——— « IATESTNEWS Domestic The report of the committee on resolutions of the National Clvic Fed- eration urges Congrekg to provide a commission which shall consider the subject of business and industrial combinations. William J. Bryan declares that his decision as to his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President will not depend upon the choice of the Republicans, A contract for 15,000 tons of steel rails is said to have been closed be- tween the United States Steel Cor- poration and the Imperial Rallway of Japan. The New Jersey Board of Pardons commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of John E. Schuyler, who was to have been hanged next week. Charged with having aided his wife to commit suicide last June, James Wardell was convicted of manslaugh- ter in the first degree in New York. Governor Stokes received the resig- nation of George A. Squire, of Eliza- beth, president of the New Jersey Reformatory Commission. Porto Rico was the topic for dis- cussion at the Mohonk Conference. A proposition for the development of water power at a cost of $20,000,- 000 at Milleroches, on the St. Law- rence, was laid before the Interna- tional Waterways Commission for its approval by the St. Lawrence Power Company, of Canada, and the Long Sault Development Company. William Lepper, of Loraine, Wyo,, who had lost his property as the re- sult of a stock deal, shot Judge Charles W. Brammell, his counsel, and killed himself. Four men were killed by the blow- ing up of a mixing mill of the At- lantic Dynamite near Ashland, Wis. Secretary Taft inspected the naval station at Olongapo and the fortifi- cations. He will not leave Manila until November 189. Various speakers before the Civic for the trust evil. The Mergenthal-Horton Baskett Machine Company, with a $750,000 plant at Paducah, Ky., is in financial difficulties. The Universalist General Conven- tion opened {in Philadelphia with 2,000 Universalists present. Bids for the the Carnegie Institution of Washing- jected at a meeting of the executive committee of that institution, and new bids will be sought from the contractors. No reason was for rejecting the bids, A panic was prevented on Wall bankers, led by J. P. Morgan. Seec- retary Cortelyou deposited seven mil- Hons of government funds. John D. Rockefeller has arranged to loan large sums to various financial insti- tutions in New York. John M. Kemmerer, former presi-| dent of the Kemmerer Iron and Steel Company, of Scranton, Pa., and for- mer president of the Scranton Board of Trade, was made defendant in a forgery case brought by Philip Rob-| inson, treasurer of the company. Miss Helen M. Gould was present | at the dedicatory services of the new Army Y. M. C. A. Building at Fort Leavenworth, given to the by Miss Gould. Charles 8. Cameron, president of the Pittsburg and Tube city councilmen, forfeited $12,000 “when called for sentence. s Emperor William of Germany has resented busts of Frederick the Great and Field Marshal Count von Moltke to the United States Military Academy. The German balloon Pommern is probably the winner of the race from St. Louis, the French balloon L’'Isle de France being a close second. Francis M. Ironmonger, member of a prominent Virginia family, Confederate veteran, and for years the New York representative of the | Associated Railroads of Virginia, died m Brooklyn at the age of 78, mnilliogaire, has bequeathed }00 to establish a college for girls satterned after Girard College. HHile, NM, C., fent of the gress. has been elected presi- Farmers’ adelphia, ended her life by leaping overboard while at zea. Foreign Justice Riddell, of Toronto, impos- ed a fine of $25,000 on the Michigan Central Rallway for the &&plosion of a car of dynamite at Esgex Center on August 8, which resulted in the kill- Ing of 2 men and In serious injury to about 40 others. The arrest o sign Charles Ult- mo, of the Fren Navy, at Toulon, charged with being a spy, has been followed by the arrest of an army officer named Berton, charged with negotiating for the sale of military secrets, Crops throughout Scotland have suffered damage within the past fort- night by excessive rains to the esti- mated extent of at least $15,000,000. Builders and officers of the Maure- tania, the new mammoth Cunarder, are confident she will exceed In speed the Lusitania. The Canadian Pacific Raflway Company's oriental liner Empress of China sank at her dock at Vancouver, Emperor Francis Joseph's physi- cians pronounce him convalescent. Cholera’s ravages in Eastern Rus- sia continue on a fearful scale, and at Kieff alone the death list averages 100 daily. "In the trial of the libel action of Count von Moltke against Maximilian Harden it was proposed that the ‘epurt take steps to obtain from Em- peror William a statement concern- BE WORLD BEATERS Plans For the Next Additions to Our Navy. GREAT SECRECY BEING OBSERVED. They May Be of 25000 Tons, but Will Carry Only the Present 12.inch Guns, . the Efficiency of Which Was Proved by Recent