AE ERR ETAT “a ow f ; E . riot was adjourned aft ONY GRAND JURY CONDEMNS | SPRINGFIELD POLICE emma ean . Riot Investigation Results in 117 Indictments. FOUR POLICEMEN INDICTED Officers Called Cowards and Charged With Assisting Mob They Were Ordered to Disperse. Springfield, Ill.—The special grand jury called to prcbe tbe recent race r returning 117 Among those returner were indictments inst fo Spring- field policemen, Oscar Dahlkamp, Jos- eph Ferendez, George H. Ohlman and George W. Dawson. They are in- dicted for alleged failure to suppress the rict when detailed for that duty. The report says, in pal “We condemn in 1 the cowardly contemptuol red terms ac'ion of those members of the police fo who, having taken the cath of office, failed to do their cuty; men wad were paid from money ehbtained the pockets cf the people cf this ¢ to protect life and property; men who were ordered by the heads of departments of the police to g0 out and disperse the mob, and who not only failed to use a club, handle a pistol or raise a veice against the mob on the side of law and order, but are shown to have assisted in doing the work that has brought destruction to thousands cf dollars worth of prop- erty and the blush of shame to every law-abiding citizen of this city; men, who had they acted promptly, could have driven back to the obscurity from whence it came, the mob that for a time assumed to hold Spring field in i blcody grasp. “We recommend that the civil service commission of the city - of Springfield, without fear of favor and while evidence can easily be cbtain- ed. determine by fair trial, who failed to prove himself a worthy member of the force and deal wih him accord- ingly.” . The grand jury has been in act.ve i days, during which time witnesses have been ex- Abe Raymer, “Slim” and Mrs. Kate Humphrey were indicted for murder in connec- tion with the lynching. Mrs. How- ard, when indicted for the murder of Burien, committed suicide. RAILROAD PROSPECTS Car Shortage Predicted Soon as Crops Are to Be Handled. ington.—No {reight car short- Wast age ness revives, is the view of Inter- Howard | this fall, but one as soon as buzi-! State Commerce Commissioner Char- | les A. Prouty, and “A freight car; 8 age by October that will equal | that of two years ago”.is the conten-| tion of Secretary and Traffic Mana- | ger U. S. Pawkelt of the Fort Worth, Texas, Freight Bureau. These eX pressions were made State Commerce Commission. Traffic Manager Pawkett declared at the Inter-| in an interview that the freight short- ! age is beginning to be manifested in the handling of grain, “even though the grain movement is retarded on | account of adverse market condi- tiens.” Texas has the greatest cotton and VERMONT ELECTION meres OLD SOLDERS MARCH | Offices. White River Junction, Vt— [he Republicans 1etained complete con- trol of both executive and legislative | branches of the government of Ver-| ment in the state election, the voters | indorsing the party ticket for state | officers headed by George H. Prouty | cf Newport, electing to congress from | ihe First district David J. Foster of Burlingten for another term, and from the Second district Frank Plumiry of Ncrihfield for the first time, and choosing a majority of the state legislature which will select a succes:or to the late Senator Red- field Proctor. The state ticket elected was as fol- lows: Governor—George H. Prouty of Lieutenant Governor—John A Mead of Rutland. Secretary of Sta‘e—Guy W. Bailey of Essex. Treasurer—Edward H. Davitt of Montpelier. Auditsr—Horace F. Craftsbury. Attorney General—John H. Sargent of Ludlow. Complete returns fiom terde State election in Vermont on the te for governor, received show the owing rezult: George H. Prouty. Republican, 45,231; James E. Burke, Democrat, 15.90 Quimby S. Back- us, Independent league, 1,252; Eugene | M. Campbell, Prohibition, S26; J. H | Dunbar, Socialist, 479. The total vote of all parties was 747. and Prouty’'s plurality over amo Graham of GO 1 Burke was 29,376. ANOTHER AERONAUT KILLED Balloon Caught Fire When at Height of Five Hundred Feet. Waterville, Me.