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VOLUME XII. CAM PEN, 8. P.. FRIDAY, OQTOB B R 2 SMWfc NO. 42. Latest news. BY WIRE. ' ?1'* War Meet *? Frlondu, Richmond, Va.? Captain W. rl ! Lauch, of Philadelphia, a veteran o (? junf, nift by chance Jn a crowded Hotel lobby Captain F. D. Christian, 1 ? pla^e, v/Rh whom In the bat m? of 0o)d Harbor ho '(ought a #word and pistol duel. They heartily greeted each other. l'Or Department of Labor, Washington, D. C.? The Executive ( o unci I of the American Federation of Labor authorized the preparation of a bill to be Introduced In Congress, creating a department of labor, head ?d liy a secretary who will ?(t in the Cabinet. l ake (Jrnin ItntJg flo Up. Duluth', Minn. ? Grain rate# have taken another advance and now are 2% cents from head of the lakes to lower lake porta. There la no indie** tlon of an advance of ore rates. Chaxe- Libelled Vessel. Washington, J). C.?Unlted States revenue cutters pursued a vessel in the open sea outside of Chesapeake Hay that bud been libelled and had bolted from the luirbor of Baltimore, M<!. A Negro I'reacbei1 Hanged. drove Hill, Ala.- Louis Balaanl. n. w?mo preacher, waa hanged here for the murder of a deputy sheriff. Train Breaks Almost Every Bone. New Castle, Del, ? Nathaniel Har ris, aged seventy years, colored, was struck by a south-bound express on the Delaware Railroad cut-off and almost instantly killed. Almost eY? ery bone was brokeu. I.nndis For China Post. Washington. 1). C.?' To. tho rapidly K rowing list of possible successors to diaries It Crane as Minister to China may be added former Representative Charles B. Lantlls, of Indiana. Form Anil-Divorce Compact. Albucrierfiue, N. M. ? James Bar dm and wife, Mrs. Fannie Van Riper Darden, of Now York City, will not. fiiUit out III court tho settlement of property rights because tho divorco \vf5 granted to her. Big l ire in Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio. ? Tho Dayton Com puting Scales Company, the Cooper Mf/dlfine Company and the Pasteur. Kiitc.fi Company were destroyed by breathe lo?S -'aRsregiiting 50,000. Bishop Lloyd Consecrated. Alexandria, V'a. ? Christ Church, where Ceorge Washington worshiped, was the i:r:ene of Uie consecration of t ho Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd aB Epis copal Bishop Coadjutor of Virginia. Bishop Tut tie, of Missouri, conduct ed the consecration. Bishop Doane, of Al b:\ny, preached the sermon. Boys Blown tQ 1'ieccs. ? San Jose, Cal. ? Three boys were blown to atoms by the explosion of 5 On &lant powder caps. The boys, whose fathers work for it mining company, were playing mine:*. took tho caps, and were trying to taiup one nf them Into a hole with a bowlder, BY CABLE, I' nil-banks Starts For India. Manila, P. I. ? Former Vice-Presi dent Fairbanks left here for Hong kong on his way to India. A Urge party bade him farewell at the pier. Danish Cabinet Re-signs. Copenhagen, Denmark. ? The cab inet, of which Count Holsteip-Ledri- j bord was premier, resigned following, a vote of the Chamber of .Deputies of want of confidence because of larjje budget deficit. 7 5? Congressman Ruckcr Recovered. Manila, I'. 1. ? Congressman A. W. Ttueker, of Colorado, who was recent ly stvifck by the boom of a sailboat, ? has recovered and left hero for Japan on his way home. ? y:'^ ? l\.rto llico's New (iovvrnor. San Juan, P. R. ? Acting Govornor T'.'fuge C. Ward rectl\ed word that Colonel O. H. Coltoiv who has been appointed successor to Governor Re yls->H. Post, will arrive here for In auguration in November. il >lf. Finn Shaken; 1 Killed. Catania, Sicily. ? Several strong: earth shocks were felt In this vicinity. On the slope of Mount Etna ten houses fell and one person was killed. Russians For Hawaiian Plantations. * Honolulu. Hawaii. ? The steamer f-:beria brought forty-eight Russian families, composed of 214 member*, ta work on tho sugar plantations. 