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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.
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9
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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) .-—<A gpec-
ial from Lewiston saye that the Mus-
selshell stage was stopped by two
robbers, but the driver, Launceford,
put up such a fight with one of the
robbers that the second man was
obliged to leave the horses’ heads to
assist hie comrade. The team then
Tan away. »
Hague To Decide Dispute.
Ottawa, Ont. (Special) --At a meet.
ing of the Cabinet it was formally de-
cided that the fisheries case between
Canada and the United States in re-
spect to the Magdalen islands would
be submitted to The Hague Confer.
ence, along with the Newfoundland
case, which involves similar interests.
China Protects Foreigners,
Peking (By Cable).—On account
of the disturbances in the southern
part of Klang-81 province, foreigners
are not allowed now to go south of
Kiang-Ning-Fu.
Girl In Trance At Dance.
Meriden, Conn. (Special). — Miss
Lillie Cooney, of Wallingford, at-
tended dancing school on Saturday
night, and while dancing fell to the
floor in a trance. In opite of the
efforts of physicians, she has romain.
od in that condition ever since. Med.
foal men say it Is a peculiar form of
blood poisoning, and that the poison
acts like morphine. They have hopes
of ultimately reviving her, but her
comatose conditions puzzles them.
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