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Sworn Clrcula- ifl IR7 tibifbr JWr THE FOIf WraE NEWS CLOUDY Cloudy and probably thunderstorroi tonight or Wednesday. TIliBTYII3pH YEAfl iruESp4t WEKrtr GiJSf iirtooS TEK PlGElSHPKICE 0E THEY'RE AFTER Bay That She Has iBeeri Sending Naughty Stuff Through the Mails. icOMSTOCKONTHEJOB tf i OP 5 Your Uncle Anthony Has a 6rp on i Hl Sharp1 stick and Looks if'- i Severe. raE ALKS 8ay It Hurts Hereto Hiv This Sort of Troubls WJth Uncle Sam Dr. Luella McKlnley pro prietor cit a local mall order medical concern was arraigned before Commis sioner T.

J. Logan In the federal court this morning on a charge of sending obscene matter through the malls the target growlng but of an extensive in- Tsatlgatlon by Inspector A. 0. Burr started atthe request of Anthony. the head of the national society for the suppression of vice.

Df Derbyshire was1 held under a 300 bond signed by M. Grlffln to the federal grand jury. The charge involved a fine point In lav1 the question as to whether or hot a practicing licensed physician has not a freater leeway in the matter of com munications through tharU 3. malls that Other parties being an important matter under consideration While talcing into account this fact and also the fact that pr Derbyshire claims that the complaining woman who put Anthony Comstock next to the ques tion asked her in the consultation blank was a patient at the time the blank was received Commissioner Lo gan nevertheless held inat there ls a provable case against the doctor and decided that he had no jurisdiction in th matter except to bind her over A Delicate Question. The question on the consultation Continued on Third Page MANY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS INVOLVED MAY BE INDICTED FOR GROSS FRAUDS AT RECENT PRl 1 MARIES.

ST LOUIS Aug Wlth half a dozen men1 higher up said to be. fac ing an indictment the' grand jury to day began an investigation of alleged frauds Intherecent democratic primary here- It Is probable the expected In dlctmenta will charge Illegal use of large sums of money. It is openly charged that more than 15000 was disbursed by big' leaders Among the ward managers on the eve of the pri mary. It IslexpectedAfle grand Jury will inquire how thlsinpney was spent Sixty witnesses have been subpoenaed. In addition to the charges of wrongful use ofmoney there are numerous charge ot minor offenses such as in timidation refusal to allow registered Voters to ofviolence used1 at the polls to beInvestigated.

TOOTITOOTI TOOTl' NO TIME TO STOP THI8 CHICAGO AND WERE SCHEDUtED1 TO BE DOWN TOWN NJHIRTEEN MINUTES11 i CHICAGO men nd hone Ver killed by being struck by an Archer avenue car early to day. The car is ialdto liave been epeed- Ins toward the city and did not itop when It Struck the wagotf The accident wa witnessed by two workmen on the Celt line' railroad who rave the police what they bellsve Is the number of the car The dead men have been Identified as Jo seph Cooley and John Kvardo No arrests have been made. BEISTOWWINS Returns From Kansas Leave No Doubt of Long' Defeat. TOPEtfA Kan. Aug 11A Jolt Is promised the United States senate by the state primary returns which seem Joseph L.

Brlstow to indicatethe selection of Joseph L. Bristow as Uie successor of Senator Long As assistant postmaster general Briatow hadjnost to do With uncover ing postoffice frauds implicating high officials' In Washlrijtton and Havana. Incidentally bis reports discussed Shady though not criminal deals In which' members of congress had a hand Their enmity was the pried of hffi fearlessness Now the man of honesty and independence Is to be the associate of these statesmen FAIR HAWAIIANS BROKE. UP PARADE i1jaKSfeH a Hoiroiuiu socrBKf iAios MiNGrowa 5AiiaBg 0n Board 3 Georgia. July 25 py Lee Qlotvwtfiy Bpectat Correspondence.

