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'bimwi; LIQUOR LOSS $150,001 Gov. Forfs Threat of Troops Ter rorizes Resort Owners. BIG CROWD, PERFECT PEAC! Placard in One Place Heads "R*v For Governor Fort!"?Sonier' Point and Other Near-By Be sorts Equally "Dry." Atlantic City.?The city was abso lutely "dry" on Sunday. It has no been so on any Sunday for more tha: two years, and the situation pre sented is the sensation of the presen season. It was the one theme of th Boardwalk comment, and many ai old stager found himself unconscious ly wandering to a lavonts nauni oni to be confronted by an inhospitabl; closed door. It is estimated that th saloons lost $150,000 by the strict en forcement of the order to close. Gov ernor Fort's threat to call the Legis lature and aslc for power to put troop here struck terror to all the resor keepers. In the full compliance with th law, all window blinds in cafes an< saloons were up. so any one coul< gaze inside. There was not a suspi cion anywhere of a side or a bad door open for the hopelessly thirsty and "high signs" of any secret orde whatever simply did not go. It wa a case of "all hope for a drink aban Jon ye who enter here." A bulletin posted in Police Head quarters read, with just the slightes touch of humor: "Bulletin No. 4, 9 a. m.?Saloon: all closed. No troops in town." Another bulletin officially signec by the Chief of Police, was printed oi a card. It read: "In 1861 it was 'hold the fort. To-day it's Fort holds you." "I don't believe any town ever wa: wiJl Via mnro rnm nl 1 closed so far as the enforcement o: the Sunday selling law Is concerned,' said Chief of Police Woodruff. Closings were as complete on At lantic, Arctic and Baltic avenues her< as along the Boardwalk. Plair clothes policemen who tried to bu} half-pint flasks along Baltic avenut were told there was "nothing doing.' Many of the corner saloons on Arcti< avenue were conspicuously placardec thus: "This place is closed 'Rah foi Governor Fort!" Some thought the closing up on the last Sunday in August would keei many persons away from the resort but they were mistaken. For, if anything, the crowd which came 10 the shore just to spend the day was unuually large, thousands evidently having decided to take a run down to see how the place would take the closing proposition. If these expected anj excitement, however, they were disappointed, for there was no trouble on any part of the island. The cafe and bar proprietors had entered intc an agreement to comply rigidly with the law, and comply they did witt the best of grace, beginning at midnight precisely. The police used nc persuasive efforts, and all was as peaceably accomplished as if Sundaj closing were the most usual of mat ters at tnis place. Hundreds of thirsty tourists, who failing .to obtain the refreshment thej sought in beach cafes during the morning, hastened to Somer's Poinl by trolley with the assurance thai there would be no difficulty in getting anything and everything a dry palate might crave in the bay resort, fourteen miles from the city. They relumed in dejection with the tidings that Somer's Point was also 'dry." r yrl t\ , . ?\V* Battleship Fleet at Melbourne. The American battleship arrivet at Melbourne, Australia, on time anc safe. 1 - t / PROSPERITY HITS TRENTON. Number of the Unemployed Ha Dwindled to Almost Nothing. Trenton, N. J.?This city has bc-ei struck by a prosperity wave whicl promises to continue for severa mouths, and which is likely to mak< ui? materially the financial losse caused by the recent depression. Sev eral mills are working night and day The number of unemployed has dvrin died to almost nothing. FALL KILLS BASEEALL KOOTER Forgets He -is in a Tree Top in Hi Delirium of Cheering. Campbell,Mo.?Forgetting hie per llous position on the limb of a tree ii his enthusiasm over a home run mad by his favorite baseball team, Rober Shoemaker, sixteen years old. wavei ^ his arms in a frenzy of delight, wit! the result that he fell from the tree He broke his right arm, suffered fracture of the skull aud received ir ternal injuries. He died in his hom thres hours after the accident. REMAINS THE SAME Well Brewed Postum Always Pal at able. The flavour of Postum, wnen uunei according to directions, is always th eame?mild, distinctive, and palata ble. It contains no harmful sub Btance like caffeine, the drug 1 coffee, and hence may be used wit benefit at all times. "Believing that coffee was th f cause of my torpid liver, sick heac I ache and misery in many ways, writes an Ind. lady, "I