' 1 , ( I e s Ji a K ti iii G Hi M W fa he la' t. ;-i ( Col i. "Tl iV it I. Cm', '. Doj? i MUTINY IN ARMY IS NOW REPORTED linevitch Said to Have Wired Czar of Revolt in Manchuria. 42 OFFICERS SHOT FOR CONSPIRACY. Many Soldiers killed tr Wounded la Rumor ed Flftat-Ne Cotllrmailoo o! Story Obtain (bid at St Petenburt -Tntlr Promises A' Too Vague Cur aad Couat Wliit Fall lo Quit! Pcataots aad Werkmea. St. Petersburg (By Cable). A muti ny in the Manchurian anny'is the latest sensational rumor in this city. According to the report, the Emperor has received a dispatch from General Linrvitch telling him of a revolt among the troops, which was only Mtpprc-.se.! after a regular tight in which many sol diers wrce killed or wounded. Forty-two officers are reported to have been shot for participation in the con spiracy. No confirniaiion of the rumor is ob tainable from the officials of the War Office. St. Petersburg ( By Cable). The out look is more gloomy. The situation is distinctly more menacing. The imperial ukase on the land qttes tron just issued, air-hough it wipes out about $40,000,000 of the peasants arrear ages of debt, which under ordinary cir cumstances might have been received with joy, is anottlier disappointment. The promise of additional lands are too vague to calm the agitated, starving peasants, who in the valley of the Don nnd Volga are again marching, pillag ing, burning and murdering. The Council of Workmen's Delegates, or strike committee, is. manifestly en couraged by the extension of the "strike in St. Petersburg, various organizations, including bank clerks, telephone g;rls and some of the professional leagues, having voted to join in the movement. Moreover, it is certain that the Work men's Council has received mysterious supplies of funds, and consequently it presents a bolder frnt. The. Workmen's council returned a scornful reply to Count Witte's personal appeal to his "brother workmen." ridi culing the Government's profession of solicitude tor the workmen and renew ing its demands for the immediate abol ition of martial law in Poland, etc. The text of the reply is as follows : The Council of Workmen's Delegates expresses astonishment at the Emperor's favorite, who pe-rmits himself to call the workmen of St. Petersburg his brethren. The proletariat is not related to him in any way. Count Witte appeals to us to be com passionate ot our wives and children. The Cottncil, in reply, invites the work men to count the widows and orphans who have been added to the ranks of the workmen since tile day "Count Witte as sumed power. Count Witte reveals the benevolent intentions of the Emperor toward the working classes. The Council reminds the proletariat of Bloody Sunday. Count Witte begs us to give the Gov ernment time, and promises to do all possible for the workmen The Council knows Count Witte has already found time lo give Poland into the hands of the military executioners. The Coun cil elocs not doubt Count Witte will do nil possible 10 strangle the revolutionary proletariat. Count Witte calls himself a man who is benevolent toward ns and wishes our good. Tlii; Council declares the work ing classes have no need of the bene volence of a court favorite, but demand a popular government on the basis of sniversal, direct and secret suffrage. Count Wfcle's attempt to negotiate di rectly with the strike leaders has come to naught, although he offered conccs ions in the case of the Cronstadt muti neers in the event of their being con demned to death. Tint the leaders refivr all compromise. "All or nothing" was their response. SCHOOLGIRLS ANARCHIST'S CLL'B. Whea Discovered Ono of Them Stabbed a Constable with a Doner. Bucharest (By Cable). While en gaged in searching for a missing school girl the police of Jassy have discovered an anarchist club composed of girls from 14 to 20 years of age. Amietta Vancscu, the 16-ycar-oM daughter of a le-cal tailor, was presiding over the d liix-rations of the club, which was; held in a disused wine cellar, on the walls of which were painted in red various revolutionary mot toes. About 30 girls were present, and upon the arrival of the police all began to sing the anarchist hymn, the "Jn'ttr na'tionale." W hen the police announced that the members of the club were under arrest, the girl Vamscue rushed at one of the constables ami stabbed hint with dagexr, inflicting injuries from whi'li lie died shortly afterward. Meanwhile four other policemen arrested the rest of the girls, who fought desperately, scratching 3iid lining the men. A large quantity of anarchistic literature, printed in Roumanian and French, was discov ered jn the cellar. President Rejected Hyde. New York,( Special) Senator Chaun cey M. Depew, cn the witness stand at the insurance investigation, testified that he was ar.kcd by James Hazcn Hyde to use his influence with President Roose velt to secure him (Mr. Hyde) the Am baisadirship to Kancc; that he spoke to the President about it, and that the Pres ident said it was utterly impossible. Picture' Fall Caused Death. Patcrso-i, N. J. (Special). Three deaths ca-ised by the falling of a heavy . picture from the wall, which broke a gaspipc while the Schroede-r family was asleep. "Chris" Schroedcr, his mother, Catherine, and her gradchild, Ira La Forge, were all asphyxiated. Towa Sacked; 109 Killed. Constantinople (By Cable). A bciub outrage was perpetrated in the Pera quar. ter. The authorities will not permit par. ticulart to be tent at present. "Lead Kindly