The society ades of Honolulu de- fled navy discipline and the presi dents orders while the Atlantic bnt tleahlp fleet visited' Honolulu' Governor Caftv of Hawaii cdn- ceived the of decoratlng every officer and man of tho with na tive lels or1 weaths of flowers while thoy were on parade in 'Honolulu's 1 etteels Carter 4 Jabled Roosevelt for permission to suspend march discipline long enough to place" a lei ot flowers over the neck of each maii narade. fTbe president de tllned tafurn nnmenlntoa feslivft picnic parade Word reachedtHono7 Inltt too late however tq suit th ladles who had worked heroically' la making the lels" When the sailors caie on the' itreetfthe ladles apm peatt3LjonJtheiicenejrmedw1thjM eands of colored ano sweeV mclling' flower wreaths. Stationing themselves tat intervals opg" 541 ss along marclr tyy. pade a Burprlie. idaahVpon the astonished Bailors andoycred' them" with flowera before they eallzedwhat had hap- penned.

TbesaHoM' ere rowRJnto complete riiute' ftnd confusion jeljned foFa rragt TJe oWcerfand ientooli the matter o6d-natufedly and re sumed the inarch flower bedecked if JUST LOOK MfOERE On My Life Its My Good OldUncle EdiWith His Holiday Clothes On MY DEAR NEPHEW" You Certainly Look Corking In That New Uniform of Yours. ROYALTY IN' CONFAB King Edward and Kliser Wlljlim Met Today at Conberg Station CRONBERG Aug. ll. Emperor WHllftrn decked out in gorgeous uni form of one of his crack regiments met his royal uncle King Edward wearing a silk hat and a black frock coat at the Cronberg station this morning. The meeting was surround' ed with all the courtly ceremony that attached to the meeting of royalties and from a dramatic standpoint was highly interesting.

The kaiser as- slsted the king to desceiiT the steps from his rar and kissed him on both cheeks which King Edward offered to him In succession according to the German custom. King Edward then embraced the kaiser. Both en tered a motor car and were whirled away to Friedrlchshof castle two miles distant' The kaisers suite allwore Impos ing military uniforms whileallthe members of King Edwards entourage wore silk hats and black coots. The striking contrast between the two rulers were commented on by the hundreds who gathered at the sta tion. 1 Boon after thearrival at Frledrlch- shof the king and emperor' were clo i eted together in the library discuss ing International affairs that most vitally affect their nations.

Subse quently It Was stated that the confer ence was so frank and friendly that lt Would tend improve the relatldns between Germany and England and preserve the- peaceful status of Eu rope. While Edward and William were In conference Slr Charles Harding per manent secretary of the' British for elgn office and the German secretary of state for1 foreign affairs Herr Von Schoen conferred in another room of the cnstle. After a few hours the four Joined la a conference. After lunching together' in the family circle king and kaiser motored to Hpmburg the fa mous watering place a few miles dis tant. This evening there will be an other family dinner at Frledrlchshof The king will leave shortly beforp mid night tp continue his to Mar lenbad.

The German newspapers comment favorably on the tneetflig and believe aujurs for peace Some however view the meeting with fearj claiming that King Edward will outwit his nephew in llplomaoy and lead him Into an unpleasant situation. MEXICAN POLICE OFOTCRUEL AN AWFUL STC-RY OF THEIR TORTURING PRISONERS PITTSBUItG Aug. 11 Because they refused to squeal on theirpals Im plicated In the robbery of abankme sehger William' Moffatt and Edward Maloney. of Plttsburg were strapped by their wrists to the bars ofa cell while Mexican police officials tore the halts tram their flngers with forceps such as are used by dentists. Accord- Ing to Captain of Detectives ilcGongh who retirhedtoday from Mexico City Maloney- MpffaUt James Russell a wellknown Chicago crookj and two Baltimore bank sneakthieves held up the messenger In broad daylight and escaped with several thousand dol lars.

Maloney and. Moffatt were sub sequentiy arrested When questioned by the police the tw6 men maintained Silence Although suffering terribly Maloney and Moffatf each had four nails torn ithelrfjngers before they implicated Russell. later arrested The twp' Baltimore men escaped wlththe money HOPKilufS OUT OF THE WOODS I ptHERCANDipATES DEFUSE JO RETIRE FROM fRM tiiic gfii i ffitofMtti canya B6fh tprimarjr returMtft tidaylythSseiMtlonconimissibnetf politicians centoed. their attentlpi0nV the utcbeJof eC unVfor niimlnaiioii siaieVSittonicyj thej ijiiTilriatjqnVpf trongtr bttiijfiteytinffnfinfeni puijlfcari fcandlate jtA tiAff- Itiie1 fleldii TJio. ttloryl element jf dlstiwirteniiover piJohn jleal iandSii ib llcan to4 cot orjf PU-C plurality over Qeorg Foi fct.lO- 62 but gives hiraM 0 ot UgWitlyi districts and 8 out of IMmtmbcn of the legislature la hUflfht Jo re Itifi announced ted that the other candidates irlll MmaJn' a tb fleWVtrlth icyeml unannounced poiilbllltlw ami the outcome nppcara tie that tha primary vote wlll be bolted andthat 4 itrong ef fort will be mad vlrt ti republican legis lative Caucus In January to defeat Hop kins.

