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JilBILAKT MARCH BACK TO THE MILS BEGINS Workers the Country Over at Their Jobs Again. BUSINESS BOOM SWEEPS ON The Pace That It is Setting Is Awakening the Whole Commerical and Industrial World?Great Good Already Done. "BACK TO WORK" is the word for many thousands of unemployed, taken on In factories all over the country as a result of the election. New reports of the march back to prosperity continue to come in day by day. Trade Revival in New England. Boston.?The business inactivity which marked the pre-election period has given way with a rush in New England, announcements of a resumption of operations having been made in all directions within the last few days. Many industrial interests are affected, although the reports indicate that the textile concerns have acted more promptly and in greater numbers in ordering longer hours and more operatives. Other lines which already have arranged for increased operations are jewelry and rubber factories, thread, yarn and knitting mills, machine and tool matting pianis ana rauroau repair shops. Woolen jobbers report an unprecedented rush of business since election day. Tailors from all over New England are coming to Boston and placing orders for cloth, most of their customers having held up their order? for winter clothing until after election. The present rush Is so great that woolen houses are working their clerks overtime in an effort to catch up with their orders, and woolens that have been carried in stock many months are being shipped so rapidly that in some lines new goods cannot be obtained fast enough to fill the benches cleaned up by shipments. New Haven, Conn.?Revival of Industrial activity will be felt in Connecticut in nearly every branch of trade, particularly along the Naugatuck Valley, which is the centre of brass and copper goods manufacture. The increase in orders to electrical equipment concerns will immediately be followed by active resumption on full time of many plants in Waterbury and Bridgeport, which turn out fittings of copper used in electrical machinery. In all the metal trades a busy winter is expected, Interviews with manufacturers at Waterbury Indicating that inquiries for estimates on contracts have begun. The Naugatuck Valley was hit Hard by the industrial depression, for more than 25,000 highly skilled workers in copper and brass have been on part time for months. Bristol, R. I.?A full time schedule was begun at the mills of the National Rubber Company, where one thousand hands are employed. The Warren Manufacturing Company, cotton goods, has also adopted a full time schedule. ^ Winsted, Conn.?Conflrmation of the report that the Mount Vernon and Woodbury Cotton Duck Company is to reopen its mills at New Hartford has reached there. Officials of the company inspected the property. One thousand hands will be employed. The company owns one section of the town known as Dublin, comprising besides its mill fifty dwellings, all of which have been empty since the industry was shut down. Hartford, Conn.?There are unmis takable signs of business activity all over Connecticut since the election. In New Britain, Hartford, New Hartford and the smaller up-State towns, where the business of the woolen and silk mills provide thousands with work, the same sentiment prevails and already an improvement In demand has been shown. On the New Haven road, no doubt the largest employer of labor in the State, the increased operation of the factories naturally results hi a greater demand for railroad workmen. As an example the company started its big Readville repair departments on a full schedule of six days a week. About 1800 men will be benefited by IVIi. IU10 uuaugc. In New York and Nearby States. New York City.?New York building trades have begun to benefit from the wave of prosperjty that has swept over the country since election. Paul Starrett, of the Fuller Construction Company, will within the next few days put 200 men to work on two new apartment houses in West Eightysixth street. In view of the marked revival in \ Industrial activity, heads of the Eastern trunk lines are now considering he advisability of carrying into effect the ten per cent, increase in freight rates which has been under discussion for the last five or six months. Schwartzenbach, Huber & Co., silk manufacturers, have established a new scale of increasing the wages of employes in their West Hoboken and Union Hill mills on an average of ten per cent. Nearly 1000 hands are now at work in the two mills. The silk industry was very slack during the summer. Trenton, N. J.?Beginning the day after election the mammoth plant of the John A. Roebling Sons' Company in Trenton, N. J., will be operated to SIX KILLED IN COLLISION. Twenty Other Railroad Workmen Hurt at Deep River, Conn. New Haven, Conn.?Six