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DIED IN FIRE Forest fires Cause.A*ful Disaster in Michigan. SICKENING SCENES Ilotiof Train QuTfing Terrified In* babiUntt of a Little Vill^ Attempts to llun finundd of I'MauiPS Only to be Ditchrrl, Fifteen People loosing Their 1 lives. A dispatch from Alfona, Mich , says fifteen people lost their lives Thursday night in the burning of I tho Detroit and Mackinac Railway relief train, which was carrying tlu inhabitants of tho littlo village >f Metr., 2.1 miles north of here, to safety from tho forest tires which \sc ? sweeping away their homes. Tfco ill-fated train was ditched by spreading rail at No wick i Hiding, south of Met/, and the lei rilled refugees were forced to abandon tho cars and rush for safety either down tho track with burning forests on either sldo or Into the ploughed holds near tho siding. Klevcn of the victims were women and children, who wore unable to escape quickly enough from a gondola ear. Their charred bodies wer found there Friday when rescuers reached the scene. Two of the me i victims were members of the tram crew. Four additional fatuities occurred In tho neighborhood Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wagner died from bent and exhaustion on their form near tho scone, and Mr. and Mrs Fred Now!eld, lost their lives in their burning house near the siding. Whon tho forest llres closed n Thursday about tho little village n special train of three empty box cars and two coal gondolas was rushed to MMz, and as rapidly as possible people and their goods were loaded *<tnto tho ears. Some refub/>i/| t f\ n Kun/l/tn !%<* ? rr/\/\/lu "? train might have loft earlier. When the train finally started there wore nhout 100 frightened people aboard. The flames were already sweeping through tho village. Nearlng Nowickl crossing Engineer Foster saw (dazing piles of cedar ties on both sides of the track.. Opening the throttle, ho tried to dash through at ftill speed, but the heat had caused the rails to spread and the train left the track Blazing piles of ties Hurrodundod it and in an Instant the cars caught 11 ro . The terrorstricken peoplo jumped from the curs are rushed down the traek. Three mothers and their little ones were not quick enough. They were cremated in the car. Brakeman Barrett sprang into the water tank Ixdilnd the engine, only to be literally boiled to death as the , flames swept over it. Engineer Foster and Conductor Kinvillo tied down the track through the fir-: and smoke, and were the first, ty reach tho village of Posen and report the wreck and ask for assistance. Behind them staggered a burned and wounded procession yf refugees. It was a fearful march over the hot ties, with tho (lames and burning woods on either side of the track roaring and snapping In their faces. Engineer Foster was terribly burned about the head and face, hut it in thought that ho will survive. Many of the refugees are Buffering painful burus. The survivors of the frightful experience seemed dazed by their peril nnd sufferings and wore unable to give any coherent statement as to whether anybody was left behind in Aagts. It will probably be a week or more before It is known definitely how many peopio perished in the village of Mete. When the relief train left Metz it carried all the inhabitants of the village except George Cicero, the station agent, who stayed to handle the railroad wire and escaped through ploughed fields only to find his wife and three children cremated in the wreck of the relief train. A. fourth child, a boy, about ; 11 years old, had jumped from the burning car and escaped with but Blight injuries. Hvery report received Friday niguc from the fire-swept country to the north of this citv increases the extent and gravity of the ftre nit nation, and ! the death Hat which started Friday J with the cremating of fifteen people In the Metz relief train, is steadily , growing^ Presque Isle and Cheboygan counties are all flames, and the \ 75'miles between this city and Cheboygan Is reported to be almost a 1 solid mass of Are. Alpena County i<; , ablaze in every direction. Reports i of fatllltlea are coming from many ' places. From Metz Township Friday night the cremation was reported o( I Henry Kemps, his wife and two children In their farm house. I Holton, South Rogers