THE NEWS,
Domestic
John C. Lumsdcn. the young
North Carolina Inventor, was cor
Tinted of manslaughter In the first
degree for killing Harry B. Suydem,
the Now York stock broker.
The United State Steel Corpora
tion is to reduce the wages of em
ployes earning over $1,500 a year,
aving from $1,500,000 to $2,000,
COO a year.
After on all night session, the jury
In the trial of Wade Cochran Pinson
for the murder of Thornwell Boyce,
found him guilty of manslaughter.
Guy Rosar was sentenced to the
penlten'lary for 20 years for the
murder of his sweetheart. Orlc Lee,
near Medina. O., October 8.
The conference between mlneown
ers and the officers of the United
Mlneworkers In Philadelphia came io
an end without results.
The dismantled schooner Ann J.
Trainer was towed Into New York
by a tug called out to sea by wlrt
less. Fourteen Christian Brothers hnd
a narrow cs. ape during a fire at l.a
Salle College, Philadelphia.
Fifty icebergs off the Hanks of
Newfoundland were passed by tho
steamer Tamarac.
A German count, Paul Bernard
Zurowskl, Is a stoker aboard the bat
tleship Georgia.
The Chicago Railways Company
has ordered 10,000 noiseless steel
car wheels.
The Cooper-Carmack case may go
to the Jury today.
Lord Fairfax arrived In New York.
A. G. Glick, secretary of the
American Drainage Association, was
arretted In Wilmington on a charge
of soliciting political funds In a Gov
ernment building.
Henry Whejen, a New York driver,
eat beside his murdered wife's bed
side until arrested for the crime.
The steamship Horatio Hall, sunk
off the Massachusetts coast, was
abandoned.
Edward Setendorf lost at cards In
York, Pa., and cut his throat from
ear to ear.
William Itarclay Parsons, chief en
gineer of the Interborough-Metropoli-tan
system, complicated tho Now
York transportation fight by resign
ing from the Hudson companies.
Fire In the midst of 50 working
girls on the third floor of the old
flvc-story building at Hroadway and
Brooms Street, New York, caused a
panic among tho girls, two of v, horn
leaped from the windows to the
Streets below, both sustaining severe
Injuries.
Col. Charles H. Weygant, who
commanded the famous One Hun
dred and Twenty-Fourth New Y'ork
Volunteers, known as the "Orange
Blossoms," during the Civil War,
dropped dead at his desk, at New
bury, N. Y.
Miss Helen Gladys Emery, daugh
ter of Archdeacon Kmery, of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Cali
fornia, and Dungiro Aokl, son of
General Aokl, are engaged to be
married.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, who
promised David Howell, a wealthy
man of Cincinnati, that she would
not marry, has sued the Howell es
tate for a larger Income than Howell
provided.
Major E. L. G. Zallnskl, U. S. A.,
retired Inventor of the pneumatic
dynamite torpedo gun and other mili
tary devices, died at the New York
Hospital from pneumonia.
Eugene llorda. Jr.. formerly of
Philadelphia, was found dead In
his summer homo, at Tuckertown,
N. J., having been asphyxiated by Il
luminating gns.
Judge Michael Donnelly, of To
ledo, O.. former head of the defunct
Ohio German Insurance Company,
has been Indicted for perjury and
embezzlement.
Rev. Eraslni Ansin. pastor of St.
Stanislaus' Polish Catholic Church,
Newark, N. J., was assassinated In
his rectorv by four masked men.
Urry jones, who was on trial at
Muscatine, Iowa, for the murder of
Mr. and Mrs. William Van Winkle,
hanged himself in his cell.
John C. Lumsden was convicted
of manslaughter In the first degree
for killing Harry Suydam, tho Now
York curb broker.
E. A. S. Clarke, president of the
LackawnnnA Steel Company, thinks
steel prices are at rock bottom.
Foreign
Alexis Suworin, Russia's veteran
editor, publisher of the Novoe Vrem
ya of St. Petersburg, celebrated tho
fiftieth anniversary of the beginning
of his literary activities. The Czar
and members of his court united in
honoring the noted writer.
Desavornln Lehman, member of
the Court of Arbitration at The
Hague, baa accepted Invitation to
act as one of the foreign members
of the court to adjust the Newfound
land fisheries question between the
United States and Great Britain.
Reports that Oscar Straus would
he appointed ambassador to Japan
causes surprise In Toklo, as It 1
expected that Thomas J. O'Brien, the
present ambassador, will remain for
another year. i
The Chinese Emergency Appeal
Committee In London has Issued a
nonsectarian appeal for $500,000 for
developing a medical college at
Peking and three medical schools
elsewhere.
The sew British naval estimate
provide for a total expenditure of
$175,713,600 and the construction
of four more Dreadnoughts, six pro
tected cruisers and 20 torpedo-boat
destroyers.
