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MILLIONAIRE A BANKRUPT IH, Watkins, Scranton Coal Operator, Fails. WAS FORCED TO THE WALL Says Heavy Investments In Coal Land Properties Caused Downfall--Liabilities Are $1,275,549. New York, Oct. 14--Thomas H. Wattins, a Scranton.

coal operator, with offices here, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States circuit court. He places his liabilities at $1,275,549, with assets of 1585,341. The assets include stocks and negotiable bonds worth $516,806 and life insurance policies amounting to 09ti. Of the liabilities $821,919 is unsecured. Mr.

Watkins said he was forced to file the petition owing to his heavy investments in coal land properties. He said he had $1,500,000 invested in the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, of which he was appointed receiver about two years ago, and as such has been trying to reorganize the company, but without success. He also had heavy investments in other companies concerns. Recently several or his loans had been called in. and he said there was nothing left for him to do but to go Into bankruptcy.

The largest creditor is given as Elizabeth Watkins, of Scranton, whose secured claim is for $271,242. Other out-of-town claimants in the secured class are the Traders' National bank, of Scranton, O. S. John- aon, Scranton, Miners' Saving bank, Pittstou. First National bank, Bethlehem, First National bank, Carbondale, $8000; First National bank, Harrisburg.

$8983; First National bank, Philadelphia, First National bank, Pittston, $7513; First Na-s tional bank, Scranton, estate of Byron D. Hamlin, Smethport, North Scranton bank, Scran- too, $5000; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance company. Hartford, $3396; Pittsburg Life and Trust company, of Pittsburg, Claims of secured creditors in this city range as high as $61,000. Of the unsecured creditors the largest claim is that of W. L.

Stow of this city, for $131,837. Among out- of-town creditors in this class are Clarence D. Simpson, of Scranton, J. W. Northrup, Saratoga, $2758; Crews, Llchi.enstadt London, $2798; Blpomsburg National bank.

Bloomsburg, $4594; T. H. Watkins Scranton, $7702; John H. Wrenn Chicago, $16,996. RAID ON HOLY ROLLERS WK Two of Fourteen 'Rcund Hypnotized Boy Are Arrested, Atlanta.

Oct. E. H. Spencer, one of the leaders 01' the religious sect as "Holy Rollers," and F. K.

Key won: arrested here. The police entered the Key home and found Spencer and twelve other "Holy Rollers" dancing and chanting around the body of Einil Chapel, a fifteen-year-old boy, whom they were attempting to convert. It is said that the boy had been in a hypnotic state for several hours. Charges of maintaining a public nuisance were lodged agaia.it the minister and Key. ADMIRAL COWLES.

of Roosivelt Nominated For Congress. COWLES NOMINATED Roosevelt's Brother-in-Law Seeks Seal In Congress. Farmington, Oct. 14. The rumor that Colonel Roosevelt would take a strong family interest in Connecticut this fall was verified when it was announced that his brother-in-law.

William Sheffield Cowles, the retired rear admiral, was the nominee for representative on the Republican ticket. A caucus was held and Admiral Cowles won the nomination easily. ACCUSE IMPORTER OF $1,000,000 FRAUD Federal Officials Arrest New York Art Dealer. New York, Oct. Du.

veen, of the firm of Duveen Brothers, Fifth avenue, importers and dealers in antiques and art goods, was arrested by United States Marshal Henkel on a charge of defrauding the government during several years past out of duties on imported merchandise. The aggregate claims of the government are said to be $1,000,000. Bail was fixed at $50,000. While the papers and books in the store were being bundled up to be removed to Attorney Wise's office down at the federal building, Deputy Norwood and two of his inspectors husilefl abou through the galleries to seize pictures, vases and other objects of art under suspicion. Three vases in the store which the firm invoiced at $1100 are said to have been undervalued almost $27.000.

ROCK SLIDE ALONG CANAL 75,000 Cubic Yards Slowly Moving Toward the Culebra Cut. Washington. Oct. great slide has developed in the east bank of Culebra cut of the Panama canal at Bas Obispo. A quantity of rock estimated at 75,000 cubic yards is slov.iy moving to- warrl canal prism.

This slide is nin feet above the level of the sea. break follows the lines of fault iu the rock. Naval Hazing Probe Over. Annapolis, Oct. board of officers appointed by Superintendent Bowyer, of the naval academy, to investigate alleged hazing, has completed its work and handed its find- Ings to Captain Bowyer.

The accused midshipmen are J. W. Anderson, of Washington state; W. H. O'Brien, of Ohio; Jeniper Garnette, of Virginia, and Howard Bode, of Ohio, all members of the first class.

