A NEW GIBRALTAR
AT MANILA BAY
Corregidor Island Prepared For
a Long Siege.
COMPLETE PLAN OF PERFECT DEFENSE.
Te Be Prepared Far War In The
Pacific The Government Has
Made This Island As Impreg-
nable As Possible, So That It May
Be A Place Of Refuge For Women
And Children Should The Philip.
pines Be Attacked,
C. (Special). —
the Pacific is the
War Department,
is
in
D.
on
the
Washington,
Preparedness
watchword of
and its most
the creation of
the Philippines.
Experts speculating as to the pos-
sibility of war, even in the remote
future, have agreed that the first
understanding of an enemy in the
Pacific would be to seize the Philip-
pines and Hawaii. This seems also
to have been the judgment of of-
ficials of the War Department, and
they have met the situation, so far
as the Philippines are concerned, by
constructing at entrance to Ma-
nila Bay a stronghold bellevel to
be able to wi and any force.
Corregidor nd has been put in
defense and pro-
visioned ible siege of three
years. Four h guns
the sea approaches, and batteries of |
rapid-fire guns now cover every land-|
ing place It Is the I of the
government to place the entire mili-|
tary force in the islands,
with all the women and children, on
the island at the first sign of trouble
Artesian wells have been
different places on the preci
land, giving an adequate
ply, and huge tanks have
pleted at high points, insuring §
ity pressure for fightin
protected points wars
been erected for the
supply of food already
there.
The plan
authorities in
abandon every
archipelago
which woul
enemy and
and resident
with the gove
island =»
of a re
Corregide
four miles
a half
striking
a new
expression
Gibraltar
the
0
nrotect
Prolex
purpose
together |
sunk at]
or
B
fire
houses
three years’
accumulate
volvaos
evolved
the event
the new
Hook was
desire to
effectiven
due
was
eoneret
defens:
bori
have
ir alr
gun test
was d
the
on the
of
battery
Tenses
i828 rep
withs!ood
it
most
TO GREET ROOSEVELT,
Pittsburgers Plan To Sail To
And Escort His Ship In.
Pitts
pla
loosevelt
Nea
are
approaches
Americus Clut
Republican
Mayor M:
ranging the
of the club
special train NOW
ehartering
legat 1 0046 4 g
to sail out about 24
the Roosevelt
port.
fe plar
nd
inde
York
amer to carry
It is plann«
hours and me
ship, escorting it t
Danced Mare Than 14 Hours.
Ban Francisco (Speeial).—8ix men
and glx women were taken to a hos-
pital after dancing without interrup- |
tion for 14 hours and 41 minutes at
the first annual San Francisco “danc-
ing Marathon." The six couples will |
divide $140. The legs and backs of |
all were badly swollen, and three of |
the women will probably be is the
hospital for a week or more,
Robbers Escape On Handear,
Edna, Kan (Special) .——Robbers
dynamited the safe of the Bank of |
Edna, secured an amount estimated |
at $3,000 and escaped on a hand- |
car after hanging shots with a!
number of citizcns,. One of the eiti-
zens was it, but it is believed he
wig not gerious'y wounded.
©X
sh
Bentenced For Ninety-Nine Years. |
Kansas City, Mo fal) Wil.
liam Jackson janitor charged !
with attacking six young white girls,
was convicted in the Criminal Court |
and sentenced to 99 years imprison |
ment, Former Governor A H.
Burke, of North Dakota, was fore- |
man of the jury,
{Ene
<3]
negro
Harriman Fsiate 8140,000,000,
N.Y (8pecial) ~ State
Comptroller Willams has recaivel!
$675,000 in partial payment of the |
trarsfer tax on the estate of the late |
Edvard H. Harriman. |
The transfer bureau of the Comp-
troller’s office estimates that the final
settlement wi'l be made on an estate!
of about $140,000,000
The payment just made is on $71 -
000,000
Albany,
ENGLISHMENNIOB MR. PATTEN
Make It Hot For Him In English
Cotton Exchange.
