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state. Senator Allison was admitted
to the bar in 1850 and engaged in prac-
tice at Ashland, Ohio where he was
married in 1852 to Miss Anna Carter
Of Wooster, Ohio. He practiced law in
Ohio until 1857, when he moved to
Dubuque, Iowa. Here he entered poll
tics. Two years after moving to the
Hawkeye State he was a delegate to
the Republican state convention.
Young Allison represented his con-
gresSional district at the Republican
national convention at Chicago in 1860.
1t was in that year that he was ap-
pointed member of the governors
staff and as such engaged in raising
troops for the Civil War. He was
elected to Congress in 1863, represent
ing his district In the lower house at
Washington until 1871. He retired to
the practice of law in 1871, but tired
of private life and "a 1873 made a
successful campaign for the United
States senatorship from his adopted
state. Senator Allison's term in the
Senate would have expired the day
after his eightieth year.
For more than three score years he
was actively engaged in public work
He broke all records for mere length OF
service. On three occasions he de-
clined cabinet portfolio, Presidents
Garfield, Harrison and Mckinley each
having rendered the place Of secretary
of the treasury to the distinguished
Iowan in 1881, 1889 and 1897 respect
lively. He was in public life when
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated,
and he was delegate to the
famous convention at Chicago In
1860 which put Lincoln in NOM
nation. Passing through the recon-
struction time and following Grant
through all his troubled administra-
tion, the Iowa senator, almost ut the
beginning Of his career In the senate,
began to acquire reputation as a
financier.
The local fame of Senator Allison as
an expert on monetary matters was ex-
tended to international confines when
In 1892 he was chairman Of the Ameri-
can delegation of the international
monetary conference at Brussels. 1t
has been said that Senator Allison ant
Speaker Cannon know more Of the act
ual mechanism of the American gov
ernnent than all the rest of Congress
put together.
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NEW YORK.

Trade, crop and industrial reports show
little change from last week. but general
tendencies and certainly sentiment are in
the direction of moderate Improvement.
Preparations for the opening of fall job
bing trade in the first week of August are
making at all cities, buyers are gathering
in large numbers and a full representa-
ton, with increased buying, is looked for.
In industry there are evidences of ex-
pansion in some lines and of contraction
in others. Factories generally are run
ming simply ION orders" In iron and
steel, orders and production of finished
lines are larger, but pig iron is easier.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending July 80 number 275,
against 263 last week, 142 In the like
week of 1907 ITO in 1906. 17S in 1905
and ITO in 1904. Canadian failures for
the same period were 81, against "a last
week and 10 in this week last year
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
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TGES llI'A'ga;2glER5
,sstts3SSIss sIElE &,E,-aN.
9Eb: -sT&aG~

Chicago-Cattle common to prime,
$500 to $765; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, Doc to 96c !;
corn, No. 2, roc to soc; oats, standard,
49c to 52c; rye, No. 2, Toe to 76c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie $500
to 5000; butter, choice creamery, tic
to Zoe; eggs, fresh, lie TO Zoe; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 73c to SOC
Indianapolis shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500 sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, SIC to
soc; corn, No. 2 white, roc to Soc; oats,
No. white. SOC to coo.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to s7.40; hogs,
800 to $500; sheep $500 To S445;
wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn, No. 2,
76c to TIC: oats, No. 2, Acc to 47c;
rye, No. 2, 75c to TIE.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $3.50:
hogs, 500 to $7.20; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2. Ole to 92c; corn.
No. 2 mixed, 76c TO TIC: oats, No. 2
mixed, 51c TO 52c; rye, No. 2. 7Sc to SOC.
Detroit--Cattlc, 800 to 1925; hogs,
$500 to $6.T5: sheep. $3.50 to 800;
wheat, No. 2, 92c to 03c; corn. No.
yellow. roc to Sic; oats, No. white,
Gle to &c; rye. No. 2, 65c to &c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
sf.t3 10 S1.15: corn, No. 3, TIC to Zoe;
oats, standard. SOC to 6Oc; rye, No. /.
76c to TIC; barley, No. 2, Soc to zoe;
pork, mess. $15.25.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping steers,
800 to $6.75; hogs. fair to choice, $500
to 1925; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle. 800 to s6.70:
hogs. $3.50 TO $7.15: sheep. $500 to
4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.0l to $1.02;
corn. No. 2, SIC to SEC; oats. natural
white, Gle to 64c; butter, creamery, 19c
to 21c: eggs, western, lie to 19c.
ToIedo-Wheat. No. mixed, Ole TO
p3c: corn. No. mixed, 7Sc 10 Soc;
oats. No. Q mixed, 4Sc TO Ace; rye. No.
2. 75c to re; clover seed. October, $3.50.
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CHICAGO.

