CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Return« of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen denies the rumor
of discord in the new government of
China.
Government reports say crops all
over the world are greatly above the
average.
Taft urged before the national hy­
giene congress the establishment of a
National Health bureau.
The Greek minister in London
denies any knowledge of a Greek-Bul­
garian-Servian alliance against Tur­
key.
Miss Elsie Crose. daughter of the
American governor of Samoa, was
proclaimed a "princess” by the na­
tives.
A party of Frenchmen visiting Ber­
lin say they are astonished at the evi­
dence of high living and luxury to be
seen everywhere.
A girl’s dream revealed fatal errors
in the indictments against an Illinois
school superintendent for embezzle-
ment, forgery, etc.
Pascual Orozco, Sr., was marched
through the streets of El Paso from
the station to the jail, and was hooted
and jeered by Mexicans.
Upon the peremptory demand of the
American ambassador, an American
confined in a Mexican jail was re­
leased and placed in the hospital.
The battleship Wyoming is com­
pleted and turned over to the govern­
ment. She will participate in the na­
val review in New York harbsr next
month.
A witness in the Standard Oil in­
vestigation says the corporation has
assigned fixed sales territory to each
of its former subsidiaries, making the
monopoly as complete and perfect as
ever.
Jacob Foy Guthrie. the college
graduate on trial in Chicago for rob­
bing the homes of wealthy people of
over $2500 worth of silks, jewelry and
bric-a-brac, went raving crazy in
court.
WINTER HITS MIDDLE WEST.
Four States Have Snow and Tem­
peratures Are Falling.
Chicago — Dispatches received at
the weather bureau headquarters tell
of pretentious snow storms in four
states. The early arrival of "the
beautiful" is not accompanied by un­
usually low temperature and proves
rather beneficial than otherwise.
Wyoming was the first to report the
advance agent of winter, the vicinity
around Lander experiencing a regular
snow fall. The maximum temperature
in the vicinity of the Wyoming storm
was 36 and the minimum 32, so that
the snow did not melt rapidly.
The same storm swept rapidly east­
ward. and was reported in both the
Dakotas and Minnesota. Heavy rains
have been prevailing in Western Min­
nesota for two davs. but a drop in
temperature changed the rain to snow.
Dispatches say the temperature is
lowering noticeably in Northern Iowa
and there are indications of snow fall
there. Storms are also predicted gen­
erally over the Central West.
Rain
began falling in the Great Lakes re­
gion and the temperature is dropping
steadily. The same storm will prob­
ably spread to the Ohio river before
its force is spent.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
BEND ORCHARO PROJECTED.
Successful Powell Butte Grower Will Tualatin Valley Crop Reported Short
Fully One-Half,
Try Out New Section.
Bend—While Central Oregon up to
the present has received little serious
attention as a commercial apple grow­
ing territory, an arrangement just
made for the planting of an extensive
commercial orchard near Bend by an
experienced fruitgrower indicates that
apples may take their places alongside
the other products of this immediate
section in the near future.
Guy Lafollette, who for several
years has conducted an extensive nur­
sery near Powell Butte, some 25 miles
east of Bend, plana the planting of 40
acres of fine apple trees on the A. S.
Collins ranch, a mile from Bend. As
Mr. Lafollette has raised apples moat
successfully on his Powell Butte place,
where the altitude is 4200 feet, he
anticipates no difficulty in meeting
similar success here, at an altitude of
but 2600 feet, and with excellent soil
and irrigation conditions. The act m
of the nurseryman promises to influ­
ence others toward setting out commer­
ELKS WILL USE "BEETATO.”
cial orchards. Hitherto apple raising
in this section has been devoted chiefly
Portland Lodge Will Distribute Pur­ to small garden orchards, producing
little more than enough for home con­
ple Tuber at Reunion.
sumption.
Portland—Oregon’s newest pomolo-
gical oddity, dubbed the "beetato,”
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which is a hybrid between an Irish po­
tato and a red beet, has already been Span Over Umpqua River at Win­
found valuable as an advertising asset.
chester Is Dedicated.
