LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic E. H. Mnrrlman. J. J. Aslor and Cornelius Vanderbllt nccuso Stnyves ant Fish of taking $1,500,000 from the treasury of the Illinois Central for his personal use on unmarketable collateral and that he deposited $700,000 of the railroad's funds with a trust company said to have been In a falling condition, and of which relative of Fish was president. Charles P. Heath nnd Mlsa Lydla E. Hatch, youthful members of a camping party In the New Hampshire mountains, broko through thin tee and were drowned. Throe persons were killed, four arc at the point of death and twenty are seriously 111 from eating tainted oysters at a Masonic bunquet In Mich igan. The Mutual Life has quit and the Equltnblo and New York Ufe may leave the State of llllonls, owing to recent legislation. Members of the rtlncl: Hand placed dynamite under the porch of a Pitts burg (Pa.) Italian who refused a de mand for $10,000. The Alabama authorities have not yet decided what course they will pursuo regarding the ordor of the United States Court restraining tho enforcement of new railroad legis lation. Vice President Hill, of the Ameri can Tobacco Company, testified that the corporation owns cigarette and tobacco companies supposed to be Independent concerns. Harry I. Poddock, United States consul at Amoy, China, says Japan has captured the ocean-carrying trade of China from Hongkong to Shang hai. The crew of the German tank steamer Bayonne forced the captain to return to the Delaware Cnpes and land an Insane sailor. Five pgrsons were killed and six injured In a collision between a trol ley car and a freight train at Wator bejy, Ct. Prominent railroads have notified Pittsburg steel manufacturers that order for steel rails are about to be (laced. J. Vhltleys, heating and ventilat ing engineer, of Brooklyn, shot his wife dead and Jumped from his room on the ninth floor of the Hotel Belle clalre, at Broadway and 8eventy-sov-cnth Stroet, Manhattan. Rev. Madison C. Peters, of New York, says sectarianism In the public schools has reduced Italy to a na tion of organ-grinders nnd frult-stand-kcepera. Despondent when she learned she had been made a party to a mock marriage, Miss Osle Pierce committed suicide at Powhatan, O. Detective Ruhlng, of New York, was married to Miss Catherine Struehllner, whom ho saved from drowning. James Jenkins, who tramped from Richmond to New York, was sent to Blackwell's Island for vagrancy. Mrs. Vanuella Moeker Hull died iin P'ttsburg. satisfied at having pass ed the century mark. All the vessels of the Pacific fleet will rendezvous In Hampton Roads. Frank Owen, for years general traffic manager of the steamboat lines operating between Ogdcusburg, N. Y., Mid Chicago, died at the age of 68 years. Stuyvesant Fish has withdrawn his Injunction to restrain the voting of Illinois Central stock held by the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Henry I. McCrea, a paymaster In tho United States Navy and son of Captain Henry McCrea, has resigned to go on the stugc. Lalille Rodriguez set a hotel afire and stabbed flvo persons at Alamoso, Cal., before ho was shot and killed. John Bigelow, the statesman, diplo mat and journalist, passed his nine tieth birthday at work. The Presbyterian Board of For eign Missions will expend a half mil lion dollars In Korea, Foreign Baron Ishii, chief of the Bureau of Commerce of the Japanese Foreign Office, says "it will be necessary in order to keep absolute faith with the united States to prevent emigration of laborers to thiB country." Chancellor Von Buelow, In a speech In the Reichstag, referred to forthcoming reforms In the punish ment of youthful offenders and ad vocated the American method. There was a riot In the Douma, tho reactionaries assaulting Fedor Rodlt cheff, orator of the Constitutional Democrats, for his attack upon the govornment. Murders and outrages, Including the killing in Kululand of two chiefs who were friendly -to Great Britain, are causing unceasiness throughout Natal. Late details of the earthquako dis aster in Karatagh and vicinity place the number of llvos lost at 12,000. Twelve towns were destroyod. The Russian government has de cided to Institute a competition to be open to Russian and foreign firms for designs for new battleships. Premier Stolypln, of Russia, in the com-!