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“STANDARD OIL UNDER FIRE
Interesting Facts Developed in
Ohio Court.
NO CHARGE FOR USING WIRES
Those of Buckeye Company
Used by Purchasing Agent and
No Toll Was Imposed.
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Evidence was brought out by the
State at Findlay, O., in the trial of
the Standard Oil Company of Ohio
for conspiracy aszainst trade, showing
the ownership of the Manhattan Oil
Company of Chio to be in the Gen-
eral Indusiria! Development Com-
pany, Limited, of London. Also that
the Manhattan, which buys and pipes
crude oil, does not compete with the
Standard, but do~sz compete with in-
dependent compaini€s.
These facts were brought out in the
testimony of F. T. Cuthbert, presi-
dent of the Manhattan. A similar
criminal suit to that on trial is pend-
ing against bis company and he testi-
fied under the order of the court,
which renders him immune from fu-
ture criminal prosecution. This course
was taken at the suggestion of the
prosecution, upon the appeal of Mr.
Were |
Cuthbert to the court for protection.
The witness had been summoned |
and ordered to bring meetings. The |
hooks: were produced. {
Mr. Cuthbert said he knew nothing |
about the Englis
er seen anyone
had corresponded
sh company, had nev- |
connected with it, |
with J. W. R.|
Francis, its secretary, and W. W.|
Johnston, its managing director, |
whose addresses were London. He |
remits money to them.
Explaining the naiu-e of
done by the Manhattan,
questions, Mr. Cuthbert said that in |
what is known as the South Lima
field, the price paid to the producer
is 5 cents a barrel less than in the
North Lima field, where what are re- |
garded as the independent companies
business |
in answer to |
make their puichases. Asked to ex-|
plain why this was, Mr. Cuthbert!
said: !
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“To protect our pipe lines from the
encroachment of competitors.”
“Who are your competitors?’ ask-
ed State Attorney Phelps.
“The National Refining Company, |
of Findlay, and the
Company, of Toledo.” |
Mr. Cuthbert then admitted that
the relations of his company with the |
Standard were of the most intimate |
sort.
Paragon Oil!
Effort on the bart of the prosecution |
in their attempt to prove a violation
of the Valentine anti-trust act by the!
Standard Oil Company was concen-
trated toward establishing a parental
relation between the Standard and
the various alleged subsidiary com-
panies operating in Hancock county. !
The growth of the Standard, from
the original Ohio trust agreement in
1882 to the present, was traced to
date before adjourning by documen-
tary evidence. Witnesses were called
to testify relative to existing local
conditions. Some of the admissions |
were most conclusive.
J. H. Scott, purchasing agent for
the Trainer Purchasing Atoncy. ad-
mitted that his purchases were con-!
fined almost exclusively to the fields
where there was competition, that no
oil was purchased from the Ohio Oil |
Company, the largest individual pro- |
ducer in this field, and that oil pur-
chased by him was run through five |
different pipe lines, all recognized as |
Standard auxiliaries. He admitted |
that these purchases were made large- i
iy by telegraphic communications to
the different fields, and that while
to that end he used the private wires |
of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company,
he paid the company no tolls for such |
use. The purchases aggregated from |
10,000 to 75,000 barrels a month, |
and were stored for the Trainer |
agency by the different pipe lines. |
M. C. Shafer, deputy oil inspector !
in this district, testified that all oil |
handled from the local distribution |
station of the Sandard Oil Company |
was furnished by the Solar Refining |
Company of Lima.
ROMANTIC WEDDING
Son of Vice President Fairbanks
Marries Pittsburg Girl.
Frederick Cole Fairbanks of Spring- |
field, O., and Helen E., daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Scott of Stanton
avenue, Pittsburg, were quietly mar-
ried in Steubenville, O., by the Rev. |
I. H. Ruge of the Congregational
church, formerly of Pittsburg, in the
parlor of the Imperial hotel.
The groom is the youngest son of
the vice president of the United
States, and the fact that he virtually
ran away with is “lady love” invested
the affair with a romantic tinge quite
out of the ordinary. It is perhaps the
first time in the history of the repub- |
lic that the child of a possible occu-
pant of the White House has been the |
hero of an elopement. !
