ROOSEVELT READY FOR THE TRIP TO AFRICA A Busy Week Ahead of the Ex-President TRYING OUT OF THE NEW GUNS With His Editorial Associates, Disposition Of His Business Af- fairs Will Keep Mr. Roosevelt On For The Expedition, (Special). Oyster Bay, N, Y. Roosevelt walked Sunday from Saga- more Hill to Christ Episcopal Church for the morning service, and after- ward returned home on foot, covering in all #ix miles. Several callers were received by Mr. Roosevelt during the afternoon. The former chief executive has en- tered upon the final week of prepa- ration for the African expedition week, as considerable packing ot the personal outfits of Mr. Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, remains to be done, and business affairs of the President also will require some of his time. These latter matters will be set in order in anticipation at least a two-year absence abroad Farewells to numerous friends and relatives are to be sald and a visit to Hoboken is contemplated to in- spect the party's quarters aboard the steamer and see that the outfit of the expedition is safely away of stowed where is can be quickly reached and transhipped at Naples One day of the week will be devoted to a family reunion at Sagamore Hill, In ad- dition to all this, Mr. Roosevelt spend some fime each day, as is his habit, in outdoor exercise, and he hopes also to have a chance early in the week to try out the rifles he will use during the hunt on the range near his home. His duties a magazine editor will take him New York several ti during the week, and there he will be busy dic- tating articles for publication It is expected also that during the week the Smithsonian members the ex- pedition will come to Oyster Bay for A final ox with Mr. Roosevelt There target az to mes of inference boxes will be numerous prising the personal effects of Mr Roosevelt and Kermit Each has provided himself with a large supply of clothing for wear Mr. Roosevelt has dozen pairs shoes and boots leather and rub- ber. Some are hobnalled and others rubber They range ordinary to those extending cloth is the which the Roosevelt ral tropical over a of of soled from the tops Khaki from styles with knees principal material outer clothing of Mr and Kermit ig mate suits made from water-proof terial are included in The rifles of Mr. Roosevel son will receive more thing else in their eq: are inclosed in completely water-tight The graphic kit of which Kermit Roosevelt he being the official is a model of its kind man is very proud of it that the photogapt i are to be the specimens of f ) will the National Museun These photographs will form a scien- tific collection of themselves The steamer Hamburg, rhic the members of the v make the first will reac! Hoboken toward ter part of the week. and Roosevelt and Kermit, accompanie probably by Mrs. Roosevelt Ethel, wi look over the staterooms and See that everything. is carefully plac. ed in a safe in the hold. During the latter part of this week Mr. Roosevelt's sons Theodore, who i8 emploved Thompsonvil Ct.; Archibald who is attending school at Groton, Mass. and Quen- fin, now at the Episcopal High School, Alexandria. Va will come home to attend a family reunion Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mr. Roose- elt’s elder daughter, at -S8agamore Hill above the Sev. ma- outfit and his than ipment These special made photo- expedition of has each care CARER, charge, photographer The young » and feels Br ’ 8 he 0 make . ipl of as great portance a hi shoot for leg of th and also and accessible position 5 ATE POISONED MEAT. Over A Hundred Persons In Vincennes, Made Vincennes, Ind of persons were poisoned by eating meat the noon banquet of celebration of the one hundredth an- niversary of the institution of Masons of Indiana. serious condition The poisoned { Special) Scores at men fell on called to care for them, More than 100 cases had been re been taken by towns had to homes, being attended at hotels and at pri. vate residences. Salt Lake City, Utah (Special). After enduring the horrors of an underground prison. with death near, for 50 hours, George and Jerry Pet. erson were rescued at the 8: Pat. rick Mine, little the worse for their experience, The Captain Of The Ropublie, New York (8pecial).—Capt. I. Sealby, who was in command of the steamer Republic when it was sunk near the Nantucket lightship as the result of a collision with the stesm- er Florida, returned from England on the steamer Minnetonka, He is bound for his home in Southern New Jorsey for rest and recreation pend- ing the official Inquiry as to the causes of the Nantucket disaster, ‘1 have made my report,” he sald, “but 1 do not know when the hoard of trade will take up the case.” REJECT DEMANDS MADE BY MINERS The Hard-coal Operators Make No Concessions, Philadelphia (Special).