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4 1,. h. 'i rv ;': ' -a t 1 . I E H... M.M. MM,,. X Jf you went to eech the peo- $ J plejof the Piedmont Section J put your ads. m THE GRJT i:C'i I-'- ISAAC S. LONDON, Proprietor. A NON-PARTISAN FAMIL.Y NEWSPAPER. $1.00 A YEAR. . :.. ... i . - v , - - - - ' - 1 'V-'- -. u v S - - F III: i til t - w - hhmih mb- ' mm mm mm m mm mm mm m mm mm m j ml. a m. n 1 u -mw. ; 1 ' ..... H i : . ! : - --m i VOL. V. ! Enacted at the Recent Session i of the Legislature. ELECTROCUTION -NOT HANGING Epitome. if Most Important Laws of General Interest to the People of North ! Carolina Many Changes Made, j (From the Charlotte Observer.) , The Observer has the satisfaction of presenting a lucid review of the last Legislature's work by Mr. Thom as W. Alexander, of the Charlotte bar. Mrj Alexander, writing verv attractively, ives information other- ,'111 j'i 1 wise uiiavauaDie to tne general pub lic. Hisj readers are fortunate in the trained ability which he combines with appreciation of their require ments. Tliere will be surprise at some almost overlooked legislative acts,; here pointed out and shown in the proper perspective. The volume contains'1440 pages, or 925 sa pa rate enactments, together with 54 resolutions. 1 Chap. IS authorizes county commissioners- to establish and maintain "tuberculosis dispensaries, or sana toria. " ! ("hap. o changes time for filing maferial luan's lien..e Chan. 4D affects the sale of prop erty unde mortgage. The boundaries of our State wherever disputed are to be tixecj by authority of Chap. 51. Guardians are permitted to culti vate the lands of their wards by Chap. 57 j A caveat need not be published longer than four weeks, instead of six. as formerly, by Chap. 74. By Char. 97' the test farms of the State ar toj be sold. An act jto "regulate the registra tion and sale of concentrated com mercial feejding stuffs" will give deal ers and manufacturers some whole some reading, i By Chajx. 150 every city and town is required to appoint inspectors of electric, gds and water metres. The boijs.of tax collectors are ' povemed x an amendment in Chap; 211. ' - There is -a change and enlargement of licensing physicians by Chap. 218. "An act to facilitate the release of mortgages pnd deeds of trust" is of some convenience, but you have to liquidate just as before. ' Solid, through freight trains may be operated on Sunday if they are areful not to stop too long at anv station. Chap. 285. That the-Baptist are alive to the situation is foretold by Chap., 294, which declares it a misdemeanor to ''offer for pale within 1 1-2 miles of any meeting of the Lower County Line Primitive Baptist Association, at any time during the three days and nights of tlie meeting, any confection eries, candies, lemonade, coca-cola, Iepsi-coIa. ioda water, ginger Ale, or any cold or soft drinks or concoc tions of any kind, whatsoever, of any Kind." , The State board of -health is auth orized by Chapter 389 ' to .furnish ihotluria antitoxin under certain con ditions. ! , Hanging as a mode of capital pun ishnient is abolished and hereafter all convicts, in capital -cases will be nt to the ;State's prison in Raleigh and el ect routed. The practice of optometry will hereafter b4 under a board of exam iners, whose duty it is to license prac titioners. Ihe general school law was chang ed in several respects. The "paijiel Boone Association" topepetuatej the memory of that fraud old t North Caroiinian was treat l,y fh0pter 496. Chapter 555. an act to provide for standard wejjdi't packages of meal a"l flour and to prevent short u'ti?ht.s is another wholesome . piece literature! while "Stock or poul wy lomc" js thoroughly regulated. - ' baptr-r 628 J allows the registers of '"'f-'ds of the several counties of the ' lato to appoint deputies. Hotels, s,-!0(ds, hosttalg, etc., are admon ishcd t,, have fire escapes by Chapter '' ' ' . ( (Hlllt Vl f'l mm uci rw arc mor n (7 l"i.ni'is attempting arson. Chapter '" i'i" idesjfor the register of deeds " '"ar!;' the index "satisfied" in re p'd to mortgages and other encum s wheii same are paid and thus l'l r. suit in the saving of a great hut 'm time an -itle searching. -1 act. to regulate the packing of 'Hi ;nid the sale thereof will be read aloi;.,' the coast with some interest. 1::ipHr 67 authorizes clerks, of t,:,;it lo increase allowance from $20 ,0 ''') to mothers of indigent child- i .' 