LATEST NEWS) j BY TELEGRAPH of the town of P. I,, has been Domestic Practical Jokers placod a Jet of compressed air In the mouth of An drew Babo, of Chicago, loceisMug him internally and his death may result. Four members of the stock bro kerage firm of A. O. Brown & Co.. Of New York, were arrested on charges of grand larceny. Mm Abhle Rice .!. 't illed the sut Blde pact agreed upon between Dr. Frederick Rustln and herseU to an Omaha court. Hary K. Thsw linn been adjudged In contempt by a Plttsburfc coirt ami a warrant has been lusuod for him. Dr. Robert Koch was oxlen led un ovation by the International Confer ence on Tuberculosis. Miss Alice M. Blair, of St. Louis, was married to Count von Bentzeti, a Danish nobleman. Mrs. Eliza Bragg, widow of Major General Bragg, of the Confederate Army. Is dead. A large portion Paslg. near Manila rieatmved bv Are. Leslie Carter, who divorced the actress, Mrs. Leslie Carter-Payne, died In Chicago. The number of Idle freight cars has decreased 20,000 In two weeks. A fire in a dough Street lodging house, San Francisco, resulted in the death by suffocation of Frederick Kirk, a carpenter, ami the injury of J. H. Splnettl and H. Butz. both fire men, and three other persons, one of them a young woman. Fearing more restrictive laws would follow the Indorsement of the legis lation regulating the gait- of opluui. the National Wholesale Druggists, in their convention at Atlantic City, re fused to approve the act. The will of Arthur de Bousset, who died on January 11, 1905, filed in the surrogate's office. New York, discloses that the entire estate con sisted of patents and unpatented In ventions for airships. There is no buying or selling of cotton in Paragould, Ark., as the result of recent agitation due to the appearance of night riders in the cotton-raising communities of Mis sissippi. Detective de Martini arretted Raffaelo Esposlto and Manzi Sano fanto on a charge of smuggling Italian gloves Into this country con cealed In barrels headed up with apples. Registration for the November election at San Francisco closed at midnight Thursday with a total of 74,612 names on the rolls, a short age of 7,000 names frem 1904. The 10-month-old daughter of S. O. Middleman, a farmer, near Spring Held. Mo., fell into a bucket of milk and waB drowned before her parents found her . Saburo Saltown, a Japanese acro bat, was killed and eight other per sons were seriously hurt during a performance of the Sells-Floto show at Holdenvllle, Okla. Two persons were killed and 30 Injured In a wreck of the east bound Frisco passenger train on Spring River, a mile north of Carthage, Mo. Mrs. Anna Glasco was shot and killed near Pendleton by her hus band, John Glasco. who then attempt ed suicide by slashing his throat. Capt. William C. Iyon. former lieutenant governor and for years prominent In Ohio politics, died at the home of his daughter. In Xenia. The first copper work ever under taken at the San Francisco Mint, the coinage of copper centavo pieces for the Philippines, has begun. Gold coin to the amount of $2,000, 000 waB engaged at the United States Bubtreashry, New York, for ship ment to Canada The Indiana Houge saved the county local option bill, already passed by the Senate, from defeat by a vote of 51 to 49. A violent typhoon swept through the central part of the Philippine Islands, causing great loss of life and property. Foreign The British shipbuilders who made tenders for the construction of 16 email warships for the Argentine navy failed to secure a single order. The" German and Butch builders ere re under their British rivals In price end all the ships will be built on the Continent. The Irish vote, alienated by the British government's action at the Eucharist ic Congress. Inflicted a crushing blow on the government In the bye-electlon at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The swond Netherlands note on the difficulties with Venezuela was presented to the Venezuelan govern ment at Caracas by the German diplomatic representatlvee. A mob of unemployed workmen attempted to raid the town ball at Manchester, England, and In an encounter with 'he police many per sons were injured. The Turkish government has ap pealed to the powers against the occupation of the Oriental Railway by Bulgarian troops. The Crown Prince and Crown Prlnceaa of Greece were subjected to medical inspection at the Franco German frontier. Senor Magalhez, Portugese minis ter of public works, was assulted by unknown persons at Cascaes, Portu gal. Two severe submarine earthquake shocks ocurred off the coast of Acopulco, Mexico, the Cosmos line steamer Radmes being tossed about and four persons on board killed by rolling spars. The French authorities are pleas ed with Germany's reply to the