men were killed and twenty injured, some of them fatally, in a rear end collision * * ' x ? wAi?lr oor at Of & ireigru irmii ctuu a ttvia vu? %*v Deep River. The men killed were Frank A. Furlong, a brakeman, and five recent Immigrants from Italy, employed as laborers. The injured are all Italian laborers. The names of the Italians are not known here. r- Chauffeur Sent to Jail. At Pittsfield, Mass., Oscar westholm, chauffeur for a wealthy Pittsfield resident, has been sentenced to .three months in jail for reckless driving. Westholm ran into another motor car at night, spilling its occupants, two brothers, who complained to the police. Consolidation Railroads Planned. Tentative negotiations for merging the Toledo, St. Louis and Western. Chicago and Alton, Minneapolis and St. Louis, Iowa Central and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways are in progress at St. Louis, Mo. fts capacity fall time, with work enough ahead to last for months, much of which has been ordered or released since election. ' One hundred artisans will go to work in the rolling mill, which has been idle for nearly a year. Senator Frank 0. Briggs, assistant treasurer of the company, declares that the concern will be busier than It has been for years. One order just received from New York will keep the Willetts potteryworks running on full time for a year. General C. Edward Murphy said that his pottery plants would start work on $275,000 worth of orders, all of which had been held up pending election. The Mott Iron Company has received orders aggregating nearly a quarter of a million dollars since election. John S. Broughton has just booked $50,000 worth of new orders for his rubber mills, and the Trenton Iron Company has opened with a full force of men. Pittsburg. ? The Berwind-White Coal Company has closed contracts for improvements at its many mines to cost $500,000. The Pittsburg papers carry adverHcomontc fr>r Kflfl arirllHnnal miners wanted by the Berwlnd-White people, though they have had 7000 men at work. Harrlsburg.?It- was announced here that the Pennsylvania Steel Company has received an order for 25,000 tons of rails from the Atlantic Coast line. These rails will be rolled by the Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow's Point. Fires were started In the No. 1 blast furnace in the Steelton plant. The furnace will be placed in operation. There were not enough men on hand in the Connellsville coke field in the Pittsburg district to satisfy the coke concerns, and complaints of the ^scarcity of labor poured in on all sides. An estimate published placed the number of coke ovens firing at 3000. The coke labor shortage was placed between 1000 and 2000 men. In the South. Richmond, Va.?It was announced that the Virginia Railroad has ordered nineteen iocomotives of the latest model from the Richmond branch of the American Locomotive Company. This will necessitate the operation of the plant, so long practically idle, at full blast for months to come. This announcement has created a stir among the hundreds of employes of the plant, who have been idle for many weeks. Other industries of lesser importance throughout the State are noting Improved business, and employes are being reinstated in many factories. With the impetus business has received during the week, should it continue, In a month conditions in Virginia will be normal. j The order for engines received by the locQmotive works would seem to Indicate that the capitalists behind ' the new Virginia Railroad, of whom H. H. Rogers is the chief, are fully confident that business throughout the cpuntry will continue to improve. ! Local wholesale and" retail houses report increased trading for the last two days, some houses having sold more goods in this time than within the same period for the last six months. Atlanta, Ga.?Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, in emphasizing his belief that the price of cotton will rise speedily, said: "The national election is past, and millions of dollars of orders for manufactured goods have been placed in the last few weeks. Raw cotton will feel the Impetus given to other lines of industry. While the ginners' reports indicate a larger amount of cotton ginned to date than at any previous period in the history of the Census Bureau, the ginnings for November and the succeeding months of the year will indicate a heavy falling off. The total yield of this year will, in my opinion, fall far short of 'the two big crop years of 1904 and 1906." New Orleans, La.?The only industry in New Orleans to raise wages in consequence of election is the Textile Company, which controls the two big cotton factories of this city and has ' 1800 persons at work. A reduction in the wages was made some time ago; a large number of the employes left, and the mills reduced their output. Two days after