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ESTABLISHED EST 18 WILL DINE TOGETHER. BRYAN AND TAFT WILL BE CHIEF GUESTS AT BANQUET. Two Rival Candidates for Presidency to Meet at Same Board and Ad dress Same Audit-net*. Por the first time in the uistory of modern politics two rival eanuidates for the Presidency of the United States will meet at tue same board and address the same audience, when Wm. H. Taft, Republican, of Ohio, and Wm. Jennings Bryan, Democrat, of Nebraska are to he the guests of honor at the annual banquet of lue Chic7go Association of Commerce at the Auditorium on the evening of October 7. This announcement was made Fri-I day at the headquarters of the Chica go .'.Association of Commerce, which organization already had secured assurances of the presence of the two j Presidential nominees on different! days for the third Convention of the! Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway,! Association, for which the Association; of Commerce will act as host. Mr. Toft's acceptance was obtain ed by President Richard C. Hall, Vice! President E. S. Con way and Secretary j T. E. Wilder, of the Association.) who returned to Chicago from Cin-l cinnati Friday. The long-distance telephone figur-! ed prominently in the nego tations j to secure the presence ot Mr. Bryan j at the banquet. The invitation had been under serious consideration by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, forj some time, and at a late hour in the night he called Mr. Bryan, then at! Terre Haute, Ind. on the long-dis tance telephone. Mr. Bryan was in formed, as Mr. Taft had ueen. that the banquet would be a non-political one, and that ft would be held under the auspicies of a non-partisan or ganization. He readily agreed to at tend. The deep waterways project is favored by the leaders of both par ties and is not, therefore, a subject over which any political discussion is expected. There will be no question as to. which of the candidates will occupy the right-hand seat. It will be oc cupied by Mr. Taft at the express wish and with the full approval of the Democratic candidate and his friends. Chairman Mack declared that Mr. Taft, as a recent member of the present Administration, was clearly entitled to the place of hon or at the feast. The Ohioian'. there fore will sit at the right-hnd of Presi dent Hall, and the Nebraskan on the other. The meeting of the two candidates ? will differ from the meeting of the National Capital and in the State of j Illinois forty-eight years ago. when Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas began their famous debates J by reason of the inhibition placed on political discourse. President Hall said that an atten-j dance of about 1,000 persons was expected at the banquet. In addition! to the great banquet room of the' Auditorium, the roms adjoining on1 the ninth floor of the Fine Arts build- j ing have been secured, and the whole will be thrown together for the oc-j casion. -? GAVE HER HUSBAND POISON, j Anderson Negro Dead from Eating "Rough on lints" in His Food. j Eliza Moats, a negro woman 4 0 years old. was placed in jail at An derson Friday afternoon charged with the murder of her husband, j Evidence at the coroner's inquest was to the effect that she had admin istered rough-on-rats mixing the poison with his food. Arsenic was t found in the stomach after the chemical examination made by Dr. I J. C. Harris. { The negroes lived on a farm, seven miles northeast of Anderson. Moats worked hard in the field all of Wed-. ne*sday and was apparently in good : health. being of powerful build.! After eating supper he became ill. f and Dr. Harris was called the follow- ' ing morning. He suspected that | something was wrong, and as the negro died a few minutes after he arrived he removed the stomach and brought it there, where it was j examined/ The coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict returned that Moats came to his death from poison ail ministered by his wife. She was ar- j r:~':'-? bv the conmer and committed T.t jail. * OFFICIAL FIGURES. Crt'n. Willie Jones, State Chairman. Has Announced Result. Gen. Wilie Jones, State chairman. Saturday received the last of the; official returns from the counties and was able to make up final statement j with reference to the results.. The majority for Caughman is but 553. Following are the figures: United States Senator: Jno. Gary Evans.39,498 E. D. Smith. 70,436 Superintendent of Education: Stiles R. Mellichamp. 48,468 J. E. Swearingen. 61,379 J ..Railroad Commissioner: Jas. Caasler. 54,637 Banks L. Caughman.. ?. .. 