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r n Y PLMOi McHENRY PLAINDEALER 00. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. -TOLD IN- f|h , Lewis Cass Ledyard at Newport, R I I., issued a statement denying that John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Van- ji':-- derbilt had ever owned stock in the h'Vt,. International Power company, as tes- ';'!V tifled in the Hoadley suit at New York. I Rev. A. O. Lane, pastor of the First '0^,*., Presbyterian church of Tremont, . \ Ohio, announced his acceptance of a s '.call extended by an Alton, 111., church. The Delta Kappa Epsilon frater­ nity will, hold its fifty-ninth annual 'y* /convention in New York city Nov, to 10. ' •'* ' , By men who had spent the. night over the dead body of Dock Carroll /.on a mountain top near Knoxville, f-l \ 1 Tenn., the sheriff was notified of the ^ man's murder. Sam Beasel and Hoyt •»< . *Norman are in jail, charged with mur- der, and Joe Mitchell, a boy, is under j " Sarrrst. . Reports to the general convention |f;%«»f the Universalist church, which opened in Minneapolis, showed a to- jf^V-^al'Idf 56,227 families in 856 parishes $n the country. The will of the late Secretary of W 'jState Jahn Hay was filed at Colo- A . rado Springs, Colo., because of the |l?viland holdings of the late secretary |f iiear Manitou. The United Bank and Trust com- •H " pany at San Francisco was closed Saturday by the state board of bank commissioners, "to prevent further si waste" and until a court can pass \ upon its solvency. j "" Justice of the Peace Charles F. pT", Knuth of Cleveland was sentenced to tejifsX;ten days in the workhouse for failing I, to produce his books in the police f!r «ourt, which was investigating f. » charges of extortion made against him {U In the trial of minor cases. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of ^ the University of California, in an ad- Aress to the students, declared that college football must go unless the f, fcame is reformed so as to permit the participation of all students. ? - ' Attorneys for Francis I. Clegg of £ * Chicago filed a claim for $25,000 .Against the estate of the late D. W. ^ Brenneman at Decatur, 111. A note for $5,0*00 is included in the claim, *£•' and the remainder is asked as pay for |f nursing and care of Mr. Brenneman during the last ten years of his life, I; : J. R. Gowdy, former consul gener- j,; *1 at Paris, has arrived at his home •$.t Rushville, Ind. r ^ Rev. R. O. Russell, the Catholic chaplain at Ancon, Panama, resigned '»•. find left for New York on a special • mission from Bishop Junguito to se- Cure coworkers in the canal zone, pv ; J J. C. R. Laflame, former rector of pjjv-ijnral university and president of the " ,"Royal Society of Canada, has been appointed by the international water­ ways commission as geological expert $ *, to make a report upon the receding j$- Of the Canadian side of Niagara falls. =3* An incendiary fire, which occurred t At the arsenal in Cherbourg, France, a Where three submarine boats are be- |- tog built, did extensive damage to the #v boats and other property. ' The convention of the American Gas ff* fjight association adjourned at Mil­ waukee after inspecting various plants. Secretary Taft has decided to send ,|he Twenty-fourth regiment of infan­ try, colored, to Mindanao, Philippine Islands. Ben Bennett, a white fugitive from Justice, for whom a large reward was Offered, has been arreste4 in Macon, ra. Alvln Smith, American consul at ^Trinidad, has been removed from office lor failure to render his accounts. Mr. Smith was appointed from Ohio. • The appeal of the United States in the proceeding against William B. Kirke of Syracuse, N. Y., a bondsman for John F. Gaynor, has been filed in the supreme court of the United States. • -The commissioner of the general land office has ordered the withdrawal from entry of 1,100,000 acres in the nposeman and Lewiston, Mont., land districts on account of the Lake Basin Irrigation project. A 10-months-old baby girl was turned to a crisp and her 3-year-old "'brother was so badly burned that he 'cannot live, in a fire that destroyed She home of Frank Posodny in the Polish section of Toledo, Ohio. * At the recent import meeting held in New York the traffic men found it impossible to adjust import rates, and another meeting has been catted for next Tuesday. The French council of ministers met "Friday tor the last time prior to Pres­ ident Loubet's departure for Madrid. . The official note issued after the meet fng did not mention Venezuela. Executive officials of ihe differ­ ential roads east of Chicago are mak­ ing an effort to secure a rearbitratlon of the entire differential question. > meeting is being arranged between , passenger officials of the Erie, Grand Trunk, Baltimore and Ohio, Pan­ handle and Wabash roads. T'M: Chicago Produce. . Putter--Extra creamery, jobbing, 21%c jhrints, 23%c; firsts. 