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.
|
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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
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