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Domestic
The telegraph companies at Chi-
cago reported rain and fog generally
phia and from St. Paul to Louisville,
rendering wire connections disar-
commission,
A naval board composed’of Com-«
mander William Gill, Commander
Edwin A. Anderson and Lieutenant
Commander F. N. Freeman started
to inspect sites for the establishment
of a torpedo station on the Pacific
Coast,
The unique opportunity of buying
real elephants, lions and other deni-
. zens of the jungle for Christmas pres-
ents is afforded on account
involuntary bankruptcy of the Nor-
ris & Rowe circus.
As a result of the closing of the
Citizens’ State Bank of Napoleon,
O., the creditors of the Ohio German
Fire Insurance Company, now in the
hands of two trustees, may lose
Governor J. Franklin Fort, of New
Jersey, presided and made the prin-
berculosis Exhibit in
VENEZUELA T0 MAKE
WAR ON THE DUTCH
Head of Government Meets Aggres-
sion With Deflance.
THE SPOKESMAN WARNS POWERS.
Says Holland's Action May Prevent
Payment of Indemnities — Spirit
of Revolt Rages — Holland Re-
joleing Over Uprising in Cara-
can
i
| Washington, D. C. (8pecial) ~~
Venezuela has declared a state of
war, according to advices received at
the Btate Department. This news is
| contained in the dispatch from Sec-
retary Paxton Hibbin, secretary of the
American legation at Bogota, Colom-
bla. He states that the Colombian
re-
from
ceived the
Caracas:
“In view of the blockade estab-
, lished and the capture by the block-
ade of a Venezuelan vessel, the head
i of the government at Venezuela, af-
ter assuming extraordinary power for
the defense of the country, has de-
following telegram
Officials of the State Department
are somewhat in a quandary as to
whether the dispatch means that
Venezuela has declared war against
i
and treasurer of the Princeton Mill-
ing Company, Princean, Ind., charg-
ed with forgery and embezzlement |
two |
ed at Harlingen, Tex., after a
years’ search
After an entire day devoted to an
attempt to get a jury to try eight |
alleged night riders on a charge or |
murdering Capt. Quentin Rankin, ,
court adjourned with only two men |
in the jury box. |
Miss Sarah Campbell, a trained |
nurse, who spent 10 weeks on a bar- |
ren island in the Pacific Ocean with |
53 shipwrecked men, arrived in San
Francisco with her halr turned |
white. i
The First National Bank of Som- |
H., closed its doors and
Cashier Frederick A. Varney was |
arrested following the discovery of |
a shortage of $85,000. i
The prosecution outlined its case
and witnesses described the shooting
of William E. Annis at the trial of |
Thornton Jenkins Hains. i
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
placed orders 135,600 tons of |
teel rails.
Alice Neilson, the grand opera
singer, has filed a petition of bank-
ruptey.
Chie
Sioux chie
With the arrest of Mrs. Ada Mc
Cormick for stabbing her husband
last Monday, a 1 tery that for two
years past has rpuded the disap
pearance of Miss Ada Long, daughter
of James W. Long, wealthy manufac-
tured of San Franci was cleared
up, the woman arrest was
Miss Long 1! marriage to
McCormick.
Mrs. Willlam
President-elect
presented at the
the National Civie
Hotel Astor, N
ersworth, N.
for
Horse, a noted
, is dead.
under
her
as
weiore
wif the
ted States,
annual meeting of
Feaderation io the
the report of the
work for the
of which she
eo of
H.
of
ire
am was
1 on the
tion for
scout
The
ns was
the competitive tests
cruisers Salem and
average of the top
24.226 knots an hour.
rt
spee d
In view
that specific reference
is made to the capture of the Ven-
Holland.
Conflicting Stories,
Willemstad, Curacao (Special).—
Caracas regarding the
against President Castro.
One report says that the declara-
tion of martial law has had the ef-
at work, and that the present
power.
of the Venezuelan
government at any moment To in-
sure such a result, they are urging
the Dutch demonstration against Ven- |
ezuela be increased in severity, as it
is the commercial stagnation that has
followed the demonstration that has
aroused the Venezuelans,
Caracas is badly crippled as the
result of the rioting that took place
the first half of the week. Scores
of citizens who were known to be
friends of Castro have fled to the
Holland Rejoicing.
The Hague (Special). All Hol-
land is rejoicing over the stories of
the uprising of the people of Vene-
zuela against Castro :
The members of the foreign office
say the present situation is just what
they expected and to bring about
when they started the campaign of
reprisals against Venezuela
The foreign office believes Castro's
power has been broken and that
people will his abdication
fore long
VENEZUELA 15
READY FOR WAR
Gomez Decrees Nation 'n a State
of Defense,
the
force be-
Caracas, Venezuela (8pecial)
The news of the capture of the Vene-
of
At a meeting of the senate
the New University of Dublin the
Very Rev. James H. Walsh, Lord
Archbishop of Dublin, was elected |
chancellor. : i
Lord Morley, secretary for India,
in an address in the House of Lords,
unfolded a plan for the reform of the
government administration of India. |
Officers of the American battleship
fleet were entertained at dinner by
Gov. Bir Henry McCallum, of Ceylon, |
at Colombo. i
General Simon, leader of last revo.
lution in Hayt! was unanimously |
elected President by the Haytian Con. |
gress,
of revolutionary activities in India |
has helped quiet down the poula-'
tion. 1
Olga Stein, arrested in New York, |
was put oh trial in St. Petersburg,
charged with forgery and embezzle-
ment.
The Earl of Granard, whose en
gagement to Miss Mills, of New York,
was announced a few days ago, sails |
ed on the steamer Adriatic,
Southampton.
Fifteen persons were
passenger train and a freight train
France.
The proposal to hold an interna-
tional aeroplane competition in Rus
gla next summer has been abandoned
on account of lack of funds.
William Sherman, who has been
director of the civil service in the
Philippines since 19056, has tendered
his resignation,
An operation for calaract was per-
formed in London on Gen. William
Booth, of the Salvation Army.
Wilbur Wright sailed his aero-
plane at a height of 206 feet at Le
Mans, breaking all records for height,
The prospectus of another South
Manchurian Railroad loan of $10.
000,000 was issued in London,
“ The German government ordered
. the governor of Southwest Africa to
collect an export duty of $2.50 a
carat on diamonds,
~The Petit Parisien declares that
the object of President Castro in
visiting Berlin is to obtain the in-
tervention of Germany with Holland
on behalf of Venezuela,
Duteh eruiser Gelderiand became
known in Caracas Monday morning. |
A big crowd at once assembled in the
Plaza Bolivar and demonstrated in
support of the government,
Acting President Gomez issued a
ture of the Alexis, after which he
declares:
“1 consider these acts a trne in-|
aggression dgainst the Venezuelan
government. They constitute a grave |
is threatened, and the territorial in-
tegrity, honor and dignity of the
fatherland is in danger.
tive assumes and will exercise the
on him by section VIII. of article
LXXX. of the Venezuelan Constito-|
tion.”
The news that the republic had
been placed in a state of national
moments «there was an
of the Yellow House,
fing President Gomez,
As Gomez made his way across
Yellow House he
with enthusiasm The
waa crowded with a
of the most
of Caracas,
was received
Yellow House
numerous assemblage
distinguished citizens
ib
erty and that the existing govern-
ment monopolies be abolished The
threatened danger from without had
a double effect on the people; they
demanded measures of protection,
but at the same timo they insisted
upon the termination of one of the
most unpopular courses of the Castro
administration-—-the maintenance of
government monopolies in the neces
sarios of life.