Fifty Buildings Burned. i
More tha 50 buildings were des- |
trcyed Ly a fire which ruined one-!
fourth of the town of Summerside, |
the capital of Pririce County, Prince |
Edward Island. The total loss is esti- |
mated at $200,000, with insurance of |
only about $50,000. It is believed that
the fire was of incendiary origin.
New Pipe Line for Oil.
Work will be commenced at once
by the Pure Oil Company on a pipe
line from Pine Grove, Wetzel county,
West Virginia to Marquis Hook, near
Philadelphia. Action was taken on
the project by the directors at a
meeting two weeks ago. It will re-
quire 285 miles of 6-inch pipe to
complete the line, and it is expected
that it will be in operation within a
year. Construction of the line will
| Wyo.
| Brakeman 1.. H.
i the train
| of Fireman
| negroes, charging them with complic-
¢all for an investment of $1,000,000.
NEW ORLEANS HAS SEWERS
City Has Had Surface Drainage Since
It Was Founded.
For the first time since the city |
of New Orleans was founded, 188
years ago, a modern sanitary and un-
derground sewage system has been
put into operation. The pipes connect-
ed are part of a $24,000,000 sewage
drainage and water system,
of which began eight years ago.
In an area measuring
42, including the principal business
section of New Oricans, connection
marks the end of cesspools and of
portable vaults in business houses,
which have for many years been a
danger to public health.
By means of force pumps the con-
tents of these pipes are emptied into
the Mississippi river, approximately
25 feet below mean water level
The fact that the river annually
city's street level
above the
made an underground sewage system
impossible until the force pump was
resorted to.
rises
Pumps are also used for the drain- |
age pipes, which are separate from
the sewage and empty into Lake Pont-
chartrain.
DERRICK CAR BLOWN UP
Three Men Bind Watchman and Use
Dynamite on Bridge.
William Sigley, a
employed by the American Bridge |
Company, near Blair station, Pa., was |
attacked by three armed men who |
bourd and gagged him,
him down the
Virginia & Charleston railroad and |
tied him.
After disposing of the watchman, |
the men- returned to Sigley's post,
where a bridge is being built over
the P.,, V. & C. by the Wabash, and
a powerful comstruction derrick was |
in use. This machine was blown up
by dynamite and then the three men |
fled.
Informations were subsequently
made against the men who are sus-
pected of committing the offense be-
fore Justice of the Peace R. IF. Brad-
ford, of Blair Station. |
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RAILROADERS KILLED |
Two Freights in Collision—Fast
Mail Jumps Track.
Six men were killed in a head-on |
{ freight collison. on the Union Pacific
railroad at Ridge, near Laramie,
The dead are Engineers Frank
Strong and John Murray, Fireman
Herstrom, Kelly and Simms, and |
Meyers.
The collison was caused by misun- |
derstanding of orders The engines
of both trains were demolished, and |
crews, with the exception |
Simms, instantly killed. |
The Iron Mountain fast mail train, |
which was late in leaving Union sta- |
tion St. Louis, jumped the track!
while making up lost time at the |
city limits, killing the engineer, John
Casps: and injuring 10 others.
RIOTERS INDICTED
Grand Jury Returns True Bills
Against Twenty White Men of
Atlanta.
The Fulton county grand jury re-
turned indictments against 20 white
{ men charging them with rioting in|
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Atlanta, Ga., on September 22. The |
names of those inflicted have not vet
been made public.
Previously two
been indicted on
and indictments
white men have
the same charges,
found against 60
ity in the murder of County Police-
man Heard.
Killed
in Tunnel.
25 blocks by!
nightwatchman |
then carried aft,
tracks of the Pittsburg, |
| government,
anh,
FE (ILLED | EXPLOSION
Boilers of Government Pumping
Boat Blow up on Ohio River.
VESSEL IS A COMPLETE WRECK
building !
Two of the Ipjured Men Died at the
Hospital a Few Hours After the
Wreck.
Five deaths are credited to the ex-
ment steamer Slackwater, which was
blown up while lying near the newly
finished lock at Dam No. 4 at Legion-
ville on the Ohio river, 20 miles be-
low Pittsburg.
