Ti
BTL
Domestic
After a protracted conference at Hot
Bprings between President-elect Taft
and Timothy L. Woodruff, New York
state chairman, announcement was
made that Mr. Woodruff had elimi-
nated himself from the New York
senatorial race in favor of Secretary
Root,
Hope Is now entertained for the
recovery of Dr. Andrew G. McCosh,
house surgeon of the Presbyterian
Hospital, New York, who was seri-
ously injured In a runaway accident.
Strikers at the plant of the Na-
tional Fireproofing Company, at
Keasley, N. J,, are still holding out
for $1.50 a day. The company of-
fers $1.40,
Fire at the car shops of J. G.
Brill & Co., in Philadelphia, caused
the destruction of trolley cars and
other equipment to the amount of
$200,000,
By a
narrow margin of only a
few inches a skidding automobile,
in which Charles Dan Gibson and
Norman Hapgood were ridng, escap-
ed plunging over a 500-foot preci-
pice near Portland, Ore,
Miss Louise Gates, prominent In
soclety at Sherman, Tex., was acci-
dentally shot to death with a target
rifle in the hands of a girl com-
panion, Miss Gladys Ely.
NAME MEN FOR
MB. TAET'S CABINET
Franck H. Hitchcock to Be Made
Postmaster General, \
MR. MEYER TO SUCCEED MR. ROOT.
Treasury Portfolio May Go to Myron
Herrick— Forecast of the Official
Family to Take Charge of the Depart-
ments on March 5 Fills Every Place
But Becretaryship of Interior.
NET.
Secretary of
Von L.
Btate—QGeorge
Meyer.
Secretary of
ron T. Herrick.
Attorney General—Frank
Kellogg, Wade Ellis.
Secretary Commerce and Labor
—Jameés R. Garfield
Secretary of Agriculture —
James Wilson.
Secretary of
Wright,
Secretary
Newberry,
Postmaster General—Frank H.
Hiteheock,
Secretary
known,
Treasury-—My-
B.
BE
War-—Luke
of Navy—Truman
H.
of Interior — Un-
a ——
Washington, D. C. (Special). —
James F. Aldrich, of Little Falls,
N. Y., a member of the freshman |
class of the University of Maine, was |
drowned in Pushaw lake near Oro- |
no, Me. i
The Western Pacific Rallroad Com- |
pany announced the completion of its |
Flower Lake tunnel, which cuts]
through the Pequoq Mountains in|
Nye County, Nev.
Charles E. Jinkens, a publisher of |
Philadelphia, was found dead of]
heart disease in his room at the
Kaiserhof Hotel, Chicago.
Walter Rhea Whitman, member
of the bankrupt stock exchange firm |
of A. O, Brown & Co., of New York, |
who was manager of the firm,
was arrested on an indictment charg-
ing grand larceny.
Fog, paralyzing in its effect on
traffic on land and sea, which bas
hung over New York for two days,
has tiled shipping in the worst
blockade the city has experi- |
enced in 25 vears. |
Robbers dynamited the vault of |
the Towanda State Bank at Towanda,
Kan., 20 miles east of Wichita, se- |
cured $2,500 and escaped on a hand
car. A posse {8 in pursuit.
Rev. Silas C. Swallow has written |
an open letter to the President eriti- |
cising his statement that a voter |
ought not to consider the religious
beliefs of a candidate.
John D
Standard
64 958.3¢
had
19086. :
R. W. Drake, a prominent planter, |
was murdered at his home, near
Laneville, Hale County, Ky. His
house was burned.
Engineer
Burlington
during a col
der six box ca
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office
i
up
that
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Archbold testified that the |
Oil Company consumed |
barrels of crude
oll and |
marketing stations In |
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7a
3,073
Severson, of the |
stuck to his post!
being buried un
his train
Julius
Road,
ision,
3, but saving
named to
ion dollars
University
¥ oreign
Mme. Steinheil, whose husband, |
the painter, and a Mme. Japy were |
murdered in Paris May 31 last, was |
placed under arrest on suspicion. It
is rumored that prominent person-
ages are involved, and all Paris is
worked up over the case
It is anonunced an agreement has |
been reached between Secretary of |
the Treasury Cortelyou and W. G
Irwin for the exchange of the site |
of the federal building in Honolulu
for a tract of Irwin's land wanted by
the government. !
