! Ul. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH NAME MEN FOR . MB. TIFT'S CABINET Franck H. Hitchcock to Be Made Postmaster General MR. MEYER TO SUCCEED MR. ROOT. Treasury Portfolio My Go to Myron Herrtck- Forrest of the Official Family to Take Charge of the Depart, menta on March 5 Fills Every Place But Secretaryship of Interior. TAFT'S TENTATIVE CABINET. State George Treasury My- Secretary of ' Von L. Meyer. Secretary of ' ron T. Herrtck. Attorney General Frank B. i Kellogg. Wade Ellis. Secretary Commerce and Labor James R. Garfield. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson. Secretary of Wright. Secretary of H. Newberry. Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock. Secretary of Interior Un known. I FINISHED IH SAVANNAH RACK. The times of the nine cars that finished In the Orand Prize race at Savannah, in hours, minutes and seconds, were as follows: Finish- Car Driver. Time. 1 Fiat Wagner G.10.31 2 Bins Hemery 6.11.27 3 Flai Nazarro 8.18.47 4 Benz Hanrlot 6.26.12 5 Clemei.t-B Hautvast . 6.34.06 6 Renault Strang 6 43.37 7 Clement-H Rlgal .... 6.45.49 8 Itala Foamier 6.46.32 i Fii' Oe Palma ... 6.61.34 War Luke E. Navy Truman Domestic After a protracted conference at Hot Springs between President-elect Taft and Timothy L. Woodruff, New York tte chairman, announcement was made that Mr. Woodruff had elimi nated himself from the New York senatorial race In favor of Secretary Root Hope Is now entertained for the recovery of Dr Andrew G. McCosh. house surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital. New York, who was seri ously Injured In a runaway accident. Strikers at the plant of the Na tional Flreprooflng Company, at Keaarey, N. J., are still holding out for $1.50 a day. The company of fers $1.40. Fire at the car shops of J. G. Brill & Co., in Philadelphia, caused thf instruction of trolley cars and other equipment to the amount of 1100,000. By a narrow margin of only a few inches a skidding automobile, in which Charles Dan Gibson and Norman Ilapgnod were ridng, escap ed plunging over a 500-foot preci pice near Portland. Ore. Miss Louise Gates, prominent In society at Sherman. Tex., was acci dentally shot to death with a target rifle in the hands of a girl com panion. Miss Gladys Ely. James F. Aldrlch, of Little Ftrils. N. Y., a member of the freshman class of the University of Maine, wai drowned In Pushaw Lake near Oro no. Me. Th" Western Pacific Railroad Com pany announced the completion nf i's Flower Lake tunnel, which cuts through the Pequoq Mountains In Nye County, Nev. Charles E. Jinkens. a publisher of Philadelphia, was found dead of heart disease In his room at the Kaiserhof Hotel, Chicago. Walter Rhea Whitman, member of the bankrupt stock exchange firm of A. O. Brown & Co.. of New York, who was office manager of the firm, was arrested on an Indictment charg ing grand larceny. Fog. paralyzing in its effect on traffic on land and sea, which has hung over New York for two days, has tied up shipping In the worst blockade that the city has experi enced In 25 years. Robbers dynamited the vault of the Towanda State Bank at Towanda, Kan., 20 miles east of Wichita, se cured $2,500 and escaped on a hand car. A posse is in pursuit. Rev. Silas C. Swallow has written ! master. Mr. Meyer, is slated for tne an open letter to the President Crtti- I Department of State. a;ter possibly clsin his statement that a voter i a few months' service as Secretary ought not to consider the religious of the Treasury. The Treasury port- beliefs of a candidate. - visit. ?lrt position. Hemery In a Gcr- i I.il.n n 1 r,.il,ri ,1 t--t f .'rl t int t ie . . .... t. i 11 n'..h. mull mj, ......... ....... ,,,, . kit. as wail WM LU gw Washington, D. C. (Special). Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock will become Postmaster General In Mr. Taft's cabinet. The announcement was made here. It created not the slight est ripple of surprise, for every man has known from the hour that Mr. Hitchcock was appointed chairman of the Republican National Commit tee that in the event of Republican success Mr. Hi'chcock would become Postmaster General. Having served several years with splendid success as First Assistant Postmaster General, Mr. Hi'chcock is thoroughly qualified by experience to preside over the pos. office depart ment, and his appointment, tner fore, is due him on merit. But the fact that he was chairman of the successful national committee maae him the logical Postmaster General for In recent years It has become customary to make the chairman of the national committee the Postmas ter General. Four years age Chairman Cortel you became Postmaster General, and , now Chairman Hitchcock will nom i the same office. The present Post- WAGNER WINS IN JHRJILING STYLE Establishes New Road Record in Grand Prize Race. Savannah, Ga. (Special). The