55,190 j BLME COST LIVES TOUCHED OFF BX THE CARELESS STRIKING OF A MATCH. Throe People Were Killed xuid ?? Entiie Block Threatened With De struction. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa..1 says a volcano of escaping gas. touch ed off by the careless .riking of a' match, nearly wined out the family of Rev. Ceorge Misquel, pastor of St. Georges Syrian Greek church on Seventh avenue, collapsed an ad-j joining dwelling, burying its inmates under the debries of falling walls, and kindled a lire thot threatened an entire block on Bedford avenue near Washington street at. 9::!0 o'clock Thursday night. The dead: -Mrs. George Misquel. aged 32, 922 Bedford avenue, found in upper room burned to a crisp. . j .Jacob, her son. I years old, died at Passavant hospital. Annie Magel, 17. servant at the Misquel home, died at 1:1.") a. m. at I the hospital. The injured: Rev. George Misquel, aged 35, burned about head and arms: j thought to have inhaled Harnes; con dition serious. Isaac Misquel, aged 11. burned about face and arms. Amelia Misquel, 0, legs and arms badly burned. Eighteen months old- baby of the Misquel, scorched in its cradle, over looked by rescuers, lint carried put last of all. practically uninjured. Margaret and .Mary McKenna. of 920 Bedford avenue, caught iu ned under collapsing roof and debris, ragged out by firemen; legs and back sprained. Mrs. Mary Mulligan. 920 Bedford avenue; face cut and back injured. Policeman Peter Hau r day, hands and face burned in rescue work. Policeman W. H. Lark in. hands burned, wrist cut. Assistant Fire ChieT Robert Mc Kinley is convinced that a leaking gas pipe in the attic of tue residence! of the Misquel was responsible for the explosion and lire. ^ j Bedtime had come. ; Rev! and Mrs. Misquel with their, four little onesi went to the rooms on the second floor where were the sleeping quarters of the family. The domestic, Annie Ma-' pel. a 17-year-old girl of the same na tionality ?s the priest; followed them up the stairway just in time to catch | the force of a blinding explosion as a match was struck in the darkened sleeping room. The greater part of the escaping gas seemed to have ac cumulated in the mansard floor about, the second roonr. however, for a min-! ute after the first flash there came a; shock that rocked the entire block. The falling debries crashed through the roof and buried Margaret and Mary McKenna. who were sleeping on the second floor of the adjoining building. This floor in turn partially gave way and Mrs. Mary Mulligan, living below the McK'ennas. was buried. * The rescuers of the victims were thrilling and were effected under most exciting conditions. The prop erty loss was comparatively small. ? A BIGGER AIRSHIP. omit Zeppelin Will Build an Immense Dirigible This Time. Count Zeppelin has completed ar rangements for building a greater airship on the shore of Lake Con stonce. Germany, and has leased for 50 years a tract of land for a factory. Prof. H. Hergesell, of the Universi ty of Strasshurg, the government commissioner in charge of the ac ceptance of airships, talked with the emperor about air navtagtion. ' His majesty commanded that he be kept, informed of all the details of furth er developments, and said that he watches the experiments with the liveliest interest. The emperor expressed the keenest delight that the German nation has so strongly rallied to tin- assistance of Count Zeppelin, showing that the nation is united on great questions. Count Zeppelin, be added, can always rely on his good will and support. ? A sVRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. Package lAtst by Express Ctnnpny Worth Over $50,000. A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says a package entrusted to the care of Weils Fargo Express Company at Sabm. Oregon, by J. U. Albert, the president of ih<- Capital National Bank of that city and addressed to Joseph M. Meyers at the Portland Hotel in this city containing notes and other valuable papers repress ing over $50.000 is strangely miss ing. As soon as the robbery was reported to the express company, de tectives were put to work. The Swede Was Innocent. While Waldeman Epstrand, son of a wealthy banker, of Gutborg, Sweden, was being photographed at police headquarters. Poughkeepsie. N. Y.. as the murderer of Fred Hokan son. a companion, word was received which set him free. The news stated that Hokanson had been shot by a lish peddler, who he tried to hold up. -pstrand has roved all over the world, and his fund having run short, has been working as a farm band at East Fishkill, N. Y. ? ORANGEBUBG, I in THK \VEST SAYS JAMES J. j HIM.. Republicans t>vcr-coiilltfen1 Unless Taft Workers Get Busy Bryan