brsiness activity gives further evidence
OF recuperation. The monthly total Of
payments through the banks again ex.
ceeds the billion dollar mark and COM
mercial defaults this week have fallen be-
low those reported a year ago, both in
numbers and liabilities.
Production in leading industries stead
lily rises and preparations for increasing
machinery and labor employed testify to
the encouragement which manufacturers
draw from The improving outlook.
Crop conditions generally maintain q
high position. Harvesting extends north
ward earlier than was anticipated. re-
suits compare favorably with former
years, and, together with the high prices
current, the prospects are more decided
~ favorable to Investment of capital and
trade.
New demands are notably stronger in
pig iron, steel, lumber and Other lines,
although no contracts stand out conspic-
uously large.
FACTORY work reflects recovery in OUT
puts OF electric ryods. wire, furniture anG
heavy machinery, and easier costs slim
ulate construction and new buildings.
Permits during July for business struc-
lures and improvements very closely APP
proach the high total value of July, 1907.
Mercantile collections throughout the
central West have become desirably
prompt. High temperatures here and at
interior points stimulated absorption in
the principal retail lines, and the July
sales were successful in reducing mer-
cnandlse stocks to a comfortable average
wholesale operations beghs their reac-
ton from the midsummer quiet, and the
advance arrivals of August buyers all
ready is large.
Tie markets for grain, live stock and
provisions remain fairly active, but the
course of prices tended lower. The total
movement of grain at this port, 6,972,-
oof bushels, compares with 5,74S,S64
bushels year ago. Compared with 1907
there is Increase in receipts of 34.7 per
cent and decrease in shipments of % per
cent Live stock receipts were only
229.S47 head, against 265, 1872 head last
week and 249.5lS head in 1907.
Bank clearings, 5000, 235, 252, are ia
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907, which included two days OF
heavy August settlements. Money is quot
ed at 3& TO 4 u per cent for choice COM
merciNl paper. Discounts have increased
moderately in the aggregate, but currency
shipments to move crops have become
heavier
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trtct number %, against 81 last week and
30 a year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 8, against 8 last week and
in 1907.-Dun's Review of Trade.
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AUTO BRAKES SNAP AND 5 DIE.
Huge Tonneau Plunges Down En-
bankment, Killing Occupants.

Huge Tonneau Plunges Down EN-
bankment, Killing Occupants.
The second disastrous automobile ac-
cident within forty-eight hours, involv-
ing prominent San Francisco people,
occurred Monday afternoon near Bur-
lingame, the fashionable suburb of the
city, when huge tonneau occupied by
five women and two children plunged
down steep embankment as the re-
suit of the swapping of the brakes and
caused the death of five of the occu-
pants and injury to two others.
Coming down a steep grade near
Crystal Lake, Miss Ethel Mccormick,
who was at the wheel, endeavored to
check the speed of the car by applying
the foot brake. 1t failed to hold the an
tomobile, and she hastily threw on the
emergency brakes. They snapped.
Then the young woman endeavored to
steer the car against the high bank on
the right. The front wheel, however,
struck large rock, and the next mo-
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Representative Glenn, who recently in
troduced into the Georgia Legislature a
bill to invalidate marriage contract bas-
ed upon false appearances of the woman
due to the use of pads. stays, crimps,
paints or other artificial devices, has
asked the protection of the State owing
to the large number of threatening letters
he has received from women in all parts
of the country. He says he takes il, that
the allegations must have some truth or
the women would not be so angry.
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MYSTERY sHRouDs DEATHs.