The tuber’s “innards” have a deep
Roseburg — With a crowd of more
purple, one of the official colors of the
than 200 persons in attendance the
Elks’ lodge.
Officers of Portland ' Lodge No. 142 new steel bridge spanning the Ump­
have been quick to realize the pecu­ qua river, at Winchester, five miles
liar coloring feature of the “beetato." north of Roseburg, was dedicated with
They are now negotiating with L. W. appropriate ceremonies. Binger Her­
Rinhardt, of Silver Springs station, mann was the principal speaker and
in Clackamas county, the originator of briefly reviewed the history of bridge
the new potato, for all of next year’s building. He said the first bridges
crop of “purple spuds” to take back were built of wood, then came those
to Rochester for the Elks’ annual re­ constructed of stone, and finally there
union. Inasmuch as the ^reunion will came the modern steel structure which
be held in July, Mr. Rinhardt will withstands the elements of time. He
have to plant his “beetatoes” as early called particular attention to the fact
as possible next spring so that the that the year 1912 is an epoch in
product of the new crop will be large Douglas county for the reason that
this year eight magnificient steel
enough by convention time.
Mr. Rinehardt expects to grow bridges are in course of erection.
enough “beetatoes” to supply souve­ Bridges, Mr. Hermann said, mark time
nirs for every delegate to the Roches­ with the progress and development of
ter reunion.
Portland Elks are re­ the country and that Douglas county
joicing that they will have such an should feel proud of the bridges it has
unique souvenir to advertise Ore­ built this year.
The Winchester bridge is 590 feet
gon.
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in length, the two outer spans being
MAKE EGGS FROM AIR.
150 feet long, while the center span
is 290 feet in length. The total cost
Scientist Sees Great Possibility in Ni­ of the bridge is about $16,000.
trogen and Compounds.
A strike of 150 shingle weavers ha9
Chicago — Dr. Paul Walden, of
closed nine shingle mills on Puget Riga, Russia, predicts that the next
Sound.
great feat of chemistry will be the
making of eggs from air.
Dr, Wal­
Railroads are breaking all records den, who is president elect of the
in furnishing cars to handle the North­ Ninth International Congress of Ap­
west grain crop.
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plied Chemistry, to be held in St. Pe­
A man at Kamloops, B. C., who had tersburg in 1915, further predicts that
been deaf and dumb for 14 years, sud­ a variety of nitrogenous foods will be
denly recovered both voice and hear­ made from the air some day.
“I consider it practically certain
ing when he saw another man crushed
and mangled beneath the wheels of a that at no distant day we will be
drawing food supplies from the air,"
moving freight train.
he said.
“Professor Bernthsen, of
Two were killed and several ser­ Germany, already has succeeded in
iously injured when a passenger train making the simple compound of nitro­
struck a streetcar on a grade crossing gen and hydrogen.
near Denver.
“This Bhows that we will be able to
Officials at Washington think the make more complex compounds. An
Mexican revolution is weakening, on egg is a complex compound of nitro­
account of the many apparently aim­ gen, oxygen, sulphur and hydrogen.”
less moves being made by the insur­
Electric Opiate Found,
gents.
Berlin—An electric sleep, which
may be turned on and off at will, is
PORTLAND MARKETS
the alluring prospect offered to peo­
ple suffering from insomnia by Dr.
Wheat — Track prices: Club, 78(6, Nagelscbmidt, who describes his in­
79c; bluestem. 82<3.83c; forty-fold, vention for this purpose in a medical
79® 80c; red Russian, 77(§.78c; val­ magazine.
ley, 79®80c.