Franco-Spanish note on Morocco, and It is believed that an agreement on Moroccan affairs can now be reached. Russian police have been search ing warehouses of the leading Ameri can importing firms in Moscow for arras smuggled In for revolutionary purposes, but have found no evidence. The British Admiralty has approv ed Australia's scheme for a flotilla of six torpedo-boat destroyers and Dine submarines as the nucleus ol an Australian navy. Boris Loutskoy, a Russian motot expert, has arrunged with Wilbur Wright to construct a 75-horsepower motor, which will double the spec:! Of the aeroplane. W n Ting-fang, Chinese minister to Washington, is to be replaced In November by Chung-Meu-Yew. Augusto B. Lequta, the recently elected president of Peru, was in ducted tnto office. MILLIONS ARE LOST IN THE FOREST FIRES Lives Sacrificed in Fighting Sweeping Flames. THOUSANDS OF MEN ARE IDLE Hundreds of People Suffering From Throat Affection Caused by the Viti ated Atmosphere-Numerous Indus trial Plants Forced to Suspend Be cause of Low Water. Pittsburg. Ra. (-Special). WlUh loesee aggregating sveral million dollars from forest tires and heavy flamnf to crois and live stook, the reimrted lone of a number of lives due to fighting timber conflagrations, the enforoed idleness of thosuands of workmen owing to the suspension manufacturing establishments be cause of lack of water, tlx? health authorities anticipating a serious epidemic of contagious diseases and many small steams dried up and practically obliterated, the drouth or 1909, which has held Western Penn sylvania, Eatern Ohio and West Vir ginia In Its grasp for more than two months, remains unbroken, each day gradually Increasing the seriousness of the unprecedented situation. Three times during the excessive dry spell there have been very slight rains, aoOOIBPanled by much lightning and thunder, but the rainfall was so slight that many persons were un aware of the fact and were only convinced that It had rained when shown evidence of the same on tin roofs. Epidemic Feared. Aside from the millions of feet of timber destroyed and the daily loss to manufacturers and farmers, probably the most serious phnsc of the situation is threatened disease epi demic. A majority of the population of Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West. Virginia are even now suffering from throat affections caus ed by the great accumulation of dust and the heavy 'clouds of smoke. In this city, used to smoke, the sun is almost obscured by the smoke from the forest fires miles away and per sons in the vicinity of these fires are experiencing difficulty in breath ing. It Is feared that when the rain does come it will wash groat amounts of filth Into the already stagnant streams, with the result '.hat disease, especially typhoid fever, will become epidemic The health authorities have sounded warning? to the pub lic to boll all water used for inter nal purpotea and say by doing this only can many death and much sick ness be prevented. Next in Importance comes the en forced suspension of numerous In dustries and the throwing out of em ployment of thousands of workmen, many of whom had just returned to work following the recent depression. While In the Pittsburg' District the water supply is sufficient to carry on all business, the low stage of the rivers has caused a congestion of much coal fn this vicinity. Cannot Ship Coal. Every available barge and float has been loaded with coal and at present with almost 20,000,000 bushels In the Pittsburg harbor, the river coal mines have been compelled to shut down for the want of shipping facili ties. There are about 15,0110 min ers employed in river mines along the Monongahela Valley. This great fleet of coal Is for the supply of points In the West and South, and the probabilities are there will be a coal famine experienced, especially in the Northwest, should conditions pre vent the shipment of the coal before cold weather sets In. In West Vir ginia lumber plants, glass factories and iron and steel mills, located along the rivers, are closed on ac count of Insufficient water. In East ern Ohio the same conditions prevail and it Is feared the great Iron and steel mils at Youngstown. Ohio, em ploying over 20,000 meu, will have to Buspend operations unless the drouth Is speedily broken. In all sections of the dry zone prayers are offered up daily and these prayan will continue until they are answered with rain. V AMiliKUlMS IMKTl.D Decree of Absolute Divorce Granted Elsie French Vanderbilt. New York ( Special ) .Justice Ger ard, in the Supreme Court, signed the final decree of absolute divorce in favor of Ela'e French Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt on the recommendation of the referee, David McClure. The