LATESTNEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic i. H. Harriman, J. J. Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt acengo Stuyves- ant Fish of waking $1,600,000 from the treasury of the ILlinols Central {or his personal uze on unmarketable collateral and that he deposited $700,000 of the railroad’s funds with a trust company sald to have been in a failing condition, and of which a relative of Fish was president. harle; PP. Heath and Miss Lydia Hatch, youthful members of a uping party im the New Hamoshire mountains, broke through thin ice nd were drowned. persons wore killed, four the point of death and twenty re reriousely 11 from eating taint toes at a Masonic banquet in Mich- BE s oa re at igen The Mi Equitable leave the re leg and Now York State of Mlionis, ic lation. Life owing re eo dvoamite under the porch of a Pitts mand for $10,000. {Le Alabama authorities have not vet decided what course they will pursue regarding the order of United States Court restraining enforcement of mew railroad lation, Vice President Hill, of the Ameri- ran Tobacco Company. testified that the corporatiom owns cigarette and tel 0 companies supposed to be independent concerns. Harry 1. Poddock, United States consul at Amoy, China, says Japan has captured th» ocean carrying trade f China from Hongkong ta Sha hai Tite crew of the German tank steamer Bayonme forced the captain toc return to the Delaware Capes and land an insane sailor. Five persoms were killed and injured in a collision between a ‘ey car and a freight train at Wat bury, Ct. Prominent raflroads have noti Pittsburg steel manufacturers sr for steel rails are about laced. J. Whitleys, heating and ventilat ng engineer, of Brooklyn, shot is wife dead and jumped from his room on the ninth floor of the Hotel Belle- laire, at Broadway and Seventy Street, Manhattan. Rev. Madison €C. Peters, of {, says sectarianism in the pu ols has reduced Italy to a a of organ-grinders and tand-keepeors. spondent when she learned been made a party to a m iage, Miss Osie Pierce com ide at Powhatan, O. tective Rubing, of New York, was married to Miss Catherine Struehliner, whom he saved from drowni James Jenkins, who tramped from "Richmond to New York, was sent to Blackwell's Islard for vagranc: Mrs. Vannelia Mecker Hull died in Pittsburg, satisfied at Paving pass. ed the century mark All the vessels of the Pacific will rendezvous in Hampton Roads Frank Owen, for yesmrs genersl trafic manager of the steamboat lines perating between Ogdensburg, N.Y... rnd Chicago, died at the age of 68 sears, Stuyvesant Fish has withdrawn his injunction to restrain the voting of Iilinols Central stock held 1! th Mutual Life Insurance Company #HHonry I. MeCrea, a paymaster in the United States Navy and son of ‘Captain Henry McCrea, has resigned to go on the stage. Lalilie Rodriguez get a hotel afire end stabbed five persons at Al 080, Cal., before he was shol and killed John Bigelow, the statesman, dipfo- mat and journalist, passed his nine- tieth birthday at work. The Presbyterian Poard of For-' eign Missions will expend a Ralf mil- dion dollars in Korea, oe al Tie I fre 7 fled * ng. t fleet 'Y ¢ am Foreign Baron Ishii, chief of the Bureau of CTommerce of the Japanese Foreign Office, says “It whl be necessary in order to keep a2haolute faith with the United States to prevent emigration of laborers to this country.” Chancellor Von Buafow, in a speech in the Reichstag, referred to forthcoming reforms fn {he punish- ment of youthful offenders and ad- vocaled the American method. There was a riot ian the Douama, the réactiocarics assaulting Fedor RHodit- cheff, orator of the Constitutional Democrats, for his atlack upon the wovernment, Murders and outrages, including the killing in Zoluland of two chi «ho were friendly to Great Brita tre causing unceasinesg throughout Natal fate details of the earthquake dis wisler In Karatagh and vicinity place the number of lives ost at 12,000, Twelve town; were destroyed. The Russian government has de- rided to institute a competition to be open to Russian and foreign firms for dosigas for ew battleships Preniler Stolypin, of Russia, in the courre