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? I Proposed A[ew Charity \ lt ls for Those Who Bear thp Burdens of V Improvident ? Hy Lutana IV. Sheldon B. MB^n desire to found an entirely new charity, and am writing ?gk jr ? y(mr co-operation in the matter. H85L Si V 4|j You know there are two kinds of trouble in the wo Bu "jL I Oj? -the kind you make for yourself and the kind that oth BfflT? fl. |fo malve for you. Today there arc innumerable organizatk HBr 4tr fl for assisting the class of adults who have ignorantly, w BL I *?nly, an<* deliberately made trouble for themselves by o/v ??09 crowding their homes with children, drinking liquor, ga ^m: bring, and being generally improvident, but there seems Bip for the unfortunate man or woman who is the 1 ?er people's children, or drunkenness, or ot] BiOf oourse there may be an isolated instance of sud Bte, helped, but I am reaching out now to the mass and : ffijBBfe l?ne individual. What I ask of you is, not to final BjHmfire are dozens of mil?iona'.res ^vho will do that wt S^UUkjpur intention, but to tr;-- and help me find the p K but are going down in their pockets constan Bens of the multitude that impose upon them. Breople, but they are as difficult to find as t Mik. They are proud, self-respecting, self-? Bker-responsible people who go down, do1 BB Bk2111(1 are 0:aly guessed out by the pi ?fcomust partake of our charity! Bfe verily the salt of the ear Btafc.liv;ng and of honor! T Brarlsm and a price on ld ??Biover their dcor, th B^ninal,' imbecile, plfffMH Btare the natui Batt be but wee Bitney ha Rkood pe BB WmLBi: LYNCHING IN OHIO. Fate of Anti-Saloon League Detective at Hands of Tigers. A WHITE .LAD 22 YEARS OLD. Detective Shot Blind Tiger Keeper and Friends of Dead Man Storm Jail, Take Prisoner Out and Swing Him With Rope in Presence of Hundreds, Including Women and Children-Troops Ordered to Scene. Newark, 0., Special.-Carl Ether ington, 22 years old, employed by .the State Anti-Saloon League as a blind tiger raider, was lynched here at 10:35 Friday night, following a day of al most continuous rioting. The heavy doors of the licking county jail were battered down and Etherington was drr.gged from his cell. He was shot, kicked and bruised before the street was reached and the finish fr1 lowed quickly. Etherington, early in lue evening, confessed he killed William Howard, proprietor of the "Last Chance" res taurant, and former chief of police, in a raiding of alleged "speak easies," in a raiding scuffle Friday afternoon, and narrowly escaped lynching at that tinje. When news' from the hospital that Howard had died passed over the city the fury of the mob took definite form. Large battering rams were directed upon the doors of the Licking county jail, and the deputies were powerless. The doors fell aftejp nearly an hour's attack. Crying piteously, Etherington, a "yheaded Kentuckian, who has serving as a strikebreaker since released from marine service onths ago, was dragged forth, mean to do it," he wailed, ell upon deaf ears, at the mob spirit would by one victim, Sheriff ely asked Adjutant t for troops to pro y raiders" held al another section of ' d guard was ense. ents' while g down the DLEACO FLOUR CASE. Jury Find That Flour Was Adulter ated an Misbranded-Victory For Qovenuent-Peroxide of Nitro gen TJed in Bleaching Process Wail c the Millers. Kansa City, Mo., Special-Tl* jury in ie bleached flour case hand ed in a.-erdict that the flour seized .was aditerated and misbranded, as charged ?y the Government. The vrdict was returned in the Federal lourt after seven hours' de liberado] by the jury which for more than fiveweeks had listened to testi mony fo and against the charge of the Govrnment that 625 sacks of flour, bleched aud sold by the Leg ing Mill and Elevator Company, of Lexingtoi Neb., Jand seized while in the possssion of the purchaser, a grocer at^asel, Mo., were adulterated and misbmded. The orn?me is a complete victory for the Gvernment, which prosecuted the suit inder the Pure Food and Drug act. The Government charged that thefibur was adulterated in that it T\3 bleached by the Alsop process, wich makes use of nitrogen peroxide. Misbranding was charged in that th flour was labeled a fane)' patent, wfereas it was not made of first grade hard winter wheat. . Millers ay the bleached flour de cision wil handicap farmers of the Southwests the extent of $16,000, 000 a year They say-the old differen tial of 5 ents a bushel in vogue in Chicago ad St. Louis markets be fore bleacbd flour came in will soon reappear, nd that farmers of Mis souri, Kanas, Oklahoma and Ne braska wil lose 5 cents a bushel on their preset crop, while flour made from hard vinter wheat soon will be selling at 2 cents a bushel less than at present. Millers ave under consideration the establihment of bleaching sta tions in Sates where the use . of bleached flor i? not prohibited. Tims they say thy may avoid the Inter state Commrce law. The "Cottn King" Hit hy Fine. White Plaus, N. Y., Special.