IATESTAEWS | -— § » i Ik re sre Pomestic “The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad has closed a $30,- 000,000 contract to electrify its lines from Rochelle to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street, New York; thence ‘by tunnel under the East River to Astoria; then on to Long Island City, with another East River tunnel and subway to a huge pas- gsanger station, to be constructed at Fourth and Lexington Avenues and Thirty - second and Thirty - third Streets, New York. In a gates of the Churches of Rev. Charles declared that th gtirring speech to the dele- Federal Council of the Christ in America the Stelzle, of New York, churches must look after the and moral wel- fare of immigrants in order to pre- vent the onward march of socialism Freed Rock, the western entrance Buzzards Bay, where had been impaled for 10 weeks, United Yankee again near what is known while being towed Pairs. Formal notice the Congressional Slections of the Sixty-first Congress in the Tenth Massachusetts district has been served on Congressman Joseph F. O'Connell, Democrat Discouraged, it is said, religious from Spindle at of she the States in six as to Sank Li port .for of Committee on over { { i i i Seebohn, of Pomeroy, O., shot him- self in the head at a hotel in polis, and died Instantly After three days’ effort at a jury is still lacking in the of Harvey Hazel, the matricide, under indictment for mur- der in the first degree Capt. John C. old. who saved a ferryboat laden with scores of passengers during the St Louis tornado of 1896, died in East St. lL.ouis. While the vote of Okl srror of 1, case of the made discov- Bryan's ficial count was being voles was reducing ofl ahoma 500 evision to 11,848 of unveiled Newark Am- Juesserand, ambassador ‘nited States, let at xl table of Andre Marie an, employes pany, died in bh under circum- 1 the vic- 881080 Com SCO Was NAOMUM. MD. MINIMUM. RATES Will .Be a Feature of the Tariff TILTS ENLIVEN THE HEARING. Colonel Mulhall Breaks Into the Dis- cussion to Tell About Van Ceve's Trouble With His Labor—Dingley Law Assailed as the Creator of Trusts— Leather Trade. Washington, Schedules in provide maximum rates of duty That stance of a statement made by Chalr- man Payne at the session of the Ways and Means Committee Judge Taft has also advised thal the new bill take that form, instead of having fixed rates of duty as ha: been the rule in tariff laws of the I With maximum and minimum rates the United States will in position to 1 sions to nl D. CO. the new (Special) ,— tariff bill will minimum was the and sub- past De iake conces m that i country nati matters of the session was Miles, of Racine, 1 foreign avor this tariff Most H occupis E Wis, sed es e by i denunciation of the Dingley law as the creator and sup- of trusts He sald. however, that he did not speak for the associa Association in a i that the law ‘'in- the consumer, was, a blow in face | the Independent, | “non-trustified” manufacturer and | gave the farmer a stone |abeled He charged that Miles declared finitely wronged in some respects, of labor, injured the the bill I~ Com con- | Qil Trust Standard the Steel of the gave treasury pany and with the result that through exor bitant prices it was driving independ- ent manufacturers to the wall There were exchanges of shots on between Mr. Miles and { Pittsburg, the radical protectionist of the committee, at start, when Mr. Miles had been pounding along for five or six hours in a continuous assault on the was doing so issue Mr. Dalzell, © \ bons the out jleg he with ORY BY 195 MAJORITY gteel sched £48 resistance 3 | formerly a DOOR People's Ni- » Wrecked ¥ 3} fle. N X Fra bureau sine the Department of the Burgiars en i Bank of P Masa, 1,000 and in an automotl Margaret Illington, who appearing in he Thief,” to from the stage secur bean obliged ing to retire ill health. Foreign The steam lightship Mangonita, first of the fleet of tenders and light ships that sailed from September 21 on vovage to the cific Coast, arrived at Valparaiso, The militant section of the fragettes of l.ondon indulged fierce demonstration against Lloyd-George, chancellor of chequer, Seven men perished by the ginking of a barge owned by the Barrett Manufacturing Company, of Boston, off the southern coast of Nova 8co- tia. A Chinese imperial edict pledges the throne to continue the policy augurated by the late Emperor Kuang-Hsu, and especially the pro- gram which provides for the grant- ing of a constitution at the end of nine years. The Canadian Iron Corporation, Limited, capitalization $8,000,000, is the title of a new corporation which has taken over a number of iron plants in Canada, and will operate them under a joint management, The captain of the British schooner Lady Keusington has arrived at Bi. Vincent, and reports that his vessel was seized by Venezuelan officials. The American delegates to the Pan-American Scientific Congress, which is to open at Bantiago, Chile, the last part of this month, are be ing entertained in Buenos Ayres, at a series of banquets and receptions. * A night of terror in Port au Prince, Haiti, followed the taking of the capital by the revolutionists, bit the new authorities succeeded in restor- ing quiet after the troops had killed 12 men, . Germany and the United States have arranged for a two-cent postal rate, to go into effect