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WORSE SCOURGE THAN WAR | KILLS 160,000 EVERY YEAR j \ Cortelyou Tells Doctors of the Horrors of Tuberculosis. ! LEADS THE BUBONIC PLAGUE Roosevelt Regards the International Congress as in the Interest of Universal Peaee?Scientists Assembled at Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.?Tuberculosis in the last four years has caused more than th-ee times as many deaths In this country as occurred in action and iro'ia wounds during the Civil War. The statement was made by George B. Cortelvou, Secretary of the Treasury, in officially welcoming, in the "hame of President Roosevelt, the delegates to the sixth triennial International Congress on Tuberculosis, in the National Museum. Mr. Cortelyou said^ " especially am i comTrnss'onea vy the President to assure the delegates from foreign lands that our neonle l gratefully anprecia.? not only the interest hut the pnirit of cordial cood will which their eovernments have shown and which their presence here testifies. "The menace of tuberculosis from nn economic standpoint is demonstrable in many ways. It is remarkable that yellow fever, notwithstanding the many sanies it has nroduced. has not. caused in the United States in the past 115 years as many deaths as occurred last year from tuberculosis. From figures eiven bv the United States it is estimated that since the year 1793 there have been approximately 100,000 deaths from yellow fever, whereas tuberculosis is estimated to have caused 160,000 deaths last year alone, , The mortality of tuberculosis is further emphasized when comDared with the bubonic nlague in India, which has not. since Its first outbreak in 1896. caused as many deaths in that country in proportion to the population as were caused by tuberculosis in the United States during the same period. "Statistics show that tuberculosis In the last four years caused more than three times as many deaths in this country as occurred ih action and from wounds received in action during: the entire period of the Civil War. "The above facts are of great significance and have contributed to a better understanding of a need of preventive measures. These congresses have at the same time contributed to a saner attitude with respect to the victims of the dis?ase, its contagiousness and the method of dealing with it. "We can hardly overestimate the ImDortance of such international medical congresses. This congress in Its several sessions has stimulated the crusade against tuberculosis in England, Germany, France and Italy, in each of which countries it has been held, and from these countries its influence has been extended in greater or less degree to many others. In our own country the necessary preparations for this gathering have already had a most wholesome effect in awakening interest and enlisting support in every State of the Union. KIn his letter to Dr. Flick, accepting the presidency of this congress, President Roosevelt emphasized this aspect of the conference in these words: 'The International Congress on Tuberculosis is in the interest of universal peace. By joining in such a warfare against a common foe the peoples of the world are brought closer together and made to better realize the brotherhood of man, for a united interest against a common foe I fosters universal friendship.' " FOUR SLAIN AT CHURCH. Rioters From Saloon Near-by Shoot Into Congregation at Jcllico, Tenn. Jellico, Tenn.?One of the bloodiest affairs in the history of East Tennessee occurred near the Tennessee-Kentucky line north of Anthras postoffice. The scene was a little Baptist church, within fifty yards of which is a "blind tiger," which has been operated for months. 1 The services had closed and nearly all the congregation had emerged fiom the church, when a crowd of drunken men who had visited the Klin/I rror" V*o<rar? firincr intn tho UlliiU WVQMU Aii tUQ ?MVV WMV worshipers with pistols. John Benr"tt, J. W. McKJnney and Edward Thomas were shot down at the church door ?"id died almost instantly, streams of blood from their wounds flowing down the steps from the little church. The preacher, the Rev. Mr. Kind, was shot and mortally wound *, ed, falling in the church yard. CANE RUSH AND GAME FATAL. Twe Students Succumb to Same Injury, Broken Back. Worcester, Mass.?Emil F. Gran, of West Wareham, the student who had his back broken in the annual sophomore-freshman cane rush at Worcester Polytechnic Institute several days before, died at the Worcester City Hospital. Waterbury, Conn.?Wilfred Balthazar, the Waterbury High School football