Tar- get Practice. Washington (Special). — As was the case last year, when the plans for the 20,000-class Delaware bat- tleships were sent to Congress under the injunctions of secrecy, the Navy Department is exerting itself to pre- vent the features of the plans for the great ships which it will ask the next gession to authorize from gain- ing publicity. Of course, it is realized that after the ship is afloat and in commission it is practically impossible to prevent knowledge of her essential features from reaching rival naval powers. But the fact that under the most favorable condition the building and completion of a battleship must con- sume any way from two to five years, affords the nation building the ship & very substantial advantage in po- sition, which might easily determine the issue of a naval war where up- to-date ships are pitted against ves- sels five years old in type. S80 in the case of the new ships recommended to ba constructed by the naval general board #t is impossi- ble to secure any authentic informa- tion relative to the features of the vessels beyond the mere fact of their bigness, for it is certain that they will be of more than 20,000 tons displacement, if, indeed, they do not ” of 25, DANGER IN PROSPERITY 000 tons. i giving Proclamation. Washington (Special).—In his an- nual Thanksgiving proclamation Pres- {ident Roosevelt embraces the oppor- {tunity to preach a little sermon to | the dangers {of ease and luxury. i day, November 28, Day. American people on the as follows: “Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers generations past, the President ap- points a day as the especial occasion as thanksgiving to God from eace with all of mankind. Our natural are at least as great as those of any other nation. We be- that in ability to advantage of these famine, We are at | free from from war. the rest resources take resources at least as high as the average man other. Nowhere else in the world is there such an opportunity fullest extent all its powerg of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind- acter, “Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be ex- Into our care 10 talents have been intrusted; we squander and waste them, nor yet hide them in a& napkin; at all pros- throughout the and among all ages, peoples, Ever times beseach we fall into love of ease and of luxury: that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we to God and to it behooves us to our neighbor. “A great democracy like ours-—a orderly liberty, can be only if the heart of citizen there dwells or righteousness and We should earnestly pray that spirit of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts perpet i the a keen justice of sense ever more both toward that tell inclined virtues he the and forbearance one with another, and toward those no less necessary virtues that make for manliness and rugged hardihood-—for without these qualities neither nation nor individ- ual can rise to the level of greatness. “Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from thelr dally work and in their homes or in their church meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future.” Ends Life In Panama. Panama (By Cable).-—Dr. F. R. Cross, of Oregon, a' prominent den- tist, and for many years a resident of the Isthmus, committed suicide here. Airship Lost Rudder. Paris (By Cable).——While the Le baudy airship Patrie, purchased by the French Government for the use of the army, was engaged in evolu- tions over Parls with five officers and two ladies on board, her right pro- peller dropped off and she drifted helplessly in the wind for an hour. Finally the balloon descended near Issy without sustaining any damage or any injuries being inflicted on her ing the so-called camarilia. passengers. BIG PROJECT COMPLETED, Water Begins To Flow Through Illi nols-Mississippi Canal. Sterling, Ill. (Special). —At Pr. M. T. J. Henderson touched a gate, which thereupon raised, permitting the water to flow through the Illi- nois-Missiesippli Canal. This marked the completion of the work on the $7,600,000 government undertaking which was started by Mr, Henderson 256 years ago. Congressman Cald- well, Lowden and Lorimer and Unit- ed States Senator Hopkins, Govern- or Deneen and other prominent men were present and made addresses. The opening of the gate was witness- ed by hundreds of people, many of whom came long distances. A pa- rade preceeded the ceremonies. PLANNING FOR A STRONGER NAVY Cabinet at First Meeting Considers Estimates. PAY FOR MORE BLUEJACKETS. ———— 9 - Secretary Metcalf Would Increase by $5,000,000 the Standing Appropria- tion fer the Payment of Enlisted Men This Would Permit Recruiting of 3,000 Additienal Sallors. Washington (Special). — Naval matters occupied the attention of the Cabinet during a considerable part of Friday's meeting, which was the first of the autumn. Secretary Met- calf has just completed the compila- tion of the estimates for the main- tenance of the naval