ATESTAEHS
Domestic
Albert Roubick, who confessed
murdering a Chicago jeweler at La-
porte, Ind., in the hope of going to
the gallows, was manifestly disap-
pointed when the jury gave him a
life-sentence,
A thousand delegates from nine
gtates in the Middle West will meet
in Des Moines Tuesday for a cou-
ference of the Central District of the
American Antisaloon League,
There is a shortage of labor in
the Connellsville coke region and the
companies have sent out calls for men
to work in the ovens they propose
to open again.
The first civic exhibt will be held
in connection with the joint meeting
of the National Municipal League
and the American Civic Association
in Pittsburg.
John E. Godding, president of the
defunct bank of Rocky Ford, Col,
was sentenced to a long term in the
state prison for misapplying the
bank's funds.
Federal Judges Grosscup, Seaman
and Baker tssued an interlocutory de-
cree restraining the Interstate Com-
merce Commission from enforcing an
order to railroads in the Missouri
River territory to reduce their rates
pine cents per 100 pounds on first
class freight from the Atlantic sea-
board and involving differentials all
through the classification.
Robberies at the Brooklyn ter.
minal of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad resulted in the
arrest of two drivers and two clerks
of the company, alleged to have sto-
len $100,000 from packages in tran-
sit within three months.
———
WILLIAM 5, TAFT HAS 321
Final. Revision cf the Electoral
Table,
INCREASE LEAD IN CONGRESS.
Aftermath of Tuesday's Presidential
Election Shows Figures Practically
Identical With Chairman Hitch.
cock’'s Forecast—Success in Missouri
a Surprise.
ELECTORAL
TAFT.
COMPLETE VOTE.
FOR
California ....
Connecticut
Delaware
idaho
Illinois
Indiana
fowa
Kansas
Maine ...
Maryland
Massachuset's
Michigan ....
Minnesota ...
Missouri
Montana .
New Hampshire. .
New Jersey....
New York
North Dakota. .
Ohio
Oregon ....
Pennsylvania .
hode Island...
South Dakota..
Utah
Vermont
Washington +..
West Virginia..
Wisconsin
Wyoming
P=
EE
CRUTT RW O
Bed et bd ps
5 Ou
we
we
i
Mount McCulloch, a peak 300 feet]
high, west of Unalaska, has dropped |
into the sea following a volcanic |
eruption, according to information
brought to San Francisco by the
revenue cutter McCulloch,
John D. Rockefellers
was fined 85 in the West Side Court,
New York, for speeding an auto in
which Roekefeller was riding.
chauffeur
i C0 00 = OF ge SO ds
|
3
ad
pos
Total
FOR BRYAN.
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
CVD
et
won
John Wilson, motorman, was kill-|
ed: Mrs. Edgar Austin was seriously |
injured and a dozen trolley pas]
gengers cut and bruised when a trac- |
tion car from South Bend on the |
Chicago, South Bend and Northern |
Indiana Railway was knocked from |
the track a Lake Erie train. i
The Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, |
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brook- |
lyn, denies a report that the where- |
abouts of Mrs. C. W. Wallace, of |
Chicago, have been unknown since]
1903, when she offered a contribu-|
tion of $10,000 to the Beecher |
Memorial Fund.
Breaking of the steering gear on |
an automobile driven by J. J. Radel, |
an undertaker of Cincinnati, caused
the death of Albert Altfeld, and
probably the injury of Radel
and William Regan, a chauffeur.
Wallace H. Hopkins, former
ing broker of Ch
to Chicago from S«¢ the fed-
eral authorities and art ned be-
fore United States on
a charge of de-
fraud.
The
Cotton Oil
nual dividend of thre
the common
nual dividend of three
the preferred stock
George Weare, president
Jowa State National Bank, and
i best knows bankers in the
died Sioux City, after an
operation for intestinal trouble.
Edward ; for many
years part manager
the Academy 8 and before
that manager of Niblo's Garden, died
at his home in New York
The discipline of the fire drill pre-
vented a panic among 150 school
children at Chicago when fire at-
tacked the branch school at Lunt
Avenue and North Robey Street
An involuntary petition in bank-
ruptey was filled against Bartels,
Thelen & Co., shoe manufacturers,
of Chelsea, in the United States Dis-
triet Court at Boston.
John Hagen, who keeps a
in Scranton, near Hamburg,
County, shot and killed his
George, fatally wounded his
and attempted suicide.