Bodies of New York Couple Found I'm
Minnesota Lake.
George a. Raisbeck, president Of the
Hake Manufacturing Company of New
York, and his wife met death under
strange circumstances in Lake Sylvia,
near Annandale, Mimi, the other night.
Mystery surrounds the tragic occurrence,
and all sorts of rumors are afoat. Rails
beck and his wife were last seen alive on
the fatal night shortly before leaving the
cottage, where they have been staying at
Lakeside, when they told friends that they
were going out on the lake to fish. Early
the next day the body of Mrs. Raisbeck
was found floating near the shore and
not far away was their boat, which had
not been overturned On the shore near
by were found the hat and coat of Mr..
Raisbeck. The lake was dragged and the
body Of Raisbeck was brought to the
surface. There was no storm on the lake
that night and persons in the vicinity
heard Nd cries for help. The woman's
body was badly bruised, leading to the
belief that drowning was MOI the sole
cause of death. The coroner and county
attorney will make thorough investiga-
ton.
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FARMAN in THREE FLIGHTS.
Flies 500 Yards Straight Ahead in
AeropIane mt Brighton Reach.

Flies 500 Yards Straight Ahead I'm
q Aerorlane at Brighton Beach.
Henri Farman made three successful
Fights in his aeroplane at the Brighton
Beach race course, New York. Each flight
was straight ahead, but soon Mr.. Far
man hopes to display the machines ca
pacity to turn around. On his first flight
he covered about two-thirds of the dis
lance at height of never more than six
feet. The second fight was little long
er, and on the third he traversed the en-
tire distance, about 800 yards. The wealth
CT was ideal for the exhibition, and the
aeroplane SKINNED along like swallow.
The spectators, who included several Fo-
cal aeronauts, were most enthusiastic. A
novel preliminary to the flights was the
ioosing of about twenty-five toy balloons.
90 that Farman might Judge of the wind
e,-rents.
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DIES TO SAVE SONS LIFE.
New York Driver browns Rather
than Impertl His Roy.

New York Driver browns Rather
than Impert1 His Roy.
To few men does fate offer an oppor-
tunity FOR such hsroism as she gave James
Farrell, driver, in New York. His body
now lies In the front room of his home,
and on the wall hangs the blue ribbon
awarded him by the Society fer the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals May 1 last
for being the most careful driver in New
York. Farrell, who is IS years old,
was swimming with his 17-year-old son
Arthur of the pier at the foot of West
SD street when he was overcome with
weakness. His son swan to him and
threw his arms around his fathers neck
to hold him up. The father, with the in
stinct of drowning man, threw his hands
around his sons neck, but realizing that
he would drag the boy to the same death
ne was facing, he released his hold and
sank. Young Farrell, on getting his
breath, dived after his father, and Robert
Graham, who was standing on the pier,
jumped into the water fully clothed. Two
young friends of the boy, who had gone
swimming with the Farrells, also tried TO
rescue Mr.. Farrell. After several attempts
Graham brought the body to the surface.
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HUSBANDS TAR GAY LoTHARlo.
Three Arrested for Attack ON Al
legged Hypnotic suitor.

Three Arrested for Attack ON Al
legged Hypnotic Suitor.
+. E. Bliss Jr., a member of the con-
tracing firm of Bliss & Albrecht, paper
In,crs, is coated from head to foot with
hardened tar and under the treatment of
several physicians in Washington. Henry
:. Cole, Charles Marthison and James
L. White, prominent as brokers and BUSH
ness men, who admit applying the tar
and regret they did not make a better
job of it, were arrested after news of
the affair came out through Bliss physi-
clans. The three men were released on
$500 bond. Bliss is 35 years of age,
suave, handsome, fine conversationalist,
and boasts of his powers as a hypnotist
On several occasions Bliss and Mrs. Mar
thjson have been seen together at the the
a.er and other public places. Marthison
on Wednesday saw them together and a
quarrel with his wife occurred. Mrs.
Marthison said she had been under Bliss
hypnotic influence for some time and was
unable to control herself when he was
near. She said she got instructions from
him by mental telepathy.
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CHICAGO HAS BIG FIRE;
| WHOLE CITY MEdACED
Spectacular Elevator Blaze Causes
Loss Of Over One Million
Dollars.
DEPARTMENT IN KARD FIGHT.
Huge Grain Storehouses Are De-
stroysd and Fire Boat Is
Sunk.

