THE NEWS. Domestic John D. Rockefeller has dlspoped of a sixteen-story building !r. Cleve land to hid son for a consideration of one dollnr, declaring he would not be bothered with the care o'f It. Mrs. Fremont II. Chesbrough, owner of a line of steamers out of Boston, was indicted for smuggling, a double bottom having been found in her trunk. Rev. Morris M. Kemp, former rec tor of Protestant Episcopal churches In New York, was arrested ou a . charge of being intoxicated. George N. McCubbln has filed suit at Towson against the P., W. & B. Railroad, claiming $ Hi, 000 damages for alleged false arrest. Fire broke out In the residence of George I,. Potter, vice president of the B. & ()., near Towson, and caused about $5 00 damages. The proposed merger of all the telephone corporations of the coun try calls for a capital of J970.O0U, 000. Mrs. Mary liaker O. Eddy, the leader of tlie Christian Scientists, was years old yesterday. Glen H. C'urtUs, the aeronaut, made a flight lasting 31 minutes in a heavler-than-alr machine. Leonardo Gebbla, a Illacl: 1 land er, was hanged in lialiniv.ville, La. William L. Mellon, of Pittsburg, preferred stockholder of the Missis sippi Wire Glass Company, filed a bill to have the company enjoined from payment of dividends on com mon stock. Through the efforts of Congress man William Sulzer, of New York, and a large New York bonding syn dicate President Cabrera Is negotia ting for the refinancing of Guate mala. Only the poor aim of his assailant prevented the assassination of Thorn ns W. Benoist, a wealthy manufac turer and club man, of St. Louts, who was attac ked In his automobile. Theodore S. Whltmore, acquitted a year ago on the charge of having murdered his wife, was sentenced In New York to imprisonment foi grand larceny. James A. Patten, who Is said by fellow members of the Board ol Trade to have made a profit ol $300,000, is now on top of Evans ton taxpayers. Tho steamer Prim Frledrlch Wll helm, which left her New York pier for Bremen, ran aground in tht Ambrose Channel. Col. Daniel Morlarlty was elected rolonel of the Seventh Infantry foi life at Camp Deneen, Chicago. The son of a Cuban millionaire rommitted suicide by shooting aftei bis allowance was discontinued. National President Thomas L. Lewis, of the United Mineworkers has ordered the 18,000 miners of the Pittsburg Coal Company to dls regard the orders of Local President Francis Feehan and not to go on a strike. A commissioner appointed by Gov ernor Hughes has reported thai Louis F. Haffen, president of the Borough of the Bronx, has subordi nated his public duties to his poli tical and personal Interests. Nearly a million school children are doomed to die of tuberculosa before they are of age, according to a report of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tu berculosis. Fireman William Parry and Brakeman William Brown were kill rd when a New York, Susquehanna and Western train was wrecked In a cave-in over a mine near Scran ton. Pa. Hewlitt Hill was burned to death and nine persons were injured when a gasoline tank exploded and scat tered burning oil over an auto par ty ne.ir Savannah, Ga. Frank E. MeMlllen, of Altoona, Pa., shot and killed his wife while firing through a window at William E. McDowell, who was calling on Mrs. McMillen. Foreign The miners' confederation of Great Britain will ballot its million mem bers as to whether or not a national strike shall be declared in support of the Scotch miners. The Canadlan-St. Lawrence Navi gation Company's steamer Profon taine was wrecked In Lake St. Peter, Quebec, but all on board were sav ed. Several persons were killed or In jured by the earthquake In South ern Greece. In the town of Ilavarl, 400 houses were destroyed. Scotland Yard detectives are searching London for a Chinaman mho an American identified on the street as Leon Ling. The widow of Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant, the French artltst, committed suicide at Versailles. Eight anarchists were exiled by the Swedish government for having conspired to kill the Czar. Miss Grace Johnson, of Buffalo, N. Y.. was one of four suffragettes arrested In London. King Frederick of Denmark and Queen Louise arrived at Peterhof, Russia, and were cordially welcomed by the Czar and Czarina and the Queen of Greece. Tho cholera epidemic In St. Peters burg Is Interfering with the sum mer tourist travel. The number of new cases varies between 60 and 120 daily. As Mulal Hand, Sultan of Moroc co, is a prisoner In the capital, It Is believed that International Inter vention cannot long be delayed. President Gompers, of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, has been showered with attentions by the Frenc h