til TO DEATH
my. BURGLAR
Wealthy Pittsburger Killed in His
Own House.
THE MANY CRIMES ALARM CITY.
Benry Firth Smith Shot to Death by
Burglar He Surprised in the Act of
Robbing Hia Father's House-Evl-dence
of Desperate Battle Before
the Barglar Got Away.
Pittsburg, Pa. ( Special ). Henry
Kirth Smith, 25 years old, son of
Joa. Smith, a prominent and wealthy
business man of this city, was
ahot twice and almost Instantly killed
t 4 o'clock Sunday morning by a
burglar whom ho surprised In the
dining-room of his father's residence,
in the east end section of the city.
Tha crime, following a little more
than a week after the murder of
James A. McMlllen. another wealthy
business man of this Boctlon. has
aroused the city, and, with a num
ber of holdups by highwaymen dur
ing the past fortnight, city officials
have been importuned for 150 more
policemen to suppress the wave of
crime.
That a desperate battle took plnce
between young Smith and the burg
lar Is evident from the disordered
condition of the dining-room and
hltchen of tho Smith home. In ad
dition to the two bullets which were
found to have entered Smith's body,
live other balls were found lodged
In the floors and walls of the two
rooms. Three cartridges of Smith's
revolver had been dlschnrged.
Neighbors adjacent to the Smith
home heard the shots and ran to
their windows, but say they saw no
one running from the house. Hun
dreds of dollars' worth of silver
plate had been gathered together by
the burglar, who apparently had been
In the house sometime before being
heard by young Smith.
The young man's father and
mother were awakened by the sounds
of the shots, and rushed down stairs,
to find their son on the kitchen floor,
with two bullet holes In his body.
The entire police and detective
forces are working on the case, but
ao far no clue has been discovered.
Kvery policeman in the East End
district reported in civilian clothes.
Superintendent of Police McQuaide
Issued an order that any person act
ing in the least suspicious manner
was to be sent to the police station
for examination.
Another holdup was reported to
the police Sunday. Miss Isabelle
Livingston, sister of the chief ord
nance officer of this city, was held
tip by a negro near her home, which
1 a short distance from the Smith
residence. The negro held a revol
ver at her head until he took her
purse and then disappeared.
THE STUDENTS LEAVE
Centenary College Forced To
Close Its Doors.
New Orleans, La., (Special). Cen
tenary College, at Jackson, La., has
closed its doors permanently in con
sequence of the feuds in the faculty,
the resignation of Its president, who
is still lying in a critical condition
from wounds inflicted by a professor
of physics in a fight, and the with
drawal of all its students. .
Tho college was the oldest In
Louisiana, hnving been founded In
1825 as the Louisiana State College.
It failed, and soon afterward passed
into the hands of the Methodists,
who named it Centenary College, in
honor of the centennial of Method
ism. The college wns prosperous In 1U
earlier days and among its distin
guished graduates were Jefferson
Davis, president of the Southern Con
federacy: Jndah P. Benjamin, sec
retary of State of the Confederacy,
and most of the prominent Methodist
clergymen of the Southwest. His
hop Keener was for many years its
president.
The building will probably be used
as an annex for the overllow of tlie
State insane asylum, which is also
situated at Jackson, near the college..
MCTIDERKD AMI HOME ROP.RKD.
Woman Found AVilh Her Thoat Cut
And Heml Haltered.
Stafford Springs, Ct (Special).
Mrs. Henry "Williams, about 50 years
old. was found murdered in her
home, near here. Robbery, appar
ently, was the motive, and the mur
derer is believed to be a tramp. The
body of Mrs. Williams was found
lying near a stove on the floor of the !
kitchen of her house, with the throat
cut, head battered and a towel twist
ed around the neck. Near the body
lay a knife and a dub.
The woman di-d after a hard
struggle with her asr.ailnnt, who, it
is thought, struck her down with a
club and then cut her throat, after
which the towel was wound about
her neck.
Following the murder' the man
made a systematic search for money,
for tho house was thoroughly ran
sacked and a trunk in an upstairs
room was broken open and about
$100 in money taken from it. Part
jf the money, later, was found on
the lawn In front of the house.
The husband of the murdered
woman, who had been away from
home, discovered the body.
The Currency Problem.
Washington (Special). Tho cur
rency commit too of the American
Bankers' Association, appointed in
pursuance to a resolution adopted at
the St. Louis meeting, will asicinlil'J
here this week to discuss a plan for
a more elastic hanking currency. The
cimmltti-e will consider various
propositions. It h; expected that
Secretary Shaw and Comptroller of
the Currency Rldgely will address
the meeting before the final adjournment.
Burglars Wimp Foiled.