1 tp- 42 raises-salary of CorftCiis. M," r of Labor and (Printing to --."so. ; . ': Chap, h the sum of $68,056.70 K "turned to the State's prison de i,:Mmeiit out of ,its former earnings. '"I'-cs of Superior Courts now get ." per week extra for holding spe terms, to be paid-by the couiity which same are held. bap. 83 ij very comprehensive in 'tempting to render secure from "res woodlands above the contour ne of 2,000 f eet. By Chap. 176 the tironertv nf ;Tfo. pie discharged ' from ' insane asylums isto be governed. . ' The assistant State Librarian gets a raise, to $900. k The oath of road overseer is affect ed byChap. 110. Marriage xnay now be performed by a "minister authorized by his Church" in addition to being ordain ed." Real estate sold under execution deed of trust or motgage will have to be advertised only "once a week." Chapter 709 requires clerks of court to make entries descriptive of land where judgment affects same. Druggists will have to refrain from selling cocaine indiscriminately. This amendment is a very worthy ahd im portant one as police, claim that the habit is. growing among the negroes and is responsible for much crime, the effect being to give the user a great deal of "nerve." Chapter 722 provides for the "reg istration of deaths in municipalities" and is very exacting in details. The militia of the State will read with great interest Chapter 745, where many innovations appear. ... It is now unlawful to manufacture, sell or give away duplicate switch lock keys. ; Funeral directors and 'embalmers are hereafter exempt from jury duty, especially in capital cases. A parent guilty of abandonment of his .children will hereafter forfeit custody of same. Ihe law of general assignment for benefit of creditors is materially changed. Banks are granted immunity on forged checks unless notified in six months. "An act regarding, corporations" is one relating to corporations selling securities. An act of great impor-' tance is Chapter 504 which is design ed to protect employes of corpora tions engaged in industrial commerce and to allow them the exemptions al lowed by law. An act which overrules the case of H. M. Victor vs. Louise Mills, et al., 148 N. C, 107, is Chapter 507 by which a corporation may insure the life of any officer or agent for its own benefit. An act to "require all employers of female employes to provide seats therefor" will be appreciated by clerks and others who are now com pelled to stand all day. The giving of worthless checks, drafts or orders ia declared to be prima facie evidence of fraud by Chapter 647. Another law in regard to corpora tions is one making stockholders per sonally liable for costs of dissolution. All dealers in seed or grain should not fail to read the law on "impure or misbranded agricultural and vege table seed." i Chapter 858 goes after employers who blacklist discharged employes. Express companies will have to make prompt settlement of cash on delivery shipments hereafter The "State Association of County Commissioners" is incorporated. Life insurance companies are pre vented from forfeitiiife life policies without notice in the future, while domestic insurance companies should read Chapter 9220. A new legal holiday, April 12, is es tablished in commemoration of the "Halifax Resolutions." The 20th of May is of course one already. Building and loan associations will be interested in reading Chapter. 898. A proviso that no bank shall com mence business with less than $5,000 capital, is provided for in Chapter 911. Fire insurance companies are re quired to make deposits with the State to protect their contracts, etc. Taxation. The objects for .which the State taxes are levied are declared to be for the expenses of the government, support of charitable and penal in stitutions and specific appropriations and interest on State debt. The poll tax is fixed at $1.29 while the ad valorem tax is ,43 cents on the $100 valuation;- corporations to make pay ment to the State Treasurer of cer tain taxes. All exemptions granted are repealed except where the pro ceeds go to charity, etc. A graduated inheritance tax is prescribed, ranging from 75 cents on the $100 valuation to $5 on the same, depen dent upon the degree of kinship, I 'Was your gross income from salar ies, fees, trades, professions, and property "not taxed, in excess of $1, 