power of slxscore horses, crashing aud roaring In the cylinders of a Fiat car, sent plunging through (hanging fog and sunshine over 402 miles of lllao oiled roadways by the SX.pi rlenosd hands of Louis Wagner, won the most spectacular, the long est and fastest International automo bile race ever he'.'d In this country Fate played a game of hide and seek with three grim and grimy hooded figures that sat behind big steering wheels and throttles, and rought with skill and daring for an advance of seconds at the fiulsh of the more than six hours of driving, driving, driving through the stifling fumes of burning oil Into storms of sand and gravel thrown up by the living wheels of the car ahead at a risk of life and limb for the honor of a trophy cup and a purse of gold. The three drivers who clung to gether from the very start were hurtled about like so many cards as the flying laps wore reeled off. For a time there was a fourth figure In the leading column, but when little more than a minute separated the first from the last of the cars In the whirring quartet, a caprice of for tune sent one pitching from the road. Out of the mass of wreckage Fritz Erie, who had been driving the Ger man Benz. No. 19, was taken with a broken nose and a broken jaw. Still the struggle continued, nnd It was not until the lsst minute of the last lap that the tide of victory turn ed to Wagner. Nnzarro Hesitated And Lost. Nazarro, the wonderful Italian driver, holder cf world's records and winner of countless contests, who had clung tenaciously to a narrow margin of lead for more than a hun dred miles, hesitated long enough at the supply pits to change n weaken THE DEATH PIT AT MARIANNA One Hundred and Thirty-eight Killed in the Disaster. TWENTY-FIVE BODIES ARE FOUND. Foil Connt of Those Lost in the Model Mining Town Disaster Cannot Bs Ascertained -Recovered Bodies Are Terribly Mutilated - Victim Ars Americans. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). Twenty-five bodies, all but two of them horribly mutilated and a number of them dismembered, were taken Sun day from the mine of the Pittsburg Buffalo Coal Company, at Marlanna, 40 miles south of here, where an explosion occurred killing over 100 men and casting hito gloom what wis until then considered the model raining town of the world. . There is no doubt that the death list will reach MS men. Officials of the company, who stated that not over 125 had been killed, admit that 138 men went down the shaft to work. According to minors and oth ers familiar with the number of men generally employed In the mine the dea'h list will exceed the company's estimate by at least 50, As In nearly all mine disasters there seems no way at present of knowing how many men went to work. The number check-off system 1 EIRE AND PUNIC ON SHIP AT SEA Over One Hundred Suffer An Awful Death. Valetta. Island of Malta (By Cable). A terrible disaster, In which more than a hundred persons lost their lives, occurred at the en trance to this port, within sight of the whole population of the city, who were powerless to give aid. The British steamer Sardinia, of the Ellerman Line, hailing from Liver pool and bound for Alexandria, with a crew of 44 Engishmen, 11 first and 6 second cabin English passengers and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims, caught fire and, within n few minutes, waf a roaring furnace surrounded by clouds of black smoke, through which the flames burst upward to a height to 200 feet from the fre quent explosions in the hold. So rapidly did the fire spread that the frantic efforts of the crew to operate the fire apparatus proved v.seless, for it seemed but a moment before the upper works and masts crashed down upon the deck. While) the ehlp's beats were crushed by the falling debits or set fir? nnd quickly burned. Safety lay only in the sen. for no one could save himself except by Jumping overboard and taking chances of being picked up. Assist ance was hurried to the burning vessel from all the warships In the harbor nnd from the shore, but the nas again proven oeiecue ana irom i .ork of xtvw wu greatly Imnendel no source tan an accurate s.atement I bv ,no Ktronft tIne thBt wn8 running, as to the fatalities be secured, it Even the navaI iauI1Ph.g, which came is possible that the exact number of aa fMt as thev coid bo drlven, were men killed will never be known. I P unable to go alongside Among to darkness 25 bodies had been (he Arr,JS therp wn a ,c inuugui iu me sunuee in .... "".could not be controlled. Mnnv of bucket Owner's Cousin Found. Two of the men taken from the mine had been suffocated and their bodies were not even scratched. One of these was John twill, a cousin of John H. Jones, president of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company, owners of the mine, who was em ployed as head timekeeper. IvIU'a body wns found beneath a coal-dig ging machine and it was apparent i them were too frightened to Jiimr nnd they were burned to denth. Oth ers casting themselves into the waves were drowned. Perished At His Post. The crew behaved with admirable courage, serving out life preservers to the last and working the pumps. When the pumps became assists Cart. Charles Littler, commander cf the Sardinia, took the helm and direct- That the young man had crawled i fd hls ,??"J'f'9 ,hf ?n?re " there in a vain effort to escape the lonf be. na-.