Will Carry The West. A dispatch from New York says James .1. Hill, chairman of the hoard of tiie Great Northern railway, who came ro town on Thursday and is going hack to St. Paul Sunday, made! some interesting remarks to his' friends in yValJ street concerning political conditions in the West. ?Mr. Hill said that the farmers through the West have never paid much attention to Bryan until ti.el past year or two. lmt that just now) there is a strong sentiment among the farmers. He said that the de-j mocratic vote through the West will he larger this year than ever before, and that if the republican campaign managers do not. put in the hardest kind of work that .Mr. Taft may be defeated. He said that in some Western j states the republican politicans seem : to be suffering from over confidence, but declared that the democratic ! leaders are keenly alive to the possi j bilities and may succeed in carrying [some of the states that have hcre jtofore been considered safely republi can, unless the Taft workers roll up I their sleeves and get busy. He said I that if the weather is bad on elec tion day this year and the percentage of stay-at-home republicans for that or any other reason is large, the j count of the ballots in the West may bring some surprises. I Mr. Hill was asked if oriental steamship business is showing an im Iprovemcnt. and he declared empha tically that it is falling off rapidly 'and is practically gone now beyond all hope of recovery, lie said that con ditions were such that it is almost useless for American vessels to makea j light for the oriental trade, j For this reason .Mr. Hill said he did not credit the report that B. II. IHarriman is considering the purchns j ing of the Oceanic Steamship line, owned by Hie Spreckels. He said he j believed Mr. Ilarriman to be too well i informed on Pacific trade conditions ?to get another steamship line on his ! hands. l>lt. LIXDF.K acoui. ?ki?. Jury Concludes That be Acted in Self-Defence. la the Court of General Sessions jat Union Thursday. Dr. W. L. Lind er was tried on the charge of murder and found not guilty. In October! last Dr. Lander shot Lucy Lipsey. a Inegro woman, three times, and the, woman died two days later. It was proved in the case thai the Lipsey wo man had several monhs before shot Dr. Linder in the back while in his office: that she was tried for this assault and convicted. She appeal ed to the Supreme Court, and was out on bond pending the appeal, when she was shot. The evidence established a clear and convincing case of self-defence. GETS FIFTEEN YF.AKS. Young White Man of Union Who At tempted Assault (Joes to Pen. Arthur Beckneil, a young white man who last December attacked and attempted to criminally assault a young white girl of respectable fam ily and who was tried at Union last week, was on Friday sentenced by Judge Klugh to 15 years in the State penitentiary at hard labor. ?, S. Cm TUESDAY, SEPTET IONARCH OF ALL I HE SURVEYS. ?M MAKES GREAT FLIGHT WRIGHT KEEPS HIS MACHINE IX I All: FOR OVER AN HOUR: Ohio Aeronaut Continues to Break World Records Established by Himself. A dispatch from Washington, D. C, says Orvin Wright Thursday broke the world's record for tune and dis tance for a heavier than air flying! machine, which he established j Wednesday in a fligjit requiring great skill on account of a ten-mile wind. He circled around the drill grounds at Fort Myer 58 times in 65 minutes and 52 seconds, exceed ing the time of Wednesday's record flight by three minutes and ten sec onds. The flight wtis witnessed by nearly a thousand.people. Through out the day the weather was threat ening and -Mr. Wright did not arrive at the held until after 1 o'clock. At n o'clock .Mr. Wright announced that he was ready. "Are you going to try to break the record which you made yesterday'.'" he was asked. "No." he replied, "I am going ?p just for a little practice. I may make a flight of ten minutes in order to determine at what rate of speed I have been flying." The aeroplane rose from the ground almost immediately after leaving the single starting rail. It continued to climb higher with each successive round of the field until it reached an altitude of 75 feet. For the first 30 rounds the machine (lew as smoothly as on its previous flights, but from that lime on it v is seen to pitch al the turns as the stiff ening breeze from the west struck it. As the machine moved from the northern end of the Held to the south-j ern end, where the ??aero-garge" for storing the aeroplane is loeted, -Mi". Wright kept ii several points in the wind. A gust of wind unusually strong struck the aerial Ilycr during l he 42d round