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CHARGES AGAINST MEATINSPECTORS IL S. Employe Demands Probe at Stock Yards. SAYS SYSTEM IS A FARCE Declares Packers Are Getting 70 to 80 Per Cent of Condemned Cattle--Animals In Dying Condition Killed and Marked S. Inspected and Sausage Departments Are Filthy. St.

Louis. June eighteen months' service as a United States meat inspector in East St. Louis packing houses, J. F. Harms has resigned.

He says he has written a letter to Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, demanding an investigation of the meat inspection system at the National Stock yards. Harms asserts that he resigned because he could not tolerate conditions, and that inspectors in charge of the bureau of animal industry were too lenient with the packers. He declared that no animus prompted his letter Asserting that S. Inspected and Passed" as it appears on products of all the packing houses is meaningless because of the inadequacy of the inspection, Mr. Harms in his letter says: Says Inspection Is a Farce.

"The Inspection at the National Stock yards, Illinois, Is costing the people approximately $100,000 a year, and it is not actually worth $1 to them. For when the word is passed from the inspector In charge to the Inspectors actually doing the work on the floors that they are getting too many condemned animals and to FOUND DISMEMBERED BODY Remains of Man, With Head Mieslng. Done Up In Two Bundles of Paper. New York, June dismembered body of a man, with the head missing, was found by police neatly done up in two bundles brown paper and black oilcloth. The bundles had been left in the charge of a small boy by a stranger, who had promised him 5 cents to watch them till he came back.

The bundles were taken to the nearest police station. On the wrapping was written in Utters of red three inches high: "Black Hand." There were four stab wounds In the chest of the body, two of which would have been immediately fatal. EDWARD HALE DIES AT AGE OF 87 Famous Writer and Clergyman Passes Away, NtiWS ITEMS. COUNTRY MOURNS HIS LOSS Saturday, June 5. Colonel Jacob Dachrodt, a well known veteran and politician, died at Easron.

at the age of eighty-two years, Ambassador Bryce. of Great Britain. who is leaving for a summer va cation abroad, called upon President Taft to say farewell. Engineer John Smith and Fireman Reynolds were killed at Saginaw when a Pere Marquette railway engine ran into a washout and tipped over, burying them underneath. During a small riot at the Fort Pitt Coal company'c plant at O.

Lucergo Talliti shot and instantb killed Mike Baggo and Andy Petro and WOULD PRACTICE BY CONTRACT Wage Earners Would Get Medical Attention at Small Cost. work of demoll'doc and Jatcr si trtna- portation by truck was accomplished entirely disarmed suspicion, and the stand had disappeared several before the authorities could bring themselves to -a realization of what had happened. 1 Th? was feet 1 square, with an ornate balustrade. steps and ornamental metal roof. Trainer Squeezed by Elephants.

Charles Mills, of Mansfield, an elephant trainer with the Barnum Bailey circus, was seriously In- DOCTORS DENOUNCE GRAFTING; His Wife, Son and Daughter at Bed- ser i ous i wounded another man. DEATH Woman Recovering From Surgical Operation Killed by Vegetable. Pottstown. June twice able to escape the surgeons knife, Mrs. Lewis Reinhard, of Monocacy.

succumbed to innocent-looking cucumbers which she ate for supper. Mrs. Reinhard was Just recovering from a double operation performed simultaneously in the Reading hospital for cancer and appendicitis and was able to be about the house when shej went into her garden and plucked fresh cucumbers. She ate heartily of! them and died about two hours later. side When Death Came Short Stories Made Him Celebrated--Was Chaplain of United States Senate.

Monday, June 7. The department of agriculture oJ Pennsylvania reports an attendance ol 1,500.000 at the county fairs for 1908. yards for the purpose of preparing them for the parade. In lining them Division of Money Between Family up one the elephants became rest- Physicians and Specialists Warmly less and began to crowd the others. Mills was finally squeezed against the In Medical Convention-- Ad- Qf a caf aQd WQen help reache(J him he almost lifeless to tha ground.

vras as the venerable Edward Everett Hale, D. D-, chaplain of the United States senate, Unitarian divine, philanthropist, author, journalist and lover of peace, breathed his last in his home in Roxbury. He was eighty-seven years old. At the bedside were his wife, his daughter, Miss Ellen D. Hale, and his son, Philip L.