player, whose spinal column was fractured during a practice game, died as a result of the injuries. The j-a i. x-?.1 AA../.A/1 ?voro1vo!e nf f hn acciueiil XlciU. uauacu jjai mj vt. vuw body from the shoulders down. Murdered in Woods. Harry Hosmer, thirty-one years * old, of Fine, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., was shot and instantly killed in the woou3 near that village. Leslie Combs, eighteen, is the alleged murderer, and it is said that he has confessed the crime. No motive is known unless it be robbery. Corn Crop Now Safe. The corn crop now being practically out of danger of frosts, holders j have liquidated freely, causing a j slump in prices. The Field ol Labor. Barbers' Protective Union, at San Francisco, Cal., has $17,000 in its treasury. Lynn (Mass.) building trade unions are getting together for one central council that will include all. The Legislature of Massachusetts Increased the limit of work for women and children in factories from fifty-four hours a week to fifty-six hours. There is a movement under way to organize a building trade section of the American Federation o? Labor in Fargo, N. D. $25,000,000 DROUGHT END! Rain Brings Relief to Farchei District After Ten Weeks. Weather Bnreau Forecasts Snfficien Rain in Eastern States to Quench Forest Fires. Pittsburg, Pa. ? The 525,000,001 drought which for weeks past ha threatened the ruin of every farme within 30,000 square miles in West ern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio am Northern West Virginia, was brokei by rain. In some parts of the distric there had been no rain for more thai ten weeks. In the Pittsburg distric there had not been even a small show er for more than five weeks, and al over the district there had been ; world of suffering because th< streams had dried up and cattle weri dying as well as the crops. Weather Bureau Reassuring. Washington, D. C.?Reports to thi Weather Bureau announced th< breaking of the prolonged drough throughout the country. Rain hai fallen generally throughout the IJni ted States, and Forecaster Garriott of the Weather Bureau, announcec that it would continue for severa days throughout the Eastern States and be followed by clear and decided ly cooler weather. The rains nov prevailing east of the Mis3issipp River started in the Far West severa days ago. A drop of more than thirty degree! in temperature occurrrd in Chicago following a heavy rain and wind storm. The mercury went fron eighty degrees to fifty-nine degrees and early next morning was down t( forty-seven degrees. Ohio has had much rain within th( past twenty-four hours. The farm ers have lost, heavily by reason of th< prolonged drought, and the rain comes too late to do them much good Heavy frosts are reported fron; Oklahoma and Northern Texas. Th( thermometer dropped forty degrees in twenty-four hours at points in Kentucky and Tennessee. St Paul's temperature was only three degrees above freezing. Killing frosts are re> ported in all the country north ol Omaha. ? I NIGHT RIDERS LEAVE RUINS. Thirteen Ne^ro Churches and School" houses Bnrned Down. Albany, Ga.?There is a reign ol terror among the negro inhabitants of a considerable portion of Calhoun Baker and Miller Counties, following a raid by night riders, when thirteen negro churchfes and schoolhouses were burned. The buildings destroyed were Mount Zion Church and schoolhouse Pleasant Hill Church and schoolhouse, Christ Church and schoolhouse, Little Zion Church and schoolhouse, Belmont Church, Mount Aetna Church and schoolhouse and New Salem Church and schoolhouse. The riders first appeared three miles east of Kestler, where the first church was fired. Then they galloped away toward the east, and before the glare of the first fire had reached its height another was being kindled a few miles away. Fire followed flre, and the destruction of every building to which the torch was applied was complete. Many of the best members of the negro race in the three counties named are members of the congregations of some of the burned churches. This is the same community where a few months ago negro lodge rooms were dynamited and where there have been several lynchings recently. WET LEAVES CAUSE SMASH-UP. Passengers Thrown From Trolley Cat at Hartford, Conn., and Injured. Hartford, Conn.?Wet leaves which made trolley rails slippery caused a collision between a work train and a crowded interurban trolley car as a result of which half a dozen passengers were thrown out on the asphalt pavement. Two of them, A. W, Weeks, of Worcester, Mass., and Walter J. Brooks, of Springfield, an