* NEW LAWS RECOMMENDED
West Virginia’s Governor Makes
Suggestions.
TALKS ON GAS EXPORTATION
Holds That Provisions of Federal Con-
stitution Would Not Allow Tax to
Be Levied.
Both branches of the West Virginia
legislature were in session for a short
time on the 10th during which the
Governor's message -was received.
The message proposes further re-
.8trictions on tax levying bodies, the
creation of a new source of revenue,
changes in the methods of taxing
banks, the regulation by law of po-
litical parties, nomination of all ecandi-
dates, including those for United
States Senator, by the primary elec-
tion system; amendments of the in-
surance laws, regulation of the pro-
duction of gas, creation of a board of
managers for State institutions and
the enlargement of the Senate. One
extract from the message follows:
“I take it we could not, in the face
of the provision of the Federal Con-
stitution, levy any tax on natural gas
for the purpose of preventing its be-
ing taken from beyond our State; and.
that we could not do any other act!
which would interfere with the power |
of Congress over inter-State
merce. oo
“But thése provisions of the Federal |
Constitution modified by what is |
known 2s the police power ~ of © fhe]
States. But how far modified it. is |
difficult to say, because it is easier to.
say what the police power is not, in,
any given case, than to give a defi]
nition. of it."
In tlie House - Mr- Williams of: b
fered a joint resoiution-: prifTaing for:
the holding of a: convention, to start |
a movement toward having €ongress
take steps to secure an additional |
amendment of the national] legislation
Bo that the United States Senators may |
be elected by a direct vote of the!”
people. . a
Former Governors W. A. McCorkle
and A. B. Fleming appeared before
the House in the interest of the de-
sired appropriation for West Vir-
ginia representation at the Jamestown |
Exposition. .
State Auditor A. C. Scherr is sub-
mitting his annual report in sections |
to Governor Dawson and the Legis- |
lature. Part II. has been issued in|
book form. It relates to the insur-|
ance business of the State and con-|
tains recommendations which, =: if |
adopted, will mean a new era in the
office of the Auditor of West Virginia.
The main recommendation is for the
appcintment of an insurance commis- |
sioner who will take all of that work |
away from the Auditor.
com- |
are
DELIVER MESSAGES IN PERSON
Glenn, of North Carolina, and Hanly,
of Indiana, Establish a New
Custom in Legislatures.
Over the protest of certain members
who held that it was unconstitutional, |
Governor Glénn of North Carolina,
appeared before the joint session of
the legislature and personally read
his biennial message, which deals with
State affairs, the most important rec-|
ommendation heing that 214 cents per
mile, be fixed as the maximum pass-
enger rate in North Carolina.
Governor Hanly read, in person, his
message to the Indiana Legislature.
He dwelt on the corruption among |
State officials that had been exposed
and punished. The galleries were
crowded and the governor was S enthus;
lastically cheered.
Recsmitiends Purchase of Canal.
The Chesapeake and Delaware ca-
nal commission has recommended to
the secretary of war the purchase by
ithe government of that waterway and
its construction into a free and open |
waterway having a depth and capacity |
sufficient to accommodate the largest
vessel afloat at mean low water. It
places the valuc ofthe canal at $2,514
89.70. Its estimate for a 35-foot ca-
nal is $0621 323.70.
DLO.
RECIPE FOR OLD AGE
Man Who Lived to 104 Years Took
Hour to Each Meal.
After living 104 years, working
hard, eating and drinking heartily for |
more than four score years, John Kel-
ly died at Providence, R. 1. January |
13. Mr. Kelly gave up active work |
at 97, his eyesight failng. He 1#%ed !
whisky, but drank it only after meals.
Mr. Kelly never. gulped down his |
food, eating three times a day and |
spending an hour at each meal. This
custom he learned from relatives who |
lived to ripe old age, his grandmoth-
er and an aunt dying at 104 like him-
self, and his wife living to be 99 years
old.
Trouble in Spain.
There was a gigantic clerical dem-
onstration at Bilbao Spain, Sunday,
which was attended by some rioting.
The government's energetic precau-
tion in holding the garrison in readi-
ness prevented serious disturbances.
