70 BAERK BANDITS POWER Powers Plan to Prevent Further Anarchy in Morocce. SAFEGUARD L Will Be Sent Armed Fleets to Prevent any Possible of le pu 1 . and are increase been mat cautions signed y to meet the recy ments of an emergency and to guard the lives and property of eigners at Tangier. Pending the formal policing in ¢ ports of Morocco, to be undertaken upon the final ratification of the in- ternational agreement reached at Al geciras, cach power will maintain; warships at Tangier and be prepared to land a total of 3,000 men. France has decided to send the battleships Buffren, Saint Louis and Charlemange, tn command cof Admiral Touchard, to replace the cruisers Galilee, Jeanne? d’Arc and Forbin, which are now in Moroccan waters, The Lanvive will accompany the I'rench vessels, trans porting troops irom Algeria should a landing 1@ Necessary. | It netly understood joint movement will not assume nature of an occupation, and nei yanish flags been dis is the French be rai nor an er advance ment } Franc no objec: to then $2,230 nett of £ district was flex 2 600 on the ficor of a baill- juntington, W. Va. and J. t C. Kirkman in a Cincinnati jail EF awaiting extradition papers. A week ago Cougressman Bennett attended a banquet of the Mystic ! Shriners at the Hotel Frederick in EE Huntington. The Congressman was beckoned to the door by Kirkman, who whispered he was broke and he needed $20. The congressman told Kirkman to write a check for $20 and | he would sign it. Kirkman drew a check for $2,000 and hastened back to | the ballroom. The congressman did not notice the: amount and readily affixed his sig- | nature. P INDIAN PREFERS OLD ORDER Chief of Greek Indians Makes Dra- matic Plea for More Freedom. . Crazy Snake, chief of the Crazy Snake faction of the Creek Indi made a dramatic speech before senate comuitice on Indian affairs. He pleaded for a return to the condi- | tions existing under the treaty of | 1832, when the Indians held land in | common and roamed the forest and stream in nomadic fashion. “Jn 1492, when a man landed on ‘American shores named Columbus, f whom did he find here?’ cried Crazy Spake. <'Did he find the white man? No. He: found the Indian. What did he say to the Indian? He said. ‘The fand is all yours. 1 will protect you.” The general sense of the Indians, of whom about 39 testified, was for re- : moval of the restrictions on all lands ! except that of the fullbloods and on faomesieads. Russian Murders. Two employes of the Visiula rail- road were murdered by persons uni- ytglide, known to the authorities. The bride ¥ of a detective was shot and Killed by terrorists. A bomb was exploded fn an unoccupied house in Piwna street, in the neighborhood of the governor's palace. the | ” TEM BARGES WRECKED River Craft, Enveloped in Fog, Crazh In Piers of Bridge. In a dense fog +hat suddenly set- tled after they left Cables Eddy the towboats Raymond Horner and G. W. Thomas struck their coal fleets against the channel spans of the Pan- handle railroad bridge, at Steuben- ville, O., which have long been a mei: ace to navigation. Ten barges and flats were wrecked and sunk 125,000 bushels of coal lost It was reported that two men were drowned off the Thomas, but. this is denied. Coal barges are sunk in the chan- pel for a distance of two miles. Mormon President Fined. Joseph F. Smith, President of the Mormon Church, appeared in the Dis- ¢rict Court before Judge Ritchie, at Salt Lake City, Utah., pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful cohabitation. and a fine of $300 was imposed. The charge under which ® the Mormon prophet was arrested and fined was based on the .recent birth to Presi- dent Smith's fifth wife of his forty- third child. Caruso Fined. properly toward women Park, New York, was : by Magistrate Baker in the Yorkville police court and was fined $10, the maimum that can be imposed in this court. Fall River's cotton mill employes won a battle for an increase 10 wages, and 30,000 operatives will come under a seale giving them 10 per gent more than the present rate. I men. | not been landed anywhere, and unle | agreement Enrico Caruso, the great Italian tenor, who was accused of acting 1m- in Central | found guilty | STUART'S PLURALITY, 48,435. Official Vote of Pennsylvania in Re- the recent in Pennsyl- the office of 1 Edward Mou H. Thome seat tering, 54,656 Secret {en- John George 24547; H nane, A. McConnell, Social : seattering, 8. Houek’s plurality, 92.