$ PA I WORLD'S BIGGEST WARSHIP King Edward VII Launches The Dreadnought at Portsmouth. THE CEREMONY WAS SIMPLE Will Hurl Shells 25 Miies—Powers | Are Baffled in Efforts to Learn Her Secrets. The great battleship Dreadnought, which will cost $7,500,000 when fin- ished, was launched at Portmouth, England, by King Edward. The cere- mony wag the most simple possible, the king having forbidden all decora- tions and pageaniry on account of the death of his father-in-law, King Christian. for sea the ship will When ready displace 18,500 tons and will have the heavest armament ever carried by a ship. British vessels have carried heretofore four 12-inch guns throwing 850 pound shells: the Dreadnought will have 10 of these weapons of a new type with a muzzle energy of 40,568, as compared with the 353,622 of the guns carried in as recent bat- tleships as the Majestic class, an in- crease of 50 per cent. In a great sea fight the Dreadnought will be able to discharge every minute ten or to penetrate about.16 inches of the hardest armor at a range of about two wiles. Unlike all Briush and foreign battleships built :in the past 30 years | the new addition to the fleet will carry no weapon smaller than great 12-inch piece except 18 three- inch quickfirers for repelling attacks by torpedo craft. The Dreadnought will be the first battleship in the world to be driv- en by turbines. These engines ' will | supply the power for four propellers, two more than on any previously built British battleship, which should male her the fastest of her class afloat. Details of the Dreadnought’s con- struction remain a secret. Efforts of naval attaches to gather informa- tion have beén fruitless, to all inquiries being that Great Brit- ain intends to maintain secrecy as to what her experts learned by Japan's experiences of one year, and by rushing to completion the Dread- nought will gain a year in naval con- struction over all other powers ex- cept her ally. : TRAIN KILLS THREE While Crew ls Repairing Locomotive They Are Run Down. While repairing a tire of a locomo- tive ‘wheel near Seitzland, Pa., three members of a freight crew were run down and killed by a passenger train. The dead are Engineer J. C. Baugh- man of Shrewsbury, Conductor Silas Adler and Brakeman Frank den, both of Baltimore. Steam from the disabled freight engine prevented the men from hearing the noise of the approaching train. dt is believed Brakeman McFadden died ‘from fright, as no injuries were found on his body. The passenger train went on to Baltimore without stopping. none of the train crew being aware of the accident. NEGRO LYNCHED Third to Pay Death Penalty Crime in Alabama. Bunk Richardson, a negro charged with the assault of Mrs. Sarah Smith July 15 last, was forcibly taken from for Jail and hanged to the bridge of the . Louisvile & Nashville the Coosa river. Tour went to the jail, overpowered the sheriff and jailer and made short work of the prisoner. Four negroes were charged with the crime against Mrs. Smith, two of whom have been legally executed. ! The ‘third, Will Johnson, was recent- | iy convicted and sentenced to death, But last week Gov. Jelks commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. | Richardson, the man lynched had not been indicted. METHODISTS HONOR LINCOLN Epworth League Societies and Con- gregations Hold Services. : Methodists throughout the United | States celebrated the 97th anniversary | railroad over of Lincoln's birthday and 10,006 Ep- | congrega- | worth societies tions held song tion with the Sunday. Cincinnati the center movement being the heac the Freedman’s Aid and and 60,000 services generat in coanec- celebration, is of guarters of Bishop J. M. Walden, delivered historical address, detailing the struggles of the society from 1866 to the present. Death for Negro Murder. Rufus Johnston, the negro who was arrested in Baltimere about night ago, charged with killing Miss Florence W. Allison. near on trial at Mt. Holly, N. J., convicted mediately sentenced to be February 23 “0: hanged, A young man who gives his name as Walter E. Bowen and who says he is the son of a former Mayor of Pelham. Ga., was arrested and later confessed that he had stolen about $2,000 worth of goods from trains on the Seaboard baggagemastier on the run between Atlanta, (Ga., and Monroe, N. C. Three