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OHIO

| TOLEDO o., Sept. 30.--Judge Safer in
the federal court today awarded a decree
for 81, S65021 in the suit of the Common
wealth Trust company of 81. Louis VS..
the Toledo Terminal company. The de-
cree was entered upon representation to
the court that the $1,000 900 for which the
Terminal was sold to a committee of
bondholders at public auction sometime
ago was not sufficient to pay the entire
principal and interest on the first mort
gage. bonds.
CHARDON, O.. Sept SO.-The illness of
her father led to the marriage of Mrs.
Jennie Charter so years old, to John
Warner, So. Rev, c. W. Carroll of the
Hough Avenue Congregational church,
Cleveland, performed the ceremony. When
r.. P. Parsons the father, was taken Ill
last winter Warner went to nurse him.
He stood the long night watch, and Mrs
Charter became well acquainted with him
through her ministrations to his comfort.
That acquaintance resulted in her becom-
ing Mrs. Warner
OTTAWA-The Putnam county grand
jury adjourned at noon after returning
nine indictments, two of them against L.
E. Eckleberry and T. ]. Elisha, firebugs of
Putnam county.
TOLEDO-Five hundred railway clerks
here who threatened to go out on a strike
If demands for increased wages were not
met are at work and there will probably
be no strike.
YOUNGSTOWN--Con Ernest Da-
wilson, who was fatally crushed between
cars on the Erie, insisted on getting out
of the ambulance as 1t passed his house
on the way to the hospital to tell his wife
he was not badly hurt. His attempt at
reinsurance made, he returned and was
taken on his way, to die within two hours
OBERLIN-At the annual election of
the class of 1908 a new precedent was
established when "Stoney'' Koehler was
elected president for the second time dur
ing his course.
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NEBRASKA

KIMBALL. Neb.. Sept. SO.-Kimball is
doing lot of building. August Linn is
adding an addition to his hardware store
and laying cement walks. f. M. Whit
man is preparing to build large addi-
ton to his hotel. Several residences will
go up shortly. The county high school
will be located here, and the town is
moving along at a gait that bids fair to
make it a city of considerable Importance.
BRIDGEPORT-O. NJ Robson, from
five acres of ground on his ranch just
north of town, cut the heads of wheat
grass and threshed more than 1000
pounds of seed which he sold direct to
the government for $1J5. He then cut the
remaining grass and found that he had
ten tons of choice hay worth IS per ton.
His five acres made just sos. This is
irrigated land, but very little water has
been taken from the bitches this year.
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ROGERS-Friday night thieves broke
into Newton Bros store. Three pairs of
shoes, some pants and few cigars were
taken. The parties had evidently been
in the store before, as they seemed to
know just where and how to get things.
PAPILLION-Fred SEEK was brought
before the county judge and a jury Sat-
urday morning for carrying concealed
weapons. After a trial lasting all day,
the jury found Selk not guilty.
ASHLAND-A report comes from Me-
hawka in Cass county, that the orchards
of Congressman e. M. Pollard, number
ing 1000 trees, will this year yield but
500 barrels of apples, less than per cent
of the average crop.
HUMBOLDT-The light frost which
visited the lowland of this section did no
damage to growing crops, tending rather
to aid the corn by checking it's growth
and causing 1t to ripen fast. The last
few weeks of hot weather and winds did
much to get the corn in shape to escape
damage by the frost.
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RHODE ISLAND

NEWPORT, r. l., Sept. 3O.-With her
forward gangway washed away by heavy
seas, the steamer New Hampshire put in
here on her way from New Bedford to
New York and landed her passengers.
The damage to the New Hampshire is
not serious, but in the southwest gale
which prevailed 1t was deemed unsafe to
continue her trip. The passengers were
put aboard the Wexford ferry and will
go to New York by rail-
PROVIDENCE-Louise B. Blakenburg
of this city is made beneficiary under
the will of William B. King, deceased, of
Johnston according to the document filed
with the town clerk. She will receive at
least $50, 900. Just who she is, however,
could not be learned.
Three cows were killed, two houses
were struck and other damage was
caused by Saturday evenings storm In
Woonsocket and vicinity. The lightning
struck and killed three cows on the Mer-
rick Thayer place, now leased by Richard
Brown, at Chestnut Hill. Blackstone,
Mass The cows were in field when
struck. During the storm bolt of light
ming struck a cottage house on Arnold
street owned by William H. Emmott and
occupied by Matthew Flynn and daugh-
ter Sarah. Two windows were shattered
and other damage done. Miss Flynn
tainted when the crash came.
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MARYLAND

