The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 18, 1910, Image 2

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JWTDillon Herald. An agnostic, defines the Philadelphia Record, Is a man who believes In almost everything except religion. The man who will not be good until he knows It pays, pays too much for the goodness he gets, thinks the Chicago Tribune. Declares the Chicago News: There Is a fine opportunity for the man who wants to do something for posterity. He can plant a tree. Pittsburg turns to Its baseball club, chirps the Washington Star, as a body of publio servants whose honor has never been impeached. We are proud cf our rcople, boasts the Green County (Ohio) Journal. They have all been brought up right. They are home-grown and handspanked. There should be no assumption by this Government of permanent obligation for the affairs of Nicaragua, contends the St. Paul Pioneer Preea. We do not believe6ucb a course is nee essary, any more than it was In Venezuela or Cuba. The national and international effect of such a course would be disastrous. I One spring, for some reason, old Ell was going round town with the face of dissatisfaction, relates the Argonaut, and, when questioned, poured his voluble tale of woe thus: "Marse Geo'ge, he come to me last fall an' he ay, 'Ell, dis gwine ter be a hard winter, so yo' be keerful, an' save yo* wages fas' an' tight.' An' I b'lieve Marse Geo'ge, yas, sah, I b'lieve him, a' I save an' I save, an' when de winter come it ain't got no hardship, an' dere was I wid all dat money jes' frown on mah hands!" Grevy, when President of France, -once extricated himself from a predicament with wonderful presence of mind, relates the Argonaut. He was being conducted round the salon of an eminent artist, when he saw a painting which displeased him. "What a daub!" he exclaimed. "Whose is it?" "That picture, M. le President," said his cicerone, "is my own work." "Ah*" said the President, without any sltn of embarrassment at his awkward mistake. "In our country, wnen we particularly f-wlsh to purchase a thing, -? always begin by running it down," a-?d, true to his part, he purchased the -{[ending picture there and then. There are nearly half a million horse and motor vehicles of all kinds In Paris to-day, with 20,000 hand! carts and 9000 wheelbarrows. I,i 1909 65,870 accidents were caused in the Paris streets by 81,868 vehicles. These statistics are contained in a report drawn up by M. Emil< Massard at the request of the Parii - Municipal Council on the encumber | xncnt of the Paris streets. One o M. Massard's calculations b iows tha V the street traffic of Paris, f stati^ Iary, would occupy 4 45 acws o^f; th 2079 acres of streets which ^.-ris poi sesses. Last year .000 pei K sons traveled bjf 'omnibus md tran ? "way a id ther^were 294,00,000 pai aenaers 6r _ 111? nn(ior?rniiii rnilwpi Kant, the great philosobcr, cult y- rated peculiar habits wh h enable , him to accomplish a cert: 3 work i the world, relates the Lolon Glob* From the day he began tc Trite unt: lj his death, sixty years la r, we ar assured that he kept tl first tv hours of the morning fr- from in 7 terruptidn, even eating b breakfas alone. No matter what t - emergen ?y, his family or servan* dared nc disturb him in these t\ hours o f . . - saaditation. The cast of moraiu; - until 1 o'clock was given - his work At 2 o'clock he dined, ways witl Invited guests, usually ose inter ; asted in different pursu; frcsi hli i own. Kant's effort waso rest ant 4; amuse his mind by conct with ai I many aiverse intellects arcnarncten as possible. At night win renqy to retire he remained tor If an Ibui perfectly quiet alone an wlthoit a took?as possible, he sa witliotf a thought?in order to cat his bniu tar sleep. THE TRUTH CIT. They my that sromeUways reid Che last chapter of a rel first." It Isn't so. I always sd the Art "And then?" "Then I read the Is chapter."