THE NEWS. Domestic Rev. Dr. James Riley Johnson, who was pastor of the First Univer salist Church, Baltimore, during the Civil War, died in Nyack, N. Y., at the age of nearly 92 years. Samuel M. Felton, president of the Mexican Central Railway, and for- merly president of the Chicago and Alton, has returned from Mexico City, to live in Chieago. Mrs. V. C. Boak Fenner, who re- cently was fined for an alleged at- tempt to extort money from the Rev, Perley Powers, died at Chicago of poison self-administered. Miss Agnes Irwin, dean cliffe College, announced to the dents that she would lay down duties of her office at the close her fiftieth year. George Kauttenberger, master for more tham 22 the Chicago, Burlington a Railroad, has been charges of stealing. Making the claim that awanna Steel Company and other concerns at Buffalo are enabled fo undersell it because of cheaper fuel, the United States Steel Corporation is understood here to have demanded of the Pennsylvania Railroad and other Lake shipping lines that a raise in coal freight rates be placed in effect immediately. Charles Brewer, a near Middletown, N. run over by cars and to have been Charley The wife of Col. Wm. U. 8. A, fainted while of Rad- stu-~ the of baggage years on nd Quincy arrested on the Lack- nf was hand who farm Y., Ross, A. Tucker, retiring board at Chicago. Dr. Carroll D. Wright, formep United States commissioner of labor, is seriously ill at Worcester, Mass James Burrell Angell has resigned as president of the University £ Michigan, Ol of the Ok! i- chief Sill, the at noted Fort Geronimo, Apaches, died homa The state's case against Carl Fis- cher, the New York lawyer indicted for attempting. to bribe a witness dur- ing a recent trial, in which the lawver was charged with extorting money from Joseph E. O'Brien, a Philadel- phia decorator, was presented to the jury. Information regarding the alleged practice of brokers hypotheecating the securities of clients was obtained by the legislative committee investiga- ing the exchanges in New York Miss Elizabeth Liston daughter of a Philadelphia and Count Georges Ginoux mon, France, were mar naming of a permanent on the tariff was urged National Tariff Convention. anapolis, Ind. Cunard liner Mauretania ha the. day record run by steaming 671 knots, or 755 miles in 24 hours. Leslie Coombs, eleétrocuted at for the murder of various Cochran, de of ried "TE ue at The broken at sea aged 8, ns Dankemora, N. Y., Harry Hoerner Foreign Elizabeth Bird, beneficiary under the will late Samuel Roebuck, of Brooklyn keeps a little grocery in a poor tion of Northampton, England The Danish cruiser Heimdal arriv- ed at Copenhagen with a hole ih her larboard result of a cok lision with British steamer As- trakan. The ence at Mrs, principal of the REC gide, the the International Opium Shanghai declined to consid- question or means curthg the m habit Reports that Austria-Hungary sents an ultimatum to Servia in matter of the mobilization of forces are discredited Advices from Japan state that of has the her the to the Pacific Coast United States, President Gomez of Venezuela gave a brilllant farewell dinner a: the Miraflores Palace, in in homor of W. L Buchanan, American special commissioner. of the injured by the collapse of a floor in a hall in Valencia, Spain, where lots were being drawn for conserip- tion Tang Shao Yi, special commissioner, brought hig British visit to a close and crossed the Chan nel to Paris. Rescue parties got out 32 of the Stanley mines, land. Hilmi Pasha, grand vizier, ment program Deputies, outlined the in govern- communal institutions passed first reading in the Douma. skirts of Messina. The officers of the American sup. ply. ship Celtic were taken to Mount Vesuvius, ’ Heavy earthquakes were fol throughout the Island of Porto Rico. Grand Duke “Viadimir Alexandro- viteh died in St. Petersburg. : A larger crowd than usual gath: ered at Westminster for the state opening of parliament by King Ed- ward, who was accompanied by Queen Alexandria. ! : Montreal coal dealers and manu facturers will protest’ against any Increase In the duty of 60 cents a tok on soft coal coming from the Unjted States, 4 mbassador Griscom presented to Helena $260,000, the gift of the American Red Cross for an or- phanage for earthquake victimg, The of an eight-year-old child was found In Marseilles torn by 28 knife wounds, : vernal more women were stab- bed in Berlin by the unknown “Rip- pert: ' NATION'S PRINTING ALARMING IN COST Government Expenditures Can Be Reduced By Millions, $6,000,000 INCREASE IN 20 YEARS. Under Recent Legislation, 279,598,837 Printed Pages, Including the Con. gressional Record, the Publications of the Geolog cal Survey and the Year Book of the Department of Agri. (culture Were Eliminated From the Surplus Printing. Washington, D. CC. Constant and uninterrupted of the cost of public printing Increased this item of