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THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1907.
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PERRV8BUBO. ' I I OHia
GIF HENS NOTES
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MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest from All Parts of
the Globe Latest Home and For
eign Items.
In the federal suit against tbo
Standard Oil company It was disclosed
that John D. Rockofeller owned 247,
692 shares of. Its stock, or nearly flvo
times as much as any other Individ
ual stockholder. The methods by
which tho trust coerced the Independ
ent refineries werorelated.
Judge Lochren at St. Paul tem
porarily enjoined enforcement of tho
now commodity rates and called tho
recent rate legislation In Minnesota
vicious and disgraceful.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant, a Chicago
kindergarten principal, was strangled
to death In her room by a robber.
Eleven men were killed and seven
.fatally injured by tho falling of a cage
6G0 feet down a mino shaft at Neguu
nee, Mich.
Flvo members of tho Parkamlte sect
at Zlon City, 111., were arrested for
torturing to death an aged woman In
an effort to drive out tho devil with
which they believed her possessed.
Gov. Deneen of Illinois appointed
Dr. Cyrus H. Anderson, of McLeans
boro, superintendent of tho asylum
lor Insane criminals at Chester in
place of Dr. Walter E. Singer, who
died.
The Wisconsin railway commission
ordered tho La Crosse Gas & Electric
company to raise Its rates for elec
tric lighting.
Frederick McLeod, of tho Midlothian
club of Chicago, won the annual tour
nament of the Western Professional
Golfers association on tho Normandle
club's links at St. Louis. His total
for the 72 holes was 305 strokes.
Advices from Peking intimated that
Wu Ting Fang will be sent back as
minister to Washington.
Tho South Dakota board of railroad
commissioners adopted a resolution
reducing fares In South Dakota from
three to two and one-half cents a
mile, to become effective October 15.
John Hustls, a pioneer of Wiscon
sin, and one of the leading spirits in
the development of tho state, died at
Hustls Ford, in the 'ninety-seventh
year of his ago.
Tho will of Robert A. Plnkerton, the
detective, left an estate of $3,000,000
to his widow and children.
An angry mob of citizens of Whit
ing, Ind., prevented tho granting of a
50-year franchise to a street car com
pany by driving the aldermen from
tho council chamber.
Capt. James R. Lindsay and Capt.
Henry S. Wygant, both of the Thir
teenth Infantry, have been arrested by
their colonel for Indulging In a fist
light while on board an army trans
port en route to San Francisco from
the Philippines.
Tho American government has In
vestigated the ill-treatment of Hindoos
.at Bclllngham and Everett, Wash., in
response to a noto from tho British
government, and the local 'authorities
Insist that they are entirely capable
of dealing with the situation.
The new law providing an eight
hour day for telegraphers has been
declared unconstitutional by tho cir
cuit court of Cass county, Missouri.
The court ruled that tho law is class
legislation.
Mme. Emma Calve, who arrived In
Now York on the Pannonla, devoted a
large share of her tlmo during the
voyage fiom Gibraltar to making rag
dolls and hats for children in the
steerage.
Col. William Goddard, chancellor of
Brown university, and one of the best
known residents of Rhodo Island, died
at Providence
Joseph Labriola, said to bo tho last
murderer to bo put to death in New
Jersey by use of tho noose, was hang
ed at Capo May, N. J., for the killing
of John Bulgllo, his brother-in-law.
The First National bank of Gary,
Ind., organized a year ago by Elkhart
men and established at Gary last
March, has been sold to steel men at
a handsome profit.
Dr. H. L. Getz, former president of
the International Association of Rail
way Surgeons and city physician of
Marshalltown, la., attempted suicide
at tho railway station at West Liberty
by stabbing himself over the heart. Ho
Is believed to be Insane.
Japan claims tho right to occupy
Pratas Island, near tho Philippines,
because It Is "no man's land," having
hitherto been unclaimed.
The marriage of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle and Miss Jean Lccklo took place
In London. Only relatives of tho cou
ple attended.
Nurse, brldo and widow all within
a few hours was the experience of
Mrs. Adler of New York. Her fiance,
a glove manufacturer, was stricken
with typhoid fever. She nursed him
'in a hospital, at his request they were
(married as he lay dying and three
, .hours after ho was dead.