—The an- the and any mittee of hard coal miners in Reading Terminal Building here flatly refused to grant the men the demands they laid to the mineworkerg that the present agreement, which expires March 31, This decision, while not un- had long ago learned that ators were against making any con- cessions, came as a great disgppoint- ment to the men when they by the companies, When the afternoon session of the M., Thomas Lewis, na- president of the workers’ of America, and hig col- leagues filed out of President Baers office and went straight to their hotel with a spirit that was not buoyant tional conference room, Mr. Lewis declin- ed to comment on the development of the day beyond stating that and his committeemen will meet discuss the situation. The formal announcement made for the benefit of the public of the refusal of the operators to grant the demands of the men was in a statement agreed upon by sides It is follows: Demands Are Refused, "A committee of seven representa- tives of anthracite mineworkers and a committee of seven representatives of the anthracite operators held a joint meeting at nal! Bullding this afternoon dis- cuss the Mine Workers’ demands. demands are the same that drafted in Scranton last Octo- to as to were ber “The operators declined to accede the demands. The chief reason offered for the rejection was that any increase in the cost of produc- tion would necessitate an advance in the price of coal, and that such an advance was impracticable. The operators said that wages in the an- mining industry were al- ready at a high level and could not be increased "The announcement of the opera- tors’ position was followed by a free discussion of the various demands, each side stating its views fully in regard thereto. The operators de- clared their unwillingness to reopen the eight-hour day question and oth- er questions passed upon by the an- thracite commission of 19802 They also declared themselves opposed to one-year “They agreement, declined to United Mine Workers chiefly on the ground controlled by bituminous workers They sald they met Mr. Lewis and his committee as representatives of the workers and not as union. The operator report of the support their with the United Mine recognize the of America, that it was anthracite of the calied upon commission deal cers girike refusal Work- the to to ers of the discussion the made the definite proposi- renew the present agreement r aterm of three years.” HANGS HIMSELF IN JAIL. Double Mauarderer Found From Cell Door, Accused Dangling Ia. Urry for the murder of Mr Winkle, county jail himself A deputy found hanging to top bar door Jones had formed a rope by cutting the coverlet of his bed into strips Jones’ real name is supposed to be Frank Heatiy, and he i# said to be from Washington County, Pennsylvania The murder of Mr. and Winkle was particularly In the middie of the night entered their bedroom and beat of both to a pulp, club as a weapon Muscatine, {Special ) Jones, trial and Mrs mitied suicide banging the hods Jones’ cell on William Van in the by of th et Mrs, Van atrocious Tones the heavy North For Killing Broker. New York (8pecial).—John C Lumsden, the young North Carolina inventor. convicted of in the first degree on the charge of of Gen- Sessions to not less than 18 years nor more than 19% years and 6 altercation with Lumsden over matters. Lumsden an some notes. Bodies Of Hayes To Be Moved. Fremont, Ohio (Special). The Ruther Hayes and his wife, Lucy Webh Hayes, now resting in Oak- wood Cemetery, will be reinterred in Splegel Grove, for many years the home of the President. ie now owned by Webb C. Hayes, a son, The bodies will be placed in a vault on the crest of a knoll, to which point the Hayes monument will be removed, ——— sii 1,500 Horses Quarantined, Philadelphia (Special). One hun dred stables in various sections of the city and 1.500 horses are under quarantine owing to an outbreak of mange, discovered by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, Dr. W. Hor ace Hoskins, of this city, chief in- #pector of the board, placed the em- bargo on the stables and sald that the disease was brought to Phila- delphia in shipments of horses {rom New York, New Jersey and points Want $29,000,000 CASE GOES OUT OF COURT Judge Decides to Instruct Jury to Find Oil Trust Not Guilty, ATTORNEYS CONTEND IN VAIN. Judge Anderson Disposes Of The Fae mous $20,240,000 Fine By In- structing Jury To Bring In A Ver- dict Of Not Guilty—S8ays No Proof Was Offered That Fixed Railroad Freight Rates Existed Or Standard Oil Reduced Rates, Judge Ander- the jury in in which imposed Chicago (Special). instruct Ol] case, fine first Judge Landis, to find the company guilty, the decided to Standard WHS In face of repeated rulings theli had more difficult the case, the Government decided over night to abandon the idea of additions the bill of par- covering the defects pointed the Court, and began argu- in the hope of inducing Judge to reverse his decision. The Standard Oil lawyers express the would soon, but proving of attorneys to out by ments case be brought to a close until issue wa out fight the thrown of court Of Government, line of pared to actually View first the that the argument was Court's indicated 18-cent freight under which