TRADE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Report of the Chief of the Insular Bureau. AMERICA'S TRADE IS DECLINING Capt. McIntyre Urges the Adoption of a Law That Would Decrease the Rate on Philippine Products as Necessary to the Welfare of the Islands —Pro- posed Agricultural Bank. Washington (Special).—In his an- nual report as Acting Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Capt. Frank Mcintyre, U. 8S. A., says: “For more than four years, or ever since the official declaration of the termination of the insurrection against the United States in the Phillippine Islands. the Philippine Commission, the Secretary of War and the President have urged, as most necessary to the welfare of the people in the Philippine Islands and to the successful government of those islands, the passage of sonte bill which would concede a lower rate of duty on products of the Philippine Isl- ands coming to the United States than the tariff imposed on the prod- ucts of foreign countries, and all of their efforts to carry out this pur- pose have not as vet resulted in a final vote which would indicate their THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic. Albert Young, former president of Teamsters’ Union, and others on trial in Chicago with Cornelius P. Shea, international president of the Team- sters’ Unlon on a charge of conspiracy with the teamsters’ strike of 1900, entered pleas of guilty and will turn State's evidence, Three banking institutions in Me- Donough County, I1l., conducted by C. V. Chandler, with deposits amount- ing to three-quarters of a million, has suspended payment, Former Mayor Seth Low, of New York, has surrendered to the tax de- partment of that city $27,387.28, which he inadvertently neglected to pay as taxes on a mortgage in 1901. Otto Young, a Chicago multimil- lHonaire, died at his summer home, at Lake Geneva. His fortune is es- timated at $25,000,000. Augustus Heinze, former president of the Aetna Bank of Butte, Mont., has contributed $100,000 toward the bank's assets, Wilson Mezner, whe married the widow of Charles T. Yerkes, denies his wife is seeking a divorce. Mrs. Rose D. B. Handfleld, armed with a revolver, threatened the life of John D. Rockefeller, and was ap- GRAFTERS ROB THE STARVING Russia's Chief ~ Grain Buyer Has Disappeared. THE PEASANTS ARE SICK AND NEEDY. Enormous Profits Made by Those in the Outrageous Deal The Govern- ment's Investigation Delays For- warding of Prompt! Assistance to the Distressed People. St. Petersburg (By Cable).—As a result of the investigation which the press campaign and publie indigna- tion have compelled the ministry to make into "the Lidval contract for the purchase of grain intended for famine relief, in which Assistant Minister of the Interior Gurko is al- leged to be involved, the sufferings of the stricken population of the Vol- {| Ba provinces have been greatly aug- (mented. On account of the disappear- ance of Lidval, the chief grain buyer, in the face of the threatened pro- ceedings, the purchase and shipment of the sorely needed grain have heen peased with a check for a million, | uspended, and considerable time but payment was stopped and the | Must elapse before pew contracts woman arrested | can be drawn up. ; : : { Further disclosures Increase James J. Hill says he has refused the ark iar . ’ . . gravity of M. Gurko’s action management of a plan to consolidate | O° "Cg 1h 3 \ - | warding the contract to Lidval. all the railroads of the West between | . ve Years Canada and the Gulf of Mexico ernor Alexandroveki, of Penza «© € h € ; ‘ A ’ . vince, who has been mentioned the in a- Gov- pro- as approval or disapproval of the pro- position. **It is doubtful if at this time any | other officers of the government have imposed on them so difficult a task | as have the members of the Philip- | pine Commission—that of successful- | ly governing these far-away islands. It would seem, having by law im-{ posed the most difficult task upon the Philippine Commission, that their hands should be upheld in carrying | out those policies which they deem essential. Reciprocal Trade Arrangement. “It should borne in mind that during this period everyone | connected with government of | the Philippines has been impressed | with the urgent need of some such legislation as that proposed, to lift | the Filipino people out of the depth | of poverty into which they have fal- ien as the result of the wars, insur- rections and pestilence with which those islands have been cursed for a period of 10 years. And not only have they thus agreed to the im- | portance of this legislation to the islands, but they have been uniformly | of the opinion that such assistance as would be given the depressed ag- riculture