THE COLUMBIAN; BLOOMSBURG, PA. IrfilQ ULII I? Chancellor's Plan Talk Brings a Promice to Cease Personal Rule in Empire. EMPEROR MAKES PUBLIC PLEDGE Will Xot Meddle with Foreign Poll cles and Will Adopt Constitutional Method Vim liuelow Fearlessly Lays licforc Ruler Proofs of His Subjects' Anger. Berlin, Germany, Nov. 19. Forced by the tide of popular anger that swept the empire from end to end, Emperor William yielded to the Nation, and promised henceforth to -onform himself to constitutional methods of conducting the policies of Germany. Chancellor von Buelow, who had undertaken to communicate to the Emperor a straightforward and un varnished statement of how the Ger man people viewed his Interview in The London Telegraph and other iersonal interventions in affairs of Jtate had an interview with him at he new palace In Potsdam. At its oncluslon the Emperor made for mal promise to his people that he vould not In the future act except .hrough the Chancellor and his asso. -Mate Ministers. This promise was made public in he Rcichsanzelger, the ofllclal gaz ette of the empire. Prince von Buelow had determined lpon handing in his resignation If She Emperor had not met the coun ry's demands, but as such a situa tion did not arise the audience end Mi with the Emperor saying to the Imperial Chancellor that he reposed full confidence in his wisdom. Within half an hour after the Chancellor's return to Berlin bul letins issued gratis by the evening newspapers, reporting a favorable ls ue of the meeting between the Em ,eror and the Prince, were eagerly snatched by an anxious public. The . whole nation had awaited with sus pense the word from the palace. It is certain now in the minds of the German people that a great step las been taken toward freer Govern, went. Interpreted by the events eading up to It, the least that this leclaration of the Emperor ran mean i that he promises to limit his free 'om of speech and observe carefully he constitutional forms, in taking .0 initiative without thu advice and onsent of the prerri.r Minister. IARVEY WATTERSON FALLS TO HIS DEATH "on of the Editor Plunges from His Lnw Office Window. New York, N. Y., Nov. 16. Har ey W. Watterson, son of Colonel -enry Watterson, editor of the ouisville Courier-Journal, met death f an accidental fall from the wln ow of his law office on the nlne enth floor of the Trust Company of . orth America building, at No. 37 'Vail street. Mr. Watterson fell about 110 feet nd struck on the brick roof of the 7nited States Trust Company bulld ig adjoining. Almost every bone i his body was broken. Nobody saw the accident, but It is relieved that in endeavoring to lower 'ie window of his office preparatory going home Mr. Watterson lost his ilance, ttumbled over a radiator 'id plunged out. Mr. Watterson was the Junior ember of the firm of Wing, Russell W'atterson. Watterson was thirty years old. Irs. Watterson, who was Miss Alice urrows of Brooklyn, was prostrated hen informed of her husband's :eath. His first wife was divorced Louisville, Ky., Nov. 13. Col. Vatterson and his family were at .lelr country residence, twelve miles ' om this city, when they got word of Harvey Watterson's death. Mr. Vatterson was to have started on a ..'cture tour to-morrow. Ho is al iost heat-broken. Harvey was his ivorlte son. "LKINS DENIES TROTH ays Daughter Is not Engaged to Aliruzl. Washington, Nov. 17. Senator lephen B. Ellclns made the emphat i announcement that no engagement Ists between his daughter, Misa atherlne Elklns and the Duke of 'jruzzl. The statement was made itU the knowledge and consent of Iss Elklr.s, who desired that the Atement Bhould bo given to the :bllc, which has manifested so :'eat an intercut in the matter. Gome la Culm's President. Havanat Nov. 17. Gon. Jose MI nel Gomez nnd Alfredo Zayes, the mdidates of the Liberal party for resident and Vice-President of uba In the national elections Just eld, swept the Island. New Mexlcun Ambassador. Mexico City, Nov. 17. Francisco . de la Barra, Minister to the Neth' rlands, has been appointed to sue ed Enrique C. Creel as Mexican ambassador at Washington. in MM REJOICES M TR.1INS CRASH L Three-Year-Old ISoy, Pinned In Wreckage, Scalded to Death. Triilniiicn ItliMucd. Now Orleans, Nov. 19. A heavy ptice in human life was paid for er rors of railroad trainmen when twelve were killed and twenty