labor leaders In Paris. President Diaz of Mexico will ask the Mexican Congress for permission to meet President Taft at El Paso, Tex., next October. Alfred O. Vanderbllt was nearly mobbed by Swiss peasants at L'as nacbt. It Is reported that Baron Rosen, Russian ambassador to the United States, Is to be transferred to Vien na. A British submarine was sunk by the steamer Eddystone off the Eng lish Coast and 18 of the crew per ished. The Nationalists are in control of Teberan, the resistance of the Roy alists being practically at an end. Many persons vers killed and In jured to an earthquake la Southern Creece. SLOOP CAPSIZES AND . TEM PERSONS DROP Tragic Ending of a Day of Merry making. TWELVE ARE SAVED FROM DEATH, The Little Vessel Hun Into A Ter rific Squall While Returning; From An Outing And Turned Over Tun Laimont Hushed To The Rescue And With Life Lines And Buoys Saved Ten The Survivors Exhausted. New York (Special). Ten persons were drowned, two of them little girls, when the excurslm sloop Kox ann, carrying 22 passengers, was cap sized by a sudden squall in lower New ik. nay. The captain of the Roxana and the 12 survivors were piclted up under great difficulties In a rough and choppy sen by the tug Lamoni. The hoxima, with her snipper, Captain Samuelson, was chartered at l liner Beach, Brooklyn, by a party of Swedes from Brooklyn for a sail across the bay to Midland Bench, Staten Island, and back. The first leg on the voyage was made without mishap, and all hnnds piled asiiore to make merry. Beer was served, and some of the survivors could give but a hazy account of the accident. All afternoon there was a Btiff breeze from the southwest, which left a nasty cross sea. Toward 4 o'clock the Roxana, reeling home ward across the bay under all the sail good Judgment would permit to be carried, slippej Into a Bquall. She lay over until the copper plates glis tened in the sun. Re the angle of the deck steepened to the boiling water in her lee. The women screamed and scrambled for the upper rail. The captain struggled to slack away his sheet, but there was no time for measures of relief. In one mo ment the Roxana was bottom up and the foam was black with bobbing heads. In another the Roxana had vanished, and one by one the heads began to follow her. Fortunately the tug Lamont was keeping sharp lookout. Captain Keyes saw the sloop heel over in the gust and failed to come back. In stantly he headed for the spot where the Rcana had been, but before he could reach her 10 of the passen gers had gone down. Life lines and buoys were thrown to those still afloat, and after a few minutes of brisk -and anxious work all in sight were taken aboard the Lamont. The survivors, thoroughly exhaust ed and half dazed, were taken to a hospital on Staten Island. Few coherent accounts of the scene after the capsizing of the boat could be obtained. All hands it seems tried to cling to the overturned boat, but as the little vessel sunk their plight was precarious. Of the sur vivors, seven were men tnd six were women. II BANKER SHOT By HISJFE'S ADMIRER i. B. Sayler Killed in His Home By Dr. J. B. Mi'ler, Wife Fled From Home During The Shooting Admits She Is Fond Of The Physician -Dortor A Frequent Visitor At The Sayler Home, Bunker Had Endured Conditions To Protect Diughtcr Front Scan, dnl Had Expected A Tragedy For Sometime Past. A Rescue Off Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special). Keeper Bowen, in charge of the Cedar Creek Life-saving Station, made a lone rescue when the launch Nix, in which Capt. Charles Haddon and his family were making a sea trip, broke down two miles off shore. Captain Bowen was watching the little boat through his glassies, when he saw the craft stagger In the seas. He dragged the surf boat .down through the breakers and rode alone out to the launch. With th.- assist ance of the lone llfesaver Captain Haddon was able to hold his boat up into the s'-a until a line was passed to the lifeboat, when the two men towed the disabled boat to Is land Heights Inlet. Luumii Upsets; Four Drown. Cincinnati. A report Bays that at least four persons w.'re drowned In the overturning of a launch at Coal Haven, above Fort Thomas, Ky. Sev eral persons are also reported miss- j 'ng. no r.Ki uoM) issue now. ; But Treasury Has Authority To Flout Securities When Needed. I Washington, D. C. (Special). ! The bond resources of the Treasury I Department are ample, declares Sec 1 rotary McVeagh In a statement Is sued to the Treasury, and even if Congress authorizes 3 per cent, bonds I to cover the entire cost of the Pana ! nia Canal less the amount already j issued the bonds "will only be issued as required." i The Secretary states that the bond resources now include $45,000,000 I of unissued Panama bonds and $100,000,000 of unissued 3 per cent, certificates. There will bo no Issuance of the ' entire amount immediately, and It was even stated that while the pres- : cnt situation warrants immediate steps to safeguard the Government by securing authority for the bond Issue no decision has been Anally ! reached as to Issuing any amount of the bonds, and a change in the tide of the revenue might make It un- 1 necessary to put any of them on the market. Jefferson DavU' Daughter Dead. Colorado Springs, Colo. (Special). Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, president of the 1 Confederacy, died at her home after j an illness of six months. I Fatal Row Among Thieves. ; Columbus, O. (Special). A man giving hi uamo as John Brown and his home ns Nebraska died In St. Francis' Hospital from a bullet wound sustained in a quarrel with two confederates after a street hold up. They had stolen a watch and a small amount of money and had none to a rear room of a saloon to divide the spoils. John Nolan, a bartender, who tried to head ort tho two fleeing men after the shoot ing of Brown, was himself wounded. KUscs In Divorce Court. New Castle, Pa. (Special). K bu dded they are unable to live happily but Ixiuis and Sophia Kiss have de cided tho yaro unable to live happily after trying It for more than five years, and Sophia has applied for divorce. They were married May 10, 1904, and lived together until June 17 of this year. The wife alleges her husband treated ber badly, In stead of living up to his rather un usuul name, and declares that ber namo U ouly a mockery in ber pres ent plight. Watseka, 111. (Special). Idoliza tion of his daughter Goldle, 17 years old, is said to have caused J. B. Snyler, vice president of the First National Bank of Crescent City. 111., to snfTer in silence the domestic tragedy that led to his death Sun day night at the hands of Dr. W. It. Miller, who for many months had paid ardent attention to the bank er's wife, mother of Goldle Sayler. While the real story of the slay ing of Sayler will not be decided on until a Jury passes on the case, it was Intimated that Sayler had made himself something of a martyr to protect the name of bis daughter and had, at last, It is alleged, been im molated by the man who invaded his home. According to W. U. Nightingale, cashier of the bank of which Mr. Sayler was vice president, the de voted father determined to suffer in silence rather than take any action which would involve his child in no toriety. "He seemed to fear some tragic solution of the situation," said Mr. Nightingale. "Whenever he left the city during the last year or so It was his habit to seel; privacy, after which he would reappear with a bulky envelope containing papers. 'Should anything happen to me,' he always told me, 'open this packet and follow to the letter the instructions contained therein.' After each trip but the last, he destroyed the papers upon his return. He was away a lit tle while ago, but when he came back he failed to follow this prac tice. That packet, I believe, 1b lock ed in his private box In the bank's vault. Whether it will shed any light on the tragedy which ended bis life I cannot say. The coroner has the key, and will open the box later, posRibly after the funeral tomorrow. That Dr. Miller stood In real dan ger of lynching Is asserted by Mr. Nightingale and many others. More than a hundred men thronged the streets of the usually quiet village of Crescent City trying to organize an attack on the Jail at Watseka. One man with a rope was forcibly taken to his home by cooler persons, whose counsel finally prevailed. Among the latter was Willis Sayler, a brother of the slain man. Dr. Miller's defense Is that he shot only when attacked by the banker with a hatchet. Evidence casting a shadow on this statement was given at the Inquest. Sayler was slain about 10 o'clock Sunday night, Mrs. Miller, wife of the doctor, had left a few days pre viously to visit her parents at Sharon, Pa., and Dr. Miller was tak ing his meals at the Sayler table and sleeping at his own home. There were also at the Sayler home at the time of the shooting John C. Grun den, father of Mrs. Sayler. and Ira Grunden, her brother. The older Grunden came recently from Ard more. Ok., to become an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Danville. Gol dle Sayler was sent away by her mother a few days ago. Sunday evening John Grunden went to ask Mr. Sayler, who was oc cupying a rocking chair on the lawn, to come In and play cards against. Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayler. Mr. Sayler refused, somewhat sharp ly. His refusal, Mrs. Sayler states, was due to his belief that she and the doctor attained success at the game by a system of Blgnals. Grace Davis and other girls and Godfrey Ruble stopped to chat for a moment with Mr. Sayler at the front gate just a few minutes before he was slain. He was In a good humor. They had left Sayler about three minutes when they heard the fatal shots. EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. Many Persons Killed And Injured And Vllluges Destroyed. London (Special). A dispatch to a London news bureau from Athens Bays that a violent earthquake has occurred In Southern Greece, result ing In considerable loss of life and damage to property. Twenty persons are reported dead and 100 injured In one village, and three other villages suffered heavily. The dispatch adds that when the details are learned It Is likely that the casualty list will be greatly In creased. Athens, Greece (Special). An earthquake has occurred in the Province of Ells, the capital of which Is Pyrgos. Several villages were destroyed and many people perished. The material loss is heavy. SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED DUALLING WALLS Twenty-Five Others Are Injured By Flying Bricks, HEAT OVERCOMES THE RESCUERS. Building On Busy Philadelphia Cor ner Collapses With Terrific Hoar Killing Workmen And Injuring Passershy Xurses And Physicians Work For Hours With The Vlc tim Market And Eleventh Streets Arc Roped Off And Traf fic Censes. VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY. A brick building collapsed In Philadelphia on Market and Elev enth Streets, killing seven and in juring twenty-five persons, one of them fatally. The dead are: Charles Larson, 45 years old, sub-foreman of carpenters. Peter Fritz, 56 years, carpen ter. Paul Hannlng, 49 years, labor er. Alfred Davis, 18 years old, ne gro laborer. Sigmund LanBberg, 23 years old, laborer. Alvin , 60 years old, a Swede. Unknown man terribly man gled. The fatally Injured: James Haggerty, 30 years old, fractured skull. Philadelphia (Special). In one of the busiest sections of the city and at a time when thousands of pedes trians were passing to and fro, the five-story brick building at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Market Streets, which was being re constructed for the United Gas Im provement Company, collapsed with a terrific roar shortly after 1 o'clock burying or , pinning beneath the ruins 32 persons, 7 of whom are dead, 1 is missing, 1 fatally injured and 23 more or less seriously in jured. Those killed were workmen em ployed by Sax & Abbott, contractors. The building had a frontage of about 25 feet on Market Street and extended about 75 feet on Eleventh Street. The two lower floors had been torn out and the three upper floors were shored up by heavy tim ber. Steel girders were bracing the shoring. It is supposed that by moving one of the girders the entire structure was loosened. The crash came without warning and narrow escapes were many. The roar of the collapse was heard for blocks. Bystanders and passersby fled in desperation to points of re fuge, as it was thought that an ex plosion had occurred. When rea lizing what had happened people flocked to the ruins and began a Beries of thrilling rescues. Before professional aid could be mustered automobiles, teamsters' wagons and all sortB of nearby vehicles were fill ed with the dead or injured and hur ried to hospitals. A general alarm was sounded and policemen, on foot as well as mount ed, firemen, ambulances, physicians and nurses responded, and for hours after the accident they remained on duty ministering to the injured or assisting the searchers in their work of rescue. It was a sweltering hot day and several of the rescuers were overcome by the heat as well as the oppressive dust from the de bris. Fighting hard to penetrate tho ruins were an army of people. The crowds gathered quickly and almost as strenuous as digging up the Injured was the taRk of keep ing the congested masses of people from surrounding too closely the wreckage. The walls which were left standing looked unsafe, but the peo ple surged forward, heedless of the danger. When the police reserves arrived, however, both Market Street and Eleventh Street were roped off, and traffic for the afternoon was di verted to other thoroughfares. For a time service on the subway line, which runs along Market Street a few feet distant from the cellar of the building, was tied up. Some of the debris tumbled down the steps of the entrance on Market Street and rolled out over the plat form and on the tracks. A woman ticket 'seller, terrified by the crash of the collapse and the shower of bricks and stones that poured down the stairway, fainted In her