ELKTON, Nd, Sept. 3.-Ex-Judge Aus
tin L. Crothers of this city. the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor is confined
to bed with what his physicians term a
malarial attack. However. it is feared
that typhoid fever may develop. He was
stricken i'll and the physician warned him
not to attempt to attend the notification
meeting, but ne did SO. and read his
speech of acceptance
At the stockholders meeting of the
woodlawn Camp Meeting association the
following officers were elected: President,
Enoch Mccullough; vice president, Alfred
Kirk secretary and treasurer G. S..
Abrams; managers, James C. Crothers,
II. H. Kirk, w. A. Brickley, Thomas
Kirk, ]. w. Mccullough, A. r. Brown,
@. w. Williams. C. L. Cole, w. r. Mes
bitt, J. T. Rutter and @. r. Jackson.
George w. Harris. former slave. died
near Rowlandsville at the age of 11S years
l month and IA days. The birth record
of the Harris family is said to have been
accurately kept by the owners Of these
colored people. who lived in Hartford
county, Maryland. According to the rec
ord, Harris maternal grandmother was
III years old when she died, while his
mother died at the age Of III years.
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KANSAS

TOPEKA. Kas.. Sept. 30-The state tax
commissioners have sent out to every
board of county commissioners In the
state a letter which points out that the
county commissioners shall see to it that,
above everything else, assessors of the
strictest honesty and integrity are chosen.
and that at all times the most complete
harmony must obtain between them.
GALENA-Former City Marshal Charles
Garner was shot through the head and
stomach by Ed Jackson and is rot ex-
pected to live, Jackson is under arrest.
There has been bad blood between the
two men for two years.
LEAvENwORTH-Go Hoch ard
Mrs. Hoch are the guests of Warden
Haskell and Mrs. Haskell at the state
prison at Lansing.
Warden Haskell said the idea that the
governor is here for the purpose of con-
sidering the application OF John Collins
among others for pardons Is erroneous.
CONCORDIA--This week will be a big
one in Corcordia it being the occasion
of the third annual Cloud county fair,
with the annual Fifth district log roll
ing of Modern Woodmen as a special
feature.
LAWRENCE-Natur gas may keep
fifty men away from the University OF
Kansas this year. When Lawrence used
artificial gas for lighting and coal and
wood for cooking half hundred X. u.
students earned their way through school
by taking care of furnaces through the
winter.
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COLORADO


TRINIDAD. Colo, Sept. 30-There Is
much uneasiness in certain quarters in
Trinidad and Las Animas county since it
has become known that Judge e. H. Long
of the United States attorney generals
office has been here for the last two
weeks investigating coal land entries
Although Judge Long refuses to make
any statement regarding the investigation,
it Is expected that he will file charges
against a number of we'll known people
suspected of obtaining extensive tracts
of coal land under the stone and timber
act.
COLORADO SPRINGS-Judge Sheafor
in the district court denied the motion of
the defense to quash the charge in the
case Of Mrs. Parlee Cheaham- Denning,
charged with trying to defraud w. P. H.
Miller out of 1924, and set the case for
November a. A plea in abatement has
been filed by the defense, based on the
statute of limitations, and will be argued.
PUEBLO-Adolph Frater, who Is wanted
in Denver on the charge of embezzlement,
was arrested and will be turned over to
the Denver authorities.
While riding between two freight cars
with his father, Joe Mecari, an Italian,
IA years old, fell between the cars and was
mangled underline wheels with his father
frantic but unable to assist him. The boy
died four hours later. Father and son
were returning from days hunting.
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THE LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STATE.
NEW YORK