FOES dfctafw that itlll th can- dldate 6f the peopleHe aldtoday 1 wilj make noannouncement as yet that will be a candldatt In January but I have been urged th race I admit that 1 havVbeett defeated by Sen ator Hopkins both In th. plurality vote and in legislative diitrlcb. but 1 still jon- ildar that toy ca 1 16 hands of the people 06v Deneent plurality over Wcliard Yatet accordlnr to todaj' figures iu reached UJTO THE JAPSlAISE THE APPOOPOIATION THE EXHIBIT THJ8 COUNTRY PROPOSES HAPAN ANIMAL ING EFFECT Ji TOklO Aug. JlrAt a meeting ot the progressive party1 today it was de cided to introduce' a fbill to Increase the1 government appropriation for the Japanese exhibition in 1912 from 5000000 to 6000000. The appro priatloa of 1500000 by the United States for its exhibit at the Japanese worlds fair" was used as an argu ment by the progressives for a larger appropriation by the home govern ment.

Every wherelithe liberality of the American appropriation is favor ably commented upon ROBBERS HOLD UP NIGHT OPERATOR A DARNG RAID OFYEGGMEN AT CROWN POINT THIS MORNING CHICAGO Aug. rlL Bosses headed by Sheriff F. B. Carterand Erie rait road detectives are. scouting the woods east of Grown Point for three armed robbers who broke' into the Erie station at CroWnolntrearljtjCk day and held up therightoperator F.

Bore. After roljblng hfm the robbers locked Bdrelji boi car in a siding near thestatlcil The thieves secured 500 in cashand tickets HISGEN TO OPEII WILL SPEAK THERE FOR THE INDEPENDENCE LAOUE ON AUGUST 30. ilfhrflfir Irfyjieireturns recsivef fcjr KJnitfd BtetwJ nito JiH6pkln rsrepub. SPIUNQFIELD Masl Aug. 11 Thomas L.

Hlsgen the Independence party nominee wlllop his western campaign according to plans an nounced today at Indianapolis on Aug. 30 This declsibtijwwf reached be cause Indiana Is iMrHisgens native state and he' nas hadSiaay requests to iipeak therfe. iThe evf party pro- p6ses make. theiIepsler state Its main battleground iin te middle west. THREE AND SEVEN DYING fe TROLLEYXOLdsiONf AT PIQUA NIGHT WAS A DEADLY PIQUA Augl vAntlclpatlng seven more deathsamong those man- bled by thfe ott coillBlon between two' cars on thef ypstern fraction company's line nearhere county and liactlon day trying to discover whosebundejrrtaused the dis aster.

Traction officials Insist that the funning orders wrer O. K. but that a blunder the twpFcars together at thlftyjflve miles ahetdur last nigh Thedeadi fi WILIAjtBAIL pflPlqua. JAMES KifiHOB oTDaytott WILLIAM MCLEIXAN of Locliing- n'- Only one-man prutth two cars es caped Injury ipf hearty two score' In jured the following afe. expected to disc.

x' LD Hagenrcid 6tjickington Q. Charles Hale mbtoraali of Piqua a George A. llaxi Balttoiore Jfd. ChaS. McClure SldneyipJ6ftn Maier Day ton 0.

George RfblniBdiiSidney 0 Many of the have hrpfe en legs artos orvlnfernal injiiries. OvWJtumpeihousefi of Detroit was not la tlie ecliHe wasreport ed fatallyInjurftd iqwlrig to a card found ORk one of the. vlcxlnis. CdronerCoMeIlo irffihelbylcounty Vill proscuteiM6trfri6janHarfyiHale of the Bouthbound iiarjIf the' ury Ites and Conilucior Jaimes Berry on a crlm- Irialcharge as heSclalw that this crew wa tlate yiolatei ortftrsand makeanotherrwUcfi mnilhejoiii8pjp dered. Chlel TralniJlBpiWber flPedrpwV bf TIppecanbe pltywwiislion the bound carwhemthft ldeot occurred arid jsposltlfe the1wri were clear to passapr Kc ll ellphonvdraB' patchsysten iav Mi lXd written prderBare glyeai LINCOLN FULL OF DEMOCRATS 1 Scores of Them Four Into Bryan's Towti to Hear His Speech HOT AIR DISPENSED All Comers Talk 3 ly of Sweeping Country" for Bry In November.

