Fair play., 1908-09-12


October, deyoting his time principally
to those states which the National
Committee may consider doubtful, If
the ideas OF both the candidate and
his national chairman Frank II Hitch.
cock are carried out.
The Republican National Committee
has issued the campaign textbook for
1908. It's 536 pages contain in concise
form such information as is likely to
be required by speakers and writer's
and other campaign workers.
Leon S. Ehrenberg. one of Little
Rocks best-known young business
men, was shot and killed by Charles
3. Parsell. There were no eye
witnesses to the killing and Parsell re.
fuses to talk, merely stating that he
killed Ehrenberg in self-defense. The
men were former partners in the
plumbing business, and were believed
to be on friendly terms.
John K. Early the leper, signed his
pension certificate without touching it,
except with the point of the pen and
without seeing it, The paper was
covered when it was handed to Early.
little spaces just large enough for the
signature being exposed. In these
spaces Early wrote his name. and the
covering was then removed by the
health authorities and burned
Not only will MIS-. Peter c. Hams,
a Of Va Rot ~
who, with his brother r. jenkins
Hams, is a prisoner in Long Island
Prison, charged with numbering Will
liam L. AnniS, at the Bayside Yacht
club be called on to testify at her
husbands trial, but it is expected that
the mother of the brothers will take
the stand in their behalf.
The city authorities at Springfield.
ILL.,, have agreed to make good the re-
cent losses by fire, due to the riots in
that town, for which the companies
were not liable on account of the riot
clauses in their policies. 1t is under
stood that an agreement has been
made to have the city pay rs per cent
Of the total damages and the owners
will have to lose the remainder
The state saloon" or liquor dispen-
sary system in Oklahoma, as a salary
| producer and money maker is not
proving the success anticipated. The
Rev. j. ]. Thompson, who left the pas
torate of a Presbyterian church to ac-
| cept a position as district dispensary
| inspector, has reported that the county
| dispensaries in his district are not do
ing a thriving business.
Fire in Sumner, Miss, a town OF
1000 inhabitants, wiped out the bust
ness section and a part of the resi-
| dence section, causing a loss of S100,.
! 900. A. NJ. Phipps, a newspaper man.
| who was asleep in the office of the
Sumner News with wtlich he was con.
nected, was burned to a crisp before
aid reached him.
The old Secoy cabin in oklahoma, in
which Jesse James passed several
weeks, has been destroyed by fire. In
1873 James assisted in the capture OF
desperate in the cabin. The cabin
stood in a dense wood some distance
from road.
Chester S. Jordan, accused of the
murder of his wife and the attempt to
throw her dismembered body into the
ocean, stoically answered the ques
tions of Judge Wentworth in the
Somerville station, wien he was
brought in for his preliminary hearing
Going in direct opposition to His
Majesty, King Edward, who had eX
pressed the hope that she might wed
a member of royalty he had picked
out for her, Mrs Marshall Field Jr.. oI
Chicago, became the wife of Baldwin
A. Drummond, second son OF the late
Edgar A. Drummond, at the Registry
Office.
That Helen Maloney, daughter o
Martin Maloney, is preparing 10 enter
a convent as the solution of the matri
monial complications into which she
has plunged herself, is now virtually
assured as the result of recent devel
opments at the Maloney summer home
at Spring Lake, n. J.
A negro who had attacked Mrs
Foster, residing near Wessoh, Tenn,
was shot and killed by the husband o
the woman. Foster was at work in {
field when he was attracted to the
house by hearing his wife screaming.
Capt. G. A. Merriam, United State;
navy, commandant of the Portsmouth
navy yard, died following an operation
for appendicitis. He was IS years o
age. He commanded the battleshiI
Missouri on the recent cruise of til,
battieship feet from Hampton Road.
to San Francisco
The sunken hulks of the Japanese
battleship Yashima and the Russian
warship Sebastopol. which went dowI
in an engagement during the recen
war, have been found by a Japanes,
salvage vessel.
The initial work on the Union Pa
cific new $l,000,000 extension from
Seattle to Black River Junction hai
be' n. Further extensions, which will
b. pushed at once, will cost the roat
several times this omunt.
A concerted movement by the rail
road employees of the middle west tC
back Judge Taft was started In Cri
cago when the Railway Mems indie
pendent Taft club was organized. 4
board of directors, consisting OF p
members, was chosen to direct tn