1 Since the Japanese went on strike several months ago there has been a scarcity of laborers. Uomb Wrecks Munich Street. Mii^Jcb', Germany. A powerful bom,1) was exploded In the street here. The pavement nearby was torn up and neighboring buildings were con* siderabiy damaged. No person was Injured. Thero i3 no explanation of the incident. Confusion In Colombia. * Bogota, Colombia. ? The political situation continues confused. The House of Representatives has voted down a motion asking for the resig nation of the Cabinet. *r"' i, J'ostal Banking in Earopt. Berlin, Germany. ? The post oflk eials-of QfiJUPftn& . Austria-Hungary * and Switseriand met here to irrange L a system of postal cheek interchange Germany is successfully operating a Kg1 plan of making each postofflce a 'lrnnr^ h?nlf- ? i ? LT 2 - '** ?! SNOOTS HIS ACTRESS WIFE W. H, Short Angry at H*r Refusal to Return to Him. .'rK S. II? Then Commit* Ptifcidc In lu?ton (I>. C.) Ki?tlou*^-SUo ? Not Mortally Hurt. Washington. D. 0.? Mrr. William If. Short, a chorus girl, known to the ?tag* as gBvelyn Howard, was shot in the back threo times by bar husband e.a aba waa leaving a carriage at the Union Station. Short then, turned the revolver on himself and (ell at his wife's (eat with a bullet in his right temple. He died two hours later at the Casualty Hospital. Mr?. Short waa not mortally hurt. The shooting followed a aeriea of quarrels between the couple. The liusband waa a parbled convict from Sing Sing, where be served Ave years,. Recently he was, employed In New York City as a traveling salesman. When Short was sont to prison, hiB { wife, obliged to aupport herself, found employment as a chorus girl at tho Hippodrome and with a "Korty-flve Minutes From Broadway" company. When a parole was granted her hus band Mra. Short returned to live with him. She left him because of his al legedi cruelty and returned to tho stage; She Joined "The Motor Girl" company a few weeks* a go, and came to Washington with that company the week before. Short came to Washington and reg istered at a local hotel, where his wife waa staying, aa G. H. Reeves, of Brooklyn; N. Y. He endeavored to persuade his .wife to quit the stage and return to New York City with him. Mra. Short persisted that she "'] had won her right to her own inde pendence, and again refused. Accompanied by Miss Maude Cald well, another member of the com pany, she left the hotel fpr the sta tion. She vainly tried to elude her husband, but the latter followed, and told her he would plead with her -again to turn from the stage. When they reached the station Short ma'de his final entreaty, and when ho was again rebuffed the tragedy ensued. Mrs. Shoi't was formerly* Evelyn Lewis, of Jacksonville, Fla.', and mar ried Short, who is a native of Living ston, ' Ala., about seven years ago. They llvad in New York City, where he was employed as a bookkeeper In a bank, but toon after their marriage the man got into the clutches of tho law through alleged misappropriation of funds. " -1"4 ~ JUSTICES PUCK HAM HEAD. ? ?? ?? i- ' 1 Associate oil ?.V. S. {supreme Hench Since 1805, lie Was 71 Years Old. Albany, N. Y.? Rufus W. Peck-, ham, Associate Justice of the Su preme' Court, of the United States, died at "Coolmore," his summer resi dence, In the village of Altamont. Rufus William Peckham was born In Albany, November 183 8. He came of one of the oldest families in the State. In 18C9 Mr. Peckham was elected District Attorney of Albany, and con ducted several notable cases. While on the Appeals bench of New York he was appointed, in 189.">, by President Cleveland one of the Asso ciate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. WED, DIVORCED, HEWED. < Remarkable Record of Three Weeks In Tennesscean'N Life. 77. Memphis, Tenn.-? Married under the civil laws of Mississippi twenty one days ago, divorced under the Ten* : nessee code, owing to family objec tion, but reunited to his bride, ac cording to the rites of the C&ttflmc Church, a dispensation having been granted, is the three weeks' record established by Albert StuTla, the young heir to a vast Memphis estate, who (or several' years has attempted to marry Miss Minnie Ollenslayger, a Mississippi beauty, but who was un successful until he attained his ma jority. Sturla Is the son of a pioneer citi zen of Memphis. At tho ceremony here the bridegroom's relatives were absent. j . LOANS FOR LABORERS. Sweden Tukcs Steps to Stem Tide of Emigration. Stockholm, Sweden. ? rWlth a. view to stemming fhe tide of emigration which threatens to deplete the coun try of agricultural laborers, a national