THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO, PA. m m mi j 1 III and Nearly Dying at Viareggio, Correspon dents Pursue Her. WATCH HER WINDOWS ad She Rem a Criminal, She Says, She Couid Not Have liven Shad owed More Assiduously. Her House Bem-Ied by Self-Htylcd Journalist. No Memoirs. Vtarege'o. Oct. 31. Mile, de la Ranee, better known to English ayiaking i:"v.'l readers all the world ver us Ouid.t, has been residing bei e for i-"v:ral weeks past. Al most li:iiii;''.l; ((:ly after her arrival tn Vlares ;! M'le, do la Ramee fell HI. " Indfe..-.!, ;-:li was ailing when she arrived, Lining caught cold during a drive by nlht of nine miles from Xasharosa, uihl hliu hag been confin ed to her room for days. She was at death's door, but her health Is said to have Improved very much. It la, however, difficult to obtain precise and trustworthy Information concerning the celebrated novelist. She has been bo much incensed by the outrageous persecution to which the has been subjected by the Eng lish yellow Journals that Information la denied to all Inquirers alike, whether the inquiries are dictated by genuine respectful solicitude or by mere ciriosity. It Is dir.? i!t to convey any idea of the exttj: t to which this persecu tion has been carried. Had Ouida been a criminal she could not have been shadowed more assiduously. Her house in Msisparosa was besieged by self-etyled Journalists and cor respondent:; armed with cameras, which were kept in readiness to pho tograph any one entering or leaving the house and snapshot any face that might appear r.t the windows. Taft Rides Over nnjrulo. Bagulo, P. I., Oct. 29. Mounted oa a largo army mule. Secretary Taft rode over Ragulo. He Inspected the site of post Joan Hay, ranged ver the surrounding mountains and visited the sites of proposed govern ment building:" and extensions of the military post. Both the Secretary - v sZ v . ' . gins' ,ri WM. H. TAFT. . and the ruulc stood the hard two Hours' work well. General Wood favors enlarging the poet so at; to provide quarters for two reglmerts. Making the term of ,ervice in the island three years, he would use Bugulo as a recuperating place and rotate all units here dur ing tours. Washington Htatlon Opens. Washington, Oct. 29. The $4, M0.000 Union Station and Terminal la this city wui opened on Sunday, when the I iusburg Express over the Baltimore & Ohio pulled In. The Union station, which directly faces the Capitol and la within a few mlnuteo walk of It, Is owned Jointly by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroad. It will be used by all the roads entering Washington, including the Philadel phia, Washington & Baltimore; Southorn, Chesapeake & Ohio, Atlan tic Const Line, Seaboard Air Line, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg it Potomac. Meat to Be Cheaper. -Omaha, Oct. 30. Because of the financial flurry, food stuffs will drop ia .price at once says Edward A. Cud ahy of the Cuduhy Packing Com pany. Already the Cudahy Company has reduced the price of fresh meats 10 pet cent., and the) reduction should be felt by the consumer immediately, Mr. Cudahy alt predicts an imme diate decline In prices of produce and staple supplies The reduction in meats will bo felt in Omaha and the West immediately, and will reach blew York In leas than a week, i Liner Finlunri Disabled. Dover, England, Oct. SO. The Red Star Line steamer Finland, from New York. Oct. 19, for Dover and Antwerp, struck the western end of the southern breakwater while en tering thiH port. Rlie ruffercd ex tensive .rinmnr-.e to he;' hows, which will necessitate her remaining here for a duy or two. No lives were lost. ml 7 mill mm To Be a Vice Admiral. ' Washington, Oct. 31. The great battleship fleet which Is to go to the Pacific will probably be commanded by a Vice Admiral, and that officer is now Rear Admiral Robely D. Ev ans. Congress will be asked by the - v , tit ;''' tot ,. ,- yi v. .. , .. ! : ADMIRAL "BOB" EVANS. President to cpfnbliph thin r.mk In the navy for this purpose. Admiral Evans will sail In com mand of the most powerful fleet ever leathered under the American flag. He commands more battleships of modern type than any other naval oiocr In the world. The only officer wl'otip pennant floats over a more ni!T!'.irout fleet of all kinds of war !;!pe is Lor .1 Charles Bercsford. .7i:d;r' Grosscnp Troubled. Chicago, 111.. Oct. 31. Judge Pet er S. Gto.-scup of the United States Circuit Court Is very much affected by Lis Indictment for manslaugh ter by a Mattoon (111.) Grand Jury ia connection with the fatal accident on the Mattoon City Railway last August. Judge Grosscup was a heavy stock bolder and a Director In the com pany. It was asserted at Mattoon that the Directors of the company had not provided for an efficient management of the road. The friends of the Jurist are in clined to treat the matter lightly. Judge Grosscup looks upon It more Eerlously. Upon being Informed of the Grand Jury's action the Judge said: "Ah! this hurts. To say that I do not care would be untrue. Like any rightmlnded man, I do care. My friends, I am sure now that I have a teuder regard for human life and suffering and a desire to deal justly with all men. Talc of a Hog and a Hear. Manitou, Col., Oct. 29. There Is a suspicion that a nature faker has penetrated to the ranch of Grove Brothers, near here, for a strange tale has been brought from that place. It is said that while a huge Arkansas razorback hog battled for its life with a big brown bear, three unarm ed men watched. The boar, so the story goes, sneak ed upon the hog and was surprised when it gave battle. The brutes fought savagely for two hours, when they fell exhausted. The bear had enough, and after a brief rest crept away, while the hog raised up on his forefeet and glared at it. The hog's wounds will probably prove fatal. Waldorf Guest Killed. New York, Oct. 31. H. B. Potter, Jr., of Philadelphia, agent for the Michigan Commercial Insurance Co. of Boylestown, Ponn., was found dead In his room in tho Waldorf-Astoria. Coronor Harburger, who examined the body within an hour after It had been found, asserted that the man had been murdered. "I do not think that murder was committed In this hotel," said the Coroner, "but I believe that the man died as a result of a beating re ceived at some one's hands, and in which his skull was fractured." Tuts Bryan In tlio Field. Omaha. Oct. 30. "Certainly Mr. Bryan vviil be candldnte for the Dem ocratic nomination. He hasn't made much of a secret of his intentions along that line." Thomas Allen of Loncoln, brother-in-law of William Jennings Bryan and Chairman of the Nebraskan State Democratic Committee, mads this announcement of Mr. Bryan's candidacy. It is the first time a member of Mr. Bryan's family has Bbld unequivocally that he was a candidate. Iteceivers for Big Firms. Pittsburg, Oct. 30. Temporary receivers were named for three of the big companies of the Westing house interests, the Westlnghouse El ectric and Manufacturing Company, the Westlnghouse Machine Company tv.i. the Securities Investment Com pany, The business will go on undis turbed, and Pittsburg received the news calmly. New Comet Nears the Earth. Waphlnjrton, Oct. 80. Astrono mers at tho United States Naval Ob servatory have been making obser vations for tho Inst two weeks on a new comet, which has been named tho Melliuh Comet, from tho fact that itii discoverer was J. E. Mellish, a farmer of Cottage Grove, near Mad- tDOtl, Wl3. Dili III Covering Minor Happen Ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for the Busy Beiuler A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Boiled Down for Hasty PcrusaL. Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje replied to her husband's new accusations In their divorce Bult with charges of forgery and bribery. Secretary Taft's promise to apk for $200,000 appropriation for war bal loons aroused military experts to predict the construction of an aerial fleet. The leading newspapers of Cuba unanimously praise Governor Ma poon for his response to the appeals of the agricultural interests. Otto Kelsey, Superintendent of In surance, was again on the witness stand In the Investigation of his de partment being conducted at Albany. Wall Btreet reaped the benefits of tho Clearing House loan certificate plan and few calls came from cities that have also adopted the scheme. June was named as the approxi mate date of the next international balloon race, which will be started at Berlin, Germany. Appropriations amounting to $11, 825,000 were voted for by the Board of Aldermen. Three United States army oracers, members of a commission thnt at tended military manoeuvers in Eu rope, returned to New York. S. J. Small, deposed president of the Telegraphers' National Union, was hissed out of the meeting room of the local strikers. Dr. Houghton announced that hereafter secret marriages would be frowned upon at the "Little Church Around tho Corner." President Roosevelt requestod Sen ator Bourne, of Oregon, In emphatic terms to cease his third term pro paganda in the West. Secretary Taft cabled to the War Department that the entire system of Philippine defences must be re vised. Editorial comments of leading Am erican newspapers show widely vary ing opinions of President Roosevelt's relations to the financial situation. The Buck Stove and Range Com pany o" St. Louis applied to the Dis trict of Columbia Supreme Court for a temporary injunction against the boycott Instituted by the American Federation of Labor. Members of the Agrarian League refused to accept a government sal ary for service on the new Agricul tural Commission In Cuba. Dr. Walter R. Gillette, once vice president of the Mutual Life Insur ance Company, was sentenced to serve six months in the penitentiary for perjury in New York. At the International Aeronautical Congress, which opened here, Gen eral James announced that the United States Army Is planning for a fleet of air ships. Frcdelick L. Eldrldge, vice presi dent of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, is gravely ill with nervous breakdown and a fractured leg. Charles H. Rogers was convicted of murder in the first degree for causing the death of Frederick R. Olney, near Mlddletown, N. Y. Brown's Station and Ashokan, In the Adlrondacks, will be destroyed by building New York's water sys tem. Mrs. Samuel W. Peck, wife of a wealthy wholesale clothing merchant, and who is being sued for divorce, was for two years owner of a racing stable. Measures were taken to protect the gold and specie reserves of the financial Institution of the United States. Briquette as a fuel for navy use was tested by the torpedo boat Bid die off Hampton Roads. James Reddlck, chairman of the Republican County Committee, in Chicago, 111., was killed In an auto mobile accident. Westorn despatches said that In dian lands in the West were being filled by settlers from Iowa, Neb raska and South Dakota. Cardinal Gibbons, in a letter to the secretary of the coming Internat ional Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington, expressed the belief that science would succeed In stamping out consumption. Through efforts to obtain the re lease of Oliver C. Perry it was learn ed that the notorious train robber has refused for four years to eat any food. When Argyle Maclay, a member of the Christian Scientists, lay dying of pneumonia, in New York, a physician was called, but be arrived only a short time before the patient's death. The international balloon cup rac ended with the German balloon Pora rsern the winner, L'Isle de France Bicond, and the Dusseldorf third. Speakers before the National Civic Federation In Chicago favored go-', ernmental regulation of corporations. Llucoln Boachy won the contest for dirigible balloons In St. Iu1s, . Mo., making a flight around the three mile course in four minutes, forty seconds. Huge Whitney, a well known resi dent of Boston, killed himself with a revolver In his home following a period of ill health. Farmers mot In convention In Syracuse, N. Y., to discuss methods to reclaim abandoned farms In thH State. . . . . Teachers were forbidden to lobby at Albany by an amendemnt to Its bylaws adopted by the Board of Edu cation. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt and Consuclo Duchess of Marlbor ough arrived from Europe to attend the wedding of Miss Gladys Vauddr bilt. In a fight over the storing of in automobile a resident of Harlem killed an old time friend and partner in business. Three thousand firemen from flv States were reviewed by Chief Croker at a jubilee in Port Chester, N. Y. FOREIGN NEWS- The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wllhelm der Orosse reached Plymouth and there reported the loss of her rudder, as exclusively told in special wireless despatches. A special despatch stated that It was believed that Princess Barbara Loponkhin, who was rorted miss ing In London, was mistaken for an other person. The woman terrorist who murdered General Maxlmarsky was sentenced to be hanged. A new plot against tho Tsar was revealed. King Alfonso of Spain renched London safely, after a narrow escape from death or Injury In a wreck cf his train near Cherbourg, France. Count Adalbert Sternberg, Bohem ian representative In the Relchsruth, was driven from the Parliament by a mob of Austrian socialist Deputies, according to a special Vienna des patch. Secretary of War Taft, visited a mine In the Philippines, addressed the miners and promised reforms. Conservatives will rule in the third Russian Duma, the elections thus far Indicate, according to a spe cial St. Petersburg despatch. Great interest has been aroused in Vienna in the progress of the Von Moltke-Harden case in Berlin, ac cording to a special despatch. Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany, is dying at Salabrrg, ac cording to a special cable from Vien na. A special cable from London gives the details of the marriage of Miss Leila Paget and Mr. Ralph Paget, British Minister at Bangkok. Slgnor Toselll gave an interesting account of his courtship and his mar riage to the Countess Montlgnoso, formerly the Crown Princess of Sax ony, According to a special Pairs des patch, Mr, Farman made another successful flight with his aeroplane at Issy les Moullneaux. In Berlin the trial was opened of the libel action of General Count Kuno von Moltke, nephew of the great German Field Marshal, against the editor of Die Zukunft, Herr Max lmlllon Harden. SPORTING NEWS. "Alec" Campbell, of the home club, with a score of 144, won the Eastern golf championship on the Country Club links at Brookllne, Mass. General G. M. Smith, at a lunch eon to automobile show exhibitors, advocated, shorter wheel bases for cars. Richard T. Wilson, Jr., won the two principal races at Jamaica, with Monfort and Adoration. The Court of Appeals in the Dis trict of Columbia has granted an order for the continuance of a bet ting case at its December term. Thomas J. Gallagher led Oro Mornlngstar in the second block of a 2,400 point handicap 18.2 billiard match. Harry C. Pullman stated at a meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players that the outlaw game would receive no quarter. Punic in Harlem Church. New York, Oct. 31. While Borne 800 people, mostly women and child ren were looking at stereoptlcon views of the Holy Land in the audi torium of the Harlem Baptist Church at 215-219 East 123d. Street, some thing about the picture-making ma chinery set fire to some draperies and there was a panic. , A screaming Jam of women and children fought to get down two sets of winding stairs. Women were slammed against the side walls In the semi-darkness and children were trampled upon. Two little girls were seriously injured. Court Condemns Von Moltke. Berlin, Oct. 81. The Court ren dered Its decision in the defamation suit of Count Kuno von Moltke against Maximilian Harden, editor of Zukunft, and acquitted Harden. Count von Moltke was ordered to bear the costs of the trial, which amount to a large sum. . , , The Judgment was extremely pop ular with the people of Berlin, who were appalled by the disgusting reve lations of the doings of the so-called Knights of the Round Table, of which Count von Moltke was a member. ID Weird Tale of Men Treated as Beasts by Savages on an Island. MUST DRAQ PLOUGHS Man Who Ewcoped From Captors Stirs l'p AH Madrid Says Prison ers Are Whipped and Furnished Detestable Food Plight of An other Escaped Prisoner. Madrid, Oct. 30. A thrilling story, related by a Spaniard who recently arrived from Manila, Is nUructlii;; c good deal of attention In the Madrid papers. This man, who gives liis name as Uulguera, declares he w as on board the Spanish cruiser Rei:ia Marie Cristlna when she was wreck ed. He says that when the war s.ilp foundered and her crew of 627 tiieu wire thrown Into the water, tluui;li more than 300 were drowned, mauy wero saved. The survivors, he declares, were captured by Tagaios and taken to ! the Island of San Juan del Monte, ' In Bulaean province. Acording to ' lUilKiiera's story there are more tliau , four thousand Spanish prisoners on I tllfit island. Thev nro fuiTHil. lie I eas, by the natives t: drag their ploughs and are whipped and treated like beasts of burden, and the only reward they get are scanty rations of green corn. One of Bulguera's companions has also Just reached his homo, at Val encia, where he found that not only had he been presumed to be dead, but his wife had married again. Mathers 101st. P.li-f liday. Jenklntown, Ta., Oct. 29. Isaac Mather, the ' Grand Old Man of Chel tou Hills," reached his 101st birth day last Sunday and it was passed without any formal observance, for the aged man's condition Is such that it was deemed far from advisable to ISAAC MATHER, subject him to any form of excite ment. Last year, on his hundredth birth day, his picturesque old home In Washington lane, built by his grand father, Isaac Mather, on land ceded lo him by William Penn himself, and in which Mather has lived for ninety nine years, and thronged with friends from the neighboring towns. Made Gems by Radium. Paris, Oct. 80. A paper wa read before the Academy of Sciences on Prof. Bordass's discoveries based on the late Prof. Curie's observation that glass In which radium is en closed takes a magnificent azure tint. Prof. Bordass placed two francs worth of corundum in contact with radium for a month. He found that uucolored corundum became as yel low as a topaz, blue corudum became emerald green, and violet corundum sapphire blue. Corundum is an aluminum oxide, the colored varieties of which are the sapphire, Oriental ruby, Oriental topaz and Oriental amethyst. Europe Buys Much Wheut. Chicago, Oct. 31. The break in the price of wheat brought large Eu ropean orders for Immediate ship ment. Six hundred thousand bush els of red Winter wheat were sold here for shipment East. Chicago bankers regard this move ment as significant of the powerful aid which the West la bringing to the financial situation. They say that if the movement of the great staple continues to grow, . the obli gations of this country created abroad will be so large that it will be impossible for European banks to retain their gold, even by fixing dis count rates at the maximum. Man Asleep for Six Weeks. Peterson, N. J., Oct. 30 Suffer ing from a malady that physicians say sometimes affects men who work in mines, and which resembles "Af rican sleeping sickness," Joseph Koe ljus has been in a comatose stat in St. Joseph's Hospital for the las six weeks, and thus far has utterly failed to respond to treatment. Killed In Mlntako for Deer. Utlca, N. Y Oct. 81. John B. Morgan, a member of the firm of Williams & Morgan, leading furni ture dealers of this city, waB shot and Instantly killed at Kego Camp,' Sheriff's Lake, in the Adlrondacks. Mr. Morgan was mistaken for a deer. He was one of the most prominent buMneea men of this city. SLAIN AXI ROBBED OF P3.000. Rich Former Killed Near AtUntlo City Ilody Thrown Into Water. Atlantic City, Oct. 31. Murder, with robbery as Its motive, Is the the ory advanced by the police lu con nection with the death of Absalom Mageo, 60 years old a wealthy re tired farmer of Weymouth, this county, whoso body was found io lieach Thoroughfare, a stream much used by amateur yachtsmen of Chel sea, by William L. Boye, a clerk, who had started out In a launch for a Ashing excursion. The man's skull was fractured ami marks upon his throat Indicated that he had been trottled first and then beaten over the head before his body was trown Into the water. Ills pock ets were turned Insldo out. Cameron 1). Freas, a nephew of tlin dend man, Informed the detectives shortly after he was advised of bin uncle's death that the farmer came here yesterday afternoon with $0, 000 in his possession. RUSSIAN Glltli STOLEN. Daughter of a Police O.'Slelal IX sup. pear in London. London, Oct. 30. London is all acog over the mysterious disappear ance of a young Russian girl, Miss Barbara Lapoukhine, whore mother Is a Russian Prlneesa, and daughter of Alexander Lapoukhine, who was Director of the St. Petersburg pollco under Plehve. There are two theories of her dis appearance. One Is that she was kid napped by Russian Revolutionist.', out of revenge for the acts of her father while In his official position. The other theory Is that her kid nappers are not Revolutionists, bu: members of the Black Hundred:!. This theory seems tenable because her father played a notable and very honorable part In exposing the ma chinery by which the pogroms cr raids ngainst tho Jews have been or ganized. Favors American Brides. Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 30 William J Bryan lectured hero before a audience of 800 on "Tho Value of an Ideal." Mr. Bryan preceded his lecture by alleging that President Roosevs't was advocating certain of hla (Bry an's) policies, saying, "I am willing to lease to the President tho use of my policies at a nominal rental, re serving the right to use them myself at any time." Mr. Bryan denounced internation al marriages where these are simply contracts for the exchange of wealth for title. He also Bpoke of the de moralizing effect of the use of money as a means for tho corruption of nat ional political affairs, strongly advo cating a higher ideal in politics. Kills Friend for a near Ogdensburg, N. Y., Oct. 30 News has Just reached here of the shoot ing and killing of R. F. Forbes, aged 28 years, of Northfleld by Both Mc Calvin, aged 23, of the same place. Farbes and McCalvIn were hunting, and, becoming separated in the for est, Forbes, after doing consider able tramping and being very tired, sat down under a tree to rest. M Calvin, unaware of Forbes's where abouts, came wandering along, and the place being full of bear tracks, McCalvIn saw a form which he thought was a bear and fired. Tb bullet struck Forbes In the back of the head and killed him Instantly. Put 2,000 .Men Out of Work. Montreal, Oct. 30. It was report ed that by the end of the month at least two thousand men will be out of work through the partly closing down of the Angus shops, the manu facturing department of tho Cana dian Pacific Railway in this city, ft is the first move in carrying out an order of Sir Thomas Shaughnessy to cut down expenses. W. J. Payne Robbed of tjl t.OOO. Washington, Oct. 30. The police of this city received information that William J. Payne of Richmond, Va., President of the Newport News Gas Company, the Electric Company, and connected with other largo enter prises, while on his way from Wash ington to New York City was robbed of a leather grip containing $14,000 in bonds and stock certificates. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Produce Quoted for the Week. Wheat No. 3 Rd, I1.13J,'. No. 1 Northern Dulnth, fl.20. No. 3 hard, Winter, f 1.13. Corm No. 3, 7fto. No. 3 White, 77?io. Oats. Mixud, 60a White, 02Xa71o. Milk. Jo. per quart. Buttbu. Western, extra, 88a2Bc. . Firsts, SSaJQc. State dairy, nuost - 87a8o. Chbbsr. State, full cream, 15o. Eaas. Nearby, Fancy, 84u86c. State, Uood to choice, 89aS3c. Western, Firsts, !18a!loo. Bkbvks. City dressed, 8al0o. Cai.vks City dressed, 8al4o. Country dressed, per lb. 7al;ia. Shkbk Per 100 lb., a.60aQ.35. Hous. Live, per 100 lb., U.80a7.24. Hay. Prime, 100 lbs., (l.OSal.10. Straw. Long rye, 66a70o. Livb POULTUY.-rFowls, Per lb. alOa Chickens, Spring, per lb., alSo. Duckd, ' per lb., 12a 14a. Turkeys, al4o. Dubsseo poultry. Turkeys, per lb., lOulOo. Fowls, per lb., 12ul8o. Cbiokuus, Phila., per lb., i-ia.Ua. VaaETABUts. Potatoes, L. I., per bbl, 3.00a$3.83. Onions? White, per bbl., l3.60aH.no. Ltttann, per basket, S6eafl-8S. Tomatoes, per W, 86a76o,
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