TRAIN WHS RUN AT HIGH SPEED Investigating The New York Central Wreck. TWENTY NOW ON THE DEATH ROLL. The Motorman, Who Declares He Wan KunnliiK MOM nn Hour, Hald to Have Admitted to the OWHMf Tluil ! Was 7 Milrs Streams Pmtf Into Hi'- Morgue to Identify Hie Mangled Re mains of the Victims Theory of thr Oorawr and DhteM At torney Old COMbM Attached to the Speedy Motors. New York (Special). Twenty dead, two fHtally hurt and 145 others more or less seriously Injured Is the result of the wreck of an electric sxpress train on the New York Cen tral Railroad at Two Hundred and Fifth Street and Webster Avenue. Ot the lai fco number of Injun d. 5'1 are. according to hospital and police reports, seriously hurt, and the death list nny be ino'eased. Most of Hit others are suffering from lacerations or shock and will recover. E. R. Roper-, the motorman of the derailed train, who was arrested by order of the coroner and taken be fore him for ixamlnatlon, was subse quently paroled on his own recogni zance to appear for the coroner's in quest. Rogers declnred that the train was running no faster than steam trains were commonly run. The cause of the wreck Is still n matter of speculation. All night In pector Flood, of the police depart ment; Coroner Schwannecke and As sistant District Attorney Smythe, to gether with other members of the District Attorney's force, looked over the Rcene and Bought to determine the cause of the derailment of the train. The result of their investi gation may become known when the Inquest Is held by the coroner. All four of the liacks of the New York Central through the rocky cut where the train left the rails nnd several of the cars went to pieces had been cleared. The track on which the train was running and which W113 ripped up In the accident had been restored, the third rail re placed and traffic resumed practical ly under normal condition. Seventy Miles Ml Hour. With the clearing of the wreckage. Interest turned to what the authori ties might do. Perhaps the most significant statement of the day was the one made by Coroner Schwan necke. He had secured a statement from Motorman Rogers, of the wrecked train. In thl3, according to the Coroner, the motorman had stated that he was running on sched ule time when the accident occurred and admitted that the speed of his train was 70 miles an hour. Rogers, said the Coroner, declares that he did not know anything was wrong until an eighth of a mile beyond the place of derailment. The train consisted of a double header motor coupled into one en gine, with one motorman. drawing five coaches. The first was a smoker, the second is described as a power car, though It Is commonly desig nated as a combination baggage and smoker, and the three following were ordinary passenger coaches. WOULD NOT SELL T JAPS. IlnrTimau Said To Have Refused Of fer Tor Slcumer Lines. San Francisco, (Special). The Examiner says that President Harrl man. of the Pacific Mall Company, has refused all offers of the officials of the Toyen Klsen Kalsha, the Japa nese company operating steamers be tween this port and the Orient, to sell out to them his line of steamers In part or In whole. The Pacific Mall Company, it It said, is now considering a proposi tion from Mexico by which the Pa cific Mail is to abandon the Panama route and run its steamers In connec tion with the Tehauntepec Isthmian Line, or else divide Its steamer ser vice between the two Isthmian roads. Huriii-il In Their Home. South Orange, N. J. (Special). William C. Do Lancey and Mrs. De Lancey were badly burned In a fire which totally destroyed their resi dence, on Forest Drive, in the fash ionable section of Short Hills. They are now in the private hospital of Dr. Mefford Runyon, on South Prospet Street, South Orange Their two children wer. raved by a nurse. The fire was discovered about 8 o'clock by some of the servants, who saw a blaze In the conservatory at the rear of the house, where Mr. De Lancey had a collection i,r costly plants. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic. The University of Pennsylvania Is to confer the degree of doctor of laws on'Dr. Howard A. Kelly. President Bitot, of Harvard, favors separate schools for the white and black races. A statement has been issued from the office of District Attorney Jerome that the Stale is willing to consider the appointment of a lunacy com mission for Harry K. Thuw. All differences between the West ern I'nlon Company and its opera tors In Chicago bnve been adjusted, nnd the men WBO were discharged have been r Instated, Alexis Alladln. leader of the peas ant party In Hnssia. arrived at New York. He says 80,000,000 Russians are -in the verge of starvation. A crank mistook Chief of Police O'Bfton, of Chicago, for President Roosevelt and attempted to shoot him Cardenas & Coe. nn old New York firm of importers and exporters, have made an assignment. Justice tlreenliauni, of New York, Issued an order directing