TO RUN DOWN ASSASSINS A Night Watchman at Readloj Station Held Up. Jt POSSE PURSUES THE ROBBERS. SSM Reward Offered by the Readies. Eielte ami Aloof, lb Pennsylvania, lbs Reading aaa Un New York Catral Special Trains Waltlof la Spted to An; Point Where Crlsst la Conmlttel "WiUiamsport, Pa. (Special). It is twlieved that the same gang who mur dered William II. Clendenin, the tele graph operator in the New York Cen tral Railroad signal tower at Oak Grove and entered the Philadelphia and Steading Railway station at Allcnwood and chloroformed and robbed the agent, Jlurrell J. Hafer, are operating at ether points. Early Saturday morning John Dal ton, the watchman at the Reading sta tion in Girardville, was attacked by loor masked men, who locked him in fme of the apartments of the depot. They then searched the express rooms nd secured three valuable packages and $75 in cash. Dalton succeeded in escaping through a back window. lie gave an alarm and a posse chased the fleeing desperadoes, who escaped into the mountains. Shots were exchanged, and it is believed one of the burglars was wounded. An armed posse is con tinuing the search for them, with the liope of securing the $500 reward offer ed by the Reading Railway. Waiting for the signal that murder ers are at work, special trains stand at intervals along the three trunk line railroads of this section, ready to speed to some scene of crime as yet unsns fvected. Excitement is intense along the roads, where train dispatchers and other officials listen at the telegraph instruments for clicks that tell of some man, in a lonely tower, in peril of his life. The railroad officials and employes are determined to run down the daring land of desperadoes. To each locomotive that is held in readiness for a flashlike trip over the rails at a given call is attached one roach, within which arc detectives, heavily armed. The engineers stand by their throttles, that not a moment may be lost in getting under way, and so they will stand throughout the night if not called to move their trains. Should a train be ordered to move the train dispatchers will clear the track of all other trains and give a clear way for a fast run. The roads interested are the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Reading, and so thoroughly aroused are the people of all this section of Pennsylvania that hundreds of citizens are voluntarily out on watch along the tracks or hidden near the towers. KILLED 301 MOROS. Result al Q:o:ral Leonard Wood's Csmps'ga la Jolo District. Manila (Special). Three hundred SJoros are known to have been killed and many others were carried off dead or wounded as a result of five days' fighting in Jolo between the American troops under Gen. Leonard Wood and the insurgents. Major II. L. Scott, of the Fourteenth Cavalry, and five American privates were killed. Gen. Wood landed near Sict Lake, in Jolo, November 12. The Moros were soon located and fighting began imme diately, and continued until Nov. 17. Major Scott was taking Panglima Hasten, the Moro leader, who had been taken a prisoner, to Jolo. While en route Hasscn asked to be allowed to Bee his family. His appeal was grant ed and he thereupon led Major Scott into an ambuscade, where the Ameri can detachment was fired upon. Maj. Scott was shot in both hands. Hasscn auceeded in escaping during this unex pected attack.. The fighting look place in a country covered with swamps and rocks. The Moros were driven across the country trow Siet Lake to the town which Hasscn had made his headquarters and where it was reported the Moros were 2000 strong. The rebel position was attacked in the Bank by the American troops who oc cupied the town and inflicted a loss of fifty killed on the Moros. Hasscn with a small party surrendered. The rest of the Moros went into the swamps, out ef which they were driven on Novem ber 16, leaving 76 dead behind them. Ob November 17 the American forces renewed the attack on the remaining Moros, of whom forty were killed. The rebel forces have been literally destroyed by these operations, and Gen eral Wood says the indications are that there will be no extension of the up rising, which was handled without dif ficulty. On November iS General Wood started on an expedition against a body I 2000 Moros, who arc in the moun tains back of Tablibi. No news has yet been received as to the result of this movement. General Wood has under him two battalions of the Twenty-eighth Regi ment, one of the Twenty-third Regi ment, a platoon of Captain George S. Satley's battery, two troops of the Fourteenth Cavalry and a detachment of engineers. Major Scott assisted with a force composed of three companies of the Seventeenth Infantry, a platoon of Cap tain U. J. Rumbough'a battery and a troop 01 the fourteenth Cavalry. Settlcaaeat Reacted. Denver, Col. (Special) The miners of the Northern coal fields, in mass areting at Louisville, for the second time voted to reject the proposition of the operators for a settlement of the strike in that district. It is understood that this action is in the nature of a sympa thy strike, as the operators had prac tically conceded all the demands of the tnen. The vote is said 10 have been in supposition to the advice of the officials of the union inincworkers, who have been trying to effect settlement in the fields. About 1,500 men are affected by the vote. tVUai Psir naadcarlcd. Cleveland (Special). Floyd Rose, prominent tied man of Pittsburg, and tik bride arrived from Cincinnati hand cuffed together. Just as they were de parting lor the train after the wedding t Cincinnati four men rushed to the cab and put on the handcuffs. They gave Mr. Koae a file so that he might amuse Juimtclf en route trying to cut the chain. "i"bey told him the key had been mailed o Sue hotel at Cleveland where they in tended to atop. The pair found the key acre and were separated after a decidedly claw union of iu hours. THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER, Domestic rl. 1 . 