Si TTT JT ery HOUSE BLOWN UP BY BOMB Building at Worcester, Mass, is Wrecked by Dynamite. ONE WOMAN WAS MADE INSANE Twenty-two People Asleep in the House at Time ‘Explosion Took Place. 1 A dynamite bomb hurled through a second story window of the house of Paul Mosczynski, 32 Union avenue, Worcester, Mass., at an early hour in the morning exploded and tore away the rear part of the house, blowing out the floors and rear wall. Twenty-two persons were asleep in the house, but none was seriously hurt. The wife of Daniel C. Bootk, who was ill, was rendered insane by the explosion. The cap of the bomb went through the wall of the house at 40 Richland street, 150 feet away, and was found in a picture frame in the home of William J. Riordan. The force of the explosion shook the whole section of the city. The police are looking for Frank Czybonowski and his wife, . formerly part owners of the building. from possession of which they were evicted by foreclosure. A second bomb, eight inches long and made of two and a half inch gas pipe, was found in the yard. . : DEFICIENCY BILL PASSED Nineteen Reépublicafis® Vote Waiving Eight-Hour Law. The House passed the urgent defi- ciency appropriation bill; carrying $15,216,103, incorporated in which is a provision that the S-hour law shall not apply to alien laborers on Panama canal. Nineteen cans voted with one Democrat,’ De Armond, of .Miss- ouri, with the .majority. Sixty-one of a daring, sleepless commander. fr ‘ the | Republi- | thé * Democrats | DEATH OF GENERAL WHEELER Veteran of Two Wars Passes Away in Brooklyn, N. Y. Gen. Joseph : Wheeler,. the famous confederate cavalry leader and a bri- gadier general of the United States army since the war with Spain, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sterl- ing Smith, Brooklyn. The veteran of two wars was 69 years old, but in spite of his age there was hope until the day of his death of his recovery from the attack of pneumonia. General Wheeler was a native of Georgia. He graduated from West Point academy in 1859, being immedi- ately commissioned a lieutenant of cavalry and sent to serve on the fron- tier of New Mexico. Like many of his brother officers he resigned in 1861 and cast his fortunes with the confed- eracy, receiving to begin with, a com- mission as lieutenant of artillery. This was followed by successive pro- motions to command of a regiment, brigade and division. When only 26 years old, Gen. Wheeler was assigned to the com- mand of the army corps of cavalry of the western army of the confeder- acy and there he achieved a reputation At Chickamauga he harried Rosecrans’ supply train, capturing and destroying millions of dollars worth of munitions. He was the untiring foe of Sherman during his march to the sea. - When peace came he was the | senior cavalry general of the confed- | | | | erate army. The end of hostilities meant the end of the war for him. General Wheeler Alabama district in 1884 to 1898. represented an Congress from | President. McKinley ap- Spanish War, and he achieved fame in | ihe Santiago campaign. PUBLICITY ORDERED Meat Packers Charged With Attempt- ing Bribery. | By authority of President Roosevelt | against’ waiving the 8-hour law, and | correspondence was made public at | 1 the White House, relating to methods ! > | verely injured and burned. Against | pointed him as Major General in the | Republicans were absent without be- | alleged to have been employed by at- ing paired. Chairman W. P. Hepburn reported | under indictment at Chicago to in- to the House his railroad rate bil | fluence opinion in behalf of the pack- with the favorable recommendation of | ers. The documents consist of a the entire Republican and Democratic | communication made to Attorney members of the Interstate and Foreign | General W. H. Moody by Commerce committee. . : | States District Attorney C. B. Morri- The House passed all of the private | son, of Chicago, setting out certain pension bills on the calendar. Among | facts regarding the payment of a sum them were bills introduced by local | of money to a Chicago newspaper representatives for constituents. | representative by one of the attorneys torneys for the beef packers who are | United | VAN SCHAICK CONVICTED Captain of Steamer General Is Sentenced to Ten Years. Capt. William H. Van Schaick was found guilty of