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t SEE m. LOMGWORTH!
She Pulls Flag Off McKinlsy |
Status to Divert Crowd.
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WOMEN WERE TRAMPLED DOWN '
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' Terrorized Thousands Stampeded in '
Columbus and Exercises Arc |
Postponed and Completed at
Night?Scrambles For Relics.
Columbus, Ohio. ? To prevent a
panic and save human life the exercises
attendant upon the unveiling of
the monument to William McKinley !
.were brought to an abrupt close.
The thousands of people that J
packed the Capitol grounds and ad- 1
Imniru* struts tn witnpss the unveil- i
ing of the monument became so un- !
ruly in their efforts to see at close j
range Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
that she was compelled to re- j
lease the drapery which covered the
statue and withdraw. The addresses |
on the program were postponed until I
night.
Nothing like the wild rush that the !
;> people made was ever seen in Ohio :
before, and no such crowd of women
was ever gathered here. More than
50,000 people, at least 40,000 of |
whom were women, pushed and
shoved, yelled and wept In a mad !
fever to gain vantage points when i
the guests appeared on the platform. (
i Five acres of swaying persons scrambled
and pushed until those in front j
were jammed against the stand.
Scores of women fainted, while ;
thousands were pulled and tossed ;
about in the surging throng. Two
women were trampled on and re- j
moved ill amouiances. ineir garments
were torn, their hats tossed j
askew and their hair disheveled.
At last Mrs. Longworth, without
ceremony, stepped to the front of the
Bpeakers' stand and tugged at the
ribbon till the flags that veiled the !
statue of the late President fell. A J
cheer went up, and Mrs. Longworth j
stood ^niling and bowing.
It was thought that, her part in
the program over, order would be re>
stored. Instead, the crowd made a j
rush for the ribbon with which she j
Jiad drawn the veil. It was torn into j
. hreds, and then a dash was made for j
the wire which had held the ribbon '
in place. The brass ring3 were torn
from it. Many were in danger of be- I
ing cut by the wire, which the mob
was trying to tear into pieces for j
souvenirs.
Unable to proceed, Governor Harris
announced the suspension of tha
exercises until night.
The program of exercises was car- !
ried out at Memorial Hall. The im- ;
men3e hall was filled with people, j
Governor Harris presided. The j
speakers were William R. Day, Asso- !
ciate Justice of the Supreme Co.urt of
the United States; John W. Daniel,
.United States Senator from Virginia,
N and General Joseph McKay,of BrookPatv-i
m n nH av nf HlD !
ly II, IN a LAUliCli VUlUmauuci w4. vuv j
"Union Veterans' Legion, and General
R. B. Brown, Commander-in-Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic. I
Mrs. McKinley was unable to attend
the dedicatory exercises, but she was j
represented by her niece, Mrs. Ida ;
McKinley Day.
-'' I The McKinley Memorial was built j
at a cost of $50,000, half of which ;
sum was raised by public subserip- j
tion, the other half being provided by j
the Ohio* Legislature.
The memorial is in the form of a !
semi-circle, In the centre of which is I
the pedestal, surmounted by a figure ;
of the dead President, nine feet four
inches in height. On either side of
the semicircle are allegorical pieces.
FOUR KILLED IX A TORNADO.
b-:
Others Fatally Injured in Storm
rj ; Which Passes Over Nebraska.
Tecumseh, Neb.?Two violent and
seemingly distinct storms swept over
/ Johnson County, causing the death of
lour persons, the fatal injury of two
ftjiy and the painful injury of five others,
k .The dead are: 0/ L. Giel, August
Zieman, Royal Carmine and George
Koehler!
X UC Hi Ol c uuuvt M I
threshing machine, which was shat- I
tered by lightning. A companion was
severely shocked.
The second storm, a tornado in violence,
passed west of Tecumseh, demolishing
a school house, killing
George Koehler and fatally injuring ,
two other school children and inflict- i
Ing severe injuries on four others in '
the school house. Many barns and i
windmills were blown down.
CRIPPLES FORM A UNION*. *
Composed of Men Who Have Lost
Arms or Legs.
Chicago.?The only union of crip;
pies in the world was organized here.
The union is composed exclusively of
the one-armed and the one-legged
men who tend switches or wave flags
at railroad crossings.
In the city there are about 1200
i , cripples who earn a living by acting ,
as switch tenders and flagmen. They 1
complain that advantage is taken of |
them because of their physical de- :
fects. They work from twelve to six- ;
teen hours a day and seven days in I
the week at wages ranging from $40 j
to $50 a month. Most of them are :
old railroad men who have lost a leg
or an arm in an accident, and they ['
are regarded as pensioners by the '
railroad companies.
Laughed Herself to Death.
