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1 ?M? iSil* RESORT TO GDNSGBIPTION U. S. War Department Exercised Over Lack of Recruits. PROBLEM GROWING SERIOUS More Pay, Conscription or Xo Men, ?- Says the Annual Report of Adjt.Gen. Ainsworth ? Suggestions For Luring Recruits. Washington, D. C.?Another evidence that there is "something wrong ; with the army" is contained in the annual report of Major-General Ainsworth, Adjutant-General of the army. ' He shows that the authorized enlist- i ed strength of the army on October ' 15 last was 69,861, exclusive of the Porto Rican provisional regiment and the Philippine scouts, while the ac- ' tual number of enlisted men in the i army on the same date was only ] 50,190, or nearly 20,000 less than the authorized strength. On October .15, 1906, the deficiency was only 7S30. The 3400 enlisted men of the hospital corps are not included in the number given. General Ainsworth says that the falling off in strength is due to the fact that it was impossible to obtain enlistments and re-enlistments sufficient to fill the places vacated by men separated from the service by expiration of their term of enlistment, and other causes. Commenting upon this situation, General Ainsworth says that if something is not done to improve the situation it may be necessary to resort to conscription. Upon this subject he says: "Notwithstanding efforts on the part of the War Department and the recruiting officers and their parties in all parts of the country, it has been found impossible wholly to make good the losses occurring in the present strength of the army, to say nothing of increasing that strength 3 1 1 A 4 to tne limit autnonzea uy i?w ami j executive order. "The Government in its efforts to procure men for the army is now competing everywhere with private em ployers who are able to offer men much greater inducements than the Government now offers, at least in the matter of pay. If present conditions continue there will be nothing for the Government to do but to meet this competition by materially increasing the soldiers' pay or to evade these competitions altogether by a resort to conscription." As to the causes for this state of affairs, the adjutant-general says they are the same to a considerable extent as those which lead to desertion. During the last fiscal year there were 4522 desertions?5.6 per cent, of the army?as against 7.4 per cent, during the preceding year. Reasons for the decrease are not difficult to find, according to the report. They are, in brief, the substitution of confinement in *he military prison at Fort Leavenworth for confinement at military posts, as a punishment for desertion; the discontinuance of final enlistments at recruiting stations, with the \ resulting ciiuiiuaiiuu iug vv. centage of men who were reasonably ] certain to desert within a few days , after enlistment under the old sys- j tern; and the other reasons, already referred to, which prevent the full re- < cruitment of the army. These are: ' The low rate of pay, as compared \ with that obtaining in civil life; dis- < satisfaction with the hard work of practice marches, drills and the fa- . tigue duties necessary to keep a post , In good condition; the abolition of ; the canteen; failure of recruits to t appreciate the obligations of a con- s tract, and their ignorance of the ^ character of the crime of desertion; frequent changes of company officers, , due to a shortage of officers, and the lack of experienced, capable, wellpaid and satisfied non-commissioned J officers. The report states that the means for the removal of most of these causes are obvious, and are j ' Vv Avnn rl fl^a 4 to a consiaerauit; c.vlcui. uc;uuu wv , control of the War Department, in 1 ? that it will require legislation by Congress, both to increase the pay j and to restore the canteen. < i 1 PROVISION PRICES DOWN. Sweeping Reductions Made by Chi- ! cago Wholesalers in Meat and Fowl, ] Chicago.?Sweeping reductions in \ the prices of meat and provisions are promised Chicago consumers as a result of a similar decline in the prices ' of live stock that has been going on ] for the last forty days. Reductions in the wholesale price of these commodities were made averaging about ten per cent, for all kinds of meats and poultry. ' . This reduction and the new schedule of prices undoubtedly will be put !, into effect at once. Decision Against Taggart's Hotel. j The case of the State against hotels in West Baden and French Lick, Jnd., was reversed by the Appellate : Court at Indianapolis. T!ie decision : says their charter did not authorize 