- 235. ; The vote for the Rt ylican nomi 1ees includes the the minees as the six occupants crowned were John Harri- engi son, PP », assistant engineer; David White, Prescott, deckhand; Harry Gregory, Port Col borne, fireman; in Burns, Port Col- Charles Thcmas berne; on, Christiana, Norway. \ "The No~werian bark “"-7-- has bh 3 been lost on Red Island rcef with all on board. She carried a crew of 14 | When the Madga sailed from | Quebec she carried as pilot Charles | Pelletier of St. Michael. Pelletier has | he has been carried to sea this furn- | ishes proof it is the Madga which struck on Red Island reef and went down with all on beard. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The barze Athens, supnesed to have gone down in Lake rie with all | , on board. is safe, cud the cartain and crew are alive and well. was found near Northeast shoal, where she broke loose from the | steamer Pratt. The Canadian government has noti- fied this Government that the postal between these two coun- tries will be abrogated on May 7 next. A prairie fire that swept from West- | ern Texas into Eastern New Mexico, | burned 1,000,000 acres of grazing and homestead land bare of foliage. The Oriental limited on the Great Northern Railroad was wrecked today | a mile east of Donon, N. D. The en- gineer and two firemen were killed. Two mail clerks and three passengers were injured, but net fatally. The United States Army transport Sheridan, which went bers Point, Hawaiian Islands, on Au- gust 31, was guccessfuly towed into San Francizeo, by the United States transport Buford and the United States tug Slocum. Arrangements are reported for the cstablishment in Newport of a Gov- ernment torpedo factory, where all of this class of explosives used in the United States navy will be manufac- tured independent of private concerns. Charging that his wife was driven insane by a Northern Pacific railroad conductor's in Montana in April, 1994. Joseph | Figelnaki of Green Bay, Wis, has/ sued the company for $50,000 dam- ages. ! Bellingha: destroyed 2a buildings at The loss was $100,000. The Nebraska Bankers’ went on record as opposed to the plan of currency reform proposed by the committee of the American Banlers’ association. Fire destroyed the plants of the Whittier Coburn Oil Company and Barber Asphalt Paving Company, at 3 , Wash, hotel and Nooks City, association Seventh and Hocper streeis, San Francisco. The loss is $500.00. A monster | Ellwood, Pa. Tube Company, than 1,500 men the center of country. J bv the Shelby Seamless which will employ and make that town tube industry of the lant is being erected at VY ON MERCER {| PLAN HALF-BILLI | Chicago Concerns Have Scheme to Solve Traction Problems. Plans are under way for a $500,000,- of all the public service in Chicago. The con- included in the consoli- | dation are the local traction com- | panies, the Peoples and | companies, the Edison and Common- wealth electric companies, t.>% Auto- | matic and Independent | companies and the Chicago ; Company. | 000° merger | corporations | cerns to be Funnel i election The barge | ashore off Bar- gruffness while traveling | . 22.—Fire | seven business Wash. | Ogden gas | te_dphone | Will MOUNTAINS ARE SHATTERED South Sea Archipelago. Earthquake Causes Damage in| GREAT FISSURES IN ROCKS | — Tidal Wave Swept the Low-lying Ceast Devastating Country for 40 | Mites. Alarming in | shocks earthat New Guinea, Bismarek | tidal waves, | the | by the steamer pelago, foll much causing natives, were rsportet among fu uth sea. yorted that near Finchafen his steamer rolled and vi- brated considerably, due 10 seismic | disturbances. The efiect was plain | ashore, fissures being visible in the | ins. A tidal wave swept the | low-lying coast, devastating the coun- | trv for 40 miles. At Chiassi island, | in Dampier straits, the tidal wave | wrought great havoc, hardly a native | hut being left. | Along the New Guinea coast Cap- | tain Prejawa saw fissures in the moun- tain sides 200 feet long and 100 feet | | t | | | | | | | | | | Miowera, the Sc irom deep. The only European property destroyed was the German mission station. Captain Prejawa was unable to estimate the loss of life, but thought it considerable. TEN "INJURED IN WRECK and Roll In- | and Orrin | ightly in-| J. Bale-| and Mrs, sutawney, Pa; ‘Mr. | yf Bradford. and GQ. H.