Mrs. George D. Baker, a well- j
Icnown summer resident of New Lon- !
don. Coffn., laughed too heartily
while attending a play in the Lyceum
Theatre and as a result died at the j
Ciocker House.
Insurance Agents Besiege Bank. !
The run oa the Hibernia Bank, in j
San Francisco, was caused by dis- j
gruutieu agcuu ui a, mo iujuiuu>.v I
company.
The National Game.
? Overall and Walsh are the only
^bachelors on Chicago's payroll now.
# [ It is announced that Patsy Donovan
will again manage Brooklyn next
season.
i Jake Weimer wants to be the best
JattiaS pitcher in the National
League,
After winning fifteen straight
games the New York Americans were
.defeated by Boston.
j When Flynn, of the Holy Cross
College, joins the Boston team there
jwill be five college players on the
, team.
SC9ICH HPHESS WRECKED [
Crowded Special jumps the Track
at Grantham Curve.
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Flying Midnight Train Dashes Over
Embankment?Coaches Burst Into
names ? ah bngianu rmucKeu.
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London. ? Just getting over the
shock of the terrible railroad catas- ^
trophe at Salisbury/ England was
horrified to read that the crowded
Scotch express train on the Great
Northern Railway, from London, was
wrecked, at midnight outside of
Grantham, a railroad junction twen- a
ty-three miles southwest of Lincoln. ?
The train should have stopped at S
Grantham, but failed to do so. tl
Shortly after passing the station r
the train left the rails and jumped a
bridge. The engine and several
coaches were dashed over the em- 0
bankment, the engins turning turtle, si
Several coaches immediately took fire. n
There are many passengers beneath
the debris. Of ten extricated,
five have died. The number of lives
ldst is not known, but is believed to s<*
be large. Many were injured. ii
The coaches caught fire , and the tl
fire brigade was called out. ( a
At the spot where the express was d
derailed there is a curve, and it is
supposed the brakes failed to act. ir
The train appears to have gone up a Q
siding, smashing the parapet of the U
t : J rtAmnlotal v ohot- 1\
U ilUgCy WJLLllyU VTUO tClJ Wi*v*v | w
tered.
A later report states that the engi- ( R
neer and fireman are dead under the n
engine, that the superintendent of o
the mail car is missing and that seven ir
injured persons hiive been taken to ti
the hospital. w
At 5 o'clock a. m. it was officially tl
stated that ten persons had been ir
killed and sixteen injured. Y
A dispatch from Grantham stated ai
that the fire was well under control, ai
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TYPHOON DEATH LIST GROWS. ei
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Several Thousand May Have Heen ^
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Lost at Hongkong. jc
Hongkong.?It is estimated that ai
5000 Chinese perished in the ty- p<
phoon, many within short distance
of the shore. The property losses are d<
estimated at several millions of dol- w
lars. Only a few Europeans are P'
missing. One launch that was.cap- F
sized had 130 Chinese on board, cc
They were all drowned. Over 1000 st
sampans and junks are missing. y<
When the typhoon 9tarted Bishop ol
Joseph Charles Hoare, of Victoria, G
was on his way to visit some neigh"- ai
boring islands on the yacht Pioneer, fc
which stranded in Castle Peak Bay.
Mrs. Hoare went in a Government ai
launch to search for her husband. ?1
The harbor is strewn with wreck- ly
age. The rivfcr steamer Fatshan fc
drifted into collision with a French w
mail steamer. The entire Chinese \ tfe
crew climbed aboard the French 01
steamer and left Captain Thomas,
who was injured, one officer and the tl
engineers to navigate the Fatshan to P(
ShelteT Bay, where she was blown ei
ashore. ai
The people are incensed at the officers
at the observatory for not re- ei
porting the approach of the typhoon, SI
and an inquiry has been demanded. w
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DIED UNDER X-RAYS. ,u'
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M. F. Murphy, Pennsylvania Banker, ^
is Strangely Stricken. jr
Philadelphia.?While undergoing fe
an X-ray examination, Martin F1 ol
Murphy, a banker of Renovo, this tl
State, died suddenly. tl
Mr. Murphy was fifty-eight years tf
old. He had developed what was ir
thought to be cancer of the throat bi
and was sent to the Polyclinic Hos- b
pltal for examination. He had been a:
examined exhaustively before the si
rays were turned upon him, and no
organic weakness of any kind was n
found. His body was bared t<? the o
waist and the rays were turned diag- j\
onally down upon hini, striking the c
throat on the left side two inches be- ci
low the ear and penetrating down- ri
ward toward the rieht to a point of | rr
emergence below the eighth rib. At
the very moment the rays were p
turned on Murphy he rolled from the
chair. Death was instantaneous. F
DOWIE OUSTED, 1911 TO 6.