Hill;,boro, Tex. (Special). While
attention was directed to two fires
in the outskirts of the city Sunday
morning, the hardware storo of Smith
tt Thomas, la the business center of
Hillsboro. was dynamited and partly
wrecked by robbers. After an ex
change of shots, in which no on was
injured. Walter Jeffries, of Worth,
was arrested in the building where
the explosion occurred. The fires de
stroyed the lumber yards of Ole Wil
kerson and several small building,
causing- a loss of $40,000.
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic.
The president of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
secured an Injunction from the court
at Frankfort, Ky., restraining the
State Commissioner from revoking
the company's license to do business
In the Kentucky field.
Frederick SchatThauser. a civil en
gineer, was shot and fatally wounded
in the City Hall of Philadelphia by
Frederick llontberger, n pumping
station employe, who accused the en
gineer of wrecking his home.
Miss Nellie O'Reilly, an opera sing
er, was awarded $15,000 damages
In a breech of promise suit against
Dennis Sweeney, a wealthy resident
of Long Island.
An Inspection of work on the
Panama Canal by the combined mer
cantile organizations of the United
Spates Is proposed.
Five Incendiary night fires in the
heart or New York caused A panic
among thousands and death of a
woman from shock.
John Price Wetherill, of Philadel
phia, who amassed a fortune in xlnc,
died in Philadelphia.
New York detectives found a child
who had been chained to a corncrlb
for n year and a half.
The Standard Oil Company has
raised the pay of all employes from
5 to 10 per cent-
The special federal grand jury
convened In Minneapolis, Minn., to
examine into the alleged rebating
system in use by railroads, and re
turned 147 indictments. The mini
mum penalty In each case is $1,00(1
and the maximum $.',000.
In a shooting affair at Money,
Miss., L. J. Henderson, a prominent
merchant and planter, was Instantly
killed by A. J. Money, a brother of
I'nlted States Senator Money. Money
was also shot, but Is not seriously
wounded.
A powder magazine owned by the
K. I. Ilu Pont Company and situated
at Tlnley Park, near Chicago, ex
ploded with such force that window
panes were broken in the home of
the Midlothian Club, three miles dis
tant. A receiver was appointed In Al
bany for the North German Fire In
surance Company of New York,
which was crippled by the San Fran
cisco fire.
Proceedings 'were Instituted In
Scranton, Pa., against three railroad
companies for failing to have the re
quired safety appliances on trains.
Tulle Larrinaga. Unionist candi
date for commissioner, of Porto Rica
to the United Stales Congress, was
elected by a majority of 4 2,000.
The switchmen accepted the offer
of the managers of the Western roads
for an increase of three cents an
hour in wages.
Eighty girls, hemmed In by fire
and smoke In a New York factory,
were led to safety by the coolness
of n policeman.
Watson Ralne, an engineer at
Proctor's Theater, New York, refuses
to quit work though he has a legacy
of $80,000.
Miss Lucille McLeod, accused in
Chicago of killing William T. New
mann, was married to Fred II. Men
hard. Herbert O. Squires, the new United
States minister to Panama, was re
ceived in audience by President Ama
dor. One thousand coopers went on
striko In Chicago, asking for a wage
increase of three cents per barrel.
A statue of Gen. Peter Gansevoort,
the defender of Fort Stanwix, was
unveiled in Home, N. Y.
A dynamite explosion occurred in
Carrick, near Pittsburg, Pa. Two
men were killed and seven hurt.
The Unionist party carried all
seven -election districts in Porto Rico,
leaving the Republicans without rep
tesfntatlves in the next House of
Delegate:;. The election was very
orderly.
Foreign.
M. Briand, French minister of
public worship, announced in the
Chamber of Deputies that the gov
ernment would give the clericals
another year for reflection, and that
the churches would not be closed
next month.
Prince Albert, of Flanders, nephow
of Kim; Leopold, has been declared
successor of the King as sovereign
of the Congo Independent State.
Karl Hau: of Washington, D. C,
is still held in Lonoon on charge of
murdering his wife's mother, Frau I
Molitor, at isuaen-uauen.
Count Castellaue's creditors are
trying their utmost to prevent the
granting of a divorce until their case
is settled.
.i...ns M. James, of New York,
who is studying trades unionism in
Russia, was arrested in St. Peters
burg. , irit; Edward of England celebrat
ed 'he sixtv-fifth anniversary of his
birth.
Agitation In Italy ugainst the ac
tion of the government in placing an
order for armour plate for a warBhlp,
valued at $1,000,000, with the Mid
vale Steel Company of Pennsylvania
has assumed a seroius phase.
The Rns-dan government Is nego
tiating wltn other governments with
the view of concluding supplemen
tary treaties covering fugitives ac
cused of the preparation of explosives
for bombs.