The Columbian Committee on
Foreign Affairs recommends ratifica
tion of the treaty betwtn the United
States, Colombia and Panama.
France, like the United States, Is
confronted with a big deficit in her
revenues. The large number of
pending socialistic projects Involve
heavy drafts on the French treasury.
The death U announced In London
of Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Foster, sec
retary of state for war of Great Brit
ain from 1903 to 1806.
China la trying to raise $100,000.
' 000 to restore her navy and provide
naval ports and docks.
Mrs. A. O. Vanderbilt, or New
York, has donated $5,000 to found
a children's hospital at Lausanne,
Switzerland.
The Jaurez Theater, at Monterey,
Mex., was burned. Loss estimated
at $250,000.
The third squadron of the United
State- Pacific duet arrived at Hong
kong. Tho San Domingan Cabinet was
Changed and trouble is threatened.
Two mare Russia a anarchists were
killed in a battle with the police.
Disorder characterised the opening
of the lower bouse of the Austrian
ROOSEVELT READY FOR
THE TRIP TO AFRfCA
A Busy Week Ahead of the
Ex-President
TRYING OUT OF THE NEW GUNS
Big Family Reunion. Conference
With His F.dltorlul Associate,
Fitif well To Ills Friend And The
Disposition Of Ills Business Af
fairs Will Keep Mr. Koonevelt On
T. (;,, Some Of The Equipment
For The Fvpeditlon.
Oyster Hay, N. Y. (Special).
Former President Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt walked Sunday from Saga
more Hill to Christ Episcopal Church
for the morning service, and after
ward returned home on foot, covering
In all six miles. Several callers were
received by Mr. Roosevelt dining the
af'ernoon.
The former chief executive has en
tered upon the flnul week of prepa
ration for the Roosevelt-Smithsonian
African expedition. It will be a busy
week, as considerable packing ot the
personal outfits of Mr. Roosevelt and
his son. Kermit, remains to be done,
and business affairs of the former
President also will require some of
his lime. These latter matters will
be set In orde:' In anticipation of at
least a two-year absence abroad
Farewells to numerous friends and
relatives are to be said and a visit,
to lloboken is contemplated to In
spect the party's quarters aboard the
steamer and see that the outfit of the
expedition is safely stowed away
where is can be quickly reached and
transhipped at Naples. One day of
the week will bo devoted to a family
reunion at Sagamore Hill. In ad
dition to all this, Mr. Roosevelt will
spend some time each day, as is li is
habit, In outdoor exercise, and he
hopes also to have a chance early Ir.
the week to try out the ritles he will
use during the hunt on the target
range near his home. His duties as
n magazine editor will take him to
New York several times during the
week, and there he will be busy dic
tating articles for publication. It is
expected also that during the week
the Smithsonian members of the ex
pedition will come to Oyster Bav
for a final conference with Mr.
Roosevelt.
There will be numerous boxes
and trunks to pack with articles com
prising the personal effects of Mr.
Roosevelt and Kermit. Each has
provided himself with a large supply
of clothing for tropical wear. Mr.
Roosevelt has over a dozen pairs of
shoes and boots of leather and rub
ber. Some are hobnailed and others
rubber soled. They range from the
ordinary styles to those with tops
extending above the knees. Khaki
cloth is the principal material from
which tho outer clothing of Mr.
Roosevelt and Kermit Is made. Sev
ral suits made from water-proof ma
terial are Included In each outfit.
The rifles of Mr. Roosevelt and his
son will receive more care than any
thing clso In their equipment. These
ore Inclosed in special cases, made
completely water-tight. The photo
graphic kit of the expedition of
which Kermit Roosevelt tins charge,
he being the official photographer,
is n model of Its kind. The young
man Is very proud of It and feels
that the photogaphs he Is to make
are to be of as great Importance as
the specimens of animals his father
wjll thoot for the NaMopal Museum.
These photographs will form a fcic'h
tlflc collection of themselves. The
steamer Hamburg, on which "the
members of the expedition will make
the first leg of their trip, will reach
lloboken toward the latter part of
the week, and Mr. ICoosovelt and
Kormit, accompanied probably bv
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel, will
look over the staterooms and also
see that everything is carefully plac
ed in a safe and accessible position
in the hold.
During the latter part of this week
Mr. Roosevelt's sons Theodore, Jr.,
who Is employed at Thompsonvllle,
Ct.; Archibald who is attending
school at Groton, Mas., and Queii
tin. now at the Episcopal High
School, Alexandria, Va. will come
home to attend a family reunion.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mr. Roose
elt's elder daughter, also Is expected
at Sagamore Hill.
REJECT DEMANDS
J RY MINERS
The Hard-coal Operators Make No
Concessions.
