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' '! BY ERNEST M?G4FPBY A v ; fHfrlVirtf "llifl Hill f,tc. L. 5T ¥ ^ PRE-ELECTIO/1 REFORMER ward?" tions obtaining in asked, inquiringly "Oh. yes," was my answer. "Well, we want to put up a candi date for alderman there and see if we can't arouse the better element there. We want to go in and fight the saloons to a finish," was his next remark. 5 „ * MANY DIE IN WRECK HORRIBLE COLLISION OCCURS ON . NORTHERN PACFIC. . -V* " : ' SMOKING CAR TELESCOPED Petween Thirty and Forty Passengers Killed anri I n i 11r*H__RnHioo There were a-number of formers, too, during my political years, and they were invariably enlisted on some moral question, as they looked at it, tobacco, whisky, child labor, the bettering of conditions for women, the saving of girls, etc. They were very much in earnest, faithful and enthusi­ astic to their ideals. Occasionally they succeeded, and. at least, they never seemed discouraged. It is to the credit of politicians in general, that they were listened to with perfect respect, even when it wag apparent that conditions made it an absolute waste of time to discuss the questions. Sometimes an ordinance barred their way; at other times a state law, or possibly the con* atitution of the United States itself was a stumbling-block, but they were heard with patience. Reform politics during my day con­ cerned itself most particularly in re habilitating the personnel of the city council. In this it met w5th substan- ial success, and it was the one excep Killed and Injured--Bodies the Victims Shockingly Mangled. /TELL *EM,YOU WATCH JfE b NO REFORMER REFORMER in politics is sometimes a dyspeptic, but not always. He is also sometimes actuated by mo­ tives entirely impersonal and unselfish. But not al­ ways. And reform politics may be classed as of two kinds the counter­ feit variety and the genuine. Independent, or reform movements 3n political campaigns, are intended to be the breaking away of members of *he old parties and a consolidation of these "bolters" for the purpose of •electing a ticket which is supposed to be better than either of the old-line •party tickets. Sometimes an inde- i pendent movement means this. Some- "times it means that a Democrat or a • Republican who has failed of the regu­ lar party nomination has been per- «uaded to mako the race on the ground that he has been deprived of the nomination bj unilkir means. But the basic element of independent movements is always a claim toward A bettering of conditions, and there­ fore arguing a reform, politically. Then there is usually the Prohibi- 'utton movement to be reckoned with, -and this is strictly founded on reform principles. Or there may be an edu- -«c«tIonal feature In the campaign ^which will prove to carry the balance •of power as to votes, and which may •Jbe adopted in the platform of either rof the parties, with a view to secure "votes for the whole ticket. Politics largely a game of expedients, and =as the only things that count, in the last analysis, are the votes, it follows, therefore, as the night the day, that votes are .the prime necessities, and nay expedient tcr catch votes is consid­ ered justifiable. Other phases of reform politics may enter particularly into national cam­ paigns, and may influence local condi­ tions enough to swing: victory to a tsfale which may be weaker on paper than its antagonist. ' In every large city and noticeably In my own city. I found two well de- .fined types of the political reformers, 'with a smattering also of what were Xkaown as "cranks," "dreamers" and visionaries." One of the two. types ^referred to was the hard-headed citi- rze* who, regardless of ridicule and dis- *couragement, steadily set himself to work to better the .class of official selection. Without caring anything for party affiliations, he associated ••with organizations which "went • after" weak or unfit candidates, and • supported and encouraged good candl- <dates for all offices, whether state, -county or municipal. This class ol men accomplished, with the aid of decent politicians, a .great deal of good. In the beginning, • like all men actuated by reall" high motives, they were derided and lam­ pooned, and tholr lot, like the police- anan'8. was not a happy one. Hut a» time went on they became a force which had to be reckoned with, even •by the most hardened of the "bosses," -excepting in what may be classed as tstrictly "saloon wards." In the saloon wards, where the al- •dermen. for instance, were saloonkeep- •©rs, or where the saloon Influence pre­ dominated overwhelmingly, the "boss­ es" did not mind reform politics any more than a rhinoceros would mind the bite of a mosquito. I never could understand, knowing the absolute Siopelessness of it, why the reformers •would sometimes try to "break into" -•such a ward in an aldermanic cam­ paign. I remember very well the oc­ casion of a gentleman calling on me •and endeavoring to enlist my services as a speaker in a campaign of this «ort. "You know the disgraceful condi- -m/YTED DOGJ WITH A J0FT O/ATni/f ROFE "Whose finish?" said I. "Oh, we will probably be beaten," he admitted, "but we want to give them a campaign of education and en­ lightenment. What that ward needs, what every ward needs, is a chance to have Its higher nature aroused. What they want, I'm convinced, is more op­ portunity to see the light." "My friend," was my reply, "I've traveled some in that ward. What they want there is not more light, but more beer." Yet, despite sometimes misdirected energy, these men and their associa­ tions did much in making political conditions better. For that they de­ serve substantial credit So long as they were absolutely non-partisan they wielded considerable influence, and properly, but on occasion they allowed prejudice to bias them and did injus­ tice to good men. The other type of well-known re­ former was the one who continually headed "reform" movements. He might be a candidate for alderman, or the legislature, or congress. But wher­ ever there wa3 a "kick" coming, and a meeting advertised to protest, or or­ ganize, this class would be on hand early and get the chairmanship of the meeting, usually coming out in a "ringing" speech of denunciation against the infamy which the citizens had met to combat. This put the re­ former "next" if it was a proposition to nominate an opposition candidate, and he often goc away with the nomi- 'nation. Or, If he was a professional man, a lawyer, a doctor, or a real es­ tate man, even, it was a pretty fair ad­ vertisement, wasn't it? Not so "poor" to have your picture in the paper next day, with a Ions account of you, your business and yokr speech, etc. Some­ thing that woulduhave cost you coin to have in the papers, and you got it for nothing. And then the reporters out to interview you and quite a rack­ et started about you. And in every large city I suppose there are only a few bright promoters like that standing around waiting to sell a gold brick or two. Some of these "reformers" were pretty fierce when they happened to land in an office. A few of them were swept into the city council astride the top of a wave of "popular indignation" and they were the hungry boys, some of them. They were simply on the qui vive to be "approached." And when they were tempted they fell swiftly and without a soundt Their motto was that of the Hon. Webster Flanagan, with a different Interpreta- GIRL DEFIED A WHOLE ARMY. ' Fetnlnine Toll-Gate Keeper Paid by Government. It ..s related that the army, headed Hjr Sheridan and his staff, left Win­ dcheater by the valley pike early in the •morning, the column moving toward ^Stephens City. Just as day was break­ ing the staff reached the toll-gate and •vaa much disconjflted to find the toll- gjnlC down *and guarded by a young and beautiful girl, Charlotte Hillman, famed locally for her girlish charms. Even the war-hardened Sheridan seems n°t to have been proof against the persuasion of a pair of black eyes and a pretty face, and when toll was demanded, straightway produced the tithe, setting an example that wag fol­ lowed by his staff. But," said Sheridan, as he; passed through the gate, "I cannot vouch for my army." tion. "What are we here for?" was their slogan, and they went after fran­ chise "divvies" or any other "divvies" like a terrier after a rat Real reforms were not so elaborate­ ly advertised as the sham ones; the louder the "holler" about the reform, the leSs genuine reform was in sight. And then there were the "fad" reform­ ers, going about seeking what they might devour in the shape of having unmuzzled dogs caught with a soft curtain rope Instead of a wire noose, cab-horses provided with seats while waiting for a fare, the distribution of copies of Browning's poems to cross­ ing policemen, or some such similar projects. There are sometimes uneasy people in every community who want to run the rest of their neighbors; the bigger the community the greater they are liable to be in number. And in a city of two millions of inhabitants they are sure to be found. They haunt the gal­ lery in the council chamber of the city, they infest the mayor's office, they surge in with the crowds having hearings in the public offices in the city halls, and whenever they have no connection .'whatever. Substantial reforms are of slow growth. It took over 20 years' steady work to drive the Infamous justice of the peace system out of Cook county. Some notable reformers went along very well for a time until they got so prominent that they were offered a high-salaried political position. And then they dropped practically from sight as reformers and reappeared as pay roll artists. This caused at times a revulsion