The News
Domestic
Arthur Mnrtln, a young stock bro
ker, aged 26 years, shot and proba
bly family wounded his wife In their
apartments In the Hotel St. George.
In Brooklyn, and then killed him
self. Chnrleg ,T. Jackson, well konwn on
the stage as Juvenile Impersonator,
and a nephew of Joseph Jefferson,
tinged himself In New York because
Be could not memorize hlR lines.
A marriage HcenHe WM Issued In
New York to Miss Gladys mooic,
Vanderbilt and Count Lnszlo Jeno
Maria Henrlk Simon Szechenyl, of
Hungary.
It was slnted officially that there
would be no cessation In the prec
aution of land-fraud cases In Colo
rado and other Western States.
Pour derricks and lb men were
necessnry to move the corpse of Ca
liph, the dead hippopotamus, at the
New York Zoo.
Dr. John R. Ames, of Raltlmore,
was the only candidate to pass the
examination for dental surgery In
the Army.
Policeman Robert J. Fitzgerald
tost his life in preventing a man
trom committing suicide from the
Brooklvn Bridge.
David Benett Hill refuses to give
bis views on the presidential candi
dates, but says he is still a Democrat.
Among the Indictments returned
by the federal grand jury of Denver.
Col., is one agnlnst Ora Haley, a
eattleman, who is charged with il
legally fencing 10,000 acres of range
land near the Colorado - Wyoming
boundary.
Major General McKee. In command
Of the ten companies of the Indiana
National Guard remaining at Muncle
on account of the strike of the street
railway employes, ordered two more
companies to leave for their homes.
Fire broke out in the business sec
tion of Albion, 111., and destroyed the
Edwards County Bank building, the
New National Dank building, the
Telephone Exchange, two clothing
atores, a Rhoe store and a drug store.
Mrs. James Valentine, wife of an
Ironmolder, became suddenly Insane
and attacked her six-year-old son
with & hammer and razor, wounding
him frightfully. She then cut her
Own throat and will die.
The New Jersey Hallway Commis
sioners, In their annual report to the
Governor, state that from July 29
to December 1 last year 108 persons
were killed and 19S Injured by the
railroads In New Jersey.
Harry J. Lewis, traveling salesman
tor a Detroit garment house, and for
merly a prominent cigar manufactur
er at Minneapolis, was found dead In
the bathroom of his apartments in
Detroit.
Judge Kohlsaat rendered a decision
In favor of the government in the
suit against Captain Carter, charged
with having embezzled $700,000 of
government funds through conspiracy
with Greene and Gaynor.
Secretary Taft. in reply to ques
tion of Llewellyn Lewis, secretary of
the Ohio Federation of Labor, gives
his views for the correction of abuses
In the injunction against strikes.
Joseph Miller, of Chicago, who
claims he was shanghaied on a steam
er at Norfolk and taken to Europe,
arrived in New York on the steamer
Moskwa from Rotterdam.
Detectives from Important cities
of the country declared that Cleve
land is the center of the so-called
"Black Hand" operations.
Desponc'ent because he could not
properly care for his family, Joseph
H. Sheunard killed himself.
W. B. Thomas was elected presi
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Comuanv.-
Miners persistently declare that
there are 100 bodies in the Darr
Mine.
Edwin Gould forced Augustus F.
Helnze out of the Mercantile Natimial
bank by demanding over a million
of the "bank's stock to satisfy notes
due from Heinze to Gould.
Charles N. Whitney, member of a
New York brokerage firm that han
dled Vanderbilt interests, shot and
killed himself, owing to ill health.
Dr. Henry Beates. Jr., president of
the Medleal Council of Pennsylvania,
declares that the average medical col
lege is Inefficient.
Three persons were killed and
eighty Injured in the wreck of the
Collier special on the Southern Rail
road near Atlanta, Ga.
Phlneas Wheeler, aged S6. a vet
eran of the Civil War. of Rome, N.
Y.. shot himself owing to an attack
of the grip.
Foreign
The TransvaalVopposltion to East
Indians has brought the British gov
ernment face to face with a serious
race problem, as the action of the
officials and the courts In the Traim
Taal is bitterly resented In India.
Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians,
Jews and others oppressed by Turkey
held a congress in Paris and decided
to organize for the overthrow of the
present Turkish government.
Captain Kayutin, commander of a
Russian Black Sea steamer, has been
brought to St. Petersburg a prisoner
on the charge of bringing In arms for
Russian revolutionists.
The Socialist agitation in Berlin
has subsided, but the neighborhood
Of the palace and the public squares
Ware still guarded ly large forces
Of police.
The Czar has manifested his confi
dence In Father John of Cronstadt
by appointing him to take part in the
Sittings of the Russian synod.