OH THE BUS IN
Secretary of tho Navy Motcalf
awarded tho contract for tho con
struction of five torpedo boat destroy
ors to William Cramp & Sons, two
ships $585,000 each; tho Bath Iron
works, two ships at $624,000 each; and
tho Now York Shipbuilding company,
one ship at $045,000.
A fast mall and newspaper train on
tho New York Central road was par
tially wrecked near Utlcawhontho en
gine struck a portion of a wrecked
freight. Tho engineer was injured.
Tho board of directors of tho
mother Christian Science church at
Boston hns Issued a now by-law In
splrod by Mrs. Eddy which permits
tho holding of autopsies on bodies of
followers of tho faith who have met
with sudden death.
The oriental limited train on tho
Groat Northern railroad was ditched
near Wenatchee, Wash. Only ono pas
senger, a woman, was Injured.
Georgo C. Hazloton, lawyer and
playwilght In New York, has secured
tho' Shakespearean productions of
Richard Mansfield from tho estate.
Dr. Charles A. Whitney, a wealthy
New Yoiker, and his son Lloyd be
came reconciled when tho latter had
been arrested on a begging charge.
Tho young man left homo a year ago
and was taken back.
News has reached tho Vatican of
tho death of Fredorick Zadox Rooker.
tho first Ametican Roman Catholic
bishop of Jaro, Phlllpplno Islands,
from paralysis of tho brain.
A dispatch from Progreso, Mexico,
sayo tho entire coast of Yucatan, ten
miles seaward, la strewn with dead
fish, presumably from a submarluo
eruption.
W. P. King, a Chicago railroad man
who was sont to the asylum for tho
insane at Jacksonville, 111., was being
taken from that city to Bloomlngtou
on a Chicago & Alton train when ho.
leaped through a car window wnuo
the train was going nt full speed and
escaped. He had been discharged
from the asylum for shamming Insan
ity. President Roosevelt announced tho
appointment of Walter C. Noyes of
New London, Conn., as United States
circuit Judge to fill tho vacancy
caused by tho death of William K.
Townsend.
That tho Standard Oil company is
operating under tho name of the Cor
sicana Refining company in the state
of Texas, which has forbidden the oil
combine to operate within the state,
was indicated when Wesley H. Tilford,
treasurer of tho Standard Oil company,
under examination In the govern
ment's suit against the company, tes
tified that H. C. Folger and C. M.
Payne, who Frank Kellogg, tho at
torney for the government, states con
tiol tho Corslcana company, aro prom
inent in the conduct of affairs of the
Standard Oil company. It was also
brought out that John D. Rockefeller
personally owns more than one-fourth
of the Standard company and that his
peisonal profits In eight years were
nearly $125,000,000.
Republicans of Now Jersey nominat
ed Supremo Court Justice J. Franklin
Fort for governor.
Korean insurgents were reported to
bo gaiheilng to attack Seoul and Mar
quis Ito intimated that tho continued
hostility of tho Koreans might force
Japan to annex their country.
Plans were announced for President
Roosevelt's trip to tho Mississippi
alley, which will Include 17 days In
camp In tho cane brakes of northeast
ern Louisiana, where gamo abounds.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
ai.nounced that it will meet tho pro
posed Invasion of Its territory by the
Grand Trunk and tho Canadian North
ern by running an extension of Its
own north from Lethbrldge Into the
heart of tho wheat country that the
other roads are preparing to cross.
An entire family In Allegheny, Pa.,
was poisoned, presumably by a homi
cidal maniac who has killed a large
number of dogs and horses there.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Holmes, who
was ejected from the White Houso In
January, 1906, after a series of at
tempts to Interview the president, was
adjudged Insane In Brooklyn.
Thirty-four persons were killed and
many Injured In a collision on tho
Mexican Central railroad at Encar
naclon. Because she had persistently re
fused to marry him Henry FIschner,
a New York baker, shot and instantly
killed Miss Johanna Hoffman and fa
tally wounded himself.
Joseph Harrison, convicted of ab
duction In North Carolina and denied
a new trial, committed suicide In
Norfolk, Va., ns the police were about
to arrest him.
Droga Selgcl, an heiress, 20 years of
age, and daughter of a colonel In tho
Austrian army, now dead, was fatally
shot In Now York by Julius Hoffman,
a married man and formerly a lieu
tenant of Col. Slegel's regiment. Tho
tragedy was tho outcome of jealousy
on tho part of Hoffman, who, after
shooting Miss Selgel, tried to shoot
himself but was prevented by the dy
ing girl.
