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pTSTS?lfey jfr ii : Stete Hous ESTABLISHED IN 18 SOME LATE NEWS Happaning of tits Last Two or Three Days. All OVER THE WORLD. rSeveral People B arced to Death? Faintly Sho tto Death?Baby Kilt. 3 ed by Tame Bear "Teddy to Take the Stamp-?Thousands Drowned in India by the Terrible Floods, At Birmingham, Ala., A. A. Mc Lenahan, a negro, was burned to ?death and several-others had narrow escapes when-fire destroyed a build ing Sunday. Thousands Drowned. The latest reports from Hyderabad,! India, estimate the flood casualties j ?at 50,000. Order is being gradually restored and. the bodies buried. Few Europeans venture near the scene on -account of the odors which the win 1 carries many miles. . ? Eight Burned to Death. Sight people were burned to death and'several injured in a'fire in a crowded New York tenement house ?on Sunday night Maniac Uses Axe. At Johnson City, Tenn., L. A. Bay leefi, a magistrate, early Sunday at tacked hlo brother in law, Berney Bayless, while the latter was asleep in ted at his home, and almost liter ally chopped his head off with an axe. He then attacked Bayless' wife, fat Ally wounding her. Turning the wea pon upon his own wife who was in the house, he- struck her several blows, Inflicting probably fatal injur ies. ? ? ?: Teddy to Take Stamp. That President Roosevelt fully in tends to take the stump in favor of the candidacy of Mr. Taft was the in formation received at Fairview Sun day from the East. It was said that the advices came from persons on whom reliance could be placed, and were'to the efTect that Mr. Roosevelt is planning to make at least six speeches to the coarse*'of .a trip from the ^Atlantic to ihe Pacific, the eoo> eluding speech to-be delivered at San Francisco with numerous < short speeches enroute. Mr. Bryan, how ever, refused to make any comment on the subject. Killed by Auto. In an automobile plunge over a twenty-five foot embankment at Gordon, Pa., Sunday Mrs. Peter Young, 34 years old, and her daugh ter Helen, aged eight years, were in stantly killed, and her husband, Pet er Young, Sr., Peter Young, Jr., six years old, and Charles Clark, a neph ew of the dead woman, all of Ash land, sustained fractured skulls and Internal injuries. The-injured were removed to the state hospital and lit tle hope is entertained for their re covery. The steering gear of the ma chine failed to work and is his eager ness to apply the emergency brake, Mr.. Young, who was driving the ma chine, put on' the power wnich caused tue^tfOflif pound car to veer and plunge;'over the .embankment, trap ping'the victims beneath it. * Shot by a Mob. At Hlckman, Ky.. David Walker, a negro, his five year old daughter and his baby .were killed outright, the mother; who was holding the baby in her arms was fatally shot, and three other children will probably die as a result of a mob's visit to the Walker brine Sunday night.. In addition, the oildeet'son is missing- and Is. ?uppjsed tohavo .burned with the negro's, cab in, which was fired by the.mob. Wal ker, had cursed: a white woman, and threatened to kill a. white man with a pistol, it is said. When the mob of about 50 men ordered him to come from his house, he replied with a shot. The torco was then applied to the house and as the occupants came out they- were shot dowm Bear Killed an Infant, A terrible tragedy was enacted at Elysian Grove, a pleasure park near Tuscon, Ariz., when an immense black bear escaped from a cage Sun day and charged a throng of visitors. The animal, which had'been raised in captivity from a cub, had been in the habit of drinking soda pop at the bar and when he escaped went there. He was driven away twice by the at tendants, who attempted to drive it Into its cage. The beast became en raged and charged the crowd. The wife of a Southern Pacific employe, Bu88 Laird, ran with a go-cart con taining an infant. The bear pur sued and snatched the infant and crashed it to death before its moth er's eyes. It was attacking the wo1 man when a shot from ? policeman's revolver stopped it. The bystanders opened a fusllade ar;d l.llled the bea.' with a score of bullets. The beast had been'-closely confined since a week ago when it attacked _a small boy. * Convicts Display Bravery. A dispatch from Manilla says a cloudburst struck the penal colony at Iwahlg September 23 and "itch' persons were drowned, including Harold Macknight, superintendent of the farm. The prisoners behaved heroically, many plunged into the vT*trr at personal risk to save com rades, i 69. SIZING UP TEDDY ROOSEVELT A SHAMEFUL DEMA GOGUE SAYS CHANCELLOR DAY. Rockefeller's Champion Says De generacy Is Made Contemptible By Revelation of Glaring Incon sistency of Chief