GOPPER CASES BIG CASH Large Failures Follow Suspen- sion of Heinze Company. DIVIDENDS CUT IN TWAIN Copper Magnate Gives Up Presidency © of Mercantile National Bank of New York City. Sensations followed each other rapid succession in the financial dis- trict of New York as the result of the collapse of the projected corner in United Copper and the suspension of a prominent brokerage firm the prev- in ious dav. + The firm of was suspended change. F. Augustus per magnate, of the Mercanti New York. The An pany, at its guarteriv diy 1 per gent. The director tana Copper Company quarterly dividend of $6 in place of a former dividend of $12. The failt Haller, Co., promin of .. Hamburg Germe ilities that reach announced. The Bank of Bu Mont, Heinzes inci suspended. suspension of Otto Heinze on a complaint to the Kleeberg, which fail- to the Exehange, & 0 Heinze the Stock Otto on Heinze, the Butte cop- igned the presidencs le National Bank Copper ' meeting, of the Poston & declared a of Soehlie & bankers Tg with lial may $7,500,600, State of was ings tie; are the & Co. Kxeh nee made by Gross & the Stock Exchange firm ed. In: a wnication president Stock this firm Otto Heinze with refn 2,202 “shares of United ) to have been bought on the order of the Heinze firm. This tion, Gross & ebhor state, was responsible for fail- ure. Attorneys for this. firm statad that the amount owing to the {firm by the Heinze firm $600,000. The Heinze firm announces it perfectly solvent, and that all of legal obligations will be met. The at- tornevs sav that the suspension by the Stock Exchange was accepted 1 the firm to the latter an oppor- tunity to sift its legal obligations from numerous claims which have been made against it, and which it is alleged are not iegzal obligations. The resignation of FF. Augustus Heinze from the presidency of the Mercantile Naticnal $3ank, it is said, was decided vn at a midnight meet- ing at the home of C. W. Morse, who is largely interested in the bank. William 13. Ridgely, at present Unit- ed States Comptroller of the Cur- rency, has been tendered the office of president of the Mercantile National Bank, bvrt has not yet decided whether or not he will accept. The low price of refined copper and the disorganized condition of that metal in the market given for the reduction of: dividends by the copper companies. The an- mouncement of the Amalgamated quarterly dividend of 1 per cent came 5 a surprise. While it was known hat there would be a reduction of 14 per cent was the lowest dividend expected. was hased of mr orcoatea ggregates is )y oivo MUST SKATE TO WORK Postal Employes at Washington Vic. tims of Latest Order. Beginning next Monday employes of the postoffice department at Wash- Tngton, D. C., will skate to their of- fices, following the general movement for athletic tests for the military and civil service begun by the Precident in his order for horseback rides by staff officers. Assistant Chief Clerk Thompson, observing the good effect of the ride fram Fort Mexer, took counsel! with himself how he could extend the new system: to his brood, and the skating order is the result. Not onlv clerks, but bureau chiefs and assistant chiefs are expected to Join the :10ller te brigade—women as well as men. MEN MISTAKEN FOR DEER. Father Shot and Killed and Son Ser- iously Wounded. Martin and Edwin Clohossy, father | ! Paris and son, of Colton, were accidental- ly shot in a hunting field eight miles from the village of South Conlon, N. Y., while deer hunting. Martin was returning to his home at South Col- ton, when he met his son Edwin one of the runways. Another hunt- er, James Crowley, mistook them for deer. He shot ance, the hullet passing through the right arm one of the men and the left arm of the other. He then shot again, the bullet passing through the abdomen of the two men. Martin died and the condition of Edwin is serious. Biackmailer Held in $1,000. Hugo C. Voecks, arrested in New York on the complaint of Raymond Hitchcock, the actor, on blackmailing, was arraigned in police court and held in $1,000 bail. Frank 0. Tornberg, arrested with Voecks, was discharged, there being nothing to show that he had any connection with the alleged blackmailing plot. Cunarders to Carry Mail. -By reason of their speed, the new Gunarders, Lusitania and Mauritania, will receive from the United States government from $4,000 to $6,000 every time they leave New York for carrying first-class mail destined to An order to this effect has been tssued by Second Assistant Post: master General McCleary. Foreigners are now coming to the United States at the rate of a million a year. Twenty-five of our states and ®erritories have a smaller population than a million. Mon- | 1 are the reasons, [-havinz roller | ShOwWiag. | One Member in | of | | ambush a charge of | MARCONI'S TRIUMPH Wireless Service Between Canada and ireland Starts With a Rush of Messages. The Inauguration of a rezuvlar trans wireless service by Willie om Glace enid words had ransmitted the station at Por: Morien and the Irish station the first day. The worldwide interest in the un- dertaking brought a flood of messages Atlantic wed was accom- his Mr. Marconi and Bay, N. S., 5,000 between 1 iarconi more than heen in the early morning and the service was opened shortly after daylight. ! Among thnse present at the opening | were representatives of a score British and American newspapers. “I am entirely satisfied with the result,” said Mr. Marconi. “Ever