quit an bought a package of Postum aboi i a year ago. I "My husband and I have been ? ' well pleased that w6 have continue ft to drink Postum ever since. We lii k the taste of Postum better tha I coffee, as it has always tne sau pleasant flavour, while coffee changi its taste with about every new cor bination or blend. "Since using Postum I have h? no more attacks of gall colic, tl heaviness has left my chest, and tl old, common, every-day headache a thing unknown." "There's a Re son." Name given by Postum Co., Batt Creek, Mich. Read "The Road Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A n< one appears from time to time. Th kare genuine, true, and full of ham feterest. IMG FSUL ro si 1 ? Six Women and One Man Drown When Sloop Capsizes. Only Three of Ten Prominent Summer Tourists Rescued in Pens'-' obscot Bay Tragedy. . i h i Deer Isle. Me.?Six women and a ? I man,- all summer resorter? here, lost s their lives when a thirty-five-foot ! sloop was thrown on its beam ends i by a sudden squall in Penobscot Bay. i Three men succeeded in climbing intc t j the dinghy that was being towed by o the slcop, but they were almost over come from exhaustion in battling t against the growing seas when picked e up by a fishing tug. The disaster was witnessed on the shore by about 1000 persons from hotels and cottages. A dozen sloops y put out to the rescue, but the wreck y j had floated a quarter mile to leeward I before they reached it. By that time [ the fishing tug had the rescued men * ashore and two bodies had been re covered. The dead are: Mrs. Lucy S. Craw9 ley, wife of Professor Edwin S. CrawA 1 TT? i ii.. TDVi U 1 I ley, universny ul reuua,iiiauia, x un| adelphia; Alice and Eleanor Torro, 2 j sisters, Washington; Evelyn and 1 Lutie Kellogg, sisters, Baltimore; 1 | Miss Elizabeth G. Evans, of Mount - Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and i | Jason C. Hutchings, of Billerica. , Mass., a student in the Bangor Thecr i logical Seminary, and who had been s filling a pulpit in Sunset, Deer Isle, for the summer. Professor Crawley, Henry B. Evans, - brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans, and t j Captain Samuel Haskell, skipper of the s\oop, were the men to save them3 selves by reaching the dinghy. Haskell had a reputation as one of the 1 most skillful yachtsmen on Deer Isle. i . PROUTY FOR GOVERNOR. Republicans Elcct State Ticket in Vermont by 28,000 Plurality. t ! Burlington, Vt. ? Incomplete re' turns indicate that the Republicans have about 2S.000 plurality in the State election. 3 Returns from fifty-six towns show i an aggregate decrease in the Repub' lican plurality of 1471 from that of ? 1904, which would i*dicate a plural' Ity for Prouty and Mead of about 26,5 000. I In 1904 Roosevelt's plurality was f 30.082. The State ticket elected is as folf lows: Governor, George H. Prouty, > of Newport; Lieutenant-Governor, , John A. Mead, of Rutland; Treasu rer, Edward H. Deavitt, ot Montpe! lier; Secretary of State, Guy W. Bai j ley, of Essex; Auditor of Accounts, Horace F. Graham, of Craftsbury; ! Attorney General, John G. Sargent, I of Ludlow. ' The day brought no great surprise, 1 except in the number of legislators i elected by the Democrats. i With the election of the State ticki et the Congressional ticket also went i through, David J. Foster, of Burlingi ton, being returned for another term from the First District, and from the Second District, Frank Plumley, of i Northfield, for the first time. 1 Although the Republican majority in the Legislature will be reduced, a Republican will be elected to succeed i United States Senator Penfield Proc' tor. who died recently. ' The Prohibition party ran a close ! race with the Independence League. : while the Socialists were a poor fifth ! in the contest, i ATHLETES AT SAGAMORE. , Hearty Greetings and Congratulations at Oyster Eaj. i Oyster Bay, L. I.?The members of | the American Olympic team of 190S 1 will long remember their hearty re1 ! ception by President Roosevelt at j Sagamore Hill. The reeling of the j whole party was well expressed by I two of the winning athletes, who in| sisted upon the President accepting j one of their medals. The President I showed an intimate knowledge of s ' what each member of the team had f done, and praised them individually i and collectively, giving at the end a 3 i r\f o/YvSno I WU1U \jl aurxvv, l! e BLOWN TO PIECES BY OXYGEN. 