1 a f , r n ,r ir.irii,.r1...l tiiaia 111 wv'l iiihla, 1 illicit. IV, iv, and Melvin Beck, a miner, were killed by the explosion of an infernal machine in the Vindicator Mine, at Cripple Creek, Col., and militia have been placed on guard. Six mcmliers of the Louisville Fire De partment were summoned to answer a charge that they looted the building in which a fire was raging and took valu able articles to the cnginchouse with them. Three pcrsnm were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the powerhouse of the sanitarium at Marklcton.Pa. The residence of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, was looted by burglars. The steamer Baldwin was pierced by the ice in Green Bay, Wis., and sunk. The crew was rescued. Samuel Gompers was re-elected presi dent of the American Federation of La bor by a large plurality. Warrants were issued for the arret of the former mayor and board of alder men of Grand Rapids. The transport Sumner arrived at New York with officers and troops from Ma nila. The Reading Railroad Company of fered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the men who bound, chloroformed and robhed Station Agent Hafer, of Allcnwood. l'eter Montcnson, convicted in Salt I-akc, Utah, of the murder of James R. Hay, was shot to death at the state prison. Hart P. Danks, the composer of "Silver Threads Among the Gold," died in Philadelphia at his boardinghouse. The Twentie:h United Slates Infan try left Fort Sheridan for San Francisco en route to the Philippines. The steamer Discovery, which left Nome October 14 with 31 passengers, is believed to have been lost. Fire destroyed the Park Theatre and adjacent property in Butler, Pa., to the value of $.100,000. Francis M. Drake, former governor of Iowa, died at his home, in Ccnter villc, in that State. Robbers terrorized the Town of Green Mountain,, la., and secured $1000 from the bank. Antonio Romana was hanged in Gen eva, III., for the murder of Nicholas Toinaso. Fight cases of typhoid fever are re ported to have broken out at Williams College. Fire destroyed the old Masonic Tem ple and other valuable property in Louisville. The Indiana National Bank, of Elk hart, Ind., and the Farmers' National Hank, ol Henrietta, lex., were closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the bank examiners were placed in charge. Advices from Bogota state the Co lombian people protest and appeal to the American people against the con duct of the United States government in the Panama matter. The various Eastern railroad com panies at a conference 111 New lork decided to grant a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent, on all the steel products in tended for export. Airs. Lulu VV. brennan, of Denver, Col., whose facial beauty was destroy ed by blood-poisoning, committed sui cide at the Delprado Hotel, in Chicago. fcreirn. Joseph Chamberlain, in an address in Wales, said he did not believe a tariff war would follow the adoption of his fiscal policy, but if it did come. Great Britain could get as much as on former occasions when she had the courage to hold her own. Ernest Biondi, the Italian sculptor. will model the monument to be erected by international subscription tcr the memory of Pope Leo XIII. on top of the Scnmre Visa, the highest moiint.iin of the Lepini Chain. The Italian authorities are exercised over the secret exportation of statuary ana antiques to England and the United States. A number of historical articles have been stolen from the Catacombs. In the trial of a suit bv ex-Minister Bettolo, of Italy, against Deputy Ferri, editor of a stjdalist newspaper in Rome, the lawyers got into a fight and threw inkstands at one another. Extradition was erantcd in London for Taparae and Kcbcar, the two Croatians who were arrested at Southampton for the murder of S. T. Ferguson, at West Middlctown, Pa. Over $1,000,000 has been expended in the high-speed electrical experiments at nerhn, an electric car having attained a speed of l3o'A miles an hour. Joseph Chamberlain was given a great reception at Cardiff, Wales. In his speech he declared that Wales must be prepared to defend its own trade. saying the Welsh tinplate trade had received a staggering blow at the hands of the United States through the Mc- Mnley tarilt. At a conference between the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain and Italy at London an agreement was reached on matters affecting the foreign poli cies of those nations. A man named Allen, accused of try ing to secure secrets regarding the mil itary defenses of Cherbourg, was or dered to be expelled from France. '1 he Baku oil combination, engineer ed by the Nobel and Rothschild inter ests, has added 15 per cent, to the prices of oil throughout Russia. The transfer of Russian Ambassador Ouroussoff from Paris to Rome and that of Ambassador Nelidoff from Rome to Paris are gazetted. An unknown man