Those ikilled
Brady, aged 35,
Pittsburg: Steve
were John
laborer, South Side,
Sutel, aged 30,
Austrian laborer, Legionville; Albert
Bishop, aged 48. superintendent of
government work at the dam, Econo-
my.
Joseph Cooper,
Elizabeth, Pa.,
badly scalded
outright
aged 46 years, of
engineer, who was
and bruised, died at
the Beaver County General Hospital,
Rochester. Clifford Norris, aged 24,
of Washington, Pa., foreman on the
! boat, died at the hospital.
The Slackwater, which
alongside of the lockwall,
into shreds, nothing remaining but a
badly damaged hull. The force of
tearing the upper works in half
was tied
and then demolishing them into
fragments. A derrick boat moored in
front of the Slackwater was also
badly damaged.
Supt. Bishop and the crew and
workmen about the boat were hurled
into the water before the eyes of
their fellow employes about the dam,
and those that were not instantly
killed shrieked for help. ™
The explosion of the boilers was
| accompanied by a deafening detona-
tion. All the buildings about the lock’
trembled violently, while a shower of
soot, timbers and pieces of iron fell
within a radius of 150 feet of the
boat, these flying timbers and pieces
of iron injured a Bumber "of men.
STILL BELONGS To CUBA
Taft Refuses to .Separate Isle of
Pines from Mainland.
One of Secretary Taft’s last acts
as provisional governor of Cuba was |
to give to the Americans of the Isle
of Pines a distinct “No. to their
| petition for separation from the
Cubans or an autonomous govern-
ment The reply of the secretary was
| in writing and said:
“It is absolutely impossible for the
provisional government of Cuba, ad-
ninistering the affairs of the republic,
to recognize for one moment that the
Isle of Pines is not completely under
the jurisdiction of ghe proNisional
of Cuba. It would be a violation of
the sacred trust upon the provisional
government to preserve the interests
of Cuba intact during the incumbency
of that government.”
AUTO TO CARRY MAIL
Experiments Will Be Made
burg and New York.
As soon as the necessary arrange-
ments can be made the city postof-
fice of Pittsburg will have an auto-
mobile on its carrier staff to collect
mai] from the boxes in the suburbs
and for moving heavy mail from' all
parts of the city to the main office.
Postmaster Davis was at the Post-
office Department in Washington and
received from Assistant Secretary
Hitchcock the authority to procure
Three men were killed and a dozen
others rendered unconscious by an
explosion and fire in the Pennsylva-
nia railroad tunnel
{ land City. The dead men were
George Chapman, a superintendent;
Michael Daly, a lock turner, and
Joseph Pearce, a foreman. The cause
of the explosion is unknown. It took
place in a lock where 20 men were
at work. Elsewhere in the tunnel
there were more than 30 at work. A
number of these were rendered un-
conscious by smoke that filled the
tube, but were rescued and brought
to the surface later.
KILLED SCHOOL
TEACHER
Disappointment in Love Said to Have
Been Cause.
In the presence of 60 pupils in the |
South Euclid school, Cleveland, Harry |
Smith shot to death Miss Mary
Shepard. the teacher. Cornered be-
hind the barn in the rear of his home
in Warrenville, two hours later, Smith
shot hiinself through the head, dying
instantly.
Four Cleveland
drawn revolvers,
cight armed farmers,
policemen, with
and under cover of
life.
Disappointment in love is
have been the motive for the
blooded murder. Smith,
years old,
Shepard.
said to
cold
Condemned in 17 Minutes.
George Williams, the negro accus- |
Edward J.!
ed of killing Policeman
Petticord, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree at Indianapolis,
Ind, with death by hanging as the
punishment. The jury was out 17
minutes.
Four More Bodies Found.
Reports from the South
where the hurricane of
coast,
dead bodies. They
so badly decomposed that they were
only recognized by their clothing.