GOLD MINE IN SAFE THAT COST ONLY S2 Opened by Man Who Purchased It Tiiirty Years Ago. i Seaford. June a small safe for two dollars at a public sale more than thirty years ago, ex- Coroner Nathaniel Conway, of Sussex chase Couway stored the safe in his yg the packers are getting today from 70, a few years ago he had the same re- to 80 per cent of what condemned and destroyed. "I have seen from 1200 to 1500 run Into an EyERETT moved to his office, but was unable to jjale, the artist. Two other sons, Ar- ing on the track near Falls.

station. John Fritz, the iron master, present ed to Lehigh university at South Bethlehem. a thoroughly equipped modern engineering laboratory. The French ambassador formally presented to the city of San Francisco a medal expressive of the admiration of his nation for that city's enterprise in recovering from the earthquake and fire disaster. Tuesday, June 8.

Ambassador Takahira. of Japan, will deliver the baccalaureate address al the graduating exercises of the Uni versity of Illinois at Champaign. Milton Jackson, formerly president of the Miller Lock company, of Phila delphia. died suddenly in Shanghai China, while on a tour of the world. A deceptive counterfeit $10 national bank note bearing the portrait of Wil liam McKinley has been discovered and the secret service is endeavoring to trace its origin.

Insane from brooding over a law suit. Edward Sands, a former inmate of th county infirmary at Columbus shot and wounded Jacob Zettler. a grocer, and after causing a brief reign of terror, shot himself through the head. Wednesday, June 9 Up to May 31 last there were re ceived by the postofflce department total of 59,741 petitions for rural free thur Hale, of Washington, and Pro- delivery of TM ermined t0 fewer Edward Everett Hale, qu aa saTd lard find out its contents and broke the Uniou college returned home later. tSI flioTand out of the lock with a hammer.

The funeral will take place on Sunday both whtchTere uncLn and And your doctors passed f-nt aenominat ions To his amazement gold coins of dif- in the Souta Congregational church, of which Dr. Hale was the pastor emen- of the inspector on that floor, went to the public marked 'U. S. Inspected and "Men holding good positions with the packers see and know these things ha seen animals in a dying condition can drugged into the killing beds and without any public office. marked 'U.

S. Inspected and Sausages Are Filthy. "Some of the filthiest things imaginable are practiced in the sausage de- Battle on Range Results In Massacre uplift. It seemed as if the whole joined in mourning the loss' of Dr. the gold from the floor and putting it Hale.

Messages expressing sorrow into bags. and esteem poured into the Hale Conway refused to say how much household, one of the first being from gold the safe contained, but says he res jdent and Mrs. Taft. the -t in luxury un en 3000 SHEEP KILLED of the Innocent. Edward Everett Hale wan born in Boston in 1822.

As an author Dr. Hale's fame rests on his short stories, such as "The Man Without a Country:" as an instigator of the social work of the two great organizations, the Lend-a-Hand clubs .,884 of were adversely reported upon. Mrs. W. F.

Dixon, Mrs. J. H. Dun gan, Miss Merle Dungan and Mis: Julia Dungan were drowned a Knight's Landing, when their au tomobile toppled into the Sacramentc river. Lieutenant Commander H.

M. Cald well, who was an aide to Admira Dewey and stood by his side on th bridge of the flagship Olympic durin the batle of Manila, has resigned from the nary. Thursday, June 10. Scored vocate Somnolent Dope Habit. Method to Cure Eminent physicians advocated "contract practice" by physicians betore the American Academy of Medicine at their closing meeting in Atlantic ity, N.

as a solution for the problem of securing proper medical attention for the wage earners at small cost. He was hurried to the Marej hospital, where it was found he was iniured internally and had his shouldei broken. partments. such as using bladders for casings without thorough washing or Grand Junct ion, June a and the Kings Daughtersji 1 always cleaning, the use of filthy tripe In sau- result of a batt le between sheepmen add to his renowii a a miTMf and sage, the use of slimy hog stomachs and C0wb0 vs on a contested range pastor his half century in the pulpit for casings or containers, the using of near Atachee. 3000 head of of the South Congreptionai enurcn meats that have fallen on the floor sh were killed and two sheepmen and his preaching many other and are taken up and used without any werePinjured but not seriously.