earthquake shocks were felt throughout the laltc copper district of Michigan. road r | Littlefield, ! Southwich. i Hepburn's projec- | tiles weighing 8,500 pounds with suffi- | cient. velocity to send. them 25 miles | { finition { “‘transportation’’ | clude all auxiliary inst¥ameuntalities of | the | i and the i bers and increasing salar the "answer | McFad- | ; from the Emperor of Korea, masked men i nine colored p this ; Ella Southern | Educational society, whose president. | an | a fort-}! i First Moores- | town, N. J., January 18, was placed | front { covery is slight. { workinen were bus; | 55 natives HOUSE PASSES RATE BILL ia Seven Votcs Against It. : —— = The House passéd the He rn rail- | , i The House passéd the Hopbur og [Werkmen's Lives Suddenly Cut O 7.1 3 > were Sibley, ate Those voting againsi the MeCali Vreek The Hepburn statem bill by a 2446 bill Perkins, Weeks. yote of 1 and bill, nt, in closing comply specificallx according to Mr. the | debate on the nieasure. was intended | to and does so far as it could be made, | with the recom- | cone APLOSION ILLS MINERS | | | *% Off-Some Escape. | DEAD TERRIBLY MUTILATED Wrecked and Damage Will the Property Be Great. mendations of President Roosevelt on | the rate question. state Commerce Comn of as “unreasonable.” investigate that raie not it is unreasonable, to be unreasonable, to name a which is to be just and reasonable and fairly remunevative, maximum rate to be charged. This rate so fixed is to go into ef-| tect 30 days after it is announced by the commission, subject during that time to be set aside ov suspended by the commission or by the courts. After it has gone into effect ir is to remain tie rate for three years. those who have participated in the de- bate that the rate may also be re- viewed by the courts and if found to | be in conflict either with the ns i of the act or with the constituticn by being conftiscatory., can be set aside by the courts. Another important feature is the de-.| and in- “railroad? manner to word in a of the the common carrier and to bring them within the control! of the commission. This power to-name a reasonable rate inclusion of the auxiliaries the jurisdiction of the com- are said to the new fea- within niission tures. All other provisions tions -of existing law. They include publicity of railrcad methods and en- larging the commission to seven mem- ies of mem- be pers to $10,060 a year. The bill is now before the Senate. TOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT Business Section of Littleton, Va., Is Visited by a Destructive Fire. broke out -in the business sec- tion of Littleton, W. Va., an oil town of about 1,600 inhabitants in “the morning, and was not under control until late in the evening. Both the Mannigten and Cameron fire depart- Fire ments were at the scene. The fire! ' destroyed the following buildings: A. M. Crow's store, five dwellings, Bailimore & Ohio depot, Exchange bank, Methodist Episcopal church, Odd Fellows' hail, Commercial hotel, nostoflice, Bank of Littleton, Ander- | son hotel, Christian church, Keffer’s hotel, Bell ephone Company’s ex- change. three stores and 10 dwell- ings. Several buildings. in the wath of the flames were dynamited. but on ac- count of a strong wind the fire ed across the track & Ohio railroad the buildings on the: east side. There was praetically no insurance on the burned buildings, .as the in- surance companies refused to sume the risk. he loss is estimated at $200,000, No lives have been ‘re- ported lost. and as- EMPEROR HOSTILE TO TREATY He Asks Powers'® Protection From Japanese. 3 Storey, telegraphing from states that he has obtained a docu- Dougl Che-foo, meni bearing the imperial original of which he says he has prov- ed before the British consul at Che- foo. In this documeni the emperor de-! nied that he signed or approved the treaty with Japan or consented fo! the appointment of a Japanese resi- | dent, and “invites the great power to exercise a joint protectorate over Korea for a period not exceeding five years, with respect to the control! of 1 Korean foreign affalrs.’’ NINE DIE IN FIRE Only One Person Escapes From: Burning House in Maryland. About 3 o'eiock in the morning an i isolated smal: frame house near the | village of Curtis Bay, in Anne Arua- del county, Md.. was consumed by a | in which burned io : The ani mate who escaped with her Ii was Webster, a woman who man: aged to get to a window and jumped from the second story to the ground. Accord? story the was caused by one of the younger chiid- ren. who got up to stir the fire ip the r ons. fire i chimney place and accidentally seat-! ai tered the coals on the floor. Parson Tries Suicide. "Rev. Justin. G. Wade, pastor of the | of = : ng | the Postmaster-Genera] for informa-. i tion as to the number of postal clerks: Congregationgl Church Waukegan, 1ll., who was arrested Postoftice Inspectors on a,charge: of by { mailing obscene letters, tried to com- of murder in the first degree and im- | suicide of nit by a train. ihrowing himself His chance of re- 55 DROWNED IN MINE Becomes Flooded While Men Engaged at Work. The shaft of one of the deep mines at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, became flooded. as the result of heavy Are {| rains. Air Line while he was employed as a | The walter suddenly while in the mine and were drowned. rose The Philadelphia “ripper” repealer passed both houses of the Pennsyl- vania general assembly. It gives the Inter- ion author- | ity, when a rate has been complained | by a shipper, to state whether or and, if found rate which is io be the | 8 During this | time the opinion has been expressed by | are -modifica- | W. | leap- | consumed all: the! death | in | The death list resulting from the explosion in the Paral mine of the Colliery Company Fay- W, Va., first Stuart in efile county, Six dead 12 were and more are still The no doubt, | have succumbed to the gas and foul fair which filled the mine for hours after Lhe explosion, and all hope of finding any of the alive has ! abandoned. The men gould, John Ervin Riggs. Zark, Robert large as was feared. bodies have been recovered, 12 latter, rescued alive {in the mine. rescued are: P. Z. Fitz- Kimball, Robert Pratt, Rodman Opineki, ¥. P. Gill, Donaid Bell, Neal. colored, Charles Matthews, colored; Herbert Calloway, colored; { The dead taken out are: George Morris, ike Spears, Hans Covia, Joseph Hunter, Joseph Lumley, undientified. All the dead were found east of the air. shaft, plosion .seems to have been the most severely: felt. William Morris, a | gigantic negro, was found with his body -eut in two, the upper and low- | er parts-being 100 yards apart. | other dead who have been i | little burned and easily recognized. great. The Stuart Colliery Company is one’ of the few companies operat- ing shaft mines ‘in this field. The ' average depth .of the mine in which | the explosion occurred is about 700 i feet. GREAT ROAD TO BE BUILT Will Extend Across Ohio and Be One of the World’s Best. © Within a year work will be begun | by the National Good Roads Associa- | tion on a highway extending clear {across Ohio, from Pennsylvania to In- | diana, that will be one of the finest in the world. This information was { given by Colonel W. H. Moore, Presi- dent of the National Good Roads As- | sociation. The road will cost $1,500,000. Of this amount, Colonel Moore says, { $750,000 already has been put up by ertain interests he will not now re- o {veal ang the remainder will be - se- cured from the counties throngh which i-it will pass. : i INTERNAL COMMERCE - of County. : department of commerce and labor, j the aggregate volume of internal com- { - = i merce during. 1905 was undoubtedly | the largest for any corresponding per- | iod in the history of the country. ‘The report says: The greatly increased activities in the iron, steel and copper industries { were particularly worthy of note, hav- ing caused iron production, accord- ing to reliable commercial sources, {to advance 40 per cent. and copper | I a uctign in 1904.7 Pension Bill Passes House. The pension appropriation bill, ecar- rving $139,000,000 for pensions and 1 $1,245 000 for pension administration, was taken up by the House, debated and passed without amendment. The feature of the bill aside from the ap- inaRepriation made is a provision mak- ing statue law of the famous “Order i No. 78,” of the President. declaring aga conclusive evidence of disability. CAPITAL NEWS NOTES. The Longworth bill appropriating i $5,000,000 for the purchase of Ameri- (can legations and embassies in for- ign capitals was favorably reported {to the House Committee