There was a similar manifestation at
San Sebastian, where 30,000 persons
paraded the town. The demonstration
however, passed off peaceably.
Provisions for Starving China.
Three hundred tons of flour, mak-
ing 12,000 sacks, were shipped from
Stockton, Cal., to be loaded on the
steamer Coptic in San Francisco for
the starving people in China. The
shipment constitutes the entire amount
purchased for China by the National
Red Cross Society.
The Rev. Oliver Dyer, the first per-
son to master stenography in the
United States, and a well known au-
thor, died at Boston, “of bronchitis,
aged 72 years.
i Will receive
{ered as a
| Tsing-Kiang-¥u, |
| camps as consisting of mat sheds ar-|
| are thronged with rice peddlers.
| men tear up the roots of grass for food
| fined to
| people to return to their homes. Some
| of them comply,
| depart.
| has yet been started.
| continues there will be
| problem to face.
bound for Chicago dashed into an open
switch
| none fatally.
| can laborer.
| switch the
| and turned overapining the engineer
iR. A. Alger.
| tors’ schedule of wages and hours.
24 SINK WITH SHIP
Crew ‘of British Freighter Lost and
Only Living Thing on Board
Saved Is a Dog.
The British ship Pengwern, Captain
Williams, from Taltal, Chile, October
6, for Falmouth with a cargo of salt-
petre, grounded off Scharhorn, about
10 miles northwest of Cuxhaven, Ger-
many. Twenty-four men, comprising
the crew, were drowned and the car-
go is a total loss.
The tug Vulkan went to the assist-
ance of the stranded vessel and
passing closely to her ‘the crew of fae
Pengwern: threw a live dog and a
bundle of clothes aboard the tug, but
disregarded the appeals to jump into
the water so that they might be res-
cued. The Vulkan made repeated at-
tempts to reach the Pengwern, but a
heavy sea broke over her and she dis-
appeared from view.
INCREASE FOR RAILROADERS
Almost 18,000 Men on Western Lines
‘Get Concessions:
Western
increased wages to
neers aggregating between
and $6,000,000 annually. The increase
will affect about 18,000 engineers on
all railroads west of €hicage.
negotiations were
a committee headed by Chief W.
Stone of the Brotherhood of Loco-
motive Engineers and another of gen-
locomotive engi-
eral managers, représenting the rail- |
roads.
On passenger locomotives engineers |
a five-cent increase on a
.100-mile run. - On freight engines the
increase will range between eight and
{12 cents a hundred miles. Switch en- |
| gineers will receive an addition of be-|
tween 50 -and 7 cents® for a day
12 hours.
The engineers,.agr ced
their. ¢oniténtions=for reduced working |
time’ ands for eghrase o afsime pay.
| This-is the first fime in western rail- |
road history ‘that the demands of a |
labor” organization have been consid- |
.whole by all the railroads |
in a large: territory. Many minor |
details are yet to’ ‘be settled specifical-
ly.
to give up
WORST OF PAVING TO COME
Chinese Women Cooking Leaves,
Twigs and Roots of Grass.
Captain Kirton, the Foreign Relief
Commissioner in the famine camp at
deseribes the refuge |
ranged in rectangular groups in street |
formation two miles long and a mile
wide. In the other camps in the vi- |
cinity ‘off Tsing-Kiang-Fu of nearly |
half a millionsrefuges 30per cent show
signs. of distgess and among 10 per
cent the suffering is acute. The roads
Wo-
and are cooking leaves and twigs.
The efforts of the officials are con-
attempts to - persuade the
but more arrive and
One hundred thousand men
idle. No. relief work
If th® inaction
a gigantic
The worst pinch has
are absolutely
not yet been felt.
FIVE DEAD IN WRECK
Rock Island Train Runs Into an Open
Switch.
Running at high speed a Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train
N..M. Five per-
and eight injured,
at Barney,
sons weére killed
The dead are: B.