Booster. That the "Standard Oil Company remains under the venomous .hatred of President Roosevelt, for reasons best known on the inside, while the steel corporation, the greatest trmt in America, receives his approbation and consent to increase its holdings, was the statement of Chancellor James Roscoe Day?of Syracuse Uni versity. The chancellor charges that not only did Roosevelt, when a candidate for president four years ago, hobnob "with trust magnates and urge them to secure money to elect him, but that after his election he appointed to a position in his cabinet a man who. held at the time a retaining fee from a large corporation, that man being still a member of the , cabinet. The interview follows: "The things that I predicted more than two years ago, and that are on record, have come true, and other sequences are hurrying to their conclusion "Never has this country known such a condition politically. Never has it seen its president descend to such a shameful degeneracy of de magogy. Most of its high moralities far above trusts, which it considers the sum of all vllliany, are made con temptible by revelations 6t the glar ing inconsistency of the chief boos ter. [ "For Senator Foraker to procure a loan for political friends who wish to purchase a paper fo rcontesting the election shocks Mr. Roosevelt. But the president was very 'practical when he wanted ?260,000 to put n where it could do most good when his election was involved. What was such a great sum to be used for? I "It is a sign of political corruption for Senator Foraker to have cor ; respondence with an officer of the [Standard Oil Company, but only the I direction and privilege of Mr. Roose velt to call to Washington a 'practi cal' ^nan, the head of the greatest railway corporation in the land, to confer with him before he announced his 'policies' to congress. "The Standard Oil remains under Mr. Roosevelt's venomous hatred for reasons well-known on the inside, but. the greatest trust in America re ceives his approbation and consent to increase its holdngs. "A representative of predatory wealth is intimate counsel and in co-operation with Mr. Hitchcock until, discovery becomes inevitable. Then he is forced to resign, not because, of the sin, but the sure discovery of it by political enemies. "The glass houses seem to be cracking with ominous sound . The Foraker-Archbold incident is shock ing, to hypocrites But honest and thoughtful men who are not hiding facts to promote a cause, remember the conditions of brigandage in the legislature when every State' held up' industrial and transit ?? corporations, and demanded their money or their lives. : "Fortunately the culmination from the White House carry no conviction. So prejudice^, unfair and untrue are they. - They: are humiliating, - not because they are from Mr. Roose velt, but because they are fomr the president. The office is disgraced! The people are covered with shame. * "The little postmasters are re^ moved for engaging in politics. Tho most of the business of the presiden tial office, is devoted to a political campaign.. Cabinets are. called, in terviews are furnished, telephone and telegraph -wires are kept, hot,, the clerical force, is worked far into the night?if the newspaper special cor respondents are to. Joe believed?and our square deal -president,is chafing at the bit to go on. the platform.. "1 know that no corporation resist ed this mulcting more successfully than Standard OH "Charges against Mr. Foraker for practicing as an attorney when in of fice is absurd The very sajary pa*d a senator proves that the copntry ex pects him to employ his spare time in so.ne legitimate business. "The eye of the American people are opened wide. They are not all deceived. What they need is to er ercise themselves in the judicial tem erament. They are too easy stamp eded by the frenzy of the mad re former. "The American citizen cannot re turn too soon to Constitutional gov ernment and the re-lnforcement of business with his confidence." * FAIRBANKS IS SCARED. Afraid the Democrats Will Capture His State of Indiana. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says because he believes there is a great danger of the state of Indiana lining up in tho Democratic columns this fall, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks Friday evening refused to give a definite promise to the local Republican leaders to speak at any ralies In this country. Mr. Fairbanks said to Harry Diamond, secretary of the Republican committee on meet ings and speakers: "The situation in Indiana is so acute that I must hasten home and assist in the work of keep ing the state in the Republican col umn. We have a desperate fight d^t hand. I cannot remain away f-om the State very long." * i Halo of Integrity That Surrounded Roosevelt "HAS FADED AWAY" Soys Ha&keil, Who Charges That the President Granted Franchise to Oil Company and Got Large Campaign Contributions in Re turn for the Grant. Gov, Charles N. Haskell, formerly treasurer of the Democratic national committee, tonight gave out a long letter to President Roosevelt repeat ing his published -defence to the charges made against him. The let ter, in part; is as follows: "The sferious character of your charge against me should have sug gested, to you that you, as-. Chief Execdtive, should proceed with de liberation and certainty before mak ing such hearsay statements your own declarations.. "Your attacks on me Anally rested on my conduct toward the Prair',2 Oil and Gas Company in this State I have said that you were respon sible for granting a franchise before statehood, thereby creating vested rights. You seek to evade the issue and create strong impressions. You said Jthe interior department had no power, except where crossing an Indian reservation. You would have your readers believe that the Indian Territory was then conducting its own government and that only parts of the same were Indian reservations "Mr. Roosevelt, you know it Is not true; you know all the ,land was Indian land without county, township or territorial government. What halo of Integrity surrounded you last week, like the mist has faded away and the interior department holdj the record which convicts you. "You granted the franchise at the solicitation of Senator Depew, and a few days thereafter received $260, 000 in cash for your campaign fund. "You charge me with having at tempted to bribe the Attorney Gen eral of Ohio. Thf'.lTwas presumably nine years ago. You have abandoned that position. Charles P. Taft says through his paper that no evidence was ever produced that would con vict me of the charge "In 'touching on the State Univer sity question, you pretended to quote from the Outlook magazine, but how dishonestly you enlarged on the mag azine article. That article chargei me with substituting Democratic for Republican professors for political purposes.. I have Bhown that state ment to be false, but I charge you with trying to enlarge on that mag azine article and give the world the Impresioh that we were improperly tu8Sng the money appropriated to conduct that institution. ? "Your charge that I vetoed a child labor law, you have not apalogized for, notwithstanding you know that 1 did it with the approval of union labor, and that our State Constitu ?on which yon said was\'so. bad you opinion of it would not look well in print,' . contains more . details and child labor legislation than all you have recommended to the New York Legislature as. Governor, or to the Congress of the United State as President, .and that I, had approved further Acts, of /our , Legislature passed at the solicitation, .of union labor. . , .'.? / "You said in your, first statement that I had suits brought against me to recover title to Creek Indian- land, I overwhelmed you , on, that'state ment. Adopting your usual- policy, you flee from that statement without just apology and adopt,, the state ment now that it was. Government town site lots that. you. charged me with being, sued for.. Yes, I .believe I am a defendant as to certain .Gov ernment .town site Iota , in, one of nearly ? 11,000 suits that yop have had brought against, as many dif ferent honorabrle and hlgbminded citizens of this State during this Presidential campaign year, and you will not undertake to deny that pol itics for the puropse of Republican Izing about 20,000 Indian voters was your sole motive for having those suits brought, and I charge you with knowing that there has been no de lay In these cases, except that, oc casioned by the Court's deliberations, taken by himself as-time he deemed necessary to consider whether or not thore Is any merit In the petition filed by your attorney. , "You say that on that land ques tlon you will see that I get a hearing in Court. Yes, sir. I will come to your hearing. Call to your assis tance all the power that your high office commands, present cases in anv form you like. I am ready to meet It and before Its conclusion the peo ple of America will be disgusted that they ever elected you President of the'United States.' ' * Waylaid and Shot. A dispatch Trom El Paso, Texas-, snys County Judge Brewster and Postmaster M. A. Ernst, of Bouquill.i. Texas, were waylaid and shot on Sunday while en route from the Cable house at Ernst's mines to the postotfice. Ernst died on Tuesday. His murderers have not been ar rested. ? KU, fv U., TUJ?SDAY.OC LOSS AND MtSthY OA?8ED BY DROUGHT IN SEV ERAL STATES. Smoke Prom Forest Fires end Dnst