19^<g!20c; seconds renovated. dairies Coolers. l?c: firsts. 17%c; ladles, 17c; packing stock. 15^c. --Fresh stock at mark, new case* Included. 15^fe@17^4c; cases returned. 15® 17c; firsts, 20c; prime firsts, packed in whitewood cases, 20c: extra high grade, packed for city trade, 23c. Cheese--Full cream, daisies. ll%c twins, ll14@lli4c; young Americans, ll%c; long- horns, 11 Swiss, block, 12c; drum. ISHc; limburger, choice. 9® 9*4c; off grades, 6@8c; brick, 10&@llc off grades, 7@8c. Fish--Black bass. 15c; carp and buffalo, 8c; pike. 7c; pickerel, 5c; perch, 4c; sun- flsh. 2@3c; croppies, 3@4c. Live poultry--Turkeys, per lb.. 12®l?c chickens, fowls. 10Hc; roosters, 7c springs. 10%c per lb; ducks, 11HQ12C geese, $6(£fll. Fruits--Apples, carload lots, New York. $3@3.75 per brl; Pennsylvania. $3.50@3.75 fier brl; Illinois, $2.50<®2.75 per brl; local ots. bu boxes, J1 @2.50; brls, Jl@3.25; crabapples, |4@5.50. per brl; peaches, per 3-basket crate, $1 @1.25; Michigan, 85c $1.50 per bu, 15c per 1-5 bu basket; pears, Michigaji, $2.75@3 per brl; $1.75@2 per keg; bu. 85c@$1.25; grapes, 16@19c per 8-lb basket. California green fruits--Plums, $1,100 1.20; grapes, $1.40@3; peaches, boxes, flQ 1.25; pears. 1-bu boxes, $2.25@3.50. Melons--Gems, crates, $1.25@2.50; Cit­ rons. 75c@Sl per brl. Green vegetables--Carrots, home-grown $l<g?1.25 per 100 bunches; cabbage, $1.40® 1.50 a crate; celery, 3 5@60e per box; cu­ cumbers, 75c@$1.25 per do*; radishes, 60c@$l per 100 bunches; spinach, 25c per tub; tomatoes. 35c@$l per bu box; lettuce, head. 50c(ff$1.50 per tub; leaf, 5® 10c per case; beets. $1.25@1.50 per 100 bunches; turnips, 75c per sack; string beans, 50c@Sl per sack; cauliflower. 75c ©$1.75 per crate: green onions. 7@8c per bunch; onions, 60@65c per bu; Spanish. $1.50 per crate; sweet corn, 15<§>20c per sack; kohlrabi, $1.25@1.50 per 100 bunch­ es; potatoes, car lots, on track, 40@60c per bu; mushrooms, 35@50c per lb; squash. 50@65c per doz; water cress, 25c per box; lima beans, $2@2.50 per 24 qts; horseradish, 65@75c per bunch; eggplant, 4D@60c per doz; pumpkins. 75c per doz. . Broomcorn--Market steady; prices fol­ low. Selfworking, common to choice, $45® 76 per ton; No. 2 hurl, common to choice, $45@100 per ton; dwarf. $55@65 per ton. Hides--Firm; green-salted. No. 1, 10c; No. 2, 9c; No. 1 bull, 9c; No. 2, 8c; green- salted calf, 13c; No. 2. llViC. New York Produce. Butter--Quiet; unchanged.. Cheese--Firm; state, full cream, small and large, colored and white; fantr 11% ®>12c; do, fair to choice, ll@ll%c; skims, full to light, 2V&@10c. Eggs--Firm; unchanged. Grain Quotations. WHEAT. Chicago--No. 2 red. S8@88ftc. New York--No. 2 red. 92c. Minneapolis--No. 1 .northern, 84HC. St. Louis--No. 2 red, 94Vic. i Duluth--No. 1 northern, 84%c. Kansas City--No. 2 hard, 77%@85c. ; Milwaukee--No. 1 northern, 86%@870. Toledo--No. 2 red, 86%c. CORN. Chicago--No. 2, 52@52%c. Liverpool--American mixe& S> 14. New York--No. 2. 59 %c. Peoria--No. 3. 52c. St. Louis--No. 2, 51%c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, Sle. Milwaukee--No. 3, 52 He. OATS. Chicago--Standard, 29^4@29%c. New York--Mixed. 33@33fto. St. Louis--No. 2. 29c. Kansas City--No. 2 mixed, 28%c. Milwaukee--Standard. 29 %o. Live Stock. CATTLB, Chicago--$1.50@6.40. Omaha--$1.75@5.8o. Kansas City-- St. Louis--$2@5.80. ' St. Joseph--$1.80 @5.86. New York--$1.50@6.26. HOGS. Chicago--$4.75@5.55. Omaha--$3.75@5.45. Katisas City--$4.50 @5,35. St. Louis--$4.75@5.4«-,] 8t. Joseph--J4.50®5.35. New York--Jn^O^S. SHEEP AND LAMBS. ' Chicago--$4.50@7.40. Omaha--$3.75@6.75. " Kansas Citv--$4.50@7. St. Louis--$2@7.25. "~8t. Joseph--J3.75(a'7.tK " ™ New York--$3.75@8.50. Charles Youngblood of Hoopeston, 111., was accidentally shot dead at St. Paul, Minn. John Blake, 62 years old, a farmer, killed himself at Muscatine, Iowa, by hanging to a rafter in the kitchen. While attending the golden wed­ ding of his sister Adam Jackson of Wayne county, Indiana, dropped dead at Muscatine, Iowa, « The body of Calvin Dill, a wealthy farmer, was found hanging from a tree on the bank of a creek near lla- fayette, Ind. He was 75 years old. A jury in the Whiteside county cir­ cuit court at Sterling, III., awarded Mrs. Frank Foy |2,000 for the death' of her husband, who was killed in the shops of the Sterling Manufacturing company. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treasury, will speak at Portsmouth off Oct. 27, at Youngstown oil Oct. 28 and at Cleveland on Nov. 4. The appointment of Col. W. H. Michael, chief clerk of the department of state, to be consul general at Cal­ cutta, was announced at the depart­ ment of state. Rev. Arthur H. Barrington of Clurist Episcopal church, Janesville, Wis., has been tendered a unanimous call by the Grace church of Everett, & suburb of Boston. Stockholders and directors of the Northwestern road met at the general offices in Chicago. The stocknolders re-elected the following directors: W. K, and F. W. Vanderbilt, H. McK. Twomhly, Byron L. Smith, Cyrus Mc- Cormick and Marshall -Field. The di* rectors also re-elected the present of­ ficers of the company. Lieut. Commander Newton A. Mo- Cully, who was until recently naval at­ tache at Pekin, China, and who was afterward appointed naval attache to the Russian forces in Manchuria, has returned to Washington. The Keep commission has found evidence of fraud worked by paper companies against the government printing office. Federal officials strongly approve the president's order permitting them to discharge useless civil service em­ ployes. Secretary Taft will leave soon for Panama to make a thorough Investi­ gation of canal conditions. Members of the cabinet must not discuss official proceedings with news­ paper men* according to an executive order. EIGHTHS* DIE IN T NMNWN PUTZL* Thirty-five Suffer Injury When Storm Strikes Sorento ill Bond County, ill. BUILDINGS ARE BLOWN AWAY Forty Houses Are parried Off Their Foundations and Reduced to Splint*^ era--Path of the Cyclone Is Marked* by Mass of Debris. Greenville, 111., dispatch: Eight per* sons were killed Tuesday night In % tornado at Sorento, 111., in the north' western part of Bond county. Thir­ ty-five were injured and of these three will die. The village was practically! wrecked, at least forty houses beingj carried off their foundations and blown; to atoms. A complete swath was cutf through the town, everything in the path of the torhado being either re­ duced to debris or blown away. Tele­ graphic communication with Sorento' Is cut off, but over the long-distance telephone comes the news that the damage will reach about $100,000. The dead: • „ • • ; Mrs. Thomas File, 38 years old; Mrs. William Stewart, 60 years old. Mrs. William Mann, 60 years old. Harrison Mann, 18 years old. Four unidentified men. Partial list of the injured: Mrs. William Mann, Frank Shields-and two daughters, Mrs. I. J. May, Charles Mil­ ler and wife, Henry Hays and wife, Henry Barlow and wife, William Kirk/ land and wife, William Stewart, will probably die; Thomas File, fatally; Mrs. Phoebe Moore, Mr. and ilrs. George Root, Mrs. John Griffith, Jo­ seph Mann, E. F. Jestes, Mrs; Lila Hays of Litchfield, Thomas R Moss and wife, Lizzie File, John li West, T. J. Barker, internally; Mrs. T. J. Barker, limbs broken, injured inter­ nally, will die; Grace Barker, Ethel Barker, internally; Ures Barker, Mrs. Griffy, internally; George/Shaw and wife. The eight killed were irf their homes In different parts of Sorento. All were badly crushed. Rain Follows tlie Wind. The storm approached • from the southwest and swept through the main residence portion of the town. The work of the /wind was quickly done and then followed a heavy down­ pour of rain, accompanied by vivid lightning and <aeep thunder. Those who escaped Injury were for the time panic-stricken, but finally rallied and set to work to rescue the injured. So violent was the tornado that some residences were swept away completely and the debris effectually scattered. Houses that remained standing were converted into tem­ porary hospitals and refuges and the people by lantern light in the pouring iain searched through the debris and dragged out the injured, whO' were immediately taken in charge by all the