LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic Bached by mass of letters anil photographs found In his room, the Philadelphia pollen assert that Har ry Farree, shot dead by A. Jackson Detach. Jr., was a blackmailer of women. That he attempted to black mail Mrs. Detach Is advancod as the theory of Dctsch's motive for hooting the man. Detach clings to the ruse that he shot Ferree believ ing him to he n burglar. Henry B. Warner, receiver for th Arnold Print Works, of North Admn. Mans., has been appointed receiver for tho Wllllamstown Manufacturing; Company und tha tlrra of Gallup ft Houghton, which worn amilaled with the print works. Jesus Garcia, a locomotive engi neer, gave his life to save the town of Nacazarl, Ariz., by putting full peed on a train of explosives afire, the train blowing up before It had gone far. The United States Court of Ap peals affirmed Judgment against the Chicago. Burlington and Qulncy Rail road, compelling It to pay a fine of $15,000 for granting rebates on lard. The Old Dominion Line steamer Jefferson, with neatly 100 passen gers, arrived In New York with fire In the cotton In her cargo. D. C Oilman has resigned as pres ident of the National Civil Service Reform League. His successor Is Joseph Choate. The Citnarder Lusltanln encounter ed a gale at sea that rwept her decks Judge Olln Wellborn, In the United States District Court In Dos Angeles, Cal., fined the Santa Fe Kallway Company $300,000 for rebating. James F. Jones, a mining engineer, died In Philadelphia, the result of overexertion, after his usual exercise with 35-pound dumb bells. Two coal barges, the Onondaga and Black Diamond, both heavily laden with coal, were sunk off Stony Point light. In Lake Ontario. Alfred O. Vandcrbllt has given $100,000 for the constrirrtlon of a Young Men's Christian Association building in Newport, H. t. Sir Anthony McDonnell, under sec retary of state for Ireland, was pre sented to President Roosevelt by the British Ambassador. Harry C. Washabaugh. bigamist, hanged himself in his cell in the county Jail at Washington. Pa. Secretary Taft has finally decided to return by tho way of Vladivostok, through Siberia and Europe. The directors of the American Cot ton Oil Company passed the dividend on the common stock. Ex-Judgo Henry Hand has declin ed the offer of the attorney general ahip of Porto Rico. A fire caused a panic among the Inmates of the Kane County, 111., almshouse. The consignment of $7,100,000 in cold coin and bars which arrived on the steamer Kronprinzessin Cecillle was transferred from the shlp'3 Bafe to the Suhtr'.'asury in New York. Tho equivalent In currencv of nearly the entire consignment is being advanced to banker. The Arnold Print Works, North Adams, MasB.. employing 6,000 hands, is In a receiver's hands. Receivers have been named for the New York State Stoel Company. Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, who has been missing a week, surrendered to District Attorney Jerome. gave ball and reappearod In "The Yankee Tourist." Tho triut companies of New York" have taken charge of the Trust Com pany of America and the Lincoln Trust Company. Gray Gables, the former home of Orover Cleveland at Buzzards Bay. has been sold to George D. Flynn, a brewer. The Arctic whaling fleet previously reported caught In the Ice is home ward bound with a large catch. Two Chicago laborers were elec trocuted by the cable of a derrick be coming charged with electricity. Foreign Paul Mlnow, an epileptic. 22 years eld, has cleured up the mystery of ; trlmes In Berlin resembling those of Jack the Kipper in London by con- ! ,"'.islng that he had stabbed four little girls. The Austro-Hungarlan government fcsu'd n circular warning prospective Immigrants to beware of promises by agents of would-be employers In the Southern United States. Bitter feeling has been unused! over the selection of an actor to play ' the part of the Prince of Peace In MM "l'ru'- loii I'lay" at Oherammer- can In 1910. Many Russians, believing there will be war between tho United States and Japan, arc volunteering their services to tho American Embassy. There will bo no trouble between ; Uruguay and Argentina over the ; eeizure of a tug In Urngunynn waters by Argentine officials. Russian polle searched a number of bouses in Lilian and seized false passports of emigrants Intending to sail for America. Emperor William will see Secre tarry Taft at Osborne House, isle of I Wight, during the former's visit to I KmIsHWI. 8tnsatlonal testimony was given In th bearing of the Druce mystery ease in London The Bmperor and Empress of Ger May started from Berlin for Eng- ! land. Foreign Minister liayashl. of .la pan, declarer the relations between Japan und tho United States are us month and cordial as ever and he Is 1 ponltlvo the immigration question will be settled without friction. Tho Italian government is tLZing I military precautious In Sicily to cheek possible disorders In connection with the trial of Niuizlo Nasi, former minister of public instruction. L'nHud State.! Ambassador rtIH iollvered u speech at Nottingham, England, on Anglo-American trade relations. Cholera Is on the decrease In Rus sia becauao of tbo cold weather. Bmperor William Is affected with an Inflammation around the palate and tho channels leading to the ears. Lutust reports from Karatagh, Bok hara, where the landslide occurred, tale, that 3,400 persons porlehed. Dr. Estrada Pa I ma, former presi dent of Cuba, delcarex in favor of American control of tho island. Tho British batlk'shlp Superb, an other Improved Dreadnought, was launched at Newcastle. The Oerman government has modi Sad Its attitude towawl the French operations lu Morocco. II WOMAN SAILS OVER THE BUS CITIES Philadelphia to New York hi the Champion Pommern. RACES WITH TRAINS AND SHIPS. Dr. Julian P. Thomas, Wife and Party Juat Miss a Monument In Going Up Parallel the Pennsylvania Railroad Nearly All the Way-fleared Going Out to Sea. Now York (Special). The giant German balloon, Pommern. which won the St. Louis race, tried anothet trip, with Dr. Julian P. Thomas, her new owner; his wlfo and four other people on board. The start was made from Philadelphia at 11 o'clock. Dr. Thomas said at the time that ho was going to New York. Suro enough, at 4. 56 o'clock the ship news experts at tho Battery sighted a strange craft heaving In sight over Governors Is land. They guessed her to be the Pommern, from Philadelphia for Now York, In ballast, and guessed right After passing over the fort at Gov ernors Island, the balloon held to a course up the East Rlvor, passing directly over the Brooklyn Bridge One of the bridge cops who Is sta tioned at the middle span picked up a newspaper which blew against his legs shortly after 6 o'clock and read about the start of the Pommern. A moment after ho had read the Item he was boselged with questions about tho balloon, then overhead, and was able to uphold the honor of the force by telling the people all about It. After crossing over the bridge the Pommern held to a course along the Long Island shore, and about 6 o'clock Dr. Thomas' party effocted a landing at One Hundred and Seventy fifth Street and West Chester Av enue, In the Bronx. An hour afterward Dr. and Mrs. Thomas were back In their apart ment, at tho Hendrik Hudson. One Hundred and Tenth Street and River side Drive, and the Doctor was telling of his experiences as calmly and with as much Interest as though he had been discussing uncooked food. With Dr. Thomas wore Lieut. Robert Hen derson, chief engineer of the battle ship Missouri, and Capt. T. T. Love lace, of the Aero Club of America. Oscar Erbstoch, who piloted the Pom morn whon she won trie race ut St. Louis, and Herr R. Erbstoch. who also took part In the trial, had gone back to their apartments downtown, and were not prment when Dr. Thomas told his story. Dr. Thomnp said: "I had studied the methods of the French, having boen the first man from this country to make an ascen sion with Count de la Vonlx. and tho American methods, as shown by Roy KDabeUBh.ua, whom I consider to bo the best in this country, and I wanted to see what the Germans could do. "I closed with the Germans for the purchase of the Pommern, and It is Interesting to note as giving the view point of men who go up in the air, that, while thay did not doubt my ability to pay, they wished to receive all of the money before I made the ascent, thinking it easier, perhaps, to settle with me than my heirs. "We started at 11 o'clock in the gas works at Point Breeze. The balloon wns equipped with 23 bugs of ballast, weighing, altogether, fit) pounds. The six passengers weighed about a thousand pounds. I an nounced before I started that I would go to New York, but the balloon was managed by Herr Erb stoch and the credit of the remark able trip should he given to Ger man methods." OI.YMMA'N BRHHIK TO OtJUa Bad ' lie. k Maa Claims He Was Lieutenant In Nary. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). From a position on the bridge of Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia, In the bat tle of Mnnlla. to a cell In a police station, Is the fall of Paul Kelley, a young salesman, according to a story he told the police upon his arrest on a charge of forging a check for $22. $0. Kelley claims to have been a Isfctenant In the Navy and attach e . ft the Olympia before being re tired for disability after the famous sea fight In the Philippines, and says he Is a son of John F. Kelley, once United StateB district attorney at St. Paul, Minn. GAVE IIP HIS LIFE TO SAVE THE TOWN Engineer Puts Full Speed on Burning Powder Tra;n. FOREIGNERS BLOWN TO ATOMS. Gets the Explosives Away From the Community, but the Whole Train Blowa Up While Paaaing a Railroad Section-house Full of Mexi can Workmen. Douglas, Ariz. (Special). Jeeus Garcia, a locomotive engineer, saved Nacozarl, Ariz., from destruction by running a burning powder train through the town at top speed, but lost his own life and caused the death of a dozen or more Mexican section hands through the explosion of two cars of powder Just as the flaming train was passing a section bouse. John Chisholm, a boy. was also killed by the explosion. According to details of the accident received a powder train on the nar row gauge railroad of the Pllares Mine caught fire when near Naco zarl. In the train were two open cars heavily loaded with explosives. Realizing that the concentrator and a good part of the town of Nacozarl would be destroyed If the powder exploded there, Engineer Oarcia called to the rest of the crew to Jump and started to run the train away from the town. He had taken It about a half mile when the ex plosion occurred, as the cars were passing a section-house full of Mexi cans. The terrific explosion blew the house, the train, the men and the en gineer to atoms. Young Chrlsholm, not seeing the fire In the train,, sought to steal a ride on the rear car. It was Impos sible togisay Just how many section men were killed. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH. JUDGE McCOMAS l!:l. Stricken Down When It tt'us LenM Expected. Washington (Special) . Hon. Louis Emory McComas, usaoclute Jus tice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, former United States senator and for four terms congressman from Maryland, died at bis home, 2120 Wyoming Avenue. Sunday morning. His death wns due to heart failure. His death came with the awful ruddenness of a lightning stroke. At 6 o'clock ho awoke nnd stepped to his wife's apartments to big bor good morning. She smilingly chlded blni for rising so early on buc.Ii a disagreeable day and bade him go get a few more hours' sleep. Two hours later Mrs. McConms heard her band breathing heavily and In apparent pain. She hurried to hli room, and saw at once he wns III She raised him In her arms and spoke to hint, but he died an instant Inter. Il was conscious, and evi dently tried to speal:. but death pro vented. Uditor Dies In Harness. Utlca, N. Y. (Special). John C. Sehreiber. for 60 years editor of the Dwutaoh Zciturg, In this city, died In bis office. Just after he arrived from Ms residence. Ho has been commis sioner of schools in this city nnd nerved one term as sheriff of the county. All The Way On His Hands. Washington (Special). Mux Duf rek. of Munich, Germany, walked on Ms hands down all the steps of the Washington Monument and won a wuger of $500. He fainted upon reaching the bottom and was then ordered off the grounds by tho wat'-h-nian. Postcards Eor Children. Washington (Spccitrl) Post mas ter General Meyer has ordered that hereafter souvenir post cards re ceived at Hie Department, that are not returnable to Renders because of Bed-Hidden .Man And Three Children The Victims. New Ulm, Minn. (Special). Four I persons were burned to death In tho house occupied by Louis Gimmer. The victims were three children of the Glmmers, the eldest but six years of aire nnd dimmer's hndrldrlnn I fntbor. Mrs. Gimmer locked tho children I and the old man In the house! and went to a neighbor's to get some j milk. No one knows how tho fire I started. When first seen the Unities were I bursting through the roof and sides of the building and It soon collapsed, 1 burying the bodies of the helpless I Inmates In the redhot ashes. Wunt School Hooks Disinfected. New Hnvon, Conn. (Special). To j prevent the spread of disease nmong ; school children the Mothers' Club of this city, has drafted a new ordl ! nance, which it requests the city fath I era to adopt, making It necesBnry for j the textbooks In every school build ing to be regularly disinfected. TWO MORE GIANTS OF THE NAVY The Delaware and the North Dakota to Be Terrors. LIKELY TO BE CONTEST IN SPEED. Laying of tha Keel for the Former Has Begun at Newport jMews, and There Will Be a Race Between the Shipbnilding Company of That City and the Fore River Concern. Newport News, Va. (Speolal). The laying of the keel for America's giant 20,000-ton battleship Delaware began at tha plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com pany Thursday and all of the keel plates will be placed on tho stocks by the end of the week. Many of the frames and beams for the warship have been completed, and