRE-EATERS Americans in Manila Argue It Proves Unfitness for Franchise. Returns from the municipal elec- tions show Simon Villa carried the southern district of the city, being elected Alderman by a large plurality, while Ramon Dickno was triumphant for the similar office in the nothern district. Villa is a former officer of the in- surgent army, and cnly escaped trial for the murder of a Spanish officer by the general amnesty proclamation. He is the man who declared in his speech- es that in the event of another revo- luticn he would advocate the slaugh- ter of all Spaniards on the island. Dickno is a lawyer and leader of the Labor party. American residents and others of the foreign populaticn are opposed to the rapid extension of the ballot to’ the Filipinos, declaring the election of Villa and Dickno clearly demonstrates the incapacity of the natives at present for self-gov- ernment. s TO BE ALICE THAW AGAIN Divorce Becoming Absolute Countess May Resume Name. London.—The decree granted Feb- ruary 5 by Sir Birrell Barnes, presi- dent of the Divorce Court, to the Countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, nullifying ze to the Earl of Yarmouth, has been made an absolute divorce by the t, the necessary six months having elapsed. CATHOLIC SOCIETY - - FIGHTING DRINK Bil National Convention Also Appeals for Sunday Observance. BOOZE CLUBS ARE DENOUNCED Hibernian Order Criticised for Serv- ing Beer at Its Meetings and Outings. New Haven, Conn.—Denunciation of the liquor traffic, an appeal for sancti- fication of Sunday and the exclusion from membership ‘in Catholic socie- ties of- those engaged in the liquor traffic were the striking features of the resolutions adopted by the Nation- al convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. The committee which drew up the resolutions had Rev. Father Lambing of Wilkinspurs, Pa.; as chairman. The resolution declares that not in drunkenness and riotous living can any man make effective profession of the Catholic faith. “With indigna- tion . the Union protests against the taunts of its crticis. It does not feel that it should stoop to contest the claims for unltra-orthodoxy which have been so blatantly made by those who have tried to substitute the beer mug for the standard of the cross. The day for apology for total abstainers is over. . The conveniion also declares its allegiance to the Catholic Church and adds: “With all our souls we wel- come the encyclical of our holy Fath- er, Pius X., on modernism.” The res- olutions also say: ‘Catholic periodicals ‘that cannot live avithout liquor advertisements should die. Let them not drag down the Catholic name in their greed. We earnestly suggest that Catholic organ- izations which exclude salconkeepers from membership and which forbid the use of liquors at their meetings should not tclerate the formation of clubs within their membership which despise the letter and spirit of those laws that have been made by their organization for the honor of the Catholic name” The following cable message was received from Cardinal Merry del Val in answer to a message sent by the convention: “Hody Father thanks convention for their congratulations, and willingly blesses all members.” The invitation of Rev. P. J. O’Cal- laghan, C. S. P., to hold the next con- vention in Chicago was accepted. The work of the convention closed with the election of the officers. Father White of Germantown, Pa. asked Father Conaty what the Spring- field diocese could” show as results achieved. Father White said he was afraid the tota] abstainers are too apt to want to exhibit themselves, refer- ring in this connection to Father Conaty description of the diocesan field day, when there was a parade of 1,500 total abstainers, and also a par- ade of children on the Catholic Tem- perance Sunday. Father White said that the total abstainers should work more. One thing they should do is to try and stop the practice of the Hibernian order serving beer at their meetings and outings. BIG G. A. R. ATTRACTIONS Committee Expects to Get Taft and Bryan to Attend Encampment. Toledo, O.—The executive commit- tee of the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic au- thorized premiums for the best elec- tric display on the Maumee river by any yacht or launch Wednesday and Thursday nights, September 2 and 3. The display wil] cover over four miles. The committee also authorized the pyrotechnic ‘display of Sheridan’s ride Wednesday and Thursday evenings. It will require 200 troops to produce the spectacle. William H. Taft and William J. Bryan are expected to attend the en- campment, invitations having been extended to them. Mr. Taft will be at Middle Bass Island the week of the encampment and can easily run over to Toledo. His attendance is almost assured. FOUR ARE DROWNED - Nine Persons Comprising a Pleasure Party Thrown Into Water, but Five Are Saved. Kilbourn, Wis.