rs rein
THREE TINES AS.
BIG AS THE EARTH
New Comet That Mr. Zaccheus
Daniel Discovered.
36000000 MILES AWAY FROM US
While Appearing So Much Larger
Than The Earth The Astronomer
Bays It Does
Thousandth Part Of The Matter
Or Solids That The Earth Does—
Saw A Star Millions Of Miles
Away Through It.
six millions of miles away from the
earth, 146,000,000 miles from the
sun and
large as
the earth in diameter
{
{
i
{
as he has done on every clear night,
winter and summer, for years with
his five and three-quarter inch tele-
scope,
Mr. Daniel holds the Thaw fellow-
ship in astronomy, the annual in-
come of a gift of $10,000 from Mrs.
William Thaw, of Pittsburg. Mr,
|
|
|
|
|
& graduate student
University, about the new
which he discovered on the even-
of
servatory the
THE IE TRUST
1S FOUND GUILTY
sweeping
the Anti-meonopoly Law.
MEANS DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATION
Restricted Competition And At.
tempted To Create A Monopoly
in astronomy ever since he was a
boy and long before he came to the
university he possessed a four-inch
telescope mounted on a heavy tripod,
The comet discovered by him last
week is his third. The first one,
discovered in June, 1907, {8 the most
famous of the three,
When asked about
Mr. Daniel said:
"Of course, while the new comet
appears about three times as large
as the earth, according to measure-
the new comet
one-thousandth part of the
Gas-
part of fit. Yet it seems to
“We know its orbit now and from
which is about 25,000
and that it was at
or nearest the sun on December 5
last, about a whole day before it was
discovered.”
diameter,
announced
immediately
sentence of
provisions of
Anti-monopo-
the foreman
the court
the maximum
fine under the
so-called Donnelly
of this state. The
first under the new law and
will probably be fought to the high-
court in the state
posed
$5,000
the
ly Law
est
tence-——Counsel For Defense Says
The Verdict Is The First Step In
The Ultiate Breaking Up Of The
Corporation, °
New York (Special).—The Amer-
fcan Ice Company, one of the
Ing in the necessities of life,
found guilty in the State Supreme
Court of restricting competition
was
amount of the fine imposed as in the
intimation made by John B. Stanch-
finding against the company,
he sald, supplies 8,000,000
customers, would mark the firs
in its ultimate dissolution,
The American Ice Company,
though tried under the laws of New
York, was incorporated under the
a
i
i
{
ly of the sale of ice. The Jury was
out one hour and forty minutes and,
SKELETON IN ASYLUM ATTIC.
Grand Jury Urges Superintendent's
Dismisal As Incompetent,
Newark, N. J
ton in the attic
asylum here
a witness that
down today a pr
A skele-
the county insane
proved effective
» grand jury hande
sentment characte
izing Dr. Danie! M. Dill, the supe
intendent, as incompetent and recom-
mending his removal
Dr. Dill was unable
the skelet
woman woman,
his books, has died
tion since
The grand
if the skel
mate
Special)
of
80
1
“
I
to account
is that of
accordin
the
which
g
i
inatita-
in
that
of
not
it that
hat the
tion be continued
EARTHQUAKE
On The
But No
Washington,
pevere earthqu
IN GUAM,
Island Wrecked,
Casaulties,
D. C. (8pecial).
ake occurred at
at 9 A M. causing considerable
damage, according to a cablegram
received st the Navy Department.
The Women's and Children's Hos)i-
tal was wrecked. There were no
casualties.
From the wording of the dispateh,
which shows few details, it would
see;n that the principal damage
curred to the hospital, which is
scribed as untenable. It will require
$6,000 to repair the building.
The population of Guam is about
10,000, practically all natives. The
Navy Department maintains a coal-
fing station there.
Cost 800,000 To Do Nothing.
New York (Special). —It cost the
eity of New York $90,000
complish nothing A special
missioner “investigated” Bird
Coler as president of the Borough
of Brooklyn, declared him incompe-
tent and recommended his removal.
