FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOION Two More Fatally, and Several Slightly lujured. NINE TANKS WERE BLOWN UP. Flames Foliowed Explosion and Gave Firemen a Hard Fight Before They Were Subdued. Four persons were killed and a scora were injured by a series of gas explos- ions that completely destroyed the plant of the Pyle Electric Headlight Company in South Chicago. Build- ings near the demolished plant were badly damaged, windows were shat- tered for blocks, and persons walking | in the streets were thrown from their feet. Over pressure on tanks con- taining gas is believed to have caus- ed the accident. The dead: Ralph Wells, superinten- dent for the Pyle National Electric Headlight Company; Amos Watkins, assistant superintendent for same company; George Muehl, draftsman, employed by the Peoples Gas Light and. Coke company; Thomas Jennings, employed by the Pyle National Elec- tric Headlight Company. Fatally injured: William M. loney, blown from third floor of ing; body crushed; Alfred Cox, nally injur Many per Ma- build- inter- sons who were walking in he street near the plant were by flying pieces of debris, taken to their homes in carriages be- fore their names were learned. All of the dead were buried under tons of burning timber and hot brick and from, Jane it impossible to re- move their bodies until hours after the ty The Pyle National light Company is largely engaged in supplying illumination for railroad coaches. This illuminant is forced in- to small retorts, which when attached under the floor of a car, will supply it with light for months. In order to make this possible, the retorts are subjected té6 an extremely high press- | ure. It was such a tank that caused the first explosion. Then retort after retort exploded in rapid succession. There were nine such explesions in all, which left the plant in flames. Hard fighting on the part of 100 fire- | men finally subdued the flames. The total loss caused by the accident estimated $75,000. Electric Head- is at FREIGHT STRUCK STR EET CAR Killed ahd Others Grade Crossing. : A street car with trailer attached got beyond control of the motorman and crashed through the guard gates | | Four Injured at] at the Queen street crossing of the! Grand Trunk rail at Toronto, Can. A Montreal ht train struck the forward car, grinding it to splint- ers. Every passenger on the street car was injured, two dying soon after being taken from the wreckage and two at the hospital. | The dead are: James Armstrong, conductor; child of child thrown from its mother’s arms and both its legs were cut off. Mrs. Minnie Mahat- fv. internally injured, died at hospital; Russell J. Stephens; internally injured, died at hospital. i. The. forward car was struck fairly in the center and completely demol- ished. The vestibule from which the motorman had jumbed was carried up the track 100 yards. The trailer was | overturned and, all the windows were | smashed, but the body of the’ car To-1 niainéd intact: J. Robertson, th TRAGEDY IN. KENTUCKY. | and Wernan Killed as the Re- ‘sult of Land Troubles. ‘George Curd and Emma ‘Durham have. been killed, and Thomas Curd fatally wounded “mnear® Cumberland Falls, Ky. The Curd brothers owned a large tract of land and had trouble with squatters. . As. they were passing the cabin where the Durham woman lived they were fired upon. “Thomas crawled two miles to his home and George was dead when found. The Durham woman was prob- ably killed and burned to cover identi- ty. The shooting octurred from her house. Man PARKER GETS APPOINTMENT. Will Serve on Board to Assess Prop- erty in New York City. Former Chief Judge Alton B. Park- er received two commissionership ap- pointments in the Supreme Court. | Justice O'Gorman appointed Mr. | Parker, Moses Herrmann and Chaxles P. Dillon commissioners to assess the value of property to be ac- quired by the City of New York in connection with »niers on the East river, and property to be acquired for the improvement of the East river water front i Justice O'Gorman appointed Mr. | Parker, John F. Cowan and Edward | Cahill commissioners for the same purpose in connection with other piers. Each commissioner will re- ceive between $5,000 and $7,000 on each commission. Turkey Orders Artillery. A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeit- ung