HOR pan Ge part ps LA Mp rrr TH TE NN An SLA OL AN a io A A Se 50 LATESTAEHS Domestic A Chicago judge Friday as ‘alimony court. : The trial of T. Jenkins Hains is not expected to last longer than 10 days. Shouting that he was “John the Baptist, come to save the world,” an aged Insane man held Edgewater, N. J.. in terror for nearly an hour. He rushed down the main street waving a revolver and shouting, held up half a dozen gitizens, robbed the tills of three business establishments, stole a team of horses and exchanged many shots with a hastily formed posse Robert W. Fullerton, son of a millionaire student, who was last, charged with Gladys Hobart, of Yenkers, a school teacher, surren- dered himself to District Attorney Jerome, and was later held in 32.000 bail trial on a ple Commander Armistead tod Navy the i i has appointed day” in 1 01s as ra | and years old, a Cornell indicted in April the abduction of Hewley Terrace, : for a of not gulity. Uni States com i PANAMA SHAKENBY: A DYNIMITE EAPLOSION ti oon md Ten Men Are Killed. and. Fifty Injured in the Canal Zone. BIG BLAST GOES OFF PREMATURELY, Accident at Bas Obispo While a Blast Was Being Prepared for Firing .TWo Americans Among the Dead, Most of Whom Are Speznish Laborer ~ Passenger Train Had Just Passed, Colon (Spegial). — A giant blast of dynamite, already prepared for firing, was prematurely exploded in the workings at Bas Obispo Ten men were killed Jured. It may be that been killed, for the up in all directions. Bas Opispo cut is about 30 miles from Colon. and the shock of the explosion was dis- tinctly felt here. Numerofis reports aré. current as to the cause of the gceident, but the official version from Culebra, which gives an estimate of 10 killed and wounded that in the load] of the last hole the blas iynamite in harged, and exploded and 50 in- others have debris is piled states yf Of utting wa reinaining concu i sion ‘RN connect supervision efficient } He powder comm Had OCCul reds men in of t train ion pei0n passed but ror The majority of Relief scene the viet trains were to tne of the disaster 41 3 £3 ty Kilk G4 HINES The the Ha a week overdue g 9 JO 8 little : D. M. Cle: hands mnear % 1% Twenty-t! ve been H Carney who said Fhe o ground” rt Wagner, is dead 0. I oreign © Guam German f ir and who The of fied with teach Low to Th dissalis iarg sent to not thom Lae fhe do communicate with ¢ Province of Quebec is covered by 14 inches of snow. The German battleship Posen was launched at Kiel Philippe Bunau-Varilla formerly Panama's Minister to the United States, | reported a8 saying the Panama Canal cost at least $280,000,000, double the estimate Premier Asquith declared at a ban- quet given him by the National Lib thorn nv 0nem 1OW + 5 will eral Club in London that he would not dissolve Parliament at the dicta tion of the House of Lords The Dutch warships continue to patrol the Venezuelan coast. and it! Is probaable they will soon begin seizing Venezuelan merchant vessels Rare tapestries and furniture be. | longing to Lord Amherst were sold at auction in London and brought! $200,000, i The Russian Douma authos'=cd! the external loan of $225.000.000, | sanctioned by the budget committee, | A movement in favor of govern- | ment ownership of submarine cables | was started in London. ! Jean GCernois Blanchet, judge of | the Queen's bench, Quebec, commit. | ted suicide. t The German Reichsiag adjourned until January 12 for the Christmas holidays. President Castro arrived in Paris and conferred with the French au- | thorities, Arrangements were made by prom- inent residents of Panama and the Canal Zone for the entertainment of the officers and men of the United States Pacific fleet during its forti- coming visit, Chancellor Von Buelow, referring in the Reichstag to the subject of the restriction of naval armaments, sald the German government doubted the practical feasibility of the idea Precautions of Canadian officials at the Niagara frontier have been increased to prevent the introduction to the Dominion of the hoof-and- mouth disease. In view of the disquieting rumors abroad, the Lancet, London, is au- horized to state that the healtn of Aing Edward gives no cause for anx. * wo the Hospital, of Anecon it 25 leading dynamite the cause and the unde thrown shovel be on buried wounded up. removis Many of 1. and 2 ” i injured of dvnamite Killed. S50 as Ame ans on These yf L