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THE YALE EXPOSITOR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912. fJFWSflFAl'JFFK'IH hbbw w aaftall III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. AT HOME AND ABROAD Happenings That Are Making HIctory Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. Politics An Invitation to President Taft to enter Into joint debate with Eugene V. Debs, the nominee of the Socialist party for president, was declined by the president. The seats of the members of the Republican national committee from New Jersey, West Virginia, North Carolina and California were declared vacant by the committee In a meeting at New York, and the resignations of committeemen from Oklahoma and Minnesota were accepted. All had Joined the Roosevelt forces. Judge John C. Karel, Democratic tandldate for governor of Wisconsin, made a clean Bweep of the Demo cratic platform convention at Madi son when his platform, pledging the party to repeal the state income tax law, was adopted. Washington The federal public health service Is searching the country for five insanity experts to whom the government will offer commission for duty in connec tion with the examination of arriving aliens. Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh has detailed nine surgeons of the public health service to investi gate contagious and infectious dis eases among the Indians. Reports will be made on the prevalence of tu berculosis, trachoma, smallpox and other diseases. Domestic Cornell university's historic club house was destroyed by Are. One lundred football uniforms and all the equipment of all of the team were burned. The milling plant of the Berger Crittenden company at Milwaukee was destroyed by fire. The loss is $250,- COO. In the annual tank scrap between the freshmen and sophomores at Purdue, Ind., a score of students were Injured, several seriously. The first year class had 650 in the battle and the second year class 550. It was a bloody fight, and was witnessed by 15,000 people. Aviator Russell Blair of Kansas City, aged twenty-one, met Instant death at Shenandoah, Iowa, while giv ing an exhibition fight, his Curtiss bi plane lungjng 300 feet to the ground while he was attempting to ascend. An air pocket was the cause of his accident. Ills love for flowers cost an un anown man his life at Brookline, Mass., and caused Albert H. Woods, a florist and gardener, to be arrested on a charge of manslaughter. Woods .hot the man down after the unknown bad stolen some violets from Woods' greenhouse. Ignace Semenlouk, the Russian avi ator, whose flying career has been one rmashup after another, came near losing his life at Chicago from a scalding he incurred when a hydro aeroplane he had been' driving ca reened sideways one mile out In Lake "Michigan. The boiling water from a smashed radiator squirted over his body. 4 Robbers blew open the safe of the First National bank at Grand River, In., and stole about a thousand dol lars. The robbers are said to have numbered six. More than five hundred employes of the Colt Manufacturing company, ma kers of firearms, are out on strike at Hartford. Conn. The strike began several days ago with a walk-out of two hundred men, who were offended at the installation of an efficiency sys tem. In an early morning raid on an Kast S6th street house at Cleveland federal officials, aided by a squad of fourteen police, captured two men and their wires, alleged counterfeiters, and a quantity of counterfeiting molds uvQ tools. The convention of tbe National league of Third and Fourth Class portroasters opened In Richmond, Va., f ie delegates being welcomed by Gov ernor Mann. Charles O. Harry of "Walker, O., presided. Jamaica bay. Long Island, and the Potomac river, seventy-five miles down from Washington, both are polluted hr fyphold germs, according to a de rrtmnnt cf agriculture declaration. ftinn Secretary Hays says invest! rrrru traced typhoid to oyster bed Seventy thousand dollars In cur rency Is said to have been stolen from a Louisville & Nashville train be tween Pensacola, Fla., and Flomaton, Ala. The money was in express pack ages sent from Pensacola banks to Flomaton for the payment of em ployes of the Louisville & Nashville railroad In that district. A mob of 5,000 strike sympathizers at