? Washington Star. $''-.u WL . HA) K-'*4 .v'tu Ifc. EVERY BONE BROKEN! ?:? i Boy Balloonist Turns Over And Over 2,000 Feel HEAD SEVERED ON APPLE TREE - ? < Arose Four Thousand Feet?First Parachute Opened Successfully? Hopes Snapped on Second Drop. New York, Special.?Benny Prinz, a young balloonist, met a horrible death Friday afternoon at the close of the aviation meet at Asbury Park, N. J. In making a double parachute drop, the second parachute failed to open and he fell more then 2,000 feet. As the swaying body neared the ground, it struck the limb of an apple three and the boy's bead was transfixed on the limb like an apple on a sharp stick. As it struck the ground the headless body was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. Prinz was 26 years old and a dar- ( ing balloonist. With Samuel Hart1-and. of Newark, he went up in a hot air bolloon. At the height of 1,000 feet Hart land cut loose with one parehute and made a successful landing. Lightened by the drop of Hartland, the craft shot up until it reached about 4,000 feet. Then Prinz cut loose. Those who saw his figure, say he fell 500 feet before his parachute opened. He sailed slowly earthward for another thousand feet and then cut loose again. There was another terrific drop of about 500 feet when the second parachute opened it checked his fall for a second then the ropes snapped ami the body of the young man shot straight down. Over and over the figure turned, faster and faster and gaining momentum with each revolution. He was shooting down head first when he crashed into the tree, impaling his head on a limb. In the headless trunk every bone was broken. Several of 'those who witnessed the accident fainted from the borror of the tragedy. Senator Heyburn Stopped "Dixie." Seattle, Wash., Special.?Senator W. B. Ileyburn of Idaho, dislikes "Dixie." He created a sensation at a reception given to Congressman T. R. Hianver ?rt Wallace, Idaho, "Friday night bv stopping the orchestra while the -musicians were playing that popular strain. Colonel Hamer had just finished his address and 'the orchestra had started a medley of well-known airs. About the sixth number in the medley was "Dixie." The Senator leaped to his feet, strode across to the musicians and cried out: "This is a Republican meeting. We want no such turnes here." The amazed musicians stopped immediately. The Senator strode back to his seat. After a moment of silence Mayor Hanson arose and closed the meeting. Louisiana Means Business. New Orleans, La., Special.?Governor Sanders has issued a proc^Jj mat-ion conveying the Louisiana eral Assembly in extra sessM^pTenAugust 15th to vote on the^^>n on 1 sicm of an increased submis.topular suffrage in ?^^nd issue tc i World's Panama Exij^FTpport of the L to be held at Aei^p^x>sition proposed Orleans in 1915. " Ated WomirTn Millionaire Weas uoy Cb?|pg, Special.?Mrs. Mary B 1 lru^. who gave her age as 70 years 1 . ' oome as San Diego, Col., and es ViYnatod her wealth in the millions Jps' married here Friday to Jaine; J Dibs, of New York, nn Assyrian linen (t salesman. 'J3 years of age. Mrs. Trr-in i- said her income from rents alone was q $2,000 a month. She said she was a distant relative of the late George Francis Train, r l" Cotton $93 a Bale. Atlanta, Ga., Special.?News of big prices for cotton was received here j. Monday in dispatches to The Constid tution, from rural districts in GeorQ gi u At Camilla $50,000 was paid for v 000 bales from the Bush plantation " This was all from the 1909 crop. At Leesburg a farmer sold one bale ? of new crop cotton for $93. Dollar a Head for Contracts. McAleateT, Okla., Special.?W. T. Hollman. a Choctaw Indian, testified before the investigating committee, * that he had been employed by J. F. McMurray, holdeT of the contracts, i< to (jo out an fug the Oklahoma. In. dians and induce them to sign the i documents. At the same time, Hollman