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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-02
RECEIVED THREAT I'M LETTER.
Lancaster Man Regarded Demand for
$4,000 a Joke, ss,

LANCASTER. Pa. August 2.-"sur-
render $4,000 or be murdered along with
your sister," was the substances of letter
received by Charles B. Grub. one Of
Lancaster's wealthiest men. It was at first
thought to be a joke and no attention was
paid to it until yesterday. when it was
sent to Postmaster Miller He at once ex-
pressed the belief that he knew the writer
and the police are now hunting for the
party suspected, as they regard the threat
as serious. :. ~.sz1s-t
The writer said that he had been chosen
by ballot as member of an organiza
tion 1.-The Strong Forty-two," to secure
from Grub $4,000 or to take his life and
that of his sister. Miss Daisy B. Grub of
Philadelphia 1t was directed that the
money be placed beneath water trough
on West Orange street, beyond the Quarry
vile railroad, by 8 O'Clock Wednesday
night
AS the letter was at first regarded as a
joke the point indicated was not watched
to see if any person went after the money
demanded.
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destroyed in the very flame with which
they have lighted I'm the cauntru

destroyed in the very flame with which
they have lighted up the country.
a. We want Complete independence
The country cannot, prosper as long as
the veriest shred Of the Feringhi's SUI
premacy over 1t Is left. Fie on the idea
that the Feringhis are to remain our
masters forever! stranger has entered
into our homes. He must be put out Of
1t. or kept only as "a servant or guest
This is the aim of the new party
8. Be not afraid Not very many lis
tened for the young Mazfni on the day
when wounded to his hearts core for the
sufferings and poverty Of Italy. he firmly
resolved to free his country from it's bond
age. But today Italy has expiated her
own sin and has washed AWAY I'm human
blood the blackness of her stigma. Oh,
We sons of Bengal. worshipers OF Sakti
tkalf. the goddess of destruction). will
you be averse from that? Under the
stress of plague and famine. lakhs upon
lfkhs of people are dying every year in the
country And yet are not 10000 sons OF
Bengal prepared to embrace death to
az enge. the humiliation of their father
lend. The number of Englishmen in the
ertre country is not more than a lakh
and half. And what is the number of
English officials in each district? with
a firm resolve you can bring English rule
to an end in a single day. Begin yielding
ur life after taking life. Dedicate
your life as an Offering at the temple of
liberty.
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MR.. ROBERTS TAKES CHARGE.
Is Now Active President Of the Com.
mercial National.

CHICAGO. August 2-George f. Roberts.
former director of the mint. assumed his
new position president of the Commercial
National Bank on his arrival in Chicago
from Washington yesterday.
Mr. Roberts worked at his desk in Wash
ington up to the last minut, before train
time Wednesday night, clearing up his
work as director of the mint.
''rhe prospects for business are excellent
throughout the country said Mr.. Roberts.
Il believe that the slight check we have
experienced during the past few months
has been a good thing. 1t has proved be-
yond question that business in this country
Is firm footing.
Capital undoubtedly was invested pretty
near to the limit, and the brief period of
stringency through which business has just
passed served to show that the resources of
the country were great enough to withstand
any temporary pressure that overnvest
ment may cause The country was never
in more prosperous condition than it is
now and business was never on a Sounder
basis.
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QUIET AT HIBBING.
Crisis in Mine Strike Seems About
Over.