Governor Harris, of Ohio, an-
nounced that he is considering the
calling of an extra session of the
Legislature, but has not definitely
decided on the matter.
New York's Japanese colony cele- |
brated the anniversary of the birth-
day of the Emperor of Japan with
a celebration at Carnegle Lyceum.
The National Civie Federation, it
is announced, wiil hold its annual
meeting in New York City December |
by
fatal
min
Bais
taken
directors of
on
an-
on
Company
stock,
the
one
at
8.
owner i
2
more,
of
of
hotel
Erie
|0n
wife
reported well under control.
Foreign
Both France and Germany
a readiness to accept arbitration of
questions involved in the Casablanca
incident.
boldly told Emperor Willlam that he
had better either curb his tendency
to engage In controversa! politics or
abdicate the throne,
Fayetta Morgan, daughter of J. 1.
Morgan, of Marion, N. C., eloped with
W. P. Craig and they were married
at. Canterbury, Eng.
The German. coasting steamer
Archimedes hag been wrecked and 10
of her crew drowned.
The long-standing dispute between
the cotton operatives of Manchester,
England, and their emplovers has
been settled.
The voleano of Villa Rica, in Val-
divia province, Chile, Las been In
violent eruption.
The second squadron of the Amer.
foan battlesibip fleet salled from
Amoy, Chiga, to. Olongapo, in the
Philippines, to join the first squad-
ron in target practice. Among the
cotirt officials ‘at Peking there is a
feeling of humiliation that the ‘en-
tire fleet, instead of a squadron, did
Loulgiana
Marviand
Mississippi
Nevada
Nebraska
North Carolipa.....
Oklahoma
South Carolina..... .
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
in the above
¢ only State
oral is
As will be seen
table Maryland is
in which the elec
divided
yYole
D.
compl of
Washington, {8pecial) ~~
With the
of the vote ii
Taft :
William
is a slight
originally published on
of November 5 it
that the final figure
land William H
t votes, and
Bryan 162.
vision table as
morning
observed
is only five votes
ned by Repub-
H. Hiteheock
irtly be
re @
ah fore
v, and
jority
The
{ % was
a surprise, shifting into
De " §
the fu
tions
Final
Bryan a .
early returns had indicated a plural-
ity of 20,00 iis victory in his
home State is the one bright spot
Mr.
since the votes were counted.
With the later returns from the
Congressional Districts throughout
the country there are indications of
a number of contests. In many of
the districts the vote between
Republican and Democratic
the also
ction predic-
lead 000, where the
candi
sible changes as the result of the
official count
now in from all districts Show
Republicans will have a working ma-
jority of 45 in the nex
the
standing: Republicans, 218; Demo-
crats 175, against the present mem-
bership of 223 Republicans, 166
Democrats and two vacancies,
All the Southern districts have
been heard from. The mos! remark-
be Republicans.
¢d and that the Prohibitionists
certain sections,
been expected, were disappointed.
The figures for the Independence
of messages
thanke between Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Taft: a statement by Mr. Bryan,
in which he sets forth his de ermina-
tion to continue his work {for the
good of all, in the capacity of a
private citizen, and the announce-
ment by Mr. Sherman that it cost
him jus: $2,800 to be elected Vice-
President.
845,000,000 Strike Falls,
Manchester (By Cable). —<After a
two-month strike, causing a loss esti
mated at $35,000,000, the Lanca-
shire cotton spinners have accepted
the 5 per cent. reduction in wages
on March 1, 1908, and will return
to work. Nearly 500,000 men were
directly and indirectly Invelved In
the strike. The end of the strike
will greatly relieve the terrible labor
conditions in the district, where
many thousands besides the cotton-
not visit China:
aninners are out of work.
YIELDS TOWRL
OF THE PEOPLE
Mr. Bryan Admits They Cid Not
Want His Platform.
