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EIGHTEEN KILLED IN WRECK
Collision of Passenger Trains
Causes Horrible Disaster.
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SIGNALS OBSCURED BY FOG
The Night Express from Boston
Crashes Into Rear of an
Accommodation.
Eighteen persons were killed, 25
seriously injured aad probably a
score of others cut and bruised in the
most disastrous railroad wreck re-
corded in the state of Massachusetts,
for many years. The wreck occurred
at Bakers Bridge station, a mile and a
#alf west of Lincoln, on the main
ne of the Fitchburg division of the
E> & Maine railroad. The regu-
far Sunday night express which left
Boston at 7:45 o'clock for Montreal
by way of the Rutland system,
crashed into the rear of an accommo-
dation train bound for points on the
#farlboro branch line, and which
started from Boston at 7:15.
“There were 13 corpses taken from
the wreck and three died scon after
being removed. Three bodies were
headless. “Two skulls were found and
& man's ‘head with a full beard was
picked up. It is difficult to fix the
exact number of those who perished
but it is thought it will not exceed
Of the dead, a dozen were passen-
gers in the two rear cars of the Marl-
poro train. No passenger on the ex-
press train was injured. Of those
who lost their lives, a number were
spparently killed instantly in the col-
lision, while others were either burn-
ed to death or died from suffocation.
The wreck. was primarily due to
thick weather which apparently ob-
gcured signals set by the forward
grain, which at the time of the dis-
aster was standing in front of Bakers
Bridge station. The Montreal train,
drawn by two locomotives and con-
sisting also of nine cars, crashed into
he rear of the Marlboro branch local,
demolishing the two rear cars.
All of the passengers killed
@eriously injured were in these. The
passengers lived in Concord, West
Keton, Maynard, Hddson, Marlboro,
and several smaller towns in the Assa-
bet valley. None of the passengers
on the Montreal train was seriously
#urt, but the engineer and fireman of
the leading locomotive were killed.
The wreckage caught fire and some
of the passengers were incinerated.
¥ew persons live in the vicinity of
Bakers Bridge station, and no fire de-
partment was available, so that the
flames practically burned themselves
out. The uninjured passengers and
& number of train hands, assisted by
villagers, went to the aid of the in-
jJured and many persons were rescu-
ed.
A special train was sent from Bos-
€on by the Boston & Maine manage-
ment at 9:35 o'clock; and reached
here inside of a half hour. The train
drought a number of doctors, while
gnany doctors from Waltham
and
‘fn carriages and by other trains.
‘Certify to Equitable Finances.
Price, Waterhouse & Co., and Has-
kins & Sells, public accountants, have |
jointly made an examination of the!
affairs of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society and certify to the fol-!
towing statement as of September 30,
1905: “The assets of the society as
elaimed, are all found to be on hand,
and in value amount to $416,166,500.10. | with Minister Hayashi and
The surplus over and above all lia-
bilities amounts to
fhe reduction in assets is brought |
. about entirely by a conservative reva- |
lation, most of which iS in real estate |
and in shares owned :by the society
. #n certain financial institutions.”
i ‘Negro Lynched.
Monsie Williams, a negro, was
§ynched at Tangipahoa, La., for con-
section with the attempted assault up-
: Mrs. George, an aged white farm- |
er's wife, a week agn. He is said to
Rave confessed having kept watch for
the principal in the affair, under com-
ulsion. A crowd took him away
the sheriff, drove him to a negro
gharch in the woods and made an
example of him.
RUSSIAN SAILORS REVOLT
A Regiment of Infantry Also Joined
D the Mutineers.
A message from Sebastopol, says:
The long expected mutiny of sailors,
wha have been on the verge of revolt |
“for months, has come
and Russia's
®tronghold on the Black sea is in
danger of falling completely into their
Bands. The situation is very critical.
All the shore equipages, numbering
4,000 men, are in open rebellion, hav-
$ng driven away or taken their officers
prisoners. The Brest regiment of
$afantry has gone over in a body to
the mutineers. Gen. Neplueff, the
commander of the fortress, is a eap-
tive. The Bielostok regiment, the
only other reg in the city, re-
¢eived the mutineers with cheers, but
thus far it remains Jor al. Some of the
artillerists have also j
tn revolt. Besides the Bie lostok regi-
ment there are two battalions of ar-
tillery and a battalion of the fortress
artillery here.