The British admiralty has decided
to substitute oil for coal as fuel for
tho navy, and already has made heavy
purchases of oil In Texas and Europo
and will dovelop tho Nigeria fields.
Judge David McCulloch, for 54 years
a member of the Peoria bar and a
former judgo of tho Appellate court,
Is dead.
The Iong-dlstanco prize In tho In
ternational balloon race has been won
by tho German balloon, Pommern,
piloted by Herr Erbslob. Tho Pom
mcrln came down at Bayonno, France,
C21 miles from Biussels.
Odin LouIb Rennlng, a well known
pianist and composer, who composed
the coronation odo to King Haakon
of Norway, died at Knowlton hospital,
Milwaukee. Mr. Renning was 27
years old.
Two prisoners in tho jail at Laporto,
Ind., knocked down tho sheriff's wlfo
and escaped.
Mrs. Frank Joy of St. Louis, ono of
Congressman Longworth's party, was
lost for hours In tho Grand Canyon,
Arizona.
Tho two-cent faro law, enacted at
tho recent session of tho Pennsylvania
legislature, was adjudged Invalid, un
constitutional and void In Us applica
tion to tho Susquohanna River & Wost
em Railway company.
Tho hearing in New York In the fed
eral suit against tho oil trusty revealed
tho largo earnings of tho subsidiary
companies of tho Standard. Tho
Standard of Indiana made more than
1,000 per cent, profits In 1903 and
190G.
Tho long-expected 'arrests of thoso
held to bo responsible) for tho frauds
committed In tho furnishing and dec
orating of Pennsylvania's $13,000,000
capltol woro mado In Harrlsburg, tho
attorney general causing warrants to
bo Issued for 14 of the 18 persons and
firms named by tho capltol investiga
tion commission as being Involved In
tho scandnl.
Tho governor general of tho Philip
pines has Issued a formal proclama
tion convening tho national assombly
on October 16. Plans have been made
to render tho inaugural session of tho
assembly a brilliant function.
Forty thousand dollars, mainly in
large bills, Is declared to havo been
secured by tho robbers who held up
tho Gieat Northern train near Rex
ford, Mont., Soptember 12.
Directors of copper companies con
trolled by tho Amalgamated ordered
the output reduced 50 per cent.
Tho Shipbuilders' Federation of
England announced that between 40,
000 and 50,000 members of the Boiler
makers' society would be locked out.
Motive power officials of tho Harrl
man railway lines recommended the
Installation and use of steel passen
ger coaches on the Pacific coast.
Three men were imprisoned in a
burning mine at Sparta, Minn.
Alvah W. Trowbridge, former presi
dent of the American Bankers' associ
ation, died at his homo in Hacken
sack, N. J.
Edward Richards, of Dayton, an
aeronaut, dropped 2,000 feet to death
at the Miami county fair grounds at
Troy, O.
At a meeting of the directors of tho
Illinois Central railroad tho charges
recently mado against President J. T.
Harahan and Vice-President J. G. Hack
staff by Stuyvesant Fish were dropped
upon tho recommendation of a com
mittee of investigation.
Tho decision of the Belgian govern
ment to oppose obligatory arbitration
Is attributed to tho command of King
Leopold, who Is fearful that his claims
In the Congo might bo effected la tho
event of tho adoption of the proposal.
Tho king's action In this connection
Is regarded at The Hague as being In
tho nature of a scandal.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition of W. H. Adsell, accused of
murder at Hongkong. He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston at
Chefoo and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
A Japanese steamer, the Tafoo
Maru, has been burned three miles
off Ching Klang, on the right bank of
the Yangtseklang, 45 miles from Nan
king. It is reported that 100 Hve3
were lost.
Tho coroner's jury Investigating the
recent wreck on the Canadian Pacific
railway at Caledon, In which seven
people were killed and others Injured,
mado its report at Toronto, Ont, and
directed the arrest of Engineer Hodge
and Conductor Grimes. The railway
company was blamed for putting Inex
perlenced men In charge of passenger
trains.
Every railroad In Mississippi was
Indicted by tho grand jury at Jackson
for failure to furnish the state rail
road commission with a list of passes.