Lincoln, Neb. (Special).— William
J. Bryan issued the following state-
ment:
“The election has gone against us
by a decisive majority. It is impos-
sible at the present time to say what
causes contributed niost to the Re-
publican victory. We made our
fight upon a platform which embod-
fed what we believe to be good for
the American people, but it {8 for
the people themselves to decide what
laws they desire and what methods
of government they prefer. 1 have
faith that the publicity which we
asked for will yet commend itself
to the American people, that the
election of Senators by the people
will be secured, that the iniquities
of the trust will arouse an opposi-
tion that will result in the elimina-
tion of the principle of private
monopoly. 1 am confident that the
people will see the necessity for the
labor legislation and the tariff re-
duction which our platform demand-
ed I am confident, too, that the
educational work done in this cam-
paign will result in securing greater
protection to bank depositors. The
above are the most prominent re-
forms for which we labored and 1
believe that these reforms will yet
come, together with more effective
regulation of railroads and independ-
ence for the Philippines.
our national committee I am
the committee 1 do not see
did,
every effort in my power
victory for our cause,
tion came from the hands of
voters 1 have obeyed their
mand and have led as best
to
secure
com-
for the devotion which has
shown by millions of Democrats dur-
ing the past 12 years. Neither am
I able to adequately express my ap-
preciation for the kind words which
have been spoken since the election.
If 1 could regard the defeat as pure
ivy a personal one 1 would consider
it a blessing rather than a misfor-
tune, for | am relieved the bur-
dens of responsibilities of an office
that is attractive only in propor
tion as it gives an opportunity to
render a larger public service. But
I shall serve as willingly in a private
capacity as in a public one. God
does not require great things of us.
He only requires that we improve
the opportunities that are presented
of
opportunities for service
by private life.
“In this hour of national
presented
defeat
by
the
neighbors,
and by
Nebraska
Governor and a
we shall be
practice so n i
platform rel
nd 1 trust
get an example at
+ for good ir
support given by my
$ citizens of Lincoln
3 of the State of
g8 Democratic
Legislature
into
Democratic
ble to put
of the Denver
State legislation,
State
as
will
Wiis
1 the
WOMAN IN PLASTER CAST.
Circus Rider Had Every Bone In Her
Body Broken,
Ogdenburg, N. ¥Y
cased in a plaster cast, wh covers
all of her body except the and
head, Minnie Fisher, a circus rider,
who was injured some ago by
being thrown from her horse, left
here for her home in Alabama. She
8 unable move any part of her
body below her shoulders and will
lie on a cot during the raliroad jour-
ney South
The accident in which the young
woman was Injured occurred during
a performance at Malone last Sep-
tember Her horse became fright.
ened and bolted toward the specta-
tors, The esquestrian turned the
animal into a fence and the rider
was thrown heavily to the ground.
nearly every bone in her body be.
ing broken
It will be three months before the
plaster cast can be removed.
FINANCIA',
News comes from Ehyolite that
Montgomery-Ehoshone will en.
large its stamp mill.
Silver metal soid at 495% cents
3 §
Special) En-
ieh
neck
ime
to
New York, Philadeiphia & Nor
semi-annual dividend of $3,
Pig iron output
the Iargest of any month this year.
in the year ended October 31 the
National Bank carped net
gomi-annual dividend of 8
ular quarterly dividend of 23% per
on its common stock and an
extra 7% per cent., making 32%
por cent. paid this vear. Last year
25 per cent was paid,
from the Joplin district for the week
ended October 31 were: Zine, 8202,
$83: lead, 350,275. For forty-two
weeks: Zine, $7,228,632; lead, 81,
£23.166. Total for the year to date,
$0,051,708,
President Knox, of the Montana
Tonopah Company, who has been In
Philadelphia, would not say definite-
ly when he thought his company
could pay a dividend. There ls still
a debt on the mill, part of which
fing been leased to another eBmpany.
The “Iron Trade Review” says:
“Decided Improvement lias character.
ized the pig fron market within a
fow days, which, it is believed, in-
dicates a permanent change for the
better. The result of the Presiden
tial election has cleared the atmos
here and modérate buying in all
ines is expected,”
NR, MORSE AND MA. CURTIS
BANKERS FOUND GUILTY
A———
Crimes Against Bank Act Carry
Five Year Term,
SENT T0 THE TOMBS OVER NIGHT,
Faces of Financiers Who Wrecked the
National Bank of North America in
New York Show Strain of Waiting for
Verdict — Recommendation of Mercy
for Curtis, but None for Morse,
THE CASE IN BRIEF.
Charles W,
H. Curtis
spiracy
accounts
The case
Alfred
of con-
of bank
and
accused
falsifying
Morse
were
and
was prosecuted by
the United States government
and both were found guilty of
faleifying accounts
The jury recommended
in behalf of Curtis
Bail being refused the
ers were incarcerated in
Tombs prison
The minimum penalty
the verdict is five years’
onment.