inspector for the Postoffice Department, are in a critical condition in St. Francis' Hospital. The work train was loaded with stone, and neither motorman was ablt to avert the collision, as the locked wheels slid along the slippery tracks Others injured less seriously are Carl Wold, a small boy living at Wilsor Station; N. S. Palmer, his wife and child, of New Haven; G. A. Dunbar of Wilmington, Del., and Mrs. Wold of Wilson Station. KING EDWARD S ARMY OF IDLE Funds Raised Through United King' dom Against Starvation. London.?The Government author ities estimate that the number of per sons out of work in the United King dom will be greater the coming win ter than in many years before, anc they are scudying the problem of pro viding occupations or relief for them Outside of London, where an enor mous number of men have nothing t< do, conditions are worst perhaps ii Glasgow, where 22,000 men are idle In Sunderland there are 13,000; Bir mingham, 10,000; Liverpool, 14,000; Manchester, 8000, and other citiei from 1000 to 5000 each. These figures do not include th< great army of strikers in the Lanca shire cotton trade. Distress funds are being raisec throughout the country. Drowned Escaping Burning Launch. Howard T. Smith, eighteen years old, struck a match to light a cigar ett while in a launch in Curtis Bay Md. He set fire to the launch anc lost his own life. The match ignitec fumes from the gasolene and Smith who leaped overboard, was drowned V National Bank Examiner Dead. Baltimore.?John U. Markell, Na iional Bank Examiner for Marylant and Delaware, died near Chester Nova Scotia. He was forty-six year; old. Prominent People. Sven Hedin, the explorer, arrivei at Simla, after a long trip in Tibet He says that he made valuable dis coveries. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke returnei from Europe with valuable addition to the treasures of the New York Met ropolitan Art Museum. Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell speaking at a meeting in London i] connection with a crusade agains cigarette smoking, said that ?15,000, 000 ($75,000,000) a year was spen on cigarettes. He thought this couli | be easily saved. j RUSHING THE 4 F ?aifj0t4frrJ /* >"/ t \ " <? y /jrjk / / piers r yV m ?? ? 3 i i - CONSUMPTION COSTS r [ Startling Statistics Brought Out at thi Fisher, Washington, D. C.?Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale University, read a paper before the International Con1 gress on Tuberculosis which created a | decided sensation. Professor Fisher's ' paper was on "The Cost of Tuberculosis," and he made the startling an-j 5 nouncement that the great white * plague costs in hard cash over one 1 billion dollars a year. 1 He estimated that consumption kills 138,000 persons every year in 1 the United States. This is equal, he ; said, to the deaths from typhoid 5 fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, men" ingitis, diabetes, smallpox and cancer 1 all put together. Then again, he said, 5 it generally takes three years to die, ' during which time the poor victim can " earn little or nothing. "Five million people now living in the United States are doomed to fill consumptives' graves unless something can be done to prevent it," de clared Professor Fisher. "As each deatn means anxiety ana griei ior a t whole family, I estimate that there will be over twenty million persons 5 rendered miserable by these deaths." The scourge, he said, picks out its victims when they are young men and 1 young women, at the very time of life 3125 COAL MINI Rrcords Show 1907 Was the W Washington, D. C.?Accidents in | J coal mines of the United States during the last calendar year resulted in the death of 3125 men, and injury to J 5316 more, according to statistics ' just made public by the Geological Survey. The death record among the ' coal miners during the year was 1 greater by 1033 than in 1906, and is 1 said to have been the worst year in ; the history of the coal mining indus' try. The figures do not represent the 1 full extent of the disasters, as reports were not received from certain J States having no mine inspectors. 1 West Virginia reported the heaviest ' death rate in 1907, 12.35 per thousand employes, and this State also 1 showed the lowest productipn for 1 each life lost?65,969 tons. New 1 Mexico stood next on the list with a death rate of 11.45 and a production of 77,332 tons for each life lost. Alabama was third, with a death rate of 7.2 per thousand and a production of DIVER FIGHT! I . Thirty Feet Under Water in H 1 San Francisco, Cal.?Wrapped in ' the tentacles of a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver employed by the Coast Wrecking Company, fought ' for his life in the hold of the wr.