FOUR KILLED BY BY EXPLOSION
Half Score of Victims Are Likly to
Die of Their Injuries.
OTHER BUILDINGS SHAKEN UP
Entire Works of Car Company, Cost-.
ing $3,000,000, Was in Danger
of Being Destrecyed.
By thc explosion of cupola No. 1
in the cast steel wheel plant of the
Standard Steel Car Company at Buf-
Ter, Pa., four men were killed, 20
seriously injured and 10 received
winor injuries. Nearly: all the
wen were foreigners. The large
wheel plant, 150x100 feet, was totally
wrecked, causing a property loss of
$100,000.
The dead:
eled; died in hospital;
tar. burned to a crisp, died in hospi-
tal: John Vereck, skull crushed, died
before ambulance arrived; unknown
man, totally dismembered; died half
hour later.
The explosion was caused by the
upsetting of a metal pot in the cu-
pola, which contained 5,000 pounds
of molten metal, ready for casting. A
gpan in the pot broke, allowing the
Youid iron to spill over the wet
sand.
An explosion followed so quickly
that none of the 50 workmen in the
building had a chance to escape.
Streams of the burning metal poured
out on the workmen, many of whom
were engulfed and literally cooked.
Twenty men near the cupola had
every shred of clothing blown off by
the force of the explosion. Nearly all
the injured suffered most from the
effects of the explosion. Scarcely a
man was able to leave the wrecked
building without assistance. Many
were buried under the wreckage and
were not rescued for an hour after
thee atastrophe.
Buildings in the city, from the force
of the explosion, shivered, as ir
ghaken by an earthquake, and peopie
ruched from their homes panic
stricken. When lurid flames shot from
the burning car works fully 10,060
people rushed to the scene, blocking
streets and interfering with fire com-
panics and ambulances.
The car wheel plant” was finished
ast season at a cost of $200,000. The
wrecked cupola cost $30,000 alone.
The car works proper, costing $3,000. -
000, was in danger of destruction, but
the fire department soon had the
blaze under control. At midnight
was announced that probably 10 of
the injured in the hospital will die.
Ten others will be erippled for life.
Nick Dorna, disembow-
Nicholas Blo-
TELEGRAPH TRUST NOW
Suit Alleges Western Union and Pos-
tal Have Combined.
The Western Union and Postal
Telegraph Companies were . ordered
by Justice Ford of the Supreme Court
of New York state to show cause why
State Attorney General Jackson
should not be permitted to sue then
for forfeiture of their charters, on
the ground that they have combined
Ro increase telegraph tolls.
Mr. Jackson, in his application,
alleced that the combination was
made Jan. 1, 1907, and that a new
and increased schedule of rates was
put into effect, and that the compan-
fes agrced to maintain joint offices at
certain points and divide the profits
of business received therein.
DIES IN POVERTY
Street Magnate Ends Career
Seeking Work by the Day.
The newspapers. report the death
and obscure burial of William Fran-
cis Carey, who was a wealthy Wall
street operator until the recent slump
in stocks.
Mr.
home in fashionable Madison avenue,
where he entertained extensively,
ended his days in almost utter pov-
erty. It is said that just before his
death he was seeking employment by
the day, though at one time he enjoy-
ed an income of about $200,000 a
year.
Wall
SOCIALISTS DRIVEN OUT
Expels Spanish Agitators
Who Wished to Speak.
Four Spanish socialists who came to
Paris to address the proposed Social-
Ist mass meeting of protest against
the French and Spanish operations in
Morocco, were served with expulsion
erders immediately on their arrival
and left on the next train.
Premier = Clemenceau said: *The
government cannot admit the right of
foreigners to come to France for the
purpose of spreading the anti-mili-
tary propaganda. Such a propaganda
is illegal for French citizens, and,
naturally, cannot be permitted in the
ease of foreigners.”
France
SIXTY-THREE GIRLS KILLED
in Cartridge Factory Ter-
rible in Results.
A terrible explosion occurred at
the Takatsuke factory, Osaka, Japan,
while a number of girls were at
work sorting cartridges which had
Peen condemned. Sixty-three of the
girls were killed and a number were
fnjured.
The factory and a number of boats
eontaining explosives were burned.
Explosion
Nine Drowned.