Governor Hughes, however, in view
of the fact that Coler's term expires
December 31 next, took no action in
the case. The amount of money ex-
Hospital
de-
and later taken over by the Ameri-
Ice Securities Company, of the
same state, after a drastic reorgani-
zation
The company has
York, Washington, D
Philadelphia, and
smaller
plants in New
C., Baltimore
has absorbed
many along the
Hudson River and in the Maine ice
Before W N. Oler was
president of the compa
the ected
3
companies
Wesley
80y.,
BREAD CHEAPER ABROAD,
Understand
In
Can't
Costs More
Englishman
It
Why
Chicago,
Special ‘08st of bread
zie to
more
10
rstand
MINERS’ ORGANIZER GUILTY.
Albert Ryan, Who Killed Two,
Pleads That Way In Los Angeles.
loos Angeles, Cal (¢ i The
trial Albert Ryan, formerly an
organizer for the Western Federa-
tion of Miners, who killed two men
and wounded a third in a local ho-
tel on the night of July 15, came to
an abrupt ending in the Superior
Court here, when Ryan Jleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree
Judge Davie must sentence the
prisoner to hanging or life impris-
Rvinniall
wo PeCial)
of
Ryan was adjudged sane by a jury
Miller and
E. Snyder
APPLES vs. THE COCKTAIL.
Yuletide Thirst,
Des Moines, lowa (Special) — Dr
Samuel Bally, of Mount Ayre, a
prominent member of the National
Medical Society, declared before the
State Horticultural Society that ap-
ple eating kills the taste for cock-
tails and other strong drinks.
He says it is the meat eaters who
to strong liquors,
-eating should be en-
solution of the liquor
he voted against allowing it,
Eays $100,000,000 In Skins,
Washington, D. C. (Special) —Im-
portations of hides and skins into
i
proximately one hundred
These articles, therefore, rank see-
ond in value in the list of Importa-
tions. Sugar is the one article the
importation of which exceeds in val-
we hides and skins. In 1900
000,000 pounds; this year
exceed 500,000,000 pounds.
it will
Nearly
+ The society indorsed his theory
OIL: TRUST ASSESSED 842,060,
Costs Of The Government's Prose-
cution Of It.
st, Louis (Special). -- Costs
against the Standard Oil Company
in the United States Cirenit Court
by the Government,
This does not include $4.000
ago. The oll company was relieved
RED CLOUD, THE
BIG CHIEF, DEAD
Was Leader of the Sioux Tribe
For Years.
WAS THE GREATEST OF INDIAN CHIEFS,
The Whites He
As The Fiercest
Leaders—Was Cornered
Became Known
And Boldest Of
In 18469
vation, Where He Passed
Rest Of His Life,
| Washington, D. C. (Special).
| Red Cloud, the famous old Sioux
Indian chief, is dead. This informa-
{ tion
Brennan,
was received
of the Pine
Agency, who is in Washington
tending the meeting of those
ested in the education of the Indian.
Red Cloud the old type
{of Indian. years old
and for the 25 years had lived
at the Pine Ridge Agency
Red Cloud, like 80 many
| nation's great men, was born
{ seurity, and by sheer force
bravery and intelligence rose,
by step, to be the chief of the great-
est, most warlike and most
tribe of American
{30 years’ war with the
1845 to 187 Red
known fiercest and boldest
{of the and it was in
| those years that he gradually work.
{ed his way forward until he was
recognized as the big chief of all
i Sloux bands and tribes
And the old man has been a diplo
mat of rare _ability also, and in
jcouncils and meetings has ruled his
i people and gained his points in a
manner which many white political
bosses might well envy Never a
| forceful speaker, Red Cloud always
employed some first-class orator
represent him in debate, and even on
i the trips he made to Washington in
ithe Interest of the Indians Red
i Cloud always refrained from making
set speeches jut with his counsel
he instructed his mouthpiece |
{what to say and how
points under conside:
woe unto man wh
i Broke His
Red Cloud
did
Ridge
belonged to
He was
past 210
56
of
in
of
the
will,
Savage
In his
whites, from
Cloud
Indians
became
as
She
ux leaders,
§
LO
to
ation
the failed
Never Word,
When
whites he
ability
wind
Descending
death
is forays ag
posts, killir
ing immigrant
compatriot of
Tall, Standing
Man Afraid
Riba
Elk, Ame
of His Ho
Girl Stenogranher Burglar,
Los Angeles
girl
name o
a burglar said
| confessed ies, saving
bad lost her position and was f
| to become a burglar to avoid starva.