At a meeting of the lending mem
bers of the Liberal party In Cuba it
was decided to appoint a committee
to express to the Governor the party's
disastisfai tlon with recent appoint
ments. Prince Joachim of Prussia has
been ordered to German Southwest
Africa for daring to oppose the Em
peror's wishes in threatening to
marry Marie Sulzer, the concent hall
singer.
A newspaper In Lubeck, Germany,
states that a German steamer, Jan
Minios, with a cargo of explosives
for the Russian government, was Bred
upon by a Russian cruiser.
For instigating a revolt of the gar
rison of Odessa the two revolution
ary leaders have been exiled to Si
beria, and eight others to hard labor
for four years.
Karl Strati, a Washington attor
ney, was arraigned on etxraditlon
proceedings in Iondon, charged with
murdering his sister-in-law, in Ger
many. Emperor William, is visiting the
country seat of Prlnco von Eulen
berg, leader of the court clique op
posing Chancellor von Buelow.
Terrorists derailed a train on the
Vienna-Warsaw Road, killed sever
al soldiers and got away with a
large sum of money.
Italy Is trying to compromise a
Oermau-Servlan quarrel which threat
ens a rupture, involving France and
Austria.
DERAIL MAIL CAR WITH
BOMBS AND LOOT IT
First Kill The Gendarmes and Place
Sentinels.
MARCH OFF IN MILITARY ORDER.
Threw Threp Bombs at the Mail Car
While Engines Were Being- Changed,
Derailed the Car, Robbed It and
Fled With a Sum of Money Said to
Amount to $650,000.
Rt.gnow, Russian Fortland, (By
Cable). The Cossacks have thus far
been unsuccessful In their pursuit
of the revolutionist train robbers
numbering a hundred well-armed
men, who at. 9 o'clock P. M., sur
rounded this station, threw three
bombs at the mail car of a train
while engines were being changed,
derailed the car, robbed it and fled
with a sum of money now Bald to
amount to $050,000.
Laid Their Finns Well.
The station-master declares tho
revolutionists hid In the neighbor
ing forests and were excellently dis
ciplined, their commander giving
orders through bugle signals. When
the robbery was completed the revo
lutionists transported their booty to
two wagons and marched off in mili
tary order, singing Socialistic songs.
Eye-witnesses confirm the state
ment that the revolutionists were
hidden in the neighboring woods,
and when the train stopped the men,
armed with rifles, sprang up on all
sides.
Shot The Gendarmes.
Quickly executing the orders con
veyed bv the bugle, the gendarmes
standing In front of the station were
shot and killed, and the revolutionists
placed sentinels at all the approaches
and cut the telegraph wires.
While some of them overpowered
the trainmen other attacked the es
corts of the mail car.
Of the three bombs thrown, two
exploded with terriile force, blowing
the cars Into matchwood, killing five
soldiers and mortally wounding 11
others.
.Marching Off In Military Order.
The revolutionists then ransacked
the mail car, transferred the bank
notes, gold and silver to their own
bags, and, unfolding tho red flag,
formed up a military order, inarched
out of the station, entered wagons,
which were In waiting In the forest,
and drove off.
It was not until three hours later
that a detachment of Cossacks, hur
riedly sent for, appeared on the scene
and started in pursuit of the revolu
tionists. Rogow is now occupied by troops.
Tried To Cntcli A Homh.
The railroad station was practically
destroyed by the revolutionists, who
poured in regular volleys, the walls
being pitted by hundreds of bullet
marks. One of the mall clerks en
deavored to catch the first bomb
thrown at the car, but it exploded
and tore off both his arms.
The authorities officially admit the
loss of only $14,000 in cash besides
the unknown contents of the register
ed letters.
The wounded men have been sent
to AVarsaw by special train.
A Sad Double Tragedy.
Hatboro, Pa., (Special). After
stabbing his wife nine times with an
awl, leaving her in a dying condi
tion at her home, at Fulmer, a small
village near here, Walter Y'erkes
committed suicide byshooting himself
In the head with a .32 calibre revol
ver. The double tragedy occurred
a few moments after the family had
left the breakfast table, and was wit
nessed by several children of the
couple. The fact that Walter Yerkes
Is the son of Squire Joseph B.
Yerkes, of this place, was sufficient
to turn the entire populace out in
order to learn the details of tho
crime.
lias Not Resigned.
Washington (Special). Senor
Montagna, the Charge of the Italian
Embassy here, while at the State De
partment Thursday denied the story
that Ambassador Mayor Des Planches
had resigned, and stated that he ex
pected the Ambassador to return to
this country next month and resume
his connection with the KJmbassy.
Highwayman Holds Up Train.