The White Star Line has reduced
Atlantic rates on second and third
class passages, by $7.50 to $5. respec
tively, for the purpose, It Is said, of
fighting the Cunard Company, and
the latter has announced similar re
ductions. Rioters burned the Protestant
Episcopal chapel In the Province of
Cheklang, China. The disorders are
directed against the dynasty.
Storms on the English Channel
and the west coast of Europe caused
g number of small wrecks and the
loss of more than 40 lives.
Conferences In Manchester. Eng
land, for a settlement of the dispute
between the cotton mill owners and
the employes are said to indicate a
settlement.
The discovery of n revolutionary
plot among officers of the artillery at
the fortress of Warsaw, Russia, has
led to the Imprisonment of seven
officers.
William Redmond, member of the
British House of Commons, In an ad
dress In Rome said that political 11b
tsrtlej were grester in Australia than
the United States because Irishmen
formed the nucleus of the Australian
aobiilatioo
MANY CHILDREN IN
II DEADLY CRUSH
Sixteen Kilted and Forty Others
Badly Injured.
PANIC IN AN ENGLISH MUSIC HALL
The Gallery Being Overcrowded, an
Usher Calls to the Children to Come
Down Stairs for Better Seats -In
the Wild Ruh Following the Little
Ones Are Trampled to Death.
Rnrnslcy. England (By Cable).
sixteen children were trampled to
death and 40 others, several of whom
cannot live, were Injured In a mad
rush for better seats at an entertain
ment given In the public hall here.
There was a great crush to secure
admittance to the entertainment and
when the show opened every seat wbr
taken and the gallery was literally
nncV.Ml with children, who filled the
aisles and were dangerously massed
against the lower railing. vmim a
view to relieving this crowding in
the gallerv. the nttcndantR decided
to transfer some of tho children to
the body of the house, and one of
tho ushers called out:
' Some of yon children come down
stairs." ,
Immediately tho rush started and
within a few seconds hundreds of
children were being trampled under
foot. Even those who had seats In
the gallery, doubtless being panic
stricken by the screnms and struggles
of the crowds fighting to reach the
stnlrcases, Joined In the stempode.
'I ho scene was a terrible one. The
cries of the Injured and moans of
the dying caused the greatest excite
ment among those gathered In the
bodv of the hall. Police and ushers
rushed to the head of the staircases,
which were literally strewn with dead
and dying, and by the most desper
ate efforts managed to drag scores
of the struggling children to the
corlrdors below. It was with the
greatest difficulty thnt a panic among
the children lu the lower part of the
house was averted, all of these event
ually being taken to the street In
safety.
When the reserve police arrived
thev found the narrow stairway prac
tically blocked with bodies, which
were crushed in some cases beyond
recognition. Scores of children were
forced by the pressure from the
crowd behind them to scramble over
those thnt had fallen, whether llv
Inc or dead, and many of the Injur
ed children were found later to be
suffering from fractured bones and
severe lacerations, caused by the in
describable manner In which they
had been trampled upon.
Soon after the accident the ap
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women searching for
their missing children.
This dlsnster recalled that of June
16, 1883. when 186 children w-ere
crushed to death while rushing down
from a gallery in Victoria Hall, Sun
derland, to obtain toys given away
by Fay, a conjurer, at the close of
his performance.
TOOK AWAY 1 10,000,000.
Immigrants Returning To Europe
Carried About $200 Apiece,
New York (Special). According
to the North German Lloyd Line,
which has made a careful computn
tlon based on the figures of steam
ship agents, money changers, and
rnilroad men, more than $110,000,
000 was tuken out of the United
Stntes by the immigrants who re
turned to their native places last
year. The estimate Is that each of
the 550.045 foreigners had about
$200 with him.
As an offset to millions that de
parted, it is noted that 1,346,688
aliens who arrived last year brought
with them, according to the esti
mate of the Commissioner of Immi
gration, about $27,273,260. Much
of this, however, was furnished to
the Immigrants by relatives or friends
In the United States.
WILL GET Jl HEARING
Brownson Controversy To Be Aired
in the Senate.
Washington, D. C. (Special) The
Navy Department and the quarrel be
tween President Roosevelt and Ad
miral Brownson will be Investigated
by the Senate. When Admiral
Brownson resigned rather than ac
quiesce In the appointment of Sur
geon Stokes to the command of the
hospital ship Relief, Senator Hale,
In a curcfully prepared statement.
landed Admiral Browneon's courage
and manly Independence. Thursday
Mr. Hale, who as chairman of the
Naval Affairs Committee, is the Sen
ate's arbiter on oil naval matters, In
troduced a bill which has for its
purpose the settlement of all the
pending controversies between line
aud staff, which raises the pay of
officers and men and which seeks In
n general way to Improve existing
conditions. The bill made, of course,
no reference to the Brownson epi
sode, but It was understood by every
member that Senator Hale had taken
this method of bringing the contro
versy between the President and tho
late chief of the Bureau of Naviga
tion to the officlul attention of the
Senate
TRAIN DROPS 2.- FEET.