One Of the fiercest and most specific.
ular fires that has ragged in Chicago In
years, which left property loss of
S1,558,000 in its wake and threatened a
repetition of the confiagration of 1871.
started Monday afternoon In the dock
freighthouse of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad at 10th street and
the river. Two grain elevators, hun
dreds of thousands of bushels of grain,
freight depot, fifty freight cars and a
number of buildings and sheds were de-
stroyed
During the height of the blaze hun
dreds of burning boards and shingles
were carried on the breast of a strong
southwest wind, and the situation be-
came so critical ut one time that Fire
Marshal Koran prophesied a general
confagration throughout the city, if the
fire crossed the river. Desperate work
by the firemen kept the flames from
spreading.
So intense was the heat at one time
that the firemen could not approach
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TELEeRAPHrc BREvrT1Es

The National Educational Association
voted down proposition to indorse re
formed spelling.
The Arkansas suits against the Waters
Pierce Oil Company came to close wher
the defendant corporation accepted CON
promise penalty Of $4,000.
In the Georgia convict bids investiga-
ton it was shown that ex-Gov. Terrell
while Attorney General, was attorney for
James w. English, a convict lessee, and
acted in his interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie were
in an auto crash near Inverness. Scotland
their machine being in collision. No
one was injured, but the car was dam
aged.
Evidence at the coroner's inquest held
at Averill Park, n. Y. established that
Hazel Drew did not commit suicide, but
that she was murdered before her body
was thrown into Teal pond
While at Hot Springs. Va, w. a.
Taft, presidential nominee. got wedged
into q telephone booth and had to be
sawed out, according to a letter received
BY 9 New Haven Coma man. A big
booth Is being built for Mr.. Taft
Major n. P. McCrea, paymaster in
the United States navy. died Of heart dis
ease in Pullman sleeper on Pennsyl-
vania railroad train near Pitcairn. Pa
Oscar Battling Matthew Nelson de-
clares be is satisfied with his 6sfic hon.
OTIS and contemplates getting married,
quitting the ring and leading the simple
life.
Miss Leigh Townsend. New York girl
Of social prominence. and Charles Smith,
a chauffeur, were killed when the autonso-
bile in which they were riding Was struck
by train near Glen Head. l. T. the
ether two occupants Of the car being seri-
ously injured
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BANIsHED SON CUT OFF IN WILL

Joel Kinney, Sent to Sea by Rich
Father, to Have Only an Annuity.
While his two brothers and a sister
viii share most of an estate conservative
ly estimated at $12000,000, Joel Kinney,
son of Francis Sherwood Kinney, who
made his fortune by the manufacture of
cigarettes, will receive only the interest
on $4,000, and not even that should he
make any contest or objection. M. Kin
ney died on April 4, in bis home, and his
Will has just been admitted to probate in
Morristown. N. j. Joel Kinney has been
missing for fifteen gears. As the result
OF disagreement with his father ne was
sent on trip around the world in a
specially constructed sailing vessel and
his relatives have known little or nothing
of him since. After his fathers death
it was learned at Los Angeles that he
had been held on the ship practically a
prisoner.
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CITIES BURN; 200 DIE;
BIG AREA F|RE-SWEPT.
Forest Land in Kootensy Valley
Is Devastated by Sea of
Flame.
THOUSANDS LEE HOMELESS.
Many Towns Are in Path of the De-
stroyer and Residents Flee
in Panic.

At least 200 lives are known to have
been lost as the result of bush fires,
which have swept over an area of one
hundred square miles in the east Koo-
tenay country, Manitoba. Whole cities
and towns have been laid low and the
loss in property is estimated at more
than $10,000000, and this may be
swelled enormously.
Among the towns destroyed or in
the path of the flames are the follow
ing:
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indianapolis News.

within half block of the flames and
the paint on the boat Chicago, which
was nearest to the scene, was scorched
in several places. The grain stored in
the elevators was attacked by fire on
every side and it's destruction gave adj
ditional alarm to members of the board.
of trade, who are exercised over i
threatened crop shortage.
Wall Sinks Fire Tug.
The steel fireboat Illinois, the pride
Of the Chicago fire department, was
sent to the bottom of the river at 8 80
a. M. Tuesday as the spectacular cul-
mination of the disastrous blaze of the
day before. The fireboat was sunk by
the collapse of the east wall of eleva-
tor f, near 10th street and the river,
and d number OF firemen were slightly
injured and narrowly escaped death by
drowning when the crash came without
anything to indicate that danger was
near.
Two engineers and four stokers, to-
gether with Capt. Lyons, were on board
the boat and were rescued with difficult
ty. A pipeman, who was standing on
the docks, was Knocked senseless by a
hail of flying debris and was severely
cut on the head
The boat, valued at 100000 received
the ful' force of the terrific CRASH and
was crushed in by the falling wall. The
engine room and the fire-fghting lna-
chinery were reduced to tangled mass
of steel and the craft sank Immediate
1v
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MAN KILLED IN $780, 900 FIRE.