Immigrants to the United States for
g¢he last fiscal year numbered over one
million, wing an appalling increase
fo arrival of foreigners.
he
Women Opposc Smoot.
ceting of the executive com-
of the National L.eague of Wo-
s Organizations, formed two
azo to oppose the continuance
fn the United St senate of Sena-
tor Reed Smoot of Utah, was held in
Philadelphia. V.coen from all sec-
tions of the country were presea! [
1 petition will be
e asking for the
Smoot on the ground
¢hat “he is a member of a hierarchy
whose president and a majority of the
members practice and teach polyga-
mv.”
pow
exclusion of Mr.
and |
pther places were.sent to the scene |
$67,142,865.42. |
ined the men |
OHIO’S OFFICIAL VOTE
is the Only Democrat Who
Is Given a Plurality.
The canvass of the official vote at
the late election in Ohio shows the
official plurality of John Pattison, the
Democratic nominee for governor, to
be 42,647. The total vote cast in the
state was 961,505, against 1,026,229
last year. The vote on the state offi-
cers follows:
For Governor — Pattison (Dem.),
473,264; Herrick (Rep.), 430,617; Cow-
en (Soc.), 17,795; Watkins (Pro.), 13,-
061; Steiger (S.-1..), 1,808; scatteringg
24,960. Pattison’s plurality, 42,647.
For Lieutenant Governor—Harris
(Rep.), 456,341; Houch (Dem.), 437,-
162; Harris’ plurality, 29,179.
For Treasurer of the State—Mec-
Kinnon (Rep.), 462,447; Mason
(Dem.), 418,513; McKinnon’s plural-
ity, 43,932.
For Attorney-Genera!—Kllis
461,402; Rice (Dem.), 418,954;
plurality, 42,448.
For Judge of the Supreme Court—
Davis (Rep.), 462,115; Mathers
(Dem.), 417,920; Davis’ plurality, 44,
695.
Member of State Board and Public
Works—Kirtley (Rep.). 462,081; Mec-
Govern (Dem.), 415,532; XKirtley’s
plurality, 46,549
Pattison
(Rep),
Ellis’
WOMAN’S CORPSE IN TRUNK
Packed in Chloride of Lime—Missing
Nearly Two Weeks.
What appears to be a murder com-
mitted nearly two weeks ago, was dis-
covered when the badly decomposed
body of Mrs. John Hammond was
found in a trunk at her home in Al-
bany, N. Y. The trunk stood in the
fireplace and the body. within was
heavily sprinkled with chloride of
lime. The disinfectant was strewn
quickly about the thrce rooms of the
flat and the cover of the trunk was
popped open, with the evident idea
of having the odors of decomposition
escape up the chimney.
John Hammond, the woman's hus-
band, has not been seen for nearly
two weeks. He was 25 years old, the
wife 57. There were no marks of vio-
lence on the body, which, when found,
was fully clothed except shoes.
body was bound in position with a
clothesline.
NAVAL CADET ON TRIAL
Court Martial Investigates Death from
Prize Fight.
Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr.,
of Lafayette, I.a., a member for the
third class of the Naval academy,
was put on trial at Annapolis, Md.
before a naval court-martial on
charges that include that of man-
slaughter in having caused the death
of Midshipman James R. Branch, Jr.,
of New York, a member of the class
above him, as a result of a prear-
ranged fist fight.
All the medical officers gave it as
their positive conviction that Branch
died from the effects of the blows he
had received in his fight with Meri-
wether.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
Lieut. W. M. Graham of the Twelfth
| Cavalry, stationed at IFort Oglethorpe,
shot himself through the left lung.
¥ormer Congressman H. Kirke Port-
er of Pittsburg, has made a donation
of $25,000 to the endowment fund of
! $500,000 being raised for higher edu-
| cational work in foreign lands by the
Baptist Missionary union.
While Marquis Ito was in a train
members
pf their suites a window of his car
| was smashed. Four natives were ar-
! rested. . It is believed the act
| committed by members of the so-call-
| ed Patriot Students’ Society to resent
| the new treaty with Japan.
| It was reported to the Brooklyn po-
lice that burglars had broken into
the Pratt Institute and carried off
$50,000 worth of jewelry and other
articles of value which lies in their
antiquity..
