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THE NEWS.
Domestic
TJie Rockefeller Institute for Medi
cal Heserch, of New Yorix, hua been
presented by the Pasteur InHtltutc,
of Purls, with 11 replica bronze of the
bOHt. of Louis Pasteur by Paul Dubois
in recognition of the aid rendered
during the recent epidemic of cere
brospinal meningitis, which prevail
ed in France.
Edna Loftus, divorced wife, of a
Jockey, secured the releatio of her
lover, Harry A. Ithelnstrom, from a
sanitarium on a writ of habeas cor
puB, after which the couple fled from
Ohio to Kentucky in an auto and
were married.
Suspected of a Jewelry store burg
lary, two men who had been taken
in custody by the baggageman and
ticket clerk at the Michigan Central
Depot at Ypsalantl drew revolver
and fought a desperate battle lor
their liberty.
Ouo hundred and forty paper
manufacturers, members of the Pa
per Hoard Association, were Indicted
by the federal grand. Jury of New
York on charges of maintaining an
Illegal combination in restraint of
trade.
Train 23 on the Lake Shore, bound
from New York to Chicago, ran into
a construction train near Northeast,
Pa. One man was killed outright,
another was probably fatally Injured
an.l a third wan badly hurt.
A fireman was burned to death
during a fire panic In the Darnum
and Cambridge Hotels, St; Louis.
Henry Harbaugh Apple, D. D., was
Installed as president of Franklin
and Marshall College.
Mrs. Kate Mendelsohn, of Pltts
burg. who has been unconscious lor
10(i days, Is dying.
The price of hogs reached $9.05
per hundredweight in Chicago.
While hunting for a man report
ed missing the police of New York
discovered a tunnel leading from a
house on the East Side under the
street toward a bank.
Three men were killed In an ex
plosion that wrecked a large sec
tion of the Dahlston Metal Door Com
pany's plant, at Jamestown, N. Y.
Charles H. Acltert resigned as vice
president of the Southern Kallroad
and became connected with the Haw
ley Railroads in the same capacity.
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, one of
the founders of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, died suddenly
in New York from apoplexy.
Four men held up a Wank in Wil
liamsburg, N. Y., and shot a brother
of the proprietor. Two of the rob
bers were capturej.
Mary Mannerlng, the actress, was
granted an absolute divorce from her
husband, James K. Hackett, the no
tor. In New York.
The Stani.ari Oil Company denied
being interested in the Milk Trust,
which is being Investigated in New
York.
Prof. Samuel S. Sanford, of Yale,
and son of the founder of the Adams
Express Company, died in New York.
Reports have been received in New
Orleans that plana are on foot for the
refinancing of Guatemala.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Muncle Glass Company, at Muncle,
lnd.; loss, 6.".,000.
The Arctic Club of America drop
ped Dr. Frederick A. Cook as a
member.
Alarmed by the activity of the
Rpecial grand jury headed by John
D. Rockefeller. Jr., to Investigate the
so-caller "white slave" traffic, many
persons believed to have been en
gaged In that business have fled from
New York.
Four striking shirtwaist-makers
of New York, who were fined $2.1
collectively for their activities as
pickets, paid their fines In pennies
It took the entire clerical force of
the court nearly half art hour to
count the pennies.
A new Indictment has been return
ed against F. Augustus Helnzo,
charging hl-ii with conspiracy to re
move and mutilate the books of the
United Copper Company.
Secretary Knox has given out a
statement explaining his plan for
an international court to settle lit
tie controversies In time of peace as
well as In time of war
Royal Edwards, aged twenty-one
years, hounded by his conscience.
confessed to n Seattle (Wash.) Ju
tice that he v. -u wanted In Harris
burg, Pa., for embezzling $1,400.
SCANDAL IN THE
' JMN SERVICE
Suspensions Are Ordered Iy
Secretary Halliner.
SOME SERIOUS "CHARGES ARE MADE.
InvcMlgnf Inn Said To Have Disclosed
A Disgraceful Condition Affecting
The Material And Moral Welfare
Or The Schools The Superintend
ent Alleged To Have Business lu
te reMs Incompatible With Ills
Dut lex Other Officials Are Con-corned.
Washington. D. C. (Special).
Secretary Ballinger, of the Interior
Department, euspenied from office
Superintendent John D. Benedict, of
the Five Civilized Tribes of Okla
homa, and three supervisors as the
result of an Investigation which has
disclosed "a disgraceful condition"
affecting the material and moral
welfare of the schools.
As a result of the Investigation
which the Interior Department has
been carrying on for sometime past,
and which will be continued, other
officials of the Indian Service may
suffer a like fate to that of Superin
tendent Benedict and the three su
pervisors suspended.