Superior, Wis., destroyed thousands of dollars of street railway property and seriously injured many nonunion street car employes. The first attack on street cars resulted in the burning of six cars and a battle with the po lice, In which more than thirty per sons were injured, none, it is thought, fatally. Juan P. Dldapp, diplomatic adviser of the Mexican revolution, declared just before leaving New Orleans for Mexico that Americans, including Charles P. Taft, II. Clay Pierce, president of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, and representatives of the Harrlman interests had furnished $5,000,000 to President Madero of Mex ico to finance his revolution against Diaz. Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace, who recently was acquitted In Atlanta, Ga., of having shot her husband, Eugene H. Grace, with intent to kill, began suit for divorce at Philadelphia, alleg ing cruel and barbarous treatment. She claims that her husband broke her nose while beating her in Philadel phia. "Suicide point," a little promontory overlooking tbe brink of Niagara falls has been cut away by order of the New York reservation commission The number of persons who used the point as a jumping off place increased so alarmingly In the last year or two that the commission decided to be rid of It. Foreign A cablegram from Rear Admiral Southerland at Managua. Nicaragua indicates that a battle has been fought between the American naval forces and the rebels at Barranca, fourteen miles south of Managua and an equal distance from Granada, which the naval expedition was seeking to re lieve. More than 1,100 Turks and Arabs of General Enver Bey's force were killed in battle with Italians at Derna, in Tripoli. General Reisoll, the Italian commander, in making formal report of the victory to the war office at Rome, stated that 1,134 of the enemy had been buried. Three companies of United States marineB with three machine guns are rushing from Managua, Nicaragua, to Granada, near where it is reported a detachment of United States Bailors and marines, commanded by Major Daker, has been fired on by General Mena s rebels and where a large num ber of college girls are still at the mercy of the bandit soldiery of the revolution. A financial agent named Hiddink, who has disappeared from Amsterdam, Holland, Is alleged to have obtained an advance of $87,500 from the Ont vang en Retaallkantoor bank on sd curities which he asserted he had sold in New York. These securities were not accepted. The most sanguinary engagement of the war In Tripoli was fought near Derne, a town on the Mediterranean coast, 140 miles northeast of Bengazl. The Italians lost 61 men and 113 were wounded. The Turks and Arabs left more than 800 dead on the field Konstantin Theodor Dumba, at present Austrian minister to Sweden, was nominated to succeed Baron Ilengelmuller von Hengervar as am bassador of Austria-Hungary at Wash ington. Personal T. J. McGrath has resigned as super Jntendent of motive power of the Chicago and Alton railroad. His suc cessor has not been named. Mrs. Carleton Washburne, formerly Miss Helulse Chandler, whose mar riage was under a prenuptial contract providing for the greatest personal liberty, began her career as a busi ness woman, according to . the speci fications of the marriage contract that she shall be self-supporting. She has taken a position with the company for which her husband works and will make illustrations for a magazine. Mrs. "Pat" Campbell, the famous actress, is critically ill In London, and only faint hopes are entertained for her recovery. Robert A. Wellman, brother of Wal ter Wellman, the arctic explorer, was killed in falling Into the elevator shaft of a St. Joseph (Mo.) hotel. He was sixty years old. George Cosson, attorney general of Iowa, appeared before Judge Wood ruff in the district court In Council ('.luffs and moved tbe dismissal of seventeen indictments against ten men charged with complicity in the Mabray swindles of several years ago. Hugh S. Gibson of California, secre tary of the American legation at Havana, who was assaulted by a Jour nallst named Maza because of his efforts to collect the ReKly claim, has been transferred to be secretary of tbe American legation at Brussels. TAX PAYERS ARE ALL ELIGIBLE MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF TAX PAYERS RESULTS FROM CONFERENCE. ALL WAS SERENE AND ACTION OF MILD FORM. Declaration cf Principles Do Not Leave Room for Any Sort of Disputes to Arise. With a membership of 150, includ ing all of the delegates to tbe state tax conference, the Michigan Taxpay ers' association was organized in the closing moments of the conference Thursday afternoon ' in the Detroit common council chamber. All tax payers are eligible to membership and it is planned to make the asso ciation a strong force for good, Just as similar organizations have become lu New York and other states. To remedy matters of taxation the plan suggested Is the Wisconsin law, which bases the average rate on the cash value of all property in the state as fixed by the tax commission instead of using the valuation on which taxes are actually paid as a basis. The Michigan state board of equalization last year clipped $600, 000,000 from the cash valuation as fixed by the tax commission. Had this $600,000,000 been left in the bud get for purpose of figuring the aver age rate, the railroad tax rate would have been reduced from $21 per $1,000 to $12, resulting in a decrease of al most half in the railroad tax levy. The resolution of the conference ontbis point is as follows: "The Michigan tax commission is at this time spending approximately $150,000 per year, the major portion of which goes for the support of a force which is engaged in the work of increasing .the assessed valuation of the general property of the state. In its last analysis, this work results In the reduction or the average rate of taxation, which is the rate applied to the property of public service cor porations under the law. Serious con sideration ought to be given, both to the cost of this work and the results obtained, to'the end that; if -inquiry proved it advisable, some better method may be adopted. In this con. nection consideration should be given to the method now prevailing in Wis consin, where the average is deter mined by the tax commission from the actual value of the entire prop erty of the state, as determined by that board, without special regard to the value as locally assessed." The resolutions similarly recom mend a consideration of the advisa bility of fixing a lower maximum rate for assessment of personal credits. Outside of these points the para graphs confine themselves to a gen eral discussion of taxation, recom mendations of economy and efficien cy in administration of the law, ftc. As an instance of the care with which all questions of possible dispute were touched on, no mention was made of the corporate excess plan proposed this year by a special tax commission. The only part of the resolutions which could be construed as touching thi3 subject is as follows: "With regard to the course to be pursued relative to proposals for rad ical changes in our tax law. the con ference believes that 6uch proposals should be given very carefal and lei surely consideration, neither mdelv denouncing them on account of their novelty, nor hastily adopting them because of the same quality." Weather Conditions Dad for Beans. Lapeer county farmers declare that unless the weather conditions are more favorable their bean croj) will be a total loss The recent rains have kept the vines growing and blossming, so that there are over growth vines, with no development of the beans in the pods. Hundreds of acres are in this condition, and in many places the ground is covered with water. Downey House Reopened in Lansinf.. With a reception and banquet that rivaled any social function ever held n the state capital, the rebuilt Ho tel Downey formally opened for bus iness. Hundreds of friends of Charles Downey, the proprietor, came from all parts of Michigan, from Chicago. New York, and elsewhere to attend the reception, and the occasion was absolutely unique in hotel history. John Mahka, a farmer, living near Benton Harbor, is dead as a result of a peculiar accident, while hunting. Mahka, who was 74. raised the wean- on to fire and bdth barrels accidental, ly exploded. The gun was on a line with the farmers abdomen and the discharge kicked the gun back, caus ing Internal Injuries. Eugene W. Chafln, prohibition can didate for president, will speak on the streets of Owosso Wednesday morn