Four-Score Passengers Hurt In
Wreck Of Special.
Atlanta, Ga. (Special). The sec
ond section of what is known as the
Colllver special, running from Cleve
land, Ohio, to St. Augustine, Fla.,
was wrecked between Dallas and Hi
ram, Ga., on the Southern Railroad,
on a trestle twenty-five feet over the
nearly dry bed of Copper Mine Creek.
Five of the seven cars went into tho
mud. Three trainmen are dead, and
more than eighty passengers, most of
them residents of Ohio, were Injured.
Engineer James Edwards, who was
caught beneath the cab of his engine
when it overturned, after clearing
the trestle, was killed. Road Fore
man of Engines Schnapps, and the
negro fireman, Mose Baldwin, were
Injured fatally and died soon after
reaching Atlanta on the second relief
train.
Mrs. Emll Hoover, of Columbus,
Ohio, is in a dying condition, and
Miss Florence Studebaker, of Cleve
land, probably will die.
The injuries to the passengers
consist chiefly of broken limbs and
bruises.
Tnkahlrii May Not Come.
Paris (By Cable). The Rome cor
respondent of the Matin says that M.
Takahlra, Japanese Minister to Italy,
who, It was recently reported, had
been appointed Ambassador to the
I'nited States, has not yet begun
packing his household effects. In
diplomatic quarters it Is doubted that
he Is going to America.
WASHINGTON
RAGING FIRE IN
II SKYSCRAPER
Firemen's Hard Fight Above the
City's Roofs.
SPECTACULAR BLAZE IN NEW YORK.
Half the Firemen In Manhattan
Fall to Control the Fire Until
ths Building Wss Burned Out
Sensstlonal Rescues From the Roof
of ths Building.
New York (Special). Four fire
men went to their deaths when they
responded to a fire that ruined the
Parker Building, a 12-story business
structure occupying the block be
tween East Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Streets, on Fourth Avenue.
Fought by half the firemen of Man
hattan and apparatus that blocked
the streets for blocks, the flames
were never controlled, and only with
difficulty confined to the building In
which they originated. Floor after
floor gave way And dropped to the
basement, and beneath theso and
crumbling walls no less than 30 fire
men were caught and either killed
outright or seriously injured.
When the fire had burned itself
out and the firemen's roll was called,
three men of Engine Company No.
72 and one from Fire Patrol No. 3
failed to respond.
Tim Hutchinson, of Patrol No. 3,
was removed, dying, to the hospital.
Captain Wilson and Captain Gr.rvln,
of Engine Companies Nos. 24 and 72.
who were Injured internally, were
among those dangerously hurt.
When the casualties began the
Florence Hotel, which adjoins the
burned building on Eighteenth Street,
was made a temporary hospital,
where fire department physicians
gave Immediate aid to the Injured.
The monetary loss was estimated at
$1,500,000.
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular as well as disastrous In re
cent years. From Rtart to finish Its
course was marked by heartrending
scenes, sensational escapes and
flashes of heroism.
The fire wns discovered shortly af
ter 6 o'clock by the night watchman,
George Noyes. who found a blaze on
the fifth floor in the offices of tne
CURRENCY GjLLJNTHE SENA1E
Provides For Acceptance of State and
Municipal Bonds.
Washlgton, D. C. (Special). Con
gress now has the Aldrlch Currency
Bill, which is expected to become a
law. It is said senators and members
are busy perusing it provisions to
determine how generally it shall have
their support. Senator Aldrlch,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
who Introduced It, has called a com
mittee mooting for next Tuesday,
when the bill will become a continu
ing order.
Chairman Fowler, of the House
committee, does not approve the
measure, and said so In n carefully
prepared statement. There are some
other critics whose words will have
weight. Representative Weeks, of
Massachusetts, a practical hanker and
a member of the House Currency
Committee, Is doubtfui of the feature
providing for the use of railroad
bonds as a basis for the emergency
currency. Much emphasis Is laid on
that provision by a number of men.
who say that national banks will pur
chaRe bonds as si air. of panic ap
proach and dispose of them as panics
dlsappenr, thus ralRing and depress
ing the bond market.
However, the expectation Is thnt
A VICTORY FOR
MAYOR SGHMITZ
Appellate Court Decides Indictment
Defective.
MR. RUEF BENEFITS BY RULING.
According to the Opinion of Judges
of the District Court of Appssls
Hie Compelling of French Rss
tsnrsnta to Psy "Fees" to Abe
Ruef Was Not a Crime.