Libi,n Assailed. ' Chicago (Spccia-.). "Lead, Kindly Light," one of President McKinlcy's favorite hymns, was declared to be unfit as a song of praise and worship of God by Rev. W. A. Paltersou of Prince Ion, lnd., in an address a); the United Presbyterian Psalmody Convention. "Tli King 'Lead, Kindly Liulu,' ' he said, "may mean anything that any man may choose l- make it mean, be he Christian, atheist or Budd.iit." "Just As 1 Am" nnd "Well Meet On That Beautiful Slwre" an older hymns of a like nature wore also ookcc' rn with disfavor by several speakers, , THE LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. lIUMEHTIO Iii the life insurance investigation in New York Scn.J.or lepev was called to give any information he might possess as to the mimher of vouchers for kgal services, but his knowledge was rather limited, and many of the expenditures and signers of these vouchors he had never heard of. The National Grange, Patrons of Hus bandry, in session at Atlantic City, passed resolutions condemning the use of adulterated foods anl illegitimate profits derived from their sale. The merger of four large lumber com panies in Alabama, Louisiana and Illi nois, with a capital of $1,000,000, is an nounced. The loss from the burning of the plant of the Riverside Bridge Company, at Martins Ferry, O., w ill exceed $200.00. Governor Pcnnypackcr has appointed a commission to represent that state at the Jamestown Exposition. The receipts of the National Jewish Relief Committee in New York now aggregate $3o,(7o. Ralpha Yoorhees, of New Jersey, has given Lafayette College, at Eastern, Pa., $100,000. Judge Cann, of the Superior Ciurt of Savannah, da., placed the Southern Transportation Company, which runs n line of steamboats between Savannah and Augusta, in the hands of Tempo rary Receiver John L. Mixon, of Augus ta. Newton C. Doughertv, former super intendent of schools, and banker, of Pe oria, 111., pleaded not guilty to a charge of embezzling several hundred thousand dollars of Peoria school funds. Evidence was given in Wilkes-Barrc l a., to show that the wreck on the Lackawanna was due to the sudden death of the engineer from heart disease-. 1 he cornerstone of the McKinb y Mem orial Monument was laid with simple cere monies in Canton, Ohio. Mrs. McKin- ley was present. Mrs. August Scalise, of Warren, Ta., started the kitchen tire with gasoline. She was burned to death and set the house afire. Judge Swing, in Cincinnati, decided that John E. Madden should pay his wife $0,000 counel fee-s and $-50 a month alimony. The Rev. Dr. William Sims Knight, presielent of Carthage Collegiate Insti tute, died at his home, Carthage, Mo. Mayor Weaver has appointed Major Cassius E. Gilie'.te chief of Philadel phia's filtration bureau. The national committee in New York for Russian Jcwist relief has received to date $302,6-8. Stephen Salisbury, the wealthy phil anthropist, died at his home, in Wor cester, Mass. S. T. Ayres, editor of the Herald, of Marshalltown, la., committed suicide. A bogus eniporor is reported to be the leader of 50,000 peasants near Penza, which shows that the agrarian move ment is becoming formidable. In New York inventor Israel Ludlow's aeroplane made ' another unsuccessful attempt to fly, as a result of which Charles Hamilton, who has several rough experiences with the machine, narrowly escaped drowning in the North River. Mayor McClcllan joined Mr. W. R. Hearst in requesting the Suprme Court to grant the application for a mandamus to compel the production of the original tally sheets 1-Oil I! lei N The proposed joint naval demonstra tion against Turkey under the command of an Austrian admiral is causing more or less feeling in continental diplomatic circles, and Austria is being jealously watched. The light between the Hamburg and Bremen steamship companies is getting hotter, the Hamburg-American Line peo ple now claining that the North German Lloyd is behind the new Roland Line. General Brugcre, commander of the French Army, has been placed under 15 days' arrets for divulging a conference he liad with the Secretary of War. Temporary governor generals have been appointed for 10 governments of Russian Poland, and they will hold of fice while martial law is in force. Lloyd C. Crisconi, the American min ister to Japan, sails next Sunday on his return to the United States, The s'.nking railroad men in the Transcacausia have torn up the rails and thrown them into the Black Sea. The I icnnnn F edcral Council adopted the navy increase bill for the construc tion of six new cruisers. L'nited States Ambassador Reid and his family will return to New York for the Christmas holidays. The Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold and heir to the throne of Belgium, died at Brussels. The municipality of -Brlin will build an underground electrical railway to cost $1.1,750,000. 1 he Limed Slates cruiser Minneapolis arrived at Cherbourg a:id will sail to the Baltic. The Austrian admiral, Hitter von Jed ina, will command the combined fleet of the powers which is to make a demon stration against Turkey. The number of unemployed in Tokio and other cities of Japan since the re turn of she 700,000 men from the field is causing uneasiness. Premier Witte denied a rumor of the appointment of a military dictator which had caused a panic on the St. Peters burg Bourse. The .Moscow Railroad employes have joined the strikers and St. Petersburg last night was in darkness, the elect re plant failing. Premier Witte made an appts.1 to the workmen to return to work and addressed them as "brother-workmen." President Ca.tro has refused to pay the J sc.. urn iiisi-jiiiiicnr 01 tne 1 lumley arbi tration award to F" ranee. The Czar granted pardons to all but six of tin' Cronstadt mutineers, who have been shot. The Norwegian Parliament appropri ated $200,ocx) annually for the new King's civil lis'. King Edward, while .shooting in Wind sor forest, tripped, fell and sprained Ins ankle. 