BENTH OF MAS. CHADWICK In Financial Affairs Dies in Prison. HAD A REMARKABLE CAREER Mer Health Failed Soon After Cen: viction and Sentence to Serve Ten Years in Prison. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, whose amaz- fag financial transactions culminated fm the wrecking of an Oberlin bank, died in the woman’s ward at the Ohio penitcntiary on the night of October Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley, was a native of Woodstock, Canada. She first came into public notice in Toledo, O., about 20 years ago, where she told fortunes under the mame of Madame Daviere. While in this city she forged the name of Richard Brown, Youngstown, O., and for this crime was sentenced to the penitentiary at Columbus for nine years. She served -but a portion of this sentence, and then located in Cleve- Band, where she married a man mamed Hoover. Her second husband, was Dr. Le Roy S. Chadwick of €leveland, a man of good family and excellent standing in his profession. In the latter part of 1902, or early in 1903, Mrs. Chadwick, in the pres- ence of her husbond, gave to Ira Reynolds. the cashier of the Wade Park bank of Cleveland a box con- gaining notes signed with the name of Andrew Carnegie. These forged motes are alleged to have amounted fo $7,500,000. Reynolds gave a re- eeipt for the papers, which described the notes and the signatures upon them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Rey- molds as an explanation of the notes the statement that she was a natural daughter of Carnegie. With the receipt of Reynolds _in Mer posscssion, Mrs. Chadwick went to different banks and many capitalists, making loans and paying not only high interest to the banks, but heavy bonuses to bank officials who loan- ed her the money. The extent of these transactions will never be fully | Known, but they ran into the mil Yions. They involved men of high | standing in the financial world and | eaused heavy losses to many banks. In November, 1904, she was sued By a m:n named Newton of Brook- | line, Mass. from whom she had bor- rowed a large amount. Other credi- tors came down upon her and soon —she was arrested by the federal au- thorities on the charge of conspiring with Charles Beckwith, president, and A. B. Spear, cashier of the Na- tional bank at Oberlin, O., which had been substantially looted. Mrs. Chad- wick had obtained from this institu- tion such large sums that it was eompelled to close its doors, causing heavy losses to the depositors and ruining many of them. Mrs. Chadwick, Beckwith and Spear were indicted for a variety of offenses against the national banking laws. Beckwith, died before coming to trial. Spear was found guilty, and | sentenced to seven years, and is { mow serving time at Columbus, 0. | Mrs. Chadwick was brought to | trial, March, 1905, and after a hear-| ing which lasted two weeks, was | found guilty of conspiracy to defraud | a national bank, and was sentenced to | 10 years in the penitentiary. Her Realth, which was not good at the time of her ‘trial, failed steadily after fts conclusion. Mrs. Chadwick left one son, Emil | Hoover, born of her first marriage. | He is now about 20 years old. While lying in her bed in the hos- pital ward of the Ohio penitentiary, | Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, who is serving | a term in the Ohio penitentiary for wrecking the First National Bank at Oberlin, O., was baptized in the Ro- | man Catholic faith by Father Kelly, chaplain of the prison. Three zeis of artificial hearing in- struments have been shipped irom New York to Buckingham Palace, London, for the use of King Edward and Queen Alexandra. LIVE ON HUMAN FLESH Startling Tales of Famine and Can- nibalism Are Brought Back by Traveler. Cannibalism and famine among the matives of Northeastern Canada, be- tween the eastern shore of James bay and Labrador, are brought back by J. A. Osborne, editor of The Fort Prancis Times, who has just complet ed a trip of exploration in that coun- While at Moose factory the explor- er met a young man who fled hither $a terror of his uncle, who, he said, Bad killed and eaten eight human deings. There, too, he saw a woman who last winter killed and ate her two children, so great was the fam- fne. This lack of food primarily was Prought about by the fact that the woods seemed almost entirely with- put the usual number of deer and rab- ®its, upon which animals the natives erdinarily subsist. These occurrences did not seem to eause any stir in that region, and Mr. Osborne has come to the conclu- sion that cannibalism is practiced epenly among the Indians and half- Breeds. : ‘ITALY AFTER TRUSTS Rome Appoints Commission to Keep Down Price of Living. Italy is also complaining of the Righ cost of living, and the authori ties will attempt to regulate prices. In Rome retail prices of all pro- visions are so high that a conmis- sion has been appointed to fix a scale of maximum prices, above which it will be forbidden to