the indictment was drawn, could not be established by means of Illinois classification According to the Government's point view, the published rate on from Whiting, Ind., to East Louis wag 18 cents. This was estab lished by means of Tariff 24 application to the Illinois classifica- tion issued in 188%, in 1900 a IHinols tion was issued, and the tion of the Court's opinion is this invalidated the old tariffe, If there was no legal published rate as the defense claims, the Oil Company cannot $e prosecuted for making shipments at a The prosecution, which failure, having once by Judge K. M. Landis, with its fine of $25,000,000, was reversed by Court of Ap- peals and the remanded to the District Court for a second trial, had its beginning on August 27, 19508 On that date 10 indictments were returned by a Federal Grand Jury charging the Standard Ol] Company of Indiana with accepting conces- sions from raliways in shipments of oil from Whiting, Ind Demurrers two he decy- gion rate, ihe of St. in ita classifica interpreta thai new six-cent rate ended In after been tried whose de- the Cage to of these, In- Railroad and Junction, the in- Eastern Illinois connecting roads to Grand Tenn., were ined and dictments were quashed shortly had returned. The eight remaining demurred to, but demurrers overruled Two of the eight voived shipmentg over and Alton Railroad ind, to East St Louis, one and the other the 1.803 a the Oil Comp: based and si aig after they been bills were the were prosecution Trial Before Landis, 148 allowed to stan went trial Landig on March 4, 1 consumed six weeks a verdict of guilty on April 13, Arguments for a new trial rd May and a motion was denied On Indge Landis imposed $28 240.000 fine the case went fo United States Circuit Court Ap peals and was argued a year ago The decigion of the Court of Appeals reversing Judge Landis and remand- ing the case for a new trial was giv- on July 22, 150% Attempts of of ;overnment rehear- With the case counts before 807 The and resulted 1807 wore for a August : his famous On appeal the Of en the ing Court secure a obtain a before the Appellate ag well as their endeavors to review of it before thi failed. before 23 to of the case The second trial was begun Conclusion Of Court, of the Court the clote of a hy Assistant District Al- torney Wilkerson, and the jury was immediately summoned and instruct ed to return a verdict of not guilty, This means that all but two of the pending indictments against the was 1 ry Ong The decision be abandoned by the The two cases not affected by this decision are cases involving shipment of 1.815 carloads of from Whiting, Ind, to Ind., via Dolton Junction, over and Eastern Illinois oil Ralil- road. W. C. T. UU. After Mrs, Taft. Indianapolis, Ind. (Bpecial).—A canvass & in Progress among bers of the Women’s Christian Tem- perance Union thoughout the state to secure unity in representing to the wife of President Taft the ovils may come from serving wine on the table, Letters have been writ. ten to leading clubwomen in the state ask'ng that they join in a friendly protest. a " - A Princeton Drops Fifty-Five Students, Princeton, N. J. (8pecial) «Fifty. five students have been dropped from the rolls of Princeton University un. til the opening of the next college year, in Beptember, as a result of deficiency in the recent mid-year ex aminations, accord'ng to announce ent just made. With the exception of 1907, this is the smallest numbe; thus suspended in the lgst decade. Twenty-six of the number were sophomores, the freshman class, which usually suffers the most loss, being deprived of but 17 members. STEAMERS CRASH OFF CAPE COD The Horatio Hall and the H F. Dimock in Collision, Boston, Mass (Special) .~—When plowing their way through Pollock Rip Slue, off the heel of Cape Cod, about 8 o'clock A. M.. the steamer Horatio Hall, bound from Portland for New York, and the steamer H F. Dinnock from New York for ton, collided, The Dimock port side of mainmast, a {emer and then way into the almost to of about captain, John A tut her the Hall distance her wounded vessel across the on a sand bank and filled While Aas the Dimock’'s nose collision mattress, was the five two Misses Ruth Were SWUNgE 2Cross former, and some the crew followed them After Hall had settled upon the bot- and her decks were about awash remainder on board with the exception Capt. H ing women Enstrom the deck of of the the the of those her, of pilot and two sea- lifeboat and where they were tak- lowered a to the Dimock, aboard Captain hig vessel stay with danger, plenty is In high take Jewell refused to leave and the others decided him. They are in no great a8 they have lifeboats in the revenue cutter Gresham the neighborhood and only at water will they be obliged to to rigging Water Rushed In. The settling of the Hall upon the sandbank did not complete the story this marine occurrence, for the Dimock in driving a wedgelike hole into the side of other craft had a gash eight wide torn in her starboard bow, through which the water began