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,
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