the Ameri can Ice Company to produce, for the discovery and inspection of (he peo ple of the State of New York, all contracts made by the company with a long list of firms and individuals. The political cnmpalgn In the Phil ippines is causing excitement throughout the Island. The gov ernment parly has reorganized as the National Progressives. I'ulajanes burned two towns In Occidental Negros, Philippines, and killed six of the constabulary. Two American teachers are missing. Charles Med. Williams, the fam ous Wisconsin University baseball pitcher, who was supposed to be dend, hns been found in Indiana. Harrow Hall, one of the buildings of the Lincoln Memorial University, at Cumberland Cap, Tenn., was de stroyed by fire. Madison Jones, aged 12 years, saved a train from plunging Into a burned trestle by flagging it with his red Bweater. New York was shaken by the ex plosion of a Standard Oil Tank at Constable Hook, N. J. Col. James F. Harrison, a grand son of President William Henry Har rison, Is dead. Four children were burned to death in their home at Brldgevllle, Del. Under the auspices of the laymen's missionary movement, a commission of prominent American busliiess mon will make a visit of Inspection to all the foreign missionary fields and de fray their own expenses. The break In the Colorado River lias finally been shut off. It is now expected that the Salton Sea will dis appear by evaporation in about 10 years. Robert Reeder nnd Henry Hnrkins, attendants at the Ohio State Hospital, were arrested on the charge of mur dering an Inmate. The will of Elmer S. Dundy leaves the greater part of his estate to his mother. His wife gets $50,000. Gage E. Tarbell, second vice president of the Equitable Life As surance Society, has resigned. The Standard Oil Company has an nounced a general advance in the price of oil. SEVEN BLOWN UP BNJ STEAMER Auxiliary Boiler On Emitter Explodes. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. Disaster Occurs Without Warning, and in a Moment the Companlonway Is Choked Up With Fragments of the Seven Victims The Steamer Was Shattered and Disabled. New York (Special). The Ham-burg-Amcrlran Line stenmer Valdl vla, fruit laden from the West Indies, enme Into port with her forward decks shattered, her funnel flat up on the deck nnd the story of a boiler explosion on board, which caused the Instant death of seven members of the crew and the serious Injury of another. The exploding boiler was known as the auxiliary and supplied steam to the various hoisting engines, capstans, steering gear. etc. Off Hatteras It was decided to turn steam from the auxiliary boiler Into the main steam pipes to help out In making the speed necessary to con tract requirement nnd lo save the perishable cargo. All through the loading ports in the West Indies it is said the auxiliary boiler had been working with SO to 100 pounds of steam, whereas Just before the explo sion occurred the steam gauge show ed a pressure of only IS pounds. This was being increased by forced draft, when suddenly there came a "puff," as it was described, and seven men lay dead In the compnnlon-way of the forward 'tween decks. Captain Kruger. commanding the Vnldlvia, was In the eharthouse, for ward, when the explosion occurred. He was stunned by the force of it, but amid the crashing of heavy tim bers and the roar of the falling smokestack he niched for the bridge and seized the engine-room indicator, or telegraph; but the lines had been broken, and so Captain Kruger sent his quartermaster to the engine-room to have the engines stopped. The steering gear had also became de ranged, and the ship had begun to swing in a big circle. The first and second officers of the ship hnd gone to their posts of duty, and it is said that within a very few minutes after the explosion occurred the Valdlvla was standing to and the Injured were be ing cared for and the bodies of t.he dead being collected for burial. Re pairs were soon under way, and when canvas had been rigged up for draft purposes in place of the broken stack the ship was headed for Norfolk, the idea being to care for the injured there. Arriving off the Virginia Capes, the weather was heavy, and Captain Kru ger decided to keep on to New York. When the Valdlvla reached her pier the injured members of the crew, whose lives are all but despaired of, were taken off and conveyed to a hospital. The first officer of the Val dlvla also had been hurt by the ex plosion, but his injuries had been dressed on board. $30,000 For Hit of Brains, Cleveland (Special). For the loss of a spoonful of brnlns and other Injuries, which he claims he sus tained when a long-handled adze fell from an upper story of the Central High School annex, May 6, 1901, George O. He, uns wants $20,004 damages. Bevnnn says the brains he lost were tin Ik st lie had, nnd thc.t he prized them highly. The adze was accidentally dropped, he claims, by an employ of George A. Cook, of Stevens & Co., and that Skeel Bros, were negligent hi uot keeping a tem porary flooring down above where be was working. Mrs. Bradley Indicted, Wachlngton (Special). Mrs. An nie M. Bradluy was indicted for mur der in the first degree for the shoot ing of former Senator Arthur M. Blown, of Uluh, at the Raleigh Hotel, In this city, on the 8th of last De cember, causing his death on De cember 13. Mrs. Bradley probably will be arraigned under the Indict mer.t sometime thlB week. Her trial will not take plnce for, per haps. two months. She is at pres ent confined In the district Jail. The Agricultural Hill. Washington (Special). The Agri cultural Appropriation Hill was re potted to the S uato. As reported from the Committee on Agriculture, tbe blJ) carries an incease over the bill as It PI sod the House In the appropriation i for the Agricultural Department proper of $191,180, and of $500,000 in the appropriation for the forestry service. bringing the to tal forestry nprnp.-lpCcn up to $1, 000,000 and tho grand total of the bill to .80i. 10. Foreign. General Plcquart, French minister of war, declared In the Chamber of Deputies that if tbe Germans were violating the neutral territory of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. France would meet the situation. The Rothschilds have refused the Brazilian government request to issue a loan of $25,000,000 to finance the coffee valorization scheme. The gigantic scheme of a firm of distillers in England to defraud the revenue has been unearthed. French financial Interests will make a last-ditch tight against the proposed income tax measure. Formal notice has been given that a bill to establish an Irish coun cil with extensive administrative powers but limited rights lo legis- J late will be introduced in the British Parliament. German officials are becoming Im patient over the delay of the Turkish officials In punishing the chief of the Eecret police, who seized the cargo of a German ship. The English House of Commons refused a new writ for the election of a member In place of Mr. William son, Conservative and tariff reformer, who was unseated. Fifty-six women suffragists who were arrested for disorderly conduct in the House of Commons, London, refused to pay tbe fines Imposed and were sent to Jail. Investigation Is being made Into the sanity of Professor Han, of Wash ington, held at Karlsruhe, Germany, charged with the murder of his mother-in-law. Premier Mohammed El Aziz Boil Atour of Tripoli died at Tunis at the age of 95. Anarchists are being arrested In Berlin on tbe charge of provoking soldiers to rebel. It was formally denied that Pre mier Clemenceau of France Intends to resign. President Castro was operated up on for an Infected gland in the groin. Premier Bond, of Newfoundland, arraigned the home government. I which, he said, abandoned the colony In arranging the modus vlvendl with the United States. The German imperial Supreme Court has sentenced an Italian, who claims to be a prince, to plson for attempting to get drawings of a fortress. The British chief secretary for Ire land announced In the House of Com mons that the cabinet is committed to home rule for Ireland. The police arrested three anarch ists In Berlin and 15,000 eopl of a revolutionary pamphlet. Efforts will be made in Parliament to obtain a governmental statemen( on the Swettenham episode. Charles Tuker, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and a customs agent named Forwood have been sentenced each to two years' imprisonment for conspiring to com mit extensive customs frauds. Rudolph Dolge, resident director of the Orinoco corporation and secre tary of the United States Commission on Venezuelan Claims, makes seri ous charges' of corruption against Venezuelan government officials. In the general convention of 8,000 members of the Oerman Farm ers' National Association in Berlin resolutions were adopted that the convention expected no further re ' "( lions In the tariff will be agreed to. Tho Hussion government has adopted the scheme to tax all in comes above $000. !150 DROWNED OR FROZEN. Joy Line Steamer Larchmont Sinks After Collision. Block Island, R. I. (Special). A marine disaster, with an appalling loss of life and entailing suffering almost beyond the limit of human endurance, came to light Tuesday, when a lifeboat ot the Joy Line stenmer Larchmont, bonud from Providence to New York, drifted into Block Island harbor. In the boat were several bodies of men who had died from the effects of long hours of exposure to a death dealing temperature. In the boat also were 11, whose suffering was so intense that they seemed oblivloUB to the fact that death was In their midst, and that they had escaped only by virtue of their ability to withstand the rigor of zero weather in an open boat at sea. The boat brought a tale of disas ter that has rarely been equaled In New England waters, and It is be lieved that when the final cdunt is made