Members of the legislature and state
officials may bo indicted.
The largest bonds in the history of
criminal jurisprudence; $6,000,000
were fixed by Judge Peter S. Grosscup,
of tho United States circuit court, to
secure tho government's' $29,240,000
judgment against the Standard OH
company of Indiana pending an appeal
from the sentence Imposed by Judge
Landls. ,
George C. Taylor, who Inherited tho
Income of $20,000,000 from his father,
Moses Taylor, Is dead at his homo at
Great River, L. I. He was about 72
years old.
In tho federal suit at Now York for
dissolution of' the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey it was disclosed
that the company had made $490,315,
934 profits In tho eight years from
1899 to 1906 inclusive.
In tho Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory election tho constitution waB
adopted, tho state-wide prohibition
proposition carried and the Democrats
elected their ticket headed by Haskell
for governor.
A protocol was signed at tho state
department by tho diplomatic repre
sentatives of the flvo Central repub
lics, accepting tbo invitation of tho
United States and Mexico to meet In
Washington at an early dato to ne
gotiate an agreement providing for
permanent peace between tho coun
tries represented.
Ludwig Szcygill, a Catholic prlost
from Chicago, was convicted of mm
dor In tho second degree at Pittsburg,
Pa., for killing two brothers named
Starzynski.
At San Antonio, Tex. All records for
rlfio shooting at wing targets wore
broken when A. D. Toepperwoln, the
champion, broke 6,750 targets without
a miss.
Sir William Van Home, head of tho
Canadian Paclflo railway, and Richard
C. Korons, of St. Louis, interviewed In
Now York on the financial situation,
said all North America was prosper
ous.
IT IS ABSOLUTELY
WITHOUT .RESULT
HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE IS A
GIGANTIC FAILURE.
THE YANKEES ARE BLAMED.
Their Lack of Accord with Latin-American
Countries Is Said to be Ono
of the Causes of Failure Con
ference Cost $1,300,000.
Tho Hague. After having been
In session over three months, and
with adjournment probably n month
In tho dlstnnco, It Is recognized
generally, oven by tho most optimistic
In the peace movement, that tho sec
ond International peace conference
has been and will be at Its conclusion
barren of results leading to perma
nent measures of benefit to tho pcaco
of the world.
Even tho proposition for a future
meeting of the conference, which was
unanimously adopted on Saturday, has
been so altered as to suppress Its most
Important part, namely tho periodicity
of the meetings, merely providing for
tho calling of a third conference, but
establishing nothing with regard to
'convening future conferences.
The prevailing opinion as expressed
by ono of the loading dclegatea Is that
tho absence of results In the confer
ence on tho great questions was duo
to the lack of preparation by all tho
countries represented. This, ho said,
was especially striking In the case of
tho American delegation, which was
supposed to have come hero In com
plete accord with the Latin-American
countries. This accord, however,
neither existed nor has It been reach
ed during the conference.
Indeed, what Is to be dreaded, ho
declared, Is that tho chief result of tho
conference will be a growing feeling
of diffidence on the part of the South
Americans toward Washington as,
rightly or wrongly, they accuse tho
United States of having neglected
them and of caring only for working
In accord with Great Britain nnd Ger
many, thinking that a union with
these great powers would be sufficient
to carry out any project, while tho
facts proved to the contrary, as in tho
case of the permanent court of arbi
tration, which represents a victory for
Brazil over the compact formed by
Ame'rlca, Great Britain and Germany.
Thus far tho only project which
does not regulate war, but tries to
prevent It, and which was passed by
the "narrowest of margins, was that
concerning the forcible collection of
contractual debts.
Tt Is estimated that the conferenco
has cost $1,300,000.
A DARING DASH FOR FREEDOM.
Two Prisoners Escape from the Coun
ty Jail at Chicago.
Chicago, 111. After having locked
a jail guard and a "trusty" In a
cell, two prisoners on Sunday climbed
through a window on the fourth floor
of the county jail In tho heart of the
city and escaped In plain view of a
number of persons who stood In Cell
nos street for half an hour, watching
them saw two Iron bars, thinking the
men were workmen. A third prisoner
crawled through the window, but tho
on-lookers, realizing at last what was
going on, shouted an alarm and he re
turned. Within a few minutes the po
lice were on the trail of tha jail
breakers, but their capture has not
been reported.