Greatly Endanger Health and Seriems Epidemics Feared. With losses' aggregating severs: million dollars from forest fires andx heavy damage to crops and. live stock the reported loss of a number of lives dueji to fighting the timber conflagrations,' the enforced idleness of thousands, of workmen owing to the suspension of manufacturing establishments bacause of lack of water, the health authorities antici pating a serious epidemic of con tagious diseases and many small streams dried up and practically ob literated, the drought of 1908, whicn has held western Pennsylvania, eas tern Ohio and Wast Viriglnia in its 'grasp for more: than .two months, remains unbroken, each day gradu ally increasing the seriousness of the unprecedented situation Three times during the excessive dry spell there have been very slight, rains, accompanied by much lightn ing and thunder, but the rainfall wa* so slight that niany persons were un aware of the fact and were only con vinced that it. had rained when shown evidence of the fall on tin roofs'. Aside fronr the millions of feet of timber destroyed and the daily ioss to manufacturers and farmers, probably the most serious phase oi the situation is the threatened dis ease epidemic. A majority of the population of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia are even now suffering from throat af fection caused by the great accu ? mulation of dust and the heavy clouds of smoke V In Pittsburg, Pa., used to smoke, the) sun is almost obscured by smoke from forest fires miles away, and those in the vicin ity of the?e fires are experiencing great suffering. It is feared when rain does come it will wash greai amounts of "filth into the already stagnant streams. The. health au thorities have sounded warnings to the public to boil all water used fo> Internal purposes and say that only by doing this can many deaths and much sicknesB be prevented. Next 'fn importance comes the en forced suspension of numerous Indus tries and the throwing out of em ployment of thousands of workmen; many of whom had just returned to work following the recebt depre;; Rion. While 'in the Pittsburg dis trlct the wat?r supply.is sufficient to carry on 'all business, the low stage of the rivers has caused a con gestion of much coal iu this vacinlty. Eevery available barge and float has been loaded with coal and at present, with alm6st 201,000,000 bushels in the Pittsburg harbor ,the river coal mines have been com pelled to shut down for the want oi snipping facilities. Trere are about lb,000 miners employed In river mines along the Monongahera valley. This great fleet of coal vessels is for the supply of points in the West and South and the probabilities are there will be a coal famine expe rienced, especially in the Northwest, should conditions prevent the ship ment of the coal before cold Weather sets in. . In West Virginia' lumber plants, glass factories and iron milts, lo cated along the river, are closed on account of the insufficient water. In eastern Ohio the same conditions prevail and it is feared the great iron and steel mills at Youngstown; 0hio^ employing, over 20,000 men, will haye to-suspend-operations un less the drought is,speedily broken. ' In "all sections'of the! dry zone prayers are offered up' daily anc" these prayera will continue until they are answered with rain. FATHER KILLED HER FL1NCE. Convicted of Manslaughter and Sent Up for Two Years. At Laureno in an effort to save her father on trial for. the murder of her sweetheart, Miss. Mary Gar rison while on tho witness stand Thursday, tore up a letter of sympa thy she Is alleged to have written the victim's mother, and offered In evidence by the prosecution. J. Henri Garrison killed J. Louis Williamson last July and the for mer's defense Is the "unwritten law." Miss Garrison, who was the only wit ness, testified that on tho night of the tragedy she and Williamson, t> whom she was engaged, was in the parlor of her home when her father appeared at the window and shot her fiance. Williamson died three hours later. k( The prosecuting attorney asked MIsh Garrison to Identify a letter she Is said to have written after uu shooting, and ?he promptly tore it into bits. Owing to her state of hys teria, she was not rebuked by the court. The trial was not concluded. The jury found the defendan: guilty of manslaughter and he was sentenced to two years in the peni tentiary. The main defence of Gar rison was that Williamson, who was intoxicated, was at the time of the killing caught in the act of taking undue liberties with Garrison's daughter. Miss Mary Garrison. Gar rison is a prosperous farmer. * SHOWS UP TEDDY ? f.i.i' i "f." ?; s'*CJ ' vlpu ? . ' T t * ' * . ' Bryan Willing to Leave the issue to the People. QUOTES THE RECORD Influence of Trusts and Other Man aged Interests Not a Personal Question?His Enforcement of the Law Would Not Be Spasmodic and Discriminatory. Replying to President Roosevelt'.