in jured, some fatally, at Little Woods Station, In the Louisiana Swamps, on Lake Ponchartraln. A' great North ern express crashed Into the rear of a New Orleans & Northeastern local. The wreck caught fire and only the heroic work of uninjured passengers prevented the cremation of those pin ned In the debris. The local was late, and when En gineer Blackraan, of the Great North ern Express, took the Northeastern track at Slidell, ho got the usual right of way signal, he says, Bnd pro ceeded at 45 miles an hour. Near Little Woods, the local loomed up through the fog. Blackmail applied the brakes and remained at the throttle while his locomotive plough ed through the two rear coaches of the train ahead, killing and wound ing the passengers. A small son of Mrs. Alphonse At taway, of Slidell, La., was unable to extricate himself. Escaping steam prevented rescue and the child called for help until he died. Northeastern Railway officers say that the express should have pro ceeded cautiously from Slidell. The Great Northern trainmen declare they received no warning, and that the local should have sent a flagman back from Little Woods. Among the dead are Prof. C. E. Roos of the New Orlenns I'nlversity, C. B. Ix)wry of Lexington, Ky., man ager of the American Creosoting Company of Chi.; Homer Harrison of Bradstreet's Agency, Slidell, La.; George Edelson of the United Emit Company, Charles Routh, a school teacher at Alton, La.; J. P. Shows, a delegate to the Farmers' Union convention, now meeting In New Or leans; August Heltcamp, a merchant of Slidell. and William Martin, a coal dealer of New Orleans. VICTIMS CREMATED IN WRECK. Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 13. Nine men lost their lives in the collision of two Union Pacific freight trains at Borie, Wyo., and in the fire which broke out in the wreckage. The dead are J. S. Schley of Lara mie, engineer; John Murphy of Den ver, conductor; Hons Cbrtstensen ol Denver, fireman; J. D. Duncan, brakeman; Still, brakeman; Dodgers, brakeman; three Japanese laborers. The wreck was caused by one of the trains getting beyond control running down a grade. CONFSSES PLOT TO KILL GRANDFATHER. Grandson Says Two Chums Tried to Rob and Then Slew Iteud. Vineland, N. J., Nov. 19. Under a pitiless cross-examination by De tective Spencer, who arrested him, nineteen-year-old Walter Zeller con fessed that ho was one of three young men in a plot to kill his grandfather, William Read, who was beaten and shot to death at his horn 3 hero. Zeller broke down and declared that Cline Wheeler and Herbert Crlgg, Jils chums on Hallowe'en night, entered the old man's house and attempted to rob him, but were scared away. They planned another entrance, and Zeller says that while he stood a block away from the house, his companions got in and struck the old man as he lay asleep. The blow was not heavy enough to causa death. Read revived while the young men were ransacking the house. He stag gered toward them, and Griggs, Zel ler says, fired the shot. Grigga and Wheeler have been arrested. FEAR OF REVOLT IN CHINA IS GROWING. Regent Takes Steps to Check Itehel lion Native Hanks Suspended. Pekin, Nov. 18. China Is begin ning to realize that the Emperor and the Dowager Empress are dead. The Chinese had ben so accustomed to lcok upon the Dowager as the one person dominating all that the an nouncement of her death caused but little change. Prince Chun, the Re gent of the Empire, In fear of the increasing excitement and revolu tionary movements, has taken a firm grip on affairs, and has adopted stringent measures that will result in the maintenance of peace, for a time at least. Fourteen native banks have sus pended and financial distress among the poor calls for government meas ures of relief. Mammoth Cave River Dry. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 17. Echo River, in Mammoth Cave, is almost dry as a result of the drought. Many of the avenues where water stood ten or fifteen feet deep are now mere footpaths. As a result of the oppor tunity afforded many parts of the cave that have never been reached have been explored. , 208 Ohio Saloons Must Close. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 18. The temperance forces knocked out 208 saloons by carrying Muskingum, Tus carawas and Hancock counties in elections held under the new local option law. m DESPERADO KILLS SEVEN MEN Barricades Himself In House in Oklahoma and Slays Sheriff, Policeman and 5 Deputies. SHOT, liE SETS HOUSE AFIRE Ntieec.fi;Uy Defying Arrest Deckard, Wounded, Puts Torch to His Homo lie Picks on Attacking Party One by One ns Thrjr Advance. Okmulgee, Okln., Nov. 19. Eight persons were killed and ten others were wounded in a fight between James Deckard, a negro desperado, and officers. The dead Include Ed gar Robinson, Sheriff of Okmulgee County, and Henry Klaber, assistant chief of police of Okmulgee. Two negroes named Chapman, brother, and three unidentified negroes were also killed, In addition to Deckard. The wounded are Stevo Grayson, an Indian boy, who was probably fatally beaten; Victor Farr, chief of Sioux, who was shot through the shoulder; a deputy sherlfT, whose arm Is broken, and seven others, who are slightly Injured. The disturbance began at the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad sta tion, where Deckard engaged In a fight, with tho Indian boy, Steve Grayson, and beat him into Insensi bility with a rock. Friends of Grayson railed the po lice. When Follceman Klaber ap proached the station Deckard fled to his house near by, and barricaded himself. When Klaber went to the house Deckard shot and instantly killed him. Sheriff Robinson gathered several deputies In a few minutes and hur ried to the scene. This party con tained several negroes whom the Sheriff had commissioned as depu ties. As the attacking party ap proached the Deckard house Deck ard opened fire with a rifle, firing as rapidly as he could load his weapon. The Sheriff fell first, instantly killed. Then five of the negro deputies were slain. Deckard's house was soon sur rounded by a frenzied mob of armed men. Fire was set to a house Just north of Deckard's. Volleys of bul lets were poured Into Deckard's huse, and 'he was shot down. He was seen to roll over on the floor, strike a match and set fiw to his own house, which was soon a roaring furnace, in which his body was baked. Deckard evidently had a large quantity of ammunition stored In his house, for many cartridges ex. ploded while the house was burning. EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHINA DEAD. Edict riuces Pu VI, An Infant, on Throne. Peking, Nov. 17. Tsu Hsl, the Empress Dowager of China, the au tocratic head of the government which she had directed without suc cessful Interference since 1861, and without protest since 1881, is dead. The announcement of the Empress Dowager's death was official, and fol lowed closely the announcement that Kuang Hsu, the Emperor, had died the day before, but it Is believed that the death of both the Emperor and the Empress Dowager occurred some time before that set down in the ofllclal statements. An edict issued placed upon the throne Prince Pu Yl, the three-year-old son of Prince Chun, the Regent of the Empire, In accordance with a promise given by the Empress Dow ager soon after the marriage of Prince Chun, in 1903. HENEY'S ASSAILANT COMMITS SUICIDE. Hid Pistol in Shoe and Shot Himself In San Francisco Jail. San Francisco, Nov. 17. Morris Haas, who tried to kill Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Henry In Judge Lawler's court because Heney exposed his criminal record as he sat In the Jury box at Abraham Ruef's trial, committed suicide In the County Jail. Haas had concealed a small Der ringer In his shoe. After retiring to-night ho pulled a blanket over his head and presently the guards were startled by a pistol shot. The blanket was torn from Haas by the guards nnd he was found gasping for breath with a small bullet hole through his lead. GREAT HIGHWAY PLAN 53,000,000 Itoad from Philadelphia ttt Pittsburg to lit Urged. Philadelphia, Nov. 18. Gov. Stu art will recommend that the Legisla ture which convenes in January ap propriate $0,000,000 for the con struction of a State highway from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. This will be the leading feature of the Gover nor's message to the Legislature, the preparation of which he now has in hand. Heir to Due do Chaulnen. 