THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA. 1 1. ffllL I Ex-President of Knicker bocker Trust Co. Shoots Himself in His Home. DIED UNDER KNIFE It Was Ills Sudden Retirement That Led to ttio Series of flunk Runs and lYiiipiiitu-d the Recent Panic Wound in the Abdomen. Acri 'dent fS.ijs Family Physician. New York, Nov. 21. Charles T. Barney, whose resignation from the presidency of the Knickerbocker Trust Company on October 21 was followed by the suspension of that company nnd the general panic )n which several other banks were ob liged to close their doors, shot him self at 10 o'clock on Thursday morn ing at his horn?, 67 Park avenue. He died four Lour r after an un successful effort had been made by surgeons to remove the bullet. Mr. Barney was conscious for some time after the shooting and he made the statement that it was an acci dent. Coroner Harburger, who ex amined all thi persons who were In the house at the time and the doc tors who attended the wounded man, rave It as his opinion that It was uicide, and so reported it to the Coroner's office. Coroner's Physi cian Philip F. O'Hanlon and Assist ant District Attornpy Manley, who also visited the Harney house, said that they believed the shot was acci dental. The Assistant Patriot Attorney and Dr. O'Hanlon based their opin ions chiefly on the character of the wour.d. It was In the upper left part of the abdomen and the bullet took an upward cour:-e until It lodged near the left nhouldur blade in the back, not f ir from the base of the neck. Dr. O'Hanlon said that he did not believe any man would attempt uicide by shooting himself in that way. Mr. Barney Lad been bard pressed by his creditors ever since the Knick erbocker closed Its doors. His friends aald after the shooting that tie had not beeu himself since hia retirement from the presidency. Hia lawyers had been working Cor two weeks on a plan wh'ci they hoped would save Mr. Barney from making an assign ment and give him a chance to work ut the long line of slow assets which he had. On the preceedlng Saturda7 the accountauts had completed an examination of Mr. Barney's condi tion and had. so his lawyers said, assured him that he had an equity of at least $2.2f.O,O00. After shooting himself, Mr. Bar ney conferred with his lawyers, Mas ten & Nichols of 4 9 Wall Street, and besides directing the drawing up of a new will,, gave directions about other important business affairs con nected with the thirty-four corpora tions with which he was connected. Having straightened out the most im portant of his business affairs, he was put under au anaesthetic and was operated upou. Then he died. SHOT TWO CHICKEN THIEVES. Owner of Coop Trapped Bobbers by Rigging up an Alarm SlgnnL New York, Nov. 20. An electrii alarm, rigged up in the chicken coop of Benjamin Van Tassel on his place, 5,700 Broadway, near the southern limits of Van Cortlandt Park, sound ed at 1.30 on Sunday morning. Lyman L. King, who works on tho place, took his revolver and went out to the coop. Within a few mln ntes he had taken snap shots nt two Italian, one of whom It was after wards found had three chickens in a bag. The first Italian, Nicholas La tosa of Klngsbrldge was sh.it through the head find died shortly after reaching Fordham Hospital. The other niads off, leaving a trail of, blood behind. At 10 in the morn ing a wounded Italian was found In the Van Cordlaudt Park Station of the Putnam Division of the New fork Central. He was Bruna Pe dulla of 4 5 Palisade Avenue, Yon kers. He, too, died in Fordham Hospital, later m the afternoon. The police and King are satisfied that Pedullu was the second chtck ea thief. King was held by Magis trate Crane '.n the .Morislana Court ia $5,000 bail to uwuit tiie Coro ner's liujue; t. Nine-ycar-uM u Hero. New York, Nov. lit. There were JO men around when ten-year-old Florence Hartmnn of 349 East 14!th street lost her balance an 1 fell Into Cromwell Creek on Sundoy after noon. But Jacob Schorer, 9 years old, if the same address as Florence, ran (own the embankment Into the wa ar and caught hold of her dress as .ae was being carried out lata tho itream. Jacob pulled and tugged und fin ely got Florence close to the em bankment, where he held her head ibove water until she could recover ter breath. Then ho called to hev ral other little boys and girls for elp and by their united effort the '.ttle Hartman girl was pulled out .if the water. Last night she was i-ld' to bo none the worse for her exuerlni. . POPE ON AMERICAN YOCTIt. Have Excessive Liberty, He Snys, In Discussing Maloney disc. Home, Nov. 20. "The excessive liberty granted to young people In America may lead to unpleasant re sults." This opinion was expressed by Pope Plus X. In conversation with Cardinal Vincenzo Vaunutelll about POPE PIUS X. the ense of Mrs. Helen Maloney Os borne, daughter of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia. Because of the prominence of the Maloneys nt the Vatican Court, there has been much interest In the details that have been printed here of the trip to Europe Miss Maloney took with Clarkson and her previous mar riage to Osborne. The Pope was deep ly pained when the matter came to his attention. Hit VAX SAYS HE'LL RUN. Won't Ho Headed Off by Pnrty Lend ers or Newspapers. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. IS. The first positive declaration by Mr. Bryan on the subject of his attitude to-" ward the Democratic Presidential nomination of 1908 appears in the latest Issue of the Commoner. In a prominent editorial place, under the heading "Mr. Bryan's Position," Mr. Bryan makes the subjoined state ment. It Is a guarded announce ment that ho Is a candidate, and while he makes it plain that he would not accept the nomination except on a platform to his liking, he Is not to be considered as personally seeking the nomination, but Is willing to take it if the rank and file of the party ask him and desire him to make the race A paragraph In the statement reads: Mr. Bryan will not ask for or sso.k a nomination, and he will not assume to decide the question of his avail Iblllty. The only question that ougnt to weigh with the party la whether the -party ran be strengthened and aided more by his nomination than by the nomination of some one else. , Old Friends Greet Weston. Erie, Pa., Nov. 19. Edward Pay son Weston arrived here on Friday evening nt 7:30 o'clock and went to the National Hotel, where he stopp ed on his former visit to Erie, forty years ago. As soon as h.o had eaten supper Weston started for the Casino and it was with difficulty that the jio lice forced their way through the doors when the pedestrian entered, udn it was with difficulty that the po lice forced their way trhough the crowd and made a passage for Wes ton. He was greeted with prolonged cheers and for about ten minutes held the attention of tho audience, telling them of his trip nnd his for mer visit to tills city. First Woman Editor Dead. N.nv York, Nov. 18. The flrrt wi man editor of a woman's magazine In the United States Is dead nt her liome in this city nt the nge of '.:,. ;?!ie is Mrs. Harriet Farley Don'.evy. Biid died on Tuesday. As Harriet Farley, years nso. Mrs. Donievy ed'.ted The Lowell Offering, a magazine the contributors to which were for the mi.st part operatives fn the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass. Her brother, the late Judge Massilon Far ley, wns a friend of Sam Hourton, and was Identified with the early his tory of Texas. Mrs. Donievy was a friend of the poet Whlttlor and other prominent llten;ry figures of many years ago. Prison for Mrs. IUtmiidk:!. Chicago, Nov. 10. Mrs. Evelyn Romudka. who is the wife of a weal thy merchant of Milwaukee, and who waa recently Indicted for burglary and larceny, was sentenced on Fri day to tho penitentiary for from ona to twenty years by Judge Brentano. Her counsel declared In court that she was being "railroaded" to prison for the purpose of shielding other persons. The trial lasted eleven minutes. V V; r , V . 1 ' a i rjirf ""if r ' -J iv - . i ,f Covering Minor Happen ings from ail Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for tJiO Busy Reader A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Boiled Down for Hasty Porusnl. The doparturo of the battleship fleet for the Pacific wilt cause eBM thousand workman In Eastern nnvy yards to be thrown out of employ ment. Mrs. Annlo M. Bradley told at her trial In Washington of her life aud Brown. Secretary Taft left Vladivostok for St. Petersburg on a special train provided by the Tsar. Tentative plans for the President's review of the fleet at Hampton Roads embrace a personal Inspection of the larger vessels. The American Federntlon cf Labor voted for the exclusion of nil Asiatic labor from the United States. Washington despatches assert that President Roosevelt would make his coming message to Congress calm In tone. More federal aid In fighting the plague was asked by the San Fran cisco municipal authorities. Alexander Graham Bell launched his new air ship, which he believes will solve the problem of aerial navi gation. Mrs. Reese, wife of a wealthy resi dent of Altoona, Pa., was rescued In Pittsburg from a Chinaman who had drugged and kidnapped her. Charges that the new Eastern rate on lumber, fixed by the Hill and Harriman roads, as excessive, were made to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Michael McCabe, a miner, was res cued after spending eighty-seven hours buried hundreds of feet below the surface In a mine. President Roosevelt addrecsed the delegates of the Central American Peace Conference. Friends of Senator Foraker, of Ohio, declared that he will announce his candidacy for the republican Presidential nomination following the report on the Brownsville affair. Anthony N. Brady's sale of a "paper" railroad to the Metropolitan Securities Company was Investigated by the Grand Jury. More traffic squad experts again placed the blame for street car block ades squarely up to the street rail way companies. FOREIGX NEWS- Charles Dickens revealed the se cret that the Fifth Duke of Port land and Thomas Charles Druce wero Identical to Miss Robinson, the sec retary of Thomas Charles Druce, in Hyde Park, she testified in court, ac cording to a special London de spatch. The Mauretania made good tlnio despite a strong gale at sea and rode the waves steadily, says a special wireless despatch. A special Paris despatch announ ces the death of Baronne Adolphe de Rothschild at her chateau near Ge neva. A special despatch told of a dally financial paper which was started In Paris this morning. A special dispatch from Paris gives a French view of the monetary crisis In America from the Figaro. Within an ace of winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of DO.OnOf. with his aeroplane, Mr. Henry Farn man finally lost It after ten nights, according to a special Farig de spatch. Robert Caldwell again testified in the Druce case and Mlss .Auna Rob inson told of her meeting with Charles Dickens, says a special ca ble despatch from Ixindon. Four conspirators were slain in a pltohed battle between the Rus sian police and a band of revolution ists, says a cable despatch from St. Petersburg. German bankers decided to refuse any loan to Japan, according to a special cable despatch front a cor respondent in Berlin. A special Paris despatch gives de tails of the activity of the aeronauti cal world In France nnd of the rival ry of the heavier than air and lighter than air schools. Mr. James B. Reynolds, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. Mar lon de Vries and Mr, Byron S. Walte, who served as a special commlssU.n to study tariff problems abroad and who are about to roturn to the United States, report that their work was quite satisfactory, according to a special despatch. The prospects of cotton growing In German East Africa, which the Ger man Colonial Secterary, Herr. Deri burg, considered good, are not now regarded In the same favorable light. A special despatch from St. Peters burg announces the opening of the Duma. A special London despatch says that the Earl of Crawford Is taking I Mr. Allison V. Armour, on a five months' cruise In his yacht to the East. A special Paris despatch liays that fifty tourists bound for home by the Barbarossa are delayed at Cherbourg by the non-arrival of the liner there on account of the fog. M. Santos-Dumont, says a special Paris despatch, has built a new aero plane, with which he will attempt to regain the laurels which he has lost to Mr. Farman. Little enthusiasm marked the re ception of Emperor William In Lon don, where he was welcomed at the Guild Hall. The Gorman Emperor has decorat ed Professor Robert Koch, who hits done so much to find relief for the vnst numbers In Africa afflicted with the "sleeping sickness." SPORTIXO NEWS. The British Lawn Tennis Associa tion Is considering a change in the rules whereby players shall keep both feet firmly on the ground In serving the ball. The total number of qualified marksmen at Creedmoor Is 1 12,027. greater than the phenomenal record of last year. A red fox led the Tippah hounds n lively chase over the Long Island course. A run of losing favorites was checked nt Pfennings when Tim Squire defeated Barrister in the third race. The American Athletic Union of the United States hus passed a new rule governing college athletics. Bitten by a .Moirie and May Die. Taunton, Mass., Nov. 19. Michael Mullon. a mill operative, while at work saw a mouse run across tile al ley. He caught It by the tall. He hold it aloft so that the girls could see and salt', when they screamed, "Why. that poor little thing couldn't hurt a flea." He pinched the mouse's tall to hear It squeal. The mouse turned on him and bit the index lin ger of his right hand. Blood poison has now set In and the bitten finger was amputated on Friday last. Phy sicians say the poison has so worked through his system that death may ensue. Shoots 18 KabbiN with His Teeth. Hanover, Pa., Nov. 19. Although he has no hands Abraham B. Meyers broke this season's record for the most successful one day's hunt In York County, when he brought home on Friday twenty-three rabbits, eigh teen of which he had killed himself, while his companion, possessed of both arms, shot only five. Meyers holds his gun by a ring under the ttock large enough to admit the stump of his left arm. while to the trigger a snap is attached the end of which he grips In his teeth. To Hold Delegates Washington, Nov. 21. Presllent Roosevelt, It has become known, Is determined that, so far as he Is con cerned, there shall be no repetition of the Minneapolis Convention of 1892, when the 400-odd Federal office-holding delegates forced tho nomination of President Harrison. To that end he has passed the word that no Federal office holder snail go to the Republican National Con vention next year as a delegate in structed for him. Priests 12 Cents n Day. Madrid, Nov. '20. There was a lively debite In the Chamber of Deputies on the motion of Deputy Salavary to Increase the salary of the priests resident In the country vhich now average only 12 cents a day. ; The motion was defeated by 116 votes to 14. Jersey Paymaster Held Up. Passaic, N. J., Nov. 18. Four armed Italians at 2 o'clock on Fri day afternoon held up William Knapp, paymaster of the Worthen end Aldrich Company, bleachers, of Delawanna, and robbed him of $7, 503. The robbery was committed at a lonely spot oa the river drive, on the outskirts of Passaic. Xo Ijiick of Cas!i in Cuba. Havnna, Nov. 19. The bankers are not taking the loan of J5, 000, 000 offered by Gov. Magoon. This cir cumstance Is taken to show that the country has plenty of money. The sugar crop this year will prob ably be one-fifth less than it was last year owing to the drought. Thread Profit $13,280,(12,1. Pawtucket, R. I. Nov. 19. The profits of the J. & P Coats Company, Limited, manufacturers of thread, for the year ending June 30 last, are announced as 115,280,625. It was the most successful year In the his tory of the concern. $10,000 Tip from Kuiser. London, Nov. 20. Before leaving Windsor Castle Monday for High cliffe Castle Kaiser Wllhelm left no less a sura than $10,000 to be di vided as tips among the servants at the castle, the gamekeepers and the stable attendants. Kalvlnl Is Seriously 111. Florence, Nov. 21. Thomas Sal vlni, the actor, la seriously 111 of un affliction of the heart. In view of his advanced age much anxiety is felt concerning the outcome. BE lllll EBilS, i Episcopal Churchmen Vote To Restore "In God We Trust." PASSED RESOLUTION Meanwhile President Roosevelt At Washington Made Public n Letter Giving His Reasons for Abolishing the Phrase on Money. Snys It Provokes to Jest nnd Ridicule. New York, Nov. 21. While Presi dent Ri.osfveli, in Washington, was publicly avowing responsibility for the order that banishes the old-time motto, "In God We Trust," from the new gold currency the annual con vention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, in session at St. John's Cathedral, on Mornlngslde Heights, wi:s putting on record a vote of protest. It was not a unanimous protest, however, and the debate that pre ceded the vote wns one of the most acrimonious In the convention's his tory. But by 131 to 81 the cham pions of the motto carried the reuo lution that the motto should be re stored. Washington, Nov 21. In nr.sver to numerous protects President Rooi evelt hns written a signed let ter which he made public. The let tel follows In part: "When the question of the new coinage came up we looked Into the law nnd found there wns no warrant therein for putting 'In God We Trust' on the coins. As the custom, al though without legal warrant, had grown up, however, I might have felt at liberty to keep tho Inscription had I approved of Its being on the coin ago. But as I did not approve of It, I did not direct thnt It should ngaln be put on. Of course the matter of the law Is absolutely In the hands of Congress, and any direction of Con gress In the matter will be imme diately obeyed. At present, as I have Bald, there Is no warrant In lnw for the Inscription. "My own feeling In the matter Is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use It In any kindred manner, not only does no good but does positive harm, and is in effect Irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege. Crazed Girl on Roof. New York. Nov. 20. The specta cle of a young woman skipping and dancing on a stone ledge little more than three feet wide and only ten feet beneath the roof of the Revere arpartment house, at 14 2d Street and Seventh Avenue, which It com pletely encircles, caused a frightened and wondering crowd to collect in Seventh Avenue and 14 2d Street on Monday morning. She was rescued from her perilous position by lire men. Later she was taken to Beile vue for examination as to her san ity. ' Demand for Federal Notes. Washington, Nov. 20. Imme diate and approving response has been received from all over the coun try to the action of the President and Secretary Cortelyou in announc ing the sale of $50,000,000 of Pana ma Canal bonds and the Issue of 1100,000.000 of treasury notes as means of restoring public confidence and putting an ned to the money stringency. Elevated Ruilroad Wreck. New York, Nov. 18. A score of persons were seriously hurt and one was fatally injured on Saturday when an empty Interborough Rapid Transit Third avenue train, backed from the yards at One Hundred nnd Seventy-ninth street, crashed into a northbound train loaded with pas sengers, catapulting upon the for ward car Just as it was leaving the Tremont station. Panther Eats a Woman. Columbia, La., Nov. 19. While on her way to visit a neighbor on Fri day In a wild region ten miles west of here, Mrs. Annie Valentine, wife of u farmer, was killed and devoured by a panther. Her husband, alarmed nt the wo man's prolonged absence. Instituted search and found his wife's head and her skeleton, picked bare of the llosb, in a clump of bushes. For it Chair of Forestry. New Haven, Ct., Nov. 20. At tho November meeting of the Yale Cor poration on Monday It was announ ced that a gift of $00,000 had been received from Frederick C. Weyer hauser of St. Paul. He represents the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and the gift wil go to the support of a Chair of Applied Forestry and "Practical Lumbering In the Y'alo Forestry School. Banker's Hon Kidnapped. Hackettstown, N. J., Nov, 20. Under threat of being shot to death If he made an outcry, Harry Welsh, a son of Mathlas T Welsh, tt banker of this town, was captured by kid nappers Saturday night and carried two miles Into the niouutaius. There he broke away from his captors nnd, knowing the rough and wooded country better than they, succeeded in making his way home, niLL OX HUSIXERS CRF.IMT. Great Northern Head CondeiiiiH ,t. tack on Railroads. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 21.- clarlng that attacks on the buRimi systems of the country must ee;is-, i that the "malice of disturbers" in' I misrepresenting the condition of fie ' country's railroads must be over come and thnt the American rnKuuy man hns everything to be proud of In having built lines costing half an much as other eountrios, charnin Vf7 V?1 w -.wi.v j' - V'- . . v-V(ft..-''s: JAMES J. HILL. rates one-third to one-half r.r, r. nnd yet carrylii;; nearly dfiMi business and paying double wages, Janus J. Iiiii, at tho v.. banquet of the Commercial Cl,s, Tuesday spoke plainly eu th.' t. clal and business outlook of country. His subject waa the "t mercial Di velopim nt of the M . n',.1 sippl Valley," nnd the Great X em's hend was listened to with i attention nnd Interest. :' .i- SI-Yeiir-oId Boy Smoke. Boston, Nov. 21. Past-engerr. n.n the Red Star line Marquette, wli ra arrived from Antwerp on Tue iay, were greatly amused durlny the .;. ago by a three-year-old boy who tvui- tlnually puffed a long German ,i . Master Tralan Laczl is a Rouman ian who Is on his way to Pltts'iurj; with his mother to join hh; fa.li-;. 'Won't It interfere with his growth?" asked an anxious mother of one i f the deck stewards. "No; he was weaned on It," -aii the steward. "Does his mother know he smokes?" asked another. "She ought to. She Oils his pipe for him with tobacco that looks Iikvt cabbage leaves Roumanian tobacco, I Btippose." Has un Ethiopian .Soul.. Chicago, Nov. 20. Mrs. EvehT Romadke. wife of the Milwaukee mil lionaire, awaiting trial here on fivs Indictments for burglary, has an Eth iopian soul, Dr. Alex Gustafson says The doctor is the alienist who hai treated the young woman In Jail. "I nm sure," said the alienist, "that this woman Is possessed by an Ethiopian spirit, which has absolute control over her actions. She Is ab solutely Innocent of wrongdoing, ex cept when this spirit overpowers her will and forces her to do Its bidding." Roosevelt nt Madison's Old Home. Washington, Nov. 21. President Roosevelt wil spend Thanksgiving at President Madison's old home, t.t Montpelier, Va. He will start in ths morning and return before dark. His custom of late has been to g' to Pine Knot on Thanksgiving i.v.i shoot. His visit this time to Mont pelier Is his desire to see the h.m o of one one of his famous prcdivos Bors. Women Write P.nd Books. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 18. Baptlst Congress on Thursday cussed "The Ethics of Preuent d!f D.i.r Fiction." Tho Rev. Dr. A. G. I son of New York declared that V.M- men are chiefly rcsponsibl for n :tu :i the r.t .. that is bad in tho literature of day; that they write most of wh bad, and that they read u good of it. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Prodacu Quoted for tin Week. Wheat. No. 2 IH, $1.01 No. 1 Northern Dnlnth, 1.0.'5'8'. No. i hard, Winter. 91.01. Cokn No. 2. Hfi'fo. No. 2 White, CT'Jc Oats. Mixed, 62n. White, BS'hROc. Milk. 4c. er quart. Butter. Westeru, extra, 2Sa2S'ge. Firsts, !i8aL'"o. Stute dairy, finest 24a7u. Cmrksb. State, full cream, Iflu. Ecms. Nearby, Funcy, 45u50e. Stats, Clood to choice, 8a43o. Western, - Firsts, H0h3 .'o. ' Ekkvbs. City dremed, 8al0?o. Calves City dressed, SaUo. Country . dressed, per lb. 7al2a Siikkp. Per 100 lb., $U.50a6.00. ' Hoas. Live, per 100 lb., fi.40a5.73. Hat. Prime, 100 lbs., fl.10al.12. Straw. Long rye. (15a80o. Litb poultry. Fowls, Per lb. altkj. Chickens, bpriug, per lb., alSa Ducks, per lb., lia.Uo. Turkeys, alio. Dkbsnbd poultbt. Turkeys, per lb., UtalHo. Fowls, per lb., Bal5o. Chioktuis, Philn., per lb., 22a83o. Vboktaiilbs. Potatoes, L. I., per bbl., 2.0ta$i.2S. Onions, White, per bbl., ta.60a3.50.