establishment, and as these show a great increase as compared with the current fiscal thereby promising to cause debate Congress at the ap- the President and the Secretary of the Navy are giving their most earnest attention to them. The Secretary advanged 8 propo- sition to increase by $,.000,000 standing appropriation for the ment of enlisted men in the Navy. According to his estimate this in- crease would admit of the recruit of about 3.000 bluejackets force with much in pay- to the present Was received luded in the e to be submitted to Congress Another matter not sntirely character but deemed worthy by Secretary Metcalf of its Influence upon the character of favor be inc timates of in because future was the recommendation of the Isthmian Canal Commission brought to Washington a few days locks of beot ing to the widening of the the Panama Canal, and this su was discussed at some length Some naval officers, whose views were reflected by Secretary Metcalf, held that a width of 100 feet in the locks would be quite suff to meet all naval needs within the next fpr cient other element belleves that the locks would prove too narrow in the course of 10 years The President decided a detailed report from the commission ant subject Secretary Metcalf also has before him the report of the Naval General Board, headed by Admiral Dewey, upon the new upon the construction of the width of the Not only the Naval Gen- eral Board, but the Naval Board on Construction, headed by Admiral and the Secretary of the Navy him- must impress their views and new construction bafore the President have in hand all the material mendations to Congress It is pointed out that, by reason of the fact that he last year expressed the opinion that one new ship would be all that should necessarily at this Congress, the President has somewhat embarrassed himself. but as several of the battle. to be perfectly serviceable, have gince rather unexpectedly been shown to be of obsolete type, it is not appre- the President will have difficulty in explaining to Con- gress the necessity for amending the that no less than two and order will be recommended estimates, | WASHINGTON The report of the board of Inquiry in the case of the grounding of the battleship Kentucky, on Lambert Point, fully exonerates from blame Captain Barry, the commander, At the Tablnet meeting Secretary Metcalf advanoed a proposition to increase by $5,000,000 the standing appropriation for the payment of en- listed men in the Navy. The chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal works reports that the sick rate in SBeptember showed a de- crease of nearly 2 per 1,000, com- pared with August. Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, gays a4 new currency law will have to be passed to correct the evils re- sponsible for the financial troubles. Secretary Taft will not sail from France on his way home until De- cember 9. The administration building of the United States Weather Bureau ob- servation station at Mount Weather, near Bluemont, Va., was destroyed by fire. The Washington and Tennessee, of Admiral SBebree’'s squadron, were re- ported to the Navy Department as having salled from Port of Spain for Rio de Janeiro, The managers of Secretary Taft's boom, apprehensive of the third term talk, are trying to have the Presi dent again declare that he will not take a renomination, TERRIBLE HAVOC. “BY EARTHQUAKE Entire Villages in Calabria Are Destroyed. AN ANCIENT TOWER TUMBLES. The Cathedral at Toure di Gerace Falls —Torrential Rains Follow Shecks ~Many Persons Buried in Ruins of Their Dwellings The Residents of Many Towns Are Panic.stricken. details earth- Rome (By Cable).—The received here regarding the quake in Calabria in every way tend to show that the damage done wes much more extended than at first estimated, but that the loss of life has not geen great, The lowest es- timates place the number of killed at about 20 and the highest at about 120, but there is nothitg to, show that the last figures mentioned are correct, Nothing definite will be known on the subject until ke ruins are cleared away. Premier Gioletti conferred with King Victor Emmanuel on the dis- aster, and it was reported later that His Majesty would go to the disturb- ed districts if any fresh shocks oc- curred. Details of the earthquake show that the Peninsula, there were despair. First Shock Terrific. The first one, and was followed by two others of longer duration, which entirely destroyed two villages and reduced many houses in several others a i mass of ruins. { The first shock fortunately brought {the entire population of the villages | into the open, and many succeeded in making their escape to the hills tor open plains, which accounts for { the smaliness of the list of fatalities, Half the houses at Furrezzano and | Brancaleone collapsed and many per- j sons were buried the and at Sinopoll and liario more lives jare sald ave lost { prevalled everywhere Rocella, Jonica, Reggio, Cosan Cittanova, Palmi, and other