criminal negligence in failing to have fire drills on the steamer Slocum, which he command- ed in June, 1904, when that steamer burned with the loss of over lives. | for the beef packers; | Attorney Genera] to Slocum | 1,000 | He was immediately sentenced | to 10 years imprisonment: by Judge Thomas of the United States district court at New York. The jury disagreed as to two other | counts in which he was charged with criminal negligence by the employ- ment of life preservers of poor quali- | ty on the steamer. Van Schaick’s counsel was granted | 30 days in which to prepare papers necessary to appeal the case and bail ! for the prisoner was fixed at $10,000. TELEPHONE LINES MERGED, Four Ohio Companies Under U. S. Company Control. A deal has been closed by -which the largest ‘of the telephone compan- ies operating in Noble county, O., a letter of the the President, transmitting Mr. Morrison's = report, expressing the opinion that no way ex- jsted under the law by which the al- leged offense could be punished, and a letter from the President to the At- torney General directing the publi- cation of the correspondence in order that the public might be informed of one situation at least which the Gov- | ernment has in the prosecution of the packers. AGED WOMAN CREMATED Son Discovers His Mother. Mrs. Sarah Kelly, 78 years old, was found. burned to death in her home in Worth township, Butler County, ‘Pa. Her granddaughter, Lucy. Mc- Bride, who lived with Mrs. Kelly, left early in the morning to visit relatives | in Slippery Rock, and it is supposed, | Mrs. Kelly's clothing caught on fire Consolidated | ay pine an n while she was passing a grate. Her son, ‘thomas Kelly, arrived at ‘the house: while the remnants of her have consolidated under the name of | \.e Noble County Telephone Com- pany. The companies in the combine clothing were still smoking. Mrs. | Kelly is survived by three sons, Thomas and laurie Kelly, of .. rth | are: The Caldwell Independent Tele- | phone Company and the Telephone Company of Caldwell; the Summerfield Telephone Company Summerfield and the Caldwell Mar- jetta Telenhone Company of Washing- ton county. 7 The system will be managed by the (Onited States Telephone Company. fhe company will have 200 miles of {oll line. This is a victory for the \nterests. PLANNING BIG REVIVAL Farmers’ | of | township. and William Kelly of Slip- pery Rock. 3a : CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Jeremiah G. Casey of Binghamton, N.Y, was found dead along the ‘tracks ‘of the Pennsylvania railroad near Altoona. Pa. He had been struck by an engine. The Pennsylvania senate has ord- ered an; investigation of the fee sys- United States Company over the Bell | tem in the state insurance depart- | | ment. | WOULD-BE LYNCHERS FOILED While They Batter Down Jail Door eresbyterian Church Adopts Measure | to Begin February 25. The general assembly's committee vn evangelistic work of the Presby- terian church at a meeting held re- cently in Philadelphia worked out plans for the greatest union revival meeting ever held in the history of the Christian church. was unanimeusly agopted for opening of a simultaneous evangelis- tic campargn in every church in the denomination February A suggestion | the | Their Prey Is Elsewhere. After a vain effort for several hours | | of a leaderless mob, ranging at times i from several hundred to several thous- and people, to get a negro who as- saulted Miss Nevada Taylor Tuesday night in St. Elmo, a suburb of Chat- | tanooga, Tenn., the marauders became Presbyterian | 25, to continue for two or more weeks. | Eight thousand congregations belong to the denomination in the United Btates. and the committeer has in mind the opening of a revival which will sweep the country from the At- fantic to the Pacific. : Col. Mann Arrested. Col. William D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, was arrested on a charge of perjury, growing out of his testimony in the recent criminal libe proceedings against Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weely. Col. Mann gave bail for $10,000. Kills Two Women and Self. The bodies of Charles Winn, a freight handler; his wife and Mrs. Charles W. Rigzs of Portland, Mo., sister of Mrs. Winn, were found in the apartments in which the Winns lived at Providence. Winn apparently shot the women and then himself. Butler Campbell, vears old. has disappeared from his home at Corry, Pa. French Creek was dragged, but no body was. found. Foul play Is sus- pected. convinced shortly after midnight through two search committees, that the negro had been taken to Knox- ville, and dispersed. Bannerman Has Great Majority. Except that the returns from nine constituencies have not been received the “general elections in the United Kingdom are ended. The government coalition will have approximately 510 vafes. in the next Parliament. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman will ent- er the new 13 with the greatest majority ever given to an English premier. The composition of the new Parliament: Liberals. 376: Unionists, 160; Nation- | among the lost is Alexander McLean, | alists, 84: Laborites, 50. Thus it will be seen that the Liberals have a ma- ! jority over all of 82 votes. Firth-Sterling Contract Let. Contracts have been rangements have been made for start- let ing the work on the Firth-Sterling Steel company's projectile plant at Giesoro, on the Potomac river. The contract for all the steel buildings has been given to the William B. Scaife and Sons Company Pittsburgh. The contract for fu been let to William Swindell & Sons same city. This contract excludes the open-hearth furnaces. Of naces the Charred Body of ° Parliament on February | and ar-| ,» of the FTALFAE ND NAY HAT Fire Breaks Out in a Hotel After Midnight. fd MORE IN THE BURNING RUINS Many Injured in Panic Are Rescued by the Firemen and Police. Three lives were lost by the burn- ing of the Richardson hotel at Low- ell and several persons sus- tained injuries. The dead are: H. C. Harding, Somerville, Mass.; Christine Nelson, cook; Miss Josephine £en- neston, nurse, Franklin Falls, 'N oH), The fire started a few minutes be- fore 2 o'clock, A. M., and the flames rapidly communicated to various parts of the structure. A large number of guests were in the hotel, and those who were in the upper part of the building had little chance to escape by the stairways. The firemen, at 2:30 o'clock, found the dead bodies of six women in the top floor of the hotel. There is some doubt, however, about the number of fatalities. It is thought ~1A88., h.¥ T M’CALL’S HOME SOLD Cost $600,000 and Is Disposed of} for ‘ $350,000. John A. McCali, former presidentiof the New York Life Insurance co pany, parted with the summer paces he erected and furnished at Long Branch at an expense of $600,000. The place was sold to Myron E. Oppen- heim, a lawyer. The purchase was made for a client who is not now in this country. The purchase price was in the neighborhood of $350,000, little more than half the sum expend- ed by Mr. McCall upon the place. Of this amount Mr. McCall receives only about $100.000, as the property is encumbered with mortgages amounting to $250,000. The principal encumbrance on the place is a mortgage for $150,000 giv- en by Mr. McCall to the New York Life as security for notes to that amount which he turned over to the trustees on the Andrew Hamilton ac- count. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Seven men were kiled by a snow- slide at a mining camp near Alta, Utah. The Cuban Senate January 26, unanimously passed an appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of a wed- that several persons lost their lives but it has been impossible to tell the exact number as the hotel continued | to burn fiercely in places. Few of the guests had-time to carry away any of their.clothing, and most.of them left their valuables behind. . In the panic many people were se- The most seriously injured were removed to St. Johns Hospital. Within half an hour | after the fire broke out, more than 20 | of those hurt had been removed to | that institution. The Richardson Hotel is a moder- ate sized structure of brick and is four stories high, with a flat roof. HOUSE PASSES STATEHOOD BILL | Thirty-Three Republicans Vote With Democrats in Opposition. The House passed the Statehood | bill, Republicans voting against the | measure. The bill passed by the vote of 194 to 150. : The bill as passed provides that | Oklahoma and the Indian . Territory | shall constitute one State under the | name «“Oklahoma,” and that Arizona | and New Mexico shall constitute one State under the name ¢‘Arizona.” Should the