sell provisions under penalty of closing of the stores | of political dictation or | Bennett; | Two qui Indians. where such sales are made. LAKE VESSEL GOES DOWN Only Cne Survivor of Cyprus’ Crew Reaches Shore. The steel steamer Cyprus, owned by the Lackawanna Transportation Co.. and on her second trip from the lakes with a cargo of ore, was wrecked Saturday night in Lake Su- perior, off Deer Park, about 30 miles from Grand Marais, and all of the crew of 22, excepting the second mate, C. J. Pitt, were lost. He was washed ashore near Deer Park, lash- ed to a life raft and barely alive. is in a critical condition, and thus far has been able to tell only that the steamer was the Cyprus and that he is the sole survivor. Several bodies have been washed ashore at Deer Park. Two are said to be those of the first mate and the watchman. The names of but five of the drowned members of the crew are known: Capt. F. B. Huyck of Sheri- dan, N. Y.; First Mate John Smith of Cleveland; Engineer J. P. Nor- cross of Towanda, N. Y., and Wm. Dundon and wife, cooks. MAINE CARRIES OFF HONORS With Twelve-inch Guns, Big War Vessel Makes Score. of Over 67 Per Cent. The battleship Maine carried off the honors at the target practice of the Atlantic fleet in Cape Cod bay. Her record was due chiefly to the remarkable showing of the 12-inch rifles, which made a little over 67 per cent. The Alabama's record was 50 per cent, and the Kentucky nearly equal- led that score. The Georgia made an average of 40 per cent with 12-inch and 8-inch guns. The ranges varied between 5,000 and 9,000 yards. In the short range practice the Minnesota won the high- est percentage, making 90 per cent with some of her guns. The Kansas and Connecticut also made good re- cords. ; SMALLEST BRAIN FOUND One Weighing 24 Ounces Taken from Head of Normal Man. In performing an autopsy at the New York morgue Coroner's Physi- cian O’ITanlon and Prof. John believe to be the smallest brain in point of weight ever taken from a | normally intelligent adult. The two physicians are entirely at loss to account for the short weight, as they could find no evidence of any brain disease. The brain weighed but 24 ounces, whereas the average brain weighs from 48 to 51 ounces. The head from which the brain was taken was that of Daniel Lyons, aged 46, a watchman who had been employed in the Pennsylvania rail- road excavations. — STRONG AGAINST BOSSISM Name Rhode Island Republicans Jackson for Governor. After adopting a platform which indorsed the administration of Presi; dent Roosevelt, urged the re-election to the United States Senate of Geo. Peabody Wetmore and declared that | the Republican party of Rhode Island was unalterably opposed to all forms “bossism,” the Republican state convention nom- inated the following ticket by accla- mation: Governor, lieutenant rous; secretary of state, Charles P. attorney gengral, William treasurer, Walter A. the present Frederick H. Jackson; B. Greenough; Read. Mr. Jackson is lieutenant governor. KILLED BY INDIANS Wealthy Mexicans Are Am- bushed by Yaquis. Jesus Brocamento and Ricardo Robles, members of wealthy Mexican families, were ambushed by 12 Ya- Brocamento was killed. and his companion was probably fat- ally wounded. The attack occurred about 25 miles from Mexico, and in the vicin- ity of the La Cordo mining camp. The Yaquis escaped after robbing their victims. FOUR CLERKS DROWN A Skiff Occupied by Seven Youths Catches Fire and They Overturn It. Four young residents of Perth Am- bov, N. J., were drowned in Raritan Bay. They were members of a party of seven who left Perth Amboy in a surf skiff to visit Keyport. The boat caught fire and the occupants, being unable otherwise to put the flames out, overturned the skiff. Subse- quently four perished, three being saved, exhausted, by a passing steam- er, after having clung to the over- turned boat for more than two hours. All were about 18 or 19 years old. Those who were lost were Harry Baxter, FEdward Olsen, Floyd H. Chose and Charles Wicksburg, al] clerks. President Small Suspended. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union was suspended by the union’s executive compaittee, following a day of sensational revolt against the organization's chief and a vote of many cities to continue the strike. S. J. Konenkamp of Pitts- burg, chairman of the executive com- mittee, is talked of as Small’s succes- SOT. Salted Mine. A story is current that numerous Montana and Washington investors have been mulcted to the extent of more than $333,333 through the dis- covery that certain placer mines near Lander, Wyo., had been salted and that the property in question is worthless. The National Paint, Oil and Varn- ish Association at Cincinnati adopt- ed resolutions favoring tariff revision and a national pure paint law. He | E. | Larkin of the College of Physicians | and Surgeons, discovered what they | governor, Ralph C. Wat-| NEN SHORT LNETO LINE]... SENS FER MICH Threaten to Shoot. | A fire in mid-ocean while a gale was blowing, a panic among the pas- sengers, and an incipient mutiny among some of the crew was the ex- perience of those aboard the steamer Liugia while. 