The News Domestic L V Randolph Gugenhelr.ier. (if the lav.' ten of Ouggenhelmer, Untermeyer 'tflarBhnll, died of apoplexy at his i ftmmer home. In West End, Long "V..-Wcn- M J. arm. Measures to prevent a rcjKiuiuu rtl the Western rnr famine of last I'Vlnte' are being discussed by the 1W Bervlcc committee of the Amerl n"n Railroad Association. , I 'fl'Tbp 9Uit of 0. M. Raymond against n -the Standard Oil Company for $50. i 000,000 was continued Indefinitely because of the illness of Henry H. Ho for Maryland Day attracted 45.000 ' 4,;ona to the Jamestown Exposition, Vq &.) record attendance, excepting the f , President Roosevelt was at ' !ClunTstown. i 1 1 The commanders of the Anglo Oa ' eerlcan Polar Expedition report the soundings they made dis closed no no continent north oi 'Alaska. The Pennsylvania Railroad Is ex- ......icted to adopt the new two-cent ate nendlnu the final decision of Oil tribe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a. Announcement Is made that the oi Amalgamated Copper Company will aoon shut down Its mines in about ' Bntte, Mont. p Edward W. Vnnderbllt Is not cap I able of managing his affairs, accord ' tag to the verdict of the jury. Js p The new Cunard Liner Lusitanla wuhas smashed the world's record by steaming 670 miles in a day. W Four men were Injured by an ex 1 plosion on the houseboat Mary Catherine, near Chicago. William Brown, a stowaway, who I attempted to escape from the steam er Annette while at Kingston, Ja- znalca, was devoured by sharks. Police reserves were called out to disperse a crowd that fought to get lata the already filled Astor Theater, New York. Comptroller Metz has rejected the bid of Abraham White for from $15,- 57 ,00,000 to $17,000,000 of New York shoj A shortage of $100,000 has been Clscovered in tne omce oi inc sime tax commissioner at New Orleans, La. Ex-Judge E. H. Gary says the time tea passed when the great corpora tions can ignore the public. Prof. M. H. Seville has discovered the ruins of a city built in South America 500 years ago. Lee Lesdy, proprietor of an Okla homa hotel, who killed his wife, was slain by a posse. There Is talk of a coal shortage owing to the scarcity of labor. The will of Jerome Llllibrldge, of Scranton, Pa.. Involving $500,000, tea been set aside on the ground that his wife guided his hand in sign tag the document. The United States Court at St. Jo neph. Mo., has enjoined the Secre- I tarv of State of Missouri from an- a1 aiinK the charter of the Rock Is- STr lTirt Wnllroait The warrant for former Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, has been sus pended in order that he may appear as a witness in the Caleb lowers case. The wreck of the steamer Dean Richmond, loaded with lead and cop per, sunk in Lake Erie in 1873, has been located by a firsherman. Frances Kowalskl. sister of the teller of the wrecked Milwaukee Avenue Savings Bank, Chicago, died from grief. Dnlon printers have won a two year fight with the Falthorn Com pany, of Chicago nic1 if t ia.y rug M. fe 25 PERSONS KILLED 26 OTHERS ODDLY HURT Trains Collide Head-On On a Steep Grade. VICTIMS ARE MOSTLY WOMEN. Frightful Wreck On the Boston and Maine Railroad. AN ERROR COSTS MANY LIVES. The Southbound Quebec Express and a Heavy Freight Crash Into Each Other, and the Two Glsnt Locomo tive. Locked in a Tight Embrace, Roll Into a Ditch All the Passen gars Killed or Hurt Were In One Car, Which Was Telescoped by the Heavy Baggage Car. White River Junction. Vt. (Special). A fearful head-on collision be tween the southbound yueoec ex press and a northbound freight train on the Concord division of the Bos ton and Mnlno Railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan Station, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's or ders, and from a demolished passen ger coach there were taken out 24 dead and dying and 27 other passen gers, most of them seriously wound ed. Nearly all those who were In the death car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand by the night operator at Canaan Station that he had plenty of time to roach a sid ing, receiving, according to the super intendent of the dlvlsiou, a copy of a telegraph order from the train dis patcher at Concord which confused the train Nos. 30 and 34. The wreck occured Just aftor the express had rounded Into a straight stretch of track, but owing to the early morning mist neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. The south-bound train was made up at Sherbrooke, where it picked up . . r V nrxA ,1 k e; if""' v a .in. tur ee ,9lf "Ve n' two sleepers from Quebec and two more on the way down, it consisted of the baeeane car. passenger coach and smoking car In that order, with the sleepers In the rear. Was Forty Minutes Late The train left White