The steamer Ikuta, bound for
‘Liaotung peninsula, collided with the
steamer Fukura, near Mutsure, not
far from Shimonoseki. The Ikuta,
which was struck amidships, sank im-
mediately. Most of those on board
were saved. Eleven are missing.
WANTS BIG BATTLESHIPS
Naval General Board Recommends
Construction of Three Monsters.
Three first-class battleships of at
least 18,000 tons displacement ard 18 |
knots speed, three scout cruisers of
5,000 tons displacement, one gunboat
of the Helena ¢lass, and four other
gunboats of light draught, two for
use in the Philippines and two for
| service on the rivers in China, witwh
additional torpedo buvats and torpedo
' boat destroyers, are the principal re-
commendations of the General Board
of the Navy, to be authorized by the
next congress, which is now under
consideration by the Board of Con-
struction.
New Japanese Loan $125,0000,000.
A new
| wiil, it is officially announced,
sued November 28.
| of Paris will take
London $31,250,000. The balance will
be divided between New York anid
| Germany. The issue price will be 90
| a ng the interest 4 per cent.
$62,500,000
Postal Revenue Increasing.
The annual report of the auditor of
the U. S. postofiice department for
| the year ended June 30, 1905, shows
the fiscal operations of the
ment to have been as follows: Reve-
nues of the postal service, $125,326,-
! Dxpenditures of the 1
$167,399,169. Total amount ¢
orders issued: Domestic.
foreign, $42,503,226. Total
amount of money orders paid: Do-
mestic, $404,24,974; foreign, $7,150,689.
Total, $1,176,130,879.
po
service,
money
$401,916,214;
The |
was
1 at Wilkesbarre and Scranton.
the
Japanese loan of $125,000,000 |
be is-
The Rothschilds |
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depart- |
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SIX ARE BEKTEN TO DEATH
Mother and Five Children
Dead in Their Home.
Found
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH CRIME
Had Left Home and Told Mai! Carrier
That Family Had Been Murdered.
Mrs: William McWilliams and her
five children, ranging from three to 18
years in age, were slain at their
farm home, and the husband and fath-
er was arrested in Independence, Ia.,
charged with killing the members of
his family. He declares himself to be
innocent.
A dairyman called for milk at the
McWilliams farm shortly after noon,
On entering the house, he says he
found a partly cooked dinner on the
stove and Mrs. McWilliams and the
five children dead on the floor.
Each person.had been killed with a
hammer blow on the head. Mrs. Mc-
Williams was atrociously beaten, and
a few knife thrusts had been inflicted
on the crushed body. In the woman's
rigid arms lay the corpse of the
three-year-old baby, its hood, coat and
mittens on, and a piece of buttered
bread in one hand. The baby had
been killed by one blow of a hammer
on the head.
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The other children lay about the
house, dressed in working clothes.
Only the wife and daughter, 16 years
old, seemed to have resisted, each sus-
taining knife wounds in the hand.
The dairyman called the sheriff.
McWilliams could not be found about
the farm, but a suit of clothes said
to be his was found smeared with
what is said to be blood.
A rural mail carrier reported at the
house that he had met McWilliams
on the way to Independence, and that
McWilliams had said that the family
had been killed by someone.
The sheriff arrested McWilliams in
Independence.
FATAL COLLISION
Engineer Killed and Five Others
Injured.
One trainman was killed and five
others injured in a wreck on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Thompson-
town. The wreck was caused by a
rear-end collision between two
freight trains going west. The mail
train leaving Harrisburg at 4:40 a.
m. ran into the wreckage blocking
four tracks and delaying traffic sever-
al hours,
E. G. Huntzberger of Harrisburg,
a freight brakeman who had just been
promoted to flagman, was killed. The
injured are: William E. Moore and
E. D. Dunn of Altoona, engineer and
firemen of the freight train; David
Johnson , of Harrisburg, engineer of
the mail train; G. W. Baker of Har-
risburg, conductor of one of the
freight trains, and Clarence Edmond,
a Pullman porter. None is seriously
injured.