1 gambling, which has been publicly ' done, and the case is remanded with instructions to overrule the demurrer, : which held the complaint insufficient. Thomas Taggart is the principal i stockholder in the French Lick Hotel : Company. Three Skaters Drowned. Elin Swift, aged fourteen years; Merle Mettler, fourteen, and Frank Hartfeld were drowned in Little Creek, Mason City, Iowa. The two gins were skating together when the ice broke. Young Hartfeld tried to | fescue them, but all three were drowned. Sailors Honor Helen Gould. The enlisted men of the Atlantic fleet presented to Miss Helen M. Gould a loving cup in recognition of her benefactions. t The Way to Commit Suicide. John C. McElmore, a young railroad man, was fatally injured at Charleston, S. C., while demonstrat 'i- J ?U - TTrt ing now to commit suiuiue. no placed a pistol to his head, and saying jokingly, "This is the way they do it," pulled the trigger. McElmore fell to the ground with a bullet in his brain. Japanese Raw Silk Trust Broken. The Japanese raw silk trust at Yokohama has been broken after a month's boycott by American manufacturers. MCIER ENDS HIS LIFE! ? Former President of Borough Bank! Dies by Own Hand in Brooklyn. Cut His Throat With a Razor in Man? sion He Had Lost?Deserted by His Allies. Rmnlrlvn. N. Y.?Broken in snirit by the loss of his fortune, obtained j by the use of the money of the depos- J itors of the Borough Bank; humil-, iated by his incarceration in Ray- j mond Street Jail and convinced that ! the men with whom he had dealt in | bis "high finance" operations had left > him to his fate, Howard Maxwell, for- ! mer president of the Borough Bank, j stood before a mirror in his home, at No. 182 Congress street, Brooklyn, j \ cut his throat and slashed his left ' | wrist. He used two razors and a pen- * knife. As he sank to the floor of the bathroom he screamed his wife's name. : That was the last word he uttered, ! his windpipe having been severed by | the two razor strokes. One sweep , was from left to right, the other from right to left. Mrs. Maxwell ran to the bathroom and found her husband unconscious. Two: doctors in the neighborhood were brought quickly to the house, and they stitched the windpipe and the radial artery in the left wrist. The operation of tracheo- r tomy was performed soon afterward s in the Long Island College Hospital, | but Maxwell died on the operating ta- j ble. j l The ruined banker had been appar-; sntly cheerful, though extremely ner- j , i rous from the time he returned on i U ? Vn/1 r? A i . Jiuuuctj ui^ui ant'i uc uau uccu an- j mitted to bail. His wife said he had I not threatened to kill himself, but jommiserated with her on their mon- j jyless condition. I i He spoke of the treatment he had eceived in comparison with that of < 3ow and Campbell, with wbom he I was indicted and who were bailed out < is soon as they had been arraigned. When Maxwell was dying another i i chapter in the Brooklyn bank scandal was being written in the County * 2ourt, where John G. Jenkins, Jr., i a 'ormer president of tbe Jenkins Trust ,t ] Company; his brother Frank, who; < lad been' president of the Williams- i jurg Trust Company, and his brother I Frederick, until recently a director!. , n the Jenkins Trust, were being ar- | aigned on a joint indictment charg- | ng them with forgery in the third j iegree. They were held in $10,000 - i sail each. John G. Jenkins, Jr., was smuggled 1 iway by hia counsel before the detec- 1 tives could reach him to carry him ijff to headquarters for the taking of bis picture and measurements for :he Bertillon record. He remained in lidtng and balked the police success- j Tr Cully. When Frank was arraigned ;wo hours afterward and bailed the i ietectives took him by force, and one ! mc )f the most remarkable scenes, i ^ amounting almost to a riot, took | cu ilace in the street. I g0 Depositors clamored for the life of m? the banker. They spat upon and | leered him. One man struck him a , m( stunning blow in the face, the police an making no attempt to arrest any of j up the assailants. i n? Meantime two detectives went to the home of Frederick Jenkins and, ^ ignoring his plea of illness, forced jje liim to choose between being dragged I 5ut of the house in- pajamas and go- { ing forth fully attired for the street. | VQ 3e chose to dress and accompany the . ou ietectives without further protest. ov rhey took him to Police Headquar-, ters and, in spite of his protest, 'mugged and measured" him. j .He was being led to court when he and his captors met the struggling co] :rowd abodt Frank. The brothers looked at each other without giving ac) i sign of recognition. Frederick was arraigned and bailed without further trouble. he riCK IS KILLING PARTRIDGES.! we i mc Because of Inscct's Ravages a Long Closed Season is Advocated. j ^ Albany, N. Y.?A movement is on jU] Coot to have a closed season of from ho two to five years in this State on par- ha OW/I +Via Of ofo Qllf linriHoo fa. , XT 7 LI iU5CD, auu LUC kjtutv autuuiivivo *.