This alleged offense consisted in compelling several of the first year cadets to go through various stunts included in the milder form of hazing which is called "running." Shot In Head, Runs Express 40 Miles. La Crosse, Oct. in the head by a stray bullet from the rifle of an unknown hunter at Genoa, forty miles south of here, Alfred Foster, engineer of the Oriental Limited, the finest passenger train on the Burlington Great, Northern system, fell over in his cab, but revived and grasped the throttle and brought his train to La Crosse. When he arrived he was covered with blood and very weak. He was immediately taken t( the office of a medical examiner, whr his injury HUSTON TO APPEAL Capitol Architect Plans Supersedeas to Stave Off Prison Going.

Philadelphia, Oct. 14. Joseph M. Huston, architect of the new state capitol. refused a new trial at Harrisburg by Judge Kunkel on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the state in furnishing the capitol.

will appear in court tomorrow morning to be sentenced, and immediately after will appeal to the superior court. The appeal will act as a stay of execution, as was done in the case of John H. Sanderson, the capitol trimmer, and the others convicted two years ago. Huston's sentence will be from six months to two years in prison and probably $500 fine with costs. $10.000,000 CONCERN RAIDED Charged With Using Mails In Scheme to Defraud.

Boston. Oct. a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, Charles H. Brooks, manager and director of the Redeemable Investmen company, of this city, a concern having capital stock amounting to $lu, 000,000, arrested. According to the federal $1,000,000 is involved under the charges which have been made againss Brooks.

The federal authorities later raided the offices of the company and carried away books, accounts, letter fiie? and three bags of money, said to be gold coin. COL, ROOSEVtL i LAUDS BEVER50GE He Spent a Strenuous Day on Stump in Indiana. 6REAT CROWDS GREET HIM France O. U. S.

Potatoes. Paris, Oct. 14. A commission scientists has come to the conclusion that American potatoes are no longei a source of contamination, and the French government has decided to ad mit this product, which has beer barred out of France since 1875, or the ground that it was infected with disease dangerous to French potatoes The French potato crop this year is poor. Paid $1630 For Old Coins.

New York, Oct. thousand six hundred and thirty dollars was tlu price paid for sixty-three 1-cent pieces The were of the issue of 1794 and were a part of the Gilbert collec tion. The prices per coin ranged fron $50 to $101. Colorado Chief Justice Dead. Denver, Oct.

Wil bur Steele, chief justice of the Colo rado supreme court since 1907, Is dead In Praising the Senator the Colonel Declared He Was the Embodiment of Honesty In Public Life. Anderson, Oct. Roosevelt came stumping across the state of Indiana shouting to the Hoosiers that Senator Beveridge must go back. The Hoosiers didn't rise up and whoop. They were thoughtful.

This strenuous day of Rooseveltian activity gave the colonel a splendid opportunity to utter fighting words. He hammered away at his theories of progressivism and lauded the tariff commission, which he said Beveridge was instrumental in securing. He himself had the satisfaction of being praised by former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks. The climax of Beveridge day came at a monster meeting in Monument square in Indianapolis.

Mr. Roosevelt told a crowd of 15,000 persons massed in front of the greatest war monument in the world that it was a meeting the like of which he had never seen in his thirty years in politics. He declared that after seeing that crowd he wasn't nervous about Indiana. He declared that they are now going to win. He lauded Mr.

Beveridge uutil Mr. Beveridge blushed. Those who have followed the wanderings of the colonel these past few months were a bit surprised at the temper of the people in Indiana. Mr. Roosevelt was enthusiastic and his audience applauded him, but they didn't appear to be aroused by references to Beveridge, and the general impression that one got here was that it would require more than the colonel's indorse- ment to get Mr.

Beveridge back to Washington, although they conceded that the Roosevelt speeches might have a good effect. Boosted Beveridge. Mr. Roosevelt didn't mince matters when it came to boosting Senator Beveridge. He characterized him as a man embodying the struggle for popular government and honesty in public life.

He told the crowds that Beveridge didn't split off from the rest of his party, because he voted in accordance with the views of the bulk of the people, and before the next presidential election comes around the platform of your party will be precisely the platform on which Senator Beveridge stands, said the colonel. He announced that he had come into Indiana to speak for Beveridge because he believed so emphatically in the cause for which he stands. If Indiana defeats Beveridge, Mr. Roosevelt said that they will not be able to explain to the American people on any other grounds than that Indiana declines to keep in office the public servant who refuses to ally himself with corrupt interests. Among the various things that Mr.