ing, Sept. 25. He will be accompanied by J. D. Leland, the party's candi date for governor, William A. Bru baker, of Detroit, chairman of the tate central committee, and C. H. Stanley, of California, a noted prohi bition singer. Charles K. Atwood, of Newington. he oldest graduate of Yale and a member of the class of 1834, is dead n Hartford, Ct, aged 92 years. Complaints for 17 alleged viola tions of an ordinance governing speed of trains, were made in municipal court in uwosso against Grand Trunk conductors and engineers by City 'At torney Pulver, acting under Instruc tions from the council. The speed limit is eight miles an hour. Mr. Pul- er says that In the four days that the trains have been timed, none has gone less than J 8 miles an hour. others as fast as 50 to CO miles an nour. CIPRIANO CASTRO Cipriano Castro, ex-presldent ol Venezuela, though seriously sick and In exile, continues to worry the gov ernment of his native country at Inter vals by threats of revolution. STATE BOARD TAKES ACTION State Board of Corrections and Char ities to Investigate Jackson' Prlsn. The state board of corrections and charities, of which Dr. Dayton Parker of Detroit is chairman, hae taKen action as the result of riots flogging seances and military rule at the Michigan state prison in Jacksor and will meet in the near future tc investigate the situation and recom mend to the governor such action a it deems necessary to remedy the conditions prevailing at the instltu tion. Dr. Parker said that he is not yet certain when the board will hold its meeting, and he intimated also that he will recommend to the board that it go on record in favor of restoring corporal punishment in the prisons oi the state in cases where convicts are incorrigible. The board of corrections and char ities has no power in the matter ordering changes made at the prison being merely an advisory board, bu the law requires that in casw of an uprising of convict3 or lack of disci piine it make an investigation and report to the governor. Marl T. Mur ray, secretary of the board, has re quested Chairman Parker to call meeting lor that purpose. NOTES BY TELEGRAPH. The milling plant of the Berge; ( rittenden company was destroyed by fire in Milwaukee. The loss $250,000. A movement has just been started by Rev. Walter J. Shanley, pastor of bt. Peter s church in Danbury, Conn cutting out the custom of sending flowers to funerals. According to State Bacteriologist Holm and City Sanitary Inspector Huntley, Lansing now has a pure milk supply. All dealers have met the proper requirements. In order to prevent any more es capes from the Tombs, New York, a battery of powerful electric lights is being installed about the court yard and exterior of the prison. Ignorant of its purrort, Thomas Hogan, a diminutive telegraph mes senger boy, of Yonkers, N. J., bore home to his mother a message tell ing of the death of his own father. For the first time in the history of New York city, a Roman Catholic priest, has been named a deputy sheriff. The new wearer of the Bhield is the Rev. Father James B. Curry. Evansville, Ind., was selected as the next meeting place of the Na tlonal Rural' Letter Carriers' associa tion at Nashville, Tenn., the strong est competitor being Washington. Through the efforts of theXational Sculpture society a circulating ex hibltion of bronzes by American sculptors will be seen in eight Am erican cities during the next eight months. A Portuguese force has loft Macao, the Portuguese dependency in China, with the object of surrounding the island of Colowan, a piratical strong hold which on former occasions has been the scene of severe fighting. Word has been received from .Toi let, 111., of the death of Rev. George Woodhull, 8.' years old, one of the oldest and best known Presbyterian ministers in the United States, who until a short time ago resided in Sag inaw. Handcuffed together and guarded by 10 detectives, Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, arrested a week ago in DeB Moines, to answer for their part in the Carroll county court house murders, were taken to Mile vllle, W. Va. At the request of the school board the city council of Kalamazoo will permit the schools to use the election booths so that the students may study the Australian system of bal loting. Booths will be erected at the high schools. The question of the use of aero planes in time of war has been re considered at the session of the inter-parliamentary union at Geneva, Switzerland, as its approval by the conference as announced apparently was under a misapprehension. Grover Guiles. 