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ll- -«>. n .r;- /A , s^spr ^ z,y-*r asas ~ I ' " -> t}\ &f "T'5v7 J»u ~ "r-^1 fSS?Sj ,-%#• V< ifitrttTiir'i'i-iii' LATEST CASH MARKET REPORTS. HIDDEN PICTURE. At- ' *" J- " Li *"2 >. ^ -i , v ^ rC-- -jfe? THE McRERflY PUIIDEALER .BR 00k IIJI»INOIS. OLD IN Opposition of members of both houses may influence President Roose­ velt to abandon plans for an extraor­ dinary session of congress in Novem­ ber. Governor Folk scores Missouri peti­ tioners who asked for cessation of Sunday law enforcement and declares that be will continue to uphold the law as long as he remains in office. , William Curtis, a negro, was shot and killed by a policeman at Saratoga while resisting arrest, after having made a murderous assault on Rev. Mr. Schulte and wife at Balston, N. Y. Thousands of pilgrims celebrated the 'Feast of the Assumption at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdea at Notre Dame Snuday. Manufacturers of trolley cars, to­ gether with electric companies, are said to be planning a gigantic consoli­ dation, the matter to be determined at a convention in Philadelphia early In September. ' Five women claim to have been, mar­ ried to Allenford P. Scott, who says he ts an English lord. Vermont will erect a tower in mem­ ory of General.Ethan Allen- Residents of Indian Territory will ask congress for union with Oklahoma and statehood. A severe hailstorm did much dam­ age to growing tobacco In Dane and Rock counties, Wisconsin. Rowland Getchel, aged 2, of Bara- boo, Wis., was drowned in the Wis­ consin river at Newport while bath­ ing. The Catholic Total Abstinence Un­ ion gave a vote of thanks to President Roosevelt for his visit, adopted reso­ lutions for temperance reform and ad­ journed to meet next year at Provi­ dence, R. I. Mrs. Naomi' Aldrich of Grayling, Mich., is in Jail charged with having poisoned her two boys, aged 10 and 12, to collect $50 life insurance on each. Twenty firemen were scalded by ex­ plosion of grease in burning soap fac­ tory in New York city. The big liner Graf Waldersee drift­ ed at the 'mercy of fierce Atlantic vtorm for twenty-four hours. The Illinois Central and Louisville and Nashville railroads announce sweeping reductions in freight rates on petroleum products north-bound shipments. Secretary Taft in a banquet address at Manila says Filipinos must learn principles of democracy by education and that representative assembly will be granted natives in 1907 if nO insur­ rection exists. The British parliament has been prorogued, after session checquered with strife with the premier. Two hundred and fifty thousand toil­ ers assembled to hear President Roosevelt speak at Wilkesbarre, Pa. The Shanghai Chamber of Com­ merce finds itself powerless to check the boycott on American products put in force by Chinese merchants, and the Peking government is said to be not active in attempting to stop the movement. Robert A. Irving, publisher of the New Yorker, was arrested and held in the Tombs at New York on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Con­ gressman Rhinock of Kentucky. Moved by a stirring appeal from starving Chicago strikers, the team­ sters' convention at Philadelphia voted $8,500 for a relief fund. Oscar Benson, a Chicago policeman, shot and killed Mathias Mamer, a brother of Illinois State Supreme Court Clerk Chris Mamer; wounded a clerk in Mamer's store, and commit­ ted suicide, the tragedy following Ma­ mer's charge that Benson had stolen three watches. ' j>. Mrs. Hackley of Muskegon, Mich., widow of the well-known philanthrop­ ist, is seriously ill. She is again un­ der medical care after having dis­ missed Christian Scientists. Boston was selected as the meeting place for the twenty-first annual con­ vention of the American Philatelic as­ sociation at the session in Minneap­ olis. Orrin W. Potter, steel trust million­ aire of Chicago, has married Mrs. Bell, a former hair dresser, and sailed for Europe. A conference is to be held in New (York, having for its object the federa­ tion of the leading Protestant churches. General Emmons Clark, former col­ onel of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and a civil war veteran, died at his New York home, aged 78 years. The wife of acting Mayor Fornes of New York has sued him for divorce and $5,000 alimony. S. C. Stohr, general freight agent of the Chicago Great Western railway at St. Paul, has tendered his resignation and W. E. Pinckney, assistant general freight