700 miles west of the Azore islands. Fire was discovered in the hold of the vessel at daylight on that day. Although Capt. Cherubini at once or- dered part of the cargo broken out and water turned into the hold, the fire continued. The passengers socn learned of the danger, and a panic re- sulted among those in the steerage. Many knelt in prayer, while others ran wildly about until cowed by the officers. The officers and crew had all they could well attend to in car- ing for the ship in the heavy weather and for a time it seemed that the panic of the passengers would have serious results. Following this some of the crew deserted their posts and attempted to lower one of the ship's boats, but they were told by the first officer that he would shoot the first man who tried to do this, and they re turned to their posts. Men in the steerage were compelled to assist the crew in their work. After the hold had been flooded and a portion of the cargo thrown overboard the fire was extinguished in the afternoon. Young Man Plans to Slay Prom- inent Men with Dynamite. Important M>ve M#&de by New York Central. ORIGINAL PLANS ARE CHANGED BANK PRESIDENTS MARKED This Will Make the Third Line Into Lorain Built Within a Short Time. to Wreck a Large Part of the City. Enough Explosive Found Gov. Henry A. Buchtel of Colorado, David H. Moffat, president of the First National Bank of Denver, and Charles B. Kountze, president of the Colorado National Bank, re- ceived through the mails infer- nal machines containing enough dynamite to have caused great de- struction of lives and property, had they been exploded; but warning had been given to the recipients. of the machines by Chief ‘of Police De- luny, who had obtained a confes- sion from Kemp V. Bigelow, by whom they were mailed, and no one was hurt. Bigelow confessed that he had sent infernal machines to Lawrence C. Phipps and Edward - Chase, but these were not delivered. : The machines received by Messrs. Moffat and Kountze were turned over to the police. The one sent to Gov. Buchtel was received = by the governor's private secretary, Alfred C. Montgomery, who removed wrapper and disclosed. a box with a sliding cover. His suspicions were aroused and he reported the matter to Gov. Buchtel, who then informed him that he had been warned. by the chief of police to be on the lookout for an infernal machine. Adjutant Gen. Kelly and officers of the police department were called and the box was carefully opened. It was found to contain two sticks of dynamite, to whieh were attached Failure of the Wabash and the Ramsey lines to secure good termin- als at Lorain and the fight of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie to prevent the Gould lines from obtaining the bulk of the lake -tonnage from the Pitts- burg district has resulted in the New York Central taking up plans for a new direct line from Pittsburg to Lorain. It was stated officially that the Pittsburg & Lake Erie will not be bnilt from Youngstown to Cleveland, as originally intended, but will be built from Youngstown to Lorain. The Pittsburg & Lake Erie will be used from this city to Youngstown and the new line from there to Lor- ain will give the Vanderbilts a through short line from Pittsburg to one of the most important lake ports This will make the third railroad that has been built into Lorain dur- ing the past year, each having a direct line to the Pittsburg district or a connection .with one of the local roads. The Baltimore & Ohio, has had .a line into Lorain for years. The Gould interests recently completed the Lorain & West Virginia, which makes connection with the Wheeling | & Lake Erie at Wellington, and the | bureau of statistics of the Depart Lorain & Ashland, built south from | ment of Agriculture finds, from the Lorain by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., and | reports of the correspondence and his associates, it is said, will even-| agents of the bureau, as follows: The tually invade the rich coal fields | condition of corn on Oct. 1, was 78.0, south of Pittsburg and will have alas compared with 80.2 last month; traffic. agreement with one of the| 90.1 on Oct. 1, 1906: 89.2 on Oct. 1 roads entering the city. | 1905. and a 10-year average of 79.6. Pittsburg capital will play an The preliminary estimate of ‘the portant part in the building of the average vield per acre of spring Lorain line by the Vanderbilts, as| wheat is 12.1 bushels, which com- Pittsburg capitalists organized the pares with 13.7 bushels as finally es- company that will eventually give | timated in 1906; 14.7 in 1905 and a the Pittsburg & Lake Erie an en- | 10-year average of 14.0 bushels. The trance to that city. This extension |total indicated production of spring can be built at a comparatively small | wheat