office. A S-TON "HIPPO" GOES DOWN. SAY ELSIE SIGEL ENDED REB LIFE Officials, However, Scout Idea She Took Poison, Denver Chinese Hear Chinese Gov eminent And Mnsona Are Shield ing Leon Ling, But Chinese Con. sul At New York Ridicules The Story t'on Supposed To Have Fled To Escape Blnnic. Denver, Col. (Special). It Is stat ed by Chinese here that the Chinese government, following the report of the Chinese consul at New York upon the Elsie Slgel case, has set the seal of official approval upon the protec tion of Leon Ling by the Chinese Masons and that he will never be found with the assistance of his countrymen. A Chinese newspaper having the unofficial sanction of ttu Chinese gov ernment has reached Denver, In which the alleged report of the Chi nese consul in New York Is printed In full. This report followed an in vestigation made by the consul at the direction of the authorities at Peking. The report, after citing the facts of the case as generally known, s ates that it has been discovered that Elsie Slgel was 111 and went to Leon Ling's room seeking medical aid. In a moment of desperation she took her own life by poison. Ling, the report states, was nbsent at the time, and found the dead body of tho girl upon the bed on his re turn. Frightened by the discovery, he called Chung Sin, says the report, and advised him that should he t?ll the truth to the police regarding the finding of the body he would not be believed - and prohably would he lynched. Frightened by this view of the case, Ling, it Is stated, adopted desperate efforts to dispose of the body and conceal his own where abouts. The report of the Chinese consul nt New York embodying these state ments was sent to Peking more than three weeks ago. The report evident ly is regarded by the Chinese au thorities as revealing the truth of the case, and the Chinese Masons are given permission and encouragement to conceal Leon Ling. A member of the Chinese colony here said: "Only God can find Leon Ling now. He is under the protection of Masons and is being aided by them in his effort to escape the police. Unless further facts come to light proving his guilt he will never be de livered to the officers by his own people." The Chinese here Intimate that any assurance by the Chinese govern ment that the Chinese of this country will aid In the search for the fugi tive should be taken with a grain of salt. THE SHAH OF PEBSIA IS DETHRONED He Is Given Refuse In Russian Legat on. HIS SON IS CHOSEN AS RULER. Protection For Deposed Shah And His Family Furnished Under An Arrangement Between British And Russian Legations Cossncks To Join The Nationalists In Hunting Down Looters -J-Persian Capital Still Agitated. GIRLS AS FOOTPADS. Rob Victim Of Dime At Point Of Revolver. Chicago (Special). Two sisters, the elder 16 years old, held up Charles Natel In South Chicago and with an empty revolver forced hira to give up 10 cents under penalty of death. Natel gave up the dime and then ran to a nearby police station. He returned with a police escort, which captured the holdup glrl. When taken before the sergeant the sis ters treated the whole affair as a Joke, laughingly recoiling the nerv ousness of their victim. Between giggles they gave thelt names as Helen Derowska, 16 years old, and Bertha, 13 years old. They admitted taking the money from Natel tinder threat to kill him, de claring they wanted an ice cream soda. The girls, both of whom are small, stout and good looking, said they recently had visited a Wild West show and bad become imbued with the Idea that robbery was an easy way to obtain money. Teheran (Special). Mohammed All, Shah of Persia, was dethroned and the Crown Prince, Sultan Ahmed Mlrza, was proclaimed Shah by the Natlqnal Assembly, composed of the chief Mujtehlds and the leaders of the Nationalist foices. In the pres ence of an immense crowd in Parlia ment Square. Mohammed All has taken refuge In the Russian summer legation, at Zerzende. where he is under the protection of detachments of Cossacks and Sepoys, dispatched to Zer zende by the Russian and British diplomatic representatives. The new Shah is yet in his minority, and Azad Ul Mulk, head of the Kajar family, has been appointed regent. Sipah dar, one of the most active leaders of the movement, has taken office as minister of war and governor of Te heran. General Liakhoff, through whose negotiations with the Nationalise the surrender was effected, was es corted by mounted Bakhtlari rifle men to the Parliament Building and was greeted with loud applause by the people. He was informbd that he might remain temporarily in com mand of the Cossack brigade, provid ed he strictly obeyed the orders of the war minister. This arrangement was