Kansas City (Special). A lone
robber, heavily masked, boarded the
rear sleeper of the eastbound combi
nation Chicago and Alton-Rock Is
land Canifornia Limited train known
as No. 4 4, between Slater and Glas
gow, Mo., shortly after midnight,
robbed several passengers and escap
ed in the darknesB.
She Found Tho I.cuk.
nuffalo, N. Y. (Special). Miss
Catherine Keener, aged 21 years,
wag awakened by the odor of gas.
She lighted a match to investigate.
The explosion which followed blew
away one side of tho house, and
Miss Keener received burns from
which she died.
Killed On The Track.
Alexandria, Va. (Special). Wil
liam A. Fuller, 4 4 years old, of
Washington, who was employed ss a
car Inspector in the Union freight
yards here, was instantly killed by
a Southern Railway engine a mile
north of this city. He was terribly
mangled.
Millionaire's Nephew Sentenced.
Worcester, Mass. (Special). Ro
bert L. Hunter, of Roxbury, Mass.,
aged 18 years, was sentenced by
Judge H. E. Hitchcock in Superior
Criminal Court to not less than six
nor more than eight years in state
prison for stabbing to death his
friend, Charles H. LaCrosse, here
Juno 25. He is a nephew of James
P. Tlinllty, the millionaire Boston
contractor.
KUscd Dead And Died Herself.
Trinidad, Col. (Special). Because
she kissed the face of her dead
father, whom she had nursed until
death claimed him, Emellne Mar
tinez, 20 years old, followed him to
the grave. Several days ago Isadore
Martinez died from blood poisoning.
When be had been prepared for bur
ial his daughter could not resist the
impulse to kiss him. The next day
she fell ill, and her sickness soon
developed into blood poisoning and
In 12 days from the death of her
father she died. They lived at Ban
Mlnguel, 16 miles frptu this city.
DEATH IN TENEMENT PANIC
Mother and Four Children Die In
The Flames,
New York (Special). Penned in
by fire, four children and one woman
were burned to death in a tenement-house
Are on the East Side.
When finally the blaze had been ex
tinguished and the firemen could
penetrate the building the bodies
of the victims, charred beyond pos
sibility of recognition, were found lu
the ruins.
The Are started on the second floor
of the five-story tenement at 366
Mndlson Street. The building is the
oHest type of tenement-house con
struction, with narrow halls and
stairs and lots of seasoned wood work.
Beginning in some rubbish near the
stairs, the Are spread rapidly through
the hall and was soon licking its way
through the upper floor.
Most of the 15 families in the
building were at supper, and there
was the wildest kind of excitement.
Policemen were on the Bcene immedi
ately, and as soon as the firemen ar
rived helped them In carrying women
and children from the upper floors
down the fire escapes and ladders.
More than B0 women were taken
down the ire escapes by firemen.
When the firemen arrived on tho
scene almost every window of the
building was crowded with women
and children calling for assistance.
The fire in the lower floors had filled
the halls and stairways with smoke
and cut off the means of escape.
The fire was very hot, and there
were many heroic rescues in the few
minutes during which the people
were being taken from the building.
When the firemen had rescued every
one they possibly could they turned
a deluge of water into the upper
floors, but a half hour made little
headway In extinguishing the flames.
When finally they had the fire out
the search for victims was under
taken. Only on the second floor did the
search reveal bodies. There, huddled
in a corner of one of the fiats, were
found the body of a woman burned
to a crisp, and nearby in a group, the
remains of four children.
HAVE NO SPIES IX JAPAN.
General Staff Not Seeking Informa
tion In This Way.
Washington (Special). Officers of
the general staff of the Army endea
vored to discount the rumor that
plans and other information relative
to the defenses of Japan had been
gathered recently by agents of this
country. While the best - informed
military officials readily admit that
war with Japan is among the pos
sibilities of the future, they declare
most emphatically that tho general
staff has not hnd military spies in
Japan, such as it is evident Japan
has had in tho Philippines.
It was explained at the War De
partment that, the function of the
general staff is to make preliminary
plans for war with all possible ene
mies of this country. It is unques
tionably true that tho general staff
has considered plans for military
operations against Japan, but it is
equally true that such plans have
been discussed in connection with
England, Germany, France, Italy and
practicaly all tho nations of any con
sequence in tho world. It is the
business of the general staff to gather
military information about nil coun
tries, and Japan has not been left
out of the calculations of this body
ajiy more than have the other war
like powers of the world.
A Family Asphyxiated.
Leighton, Pa. (Special). ;Coal gas
fumes caused the death of Harry
Bowman, 23 years old; his wife, 20,
and a little girl of 10, at their home
on South Second Street. It is be
lieved that fire started In the stove
which supplied the sleeping apart
ment with heat and that the fatal
coal gas entered their bedchamber
and killed them while they slept.
Curzon Humor Unfounded.
