E UNABLE TO FIL
Reading Company Declines Large
Foreign Contract.
HOME DEMANDS ARE TOO GREAT.
The Shortage in All Grades of Coal De-
clared to Be Increasing Daily —Scarci.
ty of Labor at the Mines One of the
Principal Causes— Western Railroads
Anxious.
Philadelphia (Special). —
of its Inability to fill the order, the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company was compelled to de-
¢Iine a contract for 200,000 tons of
anthracite, the order for which was
tendered by a representative of the
Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Com-
merce. The proposed purchaser was
willing to pay the regular price for
placing the coal on board vessels,
«ither here or in New York.
Another order for 200,000 tons of
®Etumious coal wanted by the 1talian
government is also being offered to
the largest soft-coal operators of the
United States, with little prospect of
fts being taken because of the great
expense in delivering it to the Italian
destination designated. Other for-
eign orders have been offered to
American operators with lack of suc-
CESS.
The great demand for coal by for-
«ign governments attributed
the Increased amount of coal con-
sumed by thelr naval vessels,
number of which has grown rapidly
within the last two years. All native
coal is being used for this purpose
and the supply is not equal to the de-
mand. Added to this J the coal re-
quired for other government insti-
is
sumption.
explained that his company was com-
pelled to decline all such
cause of the great demand for
among customers in this country
because of the scarcity of labor
the collieries. The same conditions
confronted every other anthracite
company, well all bituminous
operators, he said. It was further
explained that the shortage of
grades of coal is Increasing
many Western rallroa
much disturbed concern
plies for the coming wi
Men who formerly worked In
mines are seeking en ent in
dangerous lines of business.
have abandoned mining as a
of livelihood and have turned
farming in Western States,
eigners who formerly cam
United States to take up mi
seek employment in other
labor.
as
as
I»
all
and
now
SUD
daily
are
1g their
nter.
nploym
i Many
to
For-
to the
flelds
Carl Hanna, Grandson of Late Senator,
Was at the Wheel.
New York
sons
Hanna,
of the late
Mark Hanna,
carrying a
ning 40 miles an hour
moving wagon I
men, an Avenue
at 1 o'clos k AM
the automobile carri
and the
the same
til it was within
michael, 19 years ol
Carmichael, banker
Street, New York,,
feet in the air. Two
ken and he was otherw
Carl Hanna was p
steering gear as the
diteh on the opposite
(Special). Eight per-
when
and
were Injured
18 years old,
United
drove
¥
party of
wagon, wit
direction
in ft homas
22 Williar
hurled
were
at
was
ribs
bro-
ite hurt.
the
inned under
car struck
ide of
51
a
the
a somersault from the
of the impact. He was
hurt. Miss IL. Sergas’ arm
wrenched and her clothes were torn
Her father was more seriously in-
jured.
Wallace Robertson,
George Robertson, who
in the Vanderbilt cup
his arms and one wrist
ly eut and bruised.
Daniel Horner, a
Beabright, who was
wagon, was hurled mans
air, and badly hurt. W is
son of Daniel, was thrown
and landed in 8t. Peter's Chu
The machine was
DEATH FROM CAT'S BITE.
Mrs. Rachel D. Barry
Hydrophobia.
Loong Branch, N. JL.
Mrs. Rachel D. Barry,
Amos CC. Barry, who was bitten
by a cat seven weeks ago at
Eatontown boulevard home, died
victim of hydrophobia. She w
ing for eight hours.
turned
Was
brother of
drove a car
race,
fish dealer
driving
in
the
foot
30
foot
demolished.
{ Special }.
widow
a
had to be strapped in bed,
ter of the late John Cullom, of Ox-|
ford, Pa She leaves five children,
a daughter and four sons,
Panama Canal Fund “Short.
Panama (By Cable). Lack
funds is checking canal work.
thousand men have been laid
the new line of the Panama Railroad,
of municipal engineering has
ordered to lay off 1,000 more.
duction in the clerical force ia also
looked for. The excavation for
gust will show big Increase over July,
A
Can Preserve Ice,
Rhinelander, Wis. (Special). J.
M. Darrow, connected with the paper
mills here, says he has discovered
in’ a waste product of the mills a
preparation which will preserve ice
indefinitely. The compound, it is
said, can be manufactured at a cost
of 47 cents for 1,000 gallons. House
keepers, with this preparation Ia
hand, can buy a cake of lee, coat it
and have no need to trouble the lce-
men again all summer.
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The News
Domestic
A boiler on the coal barge Pater-
son, which usually plies between New
York and Boston, exploded at Lang's
Docks, in Hoboken, killing six men.
After three weeks’ rest on a farm
under athletic treatment, the health
of Becretary of State Root has been
completely restored.