The firemen on the Frackville
grade of the Philadelphia and Read- |
ing Railway have been notified that
additional
their demands for an increase in
wages have been granted. The in- |
crease is from 18 to 20 cents per
hour,
under Long Ts-|
were about to |
| rush up on Smith when he ended his |
who was 25 |
vas a fourth cousin to Miss |
September 27 | i
was worse tells of the finding of four |
were |
the vehicle by contract. It is esti-
mated that it will not cost more than
! $1,200 a year to hire an automobile for
this purpose. At any rate, this is the
limit of cost upon which Mr. Davis
will have to figure. A similar experi-
{ ment was made in New York and
proved unsuccessful because the auto-
mobile was unable to do much work
during heavy snowstorms.
England to Reduce Navy.
The London Standard says the
Government purposes before the end
of this year to remove 20
| ships from active duty in order to
| economize for an active fleet.
Ohio Plumbers Indicted.
Sensational returns were made by
the grand jury at Lima, 0. in the
indictment of 11 plumbing concerns |
on charges of ‘conspiracy against |
| trade.” Several prominent men are
| named in the individual true bills re-
| turned, which are based on the Val-
| entine anti-trust law, and are similar
so-called
in every respect to the
bridge trust cases. The names of |
| those indicted are withheld pending |
| service by the Sheriff and arrests.
Dies at the Age of 117 Years.
Anne Jane Mitchell, a negress,
aged 117 vears, died at Frankfort,
Ky., Oct 11. of burns received by her
clothing catching fire. She was
brought many years ago from Mary-
| la snd by the Hunt family. Her hus- |
| band died recently at the age of 100 | | cape from
| years.
The international balloon race next |
| surnmer for the Bennett cup, won this
| year by Lieutenant Lahm of the Unit-
| ed States Cavalry, will be started
| from St. Louis if the plans of the
Aero Club of America do not mis-
carry
| AN ATROCIOUS RULER
King of Annam Gloats Over Death
Torture of Seven Wives.
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Letters received from Indo-China
1
| say that the newspapers there express |
| horror at the atrocities committed by | afternoon. It
| Thanh-Thai, King of Annam, who
| recently ordered seven of his wives
plosion of the boiler on the Govern- |
was torn |
as a part of the republic |
in Pitts- |
efficient |
$4,000,000 FAILURE
Agent for New York Company Forced
It to the Wall
and Company,
of New York, with liabilities between
$2,000,000 and $4,000,000,
nounced in a statement which de-
clared that the failure was due to the
defalcation
Silveira, of Silveira & Company.
Havana agents of the New York
Company. Silveira’s defalcation is
alleged to amount to
000.
New York to consult
with the firm, but counsel for Will-
iam V. Rowe, the assignee, said that
Silveira had left on his own steamer,
for parts urknown, accompanied by
his wife and children. Mr. Rowe
said that the assets of the firm were
2 ontensibly Tor
The assignments of J. M. Ceballos
bankers and merchants |
about $1,000,- i
He sailed from Havana on October |
MI T0 DEATH IN POLAND
{ Ten Revolutionists Executed for
Trivial Offenses.
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EXECWTIONS INCREASING DAILY
and absconding of Manuel |
Feeling in St. Petersburg That There
Never Will Be Another Session
of the Duma.
Ten revolutionists, convicted by
drumhead court-martial, were exe-
cuted October 10 in Poland. Five were
hanged and five shot.
They were all implicated in the re-
cent uprising at l.odz, but the five
who were shot were accused only of
resisting arrest. The others were
said to be leaders in the revolt.
At the same place a strike, which
was inaugurated as a protest against
of a very substantial character, but
from a hasty examination it was
manifest that they would require
careful husbanding.
Pergons familiar with Mamuel
Silveira’s affairs declare that previous |
to sailing he appeared to be worried |
over business matters as well as
over the fact that he had received |
many anonymous letters threatening |
him because he was suspected of
having been responsible for the kill-
ing of Quintin Banderas, through
having informed the government of
Banderas’ whereabouts.
MAGOON REACHES HAVANA
Marines Ordered From Cienfuegos
\ Owing to Smallpox.
