THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBUI3&
f ATIONAL BLIZZARD
i IS
Seven Killed in Colorado, and
Storm is Raging Over Upper
Mississippi Valley
K
ICY REPORTS FROM EVERYWHERE
Points In Northern New York State
Report the Coldest Weather cf the
Winter Serious Interference Aith
Traffic New England I Frcren Up.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 6. Severe cold
Is reported from Central en J Northern
New York. At Watertown the Litr
cury dropped 33 degrees In tv.'eie
hours to IS below zero. Blizzard con
ditions prevailed at Interlaken. a tem
perature of 4 below being accompan
ied by heavy snow and high wind.
L'tica had a temperature of 12 te'o.v.
The mercury dropped 53 decree at
Saranac Lake, marking 25 b low
An inch of snow fell at Rochester,
thermometer showed 20 below
throughout the Mohawk Valley. Watts
burg, Oswego, Buffalo and all other
points report the coldest weather of
the winter and serious interference
with traffic.
Snow and sleet, accompanied by a
cold north wind, fell in the central
west, the storm extending from Okla
homa northward. In Iowa a blizzard
lnterefered with railway and street
car traffic. In Nebraska schools are
closed on account of snow blockades.
The snowfall In Northern Nebras
ka and Southern South Dakota Is re
ported as half a foot. The tempera
tures range around 12 below zero. In
Central and Western Kansas the fall
of snow was the heaviest in ten years.
It extended to the Colorado line. In
Western Kansas the snow U a foot
deep. The temperature in Missouri,
Kansas and North Oklahoma averaged
about 10 degrees above zero.
New England Is fro'pn up. Fo-t-land
had a temperature of 4 below,
while In the Rangeley Lake regie:' it
was 30 below. The Andover-Rum-ford
(Me.) stage was overturned by
the high wind. No one was hurt.
Chicago. Jan. 8. Over the Upper
Mississippi Valley a big blizzard is
raging after a day of wind. snow, sleet
and shifting drifts that Impeded trains
and made life a burden for t'.:c?e
whose tasks called them outdoors. !n
Chicago sleet as hard as bird shot is
cutting obliquely through the air.
Denver, Col., Jan. 6. Big snov
slldes are running In the western ar.d
southwestern sections of Colorado as
a result of blizzards. The repcr:s
thus far received indicate that seven
men are dead. Over the private tele
phone wire of the San Juan Power
Company the report reached Durar.jo
that four men had lost their lives
there. One man lost his life In r.n
jvalanche that swept by the Iowa
nine, near Silverton. The victim was
Charles Brun. The slide did $3,000
damage.
New York. N. Y.. Jan. 6. The suf
fering among the poorer people as a
esult of the sudden change in the
veather was intense, and all the loclg
ng houses and free shelters for the
estltute were crowded to their full-
st capacity.
The great battleships In the North
'liver looked like pictures of an Arc
ic exploration vessel trapped in the
're. The brief interval of sunshine
lade them glisten like immense
aountains of ice, and the sight proved
o unusual It attracted a shivery
rowd to the river's edge.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 6. The
'?e bridge has formed here, nnd the
cenery about the park and falls 13
' ery beautiful.
MILLIONS COEDUCATION
Vealthy Grocer Leaves Three Institu
tiont Over $800,000 Each.
Chicago. Jan. 3. Thoma3 Murdoch.
f the wholesale grocery firm of Reld,
turdoch &, Co.. whose will was pro-
ited here, left $2,500,000 to three
- Jucational institutions, the American
unday School Union, with headquar-
rs in Philadelphia; the Chicago Y.
''. C. A. and the Presbyterian Hospi-
.1. of Chicago. Each institution will
idceive something over $800,000.
There Is a proviso attached to the
: ft to the American Sunday School
oion to the effect that the money
-ust be spent In the territory presid-
J over by F. O. Ensign, who former
' r worked here and for whom Murdoch
.'.id high regard.
COMPANY INJUARD KOOSE
1 Coast Artillerymen Refused to
Practice March on New Year's Day.