000.?" is a stiff question to answer at' the rate of $1 per $100. Theatres have a graduated tax along with theatrical companies, circuses, etc. Attorneys, " physicians and denists are charged $5. Real estate, coal dealers, undertakers, horse dealers, fortune-tellers, gift enterprises, deal ers in futures, druggists selling liq uor, and so on through the list of oc cupations. The revenue act is very similar to the former act and pre sents no novel features. The general law in regard to motor vehicles (with exception of New Han over county) provides for a $5 regis tration fee payable to the Secretary of State, $3. of which is refunded to the county in which the motor ve hicle is operated, and for $1 annual renewal fee. All motor vehicles .must bear a designated number and dis play the same in front and rear. There are many provisions in regard to operating and using motor ve hicles, such as requiring all male oc cupants over 15 years old of an auto to get out and help hold a refractory horse- when encountered on the high way, etc. ' , Snj& CITY, TROUBLE IN SOUTH AMERICA Bolivia is Disquieted Mobs Attack Peruvian and Argentine Legations Minister From the Argentine With His Wife Eua- For Their ' Lives. LaPaz, Bolivia, Special. The guards protecting the Peruvian and Argentine legations were sudden lv L withdrawn Saturdav evenins- for 1 , , . ' . 0 some unknown reason. When; this be came known, street mobs renewd their attacks on the legations, caus ing serious "damage. The Argentine minister, .Senor Fen seca, and his wife, had a narrow es cape "from iniurv- Thev mado thpr j way out of the legation and ran a dis , tance of eight blocks, finally seeking protection m tne nome of the Presi dent of Bolivia. No explanation has been matte as to why the strict measures ordered by the authorities at the first sign of trouble have not been enforced. Man ifestations have been numerous in public places, and at. a meeting held Saturday, a portrait of Figueroa Al corta, President of Argentina, was placed head downwards on a pole and stoned to pieces. It is reported here that consider able excitement prevails at Lima and Buenos Ayres, and the Argentine government's silence in the face of Bolivian protests is regarded as ominious. La Paz was given over Sunday night to riot. The people swarmed in to the streets and did much damage. The electric wires were cut and pil laging was begun on all sides. Shots were heard in every direction. The situation for foreigners, especially Peruvian and Argentine residents, is extremely serious. Hurricane Sweeps Panama. .Panama, Special A hurricane of unusual severity occurred Saturday" night, doing much damage to prop erty. The electric plant in Panama was put out of commission and the city was left in darkness, which serv ed to increase the alarm. At the time there was a great crowd at the Na tional theatre. The performance came to an end but the audience re mained comparatively quiet. Many of the residents, who were unaccustomed to such violent storms left their houses, seeking safety with in the churches, the doors of which were; thrown open to shelter the crowds. It is feared that the interior and coast towns have suffered -considerably. The government has dispatch ed two steamers. Gets a life Sentence. Marianna, Fla., Special. His wife's story that Dr. H. Alexander had kissed her while she was a pa tient in his chair caused J. V. White to kill the dentist several months ago and Saturday the resulting trial ended with the jury's cerdict of sec ond degree murder, which carries with it a sentence of life imprison ment. White's plea was that of self defense, he asserting that after the trouble had been "patched up" he met Dr. Alexander in a dark street and believed that he was about to be attacked. The dentist was armed only with an umbrella and five bullets were fired at him byWhite. Witness es, however testified that White had threatened to kill Dr. Alexander. Tornado Kills Six. Ortonville, Minn., . Special Six people were killed, fifteen were in jured and much property was de stroyed Sunday by a tornado which passed over this section. The tornado demolished two dwell ing houses, the round house, coal sheds and five boardinsr cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail fbad. About 40 Italian laborers were in the cars and of thes--. five, were killed and 15 injured. Phillip de Griff, a bus