Neo British warships have been or- |
dered to Haiti, the consul general
of Great Britain at Port au Prince!
having informed the Foreign Office |
that he is not apprehensive of any
danger to British subjects or British
interests. ]
Professors Beattie and Morrison, |
who have been commissioned by the |
Carnegie Institute at Washington to |
undertake a magnetic survey ficross
Africa from Cape Town to Cairo,
have begun their labors.
Count Boni de Castellane’s counsel |
in pleading for having the children |
removed from the custody of Prince
and Princess de Sagan, made a ter- |
rific arraignment of Prince Helles |
scandalous doings. |
General Leconte, the Haitlen min- |
ister of the interior, ordered the ex. |
ecution of Captain Ostema,_ of the
gunboat Croyant and of two citizens
of Jerenire and was then himself
killed.
The British steamer Sardinia was |
burned at the entrance to the harbor
of Valetta, Island of Malta, and over |
a hundred of her passengers, mostly |
Arab pilgrims, were lost.
A fire broke out on the Hospital
Bhip Relief while on her way from
Manila to Guam, and she returned |
under her own steam.
The American Association of Mer
chants at Bhanghai resolved in favor
of trial by jury
court here,
The mutinous outbreak at Nanking
is reported to have been suppressed,
It is denied that King Manuel was
mobbed in the streets of Lisbon.
While much interest Is manifested
in Germany in General Lord Robert s
statement that a million troops were
needed in England for protection
against possible German invasion, no
comment is made in official circles.
The dispute between Germany and
France over the seizure by French
officials at Casablanca, Morocco, of
from the French Forel
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5
Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock will become
Postmaster General in Mr. Taft's
The announcement was
It created not the slight-
ripple of surprise, for every man
has known from the hour that Mr.
Hitchcock was appointed chairman
of the Republican National Commit- |
tee that in the event of Republican |
success Mr, Hitchcock would become
Postmaster General.
ext
THRILLING STYLE
Establishes New Road Record in
Grand Prize Race,
FINISHED IN SAVANNAH RACE.
The times of the
finished in the Grand Prize race at
Savannah, in hours, minutes and
seconds, were as follows;
Finish-—Car—Driver.
1—Fiat—Wagner ......
2-—Benz—Hemery
3—Flat=—Nazarro
~-HBenz—-Hanriot
—(Clement-B-—Hautvast
~Renault—8trang ....
Clement-B—Rigal .... 6.45.49
Itala—Fournier ...... 6.46.32
—Fiat—De Palma~— ,.. 6.51.34
nine cars that
Time.
10.31
11.21
18.47
6.26.12
6.34.08
6.43.87
6.
6.
6.
LE
een
(Special) .—The
of sixscore horses, crashing
and roaring in the cylinders of a
Fiat ear, sent plunging through
changing fog and sunshine over 402
miles of lilac oiled roadways by the
experienced hands of Louis Wagner,
the most spectacular, the long-
est and international automo-
bile race hed in this country.
Fate played a game of hide and
seek with three grim and grimy
hooded figures that sat behind big
steering wheels and throttles, and
fought with skill and daring for an
advance of seconds at the finish of
the more than six hours
Savannah, Ga.
power
won
fastest
every
fumes of burning ofl into storms of
sand and gravel thrown up by the
flying wheels of the car ahead
risk of life and limb for the
at
drivers who clung
the very start
The
gether
three
from
the flying laps were reeled off
the leading column, but when
more than a minute separated
first from the last of the cars in the
whirring quartet, a caprice of
Having served several years with |
splendid success as First Assistant |
Postmaster General, Mr. Hitchcock is
thoroughly qualified by experience |
to preside over the postoffice depart- |
ment, and his appointment, there-|
{8 due him on merit. But the
fact that he was chairman of the
successful national committee made |
him the logical Postmaster General, |
for In recent years it has become |
‘ustomary to make the chairman of |
the national committee the Postmas-
ter General.
