ET ES C2 A PS NEVER DOUBTED THE BOOKS Examiner Knew Company Prof- ited, But Said Nothing. INSPECTION SYSTEM IS LOOSE No Action Taken on Statements Un- less Investigation Is Made— State Department in Dark. Additional! testimony as to the management of the Mutual Life In- surance Company was adduced before the Legislative Committee Insurance Investigation, tending to show that the company used profits from the sale of securities to conceal the re-s duction of book values of real estate, or losscs, as Charles E. Hughes, counsel to the committee, called them. Francis Hendricks, Superintendent of the State Insurance Department, when on the witness stand said he had never heard of such a thing. After auditors of the Mutual Life had testi- fied to this fact, Chief Examiner Van- devpoel of, the department declared he had not discovered the matter in his examination of the company last vear when, in his report, he gave the company a certificate of “good character.” He said these manipu- lations, were not apparent in the books. These transfers of profits to the debit side of the prefit and loss acs count were made by the auditors up- on. instruction of President McCurdy and Vice President Grannis, and the written insfructions were preduced. They named the figures that adjusted the ‘accounts. Last year while there was realiy a profit of almost $1,500,- 000 when the transfers were made no profit whatever was shown. Vanderpoel said he had examined the report of 1901, which showed no profits from the sale of securities. although he knew this was untrue he | did not so report it because he not think it. was hecessary. The same situation- existed in the New York Life .accarding to Vander- | poel, although the practice was not | general. When asked what he aid he said, “Nothing.” . Vanderpoel- said he: had examined | the Hanover Bank account of. the New York Life in 1904 and did not | find the $100,000 that was paid to Andrew tlamilton. wor : Vanderpoel never knew of. the year- end loans of the: Metropolitan Life to Vermilye .& Co. and never knew | how the company handled its lateral loans. did | | back to its ledgers. Henry DD. Appleton, second deputy | robbers stole a satchel contaiping | 000 in cash. main highway, and | must have eol- | bed of the money He said he never: in |ihg to pay an examination of a company or went the company. | companion, | armed. MORALES CHANGES BASE Fugitive President of Santo Domingo Establishes New Capital. The greater part of Northern San- to Domingo is said to be in favor of | Gen. Morales, the fugitive president of that It is understood that Morales left the capital in order to join his partiens in the north, and Gen. Rodriguez, the governor of Mon- te Christi, with his followers, has gone to meet Morales. Rodriguez’s forces are said to be numeorus. It is claimed that the report that Morales intends to establish a new capital at Monte Christi is correct and that ke will use that place as a base from which he will endeavor to suppress the uprising of the Caceres party at the old capital of Santo Do- mingo. republic. The Siate department at Washing- | ton had another dispatch from Santo Domingo coufirming the report that President Morales was said to be about 15 miles west of Santo Domin- go city fighting the troops of the cabi- net. THREE MINERS KILLED Dynamite Explodes and Men Are Blown to Pieces. A premature explosion of a dyna- mite charge in the Kantner mine at Stoyestown, Pa., resulted in the death of three The dead are: Charles Johnson, vears old and married; William Savage, 41 years old and married; Edward Berkebile, 32 years old and married. The explosion occurred just as the men were getting ready to quit work for the night. They had prepared men. 28 WARN ENGINEER IN VAIN Train on B. & O. Runs Into i Though Boys Try Hard to i President of Santo Domingo ls a! ; Flag ht. re i i | Baltimore & O©hio passenger train Fugitive—Troops in Pursuit. | Rock GENERAL MORALES FLEES | No. 12, consisting of eight passenger | coaches, and Pullman cars, was CAPTAIN OF THE PORT WAS SHOT | wrecked near Davisviile, a few miles | east of Grafton. Engineer Phillips Governor of Puerto Plata Defies the | Says he saw a Jot of small boys on L | the platform at Davisville waving General Government and Barri- | their hats and arms, but never thought | | | cades