subscription has been started to ob tain. funds for loans to laborers le(t unemployed after the recent big striker ^ The loans are intended to enablo the purchase of small farms, and will be made repayable within ten years. The fund will be administered by the Antl-Emlgratlon 8ociety of Sweden. FARM FOR CONSUMPTIVES. Bishop McFaul Buys Farm For Free Sanitarium For Poor. Trenton, N. J. ? Bishop McFaul haa announced that he 'purchased the Cox (arm of 131 acres at Marshall's Cor ners, and In the spring would open there a sanitarium (or the cure o( the consumptive poor. ? He eatd everybody and anybody \rill be welcome long as they are UK While the nurses will be nuns/ and the administration Catholic, creed will not be a bar to admission to the place. ? Rebels Win in Nicaragua. General Chamorrb's forces defeat ed .1000 of President Zelaya's troops on the San Juan River. Nicaragua, killing and wounding 400 men; the rebAi? control, the entire Atlanta Coast, XT . . ' ' - I : -- - Japan Honors- Oewwodot* Perry. ,. The honorary commercial commis sioners of Japan visited the gcave or Commodore Matthew C. Perry, at "Newport, R. I., and placed a wreath thereon. RIIIM CRASH KILLS SR Southbound Passenger Train Runs Into a Freight on a Siding. ? - t v ICverHt W? 1'iwVr, of r,jrni?, nil <1 t?( I&4? It f lltoi ? MM (111 l(e>ult O! Aulo Accident. Richmond, Ind.-Six persons wers Allied In a wreck on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad near Colllnsvllle, Ohio, wh n ft south" hound passenger train inn Ir.to a freight train on an open biding. A relief train with medical aid wag stut from Richmond. The passenger train, which doea not itop at Colllnsvllle, was running, fifty miles an hour when '.he crash earn*. According to report?, the switch w&3 open and the passenger j ftnd freight trains struck head-on. The dead aro R. G. Wohb, Rich mond, fireman of passenger train; O, Oi Raines, Kokomo, mall clerk; Louis Marshall, Richmond, engineer of freight; J5. II. Hatfield, Greens fork, ind., mail clerk; Elmer Drown, Logansport, lud., epglueer of phhhuii ger train. None of 111? passengers were killed, hut several men Ir the xmoking car were Injured. Auto Kills Mmiufachirrr, Baltimore, nd. ? Everett W. Pecker, of the shoe manufacturing company of 13. W. Pecker & Co., Lynn, Mass., (tied at the University Hospital of Injuries received in an x automobile accident at Savage, Md. ? Mr. Pecker was with n party cotv elating of Mr. and Mrs. J." Louis Geough, Miss Ai.na Duker, v.n<i Pey ton Magrude.', a brother of Mrs. Geough. Their auto was speeding along the Washington, 1). t!., rpad at a tweuty-mllo clip about upon, when Mr. Magnuder turned the machine to avoid a collision with a mail wagon. The front wheels of the car struck an embankment and the machine turned over. Mr. and Mrs. Geough and Mr. Ma gruder Jumped in. Muic^hut MIkh Duker and Mr. Pecker were pinned beneath the car. Miss Duker wr.s taken out uninjured, but Mr. Pecker suffered internal injuries, f r^ra which he died. STATE SENATOR M'C.YRRKN DEID He Was n Leader in Drnoklyn Politics Kveti as a Youth. Brooklyn, N. Y. ? State Suiiatoi Patrick Henry McCr.vrsn died in St. Catherlne'e Hospital, Williamsburg, as the result of an operation for ap pemllcitis a week before. He was born In East Cambridge, Mass., In April. 1849, and hRd lived in Brooklyn since his eighth year. His pareota were poo.' and the eon was compelled to help earn the house hold expenses when ho .va~ fourteen years old. ? He was apprenticed to the Palmar Cooperage Company, which manufac tured sugar barrels, and which In after years became a subsidiary of the Sugar Trust. McCarren became Interested la politics before he at-" tained hin majority, and wJien bo came into hla rlglrt to vote he already had a big following of young Demo crats in tho old North Side of Will iamsburg. He was appointed to minor posi tions In several of the Bicjklyn de partments, and after a few years turned his attention to the Legisla ture, ADMITS POISONING OWN CANDY. "T-*:"* ? ? . ~ ' Mrs. Nanette Ij. Lillard Confesses JMot Against Wldojy, ^ St. Louis, Mo. ? Nanette L. LU'ard, Who accused Mrs. Maud Ridley, a widow, of giving her poisoned candy, confessed to the police the next day that she bought the candy