Nine lives were lost at the Foggs
eolliery, near Bolton, Eng. Oct. 4,
owing fo a rope slipping off a pulley
and precipiflaing an elevator cage
to the bottom of a deep shaft. There
was 75 feet of water in the shaft and
into this the car plunged. The occu-
pants were drowned.
Evidence submitted in the Stand-
ard Oil inquiry showed that the
Standard ships oil to Afraca for half
what its competitors were forced to
pay.
i
|
| will operate over
it |
PRESIDENT AT MEMPHIS
Told Vast Audience That He Favored
Better Water Facilities and Im-
proved Farm Methods.
Forty thousand people frem all the
states of the Mississippi valley came |
to Memphis to see the President and |
demand a water channel from
Gulf of Mexico to Chicago. deep
enough to float a battleship. The
President also contemplates deep wa-
ter to Kansas City and Pittsburg.
The President came down the Mis-
sissippi
steamboat on the big river.
He reiterated that the undesirable |
still undesirable. He told
that he had no excuse to
his former declaration.
citizen is
the pecple
offer for
of the law and the
men before the law.”
Mr. Roosevelt was strong for deep
water, and also took an
into anew field.
“equality of all
He wants the peo-
ple to -be better farmers, and not. let!
the hillsides wash into the streams. |
He advocated intelligent farming and |
saving of the forests and the utiliza- |
tion of water power in manufactur-
ing.
After considering the deep water
scheme, the President said the gov-
ernment should . also deepen the
channel of the Columbia, the Sacra- |
mento and San Joaquin rivers of Cali- |
fornia.
The Illinois delegation was by far |
the largest in attendance. Congress- |
man Lorimer was made chairman of |
the committee on credentials.
Leaving Memphis the
party proceeded. down the river
Louisiana.
TELEGRAPH CONTRACT
Western Union Will Operate Wires on!
Pennsylvania Lines.
Official -announcement was made by
{ the Pennsylvania Railroad Company |
| of the contract signed by which the
Vestern Union Telegraph Company |
the
lines west of Pittsburg.
nouncement states:
“The Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg have made a new contract
with the telegraph company which
covers all of the lines and distinctly
defines the rights and privileges of
both parties, to the satisfaction
both.
“The contract is for 25 years,
ing from Oct. 1, and will not
fere with the Postal Telegraph Com-
Pennsylvania
The
pany’s agreement for operation of the |
lines east of Pittsburg.”
BOUGHT BY STEEL TRUST
| Property Which Cost Over Two Mil-
| poration of New Haven has been pur- |
| chased
| Corporation.
Announcement of the purchase was |
made by the officials of the purchas- |
Meets Waterways
Carey, who at one time had a |
lions Picked Up for $600,000.
The National Steel & Wire Cor-
by the United States Steel
ing concern. The purchase is said
to have been made at receiver's sale
‘and is believed to invoice a sum ap-
proximating $600,000.
The ! National Steel & Wire Corpora-
tion
affairs have heen in the
courts. It operated two large |
its
raptcy
factories in New Haven. The original |
is said to have
cost of the property
been abcut $2.500,000.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S TRIP
Men at
and Goes Down the Mis-
sissippi.
From Canton, O., where the Presi-|
dent delivered the address at the]
dedication of the McKinley Memorial |
he went to Keokuk, Iowa, to attend |
a notable gathering of distingiushed |
men, including governors of more
than a dozen states, members of both
houses of Congress and the Inland
{ Waterways Commission.
The occasion of the President's
visit was the movement for a deep
waterway down the Mississippi river
to the Gulf, and Keokuk was seléect-
ed as the point of embarkation for
his voyage down the river on his out-
ing.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
German-American Alliance
condemned Indiana Methodists for
defeating Vice President Fairbanks
for delegate to the genral conference
on account of the cocktail episode.
The
Secretary Straus has determined to |
adopt extraordinary measures tao
prevent Japanese and other Asiatic
laborers from coming to the United |
States by way of Canada and Mexico.
The engagement of Gladys Vander-
bilt,
Vanderbilt,
chenyi, of Hungary, was announced
by her mother at Newport. The wed-
ding will take place in a month.
All tho mystery enveloping the dis- |
Percival |
appearance a week ago of
G. Digby, law librarian of Allegheny
county, Pa. was cleared away by find- |
ing his body in the Ohio river, at the
foot of Lighthill street, Allegheny.
