Jl CYCLONE UTS TOWNS IN RUINS Wide Sweep of Great Storm In The South. SEVERAL PERSONS WERE KILLED. Destructive Rain and Wind Storm Races Over Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee Winona, Miss., Probably the Worst Sufferer Churches Demolished. Memphis, Tenn. (Special). Tele phonic and telegraphic communica tions received Sunday from points In Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, for a distance of several hundred miles, report that territory to have suffered from a destructive rain and wind storm. Only meager details are as yet ob tainable, but five lives are known to be lost and great damage has been dono to property and crops. Kail road trafllc from Memphis Is demor alized by numerous washouts, and many trains have been annulled. From the reports so far received, the greatest damage occurred In the central and delta regions of Missis sippi. At Winona, Miss., the Catholic, the Christian and the African Methodist Churches and the Hesty brickyard were demolished and many buildings unroofed and damaged. Among the largest buildings damaged at this place are the postoltlce, the opera house, the oil mill, the compressor, the warehouse of the Jackson Mer cantile Company and the residence Of E. J. Dunkston. Besides these 25 smaller buildings were partly de stroyed. Telegraphic communica tion is prostrated. Of those buildings not destroyed the compressor was probably the most severely damaged. The roof of this building was torn off by the wind, which at times reached almost tornadic velocity, falling on the home of E. J. Dunkston, 230 yards away. The windstorm was preceded and fol lowed by hea,-y rains, causing serious washouts along the route of the Illi nois Central Railroad and damaging crops. At Mathlson, Miss., serious dnmage Is reported to have occurred. A woman was killed by a falling build ing. At Tchula a falling tree striking a small frame building caused It to be set on fire, burning a woman and a child to death. At Nonconnah Creek, a few miles from Memphis, a railroad trestle fell under the weight of a switch engine, the engme plunging into the swollen stream, carrying with it Engineer C. V. Peterson and Fireman A. K. Rit chie, who were drowned. West Point, Columbus and Nahlni. Miss., are reported to have suffered serious damage, but as these points are cut off from communication It is Impossible to vertify the report. MEANT TO KILL POPE. Explosion Of A Bomb la St. Peter's Causes Panic. Rome (By Cable). The outrages of the desperate anarchists' band now terrorizing Italy reached a climax Sunday morning in the explosion of a bomb in St. Peter's Cathedral, at the Vatican, Just at the conclution of the morning mass. The Pope was at his noonday devotion In his apart ments at the time. That an attempt upon the lite of the Pontiff had been planned is evident. A rumor had spread abroad that he intended to visit the cathedral to pray before toe tomb of Clement XIII., where the outrage was committed, and the anarchlsts.here placed the bomb, with a long-time fuse attached. The Pope, however, remained in his private apartments. The vast edifice was crowded, and an indescribable scene of confusion followed the explosion. There were no fatalities. As soon as the echoes of the tremendous roar hau ceased a canon sought by reassuring words to quiet the people, but In vain. Explorers Saluted. Christlania (By Cable). Capt. Roald Amundsen and his companion explorers arrived here on the steam er Hellg Olaf. They were transferred to the coast-defense ironclad Norge. A salute of 15 guns was fired from the fortress, and the explorers were welcomed by a number of officials and prominent citizens. A banquet was given In the evening in their honor. Hurt liy Gas Explosion. Redbank, X. .J. (Special). As the result of an explosion of acetylene gas in the house of Michael II. Mur phy, a New York commission man, Mrs. Murphy, her six-year-old son, her four-year-old daughter, her negro maid and a stablema.i were so badly Injured that their lives are despaired of and the Murphy residence was completely wrecked. All the injured are in the Long Branch Hospital. ' The Kaiser's Travels. Berlin (By Cable) Statistics show that the Kaiser spends half a million dollars yearly in traveling about his empire. He always has a special train and pays the ordinary rates for It. lie now Increasingly uses auto mobiles, which are cheaper, but he still considers that all ceremonial JourneyB demand that he travel by railway. Sanitarium For N'uvy. Washington (Special). Upon the recommendation of Surg. P. M. Rixey, United States Navy, the President hag ordered that the military reservation of the old Fort Lyon, Col., be turned over to the navy for use as a sani tarium for tuberculosis patients of the service. The reservation torn prises about 575 acres and has on It a number of buildings which, with slight repairs, may be utilized at the outset for the purpose. Students