The Harrison times., 1908-10-17

is three times as great as tnat in the
atmosphere of London. Samples Of
the air taken at height of 40 feet
above the street level at four points
of the city were subjected to analysis.
The story is current in high society
circles in Rome that Miss Katherine
Elkins, the American heiress, whose
engagement to the Duke Of the Alb
ruzzi, cousin of King Emmanuel, has
Tilted her royal suitor One rumor is
that Miss Elkins has refused to
change her religion, which would be
necessary in case she became the
bride of the Duke.
Accused of plotting to kill his
father, a millionaire of Leipsic, Ger
many by means of poisoned needles,
Hans Moertsch has been arrested in
Detroit, a year after his arrival in
America. Moertsch, who is only %
years old, is said to have been ordered
from home by his father, and is beIiev-
ed to have been acuated by motives
of revenge.
Suffering from tobacco heart Mrs
Annie Siefert, 40 years old, residing
at the foot of Dover street, ST. Louis,
is at the city hospital in serious con.
dition, as a result Of the constant use
of chewing tobacco. She told physici.
ans she was so firmly in the grasp OF
the habit that she could not sleep un-
less she had the weed in her mouth.
Reports from the International race
say the Spanish balloon Mantana eX
ploded over Mestzendorff, SaXony
while at a height Of 5000 feet. The
car and the rigging shot toward the
earth, but when within 1000 feet of
the ground the ripped envelope form
ed in the shape Of a parachute and the
speed was checked. The occupants Of
the basket alighted without injury
After a recess of more than four
months, the supreme court Of the
United States began business with
larger calendar than ii has had at the
beginning of a term since the passage
of the court of appeals act AT the
close of business there were 572 cases
on the docket, as against 4S0 cases at
this time last year.
The Government railways under
construction in Chile, and other
Government lines for which contracts
are about to be let to be completed
within five years, involve an estimat-
ed cost of $G5G2IOOO
Every important business place in
the city of Tnkster, N, d., except drug
store, bank and hotel was burned in
the fire which started in the Minnea-
polls and Northern elevator, and
crossing the street, swept the main
business block clean, The loss is
estimated at $l5O,OOO,
The Bryan campaign fund is to be
boosted in a novel way by the Demo.
cratic women of Belle Rive, III, They
have formed their plans to hold a pie
supper-eyery woman to bring a pie
and sell it to the highest bidder, the
purchaser getting the privilege Of eat.
ing the pie with its maker,
Forced by the head of one Of the
semi-civilized Tartar tribes in the
Caucasus to wall up the chieftains
daughter in a living tomb somewhere
in or near the town Of Baku Peter
Kavulitch, an Austrian mason, has
gone made with horror and has just
been committed to an institution in
Odessa.
Bound, gagged and locked in box.
car by hazing students. William E.
Smith, a freshman of Kentucky state
college, has disappeared and the grand
jury is probing what may be CHASTITY
mystery, and police and railroad men
are working desperately to ascertain
his fate.
Germany looms up large as an OBJ
stacle in the way Of an international
conference for a settlement Of the abb.
kan imbroglio, according to the opin
ions expressed by the British diplo-
mats today. No matter what reasons
may be officially assigned for failure
of the proposed conference, which
seems possible, England will hold the
kaiser responsible
An appeal has been taken in tho
Hepburn commodity clause case by
the government on the ground that
the lower court was wrong in holding
the clause not to be proper exercise
Of the congressional powers as to the
regulation of commerce It is conten.
dcd that the court erred In ruling
the caluse conhscatory II is under
stood the government will ask the
supreme court to take up the case
Immediately owing to the Importance
Of the case
Thirty days more time was given
the Bucks Stove and Range company
of st. Louis Tor taking additional
testimony in its suit against Samuel
Gompers and others Of the National
Fedorauonist.
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