Tho investigation which resulted
in this action was entered Into be
cause of various reports reaching the
department here, charging the of
ficials alreaJy suspended, as well as
others, with activities which It was
thought were Improper for govern
ment employes. The suspended su
pervisors are Galvln Ballard, of the
Choctow schools at McAles'er; Fred
erick H. Umholtz of the Chickasaw
schools. Ardmore, and Walttr Fal-
well, of the Creek schools at Muske
gee. Before any further action Is
taken In their cases the four men
will be allowed to make nnswer to
the Secretary of the Interior as to
the charges against them.
From the report made in the case
It appears that Superintendent Bene
dict is connected with certain business
Interests In Oklahoma which have
moro or less business with the In
dians, which relationship, it was be
lleevd, was wholly Incompatible with
his service as superintendent. He
had permitted the schools It was re
ported, to fall Into a disgraceful con
dition, and the supervisors have neg
lected their duties in the enforce
ment of school contracts and In mat
ters affecting tho material and moral
conditions surrounding the conduct
of the schools.
Oscar H. Llpps, of tho Indian Of
fice, supervisor of Indian schools,
who was sent to Oklahoma with the
charges, notified the department here
today of bis arrival, and that he has
relieved Superintendent Benedict
pending the result of the Investiga
tion. The duties of the suspended
supervisors will be performed tem
porarily by detailed clerks of the In
dian Office. Superintendent Bene
dict has been connected with the In
dian Service for 10 years past.
Secretary Ballinger and Commis
sioner Valentine, of the Indian Of
fice, announce that the Investigation
of conditions surrounding the
schools, although not conducted pub
licly, will be thorough, and that the
conduct of the officers responsible for
the present condition will be look
ed Into most carefully.
CHILD CATCHES THIEF.
i oreign
A collision between French and
Turkish tioops near Di-lilba, Tunis,
on the Tripoli frontier, during which
hhoU were exchanged, has caused
France to make representations
against the advance of Turkish
troops in that territory.
IJci-tiu.' United States Minister
Fox, at Guayaquil, Ecuador, notified
the fordpr. minister that the sanl
tary conditions were bad. the Ecua
dorean press says the notice raiiatl
tulex a menace ugaitibt South Ameri
tan autonomy.
Herbert Titlow was sentenced by
a London court to eight months at
herd labor, for defrauding Miss Clara
Libbev, of New Haven, ft., repre
senting himself as Sir Claud Camp
hell, of the British Jifiplomatic serv
ice.
The Austrian steamer Irene, at
Venice Irom Galveston and Norfolk,
and the Hrltlnh steamer Elswlck
Manor, from Tyne, were In collision
and the Irene was slightly damaged
The Russian Foreign Office has as
yet taken no action on the memoran
dum presented by the U 8. govern
ment relative to tho neutralization of
the Manchurlan railroads.
Queen WllU'lmlna gave a ban
quet at the palace at The Hague in
honor of Gen. Stewart Woodford,
president of the Hudson-Fulton Ccle.
tratlon Commission.
Miss C. A. Diayton, of New York,
and William Phillips, secretary of
the United States Embassy In Lon
don, are to be married there.
Tbe Jewels which Abd-el-Azlz, the
former sultan of Morocca, pawned In
Pari (or $300,000. have been re
deemed by tbe Moroccan government.
The steamer Novo Prince, from
New York for Cape Town, was burn
ed off Ascension Island.
A bill was Introduced In tbe Bel
gian parliament to legitimize tbe
children of tbe lute King Leopold and
tbe Baroness Vaughan.
Tbe royal palace at Tatol. Greece,
took fire from tapers ou a Christmas
tree, and the right wing of tbe build
ing wts destroyed.
Tbe Hamburg-American line
Knerat Bismarck, from Havana for
Hamburg, went ashore In a fog near
Cherbourg, ranee.
John Brown, labor leader In tbe
uritinh House of Commons, haj
Ugbt with an anknown man, who at
tacked kin iobuob.
TO KEEP PEACE
IN THE FAR EAST
Sec. Knox's Proposition
Oilier Powers.
to
Elimination Of The Mnncliurlan
Railroads From Kastorn Politics
A Proposition Looking To Neu
tralization Of These Railroads
Preservation Of Territorial Integ
rity Of CJiincse Empire.
Washington, D. C. (Special).
Secretary Knox has suggested to the
powers interested In the Manchurlan
Railway situation a plan contempla
ting the neutralization of tbe rail
roads by their sale to China, tho
transaction to be financed by an In
ternational syndicate. If Mr. Knox's
plan Is carried Into effect tbe result
will be to take tbe Manchurlan rail
ways out or oriental politics and
place them under economic and Im
partial administration. The owner
ship of the railways will be vested
In tbe Chinese government, the funds
for the purpose to be loaned to China
by the bankers ot these countries
which are pledged to maintain the
open-door policy in China.