from Constantinople says Turkey is ordering 100 new batteries of artil- | lery from German, French and English | factories, at the cost of $10,000,000. The Krupp company gets the largest contract. Robber Kills Officer. Patrolman John Daley of Detroit, was killed by an unknown man, escaped, and J. D. Pickell, special officer for the Michigan Central rail- road, who ran io Daley’s assistance, was also shot and is perhaps fatally injured. It is understood that Patrol- man Daley found a white man and | a negro effe an entrance at the Upon approaching wn before he had own revolver. rear of a store. them he was a chance to made a gain of 41 members, which { amounts to a change of 82 This, | added to the present majority of 3 | makes a majority of 116 in the next house, which will consist of 251 Re- publicans and 1:35 Democrats. The Republicans made gains in the various states as follows: California 3, Dela- ware 1, Illinois 6, Indiana 2, Towa 1, . Kentucky hurt | and were | r had bee | way Company | a string of gems worth $15,000, | said, { stick pin and a number of miscellan- who | HOW CCNGRESS WILL STAND. Election Place ; Majority at 116. It has been foand that the Republi: can majority in the house of repre- sentatives in the Fifty-ninth congress | willbe 116. This is far in excess of the most enthusiastic claims of ths Republicans up to this time. John R. Williams, file clerk of the house, to-day completed the unofficial roster of the next house and sent the copy { to the pxinter. It was in compiling this list the great majority was covered. The majority Results Republican dis- in the present hous: is 34. According to the unofficial | turns, gathered from newspaper ac- | counts and made as reliable as possi- ble in the absence of the official fig- ures, the Republicans on November re- 1, Massachusetts 1, Michigar 1, Minnesota 1, Missouri 8, Nebraska 1, Nevada 1, New Jersey 2, New York 6, North Carolina 1, Ohio 3, Pennsyl- vania 2. TORTURE AGED WOMAN. Robbers Enter Bedroom and Threat- en to Kill. Masked men forced their way into the home of Misses Margaret and , : = “ | Ellen Mitchell, 76 and 74 years old, | respectively, of near Armagh, Pa., and beat them cruelly to compel the aged | sisters to tell where their money was hidden. The is on the main | neighbor lives Mitchell home road, but the nearest a mile awaay. The robbers knocked at a rear door at midnight, and, upon being refused admittance, battered down the door. The bedroom door of the sisters was | easily forced and revolvers were held at their heads, with the threat that if they did not disclose the hiding place of their hoard they would be | shot. The elder sister told where $10, | all they had, could be found. The rob-| bers beat the two women over the] feet with fence palings, and then| ransacked the house. They took | jewelry, including a gold watch, which | 21 a family heirloom for many | years. WAR MINISTER WILL Quit. Treaty Between United States and | Panama Prevented Revolution. The treaty between the United States and Panania has prevented one | more revolution on the isthmus. The rumored coup d’Etat by the mili- tary, it seems was more serious than it was first thomght to be. Minister Jarrctt, after a consultation with the | Panaman government and Gen. Davis commander of the canal zone, deci ded to ask of the warships of the United Pacific squadron at Panama to vent any possible disturbance. marines from Empire camp rived. Gen. Huertas, the war, has announced his intention to resizn, which will clear the political atinosphere. Though disturbances are not feared in the political circum- stances, Panama is greatly excited. FUSHIMI PLANTS TREE, Admiral Goodrich to leave one tates pre- 200 minister Japanese Prince. Visits the Tomb of |e George Washington. - Prince Fushimi visited Mt. Vernon, |: placed a wreath on the tomb of Wash- ington and planted a. tree on the old estate of the first President. "The trip | there and back was made on the President’s yacht,. the Sylph. } The wreath placed on the tomb was of large size and made of chrys- anthemums, the national flower of Japan. As four orderlies from the marie barracks placed the wreath between the tombs of George and | Martha Washington, the prince and | bis party remained outside with heads uncovered. The prince did not enter the tomb. The planting