* most recent statement, W. J. Bryan, in a letter addressed to'the Presi dent, which waB given out last night at Rock Island, 111., points to his record "and declares that it is suf ficient answer to the insinuations of the Chief Executive that he is In connection with or controlled by the trusts. Reverting 'to the charges against : Governor Plaskell, Mr. Bryan say^ that the President, in response in his request, did not begin to suggest a tribunal which could determine those charges, but instead proceeded to pass judgment upon him and informs the President ?that1 the oc cupant of that high office can not de-1 ny to the humblest citizen the right | to protect his reputation and vindi-i cate his name in the courts. "I am willing," says Mr. Bryan. I "that all your charges against me shall be submitted to the voters of the county 'and with your charges I submit denial of any knowledge o: Information that could, In the re motest way, ? connect me with any trust, monopoly or law-breaking cor poration. My record is sufficient answer to your insinuation. I have lived In vain, if your accusations have lost me a single friend. 1 challenged you to name a trust of ficial who is supporting me, and after searching the country, ""ou produce the name of one man, not a trust. Without inquiring whether he votes for me because of his fear of busi ness adversity under Mr. Taft, you accept his statement that he will vote for me as conclusive proof that I am in league with the trusts, al though you admit that trust officials are supporting the Republican ticket. You compliment me when'you meas ure me by higher standards than you do your political associates, for you InBlst that Mr. Rockefeller's contribution to Governor Hughes' campai^. fund was no reflection upon him and I take it for granted that you do not criticise Judge Taft'e recommendation of a Standard Oil attorney to the Federal bench, &? place where the judge might have to pasB upon the charges agains' the very trust for which he had been an attorney. While the trust at torney to whom you refer is not a.i official of a trust, I will warn him and through him his clients that if I am elected I will not only vigor ously enforce against all offenders the laws which we hope to have enacted in'compliance with the Dem ocratic platform, but that I will also vigorously enforce existing laws agaiiiBt any and all who violate them, and that I will enforce them, not Spasmodically and Intermittently, but persistently and consistently: they will" not be suspended even for the . protection of cabinet..ofi&exs. "You say' t'bev attitude "of .many men of large financial Interests' war rants you 'in expressing the belief that those, trust magnates whose fear of being prosecuted under the law by Mr. Taft is greater than their jfear of general business adversity' underme will support me rather than Mr. Taft!' You have attem;>*ed to I word ,that statement in euch a Wav as. to claim the support of all the'trust magnates, and yet put it on Jbe groond. :aat "they are supporting your party for ".' patriotic reasons rather than for the pomotlon of a self fish interest. That is ingenious, but it is not sound'. The trust mag bate are supporting the Republican party and the Bible offers an ex planation, 'the ox knoweth'nis owner and the oss nis master's "crib".' Yon admit that you gave permission to the Steel Trust to absorb a rival and thus increase Its control of the output of steel" and iron products. I will leave the American people to pass judgment upon that act and compare your position on the trust question with mine. "But your letter presents a de fence of your party's, position and an accusation against the oters which emphasizes an Issue already prom inent . You are the first conspic uous member of your party to at tempt an explanation of the party'p opposition to publicity, before the election, and the admission which you make will embarrass your party associates. Your position is that ,the publication before election of the contributions made to your cam paign fund would furnish your polit ical opponents ah opportunity 'to give a false impression' as to the fitness of the candidates. You cite as illustrations the contributions made to Governor Hughes' campaign fund, the contribution collected b/ Mr. Harriman and the contributions which are now being collected for Mr. Taft's campaign fund. You charge in effect that the people are so lacking In confidence that they might condemn as improper contri butions which you declare to bfi proper. If the voters differ from you on this qucstiou, are they necessarily ignorant and wrong? Must the members of the party organization act as self-appointed guardian of the GIRL WAS STOLEN AND HELD IN HEART OF NEW YORK. Most Remarkable Case of Kidnap ping Brought to Light Last Thurs day by Detective. The moat remarkable case of kidnapping that has stirred New York for many years was brought to light early Thursday, when Lena Thorn, a pretty 16-year-old girl was rescued from a one-story house' at 475 Rpckway avenue, Eart New *ork She had been stolen when within 200 feet of her home six weeks ago, and has been a prisone ervsr since. After she was attacked in the woods near her homevat Rockaway avenue and Jamaica road, Jamaica, remain ing in this house two days, she was taken to the Rockaway avenue hut. Her own clothing had been taken away from her and she was forced to wear clothes that her captor por vided. Women living in the neighborhood saw tha-. she was always watched by a man, and noticing that her com plexion was so different from his, they suspected something wrong and notified the police. The raid was made'early Thursday and it was only after a terrific battle that Raphael Susso, 26 years old, who was found in the hut, was over powered and taken prisoner. In his rage at discovery he tried to kill the girl, but was prevented. Captain Frank of the Brownsville station heard of the case Wednesday and at once put Detective Caulfield and Burton on It. They watched and saw the man go into the place and .then, without knocking, burst open theNflimsy door. Susso was standing near the girl and when he saw the detectives he utter ed a curse, grasping her by the throat, swinging her around and hit her a blow in the face. "I had been to school on the day that I was kidnapped," said the girl, "and got out before 4 o'clock in tb? afternoon. Some of the girls were going to a wood near where we lived to get flowers and I went also to get some flowerB to put on the dinner tablei On my way back, when with in a few hundred feet of home, a' man sprang out of the woods, grab-' bed me" ry tne throat, and dragged me info the bushes. Then he and another man carried me further bactc into'the woods and stuffed my nioiAb with rags. people and conceal from the mwhat is going on lest tne people be mis led as to puropse and effect of large contributions? Is this your explanation of the action of the x?.e publican leaders in the national con vention in voting down a publicity plank? If you will pardon the sug gestion I believe that a better ex planation can be found in Holy Writ, for do we not read of men loving darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil? "I do not mean to say-that Mr. Hughes was influenced by the con tributions made to him- by the trust magnates whose names were given in thet after-election report. I do not mean to say that' you were lur fluenced by the contributions col lected by Mr. Harriman, neither do I mean to say that Mr. Taft will be influenced by the contributions that are being made to. his fund by the trust magnates; but I do mean to say that the American people hav> a right to know what contributions are being made; that they may judge for ' themselves the motive of the givers and the obligation impose! upon thotse who receive. The'reflec; tion upon the people ' involved in your charge that they would misuse the knowledge which" publicity Would give Is unworthy of one Who has been elevated to so high an office by the Votes of the people, and I ven ture the aasertiod that' you" cah not procure' fiora Taft ah endorsement of yciur defence. He Is now'before the people; he is offering himself as a candidate for the Presidency! he dare not tell the people to whom Ve appeals that they have not senae enough to form a just and correct opinion as to the purpose which leads parties Interested in special leg islation to make big contribution.!. You fear that we would mlsrepre? sent the motives of those who are contributing to the Republican cam paign fund, and cast an unjust sus picions upon Republican candidates if the names and amounts were known before the election. Your argument, If sound, would prevent publlcaltlon after the elcetlon, for why should an unjust suspicion be cast upon officials after the election any more than before? Does not the secrecy before the election In crease this suspicion? We are goln^ to give you an opportunity to mis represent the motives of those who give to our campaign fund, and to arouse all the suspicion you can; wt are going to.prove to the people that we are making a fight for the whole' people and not for those who have been enjoying privileges and favors at the hands of the government, and we expect that the honest sentiment of the country will rebuke the party whose convention refused to endorge any kind of publicity and whose can didates are not willing that the peo ple should know until after the po'.'.^ are closed what predatory Interests have been active in support of the Republican party. With great re spect, etc., yours truly * $1.50 PER ANNUM. A1 RUST BOSS Collecting Funds For the Nat ional Republican Committee. SHELDON'S RECORD As a Trust Magnate, Assailed by Mack, the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, Will Go After Cromwell and Other Active Republican Trnat Magnates. Following an attack of National Chairman Mack Friday on the cor poration affiliations of George R Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican, national committee, it - was- learned Friday' night that the Democratic' national committee is preparing to assail the corporation connections cf William Nelson Cromwell, member Of the advisory committee of the Re publican national committee. Other members of the Republican advisory committee, it is understood, are also to be investigated and rep-, resentatives of the Democratic com mittee are carefully inquiring intj> the financial records of the Repnbii* , can committeemen. For. several days the corporation records of Mr. Crom well have been under .quiet inves tigation, but whether the represen tatives of the Democaticr committee have learned anything of Mr, ? Crom well's financial operations other than tne companies with which he ht identified >has not been made known Mr. Mack made the following statement: "The trust and corporation affilia tions of George R. Shemon, treas urer of the Republican national com mittee ,for the past 10 years make interesting reading in view of ?ae recent developments in the campaign. "I wish to recall in this connec tion that, because of these very..as sociations of his, Governor Odell in 1902 refused to permit the . party leaders to put Mr. Sheldon in nom ination for lieutenant governor. Goyernor Odell at that, time declare! thaf he could not accept, the,.xe noulnatioh for head of. the .State) ticket if Sheridon" were named as his running mate. Rat while the Republican party has refused .to pot up Mr. Sheldon's name for a public office, It has for the identical reasons of this refusal selected him for. its campaign fund collector. "This can not be denied. Most of the corporations with which Mr. Sheldon is identified are capitalized for millions. How much of their stock is of the liquid variety can be easily ascertained. Yet Mr. Roose velt has defended him, and his resignation was not demanded when Mr. DuPont was invited to step down and out. Mr. DuPont was only Iden tified with one trust, while Mr. Shel don is at the present time intimately connected with no less than 17 prom inent financial concerns. "Mr. Sheldon Is a director of that company. He is also treasurer and* director of the North American com pany, capitalized for $30,000,000. a concern known as the 'mystery of Wall Street.' It is but .a few>years back since he was prominently iden tified with the 'r/hiskey trust,' A glance at his connection with.various companies for the past. 10 years will explain tersely the reason of hi* present position. No further com ment of mine is necessary/' The following are the corporaftiotaa that Sheldon are more closely con nected with at this time: ? American Locomotive Company; director. The Bethlehem Steel Company? di rector! Cincinnati Northern Railway Cosa? pany, director. . , Detroit-Edison Company, director and- treasurer. i Electrical Security Company, di rector. \LaClede Gas Light Company, di rector. Monte Car Works, director, j Locomotive Security Company, di rector. Metropolitan Trust Company, di rector. Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, director. Milwaukee Light, Heat and Trac tion Company, director. National Copper Bank, director. North American Company, treas urer and director. New Jersey Terminal Dock and Improvement Company, director. Republic Iron and Steel Company, director. Rogers Locomotive Works, direc tor. St. Louis Transit Company, direc tor. * FOURTEEN HUSBANDS Charged Up to One Woman by ? Chicago Co art. Charged with having fourteen hus bands, admittedly the wire of five men, one of whom Is declared to have died under suspicious circum stances, Mrs. Marie Bolleyen, arrest ed at Chicago, after a fight between two of her husbands, haB been held by the grand jury in bond of $5,000. Bigamy, the formal charge, was made by two men, John Whltfield, who says ho married the woman eight years ago, and Joseph Bolleyen, who married her In the county building November 18, 1907 . Mrs. Bolleycr said she was married to r> of the four teen men, whom the police assert she wedded.