Weekly Journal-Miner, 1908-10-21

decision was reached ,verul days aga for he cancelled his engagement on Friday night at Sllverbell. In mak making - ing making his announcement last night h expressed the nope that his friends would ntaml try him in thoe counties which ho had not visited. Tt was a week ago that a telegram purporting to have come from Wm. J. Bryan wai given publicity, inviting Smith to make speeches for him in the middle wen and New York. K (Torts to see the original telogram were un unavailing - availing unavailing and it is now believed to be a myth. It develops however that a dispatch was received from Ex Mayor Rosa of Mulwuuket! urging Smith t come to Wisconsin wuere Rose is in interested - terested interested fqr political reasons in the outcome of a Congressional light. Rosa and Smith are financially interested together in the Twin Buttes mining property in this county, and by many it it believed that thi invitation was pre-arranged betwevn tho pair in order to give Smith a pretext for quittiag his campaign which bo has goad rea reasons - sons reasons to believe will cud in hi defeat. On the other hand if Bryan is elected ne stands a good chance of being given some good political sinecure, ilene in ilcsrting tho Democracy of Arizona, he is playing both euds against th middle. A telegram was received by him today from Chairman Atwoo4, who will asnign him dates in Kentucky. The story has leaked out hers Iras the mo-it reliable source, in fact right from the throne itwlf, that Mark Smith has pruetically conceded his awn dtfeut for Congrenn by Cameron, and in a bitter tirade denounced tht maa maa-ugimittut - ugimittut maa-ugimittut of his campaign mid wuat hi trrud the astnina tditorial suppart which has been handed out to 'aim ay the Kelly syndicate which controls tat Democratic papers in Bisbee, Tusa, Douglas and Phoouix, and Is eva nsw stretching out its tentacles with the hop of gathering muru uoiintU iut its power. "When Mark Smith returned from his trip through the tier uf northern counties," said a prominent itopua licau today, "and stopped ulT for his mating in Premmtt, ht frankly UM Dillon, chairman of the DMinoeratlu committee, that iu ail (us tampaign he had uver before met niith a shiR iug rveeptfHU. IU tM Ulllon that U U-btlisved - btlisved U-btlisved ht bad gone np ugulast tit tieui en Pug Koiw-Tj

tho middle wr-stt his weok promises to be carried forward even more vigorous vigorously - ly vigorously than that of tho Itepublicans. The Democrats purpose to bend all their efforts to counteract tho influence of the recent tours of Tnft, Hughes nd IJcvcridgc through this section. The national committee hns arranged to havo Mr. Ilryan speak in Chicago to tonight. - night. tonight. Tho presidential candidate is to arrive in this city early in the eve ning from East Ht. Louis and will nd nd-dress - dress nd-dress a crowd at the big amphitheatre at the stockyards. During the re remainder - mainder remainder of tno week Mr. Bryan will make somo long jumps and according to plans no will cover tho larger ex expanse - panse expanse of country in which he has been heard during any one week of the cam campaign. - paign. campaign. Much of the heaviest oratori oratorical - cal oratorical artillery on the Democratic side will iio trained during the week on Indiana and Ohio. In these two states many speakers of national prominence, including several United States senators, will be hard in behalf of the Ilryan and Kern ticket. The special efforts of the Democrats to defeat Speaker Cannon for re-election will be carried on with unabated Igor. Samuel dumpers, president of trie American Federation of Labor, is coming west again nnd in an address to be delivered to Chicago working working-men - men working-men in Orchestra Hall Tuesday night the well known labor leader who has espoused the Ilryan cause will pay his respect to Speaker Cannon and to tho Itepublican candidates in general. While here Mr. (tampers will us his .influence to bac the convention of tho Illinois State Federation of Labor, which meets In Peoria tomorrow, adopt strong resolutions condemning Cannon nnd urging his defeat.

TRAIN DISPATCHER THOUGHT TO BE KILLED WALKS OUT OF DEBRIS PUFFINO AT HIS PIPE tly Associated Press. PASADKNA, Oct. ID.-T.irce per persons - sons persons were slightly injured and thirty narrowly escaped death is evening when tlireo ears of a train on the Pa Pacific' - cific' Pacific' Hleetric Itailroad jumped the track, and knocked out the middle sup support - port support of the big bams tho company has at Raymond and Fair Oaks avenues, causing the front part of the building to collapse. A negro janitor under the building failed to receive warning in time to escape. He was badly cut and bruised. Several men in tho allien on the second lloor feel thirty feet to the ground, but escaped prnetieally unlu unlu-jured, - jured, unlu-jured, nltniiugh they wore badly briused, Tho train dispatcher was buried In tho debris, and was thought to bo kill killed, - ed, killed, but ho soon walked out smoking his pipe. Thirty men on the ground floor re received - ceived received warning in time to escape. Six live wires in the barn went down in the crash, but luckily nobody dime in eoutaet with them.

if other arrangements will permit. Ho will then give the remainder of the campaign to New York city and state, closing his htumping tour on the night of November ", at Youngstown, Ohio. A newcomer among tho Republican campaign upoakers in this' section this week is Secretary of Commcrco and Labor Straus. Scnntor .Joseph M. Dix Dixon, - on, Dixon, of Montana, chairman of tho speakers' bureau, has arranged to havo Secretary Straus deliver five speeches in thin many largo cities during the present week. Tonight ho is to be heard in Cleveland nnd tomorrow night in Indianapolis. He will speak In this city Wednesday, in St. Louis Thursday and in Louisville Friday. The Democratic campaign through

PITTSBURG, Oct. 19.-After sear searing - ing searing th motions and argnsseats today in th proceedings having aa object of bringing hire JIarry K. Thaw t testify in the voluntary bankruptcy petitioa tiled several months ago, Judga Young, in tn United States district court, late today reserved un until - til until tomorrow sis decision ia tke prin principal - cipal principal points. Theso are, first, whether Young would accept jurisdiction or whether the matters nust be presented to .ludga Archbold, of Scrunton, by whom the writ of habeas corpus ad testifies testifies-dura - dura testifies-dura was issued, and sxeond, whether Thaw ihoaM ht brought strt te ttt-Hfy.

BIBLE DEBATE MEETS DEATH IN TRYING TO ESCAPE WALLACK, Idaho, Oct. Ill i- As a result of a quarrel an to .J. fr whether thcro was n deity, nnd .J. J wnetlier statement in tho Hlblo ,v,,f" '''"'I on mythology, Peter .. I Ituknvana and (leorgo Molick .J. -h "r loth dead nt Taft, near horo. .J. J Molick asserted theio was no .J. I (lod, and tho Hlblc's statements .J. J wore untrue. In tho heat of the .J J- discussion ho drew 11 revolver . J and shot Ilukavana In tho mouth, J killing him almost instantly. .?.

LABOR DABBLES IN POLITICS. Sends Organizers Into Ohio to Attempt to Win State. WASHINGTON, Oct. lfl-.The Amer American - ican American Federation of Labor took another step in pnrtioipation of organized la labor - bor labor in polities when more organizers were ordered to Ohio today. Secre Secretary - tary Secretary Morrison left fcis speeck-asakinj trip i" the eat.

' this morning bctweon Taft nnd Hit'aco k will bo to eliruinuto Con Con-"rut - "rut Con-"rut from the itinerary of tho can candle, - dle, candle, and curtail the New York itln itln-it; - it; itln-it; o as to make nt most but two ttbci a day in the final days of tho apaKn which ite wj BpCnj jn the kfire State.