Town. Following the announcement | and so passed on thatl miles and a swung around the curve. Philips saw they were warning him of danger, at the rate of 40 hour. When the engine the president of the republic of Santo |, large rock on the track ahead. He Domingo, Gen. Carlos F. had left the capital for an unknown destination, troops were sent in pur- suit of the chief magistrate. State and Navy departments | crashed f | force. Advices received by cable at the | the passengers shaken up. Morales, | applied the emergency brake and re- | versed, but succeeded only in lessen- | ing the speed of the train, which into the stone with great The engine was disabled anc The boys from | had seen the rock roll down on the Santo Domingo indicate that a serious | {racks. and being unable to remove condition of affairs exists there. The captain of the port of Puerto Plata | rectionary movement and the govern- or of that province has defied the | general government and barricaded the town. The Dominican govern-| ment had issued a decree removing the governor. The State depart-| ment has determined that this. is an | internal difficulty and will not inter- | night with a few followers. His in- | | tention is said to be to join the fol- | a big shot of dynamite and were a pout | to place it in the hole when it was prematurely discharged. The miners were literally blown to ‘pieces. The mine in which the accident occurred is a new one and the drift has been run only. 25 feet. Johnson's body | was hurled out of the drift 20 {feet | into the open. The three men killed | were the only ones working at the time. PAYMASTER HELD UP Attacked by Gang of Five Highway-| ocaras and the men and Robbed of $3,000. Near New Brunswick, N. J., On a in broad daylight, Paymaster William Schieck of the Délaware River Quarry | the followers of vene at this stage. The Secretary of War received the following cablegram from acting comptroller and receiver of the Do- minican customs, Edwards, dated at Santo Domingo: “Carlos F. Morales, dissatisfied with Cabinet support, left the capital last of opposition Conflict in Horacio. lowers Jiminez | between “the two forces is imminent, | | | new capital | net... probably in the vicinity of San Juan or vicinity of Puerto Plata. Carlos F. Morales may attempt to establish 9 and create a new Cabl- Political excitement but witli out disturbance here. Receivers ip is not affected yet.” The immediate cause of the ru¢iion is a desire on the part of Moral/s to in fact as well in the Dominican President members of the executive be Presideat name. Under stitution Vice LS Cabinet exercise au- five | thority in conjunction with Morales. $3,- | The President, before doing anything, | the consent of the Coun-| cil of Secretaries, which very close- ly resembles the Council of State in | and Construction Company was rob- | France. which he was carry- off 200 Italian laborers of With him was but in the Insurance Department, testified | / They were carrying the money in a as to his duties and detailed legisla- | carriage and were °% x e . . Pav ses tion that had been advised by the’ de- | driving through the woods. partment to control assessment com- | wearing Appleton said that no more | faces jumped out from behind trees, panies. Five men handkerchiefs over theif * : + c | . attention is paid to the statement of a | aaeh man carrying a revolver... The New York company than is paid He said no | ated in any other State. actual inspection is made of a repor unless an examination is made. | Suit Over Civil War Seizures. | Secretary Shaw and the United States treasurer are defendants in a} suit instituted in the Federal court at | Washington to recover from the | Government $250,000, the-value of 25 | steamboats alleged to have been tak- | en from James E. Montgomery during the Civil war by the Government. The suit is brought by the trustee of | the Mortgomery estate. The petition | states that Mr. Montgomery opposed | gecession, but was compelled to cast his lot with the Confederacy. He | became a commodore in the Confeder- | ate navy, but was the first Confeder- | ate officer to take the oath of alle- | giance after the war. | Fire Destroys Four Homes. Fire at Ridgely, opposite Cumber- land, Md. destroyed two | i 5 > paymaster gave up, the money satchel the statement of a company ineorpor- | without resistance. The robbers then backed away into the woods. Balkan States Forming Union. The reports froin Belgrade, Servia, to. the effect that Servia and Bulgaria |are about to establish a customs union, are regarded here as important not only from an eccnomic standpoint, but as. possessing far greater political significance. ~The steps is looked up- | on here as evidence that the Balkan | states are mutually | selves closer together in order to bet- binding them- ter be able to resist future political pressure on the part of the govern- ments of western Europe. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Bight men were killed by a fall of the 1,200-foot level of the Newport | mine, in Ironwood, Mich. Judge Gary of the Steel Corpora- | double | tion declared steel demands are in- houses owned by Mrs. Laura Bussard | creasing 10 per cent. and faster than of Cumberland, and two double houses | owned by Addison Martin, of Ridgely. Deal, of Clearfield county, Pa.; boarder at the Schrader home, downstairs while carrying out trunk, breaking his right leg. COAL DEALERS FINED Anti-Trust Law. The officers of the Cleveland Re- tail Coal Dealers’ association, indict- ed on the charge of violating the Valentine anti-trust law pleaded guilty in Common Pleas court and were sent- enced to pay fines. The three officials who appeared in court were William Schaeffer, president; H. G. Brayton, secretary, and J. V. N. Yates, mem- ber of the executive committee. Bach of the three defendants was fined $600 and costs and ordered to stand committed until the same was paid. Each paid the fine and costs at once. Prosecutor Ross then announced that the indictments against the other coal dealers would be nolled. Twenty-Five May Have Drowned. About 25 men, it is believed, drown- Plead Guilty to Violating oe | { | | producing capacity. An attempt to steal the cope of | The loss is about $15,000. William H. | Pope a | Perugia. Italy, fell | cope is five centuries old and was his | once stolen from | Ascola. Marcellus II from Gubbio, near was frustrated. The the cathedral of Prime Minister Fortis has formed a new Italian cabinet, with himself as premier and Marquis San Giuliano as minister of foreign affairs. Speakership Candidate Merritt of New York, accused President Rovse- velt of planning to secure control of party machine in several states. Appointed by President. Herbert H. D. Peirce, Third Assist- ant Secretary of State, has been se- lected by the President as the first American minister of Norway. Charles Denby, chief clerk of the de- partment, has been determined upon | as successor to Mr. Peirce in the State department. ment also was made that David Thompson, former minister to Bra- zil, had been chosen as ambassador to Mexico, to succeed Edwin H. Conger. Rich Olid Maid Weds Coachman. Miss Margaret B. Fisher, a leader ed when the British bark Pass, of | in local society and the richest spin- Melfort, foundered on the rocks oft Amphitrite Point. The greater por- tion of the wreckage is washing on the rocks in a small bay a quarter of | junior by 17 years. a mile east of Amphitrite point. The bodies of three men have been found. «Blue Bell” Palled on Him. . At Steubenville, William Owens was convicted of cutting his lifelong friend, William Ayres. The testi- mony showed that Owens’. only pro- vocation for attacking Ayres was that he persisted in singing “Blue Bell” while they were returning from a dance. Peter Brady and a negro woman, whose life he was attempting to save, were both killed by an express train at Cranford, N. J. Brady was a flag- man. | | | ster in Ithaca, N. Y., owning $100,- 000 worth of real estate, has married her coachman, Patrick T. Kelley, her The marriage was a complete surprise friends and relatives of both. Dividends on Penna. Lines. The board of directors of the Penn- sylvania Company declared an annual dividend of 5 per cent. This is the same dividend declared in December, 1904. The stock of the Pennsylvania Company is owned entirely by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The directors of the Panhandle railroad declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent. on the preferred stock and a semi-annual dividend of 115; per cont on the common stock. | { one | both men were un- | | | | { | | | to the [two policemen, and