River Junc tion at 3.50 A. M.. 40 minutes late and was followed 20 mlnuteB later by the Montreal express over tne central Vermont Rallrrfad. The Quebec train is known as No. 30 and the Montreal train as No. 34. In the meantime a north-bound 10,000 KILLED Of RAILROADS Year's Total, According To Interstate Commerce Commission's Report. Washington. D. C. ( Special ) The Interstate Comemrce Commission made public an abstract of its nine teenth annual statistical report cov ering the year ended June 30, 1906, showing the par value of the railway capital outstanding was $14,570,421, 478, or $67,936 per mile of the rail ways In the United States. Of this over 33 per cent, paid no dividends. Of tho railway stock outstanding $2, 267,175.799 was owned by railway corporations, and of railway bonds $641,305,030 were so reported. The aggregate gross earnings from the operated mileage of 222,340 miles of lines were $2,325,765,167, being $243,281,761 lower than In 1905. Their operating expenses were $1,536,877,271, or $146.275, 11$ more than In 1906. The net earn ings aggrgated $788,887,896. an In crease of $97,007,642. The net earnings per mile of line average $8,548 The Inoome attributable 10 other sourees than operation reached $256,639,591. Deducting fixed and other charges, the report says $385,186,828 Is the net income for the year available for dividends or surplus There was 799,507,838 passengers carried, an Increase of over 60,000,000 and 1, 681,374,219 tons of freight carried, an increase ol over 202,000,000. The average revenue per passenger per per mile was 2.002 cents. The earn ings per train mile was increased both for passenger and freight trains, and the average cost of running a train ono mile increased. The ratio of operating expenses to earnings was over 60 per cent. The report shows 10.618 persons killed and 97,706 injured. There was a total of 1,521,355 persons on the payroll. The report shows that one passen ger was killed for every 2,227,041 carried, while In 1905 one passenger was killed for every 1,376,856 carried One person was injured for every 74,176 passengers carried, as against one injured in every 70,655 passen gers carried In 1905. For each pas senger killed 70,126,686 passenger miles were acompllahed. against only 44,329,576 passenger miles in iyus. One passenger was injured for every 1,338,859 miles, against 2,276,002 miles in 1905. Tho report shows an average of 684 employes per 100 miles of line. There was an increase of 47 em ployes per 100 miles of lino over 1905. Wages and salaries paid to employes aggregated $900,801,663, but It is stated that this amount Ib deficient by more than $27,000,000 because of the loss of railway records In the San Francisco earthquake. There were 2,213 railway corpora tions for which mileage Is included. JAPAN IS NOT SEEKING W?R Regards United States as Her Best Friend. JAPAN IS BURDENED WITH DEBTS. Statement of Former Ambassador Luke Wright, Who Has Jnst Returned From Toklo- Characterizes Talk of Hostilities as Being "Not Even Re spectable Nonsense." Washington, D. C. (Special). "Not even ' respectable nonsense," was the way former Ambassador Luke Wright, who has Just returned from Tokio to resume private life, characterized the war talk between tho United States and Japan. The Ambassador had a long talk with Acting Secretary of State Adee, hav ing called to close his official con nection with the department, pre paratory to going to his home, at Memnhls. Tenn. Governor Wright was In Japan ns the representative of the united States when the assault upon Japan ese restaurant-keeperB was made In San Francisco and Japanese were barred from the schools. Ho had not left Toklo when the announcement was made by the Secretary of the Navy that the Atlantic fleet would be transferred to the Pacific Coast. He said that the voyage of the At lantic fleet did not stir official cir cles in Japan to adverse comment, as It was understood that the in terests of the United States in Pa cific waters made it natural for this government to desire to transfer part of Its naval force there. The San Francisco Incident was not so peaceably viewed, Mr. Wright said, as the action of the school board In San Francisco was of an official character nnd provoked much The Nation's Capital TRAiN HELD UP J MASKED MEN T. e Passengers Terrified By Fusilade of Shots. ROBGERS BLEW OPEN THE SAFE. Finding It Empty They Contented Themselves With Taking a Quantity of Registrred Mail The Great North ern Railway Company Has Offered a Reward of $5,000. St. Paul, Minn., (8pccial). Gen eral Manager Ellott, or the Grent Northern Express Company, announc ed that the Great Northern Oriental Limited train No. 1, was held up two masked men six or seven mile west of Rexford, Mont., at an early