3 1 i President Clifford Meets Horrible Death at Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls, N. Y.?John G. Clifford, president of the United Oxygen and Chemical Company, was blown m to pieces at the plant of the company in the presence of his eighteen-yearold son Roger. A tank of oxygen, charged to 2200 pounds, burst near him. Mi. Clif. ford's legs were torn off and hurled Q fifty feet into a field, but the boy was e uninjured. t I 3 ; , GREAT OIL FIRE OUT. B : j Centrifugal Pumps and Dynamite Save J Mexican Field?Loss $3,000,000. 5 j City of Mexico.?Word has reached j the firm of S. Pearson & Sons, that ' the great oil well fire which has S raged at Las Bocas for two months , ' has been extinguished. I Six giant centrifugal pumps poured j gravel and mud into the mouth of the boring well for ten days, and this, i coupled with persistent dynamite a blasting, smothered the flames. It is estimated that 3,000,000 barrels of oil, valued at $3,000,000, was burned. a ' h General Stewart Dead. Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart, e a noted Confederate offlccr, died at , Biloxi, Miss. General f ewart was ? born in Tennessee, 1821, and spent 1 the greater part of his life in that d State, but recently moved to Biloxi. it W. J. Bryan, Jr., Engaged. 10 The engagement of W. J. Bryan, Jr., and Miss Helen Berger, daughc ter of Alexander Berger, a miller ir i and member of Milwaukee's Board ie of Trade, was announced at Milwaukee, Wis. Q- ! Women in the Day's News. id Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley, 1 noted as the translator or tsaizac, .. died at Jackson, N. H. . That Mrs. Peter C. Hains, Jr., will testify as a witness for the State and a" not lift a hand to save her husband from the electric chair was emphale sized by her lawyer, Frank G. Wild, to of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mme. Ida Von Claussen, an Amer,w lean, who tried unsuccessful)' to get ' herself presented to the Swedish " court in 1907, is reported as about tc M wed one of two rival suitors, one a Russian prince, the other an Italiac prince. FUMED HOD FEET WTO rail, 5 HUE; Runaway Truck Crashes Into Ca Filled With Men. SPEED OF FORTY MILES AN HOU I Miners Killed at the Warrior Shaf Wilkes-Barrc, Pa., as They Wei Starting For Home?Headma Arrested. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.?Five men wer killed and many Injured at the Wai rior Run Colliery of the Lehigh Va ley Coal Company, when a runawa mine car da'shed into a car full c miners who were being pulled up 2000-foot slope. The dead: James Gallagher, age twenty-seven years, car runner, sir gle; Julius Kurtz, aged forty years miner, single; Frank Ostrolsk, age thirty-seven years, married, survive by wife and two children; Samue Ruscave, aged sixteen years, dooi tender; John Forkalshak, aged fift> one years, married, survived by wif and three children. William Naywadey, aged fort years, single, and Ignatz Gowlsk] aged thirty-two years, are fatally ir jured. Twelve others were more o less injured. The day's work had been finished i n?H tho hoaw wnnrlfin car. with fOU seats running crosswise, was fille with men, eager to gain the surfac and hasten home. The slope is 2000 feet long, run ning from the surface down to a vei which If about 900 feet under ground When the car reached the thir switching station on .the slope th men heard ,a sudden roar, and wer appalled upon looking up the slope t see a huge mine car rushing down a them with terrific speed. About half of the men were abl to jump from the truck and thus sav their lives, though all were more o less injured. The runaway, heavil laden with refuse, ran up the rope t which the truck was fastened an plunged down among the mine work ers. Both cars plunged 1000 fee down the slope; Investigation showed that the acci dent was the fault of John Stimcor aged twenty-six years, single, wh was headman at the slope. Stimcon failed to handle the load cd car properly, and it bacame un manageable. It dashed down th branch track, jumped the switch o to the main track, and plunged int the ascending truck while travelin at a speed of forty miles an houi The descending car weighed severs tons and dashed the men in the fron of the truck to instant death. Mine Superintendent Boyle arrest ed Stimcon for criminal negligent and censured the company for no having a head block at the end of th slope so that no car could gain th main slope, even though it did ru: away on the branch. MEAT PRICES SLUMP. Good News For Housewives in Ad vices From Packing Houses. Omaha, Neb.?Prices of fresh mea have taken a tumble and packin house managers report that a still fui ther reduction will be made in bee! pork and mutton. As a result of th | reduction in prices the volume o business in the South Omaha packin houses has increased almost 100 pe cent. Sirloin steaks have droppe from twenty and twenty-five cents pound to fifteen cents; ribs fell frot eighteen to fifteen cents; pork chop have fallen from fifteen cents t twelve cents, and prices on othe grades of meat are decreased propor j tionately. The downward trend In prices be gan two months ago, when the grass I fed cattle from the great ranges be M X- ?