agent, has been named as his successor. Mr. Stohr had been with the Great Western nineteen years and his resignation came as a surprise. Alexander R. Smith, superintendent .the New York Maritime Exchange, has tendered his resignation, to take effect on Sept. 1, in order to accept a .position with the Merchant Marine League of the United States, with headquarters in Cleveland, O. Two thousand cotton operatives of Manchester threaten to strike if wage Increase is denied. Governor Hanly of Indiana has .granted a requisition for Harry Haas, the cashier of the Darlington, Ind., bank, who was arrested at Fruitdale, Ala. Henry Watt, a well-known paper manufacturer, while superintending the installation of a new plant at Mishawaka, lnfl., was thrown into belt revolving around a pulley at the rate of 306 revolutions per minute and •J.-; piled.' Sv-'". Chicago Butter--Creamerv, extra, 21c: prints, 22c: firsts, 19Vie; seconds, 17©17%c; renovated, JS@l9c: dairies, Coolfys. lSVic; firsts, 17c; ladles, 16c; packing stock. 15Vfce. Epes--Fresh stock at mark, new cases included, cases returned. 12% @15%c; firsts, 17c; prime firsts, packed in white wood cases, 18%e; extra (high- grade). packed for city trade. 21c. Cheese--Full cream, daisies. 11 ̂ 4 @ 11 He; twins, ll@ll\c; Young Americas. 11%@11%c; long horns. 314c; Swiss, block. 10c; drum. 13c; Limburger, choice, So; off graded, brick, 3c; oI£ grades, T@8c. • Fish--Black bass. I5c; carp and buf­ falo. 2c; pike, 7c; pickerel, 5c: peach. 4c. Live poultry--Turkeys, per lb, 14<|>15c; chickens, fowls. He; - roosters, . TVfcc; springs. 13%c per lb; ducks, 10c; geese, $4@6 per doz. Fruits--Apples, new, baskets, 75c@$1.25; per 6-basket crate. $lfP2; 4-basket crate, »1; Michigan, bu, 50#75c; 1-5 bu, 9#18c; pears. Michigan, bu. 65@75c per case; *3.50#5 per brl; plums, $4-basket case. 40@50c; 1-5-bu baskets, 12 @ 15c; cher­ ries. $1.25@1.40; 16-qt case; grapes, 8-lb baskets, 20^f2Sc. Berries--Red raspberries, ?5c@1.50 per 24 pts; blackberries, 50c@$l per 24 qts; blueberries. $1.25@2; currants, common. 5@90e; cherries, $3.25. Melons--Watermelons, $10048200 per car; gems, crates, 50c@$4; baskets, 40@ 50c. , Green vegetables--Carrots, home­ grown. 75@$1 per 100 bunches, cabbages, $1@1.25 crate: cucumbers, per doz, 8@20c: celery, 40@60c per box; radishes, $1.25@ 1.50 per 100 bunches; spinach, 25@50c per tub; tomatoes, 2i>@35c per case; lettuce, head, 30@50c per tub; leaf. .25(®40c per tub; beets. 7r>c@Jl per 100 bunches; turnips. 50©60c per box: string beans, 40 @75c per box: asparagus.. $1.50 per box; cauliflower. 75c@$1.50 per case; green peas, $1@1.50 per sack; green onions, 5@ 6o per bunch; onions, 65@75c per bu; sweet corn, 25@50c per sack; kohlrabf. |1.25@3.50 per 100 bunches; potatoes, car lots on track. 40#46c per bu; mushrooms, 50@65c per lb; squash. 20@25c per crate; watercress. 8@!0c per doz, sweet pota­ toes, Virginias, $2.75#3 per brl. New York Produce. Butter steady; unchanged. Ch«fesc--Weak; receipts, 5.000; State, full cream, small colored and white fancy, lO^c; do. fair to choice. 9%@10*4c; do, large colored and white, fancy, 10%c. Eggs--Strong; state, Pennsylvania and near-by fancy, selected, white, 25@2?c; western extras, 21 @21 He; do firsts, 19% ^ 20c. Grain Quotations. WHEAT. Chicago--No. 2 red, 94@84>£c. New York --No. 2 red. 87Vic. Minneapolis--No. northern. $1.09. St. Louis--No. 2 red, 79%c. Duluth--No. 1 northern, $1.08. Kansas City--No 2 hard. 76@79)4o- Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, $1.09)4. Toledo--No. 2 red. 84%c. CORN. Chicago--No. 2, 55%# 56c. . Liverpool--American mixed, 6s. New York--No. 2--60c. Peoria--No. 3--54%c. St. Louis--No. 2, 52c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, 6134c. Milwaukee--No. 3. 55% @56*4c. OATS. Chicago--Standard, 27@27%c. New York--Mixed. 33@33%c. St. Louis--Xo 2. 