doctors in the vicinity. The pop­ ulation of Sorento- numbers 1,100 per- SOBS. 8mall Tornadtr ia . Ramsey. Eamsey, 111., special: A small tor" nado here Tuesday night unroofed a number of buildings and did general damage. The storm was followed: by the heaviest downpour of rain ever sees here. Nobody was seriously la- jinredL Cloudburst Raises Streams. Springfield^ HL, dispatch: A clioudv burst Wednesday near Bunker Hill) raised Wood river and other streams out of their banks. Three bridges were washed1 away and the bottom lands were flooded. A large number of shocks of corn were carried off by the high water. Train Fails Into Creek. St. Louis, Ma, dispatch: The stains that wrecked Sorento deluged Alton in the nature of a cloudburst and St. Louis Buffered the fury of a terrific thunderstorm. Ten miles north of ALton a Chica­ go, Peoria it St. Louis freight train struck a washout in the storm and plunged down an embankment into Branch creek. Several tramp* are be­ lieved to have perished. Engineer Frank Drew, Fireman H. Ballard and Brakeman Albert Patton had to swim for their livee. At St. Louis the low lands of the River Des Peres were flooded. The temporary bridge erected by the Missouri Pacific Railway company over the Lamine river at Otterville. Mo., went out Wednesday, following a downpour. The Norwegian budget for 1905-06 estimates the revenue and expendi­ tures at $23,000,000. An automobile driven, by Lieut. Roy- on struck and killed a Paris woman and threw oot the occupants of the car. . „ Walter S. Larsan, county superin­ tendent of schools, was injured by a runaway in Manitowoc, Wis,, his horse being frightened by an automobile. Mayor Rose of Milwaukee, address­ ing delegates to the American Gae Light association, accuses the recent frand jury of conspiracy in politics. Railroads aid interstate commission in proving the private car lines charge excessive rates. Armour attorne; complains of methods used in the i& quiry. M. Perusch, a miner of Chisholm, Mis*-, was killed by gas asphyxiation Dr. Lyman Abbott tells the Lake Mohonk conference that the Indians need moral training. \ President Edmund' J. James, in his inaugural address at the University of Illinois, scores the endowed col­ leges as champions of ultra-conserva tism. William Dalley was murdered at Waverly, S. D., by Nels Mehrens, a saloonkeeper. Dalley had fought and whipped a friend of Mehrens. Chairman Shonts says affairs on the isthmus are shaping themselves so as to Insure speedy work on the canal. The North Carolina Pine associa­ tion and the South Carolina body were consolidated, with a combined capi­ tal of $20,000,000 and an output of IK), 000,000 feet a month. A premature explosion of blasts In Lead, S. D., caused the instant death of Torren AnderBon and Baldo Pascoe. Hancock's Nephew Fears Lynching. Washington special: William Scott Hancock, the grand-nephew of the late Gen. Hancock, who is charged with the murder of Emma Smallwood. a domestic, sought refuge in the jail here, fearing that he would be lynched if he remained in the jail at Hyatts- ville, Md. Fairbanks to Be a 8hriner. Indianapolis, Ind., dispatch: Vice President Fairbanks has been started on the Scottish Rite degrees of Ma­ sonry, taking from the fourth to the fourteenth. He expects to become a Shrlner within a few weeks. ' cm Three years ago the poet Lord Tennyson Find A nother Poet. WEEPS« OVEfiJE LAKES "hirty Vessels Are Known to Have Foundered During Heavy Gale. TWELVE LIVES ARE WIPED OUT A Possibility That a Score of Persons Will Have Been Sacrificed When All the Reports Have Been Received-- Wires Are Blown Down. Chicago, dispatch: 'As a result of the terntic storm which swept over the great lakes Friday from the west at least thirty vessels have been wrecked, with a loss of twelve, If not twenty, lives. The gale struck Chi­ cago Thursday night and reached the lower lakes Friday. Wires to many important news centers were carried down by the storm and it was feared by underwriters that the list, not only of vessels but of the dead, woald be doubled when these points were heard, from. The highest velocity reached by the wind at any point was at Cleveland, where it registered seventy-six miles an hour. At Buffalo it blew* for some time over fifty miles an hour. At the j Straits of Mackinac and at several points on Lake Superior snow added j to the terrors of the