The churches were prolific of je spiritual to Taylor inspiration, while as a historian nls writings have become authorities. It was Dr. Hale who. twenty years pretense of cleaning. sh eep.

which belonged These are all permitted by those in Brotne rs. of Montrose, were grazing of received world wide peace tribunal; It was Dr. upon the Hale who upheld Garrison and Phil and ought to have and tied them to trees and in their anti-slavery work; it was for themselves and ought to have QerQers and tied them to trees and TM 1 i i "WnOSC DGUGvQlcHt cuuiiod, such stuff. then rode out among the sheep, killing nnmtnrt thtt ftn(1 the "I will give you another instance them The slaughter of the sheep re- brought comfort to the TMJ that happened elsewhere. The meat; quired almost an entire day.

wounded soldiers of the battlefields of inspector in the department held some In or( er to prevent the news leaking 6000 or 7000 pounds of cured meats out the cow boys first cut the tele- for being sour, and. mind you, four or pnone res and then made their es- flve other inspectors were called in. cape into tbe hills. Several hours and they all pronounced the meat i a er the sheep herders were discov- Your Dr. Meadors released it to ered an( liberated, packer." nf the aan- of Dr-Hsde famous KILLED HER.ITTLE BOY LIEUT.

I ILL Civil War, as a it.ary commission, and who gave to the stanza: "Look forward and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a hand." Removed From Train at Harrisburg on Way to Philadelphia. Mother, Angersd by His Pleadings, Slew Him and Stabbed Herself. New York, June George Day, a widow, was taken to a Brooklyn, taken on a train while on his way hospital suffering from a dangerous knife wound in her abdomen, which ATE CAMPHOR BALLS Rev. George E. Horr, D.

was in ducted Into the presidency of Newton Theological institution, a Baptist seminary at Newton, Mass. Albert Young, of Pittsburg. was sentenced in London to two years In prison for the theft of a racing cup from the window of a local bicycle firm. Anton Jacobson, out of woik and with a swetheart he wanted to marry, turned on the gas in the bathroom ol his boarding place in Brooklyn and ended his misery- Lazarus Silverman, a pioneer banket and financier, credited with originating the plan for the resumption of specie payments in 1873. known as the Sherman bill, died at his home in Chicago, aged seventy-nine years.

Friday, June 11. Judge Speer, in the United States circuit court at Macon, ordered the sale of the Savannah. Augusta Northern railroad on Aug. 3 to satisfy a claim of $286.500. Captain John M.

Bowyer assumed The plan presented favors small monthly payments by the clients af the contract physician, who is expected to attend them in case of illness without extra charge. Dr. L. Benedict, of Buffalo, claimed that under the present system the poor, unable to pay doctors' bills, often delay calling a physician until the disease is beyond easy cure. He claimed that the contract plan would also secure the doctor against loss by unpaid bills and guarantee the young physician a living income.

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New York, was another advocate of the new plan, which was discussed by Dr. Charles J. Sheedon, who called contract practice "insurance against doctors' bills." Payment of commissions by specialists to general practitioners who call them in for operations or advice was characterized as "graft, pure and simple," by Dr. E.

Gard Edwards, of La Junta, Colo. The matter of fee splitting formed the subject of Dr. address, and he flayed medical men who. he claimed, are making a regular practice of dividing the high fees demanded by the specialists. Dr.

Edwards also condemned the action of many specialists who perform operations and then leave their patients under the care of the local practitioner, who "receives the blame If they die and none of the credit if they live." Dr. H. I. Partes, of Eatontown, N. favored "health clubs" for weekly study of hygiene and sanitation.

In an address before the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Narcotics, Dr. C. J. Dougles, of Dorchester, declared in favor of the somnolent method of curing the morphine habit which, he insisted. becoming a world-wide menace.

Dr. Dougles advocated the giving of harmless sedative drugs until the morphine victim has lost the craving and effects of the drug. Six Men Burned to a Crisp. In a horrible accident at Martins Ferry. at least six men were burned to a crisp, four fatally injured and ten seriously hurt.

Thirty others had narrow escapes. A "slip" occurred in the of the Wheeling Steel and Iron company. A force of work? men, numbering fifty, were gathered about the furnace making ready to drill in for the cast. Without a moment's warning there was a terrtfie roar and great masses of molten iron spurted from the furnace, sweeping down the workmen. Wharf Caves In; Eleven Drowned.

Four women, five men and two children lost their lives by drowning when the excursion steamer Margaret made a fastening at Mandeville, on the north coast of Lake twenty-five miles from New Orleans. The wharf gave way and about seven ty-flve people were thrown into tht waters of the lake. Wheat Sells For $145 In Texae, Reports received at Forth Worth from the wheat growing belt of north Texas show that the first of this son's wheat in the United States is Ing contracted for at $1.35 and nn ward. In some instances farmers are oh taining contracts that will give them any advance that may occur to market at the time the wheat has been threshed. Ttflllers are eagerly buying the croi at the prevailing quotations.