2814c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed. 27%c. Milwaukee--Standard, 28Q281&C. Live Stock. CATTLE. - ' Chicago--$1.50 @$6. Omaha--$1.50# $5.70. Kansas City--$].T5#$5.50. St. Louis$2#$5.75. St. Joseph-- $1.80@$5.9.0. New York--$1.50 @$6. HOGS. Chicago--$3@ $6.30. Omaha--$4.75@$6. Kansas City--J5.90@l6.07fc. St. Louis---$6@$6.30. St. Joseph--$4.75@5.95. New York--$6.50@$6.65. SHEEP AND LAMBS. Chicago--$3 (g $7. Omaha--$4.25 @$6.85. Kansas City--$3.75@$6.75. St. Louis--$4@$7. St. Joseph--$3.75@6.50. New York--$3#$8.25. President Roosevelt Talks of Way to Handle Tradt Combines. JUSTICE MUST BE FOUNDATION Legitimate Business Should Not Be In- terfered With, but Effort to Monop­ olize Particular Lines Call for Ac­ tion by the Government. I, Edward H. C. Taylor, for twenty years auditor of freight receipts of the Northern Pacific railroad, died almost instantly while seated in an easy chair at his home in St. Paul, Minn. Daniel G. Meade died at Eldora, Iowa, after a long illness. He wont there in 1864 from Ellsworth, Me., and for many years owned and operated the Eldora flouring mills. He was for many years identified with Hardin county's political, business and frater­ nal history and during the Lincoln, Douglass campaign played in an east­ ern brass band. Dnring an altercation at Jefferson- ville, Ind., John Taylor killed Lou Phelps with a knife. . William Rissetter, a wealthy farmer of near Dixon, 111., fatally stabbed his son in a quarrel over a horse. J. E. Ort, aged 35, of Harrisburg, Pa., fell asleep on the railroad track at Pana, 111., and was instantly killed. Noah Fowler, aged 50 years, a promi­ nent farmer of Pana, 111., died from the effects of lemon extract which he drank. Attorney Underwood of Bedford, Ind., predicts that Sarah Schafer's murderers will yet be convicted and hanged, and says he will make a polit­ ical issue of the case to thwart influ­ ences that have shielded the guilty parties. Mrs. Emma Winstandly of New Al­ bany, Ind., drowned her baby in a bathtub, shot her sick husband and then killed herself with carbolic acid. Preliminary returns received by the bureau of statistics, department of ag­ riculture, indicate that the winter wheat crop amounts to 424,400,000 bushels. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company has bought the Milwaukee docks, the dimensions of which are 1,000x400 feet. Jack Suihmerland of Wabash, Ind., who fell seventy-five feet from a smokestack at Anderson while palntr ing it, is dead. Charles A. McGonigal of Muncle, Ind., has been appointed to Succeed Noel I. Chew of Indiana, deputy audi­ tor for the postoffice department. The congregation of the Twenty-sec­ ond and Walnut street Baptist church of Louisville has voted to call Rev. Marion P. Hunt of Kansas City, Mo. The New York State Legislative Committee appointed to Investigate the affairs of life insurance companies named John McKeen and Charles E. Hughes as counsel, and asks Joseph H. Choate to act in an advisory capac­ ity. Rev. Clement Johannes, pastor of St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, died at Chicago. He had ben pastor of St Mary's parish for tho last twenty years. One hundred wives before one New York magistrate charge their hus­ bands with desertion. General Linevitch reports a Russian retreat, the Japanese turning both flanks of his army. Daniel Steffy, aged about 82, was found dead at his post at the pump station for the Rock Island railroad at Washington, Iowa. Mrs. Clarence H. Mack ay attended the Long Island school board meeting startling the mebers with red hat and erudition. Barney Oldfield, the dare-devil mo­ torist, met with a bad accident at De­ troit and came nearer death than ever before. Chautauqua, N. Y., dispatch:* "file Monroe doctrine and regulation of cor­ porations formed the dual subject of President Roosevelt's address to 10,- 000 Chautauquans at the assembly grounds Friday. President Roosevelt was introduced to the Chautauquans, who welcomed him with their conventional salute, by Bishop John H. Vincent. He said in part: , We cannot permanently adhere to the Monroe doctrine unless we succeed in making it evident in the first place that we do not intend, to treat it in any shape or way as an excuse fOr aggran­ dizement on our part at the expense of the republics to the south of us; -second, that we do not intend to per­ mit it to be used by any of these re­ publics as a shield to protect that re­ public from the consequences of its own misdeeds against foreign nations; third, that inasmuch as by this doc­ trine we prevent other nations from in­ terfering on this side of the water, we shall ourselves, in good faith try to help those of our sister republics, which need such help, upward toward peace and order. Must Act As Policeman.' "In the interest of justice, It Is as necessary to exercise the police power as to show charity and helpful gener­ osity. But something can even now be done toward the end in view. That something, for instance, this nation has already done as regards Cuba, and is now trying to do as regards Santo Pomingo. "The executive department bf our government negotiated a treaty