to come almost immedi- atel) At first the pumps handled the inflow without difficulty, but when the Dimock tried to steam up along the Cod her way to Boston a rising began to send a greater volume of water into the opening This was about the welght of the partment down by her list to f the of the Cape beach on se noontime and water in the to put the BOON com hogan craft began ral well WAS and C hows AR Th sinking lifeboat ing and into this the port of t} steamer Thompson had ‘a on davits, placed two women taken the Hall, with Mrs. and Miss of Melrose Hillside, Mass., passengers Dimock. They were wrapped blankets and told to remain in the boat, = in vessel went down, thes Orders were also Thomi son to the and sea- men not gave the word conditions, with ger of plunging minute, Captain on all steam and leans beach The sand half Orleans Life-say o'clock P.M whistle speedily the an Ore dan Aptain out he from BW the Casey on the case the saved Captain PASSE NRETS boat u these ‘A » would be isgued by men fo Aa Under Din to take dan- ANY wk in tom crowded Or- the too the bho Thompson sr the keel Into the gouth of the at 2.1bH g of her lifeboats gtruck ’ a mile ng Station and the craft about toOtin 3s Harbor and from Orleans Nauset Station Crew Stays On Board. sacle and Hall and DARSCNROTSE | f both we { the Horatio of officers were Crew hoard which 1'n- hig aining on rations the and the scene ope fags the sOON Orion reach begin as AR derwriter lighter Salvage WAGES ARE ADVANCED. Thousand Pittsburg Workmen Reap Small Harvest, Pa increase Nix Aa y Pittsburg { Special) wage of about for more than 6.000 work- average per cent ing of the wage committees of cer- tain mill owners and the Amalgama- ted Association of Iron and Stee] Workers This advance in wage will hold for the next 80 days, when there will be another readjustment The new scale of wages announced has based on the selling price of bar iron for last 60 days It was found that these prices had kept up, bad. in fact, of that of the 60 days preceding this period, the immediately and will be put into effect at once IN THE WORLD oF FINANCE Wonder talk very hopefully of that As already announce to ship the ore, impossible haul, the long wagon profit. There is 25 per cent, more copper day than a month ago. : According to the news from Wash. in half It is pow equal to about half the selling price of the metal Standard Ol] stock made a charae- teristic jump when the news came that Uncle Sam had dropped the case in Chicago. Reports are circnlated that steel mills are sticking to no schedule of prices whatsoever. Lackawanna Steel's sales last year amounted to $15,087.879, compared with $33.011,410 in 1907. The head of a large Philadelphia house sald: “The bond market, while much better than if was a Year ago, is less active than it was two monthe ago.” American $25 a share to $225. Snuff common jumped The dividend per cent. annually. WAR ON BETWEEN NICARAGUA AND SALVADOR ing With Mex'co. These Two Governments Convinced That The Time Has Come To Take Drastic Measures To Enforce Peace In The Central American Repub- lics——Reported That United States Will Annex Two Republics And Mexico Do The Same—Relations With Nicaragua Broken. 1 Mexico City (Special) been persistently rumored here broken Salvador and hag been an « negagement between the Salvadorean gun! and the Nicaragu inhoat Momotombo A private dispatch here absolutely confirms the reported en gagement Three Nicaraguan g Momotombo, Tues Salvadorean has betwenn and out that oat Presidente rece ved inboats, led bh atiacked gunboat Presidents lucky shot put the of action almost beginning of the three Nicar ing Later the Mc and went in pursuit day the The later by a at the The arew repaired engagement then with- motombe The the Herald advocates annexation of five Central by Mexico The general opinion i8 that intervention is nevi and Mexico the States to make initia Washington (Special) of any kind bey patches has partment of American Btates 100ks to the ond the reached the the rumored hostilities between Nicars Balvador. The department ig exhibiting the the reports If an engagement between gunboats tries is was pointed out at Department that as is superior to the Presidents manned entirely by Ameri probab 3 that the Ni were Owing conditions EUa however Heenest inlerest has the taken pla two od the Na of the Momotombie anda continued distur} and Zelaya's fs ma efforts 1 he dent our look i the Bis partment, by withdrawing Mr the American nt and ordering the legation the fave of Emers laim charge hands of the consul no diplomatic broke off diplo country in Central America y watched by the Mexican now that Amer governments both an un arriv- moasures should be in can and of which have derstanding ed when dra enforeed tral American republ Barra the State with and the determination that if the American in Nicarag: waters and there are sufficient to President pence Central 10 come to that the time has ®1i¢ 10 Insure peace the Cen. & Ambarsa- dor la of Mexico, spent I Department in BOM