Pennsylvania day at the Jamestown
exposition was marked by the ex-
change of compliments between Vir-
ginia and the Keystone state, fine
speeches by Govs. Stuart and Swan-
son, Lieut. Gov. Murphy and others,
parade and receptions and a large at-
tendance.
Kentucky Almost Dry.
Another county in
gone “dry” in a local option election. |
In - McLean county the temperance
forces were victorious by a majority
of 1,055. Only 19 of the 119 counties
in Kentucky remain “wet.”
Bubonic Plague Spreads.
Fifty-one verified cases of bubonic
plague have developed in San Fran-
cisco to date.
deaths. About 30 suspects are under
observation.
the |
and proudly announced that |
it was a Roosevelt who ran the first |
All |
the time he talked for the supremacy !
excursion |
presidential |
to |
an- |
of
dat- |
inter- |
became financially embarrassed |
several months ago, since which time |
bank- |
Keokuk |
daughter of the late Cornelius
to Count Ladislaus Szee- |
Kentucky has |
There have been 30
MUCH FAVORITISH SHOWN
Lubricating Oils.
|
| Railroads Pay Varying Prices for
|
CORPORATION CONTROLS TRADE
oo
Balance Sheet
Compzany Show
and
frcome - Acccunt
of Parert
Enormous Profits.
That the Galena Signal Oil Com-
pany, a subsidiary of the Stantiard Oil!
Company,
lubricating oil business with fie rail-
roads of the United States: awd that
| the price for its products are not uni-
form with the railroads was written
in the records of hearings of the fed-
eral suit against ‘the ‘so-called”- oil
trust in New York. Tee
C. C. Steinbrenner, an accountant
for the Galena company, told in de-
tail how contracts were made with
railroads whereby they were guaran-
teed a maximum cost for the lubrica-
| tian of the road, based on mileage for
engines and cars, and when the cost
was found at the end of certain per-
invoice
| price of $1.75 for 1,000 mites? which
| all railroads paid when they -rocoived
| the oil, the Galena company. made a
refund of the difference. Pion state-
| ments compiled from the Galena com-
pany's books, Mr. Kellogg was able
to show that in some cases: the
{ amount of the refund was nearly 50
per cent of the invoice price.
Mr. Steinbrenner testified that the
| iods to exceed the standard
Inbricating oil furnished to the Penn- |
loss. |
The Galena company fixed the stand- |
for en- |
sylvania railroad was sold at a
| ard invoice price of valve oil
gines last year at 48 cents a -gallon,
and Mr. Kellogg drew from the wit-
the refund was deducted, obtain-
ed its oil for 24 cents. Mr. Steinbren-
ner testified the New York Central,
I U'nion Pacific, Delaware & Hudson
and Southern railroad paid 48 cents
a gallon, or the full invoice price,
without a refund. The Baltimore &
| Ohio paid 38 cents a gallon, while the
Teledo, Peoria & Western obtained
its oil for 26 cents.
Mr. Steinbrenner
ing of the minimum cost of
tion to a railroad was a matter
{ hard bargaining. 3
A letter written in 1905
dent Miller of the Galena
to Vice President Marony
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern
railroad, and placed in evidence, stat-
| ed that the Galena company was sup-
after
said that the fix-
Jubrica-
of
by
company
of the
controls ‘97 per ‘ced¥ of the |
ness that the Pennsylvania railroad, |
I Chamberlain,
Presi- |
| murder
plying 9715 per cent of the total mile- !
{age of the United States, Canada and
Mexico.
One of the
| lena
| Mr.
railroads that the
Steinbrenner said, was the Tide-
water railroad, owned by Henry H.
Rogers, vice president of the Stand-
ard Oil Company. The witness said
that the Galena companyv-had tried
to obtain the contract with the Tide- |
water railroad, but had failed Mr.
{ Kellogg suggested that, perhaps, Mr.
Rogers thought he could get better oil
elsewhere.
For the first time there has just
been made public the income account
and balance sheet of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, which is
| Blanco county coroner.
Ge he
company did not supply with oil, | :
| bachelor,
| mur derer,
the parent of the Standard Oil Com- |
| panies of the world. The report
shows that the wealth
| pany has at no time been overestim-
ated.