woundins a sO THOUSANDS SLAIN Machine Guns Cut Down Insurgents in Moscow.. : : All reports agree thatthe. fighting | attacked while |i; Moscow Sunday, which continued until midnight, assumed the nature of a butchery by the machine guns of the artillery, grape. and cannister being employed mercilessly against the ill- | \ armed insurgents. Atrocious tales are told of the Cos- sacks, who plied with. vodka until times charging with lances. surgents displayed great stubbornness in holding, barricades," even advanc- ing in a mass to the slaughter where dows. * The artillery was battered the lhiouses to pieces. The plan of the insurgents, it is stated, t T.eaders announce that an | army of 30,000 is concentrated at | Orechoftsuiff, northeast “of Moscow, and will ‘soon be ready to march to. the city’s ‘assistance. “he latest report is that both sides | were exhausted at midnight when fir- {ing practically ceased. The streets 1 1.000 tons of iron ore from a slip on | gere i " + | were in absolute darkness save for | current quotations [sententighis in the towers of bivouacs | behind the barricades. The number of killed is estimated at 5,000 and wounded at 14,000. Report®$22,000 in Fees lllegal. According to the report of the ex- | aminers of the Ohio State bureau of | inspection, more than $22,000 in al- | { | | | 1eged illegal fees has been collected | | by officers of Montgomery county in 18 months ending September 1, 1905. To Build 600 Engines. Six hundred locomotives will. be built for the Pennsylvania railroad system in 1906, at an estimated cost of $11,000,000. Orders for 565 have eral companies composing the Penn- sylvania lines east and west of Pitts- burg. Directors of the Pennsylvania author- street station, Philadelphia, tives for the lines west of Pitts- burg. Jjerome’s Piuralty 15,064. plurality was increased by nearly 5,- 000 by the official returns made pub- of 11,450, as originally priated. | gain was the result of corrections | made by the board of canvassers and | the counting of so-called void and pro- | tested ballots before Justice Gieger- {ich. Fe Two bombs were thrown at the pre | fecture of police, of Moscow, killin — dier. Returning home after | the hearts «of relatives and friends | with Christmas gifts Charles H. | Fra nsen, a well-to-do farmer and his 8-year-old daughter, Edna, were killed | | ‘ | Kiiled at Crossing. by a Reading railway train at Camp | from Charleston, S. C. Father aad | - runa- | bout and were crossing the railroad | tracks when the fast train came upon | says that the Turkish Their view of the approach- | Hill, near Philadelphia. daughter were riding in a them. ing express was obstructed by a high | | embankment. | quarreling to | Con- | Ramon | the | drunk, fired down the streets, some- | The in- bombs were thrown from the win- summoned and | is to hold the outskirts and gradually | | enclose the troops in the ceater of {the city. been approved by directors of the sev- | company, at a meeting held in Broad | ized the construction of 115 locomo- | 1 i : i istrict Attorney W.. T. Jereome's | Official announce- D y vi lic by the board of elections in New | vork. His plurality is 15,064, instead | This | 09 gladdening | lit. had divided their party and started I'both ways to warn was shot and killed during an insur- | an approaching train. HELD FOR FATHER'S DEATH Son Defending His Mother Strikes Other Parent Down. Defending his mother against her husband, Joseph Pollock, aged 22, of 138 West Cumberland street, Philadelphia, struck his father in the face, which resulted in his death. William Pollock, the husband, was called to Christmas dinner by his wife. He became angry because his | sleep had been disturbed and was in the act of striking his wife when the son stopped the blow. This enraged the husband. who struck the son and the latter retaliated by hitting his failer. The elder Pollock fell back- ward and sustained a fracture of the skull by his head striking the kitch- en stove. He died on the way to the hospital. The son has been arrested charged | with the murder and his mother is | held as a witness. TWO BROTHERS PERISH | Seven Members of Family, Including | Blind Father, Escape. |. The dwelling of Jeremiah Davis, a Jefferson Davis, 16 years old; William | Davis, 30 vears old. Seven members of the family, | farmer, living