J. Redfield, fireman;
unidentified hoy
Ackley, engineer;
unindentified
and Mexi-
C.
passenger,
the train - dashed into the
locomotive left the track
‘When
and the fireman underneath. The ex-
press car, the dining ear and a Pull-
man were thrown from the track.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
Congressman William Alden Smith,
of Grand Rapids, Mich., was nominat-
ed to succeed Utnited States Senator
More than $70,000,000 was paid out
in wages by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to its 103,796 employes
during the last fiscal year, according
to its latest annual report to the
state bureau of ‘railways of Pennsyl- |
vania.
No meeting of the Republican na-
tional committee will be held until
next December, the call in circulation
for an earlier one having been with-
drawn, as the candidates for the pres-
idency are not ready for a test of
strength. .
Work was resumed in the mines of
the Goldfield region, the 2,000 striking
miners voting to accept the opera-
Governor-elect Edwin S. Stuart, of
| Pennsylvania announced the appoint-
ment of M. Hampton Todd to be At-
torney General of the State, to suc-
ceed Hampton L. Carson.
The walls of Chicago’s new $5,000,-
000 Court House, not yet half com-
pleted, are bulging alarmingly and an
investigation has been ordered by
the County Board. ?
Two thousand dollars to pay the
employes of the Puritan mine at Al-
toona, Pa., was stolen from the en-
gine house, where it had been placed
temporarily.
MANYKILLEDBYHOT METAL
Breaking of Furnace Causes a
Frightful Calamity.
DROWNED BY FIERY FLUID
Workmen Could Not Escape from the
Flowing, Hissing Torrent as It
Poured Out.
By the breaking of one of the Eliza
furnaces of the Jones & Laughlin
Steel Company at Pittsburg at least
12 men were killed and four others are
at. hospitals with little hope of re-
covery.
There was no explosion—1,500 tons
of molten metal suddenly broke
through a solid wall of brick and
metal, shot upward and outward and
railroads decided to grant | : :
’ g | standing had their feet burned from
$5,000,000 |
| at once,
| manner
of | and say
then spread over the ground.
At white heat and. just ready to be
| poured froni the furnace, the flood of
metal swept life before it. Workmen
under
stantly
the
and in-
Great masses of
dropped for 100 yards on
them or were upset
cremated.
metal
The | 211 sides of the furnace, setting fire
‘earried on between | to structures and human beings in its
S. |
! torches,
path. A number of men, blazing like
were found running about
the plant immediately after the furn-
ace let go.
A dozen buildings started a blaze
while fires flared up on all
of surrounding woodwork
and in hundreds of different places at
once.
Jones & Laughlin representatives
place the monetary loss at $50,000,
the accident was caused by
the lowerspart of the furnace weak-
| ening.
PROMISES MORE ARRESTS
Jerome Claims All Officials of State
Life Insurance Company Have Not
Been Apprehended.
More arrests may be made in con-
| nection with the investigation of the
| affairs of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company, according to an an-
.nouncement made by District Attorney
Jerome. The announcement was
made while the district attorney was
opposing an application of counsel
for George W. Perkins, now under
indictment in the New York Life case,
for an inspection of the entire min-
utes of the December grand jury,
Mr. Jerome said it would be de-
fiance of public policy to grant such a
request as there are persons mention-
ed in the evidence who have not yet
been arrested but who may be at
some future time. No decision was
reached in the matter, the court di-
recting counsel for both sides to sub-
! mit briefs in duplicatfon of the ver-
bal arguments.
P. R. R. PROPOSES STOCK ISSUE
Issue to Provide for Taking
Over Other Roads.
The Pennsylvania railroad proposes
to add more millions to its treasury.
Its plan, which will be left to the
40,000 shareholders for approval, is to
create another issue of stock to the
amount of $100,000,000 to support an-
other $100,000,000 bond issue.
Announcement of {~this plan was
made public in conjunction with a call
to the stockholders for the annual
meeting on March 12, when the prop-
osition will be laid before them for
consideration.
The company already has an au-
thorized capital stock of $400,000,000,
New
States Steel Corporation and of this,
tion of outstanding convertible bonds.
With the entire authorized issue thus
accounted for, the company
- that,
to issue any part of the proposed new
stock or bonds during the current
year,
necessity that may arise.
One of the purposes of the new is-
sue, it is said, is to provide for tak-
ing over subsidiary companies, the
| stock of the Iatter to be taken in ex-
change for Pennsylvania railroad
stock.