—In fuil view of 25.-} p00 herrified spectators, assembled on | the Central Maine fair grounds here. Charles Oliver Jones, the weil-known | aercnaut of Hammondsport, N. Y., fell 500 feet to his death. When the aeronauf reached a eight of more than 500 feet the spe? tators wcre amazed to see small | tongues of flame issuing from under the gas bag in front of the motor. | Several minutes clapsed apparently before Jones noticed the flames. Then he grasped the rip cord and by lel: {ine out gas endeavored to reach the earth. The machine had descended t a short cistance when a sudden yurst of flame enveloped the gas bag, | Lhe framework breaking loose. snes fell with the framework of motcr, and when the spectators reached him he was lying under it. | The gas bag was completely destroy- ed. Jenes has no chance to survive. BIG OIL FIRE SUBDUED Estimated That 3,000,000 Barrels, Valued at $3,000,600, Were Burned. City of Mexico.—Word has reached the firm of S. Pearson & Sons thal the great oil well fire which has raged at Las Bocas for two'.months has been extinguished. Six gian{ centrifugal pumps poured gravel .and ‘mud into the mouth of the “burning well for 10 days, and | this coupled with the persistent dy- namite blasting, smothered the flames. The oil has again worked its way 19 t} surface’ and the well is flowing | ot the rate cf 2,000 barrels a day. corn crops in its history, and {he | other crops are large. In the move- ment of these great crops in the Southwest and the movement of gen- eral merchandise in connection there- with, the Southwestern lines are fae ing greater than at any other time in history fiorec Immigrants Than Emigrants. Washington:=—That therg was a net incre: of 200,000 in the population {jon during the last al year, is shown by the reports of the depart ment ¢f ecommerce and labor Dur- vear the total nigra ,000, while the outv 1e alien emigralion or Water Following Grooves Will Pre- vent Heating in Oil. San Francisco—T line for the convey from Bakers yn San Francisco le ir its the property of tie ssociated Pipe Line Compeny and parallels the line of the Standard Oii Compan: It has a capacity of from 17,000 to 20,600 ] barrels every 24 hours, and was con- | structed at a cost of $4,000,060. Pumping stations are located every 20 miles, where the mixture of nine parts of oil to one part of water is | pushed along, the water following tho! rifiings of the pipe and forming 2 - water-bearing for the cil, which could not be otherwise handled without be- ing heated. * Gold Mine in Dublin.—It is reported American mining company has leased ireland. the Innishewen peninsula in Donegal, | where a prospector found rich streaks | of gold and copper-bearing cre. he prospect is on Lord Shaftesbury’s es- | tate, where water and fuel are abun- dant. Harriman People Close Big Deal. Johnstown, Pa.—The Harriman in- | with the | ; 3 2 2BA “| five weeks ago for this port, 1S mis3- | 500 steel | : ferests closed a contract ransaction is known ~ + The cil is being banked in great reservoirs. It is estimated that 3,- 000,000 barrels of oil, valued at $5.- | 600,000 were burned. : i part dog. of the country as a result of immi- | PART MAN, PART DOG insert Vertebra of Animal in Man in Attempt to Save Life. Oi} City, Pa.—If Harry Bemus of Warren, leaves.the hospital alive and | {he doctors say he will, he will be Bemus fell from a trestle Riverside Junction and broke his ck. it was necessary 1o remove a ver- | tebra from the spinal column and in » new rifled pip» | its place was inserted one from the neck of a dog. The surgeons expel {he patient soon Ww be ready (o leave the 1 i Worthless Bonds. Sage some- g, financially. 3 executo show Sage fortune one ceut. The million presented by stocks and bonds whose only value is cne assessed hv he paper picker. Part of the ~onds are those issued by the carpet | the Civil] War, and. afterwards repa- diated by the state | There are also some shares in the failed Tradesman’s bank and New York Wool Company, and other ship- that an | friends less than $500,000 is left. | elor Frederick Cooper wrecked enterprises. Oswego, N. Y.