the election wages were raised twenty per cent, and all the hands went back to work. The increase applies also to Wesson Mills, at Wesson, MIbs., which is controlled by the Textile Company. The election has had more immediate effect in the matter of bringing in money to New Orleans for investment, this being due in part to greater confidence, and in part to the adoption of a constitutional amendment exempting from taxation money advanced on mortgages. This has resulted already in the investment of more than $3,000,000 in Louisiana mortgages, of which $1,000,000 goes to the erection of the big Audubon Building. Another loan was made by a New York life insurance company to the city for constructing schools. These loans served to relieve the money situation here, money being scarce and tight. Farm Communities and the Future of Trade, Washington, D. C.?To-day, the farmers of the United States have I more money than at any previous I time, and it is the belief of the mer chants and railroad interests and bankers that, as soon as the agricultural districts commence to buy necessities and luxuries in larger volume, sales by both manufacturers and jobbers will be increased. Stocks of goods in distributors' hands throughout the country are far below the normal, and will have to be replenished in the near future. Cleveland Letter Man in Trouble. A police magistrate of New York City gave Broughton Brandenburg, the magazine writer, who sold the Cleveland letter, two weeks in which to raise money for his wife's support or go to jail. Gen. Wood Snccecds Gen. Grant. Major-General Leonard Wood relieved Major-General Frederick D. Grant of command of the Department ii? TT>ifVi tioadnimvters at | Ol II1C DCUl, nnu . Governor's Island, New York. Jotttngs About Sports. Wheaton was the first Yale man te kick a goal from the field in a game in five years. Pat Powers was re-elected president of the Eastern League at their annual meeting. J. D. Lightbody (American) defeated A. J. Robertson (English) in a 1500 metre race at Stockholm. Coach "Hurry Up" Yost, of the Michigan eleven, has had Terry. Field strung with huge, incandescent lights, and from now on the Wolverines will be put through nightly practice under artiflciaMight. ! WOMAN, ADOPTED CHILD 1 m MAN FOUND KILLED Triple Tragedy Linked With Mysterious Death a Year Before. MOTHER'S VENGEANCE THEORY It is Suggested She Used Razor, Believing Her Son-in-Law Slew Hei Daughter?Pittsburg Police Puzzled by Case's Strange Features. East Pittsburg.?A triple crime, the inner history of which probablj never can be known, was discovered here by William Casey when he returned to his home, in Fifth avenue, shortly after midnight. On the bed, her throat cut, lay his wife; beside her, her head almost severed from - j? i t .1. me uuuy, my ireuw, sia jeai s uiu; t whom Mrs. Casey had adopted aftei the tragic death of her daughter a year before. At first sight vieorgl Hartzell, Mrs. Casey's son-in-law, api peared to be missing. But the fumei of chloroform led Casey to a trunk In a corner of the room. Raising thd lid he found the body of Hartzell; Like the others, Hartzell's throat wa^ cut. A cloth that had been soaked Id chloroform was wrapped about thd head. That little Irene had been an inno'i cent victim -was plain, but there was little to show which of the two others was the murderer., A blood-staineq razor that evidently had been used id the killing lay on the bed beside Mrs. Casey's body, and from that fact the police built a theory closely connected with the death of the woman's daughter. They believe Mrs. Casey killed Hartzell because she believed he, a year before, had killed her child, who, at the time of her death, had been a bVide only a few weeks. Young Mrs. Hartzell was killed In her home by a pistol shot. Hartzell was arrested, but told a story how his wife had kissed him good-bye as he was leaving the house to go to work and then, running into another room, had shot herself before he closed the outer door. Mrs. Casey openly accused Hartzell of the murder of his bride, but she was unable to produce proof,' knd' when the Coroner's jury, brought in a verdict of suicide Hartzell was released. The widower went to live with the <Jaseys, and, if the story told by the police is true, Mrs. Casey from the first hour he entered the house set} all her woman's craft to the task of: fastening the death of his wife upon1 him. She was thirty-seven years old! and Hartzell twenty-two, and the two' came to spend so much time together that Casey became jealous and frequently quarreled with his wife on the score of her friendship for her Ml-d f!aqpV. it is Said. soothed her husband by telling him she was seeking to trap Hartzell into a confession that he had killed their daughter, and the strange seeming friendship continued and grew closer. "If I ever can really