It will be found that not less than 150 lives were lost. Grim Tokens of Mill' ring. Following closely in the wake of the solitary lifeboat came bodies, cast upon the beach by angry waves. Then came ltfeboats and rafts. Each of them bore their burden of grim death, as well as a load of suffering humanity, and each brought a tale of horror, of suffelng and of despair. Another Collision. Naples (By Cable). The White 8tar Line steamship Republic, Cap tain McAuley, from Boston February 2 and Genoa February 14 for Naples, while entering the harbor here col lided with the Italian steamer Centro America, from St. Thomas January 17. Nobody was Injured, but a great panic ensued. Both steamers were considerably damaged. Killed At Grade Crossing. Adrian, Mich. (Special) Mrs. Mary lllnkley, aged K9, was Instantly killed; Warren Stamp, aged 28, was fatally Injured, and Miss Ida Hinkley, aged 24, was seriously hurt when the buggy in which they were rid ing was struck by an eastbound Wa bash passenger train. Italy Going Backward. Rome (B.v Cable). Recent statis tics show that Italy's population for the last five years has been gradual ly decreasing. In several of the pro vinces which furnish the largest con tingents of emigrants the deaths al ready outnumber the births, while in others the population Is stationary. The lack of laborers is felt every where throughout the country. Em igration is considered ty be the matn cause of the depopulation. Wolves Terrorize Mllesia. Berlin (By Cable) .Packs of wolves, during the long, cold spell, have been invading Silesia from Rus sia. Tbe countryside Is full of stories of lonely wayfarers who have been surrounded by wolves, pulled dowu and devoured. Few persons venture to go on foot outside the villages. The uenry have nrgnnlr.ed wolf bunts ip the forests of Tworoger, Hawitz and Hungohuette. Prince von Pless (ought a small pack ot wolves and killed four of them. SCHOOLS OPEN COOLIES BIRRED Basis of Settlement of the Jap Controversy. THE IMMIGRATION BILL TO PASS The Senate Decides to Act Upon It at Once, Thus Obviating Necessity of the President Calling an Extra Session of Congress Filibustering Tactics to Be Abandonded. Washington (Special). A settle ment of the controversy In the Paci fic Coast States arising over the ex clusion of Japanese pupils from pub lic schools has been reached. Mayor Schmltz and the members of the San Francisco school board gave assurance to the President that If the amended bill becomes a law they will abolish the oriental schools In San Francisco and will ndmlt Ja panese pupils to tho white schools. These agreements were arrived at after conferences between fhe Presi dent and his friends In the Senate regarding the Immigration Bill, and nfter two conferences between Presi dent. Roosevelt and Secretary Root on one side and Mayor Schmltz and other visitors from San Francisco on the other. After a conference with the President Mayor Schmltz gave out this statement: "We have come to a satisfactory understanding upon tho assumption that Congress will puss the amend ment to the Immigration Bill Intro duced February II." The filibustering tactics on tho Im migration Bill In the Senate were brought to a close by assurances from the White House (hat there would be no ruling on the practice, Inauguarated by South Carolina, of states Importing foreign labor. Sev eral Southern senators belloved that the new bill would prohibit, further importations of foreign labor by states. Both Messrs. Bacon nnd Till man disclaimed any intention to con duct a filibuster, and many other Democratic senators stated that even If the Georgia Senator and the South Caollna Senator did entertain such a purpose theywould not follow them. During the debate on the Immigra tion Bill In the Senate a member of the Cabinet, who was on the floor, told senators that the subject of state immigration had received the atten tion of the Cabinet at Its meeting nnd that there bad been a general conclusion that the terms of the bill would not require a new ruling In the South Carolina case. Instend of tho Senate discussing that clause of the bill which relates to the Japanese situation, and which is really the only reason why the Im migration Bill has been resurrected, tho entire day was devoted to a clause in the bill which some of the Southern senators believed will make It impossible for a state to bring im migrants from Europe. The debate degenerated simply Into a wrangle between Senator Lodge, representing the cotton-mill owners of Massachu setts, and Senator Tillman, represent ing the cotton-mill owners of South Carolina. LITTLE WAR IS AVERTED. Nicaragua And Honduras At Last Agree To Arbitrate. Washington (Special). Peace bc ttroon Honduras and Nicaragua seems assured as a result of the. activity of the United States and Mexico. Pres ident Roosevelt received dispatches from the Presidents of Nicaragua and Honduras, both of whom have ex pressed willingness