Shoot Police. Fayottevllle, Ark. (Special) Hen ry Rough, a policeman, was shot and seriously injured during a riot with students f the University of Arkan sas. Three hundred college boys were parading the streets and giving their college yells because of an athletic victory over a rival college. When the officer asked the students to be come less riotous they defied blm, and he arrested one of them. The students then surrounded the officer, and In the melee which followed he shot in the back. THE MS OF THE WEEK. Domestic. The New York Central Railroad, accused of having granted rebates amounting to $26,000 to the Ameri can Sugar Refining Company, was found guilty. The trial In the rase of the American Sugar Refining Com pany for accepting rebates will begin today. The New York Central Railroad was found guilty also on the second indictment charring the road with giving rebates to the Sugar Trust on sugar shipped from New York city to Cleveland. Green Womark, a wealthy Missis sippi farmer, was Indicted by the fed eral grand Jury on a charge of peon age. He Is charged with having h Id several negroes as slaves for eight years. Executive officials of Western roads contemplate asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to serve as a board of arbitration to settle dis putes between the companies and of ficials. In an address before the Interna tional Congress on Tuberculosis In New York, Hr. T. D. Crothers de clared that consumption and alco holism are twin sisters. A proposed deep waterway scheme to connect the C.reat Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico was launched at a representative meeting In St. Louis. Joaquin Nnbuco, the Brazilian am bassador, refused to answer questions of the Immigrant inspector, which he considered below his dignity. A $10,000,000 combine is In for mation, with Walter Baker, and Walter M. Lowney and the Huyler companies as parent concerns. The Arctic steamer Roosevelt, with Commander Peary aboard, has ar rived at Chateau Bay. Labrador, hav ing been delayed by storms. The wages of employes of the American Express Company who are paid less than $200 a month were increased 10 per cent. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which Is to abandon wooden coaches, has asked bids for 100 all-steel, nonln flamable passenger coaches. After shooting two of the posse which had surrounded him near Fletcher. N. C, Will Harris, the negro desperado, was killed. Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Leiter. ar rived at New York on the steamer Baltic from Liverpool. Mayor Schmltz and Abe Ruef. of San Francisco, have been Indicted on charges of extortion In issuing li censes to restaurants. In an Interview In Chicago J. Pierpont Morgan says he never wronged anybody, and what he wants Is fair play. All the large concerns of Boston and Gloucester have formed a fish combine, capitalized at $5,000,000. Rev. James Mason Hoppln, D. D.. LL. D., emeritus professor of the History of Art at Yale, died in New Haven. Lord Curzon, who married Mary Leiter, arrived in New York to set tle the estate left by his wife. The Standard Oil Company declar ed a quarterly dividend of $10 a share. Two hundred and fifty weavers struck at Adams, Mass. John D. Rockefeller and the direc tors of the Standard Oil were in idcted by an Ohio grand Jury for al leped violation of the Valentine Anti trust Law. United States Senator and Mrs. Thomas B. Piatt have been unable to reconcile their differences and have executed a deed of separation. Standard OH Trust stock has sunk $125,000,000 in a year owing to at tacks by the federal government. Mrs. Margaret Bottome. president of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, is dead. It is charged that grafters got a hundred thousand dollars of the re lief funds sent to San Francisco. The New York Central has been placed on trial to answer charges of giving rebates to the Sugar Trust. The Pullman Company has In creased its capital stock to $100, 000.000. Dr. Robert Craig, of Pittsburg, committed suicide at Atlantic City. The Wabash will spend over $12, 000,000 for new cars and locomo tives. Foreign. Cardinal Lecot has informed the Pope that the French minister of ed ucation made a "monstrous error" in declaring Jhat the dloceasan as sociations formed under the Cardi nal's auspices were legal, the Cardi nal explaining that they were not meant to comply with the separation law. The appointment of Field Mar shal Conrad von Hoetzendorf to be chief of the general staff of the Aus-tro-Hungarlnn Army in succession to Gen. Baron von Beck Is confirmed. The wife of Peter Struve, former editor of the revolutionary paper Emancipation, has been arrested. She belongs to a noble family, but Is a revolutionist. The Chilian Chamber of Deputies passed the bill providing tor the re construction of Valpariso and au thorizing a loan of $5,000,000 for the purpose. The British steamer Melrose