Domestic The hoof-and-mouth disease has appeared in Philadelphia and several cattle were killed as a method of precaution. The Pennsylvania au- thorities are taking vigorous meas- ures to check the spread of the dis- e/se. There were a number of callers on President-elect Taft at Hot Springs, and a variety of subjects were dis- cussed. Among his callers was Judge Crumpacker, of the House Ways and Means Committee, who assured him that the tariff would be honestly revised. Charles A. Walters, a veteran the Civil War, and his daughter, aged 40, were found dead in their apartment, in New York, from inhal- ing gas. It is supposed that they committed suicide Mr. drew Carnegie an article for December which favors tariff insists there is no occasion or for any revolutionary step. Mrs. Peter Van Viissingen, of the Ch r, said that husband had kept all of his a secret from her. An official of the Boston Steamship | Company, at Francisco, owners | of the big steam freighters Tremont and Shawmut, is authority for the statement that the government is ne- | sls with a view | New York | Century, revision, but for haste | he ‘ea | Wile | wigo forge doings i San gotiating for the vess to using them between and Panama. John Krauss, who is sald to been connected with the Pacific and Sunset Telegraph Company, of San Francisco, committed suicide in his cabin on the steamer Adriatic | while vessel was from Cherbourg to Queenst Edward, Ira and Mrs. Sarah Mor- , executors of the estate of the late Morris, filed an inventory » Probate Court, Chicago, the value | of the fixed at about; $18.000.000. rr GQ. E. Weiser, the Anaconda banker on trial at Butte, Mont, the for forgery in con- nection with the failure of his pri- vate bank in Anpaconda, found not guilty. The State Live Board officials have not yet received any detailed information about the English embargo on Pennsylvania cattle because of the prevalance of the foot and mouth disease in Penn- syvivania. Samuel E. have State gol ne 5 ug the Wn ri 1 in son in N tl estate being for | second time was Stock Sanitary Campbell, an auto- mobile dealer, was held criminally responsible for the death of Rev Dr. G. Brinley Morgan, of New Hav-! en, Ct., who was struck and killed by Campbell's machine. i The necessity a trained mili- tary body among the citizens of this country was hasized 1 Major General Franklin Bell in an address | before the Association of Agricultur-| al Colleges and Experiment Stations Rear Admiral James B. Adams, re. | cently promoted, has been relieved | of duty as captain of the New York] Navy Yard, and ordered assume | command on the naval station at] Charleston. The Stock Exchange creditors of! A. O. Brown & Co. received a 21 per | cent. dividend on their claims from the sale of two Stock Exchange seats | for $140,000, i Unofficial advices received at the] Navy Department state that the sal-| vage of the Yankee, wrecked on) Spindle Rock, at the entrance of Buzzards Bay, will be complete. Capt. N. E. Niles, U. 8. N., has| been detached from duty in command | of the Hancock, New York Navy, Yard, duty as governor of the] naval home, Philadelphia | No Arabic numerals appear on the | of two-cent stamps, more 200,000,000 of which have just printed and placed on Postoffi Department i John D. Rockefeller, president of the Standard Oil Company, made his | appea a witness for the dd fence federal suit to di the s Oil Trust The of George the ifted ‘alifornia seconde ’ Chicago, for emp 'y to to sale byl ‘6h é solve A orator, i no ion latest figu in Knight, | who ati the Foreign Emperor Willlam's statements to Chancellor Von Buelow regarding! his observance the constitutional requirements 1s not taken by large numbers of the German people, who doubt his sincerity. The Japanese loan, in the of an issue of $10,000,000 in § cent. bonds of the Industrial of Japan, with the guarantee of the Japanese government, has been an instantaneous success, United States Minister Gummere, at Morocco, reported that the col- lective note to Muley Hafld had been approved by all the powers signing the Algeciras act without reserve, An official of the Chinese Foreign Board, at Peking gave assurances that the new aaministration would promote with vigor the reforms started by the late Emperor. The Netherlands government will advocate the convocation of an in- ternational committee to arrange for a third peace conference, A bill will be introduced in the British House of Commons prohibit. ing the use of hop substitutes in the manufacture of beer, Both the British and the Irish Boards of Agriculture have prohi- bitéd the