NEW YORK. Sept. Ex-senator Thomas
c. Plat, rejuvenated he says, and better
fitted for work at Washington than for
some time before, talked politics yester-
day with something OF his old time en-
thusiam. Asked who would be New
York's choice in the next Republican
national convention he said:
'It won't be Roosevelt and 1t may not
be Hughes The president does not want
it. The governor Is shrewd enough to
know that the slightest move on his part
to take the delegation would be fatal TO
his aspirations. He may convince the
Republican voters that they cannot do
without him.
'The Republican party of New York
has other material besides Hughes and
Roosevelt. There is Eihu Root, for In
stance. Before an Ohioan or any other
outsider gets our support Root must be
considered"
NEW YORK, Sept so.--John ]. Dooley.
q politician and member of Tammany,
who is seeking the Democratic leadership
of the Twenty-third assembly district In
the primaries. was assaulted as he was
on his way home by unknown persons
and sustained fractured skull and pos
sibly internal injuries.
BAYSHORE, L. Mrs. Margaret Kec-
nan died from eating toadstools for mush-
rooms. Mrs. Keenan, was taken i'll and 1t
was first thought she had indigestion.
Later she showed symptoms of poisoning
and antidotes were given, but too late to
save her life.
PERRY-Mrs. Mary j. Olin, assisted by
Mrs. Albert z. Olin, Mrs. John ]. Martin
and Mrs Charles Glenn Martin. gave
reception at her home on East Main street
to large number of guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Casterline will leave
in few days for Orchard Park where
they will make their future home.
Prof. and Mrs. McClelland entertained
the faculty of the Perry high school at
their home
Mrs. Ella Craven is visiting her sister.
Mrs. Walter Wakely of Bridgeport, Conn.
NIAGARA FALLS-The Cliff Paper
company mill was the scene of small
fire. there being more smoke than blaze.
The fire was caused by an overheated
bearing and was quickly extinguished,
the damage being slight.
WARSAW-A party of surveyors with
the Rochester, Caledonia & Scottsville
railroad were in Warsaw last week. run
ming the levels from Wyoming to War
saw.
SARANAC LAKE-Fire completely de-
stroyed the Hotel Ampersand, one of the
largest and best known of the Adiron-
dack hotels. The fire started in the eleva-
tor shaft on the ground floor and in a
short time swept through the entire struc-
ture. The loss is estimated at s270,000;
insurance not known now
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NEW HAMPSHIRE

CONCORD, N. H., Sept. S0-St. Paul's
school, one of the largest Episcopal edu-
ational Institutions of the country,
opened for the fall and winter terms last
Thursday. Many people who have sons
at the school are here because Of the ex-
aminations. o. P. Belmont of New York.
an alurnnus of the school, was here.
PORTSMOUTH-work was begun at
IL toyhood home of Thomas Bailey AL
drich on Court street on the alterations
designed to restore it to the condition 1t
was In when he lived there with his
grandparents.
The work is under the direction of the
authors widow and son. When completed
&he house will be furnished and many
manuscripts and other valuables exhibit
ed in what will be known as the Thomas
Bailey Aldrich Memorial home
GOFFSTOWN-Sam Kidder. one of
the well known residents of this town,
has presented the Methodist and Congre-
gational churches here with $500 each. He
also presented to Mrs. Joseph Caraway
deed of the house on High street re-
Gently occupied by. Miss Emma Carlton,
which is valued at 1880, and to his house,
keeper deed of his residence
Mr. Kidder says his desire is to see his
gifts do good while he Is living.
NASHUA-The horse and carriage
stolen from Charles A. Mason, who left
the outfit hitched to a post on Main
street, were found.
No clue to the identity of the men who
took the rig has yet been found
MANCHESTER-In an effort to save
the life of his little granddaughter, Au-
gustus L. Lamson, aged r. of East Man
chester was seriously injured and had to
be removed to the Elliott hospital.
The horse he was driving became
frightened at the swapping of the family
dog. throwing Mr.. Lamson from the car
riage.
DOyER-A barn and outbuilding on
North Pine street, known as the Good
hue property, were destroyed by fire, re-
sulting in a damage of about $500.
A chemical exploded in the hands of
William A. Rand, driver of hose wagon
2, and he was blown nearly twenty yards.
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MISSOURI