Philadelphia (Special). The an
thracite coal operators met the com
mittee of hard coal miners In tho
Reading Terminal Building here and
flatly refused to grant the men any
of the demands they laid before
them and at the same time proposed
to the mlneworkers that the present
ngreement, which expires March 31,
be renewed for another term of three
years. ThTs decision, while not un
expected by the mlneworkers, as they
had ong ago learned that the oper
ators were against making any con
cessions, came as a great disappoint
ment to the men when they were
officially Informed of the s'and taken
by the companies.
When the afternoon session of the
conference adjourned shortly after t
o'clock P. M.. Thomas Lewis, na
tional president of the I'nlted Mine
workers' of America, and his col
leagues filed out of President Users
office and went straight to their hotel
with a spirit that was not buoyant
as that with which they (uitered the
conference room. Mr. lwls declin
ed to comment on the development-!
of the day beyond stating that he
and his committeemen will meet to
discuss the situation.
The formal announcement made
for the benefit of the public of tho
refusal of the operators to grant the
demands of the men was contained
In a statement agreed upon by both
Mdi'B. It is as follows:
Dctnaml Are Refused.
"A committee of seven representa
tives of anthracite mineworkers and
a committee of seven representatives
of the anthracite operators held a
Joint meeting at the Reading Termi
nal Building this afternoon to dis
cuss the Mine Workers' demands.
These demands are the same that
were drafted In Scranton last Octo
ber. "The operators declined to accede
to the demands. The chief reason
offered for the rejection was that
any Increase In the coft of produc
tion would necessitate an advance
in the price of coal, and that such
an advance was impracticable. The
operators said that wages In the an
thracite mining Industry were al
ready at a high level and could not
be Increased.
"The announcement of the opera
tors' position was followed by a free
discussion of the various demands,
each side stating its views fully in
regard thereto. The operators de
clared their unwillingness to reopen
the eight-hour day question and oth
er questions passed upon by the an
thracite commission of 1902. They
also declared themselves opposed to
the Mine Workers' proposition for a
one-year agreement.
"They declined to recognize th
United Mine Workers of America,
chiefly on the ground that it was
controlled by bituminous workers.
They said they met Mr. Lewis and
his committee as representatives of
the anthracite workers and not as
officers of the union. The operators
called upon the report of the strike
commission to support their refusal
to deal with the United Mine Work
ers. "At the end of the discussion the
operators made the definite proposi
tion to renew the present agreement
for a term of three years."
HANGS HIMSELF IN JAIL.
ATK POISONED MEAT.
I
I Accused Double Murderer Found
Dangling From Cell Door.
Muscatine, la. (Special). Urry
Jones, on trial for the murder of Mr.
and Mrs. William Van Winkle, com
mitted suicide In the county Jail by
hanging himself. A deputy found
the body hanging to the top bar of
Jones' cell dor. Jones hsd formed
a rope by cutting the coverlet of his
bed into strips. Jones' real name
is supposed to be Frank Beatty, and
he Is said to be from Washington
County, Pennsylvania.
The murder of Mr. and Mrs. Van
Winkle was particularly atrocious.
In the middle of tho night Jones
entered their bedrooti and beat the
heads of both to a pulp, using a
heavy club as a weapon.
LUMSDEN CETH 18 YEARS.
Over A Hundred Persons Made HI
In YlnccnncH.
VIncennes, Ind. (Special). Scores
of persons were poisoned by eating
meat at the noon banquet of the
celebration of tho one hundredth an
niversary of the Institution of
Masons of Indiana. Several are In u
serious condition.
The poisoned men fell on the
streets, in hotels and In stores, and
all the physicians in VIncennes were
called to care for them.
More than loo cases had been re
ported and other victims from near
by towns had been taken to their
homes. Twenty victims were taken
to the hospl'alit and the others are
being attended at hotels and at pri
vate residences.
Sufo After Fifty Hours Near Death.
Salt Lake City. Utah (Special).
After enduring the horrors of an
underground prison, wit"h death near,
for 50 hours, George and Jerry Pet
erson were rescued at the St. Pat
rick Mine, little the worse for thel
experience.
The Captain Of The Republic.
New York (Special). Capt. I.
Seal by, who was In command of the
steamer Republic when it was sunk
near the Nantucket llghuhlp as the
result of a collision with the steam
er Florida, returned from England
on the steamer Mlnnetonka. He is
bound for his home In Southern New
Jersey for rest and recreation pend
ing the olflclal inquiry as to the
causes of the Nantucket disaster. "I
have made my report," he said, "hut
I do not know when the board of
trade will take up the rase."
Killed Wife And Daughter.
Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special). Posey
Ryan, a ranchman, shot and killed
his wife and daughter while the
women were eating dinner In a res
taurant. Mrs. Ryan brought her
daughter to Cheyenne last week and
started suit for divorce from her
husband. Ryan told the police that
he expected to be hanged.
