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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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lat month 23:
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Bank
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£4
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# $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