hour. The robbers crawled over the tender at this place and at the point of their guns commanded the engi neer to stop the train. They then ordered the engineer to go back with them to the express car, and In structed him to tell the express mes senger, "i ;, clerk nnd baggageman to ko back Into the coaches. Whllf Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Earl Elrhenherg, an exporter, of Texas, asked the Interstate Com merce Commlslon to require the Southern Pacific to pay him $40,000 on account of discrimination. The speed trial of the new battle ship Kansns was satisfactory, though she did not come up to the record made by her Bister ship, the Vermont. Six hundred officers of tho Army are now serving on detached service, according to statements made at the War Department. The preliminary roeellng of repre sentatives of Central American Re publics to carry out the suggestion of the United States and Mexico for a permanent pence undemanding was held In Washington. The Navy Department announced that through a fire in her coal bunk ers the battleBhlp Indiana narrowly escaped destruction. Rumors that Secretary of the Navy ftietcalf will resign his position in the Cabinet are being revived in Wash ington, j tU!B w-as belnir done tho robbers kci.t The first copy of the Canal Record Up a continual fusillade with thai! contains many Important statistics In guns to terrify the passengers an' regard to the work on the canal. keep them within the coachof. Lieut. Phil Sheridan has been re-1 After the messenger, baggagemai lieved from duty as military aid to j and mall clerk had left their car: President Roosevelt at hl3 own rc- the robbers went through the ma- cars and robbed tne sacks oi a iutk quantity of registered mall. Ther they went Into an express car, which carried an overflow of mall, bnggagt and express and which contained I regular through Bafe. After exploding three charges, tin safe was opened and found to be empty. The robbers did not enter the regular express car In which the messenger had been riding. On flndliiK the cafe empty the COMMERCIAL HOLM Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reooris. quest. Plans for the transfer of the bat tleship fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean are nearly complete. Mehnied All Bey has been appoint ed as Turkish minister to this coun try. The sentence of dismissal enforced on two middles for "Frenchlng" was mitigated and the young men will bo permitted to resign. The nrodurtlon of denatured nl R. O. Duri & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Aside from Rome conversatlsm In preparing for remote requirements directly due to stringency In the money market the volume of business Is satisfactory. Trade exceeds even tho activity df last year in many sections, nnd ns tho crops are secured there Is demand for goods at loading Jobbing niarV.ets thnt makes tho outlook bright for fall. Wholesale dry goods sales are nearly all concluded at tho South and merchants are now hurrying shipments forward to meet the autumn retail demand thnt Is about, to open. Prices of farm staples have risen to an unusual position for this reason, but this Is caused by largo foreign needs rather than any reductions In domestic yield, and the Increased amount of money paid to the farmers will benefit all depart ments of trade and Industry. Com plete reports for August Indlcn'o that tho midsummer months compar ed most favorably with 1908 in al moa. every department, except tho market for securities. Expected improvement In the vol ume of new contracts for steel is' beginning to r.ppear, autumn business coming Into sight, while the mills; still have orders on hand that wlll: take months to fill in most departments. highwaymen helped themselves to discussion He thought tha prompt L, ndar the new luw has reduc-the registered mail and after firing action taken by the administration in attempting to smooth over the situation appeased most of the anger felt in official circles In Japan. "But Japan does not want war with the United StateB. nor any na tion," declared Mr. Wright. "The country Is burdened with debts nnd heavy taxation. The rate of taxa tion has been Increased since the war with Russia. Further than this, she has Korea on her hands, and that is no easy problem. China, too, demands her attention. Further than this, Japan looks upon the United States as her best friend. She always has so regarded this country." CHINA ON HER DIGNITY. fretzht train, known as No. 2 67, had arrived at Canaan, 18 miles down the i)Urng the year railway companies road, at 4.1" A. M.. on urae. c-, owninB 4.064.46 miles of line were cording to the division superintend ent. W. R. Ray. J. A. Crowley, the night train dispatcher at Concord, sent a dispatch