satisfy myself that George shot my child I will kill him in cold blood with my own hands," the woman is said to have told her husband a few days ago. Whether she actually learned anything from the young man's lips probably never will be known. The police believe that, in her own words, she "satisfied herself" pf his guilt, and, after first trying to suffocate Hartzell with chloroform, cut his throat with the razor as he lay unconscious. Then, crazed with the sight of the blood and with the realization of what she had done, it is believed she killed the little girl and herself. BOYCOTT STANDARD OIL. People of New Riegel, Ohio, Resent Opposition to Saloons. Cleveland, Ohio.?The latest fight on the Standard Oil Company has I been begun in New Riegel, a town of 600, in Seneca County. It is peopled largely by a liberal German element which has no objection to saloons. Recently there was a hot fight over the liquor question, culminating in the decision of the voters to let the saloons stay. Residents of New Riegel learned that John D. Rockefeller had given financial aid to the Anti-Saloon League. Nest time the Standard's salesman went to the town to look after his trade he was told that no one would buy his oil. The New Riegel people patronize an independent refinery not far away. Family Wiped Out by Tire. The home of E. W. Carey, a farmer living a few miles south of Swan Lake, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Carey, five children, and a Miss Gillespie, a young school teacher, who was staying over night with the family, perished in the flames. Mr. Carey was so badly injured that he cannot recover. ? ,< New Yorker Commits Suicide. Henry Erlich, twenty years old, of No. 788 West Eighty-second street, New York City, committed suicide near Delaware City, Del., by shooting himself. He left a note addressed to Thomas Hawkins, of the above address, in which he said he had become despondent because'of his inability to get work. Turkish Mutiny Quelled. Part of the Yildi- Kiosk garrison at Constantinople rebelled, but the mutiny was quelled by a volley which killed three and wounded fifteen. Bank Cashier Arrested. Charles H. Jones, cashier of thft First National Bank, of Seabright, N. J., has been arrested and placed under $10,000 bail on charges of embezzling funds of the institution aggregating $16,000 and falsifying its accounts. Standard Oil Reorganized. John D. Rockefeller's reappearance at No. 2 6 Broadway, New York City, revived the rumor that a reorganization of the Standard Oil Company - was planned. Prominent Toople. The home of Senator W. Murray Crane ,at Dalton, Mass., was robbed of $1000 worth of silverware. Manufacturers and business men united at Richmond, Va., to honor Mr. Li Sum Ling, the Chinese publicist. , Andrew D. White has returned from his first visit to Berlin since he was stationed there as American ' TinIster. Miss Elkins and the Duke of the Abruzzi will be married before January 1, said reports from the bride's home. TOBACCO TIM IS ILLEGAL Three Judges Say That's the Way Sherman Law Works. Supremo Court Has Interpreted It in Like Manner ? Injunction Stayed Pending Appeal. New York City.?Judges Lacombe, Coxe and Noyes, of the United States Circuit Court, handed, down opinions in the Government's suit to dissolve the, American Tobacco Company, holding that the defendant combination is in violation of the provisions of tho Sherman Act relating to restraint of trade. An injunction against the maintenance of the combination is granted with a stay pending appeal. Judge Ward handed down a dissenting opinion. The Governments suit against the so-called tobacco trust was begun more than a year ago and the testimony was taken before United States Commissioner Shields. In the three concurring opinions the complaint, so far as it involved tne imperial xoDacco company ui Great Britain and Ireland and the British-American Tobacco Company, is dismissed. The injunction granted, subject to stay, excepts also the United Cigar Stores Company and the R. P. Richardson, Jr., Company. An appeal to the United States Supreme Court will be taken at once. The application for a receivership for the defendants is denied "as impracticable and wholly unnecessary." Judge Lacombe concurs with Judge Coxe in the latter's conclusions concerning the United Cigar Stores Company and the R. P. Richardson, Jr., Company, and adds: "I agree that issuance of injunction should be suspended until after decision on appeal." In conclusion Judge Lacombe says that there is an absence of persuasive evidence that by unfair competition independent companies were forced to nsvll /Mif + a +V?a A *n Tnh | OCil VUli IV IUC AlUCllUHU A vwuvvv Company, nor does it appear that there was any increase in the price of tobacco products to consumers. Each purchase of a company, however, was a contract,'he says, and a combination in restraint of competition which is sufficient to "bring it (American To-, bacco Company) within the ban of this drastic statute." THE ELECTORAL VOX*'. TAFT. California, 10 Connecticut 7 Delaware Idaho 3 Illinois 27 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Kansas 10 Maine ti Maryland 2 Massachusetts 16 Michigan 14 Minnesota 11 . ' Missouri is Montana 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 12 . New York 3$ ' North Dakota.. * Ohio .. Oregon .. ... .. 