He says he has devised a new form
Barley—Feed, $25 per ton; brew­ of electric current which, when ap­
ing, $27® 29.
plied to the base of the brain, will
Hay—No. 1 timothy, $17 per ton; produce a narcotic effect which can be
oat and vetch, $11; alfalfa, $12.50® maintained as long as is desired. It
13.
has been tried with success and with­
Oats—Spot, $27 per ton; futures, out any injurious effects on dogs and
$25®26.
rabbits, and Dr. Nagelschmidt is con­
Fresh fruits—Apples, 50c®,$1.50 vinced that it can be equally well ap­
per box; peaches, 40®60c per box; plied to human beings.
pears, 50c®$1.50; grapes, 90c®$1.10.
Application of the current also
Onions—Walla Walla, 75c per sack; eliminates pain from any part of the
Oregon, $1.25 per sack.
body.
Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur­
banks, 50®60c per hundred; sweet
Scientists Note Strike.
potatoes, 2}®2}c pound.
Salt Lake City—Twenty-two of the
Vegetables — Artichokes, 65®75c
per dozen; beans, 2c pound; cabbage, foreign scientists touring the United
1® l}c; cauliflower, $1® 1.25 dozen; States as guests of the American Geo­
celery, 50®75c dozen; corn, 75c®$1 graphical society visited Bingham
sack; cucumbers, 50c box; eggplant, Wednesday, thus combining a view of a
5®6c pound; head lettuce, 20®25c mining camp strike with an examina­
dozen; peppers, 5®6c per pound; to­ tion of a mountain of copper-bearing
When convinced that
matoes, 35®40c per box; garlic, 8® menzonite.
10c per pound; carrots, $1.25- per the visitors were not strikebreakers,
sack; turnips, $1; beets, $1.10; par­ the crowds at Bingham regarded the
scientists with friendly interest.
snips, $1.25.
Eggs—Case count, 27}® 28c dozen; More than half the party passed the
day visiting historic spots in and
candled, 28}® 29c; extras, 32®34c.
Butter—Oregon creamery, cubes, about Salt Lake City.
33c per pound; prints, 34®34}c.
Land In Spain Uutilled.
Pork—Fancy, 11}®12 c pound.
Veal—Fancy, 14}® 15c pound.
Madrid—As a result of the investi­
Poultry — Hens, 14}® 15c pound; gation ordered a few months ago by
broilers, 14}®15c; ducks, young, 12e; King Alfonso, the minister of the in­
geese, 8®12c; turkeys, live, 20c; terior reports that 60 per cent of the
land in Spain is uncultivated and that
dressed, 25c.
Hops—1912 crop, 15® 18c.
38 per cent is utterly without irriga­
Wool — Eastern Oregon, 14® 18c tion. The report shows that 4500 vil­
pound; valley, 21}®22}c; mohair, lages are without roads or railroads,
30,000 towns and villages have no
choice, 32c pound.
Cattle—Choice steers, $6.85®7.25; schools and 12,000,000 of Spain’s
good, $6 25®6.65; medium, $6® 6.25; 177,000,000 inhabitants can neither
choice cows, $6®6.50; good, $5.50® read nor write.
5.75; medium, $5®5.25; choice cal­
$55 OOO Theft Confessed.
ves, $7®8.50; good heavy calves,
Pensacola, Fla.—William H. Bell,
$6 25® 7; bulls, $3® 4.50; stags, $5®
a 20-year-old bank clerk, has con­
5.75.
Hogs—Light, $8.50® 8.65; heavy, fessed that he robbed the Pensacola
First National bank on of a package
$7.50® 8.
Sheep — Yearlings, $3.50®4.65; containing $55,000 of the Louisville &
wethers, $4®4.65; ewes, $3®3.85; Nashville payroll, and substituted a
worthless package in its place.
lambs, $5® 6.
POTATOES INJURED.
Hillsboro—That the potato crop in
this vicinity will be short fully 60 per
cent as a result of early blight, is the
prediction made by Howard Evarts
Weed, an authority on plant diseases.
"For several days past I have exam­
ined the potato fields in this vicinity,
and find very few places but that
show great damage to the growing
crop. The recent windy weather made
the conditions much worse than would
otherwise have been the case, as the
wind caused a wide distribution of the
spores of the fungus causing the dis­
ease. The excessive rains during Au­
gust made weaken«®, tender vines full
of moisture, while the atmospheric
conditions were such as cause all fun­
gus diseases to develop most rapidly.