London (By Cable). In connec
tion with the rumors from America
that Lord Curzon, the ex-Viceroy of
India, is to succeed Sir Mortimer
Durand as Ambassador of Great
Britain at Washington, the Foreign
Office here says there ia absolutely
no foundation for the reports.
Typhoid Ascribed To Oysters.
Middletown, Ct., (Special). An
other case of typhoid fever making
six in all, has developed at Wesleyan
University. Tho victim is John C.
Day, of Paterson, N. J., catcher on
the Weslyan baseball taem. The out
break Is thought to have been due
to oysters eaten by the students.
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told,
President Roosevelt will present
a gold medal to Major George F.
Shields for saving a wounded Philip-
pino irom between the tiring lines.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Is to Investigate the alleged
holding company for the llarrlman
railroad In the West.
Minister to Portugal Charles Pago
Bryan may succeed Lloyd Grlscom as
American minister at Rio Janeiro,
iirazll.
In hlB annual report Brlgadicx
General Crolzer, chief or ordnance,
says the Array is being well supplied
with modern urms and ammunition.
San Francisco policyholders have
appealed to the State Department for
aid in forcing German fire Insurance,
companies to pay losses.
President Roosevelt awarded a
medal of honor to Edward Murray,
a Pennsylvania Railroad conductor
of Pittsburg.
It Is hinted that Lord Ctirzon may
become British ambassador to the
United StateB.
President Roosevelt directed that
Chief Moon be reprimanded for
transferring a printer who had been
expelled by the typographical union.
President Roosevelt discussed the
Pearre Anti-injunction Bill with
Gompers and other officials of the
Federation of Labor.
Secretary of theInterlor Ethan
Allen Hitchcock will retire from
President Roosevelt's Cabinet on tho
4th of next March, and James- It.
Garfield, of Ohio, at. present commis
sioner of corporations, will succeed
him.
The President has approved the
report of the special committee that
exonerated Governor Frantz, of Okla
homa. Friction bctwecji the Russians and
Japanese in Manchuria Is continuous.
THE PRESIDENT OFF
FOR CANAL ZONE
"Going To See How The Ditch Is
Getting Along."
SECRET SERVICE MEN THERE.
A Distinguished Gathering at the Navy
lard to See the President Off on
His Unique Expedition At the
White House There Wat a Contest
Among the Roosevelt Children.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
"Good-by. 1 am going down to see
how the ditch is getting along."
shouted President Roosevelt as he
stood on the after starboard deck of
the yacht Mayflower nt the Wash
ington Navy Yard as the vessel was
leaving the dork with the President
for his Panama trip.
Accompanying the President were
Mrs. Roosevelt and her mnld: Sur
geon General Rlxey, of the Navy, and
M. C. Latta, one of the nsslstnnt sec
retaries at the White House. The
Mayflower took the party to Wolf
Trap light, at the mouth of the
Rappahannock River, In Chesapeake
Bay, where a transfer wan made to
tho Battleship Louisiana, which Is
to convey the President to and from
the Isthmus.
When tho President steps ashore
at Colon it will bo the first Instance
In the history of the republic, where
the president of the United States
has put his foot upon foreign soil
during his Incumbence of office. The
Canal Zone is held to be American
soil, but Colon Is outside the zono,
ns Is also the City of Panama, where
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will for a few homy be the guests of
President Amndor, of the Panama
Republic. Besides Mr. Roosevelt, the
only members of his party on the
trip are Rear Admiral Rixey, surgeon
general of the Navy, and Assistant
Secretary Latta. The President
spent a busy dny nt the White House
winding up affairs of statd before
his departure.
Root On The Lid.
While ho is away Secretary Loeb
will be in charge nt the While House,
and Secretory Root will occupy the
seat "on the lid." usually held by
Secretary Tnft when the President
is away on an extended trip.
Despite the fact thnt the President
Is afloat, he will he In close com
munication with affairs at Washing
ton. The Louisiana has been fitted
up with the most complete wireless
telegraph apparatus nvllablo, and
Lieutenant Evans, of the Navy, hos
been assigned to special duty in
chnrge of the instruments aboard
the vessel. He will communicate
from time to time with the wireless
stations along the coast, and thus
the President will be kept advised
of tho trend of events.
There was quite an effecting fam
ily scene as the President and his
wife drove away, for all the children
except Kermlt were home to say
good-by. Theodore, Jr., came down
from Harvard and Ethel came In
from the Cathedral School to see
the last of tholr parents. The Presi
dent spent the morning at his office
and quite a number of officials and
friends came to say good-by. Tho
members of the Cabinet dropped in
during the morrfing. Colonel Brom
well, the President's milltnry old,
and Lieutennnt Commander Key, the
President's nnvnl aid, drove nn In
automobiles just before the Presi
dent started and wished him "bon
voyage."