to John Greeley, the night operator at Canaan, that No. 34 was 1 hour and 10 minutes late; The order, which Conductor i Lawrence of the freight train showed after the accident, distinctly states 1 that No. 30 Instead of No. 84 was I 1 hour and 10 minutes late. Conductor Lawrence, believing that I he had sufficient time in the hour and i ten minutes to reach the side track I at. West Canaan, four miles beyond. before No. 30 reached It, ordered his train ahead. The superintendent declared that the accident was due to the mistake reorganized, merged or consolidated. The numbers of roads in the hands of receivosB was 84. The number of locomotives and cars in the service of the railways aggregated 2,010,5 84, of which 1,837,788 were fitted with train brakes and 1,989,796 with au tomatic couplers. Only 1.54 per cent, of cars in the passenger service were without automatic couplers. He ?hr member of the Georgia legislature, has resigned. E. H. Harrlman says the West is prosperous. Peaches are scarce in the West. t f, v : n unL man St. roreign. General Drude, commanding the Trench forces in Morocco, attacked and burned the Taddert camp of the Moors. Heavy losses were Inflicted on the Arabs. Czar Nicholas and the imperial family left the stranded royal yacht, Btandart. which went aground off Horace, near Hango, Finland, for the dispatch boat Asia. The cable steamer Sllvertown, hav on board 1,300 miles of cable for the naw direct New York-Havanna cable line, sailed from London. Horrible atrocities were committed against helpless Jews during the massacre at Klshlnef, many of the victims being burned. Volunteer military automoblllsts cause most of the casualties at the German military maneuvers. The steamer Junaqua was hit by a waterspout while sailing up the Damujl River, in Cuba. Solsky, an Insane man suspected of being the Berlin ripper, escaped. A dispatch from Walter Wellman at Spltzbergen says the airship's start for the Pole has been delayed on ac count of a prevailing blizzard. Archibald Henry Blount, lord of the manor of Orlotoa. England, be queathed about $400,000 to Yale University. About 100 of the leading Chinese mercantile establishments at Canton, China, were destroyed by the fire. Mr. Paeheco, the newly appointed minister from .Mexico to Japan, pre sented his credentials to the Mikado. The French press has been stirred up by the tone of the German note anent the Morocco affair. King Alfonso of Spain underwent an operation with the object of di lating the ducts of the nose. A royal proclamation was issued advancing New Zealand from a col ony to a dominion. prinre Wlvleachlff, of Vienna, was killed In an automobile accident at Porll. Italy. Preparations are being made In Qermany in anticipation of a cholera epidemic. The strike of the dock laborers at Antwerp has b.-en partly adjusted. General Drude has notified the French Minister ol War that he has m sufficient force and no further uid will be sent to him. The Siberian postal train was held up by highwaymen 13 miles from Tomsk, Siberia. The robbers got away with $50,000. M. Borudulln. superintendent of the Akatul political prison in Trans baikalia, was assassinated ou the streets of Pakoff. A test of the new British war bal loon was made at Farnborough, the experiments developing a defect In construction. Italian newspapers counsel Krunce to march against Fox and put an end to the Intolerable situation In Mo (WCO. SEVEN WIVES IN REVENGE. Bigamist Punished Six Because Ono Woman Once Misused Him. Bellingham, Wash. (Special). A bigamist seven times over, James Rosb, after surrendering to tho po lice dictated a full confession. He is a physical wreck from cocaine. Ho also has twloe been a Boldler nnd has twice deserted. His life history is a story of a long losing fight with a score of heavily loaded cars j against tne drug wnicn nas musiereu lumbered up the long grade toward mm. ed the cost of wood alcohol from to 30 cents. The Navy Department awarded the contract for supplying oil for the Navy to the Vacuum Oil Company. Mehmed All Bey has been ap pointed Turkish minister to the United States. Commander Simon Cook, retired, U. S. N died In St. Louis. 