Nebraska Hank KoIiIhkI.
Kramer, Neb. (Special). The
Kramer State Bank' was looted by
robbers, who blew up the safe, secur
ed $1,700 and escaped. A posse went
North Carolina Inventor Sentenced
For Killing Broker.
New York (Special). John C.
Lumsden, the young North Carolina
Inventor, convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree on the charge of
killing Harry B. Suydafi, a broker,
was sentenced In. the Court of Gen
eral Sessions to not Icbs than IS
years nor more than 19 years and fi
months in the state prison.
Tho l,tvlnr u'mji shot nnd killed In
his office on December 19 last, after
an altercation with lumsden over
n.nnoi, matlurfl l.iimulufi cHapi-tlni?
1 1 1 VJ II I IJlw.vn... .. .....m .. . - . n
that the broker owed him $1,200 on
some notes.
Bodies Of Hayes To Be Moved.
Fremont, Ohio (Special). The
bodies of the late President Ruther
ford B. Hayes and his wife, Lucy
Webb Hayes, now resting In Oak
wood Cemetery, will be relnterred in
Spiegel Grove, for many years the
home of the President. The grove
Is now owned by Webb C. Hayes, a
son. The bodice will be placed In a
vault on the crest of a knoll, to
whlnh point the Hayes monument
will be removed.
J.HOO llontes Quarantined. ,
Philadelphia (Special). One hun
dred stables In various sections of
the city and 1.500 horses are under
quarantine owing to an outbreak of
mange, discovered by the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board. Dr. W. Hor
ace Hosklns, of this city, chief in
spector of the board, placed the em
bargo on the atables and said that
the disease was brought to Phila
delphia In shipments of horses from
New York, New Jersey and points
West. '
Ilarriman's Ambition.
Mexico City (Special). Accord
ing to R. S. Swan, of Boston, said
to be a close friend of Edward II.
Harrlman, It Is the ambition of the
railroad magnate to continue his rail
road building South through the
Mexican Isthmus In the direction of
South America. "In ten years It
may he possible, If Mr. ilarriman's
plan Is carried out, to take a Pull
man In Boston and ride to Valpar
aiso, Chill, without a change of cars,"
-'f-r f rn.
$29,000,000 CfSE
GOES DOT OF COURT
Judge Decides to Instruct Jury to
Find Oiljrust Not Guilty.
ATTORNEYS CONTEND IN VAIN.
Judge Anderson IMsposes Of The Fa
mous 920,210,000 Fine By In
Mructlng Jury To Bring In A Ver
dict Of Not Guilty Says No Proof
Wii Offered That Fixed Railroad
Freight Rates Existed Or ' That
Standard Oil Made Shipments At
Reduced Bates.
Chicago (Special). Judge Ander
son decided to Instruct the Jury In
the Standard Oil case, in which the
$2'.i,000,000 fine first was Imposed
by Judge Landls, to find the company
not guilty.
In the face of repeated rulings
by Judge Anderson tending to make
more difficult the proving of their
case, the Government attorneys had
decided over night to abandon the
Idea of additions to the bill of par
ticulars, covering the defects pointed
out by the Court, and began argu
ments in the hope of Inducing Judge
Anderson to reverse his' decision.
The Standard Oil lawyers express
ed the opinion that the case would
be brought to a close soon, but the
Federal attorneys said they were pro
pared to fight until the issue waa
actually thrown out of court.
View Of Government.
The first line of argument was
against the Court's Indicated deci
sion that the 1 8-cent freight rate,
under which the indictment wa9
drawn, could not be established by
means of the Illinois classification.
According to the Government's point
of view, the published rate on oil
from Whiting, Ind., to East St.
Louis was 18 cents. This was estab
lished by means of-Tariff 24 In Its
application to the Illinois classifica
tion issued In 1899.
In 1900 a new Illinois classifica
tion was Issued, and the interpreta
tion of the Court's opinion is that
this invalidated the old tariffs.
If there was no legal published
rate as the defense claims, the Oil
Company cannot be prosecuted for
making shipments at a six-cent rate.
The prosecution, which ended in
fstlure, after having once been tried
by Judge K. M. Landls. whose de
cision, with its fine of $29,000,000,
was reversed by the Court of Ap
peals and the case remanded to the
District Court for a second trial, had
Its beginning on August 27, 1906.
On that date 10 indictments were
returned by a Federal Grand Jury
charging the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana with accepting conces
sions from railways in shipments of
oil from Whiting, Ind.
Demurrers to two of these, in
volving shipments over the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Ralroad and
connecting roads to Grand Junction,
Tenn., were sustained B.nd the Jn
dlctments were quashed shortly after
they had been returned. The eight
remaining bills were demurred to,
but the demurrers were overruled.