-, of the ministerial declaration before the Douma, emphasized the Idea of the autocratic power and un fettered will of the Emperor. At the same time ho denounced the members of tho Extreme Left party, whose excesses, he said, haJ demoralized the country. Several Japanese nowspapers are calling for a reduction of Japan's ar mament on tho ground that It Is more expensive than the country can affcrd. J. Lore Wellach, having claimed he could cure leprosy, the lepers of Mo lokal Settlement, Hawaii. have agreed to permit him to treat a dozen of them. A report that an attempt would be made to blow up Secretary Taft's train In Russia caused soldiers tc be stationed about the train at Ufu. Premier Stolypln presented to the !Sr.uhe "ddress of the Parliament, and there Is curiosity to know wheth VM omP,0yed the term "autocrat," vrblch the Douma declared was uo longer tenable In the Russian state. Behol, the German Socialist leader. In a speech to the Reichstag, declared the condition of the country Indicated that a crisis was at hand f on',atli torles are published In Russia concerning Sec retary Taft's visit. Russians con- VhUeitn.0lUoD.te.er lhelr wrvlces to the United States, believing there Japan" Wr l)utween thu un "d Eduardo Kachiesche, arrested a few d.ys ago In Chihuahua, has op erated extensively in Englaud. the United State, and Cuba, and la want ed on charges of forgery and breach at itromUe. MANY BURIED ALIVE IN A CO'L MINE Twenty-Five or Thirty Miners Proba by Dead. FXPLOSION SNAKES THE COUNTRY Disaster in the Pennsylvania Mining Kegion Kxplosion Wrecks the Mine and Kills It With Poisonous Gasse An Open Lamp in an Old Working Said to Hare Caased the Accident. Fayette City, Pa (Special ) Be tween 25 and 80 miners, possibly more, are entombed in the Naomi Mine of the United Coal Company, located three miles west of this city, and there is practically no hope that any of them are alive. Thetr Im prisonment Is due to an explosion of black damp about 8 o'clock Sunday night, soon after the night force went to work. It Is said a miner entering an old working with an open lamp caused the explosion. Had the disaster oc curred on any other night except Sunday the number of victims would have been twice as large. The mine employs from 275 to 300 regularly, about oue-forth of them driving en try at night, but on Sunday nights only about one-half the night force goes to work. The mine is of tho shaft type, and the concrete sides of the entry were broken down so as to completely close the passage back a considerable dis tance. About 100 feet from -the en trance Is located the first air shaft, and from this deadly gas is pouring In great volume. The gas found In mines in this territory is so poisonous tlint no human being can live In It for more than a few minutes, and for this reason It Is not believed a single one of the entombod men Is still alive. One man, an unidentified foreigner, managed to climb to the top of the first air shaft, but dropped dead there. No sign of life has come from the others. Just after the night force entered the shaft, there was a flash which lighted up the mine nnd all around It. There was a roar as tons of coal and slate crashed down into the en tries crowded with workmen. Then utter darkness followed, the explo sion putting out of business com pletely the lighting and air facilities In the mine. The mine Immediately filled with gasos and several not hurt by the explosion perished while run ning to get Into the fresh air. In the homes of miuers tho explo sion felt like a death signal and emptied every miner's cottage In the vicinity. The occupants of these, men, women and children, form the saddest picture tn the scenes about the mine. The women and children are crying continually, nnd stare with hope at the seemingly fruitless work of res cue. The Naomi Mine Is one of the old est operated by tho United Coal Com pany, which has its principal offices in Pittsburg. It is one of the biggest mines In the soft coai region, and gave work to from 200 to 300 men all the year round. The property loss will be enormous, as the mine was equipped at. a cost of thousands of dollars with all the up-to-date mine appurtenances, such as electric lights, coal cars and. air ventilating system. The explosion completely Wrecked the air system, and that In Itself means that no human thing can live very long in tho mine as It now Is. ASLEEP TWO MONTHS. Beautiful Millgirl In Slate Of Coma Following A Bad Cold. Asbury Park, N. J. (Special). Adle Garetsky, 19 years old, a mill girl, who rosides at 223 Cordes Avenue, West Grove, lies In a state of coma. She has been asleep since a week ago Thursday. She opened her eyes early Friday morning but could not speak and did not recognize any member of her family. The condition followed a heavy cold contracted a week before she dropped asleep, which was followed bv a hlsh fever. The case Is nuzzllne the physicians, who say, howover, that tho young woman will eventual ly come out of hor unnatural sleep and be fully restored. The sleeper Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Max Garetsky and Is a beauty. Shot Imitating Suicide. Charleston, S. C. (Special). John C. McElmore, aged 21, employed by the Southern Railway, was fatally Injured while demonstrating how a suicide wound could bo Inflicted. He place a pistol to his head, and say ing jokingly, "This Is the way they do it," pulled the trigger. A report followed and McElmore fell to the ground with a bullot In his brain. Two Drowned In Florida. Jacksonville, Fla. (Special). The St. John's River claimed two victims by drowning. Simon McCaffrey, a bollermaker, of Sparrows Point, Md., fell from a