Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 21, 1907, Page 2

“G98 i herald: Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN SHORES BRIEFLY TOLD. Washingten ‘Notes. The president has appointed Gen. S. M. B. Young, retired, who was his old commander in Cuba, superintend- “ent of the Yellowstone National Park. According to a government report just issued pearls to the value of $500,080 were found in the United States during the year 1906, and other precious stones to the value of $208,- 000 were produced. The war department has directed the return to duty as’an assistant mil- itary aid to the president, Capt. Frank McCoy, Third cavalry, who has been speuding most of the summer in Yel- lowstone Park with his troop. This means that there are not likely to be any more changes in the president’s family of military and naval aids at present. People Talked About. August Gisin, founder of the Balti- more Journal, German, died at his home in Baltimore of acute indiges- tion. Dr. Michael Beshoar, pioneer, promi- nent citizen, founder of the Pueblo Chieftain and Trinidad Advertiser, died at Trinidad, Colo., at the age of seventy-four. John M. Turner, writer, humorist, actor and originator of trick banjo playing, is dead at the Post Graduate hospital in New York city, following an operation for appendicitis. Turner was founder of the Vampire club and his ready wit and mimicry were known from coast to coast. James Bellows MeGregor said’to’ be the oldest Mason in the world,’ brated his 106th birthday at Mount Sunapee, N. H., with a public recep- tion. He was born in 1801, a mile from where he now lives. His joining of the Masoni corder in 1827 makes him a member of eighty years’ stand- ing and the oldest Mason on record in the world. Foreign. The first Jewish synagogue to be erected in Moscow was opened last week, The situation in German Southwest Africa has improved to such an extent that the repatriation of the troops is about to commence. Work has been resumed at Antwerp on all the steamers, where 4,000 strikebreakers are employed. No fur- ther disorders occurred. The chamber of deputies of Peru has approved the contract of Alfred McCune of New York for the construc- tion of the Cerro de Pasco, Huacho & Ucayali River railroad. The Krupp works are building for Japan about thirty-twelve-inch guns for use on board battleships, and they are continuing the fulfillment of a contract made soon after the war with Russia ended in re-equipping the Japanese field artillery. The withdrawal of Dr. Jose Gilfor- toul, the Venezuelan representative from the Hague peace conference Sept. 4 was due to a misunderstand- i He will not only remain as a del- agate, but President Castro has cabled him how to vote on many questions. The Chinese throne appointed Taschen, Wang Ta Hsi and Ting She Hmei to be imperial commissioners, with instructions to separately visit Japan, Great Britain and Germany for the purpose of reporting on the con- stitutional systems of those countries. Deputy Pinero has been challenged by Senator Benito Villanueva, presi- dent of the senate, to fight a duel at Buenos Ayres. Pinero, in the cham- ber, made the charge that the revolu- tions in the provinces were fostered by certain senators, among them the president of the senate. Hence the ‘challenge. An automobile in which Queen Vic- toria was driving from San Sebastian to Bilbao was suddenly confronted by a large bull, which planted himself in the roadway immediately in front of the queen’s car and compelled the chauffeur to put on the brakes hur- riedly and stop the machine. No col- lision appears to have occurred, but her majesty is said to have been greatly affected by the unexpected meeting of the bull. Accidental Happentngs. Clarence Henry, an employe of the Fort Dodge, Iowa, Light company, was electrocuted while changing a trans- former. William J. Mulhall, farrier for the First City troop of Philadelphia, and well known college football player and athlete, was killed by plunging head- foremost over a mustang he was at- tempting to mount. Fifty persons were injured at Tou- lon, IIL, by the explosion of powder or gas in the hardware store of Wheel- er & Co., when firemen were trying to extinguish a blaze in the basement. By the derailment of an east-bound Seaboard Air Line passenger train at Wileox creek, Ga., five persons were seriously injured and many others cut and bruised. s Venice, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Creveling of Leon, lowa., fell beneath a wagon heavily loaded with lumber and died ten minutes af ter as the result of her injuries, ‘into her husband’s ,| last week for “Mrs. John H. Williams, an e ident of Quincy, Mich., was struck by. in a rock train while picking up -coalj™ from: the track. - She was instantly killed. © 2 Georga McNamara was found dead on the Iowa