related, he was paid "a dollar a head," for securing contracts apk pointing McMurray to act in each 1 ease. In this way McMurray proi cured 10,000 contracts to sell land. . Hollman testified that he himself had signed the 10 per cent contract ' because he had become discouraged. i Creditors Wait 60 Years. t Peterson, N. J., 8peci.nl.?After waiting f>0 years the creditors of the defunct Cataract City bank here are to receive a first dividend on their claims. The receiver, John L. Griggs, has $3,705 to distribute ! _ I II c claimants. the money having been obtai:ted after a series of lezal botllcs with the estate of a former receiver who died in 1872. The bank was chartered in 1856 and failed four years later. P L :ii; - * JSL twp" cS Out ef*** Central Railroad &lions of Dollar*. Memphis, TeB ares of a most B'm-- Special.?Dm?1o?>x>lvin# high f<^Perisa^on?J nature, inIHanods Centra?rrner officials of the 'piracy by whiX Railroad, in ?mLonrpanv is allcHf^ Memphis Car xl the 'ail rood Bf?d to have defraudJands of dollar|of hundreds of thou irhen a decree M8* were nUul? jellor Heskel's ?a9 eiltered in Channree every dol1?^OU1'*' ^'s ^eperty in the Molar 8 worth J>f propUmt and a 6umlI1Pll,is C,ar Company's ad over <o the M"1 cash ^ he turnroad. Deeds Central Railpntering of theM^ from the Prosecution wBdecnee. Erin, it i3 said, Mill immediately beLhe former officdMsninst a number of ably in the IlldiSt-ls implicated, probLater in the TenB0^ court? first and stockholders mencssee courts. The cree, besides E. tioued in the deOsterman, thte Ml- Ward and H. C. Memphis Car OcMrwa-nizers of the official position? Mmpony, and their issuance of the sB&t the time of the Prank B. HarrMo?k were: ager of the TUiTuMman, general manHugh McCouriMi8 Central, dent of the YaBgeneral sujerintenIllinois Central, ^oo & Mississippi W. S. King, A dent of the Yazoo*?neral su perintenValley Railroad, cl o.nd Mississippi Memphis termanalMperatiog also the Central. Is of the Illinois William >Renstiul 1908, supenimtendeMw. until May 1, having charge of tftit of machinery ment. ^l? repair of equipJosoph E. Bukerfl intendent of machiiM- assistant superJohn M. Taylor A?t.v. keeper Born side shl general storeRensbaw is said B?P^ Chicago, but as soon as a til 1? be in France, effort? will be maAue bill is secured back. Bde to bring him It is known tba/tl tral refused offers ft "the Illinois Cena settlement to inl?f large sums in declaring tihat the rAclude immunity, lose the millions tftoad would rather been defrauded rlftf which it had officials who had beAan to have the alleged fraud, escapMn ixirties to the Two of the official* punishment, have rturned to thels- it is set forth, the amounts receivrdB Illinois Central idends. These are A hv them as divW. 8. King, each of vl- McCourt and untarv restitution <hvlK>ni made volcash. Xf $13,000 in One of the stoekhel Ran n, is dead. Alders, Ira G. Mysterious Death MB Wilmington, .SpeJ11 "^1011 Ladposed murder of Aial.?The supcure $2,500 insurance* youth to Beguiling of the Rock ft on his life, the combination hotel anASpning hotel, a on the wharf, th^jA lodging house Holly, about 4(^ipWP.rrest of J. C. of tihe hou^^^'years old, proprietor the SaimgiB^r erstwhile preacher of the s*P^?niication faith, constituted fijMp^ensational features of a tragic which occurred in this city early ^Wednesday morning. I Tko e.nA.,.l? U .1 l J.. _ f it.. A nc dci tv/iioi y uui uc\i wvi v WI l/iic youth, Edward Cromwell, 19 years old, who is said to have come here four morvths ago from an orphan ' home in Charleston, and was cook at 1 the hotel, was found lying on the ' floor of his room, in his night clothes, nearly an hour after the fire was disX H. Scull testified that on Alon day, acting as notary public, he aign? ed certificate of transfer of insu ranee policy for $2,500 from Crom, well to Holly, the premium on which > he was informed was paid by