of the miniaterial declaration heforg t'e Douma, emphasized the idea of the anfoeralis power and un- Tettered will of the Fnperor. At the ir in cl * the Extreme Left party, ¢rges, lea sald, Pal demoralized ciuntry. Several Japanese newspapers are ralling for a reduction of Japan's ar- mament on the ground that it is mo‘as expensive than the country can aff rd. I. Lore Wellach, baving claimed be ~ drkal Scttlement, Hawali, have rgrecd ty permit him to treat a dozen if them. A report that an attempt woud be made to blow up Secretary Talths ‘train in Russia caused soldiers to be itationed about the train at Ufa. Prem er Stolypin presented to the fzar the address of the Parliament, and there is curfosity to knew wheth- ¢* he employed the term “autocrat,” which tle Douma declared was no Bsr mar tease in the Russian slate, MINY BURIED ALINE by Dead. and Fills It With Poisonous Gasses- Said to Have Caused the Accident. Fayette City, Pa. and 30 more, are entombed in the | Mine of the United Coal Company, | located three miles west of this city, fand there is practically nc hope that tany of them are alive Their im- i prisonment 13 due to an explosion of { black damp about 8 o'clock Sunday night, soon after the night force went work. It is & { working { Special). miners, tween 25 possibly Naomi “ i {to aid a miner entering an old with an open lamp caused the explosion. Had the disaster oc- tcurred on any other night except { Sunday the number of victims would have been twice as large. The mine 2 to 300 regularly, i about one-forth of them driving en- itry at night, but on Sunday nights about one-half the night force goes to work. {| The mine is of the shaft type, and {the concrete sides of the entry were broken down so as to completely close the passage back a considerable About 100 feet from the is located the first air from this deadly great volume The es in this territory is human can live in it han a few minutes, and for this reas it i3 not believed a single one entombed men is still i9 temploys from only tance iri en- ince and in gas found ! that no being for Oi alive One man, an unidentified foreigper, managed limb top of the air shaft, dropped No sign of life to ¢ to the but 58 has come from * the there feo aiiel shaft fzht as a flash which and all around it roar tons of coal d into the en- with workmen Then followed, the explo- of business com- and air facilities 1¢ immediately 10t hurt while run air, the explo signal and cottage in the of these, form the about n mine a rashe 1 i lighted up the pr - here 14 wns as © dq down crowded darkne putting the out i wweral » explosion perished get into fresh the homes of 1 miuers a death every miner's The occug and children in the te ne ints picture goenes omen a nd children are crying with hope at work of reg and stare fruitless one of the old- ited Coal Com- ncipal offices f the biggest region, and to men The property loss as the mine was of thousands of u up-to-date mine i { <0 S00 dollars = appurtenances, such as electric lights, coal cars and alr ventilating system. The explosion completely wrecked the alr system, and that In itself means that no human thing can live very long in the mine as it now is. ASLEEP TWO MONTHS, Beautiful Millgirl In State Of Coma Following A Bad Cold. Asbury Park, N. J. (Special) Adie Garetsky, 19 yeas old, a mill girl, who resides at 223 Cordes Avenue, West Grove, lies In a state of coma She has been asleep since 8 week ago Thursday. She opened her eyes early Frida; morning but could not speak and did not recognize any member of her family The condition followed cold contracted a week dropped asleep, which was followed by a high fever. The case is puzzling the physicians, who say, however, that the young woman will eventual- iy come out of hor and be fully restored The sleeper ig the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Max Garetsky and is a beauty. + 2 a heavy Shot Imitating Suicide, Charleston, 8. C. (Special).-—John C. McElmore, aged 21, employed by the Southern Railway, was fatally injured while demonstrating how a suicide wound could bo inflicted. He lace a pistol to his head, and say- iz jokingly, “This is the way they do it,” pulled the trigger. A report followed and McEimore fell to the with a bullet in his brain. p i | § Two Drowned In Florida, Jacksonville, Fia. (8pecial).——The St. John's River claimed two victims by drowning Simon McCaffrey, a bollermaker, of Sparrows Point, Md., fell from a pler in the heart of the Lefty. John Peere, a paperhanger, while hunting near Doctor's Lake, fell overboard and lost bis life. Peere tas a widow in New Jersey. Man Of 9D A Saicide, Fall River, Masa. (Special). At ithe age of 98 years, Chace, a well-to-do farmer, decided that life was not worth living and committed suicide. He took Paris i green and was dead when found, He left a note saying that he was tired : of life. Ships Out Of Commission. Washington (Special) ~The old monitor Miantonomoh, which, with the Canonicus and the battleship Texas and cruiser Brookyln, were on exhibit in Hampton Roads for the Jamestown Exposition, was with- drawn from that duty to be placed out of commission at the League ls land Navy Yard Texas and Canonieus have been placed out of commission at Norfolk, and the Brooklyn will be placed In reserve at the New York Navy Yard. WORK DONE ON First Report Submitted By Com issicn, Washington (Special). — Full tails of the work done on the Pana- ma Canal during the fiscal year 1907, with a showing of what has been ac- complished gince the project has been in American hands, are disclosed in the annual report of the Isthmian Canal Commission just made public, It is the first report made of opera- tions on the isthmus since construe- engineers. Aside from the $560,000 paid to the French company Panama, an a ate of $48.28 has been expended by the government on the project adopted by and which it was estimated board of consulting engineers ultimately $109.705,200, estimate, however, did not include sanitation and expenses of the government, waterworks, sewers paving in Panama and Colon and the re-equipment of the Panama Rail- road. There i8 no reference which has been brought forward to extend the width of the locks to 110 feet as to without difficulty the extreme breadth in the develop- ment of shipbuilding, and this will be made the « munication the commission, Hired Labor Preferred, strong ition is taken to a continuation of the doing the work by I } by contract i pr. a 1 step {time seriously by and TETeS Congre . by the would This cost 80 accomodate from A fable of tof favor- policy instead at one i! 30 } ire i ministration are pres sion In can be quickly tion, ‘upon { { for the comfort and heal | ployes, is treated of statement is made done, and the d« i there was no vellow jon the isthmu As bearing on the nt cheaper and more fon 1 ry vernment ®_iy hean made t} ration at sting ! Or ing the vear of datior # the the for report jaestion sultability of the proposed iquotes from board of made a persons { material the found dimen foot of such inizh a safe 3 Panama The complet nece the present i Railroad for location of a n 3 gide of the canal £ 1 nee iatter ps and my November ation of the was practically i and involves excavation 600.000 ihic of materia the placing of 12.000. 000 cubis in emb: By June line had Miguel, Miraflore Junction length was dumping trestle Pedro Miguel culverts begun f 3 HION8 01 a consuliti who the which of of and ks lock =i of the at the level and ile founds tatlroad. the me will the gitate main and a naon line the preliminary WE £ Ww § i the art cominleted pr termined ct yards r 30 branches from the started Hill at dris at permanent Pedro Miguel driven were and one at Mindi For the employes 656 quarters and family, were constructed, and for silver employes 335 oulldings were erected, consisting of barracks, bath- houses, cooksheds, family quarters and kitchens For the sanitary de- partment 33 buildings were construct- ed for hospital purpores Of the 2.265 buildings which were received from the French Canal Com. | pany 252 were repafred during the year and 113 destroved There are building remaining 3 of gold both bachelor arcommodation 678 of these to be repaired, remodeled or demol- ished. A total of 767 new buildings were | constructed covered by this report, and on June 30, 