'A movement was inaugurate in St. Petersburg for another general political strike, 'lhe effort is being made to tic up the railroads. Incendiary speeches were made at meetings and circulars issued Germany has protested to Great Bri laiu and Frame against the conclusion of certain negotiations now on foot be tween those two governments and the government of Liberia. Forty per cent, of (lie employes of l.'c arsenals at the live big forts in France arc out. The streets of Brest, where trouble is threatened, are Ailed with troops. A band of counterfeiters has been ar rested at Shcbushch, Germany, who have been making a specialty of counter feiting American bills. Several newspapers in Warsaw were suppressed by the authorities. FOR A SEA LEVEL CAJiAL Decision Reached By the Board of Experts. THE AMERICAN MEMBERS DIVIDED. A Majority of Them Favored lbs Lock Caoal on Account ol lhe Smaller Cost and Shorter Time Needed to Complete lt-lhe Forelfncrs, However, Could Not Set the Practicability of Any ol Ibt Lock Plant Sugietted. Washington (Special). By a vote of eight to five the Board of Consulting Engineers of the Isthmian Canal Com mission, composed of the best engineering, talent in the world, placed itself upon re-cord as favoring the construction of the Panama Canal on the sea level. This decision represents the outcome of nearly thrre months hard work. l-'arlv in Sen t em her the engineers gathered from all parts of the world, for the President, de sirous to avail of the best talent as well as to avoid adverse foreign criticism in the future, had called upon the eov- ernments of five great nations distin guished for the successful construction of great hydraulic works to send each one of their bfst engineers to assist the American engineers in the decision of the momentous question of constructing the Panama Canal at yea level or at a greater altitude involving a system of locks. The foreigners came to Washington absolutely without instructions from their own governments and without bias, de termined to be guided to their decision solely by the facts to be presented to them in the shape of a great mass of physical data and suppleme-nted by sev eral projects, notably that upon which the French Panama Company worked so patiently for more than a decade; that of the First American Panama Commis sion; that e.f M. Bunau-Yarilla, the French engineer who was in charge of the canal works in the last days' of the French adminstration, and that of Lindon W. Bates, the Chicago civil engineer who was connected with great enterprises on the Nile and elsewhere. The Americans for their part were acquainted with the main featurs of these projects before the board of engineers met in its first session. Ne've-rthclcs they joined in the study of physical data, and with their foreign col leagues went over countless blue prints and maps, went to the isthmus and scanned every inch of the route of the proposed canal, and had made up their minds when the board reconvened in Washington, aliout 'the beginning of this month, as the type of canal they favored. It was not until last Tuesday, however, that anything in the nature of a decisicv vote was taken; and that, after all, was an indirect test. Just what that propo sition was cannot be stated with absolute certainty, but it is conjectured that the issue was wlvcther or not a lock canal of a certain type should be constructed. At any rate, the vote disclosed the fact that a majority of the eight American members, under the lead of General Ab bott, was strongly in favor of a lock canal. The foreigners were airainst the partientlar type mentioned in the proposi tion, but it was not clear that at that moment they were opposed to the whole proposition of a lock canal. The real test came Saturday, and the time between Tuesday nnd the meeting Saturday was consumed in some very strong presenta tions on the part of the majority of the American delegates to influence their foreign colleagues to accept ono of the other lock propositions. lhe Americans however, were not unanimous, for there is reason to bchve that three of their number, probably General Davis and Mr, Parsons and Mr. Burr joined the foreign delegates in this last vote, which recorded the board as favoring the sea-level canal, FIVE PERISHED AT PRAYER. Dwellers Trspped lo a Burning Building In New York. New York ( Special). At least five persons were burned to death in an Ita! lan tenement house fire at 221 East Seventy-third street The house was six floors high, and the sleeping tenants on the live upper floors were made priso ners by flame, with the ground floor a roaring furnace beneath them. Three of those who lost their lives were kneel ing in prayer when the fire reached them, The bodies of three women and two men were 'taken from the stairways be tween the second and third floors. The police believe that the fire was staried by an incendiary. It began in a lie-ap of rubbi.sh at the bottom of an air shaft. The lessee of the limine told the po lice that the Black Hand Society