public expense from $200,000 in 1840 to more than $7,000,000 in 1905, according to the report of the printing investigation commission, created four years ago, which submitted to Congress a re- port covering its extensive inquiry. The commission consists of the two Committees on Printing of the two Houses of Congress. Senator Platt is its chairmén. Savings of ‘'moré’ thun a half mil- lion dollars are being effected, ac- cording to the! report, ak the result of legislation recommended time to time, giving the joint Com- mittee on Printing “eertain’ powers of supervision. Printing of undis- (Special). growth has 187 volumes of 500 {tha year 1907. has | The saving was about There were than pages each been stopped. $100,000 more 9.500 tons { railroad train more than three miles long. Rent for that portion of these | publications stored outside of Gov- | ernment buildings was more than $12,600 a year. The growth of expenditures, it is shown, has been driven backward un- til. the expenditures the last three years, compared with 1905. show an average annual reduction of 10 cent The report says that the commission's policy has Lo build a printing law by which could later be codified, and that it groundwork for this Buckram, instead be used in future books for the « vernment dep Territorial ted deposit District for per been parts intelligently has laid the revision jistinet n, Is the the d in and and the designa- Congression of sheepsk| to binding files of Go State 11 ri HDraries wi 4 « «} ries of each al PULITZER, SMITH AND OTHERS INDICTED BY JURY i“ewspaper Men Charged With Crimi- nal Libel, p. C sclal) Washington, The Federal Grand Ju urned in- against the Press Publish- ny of New York seph Pulitzer, M { and Robert H, Lyman, editors of th paper, and the owners of the India- napolis News Delavan h and { Charles R. Willlams-—charging libel in publications in connection with the purchase of the Panama Canal The indictment against the pab- lishers of the Indianapolis News charges Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams with the crime libel in counts, and that directed against the World charges Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Van Hamm, ert H. Lyman and fhe Press lishing - Company with libs! in COUuRLs. The libeled w rot dictments a pa Jo- and Hamm ing Com Caleb Van # a1 Smith of seven tob- "ube five been are Pierpont Mor- Elihu Root, William Nel- alleged to have different stories persons the t Roosevelt, J Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and son Cromwell The indictments were Justice Gould in Criminal Court 1. A certified copy of each. indictment, accompanied by the bench warrant, was sent to New York, where a hear- ing will soon be held before United States Commissioner John RH. Shields for the removal of the defendants to this jurisdiction for trial. es p— Gets Away With 83.800, Milwankee, ing a hand satchel containing $3,800, filed before No FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN President Roosevelt Recommends Much For Unfortunates, Report of National Conference at White House Sent To Law Makers, Washington, D, C (Special) .--Gov- ernmental in the care of dependent wag the appeal urged on Congress in a special mes- sage from the President The message embodies the results of the recent conference on the care of dependent children which assem- bled at the White House at the Presi- dent's Invitation. It recommends the establishment of a children’s bureau In the Depart- ment of the Interior, to investigate the welfare of the young, infant mor- tality, rate of degeneracy, employ- ment, and all matters affecting the children of the country. “There are few things,” says the message in this connection, “more vital to the wel- fare of the nation than accurate and dependable knowledge of the best methods of dealing with children.” The President suggests also that Congress set an example to states in enacting laws for the District of Co- lumbia and the territories. “I deem such legislation,” the President savs in closing, “not only important for the welfare of the children Iimmedi- ately concerned, but important assistance children of child the Eovernment the Union, look such matters With the message the President sl. by national several states should be able protection to the which ference, tiops of that important caring agencies ciation One of the that of most child- body these is for a of TO HEAD TREASURY. Willis Van Devanter Will Be Secre- tary In Taft Cabinet, D;, € Deva al) iow United Eighth Cire Wash {Bpeci Willis Slates ington, Var Judge for the nter been selected has Treasurs the fon th a in seloact compl should be some official will be Philander C unless now next Secretar f Pennsylvania the Treasury— Willis Wyoming Lh Jacob M. Dich ere expected the ‘resident of State not of Secretary Van vanter Secretary of ’ of War Wal iM inson, of Tennesse Attorney kersham, Pe Ww