Discussing this subject Mr. Knox
said:
"The proposition of the United
States to the interested powers look
ing to the neutralization of the Man
churlan railroads disclose the end
towards which American policy In
the Far East has been recently directed.
"As Is well known, the essential
principles of the Hay policy of tbe
open door are the preservation of
the territorial and Jurisdictional in
tegrity of the Chinese Empire and
equal commercial opportunity In
China for all nations. This govern
ment believes that one of the most
effective, if not the most effective,
way to secure for China tho undis
turbed enjoyment of all political
rights in Manchuria, and to promote
the normal development of the East
ern provinces under the policy of
the open door practically applied,
would be to take the railroads of
Manchuria out of Eastern politics
and place them under an economic
and Impartial administration by
vesting in China the ownership of
its railroads, the funds for that pur
pose to be furnished by the nations
of such interested powers as might
be willinir to participate and who
are pledged to the policy of the open
door and equal opportunity; tho
powers participating to operate tho
railway system during tne periou oi
the loan and enjoy the usual pref
erences In supplying materials.
"Such a policy would naturally re
quire for its execution the coopera
tion not only of China, but also of
Japan and of RtiBsla, who already
have extensive railway rights In Manchuria."
LEADING TO BANK
New York Police Unearth One
On Kast Side.
HUNTING FOR THE MISSING MAN,
When Authorities Are Notified That
Man Went Into A Cellar And
Never Returned, They Investi
gate And Find Tunnel Digging
I'p Street In Effort To Fnd Man
Branched Off Toward A Jewelry
Store Next To Bunk.
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH
Little Mary Vaughn Highly Com
mended By Magistrate.
New York (Special). Mary
Vaughn, smull, but plucky, earned
the praise of a magistrate when
Charles Moran, who says ho is a
salesman from Chicago, was arraign
ed In police court charged with
snatching $5 from a stationery store.
Mary was afono in the shop at. the
time of the alleged theft. She dart
ed after tho man, chased him on to
tho street and through the thick of
the traffic, caught him and held on
until a policeman came to her aid.
"You're a brave little girl," said
the magistrate to her when he heard
her story. Moran was held In
$1,000 bail.
IJcrord Year In Pig Iron.
Cleveland. Ohio (Special). Re
turns received from the coke and
anthracite blast furnaces of the I'nl
ted States by the "Iron Trade He-
view" show that tho pig iron pro
duction for December was 2, Oil, 450
tons, bringing coke and anthracite
pig Iron production of tho country
for 11109 to the record-breaking total
of 25,335,750 tons. This total pro
duction surpasses 1907, which was
25.299,732 tons, by a margin of 3(i.
0L'7 tons. The country is now mak
ing ;ig iron at the unprecedented
rate of thirty-two million tons per
year.
A Sibling Village.
Parma, Italy (Special). On tho
bills between Parma and Piaccnza.
which are about 36 miles apart, an
Immense landslide is slowly moving.
It is two miles in length, half a mile
in width and its depth Is estimated
at 75 feet. On top or the slide is
the village of Scopolo, recently oc
cupied by a thousand people. It Is
doomed to destruction, and the in
habitants have evacuated the village,
transporting their valuables and tho
furnishings and altars of their
church to safer ground.
What Colleges Are For.
Madison. Wis. (Special). Presi
dent Lowell, of Harvard, spoke at
the convocation at tbe university and
scored those students "who come to
college for Its privileges and not for
I la responsibilities." Many, he said,
have an idea that a college diploma
completes tbolr education, but their
education is not completed until the
sod I placed over tbem. 8tudenti,
be said, should come to college to
lrhrn t do things as well aa to learn
facts.
Dog Have Life For Owner.
Santa Rosa, Cal. (Special). Let
ting Itself be torn to shreds to save
lti master, a faithful dog met death
near Skagg's Springs. A wild boar
bunt Is being held to exterminate a
herd that bat terrorize! travelers
through the forest for yean, and
one of tbe hunter was without a
weapon wben a huge boar broke
front the underbrush. The hunter's
doc met the boar's charge and was
cut to ribbons before the boar was
ktn by other members of the par
tr. i
A committee of the Federation ot
Labor presented to President Taft
a formal paper containing fourteen
charges of illegal conduct against
the Steel Corporation.
Rev. Ernest T. Lyons, minliiter to
Liberia, was in Washington to urge
his movement for the financing by
the United States government of the
Liberlan debt.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs laid aside the measures de
manding the arrest and punishment
of former President Zelaya of Nica
ragua. Tho House adopted resolutions of
respect to the memory of tho late
Congressman Griggs, of Georgia, and
adjourned.
President Taft sent to tho Senate
the nomination of ('apt. Charles E.
Vreeland, of tho Navy, to be a rear
admiral.
