THE COST OF MILK HIS BEEN INCREASED Figures Given In the Census Bureau Report FLOUR AND GRIST MILL REPORTS. Cream Hu Particularly Cone Up as the Result of the Curtailment of the Supply to the Factory and the In creasing Market in the Larger Cities Smaller Creameries Absorbed. WaBhlngton (Special). That the cost of milk, and particularly creum, has advanced enormously since 1900 a the result of tho curtailment of aupplv to the factory and the In creasing market In the large cities C Indicated In a census bulletin Just sued relative to the manufacture ttf butter, cheese, condensed milk, dour and grist mill products and Itarch for 19or.. A substantial in crease In the manufacture of all these products Is shown since 1900. ex Mpt starch, which declined markedly. Coat of cream Increased 247.9 and milk 3.7 per cent. The statistics given Include only such establish ments as were engaged primarily in those industries, plants engaged pri marily In selling milk or in separat ing cream from milk not being re garded as engaged In manufacturing. According to the statement there were 8,926 establishments engaged in the butter, cheese and condensed milk industry in 1905; aggregate capital, $47,2."5,566; employing 1 667 wagearners. who received $8, 412,937 in wages. The cost of ma terials was $142,920,277, and the products were valued at $168,182, 789. With the exception of estab lishments, all of these Items show in creases since 1900, that in value of products amounting to $:17,399,440 representing an increase of 28.6 per cent., or over one-forth. Consolidation. The decrease In the number of es tablishments was principally due b the consolidation or absorption of smuller creameries Into larger plants The hand separator, which enables the farmer to separate his own cream, was prominent factor In this tendency to centralization, enabling easier hauling and making it possi ble for a single creamery to obtain Ita supply from a wide territory. As result the larger plants, In which butter was manufactured at less expense, gradually crowded out or absorbed smaller plants. The total cost of materials In creased over 31 per cent. There was a decrease of 121.7oll pounds, or 1.4 per cent, in the quantity of milk used in making butter, and an Increase in the quantity of cream of 384.512.S13 pounds, or 188.8 per cent. Condensed milk manufactured be tween the censuses of 1900 and 1905 Increased in quantity 65 per cent., and in cost 69.5 per cent. The quan tity of butter produced Increased over 26 per cent, and cheese over 12 per cent. Great Britain and Canada are the chief foreign markets for these products. Importation of cheese has shown a steady growth, both In quan tity and value. Flour Ami Grain Statistics. The statistics for flour and grist mill products include only the re turns of establishments engaged in merchant milling. At the census of 1905 there were 10,051 of the mer chant Dcrnr and grist mills In the Uuited States; total capital. $263, 117,434; employed 39.11U wage earners, paid $19,822,196 In wages, consumed $619,971,161 worth of ma terials, and manufactured products to the value of $713,033,395. These figures represent an Increase of over j per cent, in number of esta,pllsh, mehts, 40 per cent, in capital and 42 per cent, in value of products. At the census of 1905 the grain reported as used by the merchant flour and grist mills of the country amounted to 754,945,729 bushels and coat $585,065,067. Wheat formed over 65 per cent, of the total quantity and 78 per cent, of the total cost of grain. THE KEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany In an official report of the In vestigation of the accident to the Chicago special near Johnstown, Pa.. says the only tangible evidence oi the cause found was the broken brake hanger. .lames It MK'lure. aged 67, ehlet clerk and treasurer of the Pennsyl vania Railroad auxiliary lines, died of heart disease in the West Walnut Street Presbyterian Church, Phila delphia, during service. Fire partly destroyed the Russell House, at Mlddletown. N. Y., and the guests had narrow escapes. Several firemen had their hands and faces frozen and two others were hurt b- 1 falling walls. Thrilling stories of Black Hand plots to murder enemies of that so ciety were told In court at the ha beas corpus hearings granted to 14 of the 25 men arrested In Wilkes Barre, Pa. Union Station, at Sumter, 8. C. was destroyed by fire while both fire companies were at the funeral of Chief Graham, who was killed by falling walls nt a fire on Friday. Grover Cleveland delivered an ad dress in Chicago, attacking extrava gance and crimes In high places, and asking for a return to the frugality and honesty of the days of Washing ton. T. Curley. law partner of Eugene D. Saunders, who recently was ap pointed Judge of the federal district at New Orleans, died of pneumonia. Mtb. Cora Stebbins Courier, aged 2 4 years, Is under arrest at Sheri dan. Mich . charged with poisoning her husband. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Or. Howard A. Kelly. Tho feet of a man and a woman were found in a box In the yard of a New York tenement. Harry Pratt Judson, acting presi dent of the University of Chicago, was elected president of that Insti tution, to succeed William R. Harper, deceased. The general tribal council of the Oneida Indians decided to press claims aggregating $1,000,000. which they say Is due them from the fed eral government and the State of New York. The auxiliary yacht Adallne, of New Y'ork, Captain Layton, caught fire from a gasoline explosion near Key West, Fla. Mrs. Layton was slightly burned. The yast was de stroyed. Mrs. Fannie Rice Bassett. exhaust ed by the ordeal on the witness stand six days. In the trial of her suit for divorce at Omaha, collapsed and fell in a faint on the stand. Four trainmen were killed and two others Injured In a collision between an express train and an Ice train on the Michigan Central Railroad near Ypsilantl. Mich. The Nebraska legislature has pass ed the two-cent railroad fare bill, and similar measures are being pushed through the Minnesota and Indiana legislatures. Mrs. Lottie Wallau was released by the coroner's Jury in New Y'ork on the charge of poisoning her moth er and was rearrested and gave Dan. Mrs. Flora McDonald, wife of a Chicago millionaire, shot and killed Louis Fisher, who managed the Har rison Art Company In Chicago. The Rockaway Rolling 11111, tho leading industry of the town of Rock away, N. J., was destroyed by fire. Dr. A. R. Alley, aged 63, a widely known Confederate veteran, died of paralysis, at Atlanta, Ga. In the Bassett divorce case a let ter was offered in which the Rev. E. Lawrence Hunt wrote to a friend that he Intended to aBk Mrs. Bassett to marry him when she was free from her husband. HONORED AND FORTY PERISH Steamer Berlin Wrecked Off Hook of Holland. THE SEAS BREAK SHIP IN TWO. The Wrecked Ship the Rotterdam Mail Liner From Liverpool -In a Frightful Storm She Strikes a Sandbar t.ff the Holland Coast Mountainous Waves Prevent the Launching of Boats. A NORTH SEA HORROR. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Of the 143 persons on board, I Captain Parkinson, a mariner, of Belfast, Ireland. Is, son far as j known, the only Burvlvor. The Berlin was a British steel steamer, 30.2 feet long, 1,775 j tons, built in 1N94, and well known to North Sea tourlBts In the summer season. Captain Precious, the comman der, had been 14 years In the company's service. Nineteen members of a Ger man opera company that had just ! closed an engagement in London ! 1 had booked passage on the Bteam- er nnd they were all probably on j board when she wont down. Among those who perished was 1 Arthur Herbert. King Edward's j I foreign service messenger, the , bearer of Important dispatches to j I the Russian. German and Danish ! ' courts. I The passengers Included several diamond merchants carrying gems I worth many thousands of dollarB. Woman Burned To Death. Columbia, 8. C, (Special). "Wild Rose, the monkey girl from Y'uca tan," a freak which has been on ex hibition here by a carnival company, was burned so badly that she died. She was -ir, years old, ignorant and idiotic, making her wants known by Inarticulate sounds. She wan left alone, locked up in a room. A dog's frantic yells attracted attention to the fire. I'anir In A ChaTcb. Chicago (Special). More than a dozen women and children were In jured, several of them seriously, in a Are scare in an Italian church here. Two hundred persons became fright ened by escaping vapor from a radia tor, and rushed from the building. Most of the injured were trampled on or cut by glass from a window which was d.-inolished. Peacemaker Killed. Kansas City, Mo. (Special). Mrs. J. Oscar Richardson, wife of a sta tionary engineer, rushed between her sou and husband to save the son's life at. Kossdale, Kan., und was stab bed to the heart by the husband. The family quarreled, when tin- son took the mother's part. Richardson attacked the son with a ki.ife. Theater Hurned. Altoona. Pa. (Special). The Lyric Theater, conducted as Keith's vaude ville house, was destroyed by fire The fire Is supposed to have been caused by crossed electric wlreB on the stage. The house was opened last November. The loss Is about $90,000. Ex-Congresanun J. D. HickH and D. J. Neff, whose law of fices' were in the building, lost $10, 000 on their office furniture and law library. Several other occupant! of the building lost heavily. The Insur ance la only partial. HI Luck r . .oU To Suicide. Philadelphia (Special).