'Paris, Nov, 18. Duchess de Chuulnes, who formerly was Miss Theodora Shonts of New York, gav birth to a son at her home here. WORLD NEW!) OS THE WI1E.K. Covering Minor Happenings Tro: All Over (ho Globe. DOMESTIC. Shareholders representing &. per cent, of the $100,000 cn'ilnl of the I'nited States Express Company i'k('1 Gov. Hughes to lnve:itl?.Hi' affairs snd to urge legislation ilia' will permit the majoilty to naitl.i pate In Its nmnngemt nt. At a meeting of trrfilc mana-jcii It was decided to make a general a I vance of 10 per cent. In fiil.ht rates. Emilo Strieker, who drove Robert Graves' Mercedes nutcr'oMle 1m the Vanderbllt Cup rare, met dentil v V.cn his car overturned In a t we:ii;,-fo,:r hour event at Rlnnlnghtti'i. Ellhu Root Issued a slteme'it that he Is a candidate for the Tnited States Senate from New York. Among the many offers mad for the Madison Square Garden was one from a syndicate which plr.ns to maintain It as an amusement resort. The American Federation of La bor, In convention at Denver, decided to have Its executive committee at tempt to conceal Its funds, with a view to avoiding attachment. President-elect T a f t suddenly changed his plans after a conference with President Roosevelt and left for Cincinnati on a mission supposed to have to do with Charles P. Taft's candidacy for the Senate. Senator Foraker presented a vin dication of his course by Standard Oil counsel and indicated an lnten tlo to make further efforts for re flection. Among the election expenses filed with the Secretary of State at Albany were the following: Lewis Stuyves ant Chanler, $7,305.27; Clarence J. Shearn, $935; Samuel S. Koenlg, $286.55, and Martin II. Glynn, $4. 251.60. At the hearing In Newark of Chas. Jones, Cashier of the First National Bank of Seabrlght, N. J., it was an nounced that Jones and members of his family had made good a $45, 000 shortage. Mrs. Robert Osborn, widely known as a dressmaker and designer of wo men's gowns, died of appendicitis. FOREIGN. Marines and officers of the Pacific squadron in the Philippines held themselves in readiness to proceed to China in case the crlBls results In their being ordered there. Advices from Peking discredit the rumors that the Emperor and Empress of China were poisoned; no disorders are reported in any sec tion of the country; the police have stopped the runs on native banks. In a demonstration against the government residents of St. Pierre, Mlquelon, carried the United States flag through the streets. Kaiser Wllhelm was prostrated by the death of Count von Hulsen Hae seler, a recognized factor in smooth ing over difficulties between the monarch and his people. Count von Hulaen-Haaeseler, chief of the German Imperial Military Bu reau, died suddenly at Donaueschin gen. Fears of a rebellion are enter tained in Ecuador, and extraordinary powers have been granted to the Executive. WASHINGTON. Abolition of the duty on sugar was advocated before the Ways and Means Committee in Washington. President Roosevelt, entertaining labor leaders at dinner, acknowl edged labor's aid In electing Mr. Taft. John D. Rockeller. John D. Arch bold and James A. Moffett were sub poenaed to testify at the Government hearing in the Standard Oil suit. William R. Hearst was a caller at the White House. After his visit, which lasted about half an hour, he said he had not discussed politics with the President, having merely paid him a social call. Secretary Wright, of the War De parement, told the Tariff Committee that the Sugar Trust controlled fifty, one per cent, of the beet sugar fac tories. The White House and State De partment issued statements denying that there was any friction with Ja pan. Renewed pressure was brought to bear to procure shore liberty for the sailors of the Atlantic fleet at Manila. SPOUTS. Dorando Pletrl, who competed in the Marathon race in the recent Olympic games in England, arrived in America for a special race. Henri Fournier, who will drive one of the Itala racers in the Savan nah Grand Prize race, reached New York from Europe. Yale football officials were forced to return $20,000 received for ticket orders for the Harvard-Yale game which could not be filled. With snow, hail and rain falling alternately on a slippery glrdlorn Yale defeated Princeton in the an nual football game at Princeton, by a score of 1 1 to 6. Princeton's football team, which in the first big team to finish the sea son, will not be rated among th loaders this year. ! KHEV SHOT 001- IN A 'FRISCO COURT Ta!e3man, Seeking Vcnjenr.ee for Exposure, Wounds Famouj Graft Proseculer. P4JEF IS SENT BACK TO