under which we are to try and help the Do­ minican people to straighten out their finances. This treaty is* pe nding be­ fore the senate, whose consent to it is necessary. In the meantime we have made a temporary arrangement which will last until the senate has had time to take action upon the treaty. Under this arrangement we see to the honest administration of the custom houses, collecting the reven­ ues, turning over 45 per cent to the government for running expenses and putting the other 55 per cent into a safe deposit for equitable division among the various creditors, whether European or American, accordingly, as after investigation, their claims E3em just. , Trusts Need Strong Rule. .. "Now for one feature of our do­ mestic policy. One of the main fea­ tures of our national government pol­ icy should be the effort to secure adequate and effective supervisory and regulatory control over all great corporations doing an interstate bus­ iness. Much of the legislation aimed to prevent the evils connected with the enormous development of these great corporations has been ineffect­ ive, partly because it aimed at doing too much, and partly because it did not confer on the government a really efficient method of holding any guilty corporation to account. The effort to prevent all-restraint of competition, whether .h&rmful or beneficial, has been ill-judged; what is needed is not so much the effort to prevent combination as a vigilant and effective control of the combinations formed, so as to secure just and equita­ ble dealing on their part alike toward the public generally, toward their smaller competitors and toward the wage-workers in their employ. "Under the present laws we* have in the last four years accomplished much that is of substantial value; but the difficulties in the way have been so great as to prove that further legisla­ tion Js advisable." No More Leniency. The violations of the law known as the anti-trust law, which was meant to meet the conditions thus arising, have more and more become confined to the larger combinations, the very ones against whose policy of monopoly and oppressing the policy of the law was chiefly directed. Many of these combinations by secret methods and by protacted litigation are still unwise­ ly seeking to avoid the consequences of theij illegal action. The govern­ ment has very properly exercised mod­ eration in attempting to enforce the criminal provisions of the statute; but it has become our conviction that in some cases, such as that of at least certain of the beef packers recently indicted in Chicago, it is impossible longer to show leniency. "Personally, I think our people tain great corporations drive them In­ to drastic action, and I should oppose such action. But the great corpora­ tions are themselves to blame if by their opposition to what is legal and just they foster the •popular feelipg which calls for such drastic action,; Praises Men of Means. "In speaking against the abuse* committed by certain very wealthy corporations or individuals and of the ftecessity of seeking so far as it can safely be done to remedy these abuseil there is always danger lest what lA said may be misinterpreted as an at' tack upon men of means generally. "In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense ma­ jority of cases the straight-dealing man who by ingenuity and industry benefits' himself must also benefit oth­ ers. The man of great productive ca­ pacity who gets rich through guiding tlie labor of hundreds or thousands of other men does so, as a rule, by en­ abling their labor to produce ipore than it would without his guidance, and both he and they share in the benefit, j?o that even if the share ba unequal, it must never be forgotten that they, too, are really benefite^ hy his success. r • * ; ' Favors Just Restraint. 