- Harry P. Crowell, a former councilman and well-known politician of this city, committed suicide by inhaling illu minating (as in his apartments. Cro well was once wealthy, but la late years met financial reverses. One of his sous committed suicide about a year ago, and thK with other trou bles, made him do ipoadont and led to his self -doatrucl ion The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill us reported to the House carries $104,137,540 r o reign. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, cables that Nicatagua has triumphed in four fights with the Honduras forces, and his troopB now occupy points in Honduran territory. Emperor William gave audience to the president of the Reichstag, to whom he expressed his high satisfac- tion over the result of the recent election. Five thousand families of Euro pean immigrants will locate in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mex., as part of a gigantic colonization scheme. .Inbez Hunting Snowball, lieuten ant governor of New Brunswick, dropped dead while on his way to at tend service In the cathedral. The Nicaraguan authorities claim that after a hard fight many Honda rane were killed and wounded, the Nlcaraguuns occupied San Bernardo. It is reported that Salvador has been aiding Honduras. The postofflee in Warsaw, Poland, was raided by terrorists, who killed the postmaster, two postal clerks and two Boldlers and wounded u number of bystanders. The total number of members elected to the new Russian parlia ment to date is 410, the results promising a stormier session than that of last year. The British army estimates pro vide for the expenditure during 1907-8 of $138,800,000, a reduction of about $10,000,000 compared with last year. A fall in prices in the Tokio stock market is attributed to a halt In the speculative movement which was the outcome of the war. A correspondent who traveled through three of the famine pro vinces of Russia gives a dark picture of the conditions. Ferrelra, leader of the raid from GerinU Southwest Africa, and four of his followers were sentenced to death. Returns from the Russian elec tions Bhow a strong drift to the op ponents of the government's re form plans. According to the representatives at Washington of Mexico anu .-nicb- ragua, neither Honduras nor Nica ragua declared war against the other. In a tight between anarchists and policemen in Baku, Trans-Caucasia, there Ware, casualties on both sides. The foreign minister of Japan is preparing a staieinent of the govern ment's position on the San Francisco school question. Reports were received confirming the story that the Honduras defeated" the Nlcaraugan invaders. The French cruiser Jean Bart was wrecked off the Barbary coast and will prove a total loss. The upper house of the Newfound land legislature adopted an address to the British secretary of state for the colonies, protesting against the modus vlvendl arranged last October between the British and Aineilcan governments for the regulation of the herring fishery on the west coast of the Island. The lowor house adopted the same address last week. London (By Cable). The worst disaster for many years In the history of the busy crosB-channel traffic he tween England and the Continent oc curred during a violent gale shortly before 6 o'clock A. M.. when the Rot terdam mall steamer Berlin, from Harwich to Hook of Holland, having safely weathered the hurricane, was wrecked as she was entering port. With one single exception, all her passengers and crew, numbering al together 143 persons have either per ished or are clinging hopelessly to the wreck. The terrific seas broke up the steamer with such awful suddenness that all efforts to save life appear to have been utterly hopeless. At a late hour it was reported that some few survivors were still clinging to the wreck, but as the heroic efforts all day long of the life-boat crews had failed to reach them, little hope that they will be saved remains. The Company's Advices. The story of the disaster is told wtth dramatic, intensity by the fol lowing brief, but pregnant, messages reaching Harwich from the agent of the Great Eastern Railway Company at Hook of Holland. The first mes sage was handed In at the Hook at 6.30 A. M., and ran as follows: "The Berlin Is stranded at the North Pier. Her position is very dan gerous. There is a heavy gale blow ing. Tugs and lifeboats are going out to her assistance." The second message was sent off at 7.30 and said: "The position of tlie Berlin Is still very dangerous. The heavy gain con tinues. We have tried to take off the passengers with tugboats and life boats, but without success up to the present." The third message was timed at the Hook at 7.52 and reached Har wich at 8.40. It said: "The Berlin has broken in two, and very probably will prove a total loss. Her crew are still on board. Life-boats and tugs are trying to save the passen gers." The fourth message came through the London office of the railway company. It was timed at the Hook at 9.10 and said: "It Is impossi ble to reach the Berlin to save