JAIL Would-lk Assassin Asserts Ills Mo tive Was Revenge. Talk in the Streets of Lynching, nnd Itui f, De fendant, Is Put Behind liars. San Francisco, Nov. 19. Francis J. Honey, who has gained national fame as the prosecutor of the graft eases in this city, and who has been mentioned for Attorney Crucial l:i Taft's Cabinet, was shot in the head by Morris Haas, a saloonkeeper, In Judge Lowlor's courtroom In a rceeis in the third trial of Abraham ilm f on a chargo of bribery. Haas press "d a revolver against Honey's right cheek, and the bullet lodged under the left car. It missed the carotid artery by a quarter of an Inch. The brain was not touched, and it Is be lieved Heney will recover. John O'Gara, the nEststnnt prose cutor, got down on his knees and bent over the wounded num. Heney had his hands on his face. He look.'d at O'Gara and said : "I want to make a dylns state ment. I believe I am going to die. I was sitting at my table when I tv'.t what I thought was u blow. I do not know who shot me. 1 was doing nothing to any one." At thlH point Heney caught for breath. Ho seem ed to gather strength for a moment and he added, "No, I'm not dying. I'm going to live." "I will live to prosecute Haas and Ruef." The shooting created tremendous excitement throughout the city. It took a dozen policemen to save Haas from lynching in the courtroom. Judge Lawlor from the bench shout ed lnvnln for order. Immediately after the shot was fired Haas was thrown on bis back Into the vacant Jury box, and he was being kicked there when the policemen came to tLe rescue. At first it was thought Heney had been killed. He slipped from a chair to the floor, and was unconscious for half an hour. Haas was filled wtlh vengeful hatred be cause Heney had exposed him as a convict. At the second trial of Ruef on a charge of bribery Haas was a Juror. The trial had been In progress for several days when Heney drama tically produced a photograph of Haas as a convict In San Quentln penitentiary, In convict garb, with a cropped head and with his number across his breast. He was immedi ately discharged from the Jury, and he left the courtroom vowing ven geance upon the prosecutor. Immediately after the shoot Ins Judge Lawlor, against the protests of Ruef's attorneys, ordered Ruef into custody regardless of the fact that he has been at liberty under the rec ord breaking bail of $1,500,000. Ruef was hurried from the court room to the county Jail and there Is a double guard around the building. With the temper of the city at its present pitch it Is believed that for the sake of Ruef's neck Judge Law lor's action was fraught with wisdom and foresight. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FOR SALE Stockholders Carry It for Twenty Years Without Profit. New York, N. Y.. Nov. 16. The stockholders of the Madison Square Garden decided that the time had come when he present corporation should dispose of the site and build ing in which New York's greatest gatherings are now held. They believe that there is no pros pect of the Garden In its present shape ever being a practical venture, and they think It would be better for some large business Interest to buy it up, rase the building, aud re place it with an offieo building or a large store. What New York will do in that event they have no sugges tion to' offer. Basing their calculations upon prices obtained for land in the vicin ity of the Garden, experts valued the property In the neighborhood of $3, 500,000. No dividend has been paid In twenty years. SUFFRAGIST VICTORY. Chicago .May Give Women Vote on Municipal Questions. Chicago, Nov. 18. The greatest victory in forty years' agitation for Of! II U 1 a II If I'D iro I Tltlnnl.. V, 1 u s.MMI d i t i nfto i( UilUUIB II as UlMMl won. The churter committee, by a (loclaring for a bill givlriK women iiguv vu luio u 111 JllllliU 1U1 OI- ficer8 and on all quetloKiis of policy ..