and put the poison In It. She did so. she says, to turn Mrs. Ridley against her hus band, R. W. Lillard, a newspaper re porter. Mrs. Lillard's confession followed her Identification by a clerk wh.o sold lier the candy. As she admitted the poisoning plot was her own, Mrs. Lil lard fainted. . . Mrs. Ridley, who said she loved Lillard, was released on ball. Mrs. Lillard said sho has forgiven Mrs. Ridley. SKNATOR JOHNSON IHCllh His Death Leaves a Vacancy For Gov* erhor Bnrke, Democrat, to 1* ill. Fargo, N. D. ? United Stales Sena tor Martin N. Johnson (Republican), of this State, died from nn attack of acute nephritis, at his hotel in this city. HIb death leaves a vacancy to be filled by appointment by Governor Burke, a Democrat. Senator Johnson was fifty-nine years old. He was born on a farm in Racine County. W?s., and was a son of the Rev. Nelson John son, a native of Norway. Murderer Becomes Insane. Lester Felllcl, arrested In Nevt fork City for carrying a plbtoJ, proved to bo wanted on a charge of killing John Da Chapelle, a farmer living near Albany, lie hecafte In sane when told of the charge. Tariff Negotiations Willi France. M. Jusserand, -French Ambassador to (he United States, sailed from Ha vre for New York, prepared to take up tariff negotiations with the author ities at Washington, D. C. > Fells, Kills Mar. W. J. Kennedy, a hrlck mason, at Das Moines, Iowa, fell, alighting oft Carl HolmQulst. a wsser-hy, fifty -feet below. HolmqulBt s neck r/acj bro ken,. and he died wjthin a few min utes. Kennedy was seriously injured. ~ Customs inspector Confesses. ? - - George Brohm. a customs inspec tor, testified he had accepted a briba I formaklng false entries of cheese and ' fig lmportalion?i in New York City. LIBERAL MINISTRY SUCCEEDS IN SPAIN ??? m ? ? n ? i t ??? i . . ? Maura and Clericals Resign be* cause of Bitter Attacks. MOFET PREMIER SECOND TIME Powerful Opposition Refused to )>is cusl Kvcii I lie Most I oipuitant MeUttUITk ? Kfsi^itnl ioiiH i 'a ukciI I'proar hi Chamber of Deputies. Madrid, Spain. ^Tbe Spanish Cab inet, which was fornn'd January. 25, 1907, under (he PromitM'ship of Anto nlo Maura, resigned oh a result of the Miter attacks made against the Gov ernment by I he. farmer Premier Morel y PrendergsBt, representing a power* 1 u 1 opposition. At a conference wjtli King Alfonso Premier Maura (old (ho King that ia the faro of Senor Morel's statement (hat (hu opposition would refuse to discuss even the most urgent meas ures, he' had uo option hut to resign. He asked, however, the members of (he majority to support the new Mln Islry. Upon (he receipt of (he resignation of (lie Premier and hlx Ministers, Mo rel y Prt'hdergufcl undertook to form a new Ministry, himself assuming the post of Premier and Minister of the interior. The now Ministers. who took (he oalii of office, are as follows: ? Premier and Minister of the Inte rior- ? Morel y Prendergast. Minister of Foreign Affairs? Perez Cahallero. Minister of Finance ? Senor Alva rado. Minister of War ? Lleutenant-Gen erai De Luque. Minister of Marine? Rear-Admiral Conca*. Mlnlsler of Public Works ? Senor Clussel. Mlnlsler of Public Instruction ? Se nor Rarroso. Minister of Justice ? Martinez del Campo, When (he president of the Cham boj* of Deputies made the announce ment cf the Cabinet's resignation it was received with such an ear-spill-, ting uproar that ho was forced to ad journ the silling. PHo# (o (ho formation of Senor Maura's Cabinet In 1007 (here had been no Jess than live I.lberal Minis tries In eighteen months. The relig ious lssm* had been 'the rock on which these Mlnlslerles were wrecked, and the accession to power of Senor Man ia, who had held the Premiership be fore, was regarded as a sw?v?plng vic tory for (he Clerical/, and one i Ike fV lo arouse a 'revolutionary spirit. This proved lo lift (he cage, (he opposition finally uniting against Ihrt Govern ment's conduct and furtherance of the war In Morocco. The stern measures taken to put down Ihe'recfent anti-war demonstra tions In Spain (ended lo Inflame I be opposition, and (lie execution of Pro fessor Ferrer at Hnvcelona, followed by popular demonstrations (ft disap proval. brought matters (o a crisis. When Parliament reonened the Lib erals, Republicans and