New London, Conn.. Jan. 5. Seven-.-six
of the eighty-four members of
.e 131st Company, Coast Artillery,
. S. A., stationed at Fort H. G.
'right, Fisher's Island, have been
laced under arrest for refusing or
.:rs to take the fifteen-mile march
. ound the Island on New Year's Day.
Ray Lamphere Dies In Prison.
Chicago, Dec. 31. Ray Lamphere,
'nvicted of arson In burning the
jaie of Belle Gunness, on the Gun-
ss farm near La Porte, Ind., April
. 1908, died In the Michigan City
witentiary of consumption. He bad
.m sentenced to fifteen years im
, Isonment
APPROACHING
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happening Frocl
All Over Uis Clob
DOMESTIC.
Oscar C. Mur.rty'k u.'aatio.) t..:.:
i the presidency of Baltimore and U..o
("Railroad was accepted and Mr. Djk'cI
j Willard was chosen his successor.
; Senator Allds is selected at parly
j caucus to succeed the late SenLtt
J Raines as Republican leader.
' George F. Baor and other pre side-.. 3
of bis ra'iroao's held n confcrtr.ie
over the dcrvsr.iis ru U1.3 v.-orXcrs ( r-J
arranged to hear the adjustment ro.u
mittres. , C. W. Morse-, as convict No. 2.4,
j began his fifteen year term of ir-prls-:
r.r.nicnt In the penitentiary at Allan :a,
i Ua.
j John D. Rotkellcr, Jr., was r-ae
' foreman of the Grand Jury. New York,
j which Is charged with an inquiry ir.to
1 the alleged white slave trafilc.
j Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Ore
' grin, announces that he will propose
I to the voters of his state that tl'cy
i vol directly for President.
I Agnes Booth, formerly a noted ac
tress, died at Brookline, Mass.
I Demands of the employees for eon
' forences on wage increases wore
served on thirty-two Eastern railroads
and Jan. 20 was set as a date for the
j officials to agree.
i Mayor Gonzales of Hoboken. N. J..
I made his first Sunday in office a
! "bine" one for that city.
United States Judge Hough in de
ciding that Charles W. Morse, the io
victed banker, had no right to a new
trial, declared that one bottle of liquor
a day was not to much to be allowed
a Jury.
Wu Ting-fang, former Chinese Min
ister to America, sailed for home.
WASHINGTON.
Representative Mann precipitates a
fight over the railroad law in Con
gress by presenting a bill before re
ceipt of the President's special mes
sage. President Taft declared war on the
Insurgents in Congress who oppose
his policies, cutting off their p-'t'. ull
age. The heads of six great railroads
tried in vain to pursuade President
Taft rgalnst recommending further
railroad legislation.
Secretary Knox is to confer wl-.h
the British Ambassador and Brazil's
Foreign Minister on matters affecting
North, Central and South America.
The Director cf the Census reports
that he has hard work getting men to
accept appointments as enumerators.
The compensation is $60 for two
weeks' to four weeks' work.
The Senate committee which has
been inspecting the Panama Canal, re
turned to Washington on the dispatch
boat Dolphin.
Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the Bu
reau of Animal Industry, declares that
meat men have caused typhoid fever
in schools to be reported as ptomaine
polsoniEg.
There are 3S2 persons out of every
ten thousand of population arrested
nr.d lodged in Jail each year, accord
ing to Census Bureau figures Just
made public.
Railroad switchmen of the North
west plan to seek federal intervention
by laying their grievances before
President Taft.
FOREIGN.
French eeroplan'sts believe the ac
tion of the Wright company in seek
ing an injunction against Louis Paul
han will deter foreigners from enter
ing the International cup contest in
the United States this year.
According to a special dispatch
from London, the election campaign is
being conducted with considerable
heat on both sides.
The police of Paris discovered the
men who slew Mme. Gouin on a rail
way train in the persons of two sol
diers, who have confessed.
Dispatches from Bluefields, Nicar
agua, say that General Estrada hr.s he
gun his movement westward.
It la stated that Dr. Cook's original
polar data were delivered to Dr. Torp,
formerly rector of the University ol
Copenhagen, more than a week tgu.