Holly, i who had applied for insurance to the i amount of $5,000, the company rei fusing more than $2,500. This is i sup|Hised to have furnished the moi tive for the crime tliat is believed to have been committed. Says She Avenged Her Wrong. Pittsburg, Special.?Catherine Rot-to ? ? ?i uScu _> cars, seized an ax and, creeping unawares upon Pasquale Bolpe, aged 19 years, as he stood in his doorway, crushed the youth's skull, killing him instantly. , The girl hysterically cried to eyewitnesses that she had "avenge*! her wrong.'' Postal Banks in Small Cities. Beverly, Mass., Special.?Postmaster General Hitchcock has made a preliminary report to President Taft regarding the plans for the institution of postal savings hanks in different parts of the eountry in the near future. $ile experimental bank* will he located in the smaller cit;es. Sufficient money to establish the system in cities like New York. Chicago. Philadelphia, Boston and other great centres is not yet available. Ther* is also a desire to perfect the system through the experiments in the smaller communities before an attempt is made to open up the metropolitan branches. Twice a Widow?Double Pension. Athene, Oa., Special.?County Or-, d-inary Jndge Wingfleld announced Saturday that he bad received an application from a widow for two Confederate veteran pensions, which she claims as her due because she had I two hoslMmW. Iv?ti ? ? ' ercme. The flf?t was killed in battle; the seeond ah? married after the war. I Soldiers' widows worth under #1.1)00 1 are allowed $60 per annum pension. wmmmm !" 1 , . I 11 , S55 FEAR IN STAUNTON. * a Earth Swallows Houses and Trees in Virginia Town. GEOLOGIST GOES TO THE SCENE, m di< a Limestone Foundation Gradually afl Giving Away and Rivers Under ^ Tftwn Ponnln W nrinir Wl Staunton, Ya., Special.?A two- nest ory house onvl a large tree have vi< been swallowed up into the earth, Ch many other residences are sinkirj^ ail and have been abandoned by theif is! occupants and public buildings are endangered as the result of the bor- M: ing of an eight hundred foot well he in the public square -here. tn< Wide cracks in the earth are St spreading, threatening the post office th and public school building. The in' walls of the school house already are is?t cracked. Residents are much alarm- ni< ed and heroic efforts are being made to prevent further caving of the th earth. cu Washington, Special.?In response th to an appeal to the geological survey from Staunton, Va., F. R. Van sh Horn, assistant chief geologist, has ar gone to investigate the cave-ins, A1 which have caused heavy property bu damage in tlie Virginia town The Os theory hehl by the government geo- Sr legist is that the trouble was caused in by water percolating through the limestone, which underlies the entire W section, and thus has weakened the sh foundations of buildings and caused w<s them to give way. Mr. Van Horn is sti familiar with the geological structure ar of that portion of Virginia and from M press reports he judges that dissol- tri ving limestone is responsible for the trouble. Patterson Says Put It to Test. Gh Nashville. Tenn., Special.?As an wi outcome of the recent judicial elec- w< tion in Tennessee, in which the reg- pr ular Democratic nominees, which he K< supported, were defeated by indepen- ,J. dents who had the active aid of the gr Republican organization, Governor w? M. R. Patterson has issued a state- an meat expressing willingness to waive the Democratic nomination for a third term, which he has already ha received and again test the question Ga of a -choice of the Democracy in anv b> sort of a primary. Thus he would sy h?