driver, was killed by being hurled against a tree when his vehicle was blown over and crushed. The tor nado was accompanied by a heavy rain and hail storm. To Avenge Black Hand Murder. New Orleans, La., Special. The first execution in Louisiana for a crime carried out under the sign of the Blaek Hand will take place at Hahnville next Friday when Leon ardo Gebbia will be hanged for ocm plicity in the murder of little Walter Lamana, two years ago. Six Italians are now serving life sentences in the State penitentiary for complicity in the crime. Three Trainmen ' Kill 5d. Grand Junction, Col., Special. Three trainmen killed and one fatal ly injured and traffic tied v.o fcr tiore than 12 hours are the results of a head-on collision early Saturday near Cisco, Utah, . between a west-bound passenger train and an east-bound sheep train. Elks bound, for Los Angeles were passengers of the wrecked train. The engine crew and baggageman of the passenger train were killed. Fourteen special trains carrying Elks to Los Angeles were .held up all day. Toxaway Train Wrecked. Asheville SpeciaL-Train No. 7, on route from Toxaway to: Asheville, Saturday afternoon at 4:45 p. m., left the tracks on a 'curve, at the 11-mile post of the Transylvania division, near Etowah turning the entire train composed of a chair car, a first-class coach and a combination: : car, i over down an embankment. Ten persons were, injured, none of. tKem, however, so seriously but that they will '- rer cover. N. O; WEDNDY iTHEMHOT OElO! I r US SDH FIGHTS THIEF fire. George Staber, of Flatbush, Killed by Burglar. ; .., . FIERCE BATTLE FOR PISTOL Coung Staber Wins and Wounds Bur glar as He Flees With Pair Traces of Blood Revealed Thelf Hiding Place. . - ' . Flatbush, L. I. A sfcoj; fired by jne of two yeggmen, wltftgnrhdm Ed ward A. Staber,or- Nov 455 East Eighteenth street, was fighting for Ms life, killed the young man's mother, Mrs. Sophie L. Hjousberg Staber, who stood in the doorway of iier room, on the second floor of the home about 3 o'clock a. m., when the iwo men entered the home of George R. Staber, the father, a paper im porter, of No. 12 7 Duane street. New STork City, and awakened the family. Edward Staber, who is only twenty two years old, grappled with one of :he men, although he was unarmed, ind the two men had a revolver aad in ammonia pistol. Three shots W3re Bred by the man with whom yoing staber was wrestling, and the t'lird ghot. which burned Staber's sidi, is the one which killed hi3 mother. The man then dropped the revolver and young Staber picked it up and fired twice at him as he fled, hitting him in the arm and .n the side. Six hours later, through the assistance of :itizens, who traced the wounded man by blood stains and the visits of his companion, the police got both men, who admitted that they had been in the .house, but denied having fired the shot which killed Mrs. Staber. One of them, a Hungarian, calling himself John Smith, was found In a miserable plight in some woods more than a mile away from the house. One bullet fired by young Staber had lodged in the bone at his elbow. The other buried itself in his abdomen. The other man. an Austrian, who said he was Carlo Grio, was captured by a Sicilian cobbler from whom he had borrowed a coat and some shoes. The entrance of the men into the Staber home, one of several detached frame houses In the neighborhood, the murder and the quiet flight of the men occupied only a few mo ments. The entire family was asleep on the second floor. Jimmy marks on thev cellar door t nd the jamb of the kitchen door showed that the. men had first tried to enter that way, but later they forced the kitchen window instead. The men went immediately to the Foutheast bedroom on the second floor, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Sta ber. In the adjoining room were their two daughters, the Misses Marie and Emily Staber, the latter being ill. Two doors down the hall Is the guest chamber, which was oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Franz Khorn, relatives of Mrs. Staber, who were to have sailed next day for Germany. The, son's room was across the hall from this one. One of the men carried an electric flashlight. The ray from this, hitting Mr. Staber's face, awakened him. "Who's there?" -he cried. "What is the matter?" "Keep still and nothing will hap pen to you," a strange voice