The negotiations between China
and Portugal over the Macao bound
ary failed and China notified Portu
gal to evacuate all the territory la
dispute except the city of Macao.
English peers are showing feverish
anxiety as the time approaches when
they must cease their electioneering.
Nicaragua's army has been so re
duced by defeat and discouragement
that Estrada hopes to march to Mana
gua without much opposition.
The centenary of William Ewart
Gladstone's birth was celebrated at
Westminster and in his favorite
church at Hawarden, many foreign
countries being represented.
Joseph Chamberlain, in a manifesto
Issued to Birmingham electors, said
Great Britain was threatened by for
eign nations as never before.
Two Auburn Convicts Dead.
Auburn, N. Y., Jan. 5. Clarence
Barton and Miles Halligan, convicts in
Auburn prison, are dead, and the
prison authorities decline to give de
tails. The men, according to one
story, drank overdoses of wood alco
hol, but rumors from reliable sources
indicate that the men died as the re
sult of wholesale holiday Indulgence
In drugs.
Bryan Arrives at Colon.
Colon. Jan. 4. William Jennings
Bryan arrived here on the eteamei
Magdalena. He Immediately took s
traiu for Panama.
PAPER TRUST FACtS
PROS COIN
Evidence of Combination lo Fii
Prices Is Filed with United
States District-Attorney
CQKSFiRACY TO RESTRAIN TRADE
Govern-nent rights Frirt Pacer Trust
Start Thorcu-gli Inquiry Sists
rr.snts and Contracts Cited ts S'ov
That the Trust Restricts Its Output.
New York. Jan. Charges cf a far
reaihing conspiracy among newsprint
paper manufacturers to throttle cor.'.
petition and operate under ru agree
ment in restraint of trade have hem
laid before United States District At
torney Wise, and a sweeping investi
gation has been begun. A n:as of
evidence has been put in the hands
of the Federal authorities, by the
American Newspaper Publishers' As
sociation, purporting to show that the
R'.'tged conrpiracy has made It impos
sible to maintain nn oren market or
public quotations of paper prices, that
paper makers refuse to sell paper for
tpot cash. f. o. b. mill, ar.d that they
gather mill reports of daily produc
tion tr.d daily sales of the paper mills
throughout the country.
In the r.-.r.ss of evidence turned over
to Mr. Wise it is shewn that a scries
of advances in the prices of paper
were made by different groups of the
Ar. eriean Paper and Pulp Association
following meetings of the members,
at which price agreements are sup
posed to have been made. Attorney
Genera! Wickershara has authorized
the Federal investigation under way
here.
Herman Bidder, President cf the
An eriean Newspaper Publishers' Ac
roclution, invited the attention of Attorney-General
Wickers-ham on Dec.
2 to statements made at a banquet cf
Taper dealers in New York City
w herein it was rlalnre J by a represen
tative cf the International Paper Con
pany that the President of the Amer
ican Barer r.r.d Pu'p Assyciat'on. A.
C. Hastings, was advising piper ".ills
whet paper rrices should bo. The Attorney-General
referred the matter to
United States DV.rlet-Attorr.ey V:se
of New York, who anked for s;ec:....v
tlons.
As a result of that request John
Norn's. Chairman of the- Committee
on Paper cf the Publishers' As;ocia
ti'ir.. has submitted detailed data upen
which the suit will be based.
ESORSE CJTTO CELL
Fcrr-er Ice Kirg Starts 15 Year Sev
tence et Atlanta.
New York, N. Y.. Jan. 4. Charles
W. Morse, who three years rl-o w?.s
called the Ice King, who controlled a
chain of banks with deposits reaching
nearly $100.000,Oj0, whose private fur
tune was estimated at $22.000,0JU. and
who was master of a fleet of between
eighty and ninety oce.-.n going ships,
left the Tombs between three United
States marshals on his way to Atlan
ta tu serve a prison terra cf fifteen
yeari-.