|>e, .lie says, to save the State to co Democrat. tal The address among other things if says: in? "If the majority of the Democrats fa are opfxised to me, as it is claimed, T1 I should net represent them as their j?a candidate for Governor." th The Governor then offers to enter no a new primary and adds: W "The only condition is I the successful nominee ?o ported in the Novemb all -who participate in N. C. Republican Sta > - ,< . Greensboro, N. C., fo serving historic tradit. te mony and discounting Pi protracted warfare tl : ^ 'S of North" Carolina in sembled Wednesday a r of ed Congressman John i : > bead State chairman . put otu a StMe ti day night and adjoui mosiy <vs?emblage that w< ed far and wide for wl a likely free-for-all-fight. The convention adopted a plat- th form which embodies a significant w< self-government plank, made radical ha reforms in its plan of organization and nominated candidates for the Supreme Court and the Corporation Commission. |e] Rear End Collison at Raleigh. The Seaboard Air Line northbound train No. 84, at 1:10 Friday morning ran into the rear of an ex- (jQ eursion train on the Southern railway just returned from Durham, j{n while standing under the shed of the Union depot at Raleigh, killing one negro man named VN iLU&m Jordan, atH and injured probably fatally a oolored man from Norfolk. Others in- flr jured were some irnlf dozen. f0j All Took Sugar in Theirn*. Washington, Special.?The average American ate 82 pounds of sugar cir last yeur, which was more than he ai> ever had before in the history of the country according to figures made 0f public ..by the Department of Com- tei merce and I.abor for the 12 months ended June 30. gt) The total amount of sugar eaten (.in by Americans during the year is esti- j^0 mated at seven and one-half billion pounds. Only in two previous years did the total ever approach the 7,- cit 000,000,000 mark aivd only on four 0f other occasions did it exceed 6,000,- ,a 000,000. tin I White Man Takes the Ofice. ( Atlanta, Special.?Henry S. Jack- ne: aoo, appointed collector of internal tti revenue for this district of Georgia, is a eon of the late Justice Howell yu E. Jackson, of the I'nitod St?te? Su- pj, preme Court ami * t>rotiher-io-law ^ l of Mayor Robert F. Maddux, of Atlarvta. having married Mias Maddox. a He was the president of the State be< League of Taft Clubs in Georgia, by and took part in the organization of br? . many Taft ciubh in the Sta^c. bo 'OMAN NESJN PRISON, f Ifher Court Will Declare Mist S Wardlaw's Guilt or Innocence. Newark, N. J., Special.?Miss Yttnia Wardlaw, -who, -with her twc "V rters. is indicted for the murder of d ra. Ocey Wndfatw Martin Sneud, o ed here in the hou^e of detention, er death, it is said, will materially f, feet .the (prosecution of Iher two e <ers. Qeneral decline is sriven as d e cause of death. Miss Ward!aw <] us at one time a resident of Tennes- Ji B. h The fate of tlhe aged -woman in time e spect paralleled that of her a 1 leered ii ptim, for doctors -who examined J iey Snead before her death said her .menis were all due to lack of tiour- I rment. In the opinion of jail attendants, ti iss Wardlaw deliberately starved t rself to death. This has revived ru- f >re circulated at the time of Ocey p ie?d's death when the history of v e mysterious household was under a vestigation that a suicide pact exed between Miss Wardlaw and her h ece. 8 Wlhen she was removed from jail ^ ere was found in the cell she oc- C pied & quantity of stale food which p e prisoner had concealed. ( At the aged woman's bedside when a e died were her sister, Mrs. Rich- J d Pringlc, and her brother, the Rev. Ibert Wardlaw, both of Christionsirg, Va. Rut her other sisters, Miss iroMne B. Martin and Mrs. Mary W. y lead, jointly indicted with her, were c their cell as she expired. f What effect the death of Virginia c and law will have on the fate of her c iters is still to be determined. She s is the dominating influence of the g range household, and predictions e made that Mrs. Mairtin and rs. Sneod may never be brought to [aJ- o Mayor Gaynor Shot by Assassin. 