All the coaches
were wrecked, but
done to the mail.
of the mail train
no damage was
PRIEST EXCELS MARCONI
Invents a Faster and Safer System of
Wireless Telegraphy.
Lieutenant Commander S. S. Robin-
son of the bureau of equipment of the
United States navy, with the mayors
of Wilkesbarre and -Scranton, Pa,
and many other invited guests, were
present at the. first public test of the
Murgas system of wireless tglegra-
phy. The test was conducted between
experimental stations 22 miles apart
Every
message sent from either station was
‘accurately recorded at the other. The
messages were sent by the Morse
! code at the rate of 45 words a minute.
Rev. Father Joseph Murgas, inven-
tor of the system, is pastor of the
i Slavok Roman Catholic church of
Wilkesbarre, and has devoted all of
his leisure time for nearly ten years
to the perfection of his system. Su-
and a double tone apparatus prevents
the catching of messages except
other stations similarly attuned.
$35,000 GOLD DUST STOLEN
| Cashier of the Seattle Assay Office
| Charged With Theft.
| George Edward Adams, for seven
years cashier of the United States as-
cay office, in Seattle, was arrested hy
Secret
he had access in his official capacity.
Secret Service Agent Connell took
$12,000 from Adams.
Mr. Connell says Adams confessed
that he had abstracted more than
the weight.
| Adams was held in $30,00 bonds to
| appear for preliminary examination.
| Adams denied that $35,000 had been
| taken, but Agent Connell says the
| shortage will exceed $35,000.
At Toledo, Ohio, robbers worked
the combination cf the safe in the of-
| fice of Wr. Beatty, grand keeper of |
| records and seals of Knights of Py-
| thias of Ohio, securing $200 in cash |
| and 100 jewels for veteran Knights
of Pythias.
Cut Hole Tarough ‘safe.
Burglars chise ole in the safe
| of a Japanese bankin se at Los
{ Angeles, Cal., and 1e i. 3 Dox}
| containing $15,800 in The burg-
lars evidently intended ¢ a
| mite, but decided it would be D0
dangerous, so they spent hours in
cutting a hole through the safe
Foreign Secretar
behalf of Great Britian, has accepted
President Roosevelt’s invitation to
| participate in the naval and military
| displays on the occasion of the James- |
| town, Va., exposition in 1207.
AGRARIAN DISORDERS
Russian Troops Unable to Cope With
Mobs Which Riot and Pillage.
The agrarian disorders in the dis-
trict of Subzha have assumed such
violence that the troops are unable to
cope with them. The whole northern
part of the district is in the hands
of peasant rioters, who are pillaging
the estates and burning the harvest-
ed crops.
In the Jurieff and Alexandrovsk
districts peasant mobs are demanding
the surrender of the stocks of pro-
visions and are threatening to set
the torch to the whole locality and
to storm the county treasuries.
During a prayer meeting in the
Esthoniaa church at Pernau, Russia,
a crowd of Socialists entered the
church and threw the pastor from the
pulpit. The congregation fled in pan-
ic.
The excitement among the peasants
in the central and southeastern pro-
vinces is spreading rapidly, and it is
feared that it will be impossible to
suppress the movement, which prom-
ises to develop into a general up-
rising, bringing devastation and un-
told horror to the whole country.
At the end of four days’ debate
the executive committee of the
zemstvo congress brought in a resolu-
tion in favor of supporting the gov-
ernment and Premier Witte. The
reading of the resolution was greet-
ed with tremendous applause.
DECISION AGAINST RAILROADS
Court Sustains Classification of
terstate Commerce Commission.
The authority of the Interstate
Commerce commission was upheld in
a decision filed by United States
Judge Thompson, at Cincinnati, in a
case brought by Proctor & Gamble
against the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, the Pennsylvania, the: Big
Four and the Baltimoré and Ohio
Southwestern railroads. Prior to the
protest against freight rates filed by
Proctor & Gamble with the Interstate
Commerce commission the railroads
listed carloads of soap for the pur-
pose of classification in the sixth
class and lots less than carload lots
in the fourth class. Next the rail-
roads placed the carload lots in the
fifth class and the lesser bulk at 20
per cent. less than third class. This
change in classification brought out
the protest upon which the matter
went to ihe Interstate Commerce com-
mission.