1 But while insisting with all em­ phasis upon this, it is^also true that experience has shown that when there is no governmental restraint or sup«r- vision some of the exceptional men use their energies, not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common gocfl, and that by so doing they not on?y wrong smaller and less able men--- whether firage workers or small pio- ducers and traders--but force oth«r men of exceptional abilities theft- Selves to do what is wrong under pen­ alty of falling behind in the keen rare for success. There is need of legisla­ tion to strive to meet such abuses. "Of <x>urse there is always the dan­ ger of abuse if legislation of this tyre is approached in a hysterical or senti­ mental spirit, or above all, if It is aj)- proached in a spirit of envy and hai­ red toward men of wealth. "We must not try to go too fast, un­ der penalty of finding that we may be going in the wrong direction; and in any event, we ought always to pro­ ceed by evolution and not by revolu­ tion. "Our ideal must be the effort to combine all proper freedom for indi­ vidual effort with some guarantee that the effort is not exercised in contra­ vention of the eternal and immutable principles of justice." ARCTIC EXPLORERS ARE BY SEARCHERS Members of Fiaia-Ziegler Expedition Are Rescued Through Efforts of W. 8. Champ and His Companions. Honningsvaag, Norway, cablegram: The members of the Fiala-Ziegler polar expedition, rescued after a long imprisonment in the arctic by the steamer Terra Nova, arrived here aboard that vessel. They reported that their ship, the America, in which they started in July, 1903, was*crushed in the ice in Neplitz Bay early the next winter and lost, with a large por­ tion of her coal and provisions. Only one member of the party died during the trip, a Norwegian seaman, whose demise was due to natural causes. Anthony Fiala of Brooklyn, N. Y., head of the expedition, and the thirty- six other members, landed here in good health, despite their privations and trying experiences. They had been severed from all communication with the outside world from the time of the start until found by the Terra Nova. Owing to their misfortune they were unable to proceed farther than 82 degrees, 13 minutes north. Mr. Fiala, describing their experi­ ences, said: "The rescue was most timely. By my order the America wintered in Ne­ plitz Bay, where early in the winter of 1903-04 the ship was crushed in the ice and became a total loss, together with big quantities of coal and provi­ sions. "Supplies of stores left at Franz Josef Land by various relief parties saved us very serious privations. "Thre attempts to reach a high lat­ itude failed. The scientific work, however, as planned was successfully carried out by William Peters of the United States geological survey. "Our rescue was due to the plendid efforts of Witliam S. Champ, secre­ tary of the late William Ziegler, com­ manding the relief expedition, who, owing to the terrible weather, failed to reach us last year, and to the un­ tiring zeal of Captain Kjeldsa anjJ the Norwegian officers and crew, who for six weeks persistently forced their was through solid floes of ice and finally reached us." , Call to Colored Methodists.^ Detroit, Mich., dispatch: Bishop Al­ exander Walters of the African Metn- odist Episcopal Zion church, and Dr. William H. Steward ha~ve sent out the formal calls for a convention of the would be most unwise if they let any j council, to be held in Detroit, begin- exasperation due to the acts of cer-' ning Aug. 30. Two Women Are Drowned. Grand Forks, B. C., special: By the capsizing of a boat in a whirlpool at Christine lake Miss Agnes Ruckle and Miss Ida Anderson were drowned. Three others in the party managed to reach shore in an exhausted condition. Hold Two for Murder. Superior, Wis., dispatch: Arvit Lap- tavi and Ellas Iowa are held for the piurder of an unknown Finlander who saved Martha Odland from assault by the pair. A mob caught the two men, bqt the police rescued them. ^ ^ Noted Old Gambler Dfiflr ' Dal]ps, Tex., dispatch: Nat Kramer, one of the most noted Texas gamblers and sporting men of the old school, died suddenly at Fort Worth of heart disease. He was born about 70 years ago near Louisville. '• Salmon Pack Is Short?** v ' Victoria, B. C., special : The run of sockeye salmon on the Fraser river appears to be slackening. The pack to date is 400,000 cases, about fcalf je*Umated total pack. Defies Chinese Tradition. Pekin cablegram: Mrsf Wu Ting- Fang, wife of the former Chinese min­ ister to the United States has defied the time-honored traditions of her na­ tive land by returning to China with her feet "enlarged" to a normal size. Japanese Raise the Variag. Tokio cablegram: The navy depart­ ment has announced the successful floating of the cruiser Variag. In view of the dlfflciflty encountered there is a strong feeling of general satisfac­ tion over the raising of the vessel. Smallpox Ravages Valparaiso. Valparaiso, Chili„ cablegram: There are eight cases of plague in Taltal, province of Atacama. The epidemic of smallpox in Valparaiso is un­ changed. Nearly 550 deaths have been ffecorded 4n seven days. r ' Two hundred an4 eleven years ago .'