4 ' ' Pennsylvania 34 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 Uta^ 3 Vermont 4 vWashington K west Virginia 7 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming.. . 3 Total- .! 321 * " BRYAN.' Alabama? 11 Arkansas 9 Colorado 5 Florida K Georgia .... IS Kentucky i. 1?> Louisiana 9 Maryland ' ? Mississippi 10 Nevada " North Carolina '.... 12 Nebraska .... 8 Oklahoma 7 Soiith Carolina ? Tennessee ./.. 12 Texas 18 Virginia 12 Total 162 Total number of votes in Electoral College, 483; necessary to a choice, 242. Trrr.Tirn nv nrtrcp rvm tttc nor?. Hunter Falls Dead at Grave With $2000 in His Pockets. Bloomer, Wis.?Grief over the death of the dog who had been his companion when hunting and trapping for seven years, was the cause of the death of Frank Spitzik. The body of the hunter was found beside that of his dog. Spitzik was digging a grave for the animal when he fell into the ditch. Boastful Aeronaut Killed. Professor Peter Kramer, of St. Louis, was dashed against the chimney of the Methodist Church and killed at Princeton, 111., while making a balloon ascension at the Farmers' Carnival. A strong wind was blowing and efforts were made to persuade the aeronaut not to attempt an ascension* In reply he said: "I will make the jumu to-day if I break my neck doing it."' Prison For a Bank President. John E. Godding, president of the defunct State Bank of Rocky Ford, Col., was sentenced to serve eight to ten years in the State Prison. He had "been convicted on charges of making unlawful use of the bank's funds and receiving deposits after he knew the bank to be insolvent. Guilty of Murtler. James D. Farmer was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Wa tertowc, N. Y., for the killing by himself and wife of Mrs. Sarah Brennan, Women in the Day's News. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens "stumped" Maine, and was glad that the election kept intact the laws against the liquor traffic. Mme. Emmy Destinn, the operatic soprano, has unexpectedly canceled her immediate engagements at the Royal Opera in Berlin. At the request of the Superintendent of Public Schools Miss Strachan, leader of the women teachers in their campaign for "equal pay for equal work," withdrew her promise to speak at the Budget Exhibit, New York City. " EX-SENATOR CAMIM S SHflT III STREET DUEL. WIIV w V > ? ? ~ v Killed by Robin Cooper, Son of Man He Criticised. i RESULT OF POLITICAL FEUD Ex-Senator Had Long Bcc-n Denounc- P lng and Ridiculing Colonel Dun* $ , can B. Cooper, Who Was an An- C ti-Prohibition Leader G d Nashville, Tenn.?Edward W. Car- G mack, formerly United States Senator c from Tennessee, editor of the Nash- c ville Tennesseean, and one of the best s known men in the South, was, shot t( and killed here about 4 o'clock p. m. by Robin J. Cooper, a young attor- t ney, the son of Colonel Duncan B. C Cooper. The tragedy occurred on ? Seventh avenue, in front of the Polk t< * ?ij T, nomesieau. The tragedy was one of the most thrilling of the South, and the news, ^ flashed everywhere, owing to the 8 prominence of the victim, attracted r widespread interest. . The bitter feeling between Carv ^ mack and Colonel Cooper that led up c to the shooting was due to political tl rivalry. Carmack was defeated in C the primary for Governor, and since ^ becoming editor of the Tennesseean he has attacked the Democratic ma- , chine here. His criticisms were dl- fr rected especially against Colonel Copper, and he told Carmack there t, would be trouble if the editorial at- t tacks did not stop. As a reply Car- ? mack printed an unusually caustic ' editorial In regard to Cooper. Colonel Cooper's son took up hi* father's' fight. When he and hia ^ father saw Carmack approaching the Q son said he would settle the father's score with the former United Statei y Senator. Both father and son tool* j their pistols from their pockets, and t Carmack, seeing the glint of steel, t: also drew his pistol. .'When the three e men got within shooting distance of each, other young Cooper began the a shooting. His first shot struck Car- p mack, but did not kill him. The edi- 0 tor fired at Cooper, and the bullet entered the young man's shoulder. Be- n fore Carmack was able to fire a second time, the second bullet from Cooper's pistol entered his heart, killing bim instantly. - N After Carmack had fallen