Interlocutory decree was granted on May 16, The custody of the one child, William Henry Van derbilt, now about six years of age, is g:en to the mother. BECAUSE HER LOVER DRUNK A Military Tragedy. Manila (Special). A tragedy oc curred at f'amp Jessman Saturday night, resulting in the death of Lieu tenant Edward J. Bloom, of the Koutb Infantry, and Private Suttles. Company K, of the same regiment. Suttles, for some reason, shot Bloom and then cut his own throat. Sut tles died Immedltely, but Bloom lin gered until Sunday night. An in vestigation of the affair is being niude by the military officers. Disheartened Iowa Girl Suicide. Committed Dee Moines, la (Special). Enable to stifle the love she bad for Bert Willltts. an employe of her father's farm, and unwilling to become the wife of a man she bellevod to be a drunkard. Miss Lucy HandJey. 17 years oW. living near this city, wrote a pathetic note to hor parents and theo drank carbolic acid. She was missed throe days before her dead body, the empty lottle and note by her side wore found IB an unused norn crib. It was believed at first she hud eloped, as Willltts disappeared the day after she did. He was ar rested Sunday iu Dee Moines, to be held pending investigation. He con fends he never made any protestation of love to tbe girl. The note to her parents, found by her side, reads: September 10, 1908. My Dear Parent I really do not know what to do. I am In sorrow and haw hid It a long as possible. I do not Just want to die. I rather die than be a drunkard's wife, and I cannot live without him. It la Bert Willltts who I mean. I love him. I worshh) Bert. God forgive me for this sin I am about to commit. I know.lt Is wrong. Bury me in my pink dress as as possible to Mrs. Hlnggenberg. You can read this to Bert. I have my own reasons. God bless you all and help him to Quit drinking. From your loving daughter. LUCY HANDLIST. The girl left home lost week, ap parently light-hearted, saying she was going down the lane to escape the noon-day heat. She never re turned. Willltts disappeared next day. When arretted, he told the detectives here that there was noth ing between him and Lucy, and that lie left the farm because her parents had accused him of trying to get her to elope with him. He says he never went anywhere with her but to church once, and that ber 10-yoar-old brother was with them at the time. He adds that he never made any protestations of love and did not know that the girl cared for him. 110 DROWNED. Star of Bengal Wric ked Off Corona tion Island. Seattle, Wash. (Special). A cable dispatch to the Army Signal Corps confirms the total loss of the Star of Bengal on Coronation Island. Twenty-seven were saved and 110 drowned, including nine whites. The news was brought to Fort Wrangel by the steamer Hattle Gage, a tender to he Alaskan Fish Can neries, which reported that the steam er Kai Yak was standing by the stranded ship to render whatever aid was possible. The Star of Bengal was being tow edwo sea by tUga Kai Yak and Hat tic Gage and was blown ashore. The tugs were obliged to cut loose to save themselves. The Star of Bengal is an iron bark of 1,694 tons register, 262.81 feet long, with 4 0 feet beam. She is one of the vessels of a salmon fleet be longing to the Alaskan Packers' As sociation, and sailed from this port on April 22. She has a cargo of 4... 000 case of salmon. She galled with 136 men aboard. A NEW HEHO FUND, Carnegie Gives 1,880,000 For One Pot His Native I .a lid. London (By Cable). Encouraged by the success that has attended the establishment of his "hero fund" in America, Andrew Carnegie has de cided to found a similar fund In "his native land." To this end he Is about to hand over to trustees the sum of $l,250,0Q(i. In a letter to the trustees, dated September 21. Mr. Carnegie says: "The success of my hero fund upon the North American Continent has been so great that I have decided to extend Its benefltB to my native land." FLYER PLOWS HEAD-ON INTO FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE GUN ON FRENCH WADSH1P BURSTS FINANCIAL Dynamite Kills Five. Scranton, Pa. (Special). Three Americans and two Italians were blown to pieces In an explosion of dynamite while working at Cross Keys Cut, along the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western Railroad, near Toby ha una. The five men were tamping a hole containing IS Inches of dynamite, when is exploded pre maturely. The bodies were assem bled by means of matching the cloth ing of the victims. Ail hi the Smoking Car Dead ornhe Entire Gun Crew of Thirteen uadiy injures. Rilled Outright CORPSES WEDGED IN THE WRCKAGF. Snow Prevented Engineer of Passen ger Train From Seeing Signals Baggage, Smoking and Day Coach Teleecoped Or Wrecked-Debris