-Find'a TWELVE L1IIES Carelessness of Freight Crew Is Blamed for Collision ^, In Ohio. •" j. * >pr;: VETERAN ENGINEER IS KILLED Refusiss to Jump when Fireman's Cry Warns Him of Danger and Body Hangs Mangle&and Bleeding in En­ gine Cab. the Bank of England wias Incorporated. Banker. The two day coaches were tel­ escoped. Death came almost instantly to the passengers sitting in the rear of the smoker. The mangled bodies of the foreigners were crushed be­ neath the twisted iron and the timber of the side of the coaches. Fanners from the immediate neigh­ borhood tame to the aid of the train­ men and passengers. The passengers in the three Pullmans were only stun­ ned by the shock. They hurriedly dressed and in scanty attire helped take out the bodies of the dead and rescue the injured in the, front coaches. The bodies o£ the dead Italianls were pulled through the windows of the wrecked smoker. One of the cars, but slightly damaged, was converted into a morgue and ten bodies were held until the arrival of the coroner. Lorain, O., Aug. 14.--Twelve lives were sacrificed by a trainman's iiun- der in a headon collision of a Nickel Plate passenger train and a freighg at Kishman's switch, on the shore of Lake Erie, near Vermillion, early Sun­ day morning. About twenty-five passengers, tae majority of them Italian laborers, were injured. The engineer and fireman of the freight train saved themselves by jumping. The engine crew of the freight is said to have delayed their train care­ lessly. The engine of the passenger, running fifty miles an hour," plowed through the boiler of the freight en­ gine and the crash broke coaches into splinters and snapped and twisted heavy steel. Thirty-nine Italian laborers, pockets jingling with money after a pay pight, and singing and chatting in anticipa­ tion pf their return to the fatherland but a few weeks hence, were riding in the smoker of the passenger. The impact sent the car in the rear of the' smoker halfway through it, and nine of the thirty-nine were crushed to death. Engineer Sticks to Post. When the crash came C. W. Poole, of Coaneaut, a veteran in the service of the Nickel Plate, remained at nis post after a warning cry of his fire­ man told him that he could jump and save his life. The crash caught Poole in the engino cab, and the bleeding /and dying man hung there for many long minutes before he could be re­ leased. Joseph Alexander, of Jersey City, who has been roaming about the coun­ try evading United States navy repre­ sentatives, was killed. Alexander w&s proved a deserter by a letter found in his pocket. General Superintendent A. W. John­ son, of the Nickel Plate, issued* the fol­ lowing statement: From what we have learned up to the present time, the cause of the ac­ cident is the failure of the freight train to clear the jnain track. The blame rests, therefore, entirely upon the crew of this train. They should have had that train in there at least five minutes before the time the pas­ senger train arrived. - As the freight train obscured the switch lamps, the passenger crew, of course, could not tell whether the light was red or white. We have learned of no reason, as yet, as to ust why the train crew did not have the main .track clear." Freight Did Not Taka 8idlng. The freight train ordered to take the Kishman siding did not stop at the opening, but proceeded for some un­ explained reason for the length of a hundred cars down the main track. The scene at the wreck was a fear­ ful one. Screams of "Holy Mary" from the injured and frightened Ital­ ians almost Overcame the noise from crackling wood and escaping steam. ARCANUM OFFICIALS GIVE WAY RICH MEN'S VALET IS A THIEF English Servant Confesses to R&bbirtg Widener, Vanderbilt and Others. Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: John William George, who has been in the employ of George D. Widener, the Elkins Park millionaire, as valet since October, 1904, has been taken into custody to answer a charge of stealing money and jewelry from the Widener home. When searched $35 of marked money stolen from Mr. Widener was found in the valet's possession. At first he .emphatically denied all knowl­ edge of the thefts, but on close exam­ ination he broke down and made a full confession to eight different rob­ beries. A search through his room re­ vealed a black mask and blackjack. These are now in the hands of the po­ lice and will be used as evidence against the prisoner. George