A GREAT MISSION PROJECT IS PLANNED It Will Take In the Whole United States. GATHERINGS [IN MANY CITIES. The Movement Is Under Auspices Of The Laymen's Missionary Movement, Representing All The Protestant Churches — Its Pur pose Is To Stimulate Liberal Con- tributions Through The Regular Church Channels. New York (Special).~~Unique in the history of religious movements ig the National Missionary Cam- paign, which will launched this week by the Laymen's Missionary Movement, representing the laymen of all the Protestant churches in the United States, In 75 principal cities, West. North and South, men’s mis- glonary conventions will be held, at which an aggregate attendance of more than 100,000 men is expected. Ten thousand men are now serv- ing on local committees in prepara- tion for the meeting. President Taft heads the list of who will be heard throughout the winter. This list includes promi- nent public men, officers of Army and Navy, newspaper bankers, business and professional men, taries and missionaries, The announced object of paign to arouse the churches of the United States be East and is to a missionary work all over the world are greater than ever before and se- cure especially the the men of the churches increase of support for the mission- ary board and societies The Lay- men's Missionary Movement dos but seeks to ulate men all churches to more generously through their ular church channels Opening Of The The campaign will falo. N. Y., on October meetings durin will include of the cities « In November along the East Providence, Baltimore and Philadelphia swing far West as Detroit cember. Three in each vention ance Taft value cooperation of in a great 3 not money, sui aise any give Bib reg- of Campaign. open at 186. two and and will and Buf- The weeks BOIm¢ ith =Ouin { ¢ i t circuit swing ern Coast clude Boston, will De- It as days will be spent Washi con- will national import- it is there that President will gi his testimony to the and success the missionary i as seen it in the Pinchot Con four The of or city. ngton he give of he das Forester gton he Chief is chairman the Washin vention committee A Bryce and other speakers of al and international on the program. A whole week will New York City during the first part of January. The promoters expect that the greatest of missionary speakers ever sill in the campaign er York Af thi the will be divided two of speakers and taneous 3 will b South and double culminating in a gr National Mi sionary Congress in Chicago, May 2 6. This meeting be held in the Auditorium and represen tative laymen and ministers will be present. of saxon id ¢ ssador be devoted to aggregation assembled in Groat- sont iy meet unite New work teams convertion North, » wat Lor 8 between simul- held © He will 5.000 Speakers from all over the world will be heard 818,083,524 FOR CANAL. Panama Commission Wants That Amount For 1910-11. Washington, D. C. (S8pecial).— The Panama Canal Commission has gabmitted to the Secretary of War an estimate of appropriations aggre- ating $48,063,524 for work on the canal during the fiscal year begin- ning July 1. 1910. Of the amount asked for, $15,504,036 is for skilled and unskilled labor and $20,218,983 {x for materials and supplies used in construction work. The total appropriations made by Congress up to this time on account of canal are $210,070,468 Colonel Goethals, the chairman and the chief engineer of the commis gion. has declared it to be hig opin- jon that the great waterway will be completed by Janaury 1, 1915, and has estimated the total cost at $3 000,000, which, however, includes the cost of sanitation and civil gov- erument and the $50,000,000 pur- chase price. The unusually large amount asked for the new fiscal year probably is due to the fact that work on the waterway has entered a more advance od stage, FIFTY WORKMEN HURT. the (Re Ballston, N. Y., (Special).—Fifty workmen, bound from Ballston to 8chcncetady, were injured, many of them badly, in a collision between trolley cars on the Schenectady Flectric Railway here. The collision was due to a fog and took place at the outlet station south of Ballston. The 50 workmen were all in one ear and .not one of them escaped injury. The motor man was fatally crushed. The in- jured men were removed to hospi- tals In Schenectady and Saratoga. Millions Lost By Frost. Mexico City, Mex, {(8pecial).