-cke3 ' steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of water in Fort Ross Cove off " the Marin County coast. The devil fish had evidently entered 1 the vessel's hold during the night. 1 Lund had been at work some time ' before he was attacked. A giant ten tacle four inches in diameter first 1 gripped one leg. Before Lund reul' ized what was happening another en^ circled his thigh. i ne aiver uegitu iu ~uup m lug iul?' ber-like bonds and at the same time gave the hoisting signal to the barge above. Two more tentacles squirmed MERCURY FOUND BY SURGE Washington, D. C.?Physicians and [ the laity will be greatly interested in * the result of a series of experiments | made by the navy surgeons recently, . through which they believe they have demonstrated that mercury is a specific for tuberculosis. The Govern' ment Bureau of Medicine and Surg" ery has published the reports of Medj ical Director C. T. Hibbett and Surgeon Earton Leigh Wright. ' Surgeon Wright, who is the origin" ator of the treatment, says he discov!. ered the efficacy of the drug by acci: dent. He was treating a case which 4 required mercury. The patient was * tubercular as well. To the surgeon's astonishment the tubercular lesions . began to heal. The mercury is administered by inKain Storm Uncovers Rich 3 Placer Pockets of Gold. San Bernardino, Cal. ? Jacob L. . Thomason, of San Bernardino, was 1 prospecting among the oid Mexican 1 placers near Hesperia when he was y overtaken by a furious storm, which * forced him to seek shelter. After a quarter of an inch of rain had fallen in less than one hour, throwing the ..Aorino- tArrontc Thorn canyuus nuu iuwiu^, i ason returned to his work. When the , water subsided he found scores of 5 rich placer pockets, and within a few hours panned out $10,000 in gold. Women in the Day's News. 1 Boston has a woman pickpocket aged seventy-two. Miss Palmer, daughter of General W. J. Palmer, has adopted nursing as s ? r A j a career iu luuuuu. g The will of Jsne Blauvelt, who left - money to the First Reformed Church at Yonkers, N. Y., has been contested [ by relatives on the ground of "undue a' influence." t Attacked in her home by a man . who tried to chloroform her, Mrs. t I George Hudson, No. 315 East 201st j i street, New York City, reputed him . -vith a. broom. SCRAP HERO. ?From the Indianapolis News. US A BILLlUfl A YJliAK. e Tuberculosis Congress by Professor of Yale. when they are beginning to earn money. The minimum cost of doctors' bills, nursing, medicines and loss of earnings amouul to over $2400 in each case, while the earning power which might have been if death had not come brings the total cost to at least $8000 for each individual. If this sum is multiplied by the j 138,000 deaths, the cost, It is seen, is bigger than the immense sum of $1,000,000,000. Professor Fisher estimated that over half this cost falls upon the victims themselves, but the tost to others than the consumptive is over $440,000,000 a year. As a matter of self-defense, he averred, it would be worth while to the community in order to save merely a quarter of the lives now lost by consumption to invest $5,500,000,000. At present only a fraction of one per cent, of this sum is being used to fight the disease. Professor Fisher expressed hi3 belief that isolation hospitals for incurable consumptives are the best investment of all, because in this way the most dangerous consumptives are prevented from spreading the disease by careless spitting in their homes and neighborhood. ERS LOST LIVES. orst Year in History of Industry. 92,535 tons for each life lost. Missouri had the lowest death rate, heading the roll of honor with .95 and 499,742 tons of cbal mined for each life lost. / Statistics do not bear out the popular idea that most mine disasters result from explosions. Of the total number reported during the last year, 947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted from gas and dust explosions, and 201 deaths and 416 injuries were caused by powder explosions. The chief cause of death among the miners, the report explains, was due to the falling of mine roofs and coal. Such disasters caused 1122 deaths and 2141 injuries.' E. W. Parker, chief statistician of the survey, asserts that much benefit will result from the action of Congress in appropriating $150,000 to investigate mine disasters and take steps to decrease tne numDer 01 ac- i cldents each year. ? DEVIL FISH. old of Wreck When