Plant of National Rendering Co. mt
Globe Station, III, Burns.
One man was killed and a loss of
100000 occasioned by fire which early
Monday started in a plant of the Nation
al Rendering Company at Globe Station,
near Lansing ILL., The man whose life
was lost is James McKeag, who lived in
Hegewisch. lie leaves wife and two
children in Ireland. One hundred and
fifty men are employed by the rendering
plant, but only McKeag, who was night
Waterman, was in the building when the
fire broke out, supposedly from sponta-
neous combustion.
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nrr.. Gnnne.. Poi.nn vict.m.

In LapostS, Ind, Coroner Mack an
nounced that DIR. Walter Haines of Chi
cago. who analysed the stomach of An
drew Helgelein of Aberdeen. s. D., last
victim of Mrs. Belle Guinness. finding
strychnine and arsenic in fatal doses, has
also found in the stomachs of Mrs Gun
ness and two of the children arsenic and
strychnine in quantities sufficient to have
caused death.
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cuIebra Cut Now Half Done.

The Washington Office of the Panama
Canal Commission hears that the big cut
for the canal at Culebra Is about half
completed. a total of near 47,Ot0,0 900
cubic yards having been excavated. OF
this, however. the American workers have
/ dug only 18.445.426 yards. Chairman
Cocktails has recognized the canal work
SO as to divide the whole into three
geographical sections, in each of which
the chief has charge of ALI classes Of
x~ork
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FIRE is cARELEssLY STARTED.
BOY Lights Match and Causes Ex-
p1osion of Gas Plant.

boy Lights Match and Causes Ex-
pIosion of Gas Plant.
Anton Pellowski struck a match while
hunting leak in gas tank In the puri-
flying building of the Winona Gas Com
pany in Winona, Mimi, at midnight A
terrific explosion followed, setting fire q,
the building and causing heavy damage.
The city was left without gas light and
it may be days before service is resumed.
The explosion was heard fer blocks
around and frantic people rushed out of
their homes to find the huge building in
flames. The four walls of the structure
were blown out, and the roof was shat
tered to splinters. The fire was extin-
zuished after a hard fight in gas fumes.
Three men were injured, one perhaps ia
tally. Pellowski, the boy who struck the
match, was burned on the hands and face.
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Judge Thomson in the Federal Circuit
Court at Cincinnati, granted temporary
injunction to stop the enforcement of
the new internal revenue rules against
the local distillers. He holds that the
system of branding which has prevailed
for many years has not been abrogated
by the new pure food law. and that the
marking of certain products spirits" snd
otEers alcohol" is still lawful, though
contrary to the new rules of the depart
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DEATH TAKES U. S.
SENATOR ". B. ALLISON
Noted Statesman Succumbs to At.
tack of Heart Failure at His
Home in Dubuque.
FIGURE IN IOWA POLITICAL WAR.
Public Career Covering More Than
Three-Score Years Breaks All
Records for Length.


United States Senator william b.
Allison dropped dead at Dubuque,
Iowa, Tuesday of heart failure. The
senior senator's decease comes on the
eve Of his reelection to another term
in the upper house, whore he had been
a leader for years His death will per-
haps throw Iowa politics into turmoil
again.
William Boyd Allison was born in
Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1929. He passed
his boyhood days ON the farm, securing
his preliminary education at the coun-
try schools, and graduating from the
Western Reserve College in his native
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Fire broke out in the center of Chi
cago's great grain district the other. after
nosn. burning to the ground two mann
moth elevators. the Burlington freight
depot. 100 freight cars, and for a time
threatened to wipe out all the buildings
in the territory bounded by State, Canal,
Seventeenth and Twelfth streets. The
loss is about S1,JO0,000.
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euNPLAY FOR MAYOR ROSE.

Politician Disarmed In City Hall
After Threat to Kill Executive.
A well-known Democratic politician,
whose name is not given, while intoxicat-
ell entered the Office of Mayor Rose Of
Milwaukee with drawn revolver, declar-
ing his intention of killing the executive.
He was disarmed by the mayors body
guard and no arrest was made The man
has been lifelong friend of the mayor,
but has not been given the political re-
wards he expected as a result of tie
mayors election last spring.