POOL FOR LEGISLATION DIRECTORS ARE ONLY DUMMIES Mr. Schiff Declares They Have N Power and Are Negligible Quantities. o Alfred W. Maine, an associate audi- tor of the Equitable Life Assurance | society, before the legislative com- mittee investigating life insurance, disclosed that the ¥quitable Life, the Mutual Life, and the New York Life companies had formed a pool to look after legislation by the various State legislatures. Andrew Hamilton, dent McCall, of the New York Life, | paid several checks, the purpose of] which the counsel for the committee, | Mr. Hughes, has not yet brought to light, was one of the chief members of the legal staff for these compan- ies and was employed and received money for services from the Equit- able. Mr. Maine told of the division of | the country to be looked after by | Mr. Hamilton, in conjunction with E. 1. Short and W. P. Thummel. wit. | ness presented vouchers for moneys | paid by his company to Mr. Hamilton | and these showed that in eight years, from 1895 to 1903, the sum of $65,596 was paid to Mr. Hamilton for legal | services. Jacob H. to whom Presi- Schiff, senior member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., was an- other witness. Mr. Schiff was | former director of the Equitable Life | Assurance Society, but resigned when the directors of the society failed to | adopt the Frick report. Schiff said | that he had been a director of the Equitable since late in 1893. | Mr. Schiff took occasion to make | the startling statement that in the | general run of corporations or com- | panies the directors were more than dummies. “Under the existing order of things,” he said, “directors have no | power, and in many instances are a | neglible quantity, The . executive | officers are in full control, and they | shares North | shares American Tobacco company, 6 | on | in this FORGER GETS $360,000. Wall Street Bank Victimized by a Bogus Check. The details of a swindle whereby the National City bank of New York, was recently victimized by a clever forger, have come out. The forger presented a bogus check bearing the name of a well-known stock exchange firm, and received in return securities valued at about $360,000. Pearl & Co., stock brokers, at 27 William street, recently negotiated a one-day loan for $300,000 with the Nationa] City bank. A check, for the amount of the loan, plus $37.50 for the day’s interest, was presented at this bark by a stranger, who received the security deposited by Pearl & Co. for their loan. The bank on which the brokers’ check was drawn is one with which Pearl & Co. never had an account, so the forgery was not dis- covered until] the check had passsed through the clearing house exchange, when it was promptly branded as fictitious. A private detective agency was call ed in and transfer of the securities was at once stopped. The detectives intimate that they have a clue to the identity of the forger, who is believ- ed to have had one or more accom- plices. It is believed that the forger had an intimate knowledge of Pearl & Co.'s affairs. The securities offered by Pearl & Co. for their loan and surrendered by the bank for a piece of worthless pa- per include 1,000 shares United States Steel common, 1,000 shares | Rock Island common, 1,000 shares Metropolitan Street Railway, 700 American company, 47 per cent bonds debenture B RESTRICT NEGRO SUFFRAGE Democratic Convention Declares Against the Colored Man. At the Democratic State convention | of Maryland in Baltimore, Comptroll-| er of the State Gordon T. Atkinson! was renominated .and a platform | and some Wabash | bonds. | i | nothing | adopted advocating the proposed con-| Steamer Strikes Mine—Two Swedish * | stitutional amendment to restrict ne- | ro suffrage which will be voted up- | at the November election. The | | platform reclares as follows: By common consent the oaly sors) campaign is whether negro | suffrage put.upon us against our will only come to the directors for ad- ] ] HL vice. If the executive officers wish [PY force, shall be restricted and its to conceal irregularities they can do | Power for evil destroyed. This Dem. | ithout the knowledge of the di- | oerat itic convention, representing two- who are powerless.” FIVE MUDERED Heads of the Victims Crushed and Their Throats Slashed. Mrs. A. J. Condittiand her four| <hilrea, a daughter of 13 and three ranging in age from 6 to 10| , were murdered in cold blood ir home near Edna, Texas. The mother and were as- saulted and their bodies were a | tally disfigured. A baby about years old was the only one left alive. All of them seemad to have been murdered with some blunt ment. Their heads were crushed and | their throats cut with a knife or ra- ZOT. The Lusband was working in the rice fields. A negro boy was plow- ing near the house and heard the children screaming. He saw a man rush after the woman, who was run- ning around the house. Being