21) years old, son of a prominent Marengo township, near Battle Creek, farmer, killed himself with a shotgun. Continued ill-health, he never having fully recovered from the effects of typhoid fever, which he had a year ago, is given as the reason for his act. The first woman to file a petition in bankruptcy in Kalamazco in years is Clara F. Gaston, of Hartford. Miss Gaston In her voluntary petition, rep resents herself as a book merchant, and schedules liabilities, showing she owes publlFhers and merchants of Hartford nearly $2,000. The assets amount to less than half that amount, i MIS STATE CONVENTION AT FLINT PASS RESOLUTIONS CALLING ON OSBORN TO INVESTIGATE CON DITIONS AT JACKSON PRISON. PASSING OF RESOLUTION GREET ED WITH CHEERING. Select Full Ticket and Set Precedent by Naming Two Women as Presidential Electors. The state convention of Socialists at Flint, after a preamble review of the developments at Jackson prison adopted resolutions demanding that Gov. Chase S. (J9born and the pns on board of control Investigate the conditions leading up to the recent disturbance at the prison, tbe whip ping of prisoners: that responsibility be fixed and guilty ones punished meaning prison officials guilty of causing whippings. In addition to placing candidates on the state ticket the Socialists set a precedent in Mlchigau, It is be lieved, in naming two women for presidential electors. The women are Mtb. Ida Kumraerfeld, of De trolt, and Alice McAfee, of Lansing. The convention was marked by i large number of women in the gal leries and sprinkled throughout the hall. Amusement was on the pro gram when W. T. Curry, a molder from Kalamazoo, who was unable to do as he preferred in fixing the candidatorial slate, dramatically shouted his dis3atisfact!6n, tore up his credentials, threw them into a cuspidor, declared the convention. was of the "steam roller" variety and left the building for his home In the Celery City. Plenty of Water for Panama Canal. The engineers' calculations as to the sufficiency of the water supply in tlie Panama canal have been amply vindicated by the figures just report ed from the isthmus. The great lake of Gatun, which is being created by the dam at that point, during the week Sept. 2 to 0, accumulated just a.i-Hi.iHMi.uuu teet of water. Durin this period the water level of the lake rose three feet. Every time a ship is locked through the canal five and a half million cubic feet of water must nass and when the lake is full it will afford enough water to fill the locks 150 times daily, which it as least twice as fast as the ships can pass. When the surface of the lake reuches its maxi mum hlght of 87 feet above sea level with the water just flowing over the crest of the dam. it will contains the enormous amount of 192,250,000,000 cubic feet of water. .. Special Sailors for Navy Review. An opportunity to be a sailor In the United States navy for a period of 10 days and to take part in the naval review at New York next month Is offered to sailors by the government. This is said to be the first time in the history of the navy that citizens have been allowed to become bona fide members of a bat tle ship crew without enlisting for a term of years. The circular Jetter sent out by the navy department asks for 1,000 men for the 10-day period. The principal reason for the demand for these short term enlistments is that the ships have only skeleton crews and must have more men to get to New York. Ezra Rust Celebrates 80th Birthday. Ezra Rust, who for the last 53 years has been a resident or bag- Inaw. will, celebrate his eightieth birthday anniversary Tuesday. Mr. Rust's career has been a very event ful one. he rising from a marine en glnneer to a man of wealth through he lumber industry. He has been a great benefactor of Saginaw. West park, which he presented to the city, when completed, promises to rival Belle Isle, the people's pride of De- roit. Mr. Rust enjoys vigorous health and attends personally to his extensive business in lumber. Iron and