Domestic Among the indictments returned y the federal grand jury of Denver, ol.,, is one against Ora .Haley, a cattleman, who is charged with il- legally fencing 10,000 acres of range land near the Colorado- Wyoming boundary. Major General McKee, in command of the ten companies of the Indiana National Guard remaining at Muncie on account of the strike of the street railway employes, ordered two more companies to leave for their homes. Fire broke out In the business sec- tion of Albion, I11., and destroyed the Edwards County Bank building, the New National Bank building, the Telephone Exchange, two clothing stores, a shoe store and a drug store. Mrs. James Valentine, wife of an ironmolder, became suddenly insane and attacked her six-year-old son with a hammer and razor, wounding him frightfully. She then cut own throat and will die. The New Jersey sioners, in their annual report to the jovernor, state that from July railroads in New Jersey. Harry J. Lewis, traveling salesman | for a Detroit garment house, and for- merly a prominent cigar manufactu er at Minneapolis, was found dead in the bathroom of his apartments in| Detroit. Judge Kohlsaat rendered a dec ision | in favor of the government in the suit against Captain Carter, charged with having embezzled $700,000 of government funds through conspiracy with Greene and Gaynor. Secretary Taft, in reply to tion of Llewellyn Lewis, secretary of the Ohio Federation of Labor, gives his views for the correction of abuses in the injunction against strikes. Joseph Miller, of Chicago, who claims he was shanghaled on a steam- er at Norfolk and taken to Europe, | arrived in New York on the steamer | Moskwa from Rotterdam. Detectives from important cities of the country “declared that Cleve- land is the center of the “Black Hand” operations. Despondent because he properly care for his family, H. Sheppard killed himself. W. B. Thomas was elected presi- dent of the American Sugar Refining Company. Miners there are Mine. Edwin Gould forced Augustus F Heinze out of the Mercantile National bank by demanding over a million of the bank's stock to satisfy due from Heinze to Gould. Charles N. Whitney, member of a New York brokerage firm that han- dled Vanderbilt interests, shot killed himself, owing to ill health. Dr. Henry Beates, Jr., presidént of the Medical Council of Pennsylvania, | declares that the average medical col- lege is ineflicient. Three persons were eighty injured in the wreck of Collier special on the Southern road near Atlanta, Ga Phineas Wheele aged 86, a eran of the Civil Ww ar, of Rome, Y.. shot himself owing to an attack of the grip. Acting Pres American Sugar fs in fa of publicity for ¢ tions Co'. Js Hamiltcn Lewis, In a lecture before the law school of the Northwestern University said: “When a woman starts out to perjure her- self. all hell cannot keep her record.’ F. Augustus Heinze, former presi- dent of the Mercantile Bank of New York, was indicted and placed under $50,000 bail to answer a charge of overcertifying a check for $62,761.40. George L. Chase, president of the Hartford Fire ' Insurance Company for 40 years, and Capt. George Tay- lor, a fire insurance president for 40 years, died within a few hours of each other. A monument in memory of the 74 men who died in the explosion on the United States gunboat Bennington was tinveiled at San Diego, Cal, The assay office, in Wall Street, the oldest building on the thoroughfare, is to be torn down. Samuel Fessenden, phrase “God Almighty hates ter,” died in Stamford, Ct Mississippi has formed ation for deeper inland water could Joseph declare that in the persistently 100 bodies and the Rall- killed tho | Any, Thomas of Comps ident tefining vor Qrpora- mos of a author Ways, Foreign William Redmond, member of the British House of Commons, in an ad- dress in Rome said that political lib- erties were greater in Australia than the United States because Irishmen formed the leus of the Australian population. The White Star Line Atlantie rates on second and third class passages, by $7.50 to $5, respec- | tively, for the purpose, it iz said, of | fighting the Cunard Company, and] the latter has announced similar re- ductions, Confercness in Manchester, Eng- land, for a settlement of the dispute between the cotton mill owners and the employes are gald to indicate a gettiement, . The discovery of a revolutionary plot among officers of the artillery at the fortress of Warsaw, Russia, has led to the Imprisonment of seven officers. Rioters burned the Protestant Episcopal chapel In the Province of Chekiang, China. The disorders are directed against the dynasty. Storms on the English Channel and the west coast of Europe caused a number of small wrecks and the logs of more than 40 lives, The financial statement of the Dank of France is a tribute to the Nisdom of that country’s banking aws. The subdirector and cashier of the Bank of Yucatan and ten other per- gons were arrested on the charge of stealing 8740,000 from the bank. The French press still will be war between Japan and the United States. nue i RAGING FIRE IN A SKYSCRAPER Firemen's Hard Fight Above the City's Roofs. SPECTACULAR BLAZE IN NEW YORK. Half the Firemen “Mn Manhattan Fail to Control the Fire Until the Bullding Was Burned Out— Sensational Rescues From the Roof of the Building. New York (Special).