of Smoker Filled With Corpses. Llvlncston, Mont. (Spootal). Plowing through a snowstorm, east ward bound, a Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy passenger train, running over the Northern Pacific Railroad, crashed headon into a freight train at Young's Point, where the trains were to pass, and In the demo lition that resulted, a score of lives were crushed out and a score of persons were injured, soverai prob aoly fatally. The frolght flagman failed, to ntgnal the passenger in time to prevent the collision, It Is said, because of the snow. The express car telescoped with the smoking car and most of the fa talities and Injuries were of persons in the latter car. The express car was raised over the platform of the smoking car, and tho superstructure swept the ooats awoy. Not a passen ger In the smoking car escaped death or Injury. Passengers In other cars escaped with cuts and bruises. CorH.cs Wedged Together. On the train was the Spokane delegation to the National Irrigation Congress at Albuquerque. None of these was Injured. Fireman Ora Baboock Jumped and was killed, striking on his head. Mllo Halloway, a brakeman, was killed. The smoking car debris was hopelessly mixed with heads, bodies, legs and arms, presenting a horrible sight. In one place seven bodies wore so tightly wedged together that they were separated only with great difficulty. It was Impossible to succor the injured without tram pling on tho dead. Three Coaches Wrecked. Wrecking and relief trains were sent out from Livingston and Bill ings. The freight, which was an extra westbound In charge of Con ductor Hlckey, was heading In at the east end of the siding on short time, when the passenger train, running Into the snowstorm, struck it. On account of the storm neither train had any warning, and the pas senger struck the freight locomotive full in the side, telescoping the bag gage car and smoking cat, and part ly crashing the day coach. Little could be done towards rescuing the burled and Injured passengers until the wrecking trains arrived. None of the passengers in the two sleep ing tat.- was injured. The Cholera In Manilu Manila (Special). There were 14 new cases of cholera and three deaths reported for the 24 hours ended at 8 o'clock Monday morning. , Tbe entire staffs of the Bureau of Sciences and of the local medical schools have been drafted to fight the disease. A serious situation Is caused by the small supply of disin fectants. The Bureau of Sciences, is experimenting with electricity snd sea water to produce chlorine for ; use until new supplies of disinfect ants arrive. The Guanajuato district of Mexico is now producing at the rate of $13, 000.000 a year. Since July 1 twenty Nevada min ing company stocks have advanced in value an aggregate of (8,000,000. New York city sold $10,000,000 of revenue warrants to run 90 days and to yield 2 per cent, interest. Pennsylvania Salt has declared the regular semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent. An interesting rumor was that Harrlman had come to the financial assistance of Rock Island. St. Paul directors are said to be contemplating the electrification of a large part of the mountain sections of their road. Southern Pacific in July was able to convert a decrease of $799,189 In gross earnings to an increase uf 1108,09) in net profits. Twenty-two railroads for the -second week of September report a de crease at 5 per cent, in gross earn ings. The Colorado Mining Company, of Tlntlc, U declaring m mthly divi dends of 12 cents a share. Tb" amount distributed each month arooag shareholders i $120,000. "American securities are being bought with confidence by foreign lot 1 !," said Chairman E. H. Gary, of United States Steel, as he arrived from Europe. A fourth dividend of $90,000 bus been paid by the Engineers' lease on the Florence property. The leasers are taking out $6,000 a day. As In the case of other Goldfleld mines, the leasers are getting the money. It was rumor ! hat Harrlman and the First Nativ. ilauk of .New to, had arranged a financial plan for Erie. For the first time in a long while the Pennsylvania's coal and coke tonnage on Us Eastern lines has ex ceeded in one week 1,000, OO'i tons. The J. C. Brill Company, of Phila delphia, has organized a subsidiary company in Paris to tarry on Its French and Spanish business under the name of the Compagnle J. Q. Brill. SUSQUEHANNA BRIDGE BREAKS WIIH COAL TRAIN The Perry ville End of B. & 0. Struc ture a Wreck. Perryville, Md. (Special). The 377-foot span of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge over the east channel of the Susquehanna River, which Is In course of reconstruction, collapsed shortly before 7 o'clock A. M., carrying with It to the river below a distance