George Wi ~reneral Ma Ba ge Ary Of Severe J Ames Wilson, Labor Van [x regarded ily both for his ability and ality by Mr. Ts and Mr. Knox quite 50 Rav- born on April 17 3 He ive of Indiana, was educated in public schools of that State and at De Pauw University and was graduated from of the Cincinnati Colleg: vantier is fs “hi 4 next Secretary of State not been nat he sis years of ge, ing is a ' 15 law school WIFE MADE LIVING TORCH. Poured Oil On Her And Set Her Afire, Is Charge. Chester, N. Y. (8 ie Spouse 01 § Port Charged kerosene and t setting fire to her, burning the wom an serfously that she may die, Michael Hennessy, 60 years old, of this city, was arragned in cougt here and held without ball to await the result of his wife's injuries The police fay their investigation that Hennessy, a t6olmaker, quarreled with his wife when she ob- jected to his attentions to a young visitor Obtaining a kero- deliberately ring } ¥ with oil over his wife } a] consin streets, with the loot and es- { eaped The robbery was committed | while the attention of a mesienges boy for the department store was di- verted for a moment. Porto Rico Shaken, San Juan, Porto Rico (Special), — out the island of Porto Rico. The | inhabitants were awakened by the scillaticns and thelr alarm was | great. No damage, however, was ‘ done. was from east to west, Fairbanks Plans World Tour. Washington, D. C. (Special). —— Yice President and Mrs. Fairbanks {are contemplating taking a wip around the world shortly after the adjournment of Congress. They probably will take a steamer at San Francisco, visiting ijawall and the Philippine Islands, then China and Japan, and returning via Europe The time of thelr return is not defi- nitely fixed. EE aan ae THOUSAND HOUSES GONE. sp i Loss Of Life In Turkish Earthquake Not Heavy Though Constantinople (Special). — The earthquake in the vilayet of Sivas, in Northern Asiatic Turkey, destroy- od at least a thousand houses in the Susheref District, but few persons were killed, according to more defl- nite information ved here. The shock occurred on Tuesday, and early A AAS 558Me 5 i : i i i | a match to the cil-soaked garments, Wright Carries Passengers, Pau, France’ (8pecial) Taking of the return of fine weather, Wilbur Wright had his sis ter as a passenger in his aeroplane, This was her firat flight and they remained in the alr for eight minutes Count Lambert, Shows Two-Cent Rate Pays: Jefferson City, Mo The Board of Railroad Commission ers of Missour] has given out figures from reporis of railroads in the state earned more per mile under the 2- cont fare law in 1908 than at 3 cents for the previous year, and that the earnings per mile in thé state are greater than the interstate earnings. Jilted Man Ends Life, Jersey City, N. J. (8pecial).—Be- cause the girl he war in love with kad broken their engagement, Chaun- cby Bradt, aged 24 years, of No, 42 Washbourne Street, committed suj- cide. He was dead when he was found, with a half an empty bottle of. acid in His hand. Press Clippings For Roosevelt, Chicago (8pecial) President Roosevelt soon 13 to receive 2.000 press clippings on the world cruise of the United States fleet. Those, which fl] two volumes 12 hy 14 inches, are the gift of a Chicago admirer, who does not want his name used. More that a year ago this admirer instructed a SHiphing company of this city to gather editorial comments on the tour, books are handsomely bound | morocco, A SHARP CLASH IN THE SENATE Some Bitter Taunts By Lafollette Arouse Penrose. MAKING WAR ON THE “SYSTEM” The Wisconsin Senator tacks The Method Through Big Bills And Is Him- self Accused Of Absenteeism Penrose Charges Him With Using Improper Methods—Lafollette De clares That The Attack Is Course And Vulgar. Again At- Of Rushing BENATORIAL AMENITIES, “It seems to be a part of the system that these important leg- islative acts shall have little con- sideration.” Lafollette, “1 shall not sit here, and 1 de- sire to give such notice to the senator from Wisconsin, and listen to arguments that might better be made by a vendor of a patent medicine from the tail door of a cart in a village of Winconsin than from a senator of the United States.” — Penrose, "Against hig (Penrose's) coarse and vulgar assault, I put my rec- ord since I have been a member of this body Lafollette. D exchange the Senate between Mr who was criticising meth- in handling of Is, and Mr. Penrose, chairman of the Committee on Post- offices and Post Roads, who was in charge of the Postoffice Bill, then un- der discussion The WHE rendered almost tragic by angry and fi¢ attitude ned Washington, acrid in (Special) An of words of that body appropriation bil ods the colloguy the Hee the Senator from Wiscon n chamber star- sin, who stood quietly at his place « 4 i ¢ of the ig begun sid nis had the other antagonist by Lafolle Postoffice Bill had just mitiee at the day asking that 14 be been