on Foreign | Affairs by a sub-committee. Representative Wanger (Pa.) in- tre for the construction of a cable Cuba, and thence to the canal zone on the isthmts of Panama. te Senate in executive session { confirmed the following nominations: IU. G. Smith, Washington, Pa., Third Secretary of Embassy to Great Brit- i Postmasters: Pennsylvania— McGill, at Dawson; Joseph | Charles J. i 3. Paul, South Fork; Frank N. Dona- ‘ hue, - Carrolltown. Mr. Tiliman- presented and the Sen- are ‘adopted a resolution-calling upon ; killed. in railroad accidents during the | past five years; also asking how many steel cars are now used in tne postal service, and whether the fatalties have | been so great as in other cars. i A bili for the taxation of all railway | property in Arizona and New Mexico, according to the plan under which other property in the Territories is taxed, was introduced in the House by Representative Hamilton, Chairman of the House Committee on Territories. Colombia has renewed her demand for a recompense from the United States because of the separation of Panama. The amount of damages sus- tained by the parent State on ac- count of Panama’s secession is not set down. It is believed nothing has oc- curred to ehange the position origi- i nally taken by the State Department. Parts of the Mine Were Badly i house, will not be as been | Jule | voters more than once in two years. one | where the force of the ex- | The | found ! were all terribly mutilated, but were | i Mother Killg Infant and Cuts Throat Parts of the mine are badly wreck- | ed and the property damage will be | GROWS | Volume for 1905 Largest in History | According to a report issued by the | pires. nearly 15 per cent. over similar pro-! xluced a bill appropriating $1,000,- | from Key west, Fla.,, to Guantanamo, | ‘CITIES MAY CONSOLIDATE = » -Pgnnsylvania Legisiature Passzs Greater Pittsburg Bill. The Greater Pittsburgh bill passed both of ‘the legislature and was signed (by the Governor. The senate passed the bill finally as amended by the striking out of the Henderson amendment giving Alle- gheny a separate vote and then went over to the house for concurrence. There was a heated debate in the but the action of the senate was concurred in by a large ma- jority vote. The bill enables cities that are con- tiguous or in close proximity to be united with any intervening land. Consolidating and annexing the les- ser city with the greater through an election. > . Councils may direct that a petition be filed in court, or 2 per cent. of the registered voters of either city may do so, praying for consolidation. If order of court is made more than 30 days and less than 90 days before the next regular municipal election such election be held at regular elec- tion: otherwise a special one shall be ordered. Annexation to be carried by ma- jority of joint vote of the two cities. Question cannot be submitted to houses Constituent communities to pay their own floating and bonded indebt- edness. Mayor of larger city shall be Mayor of consolidated city and Mayor of smaller to be Deputy Mayor for term for which they were elected. Present departments preserved and consolidated heads of those of larger city to remain in control, with: heads of departments of smaller city to be assistant heads. = CRAZED BY SICKNESS of Little Girl. ; Mrs. R. W. Kavel, of Allegheny, Pa., aged 23, crazed from the effect of pneumonia following three days after giving birth to a child, cut the throat of her new born babe and of a daugh- ter, Margaret, three years old. The babe is dead, the older child is in a precarious condition. Mrs. Kavel is the wife of R. W. Kavel, an employe of the Pittsburg Locomotive Works in Allegheny. They live at 16 Jowa alley. Dr. D. M. Adams was attending her and he found her delirious. Mrs. Kavel was in‘such: condition that Dr. Adams told Kavel to keep the children out of her room. Kavel obeyedsthe instructions carefully and his wife seemed to rest more easily. About 6 o’clock she called her husband and told him to take, Albert, the oldest child, down- stairs and get him some supper. leav- ing the baby and the little gir] in her room. Kavel was gone but a few minutes and on returning found that Mrs. Kavel had cut the throats of each. of them and then slashed them across ‘the wrists. CONVICT WINS FORTUNE