is ahout 216,067,000 bushels, cost, and will be rushed to comple-' compared with 242,372,966 bushels as tion. finally estimated in 1906. The produc: tion of spring and winter wheat com- bined is about 626.567,000 bushels, compared with 735,260,970 bushels, as finally estimated a year ago. These and other preliminary estimates of yield are subject to revision when the final estimates are made in De cember. The average quality of spring wheat is 88.8, as compared with 88.5 in 1906: 89.0 in 1905, and 75.7 in 1904. An average yield of oats is CROP REPORTS Wheat Production Will Fall Behind ‘That of 1906, According to Estimates. - The crop reporting board Sf the 2d in black powder. was lined. with sand paper, and matches had been plated with their heads in contact with the sandpaper. The other infernal machines were counterparts of this. Bigelow gave no satisfactory ex- planation of his motive for sending the machines, and seemed to have no other purpose than to cause a sensation. Bigelow is 21 years old. He arrived in Denver several weeks ago and became a clerk in a book store. He claims to be the son of C. L. Bigelow, superintendent of schools in Bryan, O. Sunday night Bigelow notified the police that he had overheard two men talking about a plot to kill Ed- ward Chase, Gov. Buchte] and other prominent citizens, and that Chase's residence was to be blown up that night. A search of the disclosed a package containing 51 sticks of dynamite. Bigelow’s story was regarded with suspicion, and he was arrested. He confessed that he had placed the dynamite near Mr. Chase's house, and that he had sent several infernal machines by mail. Had this confession not been ob- tained in time to give warning to the men to whom machines were those who opened undoubtedly have been killed. im- CHINESE CUSTOM BROKEN Women Took Part in Entertainment of Secretary Taft. Secretary of War Wm. H. Taft and the members of his party arrived at Shanghai, Oct. 8, from Japan on the way to Manila. The Chinese and the foreign residents of Shanghai united in, giving the distinguished | ghout 23.5 bushels per acre. visitor the heartiest welcome that An average vield of vats of about has ever been extended to a foreign | 93 5 pushels per acre is indicated, as statesman. > LAT compared with 381.2 bushels finally Mr. Taft dedicated the building of | gstimated in 1906, 34.0 bushels in the Young Men's Christian Associa-! 1905, and a 10-year average of 30.1 tion. bushels. A total yield of about 741, The reception marked an epoch | 521,000 bushels is thus indicated, as in the matter of the status of women | compared with 964,904,522 bushels, in China, for Chinese women of aris-| finally estimated in 1906. The aver tocratic families were present at the | age quality is 77.0. receptiop and even presided at tables mi whence they served refreshments. Chase premises CLERK EMBEZZLES $40,000 CUT FOR GLASSWORKERS Philadelphia Bankers. Make Good Their Losses and Clerk is Discharged. Ervin & Co., bankers and brokers of Philadelphia, recently sustained a loss of $40,000 through the specula- tions of a confidential clerk. T. H. Dixon, head of the firm, said: “It {s trué that some five weeks ago the firm suffered a loss of some: thing less than $40,000, for which a BUYING TORPEDOES ABROAD President Names 12 Per Cent Reduc- tion After Conference. Three days conference at Cleve- land between the wage committee of the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers and a committee represent- ing the window glass manufacturers of the country, resulted in a com- plete disagreement and final adjourn- : ¢ former employe was responsible.” ment. : 3 President | The clerk, it is explained, speculat: Immediately afterward I : Faulkner sent out notifications to the | ed in the names of various custom | ers, with whom adjustment was made various preceptories that signatures | > Ey should be secured from the manufac- | DY the bankers, and the employe was turers along the basis of 12 per cent | discharged. cut over the wage scale which has been prevailing. The offer of the men provides for a flat scale, which Navy Department Cannot Sécure Enough in This Country. It developed that the ordnance de- partment of the navy department has an agent in Europe to purchase a number of new Whitehead torpedoes. This recourse to foreign manufacture was necessary because the depart- ment was unable to secure enough in the United States to properly equip the torpedo boats with this class of armament, a contingency which will be avoided, naval officers say, after Jan. 1, when it is expected the gov- ernment naval torpedo station at Newport will be in operation. E. H. Harriman and his policies | were indorsed in a resolution passed a number of eastern and western by the annual meeting of the stock manufacturers, it is said, have all holders of the Union Pacific Railrpad along declared they are waiting to, Co. The directors were re-elected sign. without opposition. PES pedoes