Central tracks near Mar- shalltown, Iowa. He was making his |’ initial trip as a brakeman. It is not known just how the accident occurred. STATE? "s ATTORNEY OUTLINES DEFENSE IN RAILWAY RATE | Mrs. Marguerite Croft, bride of .a few weeks of John Croft, New York, was swept overboard from a yacht aes CASE. Croft and her inebanl were eh Sr] egw tonermogn! NEW RATE NOT CONFISCATORY Seven cottages on the beach and the 3 Avery Beach hotel were burned at > South Haven, Mich. Dynamite was used to blow up the hotel to prevent the spreading of the fire. The loss on the hotel alone was $50,000. Two young men and two girls were drowned in the Saginaw river at Sag- inaw, Mich., when a gasoline tank ex- ploded in a power launch. It is thought that the tank caught fire from one of the boat’s signal lights. Wet rails cost the life of one man and resulted in the serious injury of several other persons at Nazareth, Pa. A car descending a steep grade got be- yond control of the motorman, and jumping the tracks at a sharp curve turned turtle. STATE TO PROVE THAT 2-CENT RATE AND COMMODITY RATE ARE REMUNERATIVE. St. Paul, Special. — Thomas D. O’Brien, special counsef for the state in the injunction proceedings brought by railroad stockholders to restrain the operation of Minnesota’s rate laws, spent three days last week argu- ing before Judge Lochren against the issuance of the injunction. After six days’ argument by the plaintiffs, Mr. O’Brien opened for the state. He took up the evidence to analyze it and demonstrated that the reductions are not confiscatory. Mr. O’Brien reviewed first the state’s demurrers, which deny the ju- risdiction of the court, the right to en- join state officers or the sufficiency of the bills. What State Will Prove. In a general way he announced that the state would prove that the mer- chandise rates and the 2-cent passen- ger rate are remunerative; that the present commodity rates are unequal and unjust, and that the proposed rates are higher per ton per mile than the interstate rates now in force. The state will show that higher net profits are now earned on local than on inter- state business, on the companies’ own figures and therefore that local rates are exorbitant. “We claim,” said Mr. O’Brien, “that [there being no diverse citizenship, this court has no" jurisdiction. “We claim, second, that the railway commission, not being concerned with the commodity rate law or the 2-cent fare act, the court will not inquire into their validity in this action. “Third, that the complainants have not brought themselves within the cinety-fourth equity rule. : Is Action Against State. “Fourth, that this is an action against the state and is in opposition to the federal constitution. “Fifth, that the bills are multifar! ous. “We insist,” continued Mr. O'Brien, “that an interlocutcry temporary in- junction will not issue because of its effect to change existing: condition, and, further, that the court will give no attention regarding the claims in the matter of the passenger fare and merchandise rates, two things which the roads have accepted of their own free will and which they have volun- tarily put into effect.” The efforts of the state, Mr. O’Brien declared, had been employed to place the railroads at peace with the public by settling for them once and for all many vexatious questions with which they had to contend. Some of the Benefits. By abolishing free passes the law not only relieved the railroads from the dead weight of non-remunerative service, but had placed railroad offi- cials where they were no longer pes- tered with endless applications for free transportation. By penalizing rebating the law had relieved the railroads from cut-throat competition. The reduction in rates had stimu- lated traffic by bringing passenger rates within the means of the masses. Not a Deep Cut. The reduction in passenger rates from 3 to 2 cents a mile, declared Mr. O’Brien, is not nearly so savage a eut as it appears on its face to be. It does not mean an actual cut of 331-3 per cent. Two cents a mile is really more than the average passenger paid under the 3-cent rate. In addition to the large number who enjoyed the spe- cial privilege of free transportation there was a considerable class who paid less than 2 cents a mile. All of these must now pay the regular 2-cent rate, and the result is, as shown by their own figures, that the actual re- ceipts from passenger traffic is nearly as great as it was before the 2-cent law went into effect. Figures Compared. The total receipts from passenger traffic of the ten roads involved in these suits for May, 1907, the first month under the operation of the 2-cent passenger law, said Mr. O’Brien, was $923,207.52. The receipts for June, 1907, were $1,187,887.17, while the receipts for June, 1906, were $1,216,775.91, and the receipts for