While the prisoners on the fourth
tier of cells were In the exercise room,
one of the men asked the guard, Mich
ael Bloomberg, to unlock his cell that
ho might get a pack of playing cards.
John Scott, a "trusty," just then
handed Bloomberg a noe. While
reading tho note at the open cell door,
both Scott and the guard were forced
Into the cell and locked In by prison
ers who rushed from the exercise
room. Using saws that had been
smuggled to them, the prisoners
sawed two iron bars from a window
and two men descended by clinging to
bars on tho windows below, finally
dropping 15 feet to the street.
Meantime the other prisoners sang
and shouted to prevent the guard from
giving the alarm. The guard also was
warned by tho ''trusty" to make no
outcry on penalty of death,- and he re
mained In the cell an hour before ho
was released. As the third man start
ed out of the window he saw that the
trick was discovered outside tho jail
and ho turned back.
LOST IN LAKE SUPERIOR.
The Steamer Alexander Nlmmlck Is
Wrecked Six of Her Crew Drowned
Detroit Mich. The steamer Alex
ander Nlmmick, of Cleveland, was
wrecked Saturday night on tho
bleak southern shore of Lake Su
perior, 13 miles west of Whltefish
Point. No living soul was within
miles of the desolate place where tho
survivors laboriously managed to pilot
their lifeboats through the raging
surf; no help was at hand to minister
to tho exhausted and frozen sailors or
to care for tho bodies of tbo six or
seven victims washed up on the rocks
by tho waves.
Tho scope of tho wreck lshalf a
day's tramp from Grand Marlals vil
lage, tho Vermillion Point llfo saving
station or tho Whltefish Point light
house ahd details of tho wreck aro dif
ficult to obtain.
A Famous Railway Magnate Dies.
Now York City. Samuel Sloan,
ono of tho best known railroad men In
tho country, died Sunday at his homo
at Garrlson-on-the-Hudson. Ho was 90
years of ago. Ho entered tho director
ate of tho Hudson River railroad In
1855 and soon afterwards was mado
Its president. Ho bocamo president of
tho Lackawanna road in 18G7 and held
that olllce until 1899.
A Factory Owner Is Murdered.
Now York City, Epplaonlo Ar
cara, proprietor of au East Side ladles'
skirt factory, was murdered In his fac
tory Sunday.
NULLIFIES A NEW RATE LAW
A FEDERAL JUDGE ISSUES A
SWEEPING INJUNCTION.
Minnesota Officials are Ordered to
Take No Steps to Enforce Law
. Reducing Railway Rates.
St Paul, Minn. Judgo Loch
ren, of the United States court,
on Monday Issued an Injunction which
absolutely ties up tho state's com
modity rate law pending a final decree
In tho case.
Tho order is sweeping in Its terms,
taking In not only the defendants nt
bar, Including tho attorney general
and shippers who were mado parties
to tho actions, but all other persons
as well.
This means that, oven though the
county attorneys throughout tho state,
whoso duty It Is to instltuto nnd prose
cute criminal actions under tho law,
were not mado parties defendant in
the suits Instituted by tho railroads
through their stockholders, yet tho
county attorneys and ovorybody elso
aro warned to keep their hands off
the railroads whllo Judgo Lochrcn's
order Is In effect.
Not only Is everybody enjoined
"from taking or Instituting or causing
or advising to bo instituted any ac
tion, suit, stop or proceeding for tho
violation of said act, but anybody and
everybody Is enjoined from demand
ing that any of the rates contained In
tho act bo given to them."
It Is reported that tho stato ofllclala
are planning to violate the injunction
in such a manner that haboas corpus
proceedings will havo to bo Instituted,
in which event tho case will at onco
be appealed to the United States su
preme court, and tho whole matter de
termined thero instead of going
through the usual routine, lasting
probably three years.
TRIBESMEN SURRENDER.
Rebellious Moors Agree to Cease
Fighting and Pay Indemnity.
Paris. Tho government last
ovenlng received with great satis
faction a dispatch from Rear Admiral
Phlllbert, commander of the French
naval forces In Moroccan waters, say
ing that as a result of the conferenco
Monday at Gen. Drudo's headquarters
between the French naval and military
commanders and 19 calds, represent
ing threo tribes, the three tribes have
accepted tho peaco terms offered by
France. These are as follows:
Hostilities shall ceaso at once; Gen.