| Dul Pa. 3e accident is un-| known. The train was running at the | rate of about 30 miles hour when | the baggage ef wo day coaches | n toppled over in ditch. The remained on | rails. the OHi0'S OFFICIAL VOTE Head of Republican Pluraiity of Columbus, O., Nov. canvass of the vote Ticket Has a| 56,390. 22 —The official | cast at the late in Ohio was completed Dy | the Secretary of State today. The: total vote was 812,263. For Secretary | of State Thompsgn, Rep., received 408,066; Hoskins, Dem., 351,676; Hensle, Soc., 13,432; Hughes, Pro, Jisenberz, Soc.-Labor, 2,211; ering, 19,903. Thompson's plur- ality, 56,390. he vote for other State officers sliows: Member of Board ef Public Works—Watkins, Rep., 412,118; Nies- | wonger, Dem. 346,180. Watkins” | plurality, 65,93¢ State School Com- | missioner—Jones, Rep., 411,917; | Haupert, Dem. 246,081. Jones’ plur- | ality, State Dairy and Food | Commissioner—Dunlap, Rep., 416,832; | Diegle, Dem. 341 767. Dunlap’s plurality, 75,065. MARINE DISASTER Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Mail Liner Orinoco Collide. | It.is reported that a number of men | were killed in a collision between the Kaiser Vilhelm der Grosse and the Royal Mail liner Oronico, off Cher- i bourg. Both vessels are reported badly damaged. 1t is said four members of the crew of the Kaiser Wilhelm were killed, while 12 were injured. Five mem- hers of the crew of the Oronico are missing and are supposed fo have heen drowned. Knocks Out Two-Cent Fare Law. In the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeais Judge Cardwell handed down 4 . decision affirming the decision of { the State Corporation Commission, declaring the 2-cent passenger rate act by the Virginia trary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. The case | was a test one involving the require- | ment that the railroads place on sale 500-mile 2-ceni rate books. Grange Condemis Free Seed. The National Grange convention at Denver adopted resolutions condemn ing free seed distribution by the Gov- | ernment as being of no benefit, op- posing a national fertilizer law, and | favoring amendment of thz oleomar- i garine law by striking out the word “knowingly” to the end that conviec- tions may be procured for violation of the law. Rohhers Kill Two Men. i Two masked men in an attempt to hold up the St. kansas City. Kans., shot and killed William Goff, a clerk, and mortally wounded S. A. Haplin, an actor. The | robbers made their escape. Choctaw Negroes Enriched. | The reversal by the interior depart- nent of a decision of Commissioner Tams Bixby, of the Five Tribes, en- | titles all negroes in the Choctaw na- tion who are known as freedmen, un- | der the age of 21 who were living on | March 4, 1906, to a place on the rools. Between three and four thousand per- | sons are affected. Each individual | receive the equivalent of 40 i acres of lard, commercially worth $15 | an acre. legislature con-' Charies hotel at Ar- | RAILWAY EARNINGS. Stupendous Figures Show Average Returns of $10,543 Per Mile. A preliminary report of the inter- state commerce commission on the income accounts of the ways of the United States for the end- ing June 30 ‘ust contain om companies ai ing niles of | tines. about $9 per cent. of the mile- age that will be covered in the final report. The tctal 8 5. of | the | roads were us to $10,543 per 3.1 Pas ings were $618.5 2 $1,640,942,- perating ex- mile, ane $62, or $7 penses per mi Hearty Greeting Given in Many I ship or $6,963 p i . Ww The net earnings of the roads were 1 $787,597,877, or $3,580 per mile. In-i| come from other sources than of operation -regated $152,624,982. The dividends paid amounted to $229, 406,598 and s $68,903,288 ARREST STANDARD OFFICERS Resident Director, Secretary Treasurer Give Bail. H. P. Mcintosh of Cleveland, a director of the Standard Qil Company of Ohio. one of the men indicted by the grand jury last week, arrived at | Findlay, O., and was formally placed and under arrest. Subseouently Mr. Mec- Intosh was taken into court. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of violating the Valentine anti-trust law and was released on $1,608 bail. M. @. Vilas and *J. M. Robertson, treasurer and secretary respectively, of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, indicted th’ John D. Rockefel- ler and H. P. csh appeared in court. They did niead but each gsiened a bond for 31. for their | € December when indice GATION ANNULLED Court z < m « = | to of Appea The Supreme Court of Appeals West Virginia, put an end to the ate Investigation Cou ed just before adjournment of the last session of the State Legislature to charges of malfeasance in ttee appoint- office preferred against former Gov- ernor White by State Senator Cald- Reese Blizzard. well and Jud The Court's decision declares the committee to be without legal au- thority and Caldwell and Blizzard are released from tine nominal custody of Sheriff Carter of Wood county. The Court holds that a committee ap- pointed by one: branch of the Legisla- ture is without authority after ths Legislature adjourns GET $1,500,000 FOR MINE Colonel Guffey Confirms Reported Sale of Colorado Property. Colonel J. M. Guffey of Pittsburz, confirmed the report of the sale of a Colorado mining property, in which he holds a large share of the stock, | to a syndicate of Chicago capitalists | for $1,500,000. The mine is owned by Colonel Guf- fey, J. H. Galey and W. E. Renshaw, is located near Idaho City, and has been in operation for four rears It produces both goid and silver and is fully equipped with first-class ma- | chinery. The coinpa owns a light and power piant, which, in addition | to supplying the mine, supplies Idaho | City. | EXPLOSION FATAL! CELLULOID Owner of Plant, Wife and Son Are Blown Out of a Window. By the explosion of celluloid in the plant of the Bouftard Comb Company i | { | i i | on East Seventy-fifth street, New York, the owner of the business. | | i Charles Bouffard, his wife and a boy | employed by him were blown through | the window. to the street below. The | woman was instantly killed. Bouffard | was dying and the boy is gariously in- | jured. The explosion wrecked the third | floor, and fire that followed, though | it was soon extinguished. badly burn- | ed several emploves of adjoining | plants, among 300 of whom there was | a panic for a time. | Someta ts me ee 1 Dr. Crapsey a Heretic. | Rev. Dr. Algernon S. Crapsey, of | St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal | Church, Rochester. N. Y., is condemn- | ed to suspension from the church, as | a result of the decision of the eccles- iastical court of review, made public The court sustains the decision of the lower court, which was that Dr. Crapsey should be suspended for heretical teachings. New Oil' Field Found. | An oil well, estimated to be good for 300 to 500 barrels per day, was struck on the George Brenneman farm on the West Virginia sid2 of the river just opposite the mouth of Yel- low creek. Much drilling has been done in this vicinity of late, but this is the first genuine strike. It opens a new field. Other wells will be put down at once. eal Coo] Meather Kills Hindoos. | The Hindoos imported to work on | yailroad construction in British | umbia are suifering intensely from lack of clothing suited to their cli- mate. It is said several have perish- ed, low temperature and thin gar- ments being the cause. Millionaire Weds Stenographer. Henry Chisholm, millionaire son of Wilson B. Chisholm and a member of ‘he most select social circles in Cleveland, O., and Miss Anna Laugh- ray, a stenographer, were married by the Rev. Patrick Farrell at the Bis- | hop’s house of St. John’s Cathedral. | | | | | Allegheny anti-annexationists car- ried their fight against a greater city into the supreme court, thus staying for awhile the consolidation of the two | cities. those | & b a | | ing pectant throng, | been in their places all night to wit- | ness the { As the crowd cheered i | Presidente.” were over the Pre i by Gov. Winth delivered O C I ena hasten*that day will which mus out PRESIDENT IN PORT RICO. Tow PARADE BY SCHOOL CHILDRE! once {i i.oul oard the vessel ‘ho The P and and. shore y a delegati nd citizens. | profusely decorate | honor, was crowded with people from | | the surrounding | greet Mr. RO in spite of piace Presi bui evel f the rowed The “1 shall secure am CO and all be unce path peoble. was school. children h “America” as the President