Charles E. Magoon, the newly-ap-|
pointed provisional governor of Cuba,
arrived in Havana, Oct. 9. Co-inci-
dent with his coming Governor Taft
gave out a general decree proclaiming
amnesty not only to the rebels, but]
to all persons charged with political |
offenses or crimes in any way con- |
nected with the revolution. |
The appearance of yellow fever at
Cienfuegos caused the immediate is-
suance of an order by Colonel Bar-
nett directing that the American ma-
rines be removed from that city. The;
men were marched aboard the ships.
Three cases of yellow fever have |
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governor’
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American
holding
been reported in that city. The bat-
tleship Texas, with 300 marines, ar-
rived.
Governor Taft, Mr.
| Magoon ad a long conference in the |
office at the palace, after |
which Mr. Magoon received the mem- |
bers of the press. He declined to dis- |
cuss his plans for the future. He will |
take up his residence with Minister |
Morgan. General Bell will reside ot!
the army headquarters in Marianao. |
General Funston will make his head- |
quarters at Camp Columbia.
TELEPHONE MERGER
Union Company Takes |
Over Independent Lines. |
American Union Telephone
Company, has acquired all of the!
property and rights of more than
three-fourths of the strongest inde-
pendent companies in Pennsylvania,
Southern New York, Northern Virgin-
ia, Maryland and West Virginia. At
the same time by traffic agreements
the new company acquired long-dis-
tance connections over one-third of
the Territory of the United States,
including more than one-half of the
country’s population.
The new combination,
capitalized at $25,000,000, will begin
work immediately on extensions,
connections, and improvements to de-
velop one complete local and long-
distance system, which will be the
most extensive independent system
in the country.
The
which is
ARREST ARMOUR MANAGERS
State Food Commissioner Begins
Prosecutions in Meat Cases.
Warrants were sworn out by Dr.
H. Warren, dairy and food com-
missioner, for the arrest of the Phila-
delphia managers of Armour & Co.
one of the members of the so-cailed
“beef trust,” charging the firm with
illegal use of boric acid in hams.
1t is said that subpenas will be is-
sued of the heads of the firm of Ar-
mour & Co. in Chicago, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether the
“doctoring’’ of the meat is performed
in Chicago or Philadelphia.
Nephew of John Marshall Dies.
Judge Thomas Marshall, a nephew
of the famous jurist, John Marshall,
died at Salt Lake City, Utah, aged
| 72 years. He had been attorney for
the Central Pacific Railroad Company
ever since it was organized and he
was the first Gentile member of the
Utah Territorial Legislature.
Reclamation Under Eight-Hour Law.
In response to a request from the
secretary of the interior, the attor-
ney general has prepared an opinion
that. the general eight-hour
law applies to work in connection
with the irrigation reclamation ser-
vice.
How Bertha Beilstein Escaped.
to be executed, and looked on with de-
| light while they were slowly tortured
i to death, and are appealing to France
Hamnghi,
and married to a Frenchwoman.
to dethrone him and recall Prince
who is an exile in Algeria
Members of the lunacy committee
investigated the Bertha Beilstein es-
Dixmont Asylum and
| recommended the suspension of Day
| Nurses Zula Moore and Pearl Hutch-
|inson. It was found that Bertha had
| duped the night watch by a dummy
laid in her bed so skillfully that the
ruse was not discovered until next
morning. Superintendent Hutchinson
testified that 12 patients have escaped
from Dixmont this year.
350 Square Miles Burned.
The changing of the wind saved
the town of San Fernando, Cal., from
destruction by the mountain fire,
which raged intermittently from early
1 .
Friday morning until late Tuesday
is said that in all 350
astated.
square miles have been dev
Archbishop Bond, aged 91, Primate
of all Canada, of the Angelican
Church, died at Montreal. While not
in the best of health, he had been
able to attend to his duties up to the
Bacon and Mr. |:
the system of drum-head court-
martials, nas spread until it includes
the school teachers and the employes
of the newspapers.
There is a growing feeling in St.
Petersburg that there will never be
another meeting of the duma. The
czar is so completely in the hands
of the reactionaries that the Liberals
are utterly unable to make a move.
The government feels that it now has
matters so well in hand that further
concessions are unnecessary.
Repression and drum-head court-
martials will be continued until the
last spark of revolt is stamped out.
The number of summary executions
is increasing daily and the offenses
for which men are put to death are
in many instances absolutely trivial.