Drudo may make military reconnais
sances throughout the territory of tho
three tribes to satisfy himself that the
pacification is complete; the tribes
agree to disperse and chastise all
armed bodies that may assemble In
their territory with hostile Intent;
every native found In possession of
arms or munitions of war within ten
miles of Casablanca shall be" handed
over to the sherifilan authorities, con
demned to imprisonment and fined
$200; the tribes shall be held responsi
ble for carrying out tho previous stipu
lation; every native detected smug
gling or using arms shall bo punished;
the delegates of the tribes undertake
to surrender the authors of the out
rages upon Europeans of July 30 and,
pending judgment, their goods shall
be seized and sold irrespective of the
indemnity which is to be paid, the
amount of which shall be fixed by the
Moroccan government; the Chaouia
tribes shall pay a large Indemnity, the
part of each tribe to be apportioned
according to the length of time It re
sisted the French. In addition, tho
Chaouia tribes shall pay a contribution
toward the harbor works at Casa
blanca. To secure the carrying out of this
convention, two notables of each tribe
shall be given up as hostages. The
delegates of tho three tribes Immedi
ately named their hostages and signed
the capitulation.
ARCHBOLD DENIES THE STORY.
A Standard Oil Official Says Talk of
Reorganizing Has No Foundation.
New York City. John D. Arch
bold, vice president of the Standard
OH Co., was prompt In Issuing an au
thoritative denial Monday of a state
ment, made earlier in the day on ap
parently creditable authority, that the
Standard Oil Co. contemplated a re
organization of its affairs. The origi
nal statement was called out by an in
quiry concerning a conference which
it had been reported was to bo held
at the home of H. H. Rogers.
Tho ways and means by which tho
Tidewater Pipe Company of Pennsyl
vania camo under virtual control of
the Standard Oil Co. were unfolded
Monday In the government's suit
against tho oil combine. The affairs
of the Tidewater Co. were disclosed
by the testimony of Robert Benson,
president of the cpmpany, and from a
mass of records and contracts.
Tho Standard was shown to own at
present 31 per cent, of the Tidewater
stock and, by an agreement entered
Into in 1883 between tho two compa
nies, tho oil business was divided In
such proportion that the Tidewater
did 11 per cent, and tho Standard
88 per cent. President Benson tes
tified that since tho agreement In 1883
the business of neither tho Tidewater
Pipe Co. nor tho present company, the
Tidewater OH Co., had materially In
creased. Mr. Benson gave testimony to show
that, under existing contracts with
the Standard, of 95 per Cent, of oil ro
fined by tho Tidewater company 77
per cent was sold to tho Standard
and the romalnlng 23 per cent was
sold In a territory In which the Stand
ard was not interested.
Gale CauBod Death and Ruin.
St Johns, N. F. Additional
reports from romoto points show
that 16 and possibly 24 lives were lost
along the Newfoundland coast during
tho galo of Thursday. Soventy-flve
fishing vessels were wrecked and
much damage dono to wharves and
fishing gear.
Celebration Ended In a Riot.
Latrobe, Pa. Ono iman was
shot through the head und prob
ably fatally Injured and a score of
persons were stabbed during a riot
among several hundred forolgners at
Bradonllle. near hero, Monday,
TOAD ALIVE 6,000 YEARS OLD.
Dug Out of Solid Cement Bed by Aus
tralian Miner.
A miner has sent to tho zoological
gnrdens, Perth, Australia, n llvo toad
which ho dug out of a strata of hard
cement whllo sinking a shaft with ex
plosives. It is bcllovcd that tho crea
turo has boon entombed for centuries.
When released from confinomont
tho toad was quite Inanlmato. Its.
oyes, which were transparent, wlthi
no piipll, gradually became normal,,
and It Is now In oxcollont health.
Tho chamber In which It was con
fined was perfectly smooth, and theroi
was no room for movemont. The toad
Is now being examined by geologists.
Tho secretary of tho zoological gar
dens cites au instance of a toad be
ing found in a bed of magnesium
llmestono 25 feet undor tho earth.
Tho ago of the toad was belloved to.
bo 6,000 years. This creature waB.
presented to the Haitlepool museum.