The income account shows that
{ while the company paid $40,000,000 in
dividends in the year ended. Dec. 31
last, it carried more than $83,000,000
land left as a surplus for the year
something more than . $43,750,000.
Added to previous surplus the total
| surplus in profit and loss accounts
amounts to $261,000,000, or more than
rine times the amount of the great
fine.
Ths balance sheet of the company
shows total assets of $371,664,532, as
compared with a capitalization of
£100,000,000. Apart from the capital
stock outstanding and the profit and
loss surplus, the only liabilities are
accounts payable to the amount of
$12,264,000.
CUBAN BANDITS CHASED
Rural Guards Kill One,
other and Capture a Third.
Rural guards under Lieut. Martinez
overtook a band of brigands near
| Mayari. The rurals killed one brig-
and and wounded and captured an-
l other. They also captured some arms.
The soldiers suffered no loss.
Arturo Santana, who was captured
by the bandit leader Cachero, was
held a prisoner for two hours, but on
refusing to join the rebels was re-
leased. He saw only seven of the
| bandits,
ied 80.
It is reported that the rebels
fieceing toward Tunas, with
| guards in pursuit.
|
rural
Baptists Won’t Consolidate.
1 Consolidation of Free Baptists with
| the Baptist Church is not advisable
at this time, according to the report
of the special committee made at the
national convention of Free Baptists
iat Cleveland. The report of the com-
| mittee did not go into details as to
the reasons for opposing the proposed
| amalgamation.
Root Guest of Diaz.
With the members of the Mexican
Diaz re-
| ceived Secretary Root at Mexico City,
in the hall of ambassadors in the na-
tional palace. The meeting was most
cordial.
| cabinet present, President
At the annual meeting of the Ohi-
cago & Alton railroad Edwin Hawley
' of the Clover Leaf was elected to suc-
ceed E« H. Harriman as a director.
Robt. Mather was re-elected and R.
A. Jackson was chosen to succeed
| Jas. Stillman.
of the com-! ;
| Russian
| it is appearaing in new provinces.
Wound An-
|
|
|
shead-end
AIRSHIP IN HURRICANE
Aeronaut Loses Control and Floats
Up So High He L»ses Sight
of Earth,
Riding the hurricane in rain and
darkness, Capt. Frank Fuhr made the
longest trip in an airship on record in
America-—40 miles from Newark to
near the Holmes county line in Cosh-
octon county.
He made an ascension at the New-
ark fair and struck a gale 3,000 feet
above the earth. His ship became
unmanageable and there was nothing
left for him except to ride with the
wind. Newark crowds followed him
several miles till they lost sight of
him.
He veered to the south
wind, and finally alighted in
field on William Mowry’s farm.
farm hands were terror-stricken.
“I'm hungry. Is supper over?”
Fuhr’s salutation.
He afterwards said he was sp high
he lost sight of earth. The airship
lies where it alighted in the field,
with gas out. He could not hold it
down while it was inflated.
with the
an open
The
was
“METEOR” TRAIN WRECKED
Engine Jumps Track on Sixteen Mile
: Grade.
The fast train on the ’Frisco road,
known as the Meteor, was derailed
and wrecked near Dixon, 135 miles
southwest of St. Louis, and two per-
sons were killed, one seriously injur-
ed and the passengers . were badly
braised, but none was killed.
The dead are: Engineer Chambers
of Springfield, Mo., and Mail Clerk
Frank E. Crissy of St. Louis. :
Fireman Stockstill of Springfield,
Mo., was injured.
Dixon hill is a steep grade, 16 miles
in length, and the engine jumped the
track while speeding down the grade,
tearing up a section of the track and
ditching several of the cars.
Two mail clerks were injured, |
two locomotives were demolished and
a number of head of cattle ikiiled in a |
collision near Anaconda, be- |
a southbound passenger train |
freight train on the ’Frisco|
tween
and a
road.
Mail Clerk C. E. Harrei and H. 1
both of St. Louis, were
will recover.
injured, but
MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED
Details of Crime of Years Ago Re-
vealed in Deathbed Confession.