Hostile Reception Led By Men Who
Had Lost Large Amounts As A
Result Of American Speculator's
Operations In Chicago——On Arriv.
ing In Liverpool He Is Given
Friendly Greeting On The Corn
Exchange—Irritated Over Treat.
In Manchester,
London (Special). —~A hostile de-
monstration on the floor of the Cot
ton Exchange at Manchester and one
directly contrasting it for friendli-
ness on the Corn Exchange, at Liv-
erpool, were met with by James A.
‘atten, the Chicago wheat and cot-
ton operator,
In the first, Mr. Patten was mob-
bed and probably escaped injury
only by being rescued by the police;
in the latter he was greeted with
cheering and other manifestations of
friendliness,
The brief
ment
r
vacation in England of
and he made up his mind
over to Manchester to see the
and visit the cotton exchange.
As soon as Patten appeared
the floor of the Cotton Exchange
broker shouted “Patten!”
hostile cries were raised
was filled with “booings"
ings mingled with an
cheer,
Amid
toward
quickly su
mob
thither, ag
city
on
and
brokers rushed
the American, who was
rrounded by threaten-
and jostled
the pressure
throngs behind carried those in e
circle up and down the floor of the
in an exhausting scrimmage.
After a while, the brokers exert-
thelr energies in a common di-
rection made a final rush and drove
wheat king out of the door and
into the street. The bus of
exchange was suspended
dreds of men left the pit
lowed the speculator into
Street, whe crowd
goon bled
At
+
reconti
the din the
a
hither
th
ia
the
hun-
to!-
iness
and
and
Bank
re another was
assen
thi
a
that wh
ESTRADA SEERS PEACE.
LE
Intervene,
Revolutionary Leader United
States To
3
head of 1)
T 3
BIG TOBACCO FARNINGS,
Trusts' Profits One Half OF Its
$40,000,000 Capital,
New York (Special)
Company, which
Federal suit for its
the United
public
can Tobacco
fighting
dis-
the
before States
nade
report for 1909,
the socalled
earned 503%
its an-
which showed
Toba Trust
per cent, on
common stock
The net earnings of
were $30,448,384, an increase of
$1,743,979 over last year, which,
after deductions and preferred stock
dividends, left a balance of $20,327
296, The report shows that
company now has a total surplus
of $42,499,140, an amount
than its issue of common stoek
Supreme Court,
TCO
the "Trust"
KILLED IN AUTO CRASH.
Former Virginian Meets Death
Gary, Ind.
Gary, Ind. (Special)
Milteer, secretary of a realty com-
pany of this city, was killed: John
Gelsel, whose home is at Wiimot,
was seriouslly injured and
two other men were slightly hurt In
an automobile accident here.
Dr. E. E. Geisel, a son of John
Geisel, and Ora MeNleco, a chaleur;
were the two who received minor
injuries,
Miltneer is survived by a wife and
He moved here from
Whaleyville, Va., about two years
ago,
GAYNOR DEFINES LARCENY.
OfMceholders’ Homes,
New York (Special), -—- Mayor
iaynor sent to Distriet Attorney
Whitman the blllg rendered the city
ment expenses. When the Mayor
waa asked If it Ig a erime for a city
official to have a city-paid teiephone
in hig home, he answered that iar-
econy in a crime.
17 MEN ENTOMBED
BY WALL OF FIRE
Many Miners Are Killed at
Wilkes-Barre.
FAINT HOPE OF RESCUE BEING MADE.
Accident Occurs In The No. 5 Shaft
Of The Lehigh And Wilkes-Barre
Coal Company-—Explosion Of Gas
Causes A Heavy Fall Of Rock—
Between And Seventeen
Men Are Entombed And There Is
Little Hope For Them.