liad recently sent ' rum letters demanding $2000. Although the demands did not state what the penalty was to be for re refusing to pay the money, the police have begun an investigation on the belief that the fire was started by the writer ot the letters. A policeman was the first person to see the tire. He ran into the building, pounding on the hall doors all the way up to tlie sixth floor to awaken the ten ants. The fire followed him so swiftly that when he reached the top floor he was obliged to semi the tenants there out to the fire escape to saw them from suf focation. When the fire department arrived with its ladders nearly every one on the fire escapes was kneeling in prayer. Men stood with their arms full of personal posessions, while their wives fought un aided to protect children from being trammed by the crowd or suffocated by smoke. ' Every one on tine fire saved by the firemen. escape was Threw Her Boy (Jut ol Window. New York (Special). A cable mes sage from Kishenef describing the misery in fhat section of Russia was received by the State Bank here. It reads: Colossal distress. Outside Kishenef hundreds of village Jews ruined. In the town of Kalarasch, with large commer cial interests, near Kishenef, 300 houses burned down, boo families reduced to poverty, 3,000,000 roubles ioss. Help ab solutely necessary. The telegram was sent by Parlmutter & Kingman, Kishenef bankers. Glass For Wounds. London (By Cable). Dr. Avmard writes to the Lancet advocating the sub stitution of glass for lutt in dressing wounds. He describes the experiment with a thick window glasn, the edsges of which were ground smooth. H smeared the glass with carbolic oil and applied it 10 a wound, which healed quickly with out leaving a' scar. The surgeon c in tends that his nu1. hod rrsulu in an ipi mens saving in the cost of hospital practice. It is painless and the wound heals twice St quickly. Jt also enables tl't wourm 10 ne examined without removing ih dressing. NEW YORK AS SEEN DAT BY DAT. Nw York Citt, N. Y. Anson Tlielps Stokes, the millionaire philanthropist, ha announced to lhe So ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers that he has succeeded in so im proving his floating fort as to cure its instability and render it by far the strong est fighting shin in the world. Mr. Stokes has christened his new monster the Ultima. It is 270 feet long 100 lect liroad, has a displacement of 30, 000 tons (twice that of the greatest battles-hip has 10,000 horse-power, and can steam, under firced draught, eight and one-fourth knots an hour. It will carry two 15-inch guns, 16 12-inch guns and 20 3-inch guns. Ivach of the 15-inch guns win weigh 1,15 tons, or as much as the famous 16-inch guns on Sandy Hook. Thus equipped, Mr. Stokes said, the Ultima could destroy any battleship in the world before the latter could get close enough io bring her own guns in range. v ,? As a result of racing, an empty train on the Second Avenue "L" ran into an other train at One Hundredth Street and Second Avenue, and several persons were injured. Henry Copell. motorman of the empty train, was crushed between the cars and taken to the Harlem Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg and internal injuries. The race was between tho empty train and a south bound train carrying pasengers. Only a few weeks ago a similar accident oc curred on the Third Avenue Line near One Hundred and Seventh Street, and was also caused bv an cmntv train racino between stations with one carrying pas sengers. Captain Mark E. F Kerr, of the Brit ish flagship Drake, has sent a letter to Commissioner McAdoo complaining of the conduct of the police on board his ship. The Drake's officers said yester day that the police infested every part it the ship and miterfcrrcd with the routine work, and that a number of them were found drunk on board in the early hours of the morning after the I mice s ball. & j& William Waldorf Astor of London, formerly of New York, is going to build the largest and finest apartmadit house in this city and probably in the world. It will cover the entire block from Broadway way to West Iind avenue, be tween Seventy-eithth and Seventy-ninth Mreets in all. twenty lots. Plans for this big structure were filed with the lenement House Department. The cost of construction is estimated by the ar chitects, Clinton & Russell, of No. 32 ."Vassaii btrect. to lie $1,000,000. and the land is worth $1,500,000. The building will be of eleven stories, ten to be for apartments, divided into suites of from three to fourteen rooms, and the top for servants' quarters and laundries. There will be accommodations for eleven fam ilies 011 each floor. Including a number of ventilation courts, the house will have a trontagie on the open air cental to seven city blocks, which is double the amount required under the provisions of the the Tenement House Act. It will be an apartment house, pure and simple, as each suite has a separate kitchen and dining room J0 J& J& Ilknry Arthur Jones, the English dramatist, who has been in this country three or four weeks, sailed for England to rehearse his new play, which James Welch will produce at Terry's Theatre, London Mr. Joints will return to this country in April, when he will deliver lectures on the drama at Harvard, Yale and Columbia Universities. & & & Four detectives were attacked while raiding a disorderly house in Twenty fourth street by three savage bulldogs, and in trying to kill the brutes one of the detectives