to accept tho sug gestion of this country and to arbi trate their differences, which only a few days ago seemed likely to result In Immediate war. The statement was made at the State Department that both the bel ligerent countries had accepted the proposlton made In the joint note of the United States, Mexico, Guatema la, Salvador and CoBta Rica and had agced to abltrate their differences. No one yet knows Just what the trouble has been between the two little republics, but war was Immi nent a few days ago. It. Kuppcnheimcr Suicide. Chicago (Special). B. Kuppen helmer, manager of the firm of B. Kuppenhelmer ft Co., was found un conscious In his residence In Prairie Avenue with a bullet wound in his side. A revolver lay beside him. He died before a physician arrived. The coroner's Jury returned a vcdlct of suicide while despondent because of 111 health. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Gates Is back from a trip to the South and he is said to be a bear for a long pull. The Lackawanna Steel Company has sold $5,000,000 of 5 per cent, notes which will run for two years. Iron and steel exports last year amounted to $172,000,000, compared with $142,000,000 in 1905 and $128,000,000 In 1904. There were rumors that a Union Pacific holding company Is to be formed to take over all tho Invest ment securities of that railroad. The extreme weakness of Missouri Pacific caused a revival of the gos sip about a reduction in that com pany's dividend to 4 per cent. Gould BtockB are not popular with the street. As was the rase bIx months ago, 3 per cent, of the Union Pacific dividend was declared out of surplus earnings of the railroad and 2 per cent, was declared out of Income from Investments. When Gould began his fight against the Pennsylvania and later against the Union Pacific he raised up antagonisms of such a powerful nature that his various Blocks have been unpopular ever since. It may be tine in he very Independent, but It is hard these days to get along without the moral support at least of great financiers. Union Pacific directors declared a Bcml-anuual dividend and Southern Puclflc directors declared a semi-annual of 2 V4 per cent. These are tho same amounts as were declared six months ago. Shareholilera of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company have approved the plan to Issue 20,000 shares of new stock at $100 tbe share.. Tbe stock Is $50 par and the regular dividend is 12 per rent. Payments for the new stock will be made as follows: 50 per cent, on or before May 1, 1907, and 50 r. -r cent, on or before November 1, 1907. GIRL ILLEGED EMBEZZLER Treasurer of a Church Society Locked Up On That Charge. Bloomlngton, III. (Special). Miss Helen Dixon Is an occupant of a cell in the city Jail, awaiting trial on a charge of embezzlement. She was a lending church worker, looked up to and respected by all, and Intrust ed with large sums of money raised for religious purposes. Wandering somewhere In the coun try In her brother, who by his con tlnunl pleas for money first drew from her her savings and later the church funds intrusted to her care. ' Me will pay them hack If they will give me time," Is the girl's la ment. Her faith In him Is unshaken, though others have ceaBed to be lieve that she ever again will &ee the money she advanced to him. Miss Dixon Is accused of embezzl ing $1,300 belonging to the Glean er's Society of the Second Christian Church, of which she had been treas urer for two years. The money In trusted to her care had been raised during four years of laborious efforts on the part of the members of the society. When the church proposed to purchase a new $2,200 pipe organ, the Gleaner's Society agreed to raise one-half the cost. Since that time tho society has been giving periodi cal entertainments. There are 100 members in tho society, all young women, and the money earned has represented an Incalculable effort. Tho aggregate secured by these vari ous means was about $1,300. Recently the organ was Installed and tho Gleaner's Society was called upon to pay the agreed portion. Two weeks ago Miss Dixon wbb ask ed to turn over the money, but she nmnzed the members by saying thnt she did not have a cent in her pos session. 