Except his wife and l.!s two sods
not a single friend was at the city
prison to bid him good bye. No hero
its, no display of sentiment marked
his quiet departure. Just before the
train drew out his two boys, whom
ho had asked not to accompany him
thut far. went into his stateroom for
a last hand grasp. Tears welled to
his eyes then and he could not speak.
He shook hands with the young men
in silence and then made a sign for
them to go away.
Before he started for prison Morse
showed that the failure of his efforts
to win his liberty had not taken all
the fight out of him. He criticised
the courts for their treatment of him
and. moreover, spoke his mind plain
ly of what be considered the hiring
of spies to look after a "rum drinking"
Jury.
MOTHER SEESS0NS DRSWH
Succeeds In Saving Boys' Cousin In
St. Lawrence River.
Ogdensburg. N. Y., Jan. 3. Three
boys who were coasting on one sled
down a long hill at Prescott. broke
through the thin ice of the St. Law
rence River, and two of theu were
drowned.
The mother of the drowned boy,
Harry and Frank Easter, witnessed
the accident, and succeeded In saving
Gerald Easter, a cousin, who dura to
the ice.
Flaxseed $2.10 a Bushel.
Chicago, Jan. 6. Flaxseed touched
the highest point In its history. No. 1
northwestern selling at $2.10 a bushel
on the Chicago market. This is an
advance of six cents over yesterday's
close. No. X southwestern clored to
day at $2.00. There were no receipts
of flaxseed at this city to-day.
Judge Found Dead In Cei.
Hollidaysburg. Pa., Jan. 4. Martin
Bell, rebldent Judge of tho Blair Coun
ty courts, was found dead In bed at
his borne here. Death was caused by
a heart affection. Judge Boll was C2
years old. He served two terms ns
District Attorney and was first elect
ed Judge In 1S93. He leaves a widow
and 4x children.
BY 6. W.
United States Supreme Court is Told
that Giant Monopoly Is a
Criminal Outlaw.
Washington. D. C Jan. 6. I;i fl
printed brief of 2S piiues, Attor
General George W. Wlckersh.im
his special assistant, J. C. Mel
nolds. presented to tho Supreme C
.3
of the United States the case ef ho
Government in the famous T . o
Trust ccc?, which will be arLtic.1 '.z
thai cot.rt.
I The etc were tried in the Ur':
j States Circuit Court in New Yo k
i Chy. After dismissing the r'W. -:
! s t) forriftn tobr.cco compaa'e - : ' '.
1 sonic cf the subordinate Ar.terl -.
I companies, that ccurt adjudged 1'
! others to be parties to nn i.r.l.T' 1
J conspiracy r.n 1 enjoined the:" '
I cont::u:ii:g their operation au.l '.. . :.l
1 engaging to interstate commerce. The
! Attorney-General takes the posi l- n
thr.t those findings were not brc '1
I enough, and he nsks the Supreme
e ourt to extend them so as to take
the foreign companies and some in
dividuals who were relieved from the
operation of the verdict.
It Is declared that "the defendT.'.
have persistently exercised durc?.
have practised wicked and un.'.''r
methods and used their preat power
In oppressive ways." Further. It is
asserted that they have been actur...d
by a fixed purpose to destroy competi
tion and obtain monopolies. "Co- v
petitors have gradually disappea-cd.
and the combination, now strongly in
trenched, unduly restricts tho he.--!-r.ess
of those In the trade and pre
vents others from entering."
Coming to specific Instances rela
tive to the operations of the trust. It
Is declared that substantially all es
tablished Jobbers In New England
were Induced to throw out Independ
ent products, as were those of Phila
delphia. New York City and lrjny
other specified places. It Is asser ed
that independent Jobbing In New York
City was destroyed by the orsanl'n
tion of the Metropolitan Tour-ci c
Company, which was given an exclus
ive agency for the sale of the trc.:t
0-v!s.
It Is clso nsrerted that "bush whac't
i'.ig r.ethods were resorted to in t'le
use of union labels, end the method
In thi proceeding is denounced f.s
"Iniquitous" rnd one inhibited by a
civilized conrcitnee. Indeed, it is de
clared that "the record contains much
evidence and a vast deal of corre
spondence oncer ning the operations
cf these bushwhacking companies
which disclose amazing depravity end
sho'.v with clearness how these sinis
ter agencies were effectively utilized."
