| Show 1 new york sept 11 what may develop into another mysterious hotel murder like that of jacob H thompson a well known editor was discovered yesterday in an obscure hostelry at sixth avenue and fifty sixth street through the odor of escaping gas a maid in the hotel was drawn to a room occupied for the night previous by alfred krattinger a public accountant who lived with his wife father and brothers in west fifty second street the room was broken open and krattinger found dead in the bed there were no signs of violence and it api feared to be a commonplace suicide such as coroners handle a dozen times a week A coroner and detective made a systematic examination of the body and they immediately began to discover that the transom of the room was halt open while the room showed no unusual preparations tor suicide by gas when the coroner came to examine the body closely he discovered that the face was not blackened or discolored as frequently happens la cases then he saw a large bruise over the right ear near the temple it was such a contusion as might havo been caused by a hard fall or a blow from a heavy stick or blunt weapon the coroner could not determine from cursory examination whether the skull was fractured that will be determined today by the coroners physician Kratt ingers brothers told the coroner that there should bo found on the body a diamond pin worth 1100 and a considerable amount of cash the only thing found in the pockets was a cheap pocket knife there was no trace of the diamond pin it vas subsequently ascertained by the coroner that the hotel register had been tampered with and the time of Kratt ingers arrival changed the hotel employed emp loyes professed entire ignorance as to who made the change bratting ers father and brothers declared after the examination hat they were positive the accountant had been murdered in his room early yesterday morning tor his money and pin and that the thief and murderer had escaped by the sixth avenue window after arranging the body neatly and turning on the gas to create the impression of suicide HERES A TOUGH ONE A biscuit that weighs seventy pounds and Is made of rubber portland sept 11 in the manufactures building at the lewis and claris exposition Is a biscuit of mane loua toughness tougher anan the biscuits described in the tauny papers and a thousand times as large and heavy this biscuit is of rubber and it weighs 70 pounds it Is worth about the big biscuit is of para rubber the most valuable kind and was made by natives in the jungles of south america three thousand miles from the mouth of the amazon river para rubber named tor para a town near the mouth of the amazon originally was gathered near anat place but the ravages of the rubber gatherers destroyed the industry and now rubber trees grow only in the tar inland valleys under methods now in vogue tha limit of rubber taken from each tree is about three pounds the rubber as it comes from the tree is about as thick aa molasses the natives coagulate it in shohe using a stick as the center the big biscuit now at the western worlds fair was made in that way rubber from south africa is not eo valuable king leopold of belgium now controls the output in the old days the natives used to coagulate the rubber about a rock and bellit by weight rock and all but this practice has been stopped tho only rubber produced in uncle sams domain comes from the southern islands of the philippine group AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS official call Is issued for the november session at el paso texas el paso texas sept 11 the call for the next annual meeting of the american mining congress has just been issued the meeting will open on november 14 and will be in session a solid week tho membership of the association is composed of the leading mine owners and engineers of the country and the meetings arc always attended by several thousand delegates according to the call of the convention each city chamber of commerce state county and mining organization in the country can appoint delegates and all states having mining interests which include almost every state in the union will send delegates he Is to be appointed minister to st petersburg london sept 11 A dispatch to a news agency from st petersburg says it la reported that mr Ta kahira japa csc minister at washington win be appointed minister of japan at st petersburg MORAL WAVE IS SWEEPING chicago sept 11 the rev john balcom shaw in his sermon sit the second presbyterian church last said in part for years the american conscience seemed to be sleeping its last bleed bleep graft has flourished until wo had become a nation of drafters grafters gr corporations po rations had grown so lawless and merciless as to cease to be cautious but six months ago with the suddenness of a meteors flash like a bolt out of a clear sky a new situation appeared first came the cry of tainted money which was so laud and so widespread us to warn corrupt and unscrupulous men to arm reformers with weapons they could never before carry and to push the cause ot truth and honesty miles ahead following this was the equitable expose which has dealt corporation trickery a blow from which it will not soon recover what all this promises for the work of the christian church can scarcely be estimated we are in the i midst of an ethical revival and it the church will only relate itself rightly to the movement pave the way for the spiritual revival lor which it has long been eagerly poking |