%* , yy vor such a measure. Such a season ; ' is urged to permit the hirds to recov- ha 9r from the ravages of the tick, an Th Insect which has depleted the birds Be] in this State, New Jersey and Canada. <u? Hunters who have been out this cai fall report few birds, and the offi- th< cials of the Forest, Fish and Game t>r, Department learned that the reason for the scarcity was the fatal effects j af the tick, for many dead birds were 1 found. 1 ru Old sportsmen report that there rei was a similar attack of these insects twenty-five years ago. . | ROOSEVELT PLEDGE TO CUBA. foi United States Will Withdraw When ^ mi the Islanders Request It. i en Tampa, Fla.?General Carlos Gar- w( r>ia vp1p7. nnft of Cuba's foremost on men, who has been in this country to< several months on commission to investigate American prison and char- res [table institutions, has sailed for Ha- Ce] vana. cu While at Washington he called cn ufj President Roosevelt, >and was author- thi ized to say to the Cuban people that thi the United States would withdraw whenever Cuba felt that intervention was no longer necessary and would . make formal request. General Velez hurried home by request of his Government to use his influence in the - . settlement of the strike troubles at Havana- thi Dinner to Bryan. ' tic At the dinner given him in Wash- an ington. D. C., by the "United Democ- tic racy of the District of Columbia" W. in; J. Eryan compared the policies of the mi President with those which he be- sh lieves the Government should adopt. pic re; Central Bank Advocated. of Senator Hansbrough, of North Da- re kota, announced in Washington that gi' he intends to introduce a bill estab- th lishinsr a Federal central bank of is- rif sue. th; de The Other Side of the World. Since the close of the war 3S96 new companies have been promote * in Japan, which, with extensions of a 1 old companies, call for $450,000,000 capital. Ee The South Manchuria Railway Company is buying 150 locomotives do and other railway equipment and sup- . aii plies to the aggregate value of $5,000,000. th( Australia is rapidly increasing her gtj imports of iron and steal manufactures, steam and other engines, locomotives, electrical machinery and ag- p? ricultural implements, but most of the orders are going to Great Britai^ ?Cartoon bj \ SOME EFFECTS OF THE R1 Panic,began on October 10. Ten banks in New York City su suspension. Thirty-five banks in other cities Eighteen deaths have resulted, < brought on by worry. Three men have been indicted an it least fonr others are likely to he. O ? I Vnnlr m ocvcuiccu uauiu ui iicir xuia vi part. Fifty-four banks in other citites Fifteen of this whole number ha About $125,000,000 has been wi 2ity, much of it, however, to be rede] $535,000,000, estimated, has bee Sold engaged from abroad Honey sent from New York for relief Uities over 100,000 population using cates lmount of clearing house certificate York 'Mills and factories closed or party J ^Number of employes out of work. . Vumber of factories and mills assigni * * Amount of money involved In faili Facts of Prcvi 1857.... Specie payment 1873... .Specie payment 1893.... Specie payment * Only enterprises employing 50 vay operations included. Only failures involving $5000 Above facts and figures taken fri Fork Tribune from all over the coun RESUME OF agedy and Comedy?How the C Grew From a S New York City.?The financial sq >re than four weeks, and the people 3 worst is over, are gathering about ssing what might be called the sui me of these are mentioned, even yei my of them, however, is found humoi For iHStance, back in Kankakee tb >ney lender who went to the city to d had to charter a truck and a freigl roarious laughter. But the story of 1 r is recalled in silence. Her small si e stood before its doors a whole nigl 3 suspension notice was posted, weak ath. The whole trouble seemed to start insignificant failure. The failure, hi Iving the names of several prominen t of office, and runs started on their ' er New York City. The communitj ills of panic and the ague passed in 3 Bronx, Brooklyn and Williamsburg I on thin ice scrambled for the she lat support they had had, and they