-Dan-?' iel Sully, bown as the "cotton king," was leclared in contempt of court Frida) by Justice Mills of the State suprere court and ordered to pay a fine oi$3,800 and $40 costs: The case pew oni of Sully's fail ure several yars ago, when William Marmon Biak, a judgment creditor, obtained a curt order restraining Sully from p.ying out any money un til the suit oiBlack had been settled. Black contened that Sully had com mitted contenpt in paying $4,600 to Mrs. Sully aler the order had been issued. Sully said the payment rep resented his- alary of $400 a month for a little les than a year. Bids on lorto ' Rican Bonds. Washington. Special.-The Nation al City bank^f New York and the Royal Bank/of Canada jointly bid $100,626 forjthe $425,000 4 per cent gold bonds ? of the government of ^Porto Rico, j The joint bid was the " igbest excest that for only one bond Submitted bf Edward B. Folset, of l&k Ridge, La., at 1031-8. id Oook'i Tube on Mt. McKinley. alorado Springs, Colo., Special. Carrigan, an able seaman and jr miner] who arrived In Col b Springs a few days ago, says ?he had climbed Mount McKinley found the copper tube and re giert by Dr. Cook to establish !atter's claim of having first ded the mountain, rigan's story is regarded by IR. Bradley, Dr. Cook's former r, as sufficiently plausible to nt careful investigation. To Treat Topers. nubia, S. C., Special.-Topers [ned before the city recorder [ter will be put through a course ttment to cure the liquor habit, city commission contracted inc of the liquor cure institu to treat at the city's expense, [crs assigned by the recorder to :ial ward for inebriates, which ig fitted up at headquarters. Company Fined Heavily. Id, Okla., Special-The signing tipulation by which the Waters Oil Company is to pay a fine 5,000 and be restrained from en inta any contract in restraint ie resulted in the dismissal ie quo warranto suit brought ttorney General West against the jany." fine is to be payable as fol $25,000 in sixty days; $25,000 [months and $25,00 in 9 months, was agreed that the defendant ?any should maintain uniform fs upon petroleum products in thoma. Many are "Short." Ishington, Special.-A decrease reflation per capita of 49 cents lily 1, as compared with a yoar |s shown by the late?t treasury ?ient on that subject. On July 9, the. amount which each man, i and child in the United States have had, were all the money divided, was $35.01; on June Avas $34.52. [core One for the Women. )n, Mass., Special.-Women bj showed their knowledge of Friday by pushing Mrs. Ella |Young, superintendent of the schools of Chicago, through to kphant election as president of .tional Education association, iponent, Zacharias Xenophon li president of the State Normal J'of; Colorado, who was the IM n of the nominating commit ?esenting all the States, was ? by a vote of 617 to 376 in Wai contention. CAPITAL FACTS. Interesting News Gathered in the District of Columbia. CEE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Personal Incidents and Important Happenings of National Import Published for the Pleasure and In formation of Newspaper Readers. Labor-Saving Devices Economical. Installation of labor saving devices in tbe Auditor's office of the Treas ury having proven satisfactory, the final adjustment of the department's personnel has been accomplished. It means that 196 salaries were cut from the appropriations for the fiscal year which began July 1. This is an estimated saving of more than $200,000 annually. Out of'the 190 names, however, only six will be dropped from the pay roll, the remainder to be put in vacan cies that have occurred since Novem ber from deaths or resignations. The statement has been given out that a few of the older clerks have been donated about $200 a year to conform with the General readjustment plan. Several promotions that were to be made have been withheld. In the office of the Auditor of the Postoflice, seventv-seven salaries' were eliminated, owing to the fact that ma chines for the auditing of mouey or ders had been installed.. A sum of $106,000 will be saved annually by a machine that prints bot-i the seal and serial number on bills, a work that has heretofore been . performed by hand. Big Sum Saved