the passengers. We will do tho best we can. The poop of the ship Is under water." A Total Loss. Then, at 10.36, came the fifth and last messeage: "The Berlin is a to tal logs, with all her crew and pas sengers. Nobody has been saved." No cause yet has been assigned for the terrible accident, and It pro bably never will be known how the steamer came to miss the channel, which, although 300 yards wide and well bouyed and lighted. Is always difficult, of access in rough weather. It is conjectured that some derange ment of the engines or steering gear may have rendered tho vessel un controllable. Captain Precious, of the Berlin, had a good record of 14 years' service. The Hat of passen gers on the fated steamer was lost, and all the names of those who were on board have not yet been learned, but as far as has been as certained there wore no Americans among the passengers. Naval Hill Agreed To. The Naval Appropriation bill, car rying $100,727,807, waf -assed by the Senate In f2 minutes. All the committee amendments were agreed to. i The only amendments adopted dur ing the consideration added $250. 000 to the Item for coal and trans portation nnd $130,000 for a power plant at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Senator Culberson noticed that the Senate committee had doubled the amount for coal. He asked If these Items had any reference to the gathering of large fleets, as the Pres ident was in the habit or doing, or to the forthcoming Exposition at Jamestown. Senator Hale replied that the expenses of the navy for am munition In times of peace were large. He did not believe that any considerable amount of the fund would be used on account of the Jamestown Exposition, although ho said that Exposition seemed to be de veloping Into n more of a military show than an . thing else. Senator Stone said he had ascer tained that the annual consumption of powder by the army and navy was about 5,000,000 pounds, that It cost the Government 75 cents a pound and that tho Government could man ufacture this powder for about half that amount. He had Intended to add:. the Senate at. some length in adovcacy of Government manu facture of powder, but would con tent himself with submitting several letters from certain powder manu facturers of Kansas City, Peoria, 111., and York, Pa. Senator Carmack offered an amend ment appropriating $100,000 for a castlron and steel foundry at the Washington Nnvy Yard, but this was rejected on a point of order made by Mr. Hale. The Slxteen-Hcur mil. H. R. Fuller, legislative represen tative of the Brotherhoods of Loco motive Engineers, Firemen and Trainmen nnd the Order of Railway Conductors, talked with President Roosevelt about the bill pending In tho HottBe limiting to 16 hours a day's work on railroads. Mr. Fuller told the President that the railroad labor organizations are opposed to the House substitute for the Lafol lette bill and that they had rather have no legislation at all than that of the House bill. The President, It Is said, is in favor of a measure limiting the hours of labor to 16 for railroad employees. Ferry Signals Din-lag Fogs. The controversy between Capt. Ira Harris, supervising inspector of steam vessels at New York, and the Delaware, Lackawanna und Western SENATE STANDS JT REED SMODT Majority of Fourteen For the Mor mon Apostle. WOMEN OF COUNTRY DISAPPOINTED Republicans, as a Rule, Stood by the Senator From Utah and Voted in Favor of His Retention of His Feat -Mr. Sin. i. it H s Displayed Great Tact and Diplomacy. HISTORY OF 8MOOT CASE. Reed Smoot. Republican; apos- tie of the Mormon Church; I elected United States Senator from Utah January 21, 1903; I j took his seat March I, 1903; ! term expires March 3, 1909. I Hearings by Senate Committee ! ' on Privileges and Elections began i January 16, 1904. Charges: That he represents j 1 an organization hostile to the i government; that he has counte- ! nnnced polygamy; that he took an oath in the "Endowment" cer- 1 l emonles Incompatible with his . oath as a senator. Bitter fight against him by j churches and organizations of ! women. Text of resolution reported by ! the committee which the Senate i defeated: "Resolved. That Reed Smoot Is I not entitled to a seat as a sena- I j tor of the United States from the State of Utah." French 'S JUMW OUT Chamber of Deputies Indorses It STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts. Washington, D. C. (Special). Mr. Reed Smoot, the senator from Utah, for whose expulsion from the United States Senate ten millions of American women have labored for four years, Bparlng neither time, ef fort nor money, was confirmed In his seat by the votes of Republican members. Tho resolution declaring him not entitled to his seat was lost by a vote of 42 to 28, a majority of 14. The result was heard In the galleries, crowded with women, In absolute silence. Evidently they were mindful of the stern admonition of Vice President Fairbanks given to them when they had applauded Sena tor Burrows' address urging Mr. Smoot's defeat than any manifesta tion from the galleries would be punished by having all the galleries cleared. Possibly they felt, In the bitterness of their disappointment, some slight measure of satisfaction that the majority was, after all, only 14. For more than a week they must have known that they were to be beaten, and that for once in Ameri- Parls (By Cable).