—More than $4,000,- | 300 is left to charitable institutions, the Metropelitan Museum of Art and vale University by the will of bach- Hewitt, . who died here lately. To relatives and Leeds Left $30,000,000. New York—The will of William B. Leeds, who died in Paris last spring, disposes ©f property valued at more | | than $30,000,000. Believe Vessel Is Lost. Philadelphia.—The bark Auburn- dale, which sailed from Turks Island , and it is feared the vessel went off Cape Hatteras during the I: ! him overnments. | : : g | butchery was terrible. iis urgently Indian hurricane which swept UNDER FAIR SKIES Taft and Foraker Bury Hatchet on Reviewing Stand. WEATHER FAVORED MARCHERS | calumnies provoleed by envious and Majority of Veterans Wore Badges of Ohio and Michigan—Only { who know and feel that they are re- One Slight Accident. Toledo, O.—The G. A. R. was remarkable for parade the absence of accidents and cases of exhaustion and for the good order which prevail- cd, not only among the dense crowds along the line of march but through- out the city. Aside from the veteran . who was slightly bruised by bging hit by anf ambulance, there were no accidents, and not more than a dozen visited the hospital as the result of fatigue. i All were able to leave after resting. Estimates of the number oi veier- ans in line varied from 8,000 to three times that number, marched various posts but it is doubtful | if there were more than 12,000. The | with half a! block between them and the depart- | ments were even further apart. There was a good ten feet separating | each row of marchers, and it was his | liberality of space which made it re- quire four hours to pass the review- ing stand. Fully half the velerans wore badges of either Michigan or Ohio. Some veterans, wise in experience of parades, carried campstools over their arms, and whenever there was a halt they promptly sat down to the envy of their comrades. : For an hour or more the grand par- ade of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic served merely as the background ' for as dramatic an incident as has enlivened a political campaign in | some years—namely, the public meet ing of William H. Taft and his erst- while rival, Senator Joseph Benson Foraker. The Republican leader and his former antagonist, met in the official reviewing stand, shock hands, smiled and exchanged greetings. VIEWED HISTORIC SPOT Monument at Fort Meigs Dedicated. Ex-Prisoners of War Elect Officers. Toledo, O.—A civic parade, prefa- | {ory to the greatest parade of veter- | ans and the dedication of the Fort Meigs monument at~ Perrysburg, 12 miles from Toledo, divided interest Tuesday in the encapment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Foriy thousand journeyed by trol- ley and boat to the historic spot where General William Henry Harri- son in 1812-13 checked the .ambitiens of the British General Proctor. Many speeches were made, chief .among them being the utterances of Senator | J. B. Foraker, Governor Harris, Gen- eral Bennett. H. Young, who repre- sented Governor Willson of Ken- tucky, and Lieutenant Governor Mur- ! phy of Pennsylvania. The Natioi®1l Association of Ex- . Prisoners of War held their annual meeting and elected the following of- | ficers: National Commande, Gen- eral Harry White of Pennsylvania; ! Senior Vice Commander, J. F. Holli-| | ger of Toledo; Junior Vice Command- | er L. D. Dobbs of Kansas; Chaplain, | tRaev. J. M: Ferguson of Keokuk, Iowa: Adjutant General and Quarter- master General, J. D. Walker of Pittsburg, Pa. Cabinet Members to Take. Stump. Washington.—Both Secretary Straus of commerce and labor and Secretary cf Agriculture Wilson will participate in the political campaign. Strauss said he would make two or of life and the destruction of several | villages are reported from the Swiss “ber of parties that. were - | eight English tourists has not been i | i { | i i { | | | | i i 4 { i 1 i | | 217,600,000 for having | concession which had been granted to Secretary | three speeches in his own state of | New York. Secretary make several speeches principally in his state, Towa. Five Hundred Slain in Battie. Tangier.