of the tree was then begun, the prince himself throwing! several spadesful of earth on the Japanese maple, which will mark his visit. Secure Railway Franchise. The commissioners of Jefferzon county, Ohio, granted 1. W. Healy and others, of the East Liverpool Rail- | a franchise to build a | road from Empire, this county, to the | Jefferson county line. From East Liverpool the Healy lines will bz] built to Beaver and the entire distance | between Wheeling and Pittsburg will be spanned by an electric line. is a completed line from to Empire now. | men ‘Section .at Wyland station, eight miles i. were killed, one instantly; ; about a doz- | leAvas a wife'and five children; Frank There | Wheeling | | red while the Trunk Robbed of $20,000 in Jewelry. | Dr. Samuel J. Holley, a physician of Lexington, Ky., Holley, who are in New York have reported to the central! detective | bureau that one of their trunks has | been rid of jewelry valued at $20,000. The stolen jewels consist of it is a diamond ring worth $1,000, a eous articles of jewelry. The Republican National committee will keep the campaign organization intact and maintain permanent head- quarters preparatory for the work of | 1908. Second Division Sails. The second division of the Russian second Pacific squadron sailed from Liban on the 16th. It consists of the cruisers Oleg and Izumrud the auxiliary cruisers Kuban, Te and Orel; and Dniepe: (formerly Petersburg and Smolensk), Tord boat de- the cruisers Rion the ‘St, the and stroyers Liany, Rezity, Gromki, Groz- ny and Prozorli “The ivision is expected to ove Admiral Voelkersam’s way of the Suez canal. prominent | and Mrs. | ity, | | urer of the circus. nearly | | sections over DEATH IN A TENEMENT Twelve Die of Suffocation in a Brooklyn Fire. CAUSE OF BLAZE UNKNOWN. All of the Bodies Found tion of the Building, They Rushed. in Rear Por- Where Smothered before they could reach the rear fire escape in a burning tene- ment building at 186 Troutman street, in the Williamsburg district of Brook- lyn, 12 persons met death Sunday morning. Two entire families, those >f Maranio Triolo and Charles Polo- gnio wiped out, the last living member of each being now in a hos- pital with mo hope of their recovery. They are Charles Polognio, 33 years of , and Tony Triolo, 13 years of age, both of whom are terribly burned. The fire is supposed to have start- ed in the cellar of the grocery store Antonio Biambalvos, on, the ground are on floor. Tike cellar was stored with in- flamable material, and the flames spread with lightning-like rapidity. All the occupants were asleep. The Biambalvos family lived in the rear of the store and succeeded in getting out of the building, but before the oc- 2 TE! ZGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Severe earthquake shocks were fell | at Florence amd Urbino, Italy. George Gould atcidentally an attendant while out hunting. General John Cc. Black will be nam ed to succeed Pension Commission er Ware. W. L. Douglass is mentioned for Democratic candidate for president in 1908. In reconstruction’ of her ‘navy Rus sia offers great opportunities tc American steel industries. At Barcelona, Spain, by the explos ion of a bomb in /the mayor's office nine people were injured, one of them fatally. The Russian adniiralty, is'is report ed, will force the foreign office tc break faith with England over the North sea inquiry. The police in Rome have arrested several Socialist agitators who cir culated among the soldiers trying, to incite a rebellion. Sebastion Ballbach, 74 years old, was killed by a train at Arnold, Pa. His wife and several children survive him. The Railsplitters, the crack political drill organization of Toledo, will" at- tend the inauguration of President Roosevelt. A car en into Zeigler, ing town, has been ambush, one man killed. At North Stonington, Conn., burg- lars wrecked the safe of William H. Hilliard’s store and obtained booty valued at nearly $6,000, principally in bonds and stocks. of Italian miners being tak: Joseph Leiter's min- fired into from being instantly cupants of the two other floors were roused their escape had been cut off. All the bodies were found in the rear room of the third floor, and it is evident that all had been suffocated in their effort to reach the fire es-| cape at the back of the building. Thal