fired at and wound ed slightly Scnor Briesta, one of King Alfonso's tutors, in Madrid. The Socialists caused disturbances In the final Prussian Diet elections in Ber lin. Sharp criticism of Premier Dr. Von Koeber. of Austria, in a speech by Count Tisza. the Hungarian Dremier. it is feared, will further endanger the completion of the Ansglcich. Financial. Morgan's friends are again buying Steel. London is again nibbling at Ameri can securities. There were sixty-four bidders for New York's new loan of $7,000,000. The best bid for Chicago's new $., 500,000 per cent, loan was an even par. Hard to coax the public into the mar ket. "Burnt child dreads the fire." About 55 per cent, of the 1,000,000 shares of Lake Superior have paid the $3 assessment. What looked like an authoritative statement was made that the Steel bond conversion has ended. If it has it is a good bull card on both Steel bonds and the prclerred. ' The street reports arc that Standard Oil still refuses to buy stocks, but is doing nothing lo prevent the rally in prices. Delaware & Hudson is now in a po sition to compete with New York Cen tral on through traflic from Chicago to New England. I Reports were revived but denied that Ceorue W. Perkins will retire from the firm of J. P. Morjran & Company ou lanuarv 1 next. AS SPONSOR FOR PANAMA Text of the Hay-Bunau-Varllla Treaty Deala With Questions ol Sovereignly. THE INDEPENDENCE OP REPUBLIC. Absolute Control Vetted la Ihe Canal Zone Also Confers Ihe Right of New Republic to Protect Ihe Peace To Ratify Treaty on Isthmus Ntxl Month Last Born Nation Starts as One of Ihe Rlchsst Washington, D. C. (Special). The Panama commissioners, Dr. Amador and Mr. Frcderico Boyd, consulted Minister Bunau-Varilla and Mr. Frank D. Pavey, of New A'ork, the legal ad viser to the legation. It is understood that they read over the treaty signed by Mr. Hay and Mr. Bunau-Varilla and discussed its terms and provisions in detail. It met their hearty approval. The first five articles of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty deal exclusively with the question of sovereignty. In substance they arc to this effect. Article I. The United States guaran tees and agrees to maintain the inde pendence of the Republic of Panama. Article II. The Republic of Panama cedes to the United States five miles 011 each side of the canal and three marine leagues at each terminal, and also any other lands necessary to the construction or maintenance of the canal and its auxiliaries. Article III. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States the right to exercise the same power and author ity over such lands "as if it were sov ereign and to the exclusion of such power by Panama. Article IV. Ihe Republic of Panama grants to the United States the use of all the rivers, streams and waters for navigation or so far as is necessary to the construction of the canal and its auxiliaries, including purposes of sani tation. Article V. The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpet uity a monopoly of any system of com munication across its territory by ca nal or by railroad. The remaining twenty-one articles of the treaty deal for the most part with questions of administration. For ex ample, Article 6 declares free for all times the ports at either entrance of the canal, including Panama and Colon, and provides that no dues of any kind shall be imposed by the Republic of Panama on any vessel usine the canal or belonging to or employed by the united states. It provides also that the ports of Panama and Colon and others leading to the canal shall be free to the commerce of the world, and that no duties shall be imposed, except on merchandise destined to be introduced for consumption into the Republic of Panama and on vessels which touch at Colon and Panama and do not cross the canal. The Panama eovernmcnt. however. is allowed under this article to estab lish at these ports such custom houses and guards as may' be deemed neces sary to collect duties on importations destined for other parts of the repub- lit. jo me ciiueu .Mar.cs is given tnc right to make use of the ports at the two extremities of the canal as places of anchorage in order to make repairs, tor loaning, unloading, depositing or transshipping cargoes which are in transit or destined for service of the canal and other works. Article VI. further provides that all damages caus ed to private landowners by inunda tion or by the deviation of water courses, or in other ways arising out of the construction or operation of the canal, shall be appraised and determin ed by a joint commission appointed by the governments of the United States and the Republic of Panama, and the United States in turn agrees to bear sole cost of the indemnities grant ed by said commission. In another article the Republic of Panama authorizes the new Panama Canal Company to sell and transfer its rights and concessions to the Unit ed States as well as the Panama Rail road and all or part of the shares of that company. It is stipulated, how ever, that the property outside the ca nal zone owned by the company shall revert to the Republic of Panama. INFERNAL MACHINE EXPLODED. A Cripple Creek Superintendent and Miser Killed. Cripple Creek, Col. (Special). Cbas. McCormack, superintendent, and Mel vin H. Beck, a miner, were killed short ly before noon by an explosion in the Vindicator Mine. Officers of the Vin dicator Mining Co. assert that the ex