THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMbBURG, Pa. IMS ass 8 To Be Started For Com mercial Uses Inventor L Asserts. OBSTACLES REMOVED Marconi Cbilms That He Will Re Pw-liiim! iii U u iMi v'ee For Business tu Aliout Throe Weeks Will Semi Twenty Words a Mlnuto at First Filter Later. Sydney, N. S.. Sept. 26. William Marconi will be ready to open Trans atlantic wlreloBs service for business In about three weeks, he told a cor fepondeiit. "I shnll remain In Capo Breton mill this station Is orened (or com mercial work, which will be In about three weeks." ho said. "We have a Uttle testing to do before we start. There will be no special ceremony In t; tfa'ff, Vet f't'tihpli MM " - W V K 1 U WILLIAM MARCONI. connection vKh I he opening but we shall have a fe.v fr'n.mls there. We shall commence active commercial work by sending messages to two or three of tLe Tiuusudautic paperB. We ehall make no big show, but shall CD along quietly. "We have overcome all obstacles and we are euro of buccoss. The weather will have no effect on work artless our po'.it or masts should be damaged. LlbliUilng will not bother as at all. We have gotten over the bad weather difliculty. "We will begin with throe opera tors, but as business IncreiiBes we aball employ more. An ordinary operator can do the work; all he re quires Is about three months' train ing. We use the Continental Morse alphabet, but can use ordinary Morse, and will adopt it If we find it serves better. We send about twenty words a minute, but could work much faat r. We have made no effort for speed. SAMUEL SLOAN T)EAJ. Plonncr Rallrond Man Dies at 69 Following a Chill. Garrisons, N. Y., Sept. 24. Sam uel Sloan, financier and railroad builder, died at his summer residence In this place after an Illness oi three days. He was eighty-nine years old. Mr. Sloan had been In his U3ual health until Thunday, when he was seized with a Chill which developed into a violent cold. ' In the broad field cf American business life In the lust century fow men played a more active part or ex erted a more wholesome Influence than Mr. Sloan. He devoted more years to arduous work than are mens ured to the average man's span of life and made every year of the three score and ten count. His associates often called him "lucky." They bald everything he touched turned out well and thut the angel of good fortune hovered over him nt all times. To that lie always replied:" "No, I am not lucky. There Is no such thing us luck. I am simp ly busy. When I am not busy at work I'm buay reeling." Controlled by Niaii;i-r;: Oil. New York, Sept. 2-. Konancoa of finance were told a mav.e ( f fljur-ja in the Federal Building re.'vutly. Ths law case on hand the I' '.l-'.';v.pt of the Un'ted Statu ."--e7ii::icnt to crush th greatiti of c,. jio.Uona that has grown within kb borders tie 3'.un1ard Oil Compat.;' of New Jerecr, orlclnnlly tho Htrvdnrd 0l Trust Frank B. KcHo,,; showed that the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, actually fighting for K:, Lie In Jss as, was undsr the control of Stand ard Oil at the time it ovV.v.ully got Into trouble ns the active tient of a tnif-t. CwIk)h' Parents SeiU At(".. Cleveland, Ohio, Ktpt. 2 3. M. Cio'.zobz and his wi?, p. reiit of Leon Cuaolgoaz, assaKti'-n o" Presi dent MnKlnley, have applied to the Charity Department of tli.,- city fur assists i;cp. Mr. Czlogo. ;: i.i entity. thre. y;irs old and his v 'fo tcwi, ty. flvo. Investigators sent to the littlo homo nt No. D71C Ho!L':'.r n venae, S. E.. '"'tiid them In two vir.. !! vooew. Bert!, iru to old to worlt. s RTRArrr.wcr.n himself. Mr. Belmont Confesses on tlio Oc casion of Tunnel Trip. New York, Sept. 26. The first offlclal trip made under the East River in the north tube of the Rel mout tunnels to Long Island City was delightful. The car almost en tirely fills the space In the slnglo tracked tube and as a result pushes air ahead of it and draws more in behind. This keeps the air sweet, and keeps It cool. Not the least Interesting event of the day was the rather pointed speech that August Belmont made at the luncheon afterward In the Hotel Bel mont Here is part of what Mr. Belmont had to say: "The transportation problem must be treated from the standpoint of a reasonable return for money invest ed, whether It be the city's or pri vate money. You can't treat It on the Ideal basis. We all travol In the eame direction at the same time. I was born and 'brought up In this city and have been a straphanger all my life," TO PKOlU'CK LIFE, Prof- Do Lage of Paris Fertilize Eggs of Sea Urchin. Paris, Sept. 26. Remarkable ex periments In the chemical develop ment of life have been recently eff ected by Prof. De Lage of the Sor- bonne. In his labratory at Roacoff la Brittany Prof. De Lage placed the unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin and the starfish In sea water, adding a solution of sugar with a few drop of ammonia and tannin. In about an hour segmentaton. which is the first sign of life, began, and the eggs produced larvae. The great majority of these larvae soon died, but Prof. De Lag, by constant and minute care, brought four ot the sea urchins and two of the star fish through the larvae stage, and they are now healthy growing speci mens. MANILA FORTIFIED, Representative Cock W1T1 Urge Orm gress to IYovtdo Defenco. Manila, P. I., Sept. 24. William W. Oocks. Representative lu Congress from the New York district formerly represented by President Roosevelt, who left Manila for home aftor many weeks of Btudy of conditions In the islands, said to a correspondent: "I will urge that Congress fortify Manila immediately, leaving Olonga po until later, because It Manila were captured the prestige of Amer ca would be gone. Philippines Sitnatlon. London, Sept. 26. Mr. Hugb. listings, for many years State His torian of New York, Is In London. In the course of a talk, which natu rally drifted to the question of the Philippines, he said: "One of two policies Is open to the United States in handling the Philip pines, either to sell them to prevent war or to build a big navy to main tain peace. Americans are much like the French, volatile, mercurial, opti mistic and, I regret to say, hysteri cal. They take in national affairs chances they would repudiate and ridicule In commercial transactions. Murphy Won. Now York, Sept. 26. Charles F. Murphy spoke by the book when he said that the effort on the part of Mayor McClellan's friends to throw out about sixteen of the regular Tam many candidates for the district leaderships would turn out to be a Joke. Only two McClolIan men carried their districts. These were Fire Commissioner Francis J. Lantry of the Sixteenth and Maurice Feather son of the Twentieth. Rest Puld Rider. New York, Sept. 25. Walter Mil ler, a boy of nineteen, who for three years has been riding for the New castle Stable, has been engaged by Thomas H. Williams, president of the New California Jockey Club, to ride this winter at the Oakland track at a salary of $1,200 a month for x months and to ride Mr. Willams' race horses next season at a retain ing fee of $18,000. Gruft ArreHts. Harrlsburg, Pa., Sept. 26. Four teen men, most of them leading fig ures in the Commonwealth, either as pubic servants or private citizens, were gathered in. Only two whose names were marked for prosecution In the Capitol graft report escaped. They are Auditor General E. A. Har denburg, of Wayne county, former Auditor General, and Frank O. Har ris, of Cluarfield, formerly Treasurer, Two Violins Stolen. New York, Sopt. 23. Almost frantic with grief, Louis O. Knapp, an artist .dashod into the Charles street police station, and reported that ho had been robbed of two vio lins, which he valued at JX2.000. He Uve3 at No. 127 West Twelfth street, Knupp eal 1 that one of the m!d lug instruments was a Stradlvarlus aud the other an Arr.atl. i Ilrjun Will Tell Soon, Washington, Sept. 25. Stirred to activity by the energotlo' efforts to rally the conservative forces of D- rriocrac.y, Wlllam J. Lryan will with In a few weeks take the country In to hlo confidence In regard to hln at titude toward the Domocnitly Preal dectial nomination of 1B0U. flHHlH I Covering Minor Happen ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the Rusy Reader A Complete Record of European Despatched and Im portant Evcnta from Everywhere Boiled Down for Hasty Perusal. Cabled reports from Berlin of tb.9 probability of war between Guate mala and Honduras were denied by Central American diplomats In Wash ington, J. T. Harahan, president ot the Illinois Central, made a statement re plying to the criticism of the road's management by Stuyvesant Fish. Bids opened for eoalng the Atlan tic fleet on Its Pacific cruise showed that foreign bottoms and American coal were lowest In price. Representative Hepburn declared himself in favor of more rigid laws regarding the issues of stock by cor porations. Mrs. Bertha Mund strangled her three children in Buffalo becauwe she feared they would become crazy. Representatives of sixteen, nation alities met in Boston at the biennial session tt th Congress of Religious Liberals. Judge Laoombe, In the United Stales Circuit Court, appointed Ad rian II. Jolinc and Douglas Robinson receivers for the New York City Railway Company. Expert accountants In the employ of the Public Service Commission were put at work on the books of the Interborough-Metropolltan Com pany and the Metropolitan Securities Company. James Bartlett Hammond admitt ed in testimony at an investigation as to his sanity that he had "lunatic spells." Commodore E. C. Benedict sent out a party in a launch which rescu ed ten men from a disabled boat In Long Island Sound after an eleventh had drowned. Three branches of the American Bankers' Association, whose conven tion opens In Atlantic City, held sess ions, and among the speakers was Charles Emory Smith. Federal Investigators have beun tmable to find any trace of books to show that the old trust was handed over to the Standard OH Company of New Jersey 'without liquidation. Four porsons were Injured and traffic was blocked for an hour In the evening rush as a result of a collision of Brooklyn Bridge trains. Navy Department officials are dis cussing the problem of finding work for fifteen thousand men In Atlantic coast navy yards after the battle ship fleet goes to the Pacific. A novel feature of Secretary Root's visit to Mexlcao will be a trip to Lake Xochlmlio, where he will be met by Aztec Indians. The National Congress of Christ ian Churches was opened In Boston, with many prominent persons In at tendance. The battle ship Kansas defeated the Georgia In a four hundred mile race from Cape Cod to the Delaware Breakwater. Senator Borah, of Idaho, was plac ed on trial for eoniplraey to defraud the government In the land cases. By an order of the Federal Court at St. Paul the State of Minnesota was enjoined from enforcing Its com modity rate law pending a decision on appeal. The City Council of Kingston, Jamaica, adopted a resolution aimed at Chinese Immigration, asking the government to exclude undesirable foreigners. Professor Todd, of Amherst Col lege, made experiments In the Andes at an altitude of 14,000 feet to see what effect light air pressure has on life. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, denied the request ot thd Dominion Trades and Labor Congress to take steps to abrogate the treaty with Japan. In a general poll of republicans In all States Governor Hughes, of New York, was chosen to bo the choice for the Presientlal nomina tion In case Secretary Taft is beaten In the convention. It was declared by a member of Congress In Washington that Japan could take the Philippines In a day Newspaper publishers suggested remedies for the advance In the price of white paper, Including raising of subscriptions and advertlfilng. Announcement was made that there will be an early raeotlng In Washington of the trustees having In hand the raising of a fund for es tablishing a national peace tribunal, Close scrutiny of stock sales of public service companies was pro vlded In the rules of practice of the State Commission In the Second Dla trlct. Many subsidiary concerns of the Standard Oil Company in Western Pennsylvania were declared to have been omitted In the New York hear ing by the company's officials in est! mating luoomo. Two clergymen delivered sermons In New York denying the charge re cently made In a magnzlne that New York churches are cold to strangors. Cable advices received at Wash ington stated that thirty-one men died In the explosion on the Kashlma, a Japanese battle ship. FOREIGN NEWS Antwerp's dockers' strike has end ed in unconditional surrender on the part of the laborers, says a despatch. The Auglo-RuRslan convention, ratifications having been exchanged, will be gazetted officially soon. Mystery surrounds the reported marrage of the Countess Montlgnoso, formerly Crown Princess of Saxony, to an Itnlnn singer, Tosolll. Corcnn loters told of attaoks by the Japanese vernacular press upon Amerioan missionaries, asserting they were Inciting natives to revolt. Moorish tribesmen ended the war by accepting unconditionally the French terms. Residents of Chicago in Paris re gret the defeat of the city charter, says a despatch. With a host of scientists attending from twenty-three countries the In ternational Hygiene Congress opened In Berll.n A man named Gebauer, according to a desnatch from Berlin, has Just confessed to mnrdelrng a woman thirteen years ago. STORTING NEWS. Leadlna members of the New York Yncht Club conferred at Newport with Captain "Nat" Herreshoff re garding a defender of the America's Cup. Tha Skedadle. owned by H. N. Bar- uch. was the only boat to finish In the thirty-mile motor boat race d- elded on the Hudson. Mis Mnrle Waaner and Mrs. W. H. Pouch defeated Miss Alice L, Day and Miss Adele Kruse and won the womon's tennis doubles cham pionship of New Jersey. Bv defeatlna Philadelphia the Cuba clinched their hold on the 1907 Nat ional League pennant. MeGraw. mnnaaer of the Olants, H accused of throwing water In the face of Klein, an umpire. The Sparrow, winner of last year's reliability test, was unable to finish in a similar contest held on the HuJ- son In the national motor boat car nival. Train Rinks Into Earth. Creston, O., Sept., 26. A tratn consisting of a locomotive and four cars on the new eleven-mile cut off of the Baltlmure & Ohio Railroad from this town to Sullivan sank out of Bight. Only by Jumping did the train crew escape death In the great fill. The crust over an underground lako, whose existence has been sus pected for years. Is suppoed to have been broken. The citizens are alarm ed. A Receivership Probably. New York, Sept. 26. Though no official admissions have been made on the subject, It is regarded as a foregone conclusion that the Ryan Belmont Interests, since the return of Thomas F. Ryan from Europe, have agreed on a plan which contem plates application at an early date before the United States District Court for a receivership for the New York City Railway Company. Ma Annex Corea. Toklo, Sept. JB. The prospect of annexation by ' Japan seems again looming before the Corean people. Marquis Ito Is quoted as saying that In view ot the lncerasing gravity ot the situation It may be necessary to alter Japan's policy; that the present situation Indicates that the entire people are unfriendly and If they persist In that attitude It will be "the last day for them." Dr. Chadwlch III and Poor. Cleveland, 8ept. 26. Although three years ago he was a wealthy leader of the medical profession In this city and high In the social world, Dr. Leroy S. Chadwlck, husband of Cassle Chadwlck, who handled mil lions of borrowed money, Is poverty stricken in Florida. Dr. Chadwlck is working around in his brother's Btore in Jacksonville to keep him self und his daughter from want. Roosevelt Crank Killed. New York, Sept. 25. The boJy of Orlando Toland, the crank who said he rode on freight trains all the way from Oxford, Ala., to the home of President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to get the latter to help him collect a clnlm of 110,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller, now HeB in the morgue at Huckensack, N. J. He was run over by a freight train. Anstrlan Iron Giving Out. Vienna, Eopt. 25. At a meeting ot tho Iron and Steel Institute, Dir ector Kestraiiok, the Austrian steel magnate stated that In twenty-five years Austria would be compelled to Import Iron owing to the exhaustion of tho Austrian ore deposits. Rig Earthquake Recorded. London, Sept. 26. The observa tories at Lnlbach, Austria, and on the Islo of Wight recorded a severe earthquake lasting one hour and a half. The distance is estimated at 7.000 Wllea. KEI) CKOSS IjKADKH. Mrs. John A. Logan, the Famous Mili tary Widow, Was Ones the Politi cal Manager of Her Husband. Mrs. John A. Iogin, president of the American Red Cross, knows per sonally every national character of Importance from President Roosevelt to the smallest Grand Army post com mander. Mary Rlmmerson Cunningham was only 17 years old, when, In 18f!, she became the bride of John A. Igau, then prosecuting aitoinoy of Gallatin County, III., and a hero of the Mexi can war while yot in his toens. Her father, by appointment of Pres ident Pierce, was registrar of tho land office of that county, and she had loft her studies at St. Vincent's con vent, Kentucky, to becomo her father's assistant, and there it was that tho black eagle of Illinois met and wooed her. Sho set the example at her own home by her courageous deeds, of which he would write the general with the result that he would go Into the next battle with renewed 6plrit and daring. The first money General lxpan sent home out of his pay liU wife spent toward the purchase of a home, and when ho returned from tho war she handed him the deod for a home and 10 acres of land, bought from the sav ings of the romlttancea which ho hod ma, a. Mrs. Ix?a.n Is a charming woman to meet. Added to the cultivation cf a Ufa spent among famoik; people i the taMU cf native genius, and the two have po blended that ehe ranks easily Bmong the foremost of her eex in the nation. Tho deep lovo sho ertnccil for hor husband is manlft'et In every tone and look whenever his name is men tioned. She 1a a MeUiodiet and a devout wor fhipper, but in her religious sympa thies ehe Is moet broad-minded. WIhmi Proving Regnn. There haa been no ration, no mat ter bow uncivilized, that at one time or another has not made and used Intoxicating liquors. The art of brewing was practised by the ancient Egyptians, and later by the Greeks, Romans and Gauls. The Anglo-Saxon and English have long been considered pre-eminent masters of the art of brewing liquors Tho ale made by the monks In an cient times was prized most highly, and ever since the production of li quors has been Increasing. In 1585 there were twenty-six large brewer ies in London, which brewed forty nln thousand barrels of boor annu ally. In IS 2 9 over thirty-two million barrels were brewed. A Peculiar Effect. -It Is said that the throbbing and vibrations of the ecrine on a mod ern steamer have a most extraordin ary effect on the heart. The vibration is transmitted to this vital organ with the most extra ordinary results as far as the modi eal examination Is concerned. Through the stethoscope It seems as If . every moment the heart would stop. Bull, It Is some comfort to Know that this is considered benefi dal. The Medico. Open Air Museum. An open air museum is planned for Bremen of the type already fam. Illnr in many Scandinavian towns. An outline of the local culture and art from the earliest days Is to be offered In a park dotted with old peasant houses. Rental's Produces. The monor products of the State forests of Bengal are bamboo, sabal grass for paper making, hlney, gol putta thatching wax. mica, shells in dla rubbor, coal, nux vomica, lime stone and silk cocoons. Plant as Fly Paper. The rlngulula is a Dlant which la a natural fly-paper. Ita loaves are constantly covered with a sticky sub. stance that traps all Insects alight Ing thereon. A Single Crop Country. Burmah Is one o( the world's sla glo-crop countries, basing her pros perity on rice, as Hawaii does on su gar and tho Philippines do on heaip. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Die Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Gives Alton Immunity, But Orders Moffett To Explain Rebating. SCENE IN COURT The Judge's Denunciation of llie TuclicN L'niployed by the, llrcetr of the New Jersey Couched In Languiie Tlmt Could Not Re Mis taken Hot Shot for tlio Alton- Chicago, 111., Sopt. 26. Another broadstdo was directed against the Standard Oil Company by Ju.lue Land Is In the United States District Court. Although Immunity was granted the Clilcugo and Alton Rail road by the Judge on recommenda ton of Attorney General Bonaparte, both the rallrond and tho Standard Oil Company were scored from the bonch and a subpoena was Issued by Judge Landls for James A. Moffi-tt. president of the Standard 'Oil Com pany of Indlnna. Mr. Moffett Is di rected to appear before tho speehil Grand Jury that wns to have Investi gated the-Alton road, and there prove certain charges made by tho direct ors of the New Jersey corporation. Judge Iandis' latest action Is re garded as one of the most drantlo moves that have been made ngnlii'-t officials of tho oil corporation durtni.' the entire Utlgntlon. The seen In the court room at times bordered on the dramntle, tho developments, fol lowing the granting of Immunity n the Alton road, coming ns a com plete surprise to counsel for the 8fandard Oil Company as well as to spectators. Judge Landls' denunciation of tho tactics employed by the directors of the New Jersey corporation after the Imposition of tho $29,24",000 fine on the Standard of Indiana wim couched in lnnguage that could not. be mlntaken. Firk Clones Playground. Pittsburg, Sept. 25. -On arcoun mt the Anarchist notice, mhlch wp. poeted on the property of H. C Frick, nt Fifth Avenue and Crr.iit Street, the other day, the pro; Is to be closed to the public In t1., j HKNRY CLAY FRICK. future. There is a high board fence about It, but during the Summer the gates have been thrown open and the place was used as a playground for the poor children In the down tows, districts. fc-trntiHtH Want Inquests. New York, Sept. 25. As a result f recont prosecutions agalnat mem bers of the Christian 8clenoe Church In cases where members have die-' without regular physicians havlr.c been called, the Board of Dlrectora of the Mother Church, in Boston, In. spired directly by Mis. Eddy, haf Issued this new by-law: Article XX., Section 8. Sudden De cease: If a member of the Mother Church shall decease suddenly with out previous Injury or Illness and the eause thereof be unknown an autop sy shall be made by quallSed ex perts. Woman in Man's Suit. Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 25. Dreesed In a man's yachting suit, Miss Bertha A. Goodwin, a lawyer, who was arrested here at the roquusl of the police of Plttabrrg, Pa., was arraigned before Judge Simpson In tho Municipal Court. She pleat'ed not guilty to being a fugitive from Justice and was held in $600 bonds for a further hearing September 27. Tore Down Flug. Richmond, Vs., Sept. 26. Robert A. Lancaster, who Is a well known banker of this city, recently ordered the American flag torn from t':o flagstaff planted by tho Association for the Preservation of Virginia An tiquities on Jamestown Island, and for This was summoned to appear be fore a court of tho War Department t Washington. Prefers Death to fiobrlery, Pittsburg, Sept. 25. Rather than go to St. Francis's Hospital and tuku treatment tor the liquor habit, Thom as McDermott, agod 65, a wealthy resident of Agnew, a fashionably suburb of this city, threw himself in front of a train on the Fort Wayne. Road and was ground to pieces.
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