Representative Mann Introduced a
number of bills bearing upon legisla
tion in the Interest of railroad em
ployes. President Taft nominated1 Amos
H. Rudolph and John A. Johnston
to be District Commissioners.
An experiment is to be made on
the New York docks with automntlc
sugar weighing scales.
Speaker Cannon declared himself
a great believer in the caucus.
President Taft has bought a fine,
strong saddle borsc.
The attitude of France in still per
sistently objecting to the Chinese
loan is mystifying, and has surpris
ed Germanv and Greut Britain, as
well as the United States.
Dr. Maurice F. Egan, United States
ministor to Denmark, stated that
the King of Denmark did not bestow
the Doouebog decoration upon Dr.
Frederick A. Cook.
Jurisdiction over tho registration
of labels is left with the postoliice in
a decision which tho attorney gen
eral has transmitted to the House
Committee on Patents.
An even half million dollars Is
asked in a deficiency estimate sub
mitted to Congress for service In the
public buildings throughout the country.
President Taft explained hla posi
tion relative to insurgent patronage
and corrected the report that he Is
using the whip to get them' Into
line.
President Taft is still looking for
ward to a trip to Alaska late in the
coming spring.
Col. James .Gordon, of Mississippi,
was sworn in aa tho successor to tbe
late Senator A. J. McLaurin in the
Senate.
M. A. W. Louis, one of tbe best-
known experts in the handling of
printing presses in the country, is
dead.
Secretary Knox sent a communca-
tlon to Congress dealing .with the
problem of Americanizing the con
sular Held.
Over three ''-billion Internal reve
nue stamps will bo required for
cigars, cigarettes, strip tobacco and
snuff during tne current fiscal year
Three of the Tennessee lynchers
tchtenced for SO days for contempt ot
court, having served their terms in
the Washington Jail, were set free.
The Treasury Department will
make Inquiry at all ports wbero sugar
is brought in to learn If there has
been any underwelghlng as at New
York.
President Taft has declared him
self In favor of the bond bill to raise
the battlhlp Maine from tbe bot
tom of Havana barber.
New York (Special). A true case
of the man who crawled into bis
hole and pulled the hole in after
him 1b puzzling the police here. And
there is more interest In the hole
than in the man who dug it, for a
cursory first inspection soon showed
that, from an unobtrusive aperture
In the floor of a tenement house cel
lar, tbe hole presently stretched into
a tunnel, and that the tunnel pointed
in the direction of the vaults of tbo
East Side branch of the Fourteenth
Street Bank, with deposits of $10,
000,000, and toward the safe of a
Jewelry shop next door, in which
there lay $60,000 worth of diamonds
and Jewelry.
Isidor Garbus ran to the police
with a tale of the disappearance of
his brother-in-law, Isaac Flnkelsteln.
Tho man had last been seen, he said,
In the cellar of the tenement bouse
where they lived. Isaac had gone
downstairs to gather firewood. He
did not return and under the wood
pile Isidor had found a mound of
fresh earth. The foundations of the
house, he told the police, must have
collapsed on his brother-in-law.
After a few minutes' digging tho
police uncovered a sharply defined
aperture in the cellar wall, about
three feet across, and pitching down
ward under the street. A building
department inspector crawled In on
his hands and knees, striking
matches as he went, but camo out
in a hurry when he bumped into
what seemed to be a collapse of
earth and boulders. The walls of
the tunnel were unshored, and only
tho cohesion of the hard packed
earth held the roof up. Whoever
had dug It must have worked in
secret for weeks.
Fearful of further exploration
from the cellar, the inspectors began
to dig down from the street level,
at the same time sounding the cel
lar walls of the bank and the Jewel
ry shop. So far ns they could learn
both are sound.
niccine continued all afternoon
and ail night with crowds of curious
In attendance. The work went slow
ly, both because of the depth of the
excavation and the necessity for cau
tion. At a point beyond the first
obstruction a fork In tho tunnel was
found, one branch heading for the
bank vaults and the other for the
Jewelry shop. In all the diggers had
uncovered about 50 feet of burrow
ing, with no trace of tho body of
Flnklesteln.
There Is some doubt whether he
Is In the tunnel, for It is pointed out
that the home entrance to it was
barricaded from tho outside. On tho
other hand, the'pollce contend, a con
federate could have made the barricade.
EXPELS DIt. COOK.
NICARAGUA WILL BLAME ZELAYA
Responsibility For Americans' Death Is His -President
' Madriz Begins to Probe.
Investigation Into The Deaths - Of
Groce And Cannon, Who Were
Shot After A Hasty Court-Martial
Solomon Selva, The Prosecutor,
Will Share The Responsibility
With Zelaya Another flattie Is
Expected Soon. .
Managua, Nicaragua (Special).