to th{ sidewalk Colonel Cooper put his arn about his son's shoulder and walked with him to the office of Dr. R. G 1 Fort. The physician dressed the s wound and Colonel Cooper and hi? " son surrendered to the police. Th< ii - - - " *- ? Colonel was neia iu runte ncaunuaiters and the son was sent to the hos- F pital. Colonel Cooper's son Is a lawyer, twenty-seven years old and un- w married. . f; Former United Spates Senator Car- A mack was born nearCastlllan Springs, u Summer County, Tennessee, on No- J . vember 5, 185.8. s: At the time of the tragedy Mr. Car- T; mack was talking to Mrs. Charles H. ii Eastman, of Nashville, the last words c ever npoken by him being to fcer. o .Mrs. Eastman said that when Mr s Cbrm&ck was addressed he immediately jumped to one side, so as to be o clear of her, and so suddenly did the g terrible truth dawn on her that she n turned Into a gate. Several shots rang put in rapid I* succession. Mr. Carmack whirled o around and seemed to try to catch at# f at electric light.pole, but, missing It,* v fell In a heap in the gutter, just at t the edge of the sidewalk. He fell o somewhat on his right side and was e lying with one hand raised to his s face. His revolver then fell to the e street by bis side and was picked up c and turned over to the police. Mr. 0 Carmack was probably dead when he fell, ?8 two bullets had been fired J Into his body. ' 1< Just who fired first Wvill probably be a matter of controversy, but the shots were nearly simultaneous. fiviAnrtn of the CooDers say that Car- I mack drew his pistol and fired first. Mrs. Eastman says he did not. The nature of Carmack's wounds would t indicate that he coVild not have used his pistol alter being shot. t Mrs. Eastman, who was accom-t panled by J. M. Eastman, of New York, gave the following account of the shooting: t 5 /We were walking down Seventh avenue in the direction of Church street, and had just passed the en- _ trance to the Polk flats. Mr. Car- , mack came up the street toward us, i.1 smiling as he recognized me. He was ? a few steps away and there were few people in the street., Mr. Eastman = and I were near the edge of the side- !:; walk, and Mr. Carmack would have passed between us and the entrance to tQ6 DUUding. tie raiseu uis uai as we spoke. He had his right hand up and was about to make a remark when somebody, apparently behind " me, said, 'We've got you all right,' or something to that effect. I can't say positively what the exact wordh r were. It never occurred to me that it g was anything more than a friend be- u hind me speaking, until Mr. Carmack iraised his eyes, instantly put on his c hat, and ran his hand back of him. I Then the same voice said, 'You cow- c ard, you are hiding behind a woman, C are you?' Senator Carmack jumped out 60 as to get clear of me and I jumped into a gateway. I saw that Mr. Carmack had a pistol. I turned t and said, 'For God's sake, don't J shoot.' But shots followed and I saw r Mr. Carmack wheel and fall la a t heap in the gutter." To Buy 10,000,000 Pounds Tobacco. At Clarksville, Tenn., it is reported p that a contract has been closed by the s Dark Tobacco Growers' Association h with the Imperial Tobacco Buyers by t which the latter are to take 10,000,- t 000 or 12,000,000 pounds of tobacco ^ from the association. ^ lefooeinofiAn PunirAnforl | uuvcrnur a aaa?aoi*?*v.vM viucu, I An attempt to assassinate Lleuten- . * ant-Governor Fraser, of Bengal, In- h dia, was thwarted by an American, a Secretary Barber, of the Calcutta Y. 13 M. C. A. Newsy Paragraphs. According to a decision of the Illi- h lois Supreme Court foam is not beer. Railroad companies are preparing ti I :o expend millions for freight equip- e nent. Dalmatians look with suspicion on e Austria's annexation of Bosnia and h lerzegovmci. Turkish Ministers are pleased at ^ Russia's determined opposition to P Austria's aims. Naval officers at Newport ex- j >ressed the opinion that the stranded .ruiser Yankee would be saved by u John Arbuckla's plan. ITfflMD JilJI). WINS Vill Not Have to Pay That $29,v * 240,000 Fins. 3. Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Government a Rehearing ia Famous Rebate Case. Chicago.?The Standard Oil Comany will not have to pay the famous 29,240,030 fine. The United States lircuit Court of Appeals, with Judges rrossdup, Baker and Seaman sitting, enied tho petition of the Attorneyreneral for a rehearing of the deislon handed down by Judge Groasup, reversing the decision of United tates District Judee Kenesaw Moun ain Landis and remanding the case 3 his court for retrial. Attorney-General Bonaparte inends to take the case to the Supreme !ourt of the United States on a writ f certiorari. This is the last hope of lie Government to force the Oil Trust a pay the record rebating fine imosed by Judge Landis. In the opinion the Court took ocasion to criticise sharply the Govr.