Roosevelt cotmted which Senator Beveridge had a hand in was conservatism. He didn't say exactly what the senator did, but he discussed the problem. Last night he spoke at Anderson and Muncie and withdrew from Indiana, following a short stay at Richmond. Today he will stump the southern tier of New York state in behalf of Mr. Stimson and the Republican ticket.

GOLDEN EAGLES ELECT Officers Chosen by the Supreme Castle at Scranton, Pa. Scranton, Oct. principal business before the supreme castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, now in session here, was the election of officers. This resulted as follows: Supreme chief, Garrett S. Smith.

Wilmington, supreme vice chief, John M. Shappell. Philadelphia: supreme high priest, Thomas E. White, Clayton. supieme sir herald, George A.

Lippincou, Long Branch, N. supreme master of records, John B. Triebler. Philadelphia; supreme keeper of the exchequer, William Culbertson, Philadelphia; supreme first guardsman. Dr.

H. T. Martin, Baltimore, supreme second guardsman. Richard Sutcliffe, Boston: lieutenant general, military branch, Harry P. Reinecke, Philadelphia.

BALLINGER HURT IN WRECK Secretary of the Interior In Crash on Outskirts of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Oct. of the Interior Ballinger is reported to have been slightly injured in a wreck on the Baltimore Ohio Southwestern railroad in the outskirts of Cincinnati. Ten passengers were hurt, none fatally. Secretary Ballinger will leave later for Washington over the Chesapeake Ohio.

MHS. W. H. TAFT. Lady" of the Country Aids Boy Auto Victim.

Taft Auto Hits Boy. Mrs. Taft was an anxious visitor at the Salem, hospital, where Wilfred A. Crowell. the six-year-old son 01 William A.

Crowell, of Salem, lies suffering from bruises and cuts re ceived when he was struck by one ol th(- White House automobiles. The hospital authorities assured Mrs Taft that the little boy was in no 'langer. They said he was merely bruised on the face and arm and that he would be sent home. The accident occurred on Monday, when Mrs. Taft was returning from Boston Ac-wording to Chauffeur Long, the automobile was running at a moderate bpeed through the eastern part of city, when the boy suddenly ran fron an electric car track upon the roadway and directly In front of the machine.

Long whirled his steering wheel soj that the blow was a glancing one, although the child was thrown against the curbstone and cut and bruised The automobile was immediately stopped and the child picked up and hur- to the hospital. 300 ARE DEAD; LOSSMILLIONS Fearful Cost of Minnesota-Canada Border Blaze. original position near the colonel's lomobile. The crowd swarmed toweft tim. He uttered exclamations that fast that you couldn't tell what HIRE SMALL TOWNS BURNED Shot Wife, Mother-in-Law and Self.

A horrible triple tragedy occurred neat- MiHhoro, in Bath county, forty miles southwest of Staunton, when Edward Mace shot and killed his wife, mortally wcuaded his mother-in- law and then enried his own life. Th murdered wife was but fifteen years old and carried a baby in her arms when she was shot. She had left I her husband but a short time ago on account of brutal treatment and returned recently to the neighborhood. As as Mace learned of her preseiu he armed himself with a single barrel loading shotgun and a full supply of ammunition and then secreted himself close by the roadside along whicl his wife and mother-in-law had to pass- As they came along the road Mace sprang from the underbrush, and with the remark: "I will fix you both," he shot to death his wife, who held theii sleeping infant in her arms. Reloading the weapon, he immediately "turned it upon the mother-in- law with deadly intent, the load tearing a wound in her left side, from which it is thought she will die.

Reloading a third time. Mace placed the weapon against his body, pulled the trigger and ended his own life. There were no eyewitnesses to the tragedy, but the shots and screams were heard from a nearby farm house, the occupants rushing to the scene too late to be' of any assistance, only to find the lifeless bodies of husband and wife and the mortally wounded form of the mother-in-law. The infant was unhurt and still lay peacefully asleep in the embrace of its lifeless mother. Cuba Is Storm Swept.

Key West, Oct. severe tropical storm swept the provinces of Santa Clara. Matanzas, Havana and Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, according to advices received here by wireless. The telephone service in Havana was badly crippled. Heavy rales accompanied high winds.

Used Boy to Stop Bullets. "You are a dirty dog! The best thing that can happen to you is to get justice, and get it quick." In these words Coroner Feinberg, of New York city, expressed his abhorrence for Adolph Berg who was arraigned before him as the man who used Charles Fischer, a twelve-year-old boy, as a shield against the bullets fired at him by Harry Greenwald, an ex-prize fighter. The boy was killed and Greenwald committed suicide. Berg was held without bail to answer to a charge of homicide. He was arrested and, according to the police, at first admitted that he was the man wanted.