and Metz a;'o | among the destroyed villages. La i Kouque Is threatened tonight. Oti'y i the cnurch la left at the village of | Oathro, and It ia crowded with ref- i ugees, n * j A strip twenty miles wide from < Hubbard Lake to the Au Sable River, I In Alcona County, is turning. More i than fifty farmers are reported to- 1 ALItNS isullTrt ___________ i DKI'AIITMKNT OF COMMKllOIC AND LAllOH TAKKS UP WOHK. d ( Will Aiwlst lNx>plo of South Carolina to (Jot the Help Th?7 Nj'cd In Various IJiM'd of Industry. Tho bureau of Information, of the Department of Commerce niul I.abor. has undertaken the mutter of distributing aliens In several States of the South, as will l>o seen by communleatiuaH sent to the various State ofllcers Interested In Immigration. The division of Information was created by Congress for tho purpose of promoting the distribution of admitted aliens and other pesous seeking employment. It Is directed that tho satno measure of attention be given to the work of the dhision of Information as i.j accorded other immigration work. In carrying out this plan Secretary Strauss lets directed that one employee be detailed to take charge of information and dlstrihu' Ion work at each immigration sta ion, who will receive and distribute documents and send to the division of information a comprehensive record of all applications for Inl'ormn' ion and those who are directed to employment. Tho bureau of Information todnv also started the big task of getting in touch with farmers, manufacturers and all other persons throughout tho South to learn at first hand if they aro in need of help, par icnlarly farm laborers, common Ian uirr?, llll.TllilUU'H, ('! r? "inIS WOTK ? alone will requlro the Bonding out (] of 800,000 return postal curds for | distribution by rural delivery car- (] Hers in the States of Virginia, West ^ Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Coorala. Alabama, Mississippi and other States in the South. On the cards that are ro urned will bo indicated tho kind of labor needed, tho burouu of inforTnation will then assist in securing the kind of help wanted. Up to tliis time work of this (1 kind lias been mainly carried on in J the Northwestern States, but Sccrc- 1 tory Strauss said that from now * on considoratite attention will lie do- 1 voted to tho States named and that if they do not succeed in securing ' tho kind of help they require it will v not bo tho fault of his department! ^ At nn early date the officials who is to be sent to Charleston will 1 o H named b\* Secretary Strauss. As at- , ready stated, it will be his duty to ' assist tho people of South Carolina as the representative of the governmeal, to find the kind of help they want. He will also co-operate in he closest way with Commissioner Watson concerning the different aliases of the immigration question, H and no doubt much good will come im a result of the new plans. * ' NIOCIiOKS LAUl) l OKAKCU. riirir I'itsn ('on vent Ions Ihsdure llini \ to lt<' a Martyr. !J Tho meeting or tho negro pre.** convention In Pittsburg, Pa., Inst y > week carried to that eit.y over one ,, hundred of the leading negro editor? i >f the liastorn, Middle and Southern 1 hates. In a declaration of principles and i set of resolutions adopted Thursday Senator Foraker and Governor Deteen, of Illinois, ay landed, while ho administration of President toosevelt and tho attittide of Candi- f late William 11. Taft are censured. " Tho declaration of principle- i trnong other things states: I "Wo hold In kind memory our h; rlend from Phillips and Lovejoy to i] .Incoln and Grant and the other?, >1 nit the one who stands today for I >ur cause as a champion and martyr r s Joseph Ronson Foraker, of Ohio, q vho, in tho face of public opinion had dared to uphold the principles *| >f right and not party; whose politi- v al future Is jeopardized by his own r >arty for being on our side and Ilgh . hi lug to sustain truth and Justice." Vi The resolutions say: hi "We call upon tho negro voters ;( if Ohio to first support Hon. Jo-?. Benson Foraker, our champion, fnre-electlon to tho United States f senate and over afterward to anv to position to which he aspires. \s ,,, we call upon the negro voters of th" u country who have a spark of manhood left to show their disapproval tn >f tho present iucumoent of tho | White lion ho, who will l?o virtuallv f( ho power t)ehlnd tlie throne if Taft p, a elected." * night to have been swept hy tho lire.