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W MLS BRIDEGROOM V OH WEOPIHG TRIP m Rejected Suitor Shoots His Sue1 cessfui Rival. ? jWBP O -V I 5 tdjcp tft unnnrD tuc oainr mf imco IU mui\uLi\ mt DI\IUL fiv Widowed Wife of an Hour Defends Herself Until Uncle Thrusts His Thumb Under Pistol Hammer? <y , Professor Van Ingen Killed. : Plaquemine, La.?Three years ago Miss Mamie Rhorer, daughter of an ;ex-Mayor of Alexandria, jilted Frank S. Beauvre after having promised to become his wife. t\ ' While the girl and her husband of .thrift hours wers Rr.PAflinsr nn a train !ito New Orleans for their honeymoon, the rejected suitor entered the car, congratulated the bride upon her marriage, then drew a pistol and shot B ~ the bridegroom dead across her lap. / The man -whom Beauvre slew was F. F. Van Ingen, one of the wealthiest young planters of Louisiana. Beauvre had turned the gun from Van Ingen and was about to slay the bride when passengers overpowered him. I The wedding occurred at Alexandria and was the society event of the season. The girl told Beauvre that she rejected him for Van Ingen because she not only loved the latter more, but , also because he had no "CreoleFrench " blood in his veins. Beauvre went away without a word. He was in town, but did not attend the ceremony. A crowd of friends saw the couple off for New Orleans, ;but they did not see Beauvre clamber aboard the same train. Later in the evening Beauvre went Am* Into the coach where the bride and ifeSs? iroom sat. He tonk the seat, onno :}kJ site, and leaning across the aisle. F said: . '"*" "Congratulations to you^otrf^ "Thank you," said .the bride, with a smile. "We are very happy." As she spoke she turned to her <husband and laid her arm across f shoulders. t "This is too much!" cried Beautre, and, pulling the revolver from his ipocket, shot Van Ingen through the head. ; .. b Next he tried to murder the young |p widow, who saved herself by a plucky |ftj fight until her uncle thrust his thumb under the hammer of Beauvre's pisj tol and seized the slayer. B Van Ingen's head fell into the lap of his bride-widow, and he expired ||| within a few minutes. Stf 3eauvre declared that he only revi gretted that he could not send the * "faise woman" to join her dead husband. Mrs. Van Ingen, the bride, followed her husband's slayer from the train, . and was only prevented from attackW ing him by passengers and police officers. JLWKiXJBUXlVJfc SHU! 1>UK JBUKUJjAK. . Killed by Mistake While looking For , Housebreakers. Pittsburg.?Mistaking each other for highwaymen two Pittsburg detectives opened fire on each other on the North Side. James Farrell fell dead with five bullets In his body and with his gun still smoking. Clyde Edeburn, who had killed the man whom he thought was a murderous highwayman, and who had a bullet hole through his own clothes, struck a match to search the body L and was horrified to find by his badge that the dead man was a detective. ' Edeburn and Farrell did not know each other. One had been a detective in the city of Allegheny before it became merged with Pittsburg, the other was ene of the main city sleuths. BOY DID THE ROBBING. ~ Old Man Covered Kansas City Railroad Trainmen With Gons. rj / Kansas City.?A man fifty years old, followed by a boy of fourteen years, pushed open the rear door of thf caboose of a 'Frisco freight train. "Hands up," one said as two pistols were pointed at Elmer G. Butcher, the conductor, and William M. Smith, a brakeman. The trainmen obey. "Now, sonny, go through them," the older man said to the boy. While the robber kept the railroad men covered with his pistols the boy went through their pockets and took $22.50 and their watches. The robbers tied the two trainmen with ropes and left the train as it neared Kansas City. INVENTORS SHOV 58;527 Applications For This Washington, D. C. ? Inventors of every class in this country exhibited greater activity in 1908 than in the year preceding. Edward Bruce Moore. Commissioner of Patents, outlines the work of this department as follows: 58,527 applications for mechanical patents, 1091 applications for designs, 207 applications for reissues, 2036 caveats. He reports tt falling off in the registration of trade marks; 7467 ap? plications for registration of trade marks, 810 applications for labels and 339 applications for