Splits $25,000 Prize With Lawyer in Order to Insure Getting Part. ~The winner-of the $25,000 prize for correctly naming the attendance at ‘the St. Louis exposition in 1904, was ‘Frank Campbell, a convict in the Ne- braska state penitentiary, who still | has about one year to serve. Campbell | was convicted of embezzlement. He will receive only $12,500 as he, fearing difficulty in securing the money while imprisoned, agreed to pay a lawyer half in case of success in securing it. The money will be re- ceived in a few days, but he will be unable to use it until his term ex- TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS At Sidney, O., W. Riggs and his wife were struck by a Big Four train while in a covered wagon. The wo- man is dead and Riggs will die. Cyrus Henderson, a Baltimore & Ohio engineer of Chicago Junction, was instantly killed at Lodi, O., by a train. : A "measure ta tax property: of the Catholic Church in Quebec province has passed through the Private Bills Committee of the Legislature. Two men who robbed a shoe factory in Dover, N. H., and killed an Ital- ian laborer of the “Sunrise” express, were captured by a posse after a 15- mile chase. St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, Ashland avenue and West Harrison street, Chicago, was destroy- ed by fire, which started from an overheated furnace. The loss is $125,- 000. ~ A bill was passed in the House granting a Federal charter to the Car- negie foundation for the 'advance- ment of teaching, the fund censisting' of $10,000,000, the income to furn- ish a pension to retired educators. Driven insane by excessive use of cigarets J. Sherman McLaughlin, a voung man of Ada, O., was taken to the insane asylum at Toledo. The trial of Pat Crowe, charged with robbing E. A. Cudahy of $25,000, in connection with the kidnaping of E. A. Cudahy, Jr., five years ago, has be- gun at Omaha. The British bark Mobile Bay, which arrived ‘at Anping, Island of Formosa; January 16 from New York, July 9, was totally destroyed by fire. Her crew were landed. The bark had 7 000 cases of kerosene on board. The lower branch of the Kentucky General Assembly has adopted the proposition to submit to the people at the November election the question of so amending the Constitution as to provide that a tax receipt shall be a qualification for a voter in all elec- tions. Metzgar heirs throughout Eastera Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are about to begih a concerted move- ment to secure the vast estate worth from $125,000080 to $128,000,000, which the Holland Government is ‘de-- clared to be willing to begin overtures to settle. "three eighths blood, 33 to blood, 321% to 33c¢; unwashed delaine, | -against: former ASKED TO PROVE MERGER Moody Urged to Take'a Hand in Probing Alleged Combination. SOFT COAL MEN COMPLAIN Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt Roads Charged With Acts Violating the Sherman Law. Attorney General Moody will be urged to begin proceedings against the railroads alleged to control the bituminous coal traffic on the ground that they have entered into a com- bination in restraint of trade. The appeal to the attorney general will be made by Mr. Townsend, of Michigan, one of the authors of the Hepburn rate bill. Mr. Townsend will base his request on the interstate commerce commis- sion, in response to the Gillespie resolution and information furnished him by Logan H. Bullitt, of Phila- delphia, president of the Red Rock Fuel Company. The latter's complaint of diserimi- nation by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road Company has been presented to congressional committees and made of South Carolina. Mr. Townsend is convinced and Vanderbilt systems, have forced a combination clearly obnoxious to the Sherman anti-trust law. He believes he can induce Mr. Moody to take ac- | tion without waiting for the further | investigation provided in the second Gillespie resolution introduced Febru- ary 7. Meanwhile Nr. Gillespie will strive to secure from the House committee a favorable report on his resolution requesting the President to direct the commission to begin an investigation. If the attorney general declines to un- i dertake prosecution the Gillespie reso- lution will be pressed. Mr. Gillespie has already had many letters from the | railroad sections