Before the coroner he declined to make any statement, however, and later he denied having figured in the killing of the Fischer boy. Finds Snake (n Case of Jars, When she opened a case of fruit jars. Mrs. E. J.

Rilley, of New Bridge, found a three-foot snake coiled among the jars. She killed the reptile. Mrs. Rilley drove five miles in a buggy with the case at her feet. Searching Parties Over Devastated Area Many Bodies and Starving Survivors--Wild Animals Joineo Exodus.

A. Staunmg, publisher 01 tue Warroad, Plain Dealer, says he was sure that the number of dead in the forest fires along the border would be at least 300, and 700 persons are missing. Five thousand are homeless. Mr. Stauning has been keeping in close touch with occurrences of the past few days and his word should be aii authority.

He places the estimate of the tim- oer and building loss at $25,000,000. Men who have just returned from Baudette say the list of dead in the district back troui the railroad track will reach 150. The mayor ot Baxidette says that seventy-five bodies have already been found, and refugees coming in every hour report having seen many dead oodies in the roads. The situation around Warroad is not critical at present. A big fire is burning between Warroad and Sprague.

but the town is well guarded. All settlers in the district bounded by the Rainy river and Lake of the Woods on the north to twenty-five miles south of Fort Frances, and from Spooner and Baudette, on the east to Warroad, on the west, whc are not accounted for, are believed tc be dead, as there was no known means of escape for them. For a distance of fifty miles from Baudette' and the Rainy river west to Warroad the woods were a solid mass of fire Sunday. The fires have wiped out the villages of Baudette, Spooner, Swift. Graceton, Pitt, Cedar Spur, Roosevelt and Malcolm.

The last two named places are small settlements in Bel trami county, south of Warroad. The greatest property loss occurred at Baudette and Spooner, which is practically one community, being paralleled by a narrow river. The other, towns consisted of only a few buildings Search For Dead and Dying. The terrible results of the forest fires are beginning to be realized by the disheartened and homeless thousands- Bodies found along the railway track three miles west of Baudette were taken to Rainy River, for burial. There was not a particle of clothing left on any of them, save parts of their shoes.

The bodies had the appearance of having been baked in a red hot oven. Searching parties were organized and went south to relieve suffering and pick up the dead. It will be days before all the dead can be reached, owing to the great trees which have fallen over the roads. These will have to be chopped away before wagons can get through. In some instances houses near town are filled with refugees who are without food.

Matt Hendrickson came in from his claim, three and a half miles south west of Baudette, and told of thirty persons who were housed io his shack- without food. He says that when the fire struck his place sixteen of them got into a dry well eighteen feet deep and remained there, nearly suffocating from the heat and smoke, until the fire had passed. While the tornado of fire passed over the well it veered to the south east of his house, which 4 was not con sumed. Many settlers got into the Rapid river and saved themselves by wading into the water, althought their faces were blistered by heat. and said "fine" at least a hundred times.

He was so overwhelmed that tie Couldn't describe hits sensations of being in the air. Largest Corn Crop In History. The production of spring wheat, estimated by the crop reporting board for 1910, was 233,475.000 bushels, compared with 290.823,000 bushels in ISOt. the yield per acre" being 11.8 L-ompared with 15.8 in 1909. ThF- production of all wheat tor 1910 was 691.769,000 bushels, with 737.189,000 bushels in 1909, i i 'i being 14.1' bushels.

The corn crop was 80.3 per cent of a normal on Oct. 1 or at time of harvest, as compared with 73.8 a year ago ami 98.4. tfn-ypgr Rvprage, iccording to the crop reporting board Df the department of agriculture. The crop of corn, based on these figures, was variously estimated at 2,968,000,000 bushels to over bushels. In either case a new high record would be established, the largest previous crop having been 2,927,416,031 bushels in 1906.

The production of oats for 1910 was 1,096,396.000 bushels, compared with 1,007,353,000 bushels in 1909. The production of barley for 1910 1 was 158,138,000 bushels, comparedr with 170,284,000 bushels in 1909. Dup Up $1145 In Garden. A pot of gold was found by Mrs. Edward Casey, of Harris near South Bend, in her garden.

She was working in the flower beds. when to her surprise a $20 gold piece was brought to the surface. She began digging vigorously, and in a few minutes uncovered a rusty can which contained gold pieces amounting in all to $1145. Some of the coins bore the date of 1835, but most of them were coined in 1880. The farm was formerly occupied by Henry Casey, a wealthy farmer, who died about twenty years ago.

It thought that he buried the gold for safe-keeping. Bryan Silenced In Iowa. Because William J. Bryan bolted the Democratic state ticket in and is fighting the nominees in that state. Red Oak, Democrats have cancelled Mr.

Bryan's date for a political address in Red Oak and have notified the Nebraskan that his assistance is not wanted. The Democratic campaign committee has written Mr. Bryan telling hiidt of its action and giving its reasons. Given $8456 For One Eye. Charles Yocum, a young man, of Reading, who, while- riding a motorcycle was thrown oli the wheel due to the bad condition of the street, knocking out one of his eyes, secured a verdict against Ithe city for $8456.

An unsuccessful agiitav tion for better streets has been going; on for years. Girl Dies In Marathon Waltz. Miss Elizabeth Marris said, "I could die waltzing," at the close of a' daace in Chicago. As she seated herself she: fell over and died within a minutes. She had been dancing continuously for four hours.

Miss Harris was twenty-two years old. Girl Gets $1000 Heart Balm. Sarah N. Yoselowitz, of Steelton, was awarded $1000 by a jury in her suit for $10,000 damages against her father-in-law. Theodore Yoselowitz.

for alienating the affections of her husband. Fall Kills Man at Lancaster, Pa. Bernard Falck died from injuries received in a fall down an elevator shaft at the Ganss butcher establishment a I Lancaster. Pa. He was twenty- nin eyears old, unmarried, and came of a prominent family.

Harrisburg Has 64,167 Population. According to statistics given out by the census bureau, Harrisburg, Pa- has a population of 64,186, an increase of 14.019, or 27.9 per cent over 30,167 ID 1900. Wild Deer Disport Near School. A flock of deer bounding across the roads in the forest is the rare sight which dally greets the school children near Orwigsburg, Pa. Population of Dubois, Pa.

Dubois, has a population of 12,623. compared with 9375 in 1900, according to the census bureau. Roosevelt Up In an Airship. Well, the colonel did it, by George. He went up in the air.

Like many others, he has succumbed to the temptations of flying. At.the Kinlock aviation field, eighteen mifes east of St. Louis, Mr. Roosevelt made his first flight with Arch Hoxsey. In a Wright biplane he encircled the field twice and remained in the air three minutes and twenty seconds.

When he came down to earth the colonel exclaimed that it was the bulliest experience he had ever gone through. He hadn't expected to do it. The colonel devoted all his attention to Hoxsey and the jiggers that worked the plane. He sat on the left side of Hoxsey. Somebody gave him a cap and Ihe colonel put it on and he was ready for the whoop.

While an old soldier held the machine, Hoxsey tested the engine. He found that everything was all right and gave the signal to let go. The aeroplane rose gently and gradually to a height of 100 feet. As it rose it picked up more speed, and before knew it Mr. Roosevelt and the aviatoi were swooping over the heads of crowd.

The biplane descended in a complete circle and made a long loop. The colonel waved his hands tc those beneath him. He called to them, but the hum of the motor choked his words. In minutes and twenty seconds the plane glided back to iti Aviator Falls Fifty Feet. Ralph Johnstone fell with a biplane- he was operating at a height of fifty feet on the aviation field at St.

Louis. He was slightly bruised. The machine was wrecked. Fortune For Blast Furnace Toiler. After Years of toil at a blast furnace at Sharon, Mack Madison, a Swede, left for his native land to obtain a fortune of $100,000, which has heard a relative has left to him.

Caruso Stabbed on Stage. During the last act of "Carmen" in Berlin, Germany. Enrico Caruso received an accidental thrust of a sword in his knee. The wound is not considered serious. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR steady; winter clear, city mills, fancy, RYE FLOUR quiet, at per barrel.

WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, new, CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local. OATS steady; No. 2 white, 39O 39 1 lower grades, 37c.

POULTRY: Live firm; hens, 17c. old roosters, Dressed steady; choice fowls, old roosters, 13c. BUTTER firm; extra creamery, 32c. EGGS steady; selected, 32 nearby, 28c. western, 28c.

POTATOES quiet, at bush. Live Stock Markets, PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) -CATTLE steady; choice, 7.10; prime, SHEEP higher; prime wethers, culls and common, iambs, 14. 6.90; veal calves, 19.5') HOGS higher; prime heavies, $9.20 J9.35; mediums. hetvy orkers, light Yorkers. 19.36® 9.40; pigs, 9.

10; roughs, t7.750S.aO. EW SPAPER IV.