Precious Metal Production.
The director of the mint made a
preliminary estimate of the production
of gold and silver in the United
States during the calendar year 1905.
The total is: Gold, value, $96,101,400;
silver, fine ounces, $56,183,500. The
figures for
and a net gain in silver production of
$82,100.
Dies Cheering Revolution.
The assassin of Lieutenant General
Pavloff, the Military Procurator of St.
Petersburg, was executed at Lisynos,
near Cronstadt. He refused to take
the sacrament and died with a cheer
for the revolution on his lips. The
head was removed and preserved for
identification.
Centenarian Dies in Prison.
David Martin, serving a life sent-
ence for the murder of his wife, died
at the Anamosa (Iowa) prison. Mar-
tin was 100 years of age and served
Andrew Jackson as a coachman. He
never asked for a pardon and was con-
Gov. Deneen sent a special mess-
age to the Illinois legislature recom- |
mending an emergency appropriation
of $150,000 for the purpose
paring and trying a suit against the
Illinois ‘Central Railway
collect back taxes.
Japanese Invade Manila.
A Philippine-Japanese " association
has been formed at Tokio to cultivate
commercial relations between Japan
and the Philippine Islands, develop
navigation between Japan and the Is-
lands and found a Japanese bank and
an insurance company at Manila.
of pre-|
Company to
tent with his prison life.
Mob Chases Sheriff.
A mob of 75 men tried ineffectually
fo take from the authorities five ne-
gro suspects under arrest in connec-
tion with the attack by a negro of
| Gladys Shelton, Va. The mob chased
| the Sheriff and his deputies two miles
near Monroe, Amherst county.
Senators Foraker and Lodge both
made concessions and the senate will
agree to an investigation of the
Brownsville (Texas) riots, on ac-
count of which President Roosevelt
discharged negro troops.
which is only exceeded by the United |
states | ~p rch of Christ at Des Moines, Iowa, |
while it may not be necessary | ,, 3 genounced card playing as a sin.
all the States show a net |
gain .in gold production of $7,920,700 |
| of having murderously assaulted Cap-
PAVLOFF ASSASSINATED
Man Who Shot Him Kills Policeman
Before Being Caught.
Lieut. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff, the
Russian military procurator advocate
general, generally known since the
days of the late parliament as ‘“Hang-
man Pavloff’ from the epithet con-
stantly applied to him by the radi-
cal deputies, was shot and killed
while walking in the garden of the
chief military curt building near the
Moika canal, St. Petersburg.
The assassin, who was disguised,
was captured after a long chase
through the crowded city streets,
during which he fired about 40 shots
from two revolvers which he carried,
killing a policeman and wounding a
small boy.
The crime was executed deliberate-
ly and showed evidence of the same
careful preparation which was
characteristic of the murders of
Gens. Ignatieff and Von Der Launitz
and undoubtedly was carried out by
the same organization which, it is
reported, has sentenced Emperor
Nicholas and several of the ministers
to death.
The assassin, who wore the uniform
of a military clerk attached to the
court, succeeded in obtaining an en-
trance to the garden under the pre-
text of submitting a report to the
military procurator. He approached
the unsuspecting general within arm’s
length, drew an automatic pistol, and
discharged the whole load,
shots into Pavloff’s body.
Every shot was well aimed and two
of them tore a gaping wound in his
breast, from which
pired while being carried to his apart-
ments, which were located in the
same ‘building.
KILL THIRTY STRIKERS
Mexican Troops Fire
Textile Workers—Over Eighty
Men Wounded.
Thirty textile workers were killed |
and over 80 wounded during
trouble between strikers and troops
at Nogales in the Orizaba mill dist- |
rict, Mexico. The strikers have now
ceased all acts of violence and the
government is in complete control of
ithe situation. It was learned that the
strikers opened the jails and freed all
the prisoners and then pilaged stores
and residences.
When the strikers first reached No-
gales one mill official and a gendarme
from Orizaba made: an ineffectual at-
tempt to check them. A striker threw
a stone at the mayor of Orizaba,
knocking him to the ground. The
mayor ‘arose and shot the striker
dead. It was soon after this that the
troops fired into the mob, killing and
injuring the large number of strik-
ers.