-Kate-i Ho deadly fumes. perished at his post. First Officer T, . . .ii .1 : Tk,. 1, I.. 'Uar. v,r. .- a a ri.lllK , . . 1 . illl HUff I II K 1 11 1- C I I, II'- ...... Ul .I.C ....-I 1 1 1 .1 1 1 ....."J r,.n,i ,, Kill Thn imfnrtnnniP , Seagraves. Hislop and Nell, eighteen had placed his face in a pool of wa- of the rhlp's company and two first- . . - . . . t f . . :t l u r i'ir; imn ( i i moth n inv ter, which all miners are advised r x ? , , " " to do when an explosion occurs, iu a J ant- ire missing. Fifty or desperate attempt to light off suffoca tion until rescued. During the afternoon the coroner of Washington County held a meet ing tire and lost. The treacherous lng to organize a Jury and then ad rubber tubing burst as he was about jOUrned until all of the bodies have to enter the homestretch and the ! boen takeu from tht. mlne The opin. three minutes of delay that followed : ,on waa expressed bv a number of sent the Orand Prix winner of last expert miners that the mine will not i-ur ,ir, i ma run .o. o Hum unt i Hpnrrd nf Vlettms for several Benz, No. 8. favorite of the , Fire In The Mine. Standard ' Oil Company consumed lllgton haT been in connection with i JSfW" WmObUtaa took sec- A mM flre bn)ka out , the mlQ t,.i s, ju 1 uaneis 01 tmur on mm t li ;i t ambitiou Mr. Bonaparte will be succeeded 1 either by Mr. Kellogg, who is now had 3,573 marketing s atlons m 1906. R. W. Drake, a prominent planter. ; n the llmeitgbt each day in Ntw was murdered at his home, near j York trying the Standard Oil case.! Laneville, Hale County, KJT. His or possibly by Wade Ellis, of Ohio, nnd honors. It was not until the official time was announced that the actual win- Several fire boasts properly equipped were hurried Into the mine and sue- more bodies hnve been recovered and seventy persons were rescued. It Is Impossible at present to say Just how many were drowned or burned to death, because the list of Arab pilgrims is Incomplete, but the num ber will doubtless far exceed a hun dred. After the vessel refused to obev her helm, she drifted around three times, and finally was bearhel broadside on the rocks at the mouth of the har bor. She is still burning and will he a total loss. The British Vice Admiral Sir As- sheton Curzon-Howe and Admiral ner wns known- now an ass'stant attorney general In j ap() )hp house was burned. Kmrlnwr InHiiB Severson. of tbe - Washington. Burlington Road, stuck to his post I Secretary Oscar StraiiB. of the De during a collision, being burled un- paitment of Commerce and Labor, der six box cars, but saving his train. ! expects to go. and it Is likely that i.. u . n!im,.H tn ' he will be succeeded by James R. rait aTund ofVhaVn iliion "dolla" j rfleld. the preset Secretary of the tor the Lincoln Memorial Cnlversity. j co A wireles-i station in Ban t ram-isco mlssioner of the Bureau of Corpora tions, the most Important branch of the Department of Commerce, and it is believ&d that he would cheerfully return to the head of the department where he began hlB career. In the event of this transfer the Department of the Interior will go to some man from tbe far West, or the Pacific Slpe, neither of which sections of the country is represent- thft Wagner had t'eosu iu ku.i. b mm " " ; Fisher directed the rescuing boats hurled himself to vietorv by the ! ""'""""' slender margin of f6 seconds. Hem-i ReP; s have bt' ,lu d.rc"lat'on.?" ery was the first to finish the 1 5 ! a.a l"a a second and more ter race and enthusiastic1 rifle explosion is likely to occur at has picked up code messages believed to have originated In Japan. I oreign Mme. SUInheil, whose husband, the painter, and a Mme. Japy war murdered In Paris May 31 lust, was placed under arrest on suspicion. It is rumored that prominent person ages are Involved, and all Paris is j ad in Cabinet since the resignation worked up over the case. or secretary Meteair, or tne .Navy. It is anonunced nn agreement has! , T,h Interior Department Is prae tr. r00M.,i hot d.'o.. Sorotnrv nf i ticallj' the only department In which tho Troaxnrv ffrK-lvrm nn.l w ft. : the People of the far West and of the thousand! hailed him as a winner, ! moment The company ofllcia s without heed of the six minutes1 I a8?eri lh'B ls no,1 trlue- ,Ther.e '8 grace which Wagner held. Hemerv ! considerable gas in the mine, how being sent away at the start at 9 52 ever, aud there Is undoubtedly dan and Wngner not getting the word to ! of ft second explosion. go until 9. 