renlied. "All we want is the money. If you give that up, you won't get hurt." The voice awakened Mrs. Staber. Her rcreams alarmed the two daugh ters in the next room, and they be gan to scream loudly, arousing the Pi", who r- f-o-n his room to inter cept the robbers. IlUr.IPEK CORN CROP FOR 1009. Government Report Indicates a Har vest of Over 3,000,000,000 Bushels. Washington, D. C An enormous crop of corn, probably for the first time in the history of the country ex ceeding 3,000,000,000 bushels, is in dicated by the monthly report of the Agricultural Department. Expecta tions had been, in view of June's very favorable weather, for a good report; and. although it failed entirely to meet all that had been predicted for it, the report was considered as gen erally fulfilling expectations. The report on corn had been awaited with most interest, recent I predictions of an enormous crop hav ing given rise to much speculation as ' to the actual outlook for the 1909 Harvest, .from tne Government's fig ures it is figured that a crop of 3, 161,174,000 bushels is in sight. The nearest approach to this figure in any other year was in 1906, when 2,927, 000,000 bushels were harvested ' BLACK HAND AGENTS SHOT. Carlo Taresi, ,a Barber, at New Brigh. ton, Says They Demanded Money. New "RriVliMn Statin Tolon nor. lo Taresi, a barber, shot and killed I Jqs?ph Zena and seriously wounded TZzto Farenta near his shop at No. j 242 Broadway. He was arrested on a j charge of homicide. He says the two men were Black Hand age-nts to whom he refused longer to pay blood money. The shooting was attended by. a thrilling chase down the main street of West New Brighton. Scores of persons who saw Taresi' kill his man and bowl over the second with a charge of lead slugs, which screamed close to the heads of a crowd of chil dren, threatened to lynch him. Tare si's version of the tragedy, told hurri edly, checked the demonstration. Major 'J. W. Long Killed. Major J. W. Long, U. S. A., re. tired, was run down in Washington, by an automobile, carried to the Rus sian Embassy and died in the Emerg ency. Hospital. .The automobile was driven by J. W. Lawrence, who was learning to operate the machine.' , . Shot Sleep-Walking Son; Mistaking his little son, Herbert,, six years old, for a burglar, Fred Klopp, of Gallon, Ohio, shot and killed the boy . The boy was walking la his sleep. :K JULY U, 1909. TARIFF BILL PASSES SENATE BY 45 TO 34 TenTnsurgents Against One Dem ocrat For Measure. TOBACCO GROWERS' TAX LIFTED Committee Named and the Plan is to Have Bill Sent to Conference Im mediately Senate Removes To bacco Tax. Washington, D. C. The Senate passed the Tariff bill by a vote of 4& ta"S4. Ten Republican votes were re corded against the bill and one Demo cratic vote for it. I The Republicans voting in the negative were: Bever idge, Indiana; fcristow, Kapsas; Brown, Nebraska; ' Burkett, Nebras ka; Clapp, Minnesota; Crawford, South Dakota; Cummins, Iowa; Dolll ver, Iowa; La Follette, Wisconsin, and Nelson, Minnesota. McEnery, of Louisiana, was the single Democrat rscorder in the affirmative. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas Senators Aldrich, Borah, Bourne, Bradley, Brandegee, Briggs, Bulkeley, Burnham, Burrows, Bur ton, Carter, Clark (Wyoming) , Crane, Depsw, Dick, Dixon, Dupont, Elklns, Flint, Frye, Gallinger, Gamble, Gug genheim, Hale, Heyburn, Johnson (North Dakota),? Kean, Lorimer, Jones, McCumber, McEnery, Nixon, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Perkins, Piles, Scott, Smith (Michigan), Smoot, Ste phenson, Sutherland, Warner, War ren and Wetmore--45. Nays Senators. Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead, Eeverldge.Brlstow, Brown, Burkett, Chamberlain. Clapp, Craw ford, Culberson, ; Cummins, Daniel, Dolllver, Fletcher, Foster, Frazier, Gore, Hughes, Johnston (Alabama), La Follette, McLaurln, Martin, Money, Nelson, Newland, Overman, Owen, Shively, Simmons,' Smith (South Car olina), Stone, Taliaferro and Taylor 3 4. , The vote came after a continuous session of more than fifteen hours, in which amendment after amendment was defeated by being laid on the ta ble, f Immediately after the announce ment of the vote the Vice-President announced that the conferees would be Senators Aldrich, Hale, Burrows, Penrose and Cullom for the Republi cans, and Bailey, Money and Daniel ior tne uemocrats. Two important