Id black waterof the law. On this phase of the situation a H :ive in the banking world for neatly 1 Banker on -t! "There are many bankers, cashien said, "who would live to old age wii ire no such thing as bank runs and p: )ney he has 'borrowed'?quote that 1 tually be able to return It if everyth knows his bank is involved in troi rough, and he finds his books -in the 1 mping on necks with hobnails in our : nest men to-day would have had the d a financial flurry occurred at just t ho can tell?" The panic passed over the country ttc^n Island. This wave's progress ie day of the first trouble here, Bosti iding in optimistic reports in an "I t motphna frnm thoon tnlfl nf nrpi -- v A utions were taken up by cities a little jmselves involved in runs and suspens ake itself, so to speak, on the Pacific < Different Kinc There have been, bankers say, th ns and runs started by mistake. Th suiting from the unsettled state of cr< At least two runs were started by e general banking situation. A run on a bank up the State was ;elephone message from home that soi .* the baby. The cashier called an off s bank In telling him the errand, an snition, "Now run." Unfortunately t terlng and heard only the word "ru ;re influential men in the communit; t all their deposits their example was jk up the case there and handled it in The use of clearing house certifica' Alted In some curious incidents. Ii [>ted on street cars. In one town in rrency was pecullai-ly felt the merchi acturers, paid their workmen in the 3 town Is now in possession of a cu: at of Uncle Sam. Lots of Silt Restaurant men down town, especi ops, say they have never in their live ich small gold. One of the cheaper iday night had more than $200 in Lght and new, but dated from 1870 t lo heretofore has done the banking f a deposit to the bank, and a waiter ha In the mining communities and t< ins are going on the employers have d keep them cheerful. A check meai in hand as a Sanskrit handbill, and w g these unusual bits of paper instead iny instances riot ensued. Many o own in the accompanying table were 1 jyers to get money to pay off their n And now the climax of the situati suming work and paying their men 1 the banks of New York City and otl placed, at least in part, by gold fron ring up their hoards, aud the thin la: e covers r the strong boxes and the 1 jht wind i to give confidence to th< at many savings banks put upon wit ed, to claim their money; the goose ii Minor Mention. China is said to be on the verge of evolution. y f President Fallieres will visit the j nperor of Russia next year. ;1 Emperor William declared in Lon- 1 n that world peace is his steadfast i ] n. 11 Admiral Sir John Fisher said that i a British Navy had uever been so i ong as it is now. j ] To copy Gettysburg ideas into a 1 oposed military park on the Plains Abraham, Quebec, Sir Frederick >rden and General Lake will visit 1 0 Pennsylvania battlefield. : -MUM I ' F. Bowert, in the Indianapolis News. SCENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. I iffered runs, some of which forced ' suffered runs. iither suicides or through sickness id arrested for hank fund juggling; > ty suspended payment wholly or in suspended. ve resumed. thdrawn from banks in New York 1 posited iu other banks. n withdrawn from banks elsewhere. , $81,225,000 of interior 100,000,000 clearing house certifl 23 s outstanding in New $75,000,000 suspended 125 135.000 ng 14 ires $28,805,000 ous Panics. s suspended 8 weeks. / s suspended 6 weeks. s suspended 5'weeks. 0 or more men considered. Rail- 1 or more considered. am telegraphic advices to the New try. 1 -M-nA I i 11_ r/Ai^iiv.. ountry-Wldc Financial Squeeze mall Failure. ueeze has now been on for a trifle all over the country, realizing that the stoveB in the corner stores, dis?erflcial developments of the panie. t, with the old shiver of alarm. In r; in others tragedy. te experience of the old "tight wad" collect a note, insisted on currency it car to get it home is greeted with the little widew Just around the coram was in a city bank which closed. It and a day, and came home, when ened in body and literally scared to ; from one apparently?at that time swever, was followed by rumors int bankers. These were soon forced banks. The trouble spread in waves r's spine was shaken with the cold waves from Wall Street to Harlem, . Bank officers who had been skatire, but their moves only shattered found themselves struggling in the 'arlem bank president who has been two score years commented. be Panic. ), bookkeepers and clerks included," thout the blight of dishonor if there mics. A