plosion was caused by an infernal ma chine, and 400 militiamen have been placed on guard around the company's properties. Superintendent McCormack and Min er Beck were descending into the mine in the cage. They were the only pas sengers. When the cage reached the sixth level the explosion occurred, wrecking the cage and shaft and instantly killing both men. The explosion, which was terrific, was heard at the surface, and at first was believed to be an earthquake. I he engineer hastily reversed the hoist, but could not pull up the cage, and the bodies were recovered only after sev eral hours' work, being brought to the surface through the second com partment of the shaft. After a thorough examination of the shaft it is positively asserted by offi cers of the mining company that the explosion was caused by an infernal machine. L01I la Catacombs, Paris (By Cable). A party of tour ists had an experience of the most star tling character in the Catacombs of Paris recently. Ihe party, which consisted 01 25 persons, 10 of whom were English and American, were lost for over two hours in the underground passages in the midst ot grinning skulls and stacks of human bones. When finally they found their way out the ladies wore on the verse of collapse and all were suffer ing from nervous shock. For some years the catacombs have been recognized as dangerous. Marrtqulo's Appeal. Caracas, Venezuela (By Cable). The official press here published the text of the cable messase from President Ma'rro- quin, of Columbia, to President Castro, notifying the latter of the recent events on the isthmus ol Panama, saving 'that the "sacred cause of sovereignty and the integrity of all the republics of Latin America is one and the tame," and con cluding: "Colombia hopes that all her sisters ol Spanish America will co-ope rate with proofs of sympathy in the pa triotic work undertaken by her. Colom bit is ready lo perish sooner than aban- NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. Paoemt Mast Be Ffrs! lo Ratify. At the last Cabinet meeting it was dc' cided to make no effort to ratify the Isthmian Canal treaty here until it is ratified at Fanama. " The administration has determined that there shall lie no repetition of the failure oi Colombia to complete the rati fication of the treaty after final action had been taken by the United States Senate. The treaty will be placed in the hands ot the 1 anama commissioners now in Washington and by them it will be taken to Panama. The government there, it is anticipated, will ratify it promptly. It is expected that it will be returned to Washington bearing the seal of the Panama government earlv in De cember. President Roosevelt then will transmit the treaty to the Senate with a request for its ratification. The commission from Panama, ac companied by the Panama minister, M. rnilippc Uunau-Vanlla. was received nt the State Department by Secretary Hay. The exchanges, while informal, were most cordial, and were in English. The Secretary first greeted Dr. Amador, and then shook hands with Mr. Boyd, the otner member ol the commission, and with the Minister. Dr. Amador informed the Secretary that the commissioners had carefully in spected the llav-Bun.ni-Varilla trcatv. and desired to take this opportunity of expressing ineir entire satisfaction with its terms. Dr. Amador assured the Sec retary that no time would be lost in its ratification by the Panama government. He then paid a tribute to the services which the Panama Minister had per formed in so promptly negotiating the convention. After these felicitations the Secretary and the commissioners discussed ihe fu ture of the republic. It was pointed out by the Minister that the Junta felt that it must first accomplish the mission to which it was called by the entire people of Panama, namely, ratify the Canal Treaty, and that then it would turn its attention to the equally important though "less immediate" work of es tablishing a more usual form of gov ernment. Invites Cuba lo Join lloloa. Senator Newlands. author of the res olution annexing Hawaii, introduced a joint resolution inviting Cuba to become a State of the United States upon terms of equality with the States of the Union. It provides that Porto Rico shall become a county or province of Cuba; that all present officers of Cuba shall retain their positions until their terms expire; that the $35,000,000 bonds of Cuba shall be come the bonds of the State of Cuba, with interests reduced to .1 per cent, and 2 per cent., to be applied to a sinking fund ; that the present rural guard of Cuba shall be incorporated into the Army of the United States; that the money in the Cuban treasury shall be come the money of the State of Cuba. 1 he resolution closes with the follow ing declaration : "That the foregoing resolutions arc in spired not by a desire to annex forcibly, or to assert sovereignty over, the Island ot Cuba, or to exercise any form of compulsion ; but solclv bv a recard for the interest of the two countries and a conviction that the interests of the States composing the Federal Union and Cuba are identical, and that they can be best secured by a union under one form of government in which all shall be repre sented on equal terms and be governed by equal and undiscriminating laws, in suring freedom of trade and equality of right and privilege." Senate Committee Acts Promptly. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations authorized a favorable re port ,on the bill giving effect to the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty. J lie motion to favorably report the bill was not opposed bv anv member of the committee, and the decision to favorably report was arrived at in less than 15 minutes after the question was taken up. No effort was made to amend the bill, and it will accordingly be reported to the Senate just as it came from the House of Representa tives. The report will be made by Sen ator Cullom, as chairman of the com mittee. The only discussion which occurred n the committee apropos of the bill was on the point as to whether an agreement could be secured with the House looking to the adjournment of the extra session next week, on the condition that a time be agreed upon early in the regular session for taking a vote on the bin. 1 he members gen erally expressed themselves as willing o enter into such an arrangement and the 14th of December was named as an acceptable time for taking the vote. All the members of the committee except Senators Morgan and Clarke, of Mon tana, were present at the meeting. Off c!al Pood Standard. Secretary Wilson approved and pro claimed the official food standard which have just been formulated by the United States Food Standard Commission and the executive com mittee of the National Association of Pure rood Commissions. The com mittee of the latter organization, which met here, has recommended to the dif ferent State food departments that these standards be adopted for use in the several States. The latter in its recommendation says that the general adoption of the standards will unify the food control of the states. I his com mittee, consisting of A. H. Jones, food commissioner of Illinois; N. B. Critch- field, secretary of agriculture of Penn sylvania; R. M. Allen, secretary of the National 1'ure-rood Association, and Food Commissioners I. V. Bailey, of Oregon, and J. B. Noble, of Connecti cut, authorized its secretary, R. M. Al len, 10 omciaiiy can an international pure food congress at the St. Louis Ex position and to visit at once the gov ernments of Europe and invite them to take part. lo Ihe Departments. Major Rathbone and Herbert J. Browne were before the Senate Commit tee in reference to the objections to the confirmation of Gen. Leonard Wood. The treaty for the cession of the Isle of Pines to Cuba was favorably acted upon by the Senate Committee on For eign relations. Postmaster General Payne and Arthur Raikes, the British charge d'affaires, signed the Parcels Post Treaty with Hongkong. George A. Hibbard has been reap pointed postmaster at Boston. Lieut. G. T. P. Stone, of the Navy, was sentenced to lose 10 numbers and to be rcpremanded for drunkenness. In his report Lieutenant General Young, chief of staff, urges the re-establishment of the canteen system. Frank Bacon, a clerk in the City Post office, was removed by the order of the t'ostmaster General. The trial of the postal cases of Au- ftust W. Machen, Srmurl A. and Dil cr B. Goff, and Dr. and Mrs. George E. Lorenz, of Toledo, O., has been postponed until January 11. Senator Newlands introduced a ret olution inviting Cuba to become a state ol 1 lie United Slates. , THIRTY-0NEA1RE KILLED Big Four Freight and Work Trains Col lide Head Oa. KILLED AND MANGLED BESIDE TRACK. Entlneer Jodie, of Freight Train, linortd Orders to Walt at Mach naw, and His Train Mel Work Train at Full Speed Med oa Work Train Wert Crushed Amonj Steel Ralls and Debris ot Csrs Boiler Exploded. Tcoria, III. (Special). Thirty-one men were killed and at least fifteen in jured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a work train on the Big Four Railroad between Mackinaw and Tremont. Bodies of twenty-six of the victims have been taken from the wreck, which is piled thirty feet high on the tracks. On a bank at the side of the track lie the bodies of the victims, cut, bruised and mangled in a horrible manner. So far only twelve have been identified, the remaining being unrecognizable even by those who knew them and arc aware of the fact that they ure among the dead. All the dead and most of the injured were members of the work train, the crews of both engines jumping in time to save their lives. The collision oc curred in a deep cut at the beginning of a sharp curve, neither train being visible to the crew of the other until they were within fifty feet of each other. The engineers set the brakes, sounded the whistles and then leaped from their cabs, the two trains strik ing with such force that the sound was heard for miles. A second after the collision the boiler of the work train engine explod ed, throwing heavy iron bars and splin ters of wood 200 feet. Conductor John W. Judge, of In dianapolis, who had charge of the freight train, received orders at Urbani to wait at Mackinaw for the work train, which was due there at 2.40 p. m. In stead of doing this he failed to stop. The engineer of the work train, George Becker, had' also received orders to pass the freight at Mackinaw, and was on the way to that station. The work train was perhaps five minutes late and was running at full speed. The collision was witnessed bv Rus sell Noonan, a farmer's boys, 14 years of age, who hastened to a nearby house and telephoned to Tremont. A special train with four physicians was made up in a few minutes, and in less than halt an hour was on the scene. At the same time another train arrived from Pekin