terms of admission be rati- fied by the residents of the Territories in question, their respective State con- | stitutions must contain clauses pro- | hibiting the sale of intoxicating liq- | ours and plural marriages. The con- | stitution of Arizona must prohibit the | sale of liquor to Indians forever and | that of Oklahoma for 21 years. There { are many other stipulations govern- | ing schools, courts and political sub- divisions of the proposed new States. aa 09 | BLACK HAND ANARCHISTS Leader of a Gang of Reds Taken into ! Custody. | puted chief of a society of anarcaists in the Monongahela valley, led to the development of details connected with | a treasonable organization which for several vears has existed among some | jocal foreigners. Spada’s house was | ture of Bresci, the assassin of King . Humbert. In addition to this there i were found a number of raffle tickets | and alist ‘of the contributors. The proceeds from the sale®*of these. were | used to further the anarchistic pro- | | paganda, and Chief Logan declares that every name on ‘the ‘list is’ that | of an anarchist, Black Hand.” or member of the Fire Causes a Loss of $200,000. Victoria sauare, a businessc<block of Montreal, was partly destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $200 000. The principal losers are John Fisher; Son & Co., wholesale woolens, $100,000: the Campbell Clothing Company, $20.- 000; MeIntyre, Sons & Co., wholesale dry goods. $20,000. The remainder was distributed among a dozen other firms. : EMILIE GRIGSBY TO SUE | Yerkes’ Protege Wants $2,000,000 Out | . of His Estate. Settlement of the $15,000,000 Charles T. Yerkes estate will be held | up. Miss Emilie Grigsby, who was | the traction magnate's ‘protege, is’ about to bring suit against the execu- tors for a $2,000,000 trust fund which she alleges, was decided upon “by Mr. Yerkes, but the details of which | were left in a somewhat embryonie i | state because of his death. | Fourteen Men Perish. Fourteen lives were lost in the ex- | plosion in slope No. 4 of the Witte- ville mine, at { tory. The explosion was caused by fire damp. Three of the 14 bodies | Six Drowned. A telegram from Bamfield to Vie- toria, B. C., says that the halibut | fishing schooner Ella G. has turned turtle, and six men were drowned. | | have been recovered. | | | who was commander of the sealing vessel Carmencita. Panhandle Earnings for Year 1905. According to the statement of Sec- retary Liggett of the Pennsylvania lines west, the Pittsburgh, Cincin- nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company had an increase of $2.639,- 531 in gross earnings in 1905, over the | preceding year. Ensign Charles T. Wade, charged with responsibility for the explosion on the gunboat Bennington, in San illegal Diego harbor, Cal., some months ago, | | has been acquitted by court-martial. The arrest of John Spada, the re- | | filled with socialistic literature and | | on the walls hung an allegorical pic- | Poteau, Indian Terri- | ding gift for Miss Alice Roosevelt. Theodore Ostroski, a Pennsylvania railroad trackwalker, was killed by a train near Franklin, Pa. He was 30 vears old. Freeman trolley car Pa. It is the tracks. | Attorney Ethride was killed by a near Cambridge Springs, said he went to sleep on jeneral Hadley stated at | the conclusion of the Standard Oil | investigation in Cleveland that the | best exposure of the company SO far | given was secured. ! The Hamilton Coal company is re- ported to have disposed of its prop- erty at Newburg, W. Va, to Pennsyl- vania capitalists for about $125,000. | The home of Mrs.. Dora Foster, at Homewood, Beaver county, Pa., was robbed of cash and jewelry worth $150. The house of James McCarner at the same place, was also entered, but the robbers were scared away. The Pennsylvania railroad has au- thorized the erection of three new stations, at Portage, Wilmore and ‘Bens Creek, Pa.. Work will-be com- menced immediately. ! Frederick Stuart Stedman, a son of | Edmund Clarence Stedman, the New York banker and poet, and a well- known Pittsburg business man and sportsman, dropped dead in Mellor’s music store, 321 Fifth avenue. Another member of the crew of the | Caesar, one of the tugs towing the } arydock Dewey, has died from beri- beri and another is suffering from it. The Caesar returned not long ago from