Attacked. out of the darkness and one twined about his neck. As the efforts of the men on the surface to comply with his signal threatened to pull his helmet off, Lund was forced to signal them to stop. With only his left arm free he hacked at the tentacles until they were partially crippled, but he waa being drawn toward the fish when he saw the outline of the body. Plunging toward it he drove his knife with oil "hio fnma into tho houd rpn^atine the blow until he had slashed it into sections. In its death throes the octopus tightened its tentacles until the diver was almost crushed in its embrace. Lund finally cut himself free and was brought to the surface fainting. ON TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS jection into the muscular tissue in order to avoid digestive derangement. Dr. Wright says: "I am convinced," he adds, "that in mercury we have a specific for tuberculosis, and that the only question remaining is how long a 'lime will be required to effect a cure We follow the well established rules of treatment during the administration of .the drug?open air, rest, proper food in abundance, sanitation, personal hygiene and selection o? climate." Surgeon-General Rixey declines to comment on the tests. Of course it is not claimed by Dr. Wright that the new treatment will restore the lost lung tissue, but where there is enough lung tissue to support life hebelieves thevictimcan be saved. Kansas Mastodon Tusk Crumpled When Found. Concordia, Kan. ? A large ivory tusk, seven inches in diameter, was found near here in a bed of clay. The find was made by Frederick Dutton, who was canoeing in the river. The tusk crumpled into small pieces when taken out, but parts of it were brought here, and Mr. Dutton will make a further search for the skeleton of the mastodon, which is believed to be buried ip the . bed of silt and clay. Years ago the lower jaw of a mastodon was found in this district. The World of Sport. Sixty-four yachts started in the fall regatta of the Larchmont Club. The Dixie II. won the mile championship for motor boats, showing great speed. J. Campbell Thompson's four-in hand trotted a mile in 3.50 in a coaching race at Syracuse. Charles M. Daniels broke the American record for swimming 330 and 440 yards across tidal water. "Tom" Nicholson, of St. Andrew's, won the national sod quolting championship of America at Van Cortlandt Park. THREE STflTES_SUFFERS Long Drought in Pennsylvan Ohio and West Virginia. I I Streams May Be Disease Carriers End of Drought?Pittsburg Coal Barges Stranded. Pittsburg, Pa.?The drought he Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Of and West Virginia in its grasp f more than two months. Each day i creased the seriousness of the siti tion. Its effects thus far may be su: marized as follows: Losses aggregating several mill! dollars from forest fires, heavy da; age to crops and live stock, the loss a number of lives in fighting timb conflagrations, the enforced idlenc of thousands of workmen, owing the suspension of manufacturing ( tablishments because of lack of wat< anticipation of a serious epidemic contagious diseases by health authc ities. and the drying up of ma: small streams. A serious phase of the situation the threatened disease epidemic. I habitants of Western Pennsylvani Eastern Ohio and West Virginia a even now suffering from throat affc tions caused by the great accumul tion of dust and the heavy clouds smoke. In this city, accustomed smoke, the sun is almost obscured 1 the smoke from forest fires mil away, and persons in the vicinity these fires are experiencing difficul in breathing. The health authoriti have warned the public to boil i drinking water. The enforced suspension of n merous industries and the thrown out of employment of thousands mA^lrmon moTiv r?f Ttrhnm hnri liist r turned to work folldwing the rece: depression, Is another effect of tl drought. While in the Pittsburg di crict the water supply is sufficient carry on all business, the low stai of the rivers has caused a congestic of river coal traffic. Every availab | barge and float has been loaded wil | coal, and with almost 20.000,0( | bushels in Pittsburg water, the rivi j coal mines have been compelled i : shut down for the want of shiopir I facilities. There are about 15.OC miners employed in river mines alor the Monongahela. The coal ! barges is for the supply of point We and South. The probabilities a: there will be a coal famine, especial! in the Northwest, should conditioi prevent the shipment of the coal b fore cold weather begins. In West Virginia, lumber plant glass