HIrBING. Mimi. August 2.-All was
quiet in the Hibbing and Eveleth districts
on the range this morning No violence
was reported and the crisis is believed to
be passed. Between Is and 80 per cent Of
the usual night shifts were at work last
night. and there were fully % per cent
more men working at Eveeth this morning
than yesterday. About the same increase
was reported by the Independent COM
panies. Shipping was resumed from a num-
Der of mines today.
The Mountain Iron mine at Mountain
Iron will be opened tomorrow morning and
fifty deputies were sent there this morning
Mountain Iron is the center Of an ex-
tensive mining district.
The $50 deputies who reached here yes
terday encamped at the Munroe Tenner To-
cation and 100 more are expected today.
meeting of strikers will be held this
afternoon at Nashwauk. and Strike Leader
Petrieila said this morning he was pre-
pared to call for armed resistance in case
Sheriff Hoilihan interfered with the meet
ing.
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Storm Warning Unheeded.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. August 2.-The
thirty -fve-foot yawl MAMA, owned by j.
Francis Campbell. John Byrne and John
Duffy Of Grand Rapids, which endeavored
to sail from Grand Haven to Holland Har-
Dor last night was wrecked early today on
the shore at Getaway Beach. and the four
occupants of the craft. ]. Francis Camp
bell. John Duffy. Alfred Hunt and James
Duffy, all prominent Grand Rapids men,
wera rescued with difficulty by the Hol-
land life-saving crew. The party sailed
from Grand Haven last evening despite the
fact that a high sea was running on the
lake and that the weather director had
warned them not to go out.
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SENATOR LATIMER I'M BERLIN.
Talks Of Incidents of Travel in Ger
many-An Adventure.
al Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star
BERLIN. August 2.-Senator Latimer Of
North Carolina. who with his colleagues on
the immigration commission has oompleted
useful work in Germany. tells an incident
illustrative of the national feeling in Hun
gary. At frontier village he came across
a statue of Francis Joseph. "A statue Of
the emperor" he remarked. mot the en-
peror. the king" corrected the Hungarian
interpreter.
The senator's party left for Hamburg on
Wednesday. While in Berlin they had an
adventure. One evening while return
ing to the hotel they passed tho
Cafe West Minister. which is a meeting
place of artists and Bob rmans Suddenly
a shot was heard followed by screams. and
a man rush ID from the cafe right into the
Latimer party. closely followed by crowd.
The senator and his seized the fugitive
and saw him handed over to the police. He
had shot and instantly killed his sweet
heart - ..
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SOME UNIQUE STATISTICS.
british Heads Declared Shrinking and
Muscles Degenerating.

LONDON August That the BRUSH
head Is shrinking and British muscles are
degenerating as recently charged py Ger
tain scientists. was refuted by evidence IN
PRODUCED at the meeting of the BRUSH asso-
citation at Leicester. Records 1or the last
twenty years at Marlborough Coheso
show that the fourteen year-old boys there
average five points heavier ana nearly al
inch taller than those of 1889.
halter who furnishes hats TOT SIX
schools youches that hats Of tWenty-ono
and a half inches circumference formerly
ne rarely demanded. while now hats
twen4vtwo and a half inches in Circum-
ference are needed continuously.
sir victor Horsiey proposed a motion at
the meeting urging the government 10 m
stttute in connection with the medical m
snaction of school children a system OF
neriOdtc measurement.
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u Price ON Amy Wash Suit Skirt inn the Housed
taken by the international commission on

taken by the international commission on
aeronautics.
The plan involves the releasing OF large
number Of these balloons. to each one of
which will be attached an instrument de-
signed to register the temperature and
humidity which obtains in high regions.
These instruments also will automatically
record data from which can be calculated
the changing atmospheric conditions in the
higher attitudes. r--' -
The balloons are constructed to attain
an altitude of ten miles or more At
tached to each balloon will be notice
printed in several languages. promising
reward to the finder of the balloon who will
return it to an indicated place promptly
and carefully 1t Is planned also to dis
tribute balloons to ships for release in mid
ocean. Preliminary experiments, made
from the national headquarters at Zurich.
have been notably successful.
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TO HOLD PRIMARY ELECTION.
Democrats of Montgomery County
Will Meet Tomorrow.
,spondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. August 2. 1907
The democratic primary election to nomi-
nate candidates for the various Offices to be
filled this fall. to choose delegates to rep
resent the county at the state convention
and to elect a new county committee to be
composed of a member from each election
district. will be held in Montg omery county
tomorrow. The aspirants have been hard
at work among the voters for several
months. and as a result the apathy which
marked the early stages of the campaign
has given way to deep interest throughout
the county. and the result of tomorrow's
balloting is awaited with eagerness. The
polls will be open from o'clock in the
morning until O'CLOCK pm. and it is
thought that the returns will all be In by
midnight.
The following is list Of the candidates:
For delegates to the state convention
Blair Lee Hattersly w. Talbot. David
Griffith. William H. Wade and r. Bentley
Thomas
For states attorney-Bowie F. Waters,
Alexander Kilgour and ]. Abby Henderson.
For sheriff-George w. Mullican. Wash
ington B. Chichester. Leonidas Ricketts,.
Randolph I.uhn. William 7. Wheeler and
William E Welt.
For judges of the orphans court-John E.
West Alfred c. Tolson. George w. Meem
Ninian NJ. Perry and Remus r. Darby.
For the house of observation-disclosures M
Griffith. Preston 3. Ray. ]. Dawson Will
liams. Andrew J. Cummings. James E.
Deets George T. Waters. Louis b. Scholl
and r. Brook Colt.
For county commissioner from third COL
lection district. Benjamin c. Colt and Chas
NJ williams: for county commissioner from
fourth collection district. Richard Hum
phrey Cissell. Richard l.. Saunders Charles
Veirs and John Walter Carroll
For county surveyor-Charles j. Maddox.
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Kaiser Cancelled Sentences.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
COPENHAGEN. August 2.-Kaiser VIII
helm has Cancelled the sentences OF ex-
pusion pronounced six years ago upon
Herr Finnemann and his son, farmers or
northern Schleswis. 1t was generally con-
coded that the action Of the governor was
most unjust, but all the efforts to have the
sentence quashed were without avail Al
though the two men are Prussian sub
tects, their sympathies were Danish, but
they never gave the Prusslan authorities
cause for complaint. The kaisers action IL
believed to be I'm the direction Of preparing
q favorable sentiment and improved rela-
lions between Germany and Denmark.
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Weather in July.