man may have invested the word, plfease?so safely that he will ing goes right. But the first thing tible like that we have just passed lands of the bank examiner. Before boots, lets stop and think how many blight of State's prison on their past he right, or, rather, the wrong time. ' like a wave, with its start in Manis reflected in the news dispatches, an, Philadelphia and Pittsburg were' old you so" tone. The next day the cautionary measures. Then the prefurther on, and those near by found lions. And so it went until the wave Dcean and the Gulf of Mexico. Is of Runs. ree kinds of runs?panic runs, silly e panic runs were the general order jdit. mistakes in newspaper stories about caused in this way: The cashier got ne medicine was needed immediately ice boy, followed him to the door of d sped him on his way with the adwo or three panicky depositors were n" coming from the cashier. They V, and when they immediately drew i followed by several others. Rumor . its old thorough-going manner, bes and the premium on money have 1 St. Louis the certificates were acthe Middle West where the lack of ants, nearly, all of whom were manold-fashioned "shin plasters," and rrency of Its own, supplemented by er Used. ially proprietors of the grab-and-run s seen so many silver dollars and so restaurants in closing business on 1 sliver dollars. Most of these were 0 1880. The young woman cashier,, or the concern, was unable to carry d to be &ant with her. Dwns in which large railroad operabeen put to it to pay off their men is about as much to an ordinary sechen the men found they were receiv[ of their wages they struck, and in f the shut-downs and curtailments due Bolely to the inability oi the emrien, and not to. insolvency on seems to be past. Factories are n currency. Money has poured out ler large financial centres, and been 1 Europe. Stockings are once more 7ers of new dust have been swept off ines of depositors are forming at the j weak kneed. The thirty-day limit hdrawals has expired, with few, in5 hanging, high. The World of Sport. Cobb snares witn tiai *jnuse tuts 1 'ame of being "the most remarkable I roung player of the day." Princeton runners defeated Yale | epresentatlves In a six and a half ( iille race across country by 48 points ;o 31. The White Stockings have picked up a Chicago semi-professional ditcher named Most, of whom great :hings are expected. Frank Farrell, who owns both the Yankees and the Montreal Club, of ;he Eastern League, has decided to sell his Canadian organization. SEES FIVE CHILDREN BUI IH HIS HOI Wife and Older Sons Unconscious Beside Father. BABE SAVED IN WOMAN'S ARMS Aroused by Dog, Oil Man at Tioncsta, Pa., Saves Four of Family by Desperate Efforts in Flames? Exhausted Ere Task Ends. Franklin, Pa.?Exhausted by desperate efforts to break through a barrier of. flame and half-unconscious from smoke, Thomas Zuver, one of the best known oil producers in this part of the State, lay in the road beside his house near Tionesta and saw his home, with five o? his eight children in it, burn. Wilbur Vuver, seventeen years old, and Nelson, fourteen, were senseless beside him, having been burned terribly in attempts to rescue their two younger brothers and three little sisters. On the other side of Zuver, in a swoon, lay Mrs. Zuver, with her baby in her arms. The five children were burned in their beds. Either they were suffocated by smoke before the flames got to them or were paralysed by fear. Any effort at escape they might have made would have been futile, for they were hemmed in a ring of fire. That the whole family did not meet death in the bla2e was due to the barking of Zuver's dog, and to his own heroism. Zuver saved his wife and baby and his first and second sons before his strength failed. Tragedy was piled on tragedy; for three hours after the flames had de? Btroyed five of her children, Mrs. Zuver received a dispatch telling of the sudden death of her mother, Mrs. Martha Ive, in Van Buren, Ind., and saying the elder woman's body would arrive. It was decided that one funeral service would be held over Mrs. Ives and her five grandchildren. Nelson Zuver was burned so frightfully in trying to save his brothers and sisters that it is feared he cannot recover. Mrs. Zuver, already prostrated by the loss of her children, was thrown into such a terrible condition by the news of her mother's death that much apprehension was felt for her. Zuver heard his dog barking at 5 o'clock. He was dizzy when he tried to rise from bed, and several seconds passed before he realized the room was thick with smoke. The man aroused