in Printing. In their report to Congress the printing investigation commission de clared the reason for abuses in public printing is lax and antiquated laws, but that $110,000 had been saved Uncle Sam through the Congressional probing. The commission, through Senator Smoot. of Urah, chairman, reported that $38,S4S/24 had been saved in one year by abolishing the printing offices in the Treasury. Interior and Agricultural departments. It advised that the printing estab lishments in the State, War, and Navy departments be done away with. The investigators asserted the government would save $30,847.60 a year by it. Pensioners Dying 32,000 a Year. Dying at the rate of 32,000 a year, the total number of pensioners on the roll of the Government is expected to show a biir decrease when Director ljurand, of the census, concludes his work in the near future. There was no tabulation of pensioners in the last census, but the one now under way makes such provision. Amount of Money Coined at Mints. At the mints of the United States during the fiscal year just' closed the Government made 188,006,668 coins, valued at $54,215,319. Of this amount ?,47.578,875 worth was in gold, $4,297,567 in silver and $2,338, 877 in minor coinage. There were also 7,574,758 pieces of Philippine coins issued, including 5.276,559 pesog and 1,500,000 one centavos. Count Money Paper Once. Another move toward greater econ omy of administration in the Treasury Department is under consideration. The sheets of paper used in the print ing cf money are now counted three times before they touch the printing presses. A considerable saving in of ffice. force may be made if they are counted only once. Tariff Board at Work. With ample funds assured for the prosecution of its work, the govern ment tariff board is geing systemat ically into the work of studying the various industries of the country for the ourpose of obtaining informa tion to compile the encyclopaedia or glossary of the American tariff which resident Taft is anxious to have pre pared. Home Guard to Learn Something. The State militiamen are to b? taught something of actual seaman ship this summer. Plans are now be ing made by the Navy Department to carry out these naval maneuvers. The New England and Middle States militia will be taken out to sea in the battleships of the Atlantic fleet, prob bably during the latter part of this mouth, ar.d arrangements are being made for ptler organizations through out the country to take part in the practice cruises. Don't "Dun" Openly in Mails. Business men, especially those who are engaged ii making loans which they attempt lo collect through the mails, should le careful about plac-. ing ''dunning' notices on the face of their letters containing bills which they are impatient to collect, because the Posbffice Department has just ruled that sich matter is unmail able under the provisions of the pos tal laws and regdations. Generous Bluejackts. There is no cl:ss of men in the world more generous than Uncle Sam's bluejackets. The sailors of the battleship. Louisiaia recently gave an entertainment l^r the benefit of the widows and oqyans of the men who were lost by thi founding of the Nina and out-cf th er; s?iall earnings contributed $1.559.2^ which will be promptly distributed RACE FEELING AROUSED. Jeff ries-Johnson Tight Causes Trouble Among Ignorant and Foolish White and Colored Citizens in the North and South. Washington, ' Special.-Johnson's victory over Jeffries Monday was the signal for incipient race conflicts in many cities, both North and South. Prompt action by the police went a long way toward preventing anything more serious than broken heads and bloody faces. In Atlanta the officers were forced to drive the crowds away frota an over hilarious negro, lp. Ft. Worth a fight between two colored women and a white woman was the attraction.! Roanoke presented the most exten sive array of causualties, with six ne groes battered up and one white man mortally wounded. Ia Houston a negro's throat was cut by a man who did not like the black's exuberance. Pittsburg, New York and Philadel phia police all had their troubles, while in Washington half a dozen small riots were caused by the fight. All in all, the police of the cities, where feeling over the fight was high est, had a rather busy day of it. Baltimore officers made the high re cord for the day, arresting 70 negroes -men and women. Democrats Announce Issues. Washington, Special.