General Vasquez has left to assume
command of the government forces
at Acoyapa, where an engagement
with the insurgent army now moving
westward may take place soon.
Members ot tbe local Red Cross
branch have gone to Bluefields, where
remain many of the prisoners taken
by General Estrada in the battle of
Rama.
President Madriz began a personal
invesigatlon of tbe executions of the
Americans Oroce and Cannon, with
the object of placing the responsi
bility. Solomon Selva, who appeared
as government prosecutor before the
court-martial, will be found Jointly
responsible with Zelaya, it is said.
Admlra Kimball, In command of
the United States naval forces in Cor
into harbor, has declined a gift of
six steers, tendered by President Mad
rlz for the American soldier's mess.
Congress has passed a bill pro
viding for the issue of paper money
to the amount of $15,000,000 to re
place tbe $12,000,000 In notes now
In circulation.
GOVERNMENT INQUIRY
INTO GOST OF LIVING
Secretary Wilson Will Endeavor to Find Why Food
Is So HighA Big Contract, He Says.
Washington, D. C. (Special). In
consonance with the resolution in
troduced by Representative Hull,
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, has ordered a sweep
ing inquiry into the cost of living
in the United States.
"I realize," said Secretary WllBon,
"that we have undertaken a big
contract, but we can carry it out.
We have the men and we have tho
money, to riaraphraso a famous
statement, and the work will bo done
thoroughly. Much of the work will
be done by inspectors of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, but other divi
sions of the department will be call
ed upon to assist.
"The question of food supply Is
most complicated. In Investigating
it wfth regard to any particular lo
cality three facts are to be consider
ed: "First, the price paid by the
wholesale merchant to the producer;
second, the cost of transportation
from tbe place of production, and,
third, the difference between the
wholesale and retail prices. The lo
cation of the place of production and
consequently the question of trans
portation play a large part in the
general results."
The resolution scj.s forth that dur
ing the past twelve months there has
been an advance in the prices of
commodities of from 11 to 30 per
cent., and during the past thirteen
years of more than 66 per cent.,
which is entirely disproportionate to
the increase In wages, making it dif
ficult for millions of people to pro
cure food, clothing and shelter con
sistent with their needs.
FATAL FLIGHT OF
LEON DELAGRANGE
The Famous French Aviator
' Killed at Bordeaux.
HAD MADE SEVERAL NARROW ESCAPES.
Accident Caused By A Wing Of The
Monoplane Breaking In A Gust Of
Wind While Encircling The Aero
drome At Bordeaux Delagrange
Ranked As One Of Tho Foremost
Aviators Had Broken All Speed
And Other Records.
KILLED BY MOTHER-IN-LAW.
Arctic Club Of America Drops Him
From Membership.
New York (Special). The Arctic
Club of America founded by Dr.
Frederick A. Cook and his support
ers in the North Pole controversy
through its board of directors has
dropped the name of the explorer
from the roll of membership.
The action of the Arctic Club di
rectors was unanimous and follows
hard upon the heels of the explorer's
summary dismissal from the council
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences two days ago, and strips from
the explorer almost the last vestige
of scientific honors, only tho degree
of doctor of philosophy, conferred by
the University of Copenhagen re-mulning.
The Arctic Club of America led in
the welcoming festivities to Dr. Cook
on his return from Greenland and
Copenhagen. Later the club tendered
Dr. Cook, a former president of tho
organization, a banquet at tho Waldorf-Astoria,
while many of its in
dividual members, including Admiral
Sehlev and Captain Osbon, warmly
championed the cause of Cook when
bis now discredited polar claim was
challenged.
EXPM)SIO. HILLS THREE.
Section Of nant Of Metal Door Coin-
pany Wrecked. '
Jamestown, N. Y. (Special). By
the explosion of a gas oven in the
enameling department of the Dahl
Ktroin Metal Door Company's plant in
this city, a largo section of tho plant
was wrecked. Gus T. Johnson, night
foreman, was killed, and William
Smith, a varnlBher, and Bernard
MagnuBsen, a finisher, were fatally
injured. The explosion was cauued
by a collection of gas In one of the
ovens.
Jail For Former Preacher.
Chicago (Special), i James It.
Kaye, a former minister of Lincoln,
111., and later editor of a religious
paper, must serve a two years' sen
tence -in tbe Federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth for counterfeiting.
Wrecked Train To Itob.
Muncle, lnd. (Special). Vernon
Plesslnger, 18 years old, pleaded
guilty of opening a switcn at Dawn
Ohio, and wrecking tbe Knickerbock
er train on the Big Four jtauroaa
Saturday night. He was arraigned
before Mayor Bchermand, of Green
ville. Ohio, and was held to the
grand Jury and placed In Jail. -Ples
slnger bad ex pec to J tnat many pas
sengers would be killed, or Injured
so that he could steal enough money
from them to take blm to a seacoast
town "where be could Join the navy."