--* w,111 gan coming 10 nmr?.ei., anu ?n wu tinue until that grade is disposed of. CLOUDBURST IN NEW MEXICO Houses and People Swept Off in Floo at Folsom. Trinidad, Col.?A flood in the Cim marron River, following a cloudbursi washed away a number of dwelling at Folsom, N. M. Fifteen person are reported to have been drowned Eleven bodies have been recovered Ten miles of track and twelve bridge on the Colorado and Southern Rail way were washed out. The known dead at Folsom are * 6. Wenger, Mrs. R. B. Wenger, Mis Daisy Wenger, Miss Lucy Creightoi T. W. Wheeler, Mrs. T. W. Wheelei three Wheeler children, Mrs. Rook and T. W. Wheeler's sister-in-law whose name could not be learned. Several houses were swept awa completely and nearly every house i the town was damaged. PASTOR FOUND DEAD. Rev. O. B. MiUigan, Athlete an Golfer, Victim of Suicide or Murder Cleveland, Ohio.?"Goldie, tak rare of the children this afternoon; expect to go to the country club," sai the Rev. O. B. Milligan, pastor of th First Presbyterian Church, of Cantoi Ohio, to the housemaid. Two minute later the clergyman lay dead in hi study with a gashing wound just b< l low his heart from ona barrel of th shotgun found at his side. Whether the deed was premed tated, accidental or by the hand of ai other, intimate friends cannot detei mine. Burned Home; Hanged Herself. After supposing all night that Mr William Walker, wife of a Sanfor (N. Y.) farmer, had been burned t j death in her home, neighbors foun her body hanging from the Mmb of a J apple tree. A letter left by h? showed that she had set fire to tt house and then nanged herself. David B. Hill Returns. Ex-Senator David B. Hill said c his return from Europe that lie is 01 of politics and would not take a non ination for Governor of New York. The National Game. Larry Lajoie did not make a hit 1 the recent Cleveland-Boston series. Bridwell is playing a great fieldii game at short field for the Giants. Mike Donlin was the first Nation League player to make 100 safe hits Durham, an Indianapolis pltche , has been purchased by the New Yoi Nationals. ' "Show me a team that works thr > first class pitchers often and I'll she 1 you a team that wins more gam 1 than one that uses six or eight pitc ers," says Arthur Irwin. OUR TOURING NAV1 e y ?Cartoon ; PITTSBURG WOMEN YIELD [ r 1 Trapped by Assessors to Reveal B< Blue Book Used With Successe Into Telling About Stocl i- Pittsburg, Pa.?Wives of hunn dreds of Pittsburg rich men, after I. several years of alleged "holding out" d on the city assessors with their bonds e and mortgages, have at last been e taken into camp through a clever o move on the part of the assessors, t who are now boasting of it to the discomfiture of the women who wear e blue silk stockings. e The assessors claim to have uncovr ered assessable paper worth more y than $1,000,000, which has lain in o i rosewood cases for years under cover, d j the owners not caring to pay taxes on | it, and so never made returns of it to it | the assessors. j The Pittsburg blue book was the i- medium through which the assessors i, of Pittsburg hung one of the most o monumental bluffs ever worked off on unsuspecting women. The cry[ ing need of more taxable property l- appealed to the assessors, and they e decided to call on the rich women of a Pittsburg, who have long been suso j pected of having much taxable paper g which has never been turned in. Thousands of letters were sent out tl to Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. William ,t Jones or Mrs. James Green, asking them to please make statements to > the assessors regarding stocks, bonds, J( mortgages, etc., that they were supt posed to possess. This brought nothe ing. Mesdames Smith, Jones and e j Green ignored the summons as they q j had done for years. Finally the blue bdok was thought 1 of. There was some hard detective 1 work, and within a week other let| ters were sent out, but this time ad, I dressed t<5 Mrs. Lucille Jamison j Smith, Mrs. Vera Worthington