00 a parting volley oisappeareo. in ! view of the fact that the Great Northern Express Company did no' suffer any loss, the Great Northern Railway Compnny has telegraphe! the following offer of reward to all points In the West along Its line: "The Great Northern Railway Company will pay the sum of $5,0oi' for the arreBt and conviction of eacl of the persons engaged In the hold up of Its train near Rexford, Mont, on the morning of September 12 1907." This means a reward of $10,00') W.' H. Rogers, the only colored In placing a cipher after the three in the number of the train, Instead of a four. The morning was dull and misty in the Western New Hampshire Mountains and the long freight train West Canaan at the usual speed. On Ross has been married so many ! the other s'de of the curve was the times he cannot remember the names Quebec express, eliding down tne of all the wives, i ne average reugiu single track with her load of pas- of time he lived with them is one senders and the four heavy sleepers month. His motive was revenge Refuses To Be Any Longer Bulldozed By Japan. Mdkden (By Cable). For two months the persistent demands of Japanese for concessions of forestB, mines, land, salthouseB and other things desired have been stubbornly refused by the Chinese viceroy and governor. In consequence of his ill success the Japanese consul gener al has been transferred to another point, the struggle in the meantime being abandoned, though reprisals are threatened. The Chinese conducted the diffi cult negotiations with great ability, Indicating a restoration of self-confidence and an Intelligent perception of political conditions, national rights being recognized and defended with out fear. Great progress has been made in all departments of the government concerned In Manchuria. A strong army of 60,000 men Is safe-guarding the future peace of the country. The viceroy will soon leave on a tour of inspection of the northern provinces. The harvest 1b abundant. The Japaneso population and com merce are Increasing steadily and other trade prospects are good. 253,000 IONS OF COAL OIL TBI ST 1 INI. tnnllM Vcr Writ Of Simerscdciis In ,.,,. r,u. to those who arrest and secure n Circuit ( ourt At t hlcago. ,. f the robbers. They ar Chicago (Special). The Standard j described as being 30 years of age Oil Corapanv of Indiana applied to one about five feet eleven inches tall the United States Circuit Court tor llJtVS a writ of supersedeas to prevent the Roft hatg I'nited States Government from pro ceeding to collect the fine of $29. 240,000 recently entered against it on the order of Judge Landls. Judge Groscup. before whom the BureM ralIg Vnr proposals To Suf application was made declined to , PucihY Meet: take action until he had heard argu- j 1" ln ,mim 1 ,c"' from the attorneys on both sides. I Washington, D. C. (Speclnl). Two The arguments consumed the greater j hundrea ana flfty-three thousand Part of the dy' tons of coal, exclusive of that to be win f..wr 1 shipped in government colleries, will Posse Kills Wife Murderer. i ,1H required to get the Atlantic bat- Weatherford, Okla. (Special). tleshlp fleet to the Pacific Coast and Crazed by jealousy and Ignoring the properly coal It at Mare Island, ac plea of his little daughter, who was rding to the estimates made by the . " ti i i t Equipment Bureau of the Navy Do- cllnglng to his knees. Lee Leedy t t whlch has caUeU for prc proprtetorof a hotel here, fired t lire supplying the necest-an shots Into his wife s body, killing her ' aggregate 133,00n Instantly. Two nonra laier uy semlbltumlnous nnd the re- mainder Welsh coal. The former i. was shot and killed by a posse of citizens, who surrounded him In a canvon a mile from town. After the inquest the coroner's Jury waited upon S. D. Fry, a piano tuner, and ordered him to leave town. in the rear Engineers Jumped. The freight train was on a straight piece of track, about a mile in length, and the Quebec express had rounded a curve Into this stretch when the two engineers naw the headlights of the opposltf train burst out of the fog. Both engineers set their brakes and then Jumped, while the two great locomotives crashed into each other and, locked in a firm embrace, rolled Into the ditch. The baggage car In the rear was hurled back into tho passenger coach like a greut ram. and tore it asunder from end to end. As It did so the rear end of the car rose up so that when It stopped at the forward end of the smoker, which was behind the passenger coach, it was well inclined. Only a few windows were broken In the smoking car, and none of the Pullmans were Injured. But the lll-futed pastenger coach was crowded with more than no peo ple. Shortly before the accident a few of tho men had gone back Into the smoking car in the rear, leaving the women to get a little sleep In the straight seats. One of those who escaped said that as the train was rounding a curve someone In the front of the car be gan to sing, so that nearly everyone was awake when the crash came. Those who weas In the other carB re covered their dazed senses, jumped out to the side. of the track and hur ried to the demolished passenger coach, where groans, cries and shrieks were rending the air. Gold Mine Disaster. August, Ga. (Special). A Chron icle special from Washington, Ga, says: Information was ree' lvea nere or a disastrous explosion which