ST. LOUIS. Sept 3O.-The fall festivi-
ties of St. Louis formally open tonight
and will continue throughout tomorrow.
Wednesday President Roosevelt will visit
st. Louis on his voyage down the Mis-
sissippi river to the National Waterways
convention at Memphis. Governors from
twenty-three states, congressman and
other distinguished personages will be
guests here during the week.
ST. LOUIS Mo-, Sept. 30.-Caleb ".
Bartlett, former cashier of the Madison
Coal corporation, pleaded guilty before
Judge Hugo Muench to two charges of
embezzling money from the company
and was sentenced to serve five years in
The penitentiary. He was sentenced to
serve two years on one charge of embez-
cling $500 and three years on the charge
of appropriating $3.50. Six other Informal
lions, totaling $685. were nolle prosecuted
by the state
MONTGOMERY CITY-New Florence
this county, is now in the dry column.
William Verser has quit the saloon BUSH
ness and gone to farming. He claims the
temperance people made such a fight on
his business that IL made 1t no longer
profitable The temperance crusade in
that place has waged, at intervals, for
JOPLIN-The boilermakers of Jasper
county are on a strike. The employers
refused to grant the demands of the
strikers for ~ cents an hour increase in
wages. The boilermakers have been paid
at the rate of $275 for ten hours work
ST. JOSEPH--A deputy state factory
inspector, G. @. Starmer, caused the ar
rest of several messenger boys here
charged with violating the child labor
law They were later released on prom
Use that they would quit work at once.
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SPRINGFIELD = M. w. Colbaugh.
president of the Springfield club, and the
board Of the organization will go to JEFF
ferson City at the next meeting of the
state highway commission to advocate
the construction of public highway
from Springfield to Jefferson City
through Greene, Webster, Dallas, La
clede, Camden, Miller and Cole counties.
ST. LOUIS-According to compiled
statements made by officials of the va
rious Missouri railroads, the operation
of the 2-cent fare, law has cost the Mis-
souri, railroads s1,5Oo,O0O during the last
three months. The law became effective
in Missouri on June II.
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ILLINOIS

SPARTA, ILL.,, Sept. 30.-James Wallace,
a married man of this place. and Mrs.
Julia NJ Poindexter, wife of w. II. Pom
dexter, a barber, have been arrested ami
convicted in Chicago on a statutory
charge, Wallace being sentenced to three
months in jail and fined 500, and the
woman was given thirty days at Bride
we'll and fined $3.50.
vIRGINIA-Mrs. Mary Stanley Sim
MONS wife of Mayor G. A. Simmons, is
in critical condition.
DR.. ]. W., Huston and his bride. for
merly Miss Estella Wood of Cairo, Mich,
are home from a honeymoon, and will
reside for the present with her sister,
Mrs DIR. Joseph Fulton
H. S. Wilson and son of Denver, Colo,
are here for visit with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. d. d. Wilson.
PANA-Burglars entered the Gilman
postofflce and stole all the stamps and
about $65 in money.
SPRINGFIELD-Gov Deneen is
sued a requisition on the governor of
New York for the return to the Illinois
state penitentiary at Joliet of August P.
Waiter, who has violated his parole and is
now serving a sentence in the Erie county
penitentiary.
Governor Deneen offered a reward of
5000 for the arrest. and delivery to the
sheriff of Massac county of Ezekiah
Stalls, negro. who is wanted on the
charge of killing Thomas Watson, alias
Thomas Pea, at Joppa> July %. 1907.
WATERLOO-The Monroe county Sep
TENDER term of the circuit court began
here. Judge Charles T. Moore presiding.
Au iax
and seventeen schancery cases on the
docket.
MT. CARMEL-The committee of the
southern Illinois conference, to whom was
referred the case of the Rev. b. s. Smith
of Effingham, charged with conduct unbe.
coming a minister, recommended that hi
withdraw from the ministry and mem
bership in the church. 50
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GEORGIA


EATONTON, Ca, Sept 90.-The jury
in the case of Porter and Reed Jones,
charged with the murder of Robert f.
Adams, have brought in a verdict of
guilty with a recommendation to mercy.
Judge Lewis sentenced both boys to life
Imprisonment. The prisoners displayed
no emotion. The murder was the result
of family feud.
wRIGHTSvILLE-Wr and
Tennille mixed train was wrecked at
Young's crossing about mile from
Wrightsville.
The engine tender and one freight car
turned over. w. B. Stokes, the engineer,
was badly scalded, and two of the pas
sengers, w. L. Stinson of Wrightsville
and w, L. Joyner of Dublin, were also
seriously injured.
ADVANTAGEOUS hic son refused to
wed and have heirs, Jasper Smith, an
eccentric capitalist of Atlanta, has sued
and recovered valuable property decided
to his son four years ago At the trial
of the case it was shown that the capital
ist had given the property to his son on
the express condition that the latter
marry and have heits
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IOWA