afraid to go to the house, he ran to a neigh- bor’s and told what he had seen. An investigation revealed the irog: 2dy. There is no trace to the ass in, although a posse with bloodhounds started in pursuit. WHY JAPAN YIELDED Financial Disaster Threatened Owing to Poor Crops This Year. Notwithstanding silence of the Government the real fact is disclosed | that Japan made peace at Portsmouth in fear of a financial breakdown. The war proved more costly than had been calculated, and the rice and cereal crops seeined doomed to failure. While some improvement may still be in store, it is certain that the rice crop promises to be from 15 to 20 per cent below the average and far below last year’s crop. Six months more of war would have meant very had times, for the masses of the people are very poor rice is their bread and meat. FEAST OF HUMAN FLESH and Two Natives of Motkeiyn island Way- laid and Killed by Blacks. News of a canaibal feast by blacks at Mallicollo island was received the Miowera, which landed at Victorj B. C.. Two natives of Moskelyn land were trading when they waylaid near Mallicollo by Kanal The men were slaughtered and bodies carried to a coast village w instru- | were | | thirds of the white people of the State | | reaffirms the declaration of our par- | Ity in our | upon this platforms of 1899 and 1903 | subject and now proclaims | ja ew our resolute purpose 1 the supremacy of our its control by tional means of the administration of the political affairs of the State. | Believing that the proposed consti- | tutional amendment will operate as | an effective remedy for the evils of | our situation, Haury to any race or class; | it, moreover, as a complete response | i to the clearly expressed mandate of | the people, we unreservedly com- mend and approve it. We make it the single issue of this campaign. We declare it to be our battle cry. negro vote as it stands to-day is a perpetual menace to the prosperity and peace of Maryland, a menace to our very civilization, for it is ignor- | ant, corrupt, the blind instrument of | unscrupulous and selfish leaders. AGAINST MEAT PACKERS race and | Members Denied the Chalienging Grand Jurors. A victory was scored by United] States District Attorney C. | rison in his struggle to | successful finish the prosecution of | the meat packers at Chicago. During {the argument against a demurrer filed by Attorney Morrison to the plea in abtement filed some time ago by the defending attorneys, contesting its indictment which charges the various packers and their associates with conspiracy in restraint of trade, tLe question of the right of packers to appear in court at the time of the impanelling of the federal grand jury to challenge jurors as they were impanelled was raised and Judge Humphreys in favor of the government. AGREED ON MOROCCO Franco German Accord Conference Signed. Rouvier and Prince von German ambassador, Concerning Premier Radolin, the signed the Tranco-German accord meerni the Moroccan conference, thus d itely terminating the diffi- cult tions The agreement | | makes 5 jal reservation of the frontier region between Algiers and Morocco. where the maintenance of 1 will be regulated directly be- rance and the sultan without to the conference. The they were prepared for of contraband in the same bodies were pl 1: in a also remaix for France, to and as the mv mine with the sultan. they incurred the Se = outez, 2 Len Albers Given a Three-Year Sentence. 5 hn or en, Minister Merry cables the State story, allowed them to Ir | Dep: nt at Washington that Wil- subsequently transpired several trib were assembled and a feast of human flesh was held. White ttlers learned of this and under pressure the natives admitted they had roasted the bodies and de- voured the arms and legs of the un- fortunate men. BANK IS ROBBED Burglars Carry off Large Money. Sum of Burglars of C. B. Burnett & Sons at 11, wrecked the vault and ff between $8,000 and $10,000 in rency and gold. afany shots were exchanged #ween the burglars and ei owing to the darknes shots took effect. put cn the trail of Eldora, k eo the Bic ounds were entered the private bank | carried | cur- | liam S. Albers, of Chicago, manager of the Point Limon Mining Co.. who was arrested in Nicaragua on the charge of resisting the authorities and insulting the president of that country has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and has appealed his case to the Subreitle Court. Punishment Too Light. ! At Magnolia, Miss., Bessie Perkins a white woman, was sentenced to 10 vears in the penitentiary for marry- | ing and living with a negro, Robert Brown. Judge Wilkinson in passing sentence, regretted he could make the punishment no heavier. The wo- man declared she did not know Brown was a negro. A tornado struck Ma \Imesbury, Cape | Col ony, every ling demoli and of a | finding | his neck | choked to death if | drowned, | nig steamers. to main- | all lawful and constitu- | without prejudice or in- | regarding | The | Privilege of; B. Mor} bring to a: the | AWFUL DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Father, Mother and Seven Chil- dren Die by Violence. RESULT OF FAMILY QUARREL When Woman Found She Would Die She Told the Sheriff She Was Guilty on the arrival of the train in De- : catur. The men are Messenger rr. John T. Ryan of Chicago and Ed- Wielding an ax with maniacal | ward Greene of Hammond, Ind. Both strength, Mrs. Mareum, whose home is 12 miles northeast of Alpha, Ill, killed her seven children, the young- est an infant only a few months old, the eldest a child of 12. Realizing her crime would soon be discovered, the woman plunged a dull butcher knife into her own throat, but before doing so she set fire to the building containing the mutilated bod- ies of her slain children. Later in the day Mrs. Marcum died from the effects of her self-inflicted wounds. The tragedy occurred while the hus- band and father was at work. Sher- iff Spires was notified and hurried to the scene. Mrs. Marcum, who was still alive, told the sheriff a tall man with a dark mustache had killed her children, had wounded her and set fire to the little home. When the woman found that she was about to die, she: acknowledged to the sheriff she had committed the crimes herself. Discord had pevailed in the Marcum family for several years, it is said, and after a violent quarrel with her hus- band three years ago, Mrs. Marcum had him placed under bond. Markham returned at night and on himself bereft, shot himself after tieing a rope around so he would have been the bullet had not to death done its work. THIRTY-FIVE DROWNED Vessels Collide. The coasting steamer Hsiesho, ply- | ing between Shanghai and Tieatsin, struck and was totally destroyed by a mine 90 miles south of the Shantung promontory Saturday morning. Fif- teen persons on board the vessel were including among them Engi- | neers Mauchan and Muir. The foreign passengers and a portien of the crew of Hsiesho were rescued by two pass- The Swedish steamers Njord and | Robert collided Saturday evening | near Haven island in the sound. The Robert sank. Twenty persons were drowned. ORDER RESTORED AT BAKU With Guarantee of Reforms and Pro- tecticn to Property. With the formal ratification of peace between the Tartars and Arm- enians here traffic and the ordinary | course of life is being resumed. | Investigation of the damage done | | during the riots established the fact | that two-fifths of the property in the | oil field has not been destroyed. The oil men decline to resume pumping from the remaining wells or | | engage in the work of reconstruction until the conclusion of the naptha | conference at St. Petersburg. In an-| ticipation, however, that the govern-| ment will grant reforms guarantee- | ing the safety of life and property | in the future, the oil men are placing | machinery and ma- | | | large orders for terial to be used in the reconstruc | tion. | TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS | The inhabitants of Bengal, India, | have sworn before a goddess to boy- cott British goods. A permanent industrial exhibit of American goods is to be established in Shanghai. e Wheeler H. Peckham, former dis- trict attorney of New York and Boss Tweed’s prosecutor is dead. According to the Dertag, 3,000 sail- ors at Sevastopol and Libau have been deported to Siberia on account of revolutionary offenses. It is officially announced that 50 ase of cholera, of which 28 resulted fatally, occurred in Poland between September 20th and 27th Mrs. Mary A. O'Hara, 45 years old, of Cherry Valley, a section of Leicest- er, Mass., walked into Olney’s pond in the rear of her heme, with her 11-months-old baby boy in her arms. Both were drowned. Battleship Mississippi Launched. The battleship Mississippi launched at the Cramp Shipbuilding company, Phila- delphia. The vessel's sponsor was Miss Mabel Clare, daughter of United States Senator Money. prevalence of vellow South Gov. J. K. able to attend. The Governor represented by Senator Money. Against Picture Post Cards. Acting Postmaster General Hitch- (cock in a circular mailed to all post- | masters has renewed the campaign started recently against objectionable picture post cards and has constituted every postmaster a judge of the card | mailed. If there is doubt as to the i indecency of the card Mr. Hitchcock {is to act as the highest court. was fever in the was Plans Crusade Against Drink. Officials of the Nickel Plate rail- road are convinced that liquor has been the cause of some of their re- cent bad smashups and will begin a crusade against drink. Rule 108 ia the official book of the company for- bidding employes to frequent places { where liquor is sold, will hereafter | be enforced to the letter, according to notices just posted. Secretary of War Taft ed from his trip to the fz: i east. are badly wounded, and not expected to survive. at Forty-seventh man for several years, permitted him to ride. Pittsfield, I11., work until the train got to Bement, where the quarrel started. fire which destroyed the man, at Fort Dodge, 1a. caused the fire. vard of the William | Owing to the | Vardaman was un-| has return- DUEL IN EXPRESS CAR Two Men Shoot Each Other as Train Rushes On. A desperate revolver duel under circumstances which railway men say were never paralelled took place oa a flying Wabash train bound from Chicago to St. Louis. Two men in a car of the Pacific Express Company barricaded behind piles of express packages sought to kill each other. The battle ended up- Greene asserts he got on the train street and that Ryan, his friend and fellow work- his way to relatives. He his He was on to visit declares he helped Ryan with CHILDREN BURN Little Ones Cremated While Parent Was Visiting. Five children were cremated in a home of railway switch- while they A gasoline explosion Five Edward Adamson, a were asleep. The father had gone to work and the mother was visiting a neighbor. Neighbors discovered the fire, but could do nothing. It was with great difficulty that the mother was re- strained from throwing herself iato the flames. TYPHOON AT MANILA Ten Natives Killed and Damage to Extent of $500,000 Done. A typhoon swept over the city of Manila September 26. . The storm lasted three hours and the wind at- tained a velocity of 105 miles an hour. The property damage is estimated at $500,000. Then natives were Kkill- ed and 1,000 rendered homeless. The botanical gardens and the telephone system were wrecked. Slight dam- age was done to the United States quartermasters’ storehouses and the city was thrown into darkness. CANAL WORK ADVANCING Chief Engineer Stevens Is Good Results. The work of John F. Stevens, the chief engineer of the Panama canal and general manager of the Panama railroad, is beginning to show results. The new 1,900 foot dock at La Boca is about finished, the dock at Cristobal will be completed by the middle of October, and the work on the railroad to be connected with the canal zone is advancing satisfactorily. Over 2,000 new laborers from Barba- Getting does and Colombia have been employ- | | ed since September 1. INSURANCE AGENTS INDICTED Complaints of Violations of the Anti- Trust Laws of Ohio. The Grand Jury of Ashtabula coun- ty, O., returned indictments against 28 fire insurance agents of the county and representing some 63 different fire insurance companies, and against Albert Ross, of Columbus, of the in- spection bureau maintained by the companies. The agents are charged in the in- INGLO-JAPANESE TREATY Object Is Maintenance of Peace in the Orient. WILL AID EACH OTHER IN WAR Japan’s Rights in Korea and England’s Rights in India Are Recognized. The text of the Anglo-Japanese treaty signed August 12 has been issued from the foreign British office, together with a dispatch to the Bri’ long preamble. The latter states the object of the treaty is the mainten- ance of genera] peace in Asia and India and the preservation of the in- terests of all the powers in China by insuring the iategrity of China. The main features of the new agree- ment have already been forecasted. The pithy articles of the official text, however, bring out forcefully the tre- mendous importance to both countries of this alliance which practically makes Great Britain and Japan one for the purposes of defense “in the re- gions of East Asia and India.” Article III. of the treaty = says: “Japan possessing paramount political, military and economic rights in Korea, | Great Britain recognizes Japan's right to take such measures for the | guidance, control and protection of Korea as she may deem proper and necessary ‘to safeguard and advance those interests, providing the meas- ures are not contrary to the principle of equal opportunity for all com- merce.’ Article IV. says: “Japan recognizes | the rights of Great Britain to take | such measures in proximity to her | Indian frontier as are necessary to Article VI. states: “As regards the| present war between Japan and Rus-| 4 sia Great Britain will continue to maintain strict neutrality unless some other power or powers join in hostili- ties against Japan, in which case; Great Britain will come to the as- sistance of Japan, wiil conduct war in common and will make peace in mu- tual agreement with Japan.” safeguard her Indian possessions.” | HILL. INDICTED Philadelphia Grand Jury Finds Counts Against Him. The Grand Jury at Philadel; found a true bill of indictment against | John W, Hill, former chief of the filtration bureau of the city, present- ed by Assistant Attorney Roberts. The general charge against him is] practically the same as in the Lead JOHN WwW. 130 | | ment previously found against Mr. Hill, namely, falsifying