occurred at the Columbia gold mlnos across the river in this county. It Is stat ed that the explosion was a preroa ure discharge of a charge of dyna mite, resulting in the loss of several lives. Telephone lines to the mines are out of order and details arc not available." Murdered lly Bandits. Laporte, Ind. (Special). A tele gram received here from Dwlght Ful ness. United States consul at Guana juato, Mexico, tells of the murder there by Mexican bandits of George Rose, an American, and the Injury of his wife. The murdered man was a non of W. A. D. Rose, of Benton Harbor. Mich., and was 34 years old He was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College in lb$fi, and in 1U00 was married to Miss Winifred McUvath, of Salt Luke City to be shipped from Atlantic ports of the United States in Vessels either of American or foreign registry, ac cording as the terms may be th more fnvorahle In the opinion of til Federal Power Hnlts State , ""SJu lnd,caUng the point Jefferson City, Mo. (Special). ; at wnicj1 tne ooal Is to b unloaded .Tudee Potter, of the United States tha dote of loading, etc., v.-ere niadi nnTt of St .losenh. enioined Secre-j public by the Equipment He declares that he was Ill-used by a woman early In life, and haB been trying to Injure the sex. Now he has repented. Hugue Conference Nenrs End. Washington (Special). The last session of The Hague Conference will be held on September 28, and the nrotocols will be signed on the following day, according to a letter received by Major Porter, acting Judge Advocate General of the Army, from Brig. Gen. ueorge b. Davis, a member of the American delegation. Tries To Drown Herself. New Orleans (Special). Virginia Reed, a negro woman who, according to Charles E. Letten, defaulting tax clerk, received about $90,000 out of the $100,000 he stole from the State, attempted to commit suicide by jumping Into Bayou St. John. She was fished out in time to save her from drowning. Bureau. fiM I i i . ;.. .1 .. ..t tt... uutn . tarr of State , 8w.n.r against an- , 70 Tvcryof 70 nulling the charter of the Chicago, ; Trinidad. G.oOO to Rio de ' i Rock Island and i'acinc "'wa . j , 20 000 tonB t0 Pnnta Arenas. FEDERAL COURTS ABUSE RIGHTS I Company to do business In Missouri , Callao. 35,000 tons of the law which prohibits a corpora tion from taking cases from a state court to the federal court. IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD. Nebraska's Governor Favors The Curtailment Of Privileges. Lincoln, Neb. (Special). Because of the restraining order granted by Judge Munger, of the Federal Court, to prevent the Railway Commission from promulgating a new grain rate schedule, Gov. George L. Shelton de clared himself In favor of a consti tutional amendment taking from fed eral courts the right to enjoin state officials from enforcement of state laws. "I believe the federal courts have abused the privilege of the injunc tion enough to justify such action," he said. "Too many state laws have been tied up by the Interference of the federal courts. I do not believe the makers of the Constitution ever contemplated suoh use of tho injunc tion In the hands the federal courts." courts." 1ongworth For Mayor. at Magdalena Bay and 40,000 tony to San Francisco or Mare Island. The loading period of tho shlpB run from the 1st of De-.'Vmbcr up to Feb ruarv 1. indicating I hat it will 1- very late In the year belore the ver Wholesale .V arkets. Baltimore. Wheat- -Southern was. firmer. Cargoes sold ut 99 Vic. for special bin No. 2 red; 99 for stock' No. 2 red; 94 for special bin stenmer No. 2 rod; 92 for stock steamer No. 2 red; 90 for special bin rejected, 87 for stock rejected, nnd; sric. for rejected to go through drier. The market for Western open-! ed unsettled nnd Use. lower; spot and September, 97 ; No. 2 red Western, 99; October, 98. Corn Western opened dull and c. lower; spot and September,; 05 c; October, 67; year, 63; Jau uary, G2. Oats Whtte No. 2, heavy, 57 & 67 Vic; No. 2, light to medium, 56 rti 57 ; No. 3, heavy. 54(i55; No. 3, light to medium. 52G153; No. 4, light to heavy. (1051tt Mixed No. 2, 53tg63MiC.; No. 3, 52 41 52V4; No. 4, 5050. Flutter Separator, 2627; Imita tion, 20 21. Cheese Market steady. We quote, per lb., 14 15c. Kpgs Maryland, Pennsylvania ad nearby, firsts", 22c ; Western firsts, 22; West Virginia firsts, 21; South ern firsts, 19i 20; guinea eggs, 10 11. New York. Wheat Spot easy; No. 2 red. $1.02, elevator: No. 2 red, $1.02, f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 North ern Duluth, $1.16, f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.04 Mi. f- o. b. afloat. Corn Spot easy; No. 2, 70c. ele vator, and 70 f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 whte, 71; No. 2 yellow. 