drove up. | jacq The presidential party left Ponce at j fone {10:30 for San Juan over the famous | | military { conveyed the party. was escorted by | Pius letters containing Before driven t extended a was was incoming enthusiast leavin road. | | ns and Cities. ! Island to San in Autcmobiies. by i welcome at greeted at once the pier | resigent officials 3 on of prominent The town, which Ww »d in the Presiden + oe = uw country eager oO osevelt. . the early hour the land- crowded with an ex- many of whom had of the Louisana. dent stepped ashore the him, crying: ‘Vive el When the greetings cident, accompanied was driven to the | city hall, Mrs. and Mrs. | Roosevelt follow The Pres s kept busy ac-| knowledging ct all along the two- mile line of om the landing | place to the plaza of the {own. 1 At the cit vddress of wel- | ccme was { to the President. He He trom t! / useing the in ‘Ponce. in the y do My efforts to help vou aloig f-government, a union come {Oo for its ba and honer.” ident said: rt as fel- Ponce the President o the Roosevelt high and assembled sang | Eleven automobiles ! Arriving at San Juan the President | | | the Porto Rico pro- | visional regiment to the governor's | palace. The city: was elaborately | | decorated. He received a particularly warm re- i . | ception as he pass2d the Casino, the t exclusive Spanish Club. FOPE IS THREATENED Recsives Letters From Anarch- ists Who Seek His Life. The Pope has received personal threats that = he will bs assassinated in the Apostolic | palace as a ent orgamniza The Anare protest against tion of society. ts, it is said, are ready the pres- to employ every means to destroy all | institutions by military forces. The Pope ported by religion or has kept one of the nails | which formed the charge of the bomb | Illinois Central railroa | §ireet nec 1 DUPED MANY PEOPLE With Brokers cC ndesrwriters in League With Whom They Divided. . Several underwriting and broker- o companies, of Chicago, which are leeod to be fraudulent, were attack- United States marshals, as- 1 by postoffice inspectors, and » men, accused of promoting the qd fraudulent enterprises, were to Federal. officers, the 4 obtained nearly $1,000- persons throughout the The men arrested and the s with which the Federal au- they fol- are say connected WwW. N. and W. D. of the Central and Guarantee Rook, vice president; Endicott rarles Brown, president of the Prudential Securities Corpora- tion. brokers. Frank S. Winslow, president Ameri- can Corperation & Security Company. Ezra C. Barnum, president of the National Stock & Guaranty Company, and the Bankers’ Credit & Mercantile Jompany. David C. Owings, Guaranty Company. Hulbert, Root and Welch gave bonds of $5,000 each. The other men were unable to furnish bonds. According to Federal officers the underwriting companies were in league with the brokerage companies, with whom they divided the fees tak- 1 from the underwriting. BIG DAMAGE BY STORM National Stock & Away in Tennessee. Owing the pressure of water of against two spans of the d bridge across is, Tenn., they Mempl y. houses in Alabama Johnson avenue collapsed and fell into Bayou Gayoso. The country schools have closed in most of the districts, owing to the im- passability of roads. All roads lead- ing to the country from Memphis are of county levees the greater por- The miles ier and probably destroyed. water tion is McQuinn drydocks are almost a total isss, and a’ ferry-boat in Wolf river has been sunk. More than 50 county bridges are re- | ported washed out. Here several hundred school | 4 2 The Nashville, Chattanooga‘ & St. T.onis railroad has suspended husi- and other roads are in bad shape. Boston Wool Market. The wool market is in a healthful, progressive condition, with steady de- mand and prices prevailing. A feat- ure of the situation is the scarcity of wools runming to three-eighths and half blood grades. This is particu- larly noticeable in territories and in fleeces. Attention. is now being paid to clothing wools. Pulled wools are steady. Individual transactions in territories touch the 500,000-pound mark. Foreign grades are firm. Lead- ing domestic quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above, 33% to Jc; X. 31 to 32¢; No. 1, 40 to 41c¢; No. 2. 38 to 3%c; fine unwashed, 25 to 26c: unmeschantable, 29 to 30c; half blood, unwashed. 