of 90 feet, 12 cars, ons of twisted Iron girders and timbers. The bridge Is one of the finest structures of its kind in the country, and the damage will ariiount to several hundred thousand dollars. The work was being done by the American Bridge Company. When the span gave way a freight train, composed of loaded coal cars, was passing over the structure, and 12 of the ears were broken loose and carried along with the debris. A watchman on the bridge was car ried down with the mass of Iron and timber and seriously Injured. The injured man is William H. Wilson, ot Stokes Street. Havre de Grace, a watchman employed by the railroad company. At the time of the accident he was standing out on the span about 2" feet from the stone pier, and when the crash came, was carried down along with the twisted girders and other debris. He was extricated from the wreck and hurried to his home, where be is now lying In a critical condition, suffering from shock and severe lacerations of the body and head. The collapse of the bridge caused a slight delay in the regular sched ule of the road but arrangements were quickly made with the Pennsyl vania Railroad for the use of Its tracks between Swan Creek and Wilmington. At tbe former place, the trains were switched over to the main line of the Pennsylvania, using the latter's bridge over the Susquehanna, with hut a slight de lay in the regular schedule. The accident caused considerable trouble for the Western Union Tele graph Company, whose cables are attached to the structure. The lat ter were broken by the collapse, and communication between that point and the North was temporarily cut off. The Baltimore and Ohio has ar ranged for the building of a tem porary branch line from the Perry ville station of the Pennsylvania, on the east side of the, river, to Aikin, a station on the main line of the former road. FRENCH NAVAL DISASTERS July 6, 1905 Fr'-nrh subma rine Farfadet sunk It Sldi Abdal lah, Tunis; 14 livet lost. . October 16, 190C -Submnrtne boat Lutin sunk off Blsarta, Tunis; 14 lives loat. March , 1907 Cruiser Jean Bart sunk off coast of Morocco. March 13, 1907 Powder ex- plosion on battleship lena, at Toulon; 12-0 killed, many in jured. August 12, 1908 Gun ex plosion on the gunnery sc.hoolsblp Conronne, off Lea Barns d'Hyerns six killed, 18 Injure.: September 22, 1! Gun ex plosion on the cru' f Latouche Trovllle; entire gu:. crow of 13 killed. Toulon, France (By Cable). Dnr ing gunnery drill here one of the big turret guns on tho F ench armored cruiser Latouche Tre ville exploded with terrific vloleuce, completely wrecking the after turret and killing outright the entire gun crew of 13. A number Of men were seriously Injured, some of them probably fatal ly. The accident was similar to that aboard the gunnery schoolshlp Conr onne off Les Salins d'Hyeres, August 12 lost, when, by the bursting of the breech of one of the guns, 0 men were killed and 18 Inured. The drill had been proceeding for a considerable time, when, without warning, the whole turret seemod to blow out. Dismembered bodies were thrown In all direction, and several of them were hurled into the sea through the great breach caused by the explosion. The spectacle was horrible, the dead and wounded, together with shattered arms and legB littering the decks. A call to quarters was sound ed and as speedily as possible the wounded were cared for. The gun that exploded was 7.6 Inches bore, of which the cruiser carried two. Happening so soon after the accident on the Couronne, the explosion has caused a sensation in naval circles and doubtless will .lead to a most rigid investigation. The Latouche Treville carried a compliment of 370 men. THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON. Sentence Imposed On August Eber hani Who Killed His Aunt. Hackensack, N. J. (Special). Au gust Eberhard, on trial here for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottille Eberhard. changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to serve 30 years in state prison. After a conference between the prosecutor and counsel ifor Eber hard it was started to the court that the prisoner had agreed to plead non vult. The prisoner's coun sel said Eberhnrd's grandfather died in an insane asylum, that his sister now is In an institution for the insane and that tbe young man himself had been acting strangely for sometime prior to the crime. Judge Parker said the very fact that Eber hard had agreed to changing his plea proved that his mental derange ment was not severe enough to ab solve him from punishment. There remained nothing for the court to do. he said, but to impose sentence Immediately. Eberhnrd heard the centence without a tremor. To End Night-Hiding. New Orleans (Special). Governor