73, f. o. 1)., afloat. Oats Spot strong; mixed, 26 to 32 lbs., 64c; natural White, 20 to 33 lbs., 63 (8'G5; clipped white, 36 to 40 lbs., 66ii 75. Poultry Alive steady; spring chickens, 16c; fowls, 14; turkeys, 13. Dressed unsettled; Western broilers, 13 18c; turkeys, 10 16; fowls, 12 14 Vs. Eggs firm; receipts, 10,963 cases; Western firsts, 20 21 Vic; sec onds, 18 19. Philadelphia. Wheat firm; con tract grade, September, 97fi97c. Corn 1c. higher; September, 67 67 c. Oats quiet; No. 2 white, natural, 66c for old. Butter firm; extra Western cream ery. 27 Vic.; do., nearby prints, 30. Eggs firm; Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 22c. at mark;-Pennsylvania and other near by currents receipts, In returnable cases, 21, at mar; Western choice, free cases, 22, at mark; do., fair to good, 20 21, at mark. Live poultry dull; fowls, 14 15c: old roosters, 11M12; spring chickens, 15 16; ducks, Cincinnati, O. "(Special). Con-, sel8" gtait on their long cruise gressman Nicholas Longworth as the Republican candidate for mayor Is now Bald to be the political program of Julius Fletschman and Norman Kenan, against their former friends, George Cox und Rud Nynleka. Con gressman Longworth and Mrs. Long worth arrived In San Frnnclsco Thursday on the steamer Sierra from Honolulu. PhHadelphla banks are renewing brokers' loans for four to six months at 6 per cent, interest. There are persistent reports that Amalgamated will cut its dividend, having closed some of the mines. "The soundest business firms in Philadelphia are paying 6 per cent, on their paper," Bald a down town bank director. Pennsylvania officials deny that the unmpany is going to borrow $50,- 000. 000. Amalgamated Copper soli down from 65 to 60, which is the low est price of the year. The top price for this stack was 130 and the low level a couple of years ago was 33. Boston haB been hard hit by the slump In Copper Company stocks, New York has been hit by the terri fic crash In steel railway securities snd Philadelphia Is hard hit. by the big break in Rapid Transit and UmIojj Traction. "The only thing out," Bald a big Wall Street firm, 's "" announce ment that the Amalgamated Copper has definitely aeclded to close all Its mines In the Butte camp and to give notice to tmit eneci neiore me niia die cf next week." President N. W. Harris, of the Harris Trust ft Savings Bank, Phlla delphia, is of tke belief that coudl Hons which have operated to de press the market price of securities have about run their course, and I dicatlons are now present wbioh point to an advance In the near fu ture Proposed New State's Census. Guthrie, Okla. (Special). The special census of the new State was substantially finished, and the popu lation of the two territories, with only two disricts missing, was an nounced by Census Supervisor Hunt, as follows: Oklahoma (two dis tricts missing), 718,765; Indian Territory (two districts missing), 689,967. Total, with four districts missing, 1,408,732. Ladroiie Leaders To Die, Manila (By Cable). Governor General Smith has refused to inter cede In the easeB of Macarlo Sakey and Julian Devaga, sentenced to die. They are former ladrone chiefs end confessed to brigandism. Filipino newspapers have been agitating lur light sentences while American pi pers have Insisted they be given the extreme penalty. New Law Working Well. Washington (Special). The new naturalization law, filled to over flowing with penalties for fraud. Is working to perfection. The Depart ment of Justice is advlBed from vkrl- ous bureau chiefs throughout, tho country that there has been a great falling off In the number of appli cations and that JudgeB, who hereto fore have been loath to refuse final papers, are requiring a strict com- pllauce with the spirit us well as the letter or me law. I be QallkrttM Guc. Paris (By Cable). The question whether the gullletlne would reap pear In France, which has been daily agitating the French press for weeks, was decided when President Fallleres commuted to life Imprison ment the sentence of death pissed on Solelllant. whose atrocious mur der of a girl 12 years old In this rltv excited tke horror of Prance and brought forth many petitions for the infliction of me aoain peuaity. A bill to abolish capital punishment In part of the government s platform Auto Jumps Embankment. Janesvllle, Wis. (Special) Walter Brittan, president of a bank at Be loit, was probably fatally Injured and his wife and Mrs. Frederick Strong were seriously Injured, when a tour ing car fell over a 26-foot enbank ment. Frederick Strong, also a bank president, escaped by jumping. Turitl t reaty With Holland. The Hague I By Cable). The gov ernments of the Netherlands and the United States have come to an un derstanding In the mattor of a tariff agreement. This