bearing Superintendent C. II. Bernard, of the Big Four, and three physicians. i he second train bore a lot of rues. and these were utilized to carry out the mangled corpses of the victims. Une ol the last bodies recovered was that of William Bailey, of Mackinaw, who had been lifted thirty feet into the air and held in place by two steel rails which had been pushed up between the engine and the tender of the work train. The workmen had been encaged in laying steel rails at different points along the track, and three of the freight cars were heavily loaded. The injured were taken to the two cabooses of the relief trains, where temporary hospitals were improvised and their wounds dressed. The dead are residents of neighbor ing towns, and the scenes about the wreck were beyond description. Wives and children of men who were missing thronged around, asking if their hus bands or fathers had been killed. 'Out of thirty-five men who constituted the crew of the work train only four are living, and two of these are seriously injured. 1 he wreckage is strewn along the track for a distance of nearly 200 feet, ind it will be twenty-four hours belore it can be cleared. RUSH BACK INTO BURNING CABIN. Frenzied Itallaas Perish Try In f, lo Sove Their Money. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). Twenty- eight bodies, charred and blackened be yond all possibility of identification, lie in ine ruins 01 wuai was once au iiauan lodging shanty, located on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 20 miles east of this city and three-fourths of a mile west of Lilly. In addition to the list of the dead there are 32 men who have been renioved to hospitals or to the homes of friends. Twelve of this number are in the hospital in this city, and several can not recover. The fire started while the men were still in bed. How it originated is a mystery. The men who escaped from the shanty alive arc very reticent about the matter, refusing to give any information as to the origin of the blaze. According to the storv of one man who escaped from the shanty, the men lost their lives through a fire which started Irom an overheated stove. CONQRESS OF MOTHERS. They Are Tiklnz Tart In the Flint Against Re:d Smoal. Philadelphia (Special). The Nation al Congress of Mothers held a special executive session here, Mrs. Frederic Schoil, national president, presiding. A call was issued inviting "representatives of the churches and of every national and state women's organization who believe the seating of United Mates Senator Smoot to be a menace to th home and to the nation to meet in tiie New Willard Hotel, Washington, on Friday, December 4, at 2 p. in. The representatives will wait on President Roosevelt in a body. The National Congress of Mothers asks that "petitions for the unseating of Senator Smoot be extensively circu lated and sent to senators during the next month." A Startling Discrepancy. Milwaukee, Wis. (Special). Experts- who have for some time been investigat ing the books of the Milwaukee county house of correction for 1002 report that the institution operated at a lost during that period of nearly $50,000. The an nual report filed with the county clerk only shows a loss of about $2,000. Par ticulars concerning the nature of the losses have not been made public. All of the county institutions are being in vestigated, and the result, it is said, will furnish much material for the grand A Consul Oeoeral't Chirjjj. San Francisco (Special). The testi mony taken by the collector ol the port under the charges preferred by Court ney Bennett, British consul gencial, against John Ferem, superintendent of the Sailors' Home here, has been sub mitted to the State Department. The allegations were that herein used his position to extort money from the own ers of British ships. According to advices from Washington, the, evidenct is to be submitted, to Congress, with the view of canceling the lease of the Home and taking it back under federal control. WAS A MINE FOREMAN'S DISCOVERY. Some Remarkable Caret Said to Have Been Made. Moscow (By Cable). Remarkable cures of consumption have recently been effected in Russia by Kisel Zag oranski, formerly a mining engineer, and now specially licensed by the Rus sian medical - department to practice medicine in cases of tuberculosis. Zag oranski has given the Associated Press an account of the origin of "his con sumption cure, from which it appears that 30 years ago he was sent to Si beria to superintend extensive mining works. The medical facilities there, were extremely limited, and Zagoranski himself attended to the medical wants of the workmen to the best of his ability. An old foreman of the mine, however, always took care of the tu berculosis cases, and almost invariably cured them. The foreman died some years ago, confiding his tuberculosis specific to Zagoranski, who continued to use it. Hearing a rumor that John D. Rockefeller, of the United States, had offered an immense prize for the dis covery of a consumption cure, he con sulted American Consul Smith, who, with his brother, W. E. Smith, began a systematic observation of the cases of several patients, especially that of an English lady, an acquaintance of the Consul, who had been given up by the doctors. She submitted to Zagoran ski's treatment, which was given under professional medical observation. At the end of a week the proportion of tu berculosis bacilli in the saliva