Ab bey and the Swedish steamer Adolph Meyer collided off Bordeaux and the former sank, but no lives were lost. Extraordinary police precautions have been taken In Rome to protect the King and Queen of Greece on their visit, November 23. The Satsnma, the first Japanese batleshlp to be launched in Japanese waters, was set afloat in the presence of the Emperor. The Finnish police have seized large consignments of rifles and am munition destined for the. Russian revolutionists. The Russian Foreign Office denies reports that Russia contemplates in fringing on Norwegian territory. Estrada Palma, former president of Cuba, visited Havana for the first time Blnce he left office. The Spanish government has de cided to make an exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition. Monslgnor Constantlne, the papal almoner, die J of heart disease. The Russian government intends to promulgate a law for Sunday closing. Yellow fever continues to spread slowly in Cuba. The policy of the German govern ment was attacked In the Reichstag by Herr Basserman, the Liberal lead er, and defended by Chancellor von Buelow, who made his first speech In the Reichstag since his illness a notable one. Prince Amedee de Broglle, father of Prince Robert de Broglle, filed in Paris a suit for the annulment of his son's marriage to Princess Estelle de Broglle, an American singer. HEARST EIGHT COST $256,370 Offic'al Figures, However, But Part of Expenses. HUGHES EXPENSES PUT AT $618.55. Money Spent by Editor In the New York Campaign Far Above Any Sum Recorded, and Equals Thirty Cents for Every Vote He Received. A COSTLY CAMPAIGN. The more than a quarter of a million William R. Hearst fjpent was divided as follows: Independence Lengue$198,870.22 Democratic State Committee 57,000.00 Traveling Expenses. 500.00 Every vote Hearst got cost him 30 cents. Hughes' expenses wero at the ratio of 8 cents for every 100 votes. The account rendered by him does not show the total actual amount expended by Hearst, in cluding the cost of the prelimi nary fight. New York (Special). Something of a sensation was caused here Fri day when It was announced that William R. Hearst, who was the candidate for governor on the Demo cratic and Independence League ticket In the recent campaign, had filed with the Secretary of State at Albanv a statement showing that he had spent the sum of $256,370.22 in his efforts to win the election. Not since the law requiring candi dates for public office to file a list of their expenses went into effect a number of years ago has anyone Eeeking the favor of the voters ad mitted the spending of one-eighth of that sum for election purposes. The sum, In magnltdue. Is far and away greater than any others recorded In the books of the State for that par ticular purpose. Of the amount expended Mr. Hearst reported to the Secretary of State that he had given to John G. Follansbee, the treasurer of the In dependence League, $198,870.22, and to William J. Conners, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, $57,000. The balance of $500 he spent for traveling expenses. Thousands Unaccounted For.. As large as this sum may appear to be for one man to spend on an attempt to gnln an office which pays a salary of $10,000 a year, for two years, the total, as reported to the Secretary of State, does not begin to compare with the actual amount that Mr. Hearst spent in his fight to be governor of New Y'ork. In the first plnce the total does not. In any way, Include the preliminary fight he made to get the nomination and the law does not require that such expenditures should be In cluded. Immediately after he was defeated for mayor last fall he began, through his managers, the organization of the Independence League. An orga nization was formed in every county of the State and in every assembly district in the Greater New York. In the latter city he had the old Municipal Ownership League as a nucleus, but the association had to be reorganized, and altogether the establishment of the league must have cost him thousands of dollars. He had a great staff of paid agents out organizing the various branches of the league, and their expenses must have been enormous, the vast bulk of which was paid by Mr. Hearst. Another great source of expense was the obtaining of the necessary signatures to petitions for the nomi nations for governor and lieutenant governor on the Independence League State ticket. Such a petition, with the sworn signatures of the neces sary number of voters, had to be gotten in every one of tne 61 counties of the State. RUSSIA'S HUNGRY HORDE. Starving Peasants Lie In Bed To Weaken Hunger Pungs. St. Petersburg, (By Cable). The crop reports from 71 provinces and districts of Russia show the yield of wheat to be 15,059,000,000 pounds, and rye 38,355,000,000 pounds, which is 9,598,000,000 pounds below the average. The winter grain crop, deducting the seed grain, leaves for feeding