San Francisco (Special). The
District Court of Appeals handed
down a decision setting aside the
Judgment In the caso of former
Muvor Eugene E. Schmltz, convicted
of extortion in the French restaurant
case. Abe Ruef nlso benefits by the
ruling of the upper court, for, ac
cording to Its decision, he pleaded
guilty to an act that was no offense
against the laws of the state.
Acoordlng to the appellate Judges,
the compelling of French restaurants
to pay "fees" to Abe Ruef was not
a crime, even though Ruef divided
tho "foAn" with the Mayor. After
discussing the point, the court re
versed the Judgment agniiiRt Schmltz
d that no nets constl-
the Finance Committee will vcte t j tutlnfr. a crime has been proved
exclude railroad bonds, and to a do- i ri.lp-insf nm. Abe Ruef, who plead
gree that criticism would be met. B1'.iiv to extorting money from
It Is quite likely that the amount th(, p,.pn'0h restaurants, is. therefore,
equally guiltless
of currency which may be taken out
on other thnn government bonds will
be Increased from 7 per cent., as
the bill now provides, to 85 or 90
per rent. Very careful provision Is
made regarding the redemption of
the "circulating notes," as the emerg
ency money will be officially known.
A new provision, which It Is proposed
to write Into the existing law, Is that
"taxes received on circulating notes
secured by bonds other than bonds
of the United States shall be paid
Into the Division of Redemption of
the Treasury and credited to the re
serve fund held for redemption of
I'nited States and other notes."
This would assure more specific
provision for redemption than the
government has ever made. In the
same line Is a provision that the cir
culating notes "shall stats upon their
face that they will be redeemed by
the United States in lawful money
upon preseiuuuon cu ine 1 ruiui j .
Hooker-Jackson Company, publishers , Current bank notes state that bonds
of the Encyclopedia Brltanlca. The Ilave been deposited to secure their
fire spread rapidly and shot at once
to the roof.
After the fire had been In prog
payment.
A concluding section in effect would
prevent, country banks from sending
In Inc noon the legality of the
Indictment the Appellate Court Bald:
"The Indictment Is claimed to be
invalid for two reasons:
"First, that It does not allege any
threat to Injure property, and second,
it does not allege that the threat was
to do an unlawful Injury.
"There is no allegation as to any
threat to injure any business in di
rect terms, but only the threat to pre
vent the parties from obtaining a
llcenso to sell liquor."
A license to sell liquor Is not prop
erty In the ordinary sense of the
word, says the court.
Commenting on the second conten
tion of Schmttz's attorneys, that this
was no threat to do unlawful Injury,
the court declared that: "Wo are
clearly of the opinion that the Indict
ment Is Insufficient, as it does not al
lege nor show that the specific in
jury threatened was an unlawful In
Jury." It is not an unlawful act. reasons
the court, to threaten to hold up the
licenses of the restaurant-keeper oi
ress about an hour it was discovered as much of their reserve to reserve actually to do so
DEVOURED BY WOLVES.
Hon Than Two Hundred Russians
Victims Of The Boast.
St. Petersburg (By Cable).
Wolves have eaten at least 2 4 F men.
women and children throughout Eu
ropean Russia In the past few weeks,
according to official s-tatistlcs here.
The reports are undoubtedly incom
plete, so that the number is probably
considerably larger than given by
the authorities.
The severe winter has driven
thousands of packs from the wilder
ness to tho more populous sections
of tho country, where they haunt
the country roads and even venture
into the outskirts of the smuller
tow ns.
Shot Himself On Wife's (irnvc.
Ravenna, O. (Special) Edward J.
Collier, of Cleveland, who killed his
blind son and then shot himself at
the grave of his wife and died. Col
lier or WllllamB, as ho was known
here, died as a result of exposure.
According to his wish, as express
ed In a letter found in his pocket,
Collier and his son will be burled
by the side of Mrs. Collier's grave.
Collier wat despondent both over the
loss of his wife and his sou's affliction.
Flyer Hit A Freight.
Bristol, Tenn. (Special). While
traveling 50 miles an hour the Chattanooga-Washington
limited collided
head-on with a freight near this city
without serious Injury to a soul. En
gineers John Smith and John Milton
and their firemen escaped by Jump
ing. Postal clerk C. W. Calllwell,
brother-in-law of Congressman Olass,
of Virginia, and Albeit Rimlnger, an
express messenger, were slightly
hurt. The passengers receive ! $ had
shaking up but were not injured.
F. Augustus Helnze, former presi
dent of the Mercantile National
Hank of New Yoik, was indicted and
placed under $50,000 bail to answer
a charge of overcerllfying a check
for $62,761.40.
Col. James Hamilton Lewis, in a
lecture before the law school of the
Northwestern University said: "When
a woman starts out to perjure her
self, all hell cannot keep her record."
Acting President Thomas, of tho
Americsn Sugar Refining Company,
is lu favor of publicity for corporations.
There was an interesting debate in
the House between Representatives
Burllson and Payne over the part
leading newspapers are taking in the
financial and political questions Of
the day.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs has decided to report favor
ably the resolution of Representative
Gill calling for an Investigation of
the BrownBon Incident.
The State Department denies that
Ambassador O'Brien was instructed
to demand that Japan sign a treaty
restricting Immigration to the Unit
ed States.
The House of Representatives has
ashed the Secretary of the Treasury
for a report on the condition of the
banks.
The Senate Committee on Inter
oceanlc Canals figures that Panama
may cost $100,000,000, or a total of
$235,000,000.
A Prohibition lobby Is nt work
urging that federal liquor laws not
conflict w'th stute prohibition pro
visions. An Increase of a million dollars In
the appropriation for projectiles and
ammunition was asked for by Rear
Admiral Mason, chief of the Naval
Bureau of Ordnance.
A congressional lottery was con
ducted In the House of Representa
tives for rooms In the new office
building of that body, which Is now
nearing completion.
Judge .lames F. Traeey. of the Su
preme Court of the Philippines, de
clined the proffered appointment as
member of the Philippine Commission.
In his annual Chief of Staff Gen
eral J. Franklin Bell urges more pay
for the Army and the restoration of
the cunteen.
Secretary of the Nuvy Metcnlf sent
to the House an estimation of $-,
000. 000 for submarine torpedo boats.
The President listened to argu
ments for and against the use of
banzoate of soda in catsup.
Representative Sterling introduced
an employers' liability bill In the
House
The subcommittee of the Banking
and Currency Committee of the
House agreed to the proposition of
Chairman Fowler for national bank
guaranteed cradit notes
A measure making train-wrecking,
where life is lost, a capital offense,
was offered in the House of Repre
sentative Moore, of Philadelphia.
A number of coal operators met
to perfect an organization with a
view to have effective precautions
sgalnst mine disasters.
Representative Gaines introduced
a resolution for the preservation of
the old home of Andrew Jackson,
near Nashville, Term.
Surgeon Stokes leceived final In
structions from Secretary Metcalf
prior to leaving for his duties on
the hospital ship Relief.
Gen. Wintteld S. Erigerly has been
ordered to assume command of the
Department of Dakota.
The President seat In tbe : Na
tion of i apt John E. Pillsbury to
be chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
and Lieutenant Commander Edward
II Campbell to be .udge advocate
general of the Navy.
Justice Gould signed tbe order dis
charging tho rule issued against the
Graut Memorial Commission to pre
vent the destruction of the historic
trees in the Botanical Gardens.
Richard A. Ballinger, of Iowa,
commissioner of ttw General Land
Office, has resigned and his ssslstant,
Fred Dennett, of North Dakota, has
been appointed In his place.
that six men employed In the offices
of the Suffolk Engraving Company
had gone from the fifth floor to the
roof and were penned In there, with
no means of escape. The fire de
partment has recently been equipped
with a new gun for Bhoootlng ropes
to the tops of high buildings and it
came into play for the first time to
night. Captain Gordon took some men
from Hook and Ladder 3 to the roof
of the Florence House, next door,
which is seven stories high. The gun
was loaded and fired. The rope shot
up to the twelfth floor of the Parker
Building and was made fast to a
chimney, and the men got down
safely.
Seven firemen of Engine 72, which
first arrived, run un to the fifth floor
of the burning building after 85-foot
extension ladders had been raised to
the windows of that story to make
possible the firemen's retreat. After
a fruitless effort to stay the flames at
the place of origin the firemen were
driven to the windows only to find
that the tops of the ladders had been
burned, cutting off their only retreat.
Preacher On Trial.
Springfield, 111. (Special). In the
United States District Court here
Rev. Dr. James A. Kaye, pastor of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
at Lincoln, 111., was placed on trial
charged with counterfeiting. Dr.
Kaye admits making coins, but says
he was simply experimenting to as
certain whether he could make med
als for the children of his Sunday
School.
agents In New York and other large
The decision wipes out the French
cities. They have bocm keeping about restaurant rases and pending charges
6 per cent. In their cwn vaults, but
If this section becames law, would
have to keep about 10 per cent.
The leading members of the Fi
nance Committee are well pleased
with their work. While aware that
the bill will meet with no little criti
cism, they believe it will be adopted
by the Senate without important
modifications.
Speaker Cannon would have had
the tax of ono-helf cent, a month, or
6 per cent, a year, considerably high
er; he would have It graded to a
maximum of about 8 per cent., but
Senators Aldrlch and Hale feared that
rate of Interest would be so high as
to keep the banks from taking out as
much extra circulation as they ougnt
to have.
Member Of Southern Farmers' Con
gress Threatens To Force Trice.
Memphis. Tenn. (8pecial). The
annual convention of the Farmers'
Educational and Co-operative Union
met here. About 300 delegates, rep
resenting every Southern State and
Missouri, Kansas and Washington,
are In attendance.
G. S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga..
president of the union, before calling
the convention to order, said:
'One of the most important things
we hope to accomplish is to get fif
teen cents for cotton and we are
going to get It if we have to hold
It from tho market for years."
Sees Peace Ahead.
Paris (By Cable). The "Matin,"
referring again to the American
Japanese situation, declares Presi
dent Roosevelt spoke to u diplomat
in Washington a few days ago in the
following words: "All will be ar
ranged in the most satisfactory man
ner. The last memorandum received
from Japan was expressed In the
most conciliatory terms, and there
Is not the slightest apprehension of
a conflict."
Airship To Carry 100.
Berlin (By Cable). Count Zeppe
lln proposes to build an airship to
carry 100 persons. He calculates
that it will be necessary to build it
only 26 feet longer than his latest
airship, which is 137 feet long, and
which carries eleven persons, lu ad
dltlon to 3,300 pounds of ballast.
Experts believe that tho count will
succeed in his undertaking.
Nearly Cuts Head From Body.
Coldwater, Mich. (Special). Ver
non L. Nettleton, a hardware dealer,
about o0 years old, while suffering.
it Is supposed, with scute melon
cholta due to business troubles, rose
from his bed and gashed his sister's
throat. He then returned to his
own room and nearly severed bis
head with a carving knife, dying al
most Instsntly. Miss Nettleton Is ex
pected to recover.
Nominated Hy The President.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
President Bent to the Senate the
nomination of Fred. T. Dennett of
North Dakota to be Commissioner of
the General Land Office; sIbo the
nominations of James- F. Traeey of
.New York to l)c a member of Philip
pine Commission and Secretary of
Finance and Justice and Gregarlo
Araneta of the Philippine Islands to
be an associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of the Philippine Is
lauds.
Aged Couple llurned To Death
Auburn, N. H. (Special). Albeit
Mouiton anu nis wire, aged more
than 75 years, were burned to death
In s fire that destroyed their home
In this village. Their 18-year-old
grandson, Roy Mouiton, discovered
the fire, and ufter warning the old
couple, who were in an upstairs
room, ran out of the house, expecting
that they would follow him. They
did not appear, however, and the
young man tried to go back to tbslr
aid, hut smoke and flame barred the
way.
WILL HOLD COTTON.
To Protect Fortifications.
Washington, D. C. (Special). Tho
Senate passed a bill to protect the
harbor defenses and fortifications of
the United States from malicious In-
of extortion against Schmltz and Ruef
must be dismissed.
Both are now entitled to release
on bail. If they obtain the necessary
bondsmen they can remain at liberty
until such times as a jury finds them
guilty on one of the Indictments
charging them with receiving bribes
from corporations. Owing to the
number of cases against them the
ball, figured at $10,000 a case, would
reach an enormous figure.
Schmltz and Ruef cannot take ad
vantage of the decision for 60 days.
The prosecution has 20 days In which
to ask of a rehearing. Then the Ap
pellate Court will have 10 days to
consider the application. When that
Is done the prosecution will go
through the same procedure In the
Supreme Court, which will take the
same length of time. Consequently,
Schmltz and Reuf will still be kept
In the county Jail for two months at
least.
The news of thr docision of tho
Appellate Court spread quickly over
the city, causing consternation in
some quarters and delight In othors.
District Attorney Langdon said
Schmltz and Ruef will be prosecuted
on other indictments that are public
offenses.
SEWED UP MAN'S HEART.
Surgeon's, Working Between Rents,
Take Stitches in Pericardium.
Youngstown, Ohio (Special). Drs.
Harry M. Carvey and L. B. Johnson,
of tho city hospital staff, sewed up
the pericardium or heart covering of
Tony Toplet, stabbed four times in
a knire ngnt, one wound being
through the lung and penetrating the
:l!ry,.Sena,.tir Frye, ,hal pericardium. They were compelled
the bill provides against violations of
naval orders given for the purpose
of protecting harbor delonses and
fortifications in the same way that
similar offenses In the army are
punished.
Local Option Hits Camilla.
Toronto, Ont. (Special). Local
option was voted on in a number of
small towns, villages and townships
In Ontario. Returns from 5 8 show
that It was defeated in 37 and carried
in 21.
to stitch between beats of the man's
heart.
The surgeons decided on the un
usual operation as the only chance
to save his life. They lay bare the
pericardium by cutting four ribs
from the breast bone and turning
thcin back. They took soven stitches
in the covering.
COMMERCIAL COLUMN.
Weekly Review of Trade and Latest;
Market Reports.
R. G. Dun ft Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
Business quieted down at the con-,
elusion of holiday sales, as is custom-'
ary, and time was devoted to stock
taking, while manufacturing plants
were overhauled and repaired. Much
Idle machinery resumed on January,
2 and more mills will reopen thlaj
week, but In many leading Industries'
there will continue to be a reductloa
in output until the outlook Is morn
definite. This curtailment is general
In the iron and steel Industry snd
at New England cotton mills. Cloth
ing manufacturers have received,
numerous cancellations, and in soino
lines buyers have asked delay In
shipments of spring goods until the
situation is more fully developed
There Is a better feeling as to mer
cantile collections, rtnee the closing
days of December brought no special
pressure In the money market.
Many Iron furnaces and steel mills
have resumed and others are to open
next week, but tho curtailment of
production has been so general that
not over 50 per cent, of the capacity
will then bo In operation, according
to estimates by some of the best au
thorities in the trade.
Wholesale Markets.
Baltimore. Wheat Receipts, lTJ
701 bushels; stock in elevators. 88$
480 bushels. Market firmer. No. I
spot. $1.03 0 103 ; steamer
spot, 98 99c; Southern, 98!
1.03 ; January, $1.03 1.03 ;:
February, $1.05; March, $1.07 ;
May, $1.11.
Corn Receipts, 09,905 bushels;i
shipments, 48.694 bushels; stock in!
elevators, 894,128 bushels. Market,
firmer. Mixed spot, 6566c.;j
steamer mixed, 6060c. ; South
ern, 6064c; January, 64
64 He; February, 6464c.'
March, 64 66c.
Oats Receipts, 4,270 busheU;
withdrawals, 11,553; stock In eleva
tors. 188.031 bushels. Market firm.
White, No. 2. 6657c; No. 8,
5666c; No. 4, 5253c.; ralx-i
ed. No. 2, 54 54 Vic; No. 3, 52 ,
53c; No. 4, 50 51c.
Butter Market tlrm. Creamery
separator extras, 2D30c; held,1
2223c; prints, 3031c; Maryland
and Pennsylvania dairy prints, 17'
19c.
Eggs Market easy. Fancy Mary
land and Pennsylvania, 27c; Vir
ginia, 27c; West Virginia, 26c. j
Southern, 24 25.
Now York. Wheat Receiptee
277,000 bu.; exports, 151,092. Spo
firm; No. 2 red, 107 elevator, and
108 f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 Northern
Duluth, 112 f. o. b., afloat; No. 2
hard winter, 118 f. o. b., afloat.
Corn Receipts, 05,575 bu.; ex
ports, 140; spot firm; No. 2, nominal,
elevator, and 69 t. o. b'., afloat; No.
2 white, 70, and No. 2 yellow nomi
nal, f. o. b., afloat.
Oats Receipts, 117,000 bu.; spot
steady; mixed, 26?2 lbs., 54c; na
tural white, 26 to 32 lbs., 55
57; clipped white, 30 to 33 lbs.,
56 62.
Poultry Alive firm; Western
chickens, lie; fowls, 13; turkeys,
13. Dressed firm; Western chickens,
1320; turkeys, 15018; fowls, 7
12.
Butter quiet; receipts, 6,355 pkgs.;
Western factory, common to first,
15 lDc
Eggs firm; receipts, 7,858 cases;
state, Pennsylvania and nearby,
fancy, selected white, 32 34c: good
to choice, 29 31; first, 2 7$8;
Western and Southern first, 27; sec
onds, 25 26.
Philadelphia. Butter firm; extra
Western crecmery, 32c; do., nearby
prints, 3 4.
Eggs firm: Pennsylvania and near
by free cases, 31c at mark;
do., current receipts, in returnable
cases, 30 at mark; Western choice,
free cases. 31 at mark; do., fair to
good, free cases, 29 80 at mark.
Cheese steady; New York, full
creams, choice, 15 16c; do., fair
to good, 16 15.
Live poultry easier; fowls, 12
14 c; old roosters, i0; spring chick
ens, 1214; ducks, 1314; geese,
12 13; turkeys, 14 15.
FINANCIAL
When Reading had crossed 102
there was most extensive covering
of shorts which has been seen in the
present movement. It is Bald that
part of the bull account Is being
aided by sale of finance bills drawn
on Paris.
Keech, Leow ft Co., Philadelphia,
said: "Disappointment over the fail
ure of the Northern Pacific directors
to declare an extra dividend was for
gotten in the discussion which fol
lowed the sensational Jump in Lacka
wanna to 500. In most quarters
this skyrocketing of high-priced
stocks 1b severely condemned."
The Hank of France reduced its
discount rate from 4 to 3 per cent.
Says the "Iron Age": "To drop
within less than three months from
a rate of production of pig iron of
27,000,000 tons per annum to a rate
of 12,000,000 tons on the first of
Janusry it what the industry has ac
complished. It shows how thorough
ly manufacturers have been Imbued
with the conviction that it is wiser
to meet changed conditions rather
than continue in the hope of early
betterment and pile Iron In the In
terval." "Very clever manipulation," said
one of Wall Street's biggest brokers
apropos of Reading's Jump.
The distribution of stock by im
portant interests is believed to be
taking place while such specialtlos
as Reading and Union Pacific are
being manipulated to district atten
tion. Recently a big lot of New
York Central was sold in that way
by the Union Pacific. Tbe theory
of some shrewd people Ib that tbe
very biggest capitalists are liquidat
ing before there may corao a more
Important railroad receivership than
has yet occurred.
Bank Looted Of $710,000.
Mexico City (Special). Seven
hundred and forty thousand dollar
is missing from the Bank of Yucatan
Fernando U. Rodriguez, subdirector,
and Mateo Ponce, former cashier of
the bank, with ten other persons
have been nrrested. A lawyer, P. G.
Ponce, and Eduardo Ponce, son-in-
law and son, respectively, of the
cashier, are among those arrested, all
of whom are among the most promi
nent people of Madeira.
Wireless Worked 2810 Miles.
Nauou, Prussia (By Cable). Tho
wireless telegraphy station here suc
ceeded in keeping In constant com
munlcstlon with the - i earner Cape
Blanco during the run from Ham
burg to Tenerlffe, In the Canary Is
lands, a distance of 2310 miles.
Biirglnrs Returned For Plunder.
New York (Special). Burglars
who stripped a shoe store In Leonla,
N. J., several nights ago and hid
their plunder, returned for It with n
wsgon. They were seen hy Marshal
Paul Minnerly, who attempted to ar
rest them. They fired on him, send
ing a bullet Into his breast and caus
ing a wound which the physicians say
will probably prove fatal. fe thieve.
escaped. Got $20,000 In Jewelry.
Derby, Conn. (Special). A robber j
In the house of Charles H. Booker ol
Ansonla, National Republican Com
mitteeman aud president of the
American Brass Company, several
days ago, in which the thieves got
away with Jewelry vulued at $20,000,
has Just been reported. Tbe Jewelry
wan taken from a jewel case in Mr.i
Booker's room while the family was
at dinner, entrance having probably
been gained through an unfssteed
widow.
Live Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Market steady!
Hteers, $3.906.25; cows, $2.75
4.60; heifers, $2.505.25; bulls,
$2.604.25; calves, ft 7; stock
ers and feeders, $2.40 4.50.
Hogs Market steady- choice,
! heavy, shipping, $4.55 4.60; butch
ers', $4.r,0f( 4.60; choice, light, $4.45
4.55; light, mixed, $4.254.36i
packing, $4 4.55; pigs, $3.50
4.80; bulk of sales, $4.45 4.60.
Sheep Market steady sheep, $4
'or, 2a; lambs, $57; yearlings, $4
6.06.
Kansas City, Mo. Cattle Market
steady; cows strong; choice exports
and dressed beef rteers. $5 5.60;
fair to good, $4. 10ft 4.90; Western
steers, $3.75 4.75; stackers and
feeders, $2.264.40; Southern
steers, $4 4.60; Southern cows;
$2.253.25; native cowu, $2.25
4.65; native heifers, $S4.75; bulls,
$3 4; calves, $4 6.75.
Hogs Msrket 5 10c. lower; top,
$4.50; bulk of sal -a, $4.30 4.45;
heavy, $4.4O4.50; packers, $4.86
4.46; pigs and lights, $3.75 4.45.
Sheep Market strong; lambs,
$6.1006.80; ewes and yearlings;
$4.25 5.25; Western yearlings, $5
6.76; Western sheep, $3.60 4. 75
stockers and feeders, $3 4.
THIS AND THAT.
A piled river at New Orleans Is 108
feet high, tbe highest ever built.
The banana and potato are almost
Identical In chemical composition.
Six of the largest colleges In Swit
serland have 2,198 female students.
In Austria no less than 44 out of
every 100 doctors die of heart die-'
ease.
Mexico's coffee exports this year
will be In tbe neighborhood of 60,-
000,000 pounds. 1
In Cuba the state telegraph offices,
have been combined with the posts!
department.
Grapes are still trodden with tho.
bare feet in many of the vineyards!
of paln and Italy.
Asbestos shingles, made of asbes
tos fiber and cement, absorb 5 per
cent, of their weight in water.
A fashion article on bridal veil
relates that a recent bride wore her
face covered on the way to tbe aliai .
Four thousand graves In South,
Africa of British soldiers who feTV,
1 in the late war still remain unmarki
ed.