Four years ago Chalrman Cortel-
you became Postmaster General, and
Chairman Hitchcock will hold
same office The present Post-
master, Mr. Meyer, is slated for the
Department of State, after possibly |
a few months’ service as Secretary
The Treasury port- |
would gratify Mr. Myron Her-
of Ohio, and his recent visits
to Hot Springs, as well as to Wash-
ington, have been in connection with
that ambition,
Mr. Bonaparte will be succeeded
either by Mr. Kellogg, who is now
in the limelight each day In New
York trying the Standard Oil case,
or possibly by Wade Ellis, of Ohio.
folio
Washington
of Commerce and Labor, |
expects to go, and it is likely that
will be succeaded by James R
Garfield, the present Secretary of the
interior Mr. Garfield began his
official career in Washington as com
issioner of the Bureau of Corpora-
most important branch of
» Depmrtment of Commerce
would cheerfuily
the head of the department
partment
he
4 the
and it
return to
In the event of this transfer the
Department of the Interfor will go|
to some man from the far West. or!
the Pacific Slope, neither of which |
sections of the country is represent |
ed in Cabinet since the resignation
of Secretary Metcalf, of the Navy
The Interior Department ia prac-
tically the only department in which |
the people of the far West and of the
Slope are vitally interested. and all
tion in the Cabinet will be centered |
on vaming the new secretary of the
interior. Secretary Wilson will
main in the cabinet, but is Is gener |
ally undersiood that he will resign!
in a year, when he will have made |
the record for the longest continued |
When |
position willl
Pinchot, at]
Bo far as it |
re
finally resigns his
be offered to Gifford
present chief forester
is known Eecretary Wright and Sec.
redary Newberry will not be imme- |
diately disturbed, but Mr Loeh, at!
present secretary to the president, |
cares for it.
HUNDRED LIVES LOST,
Consting Steamer Sinks
Philippine Islands,
(Special) .—The
on The |
3
coasting |
carrying a large |
number of laborers from Narvean to
the rice fields in Pangasinan prov. |
ince, struck a rock and sank dur |
Manila
Fernandino, in Union province, it
is estimated that a hundred of tho |
were drowned, The steamer
vaya rescued 55.
A patrol of constabulary,
‘as established immediately
te accident, picked up 15 bodies.
amd many were coming ashore. It
Is fot known whether any Americans
or Europeans were aboard the wreck.
ed steamer,
Vig:
whicn
China Sends Thanks,
San Francisco (Special) Prince
Taal Fu and Special Ambassador
Tang Shao Yi, China's emissaries of
pence, good will and friendship to.
ward the United States, arrived here
on the Liner Mongolia and received
a notable demonstration of welcome
from thosuande of Chinese and fed.
eral and state officials. The Chinese
dignitaries are on thelr way to Wash.
ington to convey to this government
the thanks of China for release from
Legion has been referred to the
Permanent Court of Arbitration.
the “Boxer indemnity.”
tune sent one pitching from the road
Out of the mass of wreckage
Benz, No.
broken
Still the
not
nose and a broken
struggle continued,
the lagt
jaw
and it
minute of the
sys #41
until
Nazarro Hesitated And Lost,
Nazarro, the wonderful! Italian
driver, holder of world’s records and
of countless contests, who
clung tenaciously 8 DATTOW
for more than a hun-
iiles, healtated long en ugh at
the supply pits to change a weaken
ing tire and lost. The treacherous
rubber tubing burst as he was about
the and
3 followed
to
dred n
homestreteh the
delay that
tO enter
three minutes of
sent Grand Prix winner of
year and his Fiat No. 8 from
to third position. Hemery, in a Ger-
man Benz, No. §, favorite
followers of auntomobiling, took sec-
ond honors.