and it plunged sharp ly. Mr. Wright then brought his machine lower, bu! in the "?3d round he bad recalled an altitude of 20(1 feet. Mr. Wright, came down at the northern end of the field al the end of the "?Stil round, landing easily. "I encountered a stiff breeze." wen' Mr. Wright's first words. His eyes were blood-shot and caused him con siderable pain. "I don't know whether the wind or dust, causes the [irritation of my eyes. I had on a pair of goggles, too. Flying in ? wind as I did to-day is lots of fun. It's more sport than Hying in a calm as on yesterday. The wind must have been blowing fifteen or more miles an hour, as 1 could tell by the quarter ing of the machine. I kept much higher than usual on account of the wind." Signal corps officers of the war department expressed the belief that Orville Wright will make a speed of at least forty-two miles an hour with his heavier than air machine, which did such excellent work at I- or: Meyer, if he does make forty-two miles an hour he will be entitled to 'a bonus of 20 per cent, over the contract price, which would net him for Iiis machine $30,000, the con tract price being $25,000. The u?i cial trials will be held as soon as Mr. Wright announces his readiness. 0 Five Children Arc Suffocated. Five children of .1. C. Burdette were suffocated Thursday night in a farm house near New Brighton. Minn., while the neighbors, ignorant that the little ones were in the place, were endeavoring to save the house hold effects. The parents had spent the evening with friends, leaving the children at home. ? LBER 3 5, 1908. 2* lorris in Seattle Spokesman-Review. DIES ON SCAFFOLD. NEGRO .ASSAILANT LEGALLY PUT TO DEATH IX GEORGIAN Strain Increased (lie Longer He Re j inuiued Under the Eyes of the Law, and He Trembled Violently. A dispatch from Baxley, Ga., says Xeal Ryals, the negro assailant of -Mrs. Lizzie Overstreet. was executed Friday morning at 11.35 o clock. Deputies brought the negro from Macon that morning, arriving at 7 o'clock. From that Hour until the execution Ryals was in consultation j with a minister, taking part in a religious service. I During the morning large crowds of citizens constantly poured into the town to witness as much of the exe cution as possible. The crowd of people was orderly and nothing hap pened that was unusual. At 11 o'clock the death sentence was read to Ryals by the Sheriff and he was immediately conducted to the scaffold. Just before execu tion Ryals was permitted to make a statement to the crowd. He talked in a clear voice and stead nerve, lie gave in detail where hi- was on the morning of the crime, lie said he had always feared the law and had I never bad a case in court before in I his life, being -II' years old. He pro claimed his innocence to the last. He praised the sheriff and others [ for their kindness to him, and ask ed God to hold no charges against j them. He warned his colored friends, lie said they didn't have to do any thing to get into trouble. He said it was a matter of lot or accident. When asked if he knew who com mitted the crime, he said he did not. Rev. John .Morris, his spiritual ad-J viser, thanked the people of Baxley | j for permitting th'' law to take itsj course. The prisoner then offered a long) and fervenl prayer and then began singing as the final prepartion was made for his execution, and continued i to sing to the last. He stopped) singing long enough to bid every-j body good-bye. Jl" dropped ;it 11.3.1 and was pronounced dead in HI mill-1 Utes. MI'KDP.Il IN SUNDAY SCHOOL Voiiug Girl Slabbed While Flaying' Hymn on Organ. A special dispatch from Newton. X. ('.. says that demoniacal murder was committed near thai place Sun-j day morning. when Miss Willie! Bulliuger. IS years old. was stabbed j to death by Lou Kader, aged 21. The girl was seated nt the organ playiut: the closing hymn at Sunday! school when suddenly Rader leaped j across seeral hunches and with his; pockel knife stabbed her once in the back and twice in the In-east. She] died almost instantly. Rader was arrested and is now in j the Newton jail. Some months- ago; he was committed to the State in-1 sane asylum and in his ravings often] mentioned Miss Bulliuger's name. Recently uu was discharged from theI hospital as cured. The deed was probably prompted by unrequitteil I love and seems to have been well planned, as the knife used was bought new the day before. In jail Rader said he killed the girl ?'because she was a witch. Steamer Destroyed by Fire. The steamer Peters Lee was des troyed by Ore at Memphis. Tonn., Saturday. She was beached In time to enable all on board to escape. ARMY OF 100,000. PRESIDENT