—Four fire- men went to their deaths when they responded to a fire that ruined the Parker Building, a 12-story business structure occupying the block be- tween East Eighteenth and Nine- teenth Streets, on Fourth Avenue. { Fought by half the firemen of Man- hattan and apparatus that blocked the streets for Utlocks, the fiames | were never controlled, and only with { difficulty confined to the building in i which they originated. Floor after floor gave way | basement, and beneath crumbling walls no less than men were caught and either killed | outright or seriously injured. When the fire had burned out and the firemen’s roll was called, these . and | three men of Engine Company No. | 72 and one from Fire Patrol No. 3 failed to respond. Tim Hutchinson, was removed, dying. Captain Wilson and Captain Gasvis, of Engine Companies Nos. 24 and 7 who were injured internally, were among those dangerously hurt. When the casualties began the Florence Hotel, which adjoins the burned building on Eighteenth Street, was made a temporary hospital, | fire department physicians immediate aid to the injured monetary loss was estimated at 500,000, The fire was one of the most spec- tacular as well as disastrous in re-| vears. From start to finish its course was marked by heartrending scenes, sensational escapes and of heroism. The fire was discovered shortly af- 5 o'clock by the night watchman, | George Noyes, who found a blaze on the offices of the | Hooker-Jackson Company, publishers The fire spread rapidly and shot at once to the roof. i After the fire had been in prog- ress about an hour it was discovered that six men employed in the offices of the Suffolk Engraving Company fifth floor to the roof and were penned in there, with no means of escape The fire de been equipped ting ropes and it time to- No. 3, of Patrol The $1, with a new gun for shoo came into play for the first some to the men roof door, gun Captain Gordon took from Hook and Ladder 3 of the Florence House, ne¢ which Is seven stories higl was loaded and fired The to the twelfth fle f the and and the men xt The bey shot Parker to a TO} or was maa down which fifth fi loor Seven fireme first arrived of the burning extension ladders the windows of possible the fireme: a fruitless effort to = the place of origin the mes driven to the windows only to that the tops of the ladders burned, cutting off their only had been reir at Trial, { Spec Preacher On | Springfield, Il ' United States District Court here Rev. Dr. James A. Kaye, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyteri an Chureh, at Lincoln, Ill., was placed on trial tcharged with counterfeiting Dr Kaye admits making coins, but says he was simply experimenting to as-| | certain whether he could make med- | als for the children of his Sunis | Sehool. ial). —~In the Sees Peace {By Cable). again to Japanese situation, declares dent Roosevelt spoke fo a diplomat | {in Washington a few days ago in the | following words: “All will be ar- iranged in the most satisfactory man- iner, The last memorandum received Japan was expressed in the conciliatory terms, and there | not the slightest apprehension of conflic Ahead. The "Matin," i the American- | Paris referring { moet is a Airship To Carry 100. Berlin (By Cable) Count Ze proposes to build an airship to 100 persons. He calculates j that It will be necessary to build It only 26 feet longer than his latest {alrship, which is 137 feet long, and {which carries eleven persons, in ad- idition to 3.300 pounds of ballast | Experts believe that the count will succeed in his undertaking. ppe- i lin CArTY Nearly Cuts Head From Body. Coldwater, Mich. (Special). —Ver- non L. Nettleton, a hardware dealor, about 50 years old, while suffering, it ls supposed, with acute melan- cholia due to business troubles, rose from his bed and gashed his sister's throat. He then returned to his own room and nearly severed his head with a carving knife, dying al- most instantly. Miss Nettleton is ex- pected to recover. Nominated By The | President, Washington, D. C. (Special) The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Fred. T. Dennett of North Dakota to be Commissioner of the General Land Office; also the nominations of James F. Tracey of New York to be a member of Philip- pine Commission and Beeretary of Finance and Justice and Gregarlo Araneta of the Philippine iS to an associate justice of the Bu- pheine Court of the Philippine Is- nds, WILL GET A HEARING Brownson Controversy To Be Aired in the Senate. Washington, D. 0, (Bpecial)—The Navy Department and the