Girl Blinded by Lightning. While she was sitting with back to a window awaiting her turn to enter the gold medal oratorical contest at the Yincennes (Ind.) versity, Miss Ola Wilson Yates. a member of the graduating was blinded by a flash of lightning. remained blind an hour. On regaining her sight she insisted on going into the contest.

She spoke for five utes and became blind again. She led off 'the stage by President Ellis. Philadelphia Rides Again. "The strike has been settled. The men will receive 22 cents an ten hours ni constitute a day's work." This statement, emanating from C.

O. Pratt, chairman of the executive committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway employes, the leader of the Philadelphia striking motormen and conductors, followed by the deportation of the 450 strike-breakers who came here from New York, ends the strike of the employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company. After in session nearly all day the men agreed to accept 22 cents an hour. The old "swing system" has been abolished; ten hours will constitute a day's work; all employes will Carnegie Founded 1800 Libraries. Andrew Carnegie has founded public libraries, representing donations of $51,596,963, according to his state ment in the current number of Collier's Weekly.

Up to Dec. 31, 1908, the philapthropist says he erected ia the United States 958 library with branches at a cost of $34,870,745. England and Wales came 1 second the list, with 329 buildings and fifty nine branches, at a cost of $7,859,550. the superintendency of the naval acad- permitted to purchase their uni emy at Annapolis. in place of Captain Charles J.

Badger, who has forms in the open market; all future differences are to be adjusted between she had inflicted in an attempt at suicide. Her son. Harry, aged, seven years, was found dead in his mother's apartments from wounds inflicted with the same knife. The boy's pleadings for permission to take part in a Sunday school parade were said to be the cause of his mother's anger. Fell Dead From Wagon.

Easton. June W. Correll, reputed to be worth $100,000, fell dead while seated on his wagon. He was eighty-three years old, and for more than sixty years drove a team. He wont to a pit and loaded his wagon with sand and was on his way to a building in the course of construction when he was stricken.

from Johnstown to Philadelphia and had to be removed from the train in this city. He was taken to a hotel and given medical aid and is now much relieved. His physician pronounced him out of danger. Mrs. Murphy is with him.

Prove- TM n'-WAle the about her household Qf fche aouse Louisa Beckett? geventeen 100,000 Sunday School Children Parade New York. June 100,000 Sunday school children marched through the streets of Brooklyn in a faer Ufe wag parade which was viewed by Vice President James S. Sherman, Governor old. feasted off compositive camphor balls she found in a bag. When her mother returned to the 1 ro jm and saw the child in convulsions ar.d smelled tar and camphor ahe sur- ised what had tiappened.

She was h.irried to. the Cooper hospital, where been assigned to sea duty. the companv and a grievance commit- Three persons were injured and tee chosen by the employes. If, after hundred or more had a narrow escape from death or severe injury when a an investigation by the city controller of the books of the company, it can be Wheeling Lake Brie passenger train shown that more than 22 cents an Mr. and Corey Thrown From Auto Palalseau, France, June automobile in which William EL Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation; his wife and a friend were driving became unmanageable.

All three were thrown out, but Mr. and Corey escaped with a few scratches. Their friend was more seri- mwly hurt. An Odd Suit For Damages. Bellefontaine, Jnne hit uncle lined him In his arms twenty-two ago In each rude Banner aa to make htm a hunchback, a Jmy awarded $4110 damages to Mar lay N.

Piper agaloat his wealthy ancle, Clayton. Piper eued for Charles E. Fughes and other notables. The occasion was the eightieth anniversary celebration of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. Negro Guilty of Murder.

Wed In Wrong Town; Married Again, Hazardville, June Ed ward J. Bagley and Mary Coniin were married by a minister tin this town on May 27 and started on their honeymoon. The minister learned that the crashed into the rear end of a freight train at Cleveland. O. One man was held up and left unconscious in the doorway of the Sheffield avenue police station in Chicago, and another was robbed an hour later While crossing the street in front of the station while detectives and policemen sat inside.

Alexandria June license was obtained at Suffleld. ano Pines, one of four negroes charged; the law required that the wedding be with the killing of Walter P. Schultz, In the town where the license was is a Chicago artist, near this city, on, sued. He married them March 5, was convicted by a Jury of murder in the first degree. Auto Kills Man; Held For Manslaughter Lancaster, June Kegel, whose automobile ran down and killed an aged man named William T.