agreement will shortly be submitted to Parliament for ratification. It provides ror tne reduction in the American duties on brandy and other spirituous liquors imported from Holland, in return for which Holland blndB herself to im pose lower duties on certain Import ed meats, but otherwise to maintain the existing tariff arangements. The Welsh coal to be delivered I follows : Twenty thousand tons : I Punta Arenas, not later than Janu ary 20; 25,000 tons ut Callao, ni t later than February 6; 25.000 toiu at Magdalena Bay. not later than February 29; 10,000 tons, addition 1 1 at Magdalena Bay, not later than March 15; 20,000 tons at San Fran cisco or Mare Island, not later than April 9, and 20,000 tons additional ut San Francisco or Mare Island, not later than April 13. Gourdiiiu Becomes Insane. Atlanta, Gs. (Special). Louis A. Oourdian, the eccentric milllonarlo who attracted much notoriety by de claring that unless the court sent him to jnll he himself would build a pris on and be his own warden, became Insane at the federal prison here this week and was taken to Washington. Where he will be placed in the Gov ernment Insane Asylum. Dies In Automobile. New York (Special) Mrs. Isabella Henry Crump, of Philadelphia, die.i suddenly in an automobile standing in the Jersey City ferry-house of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Heart fail ure is ascribed as the cause. 12 13 Live Stock. Chicago. Cattle Market for best steady, others weak to 10c lower; common to prime steers, $4'!7.50; cows. $3.30 5; heifers, $3 5.75;: bullB, $2.40ii,5; calves, 1608; Block ers and feeders, $2.40 5. Hogs Market 5 10c higher; choice heavy shipping, $66.15; light, butchers. $6.20 6.40; light mixed, $6.05 6.30; choice light, $6.40 C. 50; packing, $5.40 5.95; .pigs,' $6.50 6.25; bulk of Balej, $5:70 6.15. Sheep Market strong; sheep, $3.806.35; yearlings, $5.756.75; lambs. $6 7.56. Kansas City, Mo. Cattle Choice export and diessed beef steerB, $0 6.80; fair to good $4.90 6; West ern steers, $3.74 5.50; stockers and feeders. $3.25 5.35; Southern steers, $3.25 4.60; Southern cows, $2.25 i 3.30; native cows, $2 1.50; native heifers, $3 5; bulls, $2.50 4.20; calves, $3.50 6.50. Hogs Heavy, steady light, 5 10c lower; bulk, $5.866.10; pack ers, $5.85 5.95; pigs and light, $6.05 6.20. Sheep Market .trong; lambs, $6.50 7.50; ewes and yearlings, $5 6.75; range yearlings, $5.50 5.90; range sheep, $4.75 5.60; stockers and feeders, $3.76 fl. Rush For OttiaensMp Pupers, New York (Special). More than 1,100 persons applied for first citi zenship papers In the naturalization bureau ol the United Stales Court Tuesday, a record number. Just what caused this unheard of rush was matter for much speculation about the federal building. Many of the aopllcaots were Russian Jews, aod the fact that Monday was a Jew ish holiday may have sometniuir to do with it. However, all of the crowd of 1,100 were not Jews, nationalities were represented. Pal ui. i In Retirement. Havana (By Cable). Forme: President Palmn of Cuba In an Inter view given on his estate at Guam', stated that he Is keeping aloof from politics, and Is devoting all his tini to agricultural Interests, He also ile clarod that he was equally apart from all parties, and tblu statement la re garded here as of some Importance, as the Conservatives have sent him salutations from all of their meet ings. The Russian Imperial yacht Stand art, with' Emperor Nicholas and his family aboard, went aground on the rocks off Huugoo, on the const of Finland. Eight woTknien were killed and 30 seriously Injured In a fire which destroyed u steam mill in Budapest. Hungary. Many Japanese war veterans are said to have beuu colonized In Mex ico, near the American border. An sntl-Semetlc League has been Ail j organifffl in Russia which Is plan- n'ng a general massacre ODDS AND ENDS. A.Hindoo prince Is a candidate for the football team at Cornell. New York has 67,000,000,000 gal lons of water stored away Id Its mountain reservoir. Colorado, Montana and Utah have shown a decided decline In the pro duction of precious metals. The steel sleeping cars which the Pullman Company us building will weigh 25 per cent, more than the present cars. In regard -to the marketing of American motor cars in Turkey, Vhe Counsul General Wlllluin Smlth-Lyie advlseB that owing to the Impossible roads and streets there are no prospects whatever for business In the Constantinople district. Where the trouble Is physical, such failure of an organ, Indiges tion, congestion of the liver and so Ion, strong, firm, martial rnusl- will give best results, according to Dr. Lau-oii. editor of Health C.ulture. l-vr this class of treatment the key of C major la' particularly recommended.
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