Voliva Made Zion City Overseer? ^
Heavy Vote by Women. ^
Chicago.?Wilbur Glen Voliva was o
chosen by the people of Zion City as j]
their leader by the overwhelming
vote of 1911 to 6 for his opponent, A. y
E. Bills. The election was held un- ^
der the direction of Judge Landis of i
the United States District Court, who d
was asked some time ago to settle t
the controversy between John Alex- t
ander Dowie, founder of the church, t
and Voliva, as to who should have a
control of Zion City. j u
About half of the total vote was ! s
cast by the womsn of Zion City, who j s
went to the polls singing hymns and j y
praying.
Eight-Hour Law Extended.
President Roosevelt extended the I
eight-hour law to apply to all public ,
work under the supervision of any | ?
department of the Government. This
order from Oyster Bay, N. Y., affecrs ,
more particularly work on river arid ! .
harbor improvements.
Oklahoma Land.Opened. | I
President Roosevelt opened for set- |
Clement 503,000 acres of fertile land j e
in Oklahoma. J e
Starving Out Americans.
American arriving at New Orleans
from Havana say Americans on the I
Isle of Pines are threatened by a food I
famine. r
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Pure Food Law Enforced. t
The Pure Food law special commis- t
sion anuounced its tentative rules re- r
garding labels. They forbid false and a
misleading statements of all kinds.
, General Nicolaieff was shot and
killed in Warsaw, Russian Poland, by I
terrorists, the murderers escaping. <
The Field of Labor.
India has no labor unions.
New Orleans, La., union plumbers
have been on strike since the first of a
the year. c
Slate workers in Maine have ob- ,
tained a nine-hour day and a ten per j
cent, increase in wages. 1
William Foley, of Boston, Mass..
.is the new head of the International g
Steel and Copper Plate Printers. 1
San Francisco, Cal.. is to have a t
building trades temple.
Employment in the British build- i
ing trades shows a general Improve- <
ment as compared with a year ago. 1
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lends Taft and Bacon to Havana s,
in Haste. ?
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resident Warns Cubans That We j]
May Intervene?Letter to fcenor b
Quesada, Cuban Minister to the n
United States. t)
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Oyster Bay, N. Y.?As the result of g]
six-hour conference at Sagamore ^
[ill between President Roosevelt, tl
ecretary of War Taft, Secretary of a
le Navy Bonaparte and Acting Secetary
of State Bacon, Messrs. Taft b
nd Bacon were directed to start at "
nee for Cuba as the special repre- c
entatives of thte American Governlent.
It will be their mission to g
lake a thorough investigation and j,
5 render such aid as may be neces- c
iry to the task of bringing about an t;
nmedlate cessation of hostilities and a
le permanent pacification of the isl- p
nd, which is declared by the Presi- A
ent to De imperative. i ,
This decision was made public by
leans of the following letter to Senor w
uesada, the Cuban Minister to the P
nited States, which was given out t<
y Secretary Loeb: c<
"In this crisis in the affairs of the I fj
epublic of Cuba I write you not [
lerely because you are the Minister p
f Cuba accredited to this Governlent,
but because you and I were in- ?
mately drawn together at the time
hen the United States intervened in "
le affairs of Cuba, with the result of *
taking her an independent nation, tl
ou know how sincere my affection tl
ad admiration and regard for Cuba p
re. You know that I have never done jj
ad never shall do anything in refer- ^
ace to Cuba save with such sincere
sgard for her welfare. You also know
le pride I felt because it came to me e
3 President to withdraw the Amer- w
an troops from the Island of Cuba ii
ad officially, to proclaim her inde- e
endence, and to wish her godspeed n
i her career as a free Republic. I ^
ssire now, through you, to say a v
ord of solemn warning to your peo- le.
whose eanrest well-wisher I am.
or seven years Cuba has been in a
>ndition of profound peace and of C:
eadily growing prosperity. For four P
jars this peace and prosperity have s<
jtained under her own, independent o
overnment. Her peace, prosperity 'j
id independence are now menaced, Q
>r of all possible evils that can be- .,
.11 Cuba the worst is the evil of
larchy into which civil war and rev- "
utionary disturbances will assured- "
throw her. Whoever is responsible f'
>r armed revolution and outrage, ^
hoever is responsible in any way for f:
le condition of the affairs that now D
)tains is an enemy of Cuba, and
juble heavy is the responsibility of
le man who, affecting to be the es;cial
champion of Cuban independ- t]
ice, takes any step which will jeop- *
rdize that independence. n
"Under the treaty with rour Gov- is
nment, I, as President of the United 1 s
tates, have ?. duty' in this matter 0
hich I cannc : shirk. The third arti- ^
e of that treaty explicitly confers
pon the United States the right to
itervene for the maintenance in "
uba of a Government adequate for
le protection of life, property ana f
idividual liberty. The treaty con- p
(rring this right is the supreme law c
f the i-tnd and furnishes me '/ith d
le right and the means of fulfilling a
le obligation that I am under to proset
American interests. The infortation
at hand shows that the social
onds throughout the island have
een so related that life, property
nd individual liberty ar^ no longer 0
tfe. f
"I have received authentic infor- p
lation of injury to and destruction a
f American property. It is in my 3
ldgment imperative for the. sake of
uba that there shall be immediate ?
sssation of hostilities and some arangement
which will secure the per- s
lanent pacification of the island."