the Asiatic station. Fourteen persons were slightly in- jured in the collision at Glendora, Cal., between the Santa Fe limited, a westbound train, and a local train. All the injured were passengers on the local. Joseph Patrick Nannetti, member of TERRIBLE OCEAN. DISITER Only Fotty Saved Out .of a List of One Hundred Sixty-four MANY WOMEN AND CHILDREN Two Boats Loaded With “-Occupants Smashed to Pieces Alongside Doomed Steamer. The steamer Valencia, which was en route from oan Francisco with 94 passengers and a crew of 60, went ashore on the Vancouver Island coast, near Cloose, and a large number were drowned when attempting to leave the ship. Although the latest news from the wreck of the Valencia is conflicting it is probable 140 lives were lost, while only 15 persons were saved. A report from the steamship Queen, that 25 passengers were clinging to the vessel's rigging with little chance of saving any of them, was followed by the story that the wreck had gone to pieces. A correspondent on board the Cal- vor has wired from Bamfield as fol- lows: “The steamer Valecia was found by the steamer Queen at 9 a. m. Jan. 24, on Point Klanaway, about five miles from Cape Beale. The tug Czar went in to investigate and re- ported the steamer ashore, stern first, with her deck swept clear ex- cept a small part of the house and her two masts standing. .No persons could be seen alive on board. «In the rigging of the foremast was what the Captain of the tug Czar took to be’ a signal, although he was unable to say whether it was a piece CRUISERS MISSING TWO MONTHS Believed to Be at Bottom of Sea Be- cause of Mutiny of Crews. Three of Russia’s giant armored cruisers, composing what was known as the Vladivostok squadron, it is asserted, have been missing for two months, since they put to sea from Vladivostok, and. it is believed, says a New York Herald dispatch from St. Petersburg, that all three ships, with their complement of 2,115 officers and men, have gone to the bottom of the sea. The ships are the Rossia, Gromoboi and Bogatyr. It is known that three ships left Vladivostok under sealed orders about the middle of November last and laid their course along the coast of Japan. The crews of all three war- ships were in a mutinous mood, fired to rebellion by informatjon received about the revolt of their brother sail- ors on the battleship Kniaz Potemkin,” in the Black sea. A flotiila of torpedo boats was sent to escort the big cruisers: and the commanders of the smaller craft had orders to fire their torpedoes at and sink the cruisers at the first sign of insubordination. That this is what happened in the belief to-day in St. Petersburg, and it is feared that officers and men on the three ships all perished. Wool Market. The wool market is in a firm posi- tion with a fairly steady demand. The call for Territory wovols is better than the ability of the dealers to supply, stocks being so greatly depleted that the selection is poor. The available stocks of three-eighth and one-half blood wools are very small. Pulled wools are in fair demand, B supers being quoted at 52 to 54c for ordi- nary and as high as 56c for a choice whité lot. Foreign wools, are firm. the rigging. “The steamer Salvor stood in for go any further, as a heavy sea and a westerly gale was blowing, making | it highly dangerous, if not impossible, | to make a closer approach. “The Czar was within three-quart- | ers of a mile from the wreck, but] could go no farther toward the Valen- cia, and after making as complete an examination as possible she return- ed to the Queen and Salvo. The latter steamer and the tug Czar then left for Bamfield creek, the Queen standing by her companion liner. “The Queen reported having hear: three gunshots shortly before the ar- rival of the Salvor, but no sign of any living person was to be seen.” Advices from Cape Beale say 15 men have arrived, one of whom is the boatswain, the others being sailors. They reported a passenger list of -94 and a crew of 60 and said when they left the wreck yesterday morning, there were about 100 persons on board, a large percentage of whom were women and children, who were on the quarterdeck. The boats were smashed alongside and all the oc- cupants drowned. i parliament in the lrish nationalist in- | terest for the college ‘division of Dublin, and chief compositor of the | “Freeman's Journal,” was elected lord mayor of Dublin. A bill“has been introduced in the | New York State Senate to provide for a recount of ballots in New York City cast at the last election and empow- | ering the Supreme Court to open bal- lot boxes and make the recount. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate. Ambassa- dors extraordinary and plenipotent- jary—Luke E. Wright, Tennessee, to | Japan; David IE. Thompson, Nebras- ka, to Mexico; Lloyd C. Griscom, Pennsylvania, to Brazil. Governor general of the Philippine islands— Henry Clay Ide. Vermont, Vice gov- ernor of the Philippine islands— James F. Smith, California. CAPITAL NEWS NOTES In the Senate Mr. Warten intro- duced a bill giving to women the right to vote in all the States for rep- resentatives in Congress. The bill was Later report says that the total number of survivors accounted for reaches 40 persons. The tug Lorne, which” returned from the wreck, brought John Segalos of San Fran- cisco, a fireman, rescued by the City of Topeka from the raft and placed on board the Lorne. Segalos says there were 84 people by actual count on the Valencia when he left Wednesday morning, 1, na The tug Pioneer, returning from the wreck, reported nothing left of the hull of the Valencia. . Sixty-one persons are believed to have been aboard the Valencia when she broke up. members of the crew, eight three children and 40 men. women, Philippine Tariff Bill. The House Committee on Ways and Means decided to make a favorable report on a bill by Representative tion of many American products for admission to the Fu.uppines in such a manner that the United States will enjoy more favorable tariff rates. referred to the Committee on Wo- man’s Suffrage. . The United States supreme court heard argument on the petition of the State of Kentucky for a writ of mandamus compelling the restoration of the case of Caleb Powers, of Ken- tucky, to the jurisdiction of the State courts. Chief Justice Fuller gave notice of a three weeks’ recess of the supreme court of the United States, beginning Monday, January 29. A motion was made for the ad- vancement of the hearing in Senator Rurton’s case in the United States supreme court. | Official denial that the American | members of the Philippine commis- i sion have been investing in real es- | tate which might benefit by the con- struction of the proposed railway systems in the Philippines, was made by Secretary of War Taft in a letter | to the Senate. George F. Tibbitts, secretary of the | Inter-state Young Men’s Christian associations, has received a letter from former Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, donating a lot val- ued at $35,000 in Charleston, W. Va, | as a location for a new Young Men's Christian association building. He | will also give $1,000 toward the build- | ing. | Two-Cent Fare Bill Passes. The Ohio Senate passed the Rath- burn bill reducing the rate of passen- ger fare on steam railroads to two cents per mile. Every one of the 37 The most important changes in clas- sification relate to cotton fabrics. Another Mutiny. . : A mutiny “has again broken out at Vlaaivostok. The report that Gen. Silevanoff, the commander of the army corps there, has been wounded is confirmed. The war department of the seriousness of the mutiny, which is due to the reserve men. Troops Attack Peace Party. The troops at Riobamba of Gen. Garcia, the former president, fired on the peace commissioners sent from Guayaquil to Quito, the _capital of ing two. The commissioners proceed- tion surrendering Riobamba .to Gen. Alfaro. Gen. Franeo’'s:army gave up their arms at Quito. Miner’s Demands Refused. The demand of the United Mine Workers of America that the opera- ‘ tors and miners of the Southwestern district be admitted to the functions of the joint conference of the coa] operators and miners of the Central ed during the first session of the joint conference of miners and mine opera- tors at Indianapolis. Pension Bill Carries $140,245,500. The House Committee on Appropri- a pension bill for the fiscal year 1907 appropriating $140,245,500. Senators present voted aye and there | was not a single word of discussion. - {| The bill will go to the house for con- | sideration. Louis Ladekow, agent for a Pitts- burg firm, has been arrested in But- ler county, Pa., on a