Spreading rails caused a wreck on
the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, in which 1 person was killed
and 12 injured.
John F. Gaynor, the contractor,
convicted of complicity in the Savan-
nah harbor frauds, is critically {lL
The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha Rallroad has been fined
$20,000 for rebating
Evander Mclver, a wealthy
tractor, of Chicago, was found
dered in a basement.
The American ship John
ran on an unchartered rock in
Pacific.
Two persons were ki
injured in a fight at
fair.
Congressman Theodore E. Burton,
chairman of the Inland Waterways
Commission, has announced the
plans for the coming inspection of
the organization.
Secretary Taft declares the Solid
South is a ghost of 40 years ago, and
that the South should take a part in
the councils of the nation.
The forty-first annual conference
of the Universal Peace Conference
COn-
mur-
Currier
the
lled and three
a Kentucky
~Week's cleverest cartoon,
was begun at Mystic, Ct. |
The ministers of Coffeyville, Kan
have announced a union scale for
conducting funerals.
One man was killed
were injured in a railroad wreck at
h
and eigl
Hagerstown, Ind. i
Much damage has been done by!
the Adirondacks. {
Severe frosts are reported through- |
the Canadian Northwest !
Dr. Eliphalet Wright
fleld, Mass.
W. L.. Seddon,
the Jamestown
Pitts- |
died at
director of
Exposition,
to take effect at
of works will
W. M. Dixon,
Barr.
The suit to
of the property
Eddy, instituted by re
leader of Christian Sci
withdrawn by the plaintiffs,
Ezra Meeker, who drove an
team across the continent,
that he cannot drive
the streets of New York
Street rallway officials were ar-
and fined in Los Angeles for
g a city ordinance requir-|
ders on street cars,
condition of Secretary
sald to be hopeful
reports of line
once
he
over to assistan
Director
accounting |
Baker |
{
g
an
of Mrs Mary
1:
gecure
G. atives o
ence ba {
been
Ox |
!
has been |
through
ing fen
The Taft’
is
sald that
been exaggerated.
A crank who had
to
her
a hundred
President Roos
relt or King Edward was arres
New York
A runaway
through the walls
New York, creating
building.
Burg
ward.
000 wo 1 of
The Portland
} Portland
unged
in
trolley
of a
a p
Car pl
tenement
robbed the cottage
of Cin
ATS
Hinkel
rtl jewelr)
Bank of
ts doors
Former
the English delegates
Wurtenburg
The Hague Peace
‘thieves’ supper,”
sendoff by
Quelch,
dered t¢
’
i
QO leave
erring to
as a
a great
ence
en
the Soci
in
ROVern- |
inspec~ |
Fearing a general mutiny
navy and army, the Russian
is making a thorough
tion of all forts and ships
The German anthorities are
ly watching Russia since receiv
the news of the spread of cholera
that country.
Ing Charles of Roumania granted
to all who were implicated |
in the recent agrarian revolt |
General Caffarel, who was
ed in the French decoration
geandals, is dead In Paris
The bandit chief Rafsull
feated the large force sent
him by the Bultan of Morocco
Negotiations are in progress
extradition treaty between
close
ng
in
1
amnesty
involv- |
contract
has de-
against
for
the
Frances von Bredow, daughter of
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, died
Berlin. She was the wife of Lieu- |
Bradow, formerly an at- |
tache of the German Embassy at
A woman delegate from India|
caused a sensation in the Interna-
tional Socialist Congress at Stuttgart
iby a fiery speech, in which she pic-
Mutiny i» &preading among the
Siberian troops, and in a
fight between the mutineers and
sharpahoctars 18 of the former were
killed and 35 wounded.
Twenty-zeven persons were killed
and nearly 50 injured in an encount-
er between peasants and Hungarian
soldiers in Herzegovinia
A rate war has broken
the Cunard and the
lines involving cabin passages
tween Hamburg and New York.
A British shipbuilding firm has
been awarded a contract, supposedly
Russia, for several battleships,
out be-
German |
be-
During the last year Russian fron.
tier guards made 11,600 arrests,
seizing altogether $65,000 worth of
smuggled goods.
Mulai Hafig, who was proclaimed
sultan of Morocco, is marching upon
Casablanca with 15,000 tribesmen.
A converted Jew who shouted for
the new sultan during prayers in the
grand mosque was terribly beaten,
A plot to assassinate King Carlos
and Premier Franco of Portugal was
discovered by the premature explo-
ston of a bomb in the house of a
student suspected of being a leader
of the conspiracy.
by
yi
in the New York World
FOR THE COURT
Completed.
They Are in the Agreement With the
United States for Carrying Out
the Plan The Court to Consist of
Seventeen Judges Provision for a
Special Tribunal.