E. F. Noel, of Mississippi, speaking of the possible growth of ntght-rid-lng in the cotton belt, said that If necessary he would call on the Fed eral Government for troops to stop such raids. He would first use Slate troops, Governor Noel said, and final ly seek Federal aid to restrain law lessness at any cost. Black Hand Wory In Geneva. Geneva, N. Y. (Special). The ho j tel and residence of Raymond Del j Pappa, a wealthy Italian merchant I and banker, was practically destroy- ed at 1.40 o'clock A. M., by the ex j plosion of a dynamite bomb, which I is supposed to have been placed in ihe bar room by a member at the Black Hand Society. The number of Idle freight cars has decreased 20.000 in two weeks. Tile Pest In Manila. Manila (By Cable) The epidemic of cholera continues to assume less alarming proportions. The daily av erage of new cases discovered or re ported is about 30. Josephlna Hall, an American infant, attacked sev eral days ago, Is dead. ' No Ameri cans have been stricken by cholera since the last report. l.ieut. Selfridge Buried. Washington, D. C. (Special). The funeral of Lieutenant Selfridge. who was killed in the fall of the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer a few days ago, was held at Arlington National Cemetery Friday. The Episcopal burial rite was observed at the grave und troopers from the fort fired a salute. Tbe honorary pallbearers Included Alexander Graham Bell; Major G. O. Squler, of the Signal Corps; Ortave Chanute, Glenn Cur ttsH, Capt. F. W. Baldwin, Percy Bradford and J. A. D. McCurdy. Labor Department lluy. Washington, D. C. (Special). The Department of Commerce and Labor issued a statement showing that it has found places for 1,090 workmen In various parts of the United States This work is u.ider the direction of T. V. Powderly, chief, of the Bureau of Information and Distribution of the department. These workmen have been sent to 35 different states, and Include practically every na tionality that has recently come to tbe United States. Of the total im migrants supplied with positions. 860 have been placed since July 1. Killed His Sister. Parkersburg, W. Va., (Special). Ieo Black. ho killed his sister while attempting to shoot his father, fol lowing a quarrel with the latter, was found guilty of Involuntary manslaughter by a jury. Black's father and mother. In accordance with a promise made to their daugh ter on her death bed, testified in the defendant's favor. ( mulcted Murderer lismpcs. Leadvllle, Col. (Special). Sher man Morris, alias Frank Shercllffe, recently convicted of the murder of Jonn Walsh, II years ago, escaped from the sheriff while being taken to the penltentlury at Canyon City to serve a 25-year sentence. Morris, while handcuffed, Jumped from a car window as the train was ap proaching Canyon City. He was brought here for trial from Michi gan. ' Women Leap From W indows. Troy, N. Y. (Special).- Five wom en were Injured, one probably fatal- In a fire which practically de- If stroyed the plant of fhe United Waste Manufacturing Company on Jackson Street. Two of the women lumped from the second story win dow. Typhoid Epidemic In Montreal. Montreal (By Cable). An epi demic of typhoid fever has broken out here, 1 2 f cases being under su pervision of the health department. Tbe outbreak la attributed to con taminated water supply. GRINESE GIFTS TO .PRESIOENL ROOSEVELT Ancient Porcelains. For the American mm VASE TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Tnng-Shso.VI. With a Large Retinue, Starts for the United States Will Thank Government far Its Remission of Boxer Indemnity and Try to Enlist American Capital in Northern Chins. Peking (By Cable). Bearing a letter to the people of the United State from the hand of the Emper or of China, Tang-Shao-Yi, a Chin ese official of high standing, left here for America by way of Jaimn. By the time he returns to Peking he will have made a tour ot the world. He le accompanied by Chung Men Yew, who succeeds Wt Ting-fang as Chinese minister at Washington. Tung-Shao-YTs prlnci.al errand to America Is to thank the United States government for It:- remission of a portion of the Boxer indemnity and to enlist American capital In tbe development of Nerinern China. Tang-Shao-Yi is takh.g v Ith him a number of valuable entB for American officials. Th' include 1 0 ancient porcelains, i .ca of the Manchu conquest, t. n from the palace of the presen; ruling family at Mukden, and other valuable por celains and Jades obtained in the Peking markets. The Dowager Em press is sending special presents to President Roosevelt, as well as sev eral valuable Jades to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the President's daughter, in remembrance of Mrs. Ixmrjworth'B visit to Peking In 1905. The