6 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA CMSVTXAYI) OX IXSlHAXCn. ctiii Mnnng-erlal Abuses Bui Fralses Remedial Legislation. New York, Dec. 9. Addressing do unnual meeting ot the Associa tion of Life Iiiburatica President a, tbe Hotel Belmont on Friday: a"tornoon, Qrover Cleveland, chair B'.Ui' of tho organisation, sounded t v keynote as to the attitude of 1 s insurance companies toward leg- G ROVER CLEVELAND. litlon In various Mates. !!o spoke with unwavering dl txtnc:;s, I.'iylr.s Marno upon thoso irorunce company's whose counto u".dng of pracM.v.ne; of managerial .b-ises n fT .-':.!'.:. 1 the Initial causes rtlch oo'irtf.1 1n"iiry and Its at Mdant stirring up of public sontl l. ut. On tho other hand, Mr. Cleveland Tleod such K'b'li.latlnu ns ho hold o bo remedial In removing ovlla .lilch had grown up with tho exten lcn of tho l:f'.- insurance business. VTSK BOAT HAMS FEItRVKOAT. tai Itivci lloe.t Jills the Paltic la a Ik-nsc Fog. New York, Doc. 12. In a fog bo Stck and thick that one could not K9 a ship's length away tho Provi dence, one of the largest boats of the Pull River line, bound up the East Elver for Fall River, drove her steel atom into the guard and cabin on the women's side of the Baltic, of the Wall street ferry, crobsing the river to Brooklyn, at about ten minutes to alx o'clock on Tuesday night. In the panic on the Baltic one man Jumped overboard and waa drowned. There were at least one thousand men, women and children on the ferryboat, and the crash drove them to a frenzy. Men tramblod on wom n and child rena s they scrambled for the rife preservers and their cries heard on the Manhattan shore told first of the accident In the fog. As Wth vessels drifted down stream with the strong ebb tldeand the cries Crew fainter word was passed along tthe East River that a terrible dis aster had occurrod. Although me or two fell overboard 11 were finally rescued, save one nsja, who Is said to have Jumped in v the river. Even he, It is thought, ay prove to have been rescued by crme passing boat. An Unexpected Fortune. Ashevllle, N. C, Dec. 11. Miss Havllena Tompkins of Ashevllle, has found her Belt heiress to a large fortune left her by her father, whom she had never seen and knew noth ing r.bout. There was an estrangement be tween her father and mother many years ago, and the father had never been spoken of. Miss Tompkins has had to make her way In the world. She received a telegram calling her to her father's bedside at Fair field, Ind. Ko had an immense for tune, all of which be left to his daughter. John Mitchell uits His Job. Chicago, Dec. 11. John Mitchell, President of the United Mine Work ers of America, announced finally In Chicago, cu the eve of the annual election ot tho labor union of which he is the head, that he would not be a candidate for re-election. The voting, which will be concluded oe fore the end of the week In every coal mining town oast of the Rocky Mountains, will resul. In the choice of either T. L. Lewis or W. B. Wil son, as the succcsror of Mr. Mitch til. Boys JU'ul Submarines, Bogota, N. J., Doe. 10. Two lit tle toys In Jersey bad a wonderful escape . from death by drowning on Sunday, t. They lay for fifteen min utes under the Ice, unconscious In a .load here. The boys were John Nelson, aged sown, and hlu brother William, risen nine, of West view. With an other boy they were sliding cm the iao when they broke through and tank la eight feet of water. - The Ice was chopped for twenty foot before the bodies were found. The two boys were apparently dead when their bodies were brought Co shore. Dr. McFadden was sum moned. After . heroic moaca were used both were revived. Covering Miner Happen lugs from all Over the Glebe, HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled nnd Condensed for the Busy Render A Complete Record of European Despatch? and Im portant Events from Everywhere Boiled Down for TLnrtj formal. George A. ITIbbard, republican Postmaster at Boston, was elected Mayor by a plurality of 1,937 votes, defeating Mayor Fitzgerald, the dem ocratic candidate. Unofficial roporta were received In Washington to the effoct that anti Japancse feeling Is growing In Haw-all, owing to acts of the Japanese Consul