6 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMS 6URCL PA. ieiiphi Spain is in a Frenzy of Joy Over the Momentous Event ROYAL INFANT LUSTY Impressive Ceremony When Annoiin. ictit It Made Royal Baby lrc" rated to State and Court IMgtil-tBM-Ica by King (jiiM-n Insists on Horsing Infant Herself- Madrid, May 14. A whole city be tide itself with dellrlons joy Is the tmpreesion gained from the outward mepeot of Madrid. A son has been bant to the beloved young King mid 3ueen, who miraculously escaped aaasslnatlon together loss thtin a ywar ago, and, humanly speaking, a male successor to the throne of Spain assured. The event appeals to th0 sympath ies and sentiment of Spaniards In a .agree difficult for outsiders to lm- m mm mm KING ALFONSO XIII. tine and Impossible to limit. Of genuineness of the enthusiasm rvoked by the auspicious occurr'.-no Aere can be no more doubt than of ibo sincerity which marked the re joicings of the people ut the escape of tfte sovcrigns from the bomb In the falle Mayor or of the demonstrations if loyalty since displayed on every sccasion of their public i ppearance A the capital or province?. The birth of an heir t: the throne vmns more to Spain than to perhaps my other great civilized nation, with he exception of Russia. For Spain so torn with the revolutionary, SsrtlBt and Socialist fractions that imr there not a well recognized accessor to the present head of the aiyal family sedition and revolution ould not only threaten the king torn at the death of Alfonso XIII. lot even endanger the King's tenure the throne while still alive, giving ftpe to claims of any pretender who light thrust himself forward. It la ris that the advent of a royal child the court of Spain Is con.sk. ered a QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN. Uitlonal event of supreme Importance did one to be watched with reinnrk ifcle i-olicliudo. Almost dally des itches from Madrid during the lat jucntli or two have indicated Spain's nterest and anxiety very plainly. The christening of the royal Infant lkkt-8 place within four or fiva days, ' accordance with the requirements if the Roman Catholic Church. The WBtom is to bring the historic baptis mal font from the monastery of San Domingo de Gozman. The Pope Is godfather of the child. King Alfonso and Princess Vlc Srla Eugenie Ena of Battenburg, .randdaugter of the late Queen Vlc--vrln of England, were marrlod In ,ie Church of Sun Geronimo in Mad rfd on May 81, 1906. The young Jueen assumed the title of Victoria. Frank McGlnnlss, a night watch man, at No. 331 Dearborn street, ;hlcago, saved seven men from death iy fire there by running an elevator t&r through Came any smoke to where they were hemmed In on the :p floor. Barney Breuden, a workman, saved himself when a scaffold fell 'om a Detroit building by clinging n a piece of cornice eight stories from the ground, until he was rescued. ft l it ,m J IS? C3& SHIUM.KS IN A MAI) UltM'K Thirty Reported Killed Atul Mnny Injured- Los Angelos, Cai., May 14. Thirty persons were killed and probably fifty Injured In the wreck of the first and second sections of Northbound No. 21 and the Southern Pacific Rail road near Surf, a small station sixty miles north of Santa Darbara, at 2 : 0 o'clock Saturday afternoon. When word of the accident wns received at Shrlners' headquarters here Alexandria, Masonic Temple and hotels were besieged by frantic friends, but little early information beyond bulletins was obtainable. The trains both bore hundreds of Shrln ers bound for 8an Francisco on their way home. The bulletins said that the first section ran into a boulder and that the second section plunged Into the wreckage of the first and went over an embankment. Recent rains had dislodged several boulders, but all had apparently been promptly detect ed nnd removed by section forces. The locomotive turned a souier sault Into the yielding sands. It tore up the track, twisting the hugo Bteol rails Into fish hooks. The bag gage car half burled iuself In the sand on the right side of the loco motive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. The dining car, In which were thirty-two persons eat ing luncheon, leaped into the air, and fell directly on the demolished locomotive. The rear coaches rushed on the first wreckage. Jamming It on those who might otherwise hare escaped. investigation of great ll'm hkh trust. Lumber Markvt is Controlled and Profit Arc EnoruioiiN. Washington, May 14. Tho great Lumber TruBt has now become the target of the Bureau of Corporations. The most comprehensive investigat tlon yet undertaken will be mado of this combination. If sufllcient evi dence can bo collected prosecutions will be brought by the Department of Justice, says a special dispatch to the New York World. The Investigation Is regarded as the most difficult yet undertaken by the bureau. More preplexing factors enter Into this Inquiry than into those of the Doef Trust and the Standard Oil Company. Commissioner Smith will follow the same lines as those, adopted by Mr. Garfield In his investigation of the Standard Oil combination and the Reef trust. Special agents are now being sent Into different sections of the country to gather data on pro. duction and on the restraint of com petition. In the mean time a preliminary Inquiry concerning the prices of lum. ber has been concluded. It shows that during the past ten years the prices of all kinds of lumber has steadily Increased and that the dim inishing supply of timber Is not alone responsible. PLAN OF LAZY CONVICT. Cuts Off Index Finger of Right Hand to Escape Work. Columbus, Ohio, May 14. The penitentiary officials believe they have discovered the laziest man In the world In Albert Oornes, a con vict serving five years from Franklin County, for burglary and larenoy. in order to escape work Gomes de llberately clipped off the Index finger of his right hand with a pair of shears. This will class him among the Infirm, and will entitle him to a light Job at the worst, with chance favorable to his entire divorce from labor of any kind. Officers say, that Gomes has resorted to every other known means to escape work but without success. Itees Exterminating Hugs. Lawrence, Kan., May 16. Pro fessor S. J. Hunter, of the Entomo logical Department of the State Uni versity, who, for the past month, has been collecting and sending free to the farmers of the Southwest par asite bees to kill the green bugs that have been destroying wheat, re ceived a telegram from Secretary his work. Professor Hunter replied that he had distributed two thousand boxes containing the parasites to Kansas farmers with uniform good results, but that a larger fund was needed to make the work comprehensive and decisive. Reports from Texas and Oklahoma are that the bees have practically exterminated all the bugs in those States. Strike on Isthmus, ty-flve and one hundred hand steunt shovel engineers and crunemen quit their Jobs. They sail for tho United States on the Royal Mail Doat, seriously crippling the canul work. As an organization these men voted last week to stay despite Secretary Taft's refusal of their de mand for an Increase from (210 to $300 a month. Woman Siillra-,' Voted Down. Loudon, May 16. The first al tonipt of tho women suffragists to elect a Member of Parliament favor able to their cause has resulted la flat failure. 2 Killed by Explosion, Haverhill, Mass., May 16. Two men were killed, and a hlrd severely injured, by the explosion of a soda water tank In the bottling works of O, A. Smith here. 1IBSK Covering Minor Happen Ings from all Over the Q lobe. HOME? AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for tho Busy HeadersA Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Dolled Down for Hasty Perusal. Albany despatches declared that President had made a combination with State leaders agalnse the Gov ernor of New York. It was asserted In Columbus that Senator Dick had deserted Senator Forakor and Joined forces with Sec retary Taft's friends. The State Senate passed the New York City Women Teachers' Salary bill over Mayor McClcllan's veto by a vote of thirty-seven to nlue. The leader of the striking cigar makers In Cuba declared the men would not yield their demand for payment in American gold. Censure was passed by a coroner's Jury upon all persons who neglected to provide medical attendance for Mrs. Corlnne McBride, who' died under Christian Science treatment from pneumonia. Archbishop Ryan and 130 bishops took part In the dedication of St. Putrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral, at Hariisburg, Pa. Two men were fatally Injured at Newborn, N. C, when one of them fired a pltol shot at a railroad tool house causing a ton of dynamite to explode, blowing the house to frag ments. Republican Assemblymen indorsed In caucus Governor Hughes' Publlo Utilities bill, and the Rules Comm ittee decided to report the bill giv ing the Governor power to investi gate all State departments. Governor Hughes of New York took steps to require all future pow er concerns using natural reBoursei of the State to pay an annual tax of seventy-five cents for each horsfl power dveloped. The United States Supreme Court huld that the eight hour law of 1892 Is constitutional but does not apply to laborers and mechanics employed on dredges, who are hold to bo sea men. The designer and captain of the submarine boat Octopus exhibited In Newport, R. I., a new Jacket de signed to enable men to escape if the craft becomes disabled when sub merged. The 300th anniversary of the land, tng of the first English settlers at Jamestown was celebrated at the Jamestown Exposition. Physicians at Worcester, Mass., re ported the case of a man self-hypnotized two weeks ago whom they can not arouse. The United States Supreme Court decided that Kansas cannot now pre' vent citizens of Colorado from using the waters of the Arkansas Rivet1 for Irrigation. The City of Cleveland, a steam boat nearly ready for delivery, wa destroyed by a mysterious fire at Detroit, Mich. Dofectlve equipment was given by a Coroner's Jury in San Luis Obispo, Cal., as the cause of tho wreck of the Shrlners' train on the Southern Pacific. Galusha A. Orow, before his death told how $55,000 had been extorted from h)m on a charge he denounced as false. The State informally outlined its case against W. D. Haywood, and counsel stated It expected to prove a wholesale system of murders planned by the Western Federation of Miners. Japan's military and naval visitors In Washington declared President Roosevelt's "democratic personality ' had Impressed them more that any thing else In this country. Authorities at Dover, Del., were puzzled by the finding of a note In a bottle, near where little Horace Mar vlu's body was discovered, contain ing four names and dated six days subsequent to the boy's disappear ance. H. Clay Pierce was before the Fed eral Circuit Court at St. Louis, on a writ of habeas corpus, which, It was announced, will be passed on next Wednesday. V.'ork was begun on the one mill ion dollar drainage tunnel to be con structed at Cripple Creek, at a depth of 1,330 feet. Wamo for the loss of life In rail road travel was placed, directly and olflcnlly on Imperfect rails, and, con sequently, the rapacity of trusts and their methods. Benjamin1 B. Odell, Jr., amazed the Republican State Committee by de claring for Governor Hughes for President and leader in fact of his party In the State. Oovernor Hughes at a dinner In Brooklyn set at rest all Ideas that re lations between himself and the Pre sident were strained. Desertions from the ranks of tho striking longshoremen in New York led the steamship companies to be lieve tho backbone of the strike had teen broken, Oeheral Horatio C. King declared that If the Plymouth Church trustees refuse to bar a Christ Ian Scientist lecturer who has rented tho edifice ho will call an Indignation meeting of the congregation. FOREIGN' NEWS. Mr. Walter Wellmnn, according to a depatch, says that ho Is now ready for his balloon voaygo In senrch of the North Pole. Workmen In St. Petersburg cele brated the Russian May Day by striking In many trades. There was no disorder. The prolonged, exciting debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the labor policy of France ended in a vote of confidence In the govern ment. The Imperial Colonial Conference in London has ended, and It Is re garded In some quarters as having been a failure. It Is now proposed that a peace conforence shall be held In Wash ington at which will be discussed the suggestion of President Dla that the Central American States be confederated under a protectorate. Cable news from Teheran Is that the situation in the Persian capital Is critical, many persons being wounded In bread riots. Constitutional democrats won a victory In the Duma, passing a re solution condemning the Governor General of Moscow. In the Reichstag the commercial modus vlvendl between Germany and the United States passed its second reading. Oscar Hammersteln, In an Inter view cabled from London, said he had signed a contract to build an opera house In Washington. J. P. Morgan's energy In rushing between Paris and London amazes Parisians, says a despctch. President Diaz's proposal for a Joint protectorate over Central Am erican republics proves to be tho dip lomatic sensation of the year. London markets were adversely affected by the liberal government policy of encouragement offered the labor party and more rumors of trouble with Germany. King Edward's return has made London socloty very gay, so much so that the theatres are deserted for the round of fashionable entertainments, says a special cable despatch. Mr. Whltelaw Reid, United States Ambassador to Great Britain, intends to entertain lavishly during the sea son. , .4 One of the chief coming attractions In England Is to be the great historic St. Albans pageant. A monument to Levassor, of auto mobile fame, Is being erected at the Porte Maillot entrance of the Bols de Boulogne. Kings and emperors are subscrib ing to a monument to the Prince of Monaco in honor of his services to the science of oceanography. The eruptions from tho craters of Mounts Etna and Stromboll are in creasing in violence and great vol umes of ashes have fallen over Naples and other places In Italy. According to a Teheran despatch a brother of the Shah of Persia has declared hlmBelf In rebelllou and la pillaging in Lourlstan Province. SPOUTING NEWS. The Darracq firm has withdrawn its cars from all raoe fixtures. Charle Garner, Jocky, broke a bone la his left hand by being thrown from his mount, Marbles, In the sec ond race at Belmont Park. Accepts Trade Pact With Us. Washington, May 16. Despatches to the State Department told of the passage by the German Reichstag of the commercial agreement with the United States, to become operative on July 1 and to last for one year thereafter. The bill for the pact passed on its third reading. It may be terminated by either the United States or Germany on six month's notice. Takes Poison to Escape Jail. Pltsburg, Pa., May 16. George S. Robtnsteen, one of the owners of the Eleanor Steel Company, while on his way to serve six months' sen tence for defrauding a number of persons In a sale of mahinery and stock, died suddenly at Blalrsvllle Intersection. He Is supposed to have committed suicide by taking poison. Robbers Hind and ting Clerk. North Tonawanda, N. Y., May 16. The largest safe In the ticket office of the Erie depot here was blown open by burglars and about $100 stolen. R. J. Sulrk, night clerk of tho de pot, was bound and gagged and re lieved of his gold watch. Nine Men Killed by Want. Bristol, Va., May 15. While a force of men was blasting on the (tout It & Western Railway near Alta Pass, N. C, an explosion occurred in which nine men were almost instant ly killed and four others seriously if not fatally injured. Verdict in Marvin Caw. Dover, Del., May 15. After an entiro day had been consumed and almost the entire night in roachln a verdict in tho Marvin Inquest, tho Jury rendered a verdict that Horaco Marvin Jr., came to his death from exposure about March 4 or5. SEVENTY FIREMEN OVERCOME. Ofllco Building Used o Cure For tho Courageous Victims. New York, May 16. During a firo In the ellnr of the Remington Type writer Company at Nob. 325 and 327 Broadway seventy firemen, constitu ting tliu entire third battalion, were overcome by tho fumes of gas and burning chemicals. Manj of the men wore overcomo three times and then violently resisted being carried to ambulances. More than half of thoso overcome were taken to hospitals, many of them In a serious condition. From about eleven o'clock, when tho first company went Into the cellar which whs filled with deadly fumes, until half past one the men were being carried out In a steady stream. Sldo wnlks were lined with unconscious firemen and offlces In adjacent build ings were turned into tomporary hospitals. Half a hundred young women stenographers in the neighborhood and In tho employment bureaus of Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Company Broadway and Worth street, went among the lines of unconslous fire men ministering aid. For nearly three hours business was practically suspended, while clerkB and others crowded tho win dows of buildings or left their places nnd congregated at the fire lines, which the police had much difficulty In preserving. COREY AND MISS OILLMAN WEI). Hi Parents and Relatives Present CongTcgut ionn lixt Oflicln tes. New York, May 15. William E. Corey president of the United Stntas Steel corporation, nnd Mabelle 0111 man, actress and singer for whom he divorced his first wife were mar ried In a private chapel in the Hotel Gotham. The bride's mother, her sister and her brother-lu-law were presnt, and on the Corey side there finally ap peared, besides the bridegroom's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Rlggs, his brother-in-law and sister and Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Corey, Jr., his bro ther and slBter-in-law. Corey wished to be married by an Episcopal clergyman, but one after another they refused his tempting offer to officiate. When it looked as If a civil cere mony would have to be performed, one of Corey's friends telephoned that he had found a clergyman who was willing to tie the knot. He was the Rev. J. L. Clark of the Bush wick Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, and the announement that he had consented to officiate came as a great relief to Corey and Miss Gill man. WHEAT AT A DOLLAR. Traders Try to Stem the Rush Up ward, but Are Overwhelmed. Chicago, May 15. Dollar wheat was ushered lu In an outburst of the wildest and most spontaneous fever that has ever characterized trading on the Board of Trade. Heavy real izing sales pushed the price back ward somewhat, but at the close the market was strong, and, according to the majority of speculators, the domand upon which the late ad vance had been made was still un satisfied. Before tho expectant traders, hud. died to the capacity of the pit, were fully awakened to the fact that the market had opened, tlvu September future had been hoisted to $1.00Vs, and the December to $1.03 a bushel. The moment $1 was reached a wild shout was lifted. In the uproar the marker found himself unable to keep track of the Jumbled trading. Con sequently opening quotations were chalked officially as 85c. to $1.00 for September and 96V6c to $1.03 for December. July, the month In which the trude wns chiefly Inter ested, soared to 97c. In the moments of uncontrollable bullish fever. Saw Judge Hargls With (inn. Lexington, Ky., May 16. At tho opening of Judge James Hargls' trial for the James Cockrlll murder, M. Peters, a new witness, swore that Just after Cockrlll was shot he saw Judge Hargls and Sheriff Ed. Calla han in Hargls' store with guns In their hands. Hargls' called to some one, "Go back or you will get shot!" Oscar Hagln swore he saw John Smith at the court houso window when Cockrlll was shot, but that Smith ran when seen. This was uow testimony and created a stir in th court room. Victim of Negro Dies. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 15. Miss Nevada Taylor, who was ass aulted by Edward Johnson, a negro, on Jan. 28, 1906, died at her child hood home In Flndlay, Ohio, of am yous trouble brought about by the crime. Miss Taylor was tho nineteen-year-old daughter of the Super intendent of Forest Hills Cemetery. No Pistols For Texans. Austin, TexaB, May 14. Tho Leg islature has passed a bill which has for Its object the prevention of pistol carrying in Texas. It levies a tax of DO per cent, on the gross receipts of all dealers in firearms who sell pistols. The Rev. B. B. Stanton, aged seventy-three, a former Baptist cler gyman, committed suicide by hang ing himself at hts home at Keuka, N. Y.f NULLIFIES DEATH PENALTY. President l alllei-cs Refuses to Slga Wiirrcnts of Execution. I'nrls May 13. Though the pow ers of the President of the Frem: Republic, according to the constlto- PRESIDENT M. FALIIERER tljn, nro fairly ample. It Is very $ clom that thoy are exercised. President Falllerr Is a notaM exception, ns since his election he ha refused to sign a single death war rant. Ho has exerciBed hlB prer ratlve of pardon fourteen times and ten murderers now under sentence of death are alao to have their se te lives commuted. Will Not Marry Divorcees Trenton, May 16. At the conven tion of the Episcopalian diocese of New Jersey that was held here, tb following resolution was adopted: "Resolved. That Inasmuch as It Is difficult to determine who the so railed innocent party In a divorce )s this convention expresses tho opin ion that its clergymen shall not git the benediction of the Church to aT person divorced for any cause what soever." Mrs. Sage (Jives Society $.".000 . Syracuse, N. Y., May 10. Mrs. Russel Sage has given the St. Paul Episcopal Parochial Society of thi city $5,000 for Its building fund. Mrs. Sage was once a teacher la lh school. HASEHALL LEAGUE SUMMARIES. Standing of the Clubs. National. W. L. P. C New York 20 8 .870 Chicago 19 4 .gat Pittsburg 11 7 Philadephia la 9 JT7I Boston 9 13 .4M Cincinnati 8 14 3M St. Louis 5 19 .209, Brooklyn 8 18 .HI American. W. L. !P. C Chicago 17 8 . Detroit 13 9 Ml Cleveland .-. 14 11 -571 New York 12 18 .4l Philadelphia 11 10 .54 Ronton 9 18 . Washington 7 IS .SoC St. Loui 7 14 .801 FINANCIAL- After early dulness, stocks closed with substantial gains. Kansas City Southern Railway di rectors will consider a policy of par-, ing one-half of net earnings to share holders. The Cotton Exchange denied la court the right of Theodore H. Prico to question Its contract and asked that his application for an Injunct ion be denied. Charles S. Mullen, president of ta New Haven system, denied stories of a deal for coutrol of the Boston and Maine. E. II. Harrlman, In a letter t Kuhn, Loeb ft Co., gave terms of the underwriting syndicate in Union Pa cific bonds. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Produce Quoted for the Week. Mii.k. The Milk Exchange price for standard quality is 3 cents per quart. Butter. Creamery, Western, extra 27o. State dairy fiuest 2fia2o)t'o, Firsta 23a24c. h Chkksk. State, fall cream, fancy. UalCc. part skims, 7a8!B'o. small 14&a. 18c. Eons, State A Penn a31o. Weaker Firsts, 17(al8o. Chickens. Phila., per lb., Ilal8c DrcKMNUd. sp'g. per lb. 20a25o. Hay. Primo, 100 lbs., 1.17al.8. Ftkaw. Long rye, 00a07o. " Potatokh. Old bbl., tl.60a2.0O. Or tmiikks. Basket, I2.25a8.25. Onions. White, pur bbl. 92.2Qa8.7i. Lf.tu'ck. Basket, fl.00u3.00. Simx At 'II. -Barrel, fa.00a3.00. Blkts. per bbl. f0.75al.25. Floi'u. Winter patents, f3.00a3.8l; Spring patents, f4.20afi.05. Wheat. No. l;1.10i'. No. 2 Red,99J Coun. No. 2 White, C2a Oats. Mixed, & 47o- Hkkvus. City dres'd. 70o. Calves. City dres'd. 8al2o. Country dressed per lb. (laU.'aO, Siikki'. Per 100 lb. 94.50. Hous. Live por 100 lb. f0.80a7.36. Co un t ry d ressed Jor lb. BaDo. J ...... Vfv.kj ft L yf'toi'jti
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