It was not
was announoad
ner was known-—that
hurled himself to victory
slender margin of 58 seconds. Hem.
ery was the first to finish the
laps of the race and enthusiastic
usanda halled him as a winner,
without head of the ix
which Wagner held
Away at the start at 8
getting the word
la
first
the
of
official time
actual win
Wagner had
by the
until the
that the
18
minutes’
grace Hemory
being sont
end Wagner not
go until 6.58
Head Of Letter-Carriers’ Association
Is Sent To Prison.
Chicago, { Special) The most
by th
iil
sentence ever given ©
in Chicago to a letter
out to Robert F.
Palmer. Palmer, who was president
of the City Letter Carriers’ Assocla-
tion of Illinois and superintendent of
fil, admit-
ted that he had been pilfering money
from letters intrusted to him i
ing jast 17 years He pleaded
guilty and, despite pleas for leniency
entered by a banker, two State sen-
ators and other prominent friends.
he was sentenced to serve three and
years in the house of cor-
federal court
thief was meled
the
rection.
Bulgaria And Turkey Agree.
Paris (By Cable). Official advices
received here indicate that Bulgaria
and Turkey have practically
of Independence on the
following basis: Bulgaria is to pay
from $12,000,000 to $14.
000,000 on account of Rumelia and
$10,000,000 on account of the rail
The capitalization of the Ru-
Turkish den!
is
in the
to be left lo the international
gress,
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
Atchison's gross earnings in Octo-
ber decreased $316,834, but net
profits gained $443,853
delphia,
large cities
ed a quarterly dividend of #1
one year ago, but two
$2 was distributed.
Lackawanna Rallroad directors de.
clared an extra dividend of 10 per
tent, The same amount was pald
inst year. As the regular dividend
ia nlso 20 per cont, shareholders re-
ceive 20 per cent. annually,
Lead miners ave keenly alive to
the talk of taviff revision. The duty
is 2% cents a pound on pig lead,
which js virtually half of its selling
value, That high duty shuis out for.
eign lead quite effectually. Any
drastic cut in the schedule would be
fait instantly by all the lead pro-
ducers,
Persons connected with the Raw-
hide Coalition mines at Rawhide say
that favorable developments have
been made on the Happy Hooligan
claim. They report a gain in values
which In some places are sald to run
ne high as $100 to the ton,
THE DEATH PIT
AT MARIANNA
One Hundred and Thirty-eight Killed
in the Disaster.
——————
TWENTY-FIVE BODIES ARE FOUND.
Full Count of Those Lost in the
Model Mining Town Disaster Cannot
Be Ascertained—Recovered Bodies
Are Terribly Mutilated — Victims
Are Americans,
Pittsburg, Pa. (8pecial) ,—Twen-
ty-five bodies, all but two of them
horribly mutilated and a number of
them dismembered, were taken Sun-
day from the mine of the Pittsburg-
Buffalo Coal Company, at Marianna,
40 miles south of here, where an
explosion occurred killing over 100
men and casting into gloom what
was until then considered the model
mining town of the world.
Het will reach 1238 men,
os
work.
men went down the shaft to
estimate by
As In nearly
there seems no way at present
knowing how many men went
work. The number check-off system
has again proved defective and from
no source can an accurate statement
a8 to the fatalities be secured.
60,
mine
at least
all
been
iron
had
in an
bodies
surface
to darkness 25
brought to the
bucket,
Owner's Cousin
Two of the men taken from
mine had been suffocated and
bodies were not even scratched
of these was John Ivill, a cousin
of John H. Jones, president the
Pittsburg-Buffalo onl Company,
owners of the mine, who was
ployed as head
body was found
ging machine
that
Found.
the
thelr
Otie
¥
of
and
unfortunate
wl of wa-
are advised
fi OCCUTS,
fight off suffoca-
to do when
an expl in
desperate attempt
i ened
rescued
1080
to
tion until
During
of Washington intly held a
Ing to organize and then
$ 3 wed ft 1 Ad 4
journed until bodies
the afternoon the
i coroner
jeeest
been taken from the mine. The
ion was expressed
expert miners that
be cleared of
days.