communicated to the British and Russian legations. The shops and private houses oc cupied by the Shah's soldiers have been plundered and the residence of the manager of the Indo-European Telegraph Company has been looted, but no other homes of foreigners were Invaded. With the exception of desultory firing by a handful of loyal Bakh tiarls In a lane near the British lega tion, Teheran is quiet. The towns people are taking quite calmly the sudden change in rulers, while the Nationalists are resting, after four days of Incessant fighting in the streets of a strange town. Russian and British legation guards are stationed at the Russian summer legation, where the Shah has sought safety, and the Cossacks have placed guns around the building as a precaution against a possible attack by . the Nationalists, who, however, declare that they have no intention of taking a step which might cause serious complications. EXPLOSION ON BIG BATTLESHIP Ensign Aiken Killed Oi the North Carolina. A CANDLE IGNITES COAL GAS. Accident Xcnrly Causes The Dost rue. tlon Of An American Warship n Italian Waters Captain MhchIihII'i Prompt Action Keeps Flames From Magazine Aiken Kept Sallnri From Going Into Danger With Him. Naples (Special). The olUcen and men of the American warships in this port united In paying solemn military honors to the late Ensign Hugh Kerr Aiken, of the armored cruiser North Carolina, who died aj the result of injuries sustained In an explosion on board the cruiser. The religious ceremony was conducted on board the North Carolina by the Kev. Dr. Greenman. Capt. William A. Marshall, commander of the squad, ron, delivered a touching address, highly praising Ensign Aiken, who was a victim to duty. From an lnvstigatlon which was Instituted by Captain Marshall It wag i learned that Ensign Aiken attempted Ian investigation of whether gas was generated In the coal hold. Wishing to face the risk alone, he Instructed the sailors to keep be hind him. When -e entered he was not able to detect any odor of gas, and one of the men carrying a light ed candle, came forward. Unfortunately he slipped and his arm dropped, which brought the light In contact with the gas that was lying in a low level. ' Ensign Aiken received the full force of the ex plosion which followed. He was dragged out by the men, but died some hours later. An alarm' was Immediately given after the explosion, and the com manding officer with a force of men stamped out the fire, which otherwise might have communicated to the powder magazine. Aiken was picked up in a pitiful condition. He was terribly burned about the whole body and head. The North Carolina was anchored at the Santa Lucia Harbor, half i mile from the docks, and so the ex plosion passed unnoticed. Aiken was carried to the infirm ary of the cruiser, and the accident only became known on his det.th. The body will be embalmed and cent to New Orleans. HIS TERRIBLE REVENGE. WASHINGTON BY TELEGRAPH Colonel Roosevelt Fells Him With His Big Gun. Naivasha, Africa (Special). The odore Roosevelt, who Is at present hunting on the south shore of Lake XatvAahn from the mnth nf Punt ! Richard Attenborough, succeeded In bringing down a big hippopotamus. The animal Is estimated to weigh three tons. A lllnck llunder Hanged, Hahnevllln, La. (Special). Leo nardo Gebbla, an Italian, the first person ever sent to tho gallows In Louisiana for a crime committed In the name of the so-called "Black Hand" Society, was hanged here. He received the last sacraments of his religion from a priest. " Disease Caught From Cows. Ogdensburg, N. Y. (Special). The family of Georgo Edwards Pres cott, of Ontario, near hero, are all down with an Illness believed to be anthrax. Prcscott recently lost three rows by anthrax, and In enring for them developed all the symptoms himself. Now his wife and their ! tun.wHnkH-old babe, two other chil dren and a hired man are ill. A government Inspector has ordered the carcasses of the cows dug up and burned. Lightning Hits House 11 Times. Sante Fe, N. M. (Special). News of a remarkable play of lightning at an isolated point In Chaves Coun ty Sunday has Just reached here. During a thunderstorm lightning struck the bouse of W. E. Rail, a homesteader, and N. H. Rutherford, who, with his family, was at the Rail homo, was killed. Following this at intervals of 1 minute 11 more bolts struck the house, each shock ing an occupant, inough not fatally. There were 13 persons )n the bouse t the time of tbe storm. - IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE "Best crops the country ever had," says President Garling, of the St. Paul. President W. E. Corey, of United States Steel, has arrived home from Europe. A Philadelphia Iron