—By the capsizing. of a pleasure launch on the Wisconsin river, four Chicagoans were drowned. The dead are Miss Mabel Ward, Mrs: W. G. Heach and son, E. G. Preiffer. : The launch, containing nine per: sons, among them Mrs. Pfeiffer and daughter, was returning from a trip through the Dells. a passing steamer and capsized. The accident was seen by many peo- ple on the pier and rescue at once was attempted with boats and launch- es, but four had sunk before aid ar- rived. Boston. — The Knights of Pythias, next convention be held in Milwau- kee, which had already been selected by the Supreme Assembly of the Uniform Rank. Supreme More Trouble in Far East. London.—Another cloud has arisen | between China and Japan, says a Hong Kong dispatch, owing to the seizure at Chinchou by the Chinese authorities of a steamer having on board 10,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cart- ridges. Japanese merchants have protested, claiming that this cargo be- longs to them, and they threaten io | international question make another out of the incident. The seizure is simiiar to that of the Japanese amer Tatsu Maru, for which China de amends. When near the | wharf, the boat got into the waves of | Lodge | voted that the | AIRSHIP GOES WRONG | Aeroplanist, After Doing Better Than Ever in Flights, Miscues in Descent. Le Mans, France.—After two flights surpassing. anythiilg he has done thus far, Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, O., aeroplanist, badly damaged and al- most wrecked his aeroplane in the act of trying nothing more involved than a new method of descent. Several days will be required for repairs. Wright is' by no means disheartened and passes up the mishap as one of the things to be expected in the pres- ent experimental stage of aeronautics. The accident happened on the sec- ond flight, which lasted two minutes and was a novel one.” The aereplan- ist soared and descended at will, exe- cuting bewildering turns: Suddenly, as viewed from the grand ‘stand, the machine lost its speed and began curving slowly toward the earth. All appeared to be going well until the airship was tilted to leeward and the delicate framework struck the ground, with the -resvlt that it was deranged and torn. AFTER UNCLE JOE'S SCALP Methodists Want Socoker Who “Will ‘Allow Passage of Liquor Shipment Bill. Baltimore. —The Methodist Episco- pal’“chiirch’ has ‘begun an active cru- sade - for the election of a speaker “who_will allow Congress to vote on the interstate liquor shipment bill.’ The church, which has over 3,000, 000 of communicants, has created the Temperance society of the Methodist Episcopal church, with authority to represent the denomination in all tem- perance matters. - The ‘shipment bill,” which has been pending in Congress for at least five years, does not seek to impose prohibition upon any locality, but pro- vides that liquor shipped from one state to another shall immediately up- on crossing the boundary become sub- ject to the laws of the state into which it is consigned. = SEIZE AMERICAN SHIP Fishing Schconer Falls into Hands of Canadian Officials. Liverpool N. S,—Charged with a violation of the Canadian customs regulations, the American fishing schooner Dictator, Captain Wylde, was seized here. The vessel arrived here on the 9th for bait, and being unable to obtain it, cleared fer Port Mor- rien, where a supply was received. The captain, not knowing it was a port of entry, put to sea without re- porting to the customs. Today when the schooner came in here for ice, the customs officers seized her ‘and she is now held, awaiting instructions from Ottawa. ‘She is. owned In Gloucester, Mass. AERONAUT DROPS INTO RIVER Life Preserver Strapped to Him, and He Is Rescued. Hackensack, N. J.—Arthur Barry, a 20-year-old aeronaut from Boston, had a thrilling escape from drowning in the Hudson river when he descended with his parachute in ° midstream. Barry made an ascension from the Palisade Amusement park. His man- ager, T. H. Flowers, tied a life pre- server to the parachute just before the balloon was loosened, this act saving Barry's life. Though he was exhausted, after an hour’s struggle in the water, the pre: server kept Barry afloat until an aux- iliary yacht from the West End Boat club reached him as he was about to collapse. : GOVERNMENT PAY STOLEN Messenger's Pouch Found Rifled of $2,000 in Warrants Near Capitol. Washington, D. C.—A messenger’s pouch containing United States pay stolen from in front the building oc supied by the Commerce ,and Labol Department, accerding to Chief Wilkie of the sacret service. The pouch was found with the pay checks missing, while the other mai. | it contained was intact, between this | city and Alexandria, Va. The iden- tiy of the robber is not known. New Party in Japan. Tokyo.—The formation is announce ed of a new political party consisting mainly of politicians who have ith erto ranked as independent or as bus. iness men. The party will command something like 60 votes in the lower house. There is nct to be any avow: al of support to the cabinet or of cp position to the Seyu-Kai. The maln planks of the party’s platform will he adjustment of finances and rehabili tation of the empire’s foreign policy. Reds Not Wanted. New York.