shot a ne-gress m the head wounding her seriously. Panic reigned among the raiders and the inmates of the house as soon as the dogs were let loose. Jscvcral women narrowly escaped l:ing shot during the fusillade of bill lets that were fired at the dogs. One of the beasts was killed by a bullet, and af ter a desperate battle the other two were beaten senseless. The dogs were let loose by tho ne-gress, acting under mstruc tions from her mis:rce, who resorted to this means to put the detectives to flight when they rounded up all the in mates ot the bouse and placed them un dcr arrest. The raiders were taken by surprise by the attack, and in defending themselves drew their revolvers and luazed away in the crowded room where all the prisoners and their captors were gathered. The negress and one of the inmates of the house, who was bitten by one of the dogs in the course of the melee, were taken to a hospital. Two of the detectives were also bitten. J0 Dr. Douglas Hyde, the distinguished Irish scholar, orator and poet, and presi dent of the Gaelic league of Ireland, arrived on the White Star steamer Ma jestic. Dr. Hyde comes to America on a four-month lecture tour before Amer ican colleges and universities and at public meetings of Irish societies. He is accomiranied by Mrs. Hyde. His first lecure will lie at Harvard University. The unlucky thirteen has proved the undoing of Louis Lang, a former police man of Bayonne, N. ., and he figured up the hoodoo as follows: He was ap pointed on the thirteenth of the month. His shield was number thirteen, lie was up on charges hirteen times, "being Ixmuced on the last charge. He ap pealed to the Supreme fCourt that his dismissal was illegal, and on Monday, the 1.1th, the court decided against him. LIVE WASHINGTON AFFAIRS. A a result of the last congressional election there are 0,3 Democratic and 60 Republican vacancies in lhe membership of the committees of the House of Rep resentative!. The President has decided to reao- point Wm. lleukel United States mar shal for the Southern district of New York. Speaker Cannon, when eleced, will have many important vacancies on com mittees to fill. The B.ireau of Labor issued a bulletin showing the working of the laws passed by the various stales for the settlement of industrial controversies by arbitra tion. Acting Pjblic Printer Ricketts reports that there is less work being done in the Government Printing Office now than for many years. The Interstate Commerce Coriiiiiision has fixed 75 per cent as the minimum of cars to be equipped with air brakes on August 1, 1006. The Court of Claires gave a iiiddinent of $650,000 to the Harvey Steel Company against the United States. CARNEGIE PENSION FIND Some Knotty Problems For the Trustees. 21 COLLEGE PRESIDENTS ATTEND. Meeting Held at Mr. Carnef It's Home Botrd ot Directors and Executive Comnllet Or palied Tratteet Find It Hard la Decldt tpoa What Institutions Art to Recelvt Ibe Bcocllt of lhe Endowment. New "ork (Special). The first meet ing of the trustees of the Carnegie Foun dation, the $10,000,000 fund given by Andrew Carnegie last May for the pen sioning of incapacitated college profes sors, was held at Mr. Carnegie's resi dence, 1093 Fifth Avenue. The meeting brought together 21 presidents of col li ges? technical schools and universities. President Harper, of the University of Chicago, who is ill, was the only ab sentee among the trustees named in the deed of gift. The trustees met at 10 o'clock in the morning and held two sessions. The morning session was devoted to an in formal conference. At its conclusion Ibe trustees were entertained by Mr. Car negie at lunch, Thereafter Mr. Carne- Rie called the meeting to order. In a brief speech he expressed satisfaction at the gathering together of so many educators. Nothing he has ever done. he said, seemed so nronitious or so likely to be useful to the cause of edu cation. He expressed the hope in con clusion that the trust would be adminis tered in a broad and generous manner. President F.liot, of Harvard, in reply, expressed thanks of the teaching profes sion to the donor. By-laws were then adopted, providing, among other things, that the executive business of the board be intrusted to an executive committee and a president, who should be Henry s. Jt'ritchett, president of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, Boston. The committee was as follows : President Butler, of Columbia: Pres ident Wilson, of Princeton; Provost Harrison, of the University of Pennsyl vania; President Humphreys, of Stevens institute; frank A. Vandcrhp, vice pres ident of the National City Bank, and Robert A. Franks. Mr. Carnegie's fi- liancial secretary, T. Morris Carnegie, of this city, a nephew of the donor, was chosen treasurer. It was decided that the head of the foundation be located in this city. The third Wednesday in No vember was selected as the date for hold ing the annual meeting. A special meet ing will be held in this city laic in the winter, at which time the executive com mute will make a report of the plans and scope. "What education test shall be applied to determine what is a college, technical school or university, within the founda tion letter of gift?" is one of the two main questions that the executive com mittee is expected to answer. The ques tion was discussed at considerable length today and, according to President Butler, was found difficult of solution. There was nothing in the discussion to indicate just what line the trustees expect to fol low in selecting the institutions worthy of participation in the gift. Under the deed of gift institutions; under sccre larian control arc ineligible. This clause gives rise to the other perplexing ques tion as to what shall be deemed to con stitute sectarian control. It was- pointed out that many institutions established as purely sectarian are now open to stu dents of all creeds, or none, and, there fore, arc not to be considered sectarian now. But no decision was reached on any phase of the matter, the whole pro position being left to the consideration of the executive committee. The fund produces an income of $500, (XX) yearly. It is designed for the re lief not only of professors incapacitated by age, but also for those incapacitated by illness, or accident, and for the fam ilies, if needy, of those who die. Hun dreds of applications for pensions, Pres ident Butler said, have already been received. None, of course, ran be acted upon until the solution of the proposi tions referred lo the executive com mittee. The board of directors organized by electing President Eliot chairman ; Pres ident Harper, vice chairman, and Presi dent Thwing, secretary . WHAT IT COST HEARST. His Campaign Expenses Totaled $65,843 Record Amount For Stale. Albany, N. Y'., (Special). William R. Hearst, candidate for Mayor of New Y'ork on the Municipal Ownership ticket, certified lo the Secretary of Stale that his total campaign expenses were $''5.43- This breaks the record for such expenses, which w.ts formerly held by Governor Higgins, who spent during the last Mate campaign ?.2,ooo. Mr. Hearst says that he contribuled all but $17,4 of the $80,206 which was spent by the finance conunrttea of the Municipal Ownership League for the benefit of all the candidates on the ticket, and expended $3125 personally for but tons and lithographs. Some of the lar ger items w ere : I. aw department, $3597; printing, Sfsooo; music, $78ej8; carriage lure, $jkio; renlal of balls, decorations and illuminations, $12,012; watchers for election, $1(3.580; investi gation of registration, $,i02t). Mr. Hearst declares that this $80,206 was expended equally for the benefit of all candidates on the ticket. Herman A. Me-tz, candidate for Comptroller of New York on the Demo cratic ticket, spent $15,000. . James G. Phelps htokes, Municipal Ownership candidate for President of the New Y'ork Board of Aldermen, spent $317. Mcsssjt oa tbt Second Day. Washington, (Special). It has been decided that 1 lie President's forthcoming annual message lo Congress will be sub mitted to the S'.nalc and the House of Representatives on 1 ucsday, December I he first day of the session will be occupied fully by routine business of the two branches of Congress. 1 he Senate will take an adjournment soon after meeting on account of lhe death of Senator rlatt of Connecticut. The House will be busy probably throughout the day in effecting its organization and drawing the seats of the members, Tha Usual Result Warren, Pa., (Special). Mrs. Au gust Scalise was burned to death and her husband severely injured in a fire at their home in North Clarendon, a siiuuru 01 warren, airs, acanse nros; about 4 00 A. M., and went to lhe kiti h- -n to bake bread. In starting the fire ,he used kerosene oil, and it exploded, etting the house afire. Her husband was aroused, and after Rreat effort res- wed the three children trim their bed room, but his wife was burned to death ind he it in badly burned it is feared he will die. SP2IKGS A SENSATION. Mr. Hydt Sbows L hi On Many Shady Transactions. New York (Special). James Ilazeh Hyde, former vice-president of the Equi table Life Assurance society, whose res ignation followed the sensational disclos ures in that company last spring which led to tlie investigation of insurance company methods by the Armstrong com mittee of the Legislature, the man whose presence as. a witness before this com mittee has been looked forward to in the expectation that it would produce the greatest sensation of the investigation, appeared as, a witness Tuesday. Mr. Hyde in the last half hour of the committee session, practically accused former Gov. B. B. Odcll, Jr., of threat ening through K. II. Harriman lo hav the charter of the Mercantile Trust Com pany repealed unless Odcll's suit to re cover on bonds of the L'nited States Shipbuilding Company was settled. Mr. Hyde created further sensation by accus ing the Frick committee of unfairness in its repprt, charging Mr. Frick and Mr. Harriman with conspiracy to get him out die country by inspiring him with the ambition to become Ambassador, lo France, and with endeavoring to over throw his position -in the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde's attention was called to the seriousness of these charges on several occasions by Charles Iv. Hughes, counsel to the committee, but he said he made the statements ailcr many sleepless nights and long, sad days of reflection. Mr. Hyde's manner on the. stand wa one of composure and deliberation ami his replies to questions from counsel were calm and ofttimes studied. He was for tified with statements and data and was very frank 111 his explanations. Fre quently he would become hitler in hi reference to some of bis associates, and while his entire testimony was of deep interest and cleared up many points that have heretofore remained in the dark it was not until late in the day that the sensational features of his testimony were developed. Mr. Hyde was called