CON Wil WAR ference £on reached ehi now to be sent impress stant Secretary War- an not Zelaya entered into between American republics is up to, more y taken to accomplish that the treaty of the not Riens he lived radical be The need be. rted the i was 0 the wonid mpression was gis intervention - The en that if would be res to nited stated govern- ments of i Mexico, it cord as policy to b toward Nicaragua and sre ticipating Zelava's { EX-STATE TREASURER SHORT. now an- tuirther moves Bondsmen And Friends Make Up Deficit OF 870,000, Lake City, Utah Christiansen Salt {S[Special) James former State Treasurer, who retired from office on defaulter ic lanuary 1. is charge of being a of $70 arrest followed his the the under arrest amount ERE] The ¢ confession of Christiansen’s responsibiine or the shortage He i8 now in jail here The money if acknowledged. was used to speculate in Nevada mining ventures Christiansen was State Treasurer for the four-vear term that ent year. The shortage was discover. el a few dave ago through the checking of the accounts by the Board of Examiners 2 YEARS FOR KILLING FRIEND, S£1.000 Bond, Laurence, 8. C. (8pecial) overruling a motion for a new After trial, Pinson, Thornton convicted of killing Boyee last November, to pending an appeal the State Su- preme Court. Pinson was released on a bond of £1,000 signed by his father anfl uncle The appeal will be made to the higher court on the ground &f error in the rulings and charge of the pre- siding jndge Fire In Spartansburg, Spartansburg, 8. C. (Special). A fire in the heart of the husiness dis- trict of Spartansburg threatens to be- come the most destructive in the his tory of the city. The Cleveland Building ig already in ruins and ‘the Bank of Spartanburg Ruilding is in danger, Patron Shoots Clerk, New York (8pecial) A man be- leved to be Charles Loeffler, of New. ark, N. J., entered the hat store of A. Wheeler, at §% Broadway, Brooklyn, shot and seriously wound ed Norman Bush, 28 years old, and then shot and instantly killed hime self with the same weapon. To a note found in the dead man’s pocket the name of Charles LoefMeér, New ark, N. J, was signed. The nove indicated that the writer had a griev. ance against the store in which Bush was employed as a clerk, . * BY TELEGRAPH Identenant Commander Hutchin- son 1. Cone has been appointed head the Bug of Engineering the Navy, with and pay of rear admiral Of CH Bteam the rank Ballinger has decided to West 11 gluay Dir Becretary make a tour of the problems HE Bec retary the that will confront of the interior Judge Walter of prominently secretary Beeves, mentioned the for Of i Gc ¢d to Pres dent ( ompirolier i ray Missouri, a na appointed imrege President of of Por Newcomb, entist the death Juan tice Revers Prof. Bim Lingus eventyv-fous: on hed we celobra th bit TT A ant JARcoh AM fic kinson of Tenns worn in as Luke WHR Secretary Ww 1O Bucces Wri BLAST FINAL TUNNEL Under The Hudson System Is Near. ing Completion, New Y too the he first bore pleted the of the Huds Hudson sys Thuredas by Thu one minating City With furnixh Pennsyl £la- tions, irough the North and Sout} wore, on the New of fg Con direct the ckawan glide through ceremony, that ie early part of expecied the first passenger rain 11 be run through the Jersey C i : MEXICO FEARS BREAD FAMINE Will Again Suspend Duty On Wheat Imports From States, Mexico City (Special) try again | duties on or before April 1 to pre- vent a bread famine Wheat now { costs $2.60 Mexican money por bush. el in this city when imported from the United States, and the home crop is exhausted United State: wheat on the border {now costs $1.28, and with the duty of 20 cents gold per bushel and the | additional freight rate to Mexico City ithe price is exorbitant For sev- | eral years Mexico has had to suspend | the duty on wheat each spring. This coun- off ail will declare wheat Japanese Training Squadron. Yokohama (Special) —The Japa- nese training squadron, consisting of i the armored cruiser Aso and the pro- | tected cruiser Soya sailed for Hono- lulu under command of Captain Isojl. . 180 cadeis of the { Japanese Navy. The squadron is due to arrive at Honolulu about April 1. and it will then proceed to San Fran. cisoo, cruising northward later along the coast to Beattie. The Aso and Soya, as the Bayan and Varlag, re- gpectively, were formerly Russian cruisers. They were sunk by the Japanese during the recént war and were refloated later and added to the Japanese Navy. Danghter Wins From Father, Washington, D. C. (Special) «<The five years’ litigation of Mrs. Henri- etta Sand Anderson, wife of Capt Edward Anderson, U. 8 A. against her father, F. P. B. Sande, Inwyer, soflety man and clubman, was ended by Judge > eigut, of the Buprems Court of the injic of Columbia. He numed the Naflona! Savinge and Trust Company as trustee of the Sands estate In place of Mr. Sands. Mre. Anderson aoocused her fathe grossly mismanaging mother’ ber State, in which he had a life inter.
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