A bedy of 700 men gathered on a
railroad track and held the train for
the city of Vera Cruz for several
hours, the engineman not daring to
run through the crowd. Troops ar-
rived and charged the men with
broadswords, scattering them.
SCORE BURN TO DEATH
Celluloid Explosion in ~~ Factory
Causes Terrible Fire.
Sixteen girls and four youths from
15 to 18 years old were burned to
death at Geispolsheim, near Strass-
burg, Germany, in a fire at Hubert
Company’s factory. A basket of cel-
luloid scraps caught fire and exploded
in a room where 40 persons were
working. The flames spread quickly,
cutting off exits.
Champion Renounces Cards.
Before a congregation of nearly 1,-
| 5 1 while the preache
| $905 900.000 1a patetinding. the Balance | 000 persons and .while the preacher
being held in reserve for the conven- |
was in the midst of his sermon Mrs.
A. B. Sims, a society woman and
holder of the national women’s whist |
championship, arose in the University
It is said recent evangelical meetings
it wants-to be prepared for any | are responsible for the change in Mrs.
Sims’ ideas.
Congressman Charles Curtis was
nominated for United States Senator
from Kansas to suceed Senator Benson
by the caucus of Republican Legisla-
tors. The action of the caucus is
equivalent to election.
Court Martial Ordered.
Secretary Taft telegraphed Brigad- |
ier General McCaskey, commanding |
the department of Texas, with head-
quarters at San Antonio, to try at
once by military court-martial Cor-
poral Knowles, Company A, Twenty-
fifth infantry, colored, who is now
under arrest at El Reno on a charge
tain Macklin of that regiment.
Japs Not Excited.
It is reported from Tokyo that the
Japanese press ridicules the attempts
of the Russian papers to cause a dis-
turbance between Japan and the
United States. Japanese public opin.
ion is said to be quite free from ex-
citement over the San Francisco
question, which is regarded as alto-
gether inadequate to disturb the tra-
ditional friendship of the two nations.
Boston & Maine Raises $3,000,000.
The Boston & Maine railroad com-
pleted arrangements to raise $3,000,-
000 cash for the purpose of carrying
on contemplated improvements on
various parts of the system, and pur-
chasing new equipment, etc.
Shah of Persia Dead.
The Shah of Persia ‘died January
9, at Teheran, after a long illness.
Muzaffar-Ed-Din was born at Te-
heran March 25, 1853, and succeeded
his father, Nasr-Ed-Din; on the death
of the latter May 1, 1896. The late
shah leaves many children and will
be succeeded by his eldest son, Mo-
hammed Ali Mirza, who-was born in
1872. The late shah was strongly pro-
Russian and as a result Russian in-
fluence has been predominant at
Teheran.
seven !
the general ex-|
Into Crowd of |
the’|
|
| employed in Mexico.
ESCAPED A FEARFUL DENTH
Farmer Tied to Railroad Track by
Highwaymen.
SON WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Was Choked and Beaten by Highway-
men When He Went to His Fath °
er’'s Assistance.
After being brutally beaten by thugs
and while his son, also assaulted, lay
unconscious near by, Frank Mason, a
farmer of Industry township, Beaver
County, Pa., was tied to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks, and only miss-
ed a horrible death hy summoning all
his remaining strength and wrench-
ing himself free just as the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Flyer was thundering
down upon him.
Mason was returning in a wagon
from Midland to his home in Industry,
while his son, Frank, Jr., preceded him
a short distance in another wagon.
At a lonely place in the road two
masked men suddenly stepped out
from the roadside and, while one
stopped the elder man’s horses, the
other demanded his money.
The farmer tried to whip up his
horses, but was unsuccessful. He
I was dragged from. his seat and quick-
{ly overpowered, being kicked and
beaten by the highwaymen as he lay
on the ground.’
The son soon missed his father and
walked back to find out what was |
| wrong. He was seized by the thugs |
i and thrown to the ground and choked |
into insensibility. The older man re- |
| newed his fight, but was again over-!
powered, the robbers pounding his
head with stones. His pockets were
j rifled of $57 in cash.