Socialists bit terly assailed (he .Govprnment, but the Cabinet showed a disposition to tight for Its life ana lost. The Cab inet 'resignations followed. TOW*? CilVKS WOMAN SUFFRAGK, Gluter, a Suburb of lUclimotuT, First Place III (be South lo Uo It. Richmond, Va. ? The people of filnter Park, the most fashionable and wealthiest suburb of Richmond,! have formally extended the suffrage ib"woitien. " ? r ~ At. a meeting of the Citizens* Asso ciation, llie governing body of the suburb, a constitution and by-lawa were adopted, oue provision of which is that. "all ?a|es and females, white and .over twenty-one years of age, owning property and living lu Glntei Park, and (subscribing to the constitu tion and by-lawa, have a right to vote." T J}e Richmond suburb is tho flrsl community in thQ South to take tbl? ftep. MIX AWARDED 11ALT/OOX CUl?. _ > Atr.eriran Officially Declared Winner in Contest in Switzerland. Zurich,. Switzerland. ? The Swlsa Aero Club Iirb officially declared F.d gar W, Mir, of Columbus, Ohio, the winner of tho Gordon Dennett Cup in the International balloon race which took place over two weeks ago. Mr. Mix was the only American entry, and ho piloted the halloofi America If. The official distance recorded was G9ti miles. Tho French balloon llo do France wag awarded .eccoud place, with 507 miles. The Aero Club pronounces the re ports that Mix landed in Bohemia uq< founded. LONGER I JFK IN HAY STATE. Three-Fourth* of (lie Deaths by Tu lierculosis CoaWl lie Prevented. Boston, Mass. ? In a document is sued by the Committee of One Hun* dred on Health, prepared by Profes sor Irving Fisher, it Is shown that life is lengthening fast in Massachusetts now, the gain being fourteen years in a century. Three-fourths of the tuberculosis could be prevented and fifteen years added to the average human life by preventing diseases, it is said. GENERAL, ELWKLTj 8. OTIS DEAD. Commanded I lie Philippine Forces '???" From iB9H 4o 1000. Rochester, N. _Y. ? Major-General PJlwell Stephen Otis, U. S. A., retired, died at ais home in this city. His ailment wrr diagnosed as tSDlle "d? bilitr combined with a severe cold nontrgkCed two weeks ago. v.. Frederick, Md. Ho served in the Civil War and the Hp?ii*istKAja4?f6M: War and was retired in March, 1902. Ha commanded the Philippine forces from August, 1898, to May, I W. AUTO KILLS USED WOMAN , Widow of Gardiner Hubbard, the Famous Gsographer. Automobile in Which Kh? Wmh Uhlinf \\hb N(ru?-k hy tt Ktrcet Cue ftUtl ' llor Skull Frnctui'oU. Washington, H. C. ? M r*. Gertrude M. Hubbard, tho venerable widow of Gardiner Hubbard, the distinguished scientist and geographer nud founder of the National Geographical Society, was Injured fatally when tho motor oar lu whioh who wan riding waa struck by an electric street car of the Capital Traction Company. The col lltflon occurred ut five minutes past 6 o'clock p. m., and Mrs. Hubbard died at the . Garfield Hospital at 8.80 o'clock. At the time of the tragedy Mrs. Hubbard's car was at Newcoinbe street and Connecticut avenue, ex tended, near her home, a flno estate known us Twin Oaks, situated In Wpodley lane. With her in the mo* t,or ear was her sister, Mrs. Charles Nash, of Morrlstown, N. .T. Mis. Hubbard'* car, which waa op erated by Alexander Nelson, her chauffeur, caino out of Newcombe street and turned into Connecticut avenuo directly in front of Capital Traetlon Company's car No. 13, which waa on Its way to Chevy Chase I,ake, The impact threw Mrs. Hub bard out of her vehicle. She struck on her head and sustained a fracturo of the skull. Mrs. Nash, utid the chauf four wero not injured. Mrs. Hubbard waa eighty-four year old. Sho wan the mother of Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, wife of the noted Inventor, and Mrs. Charles J. Bell, wife of his cousin, a prominent Washington hanker. Two of her granddaughters sre Mrs. P. HtuyVe sant Plllot, of Now York, and Mm. Julian Rlnley, of New York. In spite of her advanced years Mm Hubbard was a woman of remarkable activity, She took an Intense interest in Wash ington charities, and in addition to being connected with several charit able organizations relieved much dis tress In a quiet way. Mrs. Hubbard, who received a com fortable fortune from her