towns also {the shocks, but none A Cathedral The cathedral which arose Eulzephyrii ony of the down, as was southern end of the but scenes of desolation and LO in rigdy in Hines, Nt to h been Baracdio, BOVET Tumbles, Torre di ruing of lLocri 00] thrown flower at Gerace, from the the Locriane, also an ancient which had withstood all the brian earthquakes for centuries Half the houses of the village are in ruins, simila conditions prevail number « other points in Cals During the confusion caused the first earth shock ie p in the jail at Catanzaro mutinied were only subdued wit culty The female priso particularly alarmed, screaming and shouting and beating the doors until the whole place was in a terrible up- roar The prison officials did every- thing possible to calm the {inmates {but panics broke out afresh every time another earth shock was ex- perienced Ag soon as possible detachments of troops, with relief trains, were hur- once celebrated was Cala- past of Gerace and r r by risoners and dim- were h great ‘Te {did everything they {the people who had fled from their | homes. {| Only minister, j ated two entirely new | Calabria, which had {the relief committee of Milan for ithe victims of the earthquake of 11905. These, however, withstood the shocks { The scientista at the University of | Naples who study selsmetic dis iturbances say that the earthquake tof 1805 was preceded by the erup- i tions of Mounts Stromboli and Etna, which suddenly ceased and were im- mediately folowed by the earthquake i Mount Vesuvius, they add, was ac- tive until a week ago, but sinc then ithe voleano has not emitted any smoke at all. two days ago the in by villages been built Prince Leaves 821,800,000, Berlin (By Cable) The late Duke and Prince John Henry XI of Pless left cash accumulations amounting to $21,800,000. His successor is his eldest son, John Henry, { Pleas, who { peror Willlam's representative at the New York celebration in Nevember, 1802. The new Duke and Prince married Miss Mary West, sister of George Corn- wallis West, whe married Lady Ran- dolph Churchill (Jennie Jerome). Deaf-Mute Had Shotgun, Knoxville, Tenn, (Special). —R. H. Johnson, a deaf - mute countryman, with a shotgun, was arrested at a ho- tel here. He says he Is a better hunter than President Rposevelt, whose train passed here golng east at 9.35 o'clock P. M. Dies At Age Of 108. Sault Ste. Marie (Special). —Fer- nando Caterinello, aged 103, said to be the oldest Indian in the United States, was buried here. His wife died last spring, aged 102. A A bis 19 Operators Return To Work. Chicago (Special)--Nineteen strik- ing Western Union operators in the Western division applied for work Monday, and were employed. Can't Brake His Parole. St, Paul, Minn. (Special). —Attor- ney General Young, of Minnesota, has cancelled his engagement to ad- dress the National Federation con- ference at Chicago, because he is technically under arrest for contempt of the United States Court for vielat- ing an Injunction In the Minnesota Rallway rate cases. Every day he is required to report in person to the United States marshal and assure pa official that he has not left St. ul. - Bn EDS AFFINITY, Husband And Wife Must Be Soul Mates, Dr. Adler Says. New York (Bpecial),~True soul affinity is necessary for the ideal married life, was the declaration of Dr, Felix Adler, in his lecture in Car- negie Hall, before the Boclety of Ethical Culture. Dr. Adler's subject was “The Keynote of the Ethieal Life." “In our work there {8 no {issue more urgent than the need of the re- construction of the family. “Today we admit that the child has rights which we are bound to re- spect, and that the wife is the equal of the man. What we need is a doc- trine of marriage. The church is tied up to the ethics of 2.000 years ago the Oriental fantasies of Paul.” SOUTHERN STEEL MILLS BANKRUPT Is Long On Assets, But Short of | Cash. TF SI I HPN bl A THE COUNTRYS FINANCES ARE SHFE Comptroller Ridgely Hears From All Sections. TROUBLE LOCAL IN NEW YORK. Upheaval Due to the Condition of Con- cerns That Have Been Discredited by the Operations of Their Own Officers Manufacturing, Mining and Agri- cultural Operations Prosperous, {Bpecial) Ridgles that feeling indicates an nbc that need Washington Comptirol- ler of the Curren y gave out a statement saying the general : Sr iutely sound situation, there not the 1 about companies of ban) Ke $41 GIB was iightest of apprehensi the the banks and country, that have trust the every of the reserve cities ition York and York COT to leave thelr and other atiributes to bana 1s { Won IBIANCEE In Sew 1 . 