; Gunners Declined To Hike.
Fishers Island. N. Y. (Special).
Many of the noncommissioned offi
cers and men of the One Hundred
and Tblrty-ilrst Company, United
states Coast Artillery, it is stated.
are confined in tbe guard house at
Vnrt Tl II YVrlarht following m. nmtlnv
in the company. Tbe company was
oraoren oui lor nine oi 10 miles
and but nine men ot the company
A.LjlnaA In rii th duty It Wan .tnL
ed authoritatively that a majority of
ordered oerore a coart-inanwi.
Bordeaux (Special). Leon Dela.
grange, the French aviator, wnose
achievements during the past two
years had won for him a high place
among those who have set out to
conquer the air, was instantly killed
here while making a night in tne
presence of a great crowd of spec
tators. A strong, uncertain wind prevail
ed, but with characteristic daring
Delagrange faced it In the same mon
oplane In which he made a record of
53 miles an hour at the Doncaster
meeting last October. He circled the
aerodrome, seeming to have his ma
chine under good control, and yet
at times it heeled dangerously to the
wind. On the third round, whe.i
at a height of between 60 and 70
feet, ho increased his speed.
He swung wide at the turns, but
at the lower end of the aerodromo
he attempted to describe a sharp
curve. Tho machine was Been to
sway. The left wing was broken and
the right wing immediately couapsea.
The aeroplane came plunging to the
earth, and It turned half over as it
fell, with the aviator clinging " the
seat. In this way it crushed to tho
ground, with Delagrange beneath.
the heavy motor crushing out nis Jire.
The mechanicians are at a loss to
explain the exact cause of the ac
cident. They are merely able to say
that It resulted from maneuvering
too quickly In the puffy wind. The
monoplane was doubly braced at the
essential points and had been given
a careful examination before ascending.
HIS SPLENDID RECORD.
One Of The Most Daring Of The
World's Aerial Pilots.
Leon Delagrange ranked among
the first of the aviators of tbe world.
On December 30 last, at Juvlsy, he
broke all speed records. The occa
sion was an attempt to win the
Mlchelln cnp. He did not succeed
In beating Henry Farman's reword
for distance, but did establish a new
distance record for monoplanes and
a new world's speed record. He cov
ered 124 miles in 2 hours and 32
minutes, maintaining an average
speed of approximately 49 miles an
hour.
Delagrange had been a well-known
automoblllst and was one of the first
men in Europe to take up aviation.
"Unsinkable" Target Sinks.
San Francisco (Special). The air
chambered "unslnkable1' target,
which cost $16,000 to build end
which was shipped from the Brook
lyn Navy Yard to the Philippine Is
lands to be used In the winter target
practice of the Pacific fleet, went to
the bottom after two broadsides
from the Charleston, according to
letters received at Mare Island Navy
Yard. The target was of armor plate,
with protected air chambers to keep
It afloat, but the six-inch guns punch
ed it full ot holes, and It sank.
Russia To Copy V, ft. Warships,
St. Petersburg (Special). The
Admlrallty Is planning to send a
group of officers to America to study
battleship construction. The battle
ships ot tbe United States Navy are
considered here to reprtient the most
aavaucea iyi" iu uu -unu. ,
Urges Local Option In Kentucky.
Frankfort. Ky (Special). The
message of Governor Augustus E.
Wtllson urges adoption of a uniform
local option law, with tbe county as
a governing uuu. ;
Tcniiesseaii Had Quarreled With i
And Shot Her First.
Dresden, Tcnn. (Special). Clar
ence Carney was killed ty his 65-year-old
mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarafc
Griffith, in a revolver duel. Mrs
Griffith had met Carney in the fronl
yard of a neighbor's home to discuse
a quarrel of long standing. The dis
cussion became heated, and Carnej
fired three times at tho aged woman
Although one bullet struck her lr
the hip, she stood her ground and
fired rive times before her son-in-law
lowered his weapon and sank dead
to the ground. Mrs. Griffith was arrested.
Follows His Suicide Wife.
San Francisco (Special). Dr. Wil
liam A. Monnish, formerly a physi
cian in Atlanta, Ga., was found dead
in his hotel. An empty chloroform
bottle lay beside he bed. Dr. Mon
nish was 48 years old and leaves '
a 13-year-old daughter. Dr. Rosa F.
Monnish, his wife, committed suicide
at her home in Atlanta several
months ago, being found guilty and
sentenced to two years' Imprisonment
for violation of the United State!
postal laws.
Judge Martin Bell Dead.
Hollldaysburg, Pa. (Special).