-ment's counsel for alleged miscontruction of the Cpurt's previous uling. The great ,fine was imposed by ujjge Landis on the Standard Oil lompany of New Jersey, the parent ompany of the Trust, after a jury in tie court had found the Standard Oil lompany of Indiana, a branch of the 'rust, guilty of rebating on 1462 ' ounts. The minimum fine in each ount wag ?1000 and the maximum 20,000. Judge Landis gave the Oil 'rust the full limit, saying that "the len who thus deliberately violate his law wound society more deeply ban do they who counterfeit the oin or steal letters from the mail." The denial of the Government peItion as announced was based on the rounds outlined bv Judee Gr03scun :*ien he reversed Judge Landis and I rdered a new trial. In .the opinion of corporation lawers the ground of error taken by udge Grosscup is the worst blow to be cause of the Government. It was he evident plan of the Attorney-Genial to force by constant heavy fines tie subsidiary concerns of the Standrd Oil to break entirely from the arent company or come out into the pen as mere agents and thus place bemselves squarely under the Sherlan Anti-Trust law. AMERICA'S "DREADNOUGHT." 'orth Dakota, Most Powerful in Navy, Glides Into Water. Quincy, Mass.?In the presence of 0,000 persons the giant steel battlehip North Dakota, the first of the American Dreadnoughts" and the aitial all-big-gun ship of the navy, ras launched at the works of the 'ore River Shipbuilding Company. With the,foam of the christening rine streaming down her bow plates rom the bottle smashed by Miss lary Benton, of Fargo, N. D., and nder the watchful eye of Governor ohn Burke, of the State for which he was named, the most powerful rnited States sea fighter glided off ito the basin about sixty per cent, ompleted. This is a new record, as nly 282 working days have elapsed ince her keel was laid. , A special train brought 125 citizens f North Dakota, and many distinuished naval officers and Govern lent officers were present. When placed in commission the forth Dakota will be 518 feet long ver all, wi'h a breadth of eighty-five eet two and ?ve-eighth inches. She rill have a displacement of 20,000 ons, which is 2000 in excess of the riginal British Dreadnought. She is ipected tp attain twenty-one knots peed and develop 25,000 horse powr. Her complement will be 900 offiers and men; her total cost $7,000,00. . . TkD North Dakota will have: Ten twelve-inch breech loading, sng range rifles. Fourteen five-inch rapid fire guns. Four three-pounders. Four one-pound automatic guns. Two three-inch field pieces. , Two fifty-calibre machine guns. Two twenty-one-inch submerged orpedo tubes. Her armor will be eight inches hick around the hull. GREAT GIFTS FOR A PASTOR. ' 178,000 Presented to Dr. Barclay, of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. Montreal, Canada.?The Rev. Dr. - - ft* larciay, pasior 01 ow. raui o \ju a this city, 'and one of the leading 'resbyterian ministers in Canada, ad presented to him by the congreation a purse of $5000. At the same [me he received a gift from Lord lount Stephen, a former member of he congregation, of $73,300. $60,000 BLACKMAIL CASE. thirty Homing Sicilians Arrested as Black Hands at Palermo. Rome, Italy.?The police of Palerno have arrested thirty returned emi;rants who are suspected of being aembers of the Black Hand Society. It is charged that they were impllaled in the kidnaping of a boy in the Jnited States and the blackmailing if his father to the amount of $60,00 to obtain the boy's release. Morse Denied Bail. C. W. Morse was denied bail by 1? tt~?ofofno fMr/Miif* f!nnrt ol lit? UIIHCU ULauvo ~ , _ Appeals, in New York City, and must emain in the Tombs for nearly a nonth at least. Cows Drags Old Man to Death. While leading his cow home from asture Petar Lundgren.of Deadwood. !. D., had the rope wrapped around lis wrist, and got along very well unil the animal balked and threw him o the ground and dragged him to teath. Barney Keys Murdered. Barney Keys, a former animal j rainer, was shot and killed at his ! lome in Birmingham. Ala. His wife ,nd a grocer, Georga Thi?tler, were teld. i Nuggets of News. Followers of E. V. Debs estimated i is total vote at 800,000. The Bagdad Railway Compr.ny is ! o make extensions aggregating ozo i liles. Tang Shao Yi, the special Chinese j nvoy to this country, has left Yoko- j ama for San Francisco. A dispatch from Manila says that I Toro outlaws made an attack on the | lantation of an American, Mr. Shep- , lerd, in Mindanao, killing ten Fiii? )inos, wounding others and destroy* J ng or stealing a large amount ol i roDertv. FOUR GIRLS Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound* R*ad What They Say. SMissLD!ianRoss,S30 East 84th 8treet,Nelr fork, write*: " Lydia I. Pinkham's Vegeta* ame Irregularities, pe. iodic suffering, and emms : headaches, ad falledto^efpm*, nd I feelit a duty to it others know of it.'