of Two Americans shington (Special) two far a f and James eranem eman, steam N. J o% shovel an, GEORGIA PREACHER SHOT DEAD, Wedge Injures Iron Hurled By Him Fatally His Slayer. hington { Special). —Rev by Warren Just Ba hrown by fractured 1 fired an iron we hit him is expected Na y preacher and iis skull He to die A negro w employed and a reled Mr. Tutt work for | the two hom Res te » had ailey. quar- % iE vent 3 " 18 result men Stolen Money Lost On Races, Oakland, Cal. (Special) Adien for three years cashier Bros." dry goods store-in this has been arrested on a charge The police say he confessed that he had used about $20,000 of the firm's money in the last four months in gambling, chiefly in poolroom betting on Horse races Lebuef is 25 years old and has a Lebuel, Hale city of =i) Cartridges For Roosevelt, New Haven, Conn. (Special) .- Ammunition to be used by President Roosevelt on his African hunting | trip has been prepared here and for- warded to Washington, together with the weapons which the President will use and which were sent here to be examined by experts. The ball! cartridges are in varying weights be- | ing deemed of the right caliber to! bring down an elephant. “Pat” McBryde Dead, Bridgeport, Ohio (Special) —-""Pat” | MeBryde, first secretary of the! United Mine Workers of America, | and secretary of the Ohio Opera-| tors’ Association, died here of] pneumonia. He was 60 years old and one of the,best known men in the mining business. The body was shipped to Columbus, Ohio, for burial, Renf Sentence Postponed. fan Francisco (Special), 8en- tencing Abraham Ruel, convicted last Thursday of offering a bribe, was postponed until next Saturday. Judge Lawler declined to allow a mo- tion for continuance to be entered until he read into the record the legal history of every one of the 1086 days consumed in the trial. Attor- ney T. B. Dozier, Ruef's counsel, was then permitted to interpose reasons for delay and the order for continu. ance was officially made. WAS LED ASTRAY BY LUD FICTION Excuse Given By Writer of Threat- ening Letters, Chicago (Special). —The of the "Knights of the While letters, which clergymen mystery Death’ were recently sent and Chicago with the they left large sums of designated spots they would be put to death, was cleared up, when William Pollard, 22 year old, driver of a grocer's wagon, was arrested. He confesséd that he gent the missives as a joke, Pollard sald he had been inspired by reading 8ir Conan Doyle's stories Fascinated by the novelist's lurid pictures of skulls, ghosts, graveyards and vigils of detectives, Pollard de- termined to see how they would work out in the hands of the Chicago po- lice. So he organized the "Knights the White Death,” and with a Sherlock Holmes’ fancy for the weird, wrote a bundle of letters, all orated h skulls and crossbones tO various citizens in that unless money at prominent threat of with demands for money, he said, i thi yey idl ded t ses lives added to enliven LO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 1S FULL OF FIGHT {e Now Threatejs Prosecution For Cr:minzl Libel. "ANAMA CANAL DEAL WAS HONEST. He Declares Unequivocally That All the Purchase Money Was Paid to the French Government and Tells How It Was Done—Declares the American Syndicate a Pure Fiction, ROOSEVELT'S CHALLENGE. One thing I have been proud of in connection with the building of the canal is that there has been no legitimate cause for the breath of scandal in con- nection with the building of the canal We have cause to be ashamed only one set of Americans connection with and that those who have guilty infamous falsehe mn it If they can be re inal libel, 1 them of in of of ng it been ad ern CROMWELL'S £40. 000 001 of fap LO the night for designated In my Pollard was ar a suburb in whi all appear Tr { * situated received East R he made Governor resolution ation and \ ¥ VRiCH mn £4 Den 3 Lig SEDITION IN INDIA, Long-Demanded Bill Provides Quick | Executions, mar- § Practical over India | for the sum- | mary t f traitors | anarchists, { Council, The bill. which pass, has lon English the only rising becom or g been d 1 roaidents wave of the as thie oon ossible check It sidered most taken Invest magazine of i» the of > td ina £ ammunition the in whict tilled and wound- fusively that i xpi station Dumdu ore soldiers were has n the 3 work od 0% as An Car unmistak siot was discovered Gov. Deneen