General In Honolulu. Henry Youtsoy testified at the Powers trial that the defendant knew of the plot to kill Ooohel and picked the stairs by which tho slayeer es caped. Senator Aldrleh, for tho Senate Committee on Finance, took charge of all of the resolutions nuking an lnvosttpatlon of Secretary Cortelyou's financial relief plans. Fourteen battleships are lined up In Hampton Ponds preparatory to leaving for the Paelfle, leaving only two big fighters yet to arrive. The Oklahoma Legislature elected Messrs,. Owens and Gore, domocrats, as United States Senators. House leaders doclded to hold down legislation until after the hol iday recos of Congress. Resolutions by Senators Til man and Culberson relative to the ad ministration's financial policies were laid over for a day by th-i fenato. After a ten minute hearing in Newport, the wife of Major Charles Hall, a retired British army officer, was granted a divorce on grounds of non-support. David F. Walker, president, and J. D. Brown, vice president, of the California Hlato Deposit and Trust Company, of San Francisco, were arrestee on a charge of wrecking the Institution. Mrs. Emma A. Huntley drowned her two little grandchildren la a bathtub In her home In vmerrtlle. Washington despatches aiwtit that toe candidacy of Gorernor Rushes has been hurt by the apathy of his friends at the recent meeting of the Republican National Committee. Fifty-three more bodies were found, and the death list In the Mo-tto-ngah mine explosion was placed at four hundred. Great Increases In the appropria tions for the army and aary are asked under the new appropriations bills. Independent coke maltrs la Penn sylvania decided to replace foreign laborers with Americans as a result of statistics gathered showing that Americas are twice as useful at the ovens. Mrs. Sarah Goldstein, of Cleve land, Ohio, was thrown Into a trance through grief over her child's dearth, and physicians have failed to areuee her. Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary mt the Department of Commerce and Lab or, In his annual report made a plea foT the federal control of Industries. Dr. Alexander Graham Boll de clared In Braddock, C. B he had obtained data In his last airship ex periment that would probably reveal the horsepower necessary to propel aa aeroplane carrying a man. President Roosevelt was silent on the third term question when vis ited by members of the Republican National Committee in Washington. Secretary Cortelyou cut the re lief issue of 150,000,000 of Panama Canal bonds to $25,000,000. The New Jersey and the Virginia reached the rendezvous of the battle ship fleeet in Hampton Roads. Evidence in tho Gibbos will case In Newport, R. I., showed that Miss Glbbes had written that she waa persecuted by Bishop Doane of Al bany, N. Y. Severe legislation of the "Jim Crowe" type is under consideration In both houses of the Oklahoma Leg islature. President Roosevelt named Char les S. Fowler, Appraiser of Mer chandise, at New York, to succeed Nevada N. Stranahan, who resigned as Collector of the Port. Business men Interviewed in many of the countries and large cities, said that .President Roorevelt's mes sage had had little effect on the general situation. Harmony marked the meeting of the House Committee on Banking and Curreacy, members of which hat nearly the same Ideas regarding necssary legislation. Senator Knox was decl red to be the President's ideal candidate for 1908 at a dinner in Washington. Representative Knapp of Illinois, In an Interview at Washington, said tbe newspapers of the country bare a remedy for the increase In the print paper price at hand, being to raise their own rates. In a special wireless despatch it ts said that the Msuretnnla made low time because of bad weather, but the officers new are flghtlct hard to make s better showing. ronnin:-. The terrors of the sweaitr.op sys tem In England are belnj Investi gated by a commissioner of tho De partment of Labor In Washington, accorJlng to a special London de spatch. According to a special despatch from London, the eleventh hearing In the Druce case at the ClerHonwell Police Court developed more Inter esting testimony affecting the al leged dual identity of tho fifth Duke Of Portland. A musical stane training school Per rnsll'h girls Is to be openrd In Lon don under the manag;nuent of M, Eflouard de Resr.Xe, according to a Bpeclal london despatch. According to a speclnt despatch from Toklo, Viscount Aikl, Is now regarded s a rcapeKoat. ths govern ment having repudiated his pledge of an exclusion treaty with America and then recalled him. Trlpltf, Secretary of ths Admiralty, defended the proposal to shorten tho defndedthe proposal to shorten the age Urr.lt ef Qerman battle ships from twenty-five to twenty years. Mrs. William H. Taft had an ex citing trip on a harbor tender, w loh narrowly escaped belr.15 wreck ed, while carrying pasfienstora to the president Grant at Boulogne According to a special despatch, the International Aeornautlc Cup wan rescued from tho Ccrman cus toms authorities. Reports of tho Hamburg-American line showed the number of In niisranta returning to Germany to bo t'reatly increasing, says a special cablij. According to a special London de spatch bitter attacks on Wall street methods have appeared in the morning Post, According to a special Kerlln de spatch, Counts Lynar and Hohenau have been serretly tried for allegel connection with the Court Camarilla scandals In Germany. Tho destroyer Tartar, 9 British, torpedo boat, has beaten all records of verels ef her class, by steaming 85.852 knots an hour. According to a special despatch from Toklo, Baron Vaitahlra will succeed Vlseount AeM as Japanese Ambassador to the United States. Becretarr ef War Taft reached Berlin and after a short stay left for Flamburs to take a steamer for New Tsrk. President Roosevelt's nessaffe has 1 caused general disappointment .n financial elreles In Berlin, accord lag to a special dessateh. Pertugues agtta-tora have been forced fate snbmlselom and all is eulet tn the country, while King Carles rides rn the streets ef Lin boa wttfceut fear ef motostatJen, ao eralng to a s?eerkl sabre. eaeral Oneraefcelmma, gorer nor General ef Maweew, narrowly escaped death at the hands of a woman anarohrst, who hurled a bomb at him while he was driving, the thrower being mortalry Wound ed. King Osear has been forced to appoint the Crown Prisee regent of Sweden en aecoust ef 111 health, says a special despatch from Stoelc helra. The Mauretanla was battered by squalls on her first trip eastward, but made fair time, says a special wireless despatch. An airship smashed by a fall rn Ireland waa reported to be the run away French military balloon. La Patrle. Prince ven Bulww, the German Imperial Chancellor, won in a sharp fight with wavering national liber ale. Mrs. Ver St. Leffer Goold waa sentenced to death for the murder of Emma Levin, whose body was found cut up in a trunk. Her hus band will be Imprisoned for life. Mr. Taft was recolvod by the Tsar at tho palace at Tsarskoe-Selo. Lord Charles Beresford, at a din ner in London, urged better com radeehlp among naval men, said a special cable message. The specrai naval correspondent In England says that the Beresford Bcott Incident has now paned Into a phase which may read Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to haul down his flag as eeramaader of the Channel fleet. French chorus members In "The Prince of PlUjn." revolted at an at tempt to Introduce American meth ods, but were reconciled on the promise of better pay for better work, says a special despatch from Paris. General Stoonoel fought for his life at his trial by court enartial for tho surrender, of Port Arthur, accord fng to a special cable despatch, many Russian officers being present, the majority of them seeming to Arret fhe accused general. Mr. Franks, a special commissioner of the Department of Labor of the tfnited irtates, investigating the sweat Hop system In London, was furnish ed with a copy of the sweated indus tries bill and the views ot Miss Mary R. MaoArthur, to lay before his de I partment, aooordlng to a special cable I despatch. I! Uf 10 SI! J : r. r Ad m 1 rn 1 E vn n s Lea ves Yashington toTakeConi mand of Sea Fighters. OTJDER OF DEPARTURE OrncMl Commendation Heard Over the Promptness Wth Which the Sh'ps Have Been Assembled Rear Admiral Bprrry Reached Hanijrton Itonds on Onnday. Fort Monroe, Va., Deo. II.. Four more battle sMps are rr.oorod in Hampton Roads the Mlee, the Vermont, tho Missouri and the Khodo Island and the long double lino Is beginning to as sume tho appcaraneo that it will havn when It assembles under Rear Admiral Hvans, and pels ready for leaving for the Pacllic one wcok letter. Tho Rhode Island waa the Inst to anire, having mado tho record for tho k!-njth of time from her point of oeparturo. Rear Admiral 8perry and his wife reached here on Sunday morning. Washington, Dec. 10. Hear Ad miral Rob ley D. Evans, cornmandor-fn-clcf of the Atlantic fleet loft for Hampton Rohds. Final Instructions relative to tho loug cruise of the sixteen battleehlps have boen about completod. The ordor of the ships of the fleet will bo: The Connectlcut.Captaln Hugo Osterhaus; the Kansas, Cup tain Charles E. VreclanJ; the Ver mont, Captain William P. Potter; the Louisiana, Captain Richard WalnwriRht; tho Georgia, Captain Henry McCrea; the New Jersey, Captain William H. H. Southerand; the Rhode Island, Captain Joseph B, Murdock; the Virginia, Captain Sea ton Schroder; the Minnesota, Cap tain John Hubbard; the Chio, Cap tain Charles W. Bartlett; the Mis souri, Captain Greenllof A. Merr rlam; the Maine, Captain Giles P. Harber; tho Alabama, Captain Ten Eyck D. W. Veeder; the Illinois, Captain John M. Bowyer; tho Kear earge. Captain Hamilton Hutchlns; and the Kentucky, Captain Walter C. Cowles. BIUDGB COLtiArSTIS. Blerest of the Thfrty-fitx Who Fell In to Rtver Are Drowned. Harrlsburg. Deo. II. A half eom i pleted bridge which was being built by tho Stats across the north brunch of the Susquehanna River in the eastern part of Columbia County col lapsed at B o'clock en Tuesday after noon, and fell Into the raging waters, carrying with it thrrty-slx workmen. Of theeo twenty-five reached shore in afety by scrambling across ths de bris. The remaining eleven were drowned. Four bodies were taken from the swollen river, but seven have not yet been found. The bridge was being constructed by the New York Bridge Company of York, Penn. The contract for It was let a couple of years ago. The sub structures were entirely finished, and the flooring of the superstructure had boen completed half way across Am river. fBB00 Offer to RnfTali BiTl. Denver, Dec. 10. Speaking ot MTse Helen Mer's testimony in the Howard Goud divorce case rn New York. Col. William F. Crdy, "Buffa lo Bill," said that after the lawyers for the defence got through with her tho evidence that she gave will not amount to anything. Col. Cody added: "As for the press reports concern lag an offar for me to testify against tho character of Mrs. Gould, I was offered not $15,000 but $50,000 to testify, and I refused the offer. "I had an Idea that the stage need ed cultivation and advancement a few years ago, and bolievlng that Miss Clommons would be able to fill the void, I backed hor for that po sition. The results of that experi ment aro well known to the pub lico. I seemed to have played the wrong card." Eroher A it rated for Bribery New York, Dec. 12. Joseph H, Bulzbacher, a member of the Stock Exchange firm ot Joseph H. ' Bull baoher & Co., at 11 Broadway, was arrested at his home on Tuesday night on the charge of attempting to bribe a witness against him in a Grand Jury case to change his testi mony and to leave the Jurisdiction. He was arrested by Detectives Beery and Flood of the Dlstriot Attorney office about 10 o'clock and taken to the heme of Magistrate Corrlgan i West Fifty-seventh street, where he waa arraign oed. rrtne Law in New York. Nww York, Dec. 10. Under pa Roe svperrlslon New York spent last Sunday Just as Justice O'Oorman de clared the law Intended It should be spent. Not a theatre opened its doors. Throughout the city the O'Gorinaa decision was generally lived up to. Bxoept In Brooklyn where fire mov ing picture show were proteoted by. hijamjUons, cr. KI5Q OSCATt OF SWEDEN DEAD OTi ICIdort Son to Succeed to tho Throne a OnMaf V. Stockholm, Dee. 10. King Oscar dkd at $.16 o'clock on Sunday morning. He had been unconscious from I o'clock Saturday afternoon, at which time he spoke his last words, thanking his surgeor for re lieving his pain. He alao for a brief time recog nised Queen Sophia and Princess In geborg, one of his daughters-in-law, to whom he said "thanks" for some trilling service beforo he rolupwd into coma. Aftor this his strength steadily lessened. The members of his fam ily and tho court officials assembled at 8 o'clock In the room until the end. Queon Sophia sat by the bed Side and held hor dying huabnnd's hand. Shortly before ho died the aged Queen, who for more tha half a entury had been King Oscar's com panion and helpmate, knelt by the bedside and offered a short touch ftig r'ayer. t!;i! n?3' !&Vv' "v Jt vsS..- 2 - S 1 fc i 1 1 umimA htom7, ', rtmti KINO OSCAR OF SWEDEN. The Council of State was sum moned at 1 o'clock on Sunday af ternoon and the new King tool; the oath. He announced that he would take the title of Ouetaf V. and de clared that his motto would be, "With the people for the father land." WTLTOK HITJLK KOT RKXtTTB. Signatures of the Port aad His TTlfe Declared to be ForgeriMt. New York, Dec. 11. John Mil ton's Bible the Bible thet was be lieved have been the Bible ef hie eld age and the one that he need when he wrote "Parealee Lost" it rs now asserted was no. Milton's Bible afttr all. Handwriting ex perts declare that the signatures o fht Immortal writer or elc verse, as well as that ef his third wife, Elism bets. are both forgeries. The so-called Milton Bible, whloh has been pronounced pen hie by nj less an authority than Dr. W. Aldis Wright, Vies Master of Trinity Col legs, Carabrtsge, perhaps the high est living authority on seventeenth tentury literature, was sold at auc tion In New York last week, the purchaser being George H. Rich mond, a dealer in rare books, prints, and autographs, of Ttl.iy-Fcurth Street and Fifth Aenue. Mr. Richmond paid $1,226 for the book, which he expected to dispose of at a profit of several thousand dollar. Hughes Tnrns Ahrarn Owt, Albany, Dec. 11. Gov. Hughes has removed John F. Ahearu from the ofP.ce of President of tho Bor ough of Manhattan. Charges of misconduct oa the part of President Ahearn were published In the newspapers in the Fall of 1906, and Mr. Ahearn requested an Investigation by the Commissioners of Accounts, which was later ordered by Mayor McClellan. The report of the Commissioners was made to the Mayor In July, 1907. This severely arraigned Mr. Ahearn' administra tion. NEW TORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Produce Qaoted for the Week. W-No. 3 Rod, fl.01.4 He. 1 Northern Dnlnth, 1.18). Ooas No. I, 8o. Oats. Mixed. 48e. Whtte, 6aC8e. Mii.l. 4o. per qnart. BI'ttbs, Western, extra, WalSe. Firsts, 2C,a$7e. State dairy, finest a7s. Cirassa. State, fall omasa, ISo. Ikwa. Nearby, Faaoy, SaSQe. State, Uood So eeoioe, 8a48o. Wester, Firsts, 0a8Is. Bears. Oily dressed, 6a 10a Calvs City drstssd, SalOa Cava lry dressed, per lb. 8al8e. 9ansr. Per 100 lb., II.OOas.M. Hoos. lave, per 100 lb., I6.T4. Hat. Prims, 100 lbs., II. lo. Straw. Long rys, 6a70o. Lira rouLTnt. Fowls, per lb. al8fo. Chlekens, Spring, per lb., allo. Daohs, per lb., also. Turkey, Unaoe. PKsanaD fottltbt. Turkeys, per lb, mi 8c. Fowls, per lb., lallc Chickens, Phila., per lb., MaSSe. VaoxTABLBS. Potatoes, L. I., per bbl, 1.70u2.OO. Onions, While, per bbl, ga.60ai.B0. CRITICISM OF SAMARITAN. An eminent sociologist, of the nchool that Is extremely tired of "charity," and, for that matter, of most other oldfashloned things. Including the pol itical economy ot the schools, has ventured to criticise the Good Samari tan as deserving little of tho admira tion that has for centuries been lav ished upon him. Without denylg that It was n kindly, and even a commendable, net to go to tho assis tance of tho man who had fallen among thieves the eminent sociologist It Is Dr. Patten In "The New Bnsei of Civilization" complains that thn Samaritan philanthropist attacked tlio problem from the wrong end and nip'1.? no effort, fo far ns known, to put a: end to highway roblnry. What he should have done, accord ing to this authority, wni to start, not before ntlendlnR to the victim's Imme diate nerds, perhaps, but certainty very soon after, an encrgeMe nmvo. mcit for the proper policing and lie.! ln& of the road to Jericho. Tn othr words, Dr. Patten things that while the Samaritan my have been what Is ralV'd a rood citizen, there Is nothlri? In the parable to Indicate Ibnt he w.s nn rHlclent and therefore really valn ahle one. He dealt with nn effect, hut Irnorcd the enuse, and therefore Ms course tended rather toward the en enir it nient. of highway robbery than towatil Its suppression, since, so far ns It went. It prevented the Jericho m-id i'-c.m brine; fo strewn with the vleM"is of an evil syt'tem that the peneral pv'.'ie would be aroused to oncrpcUe measures. POISON FOODS! ' "How many seores of times Is a physician nsked in perfect Rood faith and childlike cotiflderne, 'Doctor, what In r cull y the best food?' and looked vron with pained surprise when lis endeavors to explain that there Ih no R'irh thing." writes Dr. Woods ITutrh-ltr-im in an article on "Poison Foods," In McClure'B. Dr. Hutchinson evl di at'y entertains little sympathy with th food reformers and prefers to side with the man in the street, who, he rays, "ns usual. Is right." Thero are a certain number of foods, Dr. Iiieh irson maintains, which have become staples all over tbe world among all races and peoples. These are, broad ly, the flesh and milk of three or four domesticated anlmnls; the egga of one species of domesticated birds; three preat grains wheat, rice and maize butter, fish, milk and sugar. The at tempt to convert Into staples what nre generally regarded as subsidiary foods such as peas, beans, nuts, cheese, oat meal, etc. an attempt which has been tried repeatedly by the diet reformers has Invariably failed. The reason for this, writes Dr. Hutchinson, Is on ly beginning to be seen In the light of recent laboratory experiments. These experiments havj revealed the surpris ing fact that many articles of food contain, combined with their high per centage of nutritive value, substances which, If taken In sufficient quantity, bohave p.s active poisons. POLICE DOGS. "Bloodhounds of the police" will tnvo a literal meaning when tho Bingham kennels of criminal catchers are officially opened. The plan of put ting animal man-hunters on the scent of offenders against the law has been rerommended and probably will he adopted, a test already made by the Detective Bureau being called satisfac tory. In the suburbs the bloodhound annex to the sleuth department ought to find its largest field of usefulness. Running down the guilty after a chase with dogs throuph the Subway and up the "L," In the Brooklyn Bridge Jam and down the bay on a ferryboat would bo attended with too many difll cultles. Whatever success may come from the experiment, it will not be possible for the bloodhounds to catch th scores of murderers whoso victims fell years ago and who have gone at lnr" through the failure of the Deteet've Bureau to persist in the search for them. Nor can tho bloodhounds be trained to tell the difference between "Waters of tho law who pay for pro tection and those who refuse to plve up. THE PHOTOGRAPH FIEND. It Is a maxim of tho common law that for every wrong there is a romedy somewhere. That, Indeed, is a maxim of human nature Itself, of whoso equalities the common law is an ex pression. It is agreeable to note that the ingenuity of men and women is gradually evolving protective arrange ments against what may be called camera trespass. The latest but not the last word on the subject came the other day from a woman witness in a trial of considerable Interest She ob jected to being photographed, and shielded herself from that possibility outside the courtroom by carrying an umbrella and wearing a mask of tbe kind in requisition for the winter masqueraoes. The old Impulse to smash the cam era or Its operator has much to rec ommend it, but it Is like the uneven struggle between a battleship and a swarm of torpedo boats; If a slnglo torpedo boat escapes destruction the battleship turns turtle. A single man cannot attack a dozen agile photo graphers with any hope of putting all of them out of commission. A woman has no chance at that game at all. al though one or two robust women have rocently done more execution than might have been promised. The mask and the umbrella are a bettor and cheaper protection; yet ev en they are incomplete. Add a barrel to the outfit and all tbe elements of security aro present.
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