factories and iron and stei mills located along the rivers ai closed because of lack of water. I Eastern Ohio the same conditions pri vail. It was feared the great iron an 3teel mills at Youngstcwn, Ohio, en ploying over 20,000 mea, would ha\ to shut down unless the drought : speedily broken* POLITICAL RIOTS IN CTJBA. Many Injured at Conservath e 3Ieetin ?Negro Party Rally Rrokcn Up. Havana, Cuba.?Political disturl ances have begun to assume som gravity in Cuba. A Conservatb meeting at Sancti Spiritus, in Sant Clara Province, was the occasion of riot at which many were injured, an n Havana a meeting of the n-?w negr party, headed by General Esteno: was broken, up by Liberals, who kej up a continuous shouting. Sancti Spiritus is the home ( General Jose Miguel Gomez, the foi mer Governor of the province, an Ihe present candidate of the Migue istas and Zayistas for the Presidenc; The Mayor of the town and the polic are members of the Liberal party. General Mario Menocal, a forme Liberal, but recently nominated b the Conservatives for the Presidenc: 2-.?j r% onooifll train . m dm Veil UC1C UU a g^gviiu _ companied by a large number of fo lowers. Thousands of men, many ( them on horseback, met the Conse: vative leaders, and it was evider from the start that trouble was brev ing, as Menocal did not entirely lac 3upporters among the crowds. Five Men Blown to Death. Five men were blown to bits by a explosion of dynamite while workin at Cross Keys Cut, along the Lack: wanna Railroad near Tobyhanna, Pi The Americans are Harry Broadhea< married, of Tobyhanna; John Walsl married, Firthcliffe, Pa.; Godric Coynej, eighteen years old, Kingstoi and two unknown Italians. The fiv men w?re tamping a hole containin eighteen inches of dynamite, whe Tho hnHif?s wpre assen it CAjJ 1UUCU- * -. , _ _ __ _ bled by means of matching the clotl ing of the victims. Philippines Army Tragedy. A tragedy occurred at Camp Jes man, Manila, P. I., resulting in tt death of Lieutenant Edward Blooc of the Fourth Infantry, ani Prival Suttles, Company K, of the sair regiment. Suttles for some reasc shot Bloom, and then cut his ow throai. Suttles died immediately, hi Bloom lingered until the next night. Farmer Hangs Himself in His Karn Charles Argersinger, sixty-'oi years old, a well known farmer v> siding near Glen, Montgomery Coui ty, N. Y., committed suicide by hanj ing himself in a barn on his farr He recently returned from a sail tai ium. The dead man is survived t a widow and three children. Two AVomen Held For Forgery. Mrs. Ella J. O'Hearn and her se enteen-year-old daughter, Mary, wl disappeared on June .17, returned ar surrendered themselves to State D t.ectives Molt ana Murray, uu wu.cc t.er, Mass. They are wanted I. forgeries of upward of $4000. Turkish Parliament Planned. Constantinople.?The details of tl program of action fo;* the futui Turkish Parliament as definitely la down by the Union and Progre: Committee have been published. The National Game*. Hummell is the only Brookl: player to have made 100 hits this se son. Mike Donlin is getting a good mai hits by his fleetness in getting to fir base. The playing 01 me i\ew iu, Giants on the road must be seen to | appreciated. The New York team contains e college players in Rickey, Mcllvee Cree and Blair. There is no truth in the report Joe Kelley's return to the Torun Club next year. f ' 'gill j Latest News ia, i BY WARE. For Department cf Justice. Washington, D. C.?Edwin P. Grosvenor, of New York, who has ,](j been employed in assisting Special At. torney Taft in the so-called Tobacco Trust cases, has been appointed au or attorney in the Department of Jusin tice. ia Drops Dead in MontrealMontreal, Canada.?T. P. DeListe, sir.ty-one years old, of Cohoes, N. Y., on dropped dead of heart disease in the qi- office of St. Mary's College. Eaby Drowns in Milk. Springfield, Mo.?The ten-monthst old daughter of S. O. Middlemas, a farmer near this city, fell into a ' * bucket of milk and was drowned before her parents found her. The ? child tumbled into the bucket from the porch. TTot Wnter Erur Disables Officer. ig "" " 0 x, San Francisco.?A hot water bag j* may cost the army on6 of Its officers. rg Captain Edwin G. Davis, commanding ,c. the Sixty-first Coast Artillery, declares .that he has been disabled by 0j the application of hot water bags to t0 an ankle that was severely bruised [jy In the Philippines. / Stockman Shot Dead. ty Marble Falls, Te:.?Frank, known es as "Bud," Moore, a former banker LU and wealthy stockman, was shot through the heart with a rifle about u_ a mile from his ranch at Miller's