Two of the eight Indictments In
volved shipments over the Chicago
and Alton Railroad from Wbitlng,
Ind., to East St. Louis. 111., and St.
Louis, one containing 1,9.03 counts
and the other 134 counts. It was
the 1,903 count Indictment on which
the OH Company prosecution was
based.
Trial Before Lundis.
With 146 counts allowed to stand,
the case went to trial before Judge
Landls on March 4, 1907. The trial
consumed six weeks and resulted In
a verdict of guilty on April 13, 1907.
Arguments for a new trial were
heard in May and a motion for a
new trial was denied. On August
3, 1907, Judge Landls imposed hia
famous $29,240,000 flue.
On appeal the case went to the
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals and was argued a year ago.
The decision of the Court of Appeal
reversing Judge Landls and remand
ing the case for a new trial was giv
en on July 22,- 1908. Attempts ot
the Government to obtain a rehear
ing of the case before the Appellate
Court as well as their endeavors to
secure a review of It before tho
United States Supreme Court failed.
The second trial was begun before
Judge Anderson on February 23.
Conclusion Of Court.
The decision of the Court was
announced at the close of a long
argument by Assistant District At
torney Wilkerson, and the jury was
Immediately summoned and Instruct,
ed to return a verdict of not guilty.
This means that all but two of th
pending indictments against the
Standard OH Company of Indiana are
void and will be abandoned by th?
Government.
The two cases not affected by this
decision are cases Involving the
Bhlpment of 1,915 carloads of oil
from Whiting, Ind., to Evansvllle,
Ind., via Dolton Junction, over the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad.
W. C. T. V. After Mrs. Taft.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special).
canvass !s In progress among mem
bers of the Women's Cniiafan Tem
perance Union throughout the state
to secure unity In representing to
tho wife of President Taft the evils
that may come from serving wino
on the table. Letters have been writ
ten to leading clubwomen In the state
ask'ng that they join In a friendly
protest.
Princeton Drops Fifty-Five Students.
Princeton, N. J. (Special). Fifty,
five students have been dropped from
the rolls of Princeton University un
til the. opening tl the next college
year, in September, as a result of
deficiency in the recent mid-year ex
aminations, accord' ng to announce
ment Just made. With the exception
of 1907, this is the smallest number
thus suspended In the last decade.
Twenty-six of the number were
sophomores, the freshman class,
which usually suffers the most loss,
being deprived of but 17 members.
Taft Educating Caddy.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
President Tsft has sent his caddy to
college. Elmer W. Lorlng, who car
ried the distinguished golfer's sticks
around the links at Hot Springs, Va.,
laBt summer, exercised such wise dis
cretion that the President brought
Dim to Washington as his special
messenger, left for Charlottesville to
matriculate In the University of Vir
ginia. He will take a course calcu
lated to fit Mm for soma work Mr
Taft has In view for him, and the
President will defray all ot his ex
pense, allowing him, it la said, $2
a dav.
STEAMERS CRUSH
OFF CAPE COD
The Horatio Hall and the H. F.
Dlmock In Collision
Boston, Mass. (Special). When
plowing their way through Pollock
Rip Slue, off the heel of Cape Cod,
about 8 o'clock A. M., the steamer
Horatio Hall, bound from Portland
for New York, and the steamer H.
F. Din nock from New York for Bos
ton, collided.
The Dlmock cut her way Into thj
port side of the Hall almost to the
mainmast, a distance of about 20
feet and then her captain, John A.
Thompson, ordering full speed ahead
kept her nose In tho gap and shoved
the wounded vessel across the Slue
to the western side, where she gound
ed on a sand bank and filled with
water.
While the Dimock's nose was act
ing as collision mattress, the five
passengers on board the Hall, includ
ing two women Misses Ruth and
Curlle Enstrom were swung acroBS
the deck of the former, and some
of the crew followed them. After
the Hall had settled upon the bot
tom and her decks were about awash
the remainder of those on board
her, with the exception of Capt. H.
F. Jewell. First Officer James Parker,
of New York, the pilot and two sea
men lowered a lifeboat and rowed
to the Dlmock, where they were tak
en aboard.
Captain Jewell refused to leave
his vessel and the others decided to
stay with him. They are In no great
danger, as they have lifeboats In
plenty, the revenue cutter Gresham
Is In the neighborhood and only at
high water will they be obliged to
take to rigging.
Water Rushed In.
The settling of the Hall upon the
sandbank did not complete the story
of this marine occurrence, for the
Dlmock In driving a wedgelike hole
into the side of the other craft had
a gash eight feet wide torn In her
starboard bow, through which the
water began to come aimost Immedi
ately. At first the pumps handled
the inflow without difficulty, but
when the Dlmock tried to steam up
along the Cape Cod beach on her
way to Boston a rlHing sea began
to send a greater volume of water
Into the opening.