Martin BelL presiding Judge ot the
Blnlr County courts, was found dead
in bed at his home here of-heart af
fection. Judge Bell was 62 years
old. . He served two terms as dis
trict attorney and was first elected
judgo in 1893. - He leaves a wldow
and six children.
Cuts Her Lover's Throat.
Nashville, Tenn. (Special). L
zle E. Crenshaw, 23 years old, se
verely Wounded John M. Jennings, a
bookkeeper, by cutting hla throat.
Later she hanged herself In a cell
at the police station, using her apron
strings as a rope. She was dead
when discovered by the turnkey.
Jennings may recovtr 1 Jealousy was
the cause of the woman's actions.
Cremated With Customer. .
Syracuse, N. Y. (Special). Mobci
Rosenbloom, a clothing merchant,
was burned to death, and a customer
Wolf Peerlman, probably fatally
burned by a gasoline explosion in
the Nottingham Building. Rosen
bloom was showing his goods to
tho other man when a cigar Bpark
set off a Jug of the volatile fluid.
: Anarchists After Alfonso, . .
Madrid (Special). Tho Governor
of Barcelona telegraphs that absolute
quiet , prevails , at Barcelona and
throughout all of Catalonia, and that
there has been no attempt at a gen
eral strike. Dispatches received from'
that city indicated an anarchistic
movement, which resulted in the
curtailment of the visit here of Gen
eral Weyler, captain general of Cata
lonia. Tbe police arrested six suepl.
clous Individuals, all of whom wero
foreigners, lurking near the estate
where King Alfonso Is hunting in
Andalusia
Sugar I'robo For Other Ports.
Washington. D. C. (Special).
Following tbe discovery of uader
welgblng of sugar at tbe port ot
New York Inquiries are to be made
at other ports whore sugar Is brought
In with a view to determining
whether there has been underwelgh
ing elsewhere. -
Shoots Himself When Dared.
Cincinnati (Special). Dared lb
Jest by a companion to shoot him
self. Morton L. Rodger. 17 year
old, raised a rifle and shot himself
through the brain, dying Instantly.
Pioneer Prrsorver Dead.
Toledo, Ohio (Special). James
Dale Chamberlln, 05 years old, who
claimed to be one ct the originators
of the industry of preserving fruit
In hermetically sealed cans for rotn
merclal purposes, died hero. 8uc
cerafully experimenting with berries
and tomatoes while a young man in
Union County, Pennsylvania, be ped
dled his product in Philadelphia..
, ,
, Colonel Roosevelt and the mem
bers of his expedition, who are now
at Katue, Uganda, are In good
health.
COMMERCIAL
w noiesaie manteis.
New York. Wheat Spot Arm;
No. 2 red, 127',aC elevator domes
tic and 1.27 f. o. b. afloat nominal
to arrive; No. 1 Northern Duluth,
1.26, and No. 2 hard winter,
1.27 nominal f. o. b. afloat.
Corn Spot firm; No. 2, 71c. ele
vator, 71 delivered and 69 'A f.
b. afloat nominal.
Oats Spot steady; mixed, 26911
lbs., 47c; natural white, 26 32 lbs.,
48051; clipped white, 3442 lbs..
49G3. '
Eggs Firm; receipts, 5,393 case.
State, Pennsylvania and nearby gats
ered, white, 3642; Western, extra
firsts, 86 (T 30; "firsts, 3384; sec
onds, 30(32; refrigerators, 149
26.
Poultry Alive firm; Wester
chickens, 15c; fowls, 15; turkeys,'
15 20; dressed steady; Western
chickens, 16 0; 22; fowls, 1217;
turkeys, 22 24.
Philadelphia. Wheat Quiet but
steady; contract grade, December,
120(U)122c
Corn Quiet but firm; December,
60ffj67c; January, 6666Mi.
Oats Firm, c. higher; No. I
white natural, 5151c.
Butter Quiet but steady; extra
Western creamery, 39c; do., neap
by prints, 40.
Eggs Firm, lc. higher; Pennsyl
vania and other nearby firsts, free)
cases, 37c, at mark; do., current
receipts In returnable cases, 35, ati
mark; Western firsts, free cases, 37.
nt mark ; do., current receipts, free :
c. "ses, 31(0-35, at mark. '
Cheese Firm; New York full
creams, choice, 1714c; do., fair te
good, 16 17.
Live Poultry Firm and higher;
fowls, 15 ffj. 17c; old roosters, 11
ft;12; chickens, 1517; ducks,
loVlB; geese, 1416.
Baltimore Wheat Spot No. 1
red opened dull; May, 120 c; cash
No. 2 red wheat here early was
1.21 Vi. while No. 2 red Western:
was 1.22 and May wheat was 1.20.,
Corn Year, 66c January corn'
early was 66 66, while new
mixed spot was 66 and February
corn early was 67(fi68. March
at the opening ruled about 68
68.