1807, there were on hand 2.919 buildings of all classes HELD UP BY yeot : MASKED MEN. | Robbers Enter Coach Is In Cleveland, Cleveland, O. Thrust- big revolvers in the faces of a coach load of Erie Railway passengers in the eity station of the railroad com- i pany, three masked men succeeded in looting one of $50 and in making their escape as a policeman charged the car. ! The holdup was inspired by the sight of a big roll of billz in the handy of George F. Sager, a traveling man, whose home {3 in Clyde, O., a3 he | purchased a ticket. The men follow- { Bpecial). on masks as they entered. whipped {out revolvers and covered Sager and ithe other passengers While one | went throvigh Sager’s pockets, the | others reatained the coach load from | outery. ] One man started to rise in his igeat. “Sit down, you're next,” was the gruff eommand as a big revolver was i brought to bear on the i He sat down, At this juncture a brake- man thrust his head in the door, grasped the situation. and hastily summoned Police Jirello. { licoman entaered the trio fled, warning i the passengers hot to join in the lebase, Up the hill, the three sped, | bullets from Jirelle's revolver speed- ing them on, They lost themselves in the crowd in Superior Street. The | passengers, panic-stricken, rushed from the car and it was with diffi- {culty that the train crew prevailed on them to return to their seals MANY CHILDREN STOLEN. ssa: Bold Operations Of A Mexican Gang Of Kidnappers. City of Mexico (Special) ~The po- lice of this city are actively at work on one of the. biggest kidnapping cases that they have ever had, It is ovident that for at least two months an organized gang of kidnappers bave been operating in this city. Forty-nine children, 22 boys and 27 girls have been stolen from thelr homes. The age of the children varios hatwosn 2 and 17 vears. a THE FARM WEALTH OF COUNTRY 15 PILING UP Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture. USEFUL DISCOVERIES DURING YEAR. Corn Is Still the Greatest Wealth. producer, and its Value This Year Is Greater, Though the Crop Is Shorter Than That of 1906 —-Work of the De- partment in Experimenting. Washington elev enth lot {8Special).—The of the Becretary annual report vdeo which t the {the farm production up to the average in quantity, while its value is above that of any | preceding year. The farmer will this year have more money to spend and more to invest than he had i fore out of his year's work. The beet-sugar industry has very rapidly during the > Agriculture, was just me that ell i % public statement 1907 is opens with fry Ww much ever past 15 years short tons sugar; in 1897, five years 246 tons; in 1902, at other five-year period, 21 and” in 1907 the estimated uct reached 500,000 tons Alfalfa is a wonderful producing wealth. | several cuttings hay duripg a ason, but enriches the ground on grows by taking nitrogen from air The department and the experiment have done to promote extension of oO ry jed out 13,460 later, 45 ,~ the end of an- 218,405 plant for it not only yields of most Be it the stale much alfalfa which stations the owing Corn Is The Banner Crop. of ef the cl Speaking $ crops, the Becr ranks first its large use stock feed, the fat of the factor and meat While not the value greater and the average the precedi food, a of corn and becor a human "the starch of the gleer.”’ ns £ 6s finish a hog the thus he production great neats export of » corn crop of °6 per of the for a of tg 18 that 1966 1 « - 4 1304 IB cent above ng eht & “ig ucn for ail all nat would of United Btates, pay gleam r with ter yer! y operty. i1 mie licating the every _ 1 ¥ pr of stock and al cotton inals, rollin value the timated be $675.000.000, in the final 8 place hay. f« 1d rommercial tations crop wiil be found to be the third one in raised, and glze larger the average crop 1907 $1 5 third it does rank that to 00006 000 piace, not the io if « af 3 G1 © OX Pe Are werceptibly of 1 ¥ crop Geyer than fi the Te is pr year's previous vali Years obabls orop er the most valuable ralsed in {. above the be i 1 this ot y, and 7 per cen average ivalue of the crops of the previous Years Outside the Bri indies, the