{ tion The girl sail she came here
{ from Buffalo, N. Y., recently and
that her home waa in Titusville, Pa
Cal. (Special) A
the
ag
she
she
oreed
Blend who ives
wrapher,
Mary Moll,
The
two robber
gs
Waa rrested
aelectiy
a
ig
&
WASHINGTON
| BY TELEGRAPH
i
Congressman Moore urged the
House Committde on Rivers and
Harbors to begin the inland water-
ways project by acquiring and im-
proving the Chesapeake and Dela-
| ware Canal,
| Surgeon General Torney
i that, though the hookworm
| prevails among Southern
! the efficiency of the Army
much affected thereby.
A number of callers urged upon
| President Taft the appointment of
Judge Lurton as associate justice of
the Supreme Court.
President Taft discussed the legis:
lative program with Speaker Cannon
and Vice President Sherman.
Former Senator Blackburn resign
ed as a member of the Isthmian
Canal Commission,
{President Taft pardoned Frederick
reports
disease
recruits,
is not
i
f
gking, half of them
the British East Indies.
from
Flew 44 Miles In 53 Minutes,
Paris (Special). —Mauriee * Far.
man, a brother of Henry Farman,
. the aviator, made what is claimed
straight line of record length.
eending at a suburb of Versailles in
a biplane of his own construction
Farman flew to Chartres,
Of 44 miles, In 52 minutes,
f
furnished to
ment's attorneys,
the
Homicide After Hunt.
Pensacola, Fila. (Special) After
N. Y., National Bank, who is serving
ia term for making false reports.
A bulletin of the Department of
| Agriculture shows that the forests
of the United States contributed
$90,000,000 to the country's exports
:
|
Critehfield,
near Boniface,
well-known
quarrovied
ly killed.
ght over the di-
Critehfield drow
Seaborn
They began to fi
vision of the game.
.
ner's jury.
*
| President Taft spoke at the open-
{ing session of the National Rivers
{and Harbors Congress and éautioned
| the delegates against asking Con-
gress for a bond issue, '
! The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission i(ssued an order fixing the
rate for hauling brick from the Cen-
tral Trae Association territory to
the Atlantic seaboard.
‘SURGERY ROBBED OF 115 TERRORS
Prof. Jonnesco Shows Three
Painless Operations.
| Fifey Surgeons And Physicians Of
New York itness Administra
tion Of Stovaine And Strychnine
To Patients Who Undergo Oper-
ations While Conscious And Feel
No Pain Or Distress——Severe Test
For Roumanian's Theories — In A
New York Hospital,
*
little
lay on
York.
than ©
New (Special) .--A
years old,
operating table at the hospital
the New York Society for the
Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled
Around the table were 60 physicians
and surgeons, among them the
known of their profession, Jonnes-
co, the Roumanian surgeon and
| apostle of painless surgery, stepped
{up to the table, smiled reassuringly
at the little chap, patted him
the shoulders, and gently turned him
jon his back. The boy smiled brave
ly back at the surgeon and the New
| York medical men leaned forward
‘a trifle, watching intently Jonnes
| co was giving a d¢ monstration of his
theories
The
gverin
BY¥Trin
boy, less
the
of
On
slim hypodermic
moment in
He pressed
boy's
needle
ge glittered
Houmanian's
the point of
low down on the spinal
boy flinched and the
looked at each other
ed less than two minutes, then
ed to Dr. Virgil P. Gibney retiring
to give Dr. Gi ney elbow room,
Dr. Gibney, r ortho
pedic specialist, of the
boy's right foot use
i the knife It was
paralvais The boy's right leg was
crippled and useless. It was nec-
essary to make incisions around the
Achilles tendon and stretch it In
{ such cases ether is used customarily,
for the operation is so delicate and
of
for
hand
the
a
a
the
it into back
n. The
men
p colum
medical
Jonnie
8CO walt-
bow-