The commission held that the
classification in carload lots was
proper, but that the change of frac-
tions of carloads was improper and
ordered the railroads to desist on that
In-
point. The railroads refused. The
Attorney General ordered District
Attorney McPherson to bring suit
against the eoffending common carri-
ers. The result is the Interstate Com-
merce commission is sustained, and
injunction issues against rates on
fractional lots.
THIRD PARTY GOT PROFITS
Investigators Make a
tartling Discovery.
Startling developments
brought out by
Insurance
were
the Armstrong com-
mittee on insurance investigation in
the course of a . minute inquiry by
Charles E. Hughes, counsel to the
committee, into the syndicate trans-
actions participated in by the New
York Life. It was brought out that
in the case of the United States Steel
corporation syndicate, the managers
of which were J. P. Morgan & Co.,
there appeared in one instance a prof-
it due to the New York Life of $87.-
187, fromi which was deducted, no
reason being given. the sum of $59, 310
paid to Andrew Ilamilton, who has
been described in the course of the
investigation as the “insurance legis-
lative generalissimo.”
Coal Operators Organize.
Bituminous coal operators from
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri,
Kansas, Michigan and Indian Terri-
tory met in Chicago and formed a
National organization, which will
combat labor unions in an effort to
put an end to the “sympathetic”
strike. Pcnnsyivania, West Virginia
periority of speed is claimed for it,
by |
Service officers for the alleged |
theft of $35,000 in gold dust, to which
$30,000 from miners’ pokes since June |
last, and substituted sand to maintain |
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and Kentucky were not represented
| by delegates, but it was declared that
they will co-operate with the new Na-
tional organization.
j BROKER IS ARRESTED
Charged With Swindling People
Throughout Country.’
Stock brokers and owners of unlist-
ed stocks in all parts of the United
States are said to have been swind-
led out of thousands of dollars by
a scheme alleged to ‘have been -per-
| petrated by R. Levy, a stock broker
with offices in the Medinah Temple
building, Chicago. Levy was arrest-
ed on a warrant charging him with
| using the mails to defraud.
When arraigned before United
States Commissioner Foote, Levy was
| released on $2,000 bonds and the case
as continued until December 1.
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Thinks Kiss Worth $10,000.
| Ia., thinks the Kiss she alleges Hay-
| den Marquis, a wealthy young man,
| stole from her is worth $10,000. At
least that is the amount of damages
| she demands in a suit filed in the Dis-
trict court. Marquis is the son of R.
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| | aire,
Ten Houses Burned.
| of the H. C. Frick Coke company, at
| Lement furnace, near Dunbar, Pa.
| The fire is supposed to have been of
liary origin, as it started
which was unoccupied.
Resolutions favoring abolition of
American duties on Philippine pro- |
| ducts and the repeal of the new law
{to regulate shipping between this
| country and the Philippines were
| adopted by the New York beard of |
| trade
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Miss Ella Hamilton, of Des Moines, |
SOLDIERS INGOMEL REVOLT
Battalion of Reservists Demands
Better Rations.®
NEWSPAPER OFFICE HELD UP
Armed Socialists Compe! Employes to
Set up and Print the Work-
men’s Gazette.
Private advices
Petersburg from Gomel,
ernment of that name, says that a
battalion of reservists, a thousand
strong, mutined, following a demand
for better food.
Vice Admiral Birileff, minister of
marine, closed the new admiralty
vards owing to the demands of the
workmen for an eight-hour day.
The cabinet has drafted a series
of measures to protect the right of
individuals against the coercion and
tyranny of the labor leaders, which
in the event of another strike, will be
placed ia operation during the inter-
im until the national assembly meets.
The minister of justice, M. Manukhin,
has drafted a habeas corpus law for
submission to the cabinet.
The “Novo Vremya' was the victim
of a remarkable hold-up by Social
revolutionaries. Three editors of the
“Workmen’s Gazette,’ the official or-
gan of the workingmen’s council, en-
tered the composing room of the
‘“Novoe Vremya’ with revolvers in
their hands and compelled the com-
positors to set up their paper, making
prisoners of such persons as entered
received at, St.
in the gov-
the room. Later, descending to the
press room, the visitors compelled
the pressmen {o run off 50,000
copies of the ‘“Workingmen’s Gaz-
ette.”