- The Ministry, President Fallieres In the chair, unanlmoiiBly approved the agreement between Education Minister Drland and Premier Clemenceau relative to the form of the leases of the churches to the parish priests, and the Pre mier supported M. Brland'B declara tion before the Chamber of Deputies, which by a vote of 389 to 88 In dorsed the government's policy. M. Meunler, Radical Republican, at the opening of the debate denied the existence of a conspiracy to over throw the ministry. He said he voiced the disappointment of all Re publicans at the fact that the "Gov ernment had seen fit to give satis faction to the bishop's ultimatum." Continuing. M. Meunler said he was opposed to any recognition of the Catholic hierarchy, and read ex tracts from M. Clemenceau'a speeches and writing during the last two years to show that the Premier al ways had been opposed to the policy advocated by M. Brlmd. and which the Premier now fathered. Opposes Conciliation. The deputy concluded by saying: "Worship Is free and the churcheB are open. That is Biifflelent. No conciliation between the republic and Rome is possible. " M. Meunler's statement was ap plauded by the members of the left party. M. Guioysse, Radical Republican, followed on the name lines, express ing regert nt the fact that the gov ernment had not recognized the cul tural associations of the Independent Catholics. After a denunciation of the gov ernment's policy by M. Allard. Social ist, M. Brland mounted the tribune and In an eloquent speech, which nrew repearea rounas oi sypwwi from the center and even from tne right, maintained that the govern ment had not and would not abandon its conciliatory policy. The regime of the. separation of church and state Tne recent thaw caused a slide or earth at the Cambridge slate quarry, Slatlngton, carrying four men to the bottom of the pit. Toblns Wagner, married, of Blnvington, was Instantly killed. James Daniels, Charles Greenwood and Charles Brobst were o badly crushed that they were sent to St. Luke's Hospital, South Beth lehem. William F. Hennessy, a woodsman of Lock Haven, met a terrible death near Hyner. Shouldering his Win chester rifle, he Informed the men at camp that he was going in search of foxes. When a short distance away he fell on the icy ground, the gun was discharged the content entering the temple and shattering bis skull. He was 4 4 years old and married. Stooping to pick up a flag which had dropped from his arm as he climbed from his freight engine,, standing on a aiding near the main track of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Pottevllle, Fireman William O. Rich ards, aged 24 years, stepped right In the path of tho "flyer" between Pottsvllle and Schuylkill Haven. The frantic whlBtling of the engi neer of the fast train bewildered the unfortunate man, who stood power less to move until he was struck. He was Instantly killed. While Michael Kahlor. a cigar maker, was beating his way to Den ver on the Reading and Columbia freight train he fell under the wheels near Ephrata and had an arm and leg cut oft. William Startzel, a Reading Rali rond freight conductor, was killed In Shamokln while attempting to make a coupling. He slipped and fell on the track. The train passed over him. NEWSY GLEANINGS. . There are only eleven divinity stu dents at Andover. I Dr Wllev ndvlses whlskv drinkers should not lie made a cloak for relig- 0 beware of blends. spue oi tne Railroad, growing out of tho charges can politics the voice of the Amerl- of unsafe management of the Ho- boken ferries in the North River, has been taken up by the Department of Commerce and Labor. The of ficials declare their Intention of up holding Captain Harris in his atti tude on the subject of the signals to be used by the ferryboats dur ing a fog. Important Hill Agreed Upon. After a conference lasting for one month tho conferences of the House and Senate on the Legislative, Ju dicial and Executive BUI have finally agreed on a measure carrying $32, 921,000. This is $1,450,000 more than the billl carried when passed by the House. Congress And The Departments. Eulogies were delivered in tha House on Senator Alger and Repre sentatives Adams Flack and Ketch- Prince Leads Life Savers. Hook of Holland (By Cable). After 30 hours of agony on the after nart of the wrecked steamer Berlin 1 1 partly frozen and exhausted sur vivors of the terrible disaster were brought ashore by the heroic Dutch life-saving men, who, encouraged by Prince Henry, consort of Queen Wll helmlna. had repeatedly risked their lives In the raging, icy seas to res cue tho few remaining of the 143 passengers and crew of tho Ill-fated ship. Earthquake Felt At Sea. Astoria, Ore. (Special).