husband, erected as a trlbut^ to hlB memory the' handsome GaTdluer Hubbard Memorial Hall at Sixteenth and M streets, which Is the ofndal homo of the National GeograplTlcaT" Ho'Clety. Mrs. Hubbard's maiden name was Gertrude M. McCurdy. Sho was tho daughter of Robert II. McCurdy, of Now York. Richard A. McCurdy, of Now York, former presi dent of tho Mutual Life Insuranco Company. Is her brother. MRS. PANKHURST AHHIVKM. Tho Most Militant Suffragette of Rng? land Helps American Cause. New York City. ? Mrs. ICmmellne Gould Pankhurst, England's most militant suffragette, who has served soverar terms In prison for her ad herence to "the cause," arrived lni| this port aboard tho Ocoanlc . from Liverpool. She was accompanied by Mrs. Pethlck Lawrence, treasurer of the WomaWs Social and Political Union, of which Mrs. Pankhurst was tho founder. American suffragettes greeted the leader and her disciple on the' pier. . Several hundred women, most of whom waved flags emblazoned with the words, "Votes For Women!" waited to extend a welcome to their English sister. They set up a wild cheering that but for Its shrillness mlgjit have been mistaken for tho rooting at a football game when tho 6llght form of Mrs. Pankhurst waa observed coming down the pier. BENJAMIN BARNES DBOPS DEAD, Washington Postmaster Strlckcn With. Heart Failure, Washington, D. C. ? While sitting with his father-in-law, Jacob Freeh, at the home of the latter, and with tho remark that he "was feeling fine" scarcely off his lips, Benjamin F. Barnes, postmaster of this city, and who servod first as executive clerk under President McKinley and later as assistant secretary to President Roosevelt, dropped dead of heart failure. Jdr. Freeh asked Mr. Barnes a question, but received no response. Looking up, ho saw Mr. Barnes with his head bent forward. Mr. Barnes had been in particular ly good humor over the fact that he had been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. <-? ? ? BLIND NEGRO SENTENCED. Re Killed Two Men hi a Brawl ? Got, . Forty Years. Paterson, N. J. ? Sentence of forty years in prison for the murder of two men, one of them his best friend, was imposed an William .Fason, a negro, who Is stone blind. The story of the prisoner's misfortunes Is one of the most remarkable that has come to the notice of a court in this State. Lack ing eyesight, Fason got into a bar room brawl because he wanted a drink. In the shooting that followed he killed Robert Ferguson, the man who, as his closest friend, had guided his steps into the drinking place. An other bullet hit George Hummell, a white man, whom Fason did not know, and caused his death. Prcrifer Maura Reprimanded. ?King Alfonso reprimanded Prsmlei Maura, at Madrid, Spain, for not giv ing him an opportunity to extend clemency to Ferrer. Convicted of Killing Children. Theodore Rlsxo, charged -wHh-tfce murder of Theresa Procopio and Fred die Infusino and wounding Fannie In fuslno, all young children. ?was ror ricted of murder in the first degree at Utics, N. Y. Boston Observes "Apple Day," recognised as an an nual fixture, was observed in R09J0.1 by the opening of a New England fruit show, in wjfKK the APPtfTHRa the predominating product displayed. SUBJECT OF DEEP WATERWAYS President Talt and Other? Tacklo the Knotty Problem? If it is Best to Issue Bonds and Do It. Hi. Louis, Kpeeiul.? ^Vat^r im provement uti u part of a ituliunal policy of conservation of I ho streams, tin* lauds adjoiuing ( hem and (lie for* esla ut their ?ou Ht'* Monday was (lie theme of two notable ' gatherings \ \ St. Louis and in Kasl Si, I^ouis, III., iu which Prescient Tatt, Joseph U, Cannon, Speaker of I he national House of Mepresentativo*,, ami (lov? ernors Ueneeu of llliuoi* and lladley of Missouri took lending parts. Cabinet iremlert, Culled States Senators and Representatives and minister* from foreign governments listened' to (lie ^>eeches at one or hi>th of the meetings. Added to these were Slate and municipal officers of all degrees, and dose to KM), 000 citi zens who had Hoiked to (lie two oitiea' to nee and hear their superior olllcers. While ihe President's utterance on waterway, improvement wait not ho far rea< hiug regarding the creation of Ihe 14- foot channel ax those of l'res ident Kooscvtli