—The Department of Interior of the Fed- that the damage to growing crops by the recent frosts amounts to about $18,000,000, The State of Guanajuato suffered a loss of more than $4,000,000. The states of Puebla, Hidalgo, Ban Luis Potosi, Queretaro and Durango were all heavy sufferers from the unpreced- ented’ cold spell. TWO THOUSAND PERISH IN FLOOD Wave Sweeps Coast of Yucatan, Mexico, And Their Families Into The Gulf By The Mighty Torrents — The Coast Swept Clean For Hundreds Of Miles—The Story Of The Disas- ter Told By Sailors On Steamer Tampico. A Tidal Fishermen Swept New Orleans (Special), other disaster was the steamer City of of which report and 3,000 people were drowned aiong the coast of Yucatan in the West Indian hurricane that swept the gulf A tidal wave swept in from the gulf, flooding the low- lying islands and the coast for a distarce of about a thousand miles The islands and the coast were (n- habited by flishermen. They and their families were carried back the gulf by the torrent of that poured over then So complete was the as the the 71 it, that no of undertaken That an- Mexico the crew has befallen word brought by Tampico, the that between 2,000 waters devastation, sailors of ‘ampico repor work The fishermen's some rescue is t has huts have rees coast i swept cle of the stripped Ti full . reaching in $a) 5 vy 2 ™ island in even CHASES their t story of the the island a and the terror of 16 disaster usi communi news among the more Following he sailors s caused i horan tnabitlants i recel] Monte r i drowned, the that country is still PLAN FOR THE | CENTRAL BANK other AJILTED MODEL MILLS HERSELF Tragedy at French Vill: of An American Painter. THE GIRL FAMED FOR HER BEAUTY D. Ridgway Knight, The Painter, Says She Had The Most Beauti- ful Face He Had Ever Seen—She Was Posing For Pictures Which He Values At 8$50,000—Lover, On Of Her Tragic Death, Commit Suicide, Learning Tries To France (Spec Daniel Ridgway Mantes-Sur-Seine, fal) The villa of the American painter, at the was the scene of a dramatic tragedy. overlooking Seine, 17-year-old the who 8 Pisoni, a renowned throughout country- gide for her beauty and af alt being pub- ball by her returned to the paint- ng the barrel off her % i DOAQY upon nis model, er t a village Fortune Knight's home, shotgun and, plac he chi blew Knight found the th lowing morning Paris killing $ and jilted a Gustave HICLY 3 over, ™ took €1 head ¥ Of under Mr tho € 1 fron herself {e letter t sweep to Congress. $100,000,0 portioned +} on a basis with a provision idual bank excess of These board of TICES to acquire vq quota stockhol advocates ¢ tion of the representative of it hoos the board There is also composed of which Treasury nated tary of the Treasury and the Comp- troller of ths Currency Thiz is de- signed to afford the joint private and government control, which, it is al- { leged, has contributed so largely to the successful operation of the Bank of France and the Bank of Germany The active officers of the bank | are be selected for life, or good behavior, by joint action of these two boards, The professed purpose of this provision is to eliminate poli- tics so far as possible and afford a safeguard to prevent any syndicate or clique from obtaining undue con- trol. The two boards are to co-op- erate in the management of the bank, jointly deciding questions of policy, etc All government moneys are to go into thig bank, and it is to make government disbursements. [It is have branches in each city where there is no sub-treasury, replacing them, and in such other cities as necessary. to give adequate to all parts of the country The central bank ia to issue its own notes which, as the present Uni- ted States bond-secured another board, directors to be of government » » ol oF ¥ ng ag of the © members, desig- the ton din o£ leadi 0% are to b by the President, the Secre- the to to | ually to supplant them {| The central bank's notes are to be by gilt-edged commercial credit, or paper representing actual transac- tions in business between solvent con- cerns, It is argued that this will ensure elasticity. Seventeen Die In Wreck, Topeka, Kan. (Special). -—8Beven- teen persons were killed and 10 severely injured tween a freight train on the ! son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad near here. The dead are 11 | brakemen, The injured are { Topeka and Santa Fe Hospital, i is believed some of them are fatally | injured. | The work train was backing into | Topeka with 50 Mexicans riding on the flat cars, AB AAO Infant Prodigy At Harvard. Cambridge, Mass. (Special), ~The youngest a.d smallest student who ever matriculated at Harvard Uni- | versity so far as known entered col- lege a special student. He is Wil- Ham J. Sidis, of Brookline, the 11- year-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Boris Bidis, natives of Poland. Young Sidis is a mental prodigy, particular. ly in mathematical studies, he hav ing already mastered all the elemen- tary branches, Sidis attended Tuft's College last year. PELLAGRA IN NEW YORK. Disease Comes Water. Army Surgeons Say From Impure exper: General Peoria, and Slate in nos insane, an ergone ctl Foe affiiction tract sembling dysentery, the result of tak- Leys te 12 0¢ ur in ure BOB TAFT DEFEATED. Loses Race At Yale, Of President Senjor Council Son Conn. a member the Taft been defeated, running for an elective office. It is Bob Taft, a seni- or at Yale and a son the Presi- dent. He ran for the Senior Council, one of the chief committees of the university, and was nominated in the direct primaries nine men from whom four New Haven, last of has of THIRTY PERISH IN AN EXPLOSION Some Fifty Men Entombzd in a ~ Mine. A Terrible Disaster At B. C.