—A wireless ceived here from Mogador announces the assassination of Kaid Anfloos. Advices from Morocco City report that Mtougui, on August 6 defeated {he force under Glaoui, a lieutenant of Mulai Hafid, near the city. was a desperate battle in which the | followers of Mulai Hafid had 560 men Laggers in Southern States just after | killed. Glaoni himself was wounded and he had three horses shot under Native reports Mulai Hafid demanding reinforce- | ments. Powder Trust Hearing Set. Wilmington, Del.—Upon the appli- cation of counsel for the government in the suits brought against various powder concerns under the Sherman anti-trust law, United States Commis- sioner W. G. Mahaffy fixed Septem- taking of testimony. The H. K Porter locomotive works of Pittsburg has been awarded a contract to furnish 10 locomotives to be used by the isthmian canal com- mission. The about $60,000. | | | Two Veteran Bodies Amaigamate. i ’Boston.—At the annual encamp- ment of the United Spanish War Vet- erans it was unanimously voted to joe the Veteran Army of the | Philippines, with a membership of 1,100, with the United Spanish War | Veterans. | ee ee ee tee Senator Newlands Renominated. Tonopah, Nev.—The evada Demo- te convention renominated © Newlands for United ator and George A. Bartlett | an from this State. Wilson will | There | dispatch re-! | | | | | | | { i say that the | | { | { | ber 22 as the time for beginning the | engines will cost | i their hands. | Goethals, | canal commission, reports that the to- {ing in a poor landing. | men in the basket got a bad shaking EMPEROR WILLIAM FOR PEACE : < German Ruler Says Peace Is Assured “and Guaranteed on Land and Sea. Strassburg.—At a banquet here, Emperor William, in proposing a toast, said: “I rejoice to be able to express tl vou my deepest conviction that the peace of Europe is not in danger. It rests upon too solid foundations easily to be upset by incitements and ill-disposed individuals: “Firm security exists, in the first place, in the consciences of the princes and statesmen of Europe, spousible to God for the lives and property of the peoples entrusted to their leadership. On the other hand, it is the will and desire of the people themselves to make themselves nse ful by tranquilly pursuing the devel oprient of the magnificent achieve merts of a progressive civilization and to measure their strength in peaceful rivalry. “Finally, peace also is assured and guaranteed by cur power on land and sea, by the German people in arms. Proud of the manly discipline and the ‘Jove of honor of her armed forces, Germany ° is determined to keep them vn their high level, with out menace to cthers, and to develop them as her own interests demand, favoring none and injuring none.” EVACUATE CUBA IN SPRING U. S. Soldiers May Leave Island to People in February, Washington.—Provisional Governor Magoon of Cuba, who has been in this country for ten days conferring with the president and officials of the war department, expects to be in Havana next Saturday. Arrangements tentatively have been made for the evacuation by the American forces early next spring, pethaps as early as February. It is likely at this time that the evacua- tion will be complete. TOURISTS ARE MISSING Avalanches Wipe Out Several Villages _ in Switzerland. Geneva. Switzerland.—Heavy lose Tyrolese frontier, where an unprece dented thaw has caused terrific ava lanches and floods. Between 30 and 40 persons are known to have been killed and a num climbing the Alps are missing. One party of heard from. Jags Leaving Brazil. Rio Janeiro.