registration of prints were filed, and of these ihere were registered 6135 trade Breeches Enoy Saves Eight Lives. The three-masted schooner Flora ttogers, Captain Lowry, from Georgetown, S. C., for New Haven, Conn., lumber laden, was driven ashore on Bodies Island, N. C. Captain Lowry and his wife, from Bath, Me., and six men were rescued by the life savers in the breeches buoy. !"i . ! Pierce Must Go to Texas. H. Clay Pierce must go to Texas for trial, the United States Supreme Court having refused to grant him a rehearing in the Standard Oil suits. Far Eastern Notes. The Chinese-American alliance Idea Is spreading In Manchuria. An edict In Pekin announces the abandonment by the government of the opium monopoly. Pekin sent out details of the Chinese constitution, which is to become effective in nine years. The Bulgarian Cabinet has decided to refuse to pay Turkey an indemnity for Bulgaria's independence. ' New South Wale- exports in 1907 amounted in value to $165,000,000 an increase of $25,000,000 in the year. " TWO KILLED IN CIRCUS DUEL j 11 Cowboy and Police Captain Shoot Each Other at Gulfport, Miss. I The Shots Sounded Like One and the [ Men Fell Dead Side by Side in the Ring. Mobile, Ala.?Two men shot each other dead in the circus, ring of the Miller Brothers' "101 Ranch" Wild West Show in Gulfport, 'Miss., and a riot followed that would have resulted in many more fatalities if the Mayor had not rushed a large body o? policemen and constables to the spot. One of the duelists was Lon Seely, a cowboy belonging to the show. The other was Lee Varnado, captain of police. Varnado lost his life because J he disdained to decline a challongo j .to fight to the death from Seely after striking a ciud out or tne cowDoy s hand in time to save a tentman. Both men were killed instantly. Seely's bullet entered Varnado's mouth and came out at the back of the captain's head. The policeman's shot went through the cowboy's eye and traversed the brain. Quarrels arose among the show | employes when the outfit was pulling stakes to leave the .town. Seely was on the point of stunning a tentman with a club when Captain Yarnado rushed up and knocked the weapon out of his hand. The cowboy, crying, "I'll kill you for that!" whipped out his pistol. Varnado .took out his revolver at the same time, and the two backed to opposite sides of the ring. The shots sounded like one, and the men, staggering toward each other, fell side by side in the centre of the ring. A furious attack on the showmen by the villagers followed. Shots were fired by both sides. The cowboys and other show employes stood about the dead men and repulsed the attack firmly. So swift was the Mayor's action that the riot was stopped before any one was hurt. But the cowboys had to take the cowgirls and Indian squaws out of .town between two columns, and they rode on their way with revolvers in their hands. MAJOR ROBINSON A SUICIDE. Mobile Politician Was Considered Next in Line For Governor. Mobile,, Ala.?Major Edward Murphy Robinson, thirty-five years old, an influential politician, a speaker of national note and next in line for the Governorship of Alabama, committed suicide by shooting while his family were at dinner in their home. No cause is known. Major Robinson excused himself after soup was served, and, stepping into the library adjoining, blew out his brains. He married the daughter of P. D. Barker, postmaster of Mobile, two years ago, and his wife and one child survive him. JOKE CAUSES INDICTMENT. New Yorker Gives a Woman a Bad Coin For Fun. Detroit.?Lucian T: F. Toll, auditor of the New Amsterdam Gas Company, of New York, was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury here on the charge of passing counterfeit money. Tull brought with him when he came to Detroit for a vacation last summer a lot of counterfeit coins taken out of the gas company's slot machine meters in New York and gave some of them as a joke to a woman whom he met here. His action came to the knowledge of a Secret Service agent and he was arrested. Parseval Falls 6000 Feet Unhurt. The Parseval dirigible balloon met with an accident at a height of 6000 feet near Berlin, Germany, as a result of which it became unmanageable and dropped rapidly down to the earth. Major Parseval and his assistant succeeded in making a safe landing. The accident consisted in the bursting of the compartment forming the tail of the airship. Austrian Reservist Called Home. Frederick Kerner, a graduate of the University of Vienna, who has been studying mechanical engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., went back to Austria in response to a call to join the Army Reserve Corps, to which he is attached. "*' "r""p Porto's Protest Stands. Constantinople.?Kiamil Pacha declared that no Turkish Minister would ever consent to withdraw the Porte's protest against the annexation o! Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria. 7 MORE ACTIVITY. Mechanical Patents Made Year. marks, 636 labels and 219 prints. The total receipts of the office were $1,874,180.75; the total expenditures, $1,608,292.01; the grand total aci auipiud UL ictcijna w? tures, including the past fiscal year, was $6,972,070.3S. The amount of profits derived from the issuance of patents is large enough, the Commissioner maintains, to be used for the construction of a new Patent Office building. The Commissioner says that treaties entered into with foreign countries will be of great value to manufacturers and inventors of this country who have foreign trade relations. Acquitted Under the Umvritten Law. Setting up the plea of the unwritten law, Mrs. Nancy Murrill was acquitted at Jackson, Ky., of a charge of murdering Miss Mary Terry, who had accepted the attentions of Murrill and defied his wife. Men, women and children attended the session of court each day and applauded testimony favorable to the defense. Count Zeppelin's Flight. ' Berlin. ? Count Zeppelin's reconstructed airship made a successful flight with ten passengers aboard. The Labor World. The Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., recently appointed three representatives of organized labor to assist in drafting the new city charter. The recent Scottish trades union cnrnrrPBo nnnsprt rpsolntlnns In favor of old-age pensions, and in favor of compulsory intervention in labor disputes. Martin Irons, the leader of the great Southwestern railroad strike of 1885, who died about two years ago in Arkansas almost forgotten, is to have a monument erected to his memory. ! CONFESSING, NAMES FORTY LYNCHERS "Tid" Burton Betrayed Rankin and Taylor to Night Riders. HALF ARE NOW UNDER ARREST Authorities Expect to Round Up Rest or Jtsana mat c;omrainca crime at Reelfoot?Leaders of Mob Named?Lawyer Accused. Tiptonville.Tenn.?In the presence of Sheriff Haynes, Judge Harris and Mayor Cleveland Donaldson "Tid" Burton, a "night rider" arrested at | Samburg, made a full confession in the county jail at this place. He implicated forty well kaown residents of the Lake district in the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin a week ago. Of this number more than half are now held prisoners in Camp Nemo, under the guard of the State troops. Burton denies that he was with the "night riders" when Captain Rankin was hanged, but admits that he furnished the information to the leaders of the Band tnat causeu mem u> swoop down upon the hotel at Walnut Log. According to Burton's statements Tom and Garrot Johnson, both of whom are under arrest at Camp Ne.mo, and Will Watson were the leaders of the "night riders" who perpetrated the crime. Watson is now at large under a $5000 bond for having participated in the whipping of Geo. Winn, a justice of the peace, in Lake County about four months ago. With Burton's confession at their disposal and with other valuable information which was secured It is confidently expected by the authorities that it will be but a matter of a few hours before the members of the band still at large are taken into custody. Burton said that he went to Walnut Log the night before the murder and there had a conversation with James F. Carpenter, an attorney, of this city, at whose solicitation Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin made the journey to Walnut Log, ostensibly to arrange a deal in timber lands. As it is now alleged, Carpenter's purpose was to place them at the mercy of the "night riders." Carpenter was placed under arrest by special order from Governor Patterson. and is now held in Camp Nemo. He is a retired lawyer and reputed to be wealthy. After this conversation with Carpenter Burton told the authorities that he communicated with the "leaders of