—Spreading Fire Rescuers From Completing Their Work—All The Men Rescued Are Badly Injured—Mine Extends Out Under The Sea, Nanaimo, Prevents Victoria, B. C, (Special).— Thirty miners are known to be dead as the result of an explosion at the Exten- slon Mine of the Wellington Colliery Company near Nanaimo The death may be even larger, as 50 min- by the explosion, slight chance of The was terrific, but wid confined to the slope wherein it oc- All of the men in the other slopes and levels escaped No had been recovered to a hour Fifty men were gaged in rescue work, but spreading flames stopped . the flames permit the men, ed hopeless with regeue its effect bodies up late en- them hao rescuers 1 hoped would die down € s00n a8 to rescue of the entombed 3 but th explosion the timbers a I E and the have Waitelaw Reid An LL.D, London (8 Whi Reld, the Great Bri and recel Li. D. from chester, at the ley, chancellor of the institutic . the same time Mr. Reid attended the opening of the chemical laboratory Gunness Mystery May Be Cleared, Laporte, ind. eCiai} wd py ; American Ambas fain, went to the th Lae hands of Viscon n ns 8a ¢ Man ved v6 wus oA honorary deg Universl mn {Special ) Ray n accomplice of Mrs, Gunness, has a few days more to live, according to prison physicians He is suffering rom tuberculosis, State's Attorney is confident he will make but captain, for la=t place. In the election Murphy ahead of everyone else and the other members were Captain Coy, Stephen Merrill Clement, Jr, and C. C. Jew- of Buffalo, Taft was defeated by a close margin Indians Attack Mexico City, Mex, i Indians are again ott “ Soldjers, (8 wecial ) Maya giving the Gunness dealh Drowned Posing For Photo, Amesbury, Mass, (Special)-—While farm mystery tures taken Joseph Manahan, aged 17 yearg old, capsized and drowned Bella Bailey, a young woman friend’ The young men could not ritory much trouble, according partment by officers in the field other ambush by Indians is reported from Hodopich in which one soldier The many miles of telegraph made bullets out of the wire. (N THE WORLD OF FINANCE Bank of England rate of discount was increased from 2% to 3 per cent, In nine months Southern plants have planned expenditures $21,000,000, Gross earnings of many railroads are now running ahead of the 19807 record figures, In twelve years the duty paid on all steel rails imported in the United States amounted to $1,800,000, Great Northern's earnings for Sep- tember increased $965,000, which is the largest gain the company ever reported in any month Fifth Vice-President W, W, Atter. bury. of the Pennsylvania Raliroad, fs home from a vacation spent hunt- ing in Canada and Maine, The Canadian Pacific Rairoad has voted to increase its capital hy is- jasuing $30,000,000, par value, of new stock, The stock will be sold to shareholders at $125, the present market price being $188. Only 8,866 Connellsville coke ovens are now idle out of a total of 28.000. At one time 20,000 were out of blast, and more are working now than at any day since the 1907 panic. i f | i i 1 Polson To End Misspent Life, North Adams, Mass (Special). Lieut. OW, Baird, 28 years old, a recruiting officer in the United States Army, committed suicide at his boarding house by taking poison. He left & note askng that his father, Dr. W, C, Baird, of Beaumont, Texas, be notified, the note closing with the words "Here goes a missspent life; jod forgive me” Salvage On Human Life, Brussels (8pecial).—The Interna- tional Congress of Maritime law provisions of the proposed convention relating to col the clauses provides for the recovery a8 upon Cargo, Fined 8510 For Killing Rabbit. Media, Pa. (8pecial).