'h New York, Sjjecial.?William J. j lynor, major of New York City, a is shot in the head and seriously a >unded Tuesday as he stood on the f omen ad e deck of the steamship liser Wilhelm der Grosse by James r Gallagher a discharged and dis- t untied city employe. Gallagher c is almost instantly overpowered ^ d arrested. s New York, Special.?Another day . j s passed and Mayor William J. | + Lynor, shot in the neck on Tuesday f ' James J. Gallagher, shows no ^ mptoms of blood-poisoning. He f utilities to rest well at intervals, to j ke nourishment when desired and, j the bulletins his surgeons are issu? disguise nothing, his condition is ( vorable toward ultimate recovery, j le bugbear septicemia, is not yet j ssed however, uoir is the possibility , at an artery or a blood vessel has j t been scraped by the bullet, j ith the possibilities ever present, he < still in the danger zone and will be < r more than a week yet. ^ Wore Cross on Honor on Trial. ] Savannah, Ga., Special.?S. S. Bestger, a Confederate veteran, was und guilty of voluntary manslaughr in Chatham Superior Court, at the d of his trial for stabbing James lyne to death, on the evening of ay 30, last. Bessinger wore a Confederate cross honor in court during his trial. No Section was made to this, and Judge larlton, in sentencing Bessinger to 'o years in the penitentiary, said in gard to it: < " I do not like to see a veteran j ?aring a Cross of Honor in court len ne is on trial tor a crime. You uld have worn it for only one pur- 1 >se. to work upon the prejudice of 1 e jury. Practices of this nature ( :>ul<i tend to make the Confederate , f idge a common thing." Bessinger and Payne formerly were ^ irtners in a grocery business. They larieled over money, and Bessinger . led Pr.vne in the presence of the latr's wife. r Boston's Million Dollar Fire. Boston, Special.?A loss of up- * irds of $1,000,000 was caused Tue6v by ft fire in the wholesale lum- f r district. Starting from an unowti cause in the lumber yards of i acker & Shepard at the corner of >ver and Albany streets, the blaze i sumed early proportions of such i ignitude that a general alarm?tthe t st sounded in this city since 1872? : llowed within ten minutes Harrassed to Death. Newark, N. J., Special.?The nrosetion of Mrs. Carolina B. Martin J d Mrs. Mary Snead will not bo inhered with in any wav by the death Virginia Wardlaw, the third sis- ( indicted in connection with the c sterious death of Ocey W. M. f ead, the East Orange bath tub vien. This statement was made by ti..--1 !-< - ^)>!-ciui counsel lor the I r ate in -the Wardlaw case. ? An autopsy performed showed ?on- ^ isively that Miss Ward!aw had died | starvation. She will be buried in ^ cemetery near 'here beside Ocey . ?* ; Crippen's XJirl Buys a Wig. Quebec, Special.?Ethel Clare Leave wiil return to England to stand ? al on a charge of murder, wearing e e of the beat wigs to be found in n lebec. The girl gave $20 to matron c alldips of the provincial jail, all S at was left of the $00 ahe brought J >m Arvtewerp, and told her to buy r "peruke" that would repair to ?t advantage the ravages inflicted e Crippen when he cut off her light I two tresaea to disguise ber aa a t< Y ?< . v' iS V*'HIP AMILY DIE AT Akl/^S trance Coincidence That FoJtaggflE Tenth Qeorfia Victim. _JP Atlaii'ta, Cra., Special.?Fre^erij^^B 7. Cooper died here eath being remarkable because^^Hj ocirrred in his twenty-ninth mi. i u i ' "^r * ? jLiiai -was Tine age ai aither and eight of biB father's rs all died. Illness, and ents, were the cause of cat lis. Cooper became uneuwJoBH is twenty-ninth jear approacl^^^^H alf way mark, a presentment .1 to oome and he said, iK of his thirtieth birthday iie^HR "If I con on'v live until hheu^Kl^HB 'll live to bo .1 thousand A short time ago when Ooopej^ffja^H akp-n sick with typhoi 1. the able brooding over the fate aither and lus uncles basteuefpTS^H regress of the disease. He flhile his near relatives were t<flpra^H .way to be summoned to his be^^h^H IT,is mother, Mrs. M. J. C^Pp^BB as returned from Europe tetuner St. Paul, landing in e^HB fork, and his sitser. Miss Knthex^^B 'ooper, is in Paris. Cooper rominent here, a member Capitol City Club and co 11 nect p > large cotton firm. He was boni^J^H Jew York. ^ Saloons For Bluefields. DU.aA?1.1 "irr -XT * o J-1 ? i>iururiat ?