Creek. "Will" Jackson has surren0f dered and is in custody. Butler Sues Netvhall. ie Philadelphia.?George T. Newhall, 3- well known in society and as an athto lete, was served with a summons In a tq suit brought by Frederick Knigkt to >n recover a loan of S500. Knight is le butler in the home of Edward C. h Knight, Jr. He alleges that he lent jo the money to Newhall while .the latter er was a guest at the Knight villa at to Newport, R. I., on August 12, 1907. IK v ?' iq Used Mails to Defraud. ig Boston, Mass.?Henry D. Reynolds, Is formerly president of the Alaska Dest velopment Company, of New York e. City, was indicted by the Federal ly' Grand Jury on a charge of using the is mails in a scheme to defraud. eLocal Option Barely Wins. 3. Indianapolis, Ind.?The House el saved the County Local Option bill, e already passed by the Senate, from n defeat by a vote of 51 to 49. 2d Vanderbflt Divorce. 1- New York City.?Justice Gsrard, re of the Supreme Court, signed the final Is -decree granting to Elsie French Vanderbilt a divorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The decree is simply ii> confirmation of the interlocutory de* gree granted on May 26 on the recommendation of David McClure. as g referee. The Vanderbilts were married on January 14, 1901, but seriated about a year ago. )ifi Storm Kills Acrobat. 'e Holdenville, Okla.?Hurled from ;a the high tight wire on which he was a performing when the circus tent of d the Sells-Floto show was demolished 0 by a wind storm, Saburo Saitowa, a z- Japanese acrobat, was killed. )t Bank Cashier Indicted.. ^ New Martinsville, W. Va.?W. A. p" Lewis, formerly cashier of the Smith. 11 field Bank, thirty miles from here, was indicted by the Grand Jury on h' charges of embezzlement and misap:e propriation of $55,000 of the bank's funds. sr _____ J 1 ,1 S BY CABLE. )f u P- ????* it Wright Baying New Motor. k Paris.?Eoris Loutskoy, a Russian motor expert, who lives in Eerlin, has made an arrangement with Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, to construct a seventy-five horsepower n motor for use .on the Wright aerog plane. ? lGrenada's Crew in London. i, London.?Captain Watt and the i, crew of the schooner Grenada, which ^ was abandoned in .t'he Atlantic on Aua, gust 26, arrived here from Rotterre dam, where they were landed by the g steamer Manchester Spinner, which n rescued them. ll. Germany's Precautions. Berlin.?The Minister 01 the Interior has issued orders for the enforcement of the emergency regulations regarding emigrants from Russ sia. Emigrants will be required .to ie bathe their persons, and all their clothing and belongings will be fr.mite gated. ie Australian ]Navy is Certain., n Melbourne.?The British Admiralty iz has given its general approval to the scheme of the Australian Commonwealth for the formation of a flotilla of six torpedo boat destroyers, nine u submarines and two depot ships as the nucleus of an Australian navy. Honor Colonel Bailey. 5- Manila.?A brilliant reception was i.oiH at. Fort McKinley in honor of i- Colonel Bailey, of the Twenty-ninth ?y Infantry, who was recently promo: :d and joined liis regiment. Boycott Hits Japan. Tokio.?The depression of last j summer in the shipping trade of the world did not fail to affect the Nippon ~ Yusen Kaisha, and officials of that company are pessimistic with regard to the immediate future. The Elections in Newfoundland. ic St. John's, N. F.?The Newfoundre land Legislature has been dissolved, id and Monday, November 2, was named ss as the date of the fcneral election, one week aftor the election in Canada. Kaiser's Heart's Desire. :d Berlin.?At the session of the Ina. terparliamentary Union Congress a telegram from the Kaiser was read expressing his heart's desire for the continuance of the blessings of peace. Irish Win at the Vatican. i"k Rome.?In the Vatican spores tub be Irish football team beat the Roman team b> a score of 12 goals to nothx ing. n, Jacob Cantor a Hero. o) London.?Jacob Canto:-, formerly tc State Senator, of New York, saved a man's life in the Austrian Tyrol. 1 . ' : ";A r i -it ' ' flTLE FOR TEMPERANCE _________ A Tiirce Days' Fight Closes 390 Saloons in Ohio. Crusaders Win an Unexpectedly Complete Victory?Children View "Horrible FAamples." , Columbus, Ohio. ? Two hundred and eighty-nine saloons in Ohio were knocked out in one day in eleven county local option elections. This following the two elections in which fifty were put out of business is perhaps the most stunning blow the liquor interests have received in option elections. Although it was expected the arys would win, pTOtyably their most ar- dent workers did not expect them to carry all the eleven elections held. The majorities were overwhelming. Elections will be held within the next 1 two weeks in fifteen^other counties. The results of the day's elections follow: / j,v Saloons vf County. ' " Majority. Voted Out. Hocking 200 28 Jackson ....1,646 36 Vinttfh 800 . 