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ASSEXGERS KILLED IN CANADA t
I a
atal Collision Retween Regular and
Harvesters' Excursion Trains. I
Sudbury, Ont.?Thirteen persons ?
rere killed in the wreck of two i
ianadian Pacific Railway passenger I
rains near here. Seven were killed i
utright, the other six dying of their i
I'uries since.
The accident occurred near the
illa?e pf Chelmsford, just past |
Lzilda, twenty miles west of here,
'he Winnipeg east-bound train was *
ue to pass a harvesters' excursion
rain at this point. TJlie harvesters'
rain was already on the siding when i
be regular from the West, dashing j
long at a high rate of speed, came t
p to the station. The brakes were
et, but failed to work, and as a reult
the two engines came together 1
fith a fearful impact. ?
Cuban Congress Meets.
The Cuban Congress met in special *
ession without a quorum in either 1
louse, and by party vote granted
'resident Palma means to carry on
he war. Marines from the cruiser
)enver remained oil board their ship I
u Havana Harbor. c
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The arrival of the American cruis- ,
ir Denver at Havana, Cuba, caused
ixcitement in the city. 1
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Baltimore Fire Jubilee Ends.
The week of the jubilee celebrating l
Jaltimore's recovery from the fire of (
February, 1904, ended with an auto- ?
uobile and bicycle parade and a car
lival. About 15,000 persons in gro- :
esque costumes participated. A fund 1
las been started to erect a $50,000 (
nemorial commemorating the fire
.nd rebuilding of the burned district, i
Big Demand For Traction Men. '<
The New York City traction com- j
>ine had to raise wages on account
>f a scarcity of men. (
Labor World.
One hundred thousand macninisis ,
vill be involved in the demand for an .
jight-hour day.
The City Auditor of Cincinnati has
ssued an order requiring a union {
abel on all city printing. !
The Wabash offices in Pittsburg
idvertised for 5000 mechanics and
aborers for a Western extension of
he Gould lines.
Organized labor has protested
igainst the plan of Postmaster Ow;ns,
of Milwaukee, to equip street
Linked States mail cars.
The Ago of Machinery.
We live in the age of machinery,
'he thinking, directing mind beomes
daily of more account, while
ier? brawn falls correspondingly in
alue from day to day. That eccenric
philosopher, Elbert Hubbard,
ays in one of his es:ays, "Where a
machine will do better work than the
uman hand, we prefer to let the marine
do the work."
It has been but a few years since
lie cotton gin, the "spinning jenny"
nd the power loom displaced the
and picker, the spinning wheel and
tie hand loom; since the reaper and
inder, the rake and tedder, the
lowing machine took the place of
tie old cradle, scythe, pitchfork and
and rake; sinc4 the friction match
uperseded the flint and tinder; since
lie modern paint factory replaced
tie slab and mulier, the paint pot
nd paddle.
In every case where machinery has
een introduced to replace hand laor,
the laborers have resisted the
hange; and as the weavers, the
empstresses, and the farm laborers
rotested against new-fangled looms,
swing machines and agricultural
nplements, so in more recent times
ompositors have protested against
presetting machines, glass blowers
gainst bbttle-blowing machines, and
ainters against ready mixed paints,
.nd as in the case of these shortighted
classes of an earlier day, so
'ith their imitators of to-day, the
rotest will be in vain. It is a proist
against civilization, against the
Dmmon weal, against their own welire.
The history of all mechanical imrovements
shows that workmen are
tie first to be benefited by them,
he invention of the sewing machine,
istead of throwing thousands of
'omen out of employment, increased
ae demand to such an extent that
iiousands of women have been emloyed,
at better wages, for shorter
ours and easier work where hunreds
before worked in laborious
lisery to eke out a pitiable existnce.
It was so with spinning and
reaving machinery, with agricultural
nplements?in fact, it is so with
very notable improvement. The
lultiplication of books in the last
ecade is a direct result of the inention
of linotype machinery and
ist presses.