Jones I and Mrs. Margaret Clancey Green, t I and the letters read something like g : this: | "My Dear Madam?You will please f, i furnish at once to the office of the e i City Assessors full particulars ref j garding that block of Pennsylvania g i * r I d ! * m a rvi /^d B~"V a | ljcrtivi/um Q ' 3 0 Lloyd-Georze Astounded by r | Little London. ? David Lloyd-George, , ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, has ? i returned to London. He said, when ? ; it was suggested that he discussed ; naval programs in the course of his l" | stay in Germany, that he had gone i to that country simply to investigate ! the German system of old age pensions. Punch, commenting on this, | says: "Now that his recommendad i tion to grant pensions has been j adopted he naturally feels that hs j. ! ought to seriously study the ques t, tion." g ' It seems, according to Mr. Lloydg i George's statements in an interview, [t | that he did not find the German sysj tem to be of such a socialistic chara j acter as he and his friends advocate t. WEDS COWGIR] ;s i' Emmett Dalton Pardoned From Pen e Bartlesville, Okla.?Emmett Dalr, J ton and Mrs. Julia Lewis were mar: ried here a few nights ago. y j A few months ago Dalton was parn j doned from the Kansas Penitentiary I where he was serving a life sentence [ for participation in the raid on the Coffey ville (Kan.) banks sixteer years ago. d | Julia Lewis is the widow of Er nest Lewis, who died in a Diooay ngm with Federal Marshals Keeler and e Williams in this city last November I Lewis killed Williams during the d battle, in which more than twentj e shots were fired in a small room Lewis served a term in the Coloradc !S Penitentiary for train robbery anc 's had worried the authorities of Kan sas and Oklahoma by conducting < e modern "Monte Carlo" on a narrov, strip of ground which he declared I- was owned by neither State. It was discovered later that he bad movec r" the State line marker six years be Find 7G79 Mexican Towns AffloJollTT 1X1 Ut V/lUViuiij * -------Q City of Mexico.?The geographica q | commission appointed by the govern d ment seven years ago to map all o the towns of the country have jus ' made their report. They make thi ' astounding statement that they dis covered 7G79 towns which were no officially known to exist and whicl have heretofore had no federal con trol. in Many of these towns are of con Jt siderable size, ranging in populatio: a- from 5000 to 15,000 people. About Noted People. Senator Scott, of West Virginia [n was bruised in a fist fight at Wheelinj with a local politician whom he ha< ie called a liar. President Roosevelt congratulate^ aj and slapped on the back individual! 3 sixty-eight members of the Olympi team who visited him at Oyster Baj k N'Y' James E. Hughes, eighty-sevei years old, former member of the Mis se souri Legislature, who was impris oned during the reconstruction day e3 in Missouri for preaching, died a h- Oeborn, Mo. A r IN ^HE ANHPODK. | by Bcrryman, in the Washington Star. Pirn USPVK5T TN T&YES iiivu umiiuui in liiiiijui I inds and Mortgages Long Hidden-- j .-Maiden Names Frighten Them < Inherited From Parents. Railroad stock which the late Mr. , your father, gave you on your wedding day; also regarding the mortgages and bank 3tocks which were given you by your husband some years ago. We wish to have an accounting.of taxes, and must ask you to give this your immediate attention." The rich women of Pittsburg never stopped to ask questions. They simply flew to the offices of the assessors to settle. They did not know what might happen later if the assessors could get their maiden names and their family history so readily, and they decided < to get their long held stock placed i on the books and pay their taxes. J Some of the women almost fainted I 1 when told that their maiden names 1 came from the blue book. The as- i sessors sent out 4000 of these letters and have been forced to put on ex- j 1 tra clerks to handle the business that : 1 is coming in. ( i The Pennsylvania Railroad, which j < had 65,000 holders of stock, is a ; s favorite for the rich Pittsburg wo- j < men. The railroad some time ago re- \ 1 fused to permit the city assessbrs to j i cnrnr Tinmoq from its books, as did i 1 many banks, and there was no way < to get at the fair holders of this i property. Mortgages held on prop- i erties out3lde the State of Pennsylvania was also safe from taxation in Pittsburg as long as the owners could keep the knowledge of their owner- I ship from the assessors. According to an employe