58. PILFERED MONEY FROM MAILS. Irwin for the exchange of the site I of the federal building in Honolulu for a tract of Irwin's land wanted by I the government. No British warships have been or- ; dered to Haiti, the consul general I of Great Britain at Port au Prince j Slop? are vitally Interested, and a'l their efforts at securing representa tion in the Cabinet tUI be centered on naming the new secretary of the interior. Secretary1 Wilson will re main In the cabinet, but Ig Is gener ally understood that he will resign in a year, when he will have made naving lniorni.-a me foreign umce thp .,...,.,, fnr ,h ,, ,,,, that he ls not apprehensive of any danger to British subjects or British interests. Professors Beattie and Morrison, who have been commissioned by the Carnegie Institute at Washington to undertake a magnetic survey across Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, have begun th'eir labors. Count Bonl de Casllane'B couusel In pleading for having the children removed from the custody of Prln and Princess dc Sagan. male a lor rifle arraignment of Prince Balls'l acandalous doings. General Lecunte, the Haitien min ister of the interior, ordered the ex ecution of Captain Ostcnin, of the Bervlce of any Cabinet officer. When he finally resigns his position will be offered to Gifford Plnchot, at present chief forester. So far as It is known Secretary Wright and Se r ary New berry .will net be imme diately disturbed, but Mr. Loeb, at present secretary to the president, can have Mr. Newberry's place if he cares for it. HUNDRED I.IVES LOST. Head Of Ict ter-( 'urrlers' Association Is Sent To Prison. Chicago, 111. (Special). The most severe sentence ever given by the federal court in Chicago to a letter thief was meted out to Robert F. Palmer. Palmer, who was president of the City Letter Carriers' Associa tion of Illinois and superintendent of PRESIDENT WANTS THE NAVY REORGANIZED Mr. Roosevelt Said to Be Date: mined to Make Changes. New York (Special). In an ar ticle entitled "President Roosevelt and the Navy's Renaissance," which a Sunday School at Jollet, 111., admit- 's t0 appear In the forthcoming num whirh did gallant work In saving those who were yet alive nnl hrlng- : lng the bodies of the dead ashore. Captain Lltt'er's body, which was terribly muilinted, was landed this : afternoon In the presence of great j crowds, who stood uncovered. The I other bodies were also mutilated and i burned. Fifty-six of the Injured are being cared for In the hospitals. ted that he had been pilfering money from letters Intrusted to him dur ing the last 17 years. He pleaded guilty and, despite pleas for leniency entered by a banker, two State sen ators and other prominent friends, lie was sentenced to serve three and one-half years in the house of correction. toasting Steamer Kinks Off The Philippine Island. Manila (Special). The coasting steamer Pontlng, carrying a large gunboat Croyant and of two citizens j number of laborers from Narvcan to of Jerenire and was then hlmseli j the rice fields In Pangaslnan prov ince, struck a rock and sank dur- HulgHi'in And Turkey Agree. Palis l By Cable). Official advices received here indicate that Bulgaria aud Turkey have practically come to termg In the matter of Bulgaria's declaration of Independence on the following baalg: Bulgaria Is to pay Turkey from $12,000,000 to $14, 000,000 on account of Rumella and $10,000,000 on account of the rail road. Tbe capitalization of the Ru mellan tribute and the participation of Bulgaria In the Turkish debt ll to be lelt to ttM Internationa1, congress. killed. The British steamer .Sardinia was ing a Htorin off the town of San burned ut the entrance to the harbor oi aieuu, is.anu o. .mm., ana ow-r (i i,ated that a hundred of the a 7 i , """L"fB"' muBlt I passengers and crew of the Pontlng Arab pilgrims, were lost. 'w,.r,. rtrowned The ,leumi.r vlgB A lire broke out on the Hospital caya rescued 55. Ship Itellef while 'on her way irom a patrol of constabulary, which Manila to (.uara, and she returned , was ectablished immediately after the accident, picked up 15 bodies, under her own steam The American Association of Mer chants at Shanghai lesulved In favor of trial by Jury In the American court here. The mutinous outbreak at Nanking is reported to hae been suppressed, i It Is denied that King Manuel waa mobbed In the streets of Lisbon. While much interest ig manifested In Oermany In General Lord Robert's statement that a million troops were needed In England for protection ugalust possible German invasion no comment is madu iu official circles. The dlapute between Unrmany and France over the gelzure by French officials at Casablanca, Morocco, of deserters from the French Foreign legion has been refwrred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Various chambers of commerce in Germany are petitioning the Imperial Secretary of Posts to egtabllgh tn the Interests of trade a two-cent pos tal rate between Germany and the i: uited States. An army of the unemployed of London made a demonstration In the fashionable Wegt Kud. Suit to recover $425,204. til for work done on tbe Columbia and Port lieposlt hallway tn Lancaster County, Pa., was brought against the Mc Call Ferry Power Company In the l'l Red Btaes Circuit Court of Pbila leiohla by H. S. Kerbaugh, isiiiorpora-'. and many were coming ashore. It is not known whe'her any Americans or Europeans were aboard the wreck ed steamer. China Sends Thanks. Ran Francisco (Special). Prince Tsal Fu and Special Ambassador Tung Shuo Yl. China's emissaries cf peace, good will and friendship to ward the I'nited 8tateg, arrived here on the Liner Mongolia and received a notable demonatratlon of welcome from tbosuands of Chinese and fed eral and state officials. The Chinese dignitaries are on their way to Wash ington to convey to this government the thanks of China for release from the "Boxer Indemnity." Uirelrsg From Japan. San Francisco (Special). A wire less station in this city reported hav ing overheard during tbe pagt fort night code messages which are be lieved to have been sent from some gtatlon In Japan. A Honolulu wire less statlou is said to have heard the game code messages. The Japa nese station Is over 6,000 miles on an air line from this city, and should the slgnalg which have been sent In tbe Japanese code have originated In Japan, the wireless record will have been broken bv over 3.000 utiles. IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE Atchison's gross earnings In Octo ber decreased $316,834, but net profits gained $443,853. Wall Street firms say they are get ting big orders for s'ocks from Phila delphia, Boston, Chicago and other large titles. Copper Range Consolidated declar ed a quarterly dividend of $1 a share. This is the same amount as was paid one year ago, but two years ago $2 was distributed. La kawanna Railroad directors de clared an extra dividend of 10 per cent. The game amount was paid last year. As the regular dividend is also 20 per cent., shareholders re ceive 20 per cent, annually. Lead miners are keenly alive to the talk of tariff reviglon. The duty ls 2 cents a pound on pig lead, which Ig virtually half of its selling value. That high duty Bhutg out lor- elgn lead quite effectually. Any drastic cut In the schedule would be felt Instantly by all the lead pro ducers. Pergong connected with tbe Raw hide Coalition mines at Rawhide gay that favorablo developments have been made on tbe Happy Hooligan claim. They report a gain In valueg which In gomo places are said to run as high as $100 to tbe ton. London was again depressed by what It termed unfavorable news from Germany. Tbe hoarding of gold by France and tbe liquidation of securities are two facts worthy of notice. W. P. Davis, a Philadelphia min eralogist, has spent a good deal of time In Cobalt. Concerning tuat dig trlct he gays many mines there pay no attention to their dumps which contain ore having from $100 to $160 a ton In silver. He says the capitalisation of the shipping mines may appear excessive, but In reality it la not. Mr. Davla pronounces Cobalt "tbe greatest silver region In .the world." ber of Pearson's Magazine, Henry Heuterdahl glveg what purports to be the views of President Roosevelt on the Navy, none the leagt interest ing of which ls his attitude In rogard to a reorganization of that depart ment. The article is the result of an ln vlew which Mr. Reuterdahl had with the President; but the writer re fralng from quoting Mr. Roosevelt directly, gave iu a few InBtanceg. One of these ig In regard to the reorganization of the entire depart ment. Mr. Routerdahl Is the marine art ist who made the voyage around South America with the fleet and Who has been very outspoken in his criticism of the Navy in some re siects. The President, Mr. Reuterdahl says, strongly believes that the Navy can only be made better by chang ing the admlnlgtration of the Navy deparment and that hig wish is to do as much for the Navy In this respect as he has done for the Army. Mr. Reuterdahl quotes Mr. Roosevelt as saying: "I have from time to time recom mended the reorganization of the Navy Department; It lg absolutely necessary and we will work until we get It, and we shall get It." Politic In The Service. Mr. Reuterdahl goes on to gay that Mr. Roosevelt believes In this con nection that "the tide of politics must bo stemmed and not allowed to interfere with the efficiency of the service. " The President, he sayg, wants a fleet of ships In each ocean, snd be lieves with this accomplished and the Panama Canal completed the Unit ed States can look forward to years of peace and oroaperlty. A Mean llrldgegroom. Boston, Mil (Special). James Vogel, of thlg city, who wag married by Edward Browu, a Justice of the peace, has brought suit against Mr. Brown for a penalty of $30 upon the ground that Mr. Browa illegally charged him $5 for the service. Mr. Vogel declares that $1.25 Is the legal fee for a Justice of the peace marry ing a couple. Mr. Brown says he did other and more service than the statute prescribeg, for he left his office and went to Mr. Vogel's house to perform the marriage. f NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA I TWO GILS IN AJJIC.DE PACT Disappointed in Love and Drink Laudanum Philadelphia (Special). Follow ing out a compact Into which they had entered, two comely young girls Mary Moran, of 1443 Clymer Street, and Ruth Brlndley, of 1516 South Twenty-gixth Street, attempt ed suicide by drinking laudanum. They are both dying In the Poly clynlc Hospital. The mystery of the attempt Is so great that nothing of n gatlsfactory nature can be learned by the police of the agreement Into which the girls are said to have en tered, or the reason for the com- I pact. Unrequited love is given as the reason. The nttempt to end their .lives wns made by the girls In the branch establishment of the South wark Mills Company, at Twenty-firat Street and Washington Avenue. They are both employed at this place and are close friends. A state of melancholia has been noted In both for some time and among their mill girl companions the Jesting remark has frequently been made that "Mary nnd Ruth were In love.1' They were found unconscious In a dressing room of the mill. The dis covery was made by a companion, w ho summoned help. The police re moved the pair to the hospital. The police, nfter Investigating the circumstances, learned that both girls, within the pas' two weeks, had run away from their homes because their parents objected to their re reiving the attentions of young men. When the latter learned they had been forbidden to visit the glrln bit ter quarrels ensued. CATTLE DISEASE. Inspectors Hear Of Many New Cnc. Danville (Special). Fresh out breaks of the foot nnd mouth dis ease in Clinton and Dauphin Coun ties were reported at headquarters here. The disease was discovered In the slaughter house of F. L. Dinner, at Lock Haven, where eighty hogs are affected, and the experts believe they have traced all the Infection In CMnton County to this place. The farms of H. O. Mhh-. of Clln tondale, and Knecht Brothers, at Parvln, Clinton County, with sixty five hogs and eleven cattle, have al so become infected. The farm of Hays Dorry, Island Post Office, has been placed under quarantine. At Elizabeth, Dauphin County, eighteen cattle on tbe farm of George E. Erdnian were reported as being Infected. The farms of Jacob Lea ner, C. E. Shaffer and E. Boyer, Ellzahethvllle, with a total of 130 cattle, are under quarantine, their cattle having been exposed to the disease. TYPHOID EPIDEMC MENACES READING Nearly 153 Persons Contract Fever Will in the Week. Reading (Special). That those sections of the city gupplled with water from the Maidencreek stream are on the threshold of a serious epidemic of typhlod fever wag made apparent by the report of commun icable diseases maintained by tho Board of Health for the past week. Since November 16, and Just end ing, there have been reported the alarming number of 146 cases of the disease nnd physicians slate that there are indications that tills num ber will be equnlled, If not surpassed, by the end of this week. The snow fall of November 14 Is declared to be the direct cause of the trouble. This was the only pre cipitation of any consequence for some time. When the biiow melted, the water resulting stirred up the very dregs In the creekB, and this, those who claim to know say. is what the people are drinking In the Maid encreek supply which Is not filtered. In the wards north of Penn Square there are over 100 cases. HIS FIANCEE ENDS LIKE. Vounjr Chester (ilrl Commits Suicide On Kvc Of Wedding. Chester (Special). Mary C. Pugh, a pretty 17-year-old girl, committed suicide at the home of William Bay ard. Jr., 19 West Fourth Street, where she was found lying upon the floor In convulsions. The girl, who lived on West Front Street, went to a local drug store and bought five centB1 worth of gtrychnlne. Bay ing that she wanted tho poison to kill a dog. The girl wag to hnve been mar ried on December 19 to Charles Vail, a young employee of the Philadel phia & Reading Ballwny Co.. and arrangements for tho wedding hnd been made. Vail Bald he could not account for the girl's actions. When he loft her at night she was laughing and Joking, nnd there did not seem to be anything troubling her. She bid him good-by and did not Inti