quarrel be- tween President Roosevelt and Ad- miral Brownson will be investigated by the Senate. When Admiral Brownson resigned rather than ac- quiesce in the appointment of Sur- goon Stokes to the command of the hospital ship Rellef, Senator Hale, in a carefully prepared statement, landed Admiral Brownson's courage and manly independence. Thursday Mr. Hale, who as chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, is the Sen- ate's arbiter on all naval matters, in- troduced a bill which has for (ts purpose the settlement of all the pending controversies between line and staff, which raises the pay of officers and men and which seeks in way to improve existing The bill made, of course, to the Brownson epi- but it was understood by every conditions. this method of bringing the contro- late tion chief of the to the official attention of the TRAIN DROPS 25 Four-Score Passengers Hurt In Wreck Of Special, Atlanta, FF LET. The of what is known Ga. (Special). gection as the running land, Ohio, to St. Augustine, ram, Ga., on the South Railroad, on a trestle twenty-five nearly dry bed of Copper Mine Creek Five of the seven cars went into the mud. Three trainmen are dead, and more than eighty passengers, most its of Ohio, were Injured. Engineer James Edwards ern i i i | { it overturned, after trestle, was killed. of Engines Schnapps, and the fireman, Mose Baldwin, were fatally and died soon after reaching Atlanta on the sccond relief train. Mrs. Emil Ohlo, is In a Miss Florence land, probably The injurie chiefly when the man LGERTO clearing Hoover, of Columbus, dying condition, and Studebaker, of Cleve- will die to the broken IRers and 8 Pass of limi us bruises. Immigrants Returning To Europe Carried About [200 Aplece, New York According the North Lloyd Line, which has computa { Special). to (German made a careful the figures of steam 1ngers, $110,000. out of he United who Tee places that based on Hp Agent's, I railroad was tion sh noney and more t aken the each gration, about of this, the immigrants by in the United however, furnished atives or friends Takahira May Not Come, Paris (By Cabl The Rome cor. EAYR t MM Minister to Italy, reported. had Ambassador to the has not yet beg household effects od tha Takahira, who, It was been appointed United States, packing his Japanese recently in America An increase of a million dollars in Rear Naval ammunition was asked for by dmiral Mason, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, A congressional lottery ducted in-the tives for rooms in the new building of that body, which nearing completion Judge James F. Tracey, preme Court of the Philippines, clined the proffered appointment member of the elon, in his annual Chief of Staff Gen- erel J. Franklin Bell urges more pay for the Army and the restoration of the canteen. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf sent to the House an estimation of $2. 000,000 for submarine torpedo boata, The President listened to argue ments for and against the use of banzoate of soda in catsup. Representative Sterling introduced an employers’ lability bill in the House. The subcommittee of the Banking and Currency Committee of the House sgreed to the proposition of Chairman Fowler for national bank guaranteed credit notes, A measure making train-wrecking, where life is lost, a capital offense, was offered in the House of Repre- sentative Moore, of Philadelphia. A number of coal operators met to perfect an organization with a view to have effective precautions against mine disasters, Representative Gaines introduced a resolution for the preservation of the old home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tenn. Surgeon Stokes received final in- structions from Secretary Metcalf prior to leaving for his duties on the hospital shiv Relief, Gen. Winfield 8. Edgerly has been Llordered to assume command of the Department of Dakota, Was Cone office iz now of the Bu- de- | as! A VICTORY. FOR MAYOR SCHMITZ —————— Defective. MR. RUEF BENEFITS BY RULING. According to the Opinion of Judges of the District Court of Appeals the Compelling of French Res- taurants to Pay ‘‘Fees’’ to Abe Ruef Was Not a Crime. (Special). ~~ The Appeals handed getting aside the judgment in the case of former Mavor Bugene BE. Schmitz, convicted of extortion in the French restaurant cate. Abe Ruef also benefits by the ruling of the upper court, for; ac- cording to its decision, he pleaded guilty to an act that was no offense against the laws of the state. According to the appellate judges, the compelling of French restaurants to pay ‘‘fees” to Abe Ruef was not a crime, even though Ruef divided the ‘‘fees’’ with the Mayor. After discussing the point, the court re- versed the judgment against Schmitz on the ground that no acts consti- tutipg a crime has been proved aaginst him. Abe Ruef, who plead- ed guilty to extorting money from the French restaurants, is, therefore, guiltless. In passing upon the legality of the the Appellate Court sald: “The indictment ig claimed to be invalid for two reasons: “First, that it does not injure property, San District down a decision Fr rancisco Court of allege any and second, unlawful injury. is no allegation as fnjure any business but only the threat to pre. parties from obtaining a 11 liquor.’ to sell liquor is not prop- erty in the ordinary of the word, says the court. Comme nting on the second conten tion of Schmitz's attorneys, that this was no threat to do unlawful injury, the court declared that “We are clearly of the opinion that the indict- ment is insufficient, as it does not al- lege nor show that the specific in- fury threatened was an unlawful in- jury.” It is the court of do an “There to fo any di- fey iid the to A license BC AOR not an unlawful act, reasons to threaten to Mold up the the restanrant-keeper or to do so licenses decision wipes out the French and pending charges hmitz and Ruef The faurant cases dismissed are now entitled If they obtain the necessary they can remain at liberty nes as a jury finds them of the Indictments with receiving bribes corporations Owing to the r of cases against them the bail, figured at $10.000 a case, would reach an enorn figure Schmitz and Ruef cannot of decision for ay hon must be Hoth on ball bondsmen to release ing them umbe IOUS tage the » prosecution has 20 4: ask of a rehearing. T late Court will have 10 days der the application When that irosecution procedure will {or $111 sii done through will in the take the quently be kept for two months at gy the the decision spread of quickly over consternation quarters and delight in DHstrict Attorney Langdon Schmitz and Ruef will be on other indictments that offenses tt urt CAaul.ng in some others sald prosecuted are public SE WE » or MAN'S. HE ART. Working Retweon Beats, Take Stitches in Pericardiam. Youngstown, Ohio ( M Special) ,—Dre and IL. B. Johnson, hospital staff, sewed Carvey up Tony Toplet, stabbed a knife fight, one four times in wound They pericardium were compelled decided on the un- as the only chance The surgeons operation cutting four bone and pericardium by from the breast {them back. in the covering. Bunk Looted of i. 40,000. Mexico City hundred and forty thousand is missing from the Bank of Yucatan. Fernando U. Rodrigues, subdirector the bank, with ten other persons have been arrested. A lawyer, P. G Ponce, and Eduardo Ponce, son-in- law and son, respectively, cashier, are among those arrested, all of whom are among the most promi. nent people of Madeira. assis Wireless Worked 2310 Miles. Nauen, Prussia (By Cable) The wireless telegraphy station here sue ceeded in keeping In constant com. munication with the steamer Cape Blanco during the run from Ham. burg to Teneriffe, in the Canary Is lands, a distance of 2310 miles. AAA Burglars Returned For Plunder. New York (Special). — Burglars who stripped a shoe store In Leonia, N. J., several nights ago and hid their plunder, returned for it with a wagon. They were seen by Marshal Paul Minnerly, who attempted to ar rest them. They fired on him, send- ing a bullet into his breast and caus- ing a wound which the physicians say will probably prove fatal. The thieves i A 50 OPPOSE NEW ROAD LAW, Williamsport (Special) —At the losing session of the annual conven- the Pennsylvania Farmers and Industrial Union, held the representatives from n counties expressed the ‘mselves in favor of legislation that will revo- futionize the present policy of the State Highway Department, and Le repeal of the State road jaw pass «1 by the Legislature in 1803 Th primary objections offered again he system of management in n the State Highway Department salaries paid to the Com and his aseitants, which exorbitant are tion of Alliance here, ixty { * issionery Slam are ervisors biection offered to 1603 was th at which is levied in townshi] » regular road tax levy and an outrag more money appropriation Jieving that Loo mud State funds are expended fooll especially for The d« rites that there 4 fo rs } Lown tax, each position want {6 1 fy roads by i ’ { i BRIATION, to this convention i 1A ' elieve would be appr BUpervisor ructing B ations wise of oor roads Pres good nt taxation roads In the » State.” TAKES GROUND HOG IN LIFE. Oxford gocret of { Special) the long lives character and today venerable years, of Elk Township, who passed his one hundred birthday, is calm his hom waiting of Februa ry, makes his appearance 5 accustomed was simply ation seeing al «sl 8 i should FEE "honmias ar in BOON ing r the } iy iy f fe upon which he annu {tn goes g the fa after that and AOD life 4 ana plac his d hog his long Bre th W Tr ¥ adopt of the He Minmiene #Omne many lived due i to their he coming of LE He patierns the groun VOArs ult $0 of YOAars gine, uj yen! to then watch and if to bed; He YOeAro indicates others 5 J Yel reiurns is duties ive mans fully wrobabile His mand perfectly « has an ache or der of the alice genses