his wife hastily and bade her flee with the baby. He tried to run up to the stairs to the second floor to awaken the seven children sleeping there, but flames beat him back, singeing him cruelly. Then he dashed out of the house and climbed to the roof of the porch. He smashed a window pane, unfastened the sash and dragged out Wilbur and Nelson, both of whom were unconscious. STUDENTS SEE COMRADE DIE. Young Walker Climbs Iron Pole to Get Raincoat at Princeton. Princeton, N. J. ? Racked and burned by 2500 volts of electricity which seared his hands to the bone and distorted his features terribly, James T. Walker, Jr., nineteen years old, one of the most promising and popular of the Princeton Univer3}ty athletes and regarded as a certainty for end on the football team for next year, was killed in front of his dormitory in the university grounds. He climbed an iron pole to get his rubber coat. It had been thrown from one of the dormitory windows by his roommate and had lodged on an electric light wire twenty feet from the ground. Young Walker came to Princeton from Evansville, Ind. He was in the freshman class, and was going ahead and making an excellent record not only in his studies but also in athletics. He prepared for the university at Haverford School, in Haverford, Pa., and played end here this year with the freshman eleven. His play was brilliant, and he was one of the stars for the 1911 team. GOVERNMENT TAKES CHECKS. Collector of Internal Revenue Author, ized to Accept Them. Cincinnati, Ohio.?Bernhard Bettmann, Collector of Internal Revenue, said that he had received a telegram from Commissioner John G. Capers, of Washington, authorizing him to accept cashiers' checks,- drafts and certificates of deposits in payment for revenue stamps to be used on liquors. VENEZUELA RAISES DUTIES. Tariff on Farm Products Up 10 Pet Cent.?On Paper Up 25 Per Cent. Caracas, Venezuela.?A decree was issued with the object of protecting the agricultural industries. Tt increases ten ner cent, the duties on lard, butter, rice, wheat, corn and beer, and twenty-five per cent, the duties on straw, paper, potatoes, milk and some grades of glassware. Tennessee Ousts Oil Trust. A decree in favor of the State wa9 rendered by Chancellor J. W. Stout, at Gallatin, Tenn., in a case against the Standard Oil Company. Because of illegal discrimination at Gallatin, the State filed a bill to revoke the license of the Standard and to prevent it from doing business in Tennessee. Reconciled After Duel. Count Jean Recope and Count Tristan de Gramedo fought a duel with pistols at Saint Cloud, near Paris; both being wounded in the first exchange of shots a reconciliation followed. Million Less Cotton Bales. The census at Washington, D. C., reports 7,311,202 bales of cotton ginned from the 1907 crop up to No- | vember 14. This is against 8,5 62,242 for 1906, and 7.501,ISO for 1905 This counts round bales as half bales. The Field of Sports. Willie Hoppe, the billiardist, Jr reported to be coming back to America. P. T. Powers was unanimously reelected president of the Easterc Baseball League. Calvin Demarest, the present amateur billiard champion, is reported tc be playing better than ever. Newman, a star tackle at the Washington and Jefferson team, joined the football squad at Lafayette. Yale has a kiclcer in Coy, who, except possibly in quickness, compares foimrnhiv with Burr. of Har* 11WOU II*. Viuuij ' -"? ' vard- I ROBBERS LOOT ILLINOIS BANK Lock Cashier, His Assistant and Bookkeeper in Vault First Give Alarm Themselves and Lose Part of Booty in Making Their Escape From Clinton. Bloomington, 111.?The State Bank at Clinton was robbed of 52200 in coin shortly before 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Just a few minutes after j closing time two men appeared In J the bank and, with drawn revolvers, forced George Argo, assistant cashier; T. R. Murphy, cashier, and John Young, bookkeeper, to enter the big vault, which they locked. The bulk of the money had already been placed in the currency safe in the vault and the time lock set, but $2200 in gold and silver Remained on the counter. This the robbers shoveled into a bag and took with them to the Hotel Henion, where they had previously engaged a room. They had arranged the money in rolls so that it could bo easily carried, and were just about to leave the hotel when officers learned of their presence and attempted to break in the door. Before they succeeded, however, the robbers jumped from a window an to an adjoining roof, taking only the $700 in gold and leaving $1500 in silver in the room. It was