4 . Gallia 1,682 17 Noble 1,398 5 i Guernsey 2,145 30 :<#j Lawrence 1,000 22 Scioto 281 i 55 Van Wert 894 21 ; > Adams.. J 2,000 5 Pike 903 8 KWM Athens 1,423 58 In three days 390 saloons have been knocked out. CORPSES OF DRUNKARDS MHTBm n TO CHILDREN ^ j Six Hundred School Boys and Girls Marched Past Bodies of Two Men Killed by Whisky. Kokomo, Ind.?As an object lesson (n temperance 600 school children . : were lined up and marched in regular file past the bodies of two men found dead in the woods from intoxication and exposure. : v. Charles Thresher and William and Charles Lindley went on what they thought was a last chance spree before the Local Option law went Into ? . affect. They bought two gallons of , V whisky and went to the woods near ? \;}Greentown, ten miles east of here. Two of the three men were found dead and the third was in a dying . condition. They were taken to V Greentown. On the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Hall, pastor of the Greentown Methodist Church, the school children of rflfl the place were shown a specimen of 2 '; the deadly work of intoxicants. LOCAL OPTION LAW CAUSES TROUBLE TO i INDIANA GOVEHNOS His Demand That Charges Be Sifted <'# is Granted and Legislator Accuses Him Under Oath. Indianapolis, Ind.?Governor Hanly read a demand to the House of Representatives, which was granted, !,4j that a full and rigid investigation be made of the charge of Luther W. ^ Knisely, Democratic Representative, that the Governor and Senator Thos. 'i* S. Wickwire had offered Knisely a position paying from $700 to $2000 a year for his vote in favor oI county local option. Women Parade and Ohio City Goes* r< "Dry." Ironton, Ohio.?Hundreds of women and children paraded the streets, ^ women furnished lunch at the polls, and the largest vote ever cast here . resulted in both city and county votI ing "dry.'' This put forty saloons V and one brewery out of business. THOUSANDS DEAD IN FLOODS. ' , '\\vJ ;&S Bodies of Hindn Victims Found Lodged in Trees Near Rivers. Bombay, India.?Thousands of native houses have been washed away, and there has been a heavy, loss of life in the Hyderabad and Deccan districts as a result of the floods which followed an unprecedented rainfall. .. The River Musi rose sixty feet, all the bridges were carried away and the > country was devastated for many miles in either direction. Corpses are strewn everywhere, and scores of bodies have been found stranded high in the branches of trees, where they were lodged by the swollen waters. The native hospital at Hyderabad 1 was undermined by the waters and ! collapsed and all the inmates were buried in the wreckage. MADE 200 STUDENTS ILL. ! Discharged Chinese Cook Doclorcd | the Food at Stanford University. I Stanford University, Cal.?Angered I because he was discharged from his I nrtoiHnn in Stanford Inn. a Chinese j cook, with a vindictive and ingenious \ disposition, placed a powerful irritant j in a large mass of flour and made 200 ! students ill. Two students were taken to Guild Hospital. I Professor Swain, of the chemistry j department, will make an analysis ' of the poisoned food to discover what | ingredient was used by the angry cook. Feudist is Killed tjy a Train. Tom Cockrill, who, by murdering I Een Hargis, of Jackson, started a ser? ies of assassinations in the Kentucky mountains, was killed by a train. Plot Against Spain's King. Pau, France.?The police have arrested several dangerous anarchists who were engaged in a plot to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain. Peru's Executive InauguratPd. ! Lima.?Sencr Don Augusto B. [ Legura took possession of the' e::eeu1 tive power of Peru. Lord Twecdmouth Resigns. Lcrd Tweedmouth resigned as f.ord President of the Council in the Brit j ish Cabinet. ? HILBERT GIRL A SUICIDE. ~~~ \ I Body Found at cnesterneia, .nass.. With Revolver in the Hand. j Chesterfield, Mass.?The body o! | Esther A. Hilbert, who disappeared j on September 13, was found in the woods less than a mile from her home. There was a bullet wound in her head, and a revolver was clutched in hpr riffht hand. It is believed that she killed herself. Miss Hilbert, who was nineteen years old, was about to enter Smith College when she disappeared.