OR A 5
Battle With Bandits,
Toledo, ©. (Special). Two band-
{its shot and seriously wounded
Thomas Regan, a motorman, and rob.
bed Bort Higley, a conductor, in Hast
Toledo. The two employes were
alone on the car at the time, but
engaged the highwaymen in a des.
perate hand-to-hand battle. One of
Sh Seri cs Dios tO
wering Higley and forcing him
po over the cash, while the other,
freeing himself from Regan's ciutch,
B0Y PLAYS BUTCHER
KILLS HIS SISTER
I —————
Five-Year-Old Copies Scene at Fal
Hog Killing.
Selinsgrove, Pa.
ing at “butchering’” and that he was
the butcher, five-year-old Harold
Brouse, the son of Pernival N.
Brouse, a farmer in Penn Townsnip,
two-year-old sister Catherime,
It was fine fun the children were
having. They had gone to the barn
engaged in the fall hog killing. The
and when Harold and Catherine
in hand,
them.
Once back
tle chap had an idea.
no attention was paid
and I am papa,’
erine assented to the plan,
big knife, but all
That
Lhe knew,
his father's rifle.
kill things with, for his
ed. He took fit
then they were ready to play,
Shouting gleefully, Harold chased
his sister around the room The
little girl, on her hands and knees,
enjoyed the fun, and nimbly evaded
him each time he pointed the gun at
her. Finally, tired and breathless,
she threw herself on the floor and
crawled under a table, whence she
glanced laughingly out at her broth-
But Harold was to be out-
Dropping flat, he, too,
under the table. Pointing
the weapon at the head of his sister,
with a shout of triumph, he pulled
The buliet entered the
chlid's temple and plowed downward
through the neck. Screaming ‘‘pa-
pa.” she fell, and was quiet,
Harold looked at her a minute,
frightened, she was so gill Then
he went out to the barn trembling.
“Catherine won't play piggie any
more,” he told his mother, as he
to sob.
not
FOR KILLING GIR.
White Man Taken From Jail and
Ha ged When Fe Confessed,
Monticello,
Hill, a
saulting
Mam
was taken from
armed mob, and after ¢
|
Amer
Ky. (Special)
white charged with
ring 13
Russell
man, as
and
1g
muards«
ie Womack, near Epring,
rugs ox § &s ’ .
local jail by an
a
nfessing the
crime, was hanged to a tree
Rus-
fos by
iN
A well organized
County
mob of 26
men came quietly
town on foot about midnight and
went at once fo the i Jailer
y himself cov.
The leader
want
jail
34 tO
{io make
came after Hill,
» him. Ram-
hig prisoner to
fenied his gull
sald:
blood
you
Fiore
Len
« Ihe
leader of
How
cap and
fared?”
Hill made no
The leader cont
Hill, we have got
you killed the girl.
pay the penalty;
mob
that
hands when
came
on
were
your
Cape
reply
red “Elmer |
YOu. you know
and your life
you ki
the girl; it matters not to us wheth.
er you or not, but if
don’t you will die with a lie in vour
throat, and you only have 10 min-
utes to live Did you kill her?”
“Yee, bose, 1 did kill her”
plied Hill
“How did you kill her?”
“I met her on the road coming
from school, tied a bandanna around
her neck and strangled her, then
took her out in the woods and killed
her.”
Shouts of “Hang him! Hang
him!" arose from the mob, and one |
man placed a gun at the trembling
murderer's head, but was prevented
from shooting him.
Hill was told to pray, but sald he
could not. They told him he could |
say “Oh Lord, have mercy on me, a |
murderer.” But he dropped his head |
and uttered no word. He was then |
placed behind a man on a mule and |
fll proceeded in the direction of Rus
sell County. i
His body was found hanging to a |
tree about two miles out of James |
town, 20 miles from Monticello.
int
deny
confess
you
TO
85,000 DIE BY ACCIDENT.
reau Of Labor,
Washington, D. C.
Between 30,000 and
dent record in the United
Labor.
The bulletin declares
that could be done for the protection
of the working man is neglected,
though many and far-reaching im-
provements have been introduced in
factory practice during the last dee
ade. It Is pointed out that the pos
sibilities for accident prevention
have been clearly demonstrated in
the experience of foreign countries.
