Semi-weekly herald., 1908-08-13
CHICAGO. Aug. 1o.-rp one ., ,n.-,

CniCAdO, Aug 10.-In one of tn
most bitterly fought contests the stat
has ever known, Governor Charles s
Deneen defeated former Goverpo
Yates, for the Republican nominatio,
OF governor. The latest returns indj
cate Deneen's majority will be nearl,
l2.O0O. Former Governor Adlat Ste
venson will head the Democratic tick
ct Senator Albert J. Hopkins plural
ity over George Edmund Foss 10,
United States senator now appears tc
be about 10000.
OYSTER BAY. Aug. 10.-Assertins
his belief that the increase of the
wei being of the American farmer has
not kept pace with that OF the country
as whole. President Roosevelt has re-
quested five experts to serve as n com.
mission on country life and to conduct
an investigation aimed at bringing
ABOUT substantial betterment of 90
| clal, sanitary and economic conditions
on American farms. He has asked
that the commission seek the solution
OF the problem as to how farm life
can be made less solitary and more
repiete with opportunities, freer from
drudgeries and comfortable and attrac-
tive. The men invited to serve as
members OF the investigating commits
sion are: Prof. l.. H. Bailey of the
New York State College of Agricul.
ture; Henry Wallace, editor of Wal
laces' Farmer, Des Moines, Ia: Ken.
yon l.. Lutterfield, president of the
Massachusetts Agricultural college.
Clifford Pinchot of the United States
forestry service. and Walter H. Page,
editor of Worlds Work.
CODY, Wyo. Aug. 10.-The report
that Judge A. e. Swanson of Ishawood.
near here. had killed his wife and then
himself was confirmed yesterday when
neighbors came In for the coroner.
domestic trouble is given as the cause
OF the tragedy. Swanson married his
Wiie about two years ago, they having
been brought together through CORE.
spondence, and having never seen each
other until the day OF the wedding
swanson was well to do and highly re-
spected settler Of this region.
HALIFAX, N. s.. Aug. 1O.-The
Gloucester. Mass, fishing schooner
Mabbie and May, commanded by Cap
tain Erick McCathran,' was run down
and sunk by the German schooner
Fish Frey. Captain Hass, sixty miles
southeast of Halifax last night and
Captain McCathron and eight of the
crew were drowned. Four men were
rescued.
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 10.-Eugene
w. Chafin, Prohibitionist candidate for
president, narrowly escaped drowning
Saturday night while swimming in
Yacapoo lake. A great effort was
made to keep the accident quiet and
DR.. Chafin now refers to it "as crop.
ing in the bottom of the pool" Three
young men rescued him. One of them.
Maurice Hyland, vouches for the state.
ment that Chafin was practically help
less after he sank in the deep part
of the pool.
LONDON. Aug. 10.-A wireless dis
patch from the Cunard line steamer
Carnoia by way OF Crook Haven re-
ports that the liner which left Queens
town August for New York was
sighted by the British bark Lyndohorn,
Captain Weston, becalmed in the mid
Atlantic and her crew without food.
Ten days stores were sent by the
Carnoia to the men. The Lyndohorfi
left Iquique March 20 for Rotterdam.
WASHINGTON. Pa. Aug. IL
Three masked men entered the home
of Miss Maria de Garmo. in a remote
part of the county yesterday, after
battering down the door, bound and
gagged Miss De Garmo and her niece,
Miss Lizzie Hartman, the only occu.
pants OF the house.. and robbed them
OF their 1ewelry and small amount of
cash. CarDets were slashed, mattress.
es ripped open and chests broken into
When no large sum OF money was
found the women were tortured until
the elder one tainted and the men left.
Miss Hartman, bleeding and cut. at
last freed herself from the ropes, and
released her aunt. Fifteen hundred
dollars which had been received the
day before for timber tract was
found where the robbers had overlook.
ed It.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Aug. IL
Five men dead and another prob
ably dying is the result Of q prema-
ture explosion at the Bright quarries.
FORT GARLAND, Colo. Aug. IL
Two thousand farmers from nearly
every quarter of the middle west, un-
acquainted with irrigation or irriga-
tion projects, but willing to learn, are
camped near here waiting for the dis
tribution tomorrow CT the $4,000 acres
of land in tract bought from General
William ]. Palmer Of Colorado Springs
by the San Luis Valley Land company
Through agents in the various mid
die west states. Martin & Boodes of