man said: "The demand for steel billets Is now keener than at any time for over two yeurs." Canadian Pacific marketed 15, 000,000 of new 4 per cent, preferred stock in London at 102. Cambria Steel has received an ord er for 1,000 all steel hopper cats tor the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts burg Railroad. Of the 38,000 Connellsvllle coko ovens almost 110,000 are now In blast which Is a larger number than In any week since the middle of 1907. A movement Is on foot among Philadelphia banks to request Con gress to exempt them from the pro posed corporation tax of 1 per cent. Western Railroads are in the mar ket for 50,000 tons of rails. "We would have more and better business If we bad less politics In this country," remarked President E. B. Thomas as he boarded a steam er for Europe. The following Is from the "Iron Trade Review:" "There Is almost a billet famine !o the East. One Im portant company operating all Its open hearth furnaces full capacity cannot produce enough steel to sup ply its finishing mills. No large ton age can be bought anywhere In tbe East." ' l II EE STIXQ QUICKLY FATAL. Iowa Woman Bitten On Temple, Dies Twenty Minutes Later. Mason City, Iowa (Special). Mrs. Mary J. Buck, a resident of Garrison, died 20 minutes after be ing stung by a bee. A hive of bees belonging to a neighbor swarmed and one stung Mrs. Buck as she was sitting on the porch of her home. She called for help, and was carried into the house. Physicians were summoned, but be fore they could reach her she was dead. Doctors here say that it was the first Instance they knew of death resulting so quickly from the sting of a bee. Killed Rf Stepdaughter. Raleigh, N. C. (Special). Joe Pulley was killed with an ax at bis homo near Sclma. His skull was crushed in several places. It is charged that his 12-year-old step daughter, Marie Pulley, struck him as he lay sleeping, as he threatened to whip her and drive her from home. t. Highest-Priced Cat. London (Special). What is be lieved to be the highest price ever paid here for a domestic cat, namely $525, was given by Mrs. Lynas, of Chicago, for Rob Roy II., England's champion male chinchilla Persia, the winner of numerous prizes. The ani mal will he Bent to the United States on tho steamer Majestic. A Dirigible Torpedo. Stockholm (Special). A new dirigible torpedo recently patented by a Swedish Inventor, -has aroused great Interest In Swedish naval cir cles. The projectile is operated by electricity. It is said to have a range of 5,000 yards, and its course can be altered, while submerged, from tho point of departure at the will of the operator. Furthermore, It .can he exploded whenever desired, and it has a speed of 30 knots an hour at any depth. A Yacht Burned At Sea.. Vineyard Haven, Mass. (Special). While leading tbe fleet of 14 sea going motor boats Into Vineyard Bound, In the long-distance power boat race from New York to Marble bead, the 40-foot cruiser KlWlnque, of the Crescent Athletic Club and Ney York Motor-boat Club, caught fire at mlduigbt three miles loutb of Vineyard Bound Lightship and was destroyed. Tbe crew of six men took to the tender ana later were rescued by a passing schooner. A bulletin Issued by the Bureau of Statistics shows some queer arti cles mat lorm an important part in International commerce. The postal money-order business has grown very noticeably during the lust year. t Some friction has risen between the White House and the Capitol, President Taft resenting the effort of the Republican leaders to induce him to consent to the defeat of the corporation-tax amendment. Baltimore Surety Companies are fighting to defeat the 'provision of the Deficiency Bill which requires bonding companies to reduce their rates for government employes or lose the business. The War Department announced the assignment of the West Point graduates .to the various branches of the army service. Representative Vreeland was In jured fchile pructlctng for the ball game between the Democratic and Republican congressmen. President Taft discussed the gov ernment's financial situation with Senator Aldrich and Representative Payne. The State Department announced candidates who have become eligible to appointments In the consular serv ice. A meeting between President Taft and President Diaz, of Mexico has been practically arranged. The Department of Agriculture has Instituted 13 prosecutions under the Pure Food Law. The sessions of the Sutton court of Inquiry will undoubtedly be pub lic. Assistant Secretary of the Navy is strongly in favor of wide public ity. The two chauffeurs have been subpenaed to attend. Capt. James C. Gilmore, U. S. N., who Is now In command of the bat tleship Illinois, has