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SOME LATE NEWS Happening of the Last Two or , Three Days. ALL OVER THE WORLD. ' Several People Hutned to Death? Family Hho tto l)entl>?liahy Kill* 1 < od by Tame Hear?Teddy to Take i the Stump?'Thousands Drowned in ' ladia by the Terrible Floods. < At IiirmltJ^iam, Ala., A. A. MrIxmahan, a negro, wan burned to 1 death and several others had narrow encapes when tire destroyed a build- ' i Ing Sunday. . J Thousands Drowned. . The latest reports from Hyderabad, i India, estimate tlie flood casualties at t>0,000. Order 1h being gradually restored and the bodies buried. Few flluropeaiis venture near the scene on account of the odors which the win i carries many-miles. A Maniac Uses Axe. At Johnson City, Teun., L. A. Bayless, a magistrate, early Sunday attacked his brother in law, Berney Bayless, while the latter was asleep (n bed at his home, and almost literally chopped his head off with an axe. He then attacked Bayless' wife, fatally wounding her. Turning the weapon upon his own wife who was In the house, ho -struck her several blows, inflicting probably fatal injuries. Teddy to Take Stump. That President Roosevelt fully Intends to take the stump In favor of the candidacy of Mr. Taft was the information receiver! ut Wnlrvlow Mum day from tho Kast. It wan said that the advicea came from persona on whom reliance could be placed, ami were to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt b=? planning to make at least six speeches in the course of a trip from the Atlantic to ihe Pacific, the concluding speech to be delivered at Sail Francisco with numerous short speeches enroute. Mr. Hryan, however, refused to make any comment on the subject. Killed by Auto. In an automobile plungo over a twenty-five foot embankment at . Gordon, Pa., Sunday Mrs. Peter Young, 3 4 years old, and her daugh- ( ter Helen, aged eight years, were instantly killed, and her husband, Peter Young, Sr., Peter Young, Jr., six ( years old, and Charles Clark, a nephew of the dead woman, all of Ashlaud, sustained fractured skulls and ( Internal injuries. The injured were removed to the state hospital and little hope is entertained for their recovery. The steering gear of the machine failed to work and is his eagerness to apply the emergency brake, Mr. Young, who was driving the machine, put on the power wnich caused the 2,500 pound car to veer and plunge over the embankment, trap ping tne victims beneath it. * , Shot by a Mob. I At. Hickman, 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 i result of a mob's visit to the Walker i home Sunday night. In addition, the i oldest son is missing and is suppised ( to have burned with 4he negro's cab- | 4n, which was tired b^the mob. Wnl- i ker had cursed a white woman and < threatened to kill a white man with i a pistol, it is said. When the mob of i about f?0 men ordered him to conio < from his house, he replied with a i shot. The toren was then applied to the house and as the occupants came ( out they were shot down. t Bear Killed an Infant. j A terrible tragedy wns enacted af 1 Elyslan Grove, a ploanure park near i Tuecon, Ariz., when an immense i black hear eacaped from a cage Sun- i day and charged a throng of visitor*. The animal, which )T>id been raised in f captivity from a cub, had boon in the c habit of drinking soda pop at. the bar < and when he escaped went there. Ho ( was driven away twice by the at- ( tendants, who attempted to drive it f into its cage. '1 he beast became enraged and charged the crowd. The t wife of a Southern Pacific employe, f Burr Baird, ran with a go-cart con- I tnining an infant. The bear pursued and snatched the infant and crusted it to death before its mother's! eyes. It. was attacking the wo- ( man when a shot from a policeman's i revolver stopped it. The bystanders | opened a fusilade and killed the boa.* 1 with a flcoro of bullets. The beast c had been closely confined since a 1 week ago when it attacked a small t boy. ^1 i SIB! SIZING UP TEDDY ROOSEVELT A SHAMEFUL DEMAGOGUE SAYS CHANCELI/OK DAY. Rockefeller's Champion Huys I>cRpnorncy Is Made Contemptible Ry Revelation of Glaring Inconsistency of (Thief 1 loos tor. That the Standard Oil Company remains under the venomous hatred j' President Roosevelt, for reasons best known on the inside, while the Jteel corporation, the greatest tru<t In America, receives his approbation and consent to increase its holdings, was the statement of Chancellor James Roseoo Day, of Syracuse University. The chancellor charges that not rtnly 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 demagogy. Most of Its high moralities far above trusts, which it considers the sum of all vllliany, are made contemptible by revelations of the glaring inconsistency of the chief booster. "For Senator