The mixed paint industry, in which
arefully designed paints for house
ainting are prepared on a large
cale by special machinery, is anther
improvement of the same type,
'he cheapness and general excellence
f these products has so stimulated
he consumption of paint that the deland
for the services of painters
as correspondingly multiplied. Beore
the advent of these goods a
rell-painted house was noticeable
rom its rarity, whereas to-day an illainted
house is conspicuous.
Nevertheless the painters, as a
ule, following the example set by
he weavers, the sempstresses and
he farm laborers of old, almost to a
lan, oppose the improvement. It
3 a real improvement, however, and
imply because of that fact the sale
f such products has increased until
uring the present year it will fall
ot far short of 90,000,000 or 100,00,000
gallons.
Hindsight is always better than
oresight, and most of us who delore
the short-sightedness of our anestors
would do well to see that we
o not in turn furnish "terrible exmples"
to our posterity.
P. G.
A Word toitho Wise.
The late James E. Martin, brother
f Bradley Martin, was a man of oldashioned
integrity, and the illegal
iractices of many noted financiers
.nd^ corporations angered and
hocked him.
In a discussion of a certain muchnvestigated
company Mr. Martin
aid one day:
"Th$ concern seems always to have
ound ft easy to break the law. It
Las been as ready and resourceful as
, tenant I once had.
"My tenant was an enthusiastic
>igeon-flyer. One day he took a pigion
in a bag to the Grant Monument,
ntending to time its flight home.
Jut when he took the bird out of the
>ag a policeman came up and said:
" 'What are you doing there?'
" 'Getting ready to fly this pigeon,
laid my tenant.
" 'You can fly no pigeon here,' said
ho policeman.
" 'Why not?' the tenant asked.
" 'It's against the law?that's whj
lot,' said the policeman. 'If you trj
t on I shall he obliged to lock you
ip.'
"My tenant placed the pigeon on
he ground, stroked it and said to it
jravely:
" 'I can't toss you up here, for- it's
igainst the law, so you must walk
lome. Do you hear? You must
valk home.' "?Pittsburg Press.
Not For Publication.
The engagement between a wealthy
Jaltimore belle and an impecunious
:lubman of that city was at ono time
ast winter perilously near the
'breaking off" point, and all by reaion
of the unfortunate mistake of a
lorist's assistant of whom the young
nail nau oraerea nowers tor 111s ueoved.
It appears that tne young fellow
lad hastily dispatched to the florist's
istablishment two cards, one bearing
>n order for roses to be sent to ih(
roving lady's address, and the othei
ntended to be attached to the flow'
;rs.
What was the astonishment anc
ndignation of the beloved one when
)n taking the roses from their box
ihe found affixed the card bearing
:he legend:
"Roses. Do the best you can foi
P3."?Harper's Weekly.
Her Age Still Unknown.
Rather than tell hor age, Miss
renie Fristoe went to jail at Columbus,
Ohio. She was defendant in ai
attachment suit, and one of the firs
questions put to her was, "How ok
are vou?"
"It's none of your business," Mis:
Frlscoe promptly replied.
The Court ordered the woman t<
answer, but she steadfastly refusei
and was sent to jail for contempt
She was released that afternoon 01
a writ of habeas corpus, but her as
ia still a mystery.
"SUCH CROPS IIEIfEB KNOWN
Nine Principal Staples Estimated
to Be Worth $2,898,720,000.
\ Year Like This Docs Not Come to
Farmers More Than Once
in a Decade.
New York City.?The estimated returns
available at this season for the
nine principal crops of the United
States, excepting hay, indicate the
unparalleled total value, at December
prices* of $2;898,720,000, which
is about $130,740,487 more than the
wealth produced by the farmers last
year in these staples. Although it is
usual for final returns on the principal
cereal crops to show a diminution
from the September estimates (which
test year amounted to 8,924,000
bushels in corn and 11,467,511 in
wheat), the concensus of opinion
among the experts seems to be that
this year the final estimates will show
even higher yields than are at present
indicated, so that the final total
of values which will be issued in December
may be expected to show even
higher figures. Further it is not
higher prices, but record-breaking
production that makes this year the
greatest in the country's history.
The following table compares with
last year's figures the estimated
yields and values of the nine principal
agricultural products:
Crop.' Yield. Dec.
Corn? Bushels. Price. Value.
1906... .2,7S0.000,000 .42 $1,167,000,000
1905.,.. 2,717/,993,540 1,116,696,738
Wheat? ; .: ;.
1906.... 759,671,000 .71 549.366,000
1905.... 692,979,489 518,372,727
Oats? . . 1906....
851,482,000 .31 263,959,000
1905.... 953,216,197 277,047,537
Barley? '
1906..142,969,000 .40 57,197,000
K)05.... 130,651,020 55,047,166
Rye?