steamships. NEWS BRIEFS. The walls of the famous old Arling ton hotel in Washington have begun to fall apart. Installed in the Harvard Medical school is an instrument by which physician may note the heart beat of a patient who may be miles away. All the patient has to do Is to place his or her hand in a solution of wgrm salt water. Dr. Louis Divingston Seaman of 17 Fifth avenue, New York, presi dent of the China Society of Ameri- a, has sent an open letter to Presi dent Taft protesting against the president's delay In formally recog- lzlng the republic of China. . The state department has no knowl- dge that the Mexican government as assented to the demand of Am bassador Wilson for the release of W. C. Nichols, an American fruit grower, now imprisonea at laaipieo on a charge of murdering a notorious bandit. With at least one presidential can didate on the program, and although the campaign will be at Its hlght, all policlcal discussions will be barred from the sessions of the National Conservation congress, which opens in Indianapolis. Ind., October 1 and continue four days. The long wait of Porter Charlton behind the bars of a New Jersey prison for the final word as to wheth er be must return to Italy to answer for the murder of bis wife at Lake Como two years ago, is drawing to an end. Tbe supreme court will taktf up Charlton's case during the com ing term, which opens October 14. REFUSES TOJELP DETROIT. Gov. Osbom Refuses to Call Grand Jury to Investigate Graft Cases. Appealing to the highest power of the state for assistance in prob ing and bringing to speedy justice the plunderbund that has made De troit's name a by-word, Mayor Will iam B. Thompson, of Detroit, made a fruitless journey to Lansing. Governor Osbom, after hearing one of the most severe arraignments of a prosecuting officer ever deliv ered in the state capltol, decided that Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Shepherd had not yet reached a point where bis actions called for the Interference of the state. The governor commended In warm est terms the actions of Mayor Thompson in pushing investigations into graft: in lending his' personal and official strength to the task of cleaning up civic rottenness. The Pennsylvania railroad has Is sued an order restricting trains on all points of the road from exceeding 70 miles an hour. THE MARKETS. DKTUOIT Cattle: Kxtra dry-fed steers, $S(U,$S; steers and heifers. 1,000 to J, 100 lbs., J6ftt$7.50; steers and heif ers. fliOo to 1,000 lbs., $3&$5; grass utters and heifers that are fat. SoO to i.uuu ids.. ti.ZaU S5.50: srass steers ami heller that are lat, 500 to 700 lbs., $4.25!$4.75; choice fat cows, $5.50(p $6.50; good fat cows. $4.50fa$5; com mon COWS. S3.nOfii;S4! murium QH JJ.o; choice he-ivy bulls, 14.75 $5.50; fair to good bolognas, bulls. $4.25$5; stock bulls. $3.25(5 3.7!) ; choice feed ing attars. hOo to 1.000 lba., $5.25(8)$5.75; 'ej-dinR steers. S00 to 1.000 lbs., 4.50 r f : choice stoekers. 500 to 700 lb.' fair stoekers. 600 to Vi rr.9." t:-75 J4.5; stock heifers, u...y $4; milkers, large, younrf. medium jge, H0('$ti5; common milkers, $250 ,n,VaI, waives Market steady at Thursdays prices; beft. tlOffJll; oth ers. 4 5iJ!. Sheep and lambs Market steady at Thursday's prices. West lambs, 6.75fi J; fair to good lambs. $6(ff' $t.:.0; lljrht to common lambs, $4.5(ifti $5.50; weth '.o,J.VirWir,t, tAlr to Rood sheep, $3Sj$J.50: oulls and common. $2f($3. Hoss Market 10c higher than on 1 liursday. Itanjre of prices: Utrht to butchers. $8.50to$8.70; pigs. $7tf$8; IlKht yorkers, $S.50ff-$S.70 ; staKS. 1-3 off. steady; best 1.350 to 1 f.on.n at..m fi $9.50 tfood to prime, 1,200 to 1,300 11). steers. 1 SN.50(7?ls .',: 1.100 to l-'00-lb. Kteertt. 1 S IT, dti S .65 ' medium hutchcr Ktra 1 ruin t i Kin lbs.. $Ift$?.5o: butcher steers !ro' tn .uu" ids.. It...Uf(l S7: ttht hut. lior steers. $fifti$fi.25; best fat cows. $5,505) u ii'iicr cows, s 4 nil 'i ,.!-, hut crier cows: S.i.fiO'ii 14 : trimmst-n :iff imm rat neirers, J7r 57.50; med i ii in illltclier hlfei-a Ifiiiilte II. rl. butcher heirers, $4.50&$5; stock heir era. $ 4 r $ 4 2'. : best feeding steer?, de norneti 6ffi $fi.50; common feeding steers jiRnt ptockers, $4.50?l prime export bulls. $. 