JOHN LAMB IS THERE And Tell Mr Bryan That It It AH Over But the- Shouting LINCOLN Neb. Aug. 11. The most Important political conference so far as the democratic party concerned since the Opening of the campaign be gan this afternoon In Bryan's home and will continue until late tonight. In attendance are Bryan his running mate John W.

Kern National Chair man Norman Q. Mack Vice Natjonal Chairman Dr. P. L. Hall of Lincoln Josephus Daniels of North Carolina John B.

Lamb ot Indiana and several other members of the national com mfttce Ways and means for handling the campaign are being discussed as Well as the manner In which the battle in the middle west the south wherever disaffection is reported and New 1ork state is to be fought All information as to the conference is refused by those directly concerned and a strong effort is to be made to keep secret what Is done. It is learned on the highest au thorlty however that Mack reported the result of his recent conferences In New York with Leader Murphy ot Tammany hall Chairman Connors and the pthqr leaders It was emphasized that the national committee and Bryan arejtQ keep hands oft In the Empire state. The. leaders there will select the state ticket and the understanding here is hat for the most part democratic officials Who were' elected two years ago will be renominatfed. The guber natorial situation will hoi be touched upon by Bryan as' he has been assured that the candidate" will be some one whoJmfUJiot been antagnostlo- to liryan.

Lambs Hot Afr. Lamb brings the latest word from Indiana where the battle is already waging hot lie declares hat there Is little question of the election ofTom Marshall and says unless there Is a ma terial change In conditions the entire democratic ticket both state and na tional will sweep the country Danleli has only recently returned from a trip tnroughthe south. He re ports conditions there are all right that the nomination of John Temple Graves by the Independents has not changedthe situation and that the south will give its usual majority for democracy Tonight Bryan and the other leaders will be the guests of honor at a ban quet to be given In honor qf P. 0 Sul-Hvanf of Lynn Mass. It IB given by thelocal typographical union and a large attendance of labor advocates from Nebraska and adjoining states Is expected.

Immediately afterwards Bryan will meet with the members of the democratic text book committee and the draft of the book will be prepared. Charles Edleman of the1 notification committee made an earnest appeal to Bryan today to come to California to speak. He Is a banker of San Francls- co and declared that if Bryan will only visit the coast he can secure the. elec toral vptesuf California any how Vlth a good chance of getting Oregon and Washington Bryan promised that the invitation should be gi ven proper consideration when the committee took up the. proposition of speech Wak ing tour.

Thomas PByrnes ofhrle.fa.calf- ed on Bryan to tell him that a tour throughout 0hlo JCansas and Indiana showed an almost incredible growth of Bryan sentiment The republicans that he had met Brynes told him the can didate declare the party will have the greatest stay at home" adherents elec- tlon day in its. history and he ventur ed the prediction that the electoral vote of the three states he has beenin will be recorded for Bryan and Kern. A W. Forbes of Arizona was given a private Interview by Bryan thatlast edfor some time. Neither would dls- Cuss what was said Forbes simply ue has Brought Its fiill quota of demo crats to participate1 In the exercises In connection with the Brynh notiflca- tlontomorrow and many have' vjonr- ContlduPdon Page Nine.

THE BIG STORM CABJED DEATH THREE PEOPLE L63T" TfEiR LiVES YESTERDAY NEAk EyANSVlLLE. pVAHSyiLLE Ind. Aug. Three deathai are reported near here today frbmtheterrlficraln and hall storm which vswept southwestern Indiana fcndnorthern Kentucky doing thous and of dbllarsdamage lat yesterday ar Evansyjlle the year BoiTofVllllam Cu4offf a tamer was crushed tp death by the blbwlng dowa of a barn. Two children ot Joan Put- rowwere blown from the top of his houseboat and drowned.