manufactured in this try. coun- Favors Direct Primary Law. Gov. Deneen of Illinois has sent to the Legislature what is considered an extraordinary special message. governor recommends the passage of a direct primary Jaw and asks the Legislature to take up at this session a number of reforms overlooked last spring. Foremost in the list is the anti-pass bill, which the executive urged in his biennial message. Gov. Deneen deals at great length with the deep waterways project and re-em- ‘phasizes its ‘importance. He sug- gests that part of the revenue de- rived from water power development be used in furthering the project. J ————————— DOG LIES IN STATE JUDGMENT AGAINST THAWS Expert on Insanity Awarded $1,581 for Professional Services. Dr. Charles L. Dana was awarded judgment for $1,581 against Mrs Thaw and her son, Harry K. Thaw for the amount of his bill as an ex- pert in insanity in connection with the Thaw trial for the murder of Stanford White. Dr. Dana alleges that he was re tained on July 6, 1906, and accepted $500 as a retainer; that he visited and examined Thaw in the Tombs many times until Aug. 1. His bill was rejected and he sued. The Thaws were not represented and judgment was ordered by default. New York Pet Laid to Rest With Impressive Burial Services. After lying in state for a day the body of Clyde Slate, the pet dog of Hollis M. Slate, a real estate dealer, of Athol, Mass. was laid to rest with an impressive burial service. The dog was laid out in a silk-lined coffin, and around it was a profusion of flowers. A long list of mourners filed in to take a last look at the dead pet, for the dog was a general favorite. Mr. and Mrs. Slate have no chil- | dren and their affection has been | lavished on their collie, Clyde. He | died of old age. Butchered by the Blacks. Mail advices from Batavia report the ambuscade and massacre of two companies of Dutch troops by natives in Celebes. Eleven men, sent to get a native chief were butchered. Lieut. Mathes and Lieut. Keis and 15 other men also were set upon by a large force of blacks and killed. Big Dam to Cost $1,500,000. The contract between Austin, Tex. and a New York construction com: pany for the rebuilding of the great dam across the Colorado river at Aus tin has been signed. The structure will cost about $1,500,000. The dam will form a lake 30 miles long and one-half mile wide, and will afford power for a large hydraulic electric . plant. Cholera Spreading in Tokyo. The cholera outbreak is gaining alarming proportions in Tokyo. Nine- | teen new cases have been reported recently. The municipality has is- sued the most urgent instructions re- garding the means to be employed to prevent its spread and cautioning the populace of their danger, and the authorities are taking every possible precaution. Germany's minister of finance pro- credit is sound, and to show that the steries emanating from Paris and London are unwarranted. Rails for Panama Railroads. Steel rail manufacturers, who sub mitted bids to furnish rails for the Isthmian railroad at Panama, have been advised that the contract for rails for 44 miles of road has been awarded to the Maryland Steel Co. There was sharp competition among steel mills in all parts of the coun try. The Isthmian company is now putting out specifications for some steel bridze work for the railroad, bids for which will be opened Octo ber 25. Thief Gets $3,000 from Mails. A registered package containing $3,000, sent by the Bank of Rich- mond, Va, to a correspondent in North Carolina, was robbed and a newspaper substituted for the bills. The bank will not lose, as the pack- age was fully insured. the case of the Santa Fe Railway Co., charged with rebating, returned a verdict of guilty on all counts. The maximum fine possible under the law The case will be appealed. 000. Two tramps were killed, Fireman The jury in the case of Edward 2 ht Gilbet Ernest is missing and believed Turner of Breathitt county, Ky. charged with the murder of his wife on Lockout Mountain, in April, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. J and Brakeman Thomas were serious- ly injured in a wreck near Weston, jon the Northern Pacific. the | fuses and caps and which were pack- | The sliding top | sent | the boxes would | The cost to the government of the | European manufactured torpedo, it is | said, will be slightly less than of tor | The | duced figures to show that Germany's | At Los Angeles, Cal, the jury in| is $1,200,000, or the minimum of $66. | to be dead, and Engineer F. N. Myres STANDARD TRUST STILL EXISTS Lawyer Kellogg Claims Evidence Taken Shaws It Was Never _ Dissolved. From statements culled from the ledgers and books found in the of- fices of the Standard Oil Co. Frank B. Kellogg, counsel for the United States government, succeeded in placing on record the process through which the combine passed from the old Standard Oil Trust to the present Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Out of the