The immediate question confront-
ing the cabinet is the electoral law.
Premier Witte and his colleagues have
almost reached the conclusion to base
the elections practically on universal
suffrage.
POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Senator Platt Says Money Was Giv-
en by Insurance Companies.
United States Senator Thomas C.
Platt, testified ‘before the legislative
committee investigating life ~insur-
ance in New York City.
Senator Platt did not hesitate to
tell of the contributions of ‘the insur-
ance companies to state campaigns.
The Equitable, the Mutual Life and
the New York Life were the only in-
surance companies that made such
contributions. The Equitable Life,
the Senator said, contributed regu-
larly, $10,000 to the state campaigns,
the Mutual Life the same sum fre-
queatly, and the New York Life a sum
not as large, and occasionally. These
moneys were always delivered 1n
cash to Senator Platt’s office by mes-
senger, and he turned them over to
the state committee.
The Senator said he was expected
to influence the Legislature when any
legislation appeared that was hostile
to the insurance companies.
Platt said he belived he had asked
President R. A. McCurdy of the Mu-
tual Life for a contribution when the
needs were very great. ' He had, how-
ever, never been asked to use his in-
fluence on any measure before the
Jzegislature, nor had he ever done so.
He knew nothing about contributions
to the national campaign.
CRUSHED BY
icE
Amundsen’s Expedition in Search of
Magnetic Pole Loses Ship.
George Cleveland of Massachusetts
returned to Dundee, Scotland, from a
whaling expedition in Davis strait,
bringing news from Eskimo . sources
that Captain Amundsen’s Arctic ex-
pedition ship Gjoa had been crushed
in the ice at Boothia Felix, the north-
ernmost part of the mainland of
North America, and that the explos-
ers escaped and had been living with
the natives. The Dundee whalers
who were appointed to meet Captain
Amundsen with stores, have not been
able to trace him.
_ Captain Ronald Amundsen conceiv-
ed the idea of searching for the mag-
netic pole. The expedition left Chris-
tiania, Norway, June 17, 1903. ,
PRISON OFFICERS KILLED
Five Convicts Attempt to Escape
from Penitentiary.
In a desperate attempt to escape
| from the Missouri State penitentiary
five convicts fought for freedom with
weapons and nitroglycerin at the pris-
on gate, killing two prison officers and
wounding Deputy Warden See, and
four men made a dash through the
streets of Jefferson City under fire,
only to be captured after two of the
rtnaways had been wounded.
Taking advantage of the absence of
Warden Hall and six guards, who left
with 71 colored prisoners for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., five attempted to
escape, but only four left the prison
after wrecking the gate.
Chaffee Practically Retired.
With his departure from Washing-
ton for a month’s visit to Southern
California, Lieut. Gen. «Chaffee prac-
tically terminated his active connec-
A block of 10 houses, the property |
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tion with the army. Although he wiil
i return home during the Christmas
holidays, it is not believed he will
| resume actual duty.
No Tail to This Comet.
Professor E. C. Pickering, director
| of the Harvard Observatory, raceived
{ further information last w:ek by
| Professor Schaer of the Ger.eva Ob-
servatory. The comet is circular in
{ appearance and of the seventh magni-
| tude. It has no tail.
| Grangers for Temperance.
The National grange, Patrons of
Husbandry, in session at Atlantic
| City, went on record in favor of tem-
| perance and the curtailing of saloons,
| declaring ‘that they should be
abridged until they are abolished.”
Senator |
AMENDS Civit SERVICE RULES
Make Laws Conform to the
Changes Recently Made.
The President has issued an exe-
cutive order amending the civil ser-
Will
vice rules in substance to conform to.
his recent order relative to the dis-
missal of employes in the classified
service without hearing by direction
of the President or head of an exeeu-
tive department. As laid down in the
rule which is an amendment to civil
,| service rule 8, this principle is pre-
faced by the following statement:
“No person shall be removed from
a competitive position except for
such cause as ‘will promote the
efficiency of the service.”
Another difference from the order
of October 17 is the substitution for
the phrase “such removal will be
made without hearing” of the words
“such removal may be made without
notice to such officer or employe.”