a& celebrated
took hold
and began
A Cas«
fo
of infantile
be obtained to prevent movement on
{ the part of the patient and to
away with suffering
While Dr
swiftly and
talked
watching
conscious
Gibney's
surely,
among then
the boy who
his |
Jonnesco
ex pl
operation
hands moved
men
while
ectly
dical
Barf
yer:
face co
spoke
reed ,
ereg by
UBOS
AVIATION PRIZES ANNOUNCED,
wil
Sums To Winners
Angeles
Different
Los Give 850.000 In
Special)
the
barge of the aviation
be held there January
O next of the orizes to
The 1 total prizes
00, and among the stakes hung
£10,000 each
prize 210.000
first spherical
leaving the Los
Angeles aviation fleld and arriving
at any point on the Atlantic Coast
in one continuous flight
Another prize of $5,000 is offered
for any spherical balloon breaking
the present world’s record for dis-
tance Other prizes for spherical
balloons are for a continuous flight
from Los Angeles to any point east
of the Mississipp! River and for
(breaking the record made by Dick
be
Brat of HE
are two of
grand
to th
capacity
A
fered
of any
of is
of-
balloon
November 23 last flew
Angeles over the
Mountains
s which on
from Los
Nevada
Arizona
A prize of $10,000 is offered for
to a point in
flight between Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
meet In Los Angeles.
¥ — - w—
New Italian Cabinet.
Rome (8pecial).—<Baron Sidney
Sonnino, the ex-Premier, who was
place that of Signor Glolittl, has
made a tentative selection. Unless
unforseen difficulties arise, the new
cabinet will include Admiral Bettolo,
Luigi Luzzatti, ex-Minister of the
Treasury; Deputy Martini, Signor
Salandra, ex-Minister of Finance:
Finnocchlaro Aprile, ex-Minister of
Justice, and Deputies Wollemborg
and De Nava.
Boy Hanged By His Collar,
Spartanburg, 8. C. (Special).
With the band of his jacket collar
caught in a small hook in the door,
S-year-old W. M., Pendleton was
found dead from strangulation in
the bathroom of his home. It ia
supposed that the boy climbed on a
chair to reach a towel and fell off,
the collar of his jacket catching on
the hook. The boy was the son of
Rev. W. H, K. Pendleton, who came
here from Wytheville, Va,, to become
rector of the Episcopal Church of the
Advent, i
A GOOD REPORT
Statements Never Obtained at
Same Time Before.
pletes Compilation Of
Which Are
Of Banks Have More Than
bled Since 1900—Increase In
sources Of 8 Per Cent,
Dou
C
of
jcapita of population, the
i stitutions of the Eastern or
{ Atlantic States lead the country. The
i New England Btates next with
18423.60 per capita: the Pacific
{ States are third with 47.7 the
Middle Western fourth 64
the Far W 1 fifth wit}
{ the Southern sixth with $7
the island essions
$6.22 per capita
The U
shows
if 8
OF 9
D.
resources
(Special).
¥
ng in-
bankin
Washington,
| With
total 450.1%
Middle
COme
€ “a
HORS
po
nited
banking r
237.24, an |
Be included 1
to $2156.37
| These comparisons
of a remarkable report
by the
sion, giving
which
3
i
Blons
Ns
: Pe
not Cover
Only
incorpora
i ter in the
the first
rican banking
)f stats
of
tin
all class
ional, state
and trust
the country at a
the close of bu
1809 The Comy
i rency gets such
rom the national
bank com
ant
comnp:
| slate
New York
we i
wi
leads East,
£6 "
York
£21, 100,000,000,
s pr
e
Resources
1
7 Mm
i gd trust
resources al
reach the 1 Pe
100. 000.000 A i
the resources and 1
loans of $11.373.0
§4,614,000,-
$2.562.000..
of
toial i
lishments
$21
vais of
shows
vestments in bonds, ete
000: due from banks.
000; cash on hand (including $509.
in gold coin and certifi-
$1,432.000,000; other re.
$1.084.000,000: capital,
surplue and profits,
£1.835.000.000" due to banks,
$2,484,000,000; deposits (including
government deposits), $14.106,000.-
000; other liabilities, $870,000,000.