TRAER, Iowa. Sept. 3o.--Reports of a
probable family jar in the household of
Secretary James Wilson of the depart
ment of agriculture, whose home is here,
over the news from Paris that his daugh-
ter, Flora, will go on the operate stage
are denied by friends. Miss Wilson has
been studying for grand opera under Jean
de Reszke In the French capital, and
she expects to become a concert and
opera singer. Her family, It is said, is
reconciled to her choice OF career.
SIOUX CITY-Delegates TO the general
conference at Baltimore were chosen at
the Northwest Iowa conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church. The dele
cations named are:
Ministerial-Dr. W. s. Lewis, Morning
side; j. b. Trimble, Sioux City; G. c.
Fort, Fort Dodge; p. S. johnson, Ida
Grove; Robert Smylie. Sioux City.
Reserve-Hugh Hay. Sheldon; 0. X.
Maynard, Algona.
Lay-Jonathan p. Doliiver, ]. L.. Blake
ly, Ida Grove; o. p. Miller. Rock Rapids;
C. ]. Lockin, Aurelia; e. B. sopee, En-
metsburg.
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FALLS FORTY FEET;
SAVED BY CLOCK

4 LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept 3O-Fall- 4
4 ing headlong forty feet from the fifth =
+ story window on the south side OF =
4 the Rossmore apartments on Fourth !
+ avenue shortly before 3 o'clock yes :
4 terday morning, to skylight over l.. +
4 DeWitt'e millinery establishment at !.
4. $50 Fourth avenue, Thomas Bucn- :
4 anan, Waterman at the Rossmore' :
+ would probably have died but for =
i the connection of his post with the =
4 A. d. T. watchman's system. 7
4. Al 8 o'clock Fred Limper OF the a. =
= d. T. office started on his bicycle to !
i. the Rossmore to ascertain the cause =
4. of the watchman's failure to ring =
4. in at 3 O'Clock, as prescribed by the =
4. regulations. He found him lying on =
\ the skylight in an unconscious con- =
4 dition directly under an open WINDOW =
!. Of the fifth floor. Had he not been =
4 found so soon. he would probably =
!. have died before morning. =
4 Today he is under the attendance =
i of surgeons at the city hospltai, =
4. where he was taken early yesterday =
!. morning. 1t is believed that Bucn- :.
i anan had fallen asleep while IN =
4. the window, and losing his balance =
4. fell to the skylight below. The noise =
4 OF his impact against the heavy =
i. glass aroused number OF the oc- =
4 cupants of the Rossmore, but no =
+ one became sufficiently alarmed TO =
4, endeavor to discover the cause OF the =
4 noise Limper, on arriving, made the y
i rounds of the halls, and on APP =
i. preaching the open window looked =
i down upon the body Of Buchanan. !
+ The city ambulance was called, =
+ and the injured Waterman carried to =
+ the hospital, where an examination =
i. revealed fractured skull. His body =
!. was a mass of bruises. Owing to his =
4. apparently good constitution at pres =
4 emit under the circumstances the at =
4 tendants look for remarkably +
1. early recovery. provided no unfor- +
4 seen turn for the worse intervenes. 4
j. 4 4. j. + 4 4 i. i i i i T. 4 + i. 4. j. j.
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IDAHO

BOISE Idaho, Sept. S0.-Thomas Egan
of Idaho county has just been brought to
the pententiary to serve a term of ten
years for assault with intent to commit
murder John JoSich of this county has
also lust begun to serve a term at that
institution for assault. The sentence is
for six months.
Oscar Bean of New Plymouth accident
ally shot himself in the right leg while
hunting ducks near that place in COM
pany with another boy. They were riding
in buggy, when the gun fell and was In
some way discharged. The Bean boy now
lies at the home Of Mr.. Berry in critical
condition.
immigration Commissioner Allen Miller
has Just returned from Boise county, and
he reports that a great deal Of dry farm
ing has been done In that section this
season. He says the fruit, and especially
the apple crop. is very heavy there and
that dry farming has been very satisfac-
tory the yields having been much greater
than were expected.
BURLEY-Frank sRiblett, county sur
veyor of Cassia county. has been in Bur
ley for several days looking after the in
terests of several mining properties in
which he Is interested. He Is authority
for the statement that there is consider
able development work being done at this
time in the Cumora and Olympia mines,
located southeast of BurieyA fourteen
miles from Albion.