Show snake fifteen feet long killed acy a woman lapeer alch july 18 mrs M of while rowing on long lake struck with her oar a blue object which she quickly discovered to her alarm was a large snake of the species known as the blue racer the snake attacked the boat and wriggled part way into it when mrs frickart Eric kart shot and killed it with a small rifle which she had with her the snake measured fifteen feet in length and sixteen and one halt inches in circumference HILL MAKES DENIAL he Is not after a british columbia new york july IS that the vancouver victoria eastern the new road which it Is said great northern interests intend to build in british columbia is to be made part of a new trans continental line through canada as was recently reported has been emphatically denied by james J hill in an interview published by the times such a suggestion is nonsense said the capitalist there Is no such plan A large part of the territory in british columbia and in northern washington is practically identical in character and distinguished in no way one part from the other except by the draing of an imaginary line the new road will cross and the frontier following the streams that run through that territory it will furnish means of transportation por tation to a rich low grade ore country WRECK IN THE YARDS engineer disregards block signal at cost of his life rochester N Y july IS by the wreck of a freight cat in the east rochester yards of the new york cen aral today engineer james dark of depow was fatally injured and died in the hospital a short time later fireman M F losey of buffalo was scalded and george white a negro passenger of chirgo was slightly bruised and cut the chicago and detroit special due here from the west at 4 a m crashed into the freight at the culver street crossing and engineer dark and fireman flossey were caught in the wre cige none of the other paa except white was injured the railroad officials blame engineer dark who they say ran past a block signal CHARITIES AND corrections papers arc read on defectives and children portland ore july 18 at the general session today of tae conference on charitas Charit ls and corrections defectives fec tives and children were the principal topics discussed As on yesterday each paper or report was discussed from every standpoint the delegates taking so active an interest aa to make the discussions general in character rather than confined to the few set speeches of the day the topic on defectives was introduced trod by dr H A of st peter minn chairman of tho committee on defectives he discussed at length the importance of investigating the physical conditions of defectives fec tives as a basis for their rational care and treatment the discussion on this topic was led by C C krauskop of may wood dr hastings hart of chicago superintendent in of the illinois childrens home read a paper on the Juvenil 3 reformatory of the twentieth century A plea for aesthetic surroundings was the subject of tha address of aco vaux jr director of the philadelphia of defuge at the sectional meeting which had under consideration the subject defectives fec tives dr dichard dowey of wap latosa als delivered an address after care of convalescent insane child saving agencies of the states some local needs was the subject of an address introduced by W T gardner superintend wt of the boys and girls society 0 o norton before the childrens section dr walter andley of loa angeles calet president of the whittier state school 0 california followed with a paper on the evils of institutional childhood the work of this section conclude conc lud ed with the address of edgar T dadles chief state factory inspector of chicago mr darjes subject was Ns cessley for further preventive and protective child labor laws r |