importation of cattle from Pennsylvania, The telegraph lines between Ceo tinje and Cattaro, an Austrian sea port, have been cut, and the Monte negrins have mounted guns to men- ace the Austrian town, Genevieve, daughter of Joseph Win. terbotham of Chicago, was married in Copenhagan to Frank R. Mowrer, the American consul general there. Counsel for Count Boni de Castel- lane insisted (n court that despite Princess Helle de Bagan’'s denial, she contemplates divorcee proceedings. The battleship Nebraska is ps ficinlly reported to have broken all records for naval marksmanship dur. ing target practice in Manila Bay, ' The Casablanca dispute between France and Germany is to be sub- mitted to the arbitration of a com fF Of per ENE HUNDRED LWES IN PERIL Wo Steamers Collide in Fog On New York Bay. A BIG CATASTROPHE AVERTED, A Panic Ensues on the Mount Desert and a Stampede for Safety on the Admiral Dewey — Levelheaded. ness of Latter's Captain Prevents Loss of Life, New York (Special). — The er Admiral Dewey, inward bound | from Jamaica, steamer Mount into the outward | crushed Desert, banks The Admiral Dewey, | suddenly out of a fog bank, | the Mount Desert almost opening a gash in the! vessel that extended from the | to the water's edge. There were 450 passengers, includ- | 1g 20 women and six children, on | the Admiral Dewey carried 45 passengers. In ad- | dition, there were the crews of the | two steamers Panic immediately followed the collision and it was due to the prompt action of Captain Davidson, of the Dewey, that a eatastrophe was for the passengers on the fishing steamer began piling over the guard rails of that vessel and leaped | for the deck of the Admiral Dewey, | Had he backed his steamer away, nany would have fallen into the wa- ter Captain Davidson kept the steamer moving slowly ahead and this held the prow of the fruit steam- er into the reat that had been made and afforded a boarding-place for the {rightened passengers the Mount siruck amidships, 8 { of Des Th 15 the two steamers moved slow- | ly toward the east bank of the lower bay, while wild scene waa taking place on the decks It was believed the Mount Desert would sink and the passengers fought frantically get | to the deck of the Admiral Dewey A number of persong were slight injured in stampede Men and women crowded the guard rails ont Admiral Dewey 80 rapidly that they tramped upon each other. In the space of 15 minutes fully 350 of the passengers of the Mount Sprang the deck of the | Dewey 3y this time the Dewey had pushed the Desert close to east bank Ad a to ty he iy Lhe aver o the 10 Adr Mount th GETTING MARINES ASHORE. - i Steps Taken To Carry Out The Presi dent's Recent Order, | Washington, D. C. (Special). —| Conformably with the President's or- der detaching the marines from the battleships and assigning them to shore duty, steps are being taken to them ashore Orders were hing those aboard the New | Hampshire and the marines will be landed at the nearest navy yard. In 30 days all the marines aboard the ships of the third squadron of the tlantic fleet now in Atlantic waters | will have been relieved from their | duty aboard the vessels. From the | Pacific fleet 120 marines are to be gent to Bremerton and a similar Mare Island. Marines | from two of the vessels of the ships! of the Atlantic fleet now at Manila | are to be sent to Olongapo § get to FOR THE INAUGURAL BALL. Proposition To Build Large Hall In Washington. DB. attempis Washingion, { Special). After past to moth pumerous in years! provide in this city a mam- could be ATE: fer. f consid gtructure e inaug COnvel- tiong able Or OL gize, definite steps were taken looking the construction 8 nae tional auditorium. Behind the proj- | are some of the n prominent citizens of Washingion in official an d osed that the tO of while small- er rooms are to be provided which 1060 to 1.000 The opportunity is to be o 7 2.0600, TIME TO DO SOMETHING. Washington Woman Tries To Str Daughters Of The Revolution. Chicago (Special). "Is it not time for us to quit being literary clubs and stop swinging incense be- fore the tombs of our ancestors and all tha® sort of thing and do some thing for the generation in which we live?” This question was flung at members of the Daughters of the American Revolution by Mra. John Murphy, of Washington, D. C., national presi- dent of the Society of the Children of the Republic, who addressed a meeting in the Fine Aris building on “Patriotic Work Among The Youth.” Castro Arresting Suspects, Willemstad, Caracao (By Cable), it 1s reported here thet several Venezuelan politicians, followers