"It Is well known," ho says, "that,
toads at tho present day bury them
solves in mud when tho water In.
Which they havo been living dries up,
and so remain thero till tho next
rains come.
"If a drought sots In, and no rain
comes to that spot, thero will bo no.
change In tho condition of tho toad,
and thoreforo nothing to bring him to
a stato of animation, and sr ho may
continue for all tlmo, until somo ono
comes along with a plug of gollgnlt
to unearth him.
"Thla seems vory hard to bellevo.
but still wo have tho fact that tho
toads aro there, alive, and so must
havo got thero somehow. In somo
cases they havo been found at great
depths undor the surfaco imbedded in
rock, as In the present instance.
"Tho toads seem to bo In a stato
of suspended animation, and do not
lose weight when in that condition."
A Gracious Absence.
Tho hnlf hour In tho drawing room
before dinner was an interesting "first
impression" of that Indescrlbablo com
bination of warmth and frost known
as a London hostess.
Further experience taught me that
Mrs. Marchbanks was a typical one.
The London hostess' Invariable
mode of procedure Is a sudden In
ordinate gush of welcome, followed by
an icy stare. By tho time you havo
politely responded to tho welcome
your hostess has forgotten your ex
istence. Nay, more, she seems al
most to havo forgotten her own. Sho
is vague, self-absorbed and quito ob
livious to your existence. I have heard
of a lady with a gracious presence.
Tho London hostess is best described
by a gracious absence. Putnam's.
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Vegetables in the Klondike.
Foodless no longer is the Klondike.
Hotel keepers there say that thoy
never have used celery equal to the.
celery grown In the Yukon territory.
Some 200 tons of vegetables and 400
tons of -hay were grown there last
year, despite the brevity of tho sum
mer season. The vegetables Include
potatoes, cabbage, turnips, carrots,
boots, celery, etc. Thero Is good coal
for business purposes, timber,
copper, and other minerals, and quan
tities of fish and game.
Death of the Lawyer.
Phoney Say, Butt, when I die I
hopes It'll be like a lawyer I onco
heard of!
Butt How's dat?
Phoney Dis lawyer died pleadin' at
the bar, and dey carried him out on a.
beer! Bohemian Magazine
A Hawk That Never Falls.
A persistent hawk has taken more
than 100 chickens from the prcmlses
of Walter Wade In Bloomfleld. The
bird is of the pigeon species, swift of
wing and seemingly suro of its prize
eveiy time. Tho people about the
house have endeavored to scare It
away, but It invariably gets Its prey.
Once It starts on Its upward flight
all tlje small birds In tho vicinity set
sail for it, endeavoring to force It to
release Its victim, but the hawk soon
outstrips them and gets away with Its
tender morsel. Hartford Oouraat'
THE MARKETS.
New York. Sept. 24, 1907
Flour Steady, but quiet.
Wheat No. 2 red $1.05.
Com No. 2 at 72c.
Oats Clipped white 6064c.
Hay Quiet.
Cattle Steers $4.256.50. Veal
?5i09.50.
Sheep Wethers $3.505.50, lambs
$5.508.00. Hogs Yorkers $6.757.00.
Clovoland, Sept 24. Flour Mlnno-
ota patent $5.105.50.
Wheat No. 2 red $1.00.
Com No. 3 yellow 74c.
Oats No. 3 whlto 54 a
Butter Best creamery 29c. ' ' '
Cheese York state 1415c.
Eggs Strictly fresh 21c.
Potatoes Best grades 85c.
Hay Now No. 1 timothy $17,00.
Cattle Choice steers $5.506.00r
calves $7.008.00.
Sheep Best wethers $5.005.25,
choice Iambs $7.50.
Hogs Yorkers $6.70.
Toledo, Sept 24. - Wheat-Casa
98c. '
Com Cash 66c. ,
Oats Cabh 52 a
Clovorseod New, $10.75.
East Buffalo, Sept. 24. Cattle Ex
port steers $6.000.60, heifers $3.50
4.85.
Sheep Wethers ?5.505.7G, lambs.
$5.008.2C,
Hogs Yorkers $6.806.90, medi
ums $6.70(0)6.90.
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Pittsburg, Sept 24. Cattle Choicer
Steers $6,250)6.60, good $5.605,90.
Hogs Ywkerp $6.907.00.
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