of the Philippines by this act could in no wise harm any in- terest in the United States. “A survey of the pending legisla- | tion leads inevitably to the conclu- ! sion that it is by no means an altru- istic measure, but one of distinet ad- vantage to us, regardless of its ad- vantage to the Filipinos. It mav be safely asserted that in no case lave we been to obtain from any country a reciprocal trade arrange- ment so favorable to us as that em- bodied in this bill, whieh increases our home market by over 7,000,000 people, producers exclusively, with the exception of a relatively few | cigars and cigarettes, of raw mater- | ial. and, more important still, of raw material per cent. of which com- petes with no product of the United States, though great use in our factories, : be entire the able io of Agricultural Bank. ‘There is pending another measure } in both the Senate and House of | Representatives on which there has yet been no legislative action and | which would of benefit to all classes of Filipinos. This is the bill providing for the establishment of an agricultural bank. “Heretofore the inhabitants of the | islands away from Manila have had | no place In which they could secure their savings and no place from which they could borrow on reason- able terms the money necessary in their agricultural or other industries | Where sueh loans ean be obtained at all the borrower is forced to pay | from 1 to 10 per cent. a month. and there was absolutely no place in | which money could be deposited with safety.” wv be ITALY TO ADMIT U. S. MEATS, Will Accept Government Stamp As t Sufficient, Washington (Special). — Restrie- | tions upon the entrance into Italy of American pork products have been removed by the Italian Government. . Heretofore italy, in common with | some other European Governments, | has insisted upon making its own | microscopical examination of Ameri- can pork products sent to that coun- try. The expense of the examination had to be paid by the American ex- | porters. This requirement placed the packers in the position of having to pay twice for the examination, once here and again in Italy. Secretary Wilson took up the ques tion with the State Department and has induced the Italian Government to accept the certificate of inspection placed on meats by the Agricultural Department. Pardoned By Governor, Sacramento, Cal. (Special) At the request of Attorney Henry, Gov- ernor Pardee has pardoned Steffens and Wyman, the ballot-box stuffers, in order that they may testify against Abraham Ruef and Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco, ————— Strike Aids Conl Famine, Livingston, Mont. (Special). Be. cause the Montana Coal and Coke Company refused to reinstate a miner who had been discharged some weeks ago, 400 miners struck, tying up the mines and coking plants of the com- pany at Aldridge and Horr. The shutdown of the Montana company’s mines will further aggravate the pres vailing scarcity of ¢csl fn this State, many Eaatern towns in Montana be- i | Six lives were lost out of 500 men | one of Lidval's sponsors, says | never heard of the man until he re- orders, through M. Gurko's department, to purchase grain only { through Lidval ithe profits of the deal were greater than first supposed. The | Zemstvo committee of the nelghbor- in the Salvation Army | peived Hotel in St. Louis. | Four hundred miners at Hazleton, Pa., struck owing to a change in the a fire oldest United Rey William Howe, the clergyman in the States, died in Massachusetts Mrs. Mary 1. P. Gamewell, a mis- Peking during the Boxer Summit, N. J. was killed dur- Mallory Line cents per bushel price on the | chase grain for 6 1-3 | below Lidval's contract equivalent to over £400,000 whole contract Princes C. E. representing the Zemstvo bureau the famine relief, who have {turned to Moscow from a tr ip through the famine-stricken provinces, re-| port that the situation Is even worse than described in the earlier counts. Sickness follows in the of famine An in . Lyvoff and Orbeliani, An Italian fireman for ing a mutiny on the steamer San Jacinto. A forest fire theatened the Roosevelt cott at just re to destroy Oyster Bay. order age Judge O'Sullivan permitting review of the Caruso before the Court of General | The application was based | in the trial of the allegation that who heard the Central Park | absence of the ac- i track | epidemic of scurvy broken out in the Kholfsk dis- of Saratov province, and, in the needed food and medi widely signed an a has tries absence of the cine, Session. case, and upon the Magistrate Baker, case, inspected the monkey-house in the is spreading POSTOFFICE BOX SCHEDULE. Order Formulated To Make Rent George Burnham, Jr., former coun- | " lates Uniform. the