—The Japanese immi- grants who were sent to the State of Sao Paulo by the Imperial Emigra tion Company of Tokio, are leaving that section in large numbers. They have been at work on the coffee plan- tations, but were apparently not sat isfied with the employment. Many of them have arrived at Rio Janeiro for the purpose of securing employ: ment as domestic servants or similar occupations. Bryan’s Son to Wed Wisconsin Girl Milwaukee, Wis.—The marriage engagement of Miss Helen Berger, daughter of Alex Berger, prominent miller and board of trade man of this city, and William Jennings Bryan, Jr., sen of the Democratic presiden tial candidate, was admitted by wiv Berger. Miss Berger and her moth er are at present visiting friends in Lincoln, Neb. The wedding may not take place for abont a year. Sues Governor for $17,600,000. Dawson, Yukon.—The largest law suit ever filed in Yukon was begun here when A. D. Curtis, manager of the Bonanza Creek Mining Company. asked the Governor of Canada for cancelled the Matson & Doyle and which passed to Knocks Out Separate Schools. Guthrie, Okla.—Judge A. H. Hus ton in the district court here declar ed unconstitutional the Oklahoma separate law creating separate school boards and separate schools for ne- eroes in the state. Panama Canal Work. Washington.— Colonel George Ww. chairman cf the Panama tal excavation for August was 3,252,- 506 cubic yards, place measurement, against 3,168,840 cubic vards in pre- vious months and 1,288,692 cubic vards, in August, last year, or an In- crease of 1,963,814 cubic yards over the corresponding month in 1907. Barely Escape Whirlpool. Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Fearing 2a storm on Lake Ontario the crew isn board the racing balloon Ville de Dieppe from Columbus, 0Q., tried to descend at Niagara Falls. The rip cord failed to work properly, result- The three up and narrowly escaped death in the whirlpool rapids. | Payne Renominated. { Auburn, N. Y.—Representative Se- | reno E. Payne of Auburn, chairman | of the ways and means committee of | the house, was unanimously renom- inated to the Sixty-first Congress by the Thirty-first congressional dis= trict Confederate General Dead. Miss.—General Alexander P. Stewart, one of the last two sur- viving lieutenant generals of the Con- 1 | | | i Biloxi, | federate army, died at his home here i | BALLOONISTS IN TROUBLE MANY LIVES LOST peas BY DROWNING, a Cold Air Over Lake Erie Caused Gas to Condense and Balloon Sank Toward Water. | Seven Go Down in Penobscot Bay — Gale Sweeps English Channel Buffalo.—The balloon Queen Lou- | ise, which started with two other | balloons from Columbus, O., Satur-- WITNESSES TO CATASTROPHE | gay afternoon, with Lieutenant P. J. : | Bennett of the British army balloon i and accompanie Victims Had Planned to Take Last a r Sy was De: 5 by Outing Before Returning to | Lake Erie Sunday afternoon off Pig- : Their Homes, | eon island. Owing to a defective valve the pilot was unable to keep the balloon afloat. After throwing out all of their bal- last they sighted the steamer Mohe- gan, and signaling they were in dan- | ger, the captain of the ship accom- | panied them for nearly 10 miles, | when, seeing that it was impossible {o keep the balloon in the air any longer, they cut the gas bag. The Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Lucy S. Craw- | (yo aeronauts were taken abroad the Jey, ‘Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth . | pfohegan and brought to this port. Evans, of Mount Holyoke college, Lieutenant Bennett said that all Mass.; Jason C. Hutchins, of Bangor. | well. until they struck the lake. With Captain Samuel Haskell, the «About 2 a. m. Sunday we were party of light-hearted summer people | guer Lake Brie and not more than started out for a sail in Penobscot | 90g. feet above the surface. Our pay. It was drawing near the close | gag had become chilled. but we man- of the vacation season for most of | aged to keep afloat. When the sun them, and they had planned this 38 | pegan {o rise it expanded our gas their last outing together. and caused us to ascend. - We got —— up to an altitude, so far as I could London.