production of colton British gions bales in i In the French India were of t colonies, was of 500 pounds gross weight and bales in 1 French except and Indo-China, 400 ed in 1904; in nies, 1,600 bales in The wheat crop 576,000 bushels, per cent. ls than the average quantity for the five preceding years But the value is about $500,000,000, or 5% per cent more than the average, aithough the crops of 1901, 1902 and 1905 had each a slightly higher value than that of this year. Quantity Less, Value Greater, The oat crop—741,521,000 bushels 4s 19 per cent. below the five-year average, but the value is 26 per cent. | above the average, or $360,000,000 Polatoes 262.427.0000 bushels are 2 per cent the average, the PORRES protectorates 1.563 160 160618 1805 colonies bales German 19805 1907 is pro- due the colo- of bes ,~ o ne above the value is $190.000.000, or 26 per cent. above the average i Barley also is 2 per cent. above | the average in quantity, while the | value is extraordinary, about 85 per cent. above the average. The quan- tity is 147,192,000 bushels; the value 156.000,000 Tobacco declined to 645,213,000 pounds, 11 per cent. below the aver age in quantity, with a value of $67 .- 000,000, or 6 per cent. above the average The erop is smaller than for many years. ! The flaxseed crop ia 25,420,000 bushels, worth $26,000,000; the quantity fs 5 per cent. below and the value 3 per cent. above the five-year average tive produced 31,666,000 bushels, tity 4 per cent. above the average and ‘a value 29 per cent. above Rice produced a record crop of a8 the average for YOars. The per cent. above the three preceeding | 36 per cent, over the average. { which the department has helped the i grower to secure from the Orient. | Hops produced 4%.330,000 pounds, worth $5.000,000. The quantity ia 4.6 per cent. below the average, |W hile the value is 29 per cent. below. ductiong in 1907 exceeded that 1906, which was far above that of any preceeding year. The total value for 1907 is $7.,412,000,0080, an amount 10 per cent. greater than the total for 1906. 17 per cent, greater than that of 1905, 20 per cént, above that of 1904, 25 per cent. in excess of that for 1903 and 57 per cent. greater than the total value for 1899, FINANCIAL Reading had risen 14 per cent. from fits recent low level, Stuyvesant Fish denies that he has mortgaged his property. , The story that Hill and Harriman had buried the hatchet In a grave dug by Morgan failed to create any particular interest, as similar reports in the past have always turned out to be groundless, ” i i A ——— A 0 A 5 SAS WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Prince Poniotaski, of the Bank of France, here to study the financial situation, was received at the White House by President Roosevell, Gov. W, F. Frear, of Hawall, was received by President Roosevelt and reported on conditions in the Hawal- fan Islands. A memorial containing requests of in Porto Rico submittzd to President legizlation Roose for i Pan tomb of Vernon anid A ne s wident Amador, « am party the i the Yigll Moun ed at 1 President member of Roosevelt the Arn wi a union Becretary Cortelvouy bag a i oun in iil e allctme of the certificates closing of th 3 per cent Most of t} tO secure The cide i additional chi District Court Pi the case of the Sioux the government, involving the treaty and funds of the tribe, in favor Indianrs The ‘ of Appeal trust the has of President dt that been urge syndicate has robbed the Kickapoo Indians, of Oklahe land valued at $250,000 Justice Harlan annjvers his nent to the 3 layin of golf with Justice McKes Ki ma, 1 celebrated ary of bench by or ¥F President Roosevelt of Panama, « Vis ihe Meeker's gehooner it President yoke exami of oxen President toosevell members grimage President Madi the Thanksgiving White House Justice Pleasant Congregational Our Natural Oppor GT for 1 4 is £ irew er Ernest ury has tendered : Dr. Wilfred M department ity mme i irea hie jarton, of the n cal of rie 35 (ye town and nerve United State Miss Hel G Leo, malin tor and of Herbert iin off State tor broken Is %: 4s annus Alnswor josing service General is fast i} Lh army ie tractive resort to conscription