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shot himself in his office at Cleve-
land, Ohio, has only a fighting chance
Tor life, so surgeons III the Lakeside
hospital told John S. Stubbs, traffic
director of the Hartman lines, when
the father of the wounded man ar
rived in Cleveland from Chicago.
lie is discouraged and not eager
to recover the father said. HE
has been penitent and discouraged,
but in the few words we exchanged
when he was not under the influence
OF Opiates, he has assured me time
and again that the shooting was an
accident. Ny sons only fault was
drink and | can see no reason why the
shooting should have been otherwise
than as he says accidental
A petition to President Taft for
the pardon Of John r. Walsh, the for
mer president of the Chicago Nation
al bank, from the federal prison in
Leavenworth, Kan, was filed at the
department of justice by Attorney
George T. Buckin CHAM CT Chicago, on
behalf of Mary L. Walsh, Richard w.
Walsh, and John w. Walsh, respec-
lively wife and sons of the prisoner.
Accompanying the formal applica-
ton for a pardon of the aged banker
and railroad man were thousands of
letters from individuals in Chicago
and the middle west, urging the pres
ident to grant the petition.
~ Capt G. H. Westcott, Of Detroit,
United States inspector of steam
vessels, left for Ludington and Mil
waukee to gather further information
concerning the loss of Pere Marquette
car ferry No. 10, which foundered in
Lake. Michigan with loss of twenty
eight lives. The reports of Van Pat
ten and W. A. Collins, local inspectors
at Milwaukee, transmitted to Capt.
Westcott, has been returned to them
for application, it is understood 1t
is reported the local inspectors were
unable to place responsibility for the
accident
The suit at Salt Lake City, Utah,
of Mrs. Anna Bradley to break the
will of the late Arthur Brown, at one
time United States senator from Utah,
will be settled by the payment of $12,-
900 to Mrs. Bradley for her sons.
Brown was shot and fatally wounded
by Mrs. Bradley Dec. 8, 1906 in Wash
ington after he had severed his rela-
lions with her. In his will he specif-
ically denied the paternity of the two
children, Arthur and Martin Montgom-
cry cutting them off without cent
Between the heavy losses sustained
through grating officials and dishon-
est-repairing companies and through
having to ship freight at rates which
they say do not yield profit, the Illi-
nois Central Railway company is in an
unhealthy financial condition. accord
ing to testimony of Martin B. Blau-
welt, comptroller of the road, before
the interstate commerce commission
sitting in Chicago
With President Taft back in Wash
ington the cabinet took up the work
of the administration after the inter
ruption by, vacations. All are guests
at the White House except Secretary
Dickinson, who is in the far east. The
president has laid down stated pro-
gram Of work for the cabinet meet
ings, but has thrown in generous
amount of play to break the monotony.
Oscar Hammerstein sailed from New
York city on the Mauretania for
London, where he goes to superintend
the beginning of the building opera
lions on his new opera house IN Lon
don. He will return in few weeks.
Although no announcement has been
made, it became known that Mr.. Ham
merstain had engaged Lima Cavaleiri-
Chanler for his London opera house.
A persistent report that the Missou-
ri Pacific Railroad company had been
robbed of $4,000 by the men charged
with defrauding the Illinois Central
through car repair graft at Sheffield,
Mo-, branch of the Blue Island Car
and Equipment company, was posi-
lively denied by James c. jeffrey, in
terstate commerce attorney for the
Missouri Pacific.
Vivian M. Lewis, commissioner Of
banking and insurance OF New Jersey,
was nominated for governor at the Re-
publican state convention at Jersey
City He received four-fifths OF the
total vote cast on the first ballot, and
when the roll call was completed the
counties which had not already done
so, moved to make the nomination
unanimous
All of the balloons which started
from Indianapolis, thirteen in number,
have been heard from The last to re-
port was Miss Sophia, which landed
in Calhoun county, West Virginia. w.
F. Assmann, the pilot, reported from
Clarksburg, w. Va, that he landed
many miles from a railroad with less
than two sacks of ballast.
George Chavez, the Peruvian avia-
tor, few from Brig, Switzerland, over
the Simplon pass in the Alps noun
tains, marking the first successful ne
gotiation of the difficult feat Chavez
arrived at Domolossola. on the ltal-