maze of figures ‘develop- ed in a voluminous mass from the books and from testimony given by Clarence C. Fay, assistant auditor of the Standard, the government's coun- sel says he believes he has proved the federal allegation that the Stand- ard is an illegal corporation and by devious devices has maintained its entity, and that is is under tho same ownership as when it was formed. Mr. Kellogg says he is of the opin- ion that, notwithstanding the gov- ernment was unable to discover the transfer books and stock ledgers of liquidating trustees, the evidence ad- duced shows that the Oil Trust only pretended to dissolve under the order of the Ohio courts in 1892, and that the company's direction is still held by those who had to do with the formation of the Standard Oil Trust. EAT DOGS IN ARCTIC Polar Explorer Returns After Thrill- ing Experience. Details of the hardships experi: enced by members of the Leffingwell- Mikkelsen polar expedition, which was ice-bound in Beauford sea for nearly a year, a year ago, have reached Chicago with V. E. Stephen- son. Ernest De Koven Leffingwell, rep- resenting the University of Chicago, who was jointly in command of the expedition is safe in northern seas, | with other members of the expedi- tion. Although he was present when the expedition’s ship, Duchess of Bedford, went down, and at one time was compelled to eat one of the dogs which made up his team, he is re- ported none the worse for the experi- ence. “The main object of the expedition —that of discovering whether there is any land in Beauford sea—has been accomplished,” said Mr. Ste- phenson. ‘Extensive cruising about the sea and the taking of experi: mental soundings convinced the members of the party that there is no land there.” COAL SHIPPERS COMPLAIN They Accuse Railroad Companies of Being Unfair. Two cases involving charges of un- just and discriminatory regulations respecting the distribution: of coal- carrying cars among shippers, were filed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The complainant in both cases was the Illinois Colliers Co. of Chicago, and the defendants were the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway in one case, and the Chicago & Alton Railroad Co. in the other. The complainant alleges that the railroads discriminate unfairly in the distribution, particularly of “private” and ‘foreign’ cars, and the commis- sion is requested to compel the de- fendants to conform to the law and to issue regulations that shall be equit- | able and just to all shippers. Rhode Island Democrats. | The following ticket was nominat- ed at the Rhode Island Democratic state convention: Governor, James { H. Higgins, Pawtucket; lieutenant | governor, Chas. Sisson, Providence; | secretary of state, Attmore A. Tuck- er, South Kingstown: attorney gen- | eral, Edward M. Sullivan, Cranston; | general treasurer, John D. Archam- { bault, Warwick. The platform adopt- | ed was devoted entirely to state is- sues. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. American bankers will underwrite a $25,000,000 loan to , China, the money to be used in the improve- | ment of public works in Manchuria. | Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader in the Reichstag, intends to visit the | United States next year, and deliver | a series of speeches on Socialism. At the triennial council of the Con- gregational church in Cleveland the proposition for amalgamation of the Methodist Protestant and United Brethren with the Congregationalists was referred to a special committee which is to be named later. Directors of the Northern Pacific railroad declared the regular quarter- ly dividend of 13%, per cent, payable Nov. L. It had been persistently rumored ‘that an extra dividend would be declared. One of the largest rail orders plac- ed by any railroad company in recenf months was announced by th~ Le- | high Valley, which contracted ® with | the Bethlehem Steel Co. for 15,000 {tons of open hearth steel rails, to | be delivered in 1908. The price paid |is an advance over the usual figure, | for Bessemer rails—$28 a ton. | The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Co. announced an increase in the wages of all telegraph opera- | tors on the system. This is the sec- ond increase in wages the Santa Fe operators have had in the last 12 months. The increases total about | & per cent. i | | | In a remarkable confession to the | police, Mrs. Charles J. Romadka of | Milwaukee, wife of a millionaire | manufacturer, admitted that she was | responsible for a series of burglaries | and petty thefts that has baffled the authorities for weeks. | | The Western Core Drilling Com- pany has been organized, with a capi- tal of $1,000,000, and with Ira Mac- | Farland of New York as president and John H. Wood, Jr., of Pittsburg | as secretary. The company has leas- | ed over 3,000 acres of oil and mineral lands in the Goldfield district.
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