the population 318 pounds per man, much of which Is exported. In several of the Interior provinces the peasants have taken to their beds, lying motionless for days at a time, in order to weaken the rang8 of hunger, and mixing their scanty supply of grain with pigweed to make more filling for bread. One of Twins Dies At 01. Amsterdam, N. Y. (Special). Jacob Steen died at the home of his granddaughter here In his ninety-first year. He and his brother Walter, of Syracuse, who was at his bedside when he passed away, were the old est twins In the United States. The Steens were born May 19, 1816, In the town of Florida, a few miles from here. Killed In A Tunnel. New York (Special). Following the explosion of a blast In the Man hattan end of the Pennsylvania Rail road's ast River Tunnel, tons of sand and rock tumbled down, filling an excavation which had been hastily vacated by a gang of workmen. One man, a "heading boss," had missed his footing, and, fulling to the bot tom of the lilt, was buried In the mass. It was hours afterward that the body was recovered. Trial Of A Dirigible liulloon. Mantes-Sur-Seii.e, France (By Ca ble). M. Lebaudy's new dirigible balloon. La Putrle, constructed for the aerostatic division of the French Army, had a successful trial here. The airship was maneuvered over the plata to Lavacourt, and as far as Ikmnleres, 10 miles, and back to the starting point here, being aloft one hour and fifteen minutes, with five men in the car. War Minister Picquart was present. La Patrle Is f -.onstructed on the same general plan is M. Leuaudy s previous airships. ALCOHOL UNO CONSUMPTION Dr. Crothers Declares The To Pc Twin Sisters. New York (Special). The conten tion that alcohol Is beneficial In the treatment of tuberculosis was de clared to ba falatious by Dr. T. D. Crowthers, superintendent of Walnut Lr.Jge Hospital, Hartford, Ct., in an address before the International Congress on Tuberculosis in this city. He declared that, on the contrary, al cohol Is really more dangerous than the iisease It is given to correct. Dr. Crowthers said: "Alcohol as a remeJy, or a pre ventive medicine, Is a most dangerous drug. All preparations of syrups con taining spirits Increase rather than diminish the disease. "They may cover up the bad symp toms, but they inereuse the poisons and the soil for the growth of the consumptive germ. Rock and rye prescriptions make the conditions more Incurable. "Alcohol is a narcotic, and while quieting the pain, lessening the cough, diminishes the vitality and power of nature to overcome the dis ease. Consumption and alcoholism arc twin sisters. The subsidence of the one Is followed by the develop ment of the other. A very largo per cent, of the so-called cured Inebri ates, or persons who have stopped drinking, die of consumption or pneumonia. A large number of con sumptives become inebriates and die suddenly. Consumption, associated with or following moderate or exces sive drinking, U always, marked by severe hemorrhages. "Alcoholic parents are followed by consumptive children, and consump tive parents have alcoholic children. Statistics show that at least a third of the descendents of Inebriates have consumption, and fully a fourth of the children of consumptives be come spirit drinkers." Miss Emily Noble, of California, offered a few practical suggestions for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis among children. "I had the good fortune in 1900 to be' sent from San Francisco to Madras to make certain investiga tions on light and x-ray therapeutics with a great deal of machinery and apparatus," said she. "I found -that In India, with a population of 400, 000,000, the children are singularly free from tuberculosis because they are taught to breathe properly as a dally exercise. And this is In a country where there Is great poverty and a great scarcity of water." The speaker said that the aver age picture drawn by missionaries of India w:aB no more correct than would be the depiction of the worst slum In New York as typical of American life. TO KILL KING OF ITALY. Two Suspected Italians From Tren ton, X. J. Naples (By Cable). What the pol ice say was a 'most skillfully planned plot to assassinate King Victor Em manuel of Italy and the Duke and Duchess of Aosta was nipped in the bud here by the arrest of two Ital ians, recent arrivals from Paterson, M 1 The arrest was made by Italian poliqe upon cabled information from Neiv Ynrk detectives encased on the case for several weeks. One of the men was to have slain the King and the other man was commissioned to kill the Duke and Duchess. It is declared that the details of the assassination were all worked out at a recent meeting of the "reds" In ti.iinn Tho Nonr York nolice were tipped off, but their "quarry" had flown. A New Comet Discovered. Cambridge, Mass., (Special). A telephone message was received at tho Harvard Observatory from Rev. J. H. Metcalf, of