The International Y vention came to a cancel by William Secretary Stra i © § rv it may becom MC d reassess delegates The ial U ed in a complaint filed with t} state Commerce Commission ing illegal inducements Lieutenant cham, of the Odrnance Deg has been assigned to duty ordnance officer of that Charles M. Schmidie, dale. N. Y.. shot himself while in Lafayette Park, and died hours later Orders were issued by the War Ik partment relieving the that have been on duty at the Jamestown Exposition. nion wae a e Inter. f er 05 On ROE § 10 {irin B. Mit artment Colonel as chief department 4 Of nto nion ’ seated a few troops PRICES OF MEAT TUMBLE. Declines Range From 10 To 33 Per - Cent. Chicago (Special) The drop In the prices of meats in Chicago ranges from 10 to 33 according to the cuts, the higher figure repre- penting the slashes pork and beef According to the big packers, further per cent. in the near future, as surface indica- Increased supplies, caused by the rushing to market br farmers and stockraisers of all available stock for the holiday trade and the uncer. tainty of the financial situations, are the reasons assigned by the packers in the last shipments have been un- and this has resulted in a glutted market, and prices main. tained for geveral months have been forced down days DIED WHILE DANCING. At Wheeling. Wheeling, W ing the Thanksgiving Dur- the Va. (Special) ball of a waltz, Ollie Reed, od the arm of his partner, grew pale Sev- cthers oral women fainted, To add to the excitement, of the club, after dow, {gniting &n awnirg below, The entire fire department was called. out. The fire was extinguished without doing much damage and the ball was discontinued. Cleveland Not 1 Princeton, N. J. (Special). it was declared at the residence of Grover Cleveland that the report of his 111. ness was oxaggePated, and that he had been suffering only from an at- tack of indigestion from which he had completely recovered. Dr. Care nodhan, Mr. Cleveland's physiloan, visited his patient Monday morning, and afterward stated that Mr, Cleve. Jang was up and moving around the ous, ND JLLOT MENTS 13 INDIVIDUALS National Barks ‘0 Got tll the Certifizater. ONLY $35,000,000 WILL BE ALLOWED. Sceretary Cor’ elyou Considers the Cri. sis in the Money Market Cver ard Pe. leives he Additional Circula‘ion, Bas ed cn the Certificates and Panama a. nal Bonds, W. ll G ve What Is Needed, “SBvVIng interes OF 1 hanks out a en » BEToen $ Aor the oney marke! existing Insane Man Amuck. Alamosa setting fire to the Palm attempting to commit suicide Rodrigu« agent stabbed C water Mich, gtabbed and assaulted men and finally City Marshal John Baumasher, who was iryving to arrest aim The mar eal then shot and killed Rodrigues It is believed that he was insane - - 7 nment serve spanoia Anderson, of to death 4 i others to kill ur attempted & Killed By An Chicago (Epecial) by Adrian real estate dealer Potter an John Kaiish, 2a Chiratn Avenue Tower Cou: Ka:i standing with his bark Obie which was driv speed rause of the 8 heavy Hono: arrested Awmtomobile, An automobile >: Honore, and broth A wealthy Mrs Palmer down and killed peddler in er of Gree} neg t was A oO 6° Aavanm fH tow be darkness and Fas not Army Pay. Nebr, (Special) The of- W. J. Bryan's regiment Nebraska, have been al- Bryan To Got Lincoin, Ttird between enrollment into the government for time and mustering 11 and 189%, and June 13. Bryan enrolled July Former Alderman Gets One Year, Milwaukee (Special) Former Al. derman William C. Okershanger was found guilty of having solicited a bribe in connection with a city o:di- nance and was sentenced to one year in the House of Correction. ——. a John Ayling, stepson of John Mor. ley, secretary of state for India, was sentenced to 10 vears' penal servi tude for forging the names of his step-father and several Edinburgh merchants to documents representing $66,000. Efforts are being made to fing the owner of jowels valued at $4,000 folind by Paymaster Maupin, UU. 8 N., on the Parls-Madrid express. Negotistions concerning Japane'e immigration into the United States and Canada conlinge at Toke. gn
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