dark when the men escaped from the .hotel and all trace of them was lost. A posse was organized and went in pursuit. Before the highwaymen left the bank building they called up the telephone operator and requested her to send some one to the bank and release the three officials imprisoned in the vault. Charles Parker, collector for the bank, was the only person who knew the combination to the vault, and after a short search he was found and hurried to the assist ance 01 me imprisoned men. vyutu Parker opened the vault door the three men were almost suffocated. i 1200 ARABS KILLED. ? Part of a Body That Attacked French Troops?Fighting Renewed. Lalla Maghnia, Algeria. ? Ten thousand of the fiercest Benis Nassen tribesmen swooped down on the French camp and were beaten off with a loss of 1200 killed. The fighting continued for a long time and was conducted on the part of the tribesmen apparently with total disregard for their lives. At oza time the French infantry were in danger of being surrounded, but they Anally disengaged themselves from their perilous position by a most brilliant charge of the Spahis. The rout of the Arabs was completed by vigorous shelling by the artillery. The French loss was eight killed. The Arabs were not discouraged by this severe repulse, but reformed their forces and in addition directed their efforts to rousing other tribes. The fighting was resumed next day, and the booming of cannon could be heard throughout the afternoon. PRESIDENT FLIPPED COIN. Patronage of South Dakota Divided Between Two Senators. Washington, D. C.?By flipping a coin and drawing lots President Roosevelt divided the Federal patronage of South Dakota between its hostile ' Senators, A. B. Kittredge and Robert J. Gamble. Sixteen important Federal jobs were thus apportioned, worth $40,000. For two years the Senators have been at strife. Senator Kittredge sought to accomplish Senator Gamble's defeat last winter. Senator Gamble hopes to take Senator vKittredee's scalD when he stands for re election next year. Mr. Klttredge is a stalwart. Mr. Gamble is an "insurgent." Mr. Kittredge is for Taft and promises to deliver the State delegation. Mr. Gamble is a third term boomer. KILLS HER (RIVAL. Baltimore Woman, Surprising the Couple, Shoots Woman. Baltimore, Md. ? Mrs. Annie E. Maith surprised her husband, John E. Maith, at the home of Mrs. Sallie Brown, a widow. The husband ran out of the house, partly clothed, it is said, and his wife, drawing a pistol from her reticule, after accusing Mrs. Brown of taking away her husband, shot the woman dead as she sat in a chair. . Mrs. Maith is thirty-five and Mrs. Brown was twenty-nine. Maith, who ia an engineer, disappeared. Mrs. Maith surrendered to the police and declared she has no recollection of what occurred after she drew the revolver. CHEATS LAW BY SWIFT SUICIDE. Louis Straus, Mine Broker, Had Lost $200,000 in Slump. New York City.?While detectives were wa.1u1.15 uuwu 01a.no w him for forgery, Louis Straus, a wealthy mine broker, of Np. 16 New street, committed suicide in his home at No. 18 West Eighty-third street. He had lost more than $200,000 in the recent slump and faced a charge of hypothecating a forged bill of lading with William A. Avis, of No. 7 a Front street, for $5000. It is believed that this is but one of many charges that would have 1 been brought against him. Bigelow, 90; Carnegie, 70.* John Bigelow, lawyer, journi-iist, statesman, diplomat, useful citizen celebrated his ninetieth birthday iu his home, 21 Gramercy Park, New York City. Rather, his friends celebrated it for him, as the veteran sat quietly in the reception room while all the morning messages of congratulation and flowers were brought tc him and all the afternoon friends called to pay their respects, un me i same day in New York Andrew Carnegie and his friends observed his seventieth birthday. Women in the Day's News. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has become a member of the New York State Assembly of Mothers. Vicomtesse Vigier, formerly Sophia Cruvelli, the famous Italian prima donna, died at Nice, eighty-one years old. The women doing housework in Naw Zealand have struck for shorter hours and higher wages and won their case. Edith Van Buren obtained in Naples a divorce from a man who pretended to be a count but proved to be a convict. _ | FOOTBALL'S DEATH ? RECORD FOR 1907 Eleven Players Killed and 98 Seriously Hurt by New Game. EFFECT 0? "DEBRUTALIZATION" College Teams Show Decrease of Casualties, While Outsiders' Deaths Increased?Other Comparisons of the Progress of the Sport. Chicago.?The season of "debru talized" football practically ended with a record of eleven deaths and ninety-eight players more or less seriously injured. There is no decrease In the number killed, and only a slight reduction in the number hurt, as compared with last year's figures. The deaths by States in 1906 and <" 1907 follow: State. 