The The
for
Hague text
America
y
establishment
the
of arbitration
in
Great
agreement
Britain
this
articl
the desi
powers to organize
high court of justice, e
sible and free of
the
discussion
of 26
records re signatory
aR ACCS
judges
stems of
of
mie
charge,
renresent ine
representing
of the
ring
various sy
laws and
insu
tion
capable
of arbitra-
judges mst
known
law,
the
coOmi clence
lected far as
members of the
ga 80
arbitration
According
iH
of
articles
for terms:
UP KING CARLOS
Bomb Explosion Brings to Light a
Conspiracy.
Explosion Occurs In the House of a
Medical Student, Who Is Suspected
of Being the Leader of the Con.
spiracy — Two Persons Killed and
Two Fatally Injured.
Portug
plot
{By Cable)
assassinate
An
King
is
Lisbon, gal
extensive to
Carlos and Premier
covered through the
bomb in the
the city Two persons
and two fatally injured
plosion. The affair has
teanse excitement
As a result of the police discoveries
been arrested
were taken secretly aboard the
Adamastor in the Tagus
River, where they are now confined.
Jose Bettencourt, a medical
dent, is declared by the police to have
been the leader of the conspiracy.
it was in his room that the explos-
ion occurred and he was making
bombs at the time,
The 30 prisoners will be given a
gecret trial, and it is predicted all
will be exiled to Timour.
FTANCO Was
of a
district of
wore killed
by the ex-
caused in-
explosion
tenement
They
cruiser
can, if
than at
Article
dent
necessar ry «
The HA
eight n
every
their
BOTY
own
ices
from
Salen to
partic
cases submitted to
tribunal acts as a
a person
inl com
gion of Inquir
connected wi our CAN
ticipate
Article
Of
tion
an
the duration convention, bu
al
wig-
denounce
the tern is no % fl
nis xed ANY
natory
the
power is entitled t«
n by notifying the Dutch
oe OX
piry of each riod. but the con
tion remains ints ir the «
poOwe
Pre
conventio
Rovernment two
ven
+h
DOWN THE MOORS
Flight
When a Heavy Fog, Under Which the
Moors Were Moving Upon Casa.
blanca, Suddenly Lifts the French
Batteries Ashore and Afloat Pour
Into Them a Deadly Fire.
Paris Cable)
Phiilbert,
{By Vice
commanding the
naval forces off Casablanca.
graphs that while the Moors were
advancing on the French Camp, near
Casablanca, under the of a
the fog lifted and permitted
French batteries and
Admiral
"rench
tele
cover
fog,
the ashore
effect.
At 2
eral Drude had moved forward his
situated about
camp, whence
four miles from the
in full flight eastward.
Admiral Philibert reported
the situation elsewhere was practi.
cally unchanged.
The report that Mula Hafig,
brother of the Sultan, had been pro-
claimed sultan is confirmed.
Associated Fraternity.
Buffalo, N. Y. (8pecial).—The As-
sociated Fraternities of American
elected officers, as follows: T. B.
Hanley, Dea Moines, president; W.
E. Futch Cleveland, vice president;
and C. H. Robinson, Washington, D.
C., secretary and treasurer and man-
ager of the publicity bureau,
$1,000,000 Diamond For King.
Pretoria, Transvaal (By Cable).
In accordance with the resolution in-
troduced by Premier Botha the
Transvaal Assembly, by 42 to 19
votes, authorized the Government to
purchase the Cullinan diamond, the
largest in the world, and valued at
$1,000,000. This great gem will be
presented to King Edward in token
of the loyalty and appreciation of
the people of the Transvaal for the
bestowal of a constitution on the
colony.
IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD
Atchison has placed orders for 23,
000 tons of steel rails.
There was an advance in nearly
all foreign government bonds.
“Little investors, but no big ones,
are buying stock,” sald a leading in-
vestment banker.
Philadelphia & West Chester Trac-
tion Company will begin hauling
light freight and express packages
next month,
It is estimated that the four big
electric manufacturing companies
will In 19507 earn $197,000,000, a
gain of $10,000,000 over last year.
Of this amount General Electric is
credited with $7,000,000,
Morgan's home coming was not
celebrated with any fireworks in the
slock market. There is much curios.
ity, however, as to what he will do
now after his long absence from the
United States.
The Nation's Capital |
Some Interesting Happening» Briefly
Told.