Seven
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
From 7 to 17 men
in the No. 5 shaft of the Lehigh ani
Wilkes-Barre
(Special).
were entombed
Coal Company, near
as the result of a terrific
plosion of rock and wall of fire and,
at present, there appears to be little
hope of rescuing them alive, |
The explosion shortly
after o'clock in plane,
here, ex-
occurred
the No. 12
4
men were
ng engine
week and the
opportunity of
tog
the explosion is
known, but it is bell that
men struck an unknown umula-|
tion of gas with their
The explosion was
heavy the
tended me
plane,
{ A fire fighting
ed and at 11
of hose was sent down |
in effort play water
fire There a good
water, but the firefighters
{ dicapped by deadly dam
| gathered in large
None of the offi
where a gang of putting |
together a holsti The |
mine was idle all
were taking this
ting the
What caused
ng
men |
put
engine ether
not
i}
vos i
and
for s«
one
distance
force was
o'clock a thous:
nto
an to
was
fire
1s was able
tell the number of men who wer
the workings when explos
curred.
The
that none
been reached
spreading Th
that if the mer
by the explosion that they
reach a
effort
the
offic
Of }
he entombe
fu
{ that
o
“
1¢y
had no
able to
Every
the
opinion
reaching them are
reach
eral
Harre
Viley found
germs an old dollar
him for investigation,
Former Secretary
| Garfield stated that Mr. Ballinger, |
while commissioner of the Land!
Office, submitted to him an affidavit!
ai ed by Clarence Cunningham.
{ which he stated that
heim syndicate had no
coal lands
{ the Alaska
i Attorney General Wickersham
| rendered an opinion which siated
that foreign steamship companies
i whose vessels ply between American
porte and those abroad are
{to the corporation tax !
} The State Department received
| word from Consul Wallace at
{salem that two American women |
were fired upon by Afghan fanatics!
and wounded. |
Charles H. Evans, who asgisted |
the congressional committee in pre- |
the various tariff hills from
{ 1872 to 1897, died, aged 78 years. |
| A boatswaln and two seamen of
the U. 8. 8. Calfornia were com-
mended by the Navy Department for
{saving a woman from drowning.
| President Taft withdrew the nomi- |
nation of John M. Mulford to be
{ postmaster at Lebanon, O,
! The United States Military Acad-
jemy Bill, appropriating $1,700,000,
| was passed by the House.
{| The Indian Appropriation Bill, car.
rying about ten million dollars, pass.
|ed the Senate,
| From the joint Committee on the
| Revision of the Laws Senator Hey
| burn reported a bill providing for
{ the codification, revision and amend-
ment of the laws relating to the ju-
| dictary,
| The Department of Justice has ac.
j cepted the offer of Plerre Garven,
8:
on note
to
of the Interior)
in
in
the
1 «
=
Gugge
interest in
subject
Joeru. |
paring
A second attempt to have the
House pass a bill providing for the
| purchase or erection of embassy
bulldings in foreign capitals wag de-
foated
HIGHWAYMEN GET $5,600
lobbed in Two
Holdnps.
‘aymasters
Spring From Woods Back Of
Buggy While Paymastery Were
Driving To Mine Of Dexter Coal
Co. ~Beaten And Left
On Roadside~Horses, Buggy And
into
Insensible
Money Satchel Gone.
Ed-
and
Pa
ward McGann,
Charles N
master,
Coal
Pittsburg, (Bpecial).
paymasier,
Pommering, assistant pay-
the
Company, Pittsburg, were
attacked by highwaymen at 1 o'clock
while carrying a $4,000 payroll in a
buggy near the company mines at
Brilliant, O At a late hour
men were still unconscious at a
pital in Steubenville, O., while
murderous highwaymen, who ests
ed with the money, thought t
be hiding in the hills of /
ross the Ohlo
the holdup
Coal Company,
Frick
respectively, of Dexter
of
are
A ¢ wt
al River
the place
The Dexter
its office ir
Pittsburg,
bay
of
Le + oul notice
$1.000 reward
dead or
that
for
Of
a 144 and
aiive, ana
st Ohio, Northern
Pennsyl
catch the
thought
i
ern
and We
gtorn
to
voat
had
i 1
TELLER AND 810.000 GONE.