Mutual Reserve Insurance was placed on trial in the | ich of the Supreme court York, charged with grand An order First Assistant Hitcheock, effec ooking toward Washington, (Special) of New has been issued bs larceny. General { Postmaster i Live the By an explosion of chemicals, caus- on January 1, a fire in the Mercy Hospital, in Pittsburg, millions of deadly dis- | for germs were scattered and the | rates firesen were exposed to contact with | the bacilli. adopts as The call boxes Ohio offices the Ohio quarter) ages, charging that a From thi ply cars prevented i according contracts until they reach a charge for Dr. O. A. Douglas went on the wit- | #mall lock boxes at postoffice | ness stand in the tte trial, and | { New York city) of $4 a quarter, the | testified that Grace Brown was killed | 4mount now charged at that office, by injuries inflicted before her body it is \ Department's inten- fell into Big Moose Lake lo make increase in Wh Ww some rates will be Mg will be considerably | ss aim being to correct in- | m rates of rent The revised will every nostoffice in United States. The new schedule » minimum rate for small small fourth-class post- amount (10 now generally charged figure the rates advance | a carefully graduated adoption of unifor boxes in postoffices ease affect the fe of : and dam- to gup- filling Coal the for Company Baltimore $500,000 Peabody has sued Railroad cents per Po fly aiiure t from Oo cale One not the * . tion general fell » shag atin 2 ie box rents of Chicago, has re- the meeting at speak on od, red, the i equalities rails to at Tiliman . pre ows which Senator will the An eort made to raise the | ship Golden Gate, beached on the Mexican Coast in 1861-62 with $500,- 000 in gold race issue, i i ROUGH RIDER NAMED, Wiis Ds John A. Mcllhenny On Civil Service | aboard i Commission, A masked burglar, single handed, | held up the passengers on a Chicago | and Alton train for the second time, [dent announces the appointment of The National Grange Convention | John A. Ilhenny, of Louisiana, to fill adopted resolutions condemning free | the vacancy on the Civil Service Com- seed distribution by the government |... 10h caused by the promotion of being of no benefit, opposing a A. W. Wooley to be Assistant Attor- | national fertilizer law dnd favoring ney General of the Department of amendment of the oleomargarine law Justice. Mr. Mcllhenny was a member of | the regiment of Rough Riders, of | which President Roosevelt was a col- onel during the Spanish War. Mslilhenny is a Democrat, and his | appointment makes the Board a Democratic one, Commissioner Black also being of that political faith. Washington (Special). The Presi- iv,” to the end that convictions may be procured for violation of the law. A committee of the locomotive the question of In- but no decision was intendent on Tragedy At A Wedding. Chicago (Special) John Jania, a Pole, was shot and instantly killed at 1 o'clock in Mrs. F. Komisky's saloon. A wedding celebration was being held, with about 100 guests. When at 1 o'clock the police appear- ed and ordered the saloon closed a row ensued. Pistols were drawn by both sides and a fusillade followed. Foreign. The Japanese are making expensive military preparations in Korea with the apparent intention of enforcing Korea's claim in the dispute between China and Korea over ownership of an island. A riotous outbreak occurred in the lower house of the Austro-Hungarian parliament, the Czech radicals storming the presidencar tribuie | AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Bernard Shaw, the English author, | says religion is faulty, and offers Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Civil Engineer Harry H. Roussean has been designated ag chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, to sue. ceed Read Admiral Endicott, retired. Postmaster General Corteylou sub- mitted statistics bearing on second- class mail matter to the Congres- sional Postal Commission, Col. Francis J. Carmody, Senator Platt’'s son-in-law, is reported to be in a state of nervous coliapse. At a hearing before the Congres- #lonal Commission, J. A. Boyee, of ( hicago, offered to take the job of running the Postoffice off the govern- ment's hands. A brenze tablet erected in memory of Admiral Tingey was unveiled at the Wash'ngton Navy Yard. G. H, Ten Broeck, of 8t. Louls, appeared before the Congressional Postal Commission and opposed any changes In second-class rates. Chief Melvin, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, reported an im- provement in the condition of pack- ing-houses in Chicago. Comptroller of the Currency-Ridge- iy in his annual report shows an increase during the year in banks of all kinds. Andrew Carnegie gave to the Uni- versity of Paris a sum to produce a revenue of 12,600 francs to pay scholarships for research in the natural philosophy labratory. Prof. Karl Hau was again remand- ed in the London Police Court, where he is held on the charge of murder- ing his mother-in-law in Germany, Announcement has been made that the Canadian government will take over the Halifax dockyards on Janu- ary 1 from the British government. While performing a delicate opera- tion at Cheltenham, Dr. G. B, Fergu- son, ex-president of the British Medi- cal Association, dropped dead. Chancellor von Buelow opened the colonial debate in (he Reichstag, and wag followed by the new colonial director, Herr Dernburg. Wililam Duffy, Nationalist, intro- duced a bill in Parliament to ex- propriate 57,000 acres from the Mar- quis of Clanricarde’s Irish estates, Governor and Mrs. Beekman Win- throp sailed from San Juan, P. R., for New York on the steamer Caracas The conditions in the famine dis- tricia of Russia are reported tg be desperate, many pleasants starving Annual Report of the Dr. North. Washington, D. C, {Bpecial ) Much of the work of the Census Bureau during the past year, as disclosed by the annual report of Dr. 8. N. D. North, the director, just made public, related to the census of manufactures of 1905, to the preparation and pub- Heation of statistics on municipal fi- nance and to the collection, tabula- tion and publication of prompt and accurate reports on the cotton crop. The report shows that the work cost the government $1,249,045, that sum being $235,667 less than Congress appropriated for it. Annual estimates of the population of the various states and territories are made by the census in order to establish death rates in the vital sta- tistics reports. In 19805 13 states took enumerations of the population, the total being 25.,792.236. The es- timate of the census of the popula-~ tion of those states at the same time was 25,743,311, a difference of only 49.925. Dr. North has planned, in connec- tion with the annual municipal re- ports, a series of statistical studies of important phases of municipal de- velopment, including parks, markets, paving sewers, police and fire depart- ments, baths, school! and The importance of statistics character is indicated, the of by the fact that the debt of cities States containind over is in excess present of the United combined debt of the national and tate governments and the coun- » 8chool districts and other of The Director adds: “In 1800 32 per cent ple of the United States having a population 8.000 over, and In a few decades over people will reside in The problem of self- #, therefore, becoming of the neo- resided In of cities, nment | government.” The advocates the taking Director The re { says » that it has | the burean reporting to Por ween the earnest to bring its the highest of efficiency ‘A complete record of the quantity ginned.” it states, “is not the ginners report ac- output of their gins majority of them do that many fall- is made evident by the and In some sec signs of a more ton «¢ rog of of possible de gree cotton possible unless the That the eat have no doubt: too do so tions there are or the ginnings in the hope of thereby influencing the current market of the crop Th can be no ques tion that the o« ginning have been millions dollars io cotton planters protecting market from of speculators, whose privately gath- price ore figs reports of by Assaults wo the the rth many when they differ those of the census.” Director enactment able from North of recommends rigid laws to en. tO 8x infor- more census officers mation ure BIG BLAZE IN GALLITZEN. Fire Started In Opera House Which Was Entirely Destroyed, Altoona, Pa. (Special) The opera | hou the Build ing and Loan Association, Sklire & » owned bs Gallit zen Dawson hardware store, Joseph Ben- | gal's department store and the Moun- tain Supply Company's general store, with nine dwellings in Gallitzen, Pa., near were burned. The loss will 260,000, partly covered by in- The fire started from a de- | flue in the ladies’ dressing- | of the opera house, was to have been given together barns here, reach surance, room i The i the let the fire burn itself ont. firemen Rome (By Cable). International complications may yet grow ont of the arrest of Enrico Caruso, the fa- mous Italian tenor, in New York. The “insults” offered to the Italian spectators at Caruso’s hearing by Prosecutor Mathot have greatly aroused the people, and there is a general demand that the Italian gov- ernment take some diplomatic action, Gipsy Moths in Maine. Boston (Special). United States Agent Dexter -M. Rogers, of the Na- tional Bureau of Entomology, an- nounced here the discovery of a large number of gypsy moths in the State