A Se A A ros |The News| Domestic The trial of Nance O'Neil, the ao- tress and her manager, McKee Ran- kin, for alleged infringement of copyright sn the play “The Fires of Bt. John,” will proceed this week at San Francisco. Senator Foraker published letters from Virgil P. Kline and M. ¥. El- liott showing the nature of his work for the Btandard Oil Company, which ended seven years ago. The United Daughters of the Con- federacy, at the final session in At- lanta, Ga., elected officers and de- cided to hold their next convention in Houston, Tex Senator Stephen B. El the positive anpouncement that no engagoment exists between his daughter, Miss Katherine Elkins, and the Duke de Abruzzi. Harvey T. Wells, embezzling cash- fer of a Kenosha (Wis.) bank, who was captured in Boston several months ago, after having fled to Lon- don, where he had married, and who was later returned to this country, was sentenced to five years at na- tional prison. The $450,000 turbine steamship Belfast, whose construction has been delayed a year by the financial dif- flculties of the Consolidated Steam- ship Lines of Maine, has been suc- cessfully launched by the Bath Iron Works. Arguments in the of both complainant and defendant kins makes double appeal SAR VICTOR H. NETCILF LEAVES THE CABINET Quits Navy [epartment Because of [1] Il Health, MR.T. H. NEWBERRY Hi S SUCCESSOR, President, in Letter to Retiring Official, Congratulates Him Warmly on His Work for His Department— Faithful Service and Advice Lauded—Man Who Takes Place a Naval Enthusiast. Washington, D. C. (Special), ~ Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Met- calf tendered his resignation to the President, to take effect December 1. on account of ill health. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H Newberry will be named as Meteall's BUCCesSs0T For more than a year the that Mr. Metcalf has suffered sori us illness has been well known at the Navy Departme Formerly of vigorous heal 8 friends expected that he would able to regain his strength, but const recurring {il- ness has convi 1 him that only course for to pursue sever his connection with all work. fact antly 1C Ex the is to active him President's Letter, he following correspondence rela- tive to Mr. Metcall's resignation, was given out from the White House: Navy Department, from the final decree of Judge Kohl- saat in the case of Capt. Oberlin M Carter were begun in the nited | ¢ States Circuit Court of Appeals | It was announced that a $1,000, | 000 order for new Pullman coaches | for use between San Francisco and | Portland and Los Angeles had been | placed by the officials of the South- | ern Pacific Con y. ! Dr. Azel Ar , formerly of fame a surgeon and Baniary died at the hospital : in Danvers, wher: been a patient nur is ns for a ASS, , ior a { Mary Wheel Newbu ryport, Mass. was declared to be an estate valued at order fllad in the Chancery Trenton The suit of the government against the Du Pont powder interests, whiel was called before the special master at Wilmington, continued until | yar &. The Interstate Com glon is to t er Somerby, an age the 21 166 O gole 00 Cou rn at was merce Comn aske { by Chicago ise the freight *$ # ago and Chat- its South rate Detween Gol poi: » Tay- » of the at celveor lor de railway the recent One perso collision betwaen man were ir i in a betwee tw trolley cars and fog 8 certifi- | with the his total i NEW ound Brook Governor Hug 4 of electic 54 of St; ate « ving expenditures as $369.65. Dr. David D. Thompson, editor of | the Northwestern Christian Advo- | cate, of Chicago, died in 8t. Louis as the result of being run down by aa automobile, F reign ish Foreign Office has in- Swed consul general | to n sa full invest] gation ported discovery the north coast ot Labrador grave of Professor Andree, nant, Kuan Hgsu, died in the Winter Palace, Prince Chun, his brother, becomes | regent, i his son In Wel, heir] Kuan Hgsu reigned! y i The Bwedd structed in New Yo the rk on the the aero. of the of emperor of China, | in Peking. | Milovanovich, Bervian minister for foreign affairs, informed the King of Italy that it was necessary for Bervia to protect herself against the | “Austrian invasion.’ An unsuccessful attempt was made | to rob a railroad train in Russia on swhich was 212.500.0600 in specie, | Five of the robbers wore arrested | and one was killed. i Russia and England are in agree- ment on the proposal for Russian! supremacy in the Persian Province of | Azerbaijan, i M. Khomyakoff, the president of | the Douma, has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-elec- tion, The International Copyright Con- gress has adopted the new text of the Berne convention, Wilbur Wright won the French Aero Club's prize for aeroplanes. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a mission ary to the Labrador Coast, does not believe the grave discovered on the Northern Labrador Coast by Captain Chalkes is that of Andrée, the ex- plorer, The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federal Council of the German Empire discussed the Casablanca in- cident, It was reported that the meeting was called to take steps to prevent the Emperor pursuing an in. dependent course In forelgn affairs, The building of eight new British battleships and 24 destroyers in the immediate future was foreshadowed in Premier Asquith’s announcement in the House of Commons, Conditions in Northern Persia are gaid to be improving and Russia will not find it neccessary for interven tion, Washington, November 13, 1008 Sir: 1 hereby tender my resigna- ion as Secretary of the Navy, pame to take effect on the 1st JNO } the prox- Very (Signed) res] V. yectfully, H. METCALF, Secretary The President, White House, The able to my term I warmly for your faithful service in both at the head rved under me Metcalf, you thank and of the of throughout effi depart which cient ments, have s¢ Mr. have sn a cabinet on whose ald apd advice all, upon w hose staunch fast loyalty [I could rely and all occasions No could wish more loyal support than you have me thank you for minister up and, above and stead- | « upon any | President | | and hearty | always given it I shal he wi EXPLOSION HURTS 30. Mill Wrecked As Train Known To Be Dead. Kansas City, ial), — A | powder mill ¢ oimes P 12} of th exploded at sas City SBouth- | n was passing, i that a number were | only one body has Passos—{ne | + Dee arx, wos bY id Wy miies south 8 hoy just rn passenger t is reported killed, but so far been found. Thirty passengers on the train were Injured by ng debris, and bave been brought here and placed in the Kansas City Southern Hospi- tal The houses. a8 a tral and | anda fiyi explosion destroyed three Declares Dog Committed Suleide. Evanaville, Ind. (Special). —Mrs Vernon Shrode gave her favorite bul 1e animal lay around the house and refused to notice anyone Then it walked down to the electric railroad track, and as a oar approached de stood in front of it and was ground to pieces. Persons who witnessed the death of the dog de- that it was a deliberate case of Suleide. a Suicide Burns $2.000. Helena, Mont. (8Special).—<Albert i Berger, a former Alaska miner, just ! before committing suicide at Canyon erry, threw $2,000 in postoflice the stove, declaring that the money was in the hands of the government and no one would quarrel over it after he was dead. Minister Should Get $1,200. New York (Special). — That the unmarried clergyman in the Diocese of New York should be $1,200 and for a married clergymen §1.200 and a suit- able place to live was the resolu tion passed amid applause in the annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. © Chinese Drowned Crossing “Border. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). —An at- tempt to smuggle Chinamen into this country from Canada ended In dis aster, when all but four of the China- men were éither drowned or dashed to pieces on the rocks of the break- wall near the Buffalo Lifesaving Station, A AAA isis, To Keep Soldiers Cool, Washington, D. C. (Bpecial). «It will be a little cooler for the Ameri ean soldiers In the Phillippines if an experiment the War Department has ordered to be thoroughly tested proves to be a Success. Orange: colored underwear acd hat linings are to he worn hy 5,000 soldiers in the islands during the next year, and observations made with a view of ascertaining If the theories evoly- ed from esperiments in laboratories MORRIS HAAS DIES INSTEAD OF HENEY Man Who Shot Prosecutor Takes His Own Life. Ban Francisco (Special) .— Morris Haas, who shot Assistant District At- torney Francis J. Heney, committed suicide at the county jail by shooting himself through the head. One report says that the pistol with which Haag shot himself was concealed in his shoes, where he hid it before shooting Heney. Anothe: report says the pistol was secretly passed to Haas by a friend since his incarceration. The five surgeons attending Mr. Heney, after their consultation, sta- ted that Mr, Heney was resting easily that his pulse, temperature and were practically normal 18 located in the » lower maxillary FIGHT PERSONS KILLED IND TEN WOUNDED A Day of Rioting In An Oklahoma iration Wi Okmulgee, Okla. { Special ) .— Eight persons killed and 10 wounded in fight between Deckard, desperado, yfficers, were others were a James a negro and « dead: r Ropinsch, sheriff of Okmul- Klaber, Okm assistant ter ulgee named Chapme FRANCIS J. HENEY SHOT DOWN IN COURI Ex-Convict's Revenge on Frisco’s Graft Frober. ABRAHAM RUEFS. TRIAL HALTED. Assistant District Attorney, Who Has Been Exposing Municipal Rotten. ress in San Francisco, Shot in Head During the Ruef Trial by Morris Haas, a Saloonkeeper, San Francisco Fran- cls J. Heney, a leading figure in the prosecution corruption (Special), — of municipal in San Francisco, was shot and seri ously injured at 4.22 P. M., in Judge J ler's courtroom by Morris Haas, 4 salcon per, who had op ced as a juror in a pres of Araham Ruef and afterward noved, it having been si court by Heney that Haas as ex-convict, a fact not brough in his examin 0 as a venir The shooting of Heney the presence of courtroom trial of Abraham the third time on ribery It was during a of court and while of the courtroom and for the prosecution and defen returned to the room from a conference with Judge Lawler in hi chambers that Heney, having resum ed his customary seat and enter nto « fon with Chief MeCabe Alle office, forward Ho kee hye mri dur 10-minute the i 3 Be Wn sal Dist: Cans of the ict Haas among the gs ed Hen against fn Washin are applicable with corresponding results in the field, shot Rallre ngaged in Steve Gray nsibility Grayson When Policeman station Deckard San Franc {800 where Deckard e ian b it an Ww, ito Ins fends of 0 the As Het ne tab le at the “he spit “1 will live and Ruef.”’ examination LO proaeciis loan home, ne irhy, apd Dar. When Klal ap- y Deckard shot and cade wy In proach red tl in 188s '% | % . ’ sheriff Ru binson ; gathered deputies few minutes and hurried to the | This party contained whom the al several | Deckar antity of ammunit use, for many xpioded while the house baked large qu in his gtored was 2,000 WITNESSES IN CASE. Peonage Trial Threatens To Continue Forever, -Two thou- be called in the peonage cases in the United New York (Special) sand witnesses may trial of the alleged before Judge Hough States Clireuit Court, Assistant United States Genoral Charles H. Russell sald that government may call $00 wit- nesses, and the lawyers for the four men accused of having lured thou- ands of laborers Into slavery In Florida declare they will produce 1.5600 witnesses if necessary. MURDERESS sv RRENDERS, Attorney the Tennessee Woman Claims She Shot Man Defending Herself, femphis, Tenn. (Special).—Mrs A. W. Bonds, wife of a railroad man, walked into a police station and sur- rendered herself, explaining that she bad killed 8 P. Craig at Sunset a | short time before. She handed the | police a revolver, which she said she | had emptied at Craig, leaving his | body lying in an open field. She sald that Craig, who formerly hoarded with her and came from indiana, attacked her and that she shot in self-defense, Northern Women Eligible. Atlanta (Bpecial). After an ex- citing discussion, a proposition to ex- clude from future membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy the Northern women who are pow admitted by virtue of marriage to descendants of Confederate veterans, was voted down in the annual con- vention of the daughters here. IN THE WORLD OF § FINANCE P. E. Mathes paid 87.500 for a Philadelphia Stock Exchange seat. Chesapeake & Ohio declared its an- nieal dividend of 1 per cent. A company to hold all the min- ing stock owned by the Guggenheim families is talked of. An initial dividend of 2 per cent. has been declared on Colorado Southern common, Gross earnings of rallronds which bave made reports for October show an average decrease of 4 per cent. It is reported that B. H. Harriman is trying to buy control of the Wells Fargo Express Company and is offer ing $300 a share for the stock. In financial circles in Philadelphia, where ho was an extremely familiar figure, sincere regret was expressed for the death of Bilas W, Petit. He was a director in a number of ingti- lutions, — showed that the the right under the left ear carotid artoris arierics i v4 SFY ariery. an im the corrido ! A large force of police, “he 3 Blegy. gurrounded the sich court was held back AD wore made by the po headed and imber of ioe, who he crowd arrests took into custody ble. CASUALTIES ON RAILROADS. jured In A Year. Washington, D. C. (Special). There were 3.764 persons killed and 68.9808 Injured In railroad casuaitios in the United States during the fis- fnter- This announcement of the Commerce Commission fa a decrease of 1,236 3,207 injured, as compared with the previous year. In the three months ended June 30 there were 681 killed and 13,- 098 injured, a decrease of 1,75 to an state MARINES TAKEN imp rtant Change in Our Est lishment. Washington, D The practice of the since colonial times by President Roosevelt, C. (EBpecial). American overt Navy urned was who has just signed an order withdrawing marine: from duty on board ves Navy. This order is the of a long fight waged by the going officers against the presen Of Im on ird vespels For many years the 8 } oblected the aboard ship for of these 4 Ff +3 sels 13 if culinination HEH arine Des to LY ERE Bevel reas al tom of pia from the preceding quarter The accidents during the quarter terly records. The the quarter numbered 820, and de railments, 1.310 ON STEAMER. Boiler Bursts, Five Persons Killed And Many Injured, North Bay, Ont. (8pecial).—The steamer Temiskaming was approach- ing the landing at Temiskaming at 6 o'clock P. M., when the boller ex- ploded, wrecking the steamer and causing the death of at jeast five persons by explosion or drowning. Several passengers and crew were hurled into the water by the shock and many were Injured, Owing to the remoteness of the soene of the tragedy detalis are lack- ing. A man named McBride, a hunt- or from the United States, is missing, and there is little doubt of his fate. J. Menard and T. Bergouhan, fire- men, and two men whose names are unknown, are dead. Bix are badly burned and several may dle. DIES FROM FOOTBALL, HURTS. Youth Kicked in Head Has Blood Vessel Burst, Wheeling, W. Va. (Special) .~~John Murphy, aged 18 years, died from injuries received Sunday while play- ing football. During the game Murphy was kilek- ed in the head and after a couple of minutes resumed play, thinking he was not seriously hurt, The burst. E XPLOSION ing of a blood vessel due to the kick he received caused his death. HOw it is work #signed can, declared Aboard ship there has alw r less fri and the to subvert the n ercon camen tended oving will be At O% pregent the 111 ie ofMeer o W 0RLD’S GREATEST WARSHIP AFLOAT = Launching of the Ail-Big-Gun North Dakota, A Cine of h several tee OF and thre the launching as about aoy get for the North the water A an and there Governor Burke Mary Benton, sponsor for together with Francis Bowles dent of the Fore River Company took their stand As the noon whistles blew in the vard the work- men began to knock away the shores At 12.27 the last piece was cut, giv- ing the vessel motion At that mo ment a bottle of beribboned bottl champagne was swung by against the bow, and and the of Benton said: “1 christen thee North Dakota.’ Before the conclusion of the 34 % months allowed by the government for delivery, however, the hull just iaunched will present a different as- pect By that time ten 12-inch long-range rifles will have been placed In position, as well as fourteen 5S-<inch rapid-fire guns: four 3-pound and a like number of 1-pound semi-automatic guns: two 3<inch field pieces, two machine guns of 50 calibre; and two 21-inch subd- merged torpedo tubes, DOINGS AT THE MATIONS CAPITAL President Roosevelt and Presidont- subject of their respective messages to Congress. Judge Taft announced that he would summon an early special session of Congress The Secretary of Agriculture tseu- od a quarantine order forbiddin interstate movement of cattle, sheep, swine and goats from the counties | of Columbia, Montour, Northumber. land and Union, Pennsylvania, « The Secretary of the Navy award- ed the contract for the construction of the 21,821-ton battleship, the Utah, to the New York Shipbuilding Company, of Camden, N. J, at {ts bid of $3,946,000. Postmaster General Meyer la now slated to succeed Secretary Root when the latter goes to the United States Benate The Thatcher Manufacturing Com. pany, of Kane, Pa, and Emira, N. Y., today filed a complaint with the Interstate Comme Commizgsion against the New York Central and Hudson River and Pennsylvania Railroads. President Roosevelt has invited most of the leaders of organized labor to dine with him at the White House on the of November ” r THACE HUNCRED MIKERS PERISH Worst Disaster in Germany in Many Years, TERRIBLE SCENES AT THE PIT. Fire Prevents Attempts to Rescue Entombed Men, but the Mine Is Flooded The Explosion Destroys One of the Shafts Thirtyfive In Jured Men Removed. T FLEE to arrive 148 ¥ utes before irain from Northeastern dw ough pplied the 1 LO- ugh the d it a trail PRCBCOROTS Northern ex- ri, but those ita way tht train n ahead, leaving behir of ¢ corpses and infared No one on the Great press was seriously hy aboard the Northea rn local were thrown right end left or crushed by the express loco as it tore through the two rear coaches of the local As Little Wor hag no tele graph station, serious delay was ex- perienced in getting a message to New Orleans, and it was two hours | before a rescue train arrived. In the meantime passengers of the Great Northern train 4'd all they could to rescue the Injured. Among the sights that grected the rescuers was that of a small boy tapparent iy unable to oxtrieate hime salf from the wreckage, which was | fast settling down upon him. A | score of more of men made a herole | affort to get the child, but the wreck. age and escaping steam from the damaged locomotive out off their way and they were forced to stand idly by while the child called futllely for help until he died. Dusters For Horses. Chicago (Special). — An edict wan issued by the civil service trial board thet hereafter failure to clean horses in the service of the fire department by the old-fashioned curry-combd method would be followed hy pune fshment. Testimony had been given before the board that it was conse tomary at some englne-houses to clean the horses with feather dusts ere. One offivial asserted that he had heard that horses had been “pol. ished oft” by a rag dipped in kero sene, 81 ive 1a a8
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