Mrs Dutrdw tried to save them' by leaping In but struckthe lower deck ot the boat and la now In Deaconess Injured i TIES CANS TO ALL HIS AMBASSADORS THE SULTAN OF TURKEY HAS MADE A CLEAN SWEEP OF IT LONDON Aug. It-Confirmation of the United Press dispatch of lat week that th sultan had recalled Mehmrl Alls Bey the Turkish minister at Washington was received here tc day. A dispatch from Constantinople also announces that Sallh Munlr Pasha and Uusnl' Pasha the Turkish ambassadors to France and Russia respectively had been recalled and lhat before thesultan Is through with the' reorganization of his. diplomatic force practically the entire ambassa dorial staff will be changed Includ ing the incumbents at Berlin Bel grade Madrid and Vienna. There are no specific charges of hi' competency or mal administration madeagainst Mehmed All liey orany of theother diplomats who are to be removed.

The decision to renovate the diplomatic service is simply in keeping with the sultans determina tion to give his country a complete" new deal under the changed condi tions ot a constitutional government. THREE WOMEN DURNEDJO DEATH DRY GOODS STORE AT WHEEL ING' WRECKED BY GASO LINE EXPLOSION. WHEELING Va. Aug. ILThree women were burned to death here early today when a gas explosion wrecked the dry goods Store of J.

V. Gavin. The dead Clara Gavin aged twenty Marnier Gavin two and Margaret Gfrvin twenty-three. The1 mother of the three sisters nar rowly escaped death by leaping from the third floor window onto an awning from which she fell to the ground Before the firemen arrived the roof ot the. building fell in and the three bodies were cremated.

BOD LAFOLLETTE TO CETRICH QUICK HE WILL START A PAPER AFTER THE MANNER OF-BRYAN'S COMMONER. MILWAUKEE Aue A weekly newspaper of the character ot th Commoner Is being planned by Robert LaFollette according to friends in this city. Canvassers are covering the state to get a signed subscription list of 10000 to start on. Advertisers throughout the state also have been asked what they thought of such a proposition. BIG DOINGS AT V' Officers and Men Are Hav- TI ing tfoEnd of aGood Time WHOLE LEGISLATURE It Entertained on the Flag Ship by Good Old Admiral Sperry.

HAPPENED TOMORROW Offlcen Uefti Tomorrow Morning for Slght-iee'lng In the Interior. AUCKLAND Aug. Admir al Sperry played host today Instead of guest entertaining the members of the legislature at luncheon aboard the flag ship Connecticut. The occasion Mai marked by the same warmth of feeling and felicitous expressions that have characterized all the functions in honor of the American officers and sailors. While1 theluncheon was In progress a thousand jackles from the fleet were exploring the town most of whom were under the guidance of an entertainment committee but many of whom prefer red to go It alone.

Scores of the latter essayed the role of beaux to the. delight of. Auckland maidens who could not resist the lure of the American unU form. Theatre parties noes In decoit ated electric cars and a visit to Mount Eden an extinct volcano were features' of the days amusements. Tomorrowa rifle team of sailors will compete with thejNew.

Zealaoders. 1ft orderto icy mil this Thomas Thomson the cp monwealth minister of state had to suspend the regulation preventing he landing armed foreign force. This Happened Tomorrow AUCKLAND of- fleers of the American fleet stared early this morning on a three days trip to Rotorua called the New Zea land Yellowstone on account of Its hot lakes and geysers. Rotorua In North Inland and is one of thogrtat show places of New Zealand A large" of officers under the guld" nncpOf committee of citcens are mafcins the trip" A big racing pro grain las been arranged at Ellersllo this afternoon and the Ullors are planning to so en niasse for it will probably be the sportiest event of the week. ANTICIPATING PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY SETS 600 CAR REPAIR' MEN TO WORK.

ALTOONA Pa. Aug ll-0rde 8 were Issued by the Pennsylvania rail- rbad here today to re-employ 600 car repairmen to repair the cara stored here in anticipation ot the fall rush. A MILLION DOLLAR LIE AND WHAT IT DID if- Snapshot of Wheat King" James A- Patten CnW of hfi dramat ic ruthei from his office tothe wheat pit- across the street By G. Sheperd. iling htruln business and threat Copyright 1908fby Newspaper en lnlc terprlse association.

Pattens office Is across the street CHICAGO James A. Pat- tti T' iLL jji in Vf a hfld i tpr" wfi if len once corTTHng now hat nmous gum chewing argument Uck- Wng has proved to the countryTiiTV- i the past two weeks how wheat gam Continued on Pan Thmy 1 1 2daijsw4L t. I I'.

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