lo the stand shortly after the session opened and Ik was under examination all day until a few minutes before adjournment. In an ticipation of his presence, there was a greater crowd than has attended the ses sions of the committee heretofore, and extra police were stationed in the corri dor without the committee room to keep order. Mr. Hyde cleared up the matter of the $685,000 loan of the Mercantile Trust Company, which appeared on the hook? of the F'quitable Life under the caption of the "J. W. Alexander No. 3 account." This account has been under investiga tion on several previous occasions, but none of the witnesses heretofore exam ined has been able to explain it. Mr. Hyde first heard of the account in the fall of 1002, when it was called lo his attention by President Alexander, who said that he and Mr. Jordan bad incurred the loan lo lake up stock that was being bid up to fictitious values, to the detriment of the company, to settle suits that were hampering the business of the society and for campaign contribu tions. This contribution was made to the last campaign and was asked by Mr. Frick, who suggested it for the benefit of the society. To procure the money, Mr. Alexander had Mr. Hyde write a letter lo.thc president of the Mercantile Trust Company, this letter practicall) placed him in the position of a guaran tor. Later, when the settlement of the loan was forced, Mr. Alexander and Mr. Jor dan raised all they could toward it. The stock purchased with part of the loan was sold to Thomas F. Ryan for $212,000. and the balance, $2i2,500,'Mr. Hyde paiL personally. He did this because he un derstood that Mr. Alexander was finan cially embarrassed, and in a bitter tone said: "Notwithstanding the strained re lations with these two gentlemen (Alex ander and Jordan), I felt bound to sec that the debt was liquidated by reason of the letter Mr. Alexander extracted from me." Inventor Whitehead Dead. Odessa (Special). News has rcachcc' here of fresh disorders in the small tmvr of Krivoirog, in the government of Eka tcrinoslav, in which over a hundred per sons were killed, and the town wa. sacked and half burned. Three influen tial Jews left Odessa for St. Petersburg to present to the Council of Ministers :. full account of the outbreak at Odessa supported by documentary evidence. Six Mutineers Shot. Washington (Special). Spencer Ed dy, Charge d'Afi'aires of the Americar Embassy in St. Pi'iersburg, cabled the State Department that pardons have been granted to the Cronstadt mutineers ex cept six who were shot. Mr. Eddy adds that lhe giving of imperial land -and action on the Cronstadt mutineers ma' do much toward Mopping trouble. He says the city is quiet. IN THE FIELD OF LiioK. -The rice industry in the Hawaiian is. lands is dying out for lack of Chinese labor. The newly organized employees of lhe Allegheny (Pa.) lire department have applied for a union charter. There are nine local divisions of the Amalgamated Association of Street Rail way Employees in the Chicago (IID dis trict, with a membership of approxi mately 9000. At a meeting in Paris recently, at tended by 3000 minor posloiTice employ ees, it was resolved to form a union. A new organization, with a member ship of 40,000, has been formed in Chi cago under the name of the Transporta tion and Shipperr,' Alliance. An elTort will be made by those in terested to secure the reinstatement of the International Association of Steam Fitters in the American Federation of Laboi. Judge Monroe recently handed down a:i opinion in the Superior Wotirt of California that the state eight hour law i; unconstitutional. Jjis .decision will be appealed. , Railroad accidents in the United States during the past year killed 3261 em ployees and injured 45, 426. J. L. Sullivan, general secretary-treasurer of the Bartenders' League has been elected international auditor. Glass Workers' International Union has secured recognition of the flat wage scale in a little over half of the factor ies represented in the Manufacturers' As sociation. An injunction has been granted by Judge Sf.iart, of Grand Rapids, Mi.:h., against the Typographical Union re straining the members from picketing. Illinois Stale Federation of Labor is concerning itself with the organization of the Illinois farmers into unions. A movement is in progress in Los Angeles, Cala., to unionize lhe niotormcn itnl conductor of the street railways ni ha: eft ;. THE KEYSTONE ST Alii Tbt Latest Pennsylvania Newt Told la Short Ordtr. 1 he new macadam road built under State management, between Kcnnett Square ami West Grove, was formally opened and inspected by Governor Pen-, nypacker, State Highway Commissioner Hunter, Congressman Butler and other officials Saturday. Edward Witkcrsbam, of Coatsville, and Miss Aida Watkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sparks Watkins, were married at the bride's home, in West Grove. Rev. J. R. Watkins, grandfather of the bride, performed the ccremonv. . Fire that originated from an overheat ed stove partially destroyed the furni ture warehouse and undertaking estab lishment of Newton E. Walton and dam aged the shocmaking establishment ol Plphriam Wagoner in Hatboro. The es timated loss is $2000. The public School building at Wool rkh, Clinton County, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $3500. Mrs. E. F. Shearar, of Carlisle, entercJ suit against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, for damages for the death of her husband, k'ed in the