- n) oday, and their I)uilding8 destroyed. I*1 Sixty passengers on a south-bound al Detroit and Mackinac Railroad train. tr which left Cheboygan last night for (his city, spent a night of horror n? 1,1 I .a Roque. Flames surrodunded the 'rain and huddled in their cars, t.ha terrified passengers spent the night In momentary expectation that the th rain would he consumed. It was p} raved, however, and the passengers w 'amo on to Alpena this afternoon, Sa togers City was threatened this after- ||j ftoon, but it is now hoped that the be own can be SAved. ,n, 0 OHIO POll Hit VAN. 'ho l<abor Vote Will Go for Hlui largely. Walter Wellraan, staff corrosponlont of the Chicago Record-Herald Republican), In a letter to that taper from Cincinnati, says: Outaide Ohio tho impression pre*?11h that Seuator Foraker's attl- j udo is the decisive element in this' Itate, but, aa u matter of fact, while >f some Importance, it cuts a very mall figure relative to other phases >f the problem. The big thing is ho labor revolt, the Go wipers plot o defeat Taft, the opposition 10 Taft >u account of his injunction decisons on tho bench, the general endeney of tho work people, whether trades unionists or not, to go for Irynn, to vote for "a change." One tears of it wherever he goes. ReMibllcauH its well ns Democrats dis-, 'uhh it in Cleveland, in Columbus, n Cincinnati. Every man I have talked with in )hio has spoken of it. Every po'l >r straw vote taken in a shop ?>r actory shows heavy Bryan gains. Vlion tho inotnbera of the Republi* an State central and executive comnltteo met ?t Columbus a few days igo, tlioy talked of little else. It vas given out that every member present was contldont of carrying lie State, but 1 hnonen to Unou/ itatemcnt requires important cmnlilcntion, and tho (jualifloalion is?1 'provided wo can get the labor vot* , n good shape." Roosevelt's 2 55,000 plurality of our years ago looks like a mounain in Bryan's path. But in in> j udginont there Is enough uncer-j alnty about the labor vote and other dements to warrant the clnssinoaion of Ohio as one of the most loubhful States in the Union, tending toward Bryan on present conlitions. but toward Taft on tradition, ilstory and Inertia. * SMALL'S SLAVHit HANGED. i Ibirnwell iUnitlrv hri'cnrd Death to Life Sentence. Friday at eight minutes after 12 >'clock for the tirst time in twelve ears Barnwell county witnessed a egal hanging. Elliott Green, alias lob Green, a negro, paid the death uuialty for tho foul murder of )liver Smalls, another negro, on the dace of Herman n-own, near Blacklllo, last eeoruary. The story of Boon's crime for which he has pai l he doath penalty as told by himelf to the correspondent of Tho x'ows and Courier a few hours heore execution, is as follows: "Some time last s'pHiiK. while mug in WilllBtOD, I went up r.o | Muckvilio. I found Oliver Small the dead man) and went with him o his house on the place of the frown's, near Blackville. There I aw Ed Furgorson and Cliff Moseley. did not know them before. We ilayed cards, and I lost all my money .ad pawned by pistol to Oliver Snia.l i or three dollars. When we stopped ' laying I naked him for j?y pistol, I nd when ho did not give it to me hit him In the head with a piece f iron. I then set the house on lire. I 'here was no one there but me and ' im. The others had pone. I d'.d ot put kerosene on him and put Im over the wood box. I left him n the tloor by the fire, and set ho house on lire. I set the bed on re that set the house." * SAYS CHAItCRS ARK TRI E. [enley Heard High Olllclal Say Koefe Will net Job. The national Democratic commit- j ?e has issued a statement quoting i imothy Hoaley, president of Sta- i onary Firemen, as authority for 1 10 allegation that Daniel J. Keefs 1 ad been promised by the president [ipointment as commissioner gen- . ral of immigration in return for lat labor leader's support of Taft. ] he national committee quotes Mr. emey in pari us roiiowe: I "I was in Washington Wednesday < f last week on a matter dealing) ith our organization which brought ' io in contact with an official of !gh standing in the government serco . Ho Baid to mo: 'Dan Keefe IB l)oen Holected for coinmiBBioner ] jneral of immigration.' " 'Is that so,' I said. ' " 'Yob, the Job is his,' he replied, asked him how he knew and he id mo that his informant wa? a i ember of the president's cabinet id knew what he was talking about. J "This information was not given i me In a confidential manner, but will not give my informant's name, r it is plnin to see what would hapm to him If his name came out. "TllPrn la nAt nnu " . ..x,. vy ? U llt/V (III,? IIWII III 111 IIIV Ind bu tthat (ho Btatoment that tho ronldont offered Koefe the position id that Keefo agreed to accept r no. Perhaps the offer was not made t the conference on Octobor 2 last , ut I believe it haa boon made." Would Cause Panic. Tn a apeeeh Mr. Hryan Raid that io Republicans were threatening i inlc in case of his election. "There ] III lie a panic in one family," he id, "and that will lie the Taft famf, for Mr. Taft's Federal salary will ] i withdrawn for the first time in ore than 20 years," j POST CARD VOTE. OF NKW YORK WOULD SHOW LAItOK DKMOCItATIO GAINS. Similar Chung** in All the State* Would Sweep llryan Into the White I llouue on a Democratic Tidal Wave. The New York World last Sun* i day morning pul4Jshed a forecast of the presidential election. that should carry comfort to overy I>em* | ocrat who reads and carefully weighs its details. The World does not pre-, diet Rryun's election, hut the result of its postal card poll Is on eucour-j aging sign?the most encouraging prospect the Democrats have had since 1892, when Grover Clevelan 1 was elected. The fairness and Impartiality of ante-election polls of the New Yor< World are never questioned, and they are Just as complete an It Is possible to make them. And this particular poll shows a plurality in Now Yoik State of only 10,000 vote;*, for Tat't, ta5 Republican nominee. Fifteen thousand votes plurality for Taft, as against 17r?,000 votes plurality for Roosevelt four years ago.! The canvas was made by sending out thlrty-ilve thousand postal cards to voters in the live boroughs of Greater Now Turk. They wore asked to indicate their preference for president, and to state the name of the candidate for whom they voted four years ago. The return cards brought replies from 8,9 12 voters, who voted as ioiiowh i 11 11)01: Roosevelt 5.4 3.1, Parker 2,4 13 I )ebs 2 03 New votes 862 Including tho now vote tho d?strlbiitlon ol' tho indicated voto is as follows: For Tuft, 4,909, as follows: From Roosevelt 4,024 From Parker 5 2 0 From I)ebH 1') New votes 415 Total 4,969 For Hryan, 3,112, as follows: From Roosevelt 1.032 From Parker 1.692 From Debs 3 0 New votes 353 Total 3,112 For I)ebs, 337, us follows: From Roosevelt 13 0 From Parker 3 9 From Debs . . . 13 4 Now votes 3 4 Total 337 For Illsgen, 4 95 votes, as follows: From Roosevelt *24 2 From Parker 162 From Debs 31 New votes 6(J Total 4 9 5 n taken us representative oflf.lngt.ho Taking these returns. The World's election experts, men who have been estimating election results with remarkable accuracy for many years, make tho following deductions: Fstimates of tho presidential vote in Greater New York in 1908, basod on the vote of 1 904?an estimated inert-use c?r ;>o,ouu in 1 908, or a total vote of 090,000, under application of the changes as between the respective parties on a percentage basis, calculated from ,actual declarations of 8,9111 voters, as per figures given above. 8,651 declarations received are herein taken as representative of the 640,000 vote of 1904. 862 declarations received are herein taken as reprosontative of the 00,000 increase in 1908. 8,918 declarations recolved are herein taken as represntativo of 690,900 estimated vote of 1908. Koosevelt's vote In Greater New York in 1904 289,009 Net loss of Taft?10.92 per cent of total vote of 640,000 69,888 [Jain of 4 8,15 per cent of estimated Increase of 50,000 24,0 75 Taft's Indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of dec ui unions una cnanges . . .2 43,187 Parkor'B voto In Greater Now York in 1904 327,000 1 Total gain of Bryan?3.30 per cont of total vote of 640,000 27,620 L'ain of Bryan?40.96 per cont of estimated increase of 60,000 20,476 Bryan's indicated voto of 1908, calculated on basis of declarations and changes 374,996 Debs' voto in Greater New York in 1 904 24,000 Net gain of Doha ( 1908) ? 