Foraker to procure a loan for political friends who wish to purchase a paper fo rcontesting the election shocks Mr. Roosevelt. Hut 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? "It is a sign of political corruption for Senator Foraker to have correspondence with an oflleer of the Standard Oil Company, but only the direction and privilege of Mr. Roosevelt to call to Washington a 'practical' man, 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 receives his approbation and consent to increase its lioldngs. "A representative of predatory wealth is intimate counsel and i i 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 liV Tuilitlnnl nnnmlnu "The glass houses seom to he tracking with ominous sound . The Foraker-Archbold incident is shocking to hypocrites Hut 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 heir money or their lives. "Fortunately the culmination from the White House carry no conviction. So prejudiced, unfair and untrue are they. They are humiliating, not because they are from Mr. Roosevelt, but because they nre fomr the president. The otiico is disgraced, rile people are covered with shame. "The little postmasters are removed for engaging in politics. The most of the business of the presidential office Is devoted to a political campaign. Cabinets are called, Interviews are furnished, telephone and telegraph wires are kept hot, the fferical force is worked far Into the night?If the newspaper special correspondents are to he believed?and >ur square deal president Is chatlng it the bit to go ou the platform. "I know that no corporation resist >d this mulcting more successfully ban Standard Oil. "Charges against Mr. Foraker for jracticing as an attorney when in often is absurd The very Rulary paM J i senator proves that the copntry expects hirn to employ his spare time n some legitimate business. "The eye of the American people tro opened wide. They are not. all loceived. What they need is to er?rci.se themselves in tho judicial temframent. They are too easy stampHied by the frenzy of the mad reornier. "The American cltl/.en cannot reurn too soon to Constitutional gov>rnment and the re-lnforcement of Mjsinoss with his confidence." * Convicts Display lira very. A dispatch from Manilla says a doudburat struck the penal colony tt Iwahlg September 23 and eight persons were drowned, including Harold Macknlght, superintendent >f the farm. The prisoners behaved lerolcally, many plunged Into the vater at personal risk to save gCom adea. scribe f BLISTERS TEDDY I !. Halo of Integrity That Surrounded Roosevelt * "HAS FADED AWAY" Kays Haskell, Who Charges That r the President Granted Franchises ' 8 to Oil Company and Got I .urge Campaign Contributions in He- c turn for the Grant. 0 t 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' i 8 charges made against him. The let- . tor, in part, is as follows: . "The serious character of your I. charge against nie should have sug-| gested to you iiiat you. as Chief Executive, should proceed with de- ( liberation and certainty before makt 1 ing such hearsay statements your own declarations. ' "Your attacks on tno finally rested ( on my conduct toward the Pralrli . Oil and Gas Company in this State ' I have said that you were responsible for grant ing a franchise before j statehood, thereby creating vested rights. You seek to evade the issue I and create strong impressions. You said the interior department hadi! no power, except where crossing an ! Indian reservation. You would have ' your readers believe that the Indian 1 Territory was then conducting its ' own government and that only parts 1 of the same were Indian reservations 1 "Mr. ltoosevelt, you know it Is not 1 | true; you know all the land was Indian land without county, township ' or territorial government. What ' halo of integrity surrounded you las: ' week, like the mist has faded away ' and tin? interior department liold.j 1 the record which convicts you. "You granted the franchise at the ' solicitation of Senator I)epew, and 1 a few days thereafter received $260,- 1 000 in cash for your campaign fund. * "You charge me with having attempted to bribe the Attorney General of Ohio. That was presumably ' | nine years ago. You have abandoned that position. Charles P. Taft says 1 through Ills paper that no evidence was ever produced that would con- ' vict me of the charge "In touching on the State Unive I sity question, you pretended to quote 1 from the Outlook magazine, hut how 1 dishonestly you enlarged on the mag- f azino article. That article charge i 1 nie with substituting M)emoeratic for 1 1 Republican professors for political * ^uiijutiuo. i 11 itvi? Known mat HtHte- * ment to be false, but I charge you with trying to enlarge on that mag- ' azine article and give the world the 1 impresion that wo were improperly ' using the money appropriated to 1 conduct that institution. I "Your charge that I vetoed a child * labor law, you have not apalogized 1 for, notwithstanding you know that 1 I did it with the approval of union labor and that our State Constitu 1 tion which you said was 'so bad you * f opinion of it would not look well in 1 print,' contains more details and r child labor legislation than all you K have recommended to the New York 1 Legislature as Governor, or to th-3 a Congress of the United State as President, and that I bad approved t further Acts of our Legislature c passed at the solicitation of union 1 labor. I "You said in your first statement 1 that 1 had suits brought against m? i to recover title to Creek Indian land, ( I overwhelmed you on that state- v ment. Adopting your usual policy, 1? you floe from that statement without just apology and adopt the state- r ment now that it was Government t tfiurn ult/i !?? -* ?n> itjin iiiul you cnargen m?* n with being nuod for. Yes, I believe I am a defendant as to certain Government town site lota In v one of nearly 1 1,000 suits that you have y h>d brought against aa many dlff rent honorahrle and highiulnded littizens of this State during this Presidential campaign year, and yotj will not undertake to deny that pol- H Itlcs for the puropae of Republican- K Izlng about 20,000 Indian voters was " your sole motive for having those aulta brought, and I charge you with * knowing that there haa been no de- * lay in these cases, except that orcaslone<l by the Court's deliberations. ri taken by himself as time he doemou 8 necessary to consider whether or not j-' there is any merit in tho petition '' filed by your attorney. "You say that on that land ques tlon VOU will sec th?it T rrnt n ll in Court. Yob, sir, f will come to 11 your hearing. Call to your assls- h tance all the powor that your high * office commands, present cases in nnv form you like. I am ready to meet it and before Ita conclusion the people of America will be disgusted that a they ever elected you President of r the United States.' ' < j o row to a LOSS AND MISERY JAL'HKD HY l)HOl??HT IN 8KV- ^ KKAL STATKH. imokc From Forest Fires tuul l)u?t (irwtly KnduiiKer Health ami Serious Fpidemics Feared. With losses aggregating several ^ 11II1 ioti dollars from forest fires and leavy damage to crops and live tock the reported loss of a number if lives duo to fighting the timber onfiagrations, the enforced Idleness f thousands of workmen owing to he suspension of manufacturing istabllshmenta because of lack ol'K vator. the health authorities antici- H] lating a serious epidemic of con-!' ! agio us diseases and many small ! j treanis dried up and practically oh- " iterated, the drought of 1D08, whicn " las held western Pennsylvania, eas 1 \ <1 ern Ohio and WeHt Viriginia in its'. ;rasp for more than two months, I emains unbroken, each^day gradu- " illy increasing the seriousness of the,11 jnprecedented situation ; r Three times during the excessive!' lry spell there have been very slight j I ains, accompanied by much lightn-U' ng and thunder, but the rainfall was t \o slight that many persons were un \ iware of the fact and were only con- I irlnced that it had rained when shown t avidence of the fall on tin roofs. 1 Aside from the millions of feet v nf timber destroyed and the daily t loss to manufacturers and farmers, I probably the most serious phase of the situation is the threatened die- t ease epidemic. A majority of the population of western Pennsylvanic, t eastern Ohio and West Virginia are i even now suffering from throat af- t feet ion caused by the great accu- i in illation of dust and the heavy r clouds of smoke . In IMttsburg, Pa., used to smoke, the sun is almost t jbscured by smoke from forest tires s milos away, and those in the vlcin- 1 Ity of these fires ure experiencing 1 sreat sufTerlng. It Ih feared when I rain does come it will wash great ( imotinLs of filth into the already t stagnant, streams. The health au- r horlties have sounded warnings to t he public to boil all water used for 1 uimimi pui |)UHUH 1111(1 H.'iy UUII Oil IV 1 >y doing this can many deaths and t nuch sickness lio prevented. o Next in importance comes the en- c 'orced suspension of numerous indus c rles and the throwing out of emiloyment of thousands of workmen, c nany of whom had just returned to ? vork following the recent depre.i f don. While In the Pittsburg dis- s rlct the water supply is sufllcient e 0 carry on all liusiness, the low \ itago of the rivers has caused a con- r jest ion of much coal in this vacinjty. Eevery available barge and float n ias been loaded with coal and at t irosent, with almost 201,000,000 d nishels in tho Pittsburg harbor ,the c river coal mines have been com- i; jelled to shut down for the want of mipplng facilities. Trere are about c 1 a,000 miners employed In river d nines along the Monongahera valley. |i This great, fleet of coal vessels Is c or the supply of points in the West V ind South and the probabilities are li here will be a coal famine expo- t ienred esoeetn 11v in t>w? Nnftliumut ihould conditions prevent the ship- c nent of the coul before cold weather e iets in. j] In West Virginia lumber plants, n ;lass factories and iron mills, Jointed along the river, are closed on t iccount of the insufficient water, p n eastern Ohio the same conditions >revail and it is feared the great <1 ron and steel mills at Youngstown, >hio, employing over 20,000 men, r vill have to suspend operations 1111ess the drought is spts-dily broken. p In all sections of the dry zone >rayers are offered up dally and a hese prayers will continue until they re answered with rain. r< FAIRBANKS IS SCAHKI). n if raid tin* Deiuorrut* Will <'apt tire r< Ilia State of Indiuna. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., * ays because he believes there is a j reat danger of the state of Indiana ning up In the Democratic columns ^ his fall, Vice President Charles W. "ail-banks Friday evoniug rofusod to ive a definite promise to the local tenubllcan loaders to sneak at ?nv a Iles in this country. Mr. Fairbanks aid to Harry Diamond, secretary of ho Republican committee on meetiKs and speakers: "The situation in ruliana is so acute that I must hasten f oino and assist in the work of keepfig the state in the Republican colmn. We have a desperate fight on and. I cannot remain away from s, he State very long." p T Right llumcd to Deatti. ^ Right people were burned to death C nd several injured in a fire In a p rowded New Turk tuncmcnt house || u Sunday night. n THE R A 1RUST BOSS Collecting Funds For the National Republican Committee. 1 SHELDON'S RECORD Ir a Trunt Magnate, Assailed by Mack, the Chairman of the Nntl<?nm Democratic Committee, Will (to After Cromwell ami Other Actlvu Republican Trust Magnates. Following an attack of National 'hairman Mack Friday on the corporation . afllllntlons of (leer go U heldon, treasurer of the Republican atlonal committee, It was learned 'riday night that tho Democratic latlonal coinmittco Is preparing * > ssall the corporation connoctlouH of Vllliam Nelson Cromwell, member f the advisory committee of the lteinhlican national committee. Other members of the ltopuhltca 11 idvisory committee. It is understood, ire also to be investigated and repesentatlves of the Democratic com miiee jir? carefully Inquiring itit > ho tlnnneial records of tho Kopubii Jin committeemen. For several days he corporation records of Mr. Cromvoll have been under quiet invesigat ion, but whether the reprosonjitives of the Democaticr committee uive learned anything of Mr. Cromvell's tlnancial operntionH other than no companies with which ho id dentifled has not been mado known Mr. Mack made the following statement: "The trust and corporation atlillaions of George It. Sheiuon, troasirer of the Republican national comnittee ,for the pjist 10 years make nterestlng reading in view of the ecent develepments in the campaign. "I wish to recall in this connocion that, because of these very nslociationn of his. Governor Odoll in 1902 refused to permit the party eaders to put Mr. Sheldon In 110mnatlon for lieutenant governor. Jovernor Odell at that time declare 1 hat he could not accept the rolomination for head of the State i icket if Sheridon were named aa lis running mate. Rut while the lepubllcan party has refused to put ip Mr. Sheldon a name for a public tlice, It luis for the identical reasons if this refusal selected him for Its ampalgn fund collector. "This can not lie denied. Most if the corporations with which Mr. Jheldon is identified are capitalized or millions. How much of their took Is of the liquid varletv can b.? aisily ascertained. Yet Mr. Roos?relt has defended him, and his esignation was not demanded when dr. Dul'ont was invited to titap down ,nd out. Mr. lmPont was only Idonifled with one trust, whilo Mr. Shel!on is at the pnwont time intimately onnected with no less than 17 prom* nent financial concerns. "Mr. Sheldon is a director of that ompany. He is also treasurer and irector of the North American comiany, capitalized for $.10,000,000, a oncern known as the 'mystery of Vail Street.' It is but a few years ack since he was prominently idenifled with the 'whiskey trust.' A lance at his connection with various ompanies for the past 10 years will xplain tersely the reason of his iresent position. No further com lent of mine is necessary." The following are the corporations hat Sheldon are more closely eo iected with at this time: American Locomotive Company, irector. The Bethlehem Steel Company, dleetor. Cincinnati Northern Railway Comany, director. Peiroit Edison Company, director nd treasurer. Electrical Security Company, diL'ctor. i aim cue 11UK i?tght Company, aiector. Monte Car Works, director. Locomotive Security Company, disc! or. Metropolitan Trust Company, diiictor. Milwaukee Klcctric Hallway and ight Company, director. Milwaukee Light, Heat and Tracon Company, director. National Copper Hank, director. North American Company, tronarer and director. New Jersey Terminal Hock and ti prove merit Company, director. Republic Iron and Steel Company, I rector. St. Louis Transit Company, dlroc?r. Waylaid and Shot. A dispatch from K1 Paso, Texas, rys County Judge Brewster and ostmaster M. A. Krnst, of HouquillA, exas, were waylaid and shot on unday while on route from the! able house at Ernst's mines to the' ostofflce. Ernst uled on Tuesday. ; lis murderers have not been ar?sted. ORRV HI t GIRL WAS STOLEN AND I1KLD IN IIKAKT OP NRW YOIUC. M<wt Itvinurkohlo fuse of Kklaapping Brought to Idgtit I<a?t TTmrs(l?j I?y ! The most remarkable cane of kidnapping that has stirred New York for many years wan brought to light early Thursday, when I/enn Thorn, a pretty 16-year-old girl was rescued from a one-story house nf 4 7f> Hock way avenue, Rust New i ork She had been stolen when within 200 feet of her home six weeks ago. and has been a prlsono erver alnee. After she was attacked in tho woods near her home at Rockawny avenue and Jamaica road. Jamaica, reinalnj ing in this house t wo days, she waa taken to the Rockawny avenue hu?. Her own clothing had been taken away from her and she was forced to wear clothes that her captor porvided. Women living in the neight>orhwHl saw that she was always watched by a man, and noticing that her complexion 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 battt? that Raphael Suhho, 2<5 years old. who was found in the hut, was overpowered and taken prisoner. In his rage at discovery he tried to kill the girl, but was nrovniituH Captain Frank of the llrownsvllle station hoard of tho ease Wednesday and at onco put Detoctivo Caulfleld and Hurtou on it. Thoy watched and unw tho man go Into the place and thon, without knocking, hurst open the flimsy door. Stisso wiib standing near the girl and when ho saw the detectives he utterod a curse, grasping her by tho throat, swinging her around and hit her a hlow In the face. "I had boon to school on tho day that I was kidnapped," said the Kin, "and K<>t out before 4 o'clock in th<* afternoon. Some of the girls were going to a wood near where we lived to get flowers and I wont also to got some flowers to put on the dlnnor table. On my way hack, when within a few hundred feet of home, a man sprang out of tho woods, gral>bed mo by tne throat, and dragged me Into the hushes. Then he and another man carried me further back Into the woods and stuffed my mouth with rags. "They kept me there until late at night and thon one of them went nfter a wagon. I was tied in this and taken to Fast New York, Into a tonei mont Two women In this house I ~ ^ - kuuiut'u in*.- wiiiuj in*? men were away. The women took my clothes from me and threatened me." Suhho, after having his Injuries attended to was locked up In tho Brownsville station. The police arrested Annie Cairo, aged 30 years. Sho iH said by the police to be one of the women who held tho girl prisoner. Both she and Subho were arraign**! before Magistrate Vorheos in tho New Jersey avenue court. TitrKD TO ituinK inM. TCx-Benator Pcttigrew Tells Bryan of Attempt Mtuio in While traveling with W. J. Bryan from Sioux Kails to Mitchell, former Benator I'ettlgrew publicly announc*ed that four years ago he had been approached by 'ho Republican national committee, through a former United State Senator, with an offer of $10,000 if he would deliver ten speeches at such places as the committee would dictate In support of tlie candidacy of Thomas Watson, of (Jeorgia, the People'? party candidate for President. Senator Petti grow declared that he declined the offer and conducted an Investigation with the result that he satisfied himself that the Republican party financed In a largo measure Watson's cam* palgn. FOiritTKWN IIUSRANItt* Charged to Oim* Woman bj a Chicago Court. Charged with having fourteen husbands, admittedly the wife of five men, one of whom la declared to havo died under suspicious circumstances, Mrs. Marie Bolleyen, arrested at Chicago, after a fight between two of her husbands, has been heM by the grand jjury in bond of $5,000. Bigamy, the formal charge, was made by two men, John Whitfield, who says he married the woman elghr yearn ago, and Joseph Bolleyen, who married her in the county buildln* November 18, 1907 . Mrs. Itolleyep said she was married to 5 of the fourteen men, whom the police assert sht? wedded. ERALD