gale. The storm '• center passed directly over the straits j and Sault Ste. Marie, the wind blow­ ing from all directions during a per­ iod of twelve hoursv Canadian Ship Founders. The heaviest loss of life and prop­ erty was when the Canadian ship Min- nedosa foundered on Lake Huron off Harbor Beach. Eight people went down with the vessel, and the insur­ ance companies will pay some $130,- 000 on the ship and cargo. The old-time Bradley fleet of Cleve­ land had two ships- w the list of total losses, while the saving of the third i& in doubt. The lost boats were valued at $55,000 and carried no insurance. Both were old timers which had made* large profits in their day. They were' the steamers S. E'. Sheldon, strand*od and broken up at Lorain, O., and the steamer Joseph S. Fay, which suffered a like fatoe at Rogers City on Lake Huron. Many Vessefs Are Lost. ) The list of boats and localitleh of wrecks: Schooner Mlnnedosa, foundered o» Lake Huron; nine lives lost. Steamer S. E. Sheldon, strandfidl Lake^ Erie; two. lives lost. Steamer J. S. Fay, stranded, Lak» Huron: one lite lost. Schooner Tasmania, or Ashland, foimdered, Lake Erie; eight lives lost. Steamer Wisconsin, stranded1 cb breakwater, Lorain, Ohio.. Schooner Kingfisher, broken up on beach at Cleveland, Ohio. Schooner D. P. Rhodes, ashore near Cheboygan. Mich. Tug Cygnet, broke* to pieces at Cheboygan. Schooner Kate Lyons, broken up at Holland, Mich. Schooner Glen Cayler, tots) wreck near Menomilnee, Mich. . Schooner Lydia, Ashore at Muske­ gon. Tog Frank Perry on rocks at- Che- neaux Islands. Loses Deck Load of Lumber. Schooner Unadilla lost deck load of lumber and storm battered at Buffalo. Schooner Rob Roy, arrived in dam­ aged condition at Menominee. Tug Irene, sunk at Menominee. Schooner Yukon, full of water aft Ashtabula, Ohio. r Barge Kelly, badly damaged at An Sable. Mich. Dispatch-boat Whistler, sunk at Buf« falo. Schooner Emma L. Nellson, ashore near Alpena, Mich. Tug Fisherman, disabled and adrift on Lake Huron. •. . - . Schooner Golden Age, ashore in Lake St. Clair. 5 Unknown lumber vessel, supposed to be lost on Lake Superior. Schooner Mautenee, on rocks of Erie^ Pa. Steamer F. A. Prince, damaged near Cleveland. Tug Walter Metcalf, sunk off break­ water light, Cleveland. Several barges sank off BnfTalo har­ bor. Steamer Prfnkel, reached Bvfialo .badly damaged. Schooner Vegae, beached near Lnd- iugton, Mich. Schooner Nirvana, beached off Irand Marals, Mich. Schooner Galatea^ beached1 effCfcSMf Marais, Mich. The damage by -, the heavy *ea» «t afl points along the east shore of Lake Michigan and on Green bay was ex­ ceedingly heavy. Piers were under­ mined and swept away at many points;, bathing pavilions were wrecked and am immense amount of damage from high water was done at all east shore* towns. It was estimated that this loss will run into the huodcad* at thousands of dollars. FORTUNE FOR INCUBATOR BA'BEt Foster Parents of Famous St Louis Fair Child Win Leaal POint. Ewwrence, Kan., dispatchi:: The-HU^ nois foster parents of Emily Darwin, famous incubator baby of the World's Fair PiRe, won a point in> their legal' to make the infant heiress to a third of a million dollars. Judge Staart overruled the motion of Mrs. Cttar» ltotte Bleakley, who now has the cftiid, for the dismissal of the habeas corpus suit filed by James G. Barclay of Mid­ line, I1L The claim of the Bar^'ays, who say Emily is the daughter of one- Edith Stanley, will now be heard1 on its merits. Into the evidence, which, will be heard here next month, will en>- ter a strange story of the sutratitra­ tion' Off a dead infant for a living one.. If the baby is held by her foster par<- en-ts she will inherit a good-sized! tor- tune. ; OiS GENTH TAXES TOO 10W Decision Rendered by Attorney W General Stead Is Far- Reaching. /; STATE LOSES MILLIONS / Road Was Been Paying 7 Per Cent on GroiM Earnings Instead of 6 Per Cf nt and Regular Assessment op Its Valuations. PARENTS TRIED FOR MURDER Hwndreds of Spectators Aroused by Evidence of Unnatural Brutality. Fort Scott, Kam„ dispatch-:: Several hundred women flocked to the court­ room where George F. Ruggift and his wife were being, given a preliminary bearing on the charge of matrdeitng 6- year-old Herbert, Riggin b& starvation and brutality. One womau testified that she had seen Mrs. Riggin whip the boy unmercifully and that two days before