MISSION DEBT WIPED OUT
Announcement Greeted With Storm
of Applause at Convention.
An announcement that the debt
which has accumulated during sever-
al years had been entirely wiped out
through the generosity of a number
of business men was greeted with a
storm of applause at the first session
of the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can board of commissioners for for-
eign missions held at North Adams,
ass.
Prior to the closing of the accounts
on August 31, pledges amounting to
nearly $40,000 were received condi-
tional upon the raising of $1,000,000
or a sum sufficient to cover the out-
standing debt. The receipts of the
year from all sources prior to the
closing of the books amounted to
$913,159. Within the last week the
amount ne ede has been secured.
BISHOP ARNETT DIES
Was One of the Leaders of the Afri-
can Race in This ountry.
Bishop William Benjamin Arnett
of the African Methodist Epicopal
Church died at the Wilberforce Uni-
versity.
Bishop Arnett was a native of
Pennsylvania, and had been a Bishop
since 1838. He was a member of the
Legislature in 1886-87, was chaplain of
the National Republican Convention
at St. Louis in 1896, presided over the
Parliament of Religions in -Chicago,
September 15, 1893, and presided at
the Hcumencial Conference of Meth-
odists, London, September 7, 1901. He
was a member of the Ohio Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society and
trustee of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor.
EXCEEDING SPEED RECORD
Actor and Actress Break Record in
Taking on New Mate.
Three minutes after Judge Chetlain
of Chicago, has signed a decree di-
voreing Joe Howard, actor, from Ida
Emerson, his actress wife, Howard
and Mabel Barrison, another actress,
jumped into an automobile, made a
flying trip to Hammond, Ind., and
were married by Justice Gordan.
Miss Barrison was divorced only a
few days ago from William Gaston, of
the “Wizard of Oz.” One of her com-
plaints against Gaston was that he
had created a scene in an Indianapo-
lis cafe because he found his wife
dining with another man.
A TERRIBLE VOYAGE
Steamer Had Two Gaping Holes in
Her Bottom.
With her forward hold filled with
water ‘the big Pacific mail liner Mon-
golia, which went on the reef at Mid-
way island September 15, hag arrived
in San Francisco harbor.
When the Mengolia left Honolulu
she had two gaping holes through her
double bottom and once the ship was
under way the hold began to fill rap-
idly. The day following her departure
from Honolulu pumps had to be rig-
ged in the hold. The crew was
obliged to be in water which was at
times over their heads and with ropes
around their waists.
Breaks Fifty-Five-Day Fast.
After a 55-days’ fast Arthur Nordon
of Rock Island, Ill, ate two light
meals. Nordon, who is only 26 years
old, has been denying himself food
in the nope of curing a chronic case
of indigestion. He has lost 26
pounds but is in fairly good health.
His only sustenance during his fast
were two glasses of water with lem-
on juice, a spoonful of honey and a
small amount of olive oil daily.
Three Are Hurt in Wreck.
A Lake Shore shifting engine side-
swiped a Pennsylvania work train
loaded with 30 workmen near the
main line crossing at Ashtabula, O.,
seriously injuring three men. The
injured are E. J. Griffin, conductor;
G. W. Miller, brakeman, and J. J.
Kennedy, foreman.
Capt. Dreyfus will resume active
service in the French army, being
named by decree of the minister of
war to take charge of the mobiliza-
tion of the garrison of Vincennes.
last.
"daily newspaper made its
TRAIN THROWN FROM TRACK
Water Rose in One Place to Height
of Sixty Feet—Contractors Suffer
Heavy Loss.
Heavy loss of life and great de-
struction of property have resulted
from floods in the southern part of
Jalico and Colima, Mexico. The
number of fatalities from drowning
along the Mazanillo extension of the
Mexican Central railway is 123.
Thousands of tons of earth and
rocks descended in great landslides
from the mountains. The new steel
railway bridge below Tuxpan was de-
stroyed and a steam shovel weighing
26 tons was borne by the torrent for -
a considerable distance.
the water rose 60 feet.
D. D. Smith, member of a firm of
contractors building the line, says it
will take six months to repair the
damage to their work. Many hous-
es are entirely demolished in the
towns of Tuxpan and Zapotiltec.