The Attorney-Genera! seems inclined
to the view that a receiver should be
appointed for the business of tho pw
tles to the combination.
GfRCUS PATRONS' Sffl KEWS
Ten Thousand Dollars Worth of Pea
nuts Eurred In Virginia Hamlet.
Richmond. Va.. Jan. 4. More than
$10,000 worth of peanuts were de
stroyed, ol! but one of the twenty-six
bus'nss places ard ell but twenty-one
of the homes In the hamlet of Holland,
twelve r.iiki from Suffolk, were burn
ed. Half of the town's two hundrtd
irhrtbitr.nts r.re homeless.
Tha fire started in a store which
hr.d been closed for the night. The
to vr.'s crude fire aparatus was prac
tically worthless In fighting the
flames. The total lois is placed a:
$113,000.
CENTRAL FEtaiS 800 MEN
Old Employes cf Various Lines Retir
ed Under New Order.
New York, N. Y. Jan. 5-Some eight
hundred employes of the New York
Central Railroad and its affiliated
lines were retired from active service
by the new pension order which has
Just become effective. This order
requires that all employees who at
tained the cgs of seventy years in
the service of the road shall be retired
and those who have been ten years
continuously in the service Immedi
ately precedlrs their retirement shall
be pensioned. The new plan means
that Pbout $225,000 will be distributed
annually amours the o'.d employees
of the road.
KEY YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Prices of Farm Products
Cucted for the Week.
MILK Per quart. 4 i c.
BUTTER Western extra, Z'QZSc;
State dairy. 26g29o.
CHEESE State. Fair to choice. 32
17 4 618c.
EGGS. -State. Fair to choice. 320
37c: do, western firsts, 20331c.
APPLES Baldwin, per bbl., $2,230
3 75.
DRESSED POULTRY Chickens, per
lb., 12S20c.; Cocks, per lb.. 12 H 3
13c; Squabs, per dozen, $1.50(34.25.
HAY Prime, rer 100 lbs.. $1.00.
STRAW Long Rye. per 100 lbs.. 75
(?55c.
POTATOES State, per bbl., $1,500
1.75.
ONIONS White, per crate. 25030c.
FLOUR Winter patents, $5.5006.00;
Spring patents, $3.40S6.70.
WHEAT No. 2, red, $1.2701.271;
No. 1, Northern Duluth. 11.24 4.
CORN No. 2. i'j71c.
OATS Natural, white, 48 S 51c; Clip
ped white, 49 53c.
BEEVES City Dressed, 811 VjC
CALVES City Dressed. 11 16c
SHEEP Per 100 lbs., $3.505.15.
LAMBS Per 100 lbs., $7.60 9.00.
HOGS Live, per 100 lbs.. $860 8.7C;
..-Coupy Dressed, per lb., 10 4 12c.
PUT $200,000,000
II MORGAN'S GRIP
Money Powers I land Over Scepb
r5 of Finance to the Wall
Street Danker
PASSIM CF RYAN AM MORTON
j J. Pierport Morgan Cuys tha Morton
a.-.d Fifth Aver.vc to Consolidate
v.i'.h His Caarjr.ty Trist Total De
p:;lto $171,CC:.CC3.
New York. N. Y.. J.m. C J. Tier-
pent Morr.g:i. hc.-.d of tho .Money
Trust, has acomplishcd another of his
tremendous coups, merging three
trust companies Into one of the great
est banking institutions In the coun
try -a $200,000,000 assets concern to
be kr.own ;:s tho Guaranty Trust Com
pany. The companies consolidated are 'he
Morton Trust Company, the Fifth
Avenue Trust Company and the Guar
anty Trust Company.
As the power of Mr. Morgan ex
panda to unlimited bounds the finan
cial activities of another king of h'gh
finance, Thomas F. Ryan, are stead
ily diminished by his own volition.