of the former revolutionary leader, “El Mocho'' Hernandez, have been ar- rested by order of President Castro and imprisoned at Maracaibo, Among them is a priest who was seized while officiating In church, Seize Smuggled Oplam, Manila (By Cable). - An opium smuggling plot, cunningly devised by Chinese, was thwarted when 103 cans of the drug was discovered in a barrel supposed to contain cement, The shipment was for Corregidor Is- land, The oplum was confiscated, Despite the vigilance of the author fties, the Chinese have suceeaded In bringing in large quantities of opl- um, and It is almost as easy to ob- tain it as before the crusade was be- FOR COMMON G00D Gifford Pinchot Declares This Is Key . note of All Real Reform. Pittsburg (Special). sense for the common koynote of the whole movement.” This “Common good 1s the conservation wns the text of the address American Civic Aseoclation and the Municipal League here by Gifford Pinchot, United States for- ester and chairman of the Nationa Conservation Association. "Common sense of the same kind and degree which Individual! man constantly uses in managing his own affairs and providing for his family must be applied by the tion In managing its large ture,” sald Mr. Pinchot “Po other work dees this principle apply more direetly than il to work of the internal improvement development. ’ “Our duty now is not in the great present, but for the greater future “The Panama Canal mous achlevment, but in and In result it will fall the development of our inland water- ways. The Reclamation Act urb advance, but it will contribute little to the public good compared to the national control of waterpowers “What is now most needed in car- rying on this great work of internal development ig a fuller realization of the vast nee King a right start have only does only to Lo or = is an magnitude far import f 3 TH TS BATH GASOLINE. Wife BPivorced On Unusual Grounds, Lazy (Special) .-— Because iid © their two children, Cy- Los Angeles ly he would to wash “My wife,” he says, rag with gasoline, and In minutes had given each of the chil ‘It takes too much the two young ones with water,” she ‘Gasoline is the quickest way with the least trouble to let the children run time bo- was too much work to dress ' “She used it CZAR DREADS THE RISK. Expose Himself At His Uncle's Funeral, {By Cable). —Re- lation in official cir 8t. Petersburg itly indisposed. mean that he is slig has de- walking for a distance of three miles through the streets of St. Petersburg in the funeral cortege of his uncle, Grand Duke Alexis, who died recently Paris. The entire route of the funeral procession is to be lined on either side by a living wall of troops, but in spite of this there is considerable for the safety of His Majesty THE “BREECHES BIBLE.” Copy On Which Washington Was Obligated As Master Mason, of . publish- { Special) A Breeches Bit Montreal copy the famous le and said to be the identical book on which George Washington te was obligated as a r Mason, was restored to No. 1. QR 7 ‘Be it Antiquity, A. M., the Canada, longed Antiquity Lodge received LAr ter from Ireland, and was ins'ituled by officers of the Forty-sixth British Regiment, of which Washington also a member The initiation took place in New York on a visit of the Forty-sixth Regiment. The book has in a vault oldest to which ri bo ita of $ was kept IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE i per cent. bonds at 87 Considerable ore of a good quality has been found at Broken Hills, near Tonopah. TWENTY-FIVE MEET DEATH AT BROOKLYN Foreman Dies Trying To Save Woman's Life. THE WHOLE DISTRICT IN A PANIC. | Gas Escaping From Main Pipeline Ignited in Deep Trench Exploded and Giant Timbers and Great Quanti. ties of Earth Are Hurled Into the Alr. SAYS MAN CN LIE FOREVER Student of Longevily As:erts Spirit of Life Can Be Cultivated. New York (Special). Brodie Patterson, who has special study of longevity, told the Medico-Legal Boefety at the Waldorf Astoria that, men and women for ever He supported his citing many au of long life and made =a in his may be a opinion ble to Hye contention by GAS | TRAGEDY IN BRIEF. tH Twenty-five ed by an Brooklyn. Nineteen workmen were crush- ed by the debris or burned to || death, | One woman and five were killed Samuel met death woman. kill in Crsons wale pf explosion of gas children Ww Trout, trying foreman, to save the Four men escaped by crawling through a connecting sewer line Residents in the vicinity were thrown into a panic by the force of the explosion. The bodies of being recovered culty. the with victims gal aro dim- York { Special), —T five pergons are believed to have their in which tore up a great se irookivn, it is definitely persons were indreds of tons timber that were thrown alr by the explosion, and Persons are reported as The exact n determined, ing to recover must dig through 50 feet dirt, rock and a tangle of pipes and tim New Hyves an explosion of gaa tion of Gold that 15 bh of and the more ing not be amber of dead can- ’ 1 fOr thoes work the antombed bodie of 4 The explosion occurred foot deep excavation made in Gold and Front main was being laid recently sprung a leak, and (on a manner unknown & spark came contact with escaping gas. Immedi tately there was a terrific explosion iat lifted the surface for half a block both and hurled dirt, paving stonos in a Aity- thi $a is that had between York where a water | The gas mais heen Street Streeis » is fy pad of the gireet directions and £ in smoke and dust cleared that Bl reed doorstep to door an area of nearly a block loosened earth and debris had gto the excavation, burying the laborers who at work | accident happens { es of flames shot out of crevi street and beside them gey- sors of water leaped o the air from s main that bad been shattered by the explosion. Two bodies were pr truding from the wreckage Five Children Die. Gold Bireet crowded school children when the ox; occurred, and that scores of chil dren were not killed injured was rofiarkable, A woman children were almost opposite excavation when the earth crumbled under their feet and they ware sweep the hole undor tons of When the away it was seen been opened from the had sap over score of were whoa the reat a fw 3 in Lhe fgsd in Oe with a: was 1 o § ORL or and thrae * . fi On¥ four of the working the excavation escaped and their es- was remarkable Prue ivy men in 11-YEAR-OLD SHOOTS MAN, Williams Said To Have Drawn Pistol On Bey In Game Of Cards, Pensacola, Fina. (Special) Charles Williams, a whit “i ALY & man, was prob nded at the t Godwin Broa, | Pensacola, by years old wore plaving with them was James years old A dis » tian, it is sald, threa men Sheffield. He drew his it is alleged, whereupon the younger brother emptied the contents of a shotgun into the ston | ach of Williams. i Doth boys fled and have not been | captured. i iy wou Mr | mortal pentine of about 11 Banister The man cards and Sheffield CA joo Sheffield, from il and boy is 13 arose and ened Ja Balloon's Long Voyage. i london (By Cable). Word has | been received here that the balloon | the Consolidated at Goldfield yielded over $100,000, A big smelter that will other mines in Utah is under way. in the market from the public,” was the statement of a large Philadelphia commission house, Ore handled by the Montgomery- Bhoshione mine at Rhyolite last month approximated 4,400 tons. It is sald that 11,000 tons of ore are in sight. Calumet & Hecla Copper Company directors declared a quarterly divi dend of $5. This compares with $10 paid at this time one year ago and $20 two years ago. The average rate of interest paid on the United States Goverment debt ten years ago was 3.85 per cent, and now it is only 2.356 per cent. In the meantime the debt has also decreas. ed by about $£100,000,000, Western raliroad men generally say that earnings in October and No- vember have been the best so far this ear. ’ A high class investment banker of Philadelphia made this statement: “We have bought more stocks since the electtion than in all the test of the year.” This is a sample of how the public has come in, The Pennsylvania's coal and coke shipments last week were 1,090,000 tons, which is the largest amount in many months, The total for the year is about 12,000,000 tons undér the mission of five members. gun, traffic in a similar period of 1907, ascended from this city Wednesday | 1 morning, in an attempt to reach record, was compelled to descend in Russia, after having The best record was made by who succeeded i long distance : de la Vaux, Weds His Adopted Daughter. Boston, Mass. (8peecial).It came known here that George F. D Paine, the millionaire head of the Paine Furniture Company, of this city, was married on November 8 to Misa Margaret BE. Johns, formerly a teacher, at the Young Women's Christian Association. The bride was the adopted daughter of Mr. Paine up to within a week of the marriage, when he had the adoption proceed ings annulled, The couple are now on the way to Ceylon, Greenough Statue Moved, Washington (Special) .