-—Glovonni at Brandywine Summit, Explosion Kills Eight. Roslyn, Wash. (Special). At least eight men were killed and three per hape fatally Injured in a gas explo- sion in coal mine No, 4, of the North- western Improvement Company, here, When the explosion occurred a col umn of fire wag thrown hundreds of feet into the alr, igniting the shaft plant and adjoining buildings, Un. der the intense heat the holst of the shaft crumbled and fell, Cinders were blown in all directions, several buildings in # of the little min- ing town taking fire. MOORS HIDDEN IN THE CACTUS BUSHES Blaze Away at Spaniards When Discovered, A HOT FIGHT NEAR MELILLA Spanish Commander Must Walt Heinforcements Before Offensive-—Spain Again Minister For Hesuming Assures That No Intention Of Depart- Her Regarding Morocco, French She Has ing From Foreign Original Purpose Melilla The Hghts on the fortifications { Special) gearch +3 4 of the city disclosed sey hidden among the of rounding discovered fire, to which the Spania ed with artillery ar rifie 1 t Oy ¥ an hot country When they wer: the M #8 opened rod drove r'a General threatening acts any or ir SPAIN ASSURES FRANCE. No Of Her Operations Intention Expanding In Morocco. rey we Crushed To Death, whom ire actress, with Pau ais on a des ine Bliss ios been Hawaii, her revenue cutter Thet station there caring 1 HE asgigned and will proceed turn from the B State Department officials that former Representative J ton Lewis has no connection Department Sronest Lyon, the ter to Liberia, ig in the on leave Mr. Fletcher, Peking, has been State Department express to China this government's regret on account of the death of Chang Chibh Tung Naval officials are encouraged over their success gecuring a fine class of recruits and over the satisfactory condition of the enlisted personnel The new body of tariff ex- perts authorized by the last tariff act organized by electing Lester D Spier, of Boston, as execulive secre- tary It to take re. declare Hamil with the State i American minis. United States charge d'affaires at instructed by the to in three ie believed that Secretary of State Knox has sent for Charlies R Crane, the new minister to China, to tell him he talks too much Jess than 239% per cent of the i whole number of officers in the Uni- ted States Army are graduates of i West Point | The military surgeons listened to address by Surgeon Inspecior Tomatsuri, of the Japanese an Bunyo navy. Mr. Join R. Carter, son of Mr Bernard Carter, was appointed Uni- ted States minister to the Balkan states, Dr. W. | hae accepted a professorship at Yale Admiral Dewey resented the | charge made by former Representa- is a bluff, The revenue cutter Bear is on the way to Nome, Alaska, to bring home the stranded Americans Thomas C. Merrill reer'gned as disbursing officer of the Census Bu- reau. Santo Domingo is going to revise ta tariff downward lewis E. Payson, a representative from Illinois in the Fifty-first Con- gress is dead. Walter H. Watson, of Philadel. phia, has been appointed a customs inspector, with headquarters at Phil. adelphia, : No further joint mansuvers of the Regular Army and national guarde will be ordered by the War Depart ment. DUDLEY BUCK PASSES AWAY Was Leading American Composer of Church Music. Wrote Cantata For 800 Voices And Orchestra Of 150 Pieces At Phila delphia Centennial Exposition — Author Of More Concert And Choral Selections Than Any Other American——Assistant To Theodore Thomas, New Buck v i LOT whose nan oftener t than tuat of at can GENERAL DELIVERY MAIL Thinks stricted, Washington Postmaster Its Use Should Be R washington a stop to ng letters addressed limiting 1} delivery window 30 days. quietly conducted by has shown that of the recently called for by delivery window 11 ¥ fic 111 bore i An +h {io wi free davs, eight of these cia cations being call girls under 16 year od gs of age 2.300 Miles By Wireless, Honolulu (Special) The transport Buford, which arrived Manila, that munication was established Pacific Coast four days vessel made this port that messages were intercha over a distance of 3.300 miles Bu ford i wosed to ha He mos powerful wireless equi the Pacific Ocean ae reports wireless with the CANS before This n (3 iq 4 is i Ba Indians Without Food, Muskogee, Okla al).~~John Benedict, superintendent In- dian schools, who returned from the Flint Hill district, eral thousand fuli-blond Cherokee In- diang cre facing starvation because of the unprecedented drouth this year, The Indians have scarcely any- thing to eat and say they cannot gend thelr ¢hildren to school because have not money to buy them {Spec of that reporis sev. Seven Hurt In Tunnel, Jersey City. N. J. (Special).--8ev. en men employed in the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel construction were badly injured in a railroad collision J.. near the entrance of the tunnel A locomo- were riding, along the track asin i“ Misses Wife: Kills Hinsolf, New York (Special). Enraged at his wife because breakfast was not ready on time, Edward F. Muller, a special detective in the employ of the Interborough Rapid Transit Com. pany, shot at her with a revglver, and when he saw her fall, turned the weapon upon himsell and blew out his brains, His wife was not even scratched by the bullet. Bhe had fainted from fright. Muller dled alk most instantly
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