Very swiftly Mr. Ryan Is divesting
himself of properties and their burden
of cares In order to seek complete re
tire.ticnt The consolidation will
make the Guaranty Trust Compr.ny
the second largest trubt company In
the United States, with aggregate de
posits of $140,000,000 and assets of
$170,000,000. The merger will end
Ryan's sway of the Morton Trust
Company, which controlled the Fifth
Avenue. It will give the Morgan and
allied interests control or influence
over life insurance companies, banks
trust companies with aggregate re
sources of $2,302,850,3?!, and of rail
way and industrial corporations with
an aggregate capitalization of $7,C3,
!C1.C'J6, a total of almost $10,000.000,.
COO.
I Coming so soon after J. P. Morgan's
purchase of Ryan's majority holding
of the stock of the Equitable Life As
j sui-ance Society, the merger of trust
companies is especially significant.
About two years ngo Ryan an
nounced that he Intended to give up
practically all his big interests, nnd
he withdrew from most of the firms
in which he had big holdings. The
Equitable Life and the Morton Trust
Company were two of the corporations
from which he did not retire. Mor
gan bought his holdings of stock in
the insurance company, thereby
eliminating him from that. Now in
terests closed to Morgan have wiped
out the Ryan control of the Morton
Trust Company by consolidating it
wlta the Guaranty Trust Company.
S24O.00B.O00J DIVIDERS
Great Disbursement by Banks to Hold
ers of Securities.
New York, N. Y.. Jan. 5. The New
York banks have begun the disburse
ment of more than $240,000,000 in riivi.
der.da and interest payments. This Is
the largest sum ever paid out in Janu
ary in the history of Wall Street. Dur
ing the last quarter of 1909 many rail
road and industrial companies in
creased their dividend rates while
others resumed or made Initial pay
ments. At nearly all the national banks
there were long lines of men and wom
en waiting to collect coupons on Gov
ernment bonds and railroad and in
dustrial mortgages.
EXPERT FARMERS WANTED
Indian Service Will Pay $1,200 a Year
to Graduates.
Washington. Jan. 6. "Expert farm
ers wanted; salary $1,200 per annum."
The Indian Service is making this at
tractive offer to agriculture students
who are sufficiently equipped to train
the braves on the reservations in rais
ing farm products.
The rppolntments will be restricted
to graduates of agricultural colleges.
The successful applicants will be des
ignated by Indian Commissioner Val
entine to mr.nage model demonstra
tion farms on reservations In arid and
seml-arld reg'ons of the West
EEffiSESm TRUST
Department cf Justice Informed of
Combination on Prices.
Washington, Jan. 6. The attention
cf the Department of Justice has been
directed by the District-Attorney's of
fice in Cleveland to information fur
nished by W. H. Brett, public librar
ian at that city, who, it is said, was
unable to obtain discounts on a large
order for magazines, being told that
a reriodicrl clearing house controlled
prices.
In this tho authorities see a possi
ble violation of the anti-trust law.
Morgan Trinity's Donor.
Hartford. Conn., J,.n. 5. The mys
tery concerning the New Yorker who
contributed $100,000 to the Trinity en
dowment fund of $500,000 was cleared
I'.p to-day by the announcement that
J. Plcrpont Morgan Is the donor.
Too Much Curiosity,
"My curiosity is getting tho better
of rue," gasped the side-show proprie
tor as the three-legged man kicked
hlm cno In U;o solar plexus.
EPIDEMIC OF TYPHI
Five Persons Cut of Every Thousam
III Hospitals Overcrowded and
Nurses Are Needed.
Montreal. Canada. Jr.n. 6.
tr.ouph accurate figu-ca aro not tll
talnable, it Is estimated that five j.r.
sons out of every one thousand In the
city of Montreal nre ill from typhoid
fever. Thlrty-nn? new cases wr ri'
ported to tho Health De-partnn m to
day. Two deaths o.-rurred, brlngirj
the total for the month up to forty
three. Estimates of tho number (,
cares In tho rlty, bared upon ,-an.
vnc?r3 of practising phyjldans, rcr,..
from 2,300 to 4.500.