Taunton, Mass., an nouncing the discovery of a faint comet. The comet was found in a photograph taken by Mr. Metcalf on Ynvoniher 14, 6:1:45. Greenwich mean time, or about 2.45 o'clock. The approximate position of the comet, which was moving in a Southwesterly direction, Is given as right ascension, 4 hours 4 minutes 35 seconds, declination minus & de grees 15.8 minutes. Xo Simplified Spelling. ' New York (Special). Simplified spelling has received another solar plexus blow at the hands of a com mittee of the Board of Education. After an Investigation extending over several months the committee has recommended that the list of 300 words approved by President Roose velt shall not be adopted in the public schools. To do so would be an unwarrantable proceeding on the part of tne board, it says. A decis ion in the matter will be rendered in a week. U THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. All of the correspondence between the British Foreign Office and Am bassador Whitelaw Reid leading up to the Newfoundland modus vivendl was made public by the State Depart ment. Mr. Bonaparte is clearing up his work In the Navy Department, pre paratory to becoming attorney gener al. The1 President will send, tha nominations to the Senate Decem ber 4. Mr. Oscar Straus said he would give up every business connection and devote himself to his work as Secretary of tho Department of Com merce and Labor. Commodore Sam N. Kane, of New York, died on a Pullman car while homeward bound from Hot Springs, Va. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion has declined to issue an order compelling railroads to report all cases ol false billing, classification, weighing and representations of the contents of packages. The Firth-Sterling Steel Company, of McKeesport, Pa., was the lowest bidder for six, seven, eight and twelve-inch projectiles for the Navy. The former chief of the Army Claims Bureau In Cuba is reported to have paid thousands that do not appear on the books. , The Census Bureau estimated the total wealth of the country in 1904 to be $106,881,415,008. The Secret Service announced that a new counter felt ten-dollar note Is In circulation. WAR ON THE OIL TRUST HAS BEGUN United States Government Demands Its Dissolution. many large Interests involved. Attorney General Moody Orders the Bill to Be Filed Which Gives a History of the Trust, Charging That It Has Throttled All Compel it lor. end (form ic1 Bogus Independent C'iupaniet. THE GOVERNMENT'S PETITION. Petition filed In the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis asking for: Dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Injunction against the Rocke fellers, Rogers, Arrhbold and others to prevent further viola tion of the Sherman Anti-trust Law. Injunction acninst subsidiary compnnies to prevent paying fur- ther dividends to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Injunctions against all indivi duals and companies connected with the Standard Oil Company, to prevent further combinations In restraint of trade. The government holds In re serve the probable criminal pros ecution of the Rockefellers and other directors of the Standard Oil Company for violation of the Anti-trust Law. Washington (Special) The United States government made the Initial move to dissolve the Standard Oil Company's alleged monopoly by illlnp; In the United States Circuit Court in St. Louts a petition in equity against the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Its 70 constituent corpor ations and partnerships and 7 de fendants, including John D. Rocke feller and Wm. Rockefeller, asking that the combination be declared un lawful and in the future enjoined from entering Into any contract or combination in restraint of trade. The suit Is brought under the Sherman Antitrust Act, which the Standard Oil Company and Its con stituent companies and the seven In dividual defendants are charged with violating. In a formal statement At torney General Moody says that crim inal prosecution is reserved for fu ture consideration. The government's petition In tho suit is signed by Wm. H. Moody, United States nttorncy general; Mil ton B. Purdy, assistant to the Attor ney General; Frank B. Kellogg, Charles B. Morrison and C. A. Sev erance, assistants to the Attorney General. The petition contains 194 printed pages, or about 100,000 words, and an additional 84 pages of exhibits, consisting of bylaws and minutes of Standard Oil meetings and organizations, and a map show ing the retail prices of oil In every state and territory of the Union. The investigation into the meth ods pursued by tho Standard Oil Company began early In 1905, and the results were laid before Congress last May by President Roosevelt, who accompanied the report by a Bpeclal message denouncing the apparent methods pursued. The President as serted that suits would be Instituted in the United States courts to abolish the combination, and