- Captain McCaron, of the the schooner Mel rose, which arrived from San Pedro reports that on February 3, while off San Francisco, about 50 miles severe earthquake was experienced at 10.30 o'clock in the morning which lasted for several minutes. No damage of any consequence resulted A half hour later there was another lesser shock. Jilted Suitor's Crime. Pomeroy, O. (Special). Emerson Mlsaer, aged 20, went to the homo of his aweethert, Julia Archer, aged 16, called her to the tront door threw his amy about her neck und shot her In the left Umple. He then walked away a few steps and blew out his own brains, dying Instantly It is said the parents of the girl objected to Mlaner and she had Jilted him. The girl Is stlU living, but there Is little hope of her recovery. am. The Washington meeting of the American Tract Society was held In the First Congregational Church. The House Committee on Inter state and Foreign Commerce favor ably passed upon the Townsend bill, which empowers the President to ap point a commission to inquire into and make public the causes of all disputes between capital and labor which affect Interstate commerce. The Senate referred to the Com mittee on Judiciary the Dubois reso lution, directing that committee to draft a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy In the United States. The House agreed to the confer ence report on tho Omnibus Light house Bill. The Senate has already accepted the report, and the bill will now 50 co the President for his approval. The President signed the Diplo matic and Consular Appropriation Bill, the first of the regular supply measures to be acted on by Congress. Tho Military Academy Appropria tion Bill was reported to the Senate. It carries a total appropriation of $1,947,383. The House as In committee of the whole passed 360 Senate private pension bills at the rate of 12 a minute. Ell Smith, the Alaskan mall-car rier, who has ben making a trip from Nome, Alaska, to Washington, ar rived with his team of seven Eskimo dogs and his sled on wheels. He drove to the White Houbo. rho Postnffiee Appropriation Bill passed the House and all tho salaries of the postal employes that were ruled out on points of order were restored. The Naval Appropriation Bill, car rying $100,727,807, was passed by the Senate. All the committee amendments were agreed to. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations agreed to report favorably the new treaty with Santo Domingo. The Postofflee Department has passed an order that post cards orna mented with' mica or glass must be In envelopes to secure transmission In the mails. lilii,. . Hermann's counsel asked the court to dismiss the case against him because of the variance between the Indictment and the evidence. Viscount Aokl, the Japanese am basuadoi , had a talk with Secretary Root anent the proposition to ex clude coolies Secretary Taft announced his pur pose Of making another trip to Cuba Attorney General Bonaparte has directed that suits be Instituted against a number of railroad com panies to recover penalties for viola tion of the Safety Appliance Law. The House Committee on the Dis tict favorably reported the Misce genation BUI. Assistant Paymaster W. P. Sypher, U. B. N., has been dismissed from the Navy on account of technical em bezzlement. Lieutenant Colonel James A. Irons was appointed military attache of the American Embassy at Toklo. can women was drowned by the de mands of politics. It was believed that Mr. Smoot's majority would be anywhere from 15 to 20, but at the very last moment, three Republican senators changed their minds. Messrs. Clapp, of Minnesota; Kitt redgo, of South Dakota, and Hemen way, of Indiana, who had been counted among the Smoot followers, voted not only that he was not en titled to his seat, but that he should have been expelled. Had they voted with their party, as was the general expectation, Mr. Smoot would havo retained his seat by a majority of 20. Immediately after the announce ment of the vote Mr. Lodge moved an executive session, and tho galler ies were cleared. The ladles found themselves In the corridors, where they were free to express their In dignation, which they did. With Tact And Diplomacy. Mr. Smoot, Ib must be said, acted with the tact and diplomacy which has helped him so much to his vic tory. Had the Senate voted four years ago, when he presented him self at the bar or the Senate, he would have been overwhelmingly defeated. olus nrosecutlon. In Intrigues of its enemies, the govern ment proposes to fight out the is sues