Dowager Empress recently presented a rare Yungching vase to the Smithsonian Institution, In ac knowledgement of the restoration by the United States of 'one of the an cestral tablets of tho reigning family that wbb looted from Peking in 1900. The gifts being sent ovit by Tang- j hnao-Yi they are so numerous that several cars are required for their transportat Ion nre an expression of the national sense of obligation for the remission by America of part of the "boxer" Indemnity. The mission is composed of Tang-Shao-Yi, its chief; Prince Tsaifu, sec ond son of Prince Chlng and a prince of the fourth grade; Chung-Men-Yew and Yung-Kwal. who were at one time in the diplomatic service at Washington, and is secretaries, who represent various government boardB, but especially the department of public works, agriculture and com munications. With it go 15 Chin ese students, who are to enter Ameri can colleges. The mission of Tang-Sliao-Yl Is re plete wkh political posjlbilltee, and its outcome Is being regarded with great interest by some of tbe Euro pean powers interested in Man churia. Efforts have been made to discredit II, hut the sendotT given the envoy Indicates that, no matter what is thought of his purposes, person ally he is regarded as an able diplomat. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH , 1 I BLOW UP BANK AND GET $1000 Burglars Use Dynamite in the Town of Crozet. Charlottesville, Va. (Special). The bank of Crozet was dynamited about 2.30 o'clock1 A. M., and about one thousand dollars taken from the demolished safe. The work was done by men who used sledges, crowbars and other tools from the Crozet blacksmith shop nnd the section house of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. There were a great many tools of this kind found on the premises, and it is thought that sev eral persons were engaged In the blowing up of the safe and building. The bank officers think they have a clue. The bank was housed in a small frame building about 10 yards from the railway ttation an 1 near the Cro zet cooperage plant whose premises were occupied. There occupants, however, slept through both explo sions, und J. T. O'Neill and his son, John, were the flrt to reach the building, which was full of smoke, the frpnt room wrecned and the door of the safe blown' off. The coun ters, chalrt, etc., were in splinters. In the wreckage of the safe the pa pers and securities were found In tact, the robbers taking dnly money. The safe v as "burglar-proof." The entire loss was covered by insurance. T' e tank wss to gi into Its new qttr-'fra Wit in fhe next 10 days a handsome new brick building built for Its use. The officers are: Rus sell Bargamin. president; B. L. Way land, vice president, and R. E. Way land, cashier. Killed His Sweetheart, Portsmouth, Ohio (Special). Clar ence Richardson, of Ashland, Ohio, snot and killed his sweetheart, Miss Lysia Corbin after they had quar reled. Richardson fired two shots at the girl. Capt. Edward H. Campbell, judge advocate general of the Navy, has been detailed by Secretary Metcalf to make a tour of Inspection of the naval prisons at Portsmouth, Boston and Mare Island. The Postmaster General has decid ed not to take up the case of Sher man C. Uenham. postmnster at Clarksburg. W. Va., charged with pernicious political activity, until af ter the election. President RooBevelt designated Assistant Secretary of the Interior Prank Pierce to represent the gov ernment at Ihe '1 ransmissisjlppl Com mercial Congress In San Eranclsco. October 6 to 10. Comptroller of the Currency Mur ray assured the bank examiners that he would consider every complaint against them as a mark of commen dation. The Postoffice Department has de cided to give up the old pnsiofnce quarters at Ardmore, Okla., and to leabe a new building for the post office. Samuel Gompers testified In the contempt hearing that he had bet D followed by detective, employed by Van Cleave, who also Bent an e , .1 : s sary to bribe him. China must conserve her fisheries as a national food declared Wei Chlng Yen before the Internationa) Fisheries Congress nt Washington. Dr. D. Laszlo Detre. an Austrian delegate to the Tuberculosis Con gress, will lnnoculate patients with human and bovine tubercle bacilli. T. P. Kane, the deputy comptrol ler of the currency, delivered an ad Jress before tbe National Dank Ex aminers of the East. A permanent International fish commission is advocated by dele gates to the International fisheries Congrcos. Postoffice Inspec tors arrested Jamei M. Baucum, a railway postal clerk,' tor rifling the mall. The Census Bureau's report Bhows a' total of 4,575,438 running bales consumed In the United States dur ing the year ending August 31 last, compared with 4384,186 for 1907 