1906,... 30,000,000 #.60 18.000,000
1905.,... 27,616,045 16,754,657
Buckwheat?
1906.... 14,274,000 #.65 9,278,000
1905.... 14,585,082 8,565,490
Potatoes?
lfiOfi.... 298,859,000 *.60 179,320,600
1905.... 260,741,294 160,821,080
Cotton, bales?
1906..,. 12,000,000 *$50.00 600,000,000
1905.... 11,320,000 50.00 566,000,000
Tobr ('.o, pounds?
1906.... 600,000,000 .09 54,000,000
1905.... 633,033,719 . 48,674,118
Estimated.
It will be noticed that this year's
crops, both in production as well as
in valtie, are far in excess of those of
1905 with two exceptions, oats and
buckwheat. It is also expected that
the returns from the hay crop, when
they are in, will make a poorer showing
than last year's. Hay/was damaged
by the same July and August
rains which were the salvation of the
corn.
Such a year as this, with new
records established in so many staples,
doe3 not come to the farmer usually
more than once, in a decade,
though last year, too, established its
own records in wheatjand corn and
produced a cotton crop which had
been only once exceeded.
The banner year of the nineties
was 1891, not in point of total yields,
but in the distribution of fine conditions
and the establishment of new
records. That year saw new high
records fixed for wheat and cotton,
while corn was only surpassed by the
great year of 18S9. Wheat broke
all records in 1898, though cotton
was second in the list of years and
corn fourth. In 1879 wheat production
exceeded the best previous record
by 28,000,000 bushels, corn beat
its previous record by 159,700,000
bushels, and the cotton crop jumped
687,000 bales ahead of the greatest
precedent.
Of these "record years" al! marked
were periods of great prosperity ex
cept 1891. Last year was the only
one in which there was great money
| stringency.
FIFTY FORGERS CAUGHT.
Band Included Sons of Prominent
1 Frenchmen?Made $40,000.
Paris.?The police discovered a
1 band of expert coiners having international
connections, and fifty memi
bers of it were arrested, including
several Latin Quarter students whose
: parents hold high official positions.
The students are implicated on acjount
of having passed the money,
' most of which was in ten and twenty
franc pieces.
The process used by the counterfeiters
was a perfect one, the coins
being electroplated with gold dust.
' [t is estimated that 200,000 francs of
ihis money has been passed in the
[ last six months.
The band operated also In England
and Germany and was making preparations
to open business in Chicago
ind Buenos Ayres.
l KILLED HIMSELF WHILE JOKING
i Revolver Flourished in Hilarious
; Mood Ends Owner's Life.
Beloit, Wis.?Charles Parker, aged
j twenty-five, a painter by occupation,
while in a hilarious mood from
liquor, placed a revolver at his head
' Lo frighten his wife and a friend, and
blew out his brains. It is not believed
he had any intention of killing
himself. He was in his room in a<
boarding house with his wife and an>
other boarder, and, when remonstrats
ed with for carelessly handling the
> revolver, remarked:
"No one need be afraid; I am not
going to point it toward anyone but
p myself?see." Placing the muzzle
' under an ear the revolver was discharged.
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5 CLOUDBURST SWEEPS VALLEY.
> Wave Seven Feet High Does $100,000
Worth ol' Damage.
Jackson, Neb.?Water from a
cloudburst rushed down the valley,
I sweeping away hundreds of tons of
, hay, drowning hogs, flooding cellars,
wasning away rauruau uatM uuu
doing other damage, aggregating
' $100,000. The wave of water in the
creek when it struck Jackson was
seven feet high.
Prominent People.
, John D. Rockefeller says his for(
tune is less than one-third of a billion
dollars.
. James Henry Smith, the richest
bachelor in the country, is to wed the
1 divorced wife of William Rhinelander
Stewart.
3 All the property possessed by Mr.
Seddon. Premier of New Zealand, who
- died recently, was a $1000 life ini
su ranee policy.
Dr. Frederick Hegar, the foremost
a Swiss composer, lias retired from
a public life after forty years' activity
as a conductor.
808 ISLANO EXPRESS
PLUMES Ml 3RI06E
Passengers Swept Miles Down a
River in Oklahoma.
MANY EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPES
Few of the Saved Float Miles?Day
Coach Carried to Bank With Occupants?Loss
May Never Bo
Known?Cause of Disaster.
Guthrie,K Olcla.?Buried in the
treacherous quicksand or floating
down the rushing current of the
Cimarron (Spanish "wild") River are
a score or more passengers and the
wreckage of more than half of a
Rock Island passenger train that
plunged into the river off a high
bridge near Dover, Okla.
Eight persons are known to be
dead/ twenty were badly injured,
either in falling with the cars into
the water or being battered with
driftwood before they were rescued,
and some twenty others are missing.