and Sore | jring in making false entries and | © material omissions in papers and | documents of the city while an of-{j ficer thereof. This is a second indictment in con- nection with the charges against Mr. Hill in the conduct of his office as head of the filtration bureau. The indictment was the most com- prehensive ever returned by a Phila- delphia county Grand Jury. It con- tains 130 counts, which among other things charge falsification of records, favoring the Durham-McNichol firm and causing a loss to the city of more than $2,000,000. STREET RAILWAY CONTROL dictments with violating the anti- trust laws of Ohio. It is alleged that | they have formed an organization for | | the maintenance of rates and that | all competition in the business is de- stroyed by their agreements. Taken Back to. Texas, DeWitt C. Huffman, alias James Mec- | Andruss, an alleged forger who oper- ated in Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1901, was surendered at Lisbon, O,, to a Texas official on a requisition from Gov. S. W. T. Lanham, of that State. Huffman is wanted at Morgan, Tex., on ‘a charge of having cashed there in December, 1901, a for ged | $500 draft on the bank of Wauseon, O. Trolley Cars Collide. Twelve people were injured, two of | in a head-on collision and express ca whom may die, between passenger on the Parkersburg, Marietta and In- | terurban traction line near Midway, W, Va on the passenger car. $ 00: COOOOOFOOO G00 By Yellow Fever Record. 4 < | 2 The official report of the Yellow Fever$ $cases in New Orleans up to 6 o'clock p.m. 3 |S . <@ g0ct. 1 is summarized as follows: 2 2 New cases, 23. 2 3 Total to date, 3,023. 3 Deaths, 3. $ Total deaths to date, 391. S 2 Slew Rival for Girl's Favor. | Henry Edwards, aged 23, was shot | and killed at Lewisburg, Ky. by Clar- {ence Turner. They quarreled about ia girl at a dance. Turner is in jail here. His plea is self defense. The Franco-Russian commercial convention was signed at St. Peters- burg on the 29th. It will become ef- fective March 1, 1906. Colon Escanes Serious Fire. sheer good luck the city of Colon was saved from complete de- struction by fire. The fire broke out in a building next to the residence of the Spanish consul and soon de- By stroyed the Phoenix hotel and two other hotels, several liquor saloons and several tenement buildings. The postoffice and treasury building were also burned. . Gen. Gomez has withdrawn from race for Governcrship of Cuba. There were nearly 75 people | | Important Link in the System from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. | The syndicate which has been at | work for several months securing con- | trot of street railways at East Liver- | pool and Wellsville, O., has succeeded getting ordinances through the | councils of both places. All is now jn readiness for rebuilding the old East Liverpocl-Weilsv.ile line, mak- ing of it an up-to-date, double track { interurban railway which, with ex- or to be built will make it one of the most important Jinks in a | when diplomati National APPLIED FOR RECEIVER Little Kanawha Syndicate Deal Tied Up in Court Application for the appointment of a receiver for the community of in- terests known as the Little Kanawha syndicate, an organization controlling coal lands and railway interests in West Virginia, was filed in the Unait- ed States court at Cincinnati. At the head of the syndicate is George J. Gould, Joseph Ramsey, Jr. president of the Wabash railroad, and William - F. Guy of St. Louis. The plaintiff is John S. Jones. holder of $100,000 of stock in the syndicate. He lives in Chicago. Judge Richards set October 79 for the hearing. A restraining order was + issued to temporarily prevent the ish ambassador at St. Petersburg, for- three defendants from “selling, con- warding a copy of the agreement]tracting to sell transferring or part- with instructions to conmimunicate it|ing with” any property of the Kana- to the Russian government. The | F112 8 Jdtoste, ou treaty contains eight clauses and a Boston Wool Market. Strength and inactivity characteriz- es the wool market. Prices in the Boston wool market show little change, and are about as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 36@37c; X, 34@35c; No. 1, 40 Pile; No. 2, 41@42c; fine unwashed, 28 @29¢; 14-blood unwashed, 34@35¢; 3g-blocod, 35@36¢c; half- blood, ‘31@35¢; unwashed Delaine 30@31c; - unmer- chantable, 31@: os fine washed De- laine; 39@40c.. Michigan. Fine un- unwashed, 33@34c; um» tucky, Indiana, te . CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Five Italians were Killed by a dyna- mite explosion near Cpyuberland, Md. ? James liag was killed by an Allegheny V = railroad train at The body was taken Charles Siowara. sonof T. E. How- ard, former supreme court justice of Indiana, was found dead in Notre Dame cemetery lake. Jealousy of M. Witte is manifested in Russia, where his enemies char- cterize him as a self-advertiser be- A of his visit to the emperor of Germany. M. Koroiovitz former secretary of the Russian legation at Pekin will be named as the new minister to Tokyo > relations with Japan rare resumed. Fire destroyed the barn of the Biscuit company at Zanes- | ville, 0. Six horses were cremated. Loss $3,00 Incengdiaries are blamed i for the blaze. W. W. Hague, 20 ycars old, a | Penn sylvania railroad brakeman, ped from a freight train in front passenger train at Altoona, Pa. was killed. T1 he Berry Lumkbk~sr company City, Pa., has secured posses 8,000 acres of timber land near Chat- tanooga, Tenn. The timber will be cut into ailroad ties. The Unite States Steel Corporation interests have bought 40,000 tons of Bessemer iron from the merchant fur- aaces of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys for October. delivery. John A. Morris, once a candidate for governor of the State of Conneti- cut, on the Sccialist ticket committed suicide by inhaling gas through a tube which he attached to a jet. Snow to the depth of six inches covered the summit of Mt. Washing- ton on the 25th - and lay on the ground to a lesser depth as far down jum i as the Half-Way ‘house. The ther- mometer registered 26. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw will leave the cabinet Feb- ruary 1, 1966. He makes the definite announcement in a letter to the Polk County, (Ia.) Republican club. On account of the prevalence of typhoid fever and diptheria at the naval academy, at Annapolis, a rigid quarantine has been established and no midshipmen are allowed to leave the grounds. Robert Richwine the express agent who was injured in the wreck of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, near Barnitz, Pa., last Thursday, is | trolley chain from Pittsburgh to | |W heeling. i The Hon. W. Caryl Ely of ] Buffalo, | president of the American Street | Railway association, is looking after the financiering of the enterprise, and Van Horn Ely, also of Buffalo, is president of the new company | which will absorb the East Liver- pool Railway Company, its branches, the East Liverpool & Rock Springs | line; to Chester, W. Va. and the pleasure resort knowin as Rock Springs park. improvements will begin at once. POWERS WILL ACT Decision to Take Control of Macedo- nia’s Finances Unalterabie, A collective note from the six pow- ers has been handed to the Porte, de claring that their decision to assume international control of the finances of Macedonia, is unalterable. There is increasing friction be- tween the British embassy and the Porte, in conseque ence of the delay in the pay ments of an indemnity to the owners of British shows, attacked by Arab pirates in the Red sea. The embassies last night pointed out that unless the matter was soon satisfac- torily settled the incident would re- sume a graver aspect. RECORD FLOUR ORDER It is for 180,000 Barrels to Be Shipped Immediately to Vladivostok. An order for 180,000 barrels of benn placed with a Seattle flour mill by Vladvostok flour merchants. This! is the largest single order ever plac- | ed on the Pacific coast. New orders for Hongkong Shanghai delivery are being recei and all orders placed before the boy- cott was firmed. Work on the promised | flour to be delivered immediately has | proclaimed have been con- | dead. This makes the sixth death due to the accident. Fire at Gormania, W, Va., thought to have been of incendiary origin, de- | stroyed Knights of Pythias Hall Dr. | | Drinkwater’s home and office, Beck- man & Wolf's store building and stock, the stock of John Reid and two dwellings, ing $25,000. the total loss aggregat- Dynamite Hulk Blown Up. The wreck of the British steamer Chatham, with her cargo of 90 tons + of dynamite and blasting gelatine, was blown up by mines distriouted around and in side her hull. These were fired by an electric current from Raselech, about five miles away. The authorities anticipate that the pass- age will be cleared of debris in four days. Telephone Company - Expands, The United States Independent Telephone company filed papers with the Secretary of State of New Jersey, increasing its authorized capital from $100,000 to $59,000,000. The offi- cers are: John N. Rauber, president; William J. Naylor, vice president; { Benjamin J. Chase, secretary; Fred- | erick W. Zoller, treasurer; Morris D. Knapp, J. Wesley Kingston and Henry Abington, directors. Glass Scale Reaffirmed. The National Association of Window | Glass Manufacturers, representing i over two-thirds of the hand-blowing window glass plants of the United States, reaffirmed the wage scale of iL. A. 300 of Pittsburg and entirely repudiated the scale of the Amaiga- nated Association of Window Glass Workers of Cleveland deciding to liding seale or al- remain idle onerate JL LLC wi A A an Ea tio:
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