The robbers then dragged him to the
railroad tracks nearby and fastened
securely to the rails. Partially
conscious, though suffering intense
| pain, Mason heard one of the wretch-
| es remark that the ‘“flyer’” would be
| due soon and that it would ‘fix him.”
He had almost abandoned hope
when he heard the rumble of the fly-
er. Gathering all his strength he
made a last desperate effort and
snapped the rope,-crawling from the
tracks as the headlight of the engine
sent a gleam of light along the place
where he had lain.
After waiting until he had partly
recovered from his fearful ordeal,
Mason dragged himself to a nearby
farmhouse. and told his experience.
The son was found lying unconscious
in the road and was revived with diffi- |
culty.
| him
SANTA FE INDICTED
Total of 76 Counts in the Arraign-
ments of the Road on Charges
of Rebating.
The Federal grand jury at Los An- |
geles, Cal, returned two indictments |
against the Santa Fe Railroad Com- |
pany containing 76 counts.
The railroad is charged in the first
‘indictment of 66 counts with granting |
certain concessions to the Grand Can-
yon Lime & Cement Company on |
shipments of lime from Nelson, Arz.,
to certain California points and to
John F. Shirlen. The second indict-
ment charges the railroad company
with giving rebates on lime.
Two indictments were returned al-
| so against the Grand Canyon Lime
| & Cement Company for accepting re-
bates and concessions.
2,100 Japanese Coming.
Reliable information has been re-
ceived at Washington of a prospective
influx of over two thousand Japanese
into the United States from Mexico.
The exact number is given at 2,182,
some of whom have arrived, and
others are expected to arrive at
Mazatlan, Mexico. They were to be
Those who have
arrived have become dissatisfied and
some have started for the Mexican
{ border. If they are sound mentally
| and physically and the other require-
{ ments of the immigration laws are
met there is nothing to prevent them
from entering the United States.
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SENATOR BAILEY ON RACK
| Texas Will Investigate Alleged Con-
nection With Standard.
A resolution providing for a sweep-
ing investigation of the conduct of
Senator Bailey was introduced in the
Texas Legislature. It is signed by
28 members of the Legislature. Sen-
ator Bailey’s term expires on March
In the primary election of last July
Senator Bailey was endorsed for Sen-
ator by almost unanimous vote of the
peple.
that evidence has been
which, it is said, shows that he has
received large sums of money in
Oil Company, alleged to be a sub-
sidiary concern of the Standard Oil.
Lynching in lowa.
A crowd of 1,000 men
Charles City, Ia.
len out and lynched him.
accumulated 850,000 as a contractor.
| He killed his wife and his 15-year-old
stepson, and attempted to commit
suicide, but failed.
President Rcosevelt has definitely
decided to make a trip to Indianapolis,
| Ind., to attend the unveiling of the
| monument to Henry W. Lawton, on
Memorial day. He made this prom-
| ise to a committee of citizens of In-
diandpolis.
Announcement was made that the
chair of chemistry at the University of
Pennsylvania, now filled y Dr. Edgar
F. Smith, has been endowed in the
sum of $100,000. The university au-
thorities decline to make public the
|
|
| Minneapolis.
| offices in the two cities will be con-
| controls all the companies. named,
| high Company.
iH.
Since that time it is charged |
obtained |
loans and fees from the Waters-Pierce |
| three-eighths blood, unwashed, 33 to
| 33¢c;
battered
through the walls of the county Jail at the Duke and Duchess of Marlborou
aid took James Cul. thas been signed. News that the dg
Cullen had |
name of the donor.
THINK CONSPIRACY EXISTS
Alleged Pact to Kill Every White
Officer at Fort Reno Said to Have
Been Unearthed.
Belief of the army officers at Fort
Reno that & conspiracy to murder
every white officer at Fort Reno. he-
ginning with Capt. Edgar A. Macklin,
as a result of the affair at Browns-
ville, Texas, and the discharge of the
negro soldiers that followed, became
known during the preliminary hearing
in the case of Edward L. Knowles,
corporal of Company A, Twenty-fifth
infantry, who was held on a charge of
assault with. intent to -kill : Capt.