Members of the Congressional Ap-
propriations Committee will visit
Panama to consult with the canal
officials concerning the amount to be
appropriated for next year's work,
Brigadie r General Allen, chief sig-
nal officer, in his annual report urges
a considerable strengthening of the
arm of the service in his cha :
Congressman Sereno Pr
man of the House Ways
Committee, gays there
vizsion the tariff
gress,
The United
the provisio
Honduras
dent of
o
of
The :
Hague
American
Pe Conf
their
eral arbi
Hoe
on propogition
on,
I'nder
nori;
the
tO
law
Zed gran
thmian C
10
anal
on create
Year meet
tO
The
wi OUR
who
the
tance to
NECK BROKEN BY DENTIST.
Man Walks To Hospital After
Is Pulled And Dies Week Later,
fed
Man Killed
Ogden i iah
re
ached Ogden tha
A Dassenger ngl
RH a iroud
Pacific
bear near Evanston
Chapman was with
camping He
the His
in
had
ih
i
out wandere
camp
a thicket
heen «
dead
His face
Hy the
from
found
neck
and
es IE
body
and
lawed bear,
dea th
of
had resulted fr
an the
om
neck
ariery In
Nobel Prize For Kipling.
Cable The Tid-
authority |
Stockholm (By
gays it haz good
for stating that Samuel
{Mark Twain) having
and rejected. Rud:
been designated as
literary Prize this
l.ondon Mr. Kipling
confirm or deny story
Stockholm He replied that he
not been notified of the award
the "
it}
Was
to
Four 'rown.
{Sper
Boat Upsets;
Cal Three
when a
Sacramento
was added
Greggs was
water by
plunged to
persons whose
Sacramento, ial)
persons were drowned here
A fourth victim
to the list when Manuel
pulled beneath the
women after he had
cue the three
had overturned
Three Fall 2,000 Feet,
Berne, Switzerland (By Cable).
The fate of three German tourists,
who had been missing on the Jung!
Frau since last Thursday, was clear-
ed up, when guides
dead bodies on a
Rotthi-Sattal They
distance of 2,000 feet
below
fallen a
glacier
had
Islands Shaken By Earthquake.
8t. Thomas, D. W. I. (Special) .-
A sharp earthquake was felt on the
Islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica.
Several strong shocks have been re
ported from the Island of St. Lucia
this week.
Japanese Sketch Forts,
Atlanta, Ga. (Special). Two Jap-
anese were discovered, it is said, in
the rear of Fort McPherson taking
views and sketches of the buildings
and grounds, A former enlisted
man, who said he observed the Jap-
anese, after talking with them, told
the story of the occurrence to the
officers of the Department of the
Gulf. The officers of the department
say no, action will be taken unless
other discoveries are made,
THE SOUTHER RALWA
CUTS 17 DIVIDEND
Reduction of 1 Per Cent. un Pre-
ferred Stock.
PRESICENT FINLEY EXPLAINS IT.
Says Directors Considered That Under
Existing Conditions of High Prices of
Suppliesand Labor, of Increasing Tax~
es and Legislative Reduction of Reve-
nues It Was Peemed Prudent.
BIG FLEET SAILS IN DECEMBER.
To
»
(i.
The Pacifi
Of The
Determine
Plans Cruise
igen: 2
‘4
route
ot vot
strover fleet
HOUSES BLOWN DOWN,
i
| Several Persons Injured Around
Johnstown, Pa,
instown Pa :
that $
of a CYC
Somerset ;
woman sustained
in the ty
a path 59
One
vicind
long
Houses
and growing
David Peterson
fatally injured
blown down
The tracks
moreland and
vashed away
es, tying the
KILLED BY TENANT'S WIFE.
mile Was £W%
wind
set PEVY
oved
A re
fs wher
urge Vert.
Railroad
number of
Pitts
+ Somerset
in a
road
of the
wore
pla
up
| He Fired At Her First, Rut Her Aim
Was Truer.
Mount Ster Ks scial)
Algin Thomas, 70 vears , a farm-
or. was shot and killed by Mrs. Katie
Brumet, the 20-year-old wife Abe
Brumet, another farmer
Brumet was a tenant
and they had a disagreement
! Brumet was away from home,
lag shot at Mrs. Brumet three times
{ one bullet grazing her head a a |
a revolver and fired at Thomas five
| times, one bullet piercing the bral
The young woman about to b
come a mother and It in a eritieal
condition Thomas leaves a family.
Mra, Brumet is highly respected
ling,
0
of
of Thrm
While
Thome
bh
Gasoline Kills Three.
Warsaw, Ind. (Special)
gasoline stove explosion Charles
Webster and wife an their two-
year-old child were burned to death
at their home, near Warsaw, Mrs,
Webster lighted the fire. then the
tank exploded. The lHanid was
thrown over her and the child. As
Webster tried to rescue them his
clothes caught fire and he was over-
come, The three charred bodies
were found in the debris.
In a