Accommodations at ail the l.i-pi.
tc's which handle contagious distr...
were exhausted long ngo nnd a move,
men 1.4 on foot to have the lty o-..n
temp'-rcry hospitals if nurses can' bo
ccurcd.
Blame for the epidemic Is phicnt
upon the city water supply. The in
takes for the city service and a pri
vate water company nre located In tho
St. Lawrence River. Outbreaks of t'..e
difcr.se nre yearly occurrences.
BOYCOTT Jfi TRUSTS
League Orcanized to Curb Advsr.eei
In Cost ef Foodstuffs.
Washington. Jan. 4. To curh tho
exactions cf the trusts which deal in
foodstuffs, and If necessary to ins-i-tutj
a National boycott on articles t f
fool which the public believes aro
too hi"Vi In price, steps were taken at
th residence,.? Dr. E. L. Scharf t'i
orranize the National Antl-Tnn-t
league. Prominent citizens of Wash
ington and members of Congress were
present, and enough was done to ard
the formation of an organization. Na
tional in scope, to Injure Its progress.
It was agreed that the organization
should be non-politkal, that It sl-.nuM
be presided over by a President. For.
re'.ary, and Treasurer, and its moe
nients directed by an adlvsory coun
cil of seven.
Women will be taken into meu-.her-sh'p
ori equal terms with the nun.
and will have equal voice in the cam
paign. The women, being the house-kee-iers
of the country, the pioneer?
of the plan recognised at once that
their ci'.itr.nce was vital to success.
TAFT WANTSJVSAiNE RA1GE3
Offers His Personal Support cf Lovi
Bill to Thst End.
' Washington, Jan. G. President Taft
Is heartily ia favor of the plan to rale
the battleship Maine from the bottom
of Havana Harbor nnd suitably bury
tho bodies of the sailors who went
down with the ship.
The President ha3 Informed Repre
sentative Loud, of Michigan, that he
desired to see the latter's bill, appro
priating money for the purpose, enact
ed into law, and that he stood ready
to offer any sort of support to the pro
position that could be suggested. Mr.
Loud will push the measure in the
House.
SAY RE TOOK $40,000
Employee of a Pittsburg German Canl;
Arrested.
Pittsburg, Pn., Jan. 3. Charged
wiih the embezzlement of $40,000 from
the banking house which has employ
ed him for eighteen years, Charles
Veverka, individual bookkeeper for
the Workingman's Saving and Trust
Company, of the North Side, was held
under $20,000 bail. Veverka was ar
rested in the bank on a warrant ob
tained by a bonding company. He re
fused to make a statement.
The Workingman's Savings and
Trust Company is patronized by
thrifty Germans.
TAFT VISITS LINTON
Ignores Precedent by Calling at
Judge's Hotel.
Washington, Jan. 4. President
Taft took away the breath of those
who have maintained that the days
of Jeffersonian simplicity have long
departed and that the administration
Is taking on all the ceremonial of a
European court, when he paid a call
on Judge Horace H. Lurton, the new
ly appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. It Is an unwritten
law that new cfBclals shall first ray
their call of respect at the White
House.
E. M. ROKON DIES
Philadelphia Partner cf J. P. Morjan
Brokenhearted Over Wife's Death.
Philadelphia, Jan. 6. Heartbroken
over the death of his wife on Decem
ber 26. Edward Moore Robinson, the
millionaire banker and partner of J.
Pierpont Morgan, died at his beautiful
suburban residence In Villa Nova.
Six Grandeons Her Pallbearers.
Stamford. Conn.. Jan. 5. The
funeral of Mrss Emillne Buttrey w hich
was held here was remarkable in thst
six of her grandsons acted 83 pa 1
bearers. Mrs. Buttrey was eighty
three years old. She died of pneu
monia. Jek Davis's Guard Dies.
Philadelphia, Jan. K. The Re
John William Kaye, who was the pe
sonal guard of Jefferson Davis when
the latter was confined in Fortress
Monroe, died here, aged sixty-four.