8he also was out of em ployment. She was coaxed and threatened, but refused to make any statement as to the disposition of the money other than that it wns goue. After two weeks' effort it was de cided, as a last resort, to place her under arrest. When arrested Miss Dixon told of sending the money to her brother, who never returned It. Her parents are dead. LOOKING FOR ROOSEVELT. Drew Revolver On Cnptain of the Detectives. Chicago (Special) A well-dressed man, evidently of unsound mind, en tered the Central Police Station lu the city hall and attempted to shoot Capt. P. D. O'Brien, of the detective bureau. , Tho man placed n revolver close to Captain O'Brien's head, saying: "You're Roosevelt, ain't you?" Captain O'Brien prang up, knock ed the man down and took the revol ver away. He wns at once attacked by the insane man, but after a des perate fight subdued him. With the assistance of other officers tho man was placed In a cell, where ho be came extremely violent, it being nec essary for several officers to hold him on the Actor to prevent him from dashing his brains out against the wall. Later ho wns removed to the Ilospltnl for the Detention ot the In sane. Nothing found on the man Indicated his Identity. .Mangled By A Bulldog. Philadelphia (Special). Attacked by a vicious bulldog belonging to her hushand, MrB. Lena Smith was nl most chewed to denth In her home here. Sho Is in a critical condition in a hospital. One of her aams was so mangled by the angry tfog that It will have to be amputated and the other was so torn it will be amost useless if sho recovers. The wo man's neck and breast were also terribly mangled. The attack on the part of the dog was provoked by a beating which Mrs. Smith gave the animal. Derailed On A Bridge. Easton, Pa. (Special). Two cars of tho Black Diamond Express on the Lehigh Valley Railroad were derailed on the bridge crossing the Delaware River hero. Both cars, a day coach and a sleeper, were dam aged, and the latter slipped to the top of tho stone pier and came close to going into tho river. Several per sons were Injured. Passe Two-Cent Rate. Raleigh, N. C, (Special). By u vote of 83 to 28 the lower branch of the General Assembly Dassed 0. 2-cent passenger rate applicable to the Southern Rallwnv and tho At lantic Coast Line, exempting other lines. The Senate is considering a 2 ',4 -cent rate. First Trolley Sleeper. St. Louis (Special). The first trolley sleeper ever run In Illinois left East St. Louis for Decatur, III., by way of Springfield, and another departed at 10 P. M. from Decatur for this city. The cars are equipped with 10 sections and the usual smok ing and dressing rooms. Thawed Dynamite In Stove. Annvllle, Pn. (Special). --An explo sion of dynamite, put in the kitchen oven to thaw for the use of her hus band, a quarryman, killed Mrs. John Zellers and seriously Injured her two children, Lydia and Mary. The house was demolished. Boy Averted Bad Wreck. Birmingham, Ala. (Special). Madison Jones, 12 years old, discov ering that a portion of a 600-foot trestle had been burned near Sparks Gap, on the Southern Railway, 20 miles from Birmingham, left his wagon In the road, and taking off hlo red sweater, flagged an approaching passenger train from Birmingham. The train came to a halt, and the passengers upon discovering the situation made up a purse for the boy. Explosion To II. Investigated. Terra Haute, lui. (Special). Judge James Piety, of the Vigo Coun ty en. nit Court, instructed tho grand jury to fully investigate the Sunford powder explosion In which a passenger train was blown to pieces and 16 persona killed. The jury was advised to ascertain If criminal negligence had caused the disaster, and if so to fix the respon sibility and return fudlctmonts against the guilty parsons. Tho State Railway Commission lj also in vestigating tho matter. I SH0RTI6E OF OVER HALF MILLION Savings Bank Treasurer's Defalca tion Serious. THE BAPTIST CONVENTION FUNDS. A Statement Is Isiued Dec aring That the Institution Will Have More Than Enough to Pay AU Depositors in Full Treasurer Walker I: id Nr.t Touch Cash, but Abstracted Bonds. New Britain. Ct. (Special). More than half a million dollars' worth of securities were taken from the vaults of the 8avings Bank of New Britain by the missing treasurer, William F. Walker, according to a statement Is sued by the board of directors of the Institution, following the collateral In the bank by State Bank Commis sioners Kendal and Noble. There !s left a surplus of about $143,000 over and above tbe amount due the de positors, the actual shortage being $56fi,000. The directors believe the greater part of the securities will oe recovered. Ab the bank commissioners were preparing a statement to give to the directors Mayor George M. Landers sent a letter to Governor Woodruff asking thnt Commissioner Kendall be removed from office on the ground or neglect of duty and Incompetency. He pointed out in this letter that when Mr. Kendall began an exami nation of the affairs of the bank last Thursday Treasurer Walker, ot. a plea of Illness, left the bank, and Commissioner Kendall did not con tinue his work, but returned home to await Walker's convenience, know ing at the time that the latter did not return home that day. In an Interview Mayor Lander says ho Is prompted also to take this ac tion through personal knowledge that the bank was not examined, as a rule, until after an appointment had been made by the commissioners With Treasurer Walker, while they are supposed to visit a bank without previous notice. Hank Suspends Payments. There was no little excitement in and about the savings bank building (luring the day, owing