offering him evi- dence. Some of them are unsigned, the writers declaring they fear busi- ness disaster. DEATH ATTENDS WRECKS Eight Persons Are Killed in Railroad Accidents—Two Others Missing. Four persons were killed and ten were more or less seriously injured in a collision between two passenger trains on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company’s line near Bridal Veil, Ore. The dead are: E. L. Sinnot, of Port- land,——=—Henry, A. E. Edwards of Portland, and an unknown man. A runaway Nerthern Pacific freight train crashed iato a passenger train on the same line, wrecked pletély and set fire to it. Four per- sons. whose ‘identity is assured were known to be dead, with a prebability that two more whose names it is im- possible - te learn may have been burned in tie wreck. : The known. dead are: .J. H. Robin- son, - Missoula; Charles Brickle, con- ductor; J. A. Jessup, express mess- enger; Fos{ér Senegal, merchant of ‘Elliston. None of the passengers who escaped with their lives was serious- ly injured. TES Gg : The crash of the collision was heard by persous living in the vicinity, who | immediately started for the wreck. ‘When they got there an awful scene met their gaze. The combination car was on fire and pinned under a mass of wreckage whs Jessup. He was con- scious, and hervic efforts. were made to release him from his Finally the fire became so hot that the rescuers had to give up the task. Missing Man’s Body Found. "All doubt as to the identity of the man found in a woods near Roanoke, Va., with a bullet in his head was re- moved when the clothing was thor- oughly inspected and found to be that of Sturley C. Armstrong, ‘the former cashier of the Washington National Bank, of Pittsburg, who had been missing since January 2. Wool Market. The strong closing of the London | woo] sales and the auspicious open- ing of goods in New York have had a beneficial influence upon the Bos- ton wool market. Prices range about as follows: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 341% to 351ec; X, 33 to 34c; No. 1, 38 to 39¢: No. 2, 38 to 40c; fine, unwashed, 25 to 26c¢; quart- er-blood, unwashed, 33 to 33%; three eighths blood, 3314 to 34c; half blood, 33 to 2331%c; unwashed delaine, 28‘ to 29c; fine washed delaine, 37 to 3714c; Michigan fine, unwashed, 24 to 25c; quarter blood, unwashed, 32 to 3215c; 831%; half 27 to 28c. Say Son Got $100,000. Gordon : Bigelow, .son - of Frank G. Bigelow, defaulting president of the First National bank of Milwaukee, it is. alleged in an. indictment returned Assistant. Cashier Henry G. Goll by the Federal Grand Jury to have received from Bigelow leged to have been embezzled Frank .G. Bigelow, abetted by Gill. by x Murderer Gonfesses. After’ maintaining his innocence for several days, Charles C. Deigen, made a signed confession that he killed Randolph XK. Lewis, aged 70, the wealthy farmer and stockman at West Farmington, O., January 19. At a meeting of the Ilinvis coal operators at the Auditorium hotel, Chicage, it was decided By unahi- mous vote to refuse demands made by the Ylnited Mine Workers of America. i work. i public in the Senate by Mr. ..llman, | Company the | bituminous coal-carrying roads, under | the dwomination of the Pennsylvania | { i ! Thirty-four years ago Mr. Ashbrook it com- | ; at Whiting with situation. ! | throughout Pennsylvania, | It means the possible purchase of B.G.! $100,000 of the funds al- | HUSBAND DISCOVERS BODIES He Is Unable to Assign Motive; All Was Well When Hea Left Home. A ‘woman and four children were found dead in bed at their home, 29 Dennis street, Roxbury district, Bos- ton, on the night of February 6. An investigation by the police indicates that the woman. Mrs. Annie I. Dix- on, had killed the children and her- self by opening three gas jets. The children were Annie, aged 2 years; George, 3 years 6 months; Mildred, 2 vears, and Marion, 1 year. The tragedy was discovered by the woman's husband, Arthur B. Dixon, when he returned home from work in the evening. Dixon found the house locked and was obliged to break in the front door. He found the bodies of hig wife and children in a bedroom. Medical Examiner A. A. McDonald decided that Mrs. Dixon had killed the children and herself. Dixon told the police that he left home at 6 o'clock in the morning to go to his