Comptroller of the Currency Mur ray has called for a conference ol receivers of banks in the East, num bering 16, to be hold in his office, be ginning October 5. The cruiser Yankee, while bound from Cuttybunk for Newport foi coal, In a thick fog ran aground or Spindle Rock. The American Fisheries Convon Hon, In session at Washington, con sidered the effect of big-gun ffrlnt: ot: the fi3h and named a committee to investigate. The conference between Comptrol ler of the Currency .Murray and th bunk examiners was continued auc addtioual caution wob given. Judge Alton B. Parker failed tc show the court In the Gompers con tempt case that the contents of the Federal ionists were Irrelevant. An Insane soldier attacked and killed the superintendent, of un in sane asylum at Washington and one of the inmates. President Roosevelt's early return to Washington is ascribed to his de sire to be near the news center. Comptroller of the Currency Mur ray lectured the Eastern bank ex aminers at Washington, declaring that they must descover the real condition of the banks they visit. Colonel Stewart has been ordered to appear before the Medical Exam ining Board at Washington for ex amination and he will probably bo retired. SAVES TRAIN FROM WRECK, Farmer Awakened By Men Who Leoaen Bolts in Matt. Harrisburg. Pa. (Special). John Ensminger. a fanner, living near Wnitehlll, Cumberland County, was awakened at midnight by the noise of son. e men working on tho tracks of the Cumberland Valley Railroad nearby. When he approached them the men run. Ensminger then dis covered that they had loosened the bolts of several rails The Noriolk and Western express, eas bound, was due in a few minutes. Ensmir.ger ran to bis house, got a lantern and raced down the track, waving the light. The engineer ol the express saw the signal and stop ped tho train. De'ectlves are on the trail of the wreckers. Need B8 Lieutenants. Washington, D. C. (Special). Examinations of candidates for ap pointment as second lieutenants In the Marine Corps will be commenced on October 20. There are at pres ent 58 vacancies In this grade. A Shootcr-l'p Shot, Wheeling, W. Va. (Special). Jack Dawson, an oilman, was fatal ly shot while attempting to "shoot up" the town of Jacksonburg, Wetzel County, in wild western style. Daw son, with a pistol in each hand, drove all the inhabitants ot the town off tbe streets and shot the windows out of a half dozen saloons. Dave Haught made an effort ' capture the man, and in the pistol 'duel that followed, Dawson received wounds that wll. result fatally, while Haught escuped unhurt. Unjustly Inspected, Mrs. Newly wed FreJ, dear, I have done you a great injustice. Mr. Newlywed In what way? Mrs. Newlywed Well, I suspected you without reason. I asked several of your friends that you go to the club with if you knew how to play poker, and every one of them thought a minute and said you didn't. Chi cago Dally News. The most productive Insect knonvn to science Is the termite, or whlto ant, which has been known to lay eggs at the rate of 80,000 a day for a month. steel Mills Resume. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). The open-hearth furnaces of the Car negie Steel Works, at Homestead, and two departments of the Howard Axle Works started to run on double turn Monday for ie first time since last October. It Is said the Carnegie Plate Mills will go on double turn during tbe week. Several thousand men are affected by the resumption. 8,000,000 Feet Of Lumber Burned. MIMord, Me. (Special) More than 8.000,000 feet of partially finished lumber, piled In the yards of the George W, Barker Company and the Jordan Lumber Company in this town, was destroyed by a fire. The lumber was valued at nearly $17.", 000, the loss being equally divided between both companies. Collerics Forced To Close. Mahanoy City. Pa. (Special).- The Buck Mountain and Vulcan col lieries of the Mill Creek Coal Com pany, two of the largest operation) in the Schuylkill field, shut dowu Monday because of lack of water for the boilers. The mines will re main closed until the drouth I' broken. - Fifteen hundred mlnework ers are rendered idle. The American Fisheries Associa tion of America approved Presldeut Roosevelt's attitude toward the fish erics and elected officers. A New Jersey inventor has ap plied for u pauent on a process of treating the bases of telephone and other poles with hot asphalt by which, ho claims, at slight expenaa. ttey can ho prevented from rottinl for 10 years. To burn out weedAietween row of cane or other crops a Hawaiian planter mounted a gasoline tank oo wheels and from it led a number ot pipes terminating In burners, from which the cane waa protected W sheet Iron shields.
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