the "night riders" and betrayed the presence of their victims. He said he saw both of them at the supper table the night they were taken from their beds, shortly after 12 o'clock. They did not see him, as he only went to the hotel to get a lunch to take with him into the lake that night, as he intended to fish until morning. Burton states that immediately after getting this lunch he got into his boat and went out into the lake about a mile. He was fishing at the time the fatal shots were fired into Captain Rankin's body, and says that he heard them, but did not return at once to Bayou Deshea to see what they meant or to learn what crime i had been perpetrated. Reports from the camp at Samburg say nothing of a sensational character happened during the night. A report has reached here from Humboldt that Company C, State militia, is ready to respond to any call from the ] Governor. It has been reported alBO j that more troops would be called out, ! but Major W. C. Tatom, in command'j here, states that no more militia is needed. He said: "The situation is well in hand and there is no probability of more troops being ordered out. The progress we have been making is very satisractory and the situation does not require the presence of more soldiers." There is no disguising the fact, however, that tbe situation In the disturbed district is grave, and although all is quiet now sensational developments are expected at any hour. There is much uneasiness among the law-abiding people living; in the Lake country. Although the j presence of the troops had a beneficial effect, at the same time the country people are in constant dread of depredations from roving bands of "night riders." Scouting parties continue to scour the adjacent country. Important ar rests are expected. A detachment of soldiers reached here from Nashville. There are between 250 and 300 armed men In eamp at present. Among the prisoners held at the ; camp is a man who, it is said, has been identified as the leader of a band of night riders who several weeks ago murdered a youth near Hyman, Ky., on the same night that a family of negroes were killed. It is declared here that the mother of the murdered boy identified the prisoner as he was passing her house under guard. Man Who Caused Riots Hanged. Joseph James, the eighteen-yearold negro murderer of C. A. Ballard, was hanged in the county jail at Springfield, 111. James confessed, and prayed before he went to the scaffold. Ballard was a railway engineer, and was killed by James on the night of July 30, the murder precipitating the riots which State troops quelled. $2,000,000 Gained by Prohibition. Union County. South Carolina, again voted for prohibition by about 300 majority out of 1500 votes cast. During the past three yaar9 of prohibition the arrests for drunkenness decreased fifty per cent.., and property valuations in the county are said to have increased $2,000,000. Bank Near $1,000,000 Short. The Cosmopolitan National Bank of Pittsburg, which is now in the hands of a receiver, appears to be short something like $1,000,000. Women in the Day's News. Mrs. Luther Q. Tillotson, of New York City, bequeathed about $150,000 to charitable and educational institutions. Miss Laura Gordon Root, niece of the Secretary of State, was married to Stanley Gilbert, of New York City, at Clinton, N. Y. The Finns evidently have not found woman suffrage a failure. Nineteen women were elected to their first Parliament. Now twentyfive have just been elected to the | second. i WORST BLIZZARD IN YEAR! . y?" Six Herders Missing and 20,001 Sheep Dead in New Mexico. Fatalities in Northwestern Snowstori -?Many Lives Lost in North Dakota?Cattle on Ranges Perish. Helena, Montana. ? Reports r ceived here indicate that the storr in Northern Montana stands unpr? cedented for October, so far as sevei ity and loss of life are concerned The United States weather bureau a Havre recorded six inches of sno^ The storm extended all along th line of the Great Northern, with gale of seventy miles an hour blowing In North Dakota an unusual numbe of lives were lost among sheep herd ers and many had narrow escapes. The remains of a cheep herde named Graves, who tras frozen t death, were brought here from CheE ter and were prepared for shlpmen to his folks in Michigan. J. W. Pow ers, of Malta, was caught in the