7.Rf Ifi; bps butcher bulls. $5.25 iff $:.: 0 ; bolotfti; bulls. $4(fi$4.50: stock bulls. $4 (f $4.50 best milkers and scHinreru tr.nrn-irn common kind, do., $nr. $40.' Hosts Strong; heavv. $!)((? $9.10 yorkers. $s.o?j $!U0: rivs. $7.50 (Sts. Sheen Strnntr? anrlmr . l.mi.o 7ci "' : vean nirs. sr. ii. I.. unthtm '.i.vaii; ewes. s:. 7 5 tit' $4.2 Calves $."iR$12. ft It A IX, rrc. DETROIT Wheat : Cash and Sop tember No. 2 red. $t.0C 3-4 December opened at an advance of l-4c at $1.10 unu uuvancvu to 51.10 1-2; May open ed at $1.13 3-4 and advanced to $1.14 No. 1 white, $1,05 3-4. Corn Cash No. 3. 73 l-2e: No 1 vet low. 7C l-2c; No. 3 yellow. 75c. oats Standard. 36 l-2c; No. 3 white fir at a j-'c: ISO. 4 white, r. cam at i -Jc; cample, 2 cars at 30 l-2c uye cash No. 2, 74c. "eans December shipment, 1 car at .nv. Clover seed Prime October, til. sample. 9 bags at $10.50, 12 at $10 25. at jo. is at J'J.75, 8 nt $7, 5 at $8.25; prime alslke. 112: samnle nUIko 14 baps at 311.2.,. 12 at $10.25. 7 at $!. I lmothv seed Prime snot. 75 Laei hi i iu. ( 10 VI-: It A I. SI A HURTS. Butter Kecelnts. 289 nackazea: fancy creamery, 27c, creamery Jirsts. 11 l-2c; dairy. 21c: uacklntr. 19c. Kiro Keeelpts. 622 cases; current receipts. luiiuit'u, cuttes inciuueu, Z4C Der tioz. Cheese Wholesale lots: Mlehieran Mats. 14 l-2SD15c; New York nats.16 1-4 W'lbi-L'c; brick cream. 1 4 1 -2 & 14 3-4c: IjnburRer. Hfrfloc; imported Swiss, -1 o-i -a j-ic; domestic Swiss. 17 l-2ffn !..; oiock Swiss. Jru l7c ter lb. Apples New. fancy. Sl.75fiS2.25 ner bbl:; common. $l.if$1.50; poor. 75c&i$i per bbl; Rood apples, by the bushel. lOCW'OOC. Cirapes 8-lb. baskets: Chamnion. 1 4r Moore's early, 15c; Worden, 16c, Island Ktapes; Nine-pound baskets. wuu.en, S4i20c; Niagara. 30 Si-35c: Delaware. 3 (Iff rf.e. PeachfF Colorado. 70 5? 90c Per box: Smocks. A A. $2.25; A, $2; H. $1.50 per LMl. Pears Burtlctt, $1.505$1.75 per bu; M-pRon, $2.5o ptr box; Duchess, $1.25 per iiu. Plums $1.2.km $1.50 per bu; 2;330c per l-; bu. basket. Cantaloupes icocky torus, $2.50u 2.75 per crate. j Onions $1.25 pet sack and 75c per bu. New Cabbage $lif$1.25 per bbl. Pressed Calves Ordinary, 9i10c: fancy. 13 1-25 14c per lb. New Potatoes Southern. $2 Per sark; Michigan. 4 Oft 50c per bu. Tomatoes 4 0(u nOc per bu. Honey Choice fancy comb, 15ti?16c per lb.; amber, 12ul3c. Mve Poultry uroiler. lfic per lb: hens. 13fl3 1-2c; No. 2 hens. 9M10c; Id roosters. Hfii 10c: ducks. 1213e: ounsr ducks. 14 (rt 15c; eeesc. 8&9c: tur keys. 15(j)16c. VcKetab.es Cucumber. 10sil2c per oz ; green onions. 10c per doa; water cress, 25Ct35c per dozz; green beans, 75c per bu; wax beans, 75c per bu; green peas. $2 per bu; homegrown celery. 25(1 80c per doz; green peppers, 75ru.S0c per bu. Hay CarJot price, track, Detroit: No. J timothy. $l6.50(Jf$17: No. 2 tim othy. $15ft$16; No. 1 mixed. $13Q,$14; liifht mixed. $15.50(ff'$16; rve straw. $10u $10.50; wheat and oat straw, $8(i $9 per ton. Feed .lobbing lots. In 100-lb sacks: Kran. $26; coarse middlings. $2S; nc middlings. $31; cracked corn nnd coarse i-ornmeal. $34; corn and oat chop, $31 per ton. Hides No. 1 cured hides, 13 l-2c: No. 1 green hides 11c; No. 1 cured bulls veal kip, 14 l-2c; No, 1 green veal kip, 13c; No. 1 cured murrain, 12c; No. 1 green calf. 16c; No. 1 horse hides. $3.75; No. 2 horsehldf. $2.75; sheepskins. 25Sr0c, bm to amount of wool; No. 2 hides, 1c off; No. 2 kip and calf. 3-4c off. The sheriff and three deputies hid In a grain box at the Northern Michi gan state fair and caught Charles Allen, who they alleged was selling whisky to a farmer. After they had made the arrest they searched the place and found 30 quarts of whisky in the stalls. Declaring that the popular demand for Frederick C. Martlndale as a can didate on the Republican ticket to succeed himself as secretary of state, has become too strong to be resist ed, George U Lusk, also a candidate for the office, hat announced he hat withdrawn. MICHIGAN NEWS TERSELY TOLD Flint. The- first hunting acci dent of the season occurred wher Jonas Ballenger, seven ty-one yeara old, a farmer living three miles south-t east of here, was killed by the acci- dental discharge of his shotgun whllel hunting rabbltB. Ballenger left homo? and when he failed to return at night a search was made, tils body wast found lying on a pile of brush, with at wound in the breast where a charge! of birdshot had torn Its way