on thnt line and to the end. i Then, turning to M. Allard and I the members of the extreme left, be bitterly reproached them for "want ing to make war on millions of theit i fellow-countrymen." He said it was I the duty of Republicans and free thinkers alike, to respect the con sciences of the Catholics and to do nothing to invade their liberties. "For Liberty For All." He added, still addressing the members of the extreme left: "Your conception of tho separa tion of church and state Is not ours. We stand for liberty for all." M. Clemenceau, who was sitting below his colleague, occasionally ap plauded und Interrupted him with I words of encouragement and ap proval. Mr. Brland continued: "In declaring that the rhurches remain open, we meant open for Catholic worship. In its fight with the state the church forfeited its privileged position and lost property worth 500,000,000 francs. Now it asks for leases ot the churches, a measure which the law specifically contemplates. The making of con tracts necessarily Involves negotia tions. That is the government's Justification." STEAMER SINK BY CRUISER. SPECIAL WRECKED. All On Board Are Injured, Many Seriously. Johnstown, Pa. (Special). Over fifty people were hurt, some serious ly, when Pennsylvania Railroad train No. 29, westbound for Chicago from New York, left the track at a sharp curve near Mineral Point, eight miles from here. No one was killed, although many of the passengers had narrow escapes. Tire three rear sleeping cars went over an embankment into the Cone- maugh River. The track la torn up for a distance of 500 feet. Conductor McEord, who was in charge of the train, is re ported to have been unhurt. No names of the injured are obtainable. The curve Is one of the worst on the line and Is dreaded by trainmen. The cause of the wreck is as yet un known, but it is said the speed of the train was too great In rounding the curve. Train No. 29 Is the lK-hour Bpeclal limited between New Y'ork and Chi cago. It left New York at 3.55 P. M., and when it pulled out of Al toona for Pittsburg was more than an hour behind schedule time. When the accident happened the train, it is said, was running at terrific speed. On leaving the rails the train tore down all telegraph and telephone poles for a distance of 500 feet, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Itself, In order .to get Information, was oblig ed to send yardmen from Johnstown with a yard engine. Accident In The Mississippi River At New Orleans. New Orleans (Special). In hazy weather the French cruiser Kleber ammed and sank tho American fruit steamer Hugoma in tho Mlsslssipli River, Just off New Orleans. Captain Lewis, of the Hugoma, said that seven Japanese coal passers and firemen were drowned. James O'Neal, of New York, suf fered a broken leg from tho Impact. The cruiser was slightly damaged. The Kleber, Just arriving from Havanna, was rounding a sharp turn and the Hugoma, drifting with the six-mile eddying current turned di rectly into the man-of-war's path. Captain Lewis of the Hugoma says that his signal was mistaken by the warship. The latter struck the fruit ship amidships on the port side, nearly cutting the vessel In twain, and within five minutes the Hugo ma plunged to the bottom In moro than 100 feet of water. The Hugoma was bound for Porto Rican porta with a cargo of rice, flour and ties. The vessel was of small tonnage and wus built In 1901 at Wyandotte. Mich. It was owned by the Now York and Porto Rico Steamship Company. To Probe Express Cos. Washington (8peclal). Represer, tatlve Kennedy, of Nebraska, appear ed before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce In support of hlB resolution for an in riMtlgatlon of express companies by the Interstate Commerce Commission Mr. Kennedy appeared at the request of the Western Fruit Jobbers' Asso ciation, which charges that the Adams. American, United States, Pa cific and Wells-Fargo Express Com panies are unlawfully organizing. Rockefeller Gives Bond. Flndlay, O. (Special) J. O. Troup of Bowling Green, O , one of the at torneys for the Standard Oil Com pany, filed the personal bond of John D. Rockefeller In the sum of $1,000 "for bis appearance at the next term of court 1 for each succeeding day thereafter until not wanted," to an swer to the Indictment pending against blm in the Hancock County Common Pleas Court. The bond Is also signed by James O. Troup and j. C. Donnei. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. The coming Harrlman probe ib casting its shadows over the market. One capitalist is said to have sold 60,000 shares of Union Pacific this week. Speculators generally believe that P. Morgan is still beurlsh on the stock market. . Philadelphia bond houses teport fairly good sales of the Pennsylva nia Railroad notes. Wage Increases of the big Western roads will meun an extra outlay this year of $20,000,000. Special interests are trying to crip? plo the Pure Food law. Americans invested $50,000,000 Id Mexican mines during 1906. Many chauffeurs are paid as much as $250 a month, with board. Defenses In Boston Harbor and vfc clnlty are soon to be strengthened. The Navy Department has estab llshed a Banltarium for consumptives According to a London tailoring Journal, men will wear purple this year. The President urges imposing ol grazing fees to protect the Western range homesteads. John Armstrong Chanler, of New York City, deeded away his $500,000! estate to balk relatives. The various branches of the Meth odlst Book Concern were consolidated under a new organization. About 2,500,000 tons of Ice are cut on the Hudson for the annual coda sumption of New York City and vl clnity. 4 Prince Paul Dolgoroukoff was ex pelled from the Russian Imperial Yacht Club for his revolutionary pro-l paganda. The "Two Billion Congress" Is at hand, appropriations in the present short session being more than $1 000,000,000. i Nearly three-quarters of a million people In the vicinity of Now YorM depend on the passenger service 01 the Erie Railroad. Municipal ownership ot water works at Portland, Me., is contemjj plated by a bill Introduced In tnj State Legislature providing for tha incorporation ot the Portland Watei District. HALLS OF CONGRESS. v Senator Knox spoke in opposition to the proposed unseating of Senator Smoot. The proposal for a fourteen-foot channel between Chicago and the Gulf was defeated. By a vote of 146 to 114 the House resolved to stand by the program for a second Dreadnought. A resolution for an Investigation ot the Paper Trust was presented in the lli-usc by John Sharp Williams. The House declined to change the present law regarding the purchase of coal for the Navy in the Philip pines. The telegraphic text of the new Dominican treaty was Inld before the Senate after its signing in Santo Do mingo. The Agricultural bill carries $7, 636,790 for the ordinary and regular routine work of the Agricultural De partment. The Senate Committee has report ed favorably the bill giving the Gov ernment the right of appeal In crim inal casus. Messrs. Birdsall, Hlnslow and Wil son, members of the House Commit tee on Merchant Marine, refused to sign any report on ship subsidy, The House passed the Tillman bill prohlbitiug National banks from con tributing to any elections and prohib iting any corporations from contrib uting to Federal elections. A message was received from the President urging relief for white men who have married into the Cherokee Nation, and Improved land which, un- tulu of n nossiblt. war wtth Japan were again used by bear trad- ' der a recent decision of the Supreme ers for the purpose of breaking down prices. Pig iron nt Plttsbuig has declin ed $1.50 a ton In a month. Wabash preferred on the sale ol 800 shares tumbled from 32 tc 29V4- Gould stocks generally lack anything that looks like support. A despatch from Chicago snyB tbt Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies contemplate a general ad vance In ordinary messages of t cents. Pressed Steel Car's annnul repori for 1906 shows gross Bales of $36, 158,586, and net profits ot $3, $81, 884. The latter compares with net profits of $1,106,901 in 1905. The average price of active rail road slocks is now 17 per cent be low the high price in December and industrials are down 9 per cent. Last year this country exported $46,000,000 ot gold and Imported $155,000,000. These were the big gest transactions In the yellow metal this country has beeu engaged in. It Is understood that about $20, D00.OOO of the $50,000,000 of 4 per cent. Pennsylvania notes due In November have either been bought by tho company or exchanged now for the new 5 per cents. Court, they cannot own. By a vote ot nine to seven the House Committee on the Judiciary favorably reported the Llttlefleld Temperance bill, which makes liquors going into a State subject to the po lice power ot the State. Leprosy und Fish. There is in England a surgeon named Jonathan Hutchinson who believes that leprosy Is largely duo to a fish diet. He has written no end ot newspaper and magazine articles to advocate his theories, and . wiry time he visits any country where a few cases ot that disease etlst be fancies that be finds fresh evidence ot the correctness of his theorlesj Few or no reputable physicians agree with blm, but tbelr skepticism doe not discourage him. Hu has nowj broken out again, this time with m book. In its brief review of the work "The New York Medical Reo- ord" remarks that the volume "conJ tains a maBs of most interesting maW terla), carefully aud systematical!)! collated, and pleads the causuinost eloquently, though uncouvtnclnglyv It is a curious instance of a man Sticking to a theory ugaiust reason and against facts."
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