“For a month past there have been
small brown spots upon the leaves,
showing the presence of the disease
known to science as macrosporium
solani, or the early blight, but it has
only been during the past week that
the disease has develop«® rapidly and
the infection become widespread.
“The vines now have yellow leaves
at the bottom of the plant, while the
top leaves have their <®ges turned
black. Growth of tubers has practi­
cally stopped. Some fields are worse
than others, hillside fields being the
worst affect«®.
“Potato blight is now practically
worldwide in its distribution.
First
described in 1882, it now occurs
throughout the Unit«® States, Canada,
Europe, Asia and Australia. Its con­
trol by means of the Bordeaux mix­
ture is easy, thanks to the experi­
ments made in 1899 by Professor L.
R. Jones of the Vermont experiment
station.
"These experiments were very thor­
ough, and the results so conclusive
that spraying with Bordeaux mixture
is now conducted as a part of farm
practice by the best growers of the
Central states. In the experiments at
the Vermont station the sprayed po­
tatoes gave a yield of 291 bushels per
acre against 99} bushels per acre for
the unsprayed potatoes, showing a
difference of 191} bushels an acre in
favor of spraying.”
NEW FISH CAR IN USE.
WATER SUPPLY IS READY.
20,000 Trout Being Distributed East
of The Dalles.
Klamath Falls' Artesian Wells to Pump
The first "fish car" that has ever
1,200,000 Ga'lons Daily.
Klamath Falls — The California-
Oregon Power company is ready to
connect its new artesian wells to the
pumps, and will use this water exclu­
sively for the city supply in future.
The new water supply is ample for
the present needs of the city, the
pumps on a test lifting 800 gallons a
minute, or a supply of nearly 1,200,-
000 gallons per day.
The management has had the water
carefully analyzed, and it is free from
deleterious germs, and is said to be
far purer than that supplied to the
great majority of cities.
The pipes
and reservoirs will be cleaned and dis­
infected prior to using the new supply.
The city has been practically free
from typhoid fever this season, no
serious cases having been known.
ThiB has been due in part to the care
of the water company in protecting
the springs and partly to the general
use of boiled water.
ANCIENT BEAN PRIZEWINNER
Rogue
River Vegetable Attracts At­
tention at Jackson Fair.
Medford—O. J. Ames, from a small
garden on the Rogue River bottoms,
won the first prize of $50 for vegeta­
bles at the County fair and pear show.
A unique feature of his exhibit was
the beans grown form a seed discov­
ered in a crevice of a cliff dweller’s
home in the Aztec ruins in Arizona.
The original bean had lain there, ac­
cording to Mr. Ames, for hundreds,
perhaps thousands of years, when he
secured it in 1909.
It was planted the next year, the
germinating element having survived,
and the present crop resulted.
It is similar in appearance to the
Lima bean, but more prolific. Mr.
Ames had 48 different varieties of
vegetables in has display.
Mammoth Lettuce Is Grown.
Hood River—Samples of some of
the largest lettuce ever seen here are
on exhibition at the Commercial club.
The variety is the Wonderful or New
York, and the heads are seven and
eight inches in diameter. J. H. Ko­
berg, who has made Hood River as­
paragus famous, is the grower and
says that on a half acre he has 12,000
heads just coming to maturity and
that the 1000 dozen will fill a car. A
couple of cases will be put in storage
to be exhibited at the Northwest
Land-Products show in November.
been used in Oregon left Portland
Monday night for the Bonneville Cen
tral Fish Hatchery tq stock up with a
large shipment of tbout fry that is to
be distributed at various Oregon
points to encourage the propagation
of the trout species in the Oregon
streams.
This car is equipped with various
mechanical devices necessary to the
care of fish and with living quarters
for the caretakers. It has accommo­
dations for 2'i.ouo fish.