Through a deathbed confession of
John Reiston, victim of a railroad
wreck in Rio Blanco County, Col,
several days ago, the mystery of a
committed at Findlay, O., 12
years ago, is cleared. Particulars
have just been received from the Rio
One winter morning, after a thaw,
dead body of Peter Rouen, a
was found in an abandoned |
stone quarry. His skull 3 crushed. |
No clew to the murderer was ever |
found. Rouen, it was supposed, kept |
$300 in the house. In his confession:
| Reiston said he was paid to haul the |
body to the old sione quarry. The |
whose name is withheld,
died shortly after the crime. Reiston
said he had particulars of the crime
in writing ever since it occurred, but
was afraid to divulge the secret dur-,
ing his life for fear he would be ar-
rested.
CHOLERA KILLS THOUSANDS
Provinces Being
Swept by Epidemic.
The epidemic of cholera which
broke out in Russia early in August,
is spreading rapidly, and already 12
provinces are affected. The disease
is reported mostly along the Volga,
but it has reached as far north as
Archangel and made its appearance
at Semipalatinsk, Omsk, Tomsk and
Uralsk in Siberia. -
The peasants of Kanzan, Samara,
Saratov and Nizhni-Novgorod are the
worst afflicted. The deaths already
reach into the thousands. The great-
est mortality is in the towns, the doc-
tors in the country finding it easier
to handle she cases effectively. It
has been found impossible, however,
to check the scourge and every day
Rapidly
NEW STEP FOR CHINA
Now Has Compulsory Education as
Prelude to Constitution.
An imperial edict dated Sept. 30
decrees compulsory education for
everybody in China and declares, !
furthermore, that the people are to
be taught the principles of constitu-
tional government that they may be
| better fitted to elect representatives
but heard that they number-
are |
i made by G. B. Babcock,
| ary and were continuing to do so.
when a parliament is created.
The throne expresses anxiety to es-
tablish parliamentary institutions, but
adds the success thereof depends:
upon the education and knowledge
possessed by those called upon to
govern.
Japanese Coming In.
As a result of the investigations
a special
agent of the Upited States treasury
department, a force of federal offi-
cers will be installed at the interna-
tional boundary line to keep back the
scores of Japanese who are daily
crossing the Canadian border into the
United States. Mr. Babcock found !
that hundreds of Japanese had illeg-
ally crossed the international bound-
Japs Honor Taft.
Rarely has the army and
been so largely represented at any
social function as at the luncheon
given in Tokyo by Lieut. Gen. Ter-
auchi, minister of war, in honor of
Secretary of War Taft. Among those |
present were: Vice Admiral Saito, |
minister of marine; Field Marshal
Prince Oyama, Admiral Count Togo,
Admiral Count Yamamoto, Gen. |
Count Nogi, Gen. Count Katsura and |
20 other prominent generals, all of |
navy |
whom showed the warmest goodwill. |
ly
{ Scattered through 3
| proximately
swamp land, the reclamation of which
| Cleremont county.
lin South Dakota commenced an ac-
| cation for
FAVORS GREAT WATERWAYS
President Recommends River
Improvements.
TOWN WITH A STORK MAYOR
Pleasant Greeting Sent by President
to the Town of Alton, Il.
and Its Mayor.
President Roosevelt. in a
St. Louis, declared it the nation’s
duty to control centrally interstate |
railroads, and to restore the Missis- |
sippi river to its proper place as a
great artery of commerce. He term-
ed the proposed 14-foot channel from !
the lakes to the gulf a national |
task.” He warned against plans |
which might “entail reckless gxtrava-|
gance or be tainted with jobbery,
but urged a liberal waterways policy.
The President's ardor was not di- |
minished by the fact that he was
drenched by a sudden downpour of
rain while en route to the Jai Alai |
building, where his speech was Jolie |
ered.
Thousands of persons were congre- |
gated on the levee when the Presi- |
dent arrived on the steamer Missis-
sippi from Keokuk, Ia. The Presi-|
dent, on landing, greeted 15 governors |
from states bordering on the Missis-
sippi river, and some from distant |
states, members of congress and offi-
cers representing the city ~ of St.
Louis. At the Jai Alai building he |
was introduced bv Gev. Folk.
After his address the President
and orher distinguished visitors wer2
guests of the St. Louis. Business
Men’s League at luncheon in the Jef- |
ferson Hotel. There were no cet
speeches, but the President respond-
ed to the toast of President James E.
Smith of the league by expressing |
the wish that the ends of the league
might be achieved, that is, the procur-
ing of a 14-foot river channel.