May, 1906, were $949,453.90. These figures are taken from the reports to the rafl- road and warehouse commission. Mr. O’Brien contended that the Crimes and Criminals. A $100,000 shortage was discovered in the accounts of the state tax com- missioner in New Orleans: ° The police are searching for ,Charles E. Letten, a clerk in the office, who is charged with the defaleation. A bold daylight robbery of the bank in tke village of Manley, Neb., occur- red last week. The lone robber got between $2,000 and $3,000 and escap- ed, but is reported surrounded in a cornfield near Murdock. Edward J. Hildebrandt, a painter thirty years old, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head in Chicago when about to be arrested for the murder of Mrs. Maude Westerfield, at whose home he was to be a board- er. When Mrs. Arch Fesman, revolver in hand, burst open the door leading in the Wilson’ relat Carruthérsvifie, Lucy Logs- den, a waitress, who was in the room, jumped out of a third story window and was crushed so badly in the fall that she will die. Frederick L. Stone, chief of police of Dillon, Mont., was charged with perjury in a complaint fired against him by County Attorney Melton. Stone is accused of perjuring himself in a suit for divorce which he brought against his wife, Carrie E. Stone. Stone was @rrested and his bond was fixed at $500. Masked robbers broke into and blew open the safe in the Royal Savings bank at Chippewa, Ont. A posse was organized and at once set out in pur- suit of the robbers, Officials of the bank say that the safeblowers were frightened away before they got into the safety deposit box inside the vault, where the most of the bank’s money was kept. Owing to the fact that on account of the great influx of homeseekers into Billings, Mont., all of the hotels and rooming houses. being crowded, an unusual number of robberies have been reported to some of those of the cheaper class. One of the policemen from Miles City ran upon some pick- pockets and as a result lost not only his roll of $50 but also his revolver. General News Items. Creditors of the Seldenberg-Steifel company, one of tke largest cigar manufacturing companies in the coun- try, have filed a petition in New York asking that the company be declared bankrupt and a receiver appointed. State Railroad Commissioner Glas- gow has issued a statment that all the railroads in Michigan have agreed to adopt the 2-cent passenger rate law when it takes effect, Sept. 28. Shipments of hard coal by the lake from Buffalo during August amounted to 465,373 tons, breaking the record of July, when 421,525 tons were forward- ed to the upper lake ports by boat. Former President Palma of Cuba, in an interview given on his estate in Byamo, stated that he ts keeping aloof from politics and is devoting all his time to agricultural interests. Chairman Thomas K. Nedrlinghaus of the Republican state committee of Missouri has resigned and Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City has been elect- ‘ed in his place. The high tent of the Rechabites of America, in annual convention at New- port News, adopted a strong resolu- tion against the restoration of the canteen, Stricken with apoplexy at Galilee, N. J., Brig. Gen. Samuel N. Mills, U. S. A., retired, is dead. Gen. Mills was born in Pottsville, Pa., in 1843 and was graduated from the military acad- emy in 1865. The great council of the United States Improved Order of Red Men, in sixtieth annual session at Norfolk, adopted an amendment to the laws of the order prohibiting membership in freight rates charged by the roads are unequal as well as unreasonable. He maintained that the legislative rates, as compared with average ex.’ isting rates, were not on the whole un- favorable to the railroads, and that in some instances the maximum of the Iegislative rates are even higher than those now in existence. As an instance of inequality in rates, Mr. O’Brien quoted the rates for cattic, hogs and sheep in double-deck ears. Some roads have different rates far each of these commodities, whiie on other, they are all classed at the same rate. When the court adjourmed until Monday morning Mr. O’Brien had not finished his argument. : the future to all saloonkeepers and bartenders. 3 The United States army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco Honolulu, Guam and Manila, with nine troops of the Sixth cavalry and a detachment of field -ar- tillery for the Philippines on board in addition to a large number of cabin passengers. Rev. A. T. Tillinghast of ‘Minneapo- lis stated at Waterloo, Iowa, that he expected to make his headquarters at Waterloo on account of its central] lo- cation for the discharge of his duties as superintendent of the Universalist churches of Iowa, Wisgonaty and Min- nesota. = NON WP WARSHIP Pobeas. “THE OFFICERS AND MEN ARE KILLED OR* INJURED. Tokio, Sept. 19.