came from England four years ago and was first engaged by E. C. Swift and later by Alfred G. Vanderbilt. From each of his employers, he says, he frequent­ ly stole, but was never found out. George was held in' $2,000 bail for court. TYFHOID IS BAD IN WASHINGTON Twenty-five new Cases for Day Alarms the Authorities. Washington dispatch: There were twenty-five new cases of typhoid fever reported to the health office Thursday, the greatest number for any one day during the present outbreak of typhoid •in this city. The District of Columbia commissioners have directed the police of the city to join the health officials in making a house-to-house canvas to see that ^11 premises are .kept in a san­ itary condition. As an extra precau­ tion for the protection of the health of numerous employes of the war de­ partment Gen. Chaffee, acting secreta­ ry of war, has directed the use of only distilled or filtered water provided by a distilling plant in the building. JOHN L.'s PROTEGE IS WHIPPED. t-'u-*;.* Lonely Wife Is Found Omaha dispatch: Grief at the ab­ sence of her husband is believed to have caused Mrs. L. B. Gibson, the young wife of a salesman traveling for a to M to v Gus Ruhlin Defeats Former Cham­ pion's Candidate in Tame Fight. San Francisco dispatch: In one of the tamest heavyweight battles pulled off on the coast in several years, Gus Ruhlin, of Akron, Ohio, knocked out Jim McCormick in the eighteenth round of what was to have been a twenty-five round battle before the Colma club Friday night. A success­ ion of right and left hand swings sent McCormick down for the final count. McCormick did not show that he pos­ sessed the cleverness or fighting abil­ ity attributed to him, and-Ruhlin gave all the signs of having gone back a long ways. t ? f Special Meeting of the Council-Called Reconsider Rate Question. Boston, Mass., dispatch: W. O. Rob­ inson, supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, has announced that the su­ preme council will meet at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on Aug. 30 to consider the de­ velopment growing out of the estab­ lishment of new rates. Forty-two rep­ resentatives from the grand council signed a request made to Supreme Re­ gent Wiggins that a special session be held. 8enator Is Somnambulist. t V* St. Louis dispatch: William War­ ner, United States senator from Mis­ souri, was caught in a somnambulis­ tic walk on a Burlington sleeper. He was standing off an applicant for of- fice when awakened by the porter. , Hero of the Oregon Retireatv Washington dispatch: Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, one of the naval heroes of the Spanish war, became 62 years of age Thursday, and for that reason wars transferred to the retired Overflow of American Cottcf^:^ Kobe, Japan, cablegram: American cotton has crowded all the warehouses and is overflowing into the fields out­ side the city. OFFICIALS DO NOT SEE HANGINGS Interstate Sheriffs' Association Is in Session at St. Paul. St. Paul, Minn., dispatch: The inter­ state Sheriffs" association began a •three days* session here Tuesday af­ ternoon. About 100 delegates from various parts of the country are in at­ tendance. Two hangings which w.ere to have been a feature of the program for the entertainment of the visitors, could not take place because of the suicide of one of the condemned and the granting of a respite to the other. Young Hilton Is Dead. New York dispatch: Henry George Hilton, second son of the late Judge Henry Hilton, who sacrificed a $10,- 000,000 estate to marry Sylvia Gerrish, the famous Casino beauty, died of nephritis in Morris Heights, N. Y. Cracker Explodes in Boy's Mouth. • Bayfield, Wis., special: The 4-year- old Son of John Talbot placed a light­ ed giant firecracker in his mouth and attempted to smoke it. The explosion lacerated his face terribly and he may not recover. Physician, Supposed to Be^ Immune, Is Laid Low by | the Oread Disease. 1 NEW CASES IN NEW ORLEANS! Infection Among People Living in Bet- *er P®rt of the City Increases Feel-: Ing of Uneasiness That Prevails and Causes Alarm, ^ V* New Orleans, La., dispatch: A sur­ geon who was supposed to be an im-ffe mune when he was brought here byS the United States Marine Hospital ' service is critically ill with yellow fe-^ ver at the Turo Infirmary. This is Dr. f G. M. Barry, who has been working iufj the infected district ever since the fe-l? ver broke out. As every man is needed here at thls>' crisis his loss Is felt keenly by Dr.