Of the deposits $6,856,000 are sub-
ject to check: $4.526,000,000 are
(savings deposits: $1,212,.000,000 are
jon time, and £625,000,000 consist
of demand certificates,
Following the special reports from
{the banks, a supplementary inquiry
was made, covering 18.245
tions, relating to
deposits, depositors, interest
ete. The total deposits in these
banks on or about June 30 were
[| $13,505,000,000, credited to over
{25,000,000 depositors or deposit ac-
counts, ranging from $1 upward.
of ABO
abilities
G0 6400
000.600
cites),
sources,
$1.800,000,000:
| Commissioner Blackburn Resigns,
Washington, D, C. (Special). —-
It was officially announced at the
War Department that former Senge
tor J. C. B. Blackburn had re-
signed as a member of the Isthmian
Canal Commission, and that his res.
ignation had been accepted by Presi.
dent Taft, effective December 4.
Took $3,180; Got Six Years,
Columbus, Ohio {8Bpecial), «
Grayson H. Osborne, former em-
ploye of the Huntington National
Bank, of Columbus, who confessed
to embezzling $28,000, and Donald
C. Abbott, formerly employed by tho
New First National Bank, of Colum.
bus, who confessed a shortage of
$3,150, were indicted by a Fedoral
grand jury, Abbott appeared In
court later and pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to the Fort Leaven-
worth penitentiary for six years.
THE CHARGES OF CAPTAIN LOOSE
Dr. Torp Says Latest Accusa~
tions Are Fiction.
| Rector Of University Of Copenhagen
Willing To Examine Documents
Prepared By Loose And Dunkle——
Both Men Allege They Helped To
Prepare Fake Data, And Navie
gator Asserts The Explorer Never
Reached The Place
No Credence In Report.
Pole—Danes
Dy
of
Copenha
f the Up
Torp,
Copens«
8 publish
gen
rector UversiLy
said that the
i the York
| Dr. Frederick A. Cook are based on
Nevertheloes he add-
the offer 10 €x~
by
Piney
0
charges
| hagen,
ied in New Times agaiust
fiction
he would
the documen
which the
to C
gecretra
pure
ed, accept
alnine rcpared
Loose
€x-
presi
navigation;
meteor
A. Eng-
Observ-
davite of
ed Dr.
ation
Lon-
here
circles
Te.
per-
the
ro 5y W
SPONGE IN BODY FOU YEARS
Nn
To
Couldn't Fin
Surgeons Ren It An
Forg
Then
rot
me
1 Ie,
Mrs
ration
found
18¢ Wom
ration was
TO EXAMINE DR. COOK'S DATA
Scientists Delegated To
Receive Docnments,
Danish
Copenhage
P, ! ‘niversity of Copenha
Chancellor 8a en and
Prof. Elis Stromgren have been dele
gated receive the North polar
records of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, or
behalf of the university These rec
ords are being brought here by Dr
Cook's secretary, who arrived wo
Christiansand
Ag soon as the papers are in the
possession of the men named, a con
sistory will be held at which a com
| mittee of oxamination will be ap
{ pointed. The president of this com
| mittee will be Professor Stromgren
| and the other members will be made
| up of scientists and explorers, suc
as Commodore 1levgaard
Tar
i OF
Oo
er
E lomons
cn
£ 5
iO
coi
| CHURCH IN GROCERY BUSINESS
| Hopes To Pay Debt With Profits Of
The Store,
Evansville, Ind. (Special). — The
j congregation of the Twelfth Avenue
| Baptist Church, in this city, bas
{ opened a grocery store and mes!
market in a building near the church
land the profits of the sales will be
used to pay off the church debt
which amounts to about $4,000. The
pastor, Rev. F. G. Burdotte, has ap
pealed to the membors to patronize
the venture,
A A A,
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE.
Cann
A consignment of $250,000 gold
was engaged for export to Brazil,
“Can't increase wages without in
creasing freight and passenger rates,”
says President Brown of the New
York Central
Philadelphia as a port shows ap
Lhandsomely, In November the im.
ports wore $7,883,748 against $6.
021,341 last year, while exports, were
$8,685,066, compared with $7,704,
417 da 1908, Th