THE NEWS, Domestic Harry E. Hayes, Junior member of the brokerage and banking firm of V. J. Hayes & ton, of Cleveland O., was sentenced to the penitentiary for term of five years following 1I conviction for embezzling $198,000 In Cincinnati, tlluffton and Chicago Ha 1 1 road bonds. Dr. Uugene Jones and Frederick Schenek are dead and tiabrlol Jacob and Mrs. J. A. Jones are dying as the result of a domestic tragedy at Oakland, Cal. O. K Holey, who escaped from an Insane asylum at .Ma si lion, O., nnd killed Sheriff Jacob Hell, was cap tured by a posse af;er being shot. The United States Pacific fleet sailed from Manila, the. ships sepa rating, snmo eoine to Chinese and others to Japanese ports What are supposed to lie the i foundations of the original Harvard College building hRve been unearth- ' cd at Cambridge. Mass. j Five hundred thousand halts of i cotton charged hand at rcyr.l prices on the government's report of ; a short crop. The Rev. Dr. David Hughes. j father of (lovernor ihtuhcs. of New ' York, is ill. i Chailos Wake, nn ir.t!n:nte friend 1 of Dr. Cook, sin; he Is not in a J sanitarium. ! Mr. Oscar O. M'irray was reelected j president of the I!nltimor( nn.l Ohio i Railroad by the hoard of directors, ! who met In N.-w York. Other ex- i pcut've oflh'ers of the company were rc-cleeted. Ca;-t. George V. Booth j was elected comptroller, to succeed the late II. D. Uuckley; Mr. Murray j said he would remain president. A movement was reported In Wall Street for the formation of a new trunk line between Chicago nnd Now York as the result of closer relations between the Lehigh Valley nnd the Wabash I'nllroads. Huron and Baroness Von Wlemow skl, the latter formerly Bertha Krupp, daughter of the (lermcn can nonmakcr, had to barricade them selves In their suits in Chicago to avoid curious prrsoim. Dr. Torp, rector of the. University of Copenhagen, stated that the charges made by Captain I.ooio and O. W. Dunkle against Dr. Cook were pur. fiction. In the suit of Mrs. V. Could Brokaw for separation from her hus band, with $00,000 a year alimony, telegrams were introduced to show her millionaire hunbands's insane Jealousy. Yale University was bequeathed $500,000 for the Slu-llie! I Scientific School by the late Charles H. Var uam, Jr. The officials of the tin mills nt Bridgeport, O., have made prepara tions to bring In strikebreakers to operate the plants. Four of the rrnw o' ie freighter Richardson periahed when the vessel foundered In Lui.e line. Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephono and Tele graph Company, and Robert C. Clowry, president of the Weutern Union Telegraph Company, have been summoned to appear before a committee of the New York legis lature probing the merger of tho corporations. George P. Sheldon, who was de rosed from tho presidency of the Phoenix Insurance Company and Is critically 111 at his country home. In Greenwich, Ct., was Indicted by tho grand Jury of New York on charges of grand larceny. President Brown, of the New York Central, declares any raise In wages of railroad men will have tc come out of Increased railroad rates Darwin P. Klngsley, president ol the New York Life Insurance Com pany, denies that J. Plerpont Mor Kan has control of tho company. Underwelghlng sugar and cheating the government of duties ts ten years old, according to James i on ion, a former custom-house weigher The Surrogate's Court of Kings County. New York, has upheld an oral will mnde by George O'Connor ! while he was dying at sea. The home of seven non-union tin workers at Struthers. Pa., was blown up by dvnamlto and seven occupants Injured. Mrs. W. Could Brokaw, wife of the millionaire yachtsman, has en tered suit for separation and $60, 000 a year alimony. i oreicn Von Shoon. secretary for foreign affairs of Germany, informed tho HelchHtag, that Count Bernatorff, German ambassador to the United States, In his spech In Philadelphia simply undertook to defitroy the specter of a German colonlul empire in South America. Notices were posted at tho weav ing mills in the Bolton. Wlgan an 1 Leigh Districts of England that short time working schedules would go In to effect next week, owing "to the prohibitive price of cotton." Many thousands of operatives will bo af fected. Suffragottcs secreted themselves In odd places In Albert Hall, London, one woman hiding In the big organ, preparatory to making a tirade on Premier Alsquith when he spoke there, but they were all dlslodgd. The German Chancellor, In a speech to the Reichstag, spoke of tho relations of Great Britain and Ger many and of the steadfastestness of the Triple Alliance. The Nobel peace prize U divided between Baron de Cunstant. of Franco, and M. Ileernaert. former minister of state of Belgium. The legal dispute between Count do Castellano and his former wife over the education of their son con tinues in the Pari Court. The Roosevelt hunting expedition In Africa has collected 6,683 largo and small mammals and birds. Baron Sonninot has named a new Italian cabinet to succeed that of re tiring Premier Glollttl. All railway . traffic in Southern Germany baa been Interrupted by a great snow. Zeppelin, the aviator, is 111 at Stuttgart, Germany, from an nicer on the neck. Premier Alsquith, in a speech In London, pledged that the Liberal par ty would grant self government to Ireland. U Is reported that President Zo la y a baa issued Instructions to his military commanders to shoot every American caught fighting In the army of the revolutionists In Nicaragua. Mrs. Emmellne Pankhnrst, the Kngllah woman suffrage leader, was given an enthusiastic welcome by the suffragettes of London on her return from the United States. Oooraa W. Woodruff. United . States district judge of the territory I of Hawaii, cabled bis resignation. ' THREE TIMES AS BIS AS THE EARTH Xeiv Comet That Mr. Znccheus Daniel Discovered. 38,000,000 MILjUWAY FROM US. While Appearing So Much Larger Than The Earth Tho Astronomer Says It Does Not Contain One Thousandth Part Of The Matter Or Solids That The Karth Docs Saw A Star Millions Of Miles Atr;iy Through It. Trlticcton, N rlx millions of earth, 140,000 sun and more lar.TO as the tin s arc the f determined by a graduate s University, nh wht.h he disc in:; of D cemb' ed on the roof scrvatory sw . J. ( Special ). Fifty- miles away from tho ,000 mllos from tho than three times as earth In dimmer arts which have been Zarrheus Daniel, 'OS, t talent of Princeton out the new comet (ivrred on the even- r (I last, while perch of tho Princeton Oi cj'ltii; the heavens, as he has done on every clear night, winter and summer, for yeevs with his five and three-quarter inch tele scope. Mr. Daniel holds tho Thaw fellow ship in astronomy, the annual In come of a gift of $10,000 from Mrs, William Thaw, of Pittsburg. Mr. Daniel, however, has been absorbed In astronomy ever since he was a boy and long before he came to the university ho possessed a four-Inch telescope mounted on a heavy tripod. The comet discovered by him last week is his third. The first one, discovered In June, 1907, is the most faniotiB of the three. When asked about the new comet Mr. Daniel said: "Of course, while the new comet appears about three times as large as the earth, according to measure ments estimated from the computa tion of its orbit. It doesn't contain one-thousandth pnrt of the matter or solids which the earth does. Gas es and vapors appear to make up a large part of it. Yet It seems to have a star-like nucleus. "We know Its orbit now and from what we have determined Its distance from the sun and from the earth, Its diameter, which is about 25,000 miles, and that it wns at perihelion or nearest the sun on December 5 Inst, about a whole day before It was discovered. " TEE ICE TRUST FOUND GUILTY Assessed Highest Fine I'tider the Anti-iiioiiopoly Law. MEANS DI3S9LUTIQN0F CORPORATION. Jury Finds Anieiic.ui Ire Compnny I'csti-ietcd ('onipe;iti:)n And At tempted To Create A Monopoly Court Imposes The Maximum Sen tence Counsel I-'nr Defense Says The Verdict Is The First step In The Ultimate ilieiiking Up Of The Corporation. New York (Special). The Amer ican Ice Company, cr.e of the great est corporations which lives by deal ing in the necessities of life, was found guilty i:i the State Supreme Court of restricting competition in and attempting to create a monopo ly of the sale of Ire. The jury wts out one hour and forty minutes and, when the foreman announced the verdict, the court Immediately im posed tho maximum sentence of $",1'00 fine tinder the provisions of the so-called Donnelly Anti-monopoly Law of this state. The conviction is the first under the new law and will probably be fought to the high est court In the state. The significance of the verdict lies not so much In the relatively trivial amount of the fine imposed as In the intimation made by John B. Stanch field, of counsel for the defense, that a finding ngninst the company, which, he said, supplies 8,000,000 customers, would mark the first step in Its ultimate dissolution. The Amerlran lee Company, though tried under the laws of New York, wns incorporated under the laws of New Jersey .for $4 0,000,000 and later taken over by the Ameri can Ice Securities Company, of the same state, after a drastic reorgani zation. The company has plants in New York, Washington, D. C, Ualtlmore and Philadelphia, and has absorbed many smaller companies along the Hudson River and in the Maine ice fields. llefore Wesley N. Oler was elected president of the company, Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, was active In Its affairs. SKELETON IN ASYLUM ATTIC. ! Grand Jury I'rjtes Superintendent's J Disniisal As Incompetent. Newark, N. J. (Special). A skele ton In the attic of the county Insane asylum here has proved so effective a witness that the grand Jury handed down today a presentment character izing Dr. Daniel M. Dill, the super intendent, as Incompetent and recom mending his removal. Dr. Dill was unable to account for tho skeleton, which is that of a woman. No woman, according to his books, has died In tho institu tion since 1 891. Tho grand Jury reports tartly that if the skeleton Is not that of an In mate It must bo that of a visitor, and recommends that tho Investiga tion be continued. BREAD CHEAPER A II HO AD. EARTHQUAKE IX GUAM. Hospital On The Island Wrecked, Kut No CusuultlcH. ' Washington, D. C. (Special). A severe earthquake occurred at Guam at 9 A. M., rnusing considerable damage, according to a cablegram received at tho Navy Department. The Women's and Children's Hospi tal was wrecked. There were no casualties. From the wording of the dispatch, which shows few details, It would seem that the principal dannge oc curred to the hospital, which la de scribed as untenable. It will require $S,000 to repair the building. The population of Guam Is about 10,000, practically all natives. The Navy Department maintains a coal ing station there. Cost KDO.OOO To Do Nothing. New York (Special). It cost the city of New York ?!0,000 to ac compllnh nothing. A special com missioner "investigated" Ulrd S. Color as president of the Horough of Brooklyn, do-lared him Incompe tent and recommended his removal. Governor Hughes, however, in view of the fact that Coler's term expires December 31 next, took no action in the caso. The amount of money ex pended In the Inquiry was brought out at Mr. Coler's own request at a meeting of the Beard of Esti mates, of which he Is a member, and he voted against allowing It. Buys $100,000,000 In skins. Washington, D. C. (Special). Im portations of hidos and skins Into tho United States will aggregate ap proximately one hundred million dollars for the present fiscal year. These articles, therefore, rank sec end in value In the list of Importa tions. Sugar Is the one article the importation of which exceeds In val sie hides and sklnu. In lUO'j the quantity of hides imported was 307,- 000,000 pounds; this year it will exceed 600,000,000 pounds. Nearly one-third of the valuo consists of goat skins, halt of them coming from tho British Last Indies. Hew 41 Miles In fl.l Minutes. Paris (Special), Maurice Far man, a brother of Henry Tarman, the aviator, made what is claimed to bo a cross-country flight in a straight line of record length. As cending at a suburb of Versailles In a biplane of his own construction Farmaa flew to Chartrea, a distance of 44 miles. In ii minutes. Ha maintained a height averaging 25 J ftet. . Legally nrother Of Father. Chicago (Special). Joseph Wal do Dut, Jr., 7 months old. legally became the brother of his father here, when Judge Petit. In the Cir cuit Court, signed a decree of adop tion giving the child to Its grand parents, Joseph Dui and his wife. The child's mother Is dead and his father lives with the elder Dui, who Is now the legal father of his son's on. ' For the first time since the German Empire was founded, In 1471, the number of emigrants fell, last rear, below 10.000. Englishman Can't Understand . Why It Costs More In Chicago. Chicago (Special). Cost of bread In Chicago has proved a puzzle to J. R. Cab.ill, an Investigator for the labor department of tho Board of Trade of England. Mr. Cnhlll told of his bewilder ment before the City Club. "I can't understand," said Mr. Cnhlll, "how wo can buy bread In England for one-third the price you pay in Chicago, when you send us our wheat. You have to pay five cents for four ounces of bread, while we get a loaf weighing 64 ounces for 10 cents. One four-pound loaf never costs moro than 12 cents, and usually only 10 cents. I confess I can't understand it." MI NICKS' ORGANIZER GUILTY. Albert Ryan, Who Killed Two, Pleads That Way In IOs Angeles, Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Tho trial of Albert Ryan, formerly an organizer for the Western Federa tion of Miners, who killed two men and wounded a third In a local ho tel on the night of July 15, came to nn abrupt ending In the Superior Court here, when Ryan pleaded guilty to murder In the first degree. Judge Davis must sentence the prisoner to hanging or life impris onment. Ryan was adjudged sane bv a Jurv. IMs victims were Otto C. Miller and Harry K. Snyder. APPLES vs. Till', COCKTAIL, Doctor Says Y0I1 Can Forget That Yuletlde Thirst. Des Moines, Iowa (Special). Dr. Samuel Bally, of Mount Ayre. a prominent member of the National Medical Society, declared before the State Horticultural Society that ap ple eating kills tho tasto for cock tails and other strong drinks. He says it Is the meat eaters who become addicted to strong liquors, and that frult-eatlng should he en couraged as a solution of the liquor problem. The society Indorsed bis theory. OIL TRUST ASSESSED $42,0(10. Costs Of The Government's Prose cution Of It. St. Louis (Special). Costs amounting to $42,060 were assessed against the Standard Oil Comnany In the United States Circuit Court as a result of the recent prosecution by the Government. This does not Include $4,000 which the Standard paid some time ago. Tho oil company was relieved of paying $15,526, tho costs of the records furnished to the Govern ment's attorneys. Homicide After Hunt. Pcnsocola, .Fla. (Special), After spending a day in the woods on a hunt Thursday, Emory Williams and Seaborn Crltchileld, well-known planters, near Boniface, quarreled and Crltrbfield was Inxtantly killed. They began to fight over the di vision of the game. Crltchfield drew a knife and lunged at Williams, It la said, whereupon Williams pulled a revolver and shot the other dead Williams was exonerated- by a coro ner s Jury. j To Train Rtanunering Pnplls. Chicago (Special). A unique ex periment In the training of hundreds of stammering ahlldren who attend the Chicago public schools la being planned by Mrs, Ella Flag Yonng, superintendent, of schools, and sev eral medical specialists of Chicago. Investigation show that there are 1,200 stammerers In the public schools. Mrs. Young will present a recommendation at the next meeting of the Board of Education that spec lal teachers be assigned for statu merer. RED CLOUD, M BIS CHIEF, DEAD Was Leader of tho Sionx Tribe For Years. WAS THE GREATEST OF INOI.'.N CHIEFS. During His Thirty Years' Wnr With The Whites He Became Known As The Fiercest And Boldest Of Leaders Was Cornered In 1800 And Placed On Pino Ridge Reser vation, Where He I'asscd The Rest Of His Life. Washington, D. C. (Special). Red Cloud, the famous old Sioux Indian chief, Is dend. This informa tion was received by Superintendent Brennan, of the Pine Ridge Indian Agency, who is in Washington at tending, the meeting of those Inter ested In the education of the Indian. Red Cloud belonged to tho old type of Indian. He was 8G years old and for the past 2 5 years had lived nt the Pine Ridge Agency. Red Cloud, like so many of the r.ntion's great men, was born in ob scurity, and by Bheer force of will. bravery and intelligence rose, step' by step, to bo tho chief of tho great-I est. most warlike and most Bavago tribe of American Indians. In his 30 years' war with tho whites, from 1845 to 1S76, Red Cloud became known as tho fiercest and boldest of the Sioux leaders, and it was In those years that he gradually work ed his way forward until he was recognized as the big chief of all Sioux bands and tribes. And the old man has been a diplo mat of rare ability also, and in councils nnd meetings has ruled his people and gained his points in a manner which many white political bosses might well envy. Never a forceful speaker, Red Cloud always employed some first-class orator to represent him In debate, and even on the trirs he made to Washington in the Interest of the Indians Red Cloud always refrained from making set speeches. But with his counsel ho instructed his mouthpiece Just what to say and how to hnndle points under consideration. And woe unto the man who failed him. Never Broke His Word. When Red Cloud fnnirht tho whites he did so to the best of his' ability. Descending like a whirl wind of death on n settlement, his hand left a gory path in Its rear. But vhen he signed his first "peace paper ' he burled his tomahawk, and to his credit it can be said that that peace was never broken. Although at one time lord of nil Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming and Montana, old Red Cloud was pen niless. Vhen the Indians were placed on the Dakota reservation Red Cloud was given a small body of land Immediately adjoining the agency In order that ho might be near to asBlst tho government agents in preserving order. Gradually this little body of land has been sold to the government, until today it contains about 10 acres of land un der no cultivation whatever. Chief Red Cloud first became known as un important personage in Indian affairs in the summer of 1865, at which time he became sub chief of the Brule Sioux tribe. His tribal territory extended from the North Platte River to the Big Horn Mountains and west to the Black Hills. He was known as a hostile and caused considerable trouble by bis forays against American military posts.' killing live stock and attack ing immigrant trains. He was the compatriot of such chiefs as Spotted Tall, Standing Elk. American Horse. Man Afraid of His Horses and Big Ribs. Girl Stenographer Burglar. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). A girl stenographer, who gives the name of Mary Moll, was arrested as a burglar. The detectives said she confessed two robberies, saying she had lost her position and wns forced to become a burglar to avoid starva tion. The girl said she came here from Buffalo, N. Y., recently and that her homo was In Tltusville, Pa. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Contrecsman Moore urged the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors to begin the inland water ways project by acquiring and im proving the Chesapeake and Dela ware Canal, Surgeon General Torney reports that, though tho hookworm disease prevails among Southern recruits, the efficiency of the Army is not much affected thereby. A number of callers urged upon President Taft the appointment of Judge Lurton as associate Justice of the Supreme Court. President Taft discussed the legis lative program with Speuker Cannon aud Vice President Sherman. Former Senator Blackburn resign ed as a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. President Taft pardoned Frederick R. Green, former cashier of Fredonia, N. Y., National Bank, who is serving a term for making false reports. A bulletin of tho Department of Agriculture shows that the forests of the United States contributed $90,000,000 to the country's exports duriug the fiscal year of 1908.. President Taft spoke at the open ing session of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress and cautioned the delegates against asking Con gress for a bond issue. - The Interstate Commerce Com mission issued an order fixing the rate for baultng brick from the Con tra) Traffic Association territory to the Atlantic seaboard. Mrs. Susan Stewart, wife of Pay master General Stewart, United States Navy, retired, died at the home of Rear Admiral Dunlap. Chairman Weeks, of the House Postofllce Committee, la opposed to legislation on postal savings banks at this session of Congress. The Senate Committee on Public Expenditures met and evolved a plan to check extravagant appropriations by Congress.. Major General O. T. Elliott, com mandant of the Marine Corps, ask ed for 10,000 new rifles In bis an imal reoorL ". SURGERY ROBBED OF ITS TERRORS. Prof. .Tonncsco Shows Three Painless Operations. Fifty Surgeons And Physlcianx Of New York Witness Administra tion Of Stovnlno And Strychnine To Patients Who Undergo Oper ations While Conscious And Feet No Pain Or Distress Severe Test For Roumanian's Theories In A New York Hospital. New York (Special). A little boy, less than 6 years old, lay on tho operating table at the hospital of the New York Society for the Relief of tho Ruptured and Crippled. Around the table were 50 physicians and surgeons, among them the best known of their profession. Jonnes co, the Roumanian surgeon and apostle of painless surgery, stepped up to the table, smiled reassuringly at the little chap, patted him on the shoulders, and gently turned him on his back. The boy smiled brave ly back at the surgeon and the New York medical men leaned forward a trifle, watchi;ig intently. Jonnes co was giving n demonstration of hi3 theories. The slim needle of a hypodermic syringe glittered for a moment In the Roumanian's hand. He pressed the point of it into tho boy's back, low down on the spinal column. The boy flinched and tho medical men looked at each other. Jonnesco wait ed less than two minutes, then bow ed to Dr. Virgil P. C.ibney, retiring to give Dr. Glbney elbow room. Dr. Gibney, a celebrated ortho pedic specialist, took hold of the boy's right foot and began to use the knife. It was a case of Infantile paralysis. The boy's right leg was crippled and uselesii. It was nec essary to make incisions around the Achilles tendon and stretch it. In such cases ether ts used customarily, for the operation is so delicate and painful that complete analgesia must be obtained to prevent movement on the part of the. patient and to do away with suffering. While Dr. Glbney's hands moved swiftly nnd surely, the medical men talked among themselves while watching the boy who lay perfectly j tenacious, nis tace covered by n towel. Jonnesco spoke rapidly In French, explaining this or that phase of the operation as it was connected with the uses of his anesthetic. Oc casionally someone, Dr. Gibney or Mr. Soutzo, Professor Jonnesco's as sociate, spoke to the boy. Once be w-as asked: "How do you feel?" There was perfect stillness In the big operating room. The surgeons waited intently for the boy's answer. It was so quiet that the cries of the newsboys on the street came up roariously through tho windows. "Aw rlirht " anlH tho h bio muffled a bit by the towel over ' nis eyes and face. "Do you feel anv pain?" "It doesn't hurt at all," said the boy. "I feel fine." Jonnesco smiled quietly, trium phantly. The medical men glanced around nt each other again. Some of them, as was to be seen easily, were enthusiastic. Others shook their heads as if Btlll In doubt. After about 25 minutes the opera tion was completed and the wound bandaged. The little boy was car ried back to bis cot. They took the towel off his face. The surgeons looked to see If there were traces of pain there or signs of nausea. There wasn't the slightest indication of suffering or sickness. A GOOD REPORT FROIil AIL THE AVIATION PRIZES ANXOL'NCco. Ixs Angeles Will Give $50,000 In Different Sums To Winners. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Announcement was made by the committee in charge of the aviation meeting to be held there January 10 to 20 next of the prizes to be given. The grand total of prizes is $50,000, and among the stakes hung up are two of $10,000 each. A grand prize of $10,000 is of fered to the first, spherical balloon of ony capacity leaving the Los Angeles aviation field and arriving at any point on the Atlantic Coast in one continuous flight. Another prize of $5,000 Is offered for any spherical balloon breaking the present world's record for dis tance. Other prizes for spherical balloons are for a continuous flight from Los. Angeles to any point east of tho Mississippi River and for breaking the record made by Dick Ferris' balloon, the "United States, " which on November 23 last flew from Los Angeles over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to a point in Arizona. A prize of $10,000 is offered for the first dirigible airship making a flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco. This stake will be open for 30 days following the aviation meet In Los Angeles. New Italian Cabinet. Rome (Special). Baron Sidney Sonnlno, the ex-Premier, who was called upon to form a cabinet to re place that of Signor Glollttl, has made a tentative selection. Unless unforseen difficulties arise, tho new cabinet will include Admiral Uettolo, Lulgl Luzzatti, ex-Mlnlster of the Treasury; Deputy Martini, Signor Salandra, ex-Mintster of Finance; Flnnocchlaro Aprlle, ex-Mlnlster of Justice, and Deputies Wollemborg and De Nava. Boy Hanged Ity His Collar. Spartanburg, S. C. (Special). With the band of his Jacket collar caught in a small book in tho door, 9-year-old W. M. Pendleton was found dead from strangulation In the bathroom of bis home. It is supposed that the boy climbed on a chair to reach a towel and fell off, the collar of his Jacket catching on the book. The boy was the son of Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, who came here from Wytbevllle, Va., to become rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent Three Suffocated In Mine. Johnstown, Pft. (Special).-Three men died of suffocation and SI oth er wero overcome and rescued with difficulty la a peculiar accident at a mine of the Shoemaker Mining Com pany, IS miles northeast of this city, All are foreigners. Fir broke out In the fan house at the mouth of the shaft. The place was deserted and tire flames gained headway be fore being discovered. Meanwhile the fans were In operation, pumping air to 24 men inside the mine. Statements Never Obtained at Same Time Before. MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES IN LEAD National Monetary Commission Com pletes Compilation Of Figures, Which Are Interesting Number Of Hanks Have More Than Dou bled Since 1900 Increase In Re sources Of 8 Per Cent, Washington, D. C. (Special). With total resources of $450.19 per capita of population, the banking in stitutions of the Eastern or Middle Atlantic 8tates lead the country. The New England States come next with $433.60 per capita; the Pacific States are third with $347.78; the Middle Western fourth with $190.64; the Far Western fifth with $161.35; the Southern sixth with $71.19, and the Island possessions tall off with $5.22 per capita. The United States, as a 'whole, shows banking resources per capita of $237.24, and with the Island pos sessions Included tho rate is lowered to $215.37. These comparisons form a feature of a remarkable roport Just Issued by the National Monetary Commis sion, giving the results of an Inquiry which not only covers substantially every Incorporated bank of any character in the United States, but, for the first time in the history of American banking, present a tabula tion of statements showing the con dition of all classes of banks na tional, state and savings and loan and trtiBt companies throughout the country at a given hour; namely, the close of business on April 28, 1909. Tho Comptroller of the Cur rency gets such reports periodically from the national banks, the various state bank, commissioners and su perintendents get them from the state banks never before have the facts been taken simultaneously from all the banks of the country. Massachusetts leads the New Eng land States with total banking re sources per capita of $517.25; in order following come Rhode Island, $457.12; Connecticut, $400.48; New Hampshire, $288.30; Vermont, $283.14; Maine, $268.60. New York Leads East. New York, with $676.07, leads the so-called Eastern States, followed In order by Pennsylvania, with $303.55; District of Columbia, with $269.96; Mnryland, $233.34; New Jersey, $232.79; Delaware, $204.49. West Virginia heads the Southern list, with a per capita of $112.66; Louisiana follows, with $96.61; then In order come Texas, $90.67; Vir ginia, $8'8.S1; Kentucky, $86.66; Florida, $86.54; Tennessee, $71.46; Georgia, $64.23; South Carolina, $52.84; North Carolina and Ala bama, each $45.41; Mississippi, $45.33; Arkansas, $41.14. The Middle Western group ranks thus: Illinois, $240.39; Missouri, $215.50; Iowa, $214.78; Ohio, $203.65; Minnesota, $160.95; Michi gan, $153.26; Wisconsin, $129.63; Indiana, $126.98. Colorado, with $250.65, leads the Western state list; Nebraska has $214.92; Montana, $207.71; Wyom ing, $207.25; South Dakota, $182.75; North Dakota, $153.42; Kansas, $137.50; New Mexico, $100.03; Okla homa, $94.26. The Pacific group is led by Ne vada, with a per capita of $512.73; then follow California, with $486.70; Washington. $296.23; Oregon, $225.62; Utah, $187.76; Idaho, $178.82; Arizona, $135.29; Alaska, $100.07. Hawaii shows a per capita of $71.99; Porto Rico of $11.24; the Philippines of $2.70. Resources $21,100,000,000. The Institutions reporting to the commission Include 6,893 national, 11,319 state, 1,703 mutual and stock savings, 1,4 97 private banks and 1,709 loan and trust companies. The total resources of all of these estab lishments reach the stupendous total of $21,100,000,000. A cursory anal ysis' of 'ho resources and liabilities shows loans of $11,373,000,000; In vestments in bonds, etc., $4,614,000, 000; due from banks, $2,562,000, 000; caBh on hand (including $809, 000,000 in gold coin and certifi cates), $1,432,000,000; other re sources, $1,094,000,000; capital, $1,800,000,000; surplus and profits, $1,835,000,000; due to banks, $2,484,000,000; deposits (Including government deposits), $14,106,000, 000; other liabilities, $870,000,000. Of the deposits $6,956,000 are sub ject to check; $4,926,000,000 are savings deposits; $1,212,000,000 are on time, and $626,000,000 consist of demand certificates. Following the special reports from the banks, a supplementary Inquiry was made, covering 18,245 Institu tions, relating to the character of deposits, depositors, Interest paid, etc. The total deposits In these banks on . or about June 30 were $13,595,000,000, credited to over 25,000,000 depositors or deposit ac counts, ranging from $1 upward. Commissioner Hluckbnrn Resigns. Washington, D. C. (Special). It was officially announced at tho War Department that former Sena tor. J. C. S. Blackburn bad re signed as a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and that his res ignation had been accepted by Presi dent Taft, effective December 4. Took 93.150) Got Six Years. Columbus, Ohio (Special). Grayson H. Osborne, former em ploye of the Huntington National Bank, of Columbus, who confessed to embezzling $28,000, and Donald C. Abbott, formerly employed by the New First National Bank, of Colum bus, who confessed a shortage of $3,150, were indicted by a Federal grand jury. Abbott appeared In court later and pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the Fort Leaven worth penitentiary for six years. Must Treat Fairs Alike. Washington, D. C. (Special). In a decision the Interstate Commerce Commission suggests that when rail roads make a special excursion rate to State or county fair or to large State meetings the rate be symmetri cal with other ratea of a similar kind, $800,000 For A Farmer. Alton. 111. (Special). A) vln J. Hoskins. ft farmer, said that he had received word that the United State Government bad purchased his range finder and distance appraiser for $300,000., The Invention simplifies the firing of big guns la the navy. THE CHARGES OF CAPTAIH LOOSE. Dr. Torp Sajs Latest Accnsa tions Are Fiction. Rector Of University Of Copenhagen xu bxamino liwumcnu Prepared Ry Ixios" And Dunkle Both Men Allege They Helped To Trepare Fake Data, And Xavl. gator Asserts The Explorer Neter Reached The Pole Danes I'l,, No Credence In Report. - Copenhagen (Special). Dr. Tc-ti rector of the University of Conct,' hagen, said that the charges publish ed in the New York Times against Dr. Frederick A. Cook are based on pure fiction. Nevertheless, he add. cd, he would accept the offer to . amine the documents prepared by Loose and Dunkle, which the Timei has agreed to send to Copenhagen Walter Lonsdale, secretary to Dr Cook, who brought the explorers records to Copenhagen, also declared that the accusations published In New York and London against Dr Cook were totally unfounded. ne' said that the papers delivered to tho University of Copenhagen con tained the original observations made by Dr. Cook during the expe dition without alterations. Mr. Lonsdale stated further that the explorer's report was founded on these nnd dictated by Dr. Cook to him, no other person having any. thing to do with it. Loose and Dunkle, Mr. Lonsdale added, were guests at the Waldorf-Astoria dur ing Dr. Cook's stay there, but the explorer's acquaintance with them was slight. The commute which will examine Dr. Cook's records is composed of the following: President, Prof. Ells Stromgren, director of the astronomical observatory; Dr. C. F. Pachule, astronomer, attached to the observatory; Oustav Holm, ex plorer; Prof. A. 13. Yensen, presi dent of the school of navigation; Dr. Royder, director of the meteor ological office, and Dr. F. A. Eng Btrom, director of the Lund Observ atory. A summary of tho affidavits of persons claiming to have aided Dr. Frederick A. Cook in the preparation of his Polar data, published In Lon don and New York, was read here with amazement. Scientific circles are inclined to be incredulous re garding the charges and some per sons like Dr. Carl Burrau, the astronomer, consider them so Im probable that their effect will be to strengthen confidence in Dr. Cook. In an Interview, Dr. Barrau said: "Passages in the story telegraph ed here give me the impression that the matter Is thoroughly un trustworthy. Take, for instance, the statement about Capella. Ca pella neither rises nor sets In the Polar regions, but remains fixed over the horizon. In order to make observations at the North Pole t more extended and more detailed knowledge Is necessary than Is en Joyed usually by the average ship's captain. "It will, however, be easy for the university to determine the truth or otherwise of the charges." SPONGE IN BODY FOUR YEARS. Surgeons Forgot To Remove It And Then Couldn't Find It. Milwaukee (Special). After suf fering four years with a surgeon's sponge sewed up in her body Mrs. John H. Fertlg, of this city, Is dead. Four years ag6 Mrs. Fertig wu operated upon for a tumor. The physician forgot to remove a Bponge from the wound. Another opera tion, in an effort to find the sponge, failed. , it A year later portions of the sponge worked out through Mrs. Fertlg's side. A third operation located the sponge, which was found hardened and imbedded In the wom an's abdomen. This operation wss followed by her death. TO EXAMINE DR. COOK'S DATA. Danish Scientists Delegated To Receive Documents. Copenhagen ( Special ) . Rector Torp, of the University of Copenha gen; Chancellor Salomonsen and Prof. Ells Stromgren have been dele gated to receive the North polaf records of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, cn beholf of the university. These rec ords ore being brought here by Dr. Cook's secretary, who arrived at Chrlstiansand. . As soon as the papers are In e possession of the men named, a con sistory will be held, at which a com mittee of examination will be ap pointed. The president of this com mittee will be Professor Stromgren, and the other members will be maae up of scientists and explorers, taca as Commodore Hovgaard. CHURCH IN GROCERY BUSINESS. Hopes To Pay Debt Wltfi Profits Of The Store. Evansvllle, Ind. (Special). Tb congregation of the Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church, in this city opened a grocery store and me market in a building near the cnurcn, and the profits of the sales will m UBod to pay oft the church oeM. which amounts to about $4,000. TM psstor, Rev. F. O. B.irdette. has JP pealed to the members to patroniw the venture. IS TIlTwORLD OF FINANCE. A consignment of $250,000 goU waa engaged for export to Brsii, "Can't increase wages without I creasing freight and passenger rates, says President Brown of the "e" York Central. Philadelphia as a port nw'.p handsomely. In November the im ports were $7,883.7S8 against $ 021.341 last year, while exports. w $8,686,066, compared with $7.w,' 417 In 1908. Bank of EnglanJ reduced It count rate from 6 to tt vr Although President Oscar O. ray. of the Baltimore and Ohio, " re-elected, it Is firmly lollvel financial circle he will w'flj shortly and become chairman of " Board of Directors. . j. Ail three Goulds and all Ur friends Including Alvln W. K relet 1 tired from the Western Union of Directors. They were u!r,tr by T. N, Vale, U. N. Bethel and tl'r American Telephono iJTeWrW party. A rumor says the OoM PW Is trying to get out of the Mlaun Pacific and all It railroad.
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