-The fam- oun Greenough statue of George Washington, which for years has stood In the plaza for the Capitol, has been romaved and given a pers manent resting place in the National Museum. The figure of Washington resembled of Roman senator pore that it did the first President, and the statue in consequence has beon the subject of a great deal of critl- clam, At {ta last session Congross Prive ie possible to increase Hie by 10 or 20 years, it it indefinitely “There is,” sald Mr. Patterson of lHfe which must Without paying th to this inner w impossible for us to five Miss Jousie man who who Francisco the be cult o orld it indefinitely Fowler sald she wag now 19 year intended to walk from to York She had the death ” oO New received land a few 130 weaka and tl ions had convin live any continued VOars ’ gong who dm ler persons i will Age who Ves that lants ien who dr she WANTS PERSIAN PROVINCE. As Azerbaijan, teported Planning To Turkey Seize Lond dispatch Persia, bassador for Co 8 10 n attrib the rumored nexation Azerball intin is an ation offset leparture of ann ince of The dispatch the bassador ago from that he was Teheran Was § of ing ivave absence on WILL HEAR THE SHAN. Majesty To Make Known Decision Concerning New Government, Teheran (By Cs gumu the of Yarious before him © matler cision In 1h tional government members, elected and with pe isters, but wi DOINGS AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL wer io thout ox « “* . + wOWSpaAapoer youd nmi aper Trust The Holl the re reg yaay roan Hal Affairs Com Marine Cor part of the Army Frederick W has been ap) mandant of cadeta at States Military Academy The “bleached flour’ hearing was concluded before the Pure Food Board of the Department of Agricul ture. The Department of Agriculture or- dered the seizure of 42 cases of cheese containing sodium borate Chie! Wilkie, of the Secret Serv jee, announces the appearance of two new counterfeit five-dollar notes Ambassador Takahira continued with Secretary Root the conference looking to a mutual restatement of the position of Japan and the United States regarding the open door in China Pourparionurs are in progress be- tween the American and British gov- a Major of the Newfoundland fishery dispute to The Hague court, Contracts for supplying the armor for the new battieahips Utah and Florida were awarded fo the Car negle, Bethlehem and Midvale com- panies. William H. Taft arrived at Hot Springs from Cincinnati, and sald, with considerable force and posi. tiveness, that he would not leave the Springs again until the night of December 6. Judge Advocate General of the Army George B. Davis submitted his annual report, recommending the re- storation of the canteen, The War Department disapproved the plans for the proposed municipal free bridge across the Misslssippl at 8t. Louis. Representatives of the milling trade appeared before Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to justify the bleaching of flour. George Mason, an iniate of the Digtriet of Columbia Home for the Aged, shot and killed Martin Me- appropriated $5,000 to change its location : be Cooksen. PERSAIN TROOPS “MENACE RUSSIA Battalion of Rif.emen on Line Be- tween Countries. KHAN'S SUBJECTION CALLED FOR St. Petersburg Papers Demand That Czar intervene in Persian Silu- ation—Others Think Shah Should Establish Parliamentary System of Government, Bt. Petersh iTR spateh rec the front) PRESIDENT RODSEVELT'S BIG DINNER TO LABOR Unicn Leaders and Govermznt Cf cials Fraternize. bers of Court and labor Good fel fell carionsi fiasi P glory « was the President guestioning He was by hs lleutenants, Ju feacretary St 1s and Se field, asking rome of the captaing of lat The general impression among the labor leaders dinger that the President's to Congress will show of the conference The occasion was one of interesting events that has White House in mo apropos Biivene Nor frequently sO the mos gtearred hs Bryan Afraid Of Jaguars, Monterey, Mexico (8poeial) wit Jennings Bryan has balked on Jaguar hunt in the mountains southeast of Monterey. The tentative plans which bad been made for this character of en‘ortainment for him baving been abandoned, and he will confine his sport to duck shooting while iu Mex- feo, : 6 Killed In Coal Shaft. Washington, Pa. (Special).— An ascending oge In Bahaft No. 2, of the Ellsworth Coal Company, at Ellsworth, was swept hy project. ing timbers which bad brome loos ened and six mon wer» knocked off and killed. The eage vas foot from the bottom when the accident ceourred. Deamark Iecognires ath of July, New York (Special). July 4 has been set aside as American day at the Danish exposition to be held at Aarhuus. Denmark, in 1909, aN w ww AY i
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