from the and he “Xa this eo w i {vy had had no ti it Mr. Penrose mich to it hac resisted aving that he would iments which had nis rs $x been quest by = 1s all fn % piain all men suggested comn Penrose hat Senate, demandin text o address! in long session as hort it gystem that iegigiat! feBuiOn seems lo these m ve Acts shall He legiglation ya sed Cae ¥ portant HRY little ct impor nt measn deration placed wh separate bi salary ¥. for the that was on these it pass He said AIO, creases for the § flices t could not the execulive i President and House had way nd he de reported earlier, have and understand clared that if the Senator sylvania had the earlier his might promptis legislation hands of Ohi yt he been | that mittees laved bills which £0 $ ft . insis’ed Cox might Senate unduly be more LS to would study attended commitiee made a more added that important of Congress was in the seven committees, while over 50 Senators were not assigned to any committees that have business He took occasion to say that the tariff bill would pot be through on a "greased runwaj “1 do nt see.” he continued, "that report the pul it to the country if the discussion of to an extra session. 1 know if appropriation bills are dis- posed of at this time there will not reorganization of committees time, and various important outside of appropriation hill: must go over to another ses sion of Congress.”” In the midst his speech Senator Penrose interrupt- over that this ular lecture,” he had heard it all before, SNOW BURIES 100 TOTS. Marching Into School, Sanford, Me. (Special). One hun- dred schoolchildren were buried in a snowslide as they into the Lincoln school building at Spring Valley, and 50 of them were injured as a result, while four are in 8 critical condition. The children, who had been enjoy- ing their afternoon recess, formed in line and were marching into the building when, without warning, a ton or more of snow and ice slid from the roof of the building, three stories above, and crashed down over them. The force of the slide knock- ed down most of the puplis and bur fed them from sight. Some were able to work themselves out from under the heavy pile, but most of them had to be shoveled out. RH AS AI 28 Wounds In Child's Body. Marseilles, France (Special). The discovery of a revolting crime, recalling in details a case which oc curred . Paris in 1807, has cansed a sensation here. The bodv of an eight-year-old girl. torn by 28 knife wounds and further mutilated by burns, has been found in a populous quarter of the city. It was learned that the child had been illtreated before being killed. A man who had been 11 with the girl's moth- er, who Is a widow, has been arrest . # CAMPAIGN COST THIS SENATOR $107,000 Hon, [saac Stephenson Gave Stacks of Checks. Wis United States Semator Isaac Stephenson sub- mitted to extending Wisconsin which Madison, {Bpecial ). a examination by the committeo, United States senatorial primary of last fall Stephenson told the story of than campaign The searching over lagislative ftarted probe of the four hours “ his ex- of $107.000 penditure the more during money, who called upon him whenever they needed money, were placed in evidence. Checks for sums totalling over $50,000 were is sued to J, A, Van Cleave, of the ments Pay- other use of his managers by check for various accounts were the Senator “for work done.” When the committee met Btephensgon stated that J. H banker, Wis as banker whose for the £1 - duty money He 10 a Milwaukee “only was to look out ad- Mr July Sack- Kd- He Cleave, making one for payment direct $5,000 and another £5 to ett, who was associated monds in the campaign Asked écke made to Van cashier of Mr. Stephenson's bank Martinette the Senator read checks from June 285 and totalling Were out on O00 Mr. ww h out to NoO- $52.571 Se,0141 to Mr Was Stephen. dated vember 28 These Van AWay son checks Cleave when ulicher from Milwaul gaild he hac 0,0 in a at Milwauk eo that apart To bank and hecks were k ept git check the Martin from this dep the ‘How did 4?" sien pe ion you was wante the Th oon ihey . jet me wauen ioney anewered He added senator I wanted to Three checks totalling $43,700 be- tween Juls and October 10 were 1 issued against $50,000 de WHLKee h nasited the positeq 1 “ris iD Aid Kens ised Aid know He not of any ¢ said that sor ions were made # conld not give i wer 10 onsideration in re wr ain $11 4 LRH were to be 3 Senator sald Was us that postage eT NAagers, and tha 15ua made 136 MINERS ENTOMBED. Fire Explosion And Keeps Foree, Follows Back Rescuing New ( A terribi 5 {les dist ol 136 lives explosions West 400 boys we re whit ne 136 time, up them come though rapings hav: it is supposed that these of the miners, who explosion followed it immediately plosion flames burst shaft, scorching the workers at pit head and blowing out the h employe n th late hou the = been men and and has ion + escaped and the SO0Ome death fire which Almost from the tr the afte through the the fenc- mine iy, and it was impossible for the res- cuing party to descend into workings Thousands people gathered at the pit, but for hours the furiously At midnight impossible to attempt a rescue will be. many hours before the cleared. An explosion in- of mouth of the fire it colliery in 1882, bs ® 5,000 TO 6,000 ARE DEAD. Earthquake Of January 28 Was In Province Of Luristan. (Special) .