This was about noontime and soon
the weight of the water In the com
partment began to put the craft
down by the bows, as well as give
her list to port. There was danger
of the steamer sinking and Captain
Thompson had a lifeboat swung out
on the davits, and into this he
placed the two women taken from
the Hall, with Mrs. and Miss Casey,
of Melrose Hillside. Mass., passengers
on the Diraock. They were wrapped
in blankets and told to remain In
the boat, as, in case the vessel went
down, they would be saved. Orders
were also Issued by Captain Thomp
son to the men passengers and sea
men not to take to a boat until he
gave the word. Under these trying
conditions, with the Dimock in dan
ger of plunging to the bottom any
minute. Captain Thompson crowded
on all steam and made for the Or
leans beach.
The craft struck her keel Into the
sand about half a mile south of the
Orleans Life-saving Station at 2.15
o'clock P. M.. and the tooting of her
whistle speedily brought, lifeboats
from the Orleans. Old Harbor and
Nauset Stations alongside.
Crew Stays On Board.
The passengers of both vessels and
the crew of the Horatio Hall were
brou git nshore, the officers and crew
of the Dlmock remaining on board
to aid In wrecking operations, which
will begin as soon as the tugs Un
derwriter and Orion and the big
lighter Salvage reach the scene.
WAGES ABE ADVANCED.
Six Thousand Pittsburg Workmen
Reap Small Harvest.
Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). An
average wage Increase of about 2
per cent, for more than 6,000 work
men is announced here after a meet
ing of the wage committees of cer
tain mill owners and the Amalgama
ted Association of Iron and Steel
Workers. This advance in wages
will hold for the next 60 days, when
there will be another readjustment.
The new scale of wages announced
has based on the selling price of bar
Iron for the last 60 days. It was
found that these prices had kept up,
had. In fact, been a trifle In excess
of that of the 60 days immediately
preceding this period, and in pur
suance of the agreement between the
employer and the employe as to the
fixing of wages the Increased earned
will be put into effect at once.
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
Rawhide has not yet produced a
dividend-payer.
Philadelphia officials of the Nevada
Wonder talk very hopefully of that
mine's future. As already announc
ed, a ten-stamp mill is being built.
It was Impossible to ship the ore,
with the long wagon haul, at a
profit.
There Is 25 per cent, more copper
mined and unsold in the country to
day than a month ago.
According to the news from Wash.
Ington the tariff on lead will be cut
in half It is now equal to about halt
the selling price of the metal.
Standard Oil stock made a charac
teristic Jump when the-news came
that Uncle Sam had dropped the case
In Chicago.
. Reports are circulated that steel
mills are sticking to no schedule of
prices whatsoever.
Lackawanna Steel's sales last year
amounted to $15,087,K79, compared
with $33,011,410 In 1907.
The head of a large Philadelphia
house said: "The bond market, while
much better than It was a year ago,
Is less active than It was two months
go."
American Snuff common jumped
$25 a share to $225. The dividend
was recently raised from 16 to 20
per cent, annually.
February Are losses In the United
States were over $6,000,000 less than
In January.
New securities to tho amount of
$150,000,000 were put out last
month, which Is about the monthly
average for more than a year.
American Tobacco was one of the
fortunate companies In 1908. as Itu
net earnings were greater by $1,333.
386 than In 1907. This was a gain
of about 5 per cent. The surplus
applicable to the dividend on the
1 4ii,000,000 of common stock was
$18,650,334, or about 46 pen cent.
There was paid on the common stock
$13,078,710.
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WAR ON BETWEEN
NICJRHCM UNO SALVADOR
Uncle Sam Has Private Understand
ing With Mex'co.
GUNBOATS IN A DRAWN BATTLE.
These Two Governments Convinced
That The Time Has Come To Take
Draxtic Measures To Enforce Peace
In The Central American Repub
lics Reported That United States
Will Annex Two Republics And
Mexico Do The Same Relations
With Nicaragua Broken,
Mexico City (Special). It has
been persistently rumored here that
war has broken out between fclca-
ragua and Salvador and that there
has been an engagement between the
Salvadorean gunboat Presldente and
the Nicaraguan gunboat Momotombo,
A private dispatch received here
absolutely confirms the reported en
gagement. Three Nicaraguan gunboats, led by
the Momotombo, Tuesday attacked
the Salvadorean gunboat Presldente.
The later by a lucky shot put the
Momotombo out of action almost
at the beginning of the engagement.
The three NlcaraguanB then with
drew. Later the Momotombo was
repaired and went In pursuit of the
Presldente.
The Herald advocates annexation
of the five Central American States
by Mexico. The general opinion here
Is that intervention is Inevitable,
and Mexico looks to the United
States to make the Initial move.