through! his heart. It Is believed that Ballen-i ger used tho gun as a club to drive aj rabbit from the brush and that the gun was discharged by a twig striking, the trigger. Coroner Taylor decided, that an Inquest was unnecessary. Bal-i lenger had been a resident of thi county for over B0 years. Lansing. The Loyal Americans; closed their two days' state con vention in this city. The matter of; next year's meeting place was re-i ferred to the the executive board. The following officers were elected for tho ensuing year: . Presfdent, Olenn R Munshaw, Grand Rapids; senior vice president, William O. Phillips, Owobh so; Junior vice-president, W. J. Par ker, Pontiac; secretary. Miles W. Cal laghan, Reed City; treasurer, Herbert E. Chamberlain, Lansing. Kalamazoo. Members of the state tax commission received numerous complaints from Kalamazoo coun ty farmers whose valuations have more than been doubled. The com missioners recently spent some time1 In going over the townships and now; they are here announcing their find ings. A meeting of the committee of 25 was also held at which plans were discussed for stopping the work of thf tax commission. Chairman N. II. Stew art stated that the committee which has charge of the legal end of tho question will make its report at a meeting to be held In a short time. South Haven The lives of 100 passengers on the Michigan Cen tral train from Kalamazoo were endangered by Reynold Ischer, a thirteen-year-old Chicago boy, when he threw open a switch one-half mile from the station here. The passen ger train, going 25 miles an hour, ran onto a side track from which a train of box cars had been moved one hour before and no damage resulted. The' boy Is under arrest and has made a full confess'on. Grand Rapids. A new pest which threatens the apple orchards of western Michigan, has been dis covered here. The Insect is brown In . color, very small and has two sets of, wings. It bores a fine hole In the tree, beginning Its work at sundown and always on the southeast side of the tree near the base, and sips the sap. Various poisons have been tried, but without effect. The matter will be taken up with the Lansing and Wash ington experts. Ionia. About twenty Ionia Bull Moosers responded to the call for an Ionia county Progressive conven tion and elected a full Bet of delegates to the state convention to be held In Lansing. Ed Snyder of Lake Odessa was elected chairman of the delega tion to the state convention. Kllng was indorsed for the legislature. Ypsilantl. George II. Gardner of Belleville was arrested on com plaint of Chief of Police Mllo E. Gage, charged with carrying con cealed weapons. This Is the first ar rest here under the new law as amended at the last extra session of the legislature. Gardner demanded an examination, and in default of ball was committed to the county Jail at Ann Arbor to await Investigation. Hastings. After playing the violin so well that she was encored by a large audience in . church, Grace Bush, a seventeen-year-old school girl, returned home and shot herself through the heart. She said In a note she left she had been 111 and despondent, slighted by some of her friends, and had postponed suicide in order to keep her engagement to play In church. Grand Rapids. Mrs. William Brow- dick, an Invalid, was deserted by her husband. The poor au thorities discovered her plight She had been without food or medicine for several days. Her four little children were discovered scattered about the city where they had gone to secure a home and food. Eaton Rapids. Rer. O. J. Mont gomery, who resigned his pastor ate of the Methodist Protestant church here a month ago, In order to complete his theological course, has been prevailed upon by bis congrega tion to reconsider his resignation and will remain In the pastorate here for another year. Benton Harbor. The kick-back of gun has resulted fatally for John Mahka, a Benton township farm er, who was 'Injured a few days ago. He died. Mahka was out hunting with a double barreled shotgun when he accidentally discharged the weapon. Calumet. Ole Borchgrorlnk. ared thirty-two, and Allen 8Ikanon,. aged twenty-flvo were Instantlr killed here when a scaffold from which they were painting a house broke, pre cipitating them 160 feet to the ground. Both wers dead when picked up.