wreck last September at Rourk's Curve. A. B. Cummings, of Mechanicsburg, has purchased the famous trotter Rose Electric from J. B. Ryan, of Chester. The marc has a record of 2.21J4. Blood poisoning indirectly ehro to vaccination caused the death of Ralph Bergcr, the 6-year-old son of Samuc) Bergcr, near Shartlcsvillc. The corn crop just husked and gar nered is said to be the largest and best m quality ever grown in Berks County. The yield will probably exceed fifty bush els per' acre. The trial of Gustav Ahurg Closson, the self-confessed murtLrcr, of Morrisville. which was to have t'aken place Friday in Doylesville, was continued by Judge Mahlon H. Stout to the next term of Criminal Court in February. Miss Rebecca S. Lowncs, of Solebury, was awarded a silver medal as first prize in an elocutionary contest at Centre Dill. Patterson Council, No. 240, Knights ol Columbus, of Patterson, N. J., numbering ISO memlK-rs and accompanied by 50 guests and Robinson Military Band, vis ited Easton on an outing. Chief of Police Williams, of Edwards ville, has notified football players that they will not ba allowed to play Sunday in the fields in or near that town. A number of Rugby and socker teams have been formed and have been playing on Sundays. Coroner Dodson will investigate the dvrjth of George Guenther. of Hazleton, who died at the Retreat Hospital. Scv era1 weeks ago Guenther was knocked dwon and clubbed by Olie Katell bee ause one of tire group with whom he was standing toeik a peanut from Katcll's stand. Katell wa-s convicted of assault and is now in jail. Six families were made homeless and as many dwelling houses destroyed by a hre at Rittersville. Several families had narrow escapes, having to climb out over porch roofs. In one case a woman and child, the latter but twenty-four hours old were rescued in the nick of time. Mrs. August Scalise was huritrti to death ami her husband severely injured in a fire at the-ir home at North Carlcn don. In starting the kitchen fire Mrs. Scalise used kerosene oil mid it ex ploded. Chief of Police Patrick McCrann, of Chester, issued an edict authorizing the policemen to confiscate all cigarettes and cigarette paper found in tlie possession of boys under the age of 21. Henry Ehlers, -aged 70 years, who keeps a small store at While Oak Run, was as saulted by three masked men, who threatened to burn him alive if he raised a cry. - Ehlers lives alone in the house and is well to do. The robbers got away with some money, a watch and several Store Qirticles and left tin- .;.l to his bed to spend the night in a cold room. . A charier was granted to the John Hay Republican As-sociation, of Allen town. The subscribers are : C. II. Clauser, N. B. E. Peters, Dr. J. Treichlcr Butz, Joseph S. Knauss and Fred B. Gernerd. The trustees are: Edgar Hel fneh, N. B. E. Peters, Charles Clauser, H. J. Dcnliart,- G. Thomas Leisenring, II. C. Kepner, William A. Kleppinger, Fred B. Gernerd, Charles O. llunicker, Charles Roberts and Peter Grim. , Katharine .W. Brown, known through out the lower end of Chester and Lan caster Counties as "Blind Kate, the herb uoctor, died at Her home. Although uiinu. .Mrs. urown would go out gather all sows of herbs for her and po- 110ns and medicines. Harry Duncan, of Wrightsville, was hit by the York & Wrightsville trolley rar near Sloners and is thought to be dangerously inj urcd. Gabriel Carpenter, of Lcwiston, a hammerman at the Standard Steel Work, accidently shot himself through the right shoulder while-out hunting Tues day. His right arm will have to be tak en out at the socket, and it is doubtful if Ins life can be saved. A train of loaded coal cars on the Martin branch of the Pennsylvania main line at Portage ran into an open switch and collided with a train of empty cars on a siding, wrecking two licomotivcs and six cars. The switch had been thrown by some unknown person with the evident intention' of causing a wreck. A roll of bills amounting to $123 lost by Miss Ella Kulp, was picked up in Shamokin by little Elizabeth Schohcs, who was leading her blind father. Schlotes determined to find the owner by advertising. Miss Kulp was told of lhe rind and identified the money. The blind man handed .the roll to her. She gave him $25. Scholtcs lost his sight in an explosion at the Cameron colliery ten years ago. A bundle of men's clothes, new and covered with blood, was found in a cave on wie mountain near Ashley. The po lice and several miners went into the cave some distance, but could discover nothing else and are unable as yet to solve the mystery. Benjamin -F. Kepp, of Wilkes Barre, -whose wife commenced proceed ings for .in annulment of their marriage upon the ground that she has just dis covered her first "husband is aliw, says that he does rtett believe the Enoch Ar den story and that he will fight the ef fort. In an opinion filed Judge Whealon de cided that Maurice Keefe, judge of elec tion for the North District of Piltston Townsljip, Luzerne County, must stand trial for a violation of the election laws in refusing to file a list of voters in his returns for the election last Spring. Ten-year-old William Finn, of Plains, who disappeared on his way to school, is believed to have been kidnapped. A search lasting twenty-four hours has failed to reveal any trace of him. He was last seen walking along with a ped dler and has not been seen since. The police of surrounding towns have been' atked to search for him.
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