A SS HA As SAMA
Order 135,500 Tons Of Rails,
Philadelphia (Special) ~The
Pennsylvania Company's steel rail
order for 1909 delivery, which calls
for 135,500 tons of rails, was an-
nounced. The order has been dis-
tributed as follows:
Iilionis Steel Company, 62,600
tong; Cambria Steel Company, 25,
000 tons; Pennsylvania Steel Com-
y, 25,000 tons; Lackawanna
Boel Compa 3,000 tons;
lehem Steel
| fired a bullet through the motorman’s
-
wo
THE PRESIDENT T0
HELP NATIONAL HUSEUM
Arrangement With Smithsonian Made
Public.
COLLECTION OF UNIQUE VALUE
Mr. Roosevelt Wrote Secretary Charles
D. Walcott Outlining His Proposed
Trip and Asking for Field Taxi
dermists to Accompany the Ex.
pedition,
Washington (Special)
ment between President
and the Smithsonian Institute
the President's hunting trip In Africa
was made public by Charles D. Wal
cott, secretary of the institution, af-
ter he had conferred with the
At a meeting of the board
as
of
day he leiter of the Prezident was
given, there-
with the
The let.
adopted the resolution
by entering into a contract
President for certain work
ter and resolution follow:
"The White House, W
Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 20,
“My Dear Dr. Walcott: About the
first of April next, I intend to start
for Africa. My plans are, COUrse,
indefinite, but at present | hope they
will be something on the following
order:
“By May 1st 1 shall land at Mom-
basa and spend the next few months
hunting and traveling in British and
German East Afr probably going
thence to or toward Uganda, with the
of striki the Nile
Washington
190K.
of
LX
oo
Ca,
ng
1
3
£
:
i
i
i
with side
irds so
gay about
and then working down it,
trips after animals and b
to come out at tidewater,
March 1st, This would glve me 10
months in Africa. As you know, |
am not in the least a game butcher
I like to do a certain amount of hunt.
ing, but my real and main interest
is the Interest of a faunal naturalist
Now, It seems to me that this opens
the best chance for the Nationa] Mu-
eum to get a fine collection not only
of the big game beasts, but of the
smaller mamma and birds of Afri-
ca: and loo at it dispassionately
I believe he chance ought not
to be neglected I will make ar-
rangements pay for the expenses
of If and my son But what 1
would to do would be get
one or two professional feld taxider
field naturalists go with
m who sl! 14 and send
back the specimens we collect
“The 3 1a
on to the Nationa
SERINE
AR
al
ine
ing
that ¢
Hua
$
to
myse
IIR io
mists, tO
10, 1 nrens re
collection which
i Muse
value It wo
include specimens of
be of 1
gether with the rare ar
1 have no
iid enable me to
r ftaxide
CUring
and birds
wo
naturalist
kit, and the
the B84
Boum
of the 1
# s
Go
im
(3
iE game
or
cimens?
that
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ROOSEVELT
Walnatt Ree
ution, Wash
of re.
tution
Pres.
its
he board
nis of the 8m onlan Ins:
express to Theodore Roosevelt,
ident of the United Niatea,
preciation his generous of-
fer contained in his letter of the 20th
of June, 1608, to the sorrotary of the
institution with respect to his expedl.
tion to Africa, and that it accept
samo.”
A
ap
of very
3
the
:
TRUST NOW RUMORED
Standard Stock Sells at Highest
Price in Three Years.
New York (Special). — A new
Standard Oil Company. with a capi-
tal of one billion dollars, like the
Steel Trust, is now talked of. The
stock of the present company is
§100,000,000, with a market value,
based on late quotations, of $720.