of Maine, and declared that the find- ing of “this dangerous enemy of for- est trees in Maine is full of grave sig- nificance, in view of the large timber interests of that state.” Upper Sandusky, O. (Special). Coroner Stutz has rendered a verdict that the death of Mrs. Henry Harman and her daughter Mary was a case of murder and suicide. He says the daughter killed her mother and her- self with morphine. It was at first believed that the two women had been asphixiated by escaping gas in ‘their home. Getting More For Tobacco. Lexington, Ky. (Bpecial). The Tobacco Trust is offering 14 cents for unstripped Burley tobacco here, which last year brought but seven cents, A member of the Burley To- bacco Association estimates that the fight made against the trust by the Burley Company will bring to the growers of 40 counties in Kentucky about $4,000,000, Nearly every Burley tobacco county will be repre- sented by large delegations at the SAMUEL SPENCER KILLED CON HIS OWN AoaD Following Train Crashed Into His Private Car. 7 PERSONS DEAD AND 11 INJURED. Failure of a Block Operator To Stop the Second Train While Repairs Were Being Made On Spencer's Train Caused the Collision Bodies Burned Beyond Recognition. Lynchburg, Va. (Special.)—S8am- uel Spencer, president of the South- ern Railway Company, formerly Railroad Company and universally recognized as one of the foremost men in the development of the Sonth was killed while riding in a private car on hs own rallroad at 6 o'clock Thursday morning. Bix others shared his fate, which came as the result of a rear-end col- lislon between two fast passenger trains 10 miles south of Lynchburg and a mile north of Lawyers Depot. These Included his guests, Schuyler, of historic famils capitalist of New York. and a retired Charles ing practically without any reserve to death, tobacco convention at Winchester, D. Fisher and Francis T. Redwood prominent in financial and so clal eircles in Baltimore Mr. Spencer's destination was where he was go- trip with Messrs ledwood and ing on a hunting Schuyler, Fisher, rill as his guests. The collision Jacksonville and Mer- between the the W vestibuk WAR express and Southwestern limited, both southbound. President and entire party, far 48 I8 known, were sleeping when the collision occurred, ties are that Dispatcher his He and the probabili- all of them excepting Davis were killed instant- ly. It ix certain that life was ex- tinct before the flames teached them President Spencer's body was burned almost beyond recognition. a that of My The Bchuyier fr train t having President Sp to the rear of the Jacksons which was standing still when President Spencer under the hig train So the impact was of Mr the Fisher body was taken om under ned very onls efore it was bus mit heen glightly attached train, struck ged encer's Was CHRl sig was rectly the foree of train sent at least 150 ahead, the locomotive going « upon the body of Mr. Spencer the the jocomotiy rear great was that the forward wi feet wer and burned off debrd engine cooled be impact and could The car forward and ed up, crushed remainder of baggage who were the expres tion car The combination car track, and in clearing express car was hanled ing a mile distant on top and in the Gebris of the combination car How the negro in this com- partment, is known as the row’ t of the train escaped, being killed, not removed ombination express car lift drove the «¢ the with its and 10 feet, the car strewn with tons PABSCNEerS Iike rate as ushed the combina- together trucks the car ilea of the and pushed 1 colored LT JACK B CAr Ci did not leave the track the to a sid- PABROngers which pREeil none of them bevond red when the the Atlanta running than if that Had it t 1 a mile or two h the number of dead frightful, the behind its the The wreck crest a steep grade, could Oecur on i not been 240 rain more fast farther sout might have been train was about two hours schedule, a condition in grade meant a speed Ax One of the worst phases of the ac- | cident was the heartless manner in | which a few passengers and some of | some of the porters of the Atlanta train, ran- sacked the wrecked cars for plunder. | F. M. Curtis, of Jamestown, N. Y., | who was a passenger on the Jack- | train, saw one negro porter go through a lady's grip. He saw | him throw away such things as were | of no value to him and appropriate things that he wanted. Mr Curtis declared that he would have | certainly killed the porter if he had had something to do it with. Not a few passengers engaged in this ghoulish business, and a large number of valuables and much money which was scattered about the wreck- ed train were taken. 1 i i FINAN AL WORLD. A large independent mill advanced | steel plates $2 the ton i December interest and dividend disbursements are estimated at $90. 