are al Car pain neighborhood, neighbors declar care t many had to his means in order prolong life not they ing live so adopt to oO IMPURE WATER ON TRAINS, Bureau attention o waciald 0 called and Pullman Company officers to the condition rounding the “loading” of the drink water coolerg used on all Pennsviva- nia trains both for day coaches and Polluted Allegheny River into the train shed at Union Station through a line dirty hose, and pumped into tanks from which the drinking taing on the trains are filled General Superintendent 8. C mitted that the means of purifying the ant, but promised to juestion. Pittsburg Health officials the Pennsyivania (8; f f Car Hr- water ig brought the foun- Long water at pres- | take up the! Two Miners Killed, Shamokin (Special). —A terrific | sxplogion of gas occurred in the owned by the Susquehan- | Coal Company, killing Michael Tobias and Joseph Carmasky, and badly injuring William Redwing, all miners. The victims were cutting coal at the time, when a big body of gas was encountered. The three men were working close together and had no time to escape. They were blown a big distance. Several more men in the gangway had narrow escapes. A rescuing party was quickly or ganized and amid much peril the in- jured and dead were removed from the smoking passageway. A lot of mine timber was blown down by the explosion. Pottsville (Special). The Schuyl- kill Medical Boclety at its annual meeting here arranged for a mass meeting to be held at this place on February 4. when Dr. Howard 8. An- dery, of Philadelphia, president of the Philadelphia Soclety for the “ tion of Tuberculosis, will deliver an address on that pertinent theme. Dr, A. B. Fleming, of Tamagua, Was chosen president and Dr. >a ui ON rer LEWIS F v RNITU RE SOLD. (Spe oC fal ). furniture belonging the Fra awaiting trial in - Household to Irwin A. nklin township Chest. Avondale Lewis, young farmer, West ugh-~ been and on the his stepda June, has Mrs, Lewis to her after for the murder of i Mary Newlin, last sold at public sale ithe baby that was July 4, but a | tragedy, are now John Newlin woman matter of asking in the trial has | tioned, but so far move i made to do District definitely deci will be turn er jler, born short time making home of the YOUnLg The venue A change } 4% ¥ ¥ a | of been me Seg ? has been AtLorney led Wile no 80 iag not *t whether or not in the the («¢ icElree 1} he a ork AS~ | Ness cage and w or SAW. CUT THROAT WITH Pottstown (Special) under a fit of John Stroet chmidt, #0on iF Kink arpenter’s stown Hos empl He Aerie and WHR Fr was quite irother, Gottlie iife several If in Ric » north of town Was fe "me CUT IN TWO BY TRAIN. 1a {Special} 40, trac snow from switch daysbuweg ran over fow Te + While iroad yard a train of hours * at train about und train i b He was identif his pockets a sallor on Youthful Inve Pottsville (Special) the ing with the manufac minating gas from and Zaughn Hipple, cars, respectfully, badly burned he : in the receptacle in which thes making it suddenly exploded. hot coals and other materials were fhurled into their faces The elder {boy may lose his sight. ST. ATE OBITU ARY. { Wrightsville.- After an ill more than & year, Colonel | Drenning, a prominent Wrightsville, died. Death was caus. ed by erysipelas. The deceased was colonel on the staff of jhe department commander G. A. R. { Penmey! vania. He was prominent in fraternal cir- cles and was twice elected Chief Bur- gesg of Wrightsville {| Altoona.-——Clarence Clark Clemson, head bookkeeper in the Altoona i . { Trust Company, and a thirty-second | degree Mason, died from heart fail- ure resulting from an operation at the Altoona Hospital for gall stones, aged 43. He was a brother of D. | M. Clemson, of Pittsburg, one of | Anfmaw Carnegie’s young partners. | Becranton. — Robert Reaves, for | thirty years superintendent of the (Scranton Gas & Water Company, {died after a brief {liness with pneu- monia. He was an expert of high | standing in water works system and | was invaluable to the company He | was connecfed with various corpora- tions and was a member of the Elks. 2 age a of th i for RV. citizen of ness STATE ITEMS. William P. McCoy, of Doylestown, formerly clerk in the Doylestown National Bank, has been appointed treasurer of the new Bristol Trust Company. George Adams, a printer, cently located at Palmyra, lost his way several miles from town and sank exhausted under a tree, where he died. He was 42 years old. An ordinance has been approved by Parkersburg Borough Council Berimiting the proposed Parkersburg Gas Company to use the streets of the town for laying service pipes, on condition that the company furnish free gas to the ¢ Junkie school and borough properties. John McCabe, aged 18, was arrest. ed for robbing the post office at Bak-, erton, mber 15, and stealing $6 worth of stamps, and six boxes of who re- Cigars. MeCabe's Bh rene +
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