On the voyage down to St. Louis
from Keokuk, the President thorough-
enjoyed himself in company with
his ©ld Rough Rider friends, Seth
Bullock. Gov. Franz of Oklahoma,
and Commissioner Mecllhenny.
At Alton, Ill,
speech at
|
just above St. Louis, |
a huge sign on the water front greet-
ed the President and made a great
hit with him. “Alton is 25 miles from |
St. Louis, has 25,600 population and |
a stork mayer.” So pleased with the |
greeting was the President that im- |
mediately upon reaching St. Louis
he dictated the following telegram to |
the mayer of Alton:
“Congratulations to
253,000 people, including
mayor.”
Alton and her
her stork
HOMES FOR TWO MILLIONS |
Vast Acreage of Waste Land Is Seek-
ing Reclamation.
A. G. Bernard, chairman
legislative committee of the National
Drainage Association, issued a call
for the next annual congress of that |
associiition to be held at Johns Hop- |
kins University, Baltimore, Nov. 25-
27. The call for the convention says:
“The drainage of the swamp and
overflowed lands of the United States
is just as much a governmental fune
tion as that of irrigating arid lands.
37 states. are = ap-
80,000,000 acres of
of the |
means millions of dollars annually to
the business interests cof the country
over what is now enjoycd
“If these lands were drained and
subdivided into 40-acre farms they
would afford homes for 2,000,000
farmers independent of the urban
population which would inevitably
follow.”
WHERE GRANT WAS BORN
Bronze Cannon and Memorial Tablet
Now Mark the Place.
In the presence of a distinguished
gathering a memorial tablet at the
birthplace of President U. S. Grant at
Point Pleasant, Clermont county, O.
was unveiled, Oct. 2. It was the first
i of three days’ celebration of the cen-
tennial and heme coming week of;
A bronze cannon and memorial tab- |
| let had been placed on what is be- |
| lieved to be the exact
spot where
was located the house in which Gen.
Grant was born, and about this were
Gov. Andrew L. Harris.
Henry C. Corbin, U.:S.
A., retired; Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant,
a delegation of the Ohio command- |
ery of the Loyal Legion and relatives |
and other guests A detachment of |
regular soldiers from Fort Thomas
acted as a guard of honor.
gathered
Lieut. Gen.
|
|
Tanabe
SEEK TO ENJOIN STATE |
Railroads in South Dakota Bring Ac-
tion Against Lower Fare.
All leading railroads having lines |
Court at
for a permanent |
tion in the United States
Sioux Falls, S. D,
injunction preventing the State Board
of Railroad Commissioners from put-
ting into effect Oct. 15 an order re- |
ducing passenger rates in the state |
from three to two and one-half cents
a mile.
The commission was temporarily |
restrained pending a hearing before |
Judge Cartland, Oct. 29, on the appli-
a permanent injunction.
Santa Fe Raises Wages.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
! Railway Co., at the general offices in
Topeka, Kan., announced an increase
of wages to its 5,000 machinists and
boiler makers of two cents an hour,
and an increase to helpers of 112
cents an hour, effective Oct. 1.
Secretary of War W. H. Taft and
{ his party were entertained at a sump-
tuous banquet by the Emperor of Ja-
pan, following which the Secretary |
and the Emperor engaged in a private |
conference.
l born
fon Aug. 21.
| an
| of -costs was left open, counsel
| plaintiffs to submit a brief thereon
| her
i Chamber of Commerce at
of
| cisco,
| nothing in
“Magoon’s Order
| & special train,
| been
i again
| suing
| dent
ly
| the Premier company,
| pool,
i ceived from Maiden
STORM STRIKES NAVY
Lieutenant and Seamen Killed in Ad-
miral Evans’ Fieet.
A terrific storm off the New Iing-
land coast played havoc with Admiral
Evans’ fleet at target practice, off
Cape Cod. and resulted in two fatali-
ties.
Lieut. John H. Furze of the bat-
tleship Illinois, was thrown violently
against a hatchway, receiving injuries
which resulted in his death. He was
in South Carolina and appoint-
ed to the naval academy from
Georgia.
Harris Carroll. an ordinary seaman,
{ was swept overboard from the Minne-
| Sota
and lost. He was a citizen of
Dyersburg, Tenn. and enlisted at
Oklahoma City last February.