On the present trip the car will drop
100 cans, each containing 10 gallons
of trout fry, at The Dalles, Dufur and
other points farther East, and will
loop back through The Dalles to pick
up the empty cans. Later it is in­
tended to distribute fish at favorable
points along all of the railroad lines
in Oregon.
The car used in this work was do­
nated to Warden Finley by the O.-W.
R. & N., and equipped at the expense
of the railroad. The car and accom­
panying employes are given free
transportation on all of the official
trips.
This donation serves as a
great accommodation.
Heretofore shipments have been by
the usual baggage car route, which
necessitated many delays in transfer.
It is probable that the "fish car” will
be placed on display in Portland soon.
Branch Line Completed.
Klamath Falls—The ballasting crew
on the line north from Klamath Falls
has finished its work as far as Rock}'
Ford, the crossing of Williamson
river. The section completed will now
be turned over to the operating de­
partment. At Chiloquin, the present
terminus of the work, there is a rumor
that the Big Basin Lumber company
is preparing to erect a large sawmill.
If true it will add considerably to the
importance of that town as a ship­
ping point, and also be a great benefit
to the surrounding country.
Apple Disease Prevalent.
Corvallis—Professor H. 8. Jackson,
department of plant pathology, 0. A.
C., has just returned from an extend­
ed trip of inspection through Eastern
and Southern Oregon.
Professor
Jackson reports that the abundant
rains of this season have brought
about conditions especially favorable
to the spread of the apple tree an­
thracnose in the orchards of the
Southern and Western parts of the
state.
Children’s Fairs Great Success.
State To Exchange Land.
Salem—To be incorporated in his
annual report. Superintendent of Pub­
lic Instruction Aiderman has prepared
a statement showing what success has
attended the industrial contests and
industrial fairs which have been held
among the children of Oregon. These
will undoubtedly become a permanent
feature in connection with the school
work of the state after this year’s
trial.
Salem—.Governor West, State For­
ester Elliott and Assistant District
Forester Andrews as a representative
of District Forester Cecil, left this
week for the Cascade mountains near
Detroit to make a selection of 50,000
acres of government forest reserve
land to exchange for scattered school
sections in this state.
The state for­
est reserve of 50,000 acres will be
thus centralized.
AVIATOR'S PRANKS UPSET BOAT
Excited Crowd Rushes to One Side;
Launch Turns Over.
Chicago Th«« tipping over and res­
cue of eight spectators in a launch,
the disabling of two hydro aeroplane*
far out in the lake and the “pranks”
of an aviator dress«® as a woman
brought Chicago's aviation meet to a
close.
Great crowds near Grant Park, on
the lakefront, were startle«! to observe
what appear«® to be a woman diving
In a biplane almost straight down
from an altitude of 3000 f«»et, and
then with her arms off the levers and
her skirts fluttering about her face,
flying as low as 10 feet over the heads
of the spectators. To make the scene
mor«« startling, the "woman" flew out
of the course and skimm«® up and
down Michigan avenue, sending auto
mobiles in all directions to aeek
safety.
The “woman" was Lincoln Beachy,
who disguised himself as "Mlle. Clar­
ice Lavateur," for the purpose of
creating a new aerial sensation for
Chicago. So exeit«® were eight spec­
tators in a launch in the harbor that
they all gather,® at one aide of the
craft and it tipp«® over. They were
rescued by a tug.
Bechwith Havens, while driving a
hydro-aeroplane with a passenger,
punctured his pontoon.
Both men
were picked up as they were sinking.
Anthony Jennus. in a hydro-aero­
plane. hail a similar accident. His
machine had to be towed in.
Armed with a stout club, Weldon H.
Cooke, an aviator of Oakland, Cal.,
defended hie wrecked aeroplane for
several hours against a crowd of sev­
eral hundred souvenir hunters. When
flying on the South Side he fell,
wrecking hie biplane.