to the uneasi ness of hundreds of depositors, w'.io suddenly found that they could not get their deposits under 90 days, ttvi bank, upon orders of Attorney Gen eral Holcomb, having taken advant age of the by-laws requiring notice of withdrawal. The examination of the bank apparently shows that Walker did not touch any of th- ready cash or the book accounts, and the shortage 1b purely an abstraction of bonds. No one In New Britain has been able to give a reason for his need of the bonds, as members of his family, his fellow-employes in the bank and his partner in nn outside business enterprise declare that they never knew of any speculative ventures on his part. That he wns Interested in some sort 6f outside investments wns made almost certain this afternoon by Information obtained that Walker early last week had considerable telegraphic correspondence with par tics In Now York, and to learn the source of this the directors' com mittee went to New York. Hie directors' statement follows: "The officers of the Savings Hank of New Britain, working with the bunk commissioners, have examined the assets of the Savings Bank of New Britain and find that there is an apparent shortnge of about $565, 000. After charging this amount off there will be still about $143,000 or a surplus, which makes the amount due tho depositors safe. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly TiJd. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. By a voto of 0 to 5 tho House Committee on Ways and Means de feated the Williams bill providing for reciprocal free trude In coal between Canada and tbe United States. The trade oi tho United States with Its noncontiguous territories in the year 190d wca $1 HI ,000,000, nn increase of $31,000,000 over the trndo two years before. Brigadier General Thomas H. Harry, assistant chief of staff, has been assigned to command the troops in Cuba, vice Brigadier General Theodore Wint, recalled. . The menibera of the House Com mittee on Public Lands yielded to the demnnds of the President thai public lands be leased. Tho House agreed to tho confer ence report on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill. Sscrotary Straus inaugurated u de prturc by holding a conference with the chiefs of the bureaus of his do partment with reference to the con duct of business. There was an army of temperanci people at the Capitol to attend th hearing on the Webber bill, whlcl provides for prohibition In the DIs trict of Columbia. The Department of Justice hni ordered the pi-osecutlon of a unmix of railroad companies for vlolatlni lew elating to tho shipment of cattle The Senato passed a bill to provldi for an investigation of the wator re sources of tho Unttod States by thi Geological Survey. The Postofllee Appropriation Bil provides Increased salaries for ul employees In tho postal service. The American National Red Crosi cabled an additional $5,000 to Shang hal for the famine sufferers. Senator Knox made an argumen against the oxpulslon of Reed 8 moo from the Senate. Tho conference on the Immlgratloi Hill reached an agreement which pro poses to refuse admission to tin country to Japarises coming fron their own country and not provldci with passports, and authorises tin exclusion of Japanese coolies comlm from American insular possession Charles H. Madison, of Pittsburg formerly corporal of Compauy C Twenty-fifth infantry, told the Sen ate Military Committee hla versloi of the Brownsville affair. Mr. Mudd urged retaining the ap proprlatlon of $100,000 for the com mencement of a steel floating dry dock at Solomons Island, but Mr Munn, of Illinois, insisted upon point of order, which was sustained President RoosevoH sent to Con gress a message calling attention tc what ho terms the "urgent need ol legislation affoctlng the differeul phases of the public land situation in &e United State " Tho Senate sent the Army Appro priation Bill to conference, w.'th Senators Warren, Foraker and Black burn as conferees. In a dense fog two trolley enrs on the Lehigh Valley Transit Com- pany collided on the Board Street Bridge, Bethlehem. The fronts of! both cars were badly wrecked, both motormen escaping injury. Mar-, gnret Krause, who was on her way) to school, wns badly bruised. The Bucks County Medical Socletyl at lis Winter meeting at Newtown adopted a resolution urging the mem bers of the Legislature to sustain the present compulsory vaccination lawa.! The Doylestown Board of Trad has reorganized by electing Robert L. Clymer, preslde'nt; Joseph K. Hoi selman, vice president: Edward Q. Case, secretary, and John Yardley.i treasurer. The jury of view appointed toj assess damages for the purposed opening of Fifth Street, Chester, gav to the Young Men's Christian Asao-, elation $7,000 and the Eyre estate) $500. The Jury refused to award; damages to the Patterson Mill Com-1 pany. Adam Wehr, of Creasy, was found by railroaders along the Pennsylva-, nla Railroad near