* afayette St., Denver, ol., writes: "Thanks > Lydia E. Pinkham's '\ egetable Compound I ?r months fronwietw jus prostration." Miss Marie Stoltean, of Laurel, la., rites: "Iwaainaraadigestion, and poor rcaiation. Lydia E. nkham's Vegetable >mpound made ma >11 and strong." 41T JT. But 8i.,k5 sfi Bt!ff P$??wanee, DL, aayi:" LyKg?? , P.v^M dla E .Pin kham'sVege? 1 /'Sfetable Compound cnwd ?:SCTsg:;:|yme of backache, side w., ?, lTXt'xzW ?cb?? established my period*, after the best local doctors had failed to help mo." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years LycUa E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, nas been the standard remedy ior female illf. and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, < i periodic pains, backache,' that bear* ^ ing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness,ornervous prostration. Why don'fc you try it ? ' Mrs. PInkham invites all sick women to write her for advice* She has guided thousands to health* Address, Lynn, Mass, Rockefeller Family History. The Rockefeller family association* . > M of which, by the way, John D. ia n'pt a member, though many of its members claim iinship with him, has traced the history of the name back to the south of Prance, where there is still a Baron Roquefeuille. The , . French Rockefellers, being mostly Huguenots, went to southern Ger? ****/>? .+Va KAWAAatiAn rtf fho _ | mail/ anci kug iovUV/UUUU V4 of Nantes; hence the Teutonic form of the name. The first Rockefeller came to America in 1720.?Leslie's Weekly. , r &S3& ??? . ^ ^ Was Hard on the Eye, x:. At one time an enterprising can?\\MK; vasser smuggled his way into tho study of the celebrated scientist, Professor Agassiz, of Harvard. The can- . vasser produced a chromo, which he , ' ; enthusiastically termed a "Bird's- , eye View of Cambridge." The professor contemplated it for a moment, lifted his eyes, looked at the vender and said, with his characteristic accent, "Well, I thank my God zat I am not a Bird." ? ' vf -1? King's Frugal Luncheon. The King of Ifaly has very frugal = habits, and on one occasion when out hunting his love of simplicity ted to an amusing incident. The King was quite alone, and after walking about for some time without obtaining any sport, he was at last lucky enough to shoot a fine chamois. , A peasant boy who had been the animal fall Into a chasm offered* to fetch iis carcass for King Victor, al- . though he had no Idea of the identity of the sportsman. "Very well," said J his Majesty, "I will wait here." "But what will you give me, slgnort" asked the lad. "What do you want?" v said the King, smiling.. "Oh. a franc and half your luncheon," replied the lad. The bargain was struck and the . boy went off down the mountain >" side, and soon returned wth the body of the chamois. The King gave him a franc, and then proceeded to divide hia lunch into two equal portions; but the peasant, wh6n he saw what King Victor had to eat, turned away con temptuously, for the lunch consisted of a small loaf of black bread and a large raw onion. "No, thanks, none of that for me," exclaimed the lad. "I thought you were a gentleman, but I see you are only a poor fellow like myself."?From M. A. P. /. The first play performed in America was "The Merchant of Venice," given September 5, 1752, at Williamsburg, then capital of Virginia. EAGER TO WORK Health Regained by Right Food. The average healthy man or woman is usually eager to be busy at some useful task or employment But let dyspepsia or indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes a burden. "A year ago, after recovering; from ? " nrrlfflo O IQHV "V tlU U^Uiauuu, ntivca ?* IUIVU. tu^y t "my stomach and nerves began to give me much trouble. "At times my appetite was voracious, but when Indulged, Indigestion followed. Other times I had no appetite whatever. The food I took did not nourish me and I grew weaker than ever. "**.] "I lost Interest In everything and wanted to be alone. I had always had good nerves, but now the merest trifle would upset me and bring on a violent headache. Walking across the room was an effort and prescribed exercise was out of the question. "I had seen Grape-Nuts advertised, but did not believe what I read, at the time. At last when it seemed as if I were literally starving, I began to eat Grape-Nuts. "I had not been able to work for a year, but now after two months on Grape-Nuts 1 am eager to be at work again. My stomach gives me no trouble now, my nerves are steady as ever, and interest in life and ambition have come back with the return to health." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Weljville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A v new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. v \