the boy died she beat him until it seemed she wanted to kill him. Frequently after such punishment, the witness testified. Mrs. Riggin or her daughter would knock the child down by a blow of the fist in the face. Dur­ ing the proceedings great Indignation was displayed by the spectators. Cuts Big Fee In Two. St. Paul, Minn., dispatch: The state supreme court has ceciued that the fee of $30,000 allowed by the Ramsey district court to Judge Charles E. Otis, one! of the attorneys of the Wilder estate, for services in connect'on with the litigation over the Amherst-Wilder $1,000,000 charity bequest, should be cut to $15,000. ANTI-CIGARETTE LAW 18 VALID , NEGRO FOR MINI8TER TO HAYTj Photographs of Eclipse. ' Lansing, Mich., special: Prof. W. J. Hussey of the University of Michigan has returned from Egypt with photo­ graphs of the recent eclipse of the sun. He secured nineteen negatives. Japan's Peace Rites In Temple. Tokyo cable: The oflicial gazette announces that the emperor will go-to the Temple of Ise to report the con* elusion of peace with Russia. A per* sonal visit of the emperor to th»s temple Is a rare event. Zionist Delegates Report. New York special: American dele­ gates to the Zionist congress at Basle made a report to the New York socie­ ties of the propaganda at a meeting In Manhattan lyceum. Supreme Court of Nebraska Declares Measure Is Constitutional. Lincoln, Neb., dispatch: The su­ preme court has handed down decis­ ions sustaining the constitutionality of the anti-cigarette law, the inherit­ ance tax law and the lAw to prevent desecration of the American flag. The test of the cigarette law was made through a habeas corpus proceeding to secure the release of John Alper- son of Omaha, who was arrested for giving away cigarettes. . . , | Dr. H. Bombs From Balloon Hit Fcilk Toul, France, cable: In the course of further experiments with the huge dirigible balloon the aeronauts suc­ ceeded in dropping dummy projectiles upon the forts, demonstrating the war utility of the machine. Buy Vast Timber Tt4et. Victoria, B. C., dlfpatch: A syndi­ cate of Minneapolis lumbermen htv« bought, 43,000 acres of timber land on Vancouver island which contains 000.000.000 feet of fine and cedar. W. Furniss of Indianapolis to 8ucceed W. F. Powell. Washington dispatch: The resigna­ tion of William F. Powell as Imlted States minister to Haytl has been sub­ mitted to the President and accepted. As his successor the President has determined upon Dr. H. W. Furniss of Indianapolis, a prominent negro. Dr. Furniss is the present consul to Bahal, Brazil. He will assume his duties as minister to Hayti about Nor. 16. Three Trains In Wreck. e Iiarrisburg. Pa., dispatch: Two Philadelphia & Reading, freight trains were wrecked near Birdsboro, Pa., and a passenger train ran ipto the debris, leaving the track. Several persons were injured. « Springfield, 111., dispatch: Attorney General Stead, in ait opinion given to Auditor McCullough, makes a ruling which, if sustained in the courts, will saddle the Illinois Central railroad with an unpaid back tax bill which will amount to a sum approximating $100,000,000. Moreover, the taxes of the road will in the future be doubled &nti the line, from being a 7 per cent dividend payer, will be thrown Into the class of roads which pay 4 and .5 per cent. .According to the attorney general the system under which the road has been paying revenue in the state treasury in lieu of taxes has not been enforced In accordance with the pro­ visions of the road's charter, and the interpretation put upon the franchise by the state officers for the past half century has been all wrong. The road has been paying 7 per cent of Its gross earnings into the state treas­ ury since Its organization. The at* torney general says it should pay 5 per cent and, in addition, an annual tax figured by the state auditor "up­ on all the property and assets of every character belonging to the corporation." Decision Is a Surprise. John L. Pickering, publisher of a weekly pamphlet upon tax matters, is said to be Responsible tor the opinion which has been olven. Some time ago he raised the point that the method of taxing the Illinois Central wblcb has so long beea in force was not in accordance with the road's charter. Auditor McCullough early in Septem­ ber referred the question to Attorney General Stead and he has since been working on it. The decision is the re­ sult. There had. been little discussion of the matter and the opinion came- as a great surprise. Auditor McCullough announced that he would accept the interpretatlon of the law as given by the attorney gen­ eral and would make the- required de­ mand upon the railroad for the taxis which, under this ruling are du& The; road will, of course, resist the tax, for its interpretation at the law la> the one which has been followed in the past. Then the attorney general will bring suit and a long, uaru.