two who were rescued were found in the lower hallway soon after the fire- reached the scene, their investigation as to the ori-| of the fire, the police have been | unable to obfain a statement of any | kind froma neighboring tenants. It| was with great difficulty that even | the names of the victims could be ob- | tained. In gin MAGAZINE EXPLODED. Three of Czar's Torpedo Boat stroyers are Missing. dispatch from the army besieg-| Port Arthur, dated November 19, “During the bombardment, a from a Japanese naval gun ex- pioded a Russian magazine near the | arsenal. Qur operations against all the forts are proceeding as prear- ranged from Manchurian headquar- today we shelled the A ing ters At noon R n infantry engaged in entrench- ing east of Reiuchiangtun, and also infantry in the rear of the villages, causing them to flee in confusion. In other directions there of note.” A special dispatch from Shanghai wea SuIYsusary JoWesls ay) 1eyl sires is no changes Cheloo reports that three other Rus- sian torpedo boats left Port Arthur ] the "destroyer Rastoropny. The nese stopped two of them and the the third is unknown. TWO MEN KILLED. Cne Victim Cremated and Live Stock Perished. ; The second section of eastbound freight train ‘No. 82 on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad crashed into the first east of Washington, Pa. Two men en caftle in the rear c¢ar of the first section were either burned or shot to death, and a caboose, one car and a locomotive destroyed.” The dead are: 8S. E. Wilson, .aged 42, of New Con- gord, O., drover, burned to ‘death; McCoy, drover; aged 40, of New Concord, married -and leaves a wife. Sleighing in New York. For over a week all traveling in Jackson and Thompson townships of Susquehanna county, N. Y., has been on sleighs, and in many places it was necessary to shovel . through drifts four and five feet deep to make the roads passable. The farmers and lumbermen ‘are taking advantage of the early snow to get logs to the mills on sleds ROBBERS AT LARGE. No Trace of Men Who Stole $30,000 From Ticket Wagon. Although conducting a thorough in- vestigation the police have been un-| able to secure a clue to the persons | who broke into the ticket wagon of | the Forepaugh & Sells Bros. circus early Saturday morning and secured $30,000 in cash. The robbery occur- wagon was en route between Greenville and Tarborq, S. C., on a flat car. The entrance to the wagon was ef- fected by the use of the regular keys, which had been stolen from the treas- The robbery was discovered until after the entire which was traveling in three the Atlantic Coast line, had reached Tarboro. not circus, Parcels Post Treaty Signed. Postmaster General Wynne and Baron Monchourg, the Belgian min- ister, signed a parcels post convention between the United States and Bel- gium. The treaty will go into effect February 1, 1905. Death of Col. Breckenridge. Col. William Campbell Preston Breckinridge died at Lexington, Ky., from a stroke of paralysis. The end came peacefully. He had been gradu- ally sinking fer 24 hours, and for that length of time the case had been known to be hopeless. Col. Breck- inridge was born in Baltimore, August 28, 1837, and was the son of Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, a Fresbyterian minister, and Sophronisba’ Preston, the latter a daughter of Gen. Francis De- | | R¥ar Admiral French E. Chadwick, commanding the South Atlantic squadron, at his own request will be relieved from command of that squad- ron. The price of wire products has been advanced by the principal man- ufacturers $2 a ton. Sheets have also been advanced $2 a ton and tin plate $3 a ton. The British Board of Trade solici- tors have found no evidence to sug- gest the presence of torpedo boats among the fishing fleet in the North Sea Three already hundred engineers have been dispatched by Prinee Hilkoff, minister of railroads for the preliminary work of double-tracking the Siberian railroad. . W. S. Lang, superintendent of thea coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, iron & Railroad Company at Block- ton, Ala., who was shot from am bush Saturday night, died Thursday. Lang was®a native of Pennsylvania. Huertas, commander-in-chief Panama army, having resigned, Amador, by official decree, under control of Gen. secretary of state Gen. of the