—Alexander Berkman the anarchist, led an army of nis fol lowers to the hall where the “prosper: ity congress” was in session and de manded a hearing. The police dis perzed the crowd, and Berkman de- nounced his men as “spineless idiots for not opposing the officers. Thirty-Two Houses Destroyed by Fire. Madrid.—Fire destroyed 32 house? in the village of Castineira, province of Orense. Many persons suffered | burns, and somfe of thewere seriously | injured. 1 | « State Banks Make Gains. Harrishurg.—During the first five | months of the present year, despite | the adverse business conditions, the | State banks and trust companies of | Pennsylvania gained $5,710,469 in sur | plus, $1,987,883 in deposits and $2,880, | 267 in trust funds. Firedamp Kflied Fifteen Men. ‘Germany.—An explc the Budwe iler » 1 i Saarbrufken, { sicn of firedamp in mine killed 15 persons, a a hospital suffering fron juries. checks amounting to nearly $2,000 was_ CANDIDATE BRYAN FORMALLY NOTIFIED Committee Presents Official No- tice at Lincoln, Nebraska. GREAT OVATION ACCORDED Non-Partisan Gathering With Repub- lican Governor of State Present at the Ceremonies. Lihicoln, Neb.—For the first time in the political history of the Nation, a candidate for President has been officially notified of his nomination in a city located west of the Mississippi river. Before a crowd of from 15,000 to 20,000 cheering Democrats and a large number of Republicans, William Jen- nings Bryan was apprised, for the third time, of his selection as the candidate of the Democracy. This was the first time he chose Lincoln. Once he journeyed to New York and once to Indiadapolis.” In" all save the speech-making it was a -non-partisan affair. Citizens, regardless of their politics, decorated their homes. and places of business and pasted and nailed Bryan pictures in“ every available place. Republican county:and city officials acted as mem- bérs of the reception committee, along with an equal number of Democrats. A Republican Governor and other Re- publican State officers occupied seafs on the platform. | Thousands of visitors came into the city, most of them from Nebraska, despite the fact that the railroads had refused to make any reduction in fare. The formal notification was held on the state capitol grounds, and was preceded by a parade through the streets, in which the Republican Gov- ernor, Mr. Sheldon, drove at the head of the procession in the same carriage William J. Bryan. with the Democratic Mayor of Lin- coln, Mr Brown. Chairman Norman E. Mack of the National Democratic committee introduced Congressman H. D. Clayton of Alabama, and before the treat of the afternoon was an- nounced, Jochn W. Kern of Indiana, the Vice Presidential nominee, made a short speech. “Shall the People Rule?” Mr. Bryan spoke exactly an hour and was frequently interrupted by cheering. ° his speech the phrase “Shall the Peo- ple Rule?” Promising a longer writ- ten reply to the notification and de- tailed discussion in speeches he will make during the campaign, the candi- date declared his present speech would be confined to a.general hand- ling of the questions of the campaign. Mr. Bryan utilizes the Republican record, the speeches of Republican congressmen and others, and the mes- sages of the last Republican President to prove that this’ party has -been recreant to its trust and cannot be ex- pected to do any better in the future than it did, for example, in the last session of Congress. Why no tariff reform? Why no anti-trust laws? Why no railroad legislation? Why no protection to the people against stock jobbers and inflation? Why no publicity of campaign funds? And, finally, why wait until after the elec- tion to make the publicity which Taft personally, not his party, promises? These are questions which the Re- publicans must meet and answer. * Mr. Bryan, if elected, promises to start Congress at once in extraordin- ary session to work on the abuses he assails. of privilege is to be attacked, and their election by popular vote put up to the country. Congress is to be relieved of the despotism which privilege has arrogat- ed to the speaker, and other related reforms are to be pushed with a zeal and fidelity to the principle of re- storing popular rights and popular rule that are enough to make the present obstructive school of statesmen gasp and temble. Refuse $1,000 Reward. Oil City.—Dr. J. P. Strayer, of Oil City, and John R. Connor, of Franklin, who recovered the body of Miss Green, of Lexington, Ky. recently drowned in Chautauqua lake, have re- fused a reward of $1,000 offered by her father. Strayer and Connor got the body with a drag of their own device after expert divers from Buf- falo had abandoned the work. Robbed in Relays. Redding, Cal.—Fifteen men were held up and robbed in relays at night by two highwaymen, near Stirling City, on the road from that place to the camp of the Diamond Match Com- pany, on the west bank of Feather river. The robbers are said to have taken $460 in money and almost as much in valuables. Altoona, sylvania Railroad car shop employes who have been idle for several months returned to work. He made the keynote of The senatorial stronghold. Pa.