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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
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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. <
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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!
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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.
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riCK IS KILLING PARTRIDGES.! we
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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^
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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
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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. :
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' 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
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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*
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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.
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1200 ARABS KILLED.
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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.
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