Oats Quote: White No. 2, as
to weight, 50ffi51c.; do., No. 3,
as to Weight, 49W50; do., No. 4,
as to weight, 474(-43. Mixed No.
2, 48Ti,49; mixed No. 3, 470
47.
Hay We quote, per ton: No. 1 ..
timothy, large bales, $19.503O;
No. 1 timothy, small blocks, $ 19.5s
?20; No. 2 timothy, $18.5019;
No. 3 timothy, $17 0 18; choice clo
ver mixed, $19; No. 1 clover mixed,
$18.50; No. 2 clover mixed, $17.5e
WIS; No. 1 clover, $19; No. 2 clover,
$1818.50.
Straw We quote, per ton: ,
Straight rye straw, fair to choice,
$15.50 16; tangled rye (blocks),
$10.50 fif 11; wheat blocks, fair to
choice, $7 7.50; oat, good to prime,;
$89-
Eggs We quote, per dozen, loss
off: Maryland, Pennsylvania and
nearby firsts, 32c; Western firsts,
32; West Virginia firsts, 32; South
ern firsts, 31; guinea eggs, 16.
Dressed Poultry Market firm.
Ready sale for choice to fancy stock.
Small to medium size turkeys pre
ferred over large. Wo quote, per lb.:
Turkeys Choice, small, 22c, do.,
medium to large, 20; fair to good,
181-20; old toms, 18 019. Chickens
Young, 15?j)16c; old and mixed,
14(f15; old roosters, 10. Ducks
15 16c. GeeBO Nearby, 15 0 16c;
Western and Southern, 12 14.
Live Stock.
Chicago. Cattle Market 100
15c. lower; steers, $5 8.50; cows,
$3.50 5; heifers, $3.40 6; bulla, '
1.1. 40 Si 4.75: calves. 5fD9: atockera
and feeders, $3.73 & 5.50.
Hogs Market 10c. higher. Choice
heavy, $8.55 ($8.70; butchers, $8.44
(&8.60;. light mixed, $8.2008.40;
choice light $8.208.45; packing
$8.30)8.55; pigs, $7.5008.30;
bulk of sales, $8.30 8.50.
Sheop Market strong, to 26c
higher; sheep, $4 6; lambs, $6.4
8.65; yearlings, $5.25 7.85.
Kansas City, Mo. Cattle Market
for steers slow, steady, tor cows and
calves strong; for stockcra and feed- '
erg dull. Choice export and dress
ed beef steers, $5.85 7.25; fair to
good, $4.80 5.75; Western steers,
$4 6.50; Blockers and feeders,
$3.25 4.80; Southern steers, $40,
5.75; Southern cows, $2.75 4.40;
native cows, $2.50 5; native heif
ers, $3.255.85; bulls, $305.10;
calves, $4 0 9,
Hogs' Markei steady; ton,
$8.52; bulk of sales, $8.25 8.60;
heavy, $8.4 0 0 8.52; packers and
butchers. $8.30 0 8.52; light,
$8.050 8.45; pigs. $6.2507.65.
Sheep Market strong to ' 10c -'
higher; Western yearlings, $7.35;
lambs, $6.5008.25; yearlings, $6.25
07.85; wethers, $5.2506; ewes,
$4.50 (ili 5.35; stociccrs and feeders. '
$3.5005.25.'
Pittsburg. Cattle Supply light
and steady; choice, $6.75 07; com
mon, $3.50 04.50.
Sheep Supply light and steady;
prime wethers, $5.60 06.70; eulla
and common, $203; lambs, $6 0
8.60; veal calves, $10010.60.
Hogs Receipts, 20 double decks;
active; prime heavies. $8.90 (high .
mark); mediums and heavy Yorkers, .
$8.86 01.90; light Yorkers and pigs,
$8.8008.85; roughs, $7.5008.25.
ODDS AXD ENliii '
British brewers last year used
about 63,000,000 pounds ot hops.
Almost two-thirds of the world'!
petroleum is produced by the Unltea
States.
Using electricity, Nome, Alaska,
tho most northerly town in America,
Is one of the best lighted In the
world.
A 12-borse motor weighing but
60 pounds has been perfected by a
German inventor for use in aerUU
torpedoes. fi
About $25,000 worth of gold is
recovered from tbe soot In tbe chim
neys of the United States mlnta ev
ery few years.
Nickel. The entire 1908 produc
tion was 12,800 tons, of which 6,009
tons came from the United States,
2,800 tons from England and 2,50t
tons from Germany.
A Boston firm of building wreck-
I. - - Y. -r,it tr V, , nut & Mronln Br '-
that will cut through nails and bolt
as well as through wood, enabling
them to eat Into regular sixes seo-ond-hand
lumber that otherwia
would be valueless.
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