pier in the heart of the city. John Peere, a paperhanger, while hunting near Doctor's Lake, fell overboard and lost his life. Peere has a widow In New Jersey. Man Of 09 A Suicide. Fall River, Mbbs. (Special). At the age of 99 years, Charles W. Chace, a well-to-do farmer, decided that life was not worth living and committed suicide. He took Paris green and was dead when found. He left a note saying that he was tired of life. Ships Out Of Commission. Washington (Special). The old monitor Mlanlonomoh. which, with the Canonlcus and the battleship Texas and cruiser Brookyln, wore on exhibit In Itampton Roads for the Jamestown Exposition, was with drawn from that duty to be placed out of commission at the League I land Navy Yard. The Texas aud Canonlcus have been placed out of commission at Norfolk, and the Brooklyn will be placed in reserve at the New York Navy Yard. Oklahoma Railroads. Ouhrle, Okla. (Special). An or der was issued requiring All Okla homa railroads doing an Interstate busineas to build stations on the state linos wherever the routes cross, the corporation commission announc ed. Under the present schedule the interstate lyutaenger rate la three cents, in spite of the fact that In matiy of the states traversed the maximum rs,te Is the same aa lu Oklahoma-two cents. At these Inter sections the order requires the erec tion of substantial stations. ROM DONE ON THE PANAMA CANAL First Report Submitted By the ComTission. Washington (Special ) . Full de tails of the work done on the Pana ma Canal during the fiscal year 1907, with a showing of what has been ac complished since the project has been In American hands, are disclosed In the annual report of the Isthmian Canal Commission Just made public. It Is the first report made of opera tions on the isthmus since construc tion work has been In charge of army engineers. Aside from the $60,000 paid to the French company and to Pnnama. an aggregate of $48,285,110 has been expended by the government on the project adopted by Congress, and which it was estimated by tho board of consulting engineers would ultimately cost $139,705,200. This estimate, however, did not Include sanitation and expenses of the zone government, waterworks, sewers and paving In Panama and Colon and the re-equipment of the Panama Rail road. There is no reference which has been brought forward to extend the width of the locks to 110 feet so as to accomodate without difficulty the extreme breadth lu the develop ment of shipbuilding, and this will be made the subject of a special com munication from the commission. Hired Labor Preferred. A strong position Is taken favor able to a continuation of the policy of doing the work by hired Instead of by contract labor, a step at one time seriously considered by the ad ministration, and many arguments are presented to justify the commls slon In Its conclusion that tho canal can bo built better, cheaper and more quickly by the government. Sanita tion, upon which so much depends for tho comfort and health of the em ployes, Is treated of In the report, a statement Is made of what has been done, and the declaration made that there was no yellow fever originating on the Isthmus during the year. As bearing on the question of the suitability of the foundations for the proposed lock sites, tho report quotes from the conclusions of a board of consulting engineers, who made a personal examination of the material at the lock sites and which found that all of the locks of the dimensions then proposed (an 85 foot level canal) would rest on rock of such a character that would fur nish a safe and stable foundation. Panama Railroad. The completion of the canal will necessitate the abandonment of the present main line of the Panama Railroad, and preliminary surveyB for location of a new line on the east side of the canal were commenced the latter part of July and completed in November. The location of the line was practically determined In March, and involves the excavation of 1, 000,000 cubic yards of material and the placing of 12,000,000 cubic yards In embankments. By June 30 branches from tho main line had been started at Pedro Miguel, Gatun, Lion Hill, Gamboa, Miraflores, San Pablo and La Boca Junction. A trestle 500 feet In length was driven at Gatum and a dumping trestle was being drlvon at Pedro, Miguel. Three permanent culverts were begun at Pedro Miguel and one at Mlndl. For the accommodation of gold employes 656 quarters, both bachelor and family, were constructed, and for sliver employes 335 buildings were erected, consisting of barracks, bath bouses, i, sheds, family quarters and kitchens. For the sanitary de partment 33 buildings were construct ed for hospital purposes. Of the 2,265 buildings which were received from the French Canal Com pany 252 were repaired during the year and 113 destroyed. There are 678 of these building yet remaining to be repaired, remodeled or demol ished. A total of 767 new buildings were constructed covered by this report, and on June 30, 1907, there