Several children are among those
drowned.
Locomotive, tender, baggage and
mail cars, smoker and day coach of
the train that left Forth Worth
dropped into the flood-swollen stream
when it reached the bridge, which
had been knocked out of true by a
mass of driftwood.
Passengers who escaped say twenty-five
or thirty men were in the
smoking car, and in the struggle to
reach its doors as it rolled over and
over down stream only a few escaped.
This car was carried by the current
a quarter of a mile. The mail car
and the locomotive sank like lead.
The mail and baggage men swam
ashore.
Those fortunate enough to fight
their way out of the death trap and
catch pieces of drift rode down the
stream for miles. One man was
taken off a piece of the wrecked
bridge nine miles down stream; another
rode thirteen miles before being
rescued; a,third was nearly dead i
when rescued twenty miles away.
Another, a negro porter, when seen
fourteen miles down river, shouted
to men on shore that he would get off
at the next station.
It may never be known how many
were drowned. The present estimate
of twenty to thirty may be reduced
when those who may have drifted
down stream are all heard from.
The train was ?n hour late and
was running at high speed. The engineer
did not see the condition of
the bridge until he was within a few
yards of it.
Sheriff J. P. Love, of Kingfisher,
3aid: "Just as the car was turning
on its side I fought my way to the
rear and forced my body through the
door. When I came to the surface
[ was swept down stream. In the
last stages of exhaustion I touched
bottom and drew myself up on the
bank. There were at least thirty
others In the smoking car. I saw
two besides myself escape."
L. H. Coy, a salesman of Kansas
City, who was in the day coach, said:
"I jumped and landed on the short
nlpr>? nf that did not. sro out at
the south end. .The chair car came
up within three feet of me before it
stopped, and all that saved my life
was the fact that the engineer threw
on the afr before he jumped. The
3rag of the heavy Pullmans caused
the train to break in two."
WINSTON CHURCHILL BEATEN.
Floyd Nominated For Governor of
New Hampshire on Ninth Ballot.
Concord, N. H.?Charges M. Floyd,
of Manchester, was nominated for
Governor, on the ninth ballot at the
Republican State convention, receiving
404 votes out of a total of 799.
It was the most exciting political
convention ever assembled in New
Hampshire. The delegates were
called to order at 11 a. m., and it
nrtf nr\f il O ffnt? 1 A V* TV* tliaf flH.
journment was reached. The convention
was marked by disorder
throughout, and progress was delayed
by ballot-box stuffing, three votes being
declared void bv reason of the
total exceeding the number of delegates
entitled to seats.
The feature of the convention was
the fight put up by Winston Churchill,
the novelist, for the Gubernatorial
nomination.
NEW YORK PRIMARIES.
Murphy Retains Tammany Leadership,
Parsons Defeats Quigg.
New York City. ? In one of tile
hardest fought primary elections ic
the political history of Greater Ne\v
York in which the organizations of
both the Democratic and Republican
parties were threatened, Charles F.
Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and Herbert
Parsons, with the Roosevelt
backing, won sweeping victories?
Murphy over the McClellan-O'Brien
rvinii. i
i'Ji l-cc, au\i a. uiovum w ? c* buv
Quigg faction.
Both the Democratic and Republican
primaries were turbulent. There
was much repeating, many assaults
and money was openly used.
Life-Savers Under Charges.
Charges of cowardice against Captain
Vau Wicklen and his life-saving
crew at Long Beach have been made
to the Treasury Department, iu
Washington.
Stricken While Preaching; Dies.
Rev. Dr. Frank Woods Baker, of
New Haven. Conn., died at Islesboro,
Me. He bad been spending his vacation
at Castine and went to Islesboro
to officiate at Christ Episcopal Church.
During the service he was stricken j
with heart failure.
Merely Bryan's Private Opinion.
William J. Bryan disclaimed any
purpose to compel his party to ac
Cepi IU5 UUtClUucin unuciouiii
views.
Pulujanes Broken Up.
Reports from the punitive expeditions
sent into the interior of Leyte,
Philippine Islands, in pursuit of the
Pulajanes state that as the result of
recent attacks by troops the Pulajanes
have broken up into small parlies.
The large band near. La Paz
has been dispersed.
:
I Russian Revolutionists Terrified.
The "Flying Group" of Russian
I Revolutionists, terrified by numerous
executions of their members, returned
' to the main body.
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FADED TO A SHADOW.
Worn Down by Five Years of^uffering
From Kidney Complaint.