Adniiral Evans notified the navy de-
partment of the loss of lives. The II-
linois, by his orders, proceeded to
Boston, where the body of Lieut.
Furze was taken ashore and his rela-
tives notified.
| SUIT AGAINST MRS. EDDY ENDS
Question of Costs, Which Amount to
$7,000, Is Not -Yet Decided.
At a special session of the superior
court por Aor imas county in Con-
cord, N. , Judze Chamberlin grant-
ed the hE to dismiss the suit ot
Eddy Frye, filed by the plaintiffs,
This was the “next
friends” suit instituted by George W.
Glover, son of Mary Baker Eddy, for
accounting of the aifairs of the
head of the Christian Science Society,
VS.
{and its dismissal ends the litigation
| then begun.
The question of the apportionment
for the
by
15.
dy,
Oct. 10, and the other side by Oct.
The trustees named by Mrs. Ed-
on March 6, to take charge of
property, were admitted as par-
ties to this question of costs, which
amounts to about $7,000.
WAR WOULD BE A CRIME
Secretary Taft Declares at Tokyo
That America’s Friendship To-
ward Japan Is Solid.
A banquet in honor
War Taft was given
municipality of the
of Secretary of
jointly by the
capital and the
Tokyo. The
Secrctary, in responding to the speech
of welcome, said in part:
“Now, for the moment, there is only
a little cloud over our friendship of
5) vears, but the greatest earthquake
the century could not shake our
amity. I cannot trespass upon the
{ jurisdiction of the department of state
and discuss the events in San Fran-
but I “can sav that here is
them that is incapable of
honorable and full ator oy or-
dinary diplomacy.
“A war between America
pan would be a crime
and Ja-
against civiliza-
| tion.”
WILL HUNT DOWN REBELS
Is to Capture, Kill
or Drive Them Into Sea.
Thirty additional men of the rural
guard left Santiago, Cuba, Sept. 6, on
to aid Capt. Dough-
erty in running down Adalfo Lacalle
and his band of 49 men, who have
been loeated in the vicinity of Guaro.
Lacalle is paying cach for his supplies
at the country stores.
The small band of rebels which has
traversing the. country in. the
northern section of Santiago Prov-
ince, according to late dispatches, has
exchanged shots with the pur-
rurales. .. The latter are close
at the heels of the bandits. Governor
| Magoon has determined to deal with
| outlaws and insurrectos with a streng
it is
drive
hand. The orders of the rurales,
stated, are to capture, kill or
them into the ocean.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
United States Se Sen ator Wm... E.
Borah was acnuitted on the charge
of conspiracy to defraud the govern-
ment of Idaho timber lands.
John Sharp Williams has
ed his intention of retiring from the
House of Representatives to engage
in a course of study during the next
two vears for the life of Thomas Jef-
announc-
| ferson, which he proposes to write.
Theaters on ocean steamers about
to become a reality through -a deal
Charles Frohman has just closed with
the Cunard Co.
Senator Foraker, in an address at
Cincinnati denounced pessimism
emanating from critics of the Presi-
in his efforts to enforce laws
and declared that its continuance
among big business men would invite
panic.
Sultan Abd El Aziz, accompanied
by the Marabouts, or Holy Men, made
a pilgrimage to the tombs of the Holy
Men outside of the city of Rabat, Mo-
rocco, Oct. 5, where a white bull was
| killed and its blood offered as a sacri-
fice.
The DeBeers Diamend Co., coramon-
called the trust, and its principal
competitors, including
have formed a
according to cable advices re-
Lane (dealers,
and prices will be firmly maintained.
Because he had been refused food,
independent
la tramp took vengeance by beating
| Mrs.
John Hathaway, of Oquawka,
Ill, to unconsciousness and then, ty-
ing her 4-year-old son to a tree, burn-
ed him to death. Citizens are scour-
| ing the country for the murderer.
Forty-two Killed in Wreck.
Forty-two persons, including 30
Japanese soldiers, were killed or in-
jured by the derailment of a south-
bound train from Seoul, Korea. The
responsibility for the wreck has not
been placed.
A revolution has broken out in the
province of Corrientes in the Argen-
tina republic. The insurgents have
seized several positions and in the
fighting with the government troops
many men on both sides were either
killed or wounded.