So Is Woman,
Connect
And Ra Police
THE WRECK OF THE MAINE
In
Historic
President Favor Of Raising The
Hulk.
{Special
delegation
Vet
favor o
; the
Havana harbor T
H
and Burn-
Wal of New
Mile nd HOV
laid the
resolutions
Hall
a
War
in
wreck
he com-
ted of Charles
Mrs Steph ne
iil and Mrs
Nelson A
t They
th
tanh
Sep.
5
i @
’
ofthe before
$
Presid © adopted at
in New
ary 20, asking for the
removal of the wreck of the Maine.
and Mre. Wall pinned upon the Pres.
ident's coat one of the ribbons which
the fa selling to raise a fund
for the wrecking work
ov
the Carnegle meoting
York,
Y Feb
sociely
—
TO ILLUMINATE TORPEDOES,
Pacific Flotilla Will Use Them In
Night Practice,
Los Angeles, Cal. (Special).—A
week of spectacular night practices
the Pacific torpedo flotilla During
practice eight torpedoes will be dis-
ing at full speed and the torpedoes
will be illuminated so that their
course to the mark may be traced
in the darkness, This week the
flotilla ig at what the men call “ping-
pong’ practice, in which the large
caliber ammunition Is supplanted by
service rifles attached to the guns
Carload Of Babies Given Away.
New Orleans (8pecial).——Wednes-
day they gave bables away in New
Orleans. A earload of the little
tots arrived here from New York
foundling and arphan asy'ume, with
an eager crowd of claimants await.
ing their arrival. In addition to
thote who had previously made sue.
cergful claims to a baby. many press.
ed about the car in the hope that
there might be some “left over,”
but those who had applied in ad.
vance got every baby in the car
THE B. & 0. MEN
WILL NOT STRIKE
Both Sides Make Concessions
and Peace Reigns.
MORE PAY FOR OVER 6,000 EMPLOYES,
After Many Fruitless
A Compromise Is Reached,
Details Will Not Be Given
Until A Few Minor Matters Are
Disposed Of-—Labor Chiefy De-
clare That The Settlement Means
Conferences
But
Out
Concerned.”
ISSUE
QUESTIONS AT
The dispute involved
over 6,000 men.
The increase
manded by the
conductors was
be but nine
The railroad
ed the inere in
fourteen per cent
The men as
andling
directly
io
ase
double-henr
lay-over sys!
trainm
1910
red
0 O00
Wamen
Chicag
Sent Hecipes To
New spaper,
Fwenty
thous-
re odered
eng
linner
a
bs
Hobs His KRtepmaother,
York
a wild
{Speci Jose ph
youth of 22,
i x 2500
while he
siripped lue
his ymother's fing
held revolver at her head, was ar
he had attemnted to
highwayman in an np-
f He nine men
and the bartender elevate their
hands with a ery Money or your
but someoné shouted “police”
shattering plate.
two bullets Farsued by
a policeman youth tursed and
fired twice, one of his bullets dan-
gerously injured a nine-year old hay
va
era
rested
play
town sale forced
to
of
11
and he fled after
glass wit
tha
ine
Thirteen Was His Tacky Number.
Junea, Alaska (Special). The
gurvivor of the 38 “miners in
the Mexican shaft of the Treadwell
mine, where a powder magagine ex-
ploded last Wednesday, is Ila Dere-
tich, who wore about his neck a
tag bearing
He ig in the hospital
at Douglas, but will soon be out.