at the begin- ning of the year. * Pa- euf- in a David the ex- ment, But No Disorder. NO HOUSE FOR EVANS! Bob" Declines Gift Of Los “Fighting From Peopie Angeles, { Special) Rear Admiral Robley DD Evans, retired, not desire the people of Los Angeles or any other place to mak him a present of a house, or anything olae Following the admiral's acceptance of a position as chairman board of the los Angeles Harbor Company, a friend addressed a letter to Admiral Evans, asking his views regarding the pos- sible presentation of a house to him by admiring friends in Los Angeles in response the Admiral declined the gift fully and finally. REQUISITION REFUSED, Los Angeles, Cal © tentative of the of directors Upright Life For Seven Years Saves Alleged Forger, Wash, (Special). —CGover- who refused to honor re ers for the return to of Ellioit A. Archer, on the charge of of $70,000, from cus- | Seattle, nor Mead, quisition p New Jersey wanted in Newark forgery to the amount ordered Archer released tody This decision was reached on thes plea of Archer's attorndys that he ap leading an upright life, and that it was a matter of civil debt, in whieh the Newark authorities were trying Emperor And Premier Clash, | Vienna (Special). Emperor Frans | Josel sent a message to Marquis Pal. | javineint, Austrian ambassador at | Constantinople, not to withdraw | from his post as a protest against the Turkish boycott against Austria, | The order amounts almost to a dis. | pute between the Emperor and Baron von Aerenthal, his foreign minjster, | who had ordered Pallavincinl to | leave Constantinople, at least tem. | JERSEY CITY BOY TURNS: 70. STONE A Case of Sclerema Neonatorum Discovered, , New York (Special).—One of the most remarkable medical cases on record, in which the limbs of a baby six weeks old have turned to stone, was reported at the meeting of the Hudsor County Medical Society, in Jersey City, by Dr. Karl H. Gold- stone, of 279 York Street, Jersey City, who has charge of the chil- dren's clinle at Mount Sinal Hospital in this eity The child so appalingly afflicted is Benjamin Gordon, whose parents live iat 410 East One Hundredth Street Dr. Goldstone reported hig leagues that child's limbs now become entirely as col had hard to the almost sione after gradually since its birth dis 1 BOI oupser 103 ¥ The 1 ling « a stir among the pwn similar dstone, COraing 101 record According Dr the child's an unnatural its feet and hands, which spread upward in the legs and arms until, two weeks after its birth, the limbs up to the knees and were amazingly hard and cold erwise the infant has been ap parent good health, giving very little trouble, feeding regularly and ing no apparent trouble its food Ti a few Goldstone, birth its hardness gradually tO days after noticed of i 1 in when it Hospital The right up the trun were hard as rock Moreover, Ih jittle face though davs Mount legs body stone cold reports th hardening. REO, to Sinai arms and k to wins also inty at its as a al when cheeks were stiffen up commenced The eginning to was its forehead ready 1 the treatment child iz the the hospits ans at spital AR EE BONES OF GIANTS. Had Peculiar Heads, Pro Williamson, Moundbuilders 5 wf § HE {seni L Whee t E. L ina an exan letons found that DEATH IN A BLIZZARD, In Storm ON {‘oast, Seventeen Lives Last New foundiand in sf the blast their bea FP & ows rings i 3 hic storm Pacific Railroads Gulley, Lake, Utah (Special) ‘Guilty’ was the verdict of the jury in the United States District here before which the Union Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Company, the Oregon Short Rail Everett Beokingham and J M. Moore have been on trial for al ieged conspiracy in restraint of inter. state commerce and thereby viclating the laws of the United States Salt HIWAY, Anarchist To Be Deported. Louts, Mo. (Special). David P. Dyer, trict Court, sustained an order fecretary of Commerce and Straus, directing that Samuel Bach- mann deported to his old home in England for preaching anarchistic teachings on the streets of Be viiie, IIL of he le look keeper Lowden Sentenced, Cincinnati, O. (Special) Edmond 0 © Provident Savings Bank, of this city, who was arrested in Baltimore on & charge of ombezzling $5,000 from that institution, was sentenced to the reformalory on an Indeterminate rentence, Ro AB A BU Sl Robbers Beat Frail Woman. Chicago (Special). Two robbers walked into the house of A. Vander. kloot, in the North Shore suburb of Lake Bluff, and beat and kicked Mra, Vanderkloot, a frail woman of &5 years, into insensibility, aud then ransacked the house for diamonds which they supposed to be there Failing to find the diamonds the men appropriated $65 in money and sev- eral pieces of silverware and walked away, leaving thelr victim uncon- STEAMER. LOST WHOLE CREW PERISH The Soo City Goes Down With All Hands on Board. WRECKED BY A FIERCE STORM. From Eighteen to Twenty-eight Men Said to Have Perished With the Ill-fated Ship Wreckage Washed Up at 8t, Johns Is the First Evi. dence of the Catastraphe. LOSS OF THE S800 CITY The from leans, land Capt. command He w steamer Boo City City to d off N Michigan Was wrecl Coast G Of the ith John more { Bpecial) Johns, wckage which baa ashore at! doubt 800 Come {ay leaves little room for the little which for 20 yea el 00 will sturdy sleames ys plied as ax great Crow ) 3 VOR tiie Balt went down