-Defining the issues on which it expects to conduct its campaign this fall, the Democratic Congressional Committee "aas issued its first official pronunciamento since opening its headquarters ia this city. It was signed by Repr?sentative I loyd, of Missouri, the chairman, and sets forth that the issues will be: "The tariff and its consequences; the extravagant expenditures, wrong doings of officials, graft that is shown to exist in nearly every government branch and the autocratic ruling of tho majority party." It is contended that these wi|\ all be factors "in bringing about .a Democratic victory in November." The committee announced that in addition to its headquarters here it will open headquarter^ in Chicago on Aug. 1; that its campaign book will be ready for the Democratic spell binders the latter part of July and that the confident expectation of a Democratic house in November. That conditions generally are very favorable to the Democrats, is assert ed by the committee, .vhich declares thar the work of the administration and officers during the past .two months improved Democratic pros pects. The statement also asserts that no one need think that there is any hope ot' uniting Republican fac tions and that the Republican party is seriously divided and must remjain so until after the November election. Object to Jeffri?s-Johnsoh Pictures. Washington, Special.-Moving - pic tures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight may be barred from the District of Columbia. Police Chief Sylvester has announced that he will do his utmost to prevent the films from being sliown here. He fears a repetition of the race riots which took place on the streets Monday when it became known that the negro had won. Baltimore.-Backed by the author ity of the board of police commis sioners. Marshal Farn an will request Mayor Mahool to prohibit the propos ed exhibition in Baltimore of the mov in? pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight. Cincinnati.-Mayor Schwab savs he will not allowed the John son-Jeff ries fight pictures to be shown in this city. A Husband at 13. Louisville, Ul., Special.-Frank L. Farris, the 13-year-old son of Charles L. Farris, formerly a state represen tative from this city, eloped with Miss Nell Krutsinger, 19-year-old daughter of Sim Krutsinger, a local business man. ? The romance began a year ago, when the two were going to school to gether. Owing to the laws in this state they had to go elsewhere to get a license. Master Farris is the young est'"married man" in the state, per haps in the whole country. He and his bride will reside with his parents in this city. Ex-Husband Kills Two. St. Louis, Special.-In a desperate effort to get possession of his thirteen year-old daughter, Evelyn, from whose mother he had been divorced, Robert Higginbotham shot and killed Michael Moser, present husband of the child's mother, and then killed the girl. In a shooting fray which followed Higginbotham's attempt to find his wife, Higginbotham engaged in a revolver duel wth Henry C. Fel lauer, and both men were wounded twice. It is thought Higginbotham's wounds may prove fatal. Rock Rolled Down Hill. Cumberland, Md., Special.-A rock on which a brush hean was burning became detached near Pol som, W. Va., and roiled down the hill against the house of Abner Ice, 73 years old. while the family was at supper. Mr. Ice and his granddaughter, Flora, 14 years old, were instantly killed. The eldest daughter, about 40, had her shoulder broken Potash Advanced in Price. Washington, Special. - Potas h, which is produced only in Germany, having been greatly advanced in price, thc State Department has de termined to take the matter up in or der to reach some understanding with Germany officials. Salisbury Mil! Growing. A new addition is being built to the Salisbury ?cition mill and 80 new looms will be installed. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD Tie Heart of Happenings Carrel From the Wholo Country. Shipbuilding in the United States increased during the fiscal year'just ended. 1,502 merchant vessels' of 347,025 gross tons being built,. as compared with 1,362 vessels of 232, 816 gross tons the year before. Peter Smith, nusky young tan nery worker in ? ..rark, N. J., drank 17 jiggers of whiskey in succession, thereby winning a bet of $1. . As he pocketed the money, he fell to the f or unconscious and died soon ?fter in a hospital. Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight minute flight directly over the ocean at Atlantic Cit}-. The flight w- en tirely successful, his trip ine.uding a flighty along the entire front of the city about a mile off shore and 1,500 feet above the ocean. Mrs. Henry . Mulsaw, of Chicago, goaded to desperation by the .alleged brutality and unfaithfulness of her husband, a street car conductor, shot and fatally wounded. the latter iand their 3-ycar-old daughter and then killed* herself by taking carbolic acid. By an overwhelming majority, Governor Jared Young Sanders was declared the choice of both houses of the Louisiana General Assembly for the seat in the United States Senate left vacant by the recent death of Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery. Unique in the history of surgery was an operation performed at the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital: when sunreons replaced the entire scalp of "William Jermond, 41. years old. He will recover. A son was bom to George Hedgelon and wife, living at Scotch Hill Church, Pa., jiist over the line in Mercer county. The father is seventy five years of age, and this is his twenty-eighth child. The mother is his second wife. The incorporation of the Universal Aerial Navigation Corapanyi of St. Louis, has revealed plans'for a com mercial passenger airship which will carry up. to a hundred passengers in. a 60-mile wind and at a speed of 100 miles an hour. Grieving over t lie death of another hird, which had been its singing mate for over two years, a canary owned by Mrs. Martin Hammond, who lives near Seaford. Del., committed sui cide by hanging itself in the top of his cage. An empty ' jail, resulting in an ? empty pocketbook to him, led J. A. Turner, who has the contract to feed ; the prisoners in the Bluefield, . W. Va., lockup, to ask the city authori ties to lodge his sixteen-year-old son '. behind the bars without any charge against him, in order to get money for feeding him. The request was refused. William Boland, a boyish crook, credited by police with being one of the cleverest forgers in the East, was sentenced at New York to a term of not^. more than ten years nor less than five years' in' Sing Sing prison. Though only twenty-two years old. Boland was leader, of a band which operated' not only in New [York, but in Chicaso, Boston, New Haven, Prov idence, Syracuse and other cities. With the air full of aeroplanes', two accidents from collissions , oc curred during the meet at Rheims, France. At one time 22 machines were dodging and swooping over the Bethany plain. The aircraft gave the appearance of a flock of ?riant birds , sweeping down on the field. A toy balloon, which had been 17 days in the air and had traveled all the way from Cincinnati, about six hundred miles, was picked up on a farra near Three Bridges. N. J., by Abram Shonek. He found pinned to the frail craft the card of Miss Zeba Goldstein, of 241 Shielto street, ' Cincinnati, and he wrote her a letter. Shs replied, and he got her missive. "Uncle Joe" Cannon will take an automobile and make a house1 to house canvass in his district. He insists that there is not any danger that he will not he renominated and re- ' ? elected. The speaker was asked if he would be a candidate again for the speakership. His eyes twinkled as he recalled the famous recipe fer rabbit pot pic-first catch your rab bit. In other words, the house must be Republican. A record breaking baseball game was played at San Antonio, Tex., be tween San Antonio and Waco, of the Texas League. The game started at 2:30 p. m., and was called at 7 p. m., on account of darkness, with the score 1 to 1, after playing twenty three innings. Judge Joseph G. Leffler,\of the Cir- / cuit Court, at Muncie, Ind., must decide whether the fact that a hus band failed to take a bath in eight years is sufficient cause for a divorce. Mrs. Marv Shull. wife of Malen Shuil makes this allegation in her suit, in .which she also asks the custody of their two children. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad com pany has placed orders, for 4,000 ad ditional freight cars and will award a contrac: in a few days for another - 1.000 gondola cars. The management also has ordered 50 additional loco motives of the equipment. The cost is about $6.100,000. Theodore Roosevelt authorized the. announcement that he would take the stump in Indiana this fall in behalf of Senator Beveridge's fight for re election. Mr. Beveridge is an {:t in surgent." Brazil has. de?mtely ordered from the Armstrong company, of London, a super-dreadnaught of 32,000 tons. The armament will consist of 12 14-inch guns and 28 6-inch and 4-inch guns. Although the bill for compulsory education in Georgia received in the house a majority of 19 of those vot ing, six votes were lacking to make the required constitutional majority . of the full membership and the meas ure was Lost. The vote was 87 for the bill to 6S against it. ' i