Fair play., 1907-11-16
What promises to be a vigorous at.


Went of tuberculosis cattle and swine,
Four more army officers have been
ordered before retiring board be
cause of their inability to comply with
the horsemanship test prescribed by
the president.
On a warrant sworn out by a maid
who had never even heard of Con.
gresham W. Bourke Cochran. the
famous Tammany leader, was arrest
ed in a polling place on the charge
of having voted Illegally. On reaching
police court, he was at once dis
charged.
While waiting to have her infant
daughter examined by a physician az
Edwardsville. ILL.,, Mrs. Gus Pellegreen
was Mortified to see the child die in
her arms. The baby had pneumonia,
and 1t Is said that the mother had
been giving it a cough medicine. Ac.
cording to a local physician, the medi
cine contained drug which kept the
child from crying, and its mother
thought it was getting we'll
Five thousand persons were killed
and 1926 injured in railroad acci.
dents during the fiscal year ended
June 80, according to statistics pub
lished by the interstate commerce com.
mission. This was an increase of 775
killed and 9577 injured over 1906.
Secretary of War Taft has definitely
decided 10 return home by way of
Vladivostok through Siberia and Eu-
rope He has received, through the
American consul at NladiYostok the
assurance of the Russian government
that the recent disturbances there will
have no effect on his plans.
A dispatch received from Samarkand
says that newspaper man, who was
sent to Karatagh, in the Hussar dis.
trict Of Bakhara, which was destroyed
by landslide following the earth
quake of Oct. 81, reports that 3,400
persons perished and only 20 escaped.
Three safe-blowers cracked the
strong box in the bank at Canova. S.
d.. and secured $4,000.
In Maryland eXGoy. Smith defeated
Gov Wariield in the primary contest
for the United States senate.
The message of Gov. B. b. Conner,
sent to the special session of the Ala
bama legislature, which convened
Thursday. was bitter attack on Pres
ident Smith of the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad.
A. l.. CrOthers, democrat. is proba-
bly, elected governor of Maryland BY
a reduced majority.
In New Jersey late returns indicate
the election of j, Franklin Fort, re.
publican, for governor, over Frank S.
Katzenbash, democrat
A motion to dissolve the injunction
restraining the directors of the Illinois
Central Railroad Co. from allowing
$500 shares of stock, held by the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co of New York
to be voted at the annual meeting
was filed in the Cook county (Illinois)
superior court Thursday afternoon.
The Tammany ticket in New York
county, headed by Thomas F. Foley,
was elected BY one of the smallest plu-
IdlllltS III NCdlSs ne Itlull0' W III
several districts missing, give Foley
a plurality approximately over him
sen of $4,000. The two Bartletts were
elected judges of the court of appeals
over Lyon and McDonough, lndepend-
ence league candidates. McCarren was
defeated in Brooklyn, the entire re-
publican ticket, with the exception OF
district attorney and possibly surro-
gate, winning out.
John c. Dueber, owner Of the Due
berHampden Watch Works at Can
ton, o., said to be the largest watch
factory in the world is dead,
Fire which gutted the five-story
brick building on c street, Southwest
Washington, occupied by the seed dis
tributon division OF the department
Of agriculture, caused damage amount
ing to $4,000
Forest X. Nichols, secretary of W.
II. Andrews, terrorial delegate to con,
gress from New Mexico, was placed on
trial in the United ,ates court at
Pittsburg charged with aiding and
abetting Cashier r. Lee Clark, who
killed himself in the misapplication
OF funds from the Enterprise National
bank of Allegheny.
John Harding TO whom p. T. Bar
mum offered $500 a week to exhibit
himself, died in the poor house at Nor
folk, Conn, Hardings pride would
never permit him TO place himself on
show with the midgets,, the giants,
and the fat ladies', and so, while he
might have amassed a considerable
fortune, he died pauper.
Miss Eta Mclean, who, with A. d.
Gordee, is under arrest in Chicago on
the charge of selling government Sc
crets in recent cases of national i'm
portance, formerly lived in Boston,
She was involved in a shooting af
fair in that city four years ago,
An attack on Robert G. Ingersoll
by Anthony Comstock in the Purity
convention brought forth a spirited
defense from Rev, Caroline b. Crane
Kalamazoo, and set the meeting in an
uproar. Comstock said lngersoll had
tried to dlscredit him, The woman
preacher denied this.
A verdict Of not guilty was returned
in the case of Benjamin II. Tallmadge
Of Denver, tried in the federal court
on the charge of land fraud
John Sweeney "A married man 80