had been reduced 10 per cent., and at the end of six weeks the patient had gained 22 pounds, and there was no trace of ba cilli observable. From being unable to walk across the room the patient regained her normal strength. This oc curred last spring, and the cure appears to be permanent. In conversation with a correspondent W. E. Smith, the brother of the Con sul, cited other equally remarkable cases. Zagoranski's treatment, accord ing to Mr. Smith, consists merely in the drinking of his specific in large quantities, together with life in the open air and observance of a careful dietary. Zagoranski says that so far as he is able to observe the treatment does not renew wasted lung tissue, but arrests the disease. At whatever stage of the disease the treatment is begun it kills the tuberculosis germ, leaving the sys tem clean so that it may build up by a careful diet. The Russian police at one lime made a strong effort to prevent Zagoranski's practice, but W. E. Smith secured him a special license from the Russian gov ernment, under which he is now operat ing. He has had many patients in Germany and other parts of Europe. Prince Oldenburg, a philanthropist of St. Petersburg, who maintains sev eral hospitals in Russia and a big san itarium in the Caucasus at his own ex pense, has offered to place three beds at Zagoranski's disposal in a St. Pe tersburg hospital. SALUTE TO PANAMA FLAG. U. S. FU(sh!p Hoists Colors of Ihe Ncn Republic Panama (By Cable). The United Slates flagship Marblchead at 8.30 a m. hoisted the flag of the Republic of Panama, and saluted it with 21 guns. The Tres Novicmbre, a gunboat 0 Panama, displaying the American flag answered the salute. The shore bat teries also fired a salute of 21 guns, which the Marblchead answered. At 10 a. m. Rea,r Admiral Glass Consul General Gudger and Com mander Phelps, accompanied by Lieu tenants Philip Andrews and S. P Trcllinwidcr, officially called on the junta. A military band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the Amer icans' arrival at ths palace and on tbe I departure from that building. Th-y were received by the members of th; junta, the Cabinet ministers and Gen erals Huertas, Jeffries, Diaz and Vargn and ineir stans. Wl h Pistol an) Stiletto. Chicago (Special). A duel between men armed with pistol and stiletto was fought in Archer avenue. When the battle- ended both the participants had received wounds which were pronounc ed fatal. Frank R'.isso, 18 years old, and Ferdinand D. Vininento, 21 years old, met in front of Russo's rooms. They had long been enemies, it is said, and without a word of warning they vushed at each other. Vininento fired as he ran, anj Russo stabbed him as he himself fell. Domestic Tragedy. New York (Special). Christ'an Ca tislni, an Austrian, shot his wife and then cut his throat. Both were taken to a hospital, where it was said their wounds were fatal. The shooting tio' place in the pre-ence of the couph's lour-ycar-ol l son. The occupants of the tenement in -hich the Catisinis lived became painsctricken-and the po lice reserves were required to keep in order a large crowd that gathered. The man and his wife were taken to the hospital in the same ambulance. The woman did not at any time faint or lose consciousiiesi. Oo Trial for K I bij His Children. Raleigh, N. C. (Special). The case against Dr. J. V. Jay, charged with the murder of his three children at Barnardsvillc several weeks ago, was called in the Sup-rior Court at Ashe ville, and a sptciaT venire was ordered drawn from which to select the jury. The case was set for trial Tuesday. The plea of the defense will be insanity. SPARKS FRO THB WIUEi The executive committee of the Na tional Woman's Christian Temperance Union elected Mrs. Cornelia Jewett, ol Chicago, editor of the Union Signal. The United Stales Steel Corporation announced that the syndicate contract for converting the preferred stock into bonds would be terminated. A letter was received by Governor Chatterton, of Wyoming, threatening his life unless he commuted the death teiitvhce of Tom Horn. Doic has issued a call to the hostt of Zion to come forward with $2,000, 000 to be invested in Zion securities The Moros in the Philippines con tinue lo cause trouble, and several weeks of fighting i indicated. Mis Emma Gebhail snd Miss Lizzie Schumacher were drowned in Ihe Del aware river at Port Jervis, N. Y. Mis Nellie Mrllenry. the actress, was badly burned while enacting a part in an Omaha theatre. f j The socialist resolutions were re jected by a vote ol 11,282 lo 2285 by the American Federation of Labor, in l'.4ion. ltt KEYSTONE STATE Latest Nevs ol Pennsylvania Told In Short Order. W. L. Mathues, State Treasurer-elect, was tendered a dinner and reception by the members of the Media Republican Club and friends to the number of 100. Congressman Thomas S. Butler was the only out-ol-town speaker. Mr, Butler, in his sneerh nf eom-ratulatinr. took occasion to predict the passage oi legislation for the deepening of the Delaware river channel. Mr. Matheus, in his speech, predicted that if the Del aware river channel is widened anil decpend that Chester will become the iron center of rennsylvania. District Attorney Lichtenswalncr de cided that in the case of the murder of Mabel Bechtcl, he will bring addi tional charges of accessories before the fact against the girl's mother, her sis. ter, Myrtha, her two brothers, Charlei and John, and her affianced lover, Alois Eckstein, all of whom are under bail, charged as accessories after the lact. He will also prosecute several of these persons for murder, but de dines to specify which he wi'll so pros ecute. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company win soon commence extensive build ing operations in Coatesville. The company purchased from H. Graham Rambo the tract of land lying between Chestnut and Coates streets and Fifth and Sixth avenues, where it will erect new passenger and freight stations. While Miss Laura B. Reaney. teach er of chemistry at the Chester High :cnool, was conducting a demonstra' lion a chemical liquid in a large bowl exploded and the blaze shot high in the room. Miss Reaney calmly called to several of her pupils to remove the bowl, which was thrown from a win dow Living in a hole in the ground and getting what he could to eat from the boys in the neighborhood has been the mode of existence of J. S. Porter, col ored, 17 years old, of Eric, for the last month. Detective Detzel discov ered his home and his hiding place, a hole about six feet deep dug in the ground. Miss Emma Gebhard and Miss Lizzie Schumacher, girls, were drowned in '.he Delaware river, Port Jarvis. They were crossing to Mattamoras, their home, in a ferry boat, which capsized. Their escort, Frank Allman, was car ried down stream half a mile and then rescued. The accident was caused by '.he breaking of the boat's cable. The Beaver Valley Traction Com pany, which operates fifteen miles of treet car lines in Beaver Valley, has mortgaged its entire holdings to the Northern Trust Company of Philadel phia for $3,000,000, and will use the money to extend the lines to meet the vVest End Road at Corapolis and the Newcastle Street Railway at Mahon ingtown. Residents at Avoca are buying lamps ind candles to burn in case the electric ight company at that place does not escind its recent order advancing the price of electric lighting 60 per cent. There is'no gas in the town. John Hornberger, a Mahanoy Valley !armer, enraged at a party of seven :respassing hunters crossing his fields, discharged a gun at them, several be ng wounded in the legs by shot. One jf the party returned the fire, wounding Hornberger on the face and arms, af er which they disappeared. The American Bridge Company will Segin the work of erecting five new jpen-hearth furnaces at the South Sharon works of the Carnegie Steel Company. The cost will be upwards Df a quarter of a million dollars. Writs are being prepared to bring back to Pottsville Victor and Filberto Paoli, who went to Italy a year age liter the murder of Ciacinto Marasco. They are already under arrest and will be tried in January. Thieves entered the cigar warehouse of L. R. Brown, at Brownstown, and stole 5000 stamped cigars. They ef fected an entrance to the building by cutting out a portion of the side wall Dragged for a half mile, close to the hoofs of a runaway team, and beneath an overturned carriage, was the exper ience of Drs. J. Harry Swaving and VV. G. Hoeffer. of Pottsville. Being wrapped in heavy blankets saved the men from serious injuries. Richard Brace, eighty-three years, a prominent resident of Ttevorton, i dead. Dr. Howard Furness Taylor, a resi dent physician at the Chester Hospital, tendered his resignation at a meeting of '.he hospital staff. Thomas Mitchell, of Coaldale, and James McGonigle, of Lansford, con tract miners, were taken to the Ash land Hospital burned as the result of in explosion of gas. John Coons, aged 22 years, of Beaver Meadow, was found unconscious in a mine and died soon afterward. His skull had been fractured, and it is sup posed he was struck in a fight. . Charles Watson, a commercial trav tler of Philadelphia, drove to Freeland, ind there dismissed the carriage and returned to Hazleton on the trolley road. In returning, the carriage wat struck by a train on the Drifton cross ing. Both horses were killed and the driver was hurled through the top of the vehicle, landing forty feet away.' Rev. J. L. Hoffman, pastor of the English Lutheran Church in Tremont, has tendered his resignation and ac cepted a call to Grace Lutheran Church, Scranton. James French, a barber, was arrested in Scranton on a charge of larceny. It is -alleged that French was sent to a house to shave a corpse and after hav ing concluded his labors pocketed $10 that had been left on a bureau. Mary Howells, aged 14 years, wal held up and robbed by two highway men on a lonely path between Maysville and Hickory Ridge. The robbers choked her into unconsciousness and stole her pocketbook. This is the third hold-up at that place within a few weeks. The milkmen of Plymouth have agreed to make no deliveries on Sun day. The County Commissioners oner a reward of $100 for the arrest of Ho mer Quarry, who is syanted for the killing of Charles Imlej at Woodbury on the night of November 7. The Enterprise Colliery, Shamokln, awned by W. L. Connell & Company, scranton, and employing between 600 tnd 700 men and boys, which was shut Jown last Thursday on account of a 5re in a vein, resumed operations. The Src has not been extinguished and may ret cause the total suspension ol oper ations. The fire started many years The Young Men's Christian Astocia tioa of Wctt Chester, which was re cently on the verge of disbanding, has received pledges of aid sufficient t- enable it to continue its work. 1
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