been assigned to command the armored cruiser Mary land, Albro L. Burnell, American vice consul at Barranquilla, Colombia, said the Insurrection against the ex isting government had been termina ted. James Bryce said that the band of pirates which recently captured an American citizen at North Bor neo had been exterminated. In the conference on tbe tariff bill the representatives of the House agreed to accept the Senate cus toms court provision. President Taft conferred with Mr. Payne and Senator Aldrich relative to the future of the corporation tax scheme. Calfornlans have objected to Mex ico's agreement with American races and the concession may be rescind ed. Ratification of the American-German treaty for the reciprocal protec tion of patents were exchanged. .The Interstate Commerce Commis sion decided that it is not an unlaw ful discrimination fo charge (or bag gage In excess of 150 pouuds. . E. C. Brockmeyer, of , St. Loins, was appointed to a confidential po sition in the Postofflce Department. Jewell H. Aubere, for tbe past seven or eight years Washington rep. resentative of the Bt. Louis Globe Democrat, died lu Washington of heart disease. ' ' Commissioner Williams visited Secretary Nagel and described the work at Ellis Island. Ouit of tbe 472 employes at tbe Immigration station at Ellis Island 139 have been declared inefficient, W. Bayard Cutting, Jr., teslgned as secretary of the American Lega Una at TansJer. Morocco. A Russian Soldier's Attack Upon His Torturers. St. Petersburg (Special). The system of flogging, which is still used as a means of punishment in the so called disciplinary battalions of the Russian Army, led to a tragedy at Micdyied, Novgorod Province. A soldier was condemned to 50 lashes for stealing. After the first few blows, with the blood streaming from his shoulders, the man begged to be released. This was refused and he wrenched himself free, at the same time draw ing a concealed knife. He leaped upon the supervising officer, Captain KavaloroBky, and stabbed him to death. Then he slashed two soldiers who attempted to Beize him and bur ied the knife in liia own breast. JOHN' D. MAKING OIL BUTTER. Standurd Now Turning Out Brown Paste That Doesn't Get Rancid. Alton, 111. (Special). The first roll of petroleum butter, the Stand ard Oil's latest product, Is to be turned out at the Wood River re finery near here. Preparations are being made to manufacture the product here and j the machinery has been shipped. The new product will be known ns "petrol butter." It Is said to be of the same consistency as lacteal butter, but brown In color. It docs not become rancid with age. Town Named For Cleveland. Washington, D. C. (Special). "Clevelandla," in honor of former President Cleveland, is to be the name of the municipality of Bells Vista de Palma, Brazil, according to news received at the State Depart ment. This homage Is paid to Sir Cleveland because of his services M arbitrator of the question of bound ary lines between Brazil and the Ar gentina. For Airship-Railroad Line. Berlin (Special). Count Zeppelin is In Berlin negotiating with the Prussian railroad administration foi a working arrangement between Hi proposed airship passenger lines and the railroads by which railroad fit tlons are to be enlarged to serve as shelters for airships. This Is con sidered less costly than the erection of special airship sheds In the prin cipal cities of Germany. . Lightning Strikes Ball Crowd. Lead, S. D. (Special). While watching a ball game between tb Deadwood and Lead teams, Weston Fry and Thomas Harvlson were kill ed, and eight others were seriously hurt by lightning during a pasting thunderstorm. A panic was narrow ly averted In the crowded grand stund. . Missionaries Warned. Lagos, British West Africa (Spe cial). The native chief of the town of Oyo, lu Nigeria, whence the Re. S. 0. Pinnock, a missionary of the Forclsn Mlsnlon Board of the South Baptist Convention, was expelled re cently, bus sent a letter to tbe Amer ican missionaries uotlfylng then that if they desire to return to Oyo they must enter into a written agree ment with htra not )o interfere wits his methods in governing bis people Shot By His Fiancee. Tolede, O. (Special). Joseph Stasklewcz, aged 21, was shot D1 killed by Helen Mackowlak, aged 18. The couple were to have been married within a month, and Ml" Mackowlaik was - at Staskiewrs home, when be handed ber his re volver for Inspection. In some w sa ner the weapon was discharged and the shot was fired into tbe nan brala. Chao PIng-cbun, vice president ot the Chinese ministry ot Interior, h been ordered to retire, owing to b" ontum habits. , , , v I .
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