The average temperature in Washington
in July, according to the records of the
weather bureau. was 76 degrees. The warm
est day was the Sth, when the mercury went
up to 49, and the coolest was the 4th,
when the mercury dropped to 80. That was
also the date of greatest range Of tenn
perature the change amounting to % de-
grees There were twelve clear days. thir-
teen partly cloudy. six cloudy. and six on
which Ol inch or more Of rain fell.
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sunnlants Horses With Autos.

TARRYTOWN n. V. August Il r.
1uan who for twenty five years was head
n, william Rockefeliers stables. has re-
s,ened For several years Mr.. Rockefeller
has been an enthusiastic automobilist and
n. owns half a dozen big cars. His stable.
which at one time contained some OF the
best biooded stock In the country. Is to-
day practically empty and in their place
are automobiles
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Damages Placed at $4,000.

Suit to recover $4,000 damages was to-
day filed In the District Supreme Court by
Sarah Holly against the Washington Rail
way and Electric Company for alleged per-
sonal injuries said to have been sustained
August last at 18th and G streets north
west. She claims the car was negligently
started. throwing her to tie ground Attor-
ney irving Williamson appears for the
plaintiff.
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Defective French Shells.

PARIS, August minister Of Marine
Thomson admitted today that some OF the
large caIiber shells used during the re-
cent naval maneuvers in the Mediterra-
mean had exploded prematurely. lie said
the reason was that old black powder
had been used. The present ammunition
will be reloaded with mellinite. which
explodes only on conclusion.
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Five Attempted Train Wrecks.

HAMILTON, Ohio. August 1.-Two at
tempts were made last night to wreck a
passenger train on the Cincinnati. Ham
ilton and Dayton road.
The conductor of a freight reports that
he ran into an obstruction which had
been placed on the track at Midway, two
miles from here.
An hour later Conductor Sharkey of the
eastbound Chicago express reporusd that
his train ran into an obstruction and
that a switch had been tempered with.
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Suicides Due to High Cost of Living.

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y. August 2.-John
Graham Brooks. author-socialist of Bos-
tom. believes the cost of living to be the
chief cause of race suicide according to an
address he made at the chautauqua as
sembly. II hesitate to bring up the ques-
ton of race suicide" he saIu. but it is
dismal fact that the increased expense OF
bringing up children In cities where the
people either choose are compelled to
live is largely responsible for the decrease
in the birth rate"
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Workmen Find Gold.

FREDERICTON. N. B.. August .
workmen excavating in Marysville. a
manufacturing town near here. have un-
covered 1902 Spanish gold coins Of the
eighteenth century. The money is worth
about $1,000. None OF the residents Of
Marysville can explain how the coins came
to be buried there.
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Returns to Reform School.

On charge of the larceny of So orisi-
nally taken from James c. Miller at Cliff
ton Forge. Va. LIE Roy X. Pfeiffer was a
defendant before Judge DeLacy in the
Juvenile Court this afternoon. Judge De-
Lacy found that Pfeiffer was paroled from
the reform school, and he was ordered be ok
to that institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-02
Hotel Inducements in Brazil.

RIO JANEIRO. August "A bill granting
special privileges to any one who will put
I'D a hotel In any of the pr -ncipal towns of
Brazil. and then conduct 1t in accordance
wa a specified standard. was brought for
ward Ia the chamber of deputies yesterday.
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Honekone Hotel Cave-In.

HONGKONG. August mo Americans
or Europeans were injured by the collapse
Of the old part of the Hongkong Hotel yes
terdaY
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FLOCKS OF BALLOONS.
to Be Made>at High Alti-
tndea

ZURICH. August Am extensive launch
ing of recording balloons in different parts
of the world for the purpose Of acquiring
important scientific data has been under
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FILES DEMURRER IN COURT
HEARING ON ALLEGED VIOLA
r. TON OF SUNDAY LAW.
IL = = gtt II y
Seven Reasons Why Defendant shoulo
Be Observation-Disclosures Repeal
Of Old Statute.

,, ,uonts against the charge OF
working on Sunday. in violation ol .''e a.
Of the Maryland legislature OF l'%'' nieu
in the Police Court recently asahi"'
charles Robinson as stated In The STAR
nero presented to the court this morning
In demurrer to the information. winch
was fled by Attorney Edward s. Duval'
,r for the defendant. The matter Will De
argued in October when the case Will oe
set for trial do
Seven grounds for smissal OF the oe-
.fendant on the charge brought against HIN
are stated in the demurrer. me hrst sla.es
that the United States and not the D's,ric'
Of Columbia should be named as the pia'h-
tiff in the case, if the OLD olue Jaw 10 neo
70 he in force here, because all nhes penal
ties or forfeitures under the law are re-
coverable only in the name OF the Unlteo
States. - .h+ TIM
Secondly. the demurrer argues tha 5a tn ne
penalty named in the law. 100 POUNDS Oh
toh.cco IS indeterminate. and thus renders
the said act invalid.
In the third place the demurrer points
out that the act has never peeh enloiuaa
in the District of Columbia. and. therefore,
by disuse it has become obsolete inns Is
the first information filed under this law
for many years.
Defective Information Alleged.
Fourth. the demurrer states that the in
formation. alleging that the defendant
worked on Sunday. fails to specify the acts
constituting the work alleged to have been
done on Sunday. thus making the informa-
ton defective.
It is argued, in the fifth place. that the
Information does not state that the work al
legged to have been performed on Sunday
was not a work of necessity or charity.
which kind Of work is excepted under the
lon md no of r.
CUES that statement is necessary in the in
formation.
The last two reasons will probably take
up the larger part of the argument. 1t Is
alleged In the demurrer that the old blue
law was repealed by an act of Congress of
March 3. 1901. entitled IAN act to estab
l,sh a code OF law for the District of Co
lumbia." And 1t Is further argued that the
offense charged, that of working on Sun
day. is no offense against the existing laws
in force in the District.
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Simply Hunting Trouble.

MONTENEGRO. Uruguay. August "A
serious earthquake Is prophesied to take
place in Uruguay August g.
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NAMES IN FRENCH PLAYS.
Authors Have Troubles With Heroes
and Villains.

| Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, December Grinding names
| for their characters Is becoming a more
and more perplexing problem for play
wrights. The old story that a certain
M Duval-one in a million-complained to
Alexander Dumas, fills, because he had
is historic. Now M. Bernstein and M
Guitry find themselves in similar diff
culties. Two Brachards have come to
light in Switzerland who object to the
use Of their name in Samson" They
wrote to both author and actor. but the
former refuses to rename his hero. The
brothers Brachard are now putting the
matter into the hands of their solicitors.
Defendants will reply that the Brachard
whom one of them has imagined and the
other acts is the sympathetic, not to say
the only sympathetic. person in the play
He Is Samson, strong man, who has
muscle, brains and money He loses the
money. but he gets back his wife. and he
Is bound to make another fortune. Why
should the brothers Brachard object to his
bringing into notice their name, of which
no one ever heard before? Another play
more or less funny is now on the Paris
bills, called "Patachon." A gentleman
from the province has just written to the
author to say that his name is Patachon.
He does not object but he thinks it only
fair the manager should send him box
for the play. and also first-class return
railway fare from his country town to
Paris, as his means are small. There
was, once upon day, also an ingenious
or ingenius gentleman who wrote to the
Theatre Francois asking for box for
his Mof on tnf Sa una aa
stood to be the same as that Of the
author of the play
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DECREASE IN COTTON GINNEC
BULLETIN GIVING STATISTICS
UP TO DECEMBER 1.

The census bureau today issued a bull
letin showing that the total cotton crop
of this years growth ginned up to De-
cember 1 was s,33SS54 bales, as COM
pared with 1902, S6S bales for the same
period last year and s.6s9.6 63 in 1905.
Ginneries in operation numbered 26,SI6.
as half bales.
The statistics of cotton ginned to De-
cember 1 include 154.341 round bales for
1907, 221145 for 1906 and 239,770 for 1905.
The number of Sea Island bales included
Is 55,14 for 1907, 41,25O for 1906 81, $50
for 1905
The distribution Of the Sea Island cot
ton for 1907 by states is: Florida. 1856:
Georgia, 27.73s; South Carolina. 77O7.
There were ginned 7,3OO665 bales to
November IA last. The percentage of
crop ginned to December 1 in 1906 was
I1.2 and in 1905 SIS.
The final 1905 crop is given as 1888, 2Ol
and the 1905 as 1O.495.1o
Inc total of S.33S.S54 ginned to Decem-
as follows: ~
Alabama, S52,SS2 bales, 1897 ginneries
arkansas, 4s5, 427 bales, 2,O62 ginneries
flor1da. 1870 bales, 241 gnneries; Geor-
ga; l'ois, So2 bales. 4,463 glnneries; Ken
LUCKY Tue l,00o bales, . ginneries; Louisiana.
d. ' l5S pales, 79S ginneries; Mississippi.
800 , ,9Se nales. 3,459 ginneries; Missouri,
20 bales. II ginneries; New Mexico, 46
pales, g1nneries; North Carolina 46S.-
.os oaies, 1910 ginneries; Oklahoma, $780,
81 pal baies. 957 ginneries: South Carolina,
943,s91 bales. 3,142 ginneries; Tennessee
1I7,172 bales. GA ginneries; Texas I sIs
922 bales, 1926 ginneries; Virginia, 5.195
oales, 81 ginneries.
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MILLS SLOW DOWN.
New England Wooden Factories
Temporarily ON Short Tina

cASAauo Wooien FACTORIES
Temporarily on Short Time.
BOSTON, December 9.-Some mills in
New England temporarily have adopted a
short-time policy which affects about
$4,000 workmen.
The American Wooden Company, which
operates thirty plants in seven states, has
put into effect short-time policy for a
few weeks in the majority Of its factories,
which when running in full employ more
than 10000 hands. The Atlantic Mills of
Olneyville, R. l., the largest independent
wooden plant in that state, have cut the
running time by fifteen and one-half
hours each week ~ the daytime and the
night work by one-fifth. These mills en-
ploy 400 operatives.
Until further notice the Within Machine
Works, owned by the Whitins Of Whitins-
vile, will run five days a week They
'of the Whitins in Whitinsville, Lindon,
North Uxbridge, Sandersville, Rochdale
and Northbridge are not affected by the
order.
The American Wringer Company of
Woonsocket. with $50 on the payroll. will
reduce the schedule to forty-five hours q
week until January 1.
The Eaton Hurlburt Paper Company's
factories in Pittsfield, beginning tomor-
row, will go on a schedule Of five days a
week, seven hours daily, until further no.
tice.,, About 800 are affected.
The mills in all the large cotton centers
are running practically on full time.
Manufacturers generally feel that bust
ness will improve at the beginning Of the
year. 1t Is expected that number of
factories which were closed or placed on
q short-time basis last month will resume
activity in the coming two weeks.