President puts the army Guardia, present and war. After a long shut-down, the. plant % the Ane tomn Steel foundries, at rankin, Pa., has resumed opera: . The force ¢ will be added to un: til it reaches 250 men. One man is dead and three other's are seriously injured as a result of a fire which has destroyed the tar plant of the Denver Gas and Electric. Com: pany. The property loss is estimated at $25,000. Owing to the lack of corn huskers Judge Kimbrough adjourned court, at Paris, Ill, until November 28 to give jurors, ‘litigants and. witnesses a charice .to harvest the. crop. The Standard Oil Company has de clared its fourth dividend .for the vear. It was for $7 a share, and com- pares with $12 a share paid "at this time last year. The ‘total dividends for 1904 amount- to $36 :a share, -as against $44 in 1903... - The American Steel and Wire Com: pany of the United States. Steel Cor poration is declining to book orders into 1905. Consumers, evidently looking for higher prices, are trying to provide for their needs for the next quarter at ruling quotations. H. D. Kilgore, traveling passenger agent of the Vandalia lines with headquarters at San Antonio, is dead near Eagle IL.ake, Texas, as the result of wounds received while duck hunt ing. Mr. Kilgore came to this state from Pennsylvania. It is officially announced that Italy has agreed to take part in the new peace conference at The Hague, as proposed by the United States, re- serving on the question of the date of the meeting and the program. A dispatch to the Paris Temps from | Constantinople says that negotia- | tions have been resumed for raising the American legation to the rank of an embassy, which will make Minister J CG. A. Leishman, of Pittsburg an ambassador. The hulk of the ill-fated excursion steamer General Slocum, which was burned in East river early last sum- mer with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, was sold at auction to-day for $1,800. The engines, boilers, hull and tackle will be broken up for junk. At East Dover, N. J, four men em- ployed in the plant of the Dover, Rockaway & Fort Oram Gas Com- pany were asphyxiated in the meter room. The accident was caused by a broken valve in the drip pipe under the floor of the meter room. , The dead are William Bulmer, Elias Chamberlain, Otto Ridschum and a man whose Christian name was Gus- tave. . Torpedo Boat Destroyed. The Russians have blown up the torpedo boat destroyer Rastoropny. The Russians, with the exception of one man, left the destroyer. This last seaman lit fuses and blew up the ves- sel. There were three dull explosions Preston. ; shoots: { i such effects to St. Petersburg. First National bank -county, and secured much money and “They JAP DRIVEN FROM ViLLAGE Russians Work a Surprise,*and ‘Charge with Bayonets. GENERAL STOESSEL WOUNDED. Relics Found on the Battlefields Are Being Returned to Russians By ‘the Japanesé. + + the fortified vill- An attack upon age of Endowuniulu, not far from Sinchinpu (two miles west of: the Shakhe railroad station, and Fonting 4 the right flank of the ‘Seventeenth r corps), was carried out brilliantly during the night of November 10 by the second brigade~of the Thirty-fifth infantry division. Thé village had been captured the same morning by the Japanese. | x Subsequently £ the | Russians abakhdoned the place. % #& At nightfall the brigade silently marched out and deployed. Four bat- talions were ‘detached for the® attack and several companies of rifiemen were ordered ‘to meve to the right, left and rear of the village. Ths men; were told not to fire. but to charge with the bayonet. Two bat- talions were left in reserve with eight guns. A simultaneous advance was | begun at 10 o’clock at night. Tha assailants hurried forward and en- countered a deep ravine, which they crossed. They then rushed on the vil- lage. Not a single shot was fired. The Japanese were completely sur- prised, mostly sitting in the streets and huts eating their suppers. They fled before the bayonets. As soon as | the Russians: occupied the village they brought up a battery. The Japanese tried to recapture the place at break of dawn but were repulsed. The Rus- sians, however, were compelled later lo abandon Endownniulu as the re- lirement of the third division exposed them to a flank attack. It is reported that a wound receiv- 2d by General Stoessel has necessi- tated his confinemént in a hospital, that he refused to relinquish the command of, the garrison at Port Ar- thur, ‘and that he' has issued orders to the troops to die at their posts | rather than surrender. , It is said .that the spirit of the Russian troops has | been dampened by continuous work, | the lack of supplies and the hopeless- aess of their ability cessful defense of The Manchurian to make any suc- | the fortress. § army’ “Vestnik,’} published under the sanction of the Russian officials and the only news- paper printed at the theater of war; zives details of the ‘serupulous care shown by the Japanese for the relics | and other effects of the Russian dead | found on the battlefields, and tells how the Japanese have forwarded The paper highly . eammends this : action and announces.that General Kuropat- kin recommends that all his = com- manders shall: . ohserve a Similar practice regarding the Japanese dead. OUTLAWS RAID A SALOON. Held Up Inmates of Gambling House and Secure Booty. : he two bandits who attacked the of Cody, Wyo, two weeks ago and killed Cashier Middaugh, committed another rob- bery, Svhen they held up the inmates of Edward's saloon and gambling house at. Thermopelis; Big: + Horn jewelry. The outlaws’ wore masks, but” were recognized as George Merritt and his partner, who killed Middaugh. were mounted on fast horses and escaped to ‘the Bad lands: “along the Big Horn river, south of Ther- mopolis. Posses were quickly organ- iZed and started in pursuit, but the robbers reached the mountains sahead- of them. : Delaware Official. The official vote of Delaware, cast at the recent election is as follows:., Roosevelt, 2,714; Purker, 19,360; Swallow, 607; Debs, 146; Watson, 5k. Roosevelt’s plurality, .4,354. . The plurality of Preston Leo, R., for governor was 2,732. HOLD UP MINIATURE TRAIN. Hiolaymen Work in Grounds of the World’s Fair. . : It has been made known by the World's Fair police that two masked men have robbed a train on the mini- ature railroad, at the World’s Fair. After securing money and valuables amounting to $100, the robbers es- caped. The train, carrying the. engi- neer, and three : Passengers, one of them a woman, was making it§ last | trip and was crossing a deserted plot of ground when two masked men, with drawn revolvers, forced the engineer to stop. The woman passenger was robbed of considerable money. . John T. O’Brien of Jersey City, N..J., lost! a gold watch valued = $38 and $14 | in money. Prince Calls On President. Prince Sadanaru Fushimi, adopted | brother of the Emperor of Japan, who has arrived in Washington, as the zuest of the Nation, called at the White House and conveyed to. the President the good wishes and friend- ship of the Mikado and the latter’s hope for the President's continued good health and happiness. Miss Hayes Lost Her Case. Miss Idalian Cameron Hayes of Pittsburg lost her suit against Henry Clay Sayers, an aged citizen of Waynesburg, Pa., whom she had sued for $25,000 for alleged breach of promise to wed. Th~ jury returned a verdict for the defendant, evidently which were scarcely discernible a | believing Miss Hayes knew her aged hundred yards from the place where | admirer was a married man. Miss they occurred. Imost instantane- {| Hayes was disappointed when the | ously the Rastoropny sank and set-jverdict was rendered and wept in | tled on the bottom. A battle spar court. | marks her grave. - G3 { ures RESPONSIBILITY NOT FIXED. Train Was Held at Grand Rapids to Receive Passengers from Chicago "Division. Three . . passengers. were killed and nine sor ‘more passengers and train- men, were injured , ih a rear-end pass- enger train collision at Elmdale, Mich., on the Pere Marquette railroad. The dead are: Loren Dogger of West Alto, Mich.; M. Simons of New York City and J. L. Strelitskey of Chica- 0. is > The collision occurred at Elmdals Junction 23 miles east of Grand Rapids. Both trains were eastbound, No. 6 for Detroit and No. 34 for ‘Sdgi naw. The Saginaw, train had ‘prea- ceded the Detroit train’ out of Grand Rapids by a few minutes and was standing on a “Y” ab Elmdale, whefe the Saginaw division branches off from the Detroit division. Through some mistake the switch. was not turned" behind the Saginaw train and. the Detroit train .also fan upon the yu the engine of the Detroit rain crashing into the pear oi the parlor car of the Saginaw train. (The passengers injured were in the parlor car ‘of the latter; and the train- men who were hurt were on the De- troit train.