of feeling among the re­ formers at heart, but they did not let a little thing like that entirely discour­ age them. I got so that I could usually "spot" a reformer as far as I could see him. The majority of reformers are very busy walkers and talkers. They are not confined to one nationality, al­ though I should judge that the bulk of them are Americans. They all have "missions." If you a.gree with them, and do everything they ask, you are "a patriot." If you disagree with some of them in any way, shape or manner, you are either a scoundrel or without mental balance. But to be "a patriot" in the eyes of those who were fanati­ cal you must accede to their demands. "Patriots," said Sir Robert Peel, "they spring up like mushrooms in the night; I can make &0 patriots in a single hour; I have only to refuse some unreasonable or absurd request, when up starts a patriot." When the common soldiery came the girl again lowered the toll-bar and demanded toll. This was met by jeers from the Boldiers, where­ upon she wisely raised the guard. All day the dusty troopers passed through and all day Charlotte Hillman stood at her post. For every ten soldiers who passed the gate she cut a notch in the toll-pole. Early fled beyond the Blue Ridge with the remnants of his disorganized army; In the Valley of Virginia, Lee, beaten back by Grant's overwhelming amabers, gave up Uui REFORMED tion to perennial reform which was genuine. Not that the reformers did not occasionally have "an ax to grind," but that, in the main, they aided the best candidates. Bnt at times they saddled themselves with some bogus reformer and jammed him through at the polls, felicitating themselves that they had "put another over the political plate" when they had ,ln reality only added a "cheap grafter" to the city's pay roll. When this happened it made the regulation, gilt-edged grafters in the council indignant. Not that the "re> former" should turn out to be "look­ ing for something," but that he so often took anything he could get. Thia made trade bad, for it scaled prices and such a recruit to the ranks of cor rupllon causea a "bear" market in votes. A cheap scoundrel earned just aa much contempt in the council as an overcoat thief earns from a railroad manipulator of stocks. I recollect th« arraignment that one of the "regu­ lars" gave one of these easily pur­ chased "reformers." Said the "regular," puffing slowly at a big black cigar, the little finger ol his left hand adorned with a four hun­ dred dollar "shiner," and his sliirt front sporting its mate, presented by his admiring "constits:" % "I reckon I size that guy up fight, at the start. I tell 'em I seen whal kind of a lobster he is, the first flop of the box. I tell 'em, you watch him; he's no reformer, and he's no thor oughbred. He blows up in the stretct the first time they're off at the gut An', say! Did he? Well, he's elected all right, and he goes over an' hooks up with the geezeer in the next ward that went in the same time he goes in. Them two frames up and goes out foi the stuff. Do they get it? Yes, they get it, and how much? Say, on the level now, on the square, they splil three hundred between 'em for a little thing they pull off. A hundred and fifty apiece, see?" He paused and took a fresh puff a1 his cigar, and resumed: "Why, if any cheap stiff 'd come to me and try to insult me with less than $500 I'd throw the skate out of my office." And th« end of his cigar glowed with righteous indignation. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Not Altogether Painless. Patience--Is that dentist's methodi painless? Patrice--Not all of them. He has a phonograph in his office !-e-Yonkeri Statesman. fight; in the southeast Joe Johnston fired the last burlesque shots and peace came again over the north and south. Then, when relations with Washington had been re-established and the administration's policy was one of magnanimity, Charlotte Hill­ man counted the notches in the toll pole and sent her bill to Washington And the Mil was paid.--Metropolitan Magazine. Dangerous to Author. Perfidy often recoils upon Its thor,--La Foutaiqe. py Butte, Mont. -- Nineteen persons were killed, 11 seriously injured, several fatally, and about 30 more or less hurt in a collision be­ tween passenger trail! No. 16, known as the east-bound Burlington flyer, and a west-bound freight train at 8:10 o'clock Friday morning at a siding known as Young's Point, about 30 miles west of Billings, on the Northern Pacific railroad. The passenger, running about 50 miles an hour, crashed into the freight just entering on the siding during a blinding snowstorm, the engineer of the passenger falling to See the signal flag of the brakeman of the freight train in time to avert the collision. Smoker Is Telescoped. The express car telescoped with the smoker and a majority of the fatalities