Another executive order just issued
exempts from examination one exami-
ner of lobacco and one examiner of
tea in the Chicago custom house.
ALL ON BOARD LOST
Strikes Rock and Goes
Down in Plain Sight.
The: Norwegian coal-laden steam-
er Turbin, with her captain and crew
of about 16 men, is thought to have
foundered in a terrific gale. The
coasting steamer Edna R., which ar-
rived at Clarks Harbor, N. or
‘brought news tbat on Friday about
5 p. m. a large steamer supposed to
be the Turbin struck Black Rodge
ledge, off the south coast, backed off
Jin a few minutes and then disappeared
in the sea.
No person could be discerned
aboard the craft, and so quickly did
the steamer go down that no oppor-
tunity was given tg crew to fight for
their lives. No boat could have fived
an instant in the®sea that was run-
ning. .
Steamer
FOUR BLOWN TO DEATH
Laboratory of Powder Plant Destroy-
ed by Explosion.
Four men were blown to pieces by
an explosion at the laboratory of the
International Smokeless Bowder and
Chemical Company at Parlin, N. J.
The dead: John Pierce, Frank
Spratford, John Applegate, J. W.
Redpath, Superintendegt of the labo-
ratory.
‘What Suced the explosion will
never be known, as only the four men
were in the building at the time.
The next building, a storehouse,
caught fire and was burned.
Demand Employment.
There was another “Poverty pa-
rade” in the streets of London, No-
vember 20. Some 5,000 to 6,000 un-
employed men and a sprinkling of
women marched along the Thames
embankment to Hyde Park, where
they listened to speeches and adopted
resolutions condemning charity, as a
cure for lack of employment and de-
manding the summoning of Parlia-
ment to initiate works of national
utility, Red flags were seen.
Will Sell Lands to Tenants.
The Marquis of Downshie has
agreed to sell his agricultural lands in
County Down, Ireland, to the tenants.
The estate is the largest in Ireland,
{and is valued at about $15,000,000.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
Gage E. Tarbell of the Equitable,
told of collecting commissions on his
own insurance and offered a plan for
improvement of the life insurance
business.
The Frankfurter Zeitung states that
Chile. intends to order one battleship,
two cruisers and four destroyers
from German yards, at a cost of
$15,000,000.
The “Maltese Cross’ ranch, owned
and. occupied by President Roosevelt
during his residence in North Dakota,
has been purchased by 0. J. Delen-
drecie of Fargo for $15.000.
The United States Steel Corporation
has authorized the expenditure of $2,-
000,000 for improvements at the South
Sharon works. It is semi-officially
stated that the improvements will
include 12 more open-hearth furnaces,
another blast furnace and a steel] rail
mill.
The Isthmian canal commission will
take adverse action upon the sea lev-
el project, which eight of the 13
members of the advisory board of
consulting engineers have favored.
After one of the warmest contests
ever engaged in by delegates to the
annual conventicn of the American
Federation of Labor the steamfitters
have ,bcen successful in gaining ad-
mission to: the Federation.
Rev. J. 8. ‘Lord, ‘aged 97, said to
have been for many years the oldest
living alumpus’ of Yale University,
died at_ the home of his daughter,
Mrs. W.'J. Tillotson of Laingsburg,
Mich. Rev. Mr. Lord graduated from
Yale in the <lass of 1831
Stand by Old Professor.
The trustees of Boston university
announced the appointment of Prof.
Hinckley G. Mitchell as instructor of
Semitic languages and: literature. Re-
cently Dr. Mitchell was removed
from his chair: in the theological
school of the university, after 22
vears’ service, by the board of bis-
hops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, for alleged heretical inter-
pretation of the Sctiptures.
Boston Wool Market.
Trade has been irregular in the
wool market. Leading quotations fol-
iow: O7o and Pennsylvania—XX and
above, i 36¢; No. 1, 40@41c: No.
2, fine unwashed, 28@29c:
quar tepined, unwashed, 34@35¢;
s-blood, 34@35¢; hall
5¢; unwashed, 30@3lc:
table,31@ ;
r le,31@32 fine washed,
37 Michigan—Fine wunwash-
ily 276 28¢; quarterblood, unwashed,
33@34c; three- eighing blood, 33@34c;
half-blood, 33@34c; unwashed, 28c.
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