un a similar oeasion and therefore not entirely cheering to the advocates of an immediate com rnen<emcut- of the vvcrk; yet the i'uet that' Speaker Cannon unqualifiedly endorsed the Chief Kxecutivc's aland ?regarding bond issues for such pro jects, gave these saiue advocates en (ourngemeul. The general good wan Ihe lest which the President prescrib ed for Ihe undertaking of ambitious works. "Let ns take up each project on its merits, " he said, "and determine by all means at our command whether the country in which that project in to he carried out is so far developed as to justify the expenditure of such a lariro ..sum of money and whether the project will he useful when done. ? "When you have determined that, on the general principle of good to the entire country, then 1 am in favor of doing that work as rapidly as it can he done, and I am in favor of is suing bonds to do it." Mr 8 Haye3' Anhea to Their Final Resting Place. Colorado Springs, Colo., Special. ? Kvtremu simplicity marked the de parture of the uslies of Mrs. Mar garet llowell Jefferson Davis Hayes, the daughter of (lie Confederacy, for their final resting place at Richmond, Va. The ashes were removed Monday; ] livening from Evergreen cemetery where they have been resting since the funeral services here and were taken to Richmond, leaving over the Rock Island at 0:40 o'clock. The party went by way of Chicago, reaching Richmond Thursday after* noon at .1l o'clock. The party con sists of Mr. J. Addison Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Webb and Mias Lucy Ilayes, and they will be joined at Richmond by Jefferson Hayes Davis, who is in New York. Mrs. Hayes died Sunday, .July 18. Brief funeral services were held here the following Wednesday, leaving the exercises to take place at Richmond. - . ? - ? ? i n >i , > Confesses He Killed the >%oman Whose Bleached Bones Are Found. New York, Special. ? A yeai? and a half ago a friendless girl was murder ed in a forsaken patch of woodland near lslip, Long Island; a week ago her bleached and charred skeleton was found, with nothing to indicate its idontity but her jewelry and a bill of sale from a German shop; three days later through the police of Ham burg, Germany, her identity was es tablished as Anna Luther, though tho cables first carried the name at Lat ter, Sunday iftght her husband, Fred erick Gubhardt, who had married her under the name of Otto Mueller, was caught in Astoria, L. I., by a photor grapher's flashlight, and he confessed over his signature that the is her slayer. Ice Trust Being Prosecuted. New York, Special. ? The thor oughness with which the American Ice Company on triaL.for attempted restraint of trade is alleged to have gobbled up independent competitors, was shown Monday by Deputy State Attorney General Osborne, who read a list of the business purchases by I. 0. Blake, at one time a branch mail* ager of the company. 1 ? c \ Liberals Opposed to the llf, Madrid, By Cable. ? Lieutenant General de I^eqoue, minister of war irt the new Liberal Cabinet? in an interv view confirmed the report that the government had decided not to push further the MorftccSn campaign. He said that if the Literals had b^en in power before they would have avoid ed the bloody and costly war, and that henceforth the objeet of the gov* eminent would t'e.lo guarantee the safety of Melilla by the system of fortified positions which were already occnpied. Female College Close). ? Athens, Ala., Special.WThe Ath ens Female College, ? Methodiat in stitution, was closed Monday, follow* ing1 the affliction of a large per cent ' of the student body with a malady I whieh has batted the physicians. Al- ' [ though mr fatalities hare oeurre*, ! M COTTON H*S ANOIHEB EfftVIY Antbracnose a Fingui in 8e?d That U Destroying Milliouj of Value in tho Crop. Columbia, S|K?