—Two hundred Penn- | SIX KILLED BY EXPLOSION Accident Occurred on French Gun- nery School Ship. Toulon.—Six persons were killed and 18 injured in a gun explosion aboard the gunnery school ship Cou- ronne, off Les Salins d’Hyeres. The accident occurred while a num- ber of recruits were receiving in- structions in handling a 164 millimetre gun, the breech of which blew out. Three of those wounded are in a des- perate condition. Experts say the accident was due to the decomposition of “B” powder, to which the disaster to the battle- ship Iena in 1907 was attributed and in which more than 100 lives were lost. The men in the turret at the - time of the accident assert, however, that the gun became overheated, ow- ing to the rapidity with which it was being fired. STORM FATAL TO NUMBER Big Property and Crop Loss Caused by Hail and Wind. Evansville, Ind.—Three lives were lost in a storm which did thousands of dollars property damage. William Burggorf was crushed to death in the collapse of a stable. Two children of John Detroy were drowned by a houseboat being®swamped. Henderson, Ky.—Reports received of a terrible "hajl and thunderstorm in- dicate damage of more than $100,000 in Henderson ° county. cent of the tobacco is believed to have been destroyed and much corn flat- tened. Mandan, N. D.—A tornado struck Mandan damaging trees and build- ings to the extent of $59,000. One boy was picked up by the wind and | carried three blocks. TURKISH TURMOIL America Gets New Representative of Government Sultan Is Re- organizing. Washington, D. C.—Mehmed Ali Bey, Turkish Minister to the United States, admitted he had received ad- vices from his government recalling him from his post here. His recall did not come as a great surprise to the Minister, in view of the changed conditions in Turkey. Mehmed Ali Bey is sorry to leave the United States because, he says, he likes this country. Mundji Bey, Consul General of Tur- key at New York, has been appointed Charge d’ Affaires here pending the arrival of a new Minister from Tur- key. ARMENIANS TURN BACK Trying to Check the Tide of Emigra- tion to America. Tifiis, Transcaucasia.—The Ameri- can leaders. in the Caucasus are en- deavoring to check the tide of emi- gration to America and are also try- . ing to induce their countrymen who left Turkey on account of persecutions to return‘ to Armenia. Over 1,000 Americans who gathered at Botoum to take-steamers for Amer- ica have abandoned their plans since the proclamation of the Turkish Con- stitution and will take advantage. of the Sultan’s permission to return to Turkey. STEAMER MAY HAVE FOUNDERED Long Overdue Aeon Carried a Crew of Thirty Men. San Francisco.—The merchants’ ex- change has received a cable from Syd- ney, Australia, stating that the British steamer Aeon, which sailed from this port on July 6 for Sydney, via Apia and Auckland, has not been heard from since the vessel left San Fran- cisco. The passage is usually made within 30 days. The Aeon was commanded by Cap- tain E. A. Downie, and had a crew of about 30 men. Boats Collide. Rochester, N. Y.—In trying to pass under the bow of the Kingston, a large passenger boat which was coming in- to Charlotte harbor from Thousand Islands late at night, the Titania, a small passenger boat that plies be- tween Sea Breeze and Charlotte, was struck by the big boat and sunk in 10 or 12 feet of water. Twenty fPer- sons on the Titania were thrown:into the water, but all were rescued. Ohio Democrats Open in Mansfield. Columbus; O.—At a meeting of the Democratic state executive commit- tee Mansfield -was selected as the place and September 26. the date of the opening of the state campaign. Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, nomi- nee for Governor, and fermer Gover- ‘nor James E, Campbell of Hamilton, indorsed by the State convention for United States Senator, wir = the chief crators. . ; i. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. : Great Falls, Mont.—Five men are dead and another is dying as the re- sult of a premature explosion at the Bright quarries. Plymouth, N. H.—Ainsworth R. Spofford, chairman of the congression- al library at Washington from 1864 to 1894, and later chief assistant libra- rian, died at Shepard Hill, Holderness, August 12. Mr. Spofford was 34 years of age, and was born at Gil manton, N. H. Cape May, N. J.—Margaret Master- son and Katie Charles, employed at the Hotel Cape May, were drowned in the surf, PAPER QUIT BRYAN Baitimore Sun, Democratic Comes Out for Taft. Baltimore, Md.—The Baltimore Sun, the leading Democratic newspaper of Maryland, and one of the foremost Daily, | Democratic papers of the South, has | come out strongly in support of Taft for President. In 1896 the Sun an- tagonized Bryan, but in 1900 it sup- perted Bryan, and ma de a gocd fight | for him. Sixty per en Ye ge pert, o he wo reserv posing standa dies. ally That i they b experi school this, w some versal tarrha of the Each of Per in the as a te The ease y thous chron tors o that tl It .ma stoma There the d remed _ them. scribe No versal label showi inspec