33 to 33%c3 three-cizhths blood unwashed, 34 to 3414¢; quarter blood, unwashed, 32 to 22a. delaine, Washed, 35@ to 36¢; de- laine, unwashed, 29 to 30cC. CURRENT NEWS ITEMS he United States supreme court decided against the national counkcil in the Jr. 0. U. A. M. litigation in | Virginia. exploded at St. Peter's as a sou- renir of the explosion. Many mes- | sages expressing indignation at the outrage have been received by the Pontiff. Sugar Trust Fine Heavily. The American Sugar Refining Com- pany was found guilty by a jury in the United States Circuit New Yori Court at of accepting rebates amounting to $26,000 from the New York Central railroad. The New York Central was recently found guilty of giving rebat ar Refining 000. | States Steel Corporation, aggregating | es to the American Sug- Company and fined $108,-! WAGES INCREASED United States Steel Corporation to Give 10 Cents a Day More. A wage a from $3.000.¢ which it is fect every t mill of the the great combine, was announced in | York by of New Chairman of the Steel affects an United S:ates of 110,000 men. the Pittsburg than 50,000 men. fects in 10 cents a dvance by the United 300 to $6,060,000 annually, hought will eventually af- ranch of labor subsidiary companies of Judge E. H. the Board of Directors Corporation. The advance estimated total in If af- district more The increase will be dav for all employes and goes into effect January 1. Dix's To the d steamship Dix eight names were add- | { ed, making Col- | | clerk of the House. as a result are still near where collision wi United Stat searching Dead Number Fifty. eath list of the wrecked a total of 50 known dead, of the disaster. Parties along the shore the Dix went down. after th the steamer Jeanie. marine inspectors will es i begin an investigation of the wreck. Republican Majority 58. The first official report on the mem- bership of the House in the Sixtieth | Congress has just been issued by the The Republicans | 3 Sed c= | are shown to. have a majority of 58. | The Republican membership is and the Democratic membership 164. | lower i The direc 222 tors of the Chase National bank of New York have declared a cash dividend of 400 per cent, amount ing to $4.0 12 to stock ber 30. 00,000, payable December holders of record Novem- { ma canal in every | Gary, | the | | President Roosevelt provided a new i system of government for the Pana- zone, making Chairman | Shonts supreme there. A gaug of yeggmen blew open the | safe in the Sinclairville, postoffice and escaped with $400 and $300 worth of stamps. According to the official report made public the gold production of the mines of the Black Hills for the past year was $6,986,900, a decrease | of $250,000 from the previous year. | city by John Jacob Astor camp of Spanish War Veterans, the action of { the President {ion of negro | fifth infantry was indorsed. Ralph H. Churchill, cashier of a | meat market. at Findlay, O., shot and instantly killed himself. He was 30 vears old and came {from Sandusky i several months ago. Justice Greenbaum in the supreme court of New York transferred the Thaw case from Recorder Goff’s | court in generalssessions to the crimi- nal branch of the supreme court be- fore Justice Newburger. The trial is set for December 3. ! $2,000,000 For Missions. { The address of President D. B. | Lyman, of Chicago, opened the form- | al business session of the fourth mis- | sionary conference of the Laymen’s Forward Movement in the fifth mis- | sionary department of the Protestant Episcopal church, at Cincinnati. The | proposal to raise $2,000,000 as a thank i offering for 1907 the three hundredth | anniversary of the church, was pre- | sented in an address by Rev. Holmes | Fhe of Dayton. | | | { | | { At a campfire given in Washington | | in dismissing a battal- trocops of the Twenty- | | Woman's Suffrage Favored. The American Federation of Labor declared for woman’s suffrage. The onvention, with but one dissentiig vote, adopted a reselution calling up- | on the judiciary committee of the branch of congress to report to the house the joint resolution which provides for submitting to the legislatures of the various states an amendment ‘to the constitution of the United States allowing ' women ta vote. Q (N, ¥.),) . “A ~ ”" - » i i pri PH et ed BA NYO a ea Lik