*;,;, White. Dr. Barry is a Texan andl j worked with the corps lh the Cuban I? campaign and in Vera Cruz. His ill-f:; neess simply proves the claim of the ; doctors that it is possible to have thef® diesase more than once. Alarm is Increasing. Half of the new foci are located In the better part of the city, and as a result of this the alarm at the situaJ tion has Increased. 5 Up to the present time no deaths have occurred among the residents of the upper part of the city above Ca­ nal street, although a number of the cases which have developed there have been very serious. A large number of the people of the upper part of the city are now "away on their vacations and many of the big boarding houses are closed. This to a certain extent Is preventing the spread of the dis­ ease in that part of the city. . One of the prominent characters down with the disease is Monseur Begue, who, with his wife, has con­ ducted Begue's restaurant here, which is famous across two continents. ' Chapelle Is Burled. * Archbishop Chapelle was buried more quickly than any other bishop ever has been.1 There was a short mass immediately after the church had been thoroughly fumigated., and all the people were required to leave the church.as soon as the mass had been said. Then the priests carried the body to the crypt under the altar and placed it beside the other archbishops buried there for the past hundred years. The church then was again closed and fumigated- PEORIAN'8 DEATH IS BAFFLING Former Wealthy Merchant Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances. Peoria, 111., dispatch: Edward Drou* in, formerly awealthy an dinfluential merchant of Philadelphia, is dead in this city. Drouin married the daugh­ ter of the late S. H. Thompson, a wealthy wholesale grocer of Peoria, and inherited the entire fortune which has since been wasted. When found his wife, apparently distracted by the death of her husband, was holding the feet of the corpse in the air in order, as she said, to allow the soul to es­ cape. Mrs. Drouin was formerly a belle of this city. Her husband was a member of the firm of Work & Drouin, merchants of Philadelphia. The cause of Drouin's death is a mystery which the coroner is now endeavoring to solve. Drouin was a son of Professor Felix Drouin, a former member of the faculty of the University of Pennsyl­ vania, where his portrait now hangs. Drouin's death occurred at 2:30 o'clock Friday morning, and, when found, his body was lying in the hall­ way of his residence. TEXAS FEVER 8TRIKES KANSAS Cattle Are Quarantined and Author­ ities Hope to Cheek Disease. Topeka, Kan., dispatch: Texas fever has appeared in a herd of 400 cattle at Grand Summit, Kan., near the Okla­ homa line, and J. B. Baker, state live stock inspector, has quarantined the animals. Thirty-three of the cattle have the fever. A few have died with the disease. '"This is the first ap­ pearance of the Texas fever in the state this year," said Mr. Baker, "and I do not think there is any danger of its spreading. The federal authorities also are watching the cattle." The cat­ tle were shipped to Kansas 110 days ago, and it is not now understand how they became infected. SONS OF PHIPPS ARE INDICTED Held in Edinburgh for Shooting Wounding Fisherman. Edinburg cable: An indictment has ben found against H. C. and J. S. Phipps, sons of Henry Phipps of Pitts­ burg, charged with firing with loaded guns upon men who were fishing on a lake at Castle Beaufort, destroying the right and permanently injuring the left eye of one of them, John Allan Fras­ er. HAILSTORM HURTS THE CROPS Heavy Damage la Reported , ta Carpi and Tobacco. Sparta, Wis., dispatch: Much dam­ age has been done to tobacco and corn all along the Viroqua branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail­ way by a terrific rain and hail storm. Many tobacco fields are practically ruined. Hhe railroad's track is badly damaged in places. Section men worked all night repairing the dam­ age. The storm was especially heavy in Vernon county. DAN LAMONT LEFT BIG ESTAT8 Will Divides $3,300,000 Among Widow and Three Daughters. New York dispatch: An estate val­ ued at $3,300,000 is left by the late Col­ onel Daniel S. L&uiont, secretary of war under President Cleveland, ac­ cording to Mr. Lamonts wilj, just filed for probate. Mrs. Lamont and her three daughters are the beneficiaries. The estate is valued at $3,000,000 in personal property and $300,000 In real estate. mailto:1.25@1.40 mailto:4.75@5.95 mailto:3.75@6.50