in the ' of the gale that lashed the days The steamer Capt. John who was United States Missouri A children awaited exact number doubt, It less than it has was G former His 8 Knows Ho 1K and nen been recently men Going To Gulf, The Soo Cit India 1 Felix and was being 10 wih her in Texan gers. She here it Be Was York and Ousig in New nad been » Franklin, of Ne i Victory For Bonaparte, Bq ston Reyerial SDhecial) i Sie Ausivian Crisis Hamor, Andon (Special) A cireumstan- flashed through the Sto Just the closing ¢ Von Lexa Aehrenthal had regigned the portfolio f min of foreign affairs in Austria mation was lacking, and not be obtained in time to have any serious effect on the stock Otherwise there had been a sharp rally. or ¥ before 0 the airy i it Steel Mills Reopen, Chicago (Special) After an ons 13 months, the old open arth department of the Illinois 1 Company plant at South Chica. was reopenad and 1.00600 men re- sumed work. Preparations are mak- idle of ct : Bloc Representative James R. Mann, of Chicago, has polled the Republican members-elect of the next Representatives on House of | their choice for favoring J. G. Cannon. Cattle barons whose ranches in the West are gradually being cut up for agricultural purposes ate investi gating Mexican lands with regard to the advianges they offer for the rails. ing of eattle, i This country now exports shoes and boots far in excoss in value over those exported by any other country, | although the number of pairs is not | £0 great as those exported by the United Kingdom, Postmaster General Meyer an- nounced that the President had re appointed Mrs. Helen Longstreet, widow of General Longstreet, as postmistress at Gainesville, Ga. It is understood in Washington that Representative Burton, of Ohio, can be Secretary of the Treasury une der Taft if he will accept. . His prefs erence, however, ig Foraker's seat 'n the United States Senate. Governor Magoon, of Cuba, had a talk with Becretary Wright with ref- erence to the best method of bring ing back the American troops now stationed on the island, THEY WILL MAINTAI “THE OPEN DOOR American-Japanese Declaration Made Public. DD.’ CO exchanged States and Japan their policy in the Far East,” have Washington, The notes United (Special) ~~ between the “declaring been the subject of correspond ence Hoot between Secretary and Amt ador were ass Takahira nonths, made public at the State Department laration ate 1, ail AHA Roc t Baron Takahiva's Letter, He CHOADECE Were (¢ of the it Root and writter ters Mr Secretary Roots $ & ENCOUTARY 4] develop: ont ia on the Pacific 2 The policy mente. uninfluenced tendencies, is maintenance of the ano in the region above and to the defense of the of equal opportunity for con and industry in China =3 They are accordingly 1egolved reciprocally (0 respect {erritorial possessions belonging each other in said reg) §. They are aisn determined preserve the common interests of powers in China supporting Ly all pacific means 2* their disposal the independence and integrity of China and the principle of equal op for commerce of na in that empire Should any threatening the stint described or the ofrortunity n= ¥ maine for the ot of ¥ n b aggres to the sgiatue mentio princip merce existing in on 4 Tm ny) the 10 i $a4 iy all tions “h event ano as principle » a hos of Aofined, fi nments aharve ro {Wo gover ger to arrive at an as to what measures they sider it useful to take.” Accent. FExeelleney., the may renowad tion ELIHU ROOT His Excellency, Baron Kogoro Takahira, Japancee Ambassador, Ss ion Carrie Nation Abroad, Dundee, Scotland (Special) «Car- rie Nation, of salvon-wrecking fame, began her -antiliquor crusade hore, making visits to several drinking re arts. She has left her hatohet home, and merely approaches the barman and demands to see the license. Af ter she has perused ii, she points her index finger .at him and speaks againgt the drink evil, Mrs. Nation expects 10 make na systematic campaign of the cities of feotland, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SAYS CHURCH 15 WEAK Stirring Call For Vigorous Leader ship, IS LAGGING BEHIND THE NATION. Ueprecates Falling Off in Theologica} Students Small and Narrow Minds in the Church— Declares the Times Demand Strong Men and That the Workers Are All Too Few. country put a ; toward IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE £1 #top In the of £™ 3 wi § 4 4 Cent } WE lat month 23: EE Wore Bank #58 » * £4 { ut i. H # $a on raflway. d $2.750.000 & per dmond & Co. President 1 of the Cobalt Contral, announces ti yi pany will declare an initial nd this tionth. J. Warren Philadelphia manager of organized banking frm of Hooper, Kimball & Willlams, of Boston. Receipts of the Wonder Extongton for the last fiscal year were $8,162 Officers and directors are identionl with those of the Novada Wonder. The Philadelphia officers of tho ted Mountain Cooper Mines, of Cols orado, say that development work is going ahead rapidly. Ationg ila other assets this compeny owns a alirond twenty-two wiles long. London has shipped to India an average of nearly $1,000,000 loss silver each month this year than in 1807. The fallure of India to buy is largely responsible for the low price of the metal. Roge nal” Arist vid viiEink Cent. notes at the ¢ divide Jr Coulsion, i= the the newly
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