000,000,
It is sald on what appears to be!
good authority that the capital of
the new company will be divided
into $500,000,000 7 per cent. pre-|
ferred stock and $500,000,000 com-
mon stock,
The investigation by the Govern
ment brought out the fact that the |
company haa been earning $85,000,-
G00 a year for the last ten years,
Eighty-five million dollars is 84%
per cent. on a capitalization of one
6 per cent. on the common, with 23% |
per cent, of the known earnings held
back for depreciation, betterments
and improvements.
There are today about six thou-
sand holders of the stock, with John
D. Rockefeller holding 27% per cent,
of the total. Under the new organi
gation he would hold $275,000,000 of
the new company stock,
A 1
Burned His Wealth.
London (Special). A dispatch
from 8t. Petersburg to the Dally Mail
relates that a dying Moscow million-
aire named Petrol had his whole
fortune withdrawn from the banka
‘and the bank notes brought to the
sick room. They were then piled be.
fore him and set on fire. Petroff
summoned his relatives and showed
them the ashes, congratu them
on having escaped from iting th of
¥
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liana
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Scores World's Proprietor.
Washington, D.
The President in a
to Congress answers (he charge made
in with the purchase of
the Panama Canal and excoriates Jo-
seph Pulitzer, proprietor the New
York World, in which paper the
C. (Bpecial) —
special message
connection
of
charges were first published Oth-
erg who joined in the criticisms are
included in the excoriation
In language
phatically denunciatory
ever used in such
Roosevelt gays Mu
probably more
1 1
aocum
en-
Was
a nt, Mi:
Pulitzer is gulity
of blackening the good name of the
American people and {it
be left private cit
him for libel Pulitzer
be prosecuted the govoeran
authorities
should
io a izen Lo sue
should
by ienial
declares
and conlinues:
the agident,
Compares Pulitzer To Embezzier,
“In point of ence
iquity, In point of
doing, there is noth
tween a public ss
his trust, a public sery
guilty of blackmail, or
nancial dishonesty
a] man guilty
has been guilty in
“It is therefore
duty to bring to justice this vi
of the American people, this
who wantonly and wickedly and with-
out one shadow of justificati
to blacken the
private
Wrage of in
rvanit
OF any
as Mr. Jo
this
character of repu
and nic
BEovernment of hig own counirv in
the eyes of the civilized world of
wrongdoing of the bases! and foules
kind, which he bas not one shadow
of justification of any I
scription for the
made.”
The attorney
velt adds, has
what steps shall
editor
In clearing Charles P
er of the President-elec
las Robinson, the Pres
er-in-law, of the accuss
by the World, Mr
"New, these stories as 2
fact need no 1
No shadow of proof
be, produced bel
them They
string infamous
in part
upon Mr
for inet
aARoce
citizens to oc
§
BOTt
COA/TER
ral fo
general, Mr
Roosgo-
under consider:
be taken against
on
the
ong
Roosevelt
inyesis
[$4
COus
wholls
Corn Ours
dividuals w»!
libelous editors
respondents or
columns The
Joe eph Pulits
etor of the World
Assumes Responsibility
The
Himself,
President says he alone | re
sponsible for steps
the will of Congress
of the canal, and
was sirictly complis
tus! transaction was carrie
by Knox, of Pennayivan
pile Y po { jl
2
§ t1 gh John
taken ing
by the pure
that td
in obs
hase
da
ew A
al g
* £43
.
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Hera
gecrotary of
then
nizant of
Pros
fo give the
a
gentieman in hi
the
The hits
ars of the canal
in detail These
the supers of
of the Eelne
knowledges
of whol
ments to the French
are also gone
were made ii
the I Tribuna
sion Livi
PORTUGAL SLAYERS REFUGE.