Morse first attracted attention
as a manipulator of ice deals.
mercy
bank-
the
under
impris-
1
Morse,
figure
Alfred
until a year ago a dominant
in the world of finance,
H. Curtis, former president
cuit Court on charges of
cation of funds and falsifying the
| books of the bank. There was also
the additional charge of conspiracy
against the prisoners, but the
| acquitted the men on this count.
Within five minutes of the time
the jury had rendered its verdict
Judge Hough had refused to enter-
tain a motion for ball and had com-
mitted the two bankers to the Tombs
prison. Judge Hough sald that he
would hear any motion the lawyers
for the prisoners desire to make at
16.30 o'clock tomorrow His deci-
sion made It compulsory for the in
carceration of Morse and Curtis In
cells in the Tombs prison over night
The federal statutes provide a
minimum penalty of five years’ lm-
prisonment for falsifying the books
of a bank and a penaily of two
years’ imprisonment and $5,000 fine,
or both, for misapplication of funds.
No alternative but imprisonment is
provided for conviction on the
charge of falsifying the books of a
bank. The maximum penaliy on
this charge is 10 years’ imprison-
ment. The jury recommended clem-
ency for Mr. Curtis, but made no
recommendation in the case of Mr
Morse
Dramatic Scene,
The scene the courtroom
a dramatic Mra. Morse
Mrs. Curtis in
courtroom entire
was
and
the
Lat
in
ane
had
nearly
verdict Mrs, Curti
of giving y
a number of times, an
jury returned to the
‘ si ®
reraive
remained
the any
awaiting
away to he
'
instruction on
§
which the counspirac)
considered Mrs
and sobbed
crowd had hurried
om to hear the
yore leading fo th
thrown open silen
apon and the noise 1
by trafic in Broadway sounded has
as floated through the windos
It could be from the solemn
faces jurors that an impor-
tant was te be delivered
wn
TED
the courts
As the d
room were
the crowd
"
i
geen
of the
verdict
No Conspiracy.
Foreman John Elder, responding
to the customary question ol the
court clerk, read the verdict Mr.
Morse and Mr. Curtis stood before
the jury while Mr. Elder was reading
the verdict and their wives sat near
them, leaning forward in tense at-
titudes to catch every word
“We have agreed upon a verdici
foreman, in a subdued
“On the charge of conspiracy
find them not gullty.” A look of
relief! came to the faces of the pris
oners and their wives, but it only
the
tinued:
of the
both defendants gullty. On
charge of making false entries in
the books of the bank we find both
defendants guilty, In the case of
{ Alfred H. Curtis the jury wishes to
‘make a strong recommendation to
the mercy of the court”
Morse Given Fifteen Years,
New York (Special). — Sentenced
to 15 years in the federal prison at
Atlanta, Ga., Charles W. Morse,
former “Ice King” and convicted
wrecker of the National Bank of
North America, was returned to his
cell in the Tombs.
Alfred H. Curtis, former president
of the bank, shown by the evidence
to have been Morse's tool in the
| {llegal transactions for which they
were both convicted, is in his home
in the fashionable upper West side,
freed by Judge Hough, who suspend-
ed a minimum sentence of five years
on the recommendations of the jury
and United States District Attorney
Stimson,
Murdered Ry Pirates,
Amoy (Dy Cable).—The bodies of
78 of the victims of the wreck of
the small steamer, which occurred
near Tungan, November 5, have been
brought here. The steamer was li
censed to carry 180 passengers, but
600 men were aboard, and of these
only 400 were rescued, Many of
the victims were drowned, but some
of them were killed while in the
water by plratical boatmen intent on
robbery. Five of the pirates have
been arrested and will be beheaded.
MR. TAFT OUTLINES
A VIGOROUS POLICY
A ——————
To Be No Interference With Legiti
mate Business.
Cincinnati (Special). — Bpeaking
to the Cincinnati Commercial Club,
of which he has been a member
15 years, William Howard
brought every member of
to his feet his address,
the kevnote of proeperity for the
country for the next four years
“Every business man who is
ing the law may go aheac
the energy in his posses
enterprise which
proceed
for
Taft
club
sounding
the
§
in
abe
{
LE]
ites may
the jurisdiction of the
government may expect
forcement of the laws
honest methods,” was
of what Mr. Taft said
To Show No Favors,
Judge Taft told
one has written
of the campaign
I have been the
bosses,”
in a way
no of the
subject
of he deciar
“which
of left me no uty but
respond to the } Bix
in the morning iidnight,
calls of and
if I did not respond, the crowd, af-
ter one minute, made a mighty
shout: ‘Hurrah for Bryan!
“Seriously,” he declared,
are already apparent nd
calls
to
the
3% . sis -
de populace
“the
business communities and the
investors of both foreign nat
among our people will
carrying out the great ¢
which have been projected
carried {erm
is reach
of prosperity and bus
“Business m
lines of |
directed in k
which
take
be to a
to
ef
legs
eep
ing the
pess men shall
conform
statute books
to be expected for those
the laws
“This shall be so
who conduct a legitima
may understand that the gos
is back of them and 4
tend to do anything to
with thelr legitimate adv
Substantial Progress
to 10
Al
1%
Ahead,
which met
ted
After the applause
leciaration had subsi
Taft added
a question of
tt © stat
ndertaking
honest
during
the
dent,
men
whol
which
and give every honest
fair opportunity, and
knowledge and prosecute with vigor
apparent effort to cvade the
laws and to affect prosperity by dis-
honest business methods
of ob je
was to enforce laws
endeavor a
with
tO Warn
every
gources Commission hag sent out lei.
ernors in Washington on December
S.
The world’s production of cotton
exceeded by 2,340,000 bales the pro-
duction of the previous year.
of the recent
sition, Shepherds Bush, London,
in this country as commissioner
tional and Colonial Exposition to be
held next summer.
Senators and Repregentatives are
drifting back to Washington and
finding their way to the White House
to tell the President of the great
victory which was achieved in their
various siates.
The rumor that President Roose
velit may be chosen to succeed Sena.
tor Platt in the United States Sen-
ate has been revived, but Mr. Roose.
velt has made no definite expression
of opinion.
Bide were opened by the Isthmian
Canal Commission for four beam
antl four chamber cranes for use in
conetructon of the Mires Flores lock
on the Panama Canal
Edwin M. Vandyck, government
ink expert, plead guilty of con
gpiring to defraud the government
and paid the $10,000 fine imposed.
The remains of Gen. James M. C,
Lingan, a hero of the Revolutionary
War, were finally interred in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
President Roorevelt received a
delegation of eight Chinese children
from the Oriental Rescue Home of
fan Francisco,
Otis T. Mason, head curator of the
department of anthropology of the
National Museum, died at the age
0 1.
UNITED STATES TROOPS
10 LEAVE ISLAND OF CUBA
Withdraw Next Saturday, Day of
Elzclions,
THE F.GHT FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Conservatives Headed by General
Menoeal and the Liberals by Gen.
Jose Comnez - An Assurance of a Fair
Election No Difference in the Plat.
forms of the Parties.
(By Cabie)
BIG FIRE AT ORANGE
s« Section (ff The Town
iy Wig
Busines
«d Ont,
the Barlow
grocery
goods i
& Chewning. hi
Baptist Church and
one of which was oo
MeDonald
Proma the drug
which spread rapidly
the
blaze
track, taking
o
use
gtore ihe
100k
entire hlock
gpd Ove
in the
course,
The
gutted
railroad
er
to the Chewning store and the
tist Church
FARMERS NOW AVENGED.
Man Who Defranded Them
tenced To Prison,
Minneapolia, Minn, (Special)
James T. Mulhall was sentenced to
15 motithe at ihe Pederal prison al
Leavenworth, and Felix Naihanson to
six months in the county Jail by
Judge Milton Purdy for frandunlent
use of tue mails A stay of ten
dave pending appeal for a writ of
error was granted.
Fraudulent oporation of the Nicol
let Creamery Company, in Minne
apolis last fall, is the specific charge
in the indictment on which the men
were convicted. Farmers througas
out the Northwest are sald to have
icet Lcavily bY shipping produce
wiileh was never pald for.
Is Sen.
Talt May Huut In Texas,
Taft, Texas {(Bpecial).--It is re-
ported at headquaricrs of the Taft
ranch. situated pear hore, that W,
H. Taft and his brother, Charles A
Taft, owners of the ranch, will ar
rive here the carly pant of December
on a 10 days’ hunting expedition,
The ranch embraces 100,000 acros,
and deer and wild animals abound
in the pastures. Probably the most
pretentious country home and hunt
ing lodge In Texas le situated upon
the Taft ranch.