Fire In The Mine,
A small fire broke out in the mine
Several fire bosses properly equipped
hurried mine and suc
ceeded In extinguishing the blaze be
fore any serious damage was done
Reports have been in circulation all
day that a second and more ter
rific explosion is likely to occur at
any moment The company officials
asaort this is ne true There ia
considerable gas 1 the mine, how-
rab
is undoubtedly
were into the
Lar
ever, and there tl
ssl evade
explosion
{ nd
ger of a sec
PRESIDENT WANTS
THE NAVY RECRGANIZED
Wr. kooeveit Said to Be Determined
to Make Changes,
New York
entitiad
in an ar
Roosevelt
{ Special)
ticle “President
and the Navy's Renaissance.” which
' 10 appear in the forthcoming num.
ber of Pearson's Magazine, Henry
Reuterdah! gives what purports to
be the views of President Roosevelt
on the Navy, none the least interest-
ing of which Is his attitude In regard
io a reorganization of that depart.
ment.
Mr. Renterdah] had with
President; but the writer re-
quoting Mr. Roosevelt
directly. save in a few Instances
One of theese is in regard to the
reorganization of the entire depart-
ment
Mr. Reuterdahl] is the marine art-
ist who made the vovage around
South America with the fleet and
who has been very outspoken in his
criticism of the Navy in some re-
specie
The President, Mr. Reuterdah!
says, strongly believes that the Navy
can only be made better by chang
ing the administration of the Navy
frains from
7% much for the Navy in this respect
fe he has done for the Army. Mr
Heuterdahl quotes Mr. Roosevelt as
saving:
the reorganization of
Department; it is absolutely
necessary and we will work until we
Politics In The Service,
Mr. Reuterdahl goes on to say that
Roosevelt believes in
nection that “the tide
must be stemmed and not allowed
to interfere with
the sorvien
The President, he says, wants a
Panama Canal completed the Unit.
td States can look forward to years
of peace and prosperity.
A Mean Bridgegroom,
Boston. Mass. (Special) James
Vogel, of this city, who was married
by Edward Brown, a justice of the
freace, has brought suit against Mr.
Brown for a penalty of $30 upon
the ground that Mr. Brown illegally
charged him $5 for the service. Mr.
Vogel declares that $1.26 is the legal
fee for a justice of the peace marry-
ing a couple. Mr. Brown says he
did other and more hervice than the
statute prescribes, r he le
office and went to Mr. Vogel's house
to perform the marriage.
FIRE AND PANIC
ON SHIP AT SEA
Over One Hundred Suffer An Awful
Death,
Island of
terrible
than
OR IR
Valetta,
Cable),
which more a
lost their lives, occurred
trance to this port, within sight of |
the whole population of the city,
who were powerless to give aid
The British steamer Bardinia, of the
Ellerman Line, hailing from Liver-
pool and bound for Alexandria, with
Malta
disaster,
(By
in
hundred
persons
at the en
& crow of 44 Englishmen, 11 first and i
6 second cabin English passengers |
and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims, caught |
a roaring furnace
clouds of black smoke,
which the flames burst upward to!
a height to 200 feet from the fre.
quent explosions in the hold.
80 rapidly did the fire spread tha
the frantic efforts the crew
the fire apparatus |
useless, for it scemed but a
the upper works and m:
down upon }
through |
of
crashed the deck,
rushed by
falling debris or set fire and qui
burned
Safety lay only in the
could save himself
Jumping overboard and
chances of being up.
ance was hurried the
from all the
and from the
sea, for
except
picked
to
warships
shore
Y egnnl
harbor
bY the strong tide thi
they could b
ss ¥
unable to go
the Arabs there
could not
them were t¢ frigh
and they were burned to des
ers casting themselves into the wa
were drowned
Perished At His §
crew behay with
be controlle
3 frightened
The
goerving
or
dred
Aft
or the vessel ref
helm, she drifted
and 3
the
fina was
rocks at
She ls
i total loss
The British Vie
Curzon-Howe and
directed
did gallant
who viol
bodies of
still
the res
work
alive
5
were
oe a
bods
annual repo
eet
next od
males
rs
1
the annual report
Canal Commission was
the Secretary War
Colonel Goethals
of the
subn
nf 1. ioeqt .