000.000 Rock Island's net profits for Oe tober gained $523,244 which includes the entire system. In three years the New Hartford Railroad has spent 000,000 on improvements, Through the sale of auction of 48,000 shares of Manhattan Railway glock the Interborough Rapid Transit Company will receive a total of $6,- 776.643. “My customers who own Electric Company of America stock are all op- posed to the proposed sale and so am 1,” observed a big Chestnut Street broker. Philadelphia bankers who are as sociated with the Rockefeller bank in New York say that money will not be any tighter during December than it is now. If President Cassett were to fol low Harriman’s example he could make even a more remarkable show- ing with the Pennsylvania's assets than was made with Union Pacific's. A well-known broker who is a di- rector in a national bank as well as in a trust company says: “I regard the new Philadelphia Clearing House rules as too strict for the trust com. panies to accept, or at Yast most of them. [I believe the trust companies should form a clearing house of their own and then pay one national bank Haven & $100, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BACK His Safe Return From a Record. Breaking Journey. Washington, D, C. (8pecial) President and Mrs, Roosevelt return- ed at 10.42 P. M.. Tuesday, their journey to the Isthmus of Pana- and Porto Rico the Mayflower, a day ahead of time, breaking one more record on has been from start to finish markahle journey. The original program called the President's home-coming on the night of the 27th. When he reached Colon on the way down it was 15 hours ahead of schedule time, and the “reception committee was stil} ét the other end of the isthmus | President and Mrs. Roosevelt le jv athington on their Isthmian | ney 4 P. M! Novemher 8, 80 they have been absent i% days The President Bg back with {him a mass of facts and observations i Which he will work ug | message to Congress. | The President and party, Mre. Roosevelt and 1 General Rixey, of the Navy, retary M. C. Latla were from the battieship Yacht Mayflower at from Mma on yacht tnus what a F- frie 101 ft jour- at into a specia inciuding Burgeo: and Sec transferred ihe Monday gsiana to lock in Chesa Peake § the below the mouth « Mayflower walling iy, Just Potomac the where Lhe in were accompanied Ehington President after and Dolphin to Wa I : int GIP] 1¥ Speaking dent said very « deey imp States Navy. Porto Rien’ Pedro Roquena fairs of Urugu nember of greeted the A NOVEL HOLDUP. Uses Reve He Was Examining. Supposed Purchaser iver Oklahoma City W. P. Dilworth, pro vas shot fatall stranger ide who WHE 1 tempt to ro vod He customer robber escaj Ete as a a revolver irtridees, which Iver, and tu elling the ¢l negiat shoot Dilworth's side Thirty Lives Lost, Detroit, Mich. special from Ont The coasting H. Jones, owned by the Crawford Tug Company, a local concern, foundered Cape Cocker, in Georgian Bay, and all hands were lost. The crew consisted of 12, all from Wiarton, and number of passengers is esti mated at 18 A Free (Special) Press Wiarton, steamer J Wire Netting Saved His Life. New York (Special) A wire net- ting stretched above a skylight saved the life of Samuel Furrsteser. The feet for Furrsteser and he got up practically uninjured. Furrsteser, was cleaning windows on the fifth floor of a Broad- way skyscraper when he lost his bal ance and fell Cotton Mills Raise Wages. (Special) .—An crease of § per cent. in the wages of the employes of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company was announced Monday. The new scale, which affects 2,000 employes and which will go into effect Decembe 3, is 5 per cent more than that paid in the Fall River mills even after last week's increase there. in. Adams, Mass, Thirty Were Killed, Dortmund, Germany (By Cable). A revised list of the casualties re- sulting from the explosoin on the night of November 28 of the Witten- Roburite factory shows that 30 per. song were killed, 62 severely injured and 180 were less seriously hurt. The town of Witten, near the factory presents a sad scene of mourning and destrection, May Have A Viece-Admiral. Washington (Special). ~The grade of vice-admiral will be revived in the navy if the Navy Department adopts the recommendation made by Rear Admiral Converse, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, in hiz annual report. He says at least two’ vice. admiralship should be ereated fos the commanders of the Atlantic and Aglatic fleets, who will soon ha under them subordinate rear Sn ———— to clear all their checks for them. mirals and a large number of ships.
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