Creasy, with both feet frozen. He was taken to WU- kes-Barre on the Philadelphia flyer, and Is now at the City Hospital. A Southbound Delaware ft Hudson! freight train crashed Into the tear of a work train at Jermyn. Bn-I glne'er Carlson and Brakeman Frank! Gallagher, of the freight train, were so badly injured that they probably will die. Governor Stuart issued a requisi tion on Governor Hughes, of New, York, for the return to Wllllama port of Hnrry Schack, under arrest, at Bltnlra, on the charge of enticing minor children. The Northampton grand Jury pre sented to court a recommendation that the county prison be enlarged. The average number of prisoners five years ago was seventy-five, but there has been such a rapid Increase In commitments that the dally average now Is 120. Camp Hill, Cumberland County, has awarded a contract for the con struction of a new school bulldlDg which will cost $12,000. Andy Monnr, a coal miner at Wlndber, Helalr County, to win a $10 bet walked t.hreo miles bare footed through the snow with tho weather zero cold. He went to work next day. , The Reading Company's Sterling mine Is now lighted by electricity, the company having installed a plant at the colliery. Portions of tho in terior are made light aB day and offi cials and miners are elated over the introduction of .the new lllumlnant. The Sterling, the North Franklin and Enterprise collieries are tho only ones having the light, which Is so much superior over the old miner lamp, that officials say all the Read ing Company's collieries will be Il luminated with electricity. At the Winter meeting of tho Lehigh Valley Medical Society, at Bethlehem, the doctors adopted a resolution protesting against the ac tion of nurses in fixing their mini mum rate at $25 a week. The doc tors also Indorsed the passage of a bill now before the State Legisla ture establishing a new medical coun cil for tho purpose of exnmlulug and licensing practitioners of medi cine. Dr. Charles Mclntyro, of Eas ton, president of the society, presld-, ed at the meeting, which was follow ed by a banquet. Papers were read by Dr. E. M. Green, of Easton, on "Pneumonia;" Dr. Fred C. Selberlln, of Allentowu, on "Observations Dur ing Forty Years of Practice;" Dr. H. A. Wilson, of Philadelphia, on "Modern Tendencies In the Treat ment of Bone Tuberculosis." Hugh Garren, while opening oysters in a South Bethlehem restau rant, found three good-sized pearls in three successive oysters he open ed. A gem broker valued the pearls at $800. William Corbett, of South Scran ton, brewery wagon driver, killed himself in a cell in tho Southside Precinct Station House. He cut his throat with the Jagged edge of a pair of handcuffs and then with his fin gers tore open the wound so that his blood gushed out In a stream. Cor bett was suffering from deltrlum tremens, following a long debauch, and had been locked up In the cell at his own request. A miners' train of four cars left the track and turning turtle rolled down a steep embankment between Reiner City and Brooklde. A score of miners and boys, who were in tho cars, were badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. These trains use coal stoves, which were upset when the cars toppled over nd quickly set fire to the coaches, the red-hot coals thrown about also setting fire to tho clothing of tbe passengers be tpre they could climb out of tbo cars. Several were painfully burned. Tbe fire was extinguished with snow. The accident Is directly attributable to the Intense cold which pervaded the region the past few days. The frost caused a rail to snap aa the locomotive passed over It. The en gine left the tracks and cars follow ed, the swaying of the coaches caus ing them to overturn as they went down the embankment. Stones and stumps of trees did not stop thera as they were torn and crush Into a mass of wreckage. Amos Jones, a professional hunter, was arrested by Game Warden Low ry at Lake Ariel and fined $175. Jones, who lives at Lake Ariel, shot seven ruffled grouse ou November 7. The price received for the game was disproportionate to the fine he has to pay. which with the lawyer fees will amount to $200 and he la a very Indignant man. Between Paxiuos and Snvdertown n Reading freight train bound for Tamaqua collided with a work train, a number of trainmen having nurrowi escapes from being killed. Several cara were wrecked, also a locomotive. The body of William Wolf, aged 30, a farm laborer of Mechaulcsburg, was found In Bards Creek, Lancaster County. He was walking along a public road that skirted the stream Tuesday night and it is supposed stumbled and fell unconscious Into the stream. The case against Prof. B. F. Kelly, charged with corrupt solicita tion of school directors, was en tlnued until the May term ot court by Judge Terry, of Wyoming County, who Is presiding in the Columbia Cqunty Court during the absence of Judge Evans.
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