-V.l.,1. ... .1 ...I.L .. .. - , , n uii.li iiau iu uu vina iue munici pality. Kill and Iloh An Old Man. Vineland, N. J.. Nov. 17. While his daughter, Mrs. Edward Cooper, and her husband were at the theatre mm. niRui iniani iceea, 7(j years old, was murdered in his home by roniiers, who escaped with $50,000 wortn or railroad bonds. j ennm n L CONFESSED mi He Olit iined $7)).!0) y I r.n.du. lent Deeds I'scd I n ip e Tracing Device. Chicago, Nov. 19. peter Vnn VlisHcngeii, n real estate denier f,r years l:is: ed among the first of riii cnRo's prosperous and reputable bus iness men, confessed to bavin (,t). tallied through forged deeds nnd union mo'-e Hum $700,000, and n few hours after li!s arrest, on his own ur gent appeal to be punished, wns sen tenced to the penitentiary. The ar rest, the Indictment, the confession and the sentence were the work of less than Tour hours. Taken In thn midst of b'tflncKs from his officii desk, at No. 172 Washington street, soon atter the noon hour, Van Y1U sengen, a venerable looking man, ap peared liefore the court and In tearj confessed that for from eighteen tn twenty years he had been Reoinliii money through the sale of forged documents and that though he luid bought back many of these spurious Instruments, without detection, at least twenty-five people would loiei an aggregate of more than $700, 0UA through the paper which he had not yet redeemed. In forging notes he said hi h:i I perfected a unique device. This con rifted of a plate glass derk top. si arranged that by an electric light thrown up from beneath he could readily trace from originals forged signatures on worthless paper Throughout his arrest and sentence, Hie prisoner made no effort to e. fend himself, but only asked that his punishment be speedy. As'ii-d If he had anything to say before sen tence was imposed, Van Vllsseneti renlled. bowing his head. "Only that I bellevo In my punishment at once." His term In the penitentiary was fixed as Indeterminate from one to fourteen years. Van Vlissengen, who Is about 4 5 years old, mar'b'd on February 4, 1907, Mm. Jessln Roosevelt Blend, who was described at the time as a distant relative of President Roosevelt; The bride wat a daughter of Wilton O. Roosevelt. She had been divorced. BROTHER OF BOB AMMON SHOT DEAD. Muderer Says Itutterlne Millionaire Kutncd His Trade. Jersey City. N. J.. Nov. 16. Wal ter E. Amnion, brother of the Col. "Bob" Amnion who figured In the "520 per cent. Miller" caso. wealthy business, society and club man of New Jersey, was shot and almost In-r-tantly killed shortly after noon in the ferry house of the Pennsylvania Railroad iu this city.. Three shots were fired into his brain and body. His slayer, the police charge, was Andrew McGrath, poor and out of work, who formerly as a middleman had bought butterlne from the firm of Amnion & Person, with which Am nion was connected, for delivery to retail stores and restaurants. As Am nion dropped, McGrath coolly stood by with a smoking pistol In ills hand ami waited for a policeman to put him under arrest. He says his mil lionaire victim ruined his trade. Patrick Loses Appeal. Washington, Nov. 18. The peti tion of Albert T. Patrick, the N'ev York lawyer, who is serving a lifo sentence In the State prison at SIiir Sing, N. Y., on the charge of having murdered the millionaire William M. Rice, for a writ of habeas corpus was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States adversely to tiis petitioner. Dies in Pew at Church. Boston, Nov. 17. Edward D. Hay den, vice-president and secretary of the Boston and Albany Railroad, died of apoplexy In his pew at the Unitarian Church In Woburn in the course of the morning services. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prlcen of Farm Products Quoted for the Week. WHEAT No. 2, Red, 1.13i9 $1.1S. No. 1, Northern Dulutb, $1.15. CORN No. 2, 71 71. OATS Mixed. 63V4G 54. MILK Per quart. 3 c. BUTTER Western firsts, 25 28. State Dairy, 24(3.27. CHSESE State full cream, 13 & 14. EGGS State. Fair to choice, 33 0 45, do., western firsts 32c.(sp33c. SHEEP Per 10Q lbs., $2.50 $3. 7i. BEEVES City Dressed. 8pll. CALVES City Dressed, 8 4i14. HOGS Live Per 100 lbs., $0.10. HAY Prime er 100 lbs., 82 Vs"- STRAW Long Ryo, per 100 lbs., SO W 90. APPLES King per bbl.. $2.50 $4.00; Ben Davis, per bbl.. 2.Utf tl $3.00; Greenings, per bbl., $2 00 if $3.50. CRANBERRIES C. Cod, per bbl, $6.50 ii $10.00; Jersey, per crats $2.25 $2.60. LIVE POULTRY Spring Chicken per lb., 13c; Turkeys per lb., 13c; Ducks per lb., 11 W 12c, Fowls per lb., (U1 12c. DRESSED POULTRY Turkey per lb., 14 19c. Fowls per lb., 10 (f 14c; Chickens, Phila.. per lb., 22. VEGETABLES Potatoes, Jersey, Her bbl.. $2.75 t( $3.00. ONIONS L. I., per bbl., $1,250 s i.7t.
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