Mrs. Remethe Myers, of 180 South
Tenth St., Ironton, O., says: "I have
worked hard in my tinie and have
been exposed again
and again to changes. .
| -. of weather. It is no
wonder < my kidneys
gave out and I went -v
-"T?- all to pieces at last. 1
LVFjjpw For five years I was
fading away ' and'
IP* finally so weak that
for six months I could not get out of
the house. I *7as nervous, restless
and sleepless at night*and lame and
sore in the morning. Sometimes everything
would whirl and blur before
me. I bloated so badly I could not
wear tight clothing, and "had. to put
on shoes two sizes far gen. than uaual. *
The urine was disordered and passages
were dreadfully frequent. I
got help from the first box of Doan's
Kidney Pills, however, and by the
time I had taken four boxes the pain
and bloating were gone. I have been
in good health ever since."
Sold.by all dealers. . 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y. ; A
School-Made Philosophers.
One of the earliest American satirists
was Francis Hopkinson, a
signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The following parody by him
Is said to have had the result which
It is evident he intended?the effect
of altering the style of questions
asked in the examinations of" that
day.
Professor?"What te a salt-box?"
Student?"It is a box made to contain
salt." js?1 7 jj
"How is it divided?"** f
"Into a salt-box and a box of salt."
"Show the distinction."
"A salt-box may be where there Is
no salt; but salt is necessity to the
existence of a box of salt." \
"Are not salt-boxes otherwise divided?"
"Yes, by a partition."
"What is the use of this parti- J
tion?"
"To separate the coarse salt from
the fine."
"How? Think a little." f
"To separate the fine from the /
coarse." k
"To be sure; to separate fine from
the coarse. But are not' salt-boxes
otherwise distinguished?"
"Yes, into possible, probable and .
positive." v
"Define these sorts." '* .
"A possible salt-box is a salt-box
yet unsold, in the hands of the join- j <
er."
"Why so?"
"Because it hath never yet become
a salt-box in fact?having never had
any salt in it,"
"Very true. Now what is the probable
salt-box?" , j i
"It is a salt-box In the hand of one
going to a "shop to buy salt, and who
hath sixpence in his pocfcet to buy
It with; and a positive salt-box is one
which hath actually salt in it."
"Is there no instance of a positive
B<-box which has na salt in it?"This
proves a little puzzling to the
student. The professor helps hfm
out by observing, "There'is one mentioned
by some authors. It Is where
a box by long usage has;become impregnated,
as, for instance, an empty
mackeral kit." ' *" ' j
And so it continues for eight or
ten pages of this exhaustive method, v
Danger in Drinking Ice Water.
It is as unscientific to cool off the
human body by flooding one's internals
with ice c<#d water as It is to
cool off a stove by dashing cold <
water on it. Water fresh from the
well or faucet Is a good , deal better
for a person than water from the ice . ^
pitcher. In Europe they never put
Ice into water but set a vessel containing
water in the refrigerator,
When it soon - becomes as cold as
6hould be taken into the stomach.
The ice water nabit nas acme me
American people a lot of harm.- The
slavery of some people to ^lce-'water
would be amusing if it wasn't amazing.?The
Epitomist.
Kansas Cliiggers.
* Mrs. McCown is superintending the
chigger department of a picnic this
afternoon at Flat Docks, whereat the
Steeles, Mrs. Bortoa, the Harises, the
Kenneys, and the John Steeles of
Kansas City are disporting themWlves.?Emporia
Gazette.
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Oa Street Cars ia Germany.
In some towns in Germany children
are allowed to travel free on the
street cars it tney are unae:r a certain
height, which is marked, on the
doors of the vehicle.
WELL PEOPLE TOO
Wise Doctor Gives Postum to Convalescents.
A wise doctor tries to give nature
(ts best chance by saving the little
strength of the already exhausted
patient, and building up wasted energy
with simple but powerful nourishment.
"Five years ago," writes a doctor,
"I commence.* to use Postum in my'
own family instead of coffee. I was
so well pleased with the results that'
[ had two grocers place it in stock,
guaranteeing its sale.
"I then commenced to recommend
it to my patients in place of coffee,
as a nutritious beverage. The con-:
* ~ '? ^Anfn la*
6equence is, every oiuic m iu?u.
now selling it, as it has become a
household necessity in many bomes.
"I'm sure 1 prescribe Posl.um as
often as any one remedy in the Ma- X
teria Medica?in almost every case
of indigestion and nervousness I
treat, and with the best results.
"When I once introduce it into a ifcmily,
it i3 quite sure to remain. Ii
shall continue to use it and prescribe'
it in families where I practice.
4'r~ frnni nn^nirinnia.
typhoid fever and other cases, I give
it as a liquid, easily absorbed diet.
You may use my letter as a reference
any way you sea fit." Name
given by Tostum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. Read "The Road to Wellvllle"
la pkgs. " TUero's a ra&wa."