BY TELEGRAPH Domestic The mobilization of the largest fleet of torpedoboats, torpedoboat de- stroyers and submarines in the his- tory of the American Navy will take place in Narragansett Bay next spring. Wealthy New Englanders plan to have the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed States rule on President Roose- velt's action in discharging negro troops after the Brownsville rald. Ernest Gordon Stedman, an author- itv on International law and a wealthy man, was killed by a New York subway train, under which he dived or fell. The body fined woman, and stripped found in the N. J. Francis J. Heney, prosecutor of municipal grafters in San Francisco gives suggestions for ridding large American cities of municipal graft. Charles Schroff, Jr., 24, instantly killed his father, Charles Bchroftf, Sr., 44, proprietor of the International Hotel in Buffalo. Eighty per cent. of the cotton man- ufacturers of New England have agreed to a 25 per cent. reduction in output. Three several six-story York. While Miss Washington, of an unknown but re- who had been strangled of her clothing, was Hackensack Meadows shot and persons were injured and others burned in a fire tenement building in New Elizabeth Hatfield, of Pa., knelt at her bed- side in prayer, upon arising her night dress ignited at a gas stove and she sustained burns from which she died The Supreme Court of the United States denied Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor a review of the judgment of the lower court. This ends the noted case, The November statement that 117.476 come country during month, crease of 24 per ver month last year. Formal announcement of the time and place for the Democratic National Convntion was made by Chairman Taggart, of the national committee The Law and Order League issued general orders to the police, com- manding them to enforce the state law against the Sunday saloon in Chi- CAgo. Application was made Department for the extradiu Mexico of W. F. Walker, the New Britain (Ct.} Savings Rev. Dr. H. C. Jennings, in cussion in Cincinnati, ATE greatest tyranny on earth an unsanctified A passenger eru Facific Rail Rye Patch, the cars leaving the track A portion of a trolley in Pittsburg slid down ment, leaving a cal pended in midair James McCormick 3 chauffeur for R. | Ir killed in Cleveland. O Shore train which struck the mobile he was ung at a cro An hb spent IAs Hall, a murdering nma Hearne son because thrown his dog. Jackson Stilley, Blas Pa., while acting as Santa CI his family, fell his neck. George Robbins in Detroit Mich., Knoxville, Tenn., for the A white man Twenty-four firms pomeless in Chicago by fire which broke out Block. Two person We $ and a third fata in North Doves, shows to this an in- the aliens that cent. © same aed is labor un train roaaq locomoti an 3] was 3 4 Ig r CiIRG oe - oy “ driv Arkansas 1d hunting Jim Mrs. Oo a of Weat down stairs and colored is 0 Foreign A number of prominent Mayor Busse, of Chicago Twain and ex-May Low, York-——have petitic Prem pin of Rusela fo: cases of Nicholas Mme. Catherine Bras rested for i revolutionary movement An attempt { at revol dor has been quelled of General Toral, form minister to Great Britain ber of adherents Prof M. Miia] the Contsitutional D Russian Donma, left for the United Stat lecture Gove: tertaine ard other fleet, The Freuct has ordered fitted oy buoys. Fartizans of the regular Marceeo have defeated the of Mulai Hafid, “the Ssuthern tan.” The Chinese government is sleps to check the confilct of Chinese and British Intercets, Following ths promises Portugese gover: gout to the dictatorship and hold tions for the Chamlar of Deputies at ou early date, I the calm in the po- Htical atmesphere was nintained, a decree has been ou tions for April 5. wine of or Nit his Paul indad i= ¢ rear admirals the battleship nor Jackson, of 1 diner id iiliney if officers of «1 at iinigter of the Navy that submarines be with able telephone aii je tack Sultan of of Christmas Day v.as enjoyed by the officers and men on the battleships of the fleet off Trinidad. More than 6,000 bluejackets were ashore. The regatta participated in by the sallors from a number of the ships was a notable event, The nine members of the Dutch Council of Ministers presented their resignations as a result of the defest of the army estimates in the second chamber of Parllament. alc American torpedoboat flotilla on Post of Spain for Para to the Pn . y ge A REFINED WOMAN SLAIN IN A SWAMP I ———— Well Dressed Man Seen Fleeing From the Stene. YACHT FIGURES IN THE MYSTERY. Nude Corpse of U aknown Comely Wo. man of 30 Years, of Scrupulous Toilet and Fine KRaiment, Found Frozen in Pond in Hackensack Mea- dows Near N Newark, N. J. Newark, N. J. der, (Special). A mur- combining the elements