storn and frozen to death. George Driver, an employe of Pugs ley & Simpson, near Wild Hors Lake, was lost in the storm and hi remains have not yet been found His dog, it is reported, was found al most frozen to death. The storm was accompnled by i palp that rirnrA thn r?Ticft Mttlfl fli fiercely that they tore down wir fences in traveling away from th storm. Lafge flocks of sheep wer lost by the herders, they drifting am scattering all over the country. Man; hundreds were chilled to death. Santa Fe, N. M.?Twenty thousani sheep, grazing on the Cumbers Moun tain range in Rio Arriba County, 14i miles north of here, are reported t< have perished in the blizzard whlcl has raged in that section during th last three days. The storm is the worst in years and snow is from five to ten fee deep. Besides the great loss of she6; six herders are missing, and It is be lieved they were also frozen to death Medicine Hat, Saskatchewan.?Th first trains to reach Medicine Ha since the snowstorm arrived from th East. Riders got in from the regioi Btretching south to the United State border with fearful tales of hardshl] created by the storm. Willlar Mitchell arrived from his ranch, sixt: miles south of here, and reported th second fatality as a result of the re cent storm. Donald Cameron, sheep herder with two others, were forced to ieav their sheep to perish and seek safet; for themselves. Cameron, however became exhausted and died. Afte being sixty hours without sleep o nourishment the other two mei reached a ranch "in safety. It i feared that many other herders hav perished. Three thousand shee; were driven by the storm into Man: Islands Lake and only 300 were saved DIE ON WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Ivid Hennessy, a Bluejacket, Kill His Wife and Himself. Norfolk, Va.?Daniel J. Hennessy a bluejacket of the navy, shot hi wife dead in Portsmouth." He the) fired a bullet into his brain. Theyhai not lived together for some time. On night the woman was in the stree with another man for about thre< hours. Hennessy saw her. Qbtain lng a.pistol he went to the hous where she had been staying and sho her as she sat in a chair. Steppini back a few feet he fired a bullet inti his own body. Hennessy was about twenty-fou years old and his wife about twenty one. Hennessy's home was in Troy N. Y. He was a prize fighter of not before entering the navy, and in th navy he was known as a first-clas fiehter. As a fighter he was know: as "Kid" Hennessy. It was the first annivesary of th' wedding of the Hennessys. DISASTER TO BANANAS. 40,000-Acre Plantatioa- Ruined b; Nicaraguan Storm?Damage Inland New Orleans, La.?The steamshi Habil, from Bluefields, Nicaragua brings the news that the Kukia plan tation, near that town, was complete ly destroyed by a storm. The Kukl was the largest banana plantation oi the coast, having 40,000 acres o trees and operating a railroad to de liver the fruit to vessels at Blueflelds The damages in the Interior, espe cially in the mineral districts of Nic aragua, is understood to be far grsai er than at the coast. Military Executions in Russia. The Rech publishes Russian officia statistics showing that in 1907 62 death sentences were imposed by mil itary courts, eighty-four of the con demned being Boldiers and 543 civ ilians. Of these 453 were hangei or shot for murder or robbery, sixty two for mutiny or other offense against military discipline, flfty-on for crimes against the State and fou for desertion. To Accept Ordinary Bill of Lading Announcement was made that al the railroads operating east of th Mississippi River will accept the or dinary bill of lading until January 1 The new uniform bill of lading wil be put into service at once, but th* ordinary bill be accepted until Jan uary 1, provided that it bears a stam] mark stating that the bill is subjec to the specifications of the new uni UI11 1U1I1I Uiil. Korean Revolt Over. The insurrection in Korea, accord ing to Japanese officials, is practi cally ended. The troops are still 01 active duty, but the insurgents an said to have dwindled to merely j disorderly element. To Release Deserter. Mrs. C. J. Magness, daughter o the late Senator Gorman, declarec she would fight for her husband, who in a navy prison at Philadelphia a: a deserier, hoped his wife's influenci would get him freed. Prominent People. Hamilton Fish resigned as Assist ant Treasurer of the United States a New York. Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner General of Immigration, died ii Washington, D. C. A rousing reception was given t< Cardinal Gibbons on his arrival li Baltimore from Rome. Denman Thompson Is seventy-fiv< years old. He created the charactei of Uncle Josh In "The Old Home steail' -iiirty-three years ago, anc Bince that time has played no othei Dart. h S PARLIAMENT EJECTS . IBQHE SUFFBABETTES They Chain Themselves to Grille n of Ladies' Gallery. LONDON'S GREAT SENSATION J- a Tn-n \ron in <?trn.n?rers' Gallery Act. as Allies, Throw Handbills, and Arc I Likewise Ejected?Votes For ' Women Demanded, t ! r. London.?Suffragette disturbances i e have driven the Government to the s unusual course of temporarily closing j T. the strangers' and ladies' galieries in ; r the House of Commons. T^is was | announced by the Speaker in response r to a question from Premier Asquith o j and Mr. Balfour, leader of the Opposltlon, as Parliament was adjourned. During the course' of the evening, a whiie the House was discussing the Licensing bill, a sensation was caused by the display of a placard and sude den shrill cries from the ladies' gal3 lery demanding votes for women, f- while simultaneously a bundle ol i " handbills fluttered down from the strangers' gallery at the opposite end a of the chamber, and a man shouted ? protests against "injustice to wome^" 9 Attendants hurried to both gal9 leries and the male offender was une ceremoniously ejected, while from the * ladies' gallery presently sounds were y heard of a desperate struggle. Two suffragettes had firmly chained themi selves to the grille or lattice, from behind which feminine eyes must D view the House in session, and re0 sisted for a time all efforts at re* 1 moval, not ceasing to cry out contib9 uously in shrill tones their demands for votes. '? The scene was watched with amazot ' ment from the floor of the House. P When finally the suffragettes were dragged from their posts and re- ! moved portions of the grille itself 9 were removed with them. t Ten minutes later there was an9 other dramatic scene. A man in the 1 strangers' gallery flung another buns die of bills down upon the House and P shouted: "Why don't you give worn- j 1 en votes and relieve the unem-, y ployed?" 9 Attendants rushed upon him, but " /he resisted fiercely the attempts made to can/ him bodily from the gallery. '? Aftar a desperate struggle the at9 tendants succeeded in their efforts. y This champion of women was likewise ejected. About the same time r a large body of suffragettes made a r demonstration outside the Parliament a buildings and fifteen of them were 3 arrested. '[ 9 The removal of the two militant f ouuiugciLCO yicacutcu a Lviuiitai aicac t to those In the corridors. Both of the offenders were laughing heartily as they were led out by a posse of policemen, one of the officers carrying that portion of the iron work of the grille to which the women , were chained. They were conducted into a ^ committee room and /workmen were , ; summoned to file off the iron from the s ' chains which were securely padlocked a f around the women's waists. , i j It was found that the chains had e , been carefully padded to prevent any t ' suspicious clanking noise, when the 0 sufTragettes entered the ladies' gal i lery. According to the companions e of the bold pair, the whole thing had t been planned beforehand with great g secrecy. One band was to demon0 strate outside the building, another in the lobby of the House, and a third r in the gallery. The gallery contingent - numbered fourteen, but it was attended by many passive sympathizers. e e ROOSEVELT'S 50TH BIRTHDAY, a >, 3- Congratulations of Friends and Message From King Edward. Washington, D. C. ? President v' Roosevelt observed his fiftieth birth| i day anniversary simply. He attended f [ to his executive duties as usual and, except for the reception of a delega? tion from the Hungarian Republican Club of New York in the East Room " of the White House and the receipt J'* of a large number of congratulatory 1 messages, floral tributes and gifts from the members of his family, the '' day was the same to him as any other. King Edward sent one of the first < of the congratulatory messages received. It said: " "I request that you will r.ccept my ^ cordial congratulations upon the oc u camuu uj. yuur uirmuay, logemer wim my best wishes for your welfare and | prosperity." ?