the Im mense hull will begin to assume shape within two months. The of ficials of the yard expect to launch the vessel In January, 1!09, and to deliver her to the Navy Department about August 1, 1910. The Delaware's sister ship, the North Dakota. It to be built at the plant of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Qulncy, Mass., and naval men expect that a race in the con struction of America's two greatest battleships will develop between the local yards and the Qulncy yard. The yards are also expected to have a spirited contest In the speed of the ships, .as the Dakota will be equipped with the Curtis turbine engines, while the Delaware will be propelled by two Immense reciprocating engines. The Dakota's keel has not yet been laid. The Delaware and Dakota will each be B10 feet long over all, 85 feet 2 Inches broad, and will have a mean draft on trial of 27 feet. The total coal supply will be 2,300 tons for each ship and the contract speed Is 21 knots an hour. The vessels will each carry 10 1 2-lnch breech-loading rifles, mount ed In Ave electrically controlled, bal anced, elliptical turrets oti the center line, three forward and two aft. The extreme forward and extreme after turets will be mounted on the same deck, while the other three turrets will be mounted on an upper deck, so that the second forward and sec ond after turrets can Are over the tops of the extreme forward and extreme after turrets. The third forward tur ret will not be able to Are directly ahead, but all Ave turrets can be trained on the broadside, giving the vessels a boardslde Are of 10 1 2-lnch rifles, as against a broadside Are of eight 12-inch rifles on the British battleship Dreadnought. In addition to these guns the ves sel will carry 14 6-Inch rapid Are guns, four 3-pounder saultlng guns, four t-pounder semi-automatic guns, two 3-Inch Aold pieces, two 30-cali-ber machine guns and two submerged torpedo tubes. I ,-p. Id Would Abdicate. I. lege. Belgium (By Cable). A i newspaper of this city declares upon : the authority of a high olliclal that King Leopold may possibly abdicate rather than give in to the Belgian Parliament on the question of the , Congo Independent otatc. WASHINGTON defective addresses or other reason . be sent to the orphan asylums and I children's homes in this city. Be tween 40,000 and 60,000 of these cards are received at the dead letter office daily. Murdered For Insurance. City of Mexico (Special). The j Supreme Court denied the applies I Mm of C. T Richardson, William Mason and Dr. C. T. Harley for a re hearing. The men, ail Americans, were cnavicted of murdering Harry Williams, a half-brother of Mason, and James Devores, in February, 1902. The life of William had been insurod for $15,000 and thai of De vores for $10,000. The aggregate of this sum, it ia alleged, was divided among the conspirators. Members of the executive council of the Federation of Labor conferred with tho President with reference to labor legislation to b recom mended to Congress. President Roosevelt received tho new Turkish minister to the United States. Ohamined All Bey, the pre sentation being made by Secretary Hoot. ICx-Senator Stewart, of Nevada, blames the flnamial stringency on Rockefeller and men of his stripe. The President has Issued an or der consolidating the two internal revenue districts in Tennessee. It has been decided to organize a special submarine and torpedo di vision of the Navy. Over $48,000.00.0 wns expended on Panama Canal construction up to June 30 of this year. Complaint was flled before the In terstate Commerce Commission by the Ball and River Coal Company, of Bellalre, O., against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, alleging discrimi nation In the distribution of coal cars to the company':, mines. The Isthmian Canal Commission lias appointed S. E. Blackburn, oi Kentucky, a district Judge In the Canal Zone. Diplomatic transfers announced: Arthur M. Beaupre. present minister to Argentina, to bo minister to the Netherlands; Spencer F. Eddy, pres ent secretary of tho embassy at Ber lin, to be minister to Argentina. David Jayne Hill, former assistant secretary of state, now minister to the Netherlands, will be promoted to be ambassador to Germany, to sue coed Charlemagne Tower, resigned. Secretary Root has denim i..a jo ! I. Buchanan as the American dele KAie lu.mu ' i 1 . ,i ; .iiiiunran t'cace Conference in Washington next week. Major General John F. Proston will succeed General Wood, In com mand of the Department of the Philippines, In February. Secretary Taft advised the gov ornment ho would tall from Manila for Vladivostok today on Admiral Hemphill's flagship. The anti-lnjunctioa will be a sub Ject of much discussion at the con vention of tie American Federation of Labo'i EDWARD'S GREAT DIAMOND. $750,000 Stone Given Him By The Trnnsvaul. London (By Cable) . Every loyal Englishman Saturday celebrated the birthday of King Edward, who was born November 9, 1841. It is a cus tom of long standing and its observ ance has at times been somewhat prefunctory, but there Is a genuine ness In the English sentiment today which is highly complimentary to Edward VII. He is very nearly the ideal English monarch one who reigns, but does not govern, save by the beneficent Influence he exerts for the benefit of the kingdom. He has surpassed the hopes of frlonds and discounted the forebodings of enemies, if he really has any. The King celebrated the event at Saud ringham, where the King and Queen of Spain and tho Queen of Norway, in addition to many other members of the British royal family, are stay ing. The: morning was occupied In re ceiving an immense number of con gratulatory telegrams, letters and presents from almost all parts of the world, one of the most notable events being the presentation to the King of tho Culllnan diamond, the largest known, estimated to be worth $760, 000, and donated to him by the leg islative assembly of the Transvaal as a token of the loyalty of the peo ple of that colony and In commemo ration of the grant of a responsible government to the Transvaal. IDOL OF THE FILIPINOS. Tuffs Farewell At Manila A Great Demonstration. Manila (By Cabin) Tho departuro of Secretary of War Taft from this city on the cruiser Rainbow for Vlad ivostok Saturday was attended by a remarkablo demonstration on the part of the Filipinos. The horses were withdrawn from the carriage In which were stoated ' Mr. and Mrs. Taft. and it was pulled by Manila schoolboys from tho Luneta to the dock through cheering crowds of citizens. Mr. Taft started from the resi dence of Governor General Smith at 8 o'clock A. M. He reviewed tho long military, civic and school parade on the Luneta at 9. making a brief address. In which he thanked the people for their recaption, MAN KILLED FOR liUt(;LR. Hoarder in House Fulls To Recognize Owner And Opens Eire. Philadelphia (Special). Harry Parree. forty years old, was shot dead at his home In the northern part of the citv by A. Judson Deiach, a boarder in tho houso, who thought Parr.' was a burglar. Deisch, It is said, saw Parree en ter Hie house, and shot him as be : was mounting the stairs. Deisch was arrested. GUILTY OF MALFEASANCE. Gurko Dismissed From Ofllre In Rus sian Government. St. Petersburg (By Cable). Mr. Gurko, rice minister of the Interior, who was Implicated In the great grain scandal during the famine-relief op erations of 190$, and who was plac ed on trial before the Senate as a high court of Justice, has been found guilty of malfeasance, sentenced to dismissal from office and ordered to mako restitution to the amount of $260,000. Through an Illegal contract M. Gurko made a deal with an lrrespon nlbla Individual named Lldval to sup ply all the grain to the famtne-strtrk-en provinces and advanced him $400, 000, without security. THE SEA SWALLOWS Of A MOUNTAIN Had Been Cast Up in Arctic By An Earthquake. PEAK WAS GROWTHS BIGGER. Captain Til ton. of tha Whaler Hen nan, Reports That McCulloch Peak, But a Year Old and 3.400 Feet High, Baa Dwindled to Almost Nothing Owing to Earthquakes. San Francisco (Special). --Captain Tllton, of the whaler Herman, which arrived from the Arctic, reports that a terrlAc earthqunke occurred at Un alaska about a month ago, and that McCulloch Peak, which was created by an earthquake nearly a yoar ago, and extended 3,600 feet above the sea, has dwindled to almost noth ing aa a result of submarine disturb ances. McCulloch Peak resulted from a volcanic eruption In tho Bogostov Is lands, and was discovered by officers of the United States revenue cutter McCulloch. The place was visited by Boston scientists, who recently re ported that the peak was increasing in height. The earthquake shock, which was believed to have caused Its sudden shrinkage, was felt for miles around Bogostov Islands and Unalaska, and at -one place a wall of water was thrown up nearly 35 feet out of the sea. COMING OUT OF ITS HIDING PLACES Hoarded Money Enticed By Offers of Premiums. SENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS. JAPANESE-AMERICAN LAKE. Admiral Cogian, Toasting Lake, Thus Rcrers To Pociflc Ocean. New York (Special). Rear Ad miral Coghlan, In a speech at a ban quet given In celebration of the Mi kado's Afty-seventh birthday, spoke feelingly of the friendship which has so long existed between Japan and j the United States and declared his belief that the PaclAc must become a , Japanese-American lake. "America nnd Japan are hereditary ! friends," he said, among other things. "I became convinced of that thirty six years ago, when I Arst met his majesty, tho Mikado, in his own land. I have not changed my opinion since. ! "This mutual friendship is regard ed by us aB a heritage to be handed down to our children's children, tt j is this friendship, I trust, that will ' make and keep the PaclAc a Japanese-American lake." EXPLOSION MYSTERY CLEARED, j Case Of Shell Brought From Manila By Soldier Found In Fire Ruins. Butte, Mont. (Special). A rays- ! terious explosion during a Are In the i pavilion In Columbia Gardens last week was explained, when the case of a 6-inch cordite shell was found In the debris. The sholl had been part of a war exhibit. It was flred at tho Spanish forts ; at Manila by Admiral Dewey's Aeet, j May 1, 1898; recovered later by a soldier of the First Montana Infantry, I and brought to Butte. AMERICANS MISTREATED. final. Ionian Ofllclul (barged With Having Two Negroes Benton. Guatemala City (By Cable). Two American citizens, colored, were ar rested here, it is alleged, and fright fully beaten by order of the military j governor of the Department of Za- ; capa. The American charge d'affaires. William Sands, Is making an lnvos- ' ligation. Three Million Dollars of Cash Brought to the Brokers From Vaults and Strong Boxes Within Two Days lit Steady Stream Fas Caused a Falling Off In the Premium Rate. New York (Special). The magnet of high premium rates for currency Is attracting the money hoarded by depositors in steel vaults and strong boxes, and within the last two days over $3,000,000 has been enticed from its hldlng-'ilaces and sold for a premium to money brokers. The placing of these large amount of hoarded currency Into circulation Is performing Its Important part In les sening the monetary stringency, and money brokers are confldent that moro currency will soou find Its rny Into circulation from safe-deposit vaults, th wners of which, now belncr assured as to the Ananclal fu ture, arc anxious to take advantage of tho large premium rates. The falling of the premium rate for currency Thursday from 3 to 3 per cent, was brought about by the large amount of gold and silver that was taken from safe-deposit, vaults and offered for sule. Purchases of currency made wore generally for out-of-town n count, and brokers state that currency bought here II helng dispatched to agricultural and Industrial centers where it is most needed. The reappearance of gold, hidden away in the hour of apprehen sion. Is a sure sign of returning con Adence and belief that the storm has passed, according to money brokers, who likened the present situation to 1KH3, when advancing premiums for currency when money was tightest callod for a perfect flood from the vaults where it had lain hidden, ami brought about a 6tate of Ananclal equilibrium. Over a million dollars was drawn from depositories and sold to money brokers. Safe deposit companies re port a steady stream of people visit ing the vaults to withdraw funds. A money broker, in speaking of the source of the currency now being offered for sale, related the following Incident: "Our Arm was concluding the pur chase of $100,000 In gold cortiAcates and after the rates had been agreed upon the seller plunged his hand In his pocket and then asked If we would defer the sale until he could telephone his wife to bring his safe deposit key down town, as he had left his key ut home. While we never Inquire from the sellers, it D not. difficult to tell whether tho cur rency has been taken from hiding places. Premium rates have been ps high as 4 por cent., but under the increasing outpour of money from safe deposit vaults and the arrival or gold from Europe the rate has fallen to 3 per eent." New York bonks are not likely to follow the action of Chicago In de ciding to use bank scrip and local bankers arc of the opinion that the situation does not warrant their Issu ance In this city. A member of the clearing-house committee said: "The matter of (spuing bank scrip has not been formally dlscusBed, al though that doubtless has been thought of. The bankers feol that the clearing-house ccrtlAcntes will prove adequate In preventing a r.evpre money strain hero, and that there will be no neod (or bank scjlp." HOLD UP A TOWN. COMMERCIAL COLUMN. Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Resorts. Kurtbquake In Spain. Madrid (By Cable). A violent earthquake has occurred at Torre La Rlbcra, In the province of HueBca. The earth opened, leaving great As sures, the disturbance accompanied by subterranean rumblings which caused a panic among the population. Many houses were shaken down. The number of lives lost Is not known. FINANCIAL Czar Receives U. 8. Attache. St. Petersburg (By Cuble). The American Military Attache here, Captain 3 L. H. Blocutn. waa re ceived In an Hem e by Emperor Nlcho- ! las at Peterhof. The Imperial fault ily la about to remove from Peterhof to their Winter rusidenco at Tsarskoe Selo. Brigadier General Elliott, com manding the Marine Corps, in bin annual report urged tho need of re organisation and an increase In the Marine Corps. About 1,000 of the Frick Company Coke ovens huvo been closed. The Pennsylvania guve orders thl3 woelt for u number of new locomo tives. More gold was engaged for import, making $31"), 500, 000 on this move ment. Philadelphia Rapid Transit giw.s earnings In October Increased $(17, 000 over Octobor, 1906. Southern Hallway's gross earnings In September gained $432,684 and net profits increased $58,592. Tho purchase of Tennessee coal adds 700,000,000 tons of Iron oro to the assets of United States Steel. American tobacco continue Its 10 per cent, regular annual dividend and 10 per cent, extra on its -ccm-uiou stock. "Not Including San Francisco, the fire losses of tbo country are larger this year than last," bald tho repre seusatlve of one of Philadelphia's leading companies. The traders atlll think that Keene is handling the stock market end of the situation for Morgan and the bankers. Over $2,000,000 will go out to the Pensioners from the PhHadelphla sub-treaaury, which payments are now being anticipated. It la understood that nearly all Philadelphia banks have earned more In tho current year than over before In their existence. Pennsylvania Railroad uhares. ow lug to Its larger dWidend, now yield the buyer 2 per cent, more annual income than they did at tho previous lowest price in ten years. 'audits Blow (,'p A Safe And Get $0,500. Canova, S. D. (Special). Soven armed bandita held up the town at an early hour. They blew up tho safe In the Interstate Bank and se cured $6,600, escaping an hour later, without leaving the slightest clew. While tho two bandits worked nt the bank the others guarded the alleys and streets. The occupants of a hotel across tho street wero aroused by the explosion, but the robbers opened Aro and drove thorn back, threatening to kill the P.rst one who appeared. The hotel was riddled with bullets. Where lights were burn ing In the homeu the bandits, at the point of the gur, forced the owners to extinguish them. The town Is tor ror-strlclcp.n. FIRE PANIC IN HOSPITAL. Sixty Patients Are Carried To Snfety By Physicians And Nurses. Chicago (Special). MucVi excite ment was caused among 120 patler.la of tho German Hospital, In Hamilton Court, by a Are In tho top floor of the, Avo-ntory building. There were no patients on the flfth floor. Sixty patients were promptly car ried by physicians and nurses Into a new addition which adjoins the main building, and no one was In jured. Ten Killed By Explosion. Douglas, Ariz. (Special). - A cor. Armed story, with dclalb lacking,' has been received hero of n terriUc powder explosion near Neouwrl, Ariz., when ten men. probably jtfaxj cans, wore killed. The explosion oc curred on the narrow gauge rallronil between Necor.arl and the mlnos near Hlsbee. The ponder wns In two car" R. G. Dun A Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Contraction haa followed the Anan clal crisis of last week, but only to the extent compelled by Inability to raise money. There Is no evidence that confidence has been permanently im paired; on the contrary, gratification Is felt that the nation wns so strong ly foryfled by a doendo of unnxampted prosperity that the severe strain made no deeper Imoressios. Many contemplated developments have been postponed, and merchants And rates for commercial paper almost prohibitive, yet retail trade Is stimu lated by morn seasonable tempera ture, and at Interior cities collecllona Improve with the movement of the crops to market. Conditions In the Iron and steel Industry are not materially altered, except that new business Is smaller. Mills continue well occupied on old contracts, as a rule, and there have been no cancellations. It Is probable that no extensive reduction In activity will take plana this year. A fair tonnage of rnlts Is wanted for homo roads and export and shipyards are using plates freely, yet the volume of new business Is restricted by flnan-, clal stringency. Coke output is at' the maximum and 'arge contracts are reported for future delivery, hut the ovens will quickly respond to any curtailment nf pig Iron production. Wholesale Markets. Baltimore. Wheat -The market for Western opened ateady; spot. 100 He; No. 2 red Western, 1024; November, 101; December, 104. Corn. Western opened quiet; spot, 64c; year, 62; January. 61; February. 62. There was lietle de mand; Western advices were firmer, and at the noon call spot and Novem ber were quoted at 65c; year, 63. Oats. White No. 2, heavy, 5Bc; No. 2 light to medium, 5454; No. 3. heavy r.364; No. 3, medi um, 52 (353: No. 3, light. 51(952; No. 4 light, to heavy 5051. Mix ed No. 2, 5353c; No. 3, 610 52; No. 4, 6151. Butter. Creamery separator, 28 29c; Imitations, 222S. Cheese. Market steady. We quote Jobbing lots, per lb. 17 to 17c Eggs.- Market 2c. higher; receipts of choice fresh stock light and de mand good. We quotq, per dozen, loss off: Maryland. Pennsylvania, firsts. 2 Sc.; Western, Arsts, 28; West Virginia, firsts, 27; Southern, firsts, 25 to 26. New York. Wheat No. 2 red, 107c. elevator; No. 2 red. 109, f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth nominal f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 hard winter nominal, f. o. b. afloat. Corn Spot firm; No. 2, 70c. ele vator, nnd 71, f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white, 72, and No. 2 yellow, 71. f. o. b. afloat, all nominal. Oats Receipts, 54,000 bu.; ex ports, 2,825. Spot firm; mixed, 26 32 lbs., 52c; natural white, 26 32 lbs., 54 56; clipped white, 32 40 lbs., 56064. Butter Creamery specials, 26 c; extras, 26; thirds to firsts, 22 25. Egg? Strong; Rtntc, Pennsyl vania and nearby, fancy selected, white, 38 '42c; good to cholco. 34 36; brown, fancy, 34 36; aver age prime, 30 32; firsts to extra first, 25(0 2s; Western Arst, 23 25; seconds, 20 22. Philadelphia. Wheat quiet but steady; contract grade, November, 103 T 104. Corn Arm. c. higher; November, 05 66c. Oats Arm, lc. higher; No. 2 white, 53R4e. Butter steady, fair demand; extra Western creamery, 28 c; do. neur by prints, 31. Eggs firm, good demand: Pennsyl vania, and other nearby firsts, free cases, 29c. at mark; do do current receipts, In returnable rases. 28 at mark; Western choice, free cases, 29; do do, fair to good, freo cases, 28 at mark. Live poultry Arm fair demand; fowls. 1012c; old roosters. 8 9; eprlng chickens, 10 12; ducks, 12 13. Cheese Arm but quiet; Nen York full creams, choice, 1616c; ao aa, fair to good,. 15 16. Old Sloop Of War Sold. Washing on ( Special).--The Navy Department will accept the bid of $3,210 made by Thomas Butler ft Co., of Boston, who woro the highest of the bidders for the old obsolete uloop of war, Saratoga, built in 1842. The sloop, which was one of Qoa modore Perry's ships en his Japan expedition, has been at League Island Navy Yard for several years and ha:; been , used by the Pensylvauia Naval MUlt la. Singular Fatal Accident. San Sebastian (By Cabla). A. T. I'ainplon, a bby who waa playing dia bolo, threw the spool very high. Aa it was falling he misjudged it position, failed to catch it and it struck him on the temple, stunning him. He died three days later. Two Laborers Electrocuted. Chicago, November 6 Thoiuas liaagh und Charles B. Knutson, lab orers, were electrocuted today while operating u derrick, the Biuul cable' of win. i. came in contact with a trol ley wire. Live Stock. New York. Beeves No trading of Importance; feeling steady. Calves Veals steady; graBsers and West ern calves slow; veals sold at $5.00 to $9.50 per 100 lbs.; Western calves, prime to choice light weights, at $6 to $6. Hogs Market Arm to 5c. higher. Pennsylvania and state bogs quoted at $6.506.70; Ohio pigs at $6.30. Chicago. Cattle Market strong to 15c higher. Steers, $4.50(0 7.00; cows, $2.654.00; heifers, $2.50 5.00; bulls, $.60;5.00; calves. $3.007.75. Hogs Market strong to 5l0c. higher. Choice heavy shipping, $6.06 6.20; light butchers', $6.106,25; light mixed. $5.906.10; choice .light, $6.056.25; nicking, $5.25 5.90; plgH. $4.25 5.76; bulk ol sales, $5.Go6.00. Sheep Market dull; shoep, $2.00 6.25; lambs. $8.75 6.75; year lings, $5.005.50. Kansas City, Mo. Cattle Market strong to 6c. higher; choice export and dressed beef steers. $5.30 6.50; fair to good, $4.25 5.50. Hogs7-Market 5c. higher; top, $5.82; bulk, $5.656.80; heavy. $5.606 75; packern, $6.666.80; pigs and light, $5 5.82. Pittsburg, Pa. Cattle Supply light; slow; choice, $5.756; prlmo, $5 40 5.70. ' Hogs Receipts light; hlphor; prime heavy, $6.45 6.50; modium, $6.46: heavv .Yorkers, tdni-a 4R. ngni tumors, o.zv(o li.U; $5. 90 6. 06; roughs, $iC'p0.85 ODDS AND ENDS. Pig' it Is said that London produces over 800 new dealgna in "penny toya" every week. In Holland the horn as a warning signal Is reserved exclusively for the use of inoiorliits. It Is stated that a chameleon which Is blind losaa Its power of making Itself of the same hue ds its sur roundings. Records of the homos for tbo aged iu New York City, show that all oi the 40 Institutions, are now full and 'have long waiting ihtta.
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