Show J t 1 thousand persons were amiade homeless by the floods uncertainty As to fate of the ships ai the new york sept 26 the evening sun has a dispatch from manila reporting a destructive typhoon in that city the native districts were swept away persons are made homeless five were killed and hundreds of buildings were unroofed thousands of electric light wires were blown down filling the streets ith lames until the current was turned off the city was in darkness when this dispatch was sent and all street traffic was suspended it was believed shipping in the bay had warning of alie approach appi of the storm but up to the time the dispatch was sent the ships were invisible on account of the rain and bad not communicated with tho shore STANDARD OIL MONEY buying up traction securities in and indiana cleveland 0 sopt 26 the leader today says the standard oil group of new york financiers has obtained control of traction securities in ohio and indiana with a par value of at a reported cash outlay of other similar transactions are known to be pending r the positive statement was made yesterday oy a prominent cleveland financier and waa supported by the statement of a philadelphia banker that the new york standard oil coterie is back of the united gas improvement pro oc of philadelphia this company Is working in ohio through agencies tile elkins widener dolan syndicate and randal morgan vice president of the gas company the former syndicate bought the cincinnati street railway properties and took over the cincinnati dayton toledo the mccullough lines in indiana and several others the latter has just bought the tucker anthony properties tho columbus buckeye Lake find newark and the columbus newark and zanesville it Is also admitted by philadelphia interests that control is sought of tho appleyar properties known as the columbus london springfield the south market street line in columbus and the dayton springfield arbana Lr bana the positive statement Is made by several authorities that once these purchases have been be en made it la the intention of the united gas improvement company of philadelphia of representing standard oil interests to form a holding company with a capitalization of to take over tho securities of all the various companies controlled SELECTING automobiles three finnens are thrown out by elimination committee new york sept 26 three automobiles which finished last aln saturdays elimination trials for the ameri can team to compete for the vandar allt cup were thrown out yesterday by the in charge of tho american laccas the cars were declared at the close of saturdays Saturday 3 trials to have qualified but the commission decided lo 10 substitute machines of higher power and earned three others to make up the team representing this country the cars thrown out were a 40 horsepower horse power owned by E D sherman which finished third the 50 dorsc power belonging lo 10 E L wool II aynes which came in fourth and the 60 horse power owned by H S houpt which finished fifth the cars substituted in places were the horsepower horse power of james L bidese 60 horae power owned by col A A pope and a 40 horse power owned by A H white the committee announced that this somewhat drastic action was taken to strengthen the american for the touring cars racing machines of higher horse power which would show to better advantage against the high powered this action was partially foreshadower foreshadowed fore shadowed in the announcement before the trials that the commission reserved the right to name for the american team five cars which in its trial made the best showing this decision caused much dissatisfaction and ill feeling among the owners of the machines thrown out they were emphatic in their protests and maintained that all the qualifying cars won places on the team fairly one of the machines now substituted having been the first to break down in saturdays trials APPEALS OF AUSTRALIA eureka cal sept 26 the first of boxes cf apples tor shipment to australia began arriving today the shipment will bo sent to san francisco on october ath the apples must be in san francisco tor ship ment on the sonomo tor australia on the republican PRIMARIES boston sept political contests which have been pursued very actively engaged the attention of voters today at the republican primaries held throughout the state the election was tor lieutenant governor and attorney general it lafr expected that the former issue would be decided if decided today with reference to the principles proclaimed by the candidate while the latter would be settled entirely on tho question of tho personal following of the aspirants the candidates were eben S meker 0 who recently declared unreservedly for continued protection in the tariff frederick S hall of taunton and colonel A H of springfield for attorney general the candidates included general edgar H champlin Champl ln of cambridge dana malone of greenfield Gie enfield district attorney aa P french plymouth county and district attorney george A sanderson of middlesex county so many of the delegates to the state invention will be however hat it was said primaries would afford no certain evidence as 0 o chich candidate in either of the contests on tests would be nominated it was that would be gian to lieu anant governor curtis guild jr with 10 content democratic primaries also were held i n various cities and towns but there ivere no contests the party no aRr yet upon a nominee tor governor |