SUICIDE COSTS THREE LIVES.
A Girl, Disappointed In Love, Turns
On (ins.
Chicago, 111., (Special). Because
she hud been disappointed in a love
affair, Aloysiu MarsI, aged 17, under
took to kill herself by turning on the
gas in n room at the German Hospital.
In the dormitory with her were three
other girls. Two of them are dead
and the other dying as a result of
Inhaling the gns fumes. The girl
who desired to die will recover.
At the Larrabeo Police Station her
lover is held prisoner pending a rigid
investigation of the entire affair.
All the girls- were employed at the
hospital. At night they attended a
party and returned lute, letting them
selves Into tho dormitory with a
night key.
The Marsl girl had met her faith
less lover at the party, and it Is sup
posed she was so discouraged after
an interview with him that she deter
mined to end her lifo. Shu Is yet
in such condition thnt she cannot givo
a connected story of the tragedy. Ear
ly in tho morning other attendants at
the hospital smelted gas and finally
broke into the room. Two of tho
girls were then dead nnd Mir.s Lotrl
was beyond resuscitation. By hard
work Miss Marsi was partially re
vived and admitted that she hud
closed all the windows, locked the
doors and turned on the gus with
the Intention of killing herself. She
had hoped the other girls would he
awakened by the smell of gifs In
time to escape.
Bridge Tender Responsible.
Atlantic City, N. J. (Special).
After a stormy scene, lasting several
hours, the coroner's jury agreed to
placo the blame for the Thorough
fare wreck of Sunday, October. 28,
upon Daniel Slewurt, the aged
bridge-tender. The Jury disagreed
on many points. According to the
coroner, Stewart will bo nrrested on
tho charge of criminal negligence.
New Hotel Collapses.
Long Beach, Cal., (Special): Thi
new Bixby being erected on tho beach
here caved in supposedly from weak
construction, and possibly a score of
men are buried in the ruins. The
building is of reinforced concrete.
The whole structuro cavad in wit li
on t warning from the basement to
the fourth floor, leaving but one wing
standing. Estimates of tho number
of dead range from 10 to 25.
Indian And Ballots Gone.
Reno, Nev. (Speclul). Tom Big
foot, an Indlun runner, to whom the
election ballots and returns of tho
Wonder Mining District were givon
Wednesday, bus disappeared, and
deputy Bherlffs are scouring the coun
try to miles east of Reno for him.
Upon tho returns rents tho futo of
the candidates for judge in the Sec
ond dliitrict ami of several Church
hill County candidates. It Is beliovod
that the Indian was Intercepted and
robbed of the returns, and that he
fled to the hills for fear of projection.
FAVROT KIM HIS FRIEND
Congressman-Elect Shools HI life
time Comrade.
Baton Rouge, La. (Special) Dem
ocratic Congressman-elect Judge Geo.
K. Favrot, shot and Instantly killed
his 'lifelong associate and school
mate, Dr. H. H. Aldrlch, one of the
best-known citizens of Baton Rouge.
Hundreds of persons were near
the scene of the shooting, but none
knew what had passed between the
two men. Judge Favrot refused to
tnlk beyond letting it be known that
the matter was a private quarrel.
The shot was fired in tho Ray
mond building, opposite the Istrou
ma Hotel, out of which a crowd of
society women was pouring, hnving
Just left a reception. Among them
were the mother nnd sister of Judge
Favrot.
Judge Favrot. was arrested In the
building where he had held court.
Judge Favrot is 3h years old, and
In the recent Democratic primaries
ho defented for the nomination 8
M. Robertson, who had been a rep
resentative in Congress for 20 years
Shot Ills Sweetheart.
Carlisle, Pa. (Special). Clarence
llgcnfitz, aged 20 years, shot Ills
sweetheurt, Mary Kutz, and then
committed suicide. Tho shooting oc
curred at Drytown, near here. Ilgen
fit z had been paying attention to the
girl for several months, but becausf
they were first cousins. Miss Kutj
refused to marry him. Ilgonfitz Ins
In wait for the girl and her grand
mother as they were returning home
Trom church. As Ihcy passed he shol
the girl twice, one bullet entering
her head back of t he ear and an
other entering her left thigh. .
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A panic was caused by the collis
ion of the passenger steamer Maine
and the ferryboat Maryland in Hell
Gate, the Maine being run on the
mud flats to prevent her sinking.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has won a decision thnt it may run
Its tralnB through villages of Western
Pennsylvania at a speed greater than
10 miles an hour.
Directors of the Illinois Central
Railroad elected J. T. llarahun presi
dent, to succeed Stuyvesant. Fish.