of mys tery and deliberate cruelty, mitted the Hackensack in the town of Harrison, and the nude body of the vietim, a comels voman of perhaps 30 vears, was found nearly submerged in the icy waters of a little pond Only the projected when 2 chance passer- broke the ice in which the exposed portions were incrusted and body ashore, The dead woman her hair and of a recent and and such of her cloth subsequently found suggested in and style an owner of refine rather than one whose habits ad her to fraquent the vicind crime. The pond was thrown made by overflow fr the Prassic River the 1 er from was com- on meadows feet dragged finely fea gave evi- was nails serupu dence lous toi might l¢ of the thi body om is directly across ci ¥ The and it it | city o not correspond not been ide: is pretty well establi shed not that of a resident of r Harrison. Its with woman reported to the Boltee ing. Two men, who o« moored near where bod found, are detained by the but the most important clue obtained furnished by Peter Coogan watchman emploved by the Marine En Company, who recognized the body as that of a woman he had crossing the company with a man man alone He is carried a i arms The man Coogan, wi the neigh body has description * » that of AE Miss. cupled a vacht the iy police Was zine whom geen Ater he saw n his a out keep him in th * Mur told the police: “While outdoors at 2 o'clock A. M this woman in company with the meadows, going in of pond. Thess near me that 1 was able wnize the woman's f{eatu Inter, hour, returned and again in the had come ti nd st du- of 108 borhood ler, e Saw Cross direction vd 80 the reg Ig the me perhaps an passed time Girectic ening me going he 1 build he They ction of the startle d | me! and home the girls were aj H-dressed stranger, them until when h had a an ale well ar yw ed fo seam followed was met with, The girls man ¢ he was his hands s 4 yi fied under accustomed manual TF i heen IEAReG plcked slashed up rt and a pair of *ollowing the path the the yacht ldle Hour, point the up 300 feet {ro police waist, at a on im where Un the they found found vacht that yl a Form 11 6% K piec occupants of the Thompson, th, a boatman, and Frederick irs old Br he boat Ware vears old. of i th wet Thompson found the fur piece near path The police found boat dishes enough for threes There three plates re, and so on The men r, said that they "had the Hour Both Idle ited as suspicious char wore no vis Wore nrre ageters Defended His Mother. Buffalo, N. Y schroff, aged 44 international Hall, Street, a saloon and was shot and Instantly son, Charles, aged 24 voars Sr.. had been drinking Heavily and quarreled with his wife, sald struck her when she won her son to protect her came into the room and shot at father, the first shot taking offect rie (Special) Charl years, Jat 231 proprietor of East Genesee bowling alley killed by his Schroff of late and it called He Plan To End Dictatorship. Lisbon (Special) Following promises of the Government to minate the dictatorship and hold the the tice at an early date if the calm in tained, a decree was fssued Thursday fixing the elections for April 5 Killed Hy Her Lover. Chicago, Ill. (Bpecial).—Miss The. resn Zolinski was shot and instantly killed and Miss Victoria Stoch was shot in the hand by Frank Kozelski, who was engaged lo marry the Zo- linski woman. He wes arrested. Ko- zelskl had been in Michigan, and ro cently was notified that unless he came pack another would marry his sweetheart, He came back and the chooting followed, alter Koselski and hls sweetheart had apparently been reconciled. SERIOUS WRECK ON THE PENNSYLVANIA Four Persons Injured a d Proparty Loss Heavy. Four property tracks were two miles Ex- the Pittsburg, a. (8pecial). persons were injured, loss was sustained of the Pennsylvania blockaded for the night by wrecks near Bolivar, Pa., 568 east of here, at 7 o'clock P. M tra freight train No 3084 left ralls of Track No. 1 because of a broken rail, it is believed, and 20 cars were smashed and piled up over tracks Nos. 2 and 3. Almost immediately dent to the freight the Chicago mail speed to make up ed the point on plowed into the foree Every heavy and three Railroad after NO 18, runs loat: track debris person on the Jolted and shaken up, bein : thrown ing at time, NO with terrific train the passengers from seats, None of the tracks dows the left but a broken passenger cars were and several per- SONS Were the office ted verely of that bruised thrown that or less « the the one company her k was by of his were ata mail cler Be and bumped t the side three passen ut and bru freight train was injured onsisted of five and three two locomo- was agains and Zers iged No one aon The train « {Wo expres Cars by locomotive den hed of three nger train first ¢ mail mall cars, day coaches, drawn The front completely After a delay the Passe the i y ¥ tives al- most olis and a half run I'OssOver afer 4 track and continued ined tran east njured rema on the The tracks under wreckage are thon erably damaged all 1a: x all loaded freight consid- relight cars is heavy Thy the lo BARS SEX RET WE DOINGS, Couples In New York Must A License, York (8; heen nece New Get New iIrée a marr married in with the New Yea: od and ap: eq Ly H ge le effect new bureau licenses to person pened at the 5 nite a1} the city hall i fev s Year's Das ahead cf Nees i { THRILLING HESCUES, Hlind Man And Aged From Burning Apartment, Invalid Saved i discovered fh Dying Man eland, Frank Krag, N. Y., though iis throttle ! if fake Shore train vood yards n en | came The nough at Colli lines Erie ength « the ¢ pa lower f wood rom ab A Beld Holdup. (Special) Chicago om carried a in the aiti Rallwas the heart of the Two cof within a and two other men of the Lasalle Street situated in buziness section of the robl were few minutes after third two hours . FINANCIAL bears have sald buy groom Station which je the eit ere arrested the attack later been routed the Russian 1000 locomo- The wheat A cable. report vernnient will fs sald that Standard Of) have been buying a great of American Smelting stock. Baron Rothehild has given to Stuy- Figh proxies for his 1850 in It peo- deal opposition to E. H. Harriman, Heading Company directors de- clared the regular semi-annual divi dend on the common stock. New York Central's net earnings for the present quarter decreased $1,167,800, although there was an increase of $254,900 in gross earn- ings. Last year the bulls could see a vast profit in the anthracite coal lands and rallroad separation. Now the bears pretend to see in it a great toss. It requires precious little jogic to convince some people. There is a fear that OR. RIXEY TAKES A FIRM STAND Officers For Command of Hospital Ships. VERY SERIOUS BREACH EXISTS. Surgeon General Maintains That It Is Doubtful If the Geneva and The Ha- gue Agreements Could Guarantee Neutrality of Hospital Ships If Com. batant Officers and Crew Were Aboard Medical Was! res ington, D. C. (Bpecial) The Admiral on the office of Naval Bureau of President Roosevelt «d his objection to placing a naval in command hospital not likely to iv between {f the naval service inv ident Admiral Pr est was the breath a touldering flame, and known of i been brewing realize that the matt justed without much distribution of some Coming right on cation of Henry Reuter on the bureau system of Department, the « Admrial Brownson y Rixey assumes a importar far-reaching aspect It ha call attention the differ exist between the bu avy Department and the need ninistr needed to ignation of Rear irowns from chief of the because over. of a end the and geon ip, I l the line Lave all HAVE ail fon and knock {1 the of top ontrover LHetwee and Surgeon Gen reas to dem of A mor we 3 ation Nothir more attract the atten i Reuterdahl's and when the Senate and House reassemble after days there is bound to be alring of the CAUKOE operated bring about which naval officers anxious remedy Surgeon the to tO General Presley M in which he circumstances selection officer Relief Rear Admiral disclaiming exact cause of Admiral the Burgeon ent the staten upon leading up by the ssued =a touches to the bable President to comm the ver the protest »f irownson While knowledge as to the irownson's resignation, ral’s statement leaves little or doubt that the controversy he iews was a potent factor Rixey ships, as a commanded with a salling crew for purposes particular Me of a hosy nedical and vital ship { ¥ i +14 room maintains always by medical master and of naviga- vessel, he says the Army and by 8 medical Surgeon General rule heen medical officers Was e Secretars of the Xavs ymmendation th Civil War ships and Army had Surgeon General irther that the } medical been under Arms nava ianded bs cal having tr office re ihes ships. he simply floating hospitals, prop- Of the medical placed the Rr ships were MT officer fod 5 aft sal: i be conducted time of war dds, because cannot should not, ships A" sfficers and these alwaye has if the Gene nits could these combatant and were aboard which preven fOWwWs doubt ring {rom ah ive i FIRE PARROT GIVES ALARM. fron Ablaze It A Warning. Warned Ly uttered by a big parrot, a pet of years, Miss Sallie city, was able to save property and probably her life bird geemed to possess almost intelligence and while Miss was preparing breakfast it i that her apron had caught fire and that a tablecloth which she tad brushed against was also ignited By uttering screams of fire, fire,” the bird attracted Miss Fickle's at- tention and she was able to extin- giuish the flames before they gained much headway. Seeing Woman's Soreams {8pecial) cries number of this The man kle ticed Want No Pensions, Birmingham, Ala, { 8pecial ) Camp Hardee, Uniied Confederate rans, of this city, by unanimous | vote, went on record in opposition to | the bill introduced by Congressman | Holegon providing for pereioning! Confederate soldiers by the federal | government. The resolution con- cludes by saying: “While we appre tinguished gentleman, we feel assur. ed no such bill could ever become a law." Premier In Duel, * Budapest (By Cable). Dr. Wek- erle, the Hungarian Premier, aad former Minister of Justice Polonyi allegation of political dis- Lonesty ade against the Premier by the ex-Minister at a sitting of Parliament a few days ago. The meeting took place al noon and was a bloodless , Neither man was Juiuted and the two became pecon- WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH All American repub- tO the Central lies bave granted amnesty politi- cal offenders, as requested by the delegates to the Peace Conference In his annual report Hoggatt asks Congress ous in developing BOUTCes (OVEernor to he Alaska's gener- 1a ¥ A number of presidential appoin ments have been held up by Benate committees, The Agricultural Department es the acreage of winter 32,000 bushels, spring bushels, corn oats 31,827 28.1 wheat 78.000 bushels and Fhe farm products « 1807 were valued at $2 The Censi i} he number f the ni: §04 00 ned from mber 13 pa fs (Gai DOOM OF THE EARTH, Changes That Will Come About, Geological The kinetic that minds us tha its a gases rapidis larger one, and that already Teasons thoug none cumulat miles has RCOTOER that nt thus Mars is annually ‘Mars leaving ou we Are conditions some led pa supports eg form nanifestls ‘e DIED TO JOIN SWEETHEART. Man's Life. Unable To Ned. side Be At Dying Girl Takes Her Pitts} ite JEWELS CAST INTO FURNA« Woman Hid S2.000 In Which Was Thrown Louls (Special { Edit} ndricks, living asked the $2.00 Old Away. { O1set Yering she corset ried 11 1 OMT day she {OTRO Want U, Washington 8p White 8. Troops To Remain. § CCiai} It Was stated at the that tele by civic bodies, of Gold- Roosevelt for House graphic appeals sent mineowners and individuals field Ney to President reing upon him the necessity taining portion of the federal troops Goldfield indefinitely, had been seived, but that no action had been decided upon Adjutant General Alnsworth stated that the order sign- ed by Becretary of War Taft direct to General Funston for the withdraw. al of the federal _troops at Goldfield Daring Jewel Rotibery. Springfield, 11 While was crowded with Christ- mas shoppers two burglars broke the glag: window: of the jewelry gtore of John C. Plerik, in the Court House Square They escaped with | ‘810.000 worth of di amonds. Poured Gunpowder Over Fire, Shamokin, Pa. (Special) Harry | residing near here, poured | pan of frying fat to make a dniment for his sick horse. | An explosion followed, terribly burn | ing. him and setting fire to the house. | He was saved by his wife. u re. a at in re (Special) street Train 28 Leaves Track. Tallapoosa, Ga. (Special). Train No. 23, on the Southern, bound from Atlanta for Birmingham, ran into an open switch at this point about 7 o'clock P. M., killing Engineer Dow- ny, of Atlanta, and injuring two firemen. The train was drawn by two engines, both of which left the rails and turned over. The postal car also ‘was derailed, but the passen. ger cocnhes remained on the rails and beyond a shaking up none of ARE MOWED DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS 200 Nitrate Works Strikers in Chili Killed. TWO WARSHIPS SENT TO SCENE, Several Thousand Striking Laborers Try to Take Possession of Iquique— Two Bloody Encounters Between Soldiers and Rioters Some of the Soldiers Reported Wounded. Attacked By A Mule. Fort Smith, in tussian Mini ired them y abolish tie { wonld sir : tion with Pari; tEMS OF INTERES West has a flushing ter firs ait-wa eveien Key sanitary The banana and potato are alm choemien! comand foot of a Perslun 3 R work for the weaver * at Now Oy 168 hig! build The average temperature of tl entire globe Is 50 degrees Fahrenh Cartridges are used as current coin in Abyssinia. More than 200 men in New York City are working to improve automo biles. In Austria ne jess than 44 ont of every 100 doctors die of heart dis cage, China imported $1,500,000 worth of American cigarettes last year, bee tides an increased antount of Ameri can pipes and tobarevo. Steel shot so hard as to take the place of diamonds for some kinds of drilling are made by spraying mci ten steel into cold water, chilling it instantly A square means 23 days’ A plledriver feet high: the Yang . IRE IX HOY 1s ont i ei)
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