Going Te School. Governor | the the Universit Urbana, 111. (Special) 5 { a student of Agricultural School at will attend # the short course which begin In and will seek spec- | fal instructions, it is sald." in catt} corn judging The decision of | Chief Executive of the state become a scientific farmer is the re- sult of at the red Deneen is Com of Illinois He the state | school durin January the tes | of his attendance ant {ilinois corn show in Springfield. Afr Denech announced at that time that he would fake a conrsge in the state! university if he could find time. Prons Dead At Initiation. Haven, Ct. (Special). —-Mrs Alida Hewlett, stale chancellor of the New while Initiating seven candi. dates at Hartford. Mrs Hewlett was very stout. She lived in West Haven. was compelled to hurry to the lodge room Just after she stepped upon fell prostrate. Examainbtion Showed disease. Kansas Is Prospering. Topeka, Kan. (Special). — This values in Kansas, as shown by the report of the State Board of Agri culture, are more than $475,000. 000, or $11,000,000 more than the State's red-letter year, 1907, The total yield of wheat this year is 77. 000,000 bushels and its value Is over $62.000,000. The corn yield is over 150,000,000 bushels and its value is more than $82,600,000, RA ASH SARA IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE 5 MB Two of the four Pennsylvania Steel Company's furnaces at Steelton are in blast, : There are now about 3,000 more Connellsville coke ovens in blast than are idle. For a long while over half of them were out of blast, One of the chief men in the Gen- eral Asphalt Company, which has had much trouble with President Castro, says: "We do not expect him ever to return to Venezuela.’ 3 80 well put perv country the Panama Car and the P am proud of in connection milding of that canal is that 18 not been legitimate yreath of scandal ure of the to be Americans of Am foe fo % a iniamo i poriant d be rend 1 the bullding between 4 % antic acifl and one wit fon! asham fr the uilding those of rionta 5 a acquisiti consiry they inal libel, reached the if can i if KDow them all facts we known are and every ne gress if they the at the one of in Congress wish rf own water 8 by the ¥ hp nea fone irrigation at the arid from wa. regions; and gentlemen, by making our sea loop in from the Great Lakes, that work is just as effi’ Canal work work could beginning to policy of up in the you come pe done a big to the that ers to fake is will just peo honestly, ciently as the Panama been done, and no been done from aR The Famous Cairo Burned, : New York (Special).—The Cairo, | the old Tenderloin district, was desiroved by fire with a loss of $10.- 600. Several firemen had a narrow egeape from injury when & metal ceiling over the restaurant on the main floor fell. The cafe was located | on West Twenty-ninth Street and was the scene of the murder of a Long {sland farmer a few Years ago. Falls On Knife And Dies, Gilead, Me. (Special). Frank R. Marshall, of Portland, was accidents ally killed while hunting near Hast- ings. While cutting bark for a fire We slipped and fell backward on his knife, and, unable to reach it, slowly bled to death, his body being foun on the mountain. A Judge Kills Himself, Quebec (Special) .~Jean Gervais Protals Blanchet, judge of the Queen's bench here, blew his brains out while suffering from a fit of fpsanity superinduced by ill health. Judge Blanchet was 66 years old and a descendant of one of the oid French families. He had held many positions of honor. A ChAILK SA. AY Germany Wants Islets, London {8pecial) A news agency dispatch from Lisbon declares upon what it said to be reliable amthority that the owner of the Berlenga Is- fands is about to sell them to the German government. It ia also stat- od that Germany intends to fortify the islands and to establish naval and coaling stations. The rumor of the sale has caused considerable ap- rehension in Lisbon, and it is be- Preret that the Fortages govern- T RUSSIA 15 AGAINST AUSTRIKS GRAB Iswolsky Will Tell Douma An Alliance Is Favored. 