near Johnstown, W. { xr > | va., was destroyed by fire. Twa | sons were cremated. They . were: 1 | in- cluding the father, who is 80 years old and blind, escaped from the burning house. The two sons whe lost their lives were sleeping in an upper room, and it-is supposed they were suffocated by smoke. All the household effects were con- | sumed. There was no insurance. A spark flying from a wood fire in an | old-style vpen' grate is believed 1c | have caused the fire. - LYNCHING REPORTED Two Negroes Taken from Lockup and Literaliy Shot to Pieces. News of a double lynching at Barn- well, S. C., has been received. Sher iff Creech has wired Gov. Heyward | that the affair was brutal murder; that helpless prisoners were buteh- | eyed in open daylight and that the officers were guilty of dereliction of duty. J. 8. : Craddock, . a. well {known white merchant, was killed by Frank and John de Loache, negroes. | who were arrested .by the constable ‘and placed in a lockup. The men | were taken out and shot to death with guas and pistols Friday. DOUBLE Boston Wool Market. High prices continue in the wool "market, in which a fair amount ot | business is done for this season. ~The in the market | were about as follows: Ohio and | Pennsylvania XX and above, 35¢; X | 33@34c; No. 1, 38@39¢c; No. 2, 38 @ | 39¢; fine unwashed, 27@28c; quarter | blood, unwashed. 331 @34c; 3 blood | 34@34%e; 1% blood, 33% @34c; un | washed delaine, 29@30c; fine washed ‘delaine, 36lo@37c. Michigan fine | unwashed, 26@27c: 1; blood unwash- ed, 32% @33; 3; blood, 33@34c; YU {| blood, 321@33¢; unwashed delaine, { 28c. i { THREE MEN KILLED Kentucky Shooting Match Ends in Fight and Tragedy. At Big Fork, Ky., a crowd of men | congregated at a turkey shooting match, A dispute over the match | caused a general disturbance in which | John Duff and Jacob Wilson shot and killed Joseph Wilson and Alexander | Little shot and killed Mack Roberts, a deputy sheriff. Duff and Wilson | were .arrested. Little escaped. At | Goose Creek, James Creech was shot | by William Vanover in a quarrel. DEATH IN PUNCH BOWL { Alleged That Strychnine Was Used in Drink Served at Banquet. At Torreon, Mex., nine persons | were poisoned at a banquet have died { and many others are ill. It is alleged | that the poisoning was part of a po | litical plot. Strychnine was put infc a bowl of punch. All the dead are | said to have been of one political fac | tion. The members of the opposing | faction who attended the banquet | were not affected by the punch they | drank. re —— —————— . ! Confederate Veteran Dead. Maj. James C. Lacoste, a Confed erate veteran, who took a promircent | part in the firing of the first gun at | Fort Sumter, died at Birmingham, | Ala., aged 65. He came to this city Frightful Slaughter of Tartars. A dispatch from Constantinople consul at Batoum reports that the Armenians are massacring Tartars at the rate ol { 500 dally. | POLES PIN FEELLON Encouraged by Success of Insur- gents in Baltic Provinces. SMALL BOY THROWS A BOMB Is Allowed to Approach Because of His Youth, and Terrific Explos- jon Follaws. rd According to information received by the revolutionary leaders in. St. Petersburg an armed rebellion on a large scale has been planned in Po- land. The Socialist revolutionaries, en- the success of the in- surgents in the Baltic provinces, and of the situation at Moscow and in Russia generally, have decided that the moment has come to try to cast off the yoke of the autocracy. The correspondent of the London | Daily Telegraph at St. Petersburg, as | an Mstance of the ferocity of the | struggle conducted at Kharkoff, re- | lates as follows what he calls aj} “typical incident.” | «A little boy was seen approach- | ing Kenney square, where a oe i | couraged by tachment of Cossacks was stationed. The Cossacks, however brutal, draw | the line at children, and the boy was allowed to approach unmolested. On | arriving at the spot he paused, swung | his right hand vigorously and then | turned and explosion | ran, a violent preventing the Cossacks noting his | further movements. | «The boy had thrown a bomb | which plowed up the ground. Frag-| ments of horses were all around and | some of the Cossaéks convulsed in the | agonies of death, while streams of blood were flowing along the torn-up toadway.” | RECORD BROKEN Heaviest