WILL RECOMMEND INCREASE IN MESSAGE. The Present Regular Army of the United States i.s Inadequate to Pro perly Guard the Forests and Posts. President Roosevelt, in his final annual mussage to Congress, this fall, probably will recommend an increase in the numerical strength of the United States army is on a footing of (10,000 men, the number provided for in time of peace, ft has become evident to the general staff two years ago that G0.000 men are too few to garrison properly the posts at 'which it is necessary to maintain an army force. These posts include the gar risons in the insular possessions ot America. The law provides that the army may he increased to 100,000 men in time of need. This provision, in the opinion of the military experts of flu- govern ment, is likely to prove ;>? serious handicap to the army if absolute necessity should arise for a larger force. It is pointed out that the re cruiting of the army 60,000 to 1.00, .1 men wttild bring into the service an additional of approximately two inexperienced men to every three ex perienced soldiers. The injection of so considerable a force of raw recruits, it is seid by inilltiary officials, would detract seri ously from the efficiency of the army. It would require many months of in struction to whip into shape the men thus mustered into the service, and n the event that the army was needed in an emergency, the preence of so large a number of inexperience sold iers would prove a handicap to the main body. It is pointed out that a considerable force will be required to garrison tue fortifications at Pear! narbor, in the Hawaiian islands. An Immense amount of mojaey is to lie expended in the erection of the Pearl harbor fortifications, and it. is the opinion of army officials that a garrison of at least 11,000 men will have to be maintained there in order to protect the works and insure against inva sion by a possible enemy. .Just now there are approximately 10.000 Japanese in the Hawaiian is lands. In the remote event of war between America and Japan, or with some other power with which Japan is on friendly terms, it would be im possible for the comparatively small force of United States troops now! in the Hawaii islands to prevent the landing of arms and ammunition to1 supply the Japanese in the islands. It is eApectod that the President! will rec'ommerfd in his annual mess age an increase of the army by the addition of at least ten regiments of infantry, live regiments of cavalry) and several companies of coast artil-1 lery. This recoiiimndtion. if adopt ed, would not increase the present force to the maximum strength of the army provided by law, but would meet the requirements which, in the view of the genera) staff, are neces sary to place tht; army on an ade quate footing. * KERN COMING SOUTH. Democratic Vice-President Candidate to Tour Southern States. John W. Kith. Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, will make a speaking trip in the South in Oct ober, and the national committee is now arranging the itinerary. He will deliver one or two speeches in Mary land, and will speak in all probabi lity in West Virginia and Delaware the first week in October. Mr. Kern will speak in Win-ston-Salem. X. C October 7, when the State Fair will be in progress. The Vice Presidential candidate has also been urged to make speeches in Georgia and Tennessee. Senator Gore, of Oklahom.a and Geo. Fred William.-, of Massachusetts, an' to stump the Western States. Col. Moses C. Wetmore. of the finance bureau, announced that 1.500 Demo cratic, newspapers had joined in tlie movement to raise a popular sub scription fund with which to run the Democratic campaign. He says that in his opinion every Democratic news paper in the country will join in this movement. "The Demoeartic press is doing a great work." said Col. Wetmore. and if all the papers that favor the election of Bryan and Kern would go to work in. earnest in this matter of collecting funds 1 believe we would get the biggest part of the money necessary to successfully con duct our light. This is a real contest and all our resources will be taxed lo combat the Republican party, which will secure the money it needs through its rich agencies that have derived legislative protection Irom it." The Same Old Story. Carrol! hall, aged 14. of Danville. N. II.. on Thursday shot and killed his sister. Flossie, aged IK. with a shotgun. The charge entered the neck and death resulted almost in stante. Young Hall was arrested. He says he did not know the gun was loaded. To Starve Them Out. Joseph Sciurba. wantet1 as a "Mack Hand" criminal, is besieged n a coal mine at Scottsburg, 