8t Pet ( By LUBE 1 * consented «eo ersburg Cable), annexation of Bosnia of the Mini and Herzego one chief declara Fore Iswolsky’ Douma # fer forthcoming § on the Balkan situation, a forecas! of which was The address says land and France regarding the poals, chief contention fo thi obtained here that Russia hold sit jalkan conference | among hie that the Balkan a shot compensated by Austria Iswolsky asserts that Russia is girl to keep and Mont for fear an outbreak might jeopardize these be Servia ene; i quiet the m sis In it Russia alkkan states, bu Russia 1 an allis + addr that their the conference favore an al AVOre an i The Oregon Land Frauds, Washington D 8 {§ $s y¢ {my Linford verd Henry P ted, Tollowl alleged who public land deals irreg in the DONGS AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL President-elect Taft itively accept an Trang-Missiseippi gust, intimating Congress to be refused tc ivitation Congress that he in seasion Gen. Henry G. Worthington only living pallbesrer at the fun of Abraham Lincoln, was with apoplexy on the floor House The President sent to the Senate the nomination of George R. Wales, to be chief examiner of the Civil Bervice Commission Speaker Cannon caused a sensa- tion by declaring himself! opposed to 2 bond issue to carry on the proposed national inland waterway project Secretary of Agriculture Wilson | resigned as president of the American | Forestry Association. He will be sue- ceeded by W. 8. Harvey. The Senate ratified arbitration treaties with Peru and China and naturalization treaties with Brazil, | Honduras and Uruguay. Contracts were awarded for the | construction of six submarine boals. The government will probably build | two. Advocates. of the establishment of | an Appalachian and White Mountain | National Forest Reserve, headed by governors from all sections of the United States, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture. The Interstate Commerce Comm is- gion announced an advance on all transcontinental east-bound traffic, Secretary Wilson, of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, announced his decision in the bleached flour con- troversy, holding that flour bleached with nitrogen peroxide is an adul- terated product. The Librarian of Congress, in his annual made public, states that the number of volumes in the library at the close of the past fiscal year was 1,685,008, a net gain of eral stricken of the 101,180, pn CORTELYOU OY THE NATION'S: FINANCES Mh. i | sectitary of the Vieasory Sutmi's His Annual Report, for Year 1910 Call for an Appropr'ation of Nearly a Billien Dollars, Which Is One Hundred and Forty-three Million in Execss of tl @ Estimated Revenues for That Year. The B. {reagury, ial) {Ge or poet $ Tepor irge yOu, secretary voluminous iment, review- + state he fiscal year wd incidentally i of the tional finances 1 ended June ‘uesing num- notable lonncial crisis adopted to mits ney legis if Congress ariff in the zov co-relate ATES ie MEN SHOT DOWN IN A RIOT Religious Fanatics Attack Police Station Ju Main of al rer ‘Adam a crowd a Holt did which the ney cons and he Je com reons 1o SOLIOT, conduct Mission and her mie- i as The n an at- eplied that night the sien ir Officer e fdentity ¥ t he an immediately ned f resentment and 1 had uginess fii + £40 Deried or er persevery in Cod.” who wears 1d kb threat. physical vio- Officer Holt waz not armed, stood his ground until “Adam God’ struck him a heavy blow be hind ear with a pistol, making an ugly wound Holt then started for the police station for assistance. Az Holt moved away the preached trieC to shoot him, but the cartridge failed to explode Ofiicer Holt rushed into the police gtation and announced that a ba armed Jo the threshold of the his in- id "Adam white officer wit} beard alr ved the lon re hit the terth, were at the to prepare for trouble, The police sergeant in charge ordered Patrolmen Charles Dalbow and his followers. Galloped Off With $6,000. Wichia, Kan, { 8pecial). - The State Bank of Maize, Kan, was en- tered by burglars, who dynamited the safe, took $6,000 and galloped out of town ns awakened citizens hurried out of doors too late to exp ture the robbers. Hangs Himself In Cell. New York (Special).--Irvine Line- han ended an unhappy life of 22 years by hanging himself in his cdl? at the Harlem prison. He had been arrested charged with burglary. The glory Linehan told alter his com- mitment was go pathetic as to arouse much sympathy and quite general belie! in his statement that he had exhausted covery resource to segure honest work and had tuned to burg- lary when the alternative was to beg. “1'd rather die than do that,” he sald
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers