THE BUNK OF NORTH AMERICA FAILS Big New York Institution in Re ceiver's Hands. OVER $17,000,000 WAS DRAWN OUT. Rumors Bring About a Receivership for the (.argent of the Old Mora Chain of Banka by Causing a Contlnou Drain on Ita Resources Action Taken to Protect the Kemainfng Depositors. New York (Special I .Fifty years after It was founded. In 1ST. 1. the Bank of North America, ut the height of Its prosperity, passed Into the con trol of Charles W. Morse. He had It Six years, nnd now It tins passed Into the hands of a receiver, having been deserted by most of its depositors Since Mr. Morse was forcibly elimi nated three months ago. After an all-day conference be tween those Interested In the affairs Of the National Hank of North Amer ica It waa decided late Saturday af ternoon to close the bank nnd lln.ul late. The decision was reached by President V. F. llai cnieyer. Hronson Wlnthrop. counsel for the bank, and Comptroller of the Currency V. P. Rldgely. Earlier In the day President Hav emeyer met the directors of the bank, who are In the city at the Metropoli tan Club, and told them the condi tion of affairs. It was decided that to open the bank Monday would only force a run. and as the bank was not In condition to meet any heavy withdrawals after those of Saturday It would be better to give up the Struggle to put the bank on Its feet. Statements were Issued by Comp troller Rldgely and President Have meyer. In which it was st.ito.1 that rumors to the effect that the bank would he compelled to liquidate had resulted to a constant drain on Its resources, and It was decided that It would be best to put Its affairs in the hands of n receiver. National Bank Examiner Hanna lias been ap pointed receiver. ciipuni f H.noo.o Mr. Havemayer said that he believ ed the bank Is entirely solvent, and that with a caretul liquidation the stockholders will receive par for their stock. The National Hank of North America has a capital of $2,000,000 and on August 22 last, at which time a report was made to the Comptrol ler of the Currency, showed deposits of $l 9,787.400. ThlB sum had been largely nnd gradually decreased by withdrawals during nnd subsequent to the panic nnd on December 3. the date of the next report, showed deposits of t. 926. 500, and cash on hand. 1181,900. SIncp that time, ac cording to President Havemeyer's statement, the deposits have shrunk still further, and today amount to a little over $3. 'too. 000. The bank, which had been known as the biggr st of the efnne string of financial Institutions, underwent a reorganlntlon In October. Alfred H. Curtis was succeeded by W. F. Have meyer as president, the former be coming vice president in place of C. W. Morse, who retired from the In stitution. On .Tannarr 14 there was a further reorganization. Mr. Curtis heinir dropped from the vice presi dency and from the board of direc tors. REJECTED ABRAHAM MXOOIA. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Domestic Engineer M. V. Nelson was killed and several others Injured by the derailment of a passenger train on the Stout's Mountnln branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Chelsea, Alabama. Hecause of the fulling off In traf fic there are 320,000 freight cars and 8,000 locomotives Idle in the I'nlted States, and as a result. 30, 000 men less are needed by the com panies. While attempting to start a fire with kerosene oil Mrs. Sarah Hot vltz was fntnlB burned and the mem bers of six families In Pittsburg hud to he carried to snfety by firemen. Law son K. Emerson, former clerk of the Ohio Supreme Court, and L. L. H. Austin, former state senator, completed their terms in Jail. Nils Nielsen, light tender at the lighthouse on the New Haven Break water, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Saverio Curclo, an Italian, was banned in the county jail at Scran ton for the murder of Nicholns For rlas. An attempt wos made to fire and dynamite the Loose Tobncco Factory of the Hayes-Sorey Tobacco Company, at Clarksvllle, Trail., In which two grow were killed by a watchman. Another negro escaped, but Is thought to have been wounded. Judge Phillips, of Clevclnnd. O., In deciding the case against the Amal gamated Glassworkers' Union held that the organiation was In restraint of trade and ordered Its dissolution on the ground of public policy, Anthony Comstock testified In the Thaw trial that the prisoner gave him $400 with which to attempt to get evidence ugainst Stanford White. uesolutlons fnrorlng government control of public cattle grazing lands were adopted by the American Na tional Live-stock Association. Medical Inspector Heneberger, I'nlted States Navy, is effecting two cures of splnnl-menlngltis with tho Flexner serum. It la reported that two Japanese were seen loitering about Fort Ste vens, Ore. one hundred, carpenters asked Mayor Reyhurn, 'of Philadelphia, for work. The Traders' and Mechanics' Bank of Pittsburg has closed Its doors. Edward Neldling. "the living skele ton," Is dead at Aneonin, Ct. Otto Kelsey, New York state su perintendent of Insurance, declares that under the new laws business of the New York companies has fallen off millions. Thirty-five thousand stolen tickets of the Washington ( D. C) Electric Railway and Electric Company have been recovered In New York. The New York Board of Aldermen has passed an ordinance prohibiting women smoking In public places. The ninck Hand exploded three bombs ',n different sections of New York's Little Italy. A. J. Turpln. who supplied the English Army and Navy with tobac co, died In Kentucky. ADMIRAL BROWHSON'S N01EJS GIVEN OUT Much Desired Letter Sent To the House of Representatives. HE USED VERY VIGOROUS TERMS. Ihn Admiral Claimed That Law and Proper D scipline Required a Line Officir and Navsl Crew to Navigate a Seagoing Ship With a Hospital On It. WHY BROWNSON OBJECTED. The commissioning of a hos pital ship for Bea service as rec ommended by the Surgeon Gen eral will be fraught with endless complications, the chief of which are as follows: 1. It Is directly contrary to the law for a medical officer to exercise military command In any other than his own corps. 2. Divided responsibility leads to confusion and poor administra tion. 3. Experience both with the Solace In the Spanish-American War nnd with auxiliaries on the static Station shows conclusively that the only organization for the fleet auxlllnry Is to have a full naval crew and officers. 4. A seagoing ship to be effi cient must of necessity be com manded by a seagoing officer. navigation, safe conduct and gener al administration of a sea-going ves sel are secondary as regards the re sponsibilities of command. Yet the Surgeon General seems to believe, says Admiral Brownson, that the navigation, safe conduct and general administration of a sea-going vessel are secondary as regards the re sponsibilities of command. Telegraph operators or cable en gineers are not put In command of cable stilus, nor are postmasters put In command of mnll steamers. A battleship can with propriety be call ed a flontlng fort, but artillery offi cers are not fit for command of them. Long experience with mer chant crews nnd officers on board naval colliers, tank ships, transports, supply vessels, etc., show that olll cers of the merchant marine do not perform his duty as efficiently ns naval officers. Admiral Brownson cites his ex perience In command of the Asiatic station to support this assertion, having there thoroughly tested ships with full merchant crews, with full naval crews and with merchant crews and officers and one line offi cer of the Navy in command. He found that the last system was the least efficient. Notwithstanding the best efforts of the Navy Department to sharply define the functions of the olficers, complications constantly arose regarding navigation and ad ministration, and cases are cited where the Iris was run ashore and the Nanshan waB the scene of a dis graceful disturbance In tho harbor of Hongkong as the result of a clash of authority. DOUBLE TRASEOY ENBS A ROMANCE Handsome Widow Kills Man in Crowd ed Store. THEN SHE SHOOTS HERSELF. Mrs. Mary Robert Clark, Stylishly Dress ed snd of Means, Walks In Crowded Cafe Occupying Eighth Floor of Macy'a Big Department Store and Fires Five Bullets Into Frank llrady. Death Of A Woman With Whom He Mas In Love. Sioux City, la. (Special) A woman to whom Abraham Lincoln made a proposal of marriage in 1839 and I "ho refused the offer of the young j kan, who was destined to rank i among the greatest presidents of the United State, died In Sioux City at the age of 88 years. She was Mra. Mary Frances Reiley. granddaughter of Henry Vanderburgh, whom Presi dent Washington appointed one of the first Judge3 of the Northwest Ter ritory. It was at Quince. TIL, where Mrs. Reiley spent her girlhood and where she met and won the love of young Lincoln. Tlint his suit was not en tirely in vain was evidenced through out the later years of Mrs. Beiley's life. She Ideal lied the martyr presi dent. The queries of curious friends as to the episode of their love match were ever turned aside hy the ex pression of the tender veneration In which she held his memory. Memorial To .lames It. Randall. Augusta. Ga. (Special i. Patriotic organizations and private citizens of this city are arranging to creel a memorni shaft to .Tamos' R. Randall, author of "Maryland. My Maryland. " to be placed between those of Hayne and Wilde, on Greene Street, the fashionable residential thoroughfare. siuhK By Qlrl Debater. Ithaca, N. Y. I Special I. Cornel; will stand by her co-ed, dt-spite the protest mode by the Columbia de bate team agulPht Miss Elizabeth K. Cook, one of those selected to rep- resent Cornell In the iLteroolleglate contest next month. Mono Castle Crumbles, Havannn i By Cable i .a surrey of Morro Castle by American engi neers snows mat the historic fortress was seriously undermined by the storm of January 12. The engineers say extensive repair- an- QCceasar at once to prevent the c dlapsc of the seaward bat tries. Employment Kor Many. Norfolk, Va. I Special . Manal.-us Lankford. receiver for the Berkeley Knitting Mills, filed his initial report with Judge U'addill, in tiie Federal Court, Saturday. It was recommend ed that tho mills continue to operate at an expense approximately of he 'tween $7,000 and $s,oo a month. The report was approved by the Judge, and the mills will be kept running until further orders of the court. This decision means the re employment of 200 hands. II In Store Set On Fire. York, Pa. I Special .-Falling to comply with a request In a Black Hand lotter received several days ago, J. M. Hartmau. a grocer of this city, had a narrow escape from death. HMt hla store was partly wrecked. The store was set afire, und when the flames were extinguished a honib was discovered, which, If it had ex ploded, might have wrecked the building. The steamer Amsterdam and the British steamer Axmtnstcr collided ti'ar '.'Hi.wc Wnterwcg. Foreign All the misBlng passengers and members of the crew of the steamer Amsterdam, which was In collision with the steamer Axminster, are safe at the Hook of Holland, hcvlng been rescued from the boats. At Baku. Transcaucasia, a locomo tive engineer, to escape a mob, open ed wide the throttle of his locomo tive and dashed through the crowd, killing six men and wounding others. The Haytlan revoltionlsts seized the town of Port de Pnlx. An Eng lish and a French cruiser are expect ed on the const shortly. The cotton operatives of the Man chester (Eng. mills have accepted the terniB of the operators and there will be no lockout. Baron Victor Rosen, brother of Baron Roman R. Rosen, ambassador of Russia to the I'nlted States, died In St. Petersburg. Moro Castle, the fortress at the entrance of the harbor of Havana. Cuba, has been undermined by high seas. The Brazilian government is plan ning a magnificent entertainment for King Carlos of Portugal. John Dove Wilson, emeritus pro fessor In Aberdeen I'niversity, died at San Homo. Italy. Now the Russian newspapers are prtdlCttBg war between the I'nlted States and Japan. A German military court found Major Count Lyman guilty or moral lapses and insults to subordinates, and sentenced him to fifteen mouths In Jail. General Count Von Holn DaU was acquitted. Three Italians wanted for complic ity In the killing of a man named Hay, und the wounding of a paymas ter named Campbell, at Portage, Pa., nara captured in Messina, Italy. The question of ownership of sVrcet Key a, Gulf Islands, S2 miles off the Yucatan Coast, worth $70, 000,000, promises a legal clash be tween the I'nlted Stute and .Mexico. A boat containing 2s persons from the steamer Amsterdam, which was in collision with the steamer Axmins ter, off the Dutch coast. Is still miss ing. Mulal Rachld. a supporter of Mulal Ifafld. usurping sultan of Mo rocco, lost 100 men in his engage ment with the French at Settnt. A motion to censure the govern ment was defeated In the lower house of the Japanese Diet. A strong earthquake shock agitat ed the residents of Blanco and other Italian cities. The court martial of Cc lints von Hohenau and Lynar arising out of toe articles published In Die Zukanft by Maxlmlllen Harden opened before Ave Judges under the presidency of General von Loewonfeld. The American battleship squadron Ailed from Rio Janeiro for the Strait of Magellan umld the booming of guns and the cheers of the populace. Testimony was given nt the court martial of General Stoessel In St. Petersburg to show that Mine. Stoes sel sold necessities at exorbitant rates during the siege of Port Arthur. There was a scene in the Reichstag when Chancellor von Buelow de nounced the Socialists who instigated the street demonstrations. Four thousand men engaged In the shipbuilding Industry In the Tyne district struck against the proposed reduction In wages. Dr. Carl Peters, former governor of German East Africa, won It I ss suit in Delhi against R. von D-ianigsen. Washington (Special) The Speak er laid before the House of Represen tatives the response of Secretary of the Navy Metcalf to the resolution Introduced by Representative Gill, of Maryland, calling for the corres pondence relative to the designation of staff officers to naval commands. The correspondence Is voluminous, dating back to 1904, when acting Secretary Darling authorized medi cal officers to use the term of "In command of" instead of "In charge of" to designate their officlnl posi tions. Much of the matter sent to the House hnd already been pub lished, as, for Instance, Admiral Brownson's letter of resignation and the two letters of the President con demning that officer for the course he had pursued. There was also a mass of his torical matter showing the Army practice In the matter of hospital ship commands, and Including orders Issued In the Navy Department by SecretaAry Bonaparte, with copious Indorsements by bureau officers, all bearing on this question. Similar Ground By Converse. An Interesting paper among the latter Is an Indorsement by Admiral Converse, then chief of the Naviga tion Bureau, dated June 4. 1906, upon a proposition originating with the Joint board of medical officers of the Army and Navy to place hospital ships In command of naval surgeons. In that case Admiral Converse recom mended against the placing of hos pital ships in commission in time of peace and also against he placing ot medical officers In command, even with civilian crews. Admiral Con : verse held that It was necessnry to discipline and efficiency that the of j fleers and crew of such ships should : be subjected to naval laws and rog ! illations, and that the officers in com I mand should be fitted by experience and training to nnvlgate and com mand a vessel under all conditions of weather and unforeseen contin gencies. BrXJM Aeon's Reasons. ! The new matter In the corre spondence, about which Congress particularly desires Information, con sists of a long memorandum, prc- pared by Admiral Brownson, then chief of the bureau. This is dated November IS last, thereby anticlpat- ; Ing tho Admiral's resignation by nearly a month, and In It the Ad Admlral submits the reasons why, in the opinion of the Navigation Bu- , renu, the department should reverse its decision to commission the Relief I in command of a medical officer. Admiral Brownson holds that wheth- , er hospital ships or not. Buch ves sels as the Relief must accompany 1 a fleet to fulfill their purposes, and to do so must be navigated and handled in the same seamanlike , manner which Is required of all ves ' sels to assure safety on the high seas. There 1b nothing In the train ing of a medical officer, the Admiral ' contends, which fits him for such command. It requires just us skil I ful a navigator to pilot a hospital i ship as it do6s to pilot a man-of-! war; the difficulties are wholly In j dependent Of the internal nrrange I tnents of the vessel or the uses to j which it may be put. To call It a hospital ship does rot 1 fully describe the ship. It would be , more nearly correct to state that "a hospital ship la a Bengolng vessel j having a large hospital on board.'' Existing regulations give medical of ! fleers all necessary authority to con , trol and care for their department on Board such a ship. The Surgeon General again states that "the command of the medical officer should be absolute," and t: it the captain should not be a naval officer, but should belong to the mer chant marine, end should have en tire control of the navigation of tne ship and of the civilian crew and regulate discipline and matters per taining to them. It would seem from this statement that, in the opinion of the Surgeon General, the Victim of "Dluimimliiiakcr." Paris l By Cable) .Another victim of Henri Lemolne, "the diamondmak er," has been found In the person, of a Parisian Jeweler Thla man gave Lemolne $20,000 last year for hlh "secret," but becoming suspicions he submitted the specimens to a certain scientist who had been successful In manufacturing nrtlflclal rubles. This man declared the stones to be from Jaggorsfontoln ; the Jaweler there upon threatened to prosecute Le molne. and the "dlamoudmaker" re turned him his money. MYSTERY OF WOMAN'S DEATH Wheeling and Pittsburg Police Are Busy. Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). A mystery, which the police of Wheel ing nnd Pittsburg are endeavoring to solve, surrounds the death of a young woman nt the Wheeling City Hospital. When the Pennsylvania train, which arrived here at 6 o'clock P. M., left Pittsburg a woman, dressed in black, baorded It. A few miles out of Pittsburg the woman was taken violently 111. When the train reached Wheeling she was taken to the City Hospital, where she died In convulsions. 1 ae woman regained consciousness for a few momentB at the hospital and gave her name as Margaret Fair water, of Rochester, Pa. The young woman was neatly dressed in black and was of prepos- I sesBing appearance. Physicians are of the opinion that the woman died of poisoning and a post-mortem ex amination will be made. Whether It is a case of suicide or murder may bo determined at the Inquest. Hl'GHFS A CANDIDATE. Makes Formal Announcement Over His Signature. Albany, N. Y. (Special). Formal announcement that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President was made by Gov. Charles E. Hughes. On the evening of Janu ary 31 Governor Hughes will attend a reception at the Republican Club In New York City, and then announce his position more elaborately. The reason for Governor Hughes' announcement now wns the necessity of replying to a communication from James S. Lehmnler. the chairman of the committee of twenty-five of the Republican Club, appointed to aid Mr. Hughes' nomination for president. French Claims Compromised, Paris (By Cable). The claim of : the French government agnlnst the J new Panama Company and the gov ernment of Columbia for $2.S00,000 has been compromised. The com pany will pay the government $1, I 600.000, of which the government ot Columbia will contribute $300,000. Editor-Postmaster lead. Williamsport, Pa. (Speclnl). Or ange S. Brown, postmaster of Wll- i liamsport, and publisher of the Ga ! ette and Bulletin, died, aged C7 years. He was well known through ' out the state by reason of his nctlvl I ty In politics, being the recognized Republican leader of this city and 1 county. New York, (Special). Sweeping through the crowded rsstaurant which takes up the eighth floor of Macy s department store and Into the gentlemen's cafe, a tall stylishly dressed woman bent for a moment over the shoulder of a diner, whis pered something In his ear and then, drawing a revolver from her muff, emptied the contents Of the live chambers Into his body. As her victim, Frank Brady, an advertising solicitor for the Evening Telegram, slipped lifeless to the floor the woman flung the weapon from her and, taking a second revolver from her muff, shot herself first In the head and then twice In the breast. She died a half-hour later. In addition to the two guns which she pulled from her muff, a third loaded revolver was found In the woman's handbag when It was open ed to look for some means of Identi fying her. Threatened To Leave Her. A note found In the woman's purse proved her to be Mrs. Mary Roberts Clark, n manicurist, the widow of a police officer and stepmother of a slx-yenr-old son, Raymond, Brady was 30 years old nnd the sole sup port of a helpless aged mother, for whom he had made a homo. The shooting was the culmination of a series of violent quarrels and. ac cording to the woman's Intimates, In fulfilment of a threat to minder Brady In a public place "before the world" unless he renewed the at tentions she asserted she received from him when he was less prosper ous and she in a position to befriend him. In her apartments, at 219 West One Hundred and Thirty-third Street, the woman left a note in which Bhe said the cause of the tragedy was Brady's refusal to marry her. 8he charged him with having persuaded her to leave her husband, with hav ing lived with her for sometime af terward and with attempting to dis card her. Shots Created Panic. Brady left the Evening Telegram office shortly before noon and went directly to the restaurant, on the eighth floor of the Macy Building. He took a seat at a table in the room known as the annex, which is on the Thirty-fifth Street side. Brady had just given hlfl order and and wns scanning an evening news paper, when a mldde-aged woman, dark and heavy set, entered the nn nex from the mnln dining room. She hnd walked through the main room obviously In search of someone. She waved aside the waitress who approached her, and made her way hastily to a small smoking room for gentlemen, just off the main dining hall. The big room was filled with women who were lunching after the morning's shopping, and amid the buzz of conversation her agitated manner attracted the attention only of the waitresses, one of whom, notic ing her apporach the men's cafe, ask ed If she was seeking someone. "Yes,'' she replied, "and I know where he is, too." She brushed the girl aside, and in a moment stood behind Brady's chair and spoke to him. Before he had time to reply she had shoved n revolver in his face and commenced firing. The head, the neck, the shoulder, the breast and the abdomen were successively pierc ed by bullets, und Brady lay dead at her feet. 3 FIREMEN KILLEO Many Caught By Collapse of Wall at Ba timore Fire. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH I Autocrat Of The Age. An attack on the power of the Speaker was made In the House of Representatives by Mr. Shackelford, of Missouri, during the consideration of the Frgent Deficiency Appropri ation Bill. He said Speaker Cannon was the "ablest, boldest champion ot autocracy this age has produced," and declared that the Speaker exer cised " greater despotism than ex ists In l ny monarchy In Europe." Speak t Cannon at this Juncture entered the chamber, and, amid, ap plause, too't a seat In front of Mr. ShackcKord, who asserted that before any bill could pass "you must bend your nrhle bodies forward In proper pose, fold your 'hnnds and say: 'Oh Lord, Uncle Job, thy will be done and not mine." " He chnllengtyl Speaker Cannon "to rise In his place, not as Speaker, but ns member of the Illinois delega tion, and tell us how and when it war he shouldered the responsibility for the legislation that was to be hero enacted by slmnlv hceomlng moder ator of this deliberative assembly." Speaker Cannon laughed. Mr. Shackelford protested ngnlnst the policy of "one-man power" aa In violation of the law, nnd urged the members "to hreak down this autocracy nnd the rules In order that the people's representatives may do the thlnps they want done." Attack On .fudge Dayten. The Senate discussed the propriety of authorizing one of Its committees to investigate the circumstances con nected with the issuance of an in junction In the case of the Hitchman i Coal and Coke Company vs. John Mitchell by Judge Alston G. Dayton, of the United States Circuit Court of the Northern District of Western Vir ginia. Senator Culberson asked t have a resolution for that purpose adopted and Senator Hale thought It should not harnss Judges In their de cisions, nnd he did not favor such a resolution unless there wns consider able ground for believing that a Judge had exceeded his authority. COMMERCIAL GOLOMM Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Renorts. R. O. Dun ft Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade saya: Progress Is slow, but each week brings a little improvement and con fidence in the future grows more rapidly than current transactions. The best feature Is the broader mar ket for commercial paper. Loans In mercantile channels are now negotiat ed freely at little more than the nor mal rate, facilitating postponed un dertakings and making collectlonn more prompt. Buyers are coming In to the leading market In large num bers, which should soon Increase transactions unless prices cannot be adjusted. Manufacturers Increase production gradually, conservatism being general, and many Industries are not operating more than 50 per cent, of their full capacity. Read justment of wages Is still contemplat ed hy many producers before machln- Cortelyon Entertains Roosevelt. Washington, D. C. (Special). Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. j Cortelyou gave a dinner to President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Among the out-of-town gueBtB were Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Pray and Mr. and Mrs. I nomas Pretser, of New York. FINANCIAL Homed By Night Riders. Hopklnsvllle, Ky. (Special). A band of 100 "Night Riders" burned the large tobacco barn on ttCe farm of James A. Coleman in the southern part of Christian County. The barn contained 15,000 pounds of tobacco, which wns ready for shipment today. Coleman Is not a member of the To bacco Association. Evelyn Thaw testified that she ac cepted a pearl box worth $1,000, "iannnds and snpuhlre rings from Gtanf 3rd White while living t.t Thaw i expense, I'nlted States Steel has cut the price of light steel rails IS a ton. President Mellen has gone to , Was hington to talk over New Haven i Hartford matters with President ! Roosevelt. A formal denial was made by I Ilelmonts that the Rothschilds hail severed connections with their firm. , The Rothschilds also made denial I through other bankers. Pennsylvania's coal and coke ship ments over the Eastern lines for the first eighteen days of January were ; 2.227,000 tons, compared with 3.- 1 10,000 tons in the same period of 1907. Says the "Iron Age:" "The out put of the furnaces and mills Is In creasing somewhat but It Is difficult to express the Imurovement commer cially. It Is estimated that opera tions are close to 50 per cent, of full capacity, with the prospect of gradu ally betterment. Here was the opinion of a promi nent Wall Street firm, telegrnnhed to a Philadelphia banker: "The market is larking aggressive sup port and stocks seems to be for Bale whenever the market shows tempor ary strength as It did at the open ing." T. E. Allison & Co. have purchas ed a seat on the New York Cotton Exchange In the namq of L. T. Lay ton. The Association of Licensed Ce ment Manufacturers, representing nearly 70 per cent., of the output of the Portland cement Industry q this country, was organized In New York. The purpose of the asoclutlon In clude the general betterment of the mechanical and chemical processes used In making lenient, the Improve ment of th" quality of cement and dci'llpg with matters of (raffle and shipment. Bnltlmore, Md. (Special). Three Iremen were killed, Chief Horton Injured, and many ethers seriously Inlured in the collapse of a wall of a burning building on Holllday Street. The tire startod soon after mid night in the work shop of the J. Ren ester'B Sons Co. and extended to the brass foundry on Holllday Street. The flames spread rapidly, being driven by a stiff breeze, blowing trom the west, nnd in less than half an hour after the origin of the fire they had reached buildings adjoining. Suddenly the wall of the J. Reges ter Sons Company's building fell, catching several Bremen under It, three of whom were Instantly killed. Fire Chief Horton and a number of ! others were serlouslv Injured. The work of rescue was difficult amid the (lames, but as Boon as the injured j men could -be reached they wero ! tuken to the City Hospital. Lieut. , McNeil, of No. 1 Truck, was anions the severely Injured. I The fire ate Its way back to the city hall annex, In which Is stored the valuable maps and documents of topographical survey, and tho health j department offices. While the damage cannr.t ho esti mated at this time, it is beiieved to be the heaviest fire loss slnco the great fire of 1904. The Revolt in Hart!. Port au Prince, Haytl (By Cable). The revolutionists have taken pos session of tho town of Port do Palx. 36 miles west of Cape Haytlen. An English and n French cruiser are ex pected on the const shortly. They will give protection to Brft'.fdi anil Fr-nch interests. Charles Mlot, the American consular agent at St. Mure, has been removed from offlro by the American Legation because of his complicity with the rebels. Mlot lc t Haytlnn. Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told. Attorney General Bonaparte di rected that a bill In equity be filed to Bet aside the control by the Union Pacific Railroad Company of the vari ous competing lines between the Mis souri nnd Pacific Coast. Democratic seators conferred on the currency question for nearly six hours. There was a disposition to unite In support of the Bailey substi tute to the Aldrlch bill. Deputy Commissioner of Corpora tions Durnnd at the Standard Oil i hearing continued his introduction of railway oil tariffs and way bills. Senator Aldrlch hns perfected his : tariff bill for submission to the Fi nance Committee. Tho Democrats will urge the Bailey bill. A number of senators and repre sentatives conferred with Secretary of tho Interior Garfield on tho pro 1 posed drainage bill. The death in New York of Briga dier General Anthony Hoger, U. P. A., retired, was announced to the War Department. The President has asked the De partment of Justice to furnish infor mation regarding the qse of the In junction against labor organizations. President Roosevelt, six presiden tial candidates and Governor Croth ers, of Maryland, will attend the Gridiron Club dinner Saturday night. The trade agreement negotiated j between the I'nlted Staten and : France will be signed Mondny. Charles Miot, American consular ; agent at St. Marc, Haytl, was dis missed upon the discovery- of his connection with the revolutionary movement. The National Board of Trade adopted a resolution for a perma nent tariff commission, and calling for tariff revision ns soon as expedi : out. The Supreme Court of the United States denied the application for a , review of the Chicago street railway I rase. Senator Lafollette Introduced a bill to prevent government- employee from accepting telegraph franks. Prof. Ernest Darling, of the Unl veretty of London, Eng., was recelv ' o,l by President Roosevelt. The National Board of Trade adopted a resolution urging a con gressional appropriation of $50,0007 ! ooo n year for the improvement of Inland watcrv.nys. Representative Kahn introduced in ' the House a bill appropriating $!. 000.000 for the building of 16 sub : marine torpedo boats for service on I the Pnciftc Const. The President and Attorney Gen icral Bonaparte conferred about the proposed suit to break up the com ! binntlon In the Hnnrlman railroad system. Governor Mngoon has been sum moned from Cuba to confer with Secretary Root and President Roose velt upon Several important matter:, Commander Charles C. Marsh was ; made superintendent of the suhnia 1 line nnd torpedo division for the de fense of the Atlantic Coaat. New proposals are to bo asked for by the Signal Office for the construc tion of a dirigible l alloon for the use of the Army. Before the House committee Col j onti Goethals said tho Panama Canal I WOUld be reasonably mfe from mlll j tary Invasion. Postmaster General Meyer In ar Interview strougly urged the estah , ll'hment of a parcels post system. Senator Bulkeley introduced a bill ' p'aclng the salaries of United State j Circuit Court Judges at $10,000. Chairman Tawney, of the House 'Committee on Appropriations, report ed tho Urgent Deficiency Bill. Senator Pearre introduced n blB i In the House for the federal standard- Izatlon of grain. cry will be started. Several more steel plants have re sumed and others will stnrt up next i week, hut production will continue much reduce:) until orders come for ward with greater freedom. Blast 1 furnaces are slow to resume, and a meeting will be held next week to determine upon tho wlsge scale Prices have declined to an extent that necessitates plans for lowcrlns costB of production. Wholesale Markets. Bnltlmore. Flour Dull and un changed; receipts, 3,775; exports, 392. ' Wheat Dull and easy; spot, con tract, 1.01 if) 1.01; spot, No. 2, red Western, 1.03 fri 1 .04; Jnnuary, ! 1.01 Mi ft 1.01 ; February, 1.02' I 1.02; March, 1.03 1.04; May, 1 1.07 asked; steamer, No. 2, red, ,984(98. Receipts, 8,610; South i ern, on grade, 99 1.02. I Corn Dull; old, spot, mixed, 04 ! G4; new, spot, mixed. fi3ftti3; ' old. No. 2. white, 64; January, 63 l 63; February, 02 62; 1 March, 63 63; steamer, mixed, ' 59 69; receipts, 87,202; new Southern white corn, CO 63 I new Southern yellow corn, C064. i Oats Dull; No. 2, white. 56 57; No. 3, white, 54 56; No. 2, mixed, 54 54; receipts, 16, 397. Rye Firm; No. 2, Western ex port, 90 0 91; No. 2. Western domes i tic. 92 93; receipts, 903. Butter Firm, unchanged; fancy Imitation, 24 25; fancy crenr""ry, ; 32; fancy ladle, 22 23; store i"ick ! ed, 16 18. Eggs 8teady, unchanged. 22 Cn 23. I Cheese Firm, unchanged; large, 14; flats, medium 14; small. 14. New York. Wheat Receipts, 22,- 000 bushels; exports, 242,894 bush els. Spot firm; No. 2 red, 1.05 1 elevator; No. 2 red, 1.07 f. o. b., afloat; No. 1 Northern Diiluth, 1.21 f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 hard winter, i 1.16 f. o. b., afloat. Corn Receipts, 22,575 bushels. Spot firm; No. 2, 74; nominal eleva tor and 67 f. o. b., afloat; No. 2 white, 67 and No. 2 yellow, 67 f. o. b.i afloat. I Oats Receipts. 63,000; spot steady; mixed. 26 to 32 pounds, 53; natural white, 2(i to 32 pounds. to 40 and 33 i row n 26 first, ,", I r ij, . flipped white pounds, 55 62. Eggs State, Pennsylvania nearby fancy, selected, white, 34; good to choice, 2S32; and mixed, fancy, 2S; first, 26; Western and Southern 2b; seconds, 25 25. Philadelphia. Butter dull and 1 lc. lower; extra Western cream eery, 31 32c; do., nenrbv prints, 34. V Eggs firm; Pennsylvania and Other nearby firsts, free cases, 25c, at mark; current receipts. In returna ble cases, 8.4, at mark; Western choice, free cases, 24. at mark; do., fair to good, free cases, 22 0 23. Cheeae steady; New York full creams, choice, 15 0 16c; do., fair to good, 15 15. Live poultry steady; fowla, 10 12c; old roosters, 9c; spring chickens, 10 12; ducks, 137n4; ;se, 11 12; turkeys, 14 15. Live Stock. New York Beeves Choice Vir ginia steers sold at 5.80; dressed beef unchanged. Calves About 100 cnlves unsold. Fair veals sold at 9.00; dressed calves slow; city dressed veals at 9c. to 14 c per pound; country dress ed at 9 to 13c. Sheep and Lambs Prime and choice, lambs steady; others weak to 10c. lower. Two cars unsold. Com ; mon to choice sheep sold at 3.25 to i 5.50 per 100 pounds; yearlings at I 6.00; medium to choice lambs at 7.00 to 7.75. . Oft QX. Cattle receipts estimat- ed at about 10,000, market quiet and steady; steers, 4.25 6.35; cows, !2.754.50; h e i f e r a, 2.6005.26; I bulls, 2.85 4.26; calves, 3.00 8.28; ; Btocaers and feeders, 2.600 4.60. Hogs Receipts estimated about 38,000; market 5lpc higher Choice heavy shipping, 4.500 4.60; butchers, 4.50 4.60; light mixed, 4.25 4.35; choice light, 4.3504.46; packers 4.004.45; pigs, 3. 500) 4.25: bulk of sales, 4.400 4.50. Sheep Receipts estimated about 13,000; market ateady; sheep, 4.00 06.50; lamba, 6.7507.35; yearlings, 4.00 6.36. linnk Cashier's Suicide. Elllnwood, Knn. (Special) W.Leo Bockemohle, cashier of the suspend ed Bank of Ellinwood, at Elllnwood. Kansas, under bond for making false statements of the bank's condition In December, shot and killed himself at his home Just after his bondsmeu had informed hlin that they had sur rendered him to the sheriff. As the bondsmen reached the front of Borkemohle'a yard he called out "Walt a minute." They turned and saw Bockemohle shoot himself In the head with a pistol and fall dead on '.he pjreh. Rear Admiral Capps, chief of (he Bureau of Construction and Repaii of the Navy Department, made an swer to the Reuterdahl crltlclam be. fore the Housa Committee on Naval Affairs. According to reports to tho Inter state Commerce Commission for thu quarter there wero 1,339 persone kill ed and 21,7 2 4 Injured on the rail roads of the United States. The House adopted au amondmont to the penal code, making It a pene) offense for any government employe to divulge advance information of i rcaorts. NEWSY GLEANINGS. x i Elmores Island, between Hinsdale, j N. H., and Vermont, Vt., In the Con necticut River, has bean wndhpri away by a freshet. The Islund was several acres In extent, and was heav ily wooded. . The British government will de vote $20,000 to start the cultivation of New Zealand hemp In the Island of St. Helena, the Inhabitants of which have been reduced to practi cal destitution by the withdrawal of the British garrison. After watching 152 women alight from street cars the obeerver report ed that one out of each 18 got off correctly, facing In the direction the cars were going, and then added that he thought they Intended to make It unanltnoua but made mistakes. During the six yeara from 1901 to 1906, inclualve, the Italian gov ernment granted concussions for 21 operations of land reclamation, at u total cost of $3,000,000. of which the government paid $2,000,000. Up to and Including 1906 the govern ment has made appropriations for this purpose amounting In all to $46,640,000. rf
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