the filing of the suit today marks the Initial step. The defendants are entitled to one month In which to enter their ap pearance and 60 da'3 In which to file answer to the allegations in the petition. They also have the option of riling a demurrer to the bill. Criminal Prosecution Next. Attorney General Moody has stak ed his reputation as Inw officer of the government upon the suit. Armed with an exhaustive array of damag ing evidence collected by the trained experts of the Bureau of Corporations and fortified by the opinions of emi nent counsel, he sits in serene Con tentment of his work. Thursday's action practically marks the parting cf the ways for him, for shortly after the convening of Con gress he expects the Senate to con firm his appointment as associate judge of the Supreme Court. The question of criminal prosecu tion against tho officers of the Stand ard Oil Company will bo taken up later. But It is understood that to his successor, Charles J. Bonaparte, now secretary of the Navy, will be placed the burden of tho decision. Much of the credit of the suit against the Oil Trust is shared by James R. Garfield, of Ohio, commis sioner of corporations. It was his Investigations into the operations of the Standard Oil Company that form ed the greater part of the basis for the present prosecution. Horse Thieves In Cuba. Havanna (Special). Major Clark reports from Rancho Veloh that nine mounted men stole a number of horses and equipments near that town. They were pursued by rural guards, but were not arrested. Six of the thieves are known and charges have been preferred against them before the municipal Judge. Building Trades' Strike. Mobile, Ala. (Special). All the building contractors of Mobile Mon day declared for the open-shop basis. As a result 1,500 men in the build ing trades' refused to work. Only one firm acceeded to the demand for a closed shop. Trianed Animals Tortured. Chicago (Special). At the session of the Americau Humane Association Mrs. Huntington Smith, of Boston, read a paper in which she declared that the cruelty practiced on animals which are trained to exhibit in cir cuses and on the stage was worse than anything seen in Spanish bull fights. The convention pledged Itsel. to take an active part next summer In the suppression of trained animal exhibitions. Cuts His Wife's Thoat. Richmond, Va. (Special). Mrs. Jas. Wllcher, 16 years of age, who had been married two years, had het throat cut from ear to ep.r by her husband, whom she had left becausi of his cruel treatment of her and who committed the deed after futlh effort at reconciliation. The womar was discovered at the home of be husband by her mother, Mrs. S. J Woody, with whom she had been It v Ing since abandoning her husband' 'erne. A1A GOULD GETS OIVORCE A Complete Victory For the Counttss Caste'lnne. Paris (By Cable). Tho Tribunal of First Instance of tho Seine, Judge Ditte presiding, at noon Wednesday grunted a divorce to the Countess de Castellano (formerly Anna Gould, of New York ) and gave her the custody of her children, who, however, will not be allowed to bo taken from V ranee without the consent of their father, Count Bonl do Castellane. Tho end of the famous case came suddenly. The court brushed aside the demand of the Count's lawyers for an examination of witnesses, and, as anticipated, the public prosecu tor did not even ask to be heard. As soon as the court assembled Judge Dltte handed down the Judg ment, which is a sweeping victory for the. Countess. In granting her petition for divorce the court gave the Countess the custody of her children, the Count being allowed only the usual rights to see them and share In the control of their ed ucation, which was not contested. The Count Is given the right to see the children nt stated periods at the home of their grandmother and keep them a month annually duping the holidays. Xo Alimony for Bonl. Tho Count's demand for an "ali mentary allowunce of $50,000 an nually" was pronounced by the court to be without foundation in law and as rejected. Tho only point decided in the Count's favor was the Imposition of the inhibition on the Countess to take tho children out of France without their father's consent. The court appointed the president of the Chamber of Notaries to liqui date the affairs of the husband and wife. The judgment was given, with costs, against the Count. The de cree, the reading of which had hardly consumed five minutes, was delivered by the judge In a voice so low as to be practically inaudible to the eqger crowd filling the courtroom. Many women climbed the chairs In vain efforts to hear the decision, and when they were aware that a divorce was granted they seemed actually to resent the loss of a public trial, at which people in high society would be compelled to testify. History of the Romance. Anna Gould, tho youngest daughter of the late Jay Gould, was married to Count Ernest Boniface de Castellune, the