1.22 per cent of total bote of 0 4 0,000 78,008 (lain of 3.94 per cent of es-tl mated Increase of 50,000 1,970 Debs' Indicated vote of 1908, calculated on basis of doc laratlons and changes . . 83,778 Hlsgen's vote in 1908 (no Independence party In 1904) 41s gains?5.40 per cent of total vote of 640,000.... 34,550 lis gains?6.95 por cont of estimated increase of 50,000 3.480 Hlsgen's indicated vote of iy08, calculated on basis of declarations and changes 38.040 Total estimated 1908 vote of Greater New York for presidential candidates .. ..690,000 Bryan's indicated plurality in Greater New York .... 13 1,808 i'p Htute Kstimates. "The up-state estimates sent In by the World correspondents are those of the leaders of the two parties and not of the World. They reflect the conditions as viewed by those lenders three weeks before election, presenting the ilrst outline of the work of forming the lines of battle. The condition that exist today may be materially changed during the three weeks remaining of the campaign, and the figures may be revised in many instances that cannot now be anticipated. The registration of voters has Just begui ir up-state counties. "The totals of the majorities in tno fifty-seven counties above tin1 Bronx show estimated majorities in G2 of them for ..ughos aggregating 113.0G0 and majorities in the other three for Chanter aggregating 2.900. in the same counties two years ago Governor Hughes received majorities aggregating 1 35,342 and Mr. Hearst 377. According to the stjmates presented by the World today Governor Hughes will lose above the Bronx 22,292 votes and Mr. Chanler will gain over Hearst 2,528. "The estimates show even more I marked changes in the presidential situation. Four years ago 55 of the I same 57 counties gave Mr. Roosevelt majorities aggregating 213,I 495. and I'arker of 338. The counties covered in the table printed show majorities for Taft aggregating j 1 48,500, and t'or Mr. Rryan of 2,| 900. So that according to the estimates, Mr. Taft will lose, if present conditions continue, 64,995 and Mr. llrynn will gain 1,062. The estlmates show that while Mr. Taft will not hold all of the Roosevelt vote of four years ago, ho will command at least 65 per cent of it. "The reductions noted in the estimates are mainly in the factory centres and are due to these causes. "1. Industrial conditions affecting many thousands of employes. "2. The disseVisfactlon of voters with the old parties. "3. Opposition to Governor Hughes because of his reform." The World also pubiibiieB statements from the leaders of the respective parties, and it is evident thflt ()ll> Unmn/lrnK, " ?'> ? vum? a/viuwi civo iVi u iiiui t! ?*<111* gulne of (success than are the Republicans. , ________________ Senator Tillman's Contrihution. The Charleston Post says: "The only contribution to the Democratic national campaign fund coming within the "worthy of mention" claRR was made by Senator II. R. Tillman, who put up the nice sum of $200 to he applied to the Pryan cause. And the Senator is getting no run for his money, either. * Failure in laudable attempts is far from being a thing to be ashamed of. Iluyiiig a lMano or an Organ Is Not Hard when you come or write to us. Our Pianos and Organs are guaranteed and up-to-date, and at a reasonable price. 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Indiana 15, Ohio, 23, West Virginia 7, Nevada 3, New York 39. TotaV, 261. Necessary to a choice 242. The vice-chairman put Wisconsin in the doubtful column and said that New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Illinois wore still debatable, with New Jersey and Connecticut favorable to the Democratlo party. Tammany Hall will contribute $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee, according to an aunounement made by Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany leader. In addition, the local organization will pay all the expenses of the big mass mee-i ing in Madison tsquare Cardeu on \ | October i4, at which Mr. Bryan is i 10 spoilk. this will probably amount to $5,000 more. According to a telegram received by Viee-Chairnian Hudspeth from .Chairman Mack, in Cmcugo, Mr. Bry| an will speak only one day lu New Jersey and ono day in Connecticut. Mr. Hudspeth said, referring to u reported statement of II. 11. 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