—Forty-three of the crew were killed or injured on board the Japanese battleship battleship Ka- shima by an explosion within the]’ shield after target practice, near Kure, at 4 p. m. on Sept. 9. The Kashima, under command of Capt. Koizumi, reached Kure at 6 a. m., where the in- jured were placed in the hospital. The fatalities inclided a lieutenant, two cadets and one staff officer, the rank and name of whom is not given. Details regarding the effects of the explosion are lacking, but it was ter- rific, and the ship is badly damaged. The explosion followed an attempt to remove an unexploded shell from the gun. Fearfully Mutilated. A majority of the bystanders were fearfully mutilated. The casualties reported as the result of the explosion areas follows: Killed—Five officers, names not given, and twenty-two men. Severely Wounded — Two officers and six men. Slightly Wounded—Two officers and six men. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. It occurred inside of \the shield of the starboard after ten- inch gun. It was not the shell which exploded, but powder which evidently caught fire from the gas emitted from the breech when opened for the purpose of reloading the gun. The hull of the Kashima is not damaged. Thirty Are Drowned. Tokio, Sept. 19. — Thirty persons were drowned and a hundred houses burned at the Kosakabi mine, near Kotaru. A fire started in the mining works, and while attempts were being made to save the mine the water reservoir was broken, flooding a portion of the village. Many women and children were among the victims. MADMAN. SEEKS PRESIDENT, Wants Roosevelt to Help Him Collect $10,000,000 From Rockefeller. Oyster Bay, Sept. 19—The monoto- ny of official routine at Sagamore Hill was relieved last night by the arrival of another unexpected caller, who thought that he had urgent business with the president. The stranger, who described himself as Orlando Toland. farmer, of Oxford, Ala., had reached the front door of the president’s home when he was detected and headed off by a.secret service agent. To the of- ficer Toland explained that he wished to enlist the aid of Mr. Roosevelt in the collection of an obligation of $10,- 00,000 from John D. Rockefeller. He was hustled on the first train for New York. Wants $10,000,000 From John D. It was about 7 o’clock when a man of perhaps thirty years, clad in blue jeans and with the general appearance of a hard worker, mounted the steps at the president’s front door. There he was seen by Secret Service Agent Washer, who asked the man’s busi- ness. Toland had no hesitancy in tell- ing it. He had come to Sagamore Hill, he said to request President Roosevelt to collect a debt of $10,000,- 000 which he said John D. Rockefeller owed him. This sum, he explained, Mr. Rockefeller had promised him in return for his services in connection with a murder trial at St. Paul. BOND IS FIXED AT $6,000,000. Judge Grosscup Rules in Oil Trust Case —Fine May Be Wiped Out. Chicago, Sept. 19. — The Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in order to obtain a supersedeas staying execution on its property to satisfy the judgment of $29,240,000 recently imposed by Judge Landis in the United States dis- trict court, must furnish bonds to the amount of $6,000,000. This was determined yesterday by Judge Grosscup, in the United States cireuit court. The $29,240,000 fine would be wiped out of existence on a technicality if the scheme of the Standard Oil lawyers, which became known yesterday, is carried out. In the event that the Alton is grant- ed the immunity which it has been fully established was promised to the railroads through agreement with For- mer Atttorney General Moody, the Standard Oil attorneys will demand that Judge Landis’ fine be set aside. The grounds for this plea will be that the Standard Oil attorneys should have been apprised of this immunity agreement in order that they might question the Alton railroad witnesses properly. The lawyers claim that the proced- ure in the case was illegal and that it furnishes sufficient grounds for setting aside the fine. Oklahoma Goes “Dry.” Kansas City, Sept. 19. — Reports from the Oklahoma election indicate that prohibition has certainly carried, and it is probable that the constitution has been accepted and that Haskell (Democrat) has been elected gov- ernor. Saloons Robbed of $26. Barnesville, Minn., Sept. 19. — The saloons of P. E. Engles, Car] Ellefson and J. A. Cloon of this city were broken into. The robbers secured $26 in all. 4 Insane Woman Drowns Self and Child. Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 19.