_________ SZECHENYI CHILD BORN. 1 Countess Gives Birth to <*. Daughter In Hungary. !. Budapest, Hungary.?The Budapest newspapers announce that the j Countess Szechenyl, formerly Bliss . Gladys Vanderbllt, has given birch to g a daughter. ( J e The condition of both the Countess r and the child is satisfactory. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, youngest daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbllt, and Count Laszlo Szechenyl j were married at .the Vanderbllt home, e at Fifty-eigith street and Fifth ave, nue, on January 27, 1908. They sailed for Europe soon after the wedj ding. a i . Demand For Small Coins. 3 An increased demand for sit'-j" t iary silver coinage was noted in - Washington, D. C., as an evidence of returning prosperity. Mingo Sanders Out of Army. Secretary of War Wright, at Wash" lngton, D. C., said nothing but a spe1 cial act of Congress would reinstate 9 Mingo Sanders, formerly sergeant of 1 the Twenty-fifth Infantry, dismissed with his battalion for the Brownsville raid. ' Cardinal, Bishop of Barcelona, Dead. Cardinal Salvador Casanasy Pages, 3 Bishop of Barcelona, is dead. He a was born in 1834, and created a cardinal in 1895. j The Field of Sports. - ' Disappointed over an injury he ret ceived in practice, Robert L. Burch, of Cincinnati, Ohio, resigned the captaincy of the Yale football team. i The yearling bay colt Colin was sold at Lexington, Ky., by W. W. 3 Evans to George H. Estabrook for i $5000, and he will be taken to Denver. * 5 The Yale football men elected E?: ward Harris Coy, of New Haveq, - Yale's great punting football fullI back, field captain for the remainder : of the year, and Captain Burch will direct the men from the side lines. i I Latest News! RV U/IRF. I u-f ww aamaav 1 Two Babies Die in Fire. Howell, Mich.?Two children are dead and the mother and another child were fatally Injured as a result of a fire in a farmhouse near Oak Grove. The dead the Alveria Riel, aged two months, and Donna Riel, aged two and a half years. Dies to Save Dog. Sandusky, Ohio.?Captain John Robinson, of the barge Cutter, was killed at Kelley Island, The boat was docking when a pet dog fell overboard. Captain Robinson jumped into the water to save the dog and was caught between the vessel and dock. He was crushed so badly he died on the way to the hospital here. Tillman Family Reunion. Augusta, Ga.?Senator Tillman arrived at his home in Trenton, S. C. The day was celebrated by a family reunion, all of the Tillman family from various parts of the State being present. The Chester's Final Trial. Washington, D. C.?The scout cruiser Chester, said to be the fastest naval vessel above 1500 'tons displacement afloat, has completed her final acceptance trial. She maintained a speed of twenty-three knots for twelve hours and 26.1 knot for four hours. Woman With $3000 Lost. Chicago.?The police were requested to search for Mrs. George Williams, who, with $3000, left Milwaukee, Wis., a week ago, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Charles Anderson, at Aurora, 111., and has not been seen since. Mrs. Williams is seventy-four years old. Demand For Cars Grows. Chicago.?The fortnightly report of ? the car efficiency committee shdwed a further decrease of 18,756 in the number of surplus cars, which brings the total down to 115,036. The principal part of this decrease is in coal and gondola cars. Forbids State Court to Act. Kansas City,-Mo.?Federal Judge Smith McPherson made permanent his injunction granted in June last year forbidding the Probate Court of Buchanan County, Missouri, from declaring Miss Mary V. Burnes insane. She is heir to 51,000,000 of the Burnes estate at St. Joseph, valued at several million dollars. Official Killed by Trolley. Newport, R. I.?J. Truman Burdick died In the Newport Hospital, of which institution he was treasurer, of injuries .received when he was struck by an electric car, his skull being fractured. The Original Stage Topsy Dead. Boston, Mass. ?' Mrs. George C. Howard, formerly Caroline E. Foi, a well known actress some years ago, died in Cambridge. Mrs. (Howard was born in Boston in 1829. She first appeared on the stage in juvenile