of the city there is great fear on the part . of persons of great wealth that they may be arrested for perjury, since j they recently took oath as to all their j taxable possessions and did not include taxable railroad stocks and . bonds worth thousands of dollars, i but when jthe blue book was rung in ] on them, they uncovered the hidden I j store of bonds. AGE PENSIONS, 3 < Magnitude of System?Punch's t Joke. 1 in Great Britain. He said: "Em- < : ployers will tell you that nearly all i their workmen are Socialists." Re- 1 ferring to the pension system he said: ; "What a gigantic scheme is theirs ! compared with ours. Thirty-four i million pounds ($170,000,000) are j distributed in pensions every year." He added that of this sum the State pays $14,000,000, the cost of administration only. For the rest ! 1 s %$70,000,000 is sick pay. The work men contribute two-thirds. Eleven million pounds, or $55,000,000, is paid to the aged and Incapacitated, , masters and men contributing equally, and $45,000,000 is paid for accidents, which expense the employi ers must meet., SWEETHEART litentiary In TImo to Find Her a Widow fore, preparatory to entering upon thi3 sort of enterprise. The romance between Dalton and Julia Lewis, known as the Cowgirli , began twenty years ago, when the t latter was a pretty daughter of Texas | i Johnson and lived with her parents | j i near the Kansas line eighteen miles j north of Bartlesville. She and Dal- ' ton were about the same age and they j : rode races, practised shooting with . . 1 rifles and rode their ponies to an i 1 . o?the dances. While Dalton was hid- [ 1 i den from the officers it is said that i ' the girl cooked his meals and kept . . him informed of the movements of i > the pursuers. I They will live here, where the bride has a large amount* of propi erty. The wedding was a very quiet j r affair before a justice of the peace. I The bride and bridegroom have re3 fused to accept a lucrative offer to I go on the stage made by a Chicago - showman. * i ; Wars of Future Should Be Settled by Airships. | 1 Washington, D. C.?That airships - will play an important part in the . f ne'tt war between world powers; that t the Civil War would have lasted but 2 nine months if either army had a; , - balloon corps lilte tnat now ai run . t Myer, Va., and that the United State? i Government should secure the ser vices of the Wright brothers and Thomas S. Baldwin, were the opinions - expressed by Colonel James Templer, i in command of the aeronautical division of the British army. Newsy Gleanings. Boston merchants indorsed the prog posal for an alliance with China, i Persian nationalists, at Teheran. are holding out defiantly against the a Shah. y Song Piung-Chun, Korea's Home c Minister, favors Japanese rule in hia \ country. 1 *.iv? Japanese immigrants in Brazil ti proved useless for work on the coffee i- plantations. i- Word was received in Wall Street Q wrmilH hn o folrtnv +n PHTldllPt fl t bucketshoo hereafter in New York State. v 1 5.0. JOB KILLED, HIS AIRSHIP BURNED j ( Aeronaut Dropped 500 Feet at 1 Waterville, Ms. j MFE AND CHILD PRESENT 1 i i 3ag of Dirigible Caught Fire and Machinery and Inventor Shot to Earth Before Crowd?Spark of 1 Motor Caused Disaster. j Waterville, Me. ? In full view of !5,000 spectators on the Maine fair ] grounds Charles Oliver Jones, the i veil known aeronaut, of Hammonds- ] >ort, N. Y., fell a distance of 500 feet o his death. Among the witnesses ] >f the frightful plunge were Mrs. fones and her chi|d. They were the ( irst to-reach tho"side of the dying nan. The aeronaut eipired about in hour and a half after the accident. ! Jones had been at the fair grounds with his dirigible balloon, the Boomerang, known as a Strobsl airship, r lince the opening day of the fair. When the aeronaut reached a leight of more than 500 feet the spectators saw small tongues of fire ssuing from under the gas bag in !ront of the motor. At this time the ' Dalloon had passed out of the fair { grounds. Many persons in the great i :rowd shouted to Jones of his danger, < jut several minutes elapsed before he i loticed the fire. Then he grasped ;he rip cord and endeavored to reach ;he earth. The machine descended jut a short distance when a sudden 1 Durst of flame enveloped the gas bag, a :he framework immediately separat- c ng from it. a Jones fell with the frame of hi3 notor, and when his wife and child [ ind the spectators reached him he . was lying dying unckjr the wrecked naChinery a quarter of a mile from 8 ;he grounds. The gas bag