Scolding Caused Saieide,
Maple Hill, Kans (Special).
scolding by his woman teacher was
more than Guy Moses, 14 years old.
could endure and he killed himeolf.
His parents found his body when
they went to arose him so that he
might go to school “1 don’t care
to live, because teacher scolded me,”
sald a note left by the boy.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Germany imports fruit to the an
nual average value of $22,000,000.
The average yearly slavghter of
foxes In Gormany is about 20,000.
There are in Alsace-Larraine 35
champagne factories. OF these Metis
has 15.
A cluster of rods replaces the fa
miliar mantle in a new English in.
candescent gas light,
All over Europe farmers associa.
tions exist for the handling of farm
products commercially.
¥
FOREIGN SHIPS WILLBE TAYED
An Im-
Wickersham Renders
portant Decision,
Attorney General Claims That Fore
eign Steamship Companies Whose
Vessels Ply Between American
Ports And Those Abroad Are Bub-
jeet To The Law Imopsing A Tax
On Corporations’ Incomes,
{Bpecial).—
whose
merican and
iret to the law
{imposing ax of 1 per cent. on the
n rporations, ac~
rendered by
rersham.
operating in
pay =
mm busi
Washington {.
” "
Foreign steamship companies
162% if
cording
raey
Foreign
¢
iireg
tran
BCLEEY
and
“Ame
1] con
ent le
f thelr
rs are
g& and
and
le they
United
their
ERErs
re
!
MAN GOES FREE
WOMAN TO EXILE
Revolutionists Fare Better Than
They Expected.
POOR CASE MADE OUT BY GOVERNMENT
Mme, Convie-
tion
That
Tee
Breshkovekaya's
Was Due To Her
She Wag A Revolution st
haikoveky Will Go To Great
Britian, And Mme. Breshkovaska
Exile Will Not Severe,
Confession
) Fie
The
£y end
harge
ol
VERY
nee of
VE
Was
ithe onl
eR .
3 E
SREY
lai 0d
DPUDE her
however
¢ Lhe
preach
Emperor ub
labor was
The jurors
tes Ther
ver
Bom
ovides a
escaped bard
nee] cons! lors
¥
Wi
gd the
lie
nr
pi
end surroanded
Aering congrate
1 and exchanging
al Russian fashion
lowed ¢ woman hal!
with her friends before talk
dots on Prison
deportation
provecution’s
ter discredit
himself is sory
1 rder and oth
crimes the failure of the
crown to t other witnesses
who could connect Techalkoveky ant
Mme. Breshkovskaya with revoly
tionary activity ag charged in the
indictment The woman, bhowaver
had pleaded gulity to belng a social
revolutionist. The jurors found thet
the business records introduced amp
iy accounted for . Tac halkovaky's
presence in Russia
Techaikovsky will leave
three weeks for England
| Breshkovakaya's exile. as
the experience of others,
reasonably comfortable
forthcoming from either
friends
Madame RBreshkovskaya rece! ved
her sentence unmoved. and A mo
tment later asked the correspondent
{ to rend her greetings and best Le
ito her friends in America
| New S12.000,000 U, & Boikding,
Washington. D. © { Bperiall
{bil anthorizing the construction o
(8 building in Washingion for he
Departments of State, Justiee and
Commerce and Labor was passed br
the fenate. The limit of cost in fis.
ed at $12,000,000
To End Siberian Terrors. *
St. Petersburg (Special). The
Budget Com tee of the Donma Bus
struck at the root of the system of
Siberian exile by cutting the ayrpro.
priation for the administration of
the system to a bare $34,500. The
committee admitted that the Govers.
ment had greatly reduced the num.
ber of exiles in recent years and ae
clared that the system was bad ana
th
hour
her tc the
where await
The collaj if the
| CRBe war dd:
ing of Pateul
ing fa
an
ory
ing
gh
the n
who
ife 1 mm or m
er
here in
Mme
shown by
will be
if money bk
her or her
A
mast gO.