Macklin on the night of December
21.
All of the officers now go heavily
armed and protected throughout the
night. Every effort has been made to
keep the alleged conspiracy a secret,
but it is learned that an investigation
is now being conducted at several
army posts, and within a short “lime
several arrests of the members of the
troops recently discharged in dis-
grace are €xpected to follow.
STOVE WORKS "DESTROYED
Buildings Covering Ten Acres Burn,
Entailing a Loss of $750,000.
Fire ruined a major portion of the
large plant of the Michigan Stove
Works in Jefferson avenue, Detroit,
causing a loss estimated at $750,000.
while the entire plant was: insured”for
but $380,000.
Upward of 15,000 gas and coal
stoves were ruined and of the tre-
mendous plant covering an area of
10 or 12 acres, only the office build-
ing, the foundries and part of the
storage building, less than one-third of
the entire establishment, was saved.
Several firemen were injured by
falling debris and half a dozen spec-
| tators were hurt.
IRON TRADE EASY
Large Advance Orders Given
Reason for Present Conditions.
The ‘Iron Trade Review’ says:
“Well defined indications of easier
conditions are noticeable this week.
It was hardly to be expected that the
astonishing demand for all iron and
steel products which has prevailed for
many months would be continued in-
definitely. The change that seems to
be setting in is not due to any ex-
traneous causes, but merely to the
fact that buyers have ordered far in
advance and see no necessity for add-
ing to their obligations. There is
nothing at all alarming in the situa-
tion.
as
IRON CITY COAL IN MINNESOTA
Pittsburg Company Invades Field and
Consolidates Subsidiaries.
The Pittsburg Coal Company will
enter the retail field in St. Paul and
All the constituent
solidated February 1 into one for each
city.
The Jones & Adams, Pioneer Fuel,
and Ohio coal companies will be
centralized there under this arrange-
ment. The Pittsburg company owns or
in
addition to the Youghiogheny & Le-
The St. Paul agent
under this new arrangement will be
W. Shadle.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
David Campbell, a miner, was killed
in the Nottingham mine at - Finley-
ville, Pa., by a premature blast. He
was 50 years old and unmarried.
The New York court of appeals
| handed down a decision in the Brook-
lyn Rapid Transit Coney Island fare
case, confirming the right of the com-
rany to charge 10-cent fare.
Gov. Hughes announced he had sign-
ed the request upon Gov. Pennypack-
er of Pennsylvania for the extradition
of Dr. Richard C. Flower, under ar-
rest in Philadelphia and wanted in
New York on the charge of grand
larceny in conection with alleged
mining frauds. ’
Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company declared a regular
semi-annual dividend of two per cent
on the preferred stock and three per
cent on the eommon stock.
Gov. Magoon signed a treaty of ex-
tradition ‘between the republics of
Cuba and Santo Domingo.
Boston Wool Market.
The wool market is busy in all de-
partments and with inventories com-
plete deliveries on old contracts are
being rushed. Leading domestic
quotations follow: Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania, XX and above, 34c; X, 32c;
No. 1, 40 to 41c; No. 2, 39 to 40c;
fine unwashed, 25 to 26c; unmerchant-
able, 28 to 29c¢; half blood, unwashed,
331% to 34c; three-eighths blood, un-
washed, 34 to 35c; quarter blood, un-
washed, 33 to 34c; Delaine washed,
37 to 37l%c; Delaine unwashed, 29 to
30c. Michigan, fine unwashed, 24 to
25c¢: half-blood, unwashed, 32 to 33c;
quarter-blood unwashed, 32 0
Delaine unwashed, 26 to 28c.
34dc;
Marlboroughs Separated.
The deed of separation betwe
was signed was annqQunced.
duchess is to keep Sunderland H
IL.ondon, and her own dowry, ay
have the custody of her two so,
Relief for Homesteadej
Since many homestead s
said to be freezing in N
and the rules of the
the Interior provide i
that residence of the
continuous, Senator
prepared a resolutio
that the settlers be
of absence for thre
tend over the winte
this absence shall
their entry rights.