At that time his wife was up and the children were all awake and he did not notice anything unusual. Dixon is 21 years vld and his wife was 27. They had been married for about six years. Of late Mrs. ouxon had not been in good health. AFFECTS 10,000 MINERS Closes Mines Settlement of Dispute. All mines along the Rochester and Pittsburg railroad | operated by the Clearfield and Jef- | ferson Coal and Iron company were Pending Buffalo, i ‘closed, pending the g¢ettiement of | trouble at Yateshoro, flelvetia and Sykesville. A convention of the miners and sub-district officers was held at Punxsutawney Monday and Tuesday, and an unsuccessful effort was made, { then to adjust the difficulties at the above places. The convention decid- ed to call mass meetings of all min-* ers in the region to be held at Punx- . sutawney and Reynoldsville. About": 10,000 miners are affected. { As a result, orders were issued by |.the railroad authorities to discontin- I ne all coal and coke shipments. This i move will effect about 2,000 railroad men besides about 500 mechanics in the shops at this place. * CONSCIENCE A LITTLE LATE { | Woman Returning in Instaliments “ Money Stolen in Childhood. E. P. Ashbrook, 90 years old; who lives with his son, C. S. Ashbrook, in Mansfield, O., has received the first installment of conscience money, the total amount of which he does not know. operated a woolen mill at Mattoon, 1ll., and among his employes was a girl of ten. She is now married and living in Peoria, Ill. ‘Mr. Ashbrook i has received a letter from her en- closing $4, which, she says, is the initial installment of weekly payments which she proposes to make until she has restored to him all the money she stole from him while in his employ. He never suspected that any money bad been stolen, LINK IN BIG PIPE LINE Standard’s System to Extend From Indian Territory to Atlantic. The Standard Oil Company has be- | gun the construction of an eight-inch auxiliary pipe line from the refinery {at Lima, O., to Chicago, connecting the Kansas-Indian | Territory» trunk line and making pos- sible the handling of oil underground from the trans-Missouri field through : Ohio to the seaboard, touching refin- éries at Lima, in Cleveland and | the great overflow output in the West. Asphyxiated While Skating. ITiscaping fumes from a small gas | stove in the lite roller skating rink | at Zanesville, O., caused a panic | among the 1,500 people there. At | least 25 skaters were affected by the | fumes so seriously that they dropped on the floor and had to be carried out. All were resuscitated. Insurance Investigation. The inquiry into the conditions in | the Insurance department of the | State of Pennsylvania has been con- | cluded. The commission which made me investigation aid uncovered pad- i ded pay rolls and generally loose if i not criminal practices in the manage- i ment of the department spent con- | siderable time in discussing the re- i port which will be transmitted to the | Legislature some time. The report | is certain to recommend civil and | criminal presecutions against George | B. Luper, James H. Lambert and | Israel W. Durham, former commis- | sioners of the department. | Philadelphia Politicians Sentenced. i William J. Wood and John | Schweckler, election . officers: of the | Twenty-sixth ward, of Philadelphia, { who were convicted of substituting a , ballot box and making. a false return j at the November election, were sent- | enced. Schweckler to two years’ im- ' | brisonment and $200 fine and Wood i to 15 months’ imprisonment and $200 fine. H. J. Starr, another election i officer who was also convicted, was | granted a new trial. | Runaway Car Demolishes Church. Through the mistake of ga brake- man in throwing a switch on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie raliroad in West Newton, a car of slag ran off the end of a siding, dashed aeross a street, smashed a fence around the African Methodist Episcopal Church and | crashed into the church building. Al | the windows on one side of the church | were shattered and the structure was [ knocked askew. The building may | have to ‘bd tora down. —_ ¢ LoMpopE ERRLd4p 2 2 asaya, Navi Era 4p tO et ives rp NY AR 2B 9 | poo tod = aN. wh n= >, Tm sy DEE | wt’ we beh 1 849 oun ren 1
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