— News that the violent 2 war Teheran, Persia was received here installed had its location in the Prov. ince of Lurietan, in Western Persia. Sixty villages in this district were wholly or partially destroyed, and the resultant loss of life is placed between 5.000 and 6.000, This information was conveyed in belated reports to the Government. The districts of Burujurd and Sela. hor, in Luristan province, were the center of the greatest violence and here the heaviest casualities oecur- red. The peazaniry lost practically all their herds, and it is estimated tha. from 10,000 to 12,000 head of cattle perished. NEWSPAPERS UP TO 2 CENTS. Increased Cost Of White Paper Com- pels Dailies To Raise Price, Trenton, N. J. (Special). Begin. ning Monday the price of the Trenton dally newspapers was increased from one to two cents a copy, the publish. ers having found that it was imprac- ticable to continue one cent papers in face of the great increase in the cost of production, particularly the in- creased price of white paper. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Surgeon Francig 8. Nash appeared before a general court martial at the Washington Navy Yard ial for alleged improper treatment of Mid- shipman H. W. Stephens: The Indian for tr Appropridti Bil, which wag passed by the. House, transferred to the Stale { Colorado buildings of the Grand Junction a6} Fort Lewis Indian School. A bill introduced by Representa tive Washburn proposes to amend the of 1880 protect ti and oO act "10 ade commerce againgt unlawful restraints monopulics The House directed State to invite Britain France to participate in the centenary celebration ery of Lake the Her reta. y and ter discos Great of the Champlair Becretary yunced the of Straus appointment of Julian Fenn., as a speci: to study the foreign markets ann i.. Brode, | agent of the nore than the finesy resented the na A rug said to be worth $50,000, and claimed to be n the world White House as a gift to LE to the establishment of an ral pi » post by a WOVISs.On Appropriz Bij Senate The mental ru authorized Postaffice ed the exper yetem is of the ion report to The convened definitely Taft will dats Presi ab~ Ch extra session of Congr be March 1! this being 4 ¢ dent on eee! nouncement The President C. Telchmann, of Misso i Stettin, German: Senator Frye inistration to Henn retary Paris (arent be pale proposed ¥y celebration of the dis- he American and OG pa it rance may of lake Cham: he Indian Appropriat BE an appropriati Was Dass gd bs The House izing and Naval Academy The Han gh enti i poy i item in Appropria- Bill authorizing Presi appoint Rear Admiral Evang a vice admiral feated tary Newberry asked Con- increase the t of cot of proposed drydock at Pearl Har- Hawaii naval station, from $2 G00. 000 10 £3.500,000 The average wage elegraph op- decreased during the past two years and during the year 1305, as compared with the year 1883 The Senate considered the Appropriation Bill, and there much discussion concerning to Navy was de Seer 10 He hor of t Naval was ithe Exerciees were held at the National Cemetery In of the men who were Arling- remem brance killed Secret Service agents are a failure far as internal revenue work is WwW. Trow- AR bridge Japanese Frowning. Victoria. B. C.. (Special). News that emigration from Japan to the Pacific is to be forbidden bLy the Ja- panese Government, as a result of agitation in Tokio, was received from the steamer Tango Maru, which has arrived here. Count Komuta, Min- ister of Foreign Affairs, is quoted as saying the Government would not in future dispatch emigrants to the Pacific coast. in view of the failure of Japanese in Mexico and South America, and that as Japanese meth- ode of farming are not applicable te Manchuria. Count Boni Again. Paris (Special) —Count Boni de Castellane has appealed from the de- cision of the French court. handed down December 30, tha: his three sons remain in the custody of thelr mother, Princess de Fagan. It said that the Counts purpose in trying to reopen this issue is to com- pel the De Sagans to come to a pri- vate settlement. : Three Stabbed At Christening, Philadelphia (Special: wedver ine tening celebration led 10 a shooting and ‘stabbing affair, a8 « result of which three men are dying in the Episcopal Hospital, They are Mi chael Plechock. terribly gashed tn the head and chest; Antonio Sanger, ugly wounds in the chest and faco slashed into ribbons; Johm Doloski,