Postmaster General Mever gubmit
ted bis anndal report. which
the largest deficit in the history
the department
Congress will be expected to 1
vide for a deficit that has
in the immigration fund
Considerable alarm is
War Department over the
the Army transport Dixie,
at
Wy
felt at the
fact that
en route
with a cargo
of 200 horses and 250 mules. is six
days overdue.
President Rooseveit has signed
proclamations creating the Ocala
National Forest in Marion County,
“la., and the Dakota National Forest
in Billings County, North Dakots
it has been decided that six
the eight submarine torpedo boats.
bids for which were recently opened
at the Naw Department. will
either built or delivered on the Pa-
cific Coast.
The Treasury purchased
ounces of silver for delivery at
of
be
160.060
Now
New Orleans and 50,000 ounces for
* minglas case of plague bas
been discovered on the Pacific Const
, February, according to a
report made by Dr. Walter Wyman.
The Census Bureau made publi
in this country.
The indications are tha the tariff
be reduced in the next tariff bill,
Public Printer John 8. Leech re-
signed, and Bamuel B. Donnelly, of
Brooklyn, was appointed to succeed
him.
The plague situation on the Pacific |
Coast is sald to have greatly improv.
ed within the last few months
Secretary of the Treasury Cortel-
you and Assisiant Becretary of the
Treasury Coolidge were heard by the
monetary committee regarding pro-
posed revision of the currency laws,
Orders were issued by the Navy
Department to the protected cruiser
Tacoma to proceed to Haiti for the
protection of American interests dur-
ing the present uprising there,
President has approved a draft
o a walking test for officers of the
avy.
IN AGREEMENT
WITH THE JAPANESE
The United States Makes a Very
Important Move.
FOR CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC.
A Declaration of United Policy for En.
couraging Free and Peaceful Com.
mercial Development in the Pacifie—
A Practical Alliance to Defend
China's Independence and Integrity,
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
To encourage free development
of their Paci
SHOT IN THE BACK.
Assassinated At Bara.
N,
Perry Ussery
well,
A
a
the
wad of
© Was
i
+
h
edge of
the
which was
instantly.
land, to whom he was
slightly wounded
was fired fn it of
and immediately after
a man, whose identity
established, was seen
nearby swamp
hands
flue
H«
talkin WAR
The shot
the dar)
the
a
on Of
Pops
shooting
has not been
reining toward a
with a gun in his
Bioodhoundg from
tentiary foliowed the trail
swamp, loging it 1 the
other side
gate penis
il through
the road
on the
Bride And Groom Drowned,
Dallas, Tex { Special) Peter
Thorpe and his bride and the sister
of Mr. Thorpe were drowned near
Robey, Tex.. while driving in a car
riage, crossing a bridge on Cotton-
wood Creek, during a rainstorm,
The flooring of the bridge was slip-
pery One of the horses lost its
footing. slipped sidewise and all were
precipitated into the swollen stream,
Bank Clerk Iveps Dead,
Richmond, Va. (Special). «Nor
man 8 Morton, chief clerk atSthe
State Bank of Virginia, of this city.
dead at his home at Bon
is supposed to have been
puffering from beart fallure. The
particulars are not known in this
city. Merton was 35% years old. andes
is survived by his wife and one chiM.
Large Orders For Rails,
Louisville, Ky. (8pecial). Within
a roppe i
Air, He
Nashville Railroad, it is suthorita-
tively said, will close a contract with
English and Belgium rolling mills
for about 65,000 tons of steel rails,
to be delivered at Pensacola, Fla. in
the course of the next three years
Figures are In possession of the
LoulaviMe and Nashville oMcials from
Belgium and English rolling mills
which, with the added duty, are be-
contract.