Fair play., 1910-10-01
The snltan Of sun. VIC is on nia

tan intends to dispose of the jewels
in America
The death rate in the United States
in 1909 was 10 TO each 1,000 accord
ing to a bulletin about TO be issued
by the census bureau. This Is the
lowest average ever recorded for this
country.
The Roman Catholic cathedral of
st. Patrick, generally regarded as the
most magnificent church in the Unit.
ed States, will be consecrated with
elaborate ceremonies October 5th in
New York.
Several members of the gun crew In
the A,rward turret fthe battleship
Georgia were stunned by the bursting
of the muzzle of the great 12-inch gun
on the left side.
That the members of the lakesto-
| the-gulf deep waterways movement
| will antagonize President Taft for re-
nomination should he decide to seek
| the presidential nomination in 1912
| is the information that reached St
| Louis from New Orleans. A telegram
| from that city states that w. X. Kav-
anaugh of st. Louis, president of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway as
| sociation, in letter to Philip Werlein,
| president of the Progressive union of
| that city. quoting from Roosevelts st.
| Paul conservation speech, intimates
support of the former president in the
next campaign.
| ct a
! public by the census bureau as fol-
lows: Aurora H., 29,S07, an increase
of $500, or 23.4 per cent over 24,147
in 1900; Elgin, Ill., 1886, an increase
of 3,543, or 15,S per cent over 22,4S3
! in 1900.
A man believed to be Burton w.
/ Yates, a Detroit business man, com
mitted suicide by hanging in the coun-
| ty Jail in Cleveland o. an hour after
| he had been lodged there for shooting
a woman identified as Mrs. Fred
| Singer of Cleveland, formerly of De-
| troit, in roadhouse at Rocky river.
The regent of Persia, Azad- Ul-Mulk,
| died in Teheran.
The Oklahoma Oil and Gas Produc-
ers association appealed to Secretary
/ Ballinger of the interior department
car repair bills are suspected of hav.
/ ing dipped their hands into the Golfers
of the Missouri Pacific railway to the
extent of more than 100000 by the
same methods which were used TO
defraud the Illinois Central according
to revelations just made.
Suspens6n of increase tariff sched-
! ules filed recently by forty RAILROADS,
operating in the west and southwest
territory, was ordered by the inter
state commerce commission, the date
of operation being extended until
Jan. 5, 1910 The commission ordered
a full hearing on complaints against
the proposed tariffs becoming effect
i've, reserving announcement of the
time and place for the hearing.
DR.. II. H. Crippen and Miss Ethel
Clare Levene were bound over in the
Central criminal court (Old Bailey),
in London, to be tried at the October
term of court for the murder of Belle
Elmore Crlppen, the Doctors wife.
In accepting his twentieth nomina'
tion to congress, Joseph G.. Cannon
made a speech in Danville, H., in
which he reaffirmed his adherance to
the principles opposed by the insur.
gents.
to protect the royalty rights of minor
Indians by preventing the marketing
agencies from discriminating in the
prices paid for Oil Attorney General
Wickersham was asked for q legal in
vestigation of the alleged practice.
Primaries for the nomination oi
candidates for congress, Legislature
and county offices were held through
out Minnesota. Returns indicate the
defeat of Congressman j. A. Tawney
by a small margin by Sydney Ander
son, young attorney of Lanesborc
and progressive,
Judge Smith Mcpherson, in United
States court in Council Bluffs, Ia, sen
fenced Barney Martin and William b
Godefroy, two members of the Mabray
swindle organization, to nine and one
half months in the county Jail.
Returning from his work, John Saus
of Byers, Pa. was Mortified to discov
er that his wife and two small daugh
ters had been slain Later, in the
yard of his home the grief-stricker
parent found his 7-year-old son, whC
died while being hurried to the Phoe
nixyille hospital The skulls of al
were crushed as if by an ak or club
and the Identity of the murderer is as
yet a mystery.
In Tampa. Fla, while being trans
ported to the county jail, CastengC
Ficcarotta and Angelo Albano, tive
well-to-do Italians who have been con
spicuous in the cigar strike here
were taken from deputy sheriffs, hur
ried to a heavily-wooded place neal
by and hanged to the limb of a tree
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt slipped
quietly into New Haven, Conn, fol
political conference with Presiden
Taft. The request of the conference
came from the ex-president The tive
men talked politics and reviewed
both the New York state and nation
al situation.
Several passengers were slightly In
jured and a mail clerk was badly hur
in a head.on collision OF passenger
trains on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad in the Fremont CNeb) yards