amendments were included in the measure in the day, and a number of minor changes were wrought at the night session. Chief of the amendments was that offered by Senator Eradley, of Kentucky, to remove the tax of six cents a pound on tobacco "In the hand," to relieve the growers of a; burden blamed for the "night rider outrages. The ac ceptance of the amendment came as a distinct surprise; the Senate fre quently having refused to remove the duty. j The other important amendment was offered by Mr. Curtis, of Kansas. It places a countervailing duty on crude oil. The last hours of the debate were exciting. The galleries were crowded to witness the end of the first stage of the big Senatorial fight and members from the House crowded the'Tail of the Senate chamber from one side of the President's desk all around to the other, and they stood patiently through the speeches waiting for the end. When all was over, before the Senate adjourned the Republicans crowded up around Mr. Aldrich to congratulate him on his success, and it was several minutes before order could be restored and the motion to adjourn be put. i By a vote of 178 to 151 the House non-concurred in the Senate's 84 7 amendments to rits Tariff bill and agreed to send the bill to conference, eighteen Republicans voting against it and One Democrat for it. TWO DIE IN A WHISKY WAR, North Carolina's; Attempt to Enforce Law Leads to Bloodshed. Raleigh, N. C. Two officers killed by manufacturers of illicit whisky and the arrest of J. Dannenberg, a representative1 of New York, Balti more, Richmond; and other brewers are part of the day's record in the at tempt being made in North Carolina to enforce, by State and municipal onicers, the new State prohibition laws. Persons whom Dannenberg repre sented are said to have attempted to defy the new city license on "near beer," an alleged "prohibition" drink, which has had a large sale for months in North Carolina. Pro hibitionists charge the decoction will intoxicate, and in one town an ordi nance imposing a fine of $50 for every bottle sold was passed. ROCKEFELLER GIVES $10,000,000 His Benefactions Now Amount to $112;655,000. New York City. The General Ed ucation Board announced that John D. Rockefeller had contributed $10, 000,000 more to carry forward the general education plan for the endow ment of colleges and universities throughout tv tJritPd States. This additional gift brings the total sum contributed by Mr. Rockefeller to this special education fund to $53,000,000. He has now given away $112,655, .000, more than; ninety-five per cent, of which has gone to the genera' cause of education. Two Killed in Auto Race. C. K. Batchelder, of Newport, Vt, and J. Twohey-, of Montreal, were killed at the second annual races of the Canadian Automobile Club at the Blue Bonnets trjack at Montreal, Can ada.- I . Child Wins Paris Prize. .Aline Van Barentzen, an American pianist, eleven years of age; won first prize at the Conservatoire de Musique in the Woman's? competition at Paris, France. She is the youngest person who. has ever received this prize. ELEVEN LIVES LOST j IN MISSOURI FLOOD fowns Inundated and Inhabitants Driven to Treetops. :MANY RESCUED IN BOATS Santa Fe Train Derailed on a Flooded Plain and Passengers Marooned Property Loss Estimated at a Million and Over. St.' Joseph, Mo. Death and de struction follow the sudden floods, caused by heavy rains, sweeping over Dekalb, Davles, Grundy, Mercer, Har rison and Livingston counties, in Northern Missouri. It is believed eleven persons have been drowned and the property loss will reach more than a million dollars. Without warning a torrent of water five feet deep inundated Pattonburg. Mo., and Its 1500 inhabitants were driven to treetops and roofs to save their lives. Three persons were drowned there. BoatB sent In by near-by towns arrived at Pattonsburg and rescue crews set to work at once. William Christian is reported drowned near CMIlIcothe. A spectacular accident was the de railing on a flooded plain of the At chison, Topeka and Santa Fe passen ger train bound from Kansas City to Denver. The rails spread near Po mona, Kan.,' and four of the ten coaches rolled over into eighteen feet of water. Although the overturned day coaches were empty, Laura St. Clair, of Boston, suffered a wrenched back, and Nannie St. Clair, a sister, re ceived bruises and cuts. The St. Clair sisters were