Snyder last Wednesday, waa given a hearing on tbe charge of manslaughter and held for trial at court without balk Used Poison Ivy to Keep Out of School New York, June thai preferred going to a ball game to attending school, William Walters and James Henneasy, Bayonne boys, mb- bed poison Ivy on their hands to get on the sick list. They are both la a serious condition' at their homes. Twin Daughters In Double Wedding Scranton. June 11--Twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Seymour, of Washburn street. West Scranton were principals in a double wedding at their home. Arthur D. Powell became the husband of Lillian, while Ella was claimed by Bvan H. Bevan.

Finds Wife a Suicide. Allentown, June rtctlra of nervous prostration, Mrs. Walter Edger, thirty-seven years old, ended her life by hanging herself at he homo. The body was found ay her husband on hit home from work. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS.

The Latest Closing Prices For Produce and Live Stock. PHILADELPHIA FLOUR firm: winter low grades. $5 5.2o; winter clear. city mills, fancy, RYE FLOUR firm, at per WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, western, CORN quiet; No.

2 yellow, local nrm; No. 2 white, clipped lower grades, I 1V V- TM AY firm: timothy, large bales, per Live steady; hens, 15 old roosters, Dressed Steady; choice fowls, old roost BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 28c EGGS steady; selected, 25 nearby, western, 23c. POTATOES steady; old, per bushel new, per barrel. 4. hour can be paid without crippling the finances of the Rapid Transit company, the men will insist upon a further advance in wages.

Polish Miner Brutally Slain. Peter Rodobskie, a Polish miner, living in a settlement of his countrymen in West Scranton, was found slain upon the tracks of the Lackawanna railroad by a track-walker. Rodobskie left his home on Saturday evening after drawing his pay and was not seen again by his wife and family until his body was discovered. Rodobskie's killing was a most brutal crime. His skull was fractured, he had two knife wounds on the right side of his face, and he was shot through the kidneys.

A part of one of his suspenders was found twisted around his neck, so that strangulation would have resulted in a short time, while a beam of heavy oak was let fall on him from a height, the man's breast being literally caved In, He bad also a knife wound on the right hand. The county detective is of the opinion that the man was running away when the shot was fired, and that the other injuries were inflicted after he fell from the bullet wound. Banks Are Prosperous. During the current fiscal year national banks of the United States have received in individual deposits a total sum of $4,826,060,384, which to more than a billion and a half dollars in excess of the entire outstanding money supply of the United States. The year which will close with the present month has been one of exceptional prosperity for national banks.

Made His Own Casket. Tilghman H. Reinsmith, who had been an undertaker at Emaus, for the past thirty-three years, died there at the age of seventy-fou- years. Reinsmith made his own casket and selected the text and hymns for funeral. Reinsmith built a silk mill a year ago.

which he operated. He waa burgess of Emaus from 1902 to 1904. John D. Got Mixed. John D.

Rockefeller paid a watet bill for $15 in the village of Baal Cleveland, where his Forest Hill home is located, with a check for $76,573.14. The check was mailed from New York and evidently the envelopes became mixed. The village clerk after recovering mailed the big check back. 230 Killed by Earthquake, The town of 185 miles to the southeast of Padang, Sumatra, was devastated by an earthquake shock on the night of June 3-4. Two hundred and thirty people were killed and many others injured.

Tbe shook was accompanied by a tidal which swept away the huts like cockleshells. re Stock Markets. i CATTL8 steady; choice, PITT8BWRG (Union Stock Yards) prime, 16.75 1 EE SHEEP strong and higher; prime wethers, culls and common, $292.50: lambs. veal calves, $7.5008. HOGS active; prime heavies.

htayy Yorkers, Yoraers, roacms, Burglars Carry Off Band Stand. The palm for pure, unalloyed and unadulterated "nerve" will have to be awarded to the merry band of burgling and house-breaking Individuals who descended upon Mary Benson park, In the Italian quarter of Jersey City, N. and carried off the hand stand, which for many yean had constituted Its chief ornament Maniac Blows Up Home. While he was in a fit of Insanity at Marquam, near Oregon City, Bert Garrett placed a charge of dynamite nnder the kitchen of his house. The house waa destroyed, and Garrett, hit wife and daughter, aged five, killed.

Women to Wear Toade. Real toads for hatpins promise to displace metallised roses and other ornaments. A manufacturing inn at Wankegan, accepted order from Chicago mtlllnary lobbtef howet Itutea its cniec ornamenc. irum The deMberatenett with which the 50,000 metalllMi loads. MEWSPAPEJRl.