* The Pere Marquette offic- ials at Detroit state that the Detroit train .was running slow, as it was ‘approaching a station. as lies for behind had turn- No explanation has been made to where the responsibility failure to throw .the switch the Saginaw train when it ed from the Detroit division. Ordi- narily there is 20 minutes’ time be- tween the two trains, but the Saginaw train was held at Grand Rapids to wait for passengers from a train on i the Chicago division. Through the arrangement the De- troit train fas following close behind the Saginaw train as far as Elmdale. CHINESE REBELS VICTORIOUS. Defeat’ Imperial Troops and Capture Chief Towns. The ‘rebels have repulsed the im- perial troovs at Liu-Chow-En%, in the province of Kwangsi, Southern: China. They have captured five of the 'prin- cipal towns in the province. The merchants and bankers fled. ; Chou-Fu, former ‘governor of the province of Shantung, who was re- céntly ‘appointed viceroy at Nanking, has been ordered to proceed immedi- ately to his post, to check the rebels in the Yang- Tse valley. ‘A Jispajch from Shanghai, October 13; Yeported a’ fhree-days’ fight! be- tween Chinese; troops. and rebels at Locheng-Shien,.ione . 6f the towns mentioned in ithe foregoing cable- gram, in ‘which’ a large body of the latter was defeated. Boston Wool Market. The weol market is quieter due to the fact that.stocks in hands of local dealers’ shave “.been heavily re- duced,’ many manufacturers having purchased fréely for future needs. Buyers now find: much “difficulty in getting desirable lots of grades need- ed or the mills The market holds very. strong and ‘prices are still tend- ing upward. The . quotations rare: and to take meas- Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and above 35@306¢; xX, 30@31c; No. 1, 35@36c; No.: 2, 35@36c; fine’ uiwashed, 24@ 25¢; unwashed wdelaine, 261% @27c. ey X and above,” 26@2 7c; No. 1, 33@34c:. No. 2, 33@34c; fine un- Ta 24@?25¢; : THLE 30@31c; delaine, 25@26. 3 PARKER .GOES TO WORK. Movés Into New York. City and Opens a Law Office. Ex-Judge Alton B. Parker, has open- ed a.law, office in. Liberty street, New York. At the same timé ed that he had become a resident of the city and that Mrs. Parker would join him. He said he had not erter- ed intopartnership with anyone and would practice law alone. Weinseimer Sentenced. Philip Weinseimer, (“Diamond Phily’) the former labor leader, of New York, convicted of extortion, was sentenced to State prison for not less than one year and eight months, nor more than two years and eight months.” A Call Upon Banks. Secretary’ Shaw has announced a call upon national banks holding government deposits to the amount of 25 per cent. of their holdings, 10 per cent. to be paid on or before January 15 next, and 15 per cent. on or before March, 15 next. This, the secretary ‘estimates; will bring: into. the treasury, $25,000,000. Killed 14 Miners, “A. Fernie (B. Gp: dispatch says 14 miners were ‘killed at the Carbonado mines near Morrisey as a result of an explosion of coal gas. All the bodies have been recovered. Charity Gets $250,000. Rt. Rev. P. J. Donahue, Roman | Catholic bishop of W heeling, has been notified of a bequest of more than a quarter of a million dollars from Miss Sara C. Tracy, of New York, to be used by him in establishing orphan asylums in the W heeling diocese. Kuroki’s Death is Denied. The report that Gen. Kuroki, in command of the Japanese right at the Shakhe river, has been killed by a Russian shell, is officially denied. Billet Prices Advanced. At a meeting of the billet manu- facturers in Jersey City it was agreed to advance the schedule price for the standard steel billet from $1950 to $21, an advance of $1.50 a ton. The advance was not unexpected, and in trade circles the opinion has been entertained that an advance of $2 a ton would be ordered. } Four unmasked men have robbed the bank at Boxholm, Iowa, of §1,- 200. Officers are ir muvazit he anno unc- Gal ka 5 Na rs 3 § : } 3 __pouri Dr. ‘such 4 letter: eT "To pr - catar] Pe: ghee plain 11a) 5
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