going to Perry, Okla. Miss Nannie St. Clair is an eld erly woman, and it was while trying to assist her that the other sister was hurt. The train, which had been detoured from the main line over the Emporia branch, was running along smoothly through the water when it began to Bins on tne unaermined tracks. The coaches eank so gradually that the passengers and crew were able to get into the Pullman cars before the coaches in front toppled over. Peo ple from the surrounding country, at tracted by the cries of the 300 ma rooned passengers, endeavored to res cue them. Rafts were hastily constructed, and the few boats available were pushed out, but by Ahls time the current was so swift around the train that only the most venturesome were able to reach the people. It was after dark before a rescue by means of a series of boats tied with ropes was effected. Boat trips of from one to two miles were made to the nearest farm houses free of the flood, and the passengers were taken to safety. Pomona was almost inundated, the Marias des Cygnes River at that point being three miles wide. In Kansas City the situation was threatening, If not serious. In the bottoms in the western section, where are situated the stock yard, wholesale warehouses and manufacturing plants, the waters from the conflu ence of the Missouri and Kansas riv ers were lapping the danger line, and precautions were taken against a fur ther rise. The flood extends through Kansas and Nebraska and a part of Colorado. Train service was demoralized In Ne braska and Kansas on account of washonts, and in Colorado the land slides and floods from mouiftaln tor rents caused train schedules to be abandoned, and hundreds of East "4 n people were marooned In the State. Iowa and Illinois also were flooded, though the damage In these States was not so great as in Missouri and Kansas. St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Bertha Cassa nova and two children were drowned in the General U. S. Grant farm in St Louis County when they attempted to ford Gravols Creek while it was swoll en by heavy rains. Three other children were rescued, clinging to the wagon when it was swept down stream. SUFFRAGE PROSPECT PLEASES. Mrs. Shaw Sees a Magnificent Out look For the Cause. Seattle, Wash. The Convention of the American Woman Suffrage Asso ciation closed here with a mass meet ing. National President Anna H. Shaw thought the prospects bright. She said: "There never was such a magnifl j cent outlook for the cause. New peo- pie are coming in and money is pro vided. The opportunities increase j beyond our ability to furnish i workers. Our new headauartera In New York City will put us In touch with the great newspapers and with the freshly aroused suffrage senti ment of the great city, which influ ences the thought of the whole ! try. FALL KILLS ROBERT D. EVANS. ! Owner of President Taft's Summer Home. I Boston, Mass. As a result of be ing thrown from his horse while rid ing along the Beverly shore road five days before Robert D. Evans, owner of the Stetson House at Beverly, oc cupied by President Taft and family, died at the Massachusetts Homoeo pathic Hospital here. Mr. Evans was sixty-seven years of age and was one of New England's wealthiest men. Congress Should Control. Congress should control the er 1 ganization of corporations doing an ! interstate business, according to an Bar Association by George W. Wlck ersham, Attorney General of the United States, at Paducah, Ky. Congressman Cushman Dead. Congressman F. W. Cushman, of Tacoma, Wash., died in' Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, of pneu- NO. 50. THREE NATIONS AT "OLD Ti' "Private Property, No Shooting Allowed," Inspires Speakers. President Taft and the British aa French Ambassadors Talk Per.c Where Once Was Fierce Strife. Bluff Point, N. Y. On the Gel about Fort Ticonderoza. where blaadr. battles, and a lot of them, in different wars, were fought. President Tafx. Ambassador Jusserand and Ambassa dor Bryce talked peace. As the Presi dent reached the entrance to the park he read a sign, "Private Property, N ShOOtlne Allowed." That nrnrul tm. rtm the inspiration of the speeches mt tne aay. Ambassador Jusserand, of France, the first speaker, spoke briefly at Champlain, who discovered the lalrjf. the discovery of which was being cefca brated, then went into a lengthy logy of Montcalm, the hero of Que