—A streng gale swept the | ostimaie, of about 20,000 feet. We English Channel for 24 hours. An | |aid down in the basket and- fell enormous number of vessels have agleep. » been driven ashore, obliged to seek “I awoke feeling a rush of cold air shelter. Many exciting rescues are | gyer me. The air had again con- reported, but fortunately there has | densed the gas and the balloon was been no great loss of life, except in | dropping. When we reached warni- {he case of the British bark Amazon, er air currents the balloon balanced the crew of which had a terrible ex- again and we sighted the steamer perience. Mohegan.” : The Amazon went ashore on Mar-| Piqua, O.—The Chicago, the big- gam Sounds and the people on the | gest balloon to leave Columbus in land could plainly see the men cling- | the aero race, came down three and ing to the rigging or lashed to the | one-half miles northeast of Fletcher bulwarks, but were helpless to save at 10:15 Monday morning. Counter them, one of the masis carrying one currents of air kept the balloon fluc- of the men down. {uating back and forth until the gas Two of the crew, which numbered supply was exhausted. The balloon 23. were rescued by life lines and six | landed about 64 miles from Colum- others were washed ashore alive. | bus. The drop of 4,000 feet was The captain of the Amazon was kill made in less than a minute. ed in his cabin by a falling mast. After strenuous and protracted ef- forts, upward cof 200 panie-stricken id and desperate passengers were res- 2 s cued from the disabled excursion Telennons SE Long ask o ing ers. steamer Queen during a severe storm off Selsey. The storm caught the | Trinidad, Col.—Direct communica- Queen before she could make her | tion by wire with Folsom, N. M, pert, and for a time it appeared as which was devastated and isolated though she must go io the bottom by the flood in Cimarron creek with all on board, but lifeboats sent Thursday night, was established and out from Selsey succeeded im saving it was learned that the stories in cir- all but four of ihe passengers, who culation to the effect that scores of were drowned in trying to board Dersons are missing are unfounded. them. | Sunday afternoon 13 bodies had ! heen recoverel and only five persons were {hen missing. Some of the bodies recovered were horribly muti- lated and unregnizable. : ; { At the height of the flood the water | was 13 feet deep and a mile wide in | the canon where the town is located. Deer Isle, Me.—Seven summer vis- | itors out of a party of 10 were drown- ed by the capsizing of a 35-foot slocp in Penobscot bay, off this island. The drowned: Miss Alice Torro, Washington, D. C.; Miss Eleanor Torro. Washington, D. C.; Miss Kel- logg, Baltimore, Md.; Lutie Kellogg, HEROIC WOMAN PERISHES MELBOURNE'S BIGGEST DAY City a Spectacle of Magnificence in Honor of American Fleet. Melbourne.—The streets of Mel- bourne were filled with ‘surging, | The force of the water twisted rall- good-humored crowds > numbering | oad rails lik i hundreds of thousands on the night Tg he A he a telephone of August 31, all out to do honor to operator, who lost her life:in the the members of the visiting American | : Fest 3 ; i % battleship fleet. The crush in the oon. Tay vesilonss ome iste 98 principal thoroughfares was so great | In face of certain death she stayed het JoRny Nomen es and, sere 5 a doomed pursing sending alarms 3 4 : ~ {to every resi a tire day was set apart to jollification. | phone. ey ont Whe an 2 tele The federal government tendered phy the water : . a banquet to the admirals and senior | z : officers of the visiting warships at! the Parliament Ilouse, at which | Lord Northcote, Governcr General of | {he Commonwealth, and Prime Min- | | | | BANK CASHIER ARRESTED Charged With Embezzlement of $18,-. 000 More Than a Year Ago. | Lexington, Ky.—J. W. Rice was ar- | rested upon his arrival from New {York by local detectives, charged | with the embezzlement cof - $18,000 from the bank at Morehead, Ky. Boy and Girl, Who Were in Submerg: about a year ago. ed Boat, Missing. | Mr. Rice came here from New York Tard iL : {0 as to be with his wife, who is to Atlantic City.