were on hand 2,919 buildings of all classes HELD UP BY MASKED MEN. Robbers Enter Coach While Train Is In Clevelund. Cleveland, O. (Special). Thrust big revolvers In the faces of a coach load of Erie Railway passengers In the city station of the railroad com pany, three masked men succeeded in looting one of $50 and in making their escape as a policeman charged the car. The holdup was Inspired by the sight of a big roll of bills In the hands of George F. Sager, a traveling man, whose home Is In Clyde. O., as ho purchased a ticket. The men follow ed him aboard the car and drawing on masks as they entered, whipped out. revolvers and covered Sager and the other passengers. While one went through Sager's pockets, the others restalned the coach load from outcry. One man started to rise In his seat. "Sit down, you're next," was the gruff command as a big revolver was brought to bear on the passenger. He sat down. At this Juncture a brake man thrust his head In the door, grasped the situation, and hastily summoned Police Jirelle. As the po liceman entered the trio fled, warning the passengers not to join In the chaso. Up the hill, the three sped, bullets from Jlrelle's revolver speed ing them on. They lost themselves In the crowd In Superior Street. The passengers, panic-stricken, rushed from the car and it was with diffi culty that the train crew prevailed on them to return to their seats. MANY CHILDREN STOLEN. Hold Operations Of A Mexican Gang Of Kidnappers. City of Mexico (Special). The po lice of this city are actively at work on one of the biggest kidnapping cases that they have ever hud It Is evident that for at least two morths an organized gang of kidnappers have been operating in this city. Forty-nine children, 22 boys and 27 girls have been stolon from their homes. The age of the children varies between 2 and 17 years. Quakers Defeated Ithacans. Philadelphia (Special). History repeated itself on Franklin Field, Pennsylvania again winning the an nual football game with Cornell, the score this year being 1$ to' 4. It was Pennsylvania's thirteenth vic tory in 16 gamaa played with the Ithacans, the New York state team having won ona contest and tied another. The game was finely play ed, bringing out many spectacular features, which were gieatly enjoyed by the nearly 30,000 persona who Ail ed the big stands THE FARM WEALTH OF COUNTRY IS PILING UP Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture. USEFUL DISCOVERIES DURING YEAR. Corn la Still the Greatest Wealth producer, and Ha Value This Year Is Greater, Thongh the Crop Is Shorter Than That of 1906 -Work of the De partment in Experimenting. Washington (Special).--The elev enth nnnual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, which wan Just made public opens with the statement that the farm production for 1907 Is well up to the average In quantity, while Its value Is much above that of any preceding year. The farmer will this year have more money to spend and more to Invest than he ever had be fore out of his year's work. The beet-sugar Industry has grown very rapidly during the past 16 years. In 1892 the heet-sugar factories turn ed out 13,460 short tona of refined sugar: In 1897, five years later, 46, 246 tons; In 1902, at the end of an other five-year period, 218.406 tons; and In 1907 the estimated prod uct reached 500.000 tons. Alfalfa Is a wonderful plant for producing wealth. It not only yields reveral cuttings of most nutritious hay during a season, but actually enriches the ground on which it grows by taking nitrogen from the air. The department and the state experiment stations have done much to promote the extension of alfalfa growing. Corn Is The Banner Crop. Speaking of the chief crops, the Secretary says that corn ranks first in Importance. Besides Its large use as a human food, as a live-stock feed, "the starch of corn becomes the fat of the hog and tho finish of the steer," thus becoming a great factor In the production of meats and meat products for export. While not as large as that of 1906, the value of the con. crop of 1907 Is greater and Is 26 per cent, above tho average value of the crops of the preceding five years. He adds that eight such crops as that of 1907 would pay for duplicating every mile of steam rail road In the United States, with ter minals, rolling stock and all property. In value the cotton crop of 1907, estimated to be from $650,000,000 to $676,000,000, takes third place, If In the final estimates it does not displace hay for second rank. The commercial expectations are that the crop will be found to be the third one In size ever raised, and perceptibly larger than the average crop of the previous five years. Though its farm value Is probably a little below that of last year's crop, In other re spects It will be tho most valuable cotton crop ever raised In this coun try, and 7 per cent, above the average farm value of the crops of the previous Ave yearB. Outside of the British East Indies, the production of cotton In the British