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
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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.
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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.