-£oughi le­ gal battle i3 certain to result. In the event there is an effort t»> get all of the taxes which should bo- due under the interpretation there is no telling where or when the liti­ gation will end. Even to. approxi­ mate the amounts due will be an. enor­ mous task of itself and it is. not like­ ly that anything in the way. of a coi> rect figure will ever be reached. No valuation of the property of the railroad has been madia by the audit­ or's office since 1859, the 7 per cent theory having been adopted, and there being no occasion, with this rule in force, for the placing of a val­ uation on the road. Complications in making figures necessarily arise from the fact that the road' has- constantly been undergoing changes of one sort and another, all of whidto It will be necessary to trace.. An indication of this changes which the new rule will make is tQ' be had by the reference to the balance sheet of the railroad company for 1903, which is the last schedule upon which an assessment was. made. The road at that time had property coming under the head which, according to Stead, is subject to taxation, ansounting to $251,712,852.57 M value. The' state tax lor the present year is 55 cents on $100 valuation, and without contemplating any increase In the vabse of the property foe the past two- years the company would have been taxed $1,586,000 this year in addition to the $758,979.90, which represents 5 per cent of its gross earn­ ings for the year. This would have brought the aggregate taxes to $2,- K 4,979. Instead of this amount the company paid Into the state treasury $1,082,671.86. BID HftWSEB Realizing His Ship Is Doomfd He Seeks to Save •» in Tow, . • - OLf BiMf GOES TO THE BOTTONI In a Few Moments the Schooner Lurches and 8inks From Sight with Nine Persons and 75^ Bu»h#lH Port Huron, Mich., Oct 23--Nine heroes went down with the schooner Minnedosa. The angered, raging! wind sent mountainous waves to bat-i ter to pieces the wooden boat, where* in eight men and one woman were imprisoned. The vessel creaked and: groaned and timbers snapped. The: bulwarks Went over. The wind hiM-i ed through the rigging and sent it- piece by piece Into the lake. Greatj seams were opening and water pom"4 »ed into the schooner's hold. Ahead tumbled the steel steamer Westmount, fctanch and able. Behind' pitched the Melrose, a frailer vessel than the Minnedosa and faring worse, it must seem. The Minnedosa was going to the bottom. Every one olj the nine human beings aboard her knew it Why should they take others with them? Perhaps If cast loose the Melrose could save herself^ Captain Gives Order of Death. Captain Jack Phillips' yoice rose to command over the howling storm. One of the crew held a sharp ax. It fell and the blow set the Melrose free. A few moments later the Minne­ dosa, with its nine heroes and a cargo of 75,000 bushels of wheat, lurched to the bottom off Harbor Beach, Lake Huron. When the trailing towllne was poP* " ed abroad the steamer Westmoutftr which had been towing the Melrose and Minnedosa, the tow post of the Minnedosa came with It The tajr* line had not broken. *. Those who went down with tb» Minnedosa were: Captain John Phil­ lips, Kingston, Ont; Mrs. Phillip* the captain's wife; Arthur Waller, mate, Nova Scotia; George McDer- mott, Belleville, Ont; James Allelic Nora Scotia; a passenger and three sailors, names unknown. Capt. Mflligan of the Westmount stated that the Minnedosa was carry* fng an tmtrsually heavy load. Her usual cargo was CO,000 bushels, but she had carried 75,000 bushels before, and It was thought perfectly Safe to have her carry as much this time. 