< iuI. ?? Sturi in it* nature ami of vital importance i* tho announcement tliat to:?jeh I'rom Clow* sou College to the effect Unit tho cot? ton authraruose is causing u loss to tho st at <> of nearly $^000,000 auu4r ally. More *t art liiig anil i - the stajkv ment that the disease i* spreading rapidly and that many of Ihe farmer* of tho State, in nil sections, are losing from one-fourth to one-half of their <rops. The amionmcweut tome in the na ture of a letter from II. W, Karre, th$ botanist at Clemsou, to Coinmissionei WaUou, who wade a requext fur a re port on the investigation of the cot ton antbracnose while on a recent vis it to the institution. During the past year the experi ment station at riemson has made a thorough and exhaustive study of tin* ravages of the authracnono and liavo collected data of u conclusive and convincing nature which shows that something must he dono to Check it and must he done at once. "In the majority of cases, M nay* the latter, "the original infection cap bo traced to seed of some, so-called improved variety" purchased from need bonnes or individual cotton - breeders. In a number of cases an tbracnose ban appeared this year where cotton has not been planted be fore. The seed which were used in planting the flcids, when they could be obtained, were found to contain the antbracnose fungus. Wo have in thiri way traced a large number of eases of antbracnose to various Bee'l houses. ". The estimated annual loss in Geor gia from antbracnose is estimated at $14,f>0<),000. "The remedy," states the report, "of course must be in the form of a preventive. The seed are aeting as a distributing agent. This wo are pre paring to do and by co-operating with the various other agricultural inter ests of the Ktate, we hope that somo plan can bo perfected which will ac complish this.- First then we must in duce the farmer to secure clean or disease free seed." Fine Yield of Corn. Aiken, Special. ? Recently J. A. Shuler, one of Aiken county's fore most formers, harvested three acre* of i lie finest corn ovor grown here-, about*, nncl perhaps the equal of any |grown in the State. The three acres netted 348 1-2 bndhels. an ttVerfcge of 110. 1-8 bushels to the acre. In ad dition to the corn harvested, 1 ,800 bundled of fodder were st ripped from the field, averaging 2 l'-2 pounds each. The land upon which this remarkable yield was gathered is not extraordi- J nary laud but average rich upland, and Mr| Bhuler ascribes the magniA cent yield to the mode oil! cultivation and fertilisation, exclusively. Similar land last year mgde a yield of about 25 bushels per acre. Mr. Shuler is so enthusiastic over the field this year that he inteds to carry out the prin ciple on a wider Bcale next year, and ]>erhaps -plant the entire com crop, using the same methods and fertlijser. The land is now planted in peMg*|0td a yield of about 20 bushels is expect ed. The pea crop was considerably cut off by dry weather. Anderson Will" Pay f 800 For Earle Street Property. Anderson, Special ? The case of t lie city. vs. B. P. Mauldin and P.-G. Brown, involving the atrip of land 'oil Earle street in what is intended to bo the extension of Peoples street, wilt not be tried at this term- of the court. An agreement has been reached be tween the eity and the present bold erg of the property, fixing the value of it at. $800. The city will take pos session at once, and the Peoples street bridge over the railroad will now be pushed: tO COmpletion without delay. Bingham and Avant Guilty of Homi cide. Charleston, Special. ? " Guilty of manslaughter" read the verdict re turned at 4:15 o'clock Friday after noon at Georgetown, R. <\, in the trial of Dr. G. C. Bigliam and A. "B. A van!, charged with the killing of the young wife of. Dr. Bingham at Murrells in let, onthe evening of September 4. A motion for a new trial was overruled and the judge sentenced the defend ants to a term of three and a half yean at hard labor in the peniten tiary. The prisoners were admitted to bail in the sum of #1,$00 pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. L 7 - Won Blue Ribbons. Lexington, Special. ? Magistrate Thos. L. Herman returned from Bateaburg Friday night',' where he has been exhibiting t\is fine thoiVmghbrcd horses at the Tri-County fair. lie brought back many blue ribbons, win ning a number of prizes. Mr. Har man has ? pair of country-raised 3 year-old colts that are said to be ait One as there are in the country.' He expects to exhibit these at the c$pnty fair here next wqek. gtty ?? Negro Children Burned. V^fifberry, 8pee?il^-two eUWred of Belton Denebo, colored, living on Mr. J no. M. Suber's plantation in Nov ;f 1 ,r : ""r -iu ? m '