—The finding of a | 0 ap 5 5 : thalf-submerged launch in Great Reg jsndatge he ls said id DE Harbor bay is accepted as evidence joer 3 is ny was Ie 2 mms ot a double drowning, in which Char- Sih ts deficit was es Bateman, 22 vears of age, and} yiienver . Se ; Miss Kate Beam, 20, of Scuth Atlan- jfistovarad, Vol Sani of he bank, He on are supposed to have been het De his Ty ot a. the victims. i> > = : : The young couple went out cn the oa NR 1 Borin Rise, aul bay together on Friday night, August iro Moorehead ke St or i a ea ig in nothing has since been heard Rowan cont i ner i 5 of them. hs : > ¥ 5 ° = a oo tria; will be held. 18,000 POOR DEFRAUDED CURRENT NEWS EVENTS ister Deakin made brilliant speeches. The city is a spectacle of magnifi- cance. LAUNCH TELLS OF TRAGEDY Strong Charges Brought Against Two -_— Mrs. Burch makes the present aver- Financiers in Lendon. i es London.—Harry Benson, alias Beb- | 342 gondidon of ection 79.5 against ro and George Petty, directors of the | ~~ toni and 73.5 last year, nternational Securities Corporation, | New York brokers report an in- Limited, and Falitham’s Bank, which | crease in commission house busi were recently placed in the hands of |ness, mostly on the buying side in a receiver, were arrested charged | Harriman steceks. y « or 1 i y Shh lee Hig obtain money on | Mrs, W. S. G. Williams, who was The prosecuting attorney said 15, i Charles B. Roberts, Jr. .0n the 2 = ~ | boardwalk at Atlantic City when he 000 poor people had veen defrauded | yng py the International Securities Cor- Yas Shot Soclited dint Vi Semiiat was a “‘straig - 3 poraticn and over 500 others by the bank. Benson, the police, say, was | News comes through the columns convicted some years ago in Amer- |0f the Hongkong Telegraph that a ica. | Chinese leper settlement is about to is [be established near Canton by Rev. Wu May Be Re-Called. {Fr. Conrardy, who was with Father Pekin, China.—The Chinese gov- |Damien during the last seven years ernment is considering the recall of (of his life in Molokal. Wu Ting-Fang, the Chinese minister The Atchison crop report estimates at Washington, on ‘account of recent | the Kansas wheat crop at 72 000,000 disclosures on his part which are | bushels from 5,900,000 acres and the believed here to have been dindiscreet. | Oklahoma crop at 17,000,000 bushels. The government for some months |The Kansas corn crop is estimated past has been embarrassed by Mr. at 175,000,000 bushels or 20,000,000 Wu's platforra and other utterances | greater than last year. The Oklaho- and by his attitude as a public char- | ma cotton crop is estimated at 1,000,- acter in America. - {000 bales, and Texas 4,000,000 bales. | | | | RUN DOWN BY STEAMER Strike ls Called Off. Birmingham, Ala.—An official order calling off the strike cf coal miners in the Birmingham district was Iis- sued to all the camps in this section. It was signed by President Lewis, Vice President White and Saeeretary- Treasurer Ryan of the United Mine Workers of America. Woman and Two Children in a Row- boat Drown in Lake. 5 Chicagoe.—Mrs. Emil Anderson anil per two small children, residents of Chicago, were drowned in Delavan | Lake, Wis. i The woman and her children were | with three friends in a rowboat, Washington.—Presidcnt R y which was struck by a steamer. All WE has approved plans of the proposed Sunday. Although in his 87th Year, | General’ Stewart's death came as a shock to his relatives and friends. | The Schuyler Free Lance, the most | influential Populist newspaper in | Nebraska, bolted Bry and went | over to Taft, at the ec time ad- | vising all Populists to Watson { and vote for Tai were hurled into the wale Three | new battleship Florida and Utah, at- saved, but the Ande ns were | thorized at the last session of con- | Ss. new | of ha increas last mean: instea clothe and t $18 a creas salar; ado’s pueb him turie Spes man gic ~ I -l o> an pe oA 0 oa nr anid Ly
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