mate In any way that she Intended to end her life. Conservators To Meet. Waahington, D. C. (Special). On Tuesday of this week the National Conservation Commission will meet In this city to begin the forniuhuloii of its report to President Roosevelt on tbe state of the country's natural resources. This report Is duo on January 1. It will be the basis for a special message the President will send to Oongress. The commission will submit an outline of Us report to tbe Joint conference with the Gov ernors and national organisations which will meet December S. DOINGS AT THEJATIONS CAPITAL Former Queen Llliuoknlnnl arriv ed to present her petition to Con gress for Indemnification for the loss of her lost crown lands in Hawaii. The director of the census sub mitted his annual report, which In cluded his estimates of the cost of taking the next census. The annual report of the Ir'.hmlan Canal Commission Wsjs submitted to the Secretary of War by Lieutenant Colonel Goethals. Postmaster General Meyer submit ted his annual report, which shows the largest deficit in the history of the department. Congress will be expected to pro vide for a deficit that has occurred In the immigration fund. Considerable alarm is felt at the War Department over the Met that the Army transport Dixie, en route from Seattle to Manila with a cargo of 200 horses and 2 50 mulct. Is six days overdue. President Rooseve'.t hns signed proclamations creating tho Orala National ForeBt in Marion Countv. Fla., and tho Dakota National Forest In Billings County, North Dakota. It has been decided that six of the eight submarine -toipc.lo boats, bids for which were recently opened at the Navy Department, will be either built or delivered on the Pa cific Coast. The Treasury1 purchased 100,000 ounces of silver for delivery at Now York, 75,000 ounces for delivery at New Ori'nana and 50,000 ounces for delivery1 at Denver. Nr a titieie case nf nl.afrnn Yan been discovered on the Pacific Coist since laBi i-ebrunry. according to a report made by Dr. Walter Wymau. The Census Bureau made public a bulletin allowing a notable increase In the ratio of divorces to marriage in this country. The indications are that the tariff on Iron, gteel and metal products will be reduced In the next tariff bill. Public Printer John 8. Leech re signed, and Samuel B. Donnelly, of Brooklyn, was appointed to succeed him. Tbe plague gituation on the Pacific Coast is gald to have greatly Improv ed within the last few months. Secretary of the Treasury Corlel you and Asms ant Secretnry of the Treasury Coolldge were heard by tho monetary committee regarding pro poged revision of tbe currency lawg. Orders were Usued by the Navy Department to the protected cruiser Tacoma to proceed to Haiti for the protection of American intereets dur ing the present uprising there. The President has approved a draft of a walking test for officers of the Navy. A bronze statue of General Phil Sheridan wag uuvelled a' the Nation al Capital, in the pregence of a dis tinguished assemblsge. The legislative committee of the American Bankers' Association was invited by tbe National Monetary Commission to meet with that body at an early date. Advices to tbe State Depaument from Buenos Ayres indicate that iho armament bill, which has been be fore tbe Argentine Congress for gome time, will become a !nw. Olasa manufacturers appeared bo fore tbe House committee and ex pregsed themselves satlgfled with the propoand revision of the r' r -iln RVMOll OK DEAL. Butler Hears That Steel Trust May Duy Loral Plants. Butler (Special). A well defined rumor Is aflo.it here that the United Stateg Steel Coroporatlon la nego tiating for the punrhaae of the local plnnt of the Standard Steel Car Coirtpany and tho subsidiary con cerns, the Butler Wheel Works, trie forged Steel Wheel Works and the Butler Bolt and Rivet Works located here. Representatives of the corporation were in Butler and inspected the plants. In connection with the re port it is snld the $5,000,000 enr wheel plant, projected by the cor poration to manufacture wheeU by a new process, will be established with the forged steel nlant already here if the doal goes through. TAFT'S MAJORITY 230,001. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. The Auditor General's department Is taking Btepg to secure payment of delinquent taxes. State Superintendent of Public In struction Shaffer, In remarking up on county Institutes he hnB attended lately, saye that tho attendance ls larger than usual The State Wnter Supply Commis sion haa sent engineers to Lebnnon to study water conditions. Appli cations have been made for a num ber of charters for water companies and protests have been made. Chief Rockey, of the State Bu reau of Industrial Statistics, says that he expects a bill to establish a labor bureau to be presented this winter. The State Department of Agricul ture g paying off ownerg of cattle killed by State live stock agentg as rapidly as the bills come In. Sec retary Crltchfleld says that ho will see to It pergonally that they are paid so as to cause as little loss to cat tie owners as possible. Clay Kcmblc'.s Home Hold. Norrlstown ( Special ) . 1 ' Fu nsc t , " the residence of Clay Kerable, on Church Road, at the top of Bdg" HUI Hange, Cheltenham, wag Bold by Sheriff Buckley here. The purchas er was a Mr. Chase, of Philadelphia. The property is said to have coat $75,000, and the sale followed an attachment leaned at the Instance nf the H. F. Mlchell Company, of Philadelphia. Offirial Returns Given Out Dy State Department. Harrieburg (Special). William H Taft bad a majority of 29B.9D-I over William J. Bryan, or Juat 4.006 short of 300,000, according to tho official count of the votes which took place at the State Department. The statements snow -ne ioiiow- ing: Taft (Republican! 745.779; Bryan (Democrat). 44R.785; Chafln (Pro hibition), 36,694; Debs (Socialist), 33,913; Hlsgen (Independent), 1 , 057; Socialist Labor, 1.222. Taft's plurality over Bryan is 296. 994; majority over all. 224,108. The vote In Philadelphia County was aa foLoWB: Republican, 185,- I 263; Democratic, 75,317: Prohibi tion, 1,926: Socialistic, a.iaz; inae pendence, 234; Socialist Labor, 216. Trliw On Stairs Over Cat. Darby (Special). Dr. William P. Painter, one of the directors of the Darby National Bank, Is confined to his bed by Injuries. Dr. Painter waa hurrying downstairs in the ' -rk when he stepped on the family cut. The cat squirmed from under his feet, causing tho doctor to fall head long down the stairs. items in nniKF. Victims Saw No Kun. Chester (Special). Charged with holding up John Delaney, Paul Crow ther and Willard Delaney at point of a revolver and rifling their clothen of money and penknives, Frank Bow man, white, aud Clarence Cottman, colored, were each held under $100 ball to keep the peace by Maglstrato Elliott. Tbe accused lads declared that tbey were only playing wild West In fun, but the youthful victims said It was no fun for them. IMvide Lafayette IHoyler'a Estate. Uoyertown (Special). Tbe cou tegted estate of the late Lafayette Bleyler, a bachelor, has beon ab judicated. Tho sum of $8,500 is given to bis housekeeper, Katie Deener; while Betheny Orphaug' Home, Womelsdorf, and the Reform ed Church, at Tenth and Wallace Btreeti, In Philadelphia, each receiv ed $4,486 5. The claim of $1,500 made by tbe administrator of tbe estate of John V. Haenle, of Phila delphia, waa not allowed. The Carllgle Chain Workg were damaged by flre originating In a fur nace to tho extent of about three thousand dollars. Six-year-old Gertrude Clarey, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clarey, of Phoenlxville, died as the result of burns received on Monday, when she and a little playmate over turned a lighted lamp. The eleventh annual reunion of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Regi ment. Pennsylvania Volunteers' As sociation, was held at the Schuylkill Valley House, at Leeaport. The 205 women and 600 men, at tbe Asylum of tbe Chronic Insane, at South Mountain, enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast. Their blll-of-fare consisted of 1,200 pounds of roast chicken, eight bushels of sweet potatoes, 3,000 stalks of -celery, 150 quarts of cranberries, 4 0 gallons of cold slaw, 40 gallons of gravy, 250 pounds of filling and 300 pumpkin pies. Tho Hoard of Health of Upper Darby Township reorganized with the following officers: President, lr. Leedom Braadbent; secretary, Wil liam Pendlehurg; treasurer, t. Mil ton Lutz; solicitor, W. Cloud Alex ander; health officer, Harold O. Ver non. The handsome new three-story brick home of Shamokin Aerie So. 534, Fraternal Order of Eagles, was dedicated with imposing public cere monies. After an lllnogs of eleven days with typhoid fever, James R. Frank, lieu tenant of police for the Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, died at his borne In Media. J. H. Lehman, a cattle dealer, of I.ancagter County, convicted ' Chambersburg, September, of secur ing stocks on worthless checks. "'& sentenced to four mouths In Jail sua a $100 tn.-. While Lester, the 2-year-old noo of Mr. and Mrs. Dan White, of Hep burn, In Lycoming County, was ea'1 Ing chestnuts a portion of a lodged In his throat. Orders have been given for tbe resumption at the Lock Ridge an thracite blast furnace at Alburtl". uear Reading, after a nine months Idleness twenty-five years thai In ll,,. i a uAA.M .....a amieria tendent of tbe Public Schools o Montgomery County be amassed rortune of over $80,000, ou a salar that averaged leas than $2,000 an ally. This fact waa developed In adjudication of his estate ,1, ..-.I
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