'It was too late In the season," said Capt Mffllgan, "and rates were high. The Minnedosa went to the bottom without a signal of distress." a "Out into the lake the Melrose wis beating. We tried in vain to pick her up. Toward 5 o'clock we were suc­ cessful. She kad drifted twenty miles frotn shore." Capt. R. H. Darey of the Melross had his wife and daughter and hit little curly-haired son with him OH board during the storm. Hawser Shows Mark of Ax. # , : "We never expected to see lafiL...„. agatn," he said. "The Melrose is in old boat and In the gale she had small. chances to get Into shelter alone. Sud­ denly there came a snap and the sev« ered hawser that had held the Mel­ rose- to the Minnedosa was pulled in. A etean cut marked the work of the ax The crew of the Minnedosa had realized their doom and sought In thf last momest to save the Melrose. "1 rashed between the cabin a$| / the deck. My wife and daughter- tugged at say clothes and begged of me to stay Inside. They prayed and cried. The waves beat at the doors.. The water rushed In. The cabin was flooded. The bulwarks were washed! away. The timbers were cracking; death seemed upon us. And then help came and none too soon, tor the MflfL/; rose was badly battered." \ f: •;v' AUTO MANUFACTURER 18 HELD MONTANA IN GRASP OF WINTER 8now Falls and Thermometer Drops Almost to Zaro. Helena, Mont., dispatch: An unsea­ sonably cold spell, accompanied In tbe mountain region by snow, pre­ vails in central Montana. The gov­ ernment weather bureau thermome­ ter has recorded 8 degrees above zero, while at Marysvllle, eighteen miles directly north, 2 degrees above aero was reported. Accused of Trying to Influence nesses In Cotton Case. Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch: Jamil E. De Mar, general manager of the National Automobile company oi New York, who was arrested charged with conspiracy to Influence witnesses in the eaae of Stanley Francis, who was convicted on the charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes in con­ nection with the Storey Cotton com­ pany, was given a hearing Friday and held in $1,500 bail for trial. William C. Byram, a lawyer of Bradley Beach, N. J., who is also under bail, was tlli; principal witness. Filipinos to Cut Expenses; ' Manila cablegram: The reorganiza­ tion J>111 now before the Philippine commission providing for reducing the departments of the government will «ave $l,250,000 (gold) annually. ^ Moroccans Retain Captivos. 'Q Tangier dispatch: The report that the two British marine officers cap­ tured by Moroccan tribesmen had been released is untrue, but favorable developments are hoped for in the course of the day. ,, | 'Heavy Rainfall In Illinois. Decatur, 111., special: Record-break­ ing rains for October have fallen in central and southern Illinois. In some localities more than ten Inches of wat­ er has fallen within forty-eight hours. Metal Trades In Mergpr^ - Cincinnati dispatch: The l^tloilkf Metal Trades association and the Na­ tional Founders' association have been merged. Headquarters of the amalga­ mated organization will probably be ::|p(|d to Chicago. Life Sentence for 8la|i|Ri'. Bluffton, Ind., special: Ernest San­ derson was found guilty of being Im­ plicated in the murder of Preston San­ derson near Hartford City, Ind., a year ago, and was given "a life sentence. Millionaire Fears a Plot. Boston, Mass., dispatch: Detectlvpl" are watching the house of Millionaiiro Daniel B. Wesson in Springfield to pro- vent an outrage of the "Black Hand/'. Missives have frightened the million* aire, who fears his $1,000,000 mgMt* sion will be wrecked. Offer Reward for Husbagj^l _ Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch: Mrs. France, wife of a motorman, has of­ fered $2,000 reward for the discovery of her missing husband. She has in­ herited a fortune of $4,000 and says she wishes to share it with him, Friends of the [ndlan. ; Lake Manonk special: Prof. J. W. Jenks of Cornell university and Rob* ert Lincoln O'Brien of Boston spolp at the conference of friends of the In­ dian and other descendant peoples. •*ss IM Ordered to Fire on # v The .governor Kas Odessa, cable: issued an order to the police, instruct* ing them that, in the event of disturb­ ances, they are to fire directly into the mobs without any preliminary volleys Out air. . ; . ' . A ' G i r l F S I I s F o u r 8 t o r i e | . - \ . A New York dispatch: Bertha Leftl- wlch, aged 14, was probably fatally hurt in attempting to escape from the Children's Society building in BroOk» lyn. 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