Washington (Special). No news
of any kind beyond the press dis
patches has reached the State De
partment of the rumored opening of
hostilities between Nicaragua and
Salvador. The department, however,
Is exhibiting the keenest Interest In
the reports.
If an engagement has taken place
between gunboats of the two coun
tries Is was pointed out at the Navy
Department that as tho Momotombo
Is superior to the Presldente and Is
manned entirely by Americans, the
probability Is that the Nlcaraguans
were victorious.
Owing to the continued disturbed
conditions In Nicaragua and Presi
dent Zelaya's failure to make serl
our efforts looking to the settlement
of the Emery claim, the State De
partment, by withdrawing Mr. Greg
ory, the American charge at Mana
gua, and ordering the legation plac
ed in the hands of the consul, who
will have no diplomatic capacity,
practically broke off diplomatic rela
tions with that country.
Affairs In Central America have
been closely watched by the Ameri
can and Mexican governments both
of which have now come to. an un
derstanding that the time has arriv
ed when drastic measures should be
enforced to insure peace in the Cen
tral American republics. Ambassa
dor la Barra, of Mexico, spent some
time at the State Department in con
ference with Assistant Secretary Wil
son, and the determination was
reached that if the American war
ships now In Nicaraguan waters and
to be sent there are not sufficient to
Impress President Z lava that the
treaty of peace entered Into between
the Central American republics is
not to be lived up to, more radical
steps would be taken to accomplish
that result. The Impression was giv
en that, if need be, Intervention
would be resorted to. The govern
ments of the United States and
Mexico, It was stated, are In full ac
cord as to the policy to be pursued
toward Nicaragua and are now an
ticipating Zelaya's further moves.
EX-STATK TREASURER SHORT.
Bondsmen And Friends Make Up
Deficit Of $70,000.
Salt Lake City, Utah (Special).
James Christiansen, former State
Treasurer, who retired from office
January 1, Is under arrest on the
charge of being a defaulter to the
amount of $70,000.
The arrest followed Christiansen's
confession of his responsibility lor
the shortage. He Is now in Jail here.
The money, it la acknowledged, was
used to speculate In Nevada mining
ventures. Christiansen was State
Treasurer for the four-year term that
ended with the beginning of the pres
ent year. The shortage was discover
ed a few days ago through the
checking of the accounts by the State
Board of Examiners.
2 YEARS FOR KILLING FRIEND.
Wade Cothran Pinson Released On
$1,000 Bond.
Laurence, S. C. (Special). After
overruling a motion for a new trial,
Judge Prince sentenced Wade Coth
ran Pinson, convicted of killing
Thornton Boyoe last November, to
two years In the State penitentiary
pending an appeal the State Su
preme Court. Pinson was released
on a bond of $1,000 signed by bis
father and uncle.
The appeal will be made to the
higher court on the ground of error
in the rulings and charge of the pre
siding Judge.
Fire In Spartauxburg.
Spartansburg, 8. C. (Special). A
fire In the heart of the business dis
trict of Spartansburg threatens to be
come the most destructive in the his
tory of the city. The Cleveland
Building Is already In ruins and the
Bank of Spartanburg Building la In
danger.
Patron Shoots Clerk.
New York (Special). A man be
lleved to be Charles Loc.Tier, ot New.
ark, N. J . entered the hat 'store of
A. Wheeler, at 690 Broadway,
Brooklyn, shot and seriously wound
ed Norman Bush, 23 years old, and
then shot and instantly k lied him
self with the samo weapon. To a
note found In the dead man's pocket
the name of Charles Loeffler, New
ark, N. J., waa signed. The note
indicated that the writer bad a grlev.
ance against the atore in which Bush
waa employed as a clerk.
Avoiding Mud, Meets Death.
Honakar, W. Va. (Special).
Hugh U Thompson, a telegraph op
erator here, was shot by John Brown
lug. . Thompson, who bad been work.
,ing late,' was pMsluj through the rear
yard of the Browning home to avoid
a muddy street. Browning, peering
from a -window, mistook him for a
robber, and selling a double-barrel
shot-gun, put more thsn 100 shot
In his body. He will die. Thomp;
son waa a stranger In the city, hav
ing come here from a Southern Vir
ginia town less than two weeks ago.
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
Lieutenant Commander Hutchin
son 1. Cone has been appointed head
of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
of the Navy, with the rank and paj
of rear admiral.
Secretary Balllnger has decided to
make a tour of the West to study
the problems that will confront him
as secretary of the Interior.
Judge Walter Reeves, of Chicago,
prominently mentioned for assistant
secretary of the treasury, was Intro-
auced to President Taft.