1 cities centr reserve suble in of a thie the tre New the condition Very cerns discredite their officers operations HAD A CAPITAL OF $25,000,000. Creditors File a Petition in Birming- | ham Declaring That the Company | Has Confessed Its Inability to Pay Its Debtg-.Owns Extensive Steel, Nail | and Ore Plante in Alabama. Ala involuntary Birmingham, petition in cs . {Special ) bankruptcy $25,000,000 T Or- and capitalized at he | der are the Birmingham Coal Iron Company, the Sayre Mining and Company, and the Cahaba Coal Company The th ern Steel Company owns 2a plant at Gadsden; steel and uail mills at at Altoona and Virg mines throughout ae well as other properties Mosez Tavlor, president and South- big steel rod, wire coal mines City and ore Birmiggham coke ovens and New E. T. Sch general manager The petition alleges that th pany committed an act of bankr in acknowledging in writing ability debts it that t ile ec Con uptey n i's in- to pay its is in the petition company has #ix months The petiton it be adjudged a bankrupt receivers be appointed Attor the petitioning credit where 1'nit Hundiey is an order averred fendant for that that neys for have gone to Huntsville, ed States Judge O. R holding court, secure naming the receivers The filing of the surprise fingancial Some expected for some was rumored that was about to reorganize Vice President § his compan’ abun and If creditors will co-operate with the will company on its Mr, Sehuler said. also of the plants will go uninterruptedly He attributed financial embarrassment of his pany to the tight money mark the East and other causes ke heen insolvent asks and Ors to petition vas n and Industrial such tion h thougt yom vg HRs n ty i £ pr circles here Be as time tha o8 een is Sel »r sald that 4 ! is sdantly salvent the gre patient and jabts of and the ¥y is A paid {eet compan y put ' he that tb é on the AO ef In GERMAN BALLOON Wer. Frenchman Second In Flight St. Louis To Jersey Const. Washington ficial measurement flight of the two leading be the international race from St at {S8peecinl} The air line as computed the Geological follows: 8t. Louls (Forest Park) to Ashurs Park, 873.4 miles: 8t Louis Park) to Herbertsville, N. J. The Pommern landed at Park. the longest distance by the competitors, and the France landed at Herbertsville, next | in distance All of the { Farest $67.4 Asbury | traveled Isle de data relating to the { i of a map of the flight | begun by William Welch, | chief draughtsman of the Signal! Corps, U. 8. A. It ig expected that | the Aero Club of America will adopt | and award prizes ac- cordingly i MOTHER KILLED BY SON. Was Exhibiting New Rifle, A Gift To Him From His Father. Hagerstown, Md. (Special) Mrs. Graff, wife of James Graff. tenant on the Samuel Kauffman farm, near Duffield, was accidentally shet and killed by her twelve-vear-old son. Teddy, who was ghowing her the new hammeriess target rifle of latest pat- tern that his father had just purchas- ed for him, In some manner the lad accidentally pulled the trigger. The bullet enterd his mother's side and pierced the heart. She expired al- most immediately. —— Banker Gets Five Years In Prison. Milwaukee, Wis. (8pecial) — Former Banker Thomas Cogahill, in- dicted for embezzlement of funds belonging to the bank at Seymour, Wis., was sentenced to five vears imprisonment. Cogshill lost $40,000 of the bank's funds In wheat specula- tion. AA e355 OAL SA FINANCIAL | It 1s said that Morgan and others told the big bear traders in Wall Street to stop thelr game for a few days upon pain of further punish ment if they did not follow that hint. Philadelphia Company has won the first victory over those who tried to have its charter annulled and those who are heavily interested say that this is merely a forerunner of what will result from other attempts. prices of stock tween N NOW Compts follows: “1 have talked bankers in practi in reach of phone, and also among the banks or general feell: is absolutely be not the about the banks and f the New York ar through the 4 pected, and that countr) & nerfort periec sit concert « Cond bau by the and of sign to stocks a the basis New York od ’ 4] of owes! We are now maximum demand for these products in from en now th ot the Or days amounts { the banks thes ( arge relieve carrying davs the Aa sount very easy condition CONFISCATE CIGARETTES Proceeding Is Against Property of Brit- ish. Amercian Tobacco Company Norfolk, Va nent of cigarettes, valued Durham, N. C British «- American Britain, has Government and id by the customs au- action was brought nference here last week of Customs District Attor- senta- Justice a kal . iw (Special) A il $7 COnBIENE et ei acd ty a Wh Tobacco Com- Great been at- the here, between Collector Hughes, U L.. L from Washington The Departn nited States and Lewis, Department ney a repre tive of at the ent of Justice issued the following statement concerning the tobacco seizure at Norfolk: “The customs at Nor- the Bec- collector of under direction of the retary of the Treasury, at the in- stance of the Attorney General and in conjunction with the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has seized 175 con- R750.000 cigarettes, which cases, valued were in transit at $7. 272.50, an { Limited), locat- Petersburg, Va., snd Durham, to New York and foreign coun. Tobacco Company ed in N. C., tries Robbers Hola Up Stage. Helena, Mont. (Special) .-—