colonteB, possessions and protectorates was 7,653 bales of 500 pounds gross weight In 1904 and 10,016 bales In 1905. In the French colonies, except French India and Indo-Chlna, 400 balOB were pro duced In 1904; In the German colo-. nle3, 1,600 bales tn 1905. The wheat crop of 1907 Is 625, 576,000 bushels, 6 per cent, less than the average quantity for the five preceding years. But the value is about $500,000,000, r. .. por cent, more than the average, although the crops of 1901, 1902 and 1905 had each a slightly higher value than that of this year. Quantity Less, Vnlae Greater. The oat crop 741,521,000 bushels is 19 per cent, below the five-year average, but the value is 26 per cent, above the average, or $360,000,000. Potatoes 292,427,000 bushels are 2 per cent, above the average; the value la $190,000,000, or 26 per cent, above the average. Barley also Is 2 per cent, above the average In quantity, while the value Is extraordinary, about 86 per cent, above the average. The quan tity la 147,192,000 bushels; the value $115,000,000. Tobacco declined to 645,213,000 pi mnds, 11 per cent, below the aver age In quantity, with a value of $67, 000,000, or 6 per cent, above the average. Tho crop is smaller than for many yeara. The flaxseed crop Is 25,420,000 bushels, worth $26,000,000; the quantity is 6 per cent, below and the value 3 per cent, above the five-year average. Rye produced 31,666,000 bushels, with a value of $23,000,000; a quan tity 4 per cent, above the average and a value 29 per cent, above. Rice produced a record crop of 963,540,000 pounds of rough rice, or 98 per cent, above tho average for the three proceeding years. The farm value Is $19,500,000, a gain of 36 per cent, over the average. The country now exports more rice than It imports, owing to better varieties which the department has helped the grower to secure from the Orient. Hops produced 48,330,000 pounds, worth $6,000,000. The quantity la 4.6 per cent, below the average, while the value la 29 per cent, below. The value of the total farm pro ductions in 1807 exceeded that of 1906, which was far above that of any preoaedlng year. The total value for 1907 is $7,412,000,000, an amount 10 per cent, greater than the total for 1906. 17 per cent, greater than that of 1906, 20 per cent, above that of 1904, 26 per cent. In excess or that for 1908 and 57 per cent, greater than tho total value for 1899. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Prluce Ponlotaskl, of the Rank of France, here to atudy the financial situation, was received at the White House by President Roosevelt. Gov. W. F. Frear. of Hawaii, was received by President Roosevelt and reported on conditions In the Hawai ian Islands. A memorial containing requests of labor In Porto Rico for legislation was submitted to President Roose velt. President Amador, of Panama, and his party visited the toinb of Wash ington at Mount Vernon. President Roosevelt was Initiated as a member of the Army and Navy union. Secretary Cortelyou has announced the closing of the allotments of the 3 per cent, certificates. Most of them have been awarded to national banks to secure additional circulation. The District Court of Appeals dr cided the case of the Sioux Indians against the government. Involving the treaty and trust funds of the tribe. In favor or the Indians. The President has been urged to order an Investigation of charges that a syndicate has robbed the Kicking Klckapoo -Indians, of Oklahoma, of land valued at $250,000. Justice Harlan celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his appoint ment to the bench by playing a game or golf wlth-Justlce McKenna. President Roosevelt and President Amador, of Panama, exchanged ofli clal visits. The President examined Ezra Meekor's yoke of oxen and prnlrie schooner. President Roosevelt, with several members of his family, made a pll grlmago to Montpeller, the homo of President Madison, and returned for the Thanksgiving dinner at the White House. Justice Brewer spoke at Mount Pleasant Congregational Church on "Our Natural Opportunities." Ernest G. Timme, andltor of the Treasury for the State Department, has tendered his resignation. Dr. Wilfred M. Barton, of tho medi cal department of Georgetown Uni versity and a specialist In nervous diseases, testifies in the Bradlev trial ' that Mrs. Bradley was Insane at the i time she shot Senator Brown, of Utah. The engagement of Joseph W. J. Lee, United States minister to Guate mala, and Miss Helen Squires, daugh ter of Herbert O Squires, United States minister to Panama, has been broken off. In his annual report Adjutant General Ainsworth declares that the army Is fast losing men and that un less the service In made more at tractive It may become necessary to resort to conscription. The International Y. M. C. A. Con vention camo to a conclusion with ad dresses by William Jennings Bryan, Secretary StrauB and the Japaneau delegates. The Commercial Union was accus ed In a complaint filed with the Inter state Commerce Commission