Comptroller of the Currency Mur
ray appointed George T. Cutts, of
Missouri, a national bank examiner-at-large.
rresldent Taft was Informed of
the death in Ban Juan of Chief Jus
tice Severe Quinones, of Porto Rico.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, the dis
tinguished scientist, celebrated his
seventy-fourth birthday anniversary,
Jacob M. Dickinson, of Tennessee,
was sworn In as Secretary of War,
to succeed Luke E. Wright.
Major Guy Edle, of the Army, It
to be President Taft's family physi
cian. The boycott decision is likely to
be carried to the Supreme Court.
Senator Rayner and Admiral
Schley called at, the White Housj
and received a warm welcome from
President Taft.
Mr. Taft Is making plain the fact
that he inherits none of the enmities
of the Roosevelt administration.
The proposed tax on coffee is caus.
ing more controversy than any other
feature of the Tariff bill.
With a view to arousing general
public interest In the out-of-door and
isolation treatment of tuberculosis,
series of meetings is being held at
Washington:
Prince de Beam et de. Chalais has
Just been appointed Secretary of the
French Legation In China, and will
soon leave with his two children for
Peking.
The Eighty-ninth Company, Coast
Artillery Corps, now at Fort Banks,
Mass., has been ordered to take sta
tion at Fort Williams, Me.
Thomas F. Pendel, the oldest em
ploye of the White House, who was
doorkeeper on the night that Presi
dent Lincoln was assassinated, died.
A statement of the expenses inci
dent to President McKlnley's illness
and death was made public after
seven years of secrecy.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, visited
the White House for the second time
in his life, the first time being many
years ago.
The House insurgents claimed
they had 36 Republicans pledged to
vote against the present rules.
The first diplomatic reception by
Secretary of State Knox took place
at the State Department.
Lloyd M. Tllman has been assign
ed to a bank examiner's district of
Pennsylvania.
BLAST FINAL TUNNEL.
Under The Hudson System Is Near
ing Completion.
New York (Special). Five years
to the hour from tho time when the
first bore In the system was com
pleted the fourth and final tunnel
of the Hudson Companies'- under the
Hudson system was blasted through
Thursday. The tube pierced through
by Thursday's blast was the north
one of the pair to Jersey City, ter
minating at Cortlandt Street, In this
city.
With Its companion tube it will
furnish a direct connection with the
Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley sta
tions, in Jersey City, and through
the North and South bore, on thtf
New Jersey side, with the Lackawan
na and Erie stations, on that side
of the river. The blaBtlng through
was without special ceremony, that
being reserved to the early part of
July, when It is expected the first
passenger train will be run through
the Jersey City tubeB.
MEXICO FEARS BREADF AMINE-
Will Again Suspend Duty On Wheat
Imports From States.
Mexico City (Special). This coun
try will again declare off all wheat
duties on or before April 1 to pre
vent a bread famine. Wheat now
costs $3.60 Mexican money per bush
el in this city when Imported from
the United States, and the borne crop
is exhausted.
United States wheat on the border
now costs $1.28, and with the duty
of 20 cents gold per bushel and the
additional freight rate to Mexico City
the price is exorbitant. For sev
eral years Mexico has had to suspend
the duty on wheat each spring.
Japanese Training Squadron.
Yokohama (Special). The Japa
nese training squadron, consisting of
the armored cruiser Aso and the pro
tected crulsor Soya sailed for Hono
lulu under command ot Captain Isojl.
The ships carry 180 cadets ot the
Japanese Navy. The squadron Is due
to arrive at Honolulu about April 1.
and It will then proceed to San Fran
Cisco, cruising northward later along
the coast to Seattle. The Aso and
Soya, aa the Bayan and Varlag, re
spectively, wero formerly Russian
cruisers. They were sunk by t he
Japanese during the recent war and
were refloated later and added to t he
Japanese Navy,
Daughter Wins From Father.
Washington, D. C. (Special). The
five years' litigation of Mrs. Henri
etta Sand Anderson, wife of Capt.
Edward Anderson, U. 8. A., against
her father, F. P. B. Sands, lawyer,
society man and clubman, was ended
by Judge Wright, of the Supreme
Court of tho District of Columbia.
He named the National Savings and
Trust Company as trustee of tht
Sanda estate In place ot Mr. Bands.
Mrs. Anderson accused her father of
grossly mismanaging her mother's
estate, in which he bad a- life Inter
est. t
No Drums In Time Of War.
St. Petersburg (Special). Em
peror Nicholas has signed an order
abolishing the use ot drums In the
army In time of war. Drummers Id
the future will be trained In marks
manship and In wartime will be com
batants. Blncher Vinson Hit By Train.
Huntington, W. Va. (Special).
Blueber Vinson, a prominent rltlsea
of the southern section of this State,
was struck by a Norfolk and West
ern train at Saltpetre, and sustained)
Injuria that may yrove fatal.