was com- 1 pletely destroyed. It is thought that a :he bag leaked again and that a spark a !rom the motor caused the disaster. g Jones was forty years old. \ V Hammondsport, N. Y. ? Charles , Dliver Jones, killed at Waterville, ; was numbered among the younger 1 leronauts, but his work in the field s aad already marked him as one of f :he most successful exponents of s lerial navigation. a He came here a year ago from his lome in Cincinnati with some entire y new ideas in regard to airs! "?, ind joined Alexander Graham i, i 1 ind others in their experiments with f leroplanes. It wa^ Jones- who I >volved the famous "June Bug," | which made several record flights for f short distances. The "June Bug" y won The Scientific American trophy * Dffered for heavier than air machines, ittaining a speed of about thirty 1 niles an hour against the wind. SLAIN ON HIS DOORSTEP. i )r. Rustin's Wife Heard Shot?Found | | Her Husband Dying. Omaha, Neb.?Dr. Frederick T. j Rustin, one of the best known sur- { ?eons in the West, was shot and dlled as he was about to enter his 1 louse. ' Dr. Rustin had remained,out late * 'or the primary election returns. Hia c wife was awakened by a pistol shot t md rushed down stairs and out on e ;he porch- Dr. Rustin was sitting in j i chair. , "A man shot me," he gasped. He was unable to speak further, , md became quickly unconscious. A ? nedlcal examination showed that but )ne shot had been fired, apparently !rom a revolver. The bullet had enured the abdomen. I T4r T?iiatir> mas eradiialert from the r Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, in 1895, and was captain of the baseball nine in that year. CANAL BANK IS BLOWN UP. j [Illinois and Michigan Waterway Badly Damaged at Channahon, 111. Joliet, Hi.?By the use of dyna- j mite a breach was made in the bank j jf the Illinois and Michigan Canal at Channahon, twelve miles southwest Joliet. The break is 100 feet long. The district is flooded, and the entire section of the caDal from Joliet to Channahon is emptied of water. 1 Boats are stranded, fish by thousands 1 ;over the bottom of the canal, navl- i ;atlon is tied up, and factories using I power furnished by the canal have ; 2lo3ed. The dynamiting is the result of a fight between the Canal Commissioners and the State, on one side, and the /illaees of Channahon and Troy, on :he other. The State refused to build )r repair broken-down bridges. EDWARD BACON DROWNED, f Body of Consin of Robert Racon Ashore at Falmouth, Mass. Falmouth, Mass.?The body of EdWard Bacon, of New York City, a cou-sin of Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State, was washed ashore on the beach at Falmouth Heights. He was forty-one years of age, and the son of Daniel Bacon, of New York City. j Mr. Bacon disappeared from the Dexter House at Wood's Holl. v/here U-. 1* ? A nnnn/linrr Oil m m of lie uau UCCU flJ/CUUlUv, LUC ouuimvi ?. w the hotel, and was not in the best of health. Medical Examiner Charles Millil:en, of Hyannis. said death was due to drowning. The body was taken to New York City for burial. Arabs Beaten by French. In an encounter between the French and the Arabs on the Algerian frontier, lasting a day and a night, the tribesmen were repulsed with heavy losses, while the French loss was slight. American Mills Decline Cotton. American millo seem to bs impressed by the prospects of an early moving crop, and are not as anxious for cotton as they were several weeks ago. MRS. HALLAN FREES NEGRO. Exonerates Man Whose Arrest Started Springfield Riot. Springfield, 111.?Mrs. Earl Hallan signed a statement that George Richardson is not the negro who attacked her on the night of August 14. It was the charge against Richardson, followed by his arrest and removal to Eloomlngton, that precipitated the recent race riot. Defalcation at HavanaHavana dispatches placed the amount of the postoffice defalcation there at S53.135. t ' I M One of-the I Essentials fi of tho happy homes of to-day iff a vaat H fund of information as to the best method* Bfl of promoting health and happiness ard M right living and knowledge of the worid'f W best products. , . Products of actual excellence and ? t-i _ -l-: x reuauuuuiu ciuiras truuiiuuy prcsentcu and which have attained to world-wide v Eicceptance through the approval of the Well-informed of the World; not of individuals only but of th<: many who have 1 the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the woild affords. One of the products of that class, of V known component parts, an Ethical' v remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the Well-informed of the World as a valuable and wholesome family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co, anly, and for sale by all leading druggist*. THE SOLENODON. . , iti/i rhe Only Specimens in the Country in New York City. I" S The strangest American animal, ind also one of the rarest ad least I mown of all mammals, is the solen)don, or alnlqul. Only two speclnens are known?one peculiar to 2uba, the other to the Island of Santo Domingo. Although the solenodon Is an inlectivorous animal, yet In many vays It resembles the rodents as well is the ant-eaters, and Is more like :ertaln fossil quadrupeds than like my other living creature. , It is about two feet in length, with ong, coarse hair and a naked, ratike tail. The forefeet are heavy and trong, and are. provided with stout, :urved claws rot digging and tearing ipart rotten logs. The nose is long > md slender and exceedingly mobile, md the whole appearance of the anmal Is peculiar. For many years, says the New -'iv. 'lew York Sun, the solenodon haa >een considered extinct, and practially nothing was known of Its habts. Few museums of the world posessed even fragments of the remarkible animal. In December, 1906, A. Hyatt Yer- vp'; ill undertook a trip to Santo Doningo in search of this long lost anmal, and succeeded In obtaining hree living specimens, which are now ; n the American Museum of Natural listory in New York City, and are ' >elieved to be the only specimens of he Santo Domingo solenodon In th? Jnited States, if not in the world. va|? Smell." in Great Cities. The man with a nose always rec>gnizes the smell of the place, and he las only .to land at Calais to smell ;arlic. London's smell?when the Londoner returns?is just soot and (j 'ried fish. Paris always smells of ihocolate and wood smoke. Florence s violets and sewage. But so soon is you get to Russia the smell Is quite iifferent. Moscow the city of fruit h*t comes from the Crimea, has a special smell of the cranberry (which las various names) in tate summer. ) \.nd yoa cannot land in St. Petersburg vithout noticing ? instantly ? the . V tmell of the place.?Chicago Journal. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward :or any case of Catarrh that cannot b? :ured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. f I Pixpv'pv ifr TaIaHA O ' *?(u? M? V Ui V/V.j AViVUVj v? We, the undersigned, have known V. J. Jheuey tor t>? last 15 years, and believe lim perfect^/ honorable in all business xansactions and financially able to carry . >ut any obligations made by his firm. " Waldinq, Kinnan & Makvin, Wholesale Druggists, 'J.oledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acfcngdirectly upon the blood and mucuousj?ur> faces of the system. Testimonials sent tree. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Jnst the Same Here. Sunday excursions, picnics, boat rides and other outing parties in this vicinity would be more beneficial and snjoyable if they were not so often followed by funerals.?St. Louis i; post-uispatcn. HER GOOD FORTUNE After Years Spent in Vain Effort. i Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cambridge, N. Y.. says: "Five years ago tl bad a bad fall and it affected my kidneys. Severe pains in my back and hips became constant, and sharp twinges followed any exertion. The kidney ^ secretions were badlj disordered. I lost tlest and grew too weak to work. Though constantly using medicine I despaired of being cured until 1 began taking Doan'a Kidney Pills. Theny relief cams quickly, and in a short time 1 waa completely cured. I am now i:i ex celient neaun. Sold by all dealers. 60centsabor. Foster-Milburu Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. The Men Australia Wants. The type of men we require Is the man who is not afraid of hardships, who is game to strike out "on hia own," and who can rely on himself to pull through. Some people have an idea that an immigrant should have everything done for him by a paternal government?his passage paid and land ready awaiting his arrival. It would, of course, be fatal for the government to spoon-feed immigrants in this *ay.?Britannia. So naturally averse are we to swap> ping horses in the middle of the stream that a political party not iuu scrupulous may sometimes perpetuate itself in power merely by omitting to come ashore, avers the New York World. Turkish farmers never use fertllaers, nor do they practice rotation; of crops. The same crops are planted year after year until the soil la exhausted. .