> . V a., OIK.'Ciai.?'DVg^H ote of 3 -to 2 the State ourt at Charleston decided minefield shall have saloons. ase went up on appeal from^Cu^H ourrty court which refused to f^RT^H aloon licenses although the ^ritj^M aithorities had granted them. Criticises Northern Negro. Washington, tSpeeial. ? "Tfcvj?v^m en'ts" is what W. E. StewaByl^B regro financial agent of tlve as Baptist College, at Little irk., said he had gotten fron^ax^M .piH-.il t<> tin' Colored Preachers' ince of Washington, for assist^cjg^B 'or his college. Stewart ouniowro^B Washington, it is said, to atteni^hg^B nemorial sen-ices for Rev. V. Lee, paster of a Vermont avaoug^J hurch, and during a meeting To preachers was asked to mah^^9 peech. He told of the coinlitiuWorB he negro race in the South and^au|S he negro had many white frWdsM here, as in the North. He prot<^te?S igainst negroes condemning SoutWmH Mlite people because of sporadii^g^H i dents like the recent 1 vnchingWfltH Palestine, Texas. He concluded mt]jM lis appeau for funds for his colBfelB "My appeal resulted in a dontujonfl if 30 cents," Stewart said. "IfBRSM s a measure of the sympathy >y the negroes of the North for^TSW legroes of the South, I say they letter attend to their own bus.nK$9 nstead of sending telegrams to ;rnors and sheriffs of the SoutflKrsV states expressing their indignatiojM^S the lynching of negroes. Their utions of sympathy are meanini^^g^B Railroad Employees as Talkerm^^B Chicago, Special.?Passengers ding over many of the leading rail x>ad systems soon may be eivtert^p^n h1 en route bv dissertations from JioB conductors and other train empires-1 >n wie an von; ages to he de-rived il lowing the roads to advaneo freizii rates, if the advice of prominent tray executives to their employe^^^. followed. A pamphlet is circulating imong the 40,000 employes of tfefrIllinois Central to study the railrfl^ piestion and discuss among telres until they aja-Hhoroughly cotp-i-ersan:t with the actual conditi^fg from the financial viewpoint. Hf^. I ng done this each employe is x> -try to convert during the couree.- I >f a year three or four men who low opposed to the railroads. 1 9i late Advance on Stock Suspendea. Washington, Special.? idvances in the freijrlit rate of rtock of 2 1-4 cents a hundred pounoL >etw?en Missouri river and Missj^^ rippd river point3 which were wo vave become effective August 15, -wjiLm >e susjK'Jided pending an inquiry .he interstate commerce commissions nto the reasonableness of the \W leases. Aaa Collar Stay Causes Big Fire. . Portland. Ore., Special.?The levice utilized, by women to holi^S iheir lace collars?a piece of cell^P" oid about two inches long, and J luarter of an inch wide, worth flap ents the half dozen?cost the Unit^ d States Laundry Company a oss here of $90,000 and imperiled 100 laundry workers. flW The collar stay liad been left unnoticed in a woman waist. whie^M nth hundreds of similar garments^ tod been plaped in the dry room in InN posemeat. The waist was liuug close , ^ o the super-heated pipes that lme^VI he room. Suddenly the celluloid n-i rioded and the room was in flaaiea. Aw Immigrants Pouring Into America. Washington, Special.?Com mission-sw r-ffeneral of Immigration Keefe baffl iade public a statement of the inuniZJ rant aliens admitted into the Unitetd tales during the fiscal year endecwj une 30 last, arranged according tAI acial characteristics. t The largest number from any onjM ountrv were natives of the south IT tnlv, of whom 19*2.073 were admiflfef ?d. in addition to 30,780 from Nort/lt rn Italy. ' 0M