eldest son of the Marquis de Castellane, at the New York homo of her brother, George J. Gould, March 4, 1S95, the late Archbishop Corrigan ofliclatlng. Mls3 Gould'? dowry was understood to have been $1S,000,000, and It was further stated that her Income was $600,000 a year., Immediately after the mar riage the couple left the United States for France, where the extrava gant manner In which they lived at tracted considerable attention. About fle years after the marriage the Count and Countess de Castellane were reported to be financially em barrassed. It being alleged that the Count had already spent about $7, 000.000 oi his wife's money. An adjustment of the affairs of the Count and Countess became nece-Bary, nnd considerable litigation followed, with the result that the Gould family in tervened and the Incomo of the Countess was cut down to $200,000. On February 5 of the present year the Countess de Castellane entered a plea for divorce, the hearing of which began before Judge Dltte, Maitre Cruppl appealing fdr the Countess nnd Maitre Bonnet for the Count. Evidence in the shape of correspon dence between the Count and women was presented and the case was ad journed to November 7, when the flnnl pleas were made Rnd the suit adjourned until November 14. On tho following day, November 8, the case of tho Count's creditors was pre sented to the court and adjourned for two weeks. The three children of the Castel- lanes are George. Bonl and Jay, the youngest being the namesake of his mother's father, the late Jay Gould. Ten Millions Involved. Washington (Speelal). The gov ernment filed a brief in tho Supremo Court asking for the dimlssal of the gigantic suit brought against the United States by tho State of Kansas to gain possession of the odd-numbered sections of laud adjoining the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroal lino. In Indian Territory, aggregating In value $10,000,000. '1A :al WOULD. Philadelphia Electric directors de clared the usual semi-annual divi dend of 2 per cent, on the stock. Reports from Washington say President Roosevelt will press his contention lor a tax on great for tunes. James B. Patterson and John J. Calne were elected directors and C. Addison Harris, Jr., was elected treasurer of the Franklin Trust Com pany of Philadelphia. Speyer's brokers were the big buy ers of Rock Island. As James Spey ar is a leading financial power Ih that "ompany, the buying seemed to be if the best character. A merger of Great Northern, North ern Pacific aud Burlington, which fire absolutely controlled by J. P. Morgan and J. J. 11 1. 1 under one nnme, is tho latest gossip from the West. K.. B. Smith & Co. were leading buyers of Union Pucillc iu the Wall Street market. American speculators continue to my American stocks In London, A'hlch the Eugllsh financiers just now ibject to; as they do not" wish to ai ry tho stocks over there with Brit ish funds. Standard OH declared b quarterly Uvldend of $10 a share. 'This makes 140 for the full year, and is the same n last year. John D. Rockefeller's mpposed portion of the dividend Is 14.000,000, and for the year $16, i00,000. Philadelphia & Erie's gross earu ngs In September increased $26,840, nit net profits decreased $35,170. 'or nine months of the year the net arnlnp.s decreased $8,8S0, com piled with the same monta last year. Now it la said that Southern Pa ine is going to buy or lease the St, 'uul. As both companies are abso ut ely under Standard Oil domination urn a deal could be put through at ny time. A guaranteed 8 per cent. Ilvldend Is mentioned as the price '.fter St. Paul shareholders havo first wured the "rights" to new stock at ar. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. C. A. Stewart, of Wellnboro, wniit, hunting near Antrim, killed the big gest fox seen In that vicinity in many years. It measured six feet from tip to tip. Foxes are nearly extermin ated in the locality. The members of Bradbury Post, No. 149, O. A. R., of Media, celebra ted the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the Grand, Army of the Republic. A delegation of Pennsylvania phar macists called upon Governor Penny packer In behalf of the candidacy of L. O. Milton, of Condersport, for the vacancy on the State Pharmaceutical Board, created by the removal of Paul W. llouck, of Shenandoah, re cently. The rectorship of St. James' Epis copal Church, Evansburg, which has been vacant for several months, has been accepted by Rev. F. S. Ballcn tine, of Chester County. Clinton Gates, a public-Spirited cit izen, has agreed to macadamize four squares streets of West Conshohocken at his own expense, fully $4000. Miss Ella Krlcbel, of Centre Point, Montgomery County, was fatally in jured In a runaway, and her mother, Mrs. Hlrum Krlebol, was badly hurt. An alarm clock frustrated a burg lary in the home of John W'oodward, of Ashland, early the other morning. When ue went to bed Harry Wood ward, a