He was
• tunn«® by the fail, and when he re­
gained consciousness he fount! a large
crowd around his machine breaking
pieces from it to carry away aa sou­
venirs. Seizing a club, he held the
crowd back until the police arrived.
OPIUM BROUGHT
BY HIGHER UPS
Inspector and Steamship Agent
Indicted for Smuggling.
Intercepted Letter Leads to Discovery
of Extensive Deal—Drug Taken
Ashore at Night.
San Francisco- Robert Donaldaen,
assistant superintendent of navigation
of the Pacific Mail Steamship com­
pany, and Henry Gallagher, United
Stales customs inspector, were Indlct-
ed here by a Federal grand jury charg
Ing complicity In an opium smuggling
conspiracy, in which, it is Mid, many
other men are implicat«®.
Warrants
for their arrests were issued and they
are being aervt® by United Slates
marshals.
The indictments were baa«® upon
the testimony of David Powers and
Emil Fiedler, employes of the West
ern Fuel company, arrested in Oak­
land. December 13, 1911, with several
hundred tina of contraband opium in
their possession. Powers and Fiedler
served four and six months respect­
ively in the Alam«®a county jail.
The suppos«® Connection of Donald­
aen and Gallagher with the sumggling
plot was reveal«® through the Inter­
ception by government officials of a
letter given by Fiedler, while in jail,
to a discharged prisoner.
Powers testified before the grant!
jury that he had been approached by
Donaldscn in December, 1911, with
a proposal to assist In landing
opium concealed on the steamer Si­
beria. which then was being loaded
with coal by a barge on which he and
Fi«®ler were working. Ho at first re­
fused to consider the matter, he said,
but later decid«® to “take a chance.”
He was taken aboard the Siberia and
met two Chinese cabin boys, who had
secret«® the opium.
Two nights la­
KAISER RIDES ON WHISKEY.
ter, said Powers, 320 tin* of opium
were transferr«® from the Siberia to
Tires on Emperor's Automobile Made
the barge.
From Alcoholic Beverage.
Chisago— Emperor William of Ger­
many rides in an automobile, the tires
of which are made from whiskey, ac­
cording to Dr. H. A. Berneon, head of
the chemistry department of Heidel­
berg university, who with 300 other
scientists, is in Chicago to attend
the eighth annual international con­
gress of appli«® chemistry.
He says that rubber has been made
from whiskey for several years at sev­
eral experimental laboratories in Ger­
many, and recently a set of automo­
bile tires made from the alcoholic bev­
erage were present«® to Emperor Wil­
liam and that he is now using them on
one of his private automobiles.
According to Dr. Berneon the pro­
cess of manufacturing is quite intri­
cate. By special processes of fermen­
tation the scientists increase the
amount of fusel oil in whiskey, then
extract the oil and use it in place of
the raw gum that la tapp«® from rub­
ber trees.
CURB ON FLYERS SOUGHT.
Aviators' League Proposed to Stop
Reckless Aerial Flights,
Ixrndon—The death of H. J. D. Ast-
ley by the fall of his aeroplane at Bel­
fast has given impetus tn the move­
ment to found a National Aviators'
league.
Astley was the twentieth British
airman to lose his life. A similnr
movement has begun in the Unit,®
States to forbid unnecessary flying in­
volving dangerous risks. The move­
ment has the support of the leading
aviation authorities.
Astley, who met death while exe­
cuting too sharp a turn, wore no
safety helmet. He received thereby
injuries to his head. He was the heir
of a millionaire and a descendant of
Cromwell.
Many of the spectators of the acci­
dent are of the opinion that Astley
sacrificed his life in a brave attempt
to avoid colliding with the crowd.
MILLIONS FOR TIMBER BONDS.
$12.000.000 Invented In Western
Securities Thia Year.
Portland — More than $12.000,000
has liven brought from Eastern money
centers and inveate«! in timber bonds
since January 1, according to a state­
ment made before the Portland Re®ty
board by Th«*® ore ft. Brown, of
Brown 4 Brown, timber bond broker».
