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RUSSIANS ROUTED BY JAPS
Mikado’s Forces Take Hill after
Subborn Resitance.
Missouri's Attorney General Seeks to
Have Charters of Oil Companies
Forfeited.
Hearing in the suit instituted by
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri, asking that the charters of the
Standard Oil Company, the Waters-
Pierce Oil Company, and the Repub-
Turning | lic Oil Company be revoked, began be-
fore Special Commissioner D. R. An-
thony in the court room of the St.
Lonis Court of Appeals. Attorney
General Hadley opened the case with
The following off dispatch has | the announcement that the state
been received from the Japanese army | yond Bitoni to prove that the
: r : | Standard and Waters-Pierce Compan-
headquarters in Manchuria: {+ oy : Te
3 er So : , | ies divided the state of Missouri, the
The Sheomy holding the northwest! former taking the northern half and
eminence oi Manchenzou was attack- | tpe latter the southern, where, accord-
ed and dislodged on the afternoon of ing to the attorney general, there is a
June 22, but a portion of the enemy’s | strong prjudice against the Standard.
holding the hills to the west offered | ge also stated that the Waters-
stubborn resistance and the hills were | pjarce and Republic Companies
finally taken by assault. Another | handle Standard products, and allege
force of the enemy commanding the that there is a conspiracy between the
hills due north was attacked from the | three concerns to re ain trade. At-
RED CROSS FLAG UNAVAILING
Retreated in Face of a
Mcvement With Losses of About
Two Hundred.
2st
front and we simultaneously resorted! torpey Priest for the defendant com-
to a turning movement from the panies denied the sufiiciency of the
northeast, intercepting his retreat| complaint. and stated that the com-
and causing him heavy loss. The pipation, if one really existed, is no
enemy in confusion hoisted the red more than an arrangement such as
cross flag, but this did not stop the any men might make regarding the
firing and he fled north in disorder.
His strength in cavalry and infantry
was sonie 3,000 men and several guns. | foal eg
Fifty corpses were left on the field. DEAD MEN ON SALARY LIST
The enemy loss was fully 200. Our
Tors was i ! 2 ’ District Attorney Jerome Will Inves-
"he Emperor of Russia has receive : ; es
ed the following dispatch from Gen. : tigate Bauitable .Alfairs.
Linevitch. dated June 23: _ District Attorney Jerome,
“After the Ii York county, has entered into an in-
right flank they advanced acainst onr vestigation of the Equitable Life As-
front cast of the Tailway where the | Surance society trouble and telegraph-
Cos:acks, noticing the enemy's ad- ed to State Superintendent of Insur-
vantage, had withdrawn slowly.” On 2BCe Hendricks asking him to forward
June 12 our cavalry having been re- 24 once official copies of his report.
inforced. met the Japanese advance The district attorney some of the re-
when the enemv withdrew to | POrts Bs v, will endeavor to force ;
the southward morning of | restitution of funds alleged to have |
Jine 20 began a been obtained illegally. ! |
determined Gujichi, Attention was directed to the fact |
opening an artiliery fire on our out- that four of the Equitable officers |
posts. Our men north of Gujichi mentioned in the report of State Su- |
withdrew and the advanced guard of perintendent of Insurance Hendricks |
the division retreated still further to | @S drawing salaries for the last five |
the heights north of Schichusa in face
of superier fore finally falling back
as far as Liaoenjao. We resolved to :
advance on June 20 in order to drive | rector, with a salary of $25,000 a year. |
the enemy back and to enable our He died 13 months ago and yet, accord: |
advance cuards to recover their form- ing to the table, his salary was paid |
er positions. For this purpose the | this year and last. Edward Curtis,
troops selected began to move to-| who figures as a medical director, at |
ward Liaoenjao. Scouts were thrown | $15,000 a year, resigned that position |
out and the Jepanese retired before | 18 months ago. George H. Squire,
our advance gnards. In the evening WhO is now a director of the com- |
of June 20 our advanced troops occu- Pany is down on the list as financial
pied Menchuagai and a pass to the manager, at $12,000 a year, aithough
west of that piace. iH. R. Winthrop succeeded Mr. Squire
“On the morning of June 21 our 38S financial manager many months
further advance began. and the ene- 220. J. B. Loring is recorded as a |
my pursued by vs, retired gradually registarar, with a salary of $3,500 a
to positions near Rescopingao. A live- | Year. Mr. Loring ceased to perform |
iv fire was opened by degrees, four | the active duties of the registarship in
purchase and sale of any article in
which they are interested.
our
hastily ¢
On the
Japanese infantry
advance
years are no longer actively connected !
with the company. BW, Lambert |
appears in the report as medical di-|
Japanese batteries being engaged. Abril, 1903.
The Japanese showed a disposition —_
to offer an obstinate resistance, and TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
the appearance of our troops here —_— |
caused confusion among them, com-| It is stated that the mind of Ad-
pelling them to send for reinforce-| miral Niebogatoff, now a prisoner in
ments. The object of our advance be- Japan has beccme unhinged.
ing fully attained, our troops were The lard refining building at the
withdrawn in the falling darkness. packing plant of Schwarzschild & |
the positions which the enemy had Sulzberger at Kansas City was burned,
occupied before our advance remain- causing a loss of $200,000.
ing in our hands” The Supreme Court of
vania declared the bill for
solidation of
Pennsyl-
the con-
ONLY LABORERS BARRED the cities of Pittsburg
TREY : : and Allegheny unconstitutional.
President Orders Change in Applica- Si :
5 £ Chi Biclasi L M. Nelidoff, the Russian ambassa- |
tion © Ringse AxXossion ; Law, dor at Paris, has been definitely ap-
By direction of President Roosevelt,
action has been taken by the admin-
istration which not only will facili-
tate the landing in this country of
Chinese of the exempt classes, but ly hurt by a sight-seeing automobile
also will eliminate from the immigra- and a street car in Chicago colliding.
tion bureau such administrative fea- John W. Hill. former chief of
tures as have been the subject of philadelphia’s filtration bureau, was
criticism by Chinese. It is the _de- grrested on a warrant charging for-
clared intention of the president to gerjes to be uttered amounting to
see that Chinese merchants, travelers, 340 009.
students and others of the exempt The
classes shall have the Saftigloomriesy can goods by
- ~ OFA OOPE Tho irae :
shown them by ollcers a ar reached a crisis and the government
ob: as .is accorde \iti- = 3 >
Efation bureau as 20 Fore en Cll | takes steps to avert disaster to
ens e st favored nation. : ‘ :
Zens of the, most favored nation American trade in the orient.
dL el. n Nations connei ior rder
Henry Wulff, an ex-State Treasurer v id N jonn} po i Jivnios Si
AR i y ed American Mechanics Sess-
of Illinois. and president of the Con- oe : ~ a ye oe in os 3 Be
3 3 3 & Nas F112, ‘1'enn., ¢ 'Y ai-
tinental Financing company, of Chi- ou Bey 3 4 ha 1€(¢ ny
: + er seoleeti Oto or ne oo
cago, an alleged get-rich-quick r : 2 i i us I € n
scheme, is under arrest. meeling in June, /
pointed one of the Russian
plenipotentiaries.
Mrs. Mary Bingerhecimer was ser-
iously injured and others were slight- |
peace
threatened boycott of Ameri-
Chinese merchants has
Naples has ordered
vicinity of
to prepare to leave
to an alarming
scharges from the
po The prefect of
MOTHER KILLS FOUR CHILDREN the populat
Mount Ves
their home
increase in the di
crater.
Norwegians resident in the North- |
western part of this country to the]
in the
Wound Inflicted on Herself Will Also
Result Fatally.
Mrs. Watt C. Gregg of Grand Lake,
Col., and killed her four children and
> re 2 hn ovis e
ERE ns any numb r of some 15,000 have signed 2
lungs. She will die. The dead are: Petition addressed to - President |
Hosie Gregg, aged $; Ralph, 5; Harold, Rcosevelt asking him officially to
3; baby, 7 months. recognize Norway. .
Gregz, the husband and father, was Stephen Okrejia, who threw a
at the house of a neighbor and, hear- bomb into the police station at War-
ing the revolver shots, hurried home | saw, Russia Poland, injuring six
and found his wife lying across the policemen, has been sentenced to |
threshold of the back door uncon- death. ;
scious. There was no witness to the Robert J. Wayne, American consul |
tragedy. Mrs. Gregg at times had general at I.ondon, who has been in|
shown traces of emotional insanity. the United States on government
busines has returned to England.
W. A. Wilke, claiming to be a
chauffeur from Richmond, Ind., is un- |
euvrred at LaBoco, Panama. The dead der arrest in New York, charged with |
man had been working on board the complicity in the murder of “"Eatem-
Briiish steamer Chili, which the au-| Up-Jack” McManus Im the Bowery
thor ~f Guayaquil would not al-| district on May 2.
Tow to enter that port. The compan-! Mrs. Aggie Myers was found guilty
jons of the deceased laborer have been | of murder in the first degree at Lib- |
Rats taken from the steam- | erty, Mo., and sentenced to death. The
— S,
Death from Plague on Isthmus.
A fatal case of bubhcnic plague oec-
isclated,
=r Chili ar now being examined at woman was tried on the charge of
Ancon. killing her husband.
J — | ia
Womzn and Children Drown. Americans Robbed.
Jow rie | Theodore S. Darling, of New York,
A Toport COMSS HO Newbold, Wine and several other guests at the Hotel
of the drowning of Mrs. Ezra Craw | 5. L'Europe, in St. Petersburg, Rus-
and Mrs. F ard Craw and six chil-| sia, have been robbed of all their
dren in Rainbow Rapids, Wisconsin | valuables. Mr. Darling lost a dia-
river. It is reported ‘hat the party | mond necklace and quite a sum of
was in a boat which was capsized in money. Subsequently the necklace
the rapids. ofa was discovered in a pawn shop.
Era Considerable mystery surrounds the
The Jananese have temporarily | robery. Suspicion fell on a Russian
peasad the advance for the great| countess, but when accused, she
pattle that is now inevitable ssia | threatened to sue the propriet of
has not yet replied to ident | tne hotel and no attempt has been |
Roosevelt concerning an "misti made to prosecute her.
| panies of the Flat
| distribution of coal cars.
| of Scharonkhau,
| Transcaucasia,
| burned four Armenian villages.
| besiegers killing hundreds of them.
{on that place.
| and mullahs were executed.
| field near a woods, was shot by an
| Broderick
| road and to extend the program for
| railway
| investigating an alleged attempt to
| the track-walker found ties on the
| track
| packer to succeed Judge John Stewart,
ALLED IN POLSH RIOTS
Troops Charge Barricades Built
by Strikers at Lodz.
SHOOTING HEARD CONTINUALLY
City Is in a Panic and More Trouble
Is Feared—Strike Agitators Are
RAISED STOCK CERTIFICATES
Extent of Mis Operations Hard to
Estimate and the Losers With
out Recourse.
One of the most sensational cases of
forgery that has ever been brought
to light in financial circles of Phila-
delphia was disclosed when it was
announced that certificates calling
for small numbers of shares of stock
had been fraudently raised to hund-
reds of shares, causing a loss to cer-
at Work in Warsaw. |
|
A message from Lodz, Russian |
Poland, dated June 23 says: Troops
to-night stormed the barricades erect-
ed in the streets by the strikers.
Fifty persons have been killed and 200
wounded. Since early this morning
the city has been in a state of panic.
The strike is general and all the
factories and the shops are closed. |
1
Barricades have been erected at many
points. Rifle volleys and revolver
shots are heard continually. i
A man carrying a bomb was arrest- |
ed in front of the Malewk police sta- |
tion at Warsaw. He refused all in-!
formation regarding himself. Dis- |
turbances are anticipated ‘in conse-
quence of the shooting of workmen
at Lodz. i
According to advices received at
St. Petersburg the- situation in Po-
land is again exceedingly serious.
Censored dispatches from Lodz, !
though giving few details, indicate
that fierce street fighting was in pro- |
of New | gress between the striking workmen, |
who barricaded the thoroughfares in |
various quarters of the city, and of-
fered resistence which the troops
met with volleys.
RAILRCAD COMPANY WINS.
Charged With Discriminaticn in the |
Distribution of Cars.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad |
company is the winner of the suit |
brought against it by the Greenbrier
Coal and Coke conipany of West Vir-
ginia and a number of other coal com-
Top coal field
charging it with, violation of interstate
commerce and discrimination in the
Judge Keller, in the Federal court
at Charleston quashed the alternative
writ of mandamus issued several
weeks ago. Judze Keller held that
the case could not come under the
Interstate Commerce commission be-
cause the railroad company is only
charzed with v:olation of a private
contract.
KURDS AND TARTARS REVOLT
Armenian Villages Sacked—Cossacks
Kill 100 Insurgents.
Bands of insurgents in the district
province of Erivan,
recently sacked and
Sub-
sequently the insurgents surrounded
and attacker Owlisnoraschau. The
inhabitants of the town repulsed the
Cossacks and other troops stationed
at the village of Khouloundian also
repulsed an attack of the insurgents
inflicting enormous
losses on them and capturing 870
prisoners, a quantity of arms and a
black standard. The ‘insurgent chiefs
TRUE TO HER CHURCH.
Woman Refuses 3$30,00 Rather Than
Change Her Belief.
Putting her religion above all price,
Mrs. Lucinda Ganson, of Davenport,
Ia., has refused to accept $30,000 left
tec her by the will of the late Chas.
Simpson, of Sacramento, a wealthy
friend of the Ganson family, on con-
dition Mrs. Ganson became a Catho-
Iie. In the event of her refusal the
will provides the money shall go to
a Catholic orphanage in Sacramento.
Farmer Killed from Ambush.
Melville Thomas, a farmer near
Dunlow, W. Va., while plowing in a
assassin and killed. Thomas recently
returned indictments against some
illicit retailers in the nearby vicinity.
$100,000,000 Loan for India.
The House of Commons authorized |
the raising ‘of a loan not exceeding |
| $10:0,000,000, with the revenues of In-|
| dia as security,
for the construction
extension and equipment of the rail-
ways of India. Secretary for India
explained that the money
was required to enable the government
to take over the Bombay-Baroda rail-
building throughout the
country.
Attempted to Wreck “Flyer” on P. R. R.
Pennsylvania railroad officials are
wreck the new 18-hour
Manor. According to
“flyer” at
the report
used by the train. He suc-
ceeded in removing them in time to
let the train fly by at its mile-a-minute
gait.
Ex-Judge D. Watson Rowe, of
Chambersburg, Pa., was appointed
president judge of the Franklin
county courts by Gov. S. W. Penny-
who resigned to become an associate
justice of the State Supreme Court.
Exnects War With Russia.
Gen. Lord Kitchener, commander-
in-chief of the British forces in India,
seems to regard as inevitable a great |
struggle with Russia for the possess- |
ion of India, and to believe that the |
existing arrangements for the defense
of the Indian empire are altogether
obsolete and ineffective, as is shown
in a Blue Book. The government has
approved Lord Kitchener's plans. |
The almshouse at Muskegon, Mich.
was burned and one inmate, Mrs
Carl, aged 75 years. was fatally hurt.
tain banks and trust companies of
the city of from $750,000 to $1,000,00.
The forgery involves the name of
Benjamin H. Gaskill, who died four
weeks ago.
Gaskill was the sole member of
the banking and brokerage cdncern
known as Benjamin H. Gaskill &
Co. He had offices in the financial
district and his cred was considered
gilt-edged. Gaskill died about four
weeks ago and at the time of his
death he was believed to be worth
about $500,000.
He left no will and administrators
began to close up his business. A
patren of the firm, bought from the
estate 100 shares of Philadelphia
Traction Company stock and 100¢
shares of stock of the United States
Steel Corporation. He turned his ac-
count over to E. C. Miller & Co,
which firm sent the 100 shares of
traction stock to the Philadelphia
Traction Company's office to have
the sfer recorded.
The certificate did not agree with
any’'s books, and an investi-
gation showed that the certificate had
been raised from six shares to 100.
the comp
LIMITED TRAIN WRECKED
Lake Shore Flyer Runs into Open
Switch Killing a Score
CRUSHED CARS CATCH FIRE
Huge Engine and Five Pullmans
Plunge Into Ditch Near Cleve-
iand—Scenes of Horror.
The Twentieth Century Limited,
eastbound, on the Lake Shore Rail-
road, one of the fastest trains in the
world, ran through an open switch
opposite the Mentor station, 25 miles
east of Cleveland, while traveling a
mile a minute.
The train dashed into an open
switch at the left of the main track.
The officials are unable to account for
the accident.
The list of dead reached twenty,
including passengers and trainmen,
and as many more were injured.
Five bodies, horribly burned, were
taken from the wreck. It was im-
possible to identify them at the
scene of the wreck.
D. C. Moon, Assistant General
Superintendent of the Lake Shore,
stated late to-night that it looked as
though the wreck had been caused by
malicious mischief,
He said a fa: ft passenger train pass-
ed over the switch safely three-
quarters of an hour before the limit-
The discovery was reported to E. C.
Miller & Co., which firm immediately |
notified the stock exchange, of which |
Gaskill was a member, which in turn
sent out notices to its members not |
| to receive stock certificates from’ the |
| Gaskill estate. {
A further investigation brought to
ing state of affairs. It
was found that Gaskill had credited
himself on his own books with 6,000
shares of Philadelphia Traction stock |
valued at approximately $600,000,
while the traction company’s books |
showed he had only 400 shares.
It was also discovered that he had
raised ‘stock certificates, of: the |
United Railways of New Jersey from |
2 to 200, and the certificates of the |
Frankford and Southwark Street
Railway Company, from 2 to 20. The
latter stock is worth $450 a share.
Gaskill kept two accounts—one re-
cording the transactions of his cus-|
tomers, which was correct, and an-
other giving his own transactions.
His books showed that he was losing
from $15,000 to $25,000 a year in his
business. His method of operation
was to obtain certificates of gilt-
edged securities calling for one, two,
three or some other small number of
shares, raise the figures and give
them "as securities for large loans.
At least six banks and trust com-
panies of Philadelphia admit holding
fraudulent securities for large
loans.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Russia finally agreed to Washington
as the meeting place for the peace
conference.
Efforts at peace go forward in
Russia in the face of steady pressure
from the war party.
Robbers made an unsuccessful at-
tempt to hold up the North Coast
limited train near Tacoma, Wash.
John W. Hill, ex-chief of Phila-
delphia’s bureau of filtration, was on
a warrant charging forgery.
M. Nelidoff, Russian ambassador
to Paris, has been definitely appoint-
ed one of the Russian peace pleni-
potentiaries.
Many deaths from heat are report- |
ed in the Pittsburg district. The |
temperature was above ninety for |
several days.
The Massachusetts Supreme court |
handed down a decision holding that |
the attempt to force all laborers to |
unite in unions ‘is against the policy
of the law, because it aims at a |
monopoly of the labor market. |
Alma Kurcher, Edna VanAmbrey
and Gladys Howe, members of a
picnicking party, were drowned at |
Petoskey, Mich., while boating on the
lake.
The new fast trains on the Penn- |
gylvania and Lake Shorel railroads
will greatly expedite the delivery of
letter mail in the west. |
Dr. C. C. Rice, formerly an asso- |
ciate professor at
|
Leland Stanford |
university, went insane in Allegheny
and is detained at St. Francis hospit- |
al.
By the explosion of a saw mill at
Atalla, Ala., James Watts, William
Rossen, Augustus Cash and Marion
Maddox were killed and Charles Smith |
was fatally injured.
The - American schooner-yacht At- |
lantic won the race for auxiliary
yachts from Dover to Heligoland,
completing the course in 41 hours, 26 |
minutes and 24 seconds. |
The will of John W. Parmslee, who |
died recently, provides that his estate |
of $400,000 shall be held in trust and |
the income eventually devoted to the |
purchase of fuel for needy families in |
Chicago. |
The State department received a |
dispatch from Mr. Gummere, minist- |
er to Morocco, transmitting a request |
from the government of Morocco that |
the United States participate in a|
conference upon the affairs of that |
country. |
Eighteen persons were killed and |
100 wounded at Lodz by volleys fired
by dragoons and Cossacks on a pro-
cession of 50,000 workmen, which had
been organized as a demonstration
against the government. With 30 red |
flags they marched, shouting “Down |
with despotism!”
|
Polish Workmen Shot Down.
|
The Pennsylvania Republican State
committe med Judge John Stewart,
of Char 1 rg, Franklin county, as
the ite for the supreme court,
t the late Justice John Dean. |
b
LO suc
| arrest or for information leading to
| chairman of the board of
| ed Price, Waterhouse &
{ and relations of the society.
| The girl and one
| delphia held John W.
ed was wrecked.
Immediately after the wreck it was
found the switch was locked open,
so that no train could pass it without
being thrown from the track.
This was the fourth trip of the
flyer on its run from Chicago to New
York on an 18-hour schedule. The |
train was the pride of the New York |
entral system. |
The train pulled out of Cleveland |
with five cars, four Pullman cars be- |
hind the buffet car. The combina-
tion car was burned completely and
cooled off at 11:30 p. m., so that
rescuers could go to work. About 15
passengers were known to have been
riding in this car, and at least six
of them are dead.
The Lake Shore Railway Company
offered a reward of $2,000 for the
the arrest of. the person or persons
responsible for the wreck . of the
Twentieth Century Limited at Mentor
last Wednesday night.
State Railroad Commissioner J. C.
Morris with Inspector O. F. Jackson
of Springfield arrived at Mentor to
take personal charge of the investi-
gation into the wreck. “That the
switch was open,” said Morris, ‘is be-
yond all doubt. The condition of the
roadbed and the rails demonstrate
that the engine did not jump the
track until it had proceeded 50 feet
along the siding. That switch must
have been thrown just before the en-
gine reached it.”
A bag containing jewels valued at
$32,000, the property of S. C. Beck-
with of New York, supposed to have
been stolen from the wrecked train
at Mentor, was found. It had been
picked up in the wreckage and taken
to the Lake Shore claim agent’s
office at Cleveland. Before ‘the
whereabouts of the jewels was known
a search had been started for them
on behalf of Mrs. Beckwith. Mr.
Beckwith died soon after being re-
moved from the wreck.
President Newman, of the New York
Central and Lake Shore railroad, said
that the 20-hour schedule of the
Twentieth Century Limited train on
the New York Lake Shore will be re-
stored at once in place of the 18-
hour schedule on which the train had
been running for only a few days.
A Full Investigation.
A new and independent investiga-
tion of the affairs of the Equitable Life
Assurance society is to be begun at
once. Paul Morton, the newly-elzcted
directors,
wants to know exactly how things are
with the society, and has eommission-
Co., and
Haskins & Sells, chartered account-
ants, working together, to examine
every detail of the work, investments
Drowned in Torrent.
A cloudburst swept over Glycerine
Hollow, one mile south of Butler, Pa.,
Two sons and a daughter of Caleb
Hageman, a truck gardner living on
Schaffner Bros.” farm ran from their
home to a bridge to see it go out and
amused themselves running across
the bridge as it hung by a few timb-
ers.
Suddenly the bridge fell and all
three were precipated into the flood.
boy escaped by
clinging to branches of trees, but
Roy, aged 20 years, was swept down
by the stream and his body has not
been recovered.
Hill Must Stand Trial.
Magistrate EBisenbrown of Phila-
Hill, ex-chief
of the bureau of filtration, for court
in the sum of $8,000. Bail was
furnished by Robert K. Balfour.
This action was based on the evi-
dence of Frederick Schaffhauser, a
former field engineer, who testified
that he, personally, at the request of
Chief Hill, falsified records and pad-
ded estimates in the interest of the
D. J. McNichol Company.
Canal Corporaticn Formed.
The Ohio and P._nnsylivania Ship
Canal Company
and preliminary work is in progress
for the construction of a canal be-
tween Pittsburgh and
ated with the lake Erie
River Ship Canal Company of Pitts-
burgh, the Pennsylvania corporation.
i James H. Cassidy, attorney and priv-
ate secretary to Congressman ‘Burton,
has been elected president
Charles F. Lang, secretary
Ter.
and treas-
has been organized |
Ashtabula. |
| This is the Ohio corporation associ-
& Ohio |
and |
| unexpected.
THE CROP OUTLOOK
Corn Making Good Progress and
Harvesting Is Under Way.
The following is the general sum-
mary of crop conditions, as shown by
the weekly bulletin of the weather
bureau; The week was favorable for
the cultivation of crops, and this work
is now in a very satisfactory state.
Abnormally low temperatures prevail-
ed over most of the plateau districts,
with frosts in some places. Except
in Eastern Missouri and Central and
Southern Illinois, corn has made good
progress throughout the corn belt. In
the Southern States, while generally
doing well, corn is in need of rain
in many sections. In the Middle At-
lantic States, the crop has exper-
ienced a decided improvement.
Winter wheat has progressed under
favorable conditions, and harvesting"
is now well advanced in Kansas,
Missouri and Southern Illinois, and
has begun in Indiana and Maryland.
In portions of Wisconsin and Minne-
sota dry weather is needed for spring
wheat, but this crop has generally
made very satisfactory progress
throughout the spring wheat region
and is beginning to head in the
Southern portion. The oat crop has
suffered to some extent
cessive moisture. in Wisconsin and
Minnesota, rust in Southern Iowa,
rank growth in Northern Illinois, and
drouth in Southern Illinois, but in
these States and generally elsewhere
the condition of the crop is promising.
As a whole, the apple outlook is not
promising, especially in the States
of the Central valleys, but better pros-
pects are reported from Kansas,
Michigan, portions of Iowa and in
New England. In portions of Mis-
souri and Southern Illinois and also
in the Middle Atlantic States,
grass crop has been shortened by
drougth, but elsewhere a good crop
is promised.
NO FIGHT OVER MOROCCO
Conference
Assured.
An international conference for the
consideration of the affairs of Morocco
is now practically assured, as the re-
sult of the conversations between
Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin,
Internaticnal
from ex--
the .
Practically
the German ambassador, and attention _
is now directed to defining the scope .
of the conference.
rapidly arranged and the officials ex-
pect to be able to announce the plans
for the conference in the course of
four or five days.
Although the acceptance of the con-
ference gives a certain measure of
success to German diplomacy, yet M.
Rouvier emerges from the contro-
versy with the advantage of having
brought Germany to exactly define
the scope of the conference and so to
rid it of the objection of being a
menace to French interests.
PHILADELPHIA BANK FAILS
Gaskill’s Forgeries Wreck City Trust
and Safe Deposit Company.
The City Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, of Philadelphia, for years
rated as a reliable institution glosed
its doors and Albert L. Tabor, a state
bank examiner, was appointed tem-
porary receiver. The company will
liquidate, and J. Hampten Moore, its
president, recently appointed, will
probably be appointed permanent re-
ceiver. A new company may be or-
ganized.
The failure of the company was the
direct result of the forgeries of the
late Benjamin H. Gaskill, the bank
losing, according to President Moore,
nearly 380,000 on raised stock certifi-
cates. The bank also lost during the
brief tenure of office of President A.
E. Appleyard.
Library Dedicated.
The new $50,000 Thompson Memor-
ial library, of Washington and Jeffer-
son college, was dedicated on the
20th. President J. D. Moffat pre-
sided. The dedicatory address was
delivered by Charles F. Thwing,
president of Western Resarve uni-
versity. The money for the building
was donated by W. R. Thompson, of
Pittsburg. His wife donated an ad-
ditional $10,000 for partial mainten-
ance and equipment.
Boston Wool Market.
A quieter tone prevails in the wool
market. Many of the new wools are
at hand and higher quotations are not
New Territory wools
have sold with some freedom, while
the call for crossbreds_has declined.
The old pulled wools have been
practically all sold. Foreign wools
are firm. The range in this market
is about as follows: Ohio and Penn-
sylvania, XX and above, 35@36c; X
93@34c; No. 1, 41@4%: No. 32,
42@43c: fine unwashed, 27@28c;
quarter blood, unwashed, 35@36¢c; 34
blood, 36c; half blood, 35¢; unwashed
delaine, 29@30c; unmerchantable,
32@33c; fine washed delaine, 38@
39c¢c.
Alexander and Hyde Out.
Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton
the new head of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, accepted the
resignation of James W. Alexander
as President and James H. Hyde as
Vice President of the society, and
they at once ceased to be officers of
the company, which their families
have dominated since it was founded
46 years ago.
Shanish Cabinet Resigns.
The entire Spanish cabinet has re-
signed and its resignation has been
accepted by King Alfonso. The res-
| ignation followed the rejection of a
vote of confidence in the cabinet in-
troduced in the chamber of deputies
by Deputy Llorens.
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