Criminals Subject To Death Penalty
Exempt From Extradition,
Washington, D. C pecial)
persos charged }
whom the deth
flicted by
Any
with upon
d be in-
urisdic.
penalty
the laws of
# exempt
from Portugal, which prohibits capi
tal punishment
This 1s one of the terms of the ex,
traditicn treaty with Portugal, which
wag proclaimed by the President. He
alsg announced the arbitration and
naturaliztion treaties
DOINGS AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
By unanimous vote the House
adopted a resolution calling on the
President for proof of his charge that
members were fearful of an investi
gation by the Secret Bervice agents
Senator Bourne (Oregon) intro-
duced a bill providing that the salary
of the President be increased to
$100,000 a year, and that of the Vice
President to $25,000 a year,
The President sent a message to
Congress in which he submitted his
recommendations in regard to ime
proving the form of government for
the Dig‘rict of Columbia
Senator Rayner introduced a reso.
lution providing for an investigation
of the President's order directing the
removal of the marines from the war.
The PostofMice Department has de
cided that letters addressed to Fanta
Claus will be returned to the senders
or sent to the Dead Letter Office
The report of the joint (vmmis-
sion recommending reorganization of
the postoffice was submitted to Con.
gress.
Germany's fiscal policy that allows
1iberal bounties upon the export of
grain products ag a corollary to high
duties on Imporis is proving bene-
ficial to the agricultural and milling
interests of the empire.
The Beeretary of the Navy has ore
dered a court of inquiry to meet
at Poston next Monday to investi
gate the Strcuinutances Shrending tho
grounding o on unkeo,
Capt. C. B.. T. Moore hne beon
detached from duty at the Navy Yard
at Philadelphia and ordered to com-
mand the armored cruiser Colorado
of the Pacific fle
Re
a
»
CAPITOL PROBE COST $05,081.10
Commission, Throagh
Senator Visher, Tleturns 854,018
Of The $160,000 Appro-
priated,
Fisher,
Cour
Investigation
f Indi-
1 Yeser
1 inves
Senator John 8 0
of the ito
d
chairman
Commis the
of the
out of
# up
furning
i O00
ACCOUunts COT
ap-
it ack into the Btate
ai
Junts
ed over
Benator Fisher also
rected that
C. W. BRAY RESIGNS,
As President
And
Hetires Of American
Sheet Tin Company
Pitts (Bp
Wurg
sf
Hits Prod
Blind
Spend Honeymoon In Jail,
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Chr
Valter Russell
op
mas
ho had saved the
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spending
Her
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York
here bh)
Philadel;
Manufacturis
$211.8%0, ti
quantity of
firm under
which the title tT
Brown Brothers, untj
pany actually paid for
In Silk.
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Weuld Drive Venus From School.
Hazleton The High
Schoo! student body got its orders
from Principal Geist about “affini
ties.” Mr. Geist told the girls that
he wanted the affinity business stop
ped, that he wanted the holding of
hands in the hall discontinued, and
gald the walking, arm-in-arm., with
the boys in the streets was disgust.
(Special)
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
Frank Kayinsky and Join Rock
!
'
Shenandoah City colliery. This is the
second time Kayinsky was burped in
a similar manner inside of a yéar.
F. B. Musselman and wife, of
Strasburg, celebrated the fiftieth
wodding anniversary There never
has been a death in their family, alt
the children and grandchildren being
present
Bellevue Presbyterian Church, at
Gap. has extended a call to Rev.
B. F. Farber, of Indianapolis
The ministers of Middietown have
gone on record against the funeral
feast, which is a prominent part of
the ceremonies attending a burial in
many parts of this State. They
have also adopted suggestions that
fewer ministers go to funerals, so
that services will not be dragged out
to unseeming lengths,
I. M. Kauffman's store, at Rawlins
ville, was looted by thievis, mer
chandise valued at $300 being taken.
Because a demand for an addition
al vent a yard for their product was
refused nearly 100 raw silk weavers
of the Emaus silk mill walked out,
tying up all other departments,
A charter was granted by Gove
ernor Stuart to the Farmers’ and
Miners’ Bank, at Marianna, Washe
ington County, The capital is $50,
000, the Incorporators boing A, O,
PBoeson, Scenery Hill; J. A. Ray.
Pittsburg, and R. 8. George, Wilkinp.