an& injuries were in this car. The express car was raised over the plat­ form of the smoker, the superstructure sweeping the seats and not a passen­ ger in this car escaped death or in­ jury. The other passengers escaped with cuts and bruises. On the train was the Spokane dele­ gation to the National Irrigation con­ gress at Albuquerque. None of these was injured. Fireman Ora Babcock Jumped and was killed, striking on his head. Milo Halloway, a brakeman of the Billings train, was killed. The scenes around the smoker were horrible, heads, bodies, legs and arms being inter­ woven with broken seats and equip­ ment. In one place seven bodies were so tightly wedged together that they were only separated with difficulty. It was almost Impossible to succor the injured without trampliug on the dead. Partial List of the Dead. A partial list of the dead follows: Col. Bonson of Utah, John Cawlan, Billings, Mont.; Lon Anderson, Hardy, Mont.; Lorrenz A. Stewart, Dean, Mont.; H. C. Gomble, Ministon, la.; E. L. Eymock, Denver, Col.; D. H. Barnes, Seattle, Wash.; G. M. Kon- sick, Anaconda, Mont.; Ora Babcock, Billings, Mont.; S. Chingdon, Chico Springs, Mont.; Charles E. Johnson, Denver, Col., district passenger agent, Nickel Plate railway; George Battle- rock, Anaconda, Mont.; John Ryan, Cushing, Okla.; Milo Halloway, Bill­ ings, Mont.; Sichemram, address unknown; two unidentiAed coal miners, en route from Anaconda, Mont., to Kirby, Wyo. NEW YORK VILLABE BURIED FOREST FIRES WIPE OUT ABE RAYMER IS ACQUITTED. «• Verdict of Not Guilty in First Spring­ field Riot Case. • Springfield, 111.--The case of Abe Raymer was given to the jury at 5:40 p. m. Wednesday and court took a re­ cess. At nine o'clock the jury re­ turned a verdict of not guilty. Ray­ mer was as white as a sheet when the jury filed into court. As soon as the verdict was announced, he grasped the hand of each juror and made a Bpeech thanking them. As this is the first of the riot cases, Involving a total of 117 indictments returned by the grand Jury, it is con­ sidered quite significant. It was proved that Raymer was a member of the mob and the court held that any member of the mob was guilty in the eyes of the law, but the jury acted on the lack of evidence to prove that Raymer actually had a hand in the lynching. WASHINGTON LIFE 18 SOLD. Pittsburg Syndicate Gets Morton's Old Insuranee Company. New York.--The control of the Washington Life Insurance Company Thursday passed from the hands of Levi P. Morton, Thomas F. Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a Pittsburg syndicate headed by William C. Bald­ win, president of the Pittsburg Life and Trust Compaay. The deal was completed late Thurs­ day afternoon, and Mr. Baldwin was elected president of the Washington Life Insurance Company to succeed John Tatlock. In retiring from the Washington Life former Gov. Morton severs a connection with the com­ pany which has continued for almost 50 years, he having been one of the charter members of the company, one of the oldest in the country. Flames In the Adirondack* Control, Though Hundreds of Are Fighting Them. TTtica, N. V.--Forest fires In Adirondacks "*&re now beyond control of the hundreds of men fighting them. Long Lake West, a village of about 100 Inhabitants, is reported burned and communication cut off. Thirty-six days have now passed without rain, except for two sprink­ ling showers, and the forelts are like tinder, catching fire front the smallest spark. There are probably 60 fires now burning. Prayers are being of­ fered in all the churches. A fire was reported at Saranac Lake Sunday night. It is said a blaze started there in the middle oif the village, but was quickly got under control. Pittsburg, Pa.--The drought of 1908, which has held western Pennsyl­ vania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia in its grasp for more than two months, remains unbroken, each day gradually increasing the seriousness of the un­ precedented situation. Aside from the millions of feet Of timber destroyed and the daily loss to manufacturers and farmers, probably the most serious phase of the situa­ tion is the threatened disease epidem­ ic. It is feared that when rain does come it will wash, great amounts of filth into the already stagnant streams, with the result that disease, especially typhoid fever, will become epidemic. Milwaukee.--Dispatches to the Sen­ tinel report that forest fires which have been raging in northern Mich­ igan And Wisconsin for some time past, were quenched by the lieavy rains of Saturday night and Sunday, and that all danger for the present is re­ moved. St. Louis.--Rain began falling her a at sis o'clock Sunday morning nnfl continued all day. The rain has been generi l throughout Missouri and ex­ tends down the Mississippi valley as far as Vlcksburg. Wafhington.--A telegram was re­ ceived Thursday from Raymond W. Pullman of the forest service, who is in Minnesota Investigating forest fire conditions for the government. He estimates the loss in that state at $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, with the firfes still burning. He reports a heavy rain­ fall lasting five hours, but says 36 hours of rain are necessary to put out all fires. AERONAUTS IN PERIL BALLOON IN PRU8SIA BURSTS ARREST BROWN AND PARTNER8. New York Detectives Nab Members of Failed Brokerage Firm. New York.--Detectives from police headquarters appeared iix the A. O. Browft & Co. case Friday giving It & sensational turn when they arrested five members of the failed stock ex­ change firm as they emerged from the federal building, where a hearing into the affairs of the firm has been going on for some days before United States Commissioner Gilchrist. A sixth arrest would have been made if sickness had not detained still an­ other member of the firm in a New Jersey hospital, beyond the jurisdic­ tion. The charge against them was that of grand larceny and It was preferred by a former client of the firm. Miss Helen S. Abernethy of this city, who alleges the loss at their hands of 20 shares of Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway common stock valued at about $600, and 25 shares of United States Steel preferred stock valued at $1,184, on or about August 21 last. . BURIED IN RED-HOT BRACKS. Steamer Erik Hits Iceberg. St. Johns, N. F.--With her hull dam­ aged by collision with an iceberg, the steamer Erik, which accompanied the Peary expedition to the north, is re­ ported on her way to this port. The damage to the vessel Is said to be an above the waterline. Rebels' Warehouse Raided. Tiflis.-- A warehouse stocked with arms fo? the revolutionists has been located ?n a Subterranean passage on the edge of the town. The police who raided the place seized several tons of explosives, stacks and cases of rifles and pistols and 150 primed homba. Explosion in Tunnel Kills Five. Seranton, Pa.--Five men were killed Sunday by an explosion in the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad tunnel at Tobyhanna. Funeral of Lieut. 8 elf ridge. Washington.--The funeral of Lieut. Selfridge, who was killed in the fall of the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer a few days ago, was held at Arlington National cemetery Friday, The Epis­ copal burial rite was observed at the grave and troopers from the fort fired a salute. Widow of Gen. Bragg Dies. New Orleans.--Mrs. Eliza Bragg, widow of Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, of the confederate army, died In tbis city iaie Friday afternoon. Tragic Fate of Two Men at Kenmare, North Dakota. Minot, N. D.--Slowly roasting to death under tons of red-hot bricks, In plain view of their comrades, who were unable to assist Diem, E. W. Drake, Sr., and Clarence Bailey met a tragic death at Kenmare Wednes­ day. The big fciln of the Kenmare Brick & Coal Company burst when but ten hours from completion. Drake, who was the manager of the plant, was burled up to his arms in the red- hot pile, and it was not for over 30' minutes that he could be reached by the rescuers. Bailey, the 17-year-old son of a prominent farmer, was com­ pletely entombed and was not found for an hour. His body was roasted to ajerigp. Bad Band Is Broken Up. Winnipeg, Man. -- The grrest and conviction Friday at Moose Jaw of Joseph Convery, for horse steal­ ing, of Kid Royal and George Birch in Montana and the sentencing of a fourth, named Hofferson, to the North Dakota penitentiary, breaks up a bad band of horse rustlers who have been operating in southern Saskatchewan and adjoining states for some time. They stole hundreds of horses. These were the leaders. Killed by Exploding Engine. Milwaukee.--Engineer Fred J. Good was killed and Chris J. Hanson, fire­ man, and B. N. Taylor, brakeman, were .seriously injured by the explo­ sion of a locomotive in the Portage (Wis.) yards Sunday. American Warships at Apia. Apia, Samoa, via Auckland, N. Z.--* Several of the vessels of the American Pacific fleet, including the cruiser Ten­ nessee, have arrived here, the resi­ dents of Apia giving the Americans a hearty greeting. Denver Coliseum Burns. - ^Denver, Col.--The Coliseum, on Champa street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, this city, was completely destroyed by fire of un­ known origin Thursday. The. Coli­ seum was one of the city's landmarks. Insane Mother 8lays Babe. Elkhart, Tex.--Mrs. John Dal ton, living three miles south of here, be­ came insane and choked her baby to death. There was no one at the house at the time except Mrs. Dalton and the child. BAG ACTS AS PARACHUTf Three Suecersfuf Aeroplane FlightJr by Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, Frince, Two Being with a i/- • Dusseldorf, Rhenish Prussia, Gef- many. Capt. Von Abercron and Lieut. Von Goltzhelm, well-known aeronauts, had a miraculous escape from death Monday afternoon during the course of an ascent in a spherical balloon. Thousands of spectators had gathered to witness the ascent and they were horror stricken at the accident which occurred high in the air. On being released from its fasten­ ings the ballopn soared almost direct­ ly upwards to an altitude of 6,000 feet, when the envelope suddenly ripped open. The gas escaped in streams and the bal loon1 shot down­ ward. The aeronauts swiftly clam­ bered into the network In the desper­ ate hope of avoiding the shock of con­ tact with the ground. After a fall of 2,000 feet, however, the envelope spread out, seemingly in a purely ac­ cidental manner, forming a sort of parachute which checked the descent. The balloon then gradually came down, taking an hour and a half to reach the earth, the two men clinging to the ropes and the basket. They suffered no injury except a few scratches. The* cause of the accident was the sudden expansion of gas. Le Mans.--Wilbur Wright, the Amer­ ican aeroplanist, made three success­ ful flights Monday evening. On the first flight he was unaccompanied, and remained in the air for one hour, seven minutes, 11 4-5 seconds, covering a dis­ tance of about 30 miles. « On the second flight he was accom­ panied by the aeroplanist TIssandler, and he succeeded in beating the record for flight with passengers by remain­ ing up 11 minutes 3 2-5 seconds. His previous flight with a passenger was made on Friday last, when he re­ mained in the air nine minutes 13 1-5 seconds at a height of 50 feet. Count de Lambert was his passenger on the third trip, when • he covered about 3% miles in six minutes and 15 sec­ onds. FOOTBALL PLAYER BADLY HURT. Yale Student Kicked in Head Made Unconscious. and ?! -- . 'J New Haven, Conn.--While playing withs the 'scrub team against the Yale 'varsity football team on Yale field Monday, Lewis Baker Warren of New York, a member of the class of 1910, Sheffield Scientific school, was kicked on the head and rendered un­ conscious. .He was removed to the gymnasium, where, on recovering con­ sciousness, he became violently In­ sane. He fought with other membJIs of the team for an hour and a half, when he was taken to the Yale in­ firmary, where he again lapsed Into unconsciousness, in which state he 8till regains. DIAMOND SPECIAL DITCHED. Illinois Central Wreck Causes Death of Little Girl. Springfield, 111.--Illinois Central's fast Diamond Special, south-bound, ran into an open switch at Divernon, 20 miles south of Springfield, late Monday afternoon. The engine plunged into the ditch and was com­ pletely demolished. Engineer A. J. Shell and Fireman Edward Taylor, both of Clinton, 111., Jumped but both were injured. Elizabeth McGulre, seven-year-old daughter of Charles McGulre, was playing in the yard near the tracks, when fragments of demolished engine struck and instantly killed her. WOMAN'S 8HOCKING 8UICIDE. Throws Herself Under Train In Pres­ ence of New York Crowd; Netr York.--In the presence of a crowd of women shoppers waiting for an up-town train at the Fourteenth street station of the Sixth avenue ele­ vated railroad, a well-dressed woman of 26 threw herself in front of a mov­ ing train Monday and was so terribly Injured that she died a few moments later. The tragic act created almost a panic on the crowded platform. Wom­ en ran shrieking toward the exits lead­ ing to the street and half a dozen 9f them fell in a faint. While the woman's mangled body was still lying oh the tracks a priest knelt by it and administered the last rites of the church. Street Car in Fatal Runaway. Wheeling, W. Va.--A city railway car got beyond control on Mozart Hill Monday, dashed down the heavy grade, and crashed into a house and tele­ graph pole. One person was killed and six others injured. Sister Contests Hewitt's Will. Elmira, N. Y.--Mrs. Stephen T. Arnot of this city Monday began a contest of the will of her late brother, Frederick C. Hewitt of Owego, who left several millions of dollars to char­ ity and made no mention of Mrs. Arnot. The contest is taken on the general grounds that Mr. Hewitt was not competent to make a will at the time h,e distributed his property. It is also claimed that undue influence was brought to bear uppn him. Mrs. Arnot 1b the millionaire's nearest relative sur­ viving. She is old and wealthy. Huge 8um Given to Sciert^e. Berlin.--The Prussian Academy cf Science, an association of eminent men under the patronage of the gov eminent, has inherited the sum of $7,500,000 from a banker named Sam son. The money is to be expended for scientific purposes. Shot Dur(n9 a Class Fight. Delphi, Ind--In a class fight h tvroQ-a the classes of the high sclic Monday Larry Coble, president of t junior class, was seriously injur with a shotgvft. ••'M: