THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA ISI1! K HE On the Mayflower he Starts the Battleships Out to Sea. EVANS IS CHEERFUL. Farewells from Wivca and Sweet hearts Men Adjured, to I'phold the Dignity of Their Country Talk About tlio Detachment of Japanese Attendants. . Fort Monroo, Dec. 19. From the Mayflower President Roosevelt gave the orders at Hampton Roads at 10 o'clock on Monday morning which started the fleet of sixteen battleships off for the Pacific. The President nnd his party left the Navy Yard at Wash ington at 3 o'clock on Sutday after nooa to be present at the start of the fleet and lead the ships out to sea. Accompanying thn President were Secretary and Mrs. Metcalf, Assist ant Secretary and Mrs. Newberry, Rear Admiral and Mrs. BrowtiBon, Commander nnd Mrs. Sims, Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Kthel Hoosevelt, Miss Corinne Robinson, Miss Hagner auJ Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles. The despatch bout Dolphin sailed several hours earlier with members of the Congressional Committee on Naval Affairs aboard. They were f ft i J. Hi 1 L I t h Is X K IP ft tW- ti ll: .... jf J&Ltokb. It PRESIDENT ROOSKYiiLT. Senator McKnery n: Representa tives Roberts, Loud, Hates, Thomas, )f Ohio; Dawson. Pargett, Foss, Oouisns, Grc;;g, W. W. Kitchin and .Sutler. They were the guests of assistant Secretary of the Navy New jury. As soon as the Mayflower took up aer position in the Roads Rear-Admiral Evans boarded her for final or iers. The fleet put to sea at 10 V. M. The review was what is ;nown in the Navy as a "running re- iew." The Ma flower steamed to he head of the battleship fleet and nder the President's orders, hoisted he sailing signal. Thn fleet then ailed past the Mayflower, the bund f each ship playing the "Star Spar. ,Ied Banner." Ttie sides of each hip was lined with sailors, each of icer was at "attention" mid the president stood with bared head The signal to "get under way" was own from the flagship Connecticut aamediateiy upon the return of the omniundlng officer from the May ower. As each ship passed the layflower, with the President on oard, she fired a National salute. Shore liberty for the sailors ended t 10 on Sunday morning, and at list hour the enlisted force of each !llp numbering nearly 1,000 to the mpany, lined up at quarters to 11s in to the leading of the Articles of Var. Admiral Evans was In a partleu . happy frame of mind all day Sun ay. lie received numerous friends t Old Point and spent the greater i -' ' r ,! re- ADMIRAL POn EVANS. art qf the duy at the Hotel Chara erlin, where his wifa, daughter, Miss) 'lrginia, and Mrs. Marsh, another aughter, are staying. He was the centre of a group of Wt-Yirgtnia friends In t.hg Chamber- lln In the afternoon when one of them temarked: "Well, Hob, I suppose your men will give a good account of them selves?" Evans's usually sterp fare broke In to a slnile ns he again used his now famous expression, "Pet your North American life." The wives, the mothers, the daugh ters, the Bisters and the sweethenrta who had arrived during tLo latter portion of the week, withheld their motions during Snniay. Everyone tried to look cheerful and all succeed ed fairly well. Hut down deep un der the surface there was a general feeling of depression, which showed Itself In the morning after the can nons began to boom the farewells. There Is much talk in the fleet about the wholesale transfer of Jap anese attendants. The Japanese set BRhore are In clined to bo angry. They aay that the most of the Japan ese did not care to make the lone voyage with the fleet, but they think they were treated unfair In being subjectd to suspicion, for In that light they view their detachment. roru m.vki:s i on; cai;dix.i,s. Only Pplscopul Honor for Ameri cans; No lted Hat. Rome, Dec IS. The Pope, In an allocution delivered at a secret con sistory, at which four cardinals were created, declared Mondr.y that the Roman Catholic Church was attack ed on all sides by open or dissem bling assailants. Her rights and laws were trampled upon, while tu Impious and vulgar press waged war against her. The consistory opened with the customary homage to the Pope by kissing his hand ns he sat enthroned. The Pope then offered a simple prayer. The name of each nominee for the cardlnalate nnd bishopric was read out, the Pope inquiring the opin ion each time of the cardinals, wlio gave assent by raising their red caps. The new cardinals appointed are Mgr. Pietro CJasparri, secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs; Mgr. Do Lai, secretary of the Congregation of tho Council; Mgr. Ludovic Henry Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, and Mgr. Paul Pierre Andrieu, Archbishop of Marseilles. The Pope mnde official announce ment also of the appointment of Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the American Col lege here, to be Titular Bishop of Adrianopolis, and the appointment of Mgr. Dennis O'Connell, rector of the Catholic University at Washing ton, to be Titular Bishop of Sobaste. Starved Himself to Death. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. Re fusing to eat or take medicine for two weeks in order that he might reach heaven quicker, Harry H. Booker, founder and leader of "The Gift of Tongues" religion cult, died on Sunday morning nt the Chicago Hotel. At the mission his wife,' now in charge, said: "My husLaud's death was for the good of the cause." Bunker Dead in Ba(IUul). North Attloboro, Mass., Dec. 19. Frereriek E. Sargeant, cashier and vice-president of the Jewelers' Na tional Bank, was found dead In the bathtub in his apartments on Tues day night. Medical Examiner Holden after viewing the body expressed the opin ion that death was due tr accident. Mr. Sargeant's death following closely after an examination of the bank's books by Bank Examiner Cur rier, interested the directors and a long conference was held at the bunk later. Miracle? in C'hui'cli. Paris, Dec. 19. What appears to have been a first-class miracle is re ported from the French village of Brin, where, after the celebration of a mass on Tuesday, the priest sud denly noticed a perfect linage of a Christ head In the monstrance. Doubting his senses, he first call ed his assistant, who also paw the Image. Lord Kelvin Dead. Glasgow, Dec. lit. Lord Kelvlu one of the. greatest scientists and oue of the ablest men of the age, did here at 10.15 o'clock on Tu-'.-id.iy night. He suffered from a chill a fortnight ago. On Wednesday last serious compile;, lions d" elop with but an occasional rally. Ha lost, consciousness Tuesday a ftcrnuoif and passed away peaceli'illy. No Philadelphia Opera House. Philadelphia, Dec. 11). Oscar Hum nierstein, who planned to build nn opera 'house here and who bought for $1jO,0OU a site at Braid und Poplar streets, telegraphed iiis agents on Tuesday to put u "for sale" sign on the property. Sees Wife' Slayers Die. Trenton, Doc. 19. Edwurd Hor ner, a Camden county farmer, 65 years old, witnessed on Tuesday the death In the tdctrlc chair of Charlos Gibson and Stephen Dorsey, negroes, who after firing his barn, murdered his wife and servant, Victoria Natoll, end robbed his home. Covering Minor Happen Ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Compiled and Condensed for tho Buy Reader A Complete Record of European Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere) Roiled Down for Hasty Porusnl. The Atlantic bottle rh'p fleet was rc orte-l ninety miles southtast of Cape HattPias on Tuesdny night, with fine weather. Senator Piatt sail, In regard to Governor Hnp'ios, that he do ihted whether the New York delecat:on would support n man who was not avowedly n enndidnte for the Presi dential nomination. Secretary Cortelyou nnd S i'ie tary Metcalf are confined to their beds, victims of a grip rpl lemic, which prevails in Washington. The Commission appointed by Governor Huchcs to Investk'n'e t'. o State b nnklng laws, recommend sweeping changes in the Ft'tut s. Tho one hundredth nnnt vorcary of the birth of John Croenlcaf Whit tier, W03 observed throughout New England. Bids for dirigible balloons to main tain a speed of twenty miies an hour have been asked for by the War De partment. Secretary Taft, homeward bound on the steamer President Grant, re ceived a wireless message, telling of President Roosevelt's refusal to run for a third term. Construction of the 20,000 ton bat tleship Dakota, waa begun ttt tho Fore River ship yards in Qulncy, Mass. Many miners were killed in a coal mine wrecked by a mysterious explo sion in Yolande, Ala. Controller of the Currency Ridgily In his report, urged the establishment of a central federal hank as a pre ventive of financial disturbance. Senator Tillman in a speech in tho Senate attacked the administration's efforts to aid the financial stringency. Cuba's census shows n population of 2.02S.2S2 in the island. "Favorite sons" are united in try ing to prevent Secretary Taft's nom ination for Pleside:.t, but fail to agree on any one man with whom to defeat him. Western railroads and lumbermen may rcu-h a'.i agreement on tho rates to be c.,argeii for eastward hauls. Wreck of the steamer KllJona off Cape Sable was cuused by missing buoys. Japanese immigration to the Unit ed States was reported b.v the Com missioner General of Immigration to have doubled during tho last year. Philadelphia scientists declare con sumption is prolific cause of crime and insanity. A brilliant naval and military bail was held at Old Point Comfort In honor of Rear- Admiral Evans and the officers of his fleet. Washington despatches declared the relations between President Roosevelt and Secretary Cortelyou are strained. Congress is expected to take up the ship subsidy question again. Troops will be kept In Goldfield until the mines are in operation. Senator Jefferson Davis of Arkan sas, attacked the trusts In an im passive speech in the Senate Chuiii ber at Washington. President Roosevelt warned Col onel Reynolds that thr. federal troops at Gol llleld must act without prejudice while there. The Minnesota :-'t earned into Hump ton Uoads, completing the line of battle-snips that will leave for the Pacific. Seven negroes were killed and a score or more wounded in a race riot in Alabama. Business men interviev od in many of tiie countries and lur;e cities, said thai Ptvs-'ideut koo: evelt'u mes sage had had little el'ficl on L!u gelicri.1 hilunlhiu. In a rpecii.l wireless despatch It Is said that tiie Mauretania niadj slow time because of had weather, but the officers now are fighting hard to make a better showing. I'oi:i:k;:-'. Although the last bank idatem-'iit i'l Germany tdiov.is a decided 1m-r-roveuient, t'.ie country suffers from u stringency in the money market and from Industrial depression, raya a special despatch, . .Tuberculosis is very prevalent among Irish emigrants returning to the home country, says a special ca ble despatch. At the Keats-Shelley memorial It was stated that Americans respond much more readily to literary sub scriptions than Englishmen, says a special cable. K special despatch taya that the situation In Teheran Is worse unj the Parliament asked for help. A warrant has been Issued for the xtradltton of Robert C. Caldwell, the American witness In the Druce case, at tho Dow Stret Police Court, la London. According to cable despatches the French forces In Morocco operating against the tribesmen, have defeated a large ban In the vicinity of Aln-sfa. A demonstration against the con stitution was made by a large number of monarchists In Teheran, accord ing to a special despatch from th Persian capital. Queen Carola of Saxony, died after a two weeks' Illness, said a special despatch. A special cable reported that firms owing large shares in the Deutsche Levant line called an extraordinary meeting to investigate the manage ment. startling evidence is expected to be produced regarding the Court Ca marilla at the second Harden von Moltke trial. A special cable states that the reprimand of Sir Persy Scott by Admiral Lord Charls Beresford re garding the paintwork signal waa due to a misstatement of facts. A British service organ approved the organization In tho United States of tho Society of Naval Sponsors, a speclul cable says. Serious rioting occurred In Teher an and further trouble was antici pated, a siHiciul cable despatch says. According to a special Berlin de spatch, there is no foundation for the statement that there Is a panic In the labor markets of Europe and the United States. It is feared by his physician that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannernian, the British Prlmo Minister, will not bo able to assume his duties in the House of Commons, says a special cable despatch from London. A special London despatch states that the building world compares English and American methods not unfavorably to tbe former. A new London club has been form ed to take care of distinguished for eigners, says a special cable despatch. Robert Caldwell's testimony in the Druce case was discarded by the at torneys for whom he testified, a spec ial Yondou despatch reports. , A special correspondent In Colm bra says that through tho Initiative of King Carlos the Portuguese elec tions are soon to be held. The Tsarltsa is suffering with fever her Illness, according to a special St. Petersburg despatch, being duo to a severe regimen adopted for tho pur pose ot reducing her weight. A special cable despatch says that statistics of the exports and imports of the United States and Germany will be made with a view of renewing the commercial relations of the two countries, America was toasted nt the ban quet of he Oriental club at Tokio. Triplitz, Secretary of the Admiralty, defended the proposal to shorten the age limit of German battle ships from twenty-flve to twenty years. Mrs. William H. Taft had an ex citing trip on a harbor tender, which narrowly escaped being wreck ed, while carrying passengers to the President Grant at Boulogne. The special naval correspondent In Englanl says that the Beresford Scott incident has now. passed Into a phase which may lead Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to haul down his flag us commander of the Channel fleet. French chorus members In "The Prince of Pilsn." 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 Purls. Asylum I'or Orplucis. Pittsburg, Dec. IS. A woman's sympathetic heart coupled with hel ability to accomplish her purposes lias bolveJ the distressing problem of the thousand children who have been made orphans by the mine ex plosion at Mououah, in which sev er;. I hundred lives went out. Acting on Mrs. Watson's sugges tion her husband came to Pittsburg to-day to make contracts for the erection ot a ? .10,000 asylum for the homel,jh.s little o'li's at Mouutiguh, Operate tin Mis. Ijonwoi tli. Washington, Dec. lli. At 9 o'clock on Thursday evening a bulletin was issued at tho Whito House saying that Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who had undergone an operation for nppend'cltls in the morning, hud passed a c -imperatively comfortable day. "Her general condition is satisfactory," said the bu'Terin. New Double llagles Out. Philadelphia, Doc. 19. The new twenty-dollar gold piece, so deslgand as to remedy the features to which objection had been made, is now in circulation. The new design sub stantially conveys St. Gauden's Idea, but has been altered In details. rn LU Reiterates His Election Night Statement of November, 1904, NO THIRD TERM Issues the Statement In View of the Cull of L ) llcpuoi.can National Committee For the Convention The Secret Well Kept Statement as Brief ns Possible. Washington. Dec. 19. President Roosevelt on Wednesday n'sht an nounced his unaltered purpose not to accept a nomination for the Presi dency In 1908. The announcement was almost the briefest popslble, ex cept that he quoted Ills own state ment of election night, 1904, and the declaration was prefaced by tho fol lowing sentence, which appeared at the head of the statement given out from the White House. "In view of the Issuance of the call of tho Republican national committee for the convention, the President makes the following statement." The President's announcement follows: "On the night after election I made the following announcement: "I am deeply sensible of the honor done nie by the American people In thus expressing their confliler.ee In what I have dono and have tried to do. I appreciate to the full the sol emn responsibility this confidence Im poses upon me and I shall do all that In my power lies not to forfeit It. On the fourth of March next 1 shall have served three and a half years, nnd this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination." , "I have not chnnged and shall not change the decision thu9 announced." If any man knew of the President's intention to make this declaration at the present time he kept the Presi dent's Becret well, for there was no intimation that it would be male for Borne time to come. When the Pres ident wns in Tennessee last October returning from his bear hunt In the swamps of Louisiana he was Inform ed that the Republican leaders of that State proposed to hold their State convention as soon as possible after the call of the national execu tive committee for the national con vention and that they Intended to send a solid delegation Instructed for the renoininatlon of Mr. Roosevelt. As the national executive committee would meet In Washington early In December, it was expected that the Tennessee convention would be held not much more than a month later, that is, early in January of the new year. DON' T ( I T WAGES. Samuel Gompcrs Tells Civic Federa tion Workmen Won't Stand I'or It. New York, Dec. 18. Sam uel Gompers, President of tho American Federation of Lubor, spoke on Monday evening to a large gath ering of capitalists, labor leaders, and manufacturers nt the annual banquet of the National Civic Fed eration at the Hotel Astor, and Bounded a note of defiance toward capital while speaking of the threat ened decrease in wages. "Twenty times in the last twelve hours since I have beeu in New York," said he, "men have come to me and whispered in my ear and told me that the working men must come down In their wages. But let the employers of labor remember that If they attempt to force down wages they will not have the easy sailing they did years ago. "The workinginan realizes that the financial situation is as it la not from any fault of his." Hoosevelt and the Punic. Washington, Dec. 10. The Wash ington Times on Friday evening printed the following: "Tell the boys in Omaha that if I nm responsible for this money panic which showed up the rotten founda tion on which the finances of the countr.' were built, 1 ai:i glad of it." In those terms l're. i.'a i; i Roose velt told aami s lJ;:')!m::a, cov. uoy Muyor of Cinaha, Just where he .-t od on the panic proposition. o Lost iii Wreck. Coulinuation has been received from London of the report contained in a special cuL-le0i-.uu that an Amer ican ship, suppoocd to bu the Tno.u as W.. Lawson, had been wrecked off Scilly, with luuvy loss of life. Tho vessel was the Tnomas W. Lawson, the largest sailing ship nllout. Tho Lawson carrier a crew of about 20 and it is nlmort certain all but one seaman perished. 04 Girls Have the Grip. Northampton, Mass., Dec. 15. Smith College may closo because of a grip epidemic. Ninety-four young women are confined to the college In firmary by the malady, and many others have been excused from reci tations. Difficulty is experienced la obtaining competent nurses. ROGSEVtLT El MR. RKYCF. CALLED HOME. (Irttlsh Government Bunuiiou the Ambassador to lO'-doti. Washington, Dec. 16. It Is nn lerstood that the Right Hon. James Uryce, King Edward's Ambassador, iias received directions f.om his Gov ornment to return home. Details of the communication ;ira jald to have beeu received by the Ambnssador, but the report, whit.li has a good basis, fits a despatch from London cabled for publication recent ly, In which ft wns said that Mr. Uryco would return to Loudou early RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCR. next year to consult the Foreign Of fice nnd that Mr. Bryc probably would not return to Washington. Opposition In the Senate. Washington, Dec. IS. The first symptoms of opposition In tho Sen ate against nlleged usurpation of g Islatlve functions that has appeartii In the Sixtietli Congress was hearj on Wednesday, when Senator H" buru of Idaho proeested vigorously against tho practico of laying bel'ur the Senate communications from Cab inet officers transmitting drafts of bills to be enacted into law. Tha Idaho Senator read from the recorl of Tuesday how a communication vl the kind to which he had objected had been received from the Secretarj of the interior and referred to tha Cmmittce of Indian Affairs. Mr. Heybiirn denounced the practico iu Irregular. Miser exults .Making Money. Boston, Dec. IS. Benjamin Had ley, an eccentric millionaire, died ca Monday at his homo in East Sonier vllle, of old age. He wns ninety years old and never was married. He was born in Somerville, and only on one occasion did he ever travel beyond the greater Boston district. lie hud not voted for forty years. He wore a collar und cravat only ..n special occasions. He accumulated real estate valued at $1,500,000. Denial By Cortelyou. Washington, Dec. 1ft. From a sick bed in his home here, Secretary Cortelyou issued on Tuesday, a state ment iu which he denounced as fah.e the reports circulated recently in re gard to his candidacy for the Repub lican Presidential nomination. Mr. Cortelyou denied that ho was or Is a candlate for any office. If he should decld to be a candidate he will say so. He refutes the allegations thut he in fluenced Federal officeholders to work for his political promotion and declares that he will not do so. Will Wed Overall Girl. Rushville, Ind., Dec. 19. Fred Broddy, a rich farmer, left on Tues day for Poughkeepne, N. Y., to mar ry Miss Agnes Adams on Christmas Day. About a year ago Broddy bouv.it a pair of overalls. On a strip of linen attached to the waistband wns the name of Miss Adams, tho mak er, with a request that the nurchaaer write to her. Col.. Astor 111. New York, Dec. 17. Col. Joha Jacob Astor, his wife and his mother, i.. r-j conllned to their home by Hints. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm Prodnv (Juotcd for the Week. WiiKvr Xo. 'I Red, 'Jit1,, a 1.0l :, No. 1 Northern Dulutli, 1.1(1. Li:s No. . (;;ails:lo. Oats. Mixed, .11','c). White, 5S.'g'a'Viu .Yill.li. le. per (piart. L'.iri i:it. Western, extra, 2fiu'W,--I'lr.-ns .''.'uuissc. State dairy, r.n-. CitKhsi-:. State, full erenm, l.l'ijul Aje. 1-AKis. Nearby, Fuuey, J.luOOc. Slnt, Ciood to choice, Usii-I3u. Western, Fil-nts, JlOallllu. Ukkvbs. City dressud, 7!B'al0o. UaI.VUs City dressed, Sul-lu. Co- try dresneo, per lb. Taliio. Sukiu'. Per 100 lb., ii.O0at4.50. llous. Live, per 100 lb., 4.85af5 00. Hay. Prime, 100 lbs., 1.10. Stkaw. Long rye, (i0a(15o. Livb poultry. Fowls, per lb. 14o. Chickens, Spring, per lb., lf& Ducks, per lb., a 18a Turkey, 13gO. . Drbsed poultry. Turkeys, per ft mate. Fowls, per lb., Ssltc Chickens, Phila., per lb., iiaaDHo. Vboitablm. Potatoes, L. I., per ML, ll.76aa.00. Onions, White, per ML, tH.60a4.50. .
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