Thia new capital was invested in bond
ing propositions, nearly $11 of which
are in Portland territory.
“The business of floating bonds on
standing timber has reach«® big pro­
portions during the past few years,”
said Mr. Brown. “Th«' ability to real­
ize on standing timber by the bonding
method has been of great benefit to
the Northwest. As a result operators
have been able to continue the logging
industry to advantage. Hundr«®* of
men have been given employment and
the development of this section has
been generally aided.
“Oregon and Washington timber
bonds are now in favor with Eastern
capitalists. On account of the effi­
cient patrol of the forests, danger
from fires has been reduc«® greatly,
thus providing better security for tim­
ber bonds.”
Frog Lives Age* In Rock.
Ix>s Angeles—Worknwn engag«® in
clearing and blasting rock on the L.
D. Ixximis property, in Santa Monica
canyon, found a frog imbedd«® in
solid limestone, three feet beneath the
surface. It had been enca*«® in rock
for hundreds of years. Apparently
petrifi«®, the amphibian was taken by
the astonished workmen and laid in
the *un. In a few moments it sud­
denly showed signs of life. After
several minutes it blink«® confusedly,
drew a long breath, and in long leap*
traveled a hundred feet before the
workmen could recapture It.
The lump of limestone from which
it was taken was carefuly pack«® and
taken to Santa Monica.
It shows
Auto Burglars Get Gems.
clearly the exact shape of its occu­
New York — Automobile burglars, pant, to the minutest detail.
accompanied by a woman, who re­
Bayonet* Win’ Battle.
mained outside in a machine, the en­
Rome
—
The most sanguinary engage­
gine of which the chauffeur kept rac­
ing in readiness for flight, at the' ment of the war in Tripoli was fought
point of a revolver bound and gagged , Thursday near Derna, a town on the
George Richman, a jeweler, in his Mediterranean roast 140 mile* north­
store at 111 Second avernue, and ob­ west of Benghazi. The Italian* lost
tained $5000 worth of loot. They 61 men kill«® and 113 woundel. The
stole $820 in cash, two trays of dia­ Turks and Arabs left more than 800
mond rings and pendants, and other dead on the field. Fortyrone prison­
trinkets that had been left to be re­ ers, including an Arab chief, fell into
paired. Richman was bound hand and the hands of the Italian*. The battle
foot and a towel tied around his mouth. opened at daybreak, when a force of
Turks and Arabs surprise«! and attack-
Women May Storm Jail
<® the Italian line*. The fight raged
Dublin — Phoenix Park was the for four hour*.
scene of a disorderly suffragist meet­
ing Sunday. A letter was read from
Aviator'* Fall I* Fatal.
Mrs. Mary Leigh, who recently was
Shenandoah, la. — Aviator Russell
released from Mount Joy prison on ac­ Blair, of Kansas City, while making
count of ill health, declaring that un­ an exhibition flight here, was killed in
less Gladys Evans, now serving a sen­ a fall from a height of 30 feet. Blair
tence of five years for an atempt to had just made a successful flight and
burn a theater, wax liberated within a had landed some distance from the
few days, she would lead a march on crowd. When he attempted to rise
the prison to effect her release, and from the ground again his machine
would succeed or die in the attempt. struck an air current and turned over.
Blair was pinioned underneath the
Chinese Rob and Murder.
wreckage, and when aid reached him
St. Petersburg—Atrocities commit­ he was dead.
ted by Chinese exp«®itionary troops in
Mongolia are reported in Harbin dis­
Work Stop* for One Man.
patches. After plundering and burn­
Pottsville, Pa.—Because one man
ing several monasteries, the troops refused to join the union, several
massacred 1000 Mongolians and muti­ thousand workmen are idle at the col­
lated the bodies of women and child­ lieries of the Lehigh Coal & Naviga­
ren. Prince and Princess Un Al es­ tion company in the Panther Creek
caped, but all [other members of their valley, and only one mine and three
family were murdered.
waxheries are working.