parts at the old Tremont Theatre with Edwin Forrest, Charles and Fanny Kemble, J. R. Scott and other stars of<that period. Miss Fox married George C. Howard in 1844. He was an actor and manager, and was the first to produce the accepted version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and Mrs. Howard appeared in the original cast on the first night of its production as Topsy at Troy on September 27, 1852. Mrs. James B. McCreary Dead. Richmond, Ky.?Mrs. James B. l/rnPnoo wifd acn\r\T Qona U1WI wcti J f I? IfcQ Vli l>uv HVUtW* N/VUM tor from Kentucky, died at her home here after a long Illness. BY CABLE. I Americans at Nodzu's Funeral. Tokio, Japan.?The funeral of Gensral Count Mlchitsura Nodzu occurred when full military services were carried out on Aoyama parade ground. The military escort which followed the body to the guard of honor which marched beside the coffin, reposing on a flag-draped gun carriage, was headed by Admiral Togo, Fleet Admiral of Japan; Marquis Ito and twelve other Admirals and Generals. Admiral Sperry, commander of the American fleet, attended the funeral. % King's Messenger Dead. London.?Lieutenant Arthur Jeremy Mounteney Jephson, who had been the King's Messenger since 1901, and prior to that the Queen'? Messenger since 1895, is dead. Big Airship Race in 1009. Paris.?The Aero Club of France has decided to organize a big aeroplane meeting in the autumn of 1909, when the Grand Prix d'Aviation of $2000 will be competed for. Reid Unveils Burke Tablet. Bath, England.?Whitelaw Reid. the American Ambassador, unveiled a tablet in this city in memory of Edmund Burke, the celebrated Eng' lish statesman and orator. Independence For Cuba. Havana. ? Cuban conservatives have issued a manifesto declaring that their first aim is to see Cuba en' tirely independent. Member of Parliament Bonded. London.?The case of William James Thome, Social Democratic Member of the House of Parliament, charged with a breach of peace by making a speech in which he advised the unemployed to ".rush" the baker shops rather than starve, came up in the Bow Street Police Court. Thorne was ordered by the Magistrate to find sureties for his good behavior for a year, or go to jail for six months. Peter F. Curran and James O'Grady, fellow Members of the House of Commons, furnished the required bonds. Austria Stops War Supplies. 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"I'll betcher Solomon would have -5 had sense enough to charge admission when he went into the lions' v den."?New England Grocer. ? .? >, i M Incapacitated the Plant. Subscriber ? "Why wasn't there any issue this week?" { % Editor (thickly)?"Thepaper gave j out--" * Subscriber ? "Nonsense. There's enough of it around here to write an acceptance of a Presidential nomina- V; tion." Editor?"As I was saying, the paper gave out a story about Billy Wal-r 'H lop, the prizefighter, and he took exception to it."?Puck. . Lost Popularity of Billiards. Are billiards dying out, and : are motoring and golf killing them? In 1894 the French treasury returns . v'' noted 95,000 billiard tables in the country. This year the figure is only 89,000. The treasury laments the fact, not from any disinterested love for the grand old game, but because every billiard table pays a heavy tax. " Motoring, of course, contributes its full share to the inland revenue here \ as well as elsewhere, but so far the [& royal and ancient pastime, which is quite new here, pays nothing to the State. However, that may come in ' due course, and golf clubs, balls, caddies and links may be taxed to make up for the shrinkage in billiard tables.?Paris Correspondence Lon- . don Telegraph. / *" ? i :? Excused. The Teacher ? "And why didn't you come to school yesterday?" \ The Pupil?"Please, ma'am, me muvver didn't know school commenced yestiddy, and she borrered mvo r.roon'n almanip an' it wuz a last year's one." The Teacher ? "And didn't youi father know the day that the school* opened?" The Pupil?"No, ma'am. He don't know nuffln' 'bout days." The Teacher?"How Is that?" / The Pupil?"He works night-."?> * . < Cleveland Plain Dealer. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well With Change of rooa. A great scientist has said we can put off "old age" if we can only nourish the body properly. 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