A I OA SI MA Domentle. Patrick Dolan, formerly president of the Pittsburg District, No. 5, of the United Mineworkers of America, who was defeated for re-election fol- lowing the last great bituminous coal strike, will again contest for the presidency. From statements compiled from the Galena Signal Oil Company's books it was shown that the amount of the refund of railroads on the invoice prices of oll was in some cases nearly 50 per cent. An extensive campaign for the im- provement of the milk supply and betterment of sanitary conditions in markets will be made throughout the United States by club women, H. J. McCracken & Co., the oldest wholesale produce commission firm in Pittsburg, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States Court, In an address before the Chicago Women's Club Superintendent Elson, of the public schools of Cleveland, O.. advocated higher salaries for male teachers. The Wholesale ciation declares the is too radical and recommends lation that will permit trade agreements. Dr. Willis James bequeaths sum of $1,000,000, divided into por. tions of $100,000, to PHONE Druggists’ Asso- Anti-Trust Law legis- Four Italians were hanged at one time in the Lancaster County fellow-countrymen. Formal announcement of the gagement of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt to Count Laszlo Szechenzi, pest, has been made. Senator Foraker, in an address before the Grain Dealers’ National Convention, denounced that pessi- mism which emanates from critics to the President's efforts to enforce laws of the country and bring of- fenders to justice. Rev. Wilbert P. Ferguson, of Lin- coln, Neb., who resigned from the Methodist Episcopal ministry follow- ing charges of immor has sued geveral Nebraskan clergymen for $25,000 damages, charging jer The unveili of a let at the birthplace Grant at Point feature of the of the week of Cleremont The Wester Union Telegraph to show cause forfeit their chs that they combine graph tolls. Directors ton Railroad new members to : ests of the Toledo Western Railway The 200 Libby Glass 500 men ly fail to but will lose their In an ante-mortem mer Sheriff Harvey Baker City, Ore., accused Federation of Miners ing his death The Prot chusetts ality, sland memorial tab- Gen. U O.. celebira Ol y + asant, day’ stand and centenn and nome-comin County. and Postal were ordered should the Companies why they not BEround on ncrease arters to ¢ of the Chi Company Company who Works, Toledo to reg 1 idle, will increased bovs struc receive jobs tateme Brown, ern 3 8S. C« nation The ywell, for de Southern hearing by resisted by Announceme Jones & Laugt Pittsburg, erection hearth involv of con The Brothe tha of fo furnaces. an actual iderably controve rhood of neers and the Ifon Mountain settled, the points at improvem tia $1 bet Locomotive : Missouri Pacific allroad systems adjustment covering issue, es of capital on Tr JG 1830) Ove ween ey Foreign. George of Church. president italy, The Rev, lor, first pastor Square Baptist and for 34 years Baptist Mission In Romo. The joardman of of died in the strike of ployes of Australia for increased wages, which began October 1. spreading and the serious inconveni- ence to the public is growing day. Muiai Hafid, to capture his Abdul Aziz, and self sultan. Valentine Cotrel, a woman of Rouen, was sentenced to six months in prison for mutilating a painting in the Louvre. During the year 180 attempts to among the pupils high schools. The divorce decree obtained Mme. Anna Gould from Count Castellane has been made absolute. the railroad em- is every with his brother, then army, plans the Sultan proclaim him- 1806 there were commit suicide of the Russian i i the rise in the cost of living. Eight workmen of the Narva flax spinning mills in Bt. Petersburg were sentenced to death by a military court for the murder of the mana- ger of the works. Speakers at the opening of medi- cal schools in London said the medi cal practitioner would disappear and his place be taken by the health of- ficer. The German. government has de- cided to move naval headquarters from Kiel to Withelmshaven, “The Cook polar expedition is re- ported to be wintering at Smith's Island, lat. 70 N. Emperor Franels Joseph of Aus- tria-Hungary has an attack, of bron chial catarrh. Secretary Taft was received private audience by the in Emperor ; The restriction against Jews in nen. AAR ¢ > odd * i i gr ok Rockefeller's Attitude Toward His RESPONSIBLE 10 60D ALONE. Regards Himself Only as Steward of the Standard Oil Wealth, and Be- lieves He Has Been Entrusted by Providence With Care of Property of Many Widows and Orphans. New York (Special). D. Rocketeller’'s private conception of himself, herstofore never allowed to become public, which fs that he is only the steward of the Standard Oil wealth, responsible to God alone for his stewardship, was announced Sun- day morning by the Rev. Hobert 8. Macarthur, the rector of Calvary Bap- tist Church, at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street, before his regu- John class. Mr. Macarthur in the course of a defense of Mr. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company said: “A few years ago someone asked Mr. Rockefeller privately why it was that, since he had such a tremendous he could not possible use one- he did not retire. Mr. Rockefelller then made a reply which he did not intend should be made public and which gives an at- titude of his mind not appreciable by the public. ‘I am the trustee of the property others,” he said, ‘through the of God committed to my am the staward of vast in- belonging in great part widows and orphans and or relatively this holding I am responsible to God Were 1 to give up my interest in the Standard Oil Company 1 would imperil the interests of these people, according to popular my withdrawal would hurt the company’ Therefore, 1 it my God and th ¥ 1 wh people whose that of care. I poor. the su he that 8 business feel duty to to mons my company to cont welfare.’ The Rev. Mr. Macarthur was asked address about the correct the quot he had efted that fit telly absolut and h ation was e inti the one r 80 ( that ad hear haracterize ated If was Rock position 8) i world. dress, which was of the Standard Ol Macs ir had somet art! the character upon wv money iu and mi FOUR COORED ALIVE. Twenty Others Are Fatally Injured By Explosion. Pa caused by An aottin setting explo- 1g of the 1 cupola of the { Special) the No. Standard Steel Company here, death of 4 fatally # and seriously injured 10 Nearly all the men were ers The feet ion, metal pot in the caused injured others foreign. the men, large wheel plant, 150 by 100 demolished, causing a loss at $100,000, metal was showered causing horrible injuries, was estimated The hot the men, Arms, while a number of their eves burned out. are in the hospital, with burned to a’ crisp. over the men Several their ing the injured said that at least of the men would die. the eity, from the force of the ex. plosion, shivered as if shaken by an their homes panlc-stricken. When flames shot from the burning car works fully 10,000 people rushed to the scene, blocking streets and inter fering with fire companies and ambu- Twenty minutes after the accident 15 doctors were on the scene and the wounded were carried into they were cared for. Through lack of room many of the injured were compelled to lle for an hour on cots in street cars, before it was possible to take them to the hospital, a mile and a half away. Members of the fire department and citizens assisted In caring for the men, who were totally naked and suffering intensely with the cold. Roosevelt Sei Galning Flesh, Washington (8pecial)—-In the few days that President Roosevelt spent in Washington, after his return from Oyster Bay and before leaving for the West and South, it was a matter of remark among persons who saw him here that he had gained weight during his sojourn at Sagamore Hill Just before leaving for Canton the President, In conversation with one of his friends, owned up to 210 pounds, SUPPLIES FORE BIG FLEET Great Amount’ of Foed to Be Con- tracted For, Washington (Spoctal) - —Blds were opened at the Navy Department for furnishing food supplies for the ves- sels of Admiral Evans’ battleship fleet on its coming trip to the Pacific Coast. Soon after the determination was reached to dispatch the fleet on its long cruise, the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts began preparing adver- tisements asking for bids for furnish- ing the necessary food supplies, and these were accompanied by detailed schedules Indicating just what is wanted. These advertisements and schedules were sent to large dealers throughout the country. The amount asked for approximates 6,000,000 pounds, made up, perhaps, of two dozen kinds of articles of food, be- sides quantities of frult extracts, eggs and table delicacies, are to be de- livered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The items for which proposals were asked included the following: Twenty thousands pounds of prunes, 475,000 pounds of tinned peaches, 50,000 pounds of tinned pears, 225,000 pounds of tinned apri- cots, 30,000 pounds of evaporated a2 similar amount of evaporat- ed peaches 10,000 gallons of pounds of evaporated milk, 75, pounds of condensed milk, gallons of beans, 65,000 pounds lima beans, 200,000 pounds of tinned peas, amount of tinned pounds of tinned tomatoes, vinegar, similar 150,000 of mustard, 25,000 pounds of rice, 5,000 gallons COCOR, 1,200,000 21.000 of {100,000 pounds pounds raisins, 65,000 pounds of of macaroni, wheat flour, 10.000 of of | 000 pounds of cortneal, 500 gallons of vanilla and | Ct, 20.0 of sauer krau of 1 otatoes, meal, on extrs 65,000 00 pounds of chee: tomato catsup a6on RAY anions, pounds 50 0006 of turkeys, ds pounds of fresl Oo HO 0060 dozen ergs, G00 nour G00 inds ped starch af were aried the whole amount THEY BOTH WANT PEACE. Japanese And American Chambers Of Commerce, (Special) A Chamber of f ¢ New York the Tokio appealing letter om York in its the merce, to tha New to do all breach | 'nited io af batween the and Japan over the San Francisco in- cident, and the reply of the New organization, expressing confi that “wholesome public senti- in the locality where these incidents occurred.” made public at a meeting of the New York Chamber The letter from Tokio was signed only by the Tokio Chamber, but also by the presidents of four other Japanese chambers of commerce. In reply, President Simmons, prevent n States were of wrote that New York body cordially sym- with the purpose which the Japanese communica- the pathized prompted tion. TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA. Nearly Every “House In The Village | Of Poarch Destroyed, Oklahoma City, Okla. (Special). arch and Is reported to have destroy- ed the postoffice and to have damag- ed almost every house in town. No one is reported killed. The wires are down and details lacking. Poarch is a village of about 200 inhabitants, in Roger Mills County, about 20 miles south of Elk City, Oklahoma, and close to the Texas line. It is off the railroad. Girls Take Strikers’ Places. Toledo, 0O. (Bpecial) Men im- ported to take the place of the strik- ing rallway clerks are returning to their homes when they find a strike is on. A number of roads are filling the places of strikers with girl clerks, The Wabash has given their clerks an Increase of 6 per cent. These clerks are under contract and did not strike. Twenty-five clerks of the Toledo and Detroit short line left thelr desks today and joined the strikers. | PRESIOENT DEMDS " A GREATER NAVY Roosevelt's Strong Plea For National Preparedness. PLANS FOR THE BATTLESHIPS. The Prosident’s Address to the Men of the Middle West—A Sly Dig at Those Who Criticise the Naval Pro- gram-—Federal Bupervision of Great Corporations. Calro, Ill, (Special) — In his speech for the President made trip, emphatic the sgignificent ment that the United States was ginning a course, which he hoped would be followed hereafter, ing our great battleship fleet nately in the Pacific and in the lantic, and referred to our army ‘ludicrously small.” The President referred to Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit” story which would be beneficial a pessimist of today, the reading of the gloomy view taken of the West. ern region by the author, in contrast with the achievements accomplished there and the wonderful development of that county, constituting a whole. some lesson. He spoke of the | cossity of warring against evil in polities, business and private life, | but referred to the pessimistic view taken by Mr. Dickens mak- ing up a picture which was, the whole, absurd War Against Referring to Dic said Friends, should present why should a confident hope for the are m Wrongs to are many and powerful an plea for a navy, uttered state- be alter- AE a to fié- as on Wrongdoers. kens' story, why in also every there fight But we is reason whatever there every y fa wil we is evil the | reason and There there i feel] sturdy future right Wrong any doers to war, and ah erin rin k from Wage it Bu Our International Attitude, yy like to fellows, each of your goes out into i ness and al bill one tries to time for of a combination of ty to hold his own if ans wrong him, at the showing careful regard the rights but the others? Of course it is! Of course the we respect, if he while same only feelings for type of whom we is a kinsman, whom glad to have as a friend and bor, is the man who is no milksop. who ia not afraid. who will not tol erate nor hesitate to resent insult or injury, but who himself never inflicts insult or injury, is kindly, good-na- tured, thoughtful of others’ rights in short, a good man to do business with or have live in the next house or have as a friend. On the other hand, the man who lacks any of those qualities is sure to be objebtion. able, If a man is afraid to hold his own, if he will submit tamely to wrong- doing. he is contemptible. If he i2 a bully, an oppressor, a man man whom are proud of we are neigh- | worse and should be hunted out the community. But, on the whole, the most con- temptible position than can possible | be assumed by any expecting to go through life unchal- |lenged, and being always willing to back down and accept humiliation if readiness to make good is demanded. Big Shipment Of Coal, Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). Over 2,000,000 bushels of coal were ship- ped to southern points Saturday on a sudden and unexpected rise of the rivers, A AN Family Nearly Suffocated. Philadelphia (Special) The lives of Samuel Radomsky, his wife and four children were endangered by fire in their home, believed to have been started by thieves, The family wae nearly suffocated. An infant was dropped from a second story window by Mrs. Radomaky to her husband, and was not harmed. All the other menibers of the family Jumped from the second story, but were not injured. The Nation's Capital Some Interesting Happenings Eriefly Told. Secretary Straus is planning a frontier patrol to keep contraband Japanese and other Asiatic laborers from coming in via Mexico and Can- ada. Consul W., T. reports that the supply coal! in Northern China tively inexhaustible at Tsingtan, of anthracite is compara~ Gracey, Thomas Mead committed suicide in did 1 grounds his father the poor house Ct., just ARO. Samuel J attorney for on den, Years as MeCarroll, the Middle District { Pennsylvania, has regigned la judgeship in one of the { nia state courts, to a cept Pennsylva- cores of executive approval Constitution have re partment of Justice. Bocretary Straus Bargent have the woman slave United States. The sion has determine ment remonsts of agai Oklahoma the ances the ached De and Commission determined to eliminate traffic from the Interstate Commerce Comumie- appointed a commit to the wear of rallway equip- tee Charles 8. Bmith, of the Ord- nance Department, will ed a brigadier general Attorney jecided that the foreign ships for transporting from the Atlantic to the Pacific The government ¢ preparir push tg pending i again Tobacco Trust At the request daker the real Col General Bonaparte Navy may at 0 girict Attorney f Di San Francisco the yf ised o case of estate men and ipremes ACC volved in cot Digtrict nitely s Court ORDERS CAPTAIN PUNISHED, President Says His Misconduct Might Have Caused Accident, the Hartweg, of navigation fleet going down th Cairo, Ill, to Mem; the be iatels jegranh Hartweg indulged in a race another boat endan few minutes President Mississippi rock les license hy te and gered the with for bont. the # President which was giseippl, fol “1 direc a . telegram, the Mis- Roosevelt dated board lows t that the master or whoever is responsible for the Fred Hartweg during the present voyage be suspended at once for 90 days 1 wish this do telegraph wherever the boat may be, if such procedure is possible Colonel Sears can give you ‘the details of the mis- conduct which has been of a serious i nature, and might have at any time { cansed an accident to this boat as | well as to other boats. The Hartweg carried the Pittaburg delegates (Signed) “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” During the trip from Cairo there 8 on ’ license of the ne by of the river craft for position near ithe Mississippi. The Fred Hartweg! erowded the boat of the | President and angered nearly every other boat's master on the river, | repeatedly Nine Decline Nomination, Cincinnati, Ohio (8pecial).-~Nine | of the 21 candidates named on Tues- | day at the Democratic Municipal Convention bave refused to accept. The reason they gave is that the methods that controlled the selec-| tion of delegates to the convention showed too much of “boss rule” Overcome By Joy. Philadelphia (Special). Over come by Jorful anticipations of a welcome reception at home, Mra, Kate Wells, a resident at Stanwick, N. J1., dropped dead from heart dis. ease on Sunday afternoon on the American liner Haverford, from Liv. erpool for this port, just as the ves. sel was entering Delaware Bay, The remaing were landed and taken In charge by her brother, who had gone to escort his sister home, where a big reception had been prepared for her, a —— STANDARD OIL COMPANY ONLY PHD HALF RATE An Omnibus Contract With Steam. ship Companies. PROTESTS WERE ALL IGNORED. Testimony of Philip Harrison, Manager of the New York Lubricating 0il Company —W,. W, Tarbell, Treasurer of the Pure Oil Company and the United Stales Pipe Line Company. New York (8 contract, pecial) Ar [3 ile whereby npany Near ft Mie Ih contract and Phill of the dence ger York Lau forced the New was Standard which it Mr rees free bricating to irehas p cheaper sold to Harrisorx ed reached The made Mrs, Sage Gives 820.000 ‘ 3 O00. 000 ¥ ommetids Tolstol Neseiged By Historic Mill Philadelphia : the histor! near here, mill was built in of the bases of General Washin for his soldiers encamped at Valley Forge police belicve the fire was by boys who wanted to sce IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Destroy odd. stroyed : The one which flour Ogontz last night and supply from gion procured while the arms whe was The started bla More copper mines were closed and the metal in congiderable guan- tity sold under 15 cents a pound Brokers say there appears to be a great deal of United States Steel whenever it shows signs of o United States Steel has acquired the National Steel & Wire Company Haven, which was recently sold for $650,000. In the past five weeks Secretary Cortelyon has deposited nearly $20. 000,000 of Government deposits in national banks. Louisville & Nashville's annual re port showed gross earnings of $48. 263.945, against $43,008,996 in 1906, while net profits were $12,482 643, against $12,075,592. in 1906 the State of Pennsylvania produced over 200,000,000 tons of coal, which was half of the entire country's output and a Iittle more than the whole country produced in 1897. In the last fiscal year ending June 30, the New York, New Haven & Hartford earned net a aith than in the preceding cross earnings increased #
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