of offer ing Illegal Inducements to shippers. Lieutenant Colonel Oiln B. Mlt cham, of tho Odrnance Department, has been assigned to duty as chief ordnance officer of that department. Charles M. Schmldle, of Clinton dale, N. Y., shot himself while seated in Lafayette Park, and died a few hours later. Orders wore Issued by the War De partment relieving the troops that have been on duty at the Jamestown ExDositlon. FINANCIAL Reading haa risen 1 4 per cent, from Its recent low level. Stuyvesant Fish deutes that he has mortgaged his property. The story that Hill and Hmrrlman had burled the hatchet In a grave dug by Morgan failed to create any particular Interest, as similar reports In the past have always turned out to be groundless. There was another advance In December wheat, which la now 7 cents a bushel above the recent bot tom price. Interest and dividend disburse ments In December will approximate $66,000,000. More gold was engaged for Im port, making the total In excess of $93,000,000. Part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's pay roll this month will be met In cash aud part with checks. Call money in Wall Street rang ed from 3 to 6 por cent., which la the lowest average for ( week. PRICES OF MEAT TUMBLE. Declines Range From 10 To S3 Per Cent. Chicago (Special). The drop In the prices of meats in Chicago ranges from 10 to 33 per cent., according to the cuts, the higher figure repre senting the slashes In pork and beef. According to the big packers, further reductions probably will be made In tho near future, as surface indica tions of the market are that tho pres ent figures cannot be maintained. Increased supplies, caused by the rushing to market by farmers and stockraiBers of all available stock for the holiday trade and the uncer tainty of the financial situations, are the reasons assigned by the packers for tho drop in prices. In the last 60 days shipments have been un usually heavy, and thlB has resulted In a glutted market, and prices main tained for several months have been forced down. NO ALLOTMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS National Banks to Get All the Certificates. ONLY $35,000,000 WILL BE ALLOWED. Secretary Cortelyou Considers the Cri sis in the Money Market Over and Re elves I he Additional Circulation, Bas ed rn the Certiorates and Panama ( nal Bonds, Will Qla What Is Needed. Washington, D. C. (Special). The announcement by Secretary Cortel you that further subscriptions to tho one-year Treasury certificates would not be received Is regarded here as Indicating that the Secretary consid ers tho crisis in the money market to be practically over. Official fig ures have not yet been given out nt the Treasury of the amount of the .ertlflcatcs allotted. The amount of the allotments made, however. Is known to be about $35,000,000, and this Is probably the limit unless strong reasons arc pre sented from banks which have al ready made subscriptions why allot ments should be made to them. All individual subscriptions having been rejected. It is anticipated that nearly the whole of the 36,000,000 nllotted will be used to secure new issues of banknotes. As these Issues will bo retired within less than a ynr, they will not constitute a permanent Inflation of the bank-note circulation. The effect of the new loans upon the future ff the Treasury resources and of the m ney market is already receiving attention nt the Treasury and in ban kin;; circles. From present Bonrcos of Information the amount nominally added to the cash balances of the Treasurv will be about $85, 000.000, of which $50,000,000 will represent tho 2 per cent. Panama bonds and $35,000,000 will represent the one-year certificates which have been allotted. This amount would Increase the present nominal balance from nbout $241,393,217, where it stood Thurs day, to a little more than $325,000. 000. A small additional amount will be derived from the premium on the Panama bonds, but even If this should average as high ns Ave pel cent.. It would amount to only $2 -500,000. With n nominal balance, however, of more than $325,000 000 the Treas ury will not have anything like that amount Immediately available. This is because of desposits in national banks and other deposit Items. Those Items amounted to $234,939,55fl. leaving an actual working balance of $6,463,028. Tho Secretary has an nounced that ninety per cent, of the payments for Panama bonds will be left In tho custody of the national banks purchasing tho "bonds, and about 75 por cent, of tho payments for the one-year certificates will ha left with tho banks. The effect of these changos In the Treasury bal ance sheet upon the basis of Issues of both classes of securities, to the amount of $85,000,000, will bo to increase the amount in banks to about $300,000,000, and the work ins balance to about $22,000,000. This condition of tho Treasury finances will be changed materially In the spring if Secretary Cortolyon is able to carry out the program of retiring n considerable portion ol the one-year certificates before ma turity. He will have no difficulty In doing this and saving a considerable proportion of the Interest to be paid on them If the agreements mado with banks to this effect can be carried out under the conditions of the money market existing In the spring. IN OUT-OF-THE-WAY flits - v Mm. Van Hook the First Fort-lc Woman to Visit These Mos- DIED WHILE DANCING, Trugcdy During A Thanksgiving Ball At Wheeling. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). Dur ing the Thanksgiving ball of the Mercantile Club, an exclusive Hebrew social organization, while the guests were enjoying a waltz, Ollie Reed, an insurance agent, suddenly clutch ed tho arm of his partner, grew pale and dropped to tho floor dead. Sev eral women tainted, others became hysterical and were carried rrom the hall. To add to the oxcltement, a member of the club, after lighting a cigar, threw a match from the win dow, Igniting an awnlrg below. The entire Are department was called out. The tire was extinguished without doing much damage and the ball was discontinued. Cleveland Not 111. Princeton, N. J. (Special). It was declared at tho residence of Grover Cleveland that the report of his ill ness was exaggerated, and that ho had been suffering only from an at tack of Indigestion from which he had completely recovered. Dr. Car nodhan, Mr. Cleveland's pbysllcan, visited bis patient Monday morning, and afterward stated that Mr. Cleve land was up and moving around the house. Not An Oil Trust Concern Galveston, Tex. (Special). John W. Oatea, head of the Texas Oil Company, is up In arms agalnat the charge made by Governor Campbell that he believed this company la part of the Oil Trust. Gatea, who is bere, declares aucb a public utterance by the atate'a exocutlve is very damag ing to the Texas company and he demands a retraction. Gates says bis company has always been Inde pendent and has alwaya been a direct competitor of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company tn Texas. Insane Hun Amuck. Alamosa, Col. (Special). After setting fire to the Pal ma Hotel and attempting to commit suicide, Lalllle Rodriguez, a government forest re servo agent, from Espanoln, N, M., stabbed C. B. Ar.dorson, of Cold water, Mich., to death, seriously stabbod and assaulted four others men and finally attempted to kill City Marshal John Baiimanbor, who was trying to arrest him. The mar sal then shot and killed Rodriguez,. It is believed thnt he van Insane. Killed By An Automobile. Chicago (Special. An nutomobilo drlvon by Adrian C. Honore, a wealthy real estate dealer and broth er of Mrs. Potior Palmer, run down and killed John Kalish. a Greek peddler. In Chicago Avenue, near Tower Court. Kalish was standing with his back- to the automobile, which was driven at slow speed be causo of the darkness and a heavy mist. Honore was not arrested. Bryan To Get Army Pay. Lincoln, Nc-br. (Special). The of ficers of Col. W. J. Bryan'o regiment, the Third Nebraska, have been al lowed $c,228 by the national govern ment for time between enrollment and mustering into the government service In the Spunish-Americuu War. Col. Bryan enrolled Juno 11 nnd was mustered In July 13, 1898, and will have about $300 due him In thin allowance. Former Alderman Geta One Your. Milwaukee (Special. Former Al derman William C. Okeruhauser was found guilty of having solicited a bribe In connection with a city ordl nanco and was sentenced to out year in the House of Correction. John Ayllng, stepson of John Mor ley, secretary of state for Indlu, was sentenced to 10 years' penal servi tude for forging tho names of hU stop-father and several Edinburgh merchants to documents representing $66 000. Efforts are being n-.ado to find the owner of Jewels valued at $4,000 found by Paymaster Msupln, U. 8. N, on tho PariB-Madrld oxpress. Negotiations concerning Japanese immigration into tho United States and Canada continue at Toklo. The forces of Abdul Aizls, the real sultan of Morocco, aro hunting down Mulai Hafld. the pretender, in tho interior of Morocco. A bill revising the law of aasocla tlon and assembly In Germany re gurea that the Gormau lr.nguago be jppo'ten at all meotlngs Sixty it'-- deaths bavo occurred ' 'i bubonic pla&ue In Sun Frau-Clsco. Icm Village. The first woman from the ontsldn world to penetrate Into the small vil lages nestling in the faatnesaes of the mountains of tho extreme north western corner of Persia, In the re gion of Khol. Is Mrs. C. L. Van Hook, who has spent many years in Persist working under the auspices of the Board or Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Van Hook recently completod a tour of elgbty-one days through a comparatively unknown country, vis iting eighteen different towns, hold ing Sunday-school and visiting the women of the villages, while the male missionaries of the party preached and gave talks Illustrated by a stern optlcon. "In some places spies were sta tioned at the gates," says Mrs. Van Hook, "but wTien we used the stere optlcon neither threats nor per suasion could keep the people away. So many camo that wo were obliged to show the pictures twice, for the room would not hold all at one time. So we took a recess and served tea while the audience was changing. "Once we rode all day in tho rain." ahe continued, "spending the night in n miserable hole off a stable, but we were able to make n fire of weeds, by which to dry our clothing partial ly rid rook a soup tablet, which I for tunately had with me. Some broken pieces of very dry bread, which the doctor had ridiculed ma for keeping, not only helped out our supper, hut furnished the only food thnt could be obtained for some Armenian refugee!" thnt were with ub; one of these, a woman, had ridden a load all day in the rain with a baby in her arms. "One precipitous road over the mountains led by a pile of mediaeval monastic buildings, the cloister of Surp Tatoe associated with legends of St. Thaddeus, who Is said to have I been martyred on the spot where this monastery now stands. "In one corner of tho cathedral little chapel is portioned off and there his sarcophagus Is shown, bearing the date of fifteen hundred years ago. His right hand and forearm is sup posed to be Inclosed in a gilded silver case which is kept in the same chapel. This is believed to have the power of working miracles and Is carried about In time of pestilence or other calam ity with great parade and ceremony. A hand embroidered velvet curtain In front of the dais betore the altar, sent from India in the sixteenth cen tury, 1b a choice possession. We had been told we need expect nothing but a stone cell, black bread and water here, but nowhere else on tho trip did we meet such warmhearted hospi tality." Mahlazan was the centre rrom which visits to tour other Moslem villages were made. "No roreign woman had ever vis ited these places and enly two of them had been entered by male mis sionaries," says MrB. Van Hook. "In one of these out of the way places it was interesting to find n telephone. The owner of the village, living In the town of Khoi, had run a line out so as to be in communication with his rayats. Mahlazan is a mixed Armen ian and Moslem village, the Armen ians being In thu minority. The Mos lems here are becoming interested in Christianity. "I never have round women more eager to hear, more receptive or more intelligent than lu some or these vil lages. Ono morning a woman came in early. No one else was there, and sitting down close to me, she said: 'My husband says you are a learned woman, and there are some questions I want to ask you." I bade her go on, and this wsb her first Inquiry: 'After we die, in the other world will we know our friends?' I told her I thought we would, and gave her my reasons. She sat thinking a rew min utes, and then putting her face close up to mine, said with great earnest ness: 'There Is another thing I want to know. I have had seven children, and all but. one died when they were little dogs. How about them? What are they worth to a mother?' I told her or the beautHul place where her children were, or their Joy and sin lessness and how they were waiting for her. Her old pock-marked face brightened as a new world, eveu the eternal, opened to her vision, and she went away content. Men and women begged me dally to remain, promising to keep warm fires and make me comfortable. They called me 'Mlreg' (Little Mother), and said many times: 'If we had such a "Mireg" as you to teach ua about these things we would not be so ig norant and bad.' " New York Tribune. A Prosperous Colony. In the State of Victoria, Australia, the railway revenue for 1907 fiscal year was $20,060,000. the highest on record, while the working expenses were less 'than fifty-two per cent, of the revenue, the loweat tor tweuty eight years. The number of savings) bank depositors increased by 25,000. Forty per cent, of the entire popula tion has deposits. The amount l their credit on June 80 last was $64. 000,000, an increase for the year of $6,140,000. Overseas exports, exclu sive of gold, amounted to $62,000, 000, an Increase of 250 per cent, over 190$. The colony's overseas Imports amounted to $76,000,000. The ex ports to other States were nearly $25,000,000. The Government rev enue for the year was $41,665,000, and the expenditure only $37,605, 000, creating a surplus of $4,060, 000. New York Tribune. John D. Itockofellcr last week re ceived $2,(00,000 as his quarterly dividend on Standard OH. New to Tliu. The leading lady of a road com pany playing in one of the smaller cities in Ohio concluded that she would preas some of ber lace coliara one morning She accordingly rang the bell, and when the hallboy ap peared aald: "Bring me up a not irou." lu course ot time he returned, empty handed, and when the lady answered IiIh knock ho aald: "I couldn't get It tor you, lady." ! "And why not?" she asked, mystified. 1 "The bartender aald he didn't know how to mix it. " Llpplncott'a- -
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