charge of selling i liquor illegally. | made requisition upon Governor Pat- | tison for the return of | Burke, alias “Fingers,” under ar- | rest at Toledo. Burke is alleged to have broken ing the Ridgeville State | Bank October 24 and stolen $6,002. | The requisition was honored. of sail or a human being clinging to | about two miles, but was unable to | Payne, providing for the reclassifica- | officials are unable to give particulars | Ecuador, killing one man and wound- & ed to Guayaquil and signed’ a capitula- ations decided to report favorably on | Governor Hanly of « Indiana has Michael | Prices in the market rangé as fol- | lows: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX | and above, 34% to 3b4e; X, 33ito | 34c; No. 1, 38 to 39¢; No. 2, 38 to | 40c; fine unwashed, 25 to 36c¢; .one- | quarter blood, unwashed, 33 to 333%¢. " IRONWORKERS’ LOCKOUT |All Contracts of Allied iron Trades Are Providing for Open Shop. | The ‘‘apen shop” rule went into ef- | fect January 22 on all the contracts | of the Allied Iron Trades, Iron league | and Eniployers® association in, New | York City, all of which are included in the National Association of Structural Steel and Iron Workers. It was said that many of the inde- | Bendont contractors have joined in | the “open shop” movement. . i The enforcement of the ‘“open shop” rule is practically a lockout against the International Association of. Iron Workers, ‘the branches of which are the Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s unions. NOT GUILTY Editor Hapgood Acquitted of Charge ; of Criminal Libel. Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, was declared not guilty of criminal libel by a jury in the erimi- nal branch of. the Supreme Court in New York. The case was of a sensa- tional nature and had been on trial for several weeks. The verdict was rendered 10 minutes after the case had been given to the jury. The charge against Mr. Hapgood was brought by Justice Joseph M. Deuel of the Court of Special Sessions, who. alleged he had, been libeled in an ediltorial criticising him for his con- nection with Town Topics. . Scores of persons known in the | highest social and business circles | were brought into the case in an ef- Ten were officers and yz fort hy the defense to prove that the i statements contained in the alleged libel’ were correct and therefore justi- Hed TS © : Brick Companies Indicted. Indictments were returned by the grand jury at Akron, O., against the | officers of four local brick compan- des for being in a combination which | stifled competition and made pos- | sible exorbitant prices for building | and paving brick. The jury found | that unreasonable prices had been | paid, especially by the city of Akron" for paving brick. : CAUGHT FOR MILLIONS Corner. Wall street that-.J. | head of the beef trust, ~ has been | caught in the corner of Reading stock i and that his. losses amount perhaps, to $3,000,000. 3 _ Adolph Litchstein, a speculative as- sociate, of Armour, who helped him corner wheat last vear, is also said to be caught. The short sales of Ar- | mour are estimated at 100,000 shares, and they: are. said to average around par. As the stock is selling at 160 the loss of $3,000,000 easily is ac- counted ; for. Seton Found Guilty. $1 C Augustus Seton who has been on i | 1! i | | trial in New York, charged with the [larceny of $6,800 from the Houston, Galveston & Interurban Railroad Com- | pany of Texas in floating about :$3,- { 000,000 worth of bonds, was convict- | ed. competitive district was twice defeat- | | "A highwayman stopped James Hogue, a 14-year-old newsboy of Al- toona, Pa., and took his money. Dismissed for Hazing. Stephen Decatur, great-grandson of Commodore Decatur, first class, Unit- ed States naval academy, was dismis- sed from the navy by Secretary Bona- | parte in conformity with the sentence i | of the court-martial in his case on the i charge of hazing. i Baron Rosen presented to the U. S. | S. Mayflower, in behalf of Count | Witte, himself and the other delegates {to the Portsmouth peace conference, ' 2 handsome punch bowl. Ogden Armour Said. to Be Short In The amazing ¥act was disclosed in Ogden Armour, we 5 ’ he 3 i ~ else, Fran ships Fren than affixi Wyn cois,’ read know is ca and the Weal: Mr: Gars
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