bec. He put special stress oa ta scholarly qualities of the Ge'neraL II ended his speech with the Etatememt that while the 100 years' war betvecm; England and Frauce had become a common saying, it would boob possible to celebrate the fact tkat there had been 100 years of peace be tween the countries. Ambassador Bryce sounded Vmm peace note in his first sentence. He said that "a 6pot so beautiful the Cre ator surely had meant for soaetaiac else than fighting." Then the Am bassador took up the cudgels for Gen eral Wolfe, the opponent of GernenB Montcalm at Quebec. He showe that Wolfe, the Englishman, too. was! of a literary bent, repeating the ttacj; of Wolfe reciting Gray"s "Elegj' mm' he went up the St. Lawrends Blraj the night before his last battle. Ud finishing his speech AmbassadaSi Bryce asked what future generations would 6ay of these famous battlW grounds, and answered hlmseltJ -They will say that we admire tW men who fought as heroes, their valor' and their self-sacrifice, but den't d 11 again. ' j The President made his big hit with the crowd with this passas from his speech: 1 "For sixteen years it was my goo! fortune to go to Murray Bay in Ca-' ada for the summer. There is now aj limitation upon the Presidential offloai that prevents it. While there B( learned some things, and one wa that while the Murray Highlander' and other soldiers of England con- quered on the Plains of Abraham quite a number of these 6oldiers went? down the St. Lawrence and were i-' duced to settle on the French scca-' eries which He some eighty miles bo-1 low Quebec. There were Blackburn' and Warrens and MacNells and Fra-1 ziers and Nalrns, and all the Scotek names that bring back the memory osT the Murray Highlander. "And what did they do? They hal' the good sense to marry French.' women. "And what happened? "That country is full of Blackbnrn and Frazters and MacNells and Wuh rens and Nairns, and they don't anj; of them speak a word of English. , "There are other ways of conquer ing a people than merely by guns." The President closed with a fer vent hope that the valley never aai. would be the scene of fighting. DENATURED ALCOHOL FAILS, Owing to Cost of Manufacture, It Hsu Not Supplanted Oils. 1 Washington, D. C. Seventeen In spectors and four revenue agents oa. the denatured alcohol rolls of Utm, Internal Revenue Bureau have beea dismissed because their services xr no longer needed. It is explained that the expectation that denatured alcohol would quick ly supplant gasoline for small farm engines, automobiles, etc. has bee disappointing; first, because the en gines now in use are not adapted Xm alcohol; and, 'second, because of Its comparatively high cost of manufac ture by present methods. So far as being any direct benefit to farmer of the country, the removal of tb tax of $1.16 a gallon on denature alcohol has been up to this time la consequential. FIREBUG KILLS HIMSELF. Caretaker of Observatory Set tb Place Ablaze and Ends His Life. Colorado Springs, Col. Lew IL Warriner, caretaker of the Stellar Ob servatory for Professor Frank K Loud, of Colorado College, committed!: suicide by shooting after first hailac soaked the floors of the observatory, with coal oil and fired it In thre places. Despondency is said to har caused Warriner's act. Great damage was done to tba scientific instruments, but the exacC damage cannot be estimated. Special work for Harvard University was b ing conducted at the time of the fira. j GUARDING MRS. TAFT. Must Have Rest, and Secret Serrlc Men Keep Intruders Away. Beverly, Mass. Until she has re gained her health sufficiently Mrs, Taft will not entertain or be enter tained by the summer colony on tfc North Shore. This was given out from the Eummer White House, ax. Burgess Point. It was also learae! that President Taft had left orders with the Secret -Service men that u der no circumstances was Mr3. Txffl to be disturbed. - .r Retires From the Pulpit. The Rev. Loom is O. Black, UnfmM salist, of Troy. N. Y.. has decldefl retire from the pulpit to devote him Bell to spreading fcociaiism. Congressman's Wife Sues. Congressman James M. Cox; et Dayton, Ohio, was sued for divorce, Mrs. Cox alleging extreme cruelly, - Senator Clay Re-elected. United States Senator U. S. was unanimously re-elected by Georgia Legislature at Atlanta n ' t l i i! i . : I r ill i
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