111., and I the police purpose to starve him lout. 4> ?1.50 ??EB AKNOM. FIREBUG-PREACHER. THE UFA'. GEORGE GAMBLE BE GINS THREE-YEAR SENTENCE. Insurance Companies Declare He Has an Unequalcd Record?His Oper ations Covered Three States. The Rev. George R. Gamble, itiner ant preacher Civil war veteran with a record tor bravery and good soldier ly conduct, is now at the penitentiary in Columbus, 0., to serve a three years sentence for arson. Insurance company officials say that he has more incendiary fires charged to his account than any other man that they have knowledge of. Gamble was convicted of setting fire to a gristmill near Zanesfield, Logan county, 0.. on the night of Oct. 7, lOOti, two weeks after he had purchased the property for $i,coo. paying $1,000 in cash, and only two days after he had insured it for 500. At. the time of tue lire Gamide ! was several miles away. Me recciv jed a telephone message advising him I of what had occurred, but, accord ing to the evidence brought out by the defense, it seemed incredible. Next day Gam hie contracted with la man in Cleveland to settle his claim jwith the insurance companies agree ing to pay him a commission of five , per cent. And this little negotation led to the downfall of the Rev. Mr. Gamble. Under any but extraordi nary circumstances a man would want to save the five per cent. There have been many fires which seemed more suspicious than the grist mill near Zanefield, but there are no fires of this character in the state of Ohio wnich do not receive the immediate attention of a branch of the state government concerning which the puhlic has but scant know edge. This department is that of the state .fire marshal, the position now held with .credit by Gen. \V. S. Rogers, of Cleveland. Two weeks after Gen. Rogers as sumed office. Gamble was quietly arrested by Sheriff E. R. Humph reys, of Logan county. He was picked up in Los Angeles, Ca!., hur ried back to the scene of his crime, and within five weeks had entered upon his term of three years in the penitentiary, daepite the bitterly fought contest in the courts. , Relying not alone upon the felony committed in Ohio, but exerting every effort to establish the seemingly im possible claim that the kindly coun tenanced old veteran was a living ex ample of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on a monumental scale, the detec tives in the department of the state fire marshal accumulated evidence which legally demonstrated the dupli city of the man. Plying a meek but. honorable trade by day, he is depicted as having, through a period of at least 15 years, applied the torch by night. With reckless abandonment, counting not at all upon contingencies which might, j deliver him into the hands of the law, evidently fascinated by the midnight, deviltry, yet always profiting hand somely and operating with marvelous ucccss and security, the old man, now turning his three score years and five, can look back and count him self a most fortunate mortal in not having entered a prison cell in earl ier in life. * INSECT'S RITE FATAL. Citizens of Snartanburg Carried off by Rlood Poisoning. A dispatch from Spartanburg, says W. I. Harris, a prominent citizen, died Friday after an illness of sever al weeks. He was a candidate for re gister mesne conveyance, and while Iin the campaign in July was bitten I on the leg by a spider or some other I poisonous Infeect. Blood poisoning developed, which resulted in his 'death. For many years Mr. Harris was a well-known merchant and en joyed the confidence and esteem of hundreds of citizens. He was presi dent, of the Fairmont Cotton Mills until a few years ago. Love does not stop at the bound r.ts of liking. BATHER BROWNS AT SAVANNAH His Cries for Help Unheard by Danc ers at Isle of Hope. A dispatch from Savannah, Ca.. says Ernest Roberts, for ten years chime ringer at Sr.. John's Church, and a well known church worker, was drowned at Isle of Hope late Thurslay night while in bathing. On a pavilion fifty yards away music for dancers drowned his cries lor help. His wife and children were in their home a few feet from the river 1 banks. - Young Rank Robbers Sentenced. An indeterminate sentence of from, in to 21 years each, in the State re formatory, was imposed upon Wil liam Tennant and Harry Coleman. young bandits, at Sedan. Kan. The youths robbed the state bank at. Cbautauqu;!. Kan., of SILOnO. last April. * Negro Hanged in Virginia. Lee Strother. a negro was hanged at Madison court houre. Va., Friday for attempted criminal assault on Leola Frye, a young white woman. He made a full confession and stated that the crime was his secoad one. *