clerk In the Philadelphia ft Reading Coal & Iron Company office, thought he set the alarm for 5 o'clock, but he must have fixed It for 2. It rang at that hour. Three burglars who were ransacking the rooms scurried helter skelter down stairs. Young Woodward got his re volver and fired three times ft the fugatlves. The police of Conhohocken have been ordered to rigorously enforce the borough law restricting the run ning of trains to seven miles an hour. The authorities will not stop with arresting engineers, but will get after the division and general super intendents. Refusal of the railroad people to place night watchmen at four street crossings has caused the determination to prosecute. While climbing a fence at Heine's Woods, near Columbia, Charles Thompson, a rabbit hunter, tripped and fell. His gun was discharged, the entire load of shot entered his left breast, penetrating the heart and causing instant death. John H. Rothermel, congresman elect. of the Berks-Lehigh District, certified that his campaign expenses were $480.19. Great excitement was caused at Fleetwood by the report, that gold had been discovered on the farms of Philip Maderla and Martin Schaeffer. It Is said that Adam Kline and Moses Gundrey, of Kutztown, both mining experts, applied for a lease recently and shortly after Btakcd claims. A Philadelphia expert was sent .for and the latter is credited with having said that the substance they mined was a sure guarantee of the presence of gold In paying quantities. Iron ore has also been found In abundance on tho Schaeffer estate, while the gold Is hidden under the surface where tho two properties meet. A queer looking outfit arrived in Reading the other day. It consists of Anton Hanlian, his vife, their young child, who was seated in a three-wheeled conveyance, modeled. In part, after the regulation baby coach, and a little dog, Hanlian and bis family are from Vienna, Austria, and are walking around the world on a wager to complete the Journey In seven years. They set out on their strange trip on September 12, 1900, and thus far have covered 27,974 miles. New York City Is their ob lectlve point, whence they sail for South America and then to Australia. If they complete the Journey In the specified time a purse of $10,000 awaits them in Vienna. The town Council, of Gettysburg has decided to have the Centre Square and one block running oift In each direction from the Square, together with one other principal block, paved with vitrified brick, the work to be done at the rate of one square per year. All the other streets and squares in the town are to be constructed in a manner similar to the macadam avenues on the bat tlefield. Peter S. Metzgar, a farmer of Kunkletown, met with a fatal acci dent while out gunning for rabbits with his nephew, aged 13 vears. Metzgar started out and while climb ing a fence rested his weapon against a rail. The gun fell, exploding as it did so, and the" charge lodged in Metzgar's neck, killing him almost instantly. Hunting has become a fad with the women in Huzleton and 'almost dally the woods are Invaded by a number of them, some of whom are excellent marksmen. Miss Cora Faust, a sales woman, returned from a day's hunt, having succeeded in bagging a half dozen quail, two pheasants and half a dozen rabbits. While hunting near Willow Grove, Columbia County, William Hartman, of that place, shot a catamount which had been chased up a tree by his dog. The cat is a large one, and Is the first killed in that section in several years. Bleeding from the nostrils and cars, John Ryan, for forty years an Inmate of the Lehigh County Poor house, was picked lip ryiconsclous at the East Allentown end of the bridge across the Lehigh Jiiver. It is thought he was held up and robbed. Alex Stablnskl and Joseph Kulba .toskl, aged IS and 20 years, are dy ing from burns received at the Alas ka Colliery, near Mt. Carmel. While they were eating their dinner a spark fell from one of the lamps, landing In a powder keg, setting off t's ex plosive and burning the clothing from their bodies. Two Reading Railroad locomotives collided ' near Locust Bummlt. W. E. Paul, flagman, and John Rlsche, firemun, were serjously Injured. The others of the crBW of each locomo tive escaped by Jumping. John Peters, a quarryman, of Ann vllle, aged 75 years, after an absence of several weeks from his work be cause of Illness and then the death of his wlfrt atnrteH fttv his twtut r.9 rititv i and Whilfl Wfllkinff alnnff IhA Dflfl.tlnff i Railroad tracks was run down by a ireignt train and instantly killed. The Board of Governors of the York Oratorio Society has decided to engage the PlttBburg Orchestra for its next entertainment. The board also decided to hold a chamber con cert In the near future. The mem borsbip of the York Oratorio Society, which is ruherslng Meudolsohon's "St. Paul," now numbers 200.
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