United States Senator Depew is
reported to have regained his health
and will resume his senatorial duties.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad will
Increase the wages of 165,000 em
ployes 10 per cent, on December 1.
John Adam, of Chicago, recovered
his 13-year-old daughter in a band
of gipsies in Massachusetts.
The Railway Switchmen's Union
may arbitrate the demand for more
wages.
About 600 houses were burned at
Shsmeon, the Island suburb of Can
ton, China, nnd the losses aggregate
$1,0,00,000.
The liabilities of McFadyen & Co.,
bankers, of London, amount to $2,
350,000. Seven nationalist workmen were
shot down by socialists at Lodz, Po
land. Kingsland, a New York automo
bilist, was sentenced to three months'
Imprisonment In Chaleaudrun, France,
for running over and killing an old
woman.
Herr von PobdlelsHI. German min
ister of agriculture, has resigned.
The crew of the Norwegian baric
Adeona, which was wrecked off the
New Brunswick coast, are believed
to have been lost.
An imperial edict providing for
the reorganization of the Chinese)
government was published in the of
ficial gazette.
As nothing came of the attempt
last year to raise in Balaklava Bay
tho British Ironclad sunk with her
treasure during the Crimean War,
tho Russian Admiralty offlciala at Se
bastopol now propose to intrust the
tusk of bringing up the treasure to
a Russian salvage syndicate.
Tho Nawab of Bahawalpur, the
principal Mohammedan ruler of
Northern India, is going on a pil
grimage to Mecca with all the mem
bers of hl3 family of both sexes and
a majestic retinue. Considerable po
litical significance attaches to this
pilgrimage.
On tho railways of continental Eu
rope and the Rhine steamers there
is no mli-cellnneouB scrambling for
meala. Instead n steward goes
through tho train or boat and lists
tho poople who want to eat. Each
gets a number and thin insures a
seat without crowding or delay.
Virginia has found It nececsary to
pass a law declaring that for all legal
purposes the wordu "railroad" and
"railway" are to be considered syn
onymous. FINANCIAL WOULD. .
The Rockefeller contingent are re
ported to be buying Northern Pacific.
It is donied that United States
Steel will dismantle its Homestead
armor plate plant.
American tobacco declared the
regular quarterly dividend of
o.i the common and an extra dividend
of 7 Va per cent, t
It seemed to be the consensus of
opinion among leading conservative
bankers that there is to be no big
bull market Just yet.
Assistant Secretary of State Hacou
retired from the Burlington direc
torate and J. T. Talmugo was chosen
to succeed him.
The Pennsylvania's increase in
wugos will effect 125,001) employees
and will mean an extra outlay by
Hie company of several millions
annually. ' '
Directors of the Merchants' Na
tional Bank, Philadelphia, declared
ii semi-annual dividend of 4 luir cent,
"ut of profits of the past six months.
Tills i-alacg the annual rate from 6
ho first time In many yenrs hat one
inr cent, to 8 per cent. The dividend
ii payable on demand. The hu.ik's
capita) is $600,000; surplus $600,000
and undivided prohts $160,737.
Those who banked upon Hearst's
lbfeat to send up the prlco of Brook
lyn Rapid Transit were fooled. The
prlco fell a couple of points, showing
"early that once more all the good
effects had boen fully discounted.
Poor's Manual shows that ct the
end of 1805 there were In the United
States 215,608 miles of railroad
which earned during the year $2,
112,000,000. Theio waa paid in in
terest and dividends or rental $644,
000,000. The total capltul stock is
$3,741,000,000 and the bonded debt
Ii $7, S21, 000,000, which, along with
-tber liabilities, make total of i
U 3, 068, 000, 000.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
, in I
Latest News Gleaned From Various
Parts..
A breach of promise suit was.
started In the Prothonotary's office
at Allcntown by Miss Katie Hart
man of Macungie, against Dr. O. K.
Hoppes, of Tamaqita. Miss Hart
man is 29 years old and asks for
$5,000 damages. She allages thnt
Dr. Hoppes began courting bor eight
years ago, and In last February, for
no reason, ceased his attentions. On
March 4 he was married to Miss
Sue Brode, and Is now practicing
dentistry In the coal region.
Alleging great mental distress and
physical sufforlng, Mrs. Harriet Low
ry has entered suit for $10,000 dam
ages against four women who hazed
her at her East Sandy home sevoral
days ago. The defendants are Mrs..
Verda Lowry, a sister-in-law; Mrs.
Nellie Glaze, Mrs. Bertha Grlgman
and Mrs. Hulda Pherson. The plain
tiff alleges that the women eamo to
her home, daubed her face with stove
polish and then gave her a coat of
molasses and feathers. When Sher
iff McElhlnney went to East Sandy
to serve the summons he found that
tho four women, having learned of
his coming, had left tor the hills.