1906. 1907; Illinois 0 2 Ohio 3 2 New Jersey 2 1 Pennsylvania 1 1 Michigan 1 1 Indiana 1 l-_ Utah ,... 0 1 Connecticut 0 1 Iowa 0 1 Montana % 0 ' Canada 2 0 Totals U 11 While the totals do not differ, the record kept by the Chicago Tribune shows a decrease in the deaths of college and high school players, as compared to the years 1905 ani 1906. This record follows: 1905. 1906. 1907. , High school players. 10 7 5 College players..... 3 3 2 Girl players 1 ' 0 0 Other players 5 1 4 . Total-... 19 11 11 The causes of death are shown inthe following table: . "1905. 19(fir 1907. Eody blows....!... 4 3 4 Injuries to spine... 3 ; 0 -1 * . Concussion of brain .6 3 2 Elood poisoning.... 2 2 0, Other causes 4 3 4.> " The injured were classified as fol- , lows: 1905.1906.1907.. College players.... .78 54 51 High-schoolplayers. 39 25 24 Grade school players 7 11 9 Athletic clubs 7. 10 5 A.11 others 6 3 9 Total 137 103 . 98 , All the college and high school > games were played under the new rules adopted at the closing of 1906 , season to satisfy the demand for less dangerous football. In that year and preceding ones the ; casualties fell heaviest on high school players, who played the game exactly as it was played by the college men. In college teams the chief requisite was weight, strength and ability to stand the terrific punishment in line* smashing and mass plays. In a modified form the same condl* tions ruled in school football, but here, while the possibility of punishment was as great, the strength to resist was less, and the weaker mem* bers of the team seldom came through a game unscathed. The heav$ death rate among "outsiders" or independent players this year confirms the view of' coaches generally that the new rules, if followed, will eliminate much of the danger of the gridiron. The outsiders have been slow to modify their play, and have suffered in consequence. Analysis of the nature of the more serious injuries sustained this year , compared with the record last season, shows the good effect of the modified rules on the gridiron. With one ex* ceptlon there is a reduction all along the line. The following figures reveal the vast improvement made in this direction: 1906. 1907. Broken legs 17 12 Concussion of the brain.. 7 9 Broken collar bones 12 F> Broken arms 7 r< Broken hands 6 " Broken noses 3 Miscellaneous injuries . .41 7 The value of the new rules is reflected further by the reports from the big college games. Not a single serious injury has been sustained by Yale, Harvard or Princeton In the East, nor by the University of Chicago in the West. Michigan had two men hurt, and 1 it is too soon to say whether or not thoir injuries will be of lasting nature. In the three big games, the Ma- > roons and Indians here, the Yale-Harvard contest at Cambridge, and the Wisconsin-Minnesota struggle at Madison, not a single player was severely hurt. Railways Divide Territory. The Public Service Commission discovered an agreement between the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and Long Island Railroad Companies by which territory was divided, with doubled fare and inconvenience to the public as results. Regent For Belgium. It Is predicted in court circles that Prince Albert is likely to be appointed Regent of Belgium soon, owing to King Leopold's frequent absences from the capital. Mrs. Croker Killed by News. When told of the accidental drowning of her son, George Croker, foreman of a ranch near Denver, Col., his mother, Mrs. Sarah A. Croker, aged sixty-five years, of Millarton, N. B., who was visiting her son, fell dead. Carloads of Hogs Burned. The Bourbon StocWYards in Louisville have been destroyed by fire. The loss on the stock yards plant is estimated at $250,000. Ten carloads of Iiogs were burned. ' The Field of Labor. The International Spinners' Union has decided on the establishment of a defense fund. The next international convention of Steamfitters and Helpers will be held in Detroit, Mich. Textile workers have issued over sixty charters since the last convention in October, 1906. If plans of union men in Milwaukee, Wi3., are carried out a new labor organization will be formed. The Wisconsin State Federation of ihnr has started a movement for the uuODtlon of a universal union label. I