Order for Structural Steel | Ever Booked by Carnegies. at The “Iron Trade Review” says. | «The Carnegie Steel Company last | week booked the heaviest tonnage of | structural steel of any week in its history, in spite of the’ fact that it was unable to promise delivery on any of the material before three or four months, while in some instances shipments will be delayed fully six months. The American Bridge Com- pany expects to book enough orders | this week to malke the total for’ the year a new record. «Sales of rails during the past 10 days aggregate nearly 200,000 toms, a remarkable total in view of the heavy orders already on the books. Among | the recent sales were: Erie, 52,000 tons: West « Maryland, 5,000 . tons; Florida East Coast, 16,000 : tons; Gainesville -Midland, 3,500 tons; Ok- lahoma railread, 15,000 tons; p Trolley roads 12,000 to 20,000 tons. . 3 «The Bastern bar iron manufactur- ers have reaffirmed their official price of $20 on bar iron, but are ex- acting premiums of from $5 to $10 per ton. . COAL MEN INDICTED Leading Fuel Concerns Charged With p Conspiracy. - 20 The Grand Jury returned a joint in- dictment against representatives of the leading coal companies in Cincin- pati. The indictment includes. over 20 names. The indictment is for conspiracy in restriction of trade.” ft charged that these. companies or their representatives have associated themselves together to fix and es- tablish prices of coal and that the price to the consumer was controlled absolutely by them. Little Girl Cremated. Mr. and Mrs. George Banger of Cecil, Pa., left their 11-year-old daughter alone at home Christmas eve while they went to do shopping. When the parents return- | pfex. has been arr 7 i. od the daughter's body was found, | can authorities arrested Dy ihe Mest burned almost to a crisp. It is be- | Prosident Roosduelt signed ‘he EE tmmmemme e———————————— ANOTHER STEEL COMBINE Proposed Consolidation of Independent Plants. Unconfirmed rumors are current of the proposed consolidation of inde- pendent iron and steel interests into a $150,000,000 holdings company. The reported consolidation, it is said, will embrace the Republic Iron & Steel Company, the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, the Sloss-Sheffield Company and the LaBelle Iron Works. John A. Topping, who retires as presi- dent of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, is reported as being slated for the presidency of the new corporation. Rumors of the big deal are strength- ened by the absorption of the con- trolling interest in the Tennessee company by the Republic company last week and the fact that Edward N. Ohl has secured options on the con- trolling interest in the LaBelle Iron Company at substantial figures. The option has not as yet been exercised, but it is believed that Mr. O4ul has Leen acting for the proposed cousoli- dation. ENDS DANGER OF STRIKE New York Building Trades Sign Trade Agreement. No workers were happier on Christ-* mas than the 100,000 skilled men in the building trades in New York, when it was announced that every union, Unions | with the exception of the housesmiths and bridgemen, had signed a trade agreement of from one to three years, to go into effect on January 1 next. By this action the unions have of- ficially repudiated the strike of the structural iron workers. \ In many of the trades the prevail- ing wage will continue for the com- ing year. The wages of the house car- penters, however, will be increased 30 cents a day, and the cabinet makers will receive an increase of 22 cents, beginning next July. | ALLEGED BLACK HAND THREAT Rich Man Told to Give $2,400 Have His House Blown Up. Charles M. Crouse, one of the wealthiest men in Syracuse, N. Y., has received two » strange letters from some person ‘who pretends to be a member of the Black Hand, threat- ening to blow up Mr. Crouse’s house if he did mot place $2,400 in a cigar box on the curb in front of his resi- dence, to be called for in| the night. The letters were turned over to the police. i The second letter said that dyna- mite’ would be used on Mr. Crouse’s house and that an attempt would be made on the lives of his family, if he did not produce the money. or CURRENT NEWS ‘EVENTS. The revolt. at, Moscow. is practi- cally. at an end, and ‘troops have con- trol of the situation. fe 2 3 From the standpoint of the govern- ment, the situation in St. Petersburg is’ much improved. * = i : The safe in the Corinth Deposit Bank at Corinth. Ky., was robbed of $2,500. * Much opposition has the. joint gress.’ 221 wed v Much Pittsburg nioney has been in- vested in new Cuban railroad to de- velop vast sugar distriets. = A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Bakersfield, Cal., and several buildings were damaged. 5 The official count of New ‘York vote on mayor was completed, giving McClellan majority of 3,472. . It was reported in New York that the Standard ©il Company will in- crease its capital from :$100,000,000 to $600,000,000. ; = Tr The Vatican white book, which has reached Paris, attempts to throw on- us for separation ‘of church and ‘state on ‘Erench cabinets. § *{ + 7 developed to statehood ‘program in con- some | ijjled and one I.. H. Finstad of Los Angeles at whose home two Americans © were wounded at Diaz, lieved that the child attempt pted to | panama canal appropriation bill and light the candles on a Christmas tree and set fire to her clothes. Many Hurt in Wreck. Two trolley cars crowded with passengers collided at the foot of a | the | feat tainted by standing on a tin steep incline on the line of Tamaqua & Lansford railway, near Tamaqua, e- injuring a number of persons. George Eneis a passengei, was probably fatally hurt. Bernard Glick, Johan S. Kike and Mike Solinsky, passengers, and Martin Reese, motor-| | in the record room at the penitentiary. tan, were seriously injured. Four Hurt in Wreck. Four trainmen were seriously “in- jured in a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at Hartsdale, fnd. The injured: Edward Manus, engineer, internally; F. L. Messer- | smith, fireman; R. C. Berkshire, brakeman, and IL. Duckwall, student fireman. The injured live at Logans- port. Seven Drowned in Shipwreck. The three-masted schooner Sakata, of Parsboro, Nova Scotia, has been wrecked and its crew of seven men | drowned. They include John Conlin, managing owner. of the schooner, and his son, both of Paraboro; John Cox, of St. Johns, the steward, and four seamen. : Death at Holiday Frolic. A bloody riot among negroes was reported from Ewing, a turpentine camp between Fargo and St. George, on the Georgia Southern & Florida railroad. The riot was the result of a Christmas frolic among negroes, who had been drinking. A general fusilade occurred and probably 50 shots were fired. Two negroes were killed outright, three were mortally wounded, and dled later, while eight others recelved bullet wounds. | Secretary Shaw stated | would not be issued at present. that bonds At Kalamazoo, Mich., David and | Thomas Fuller, brothers, aged 70 years, died in Thomas’ home ' at Bronson from poisoning. They ate plate. A by Wewton C. Dougherty, the Peoria, (111.), school board defaulter, has been given the job formerly held by Ed- ward S. Dreyer, the Chicago banker, Isaac Bloom, wh was convicted of perjury in attempting to secure $25,- | 000 damages from the Metropolitan street railway of New York, was sentenced to seven years in prison. jo of Elyria, O., testified in her di vorce suit.that her husband praye | with her for her own death sc that { he might marry another. |B. J. Gibbons, aged 37, of Norfolk, | Va., after leaving a letter in which { he admitted he was a bigamist and | expressed undying love for two wives, | put a bullet through his head. | The Kitty. D, an American fishing | boat seized by a Canadian revenue | cutter on Lake Erie for alleged fish | poaching, is released by a decision | of the Privy Council of Great Britain. New Pennsylvania Line. The Pennsylvania | pany filed articles with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. iacorpor- ating the Pennsylvania & Newark Railroad Company, capital $500,000, to construct and maintain a railroad from a point in the middle of the Delaware river at Trenton through the counties of Mercer, Middlesex aad Union in New Jersey, to a point in Essex county, near the northern | boundary of Elizabeth and there con-: | necting with the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad. Wife of the: Rev. H. S. Wannamak-$ Railroad Com- . -~— r & MIP A EE Ch Mn ht An TIN al ON ANE ra Sl Sad A Cp tein BONN Id fod ” a Eta Sel 2 J ND
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