They remained in hiding for several
hours and until the Sheriff had taken
the last train back to the county
seat. The women say that the good
name of the town demanded that.
Mrs. Lowry be driven from It, and
that they adopted the hazing method.
A number of freak election bets
were paid in Reading Wednesday.
On Oley Street a young woman dreBS
ed in the lightest and flimsiest or
Summer clothing was hauled a dozen
times up and down the street in a
wheelbarrow by a young man. On
Walnut Street, a young woman set
tled a wager by publicly kissing a
man a dozen times.
That the Unlontown & Wheeling
Bhort line, the road projected from
Wheeling to Unlontown by J. V.
Thompson, the millionaire coal man
or Fayette County, is to be built soon
was Indicated when the Briar Hill
Coal & Coke Company let the con
tract for sinking four mine shafts
and the construction of 1000 coke
ovens at Khedive, Greene County, at
approximately $2,000,000. Those
coke works will lie on a spur of the
proposed road, which will provide
the only outlet for tho production.
It will be the first attempt to coke
the Greene County coal.
Dr. James Oliver Flower, 64 years
old, a prominent dentist and widely
known in the East and West, died
in Pittsburg of tuberculosis after an
illness of four years. He was the
father of Dr. W. S. Flower, who
several years ago eloped with a
daughter of Charles Lockhart, the
Standard Oil magnate, who disin
herited her.
George W. Haskins, 64 years old,
senior member of the law firm of
Haskins & McCllhtock died suddenly
at his home in Meadvllle of apoplexy.
He was for several years professor
of Latin language and literature in
Allagheny College and resumed the
practice of law twenty years ago. He -was
widely known.
Battling with her husband, who
was evidently insane as the result
of a long illness, Mrs. Walter Yerkes
was stabbed nine times and serious
ly wounded at the Yerkes home, at
Fulmor Station, Ilattboro. When
the woman dropped exhausted on tho
bed the frenzied husband believed
he hnd killed her. Then he placed
the muzzle of a 32-caliber revolver
in his mouth, fired one shot and
dropped to the floor dead.
.Mrs. Charles Ilagenbuch, her two .
daughters, Misses Salome and Eva,
nnd her Hon, Harry, had a narrow
escape from asphyxiation from the ,
fumes of coal gas at their home in
Shenandoah early the other morn
ing. The damper on the stove pipe
wrvi closod, allowing the deadly
fumes to penetrate the whole house.
The barking of a pet dog down stairs
awoke Miss Eva Jtrst in the nick of
time. She was so badly overcome
that she was scarcely able to grope
her way to the window and let in
fresh air. She soon revived and then
hurriedly ran and opened windows
In the rooms occupied by her mother,
sister and brother, but found tbem
In deep stupor. Physicians were
summoned and after some hard work
every one was revived. The timely
barking of the dog saved all their
lives.
President John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers of America,
who intimated in a' speech at Coal-
dale, on October 29, that he would
not remain at the head of the organi
zation much longer. Is a candidate
for re-election at the annual con
vention to be held In Indianapolis
next January. Close friends of Mit
chell in Mahanoy City, say that he
has made up his mind to remain
leader until the expiration of the
present agreement with the opera
tors in April, 1909, In the hopo or
forcing further recognition for tho
miners in the hard coal fields.
Charles Mitchell, a young man, of
Three Tuns, near Ambler, owes his
escape from death after a train
crashed into his horse and wagon,
at a local crossing, to the fact that
the train was slowing up for the
Ambler stop. Mitchell drove on the
tracks and the slowly moving train
smashed into hlB wagon. The horse
was bruised, the wagon practically
wrecked, commuters oik the train
were thoroughly scared, and Mitchell
escaped with several bruises and
shock.
;
Forty boys employed at the Dla-
niond Glass Works, Royorsford,
struck for un Increase in wages.
They have been receiving $5 a week,
and demand $1 u day. The plant,
with the exception of one shop, was
Compelled to close, throwing about
fifty blowers and a number of other
hands out of employment.. -
While lighting a kerosene lamp
with a taper, Mrs. Rebecca Becker,
69 years old, of York, accidentally
Ignited her clothing and was so
severely burned about the back, chest
and arms that her recovery is in
doubt.
t
John B. Wise, Jr., a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, was
appointed superintendent Wednesday
of the new Consumers' Electric Light
ft Power Company, of llazlotou. For
Ave years ha has been superintendent
and general manager of the Electric
Light und Power Company.
Norman Watklns, aged 18 years,
a driver at the Mid Valley Colliery,
near Mt. Carmel, was caught in an
explosion of gas and blown to pieces.
By the colliding of a car on the
street railway with an undertaker'!)
wagon In Scranton, three persons
were seriously Injured.