Twenty-three lives were lost in San-
tiago river. Fifteen men were drown-
ed by the capsizing of a boat above
the San Pedro Analco Mining Com-
pany’s dam. On the Uruapan line of
the National railway a landslide
threw a passenger train into the Bar-
In one place
ranca, but only two persons were
killed and eight injured.
IRON MARKETS
Prices of Pig Iron Are High and
Steadily Advancing.
The “Iron Trade Review’ says:
“The pig iron market is in a very
excited condition, and the situation is
now fraught, with more danger than
at any time this year. A second buy-
ing movement within a few months
for delivery in 1907 is now well under
way, and at the-same time, there is
an insistent and constantly increasing
demand for iron for immedigte deliv-
ery.
“Prices are steadily advacing, and
are already excessive in some cases.
In Philadelphia, for example, as high
as $25 has been paid for prompt de-
livery of No. 1 foundry, and the pro-
bability of Southern grades advancing
to a basis of $20, Birmingham, is
much more freely discussed. Recent
heavy rains in the South have sor-
iously interfered with the operating
of blast furnaces.
‘““An unusual feature in the East is
that sales are being made of foun~
dry grades to cities upon which the
East in ordinary times depends, to a
considerable extent for its supplies.
EMBEZZLEMENT ALLEGED
Dead Man Is Said to Have Defraud-
ed His Partners.
According to a statement of a mem-
ber of the Wampole company, Henry
K. Wampole, the drug manufacturer,
whose body was found recently in the
East River, New York, died an em-
bezzler of a large sum of money. It
is asserted Wampole robbed his busi-
ness partners systematically.
The amount secured by Wampole
is estimated at $500,000 and may be
found to be considerably more. Wam-
pole, it is stated, left paper repre-
senting several hundred thousands of
dollars in about 60 banks of Penn-
sylvania and also some in New
Jersey. Not until a few days prior
to his death did his partners have
any idea of his defalcations. Since
then the story has been carefully
guarded.
The assets of the Wampole com-
pany are ample to meet all obligations
or demands.
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS
The Shuberts have closed a deal
for the erection of a $150,000 theater
in Sioux City, Ia.
China has protested against Japan's
continued control of the telegraph
lines in Manchuria.
A jury was secured and arguments
begun in the suit of the state of
Ohio against the Standard Oil Com-
pany of Ohio.
A dispatch from Tiflis says Prince
Jason Pavlenoff has been assassinat-
ed in a village of Gorki district. The
murderers escaped.
The Panama canal commission has
invited proposals for constructing the
waterway across the isthmus under
contract.
The Washington Herald, a morning
first ap-
pearance at the Capital on the 8th inst
It is edited by Scott C. Bone, for
many years managing editor of the
Washington Post.
Charles H. Smith was a suspended
from the Chicago Board of Trade for
non-payment of debts. Smith at one
time acted in the interests of B. P.
Hutchison, better known as ‘Old
Hutch.”
W. QGlinn Ellis, aged 21, of To-
ronto, Ont., a student at Toronto
university, and manager of the third
Rugby team last year, died from in-
juries received in a practice football
game.
In a baseball game at Rolla, Mo.,
two young men named Clark and Mec-
Kee, collided with terrific force while
trying to catch a ball. McKee being
killed almost instantly and Clark be-
ing rendered unconscious.
Harry Eva and John Warner, each
aged 32, while being hoisted from the
Pine Hill mine near Pottsville, Pa.,
fell to the bottom of the shaft, a dis-
tance of 600 feet, and were dashed to
death. The men were riding up on
the bucket, which broke from the
rope as they neared the surface.
New Reservation to Be Opened.
The President issued a proclama-
tion fixing 12 o’clock noon on the
29th inst., as the date for opening
the Walker river Indian reservation
in Nevada, to settlement. There are
268,000 acres of land to be disposed
of.
Gain in Revenue Receipts.
The monthly statement of the col-
lections of internal revenue shows
that for the month of August 1906, the
total receipts were $21,848,663, which
was a gain as compared with the
month of August, 1905, of $1,913,590.
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