—Driven insane by brooding over ill health and the protracted absence of her husband in Iowa, Mrs. Anna Baker drowned herself and her seven-year-old daugh- ter in Johnson lake, near here, yester- PROFITS OF OW | TRUST ENORMOUS KELLOGG BRINGS OUT STAR TLING INFORMATION ABOUT ' STANDARD, . $490,315,934 IN EIGHT YEARS CAREFULLY GUARDED SECRETS x REVEALED—CONTROLS SEV- ENTY COMPANIES. L New York, Sept. 19—Delving into the financial workings of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, the hold- ing company of all the subsidiary or- ganizations of the so-called oil trust, Frank B. Kellogg, conducting the fed- eral suit for the dissolution of the company, brought forth yesterday to public view for the first time the enor- mous profits made by the Standard Oil company. Fabulous Profits Shown. In a period of eight years, from 1899 to 1906, inclusive, the Standard Oil company, in a statement spread upon the record of yesterday’s hearing, was shown to have earned the total profits of $490,315.934, or at the rate of more than $61,000,000 a year, and distributed to its shareholders in’ the same period $303,354,403. While the company was earning these vast sums in the refining of oil the statements adduced at the hearing yesterday show that between 1899 and 1906 the assets of the company grew by leaps and bounds from $200,791,523 to $371,366,531. The capital stock is $93,338,386. Always Carefully Guarded. . Financiers and those seeking knowl- edge of the exact profits of the Stand- ard Oil company }.ave striven vainly to obtain the figures, which Mr. Kel- loge succeeded yesterday in plaeing upon the record of the court. The Standard Oil company makes no state- ment of its business, and other than these declarations of a dividend, it makes no public announcement by which its business may be gauged. The hearing yesterday brought out much information which Mr. Kellogg obtained from the Standard Oil com- pany. Controls Seventy Companies. Mr. Kellogg obtained a statement showing that the Standard Oil Com- pany of New Jersey controlled by a stock ownership over seventy compa- nies engaged in the refining and the transportation of oil on Sept. 14, 1907. The list showed that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey owned $999,- 000 of the total capital stock of $1,- 000,000 of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, which was recently fined $29,240,000 by Judge Landis in the United States circuit court in Chicago for rebating. Records Disappear. Mr. Keliogg’s efforts at yesterday’s hearing to obtain information of the records of liquidating trustees who had charge of the liquidation of the Stanard Oil trust, and the exchange of the liquidating trust certificates for the shares of the Standard Oil Compa- nyof New Jersey were not rewarded. Just before the hearing closed Mr. Kellogg remarked that he thought it strange that no one in the Standard Oil company seemed to know where the records of the liquidating trustees could be found. PRIEST CONVICTED OF MURDER. Trial Full of Sensational Features — Priest Admits Shortcomings. Pittsburg, Sept. 19. — Ludwig Szecz- giel, the Roman Catholic priest from Chicago who has been on trial for the murder of Andrew and Stephen Starzynski, brothers, was convicted of murder in the second degree last night. District Attorney Geehring severely arraigned the priest and closed by saying: “He parades his shame, his drunk- enness, as a shield to protect himself from the penalty for the breaking of the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ He is an imposter.” The trial was a conglomeration of sensational testimony and features. To protect himself from the supreme penalty the prisoner unburdened his past life, frankly confessing his many shortcomings, especially his drunken- ness. During his testimony he admit- ted that Francesca Sprow, his house- keeper, who was in the house when the double murder was committed, had accompanied him to this city from Chicago. It developed that the house- keeper occupied the same room with one of the Starzynski brothers, follow- ing which admission District Attorney Geehring remarked: “There you have the motive.” The priest on the stand said he sup- posed it was correct that he had killed the brothers, but that it was done in self-defense and that he was drunk at the time. ~ Chicago Rejects New Charter. Chicago, Sept. 19—The new charter authorized by the state legislature at its last session for the city of Chicago was rejected by the voters at yester- day’s special election by a majority of over $2,000. Many Hurt, None Killed. Easton, Pa., Sept. 19. — A Lehigh Valley express train was wrecked near Pattenburg tunnel, in New Jersey. A number of trainmen and passengers were injured, but none of the latter fataily. ‘team of horses. rT] ROAD ON I is iS OWN FEET ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL STONE ARGUES IN RATE SUITS. St. Paul, Sept. i8—The third week, of the hearing in the United States circuit court on an application for a temporary injunction in the stockhold- ers’ railroad rate suits opened yester- da} before Judge Lochren. Senator F. H. Peterson of Moorhead, father of the rate law, spoke in its defense yesterday after Thomas D. O’Brien, special attorney for the state, concluded his analysis of the affidavits and argument on the facts. Late in the afternoon Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Royal A. Stone began an argu- ment on some phases of law involved in the case. He expects to finish to- day and he will be followed by Attor- ney General Young, who will reply to the contention of the complainants that the prescribed rates, in practice, necessarily and directly interfere with the exercise of the exclusive power of congress to regulate interstate com- merce. Assistant Attorney General Royal A. Stone yesterday afternoon began a re- ply to the contention of the complain- ants that if the rate laws are found to be confiseatory as to any of the weak- er roads they must fall as to all. Mr. Stone contended that each road would have to stand or fall on the merits of its own case and declared that the stronger roads could not base their defense upon the claim that the law was confiscatory as to some of their weaker rivals. CASE FOR THE STATE COURTS. State Claims Federal Court Has No Jurisdiction in Rate Cases. St. Paul, Sept 19—That the United States circuit court has no jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed for in the pending injunction suits was the con- tention of Assistant Attorney General Royal A. Stone in his argument before Judge Lochren yesterday. Mr. Stone, in an argument well for- tified by the citation of authorities, contended that in at least six of the suits there is really no diversity of citizenship between the parties and that there is no federal question on which the court can base jurisdiction, unless it be the alleged interfererice of the prescribed rates with the exer- cise of the exclusive power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. ? Mr. Stone declared that in spite of every subtlety and subterfuge the at- torneys for the complainants had suc- ceeded in raising no question “under the laws and constitution of the United States.” Mr. Stone urged that the allegation that the prescribed rates would, in effect, deprive the com- plainants of property without due pro- cess of law, raises only a question of fact, inasmuch as the answers admit that these rates, if found to be confis- catory, would be violative of the four teenth amendment of the constitution of the United States. There is no dispute, he said, be- tween the parties to these suits as to the construction of the constitution or any law of the United States, hence there is nothing in this contention of confiscation of property which rises above the dignity of a pure question of fact. The whole controversy as to con ticn, said Mr. Stone, turns on the proof of facts for which the state law has made ample provision. PREPARE UNIFORM LABEL. Food Commissioners From Six States Meet in St, Paul. St. Paul, Sept. 19.—Pure food com- missioners from six states of the Northwest are in session in St. Paul formulating a uniform label for food products. It will be submitted to manufacturers, and is expected to do away with the argument made by manufacturers that the laws of the dif- ferent states require a different set of labels for each state. A uniform label for all staple arti- cles is now being prepared. Those present at the sessions are: Commis- sioner A. H. Jones, Assistant Commis- sioner H. E. Schucknecht and Chemist J. Bryan of Illinois, Commissioner H. R. Wright of Iowa, Prof. E. F. Ladd, commissioner of North Dakota, Com- missioner A. H. Wheaton and Chemist J. H. Shepard of South Dakota, Com- wissioner J. Q. Emery and Chemist William Fisher of Wisconsin and Com- missioner Edwin K. Slater, Assistant Commissioner J. McCabe and Chemist Julius Hortvet of Minnesota. To Hold Fair Next Week. Wahpeton, N. D., Sept. 19.—Prepara- tions for the second annual fair of the Richland County Fair association, which will be held in this city on Sept. 24, 25, 26 and 27, are about completed and a large crowd is expected in Wah- peton next week, the weather permit- ting. Besides the exhibits of grains, vegetables, horses and stock, etc., there will be a good amusement pro- grain, including races, ball games, a gun tournament and a tennis tourna- ment. State W. T. C. U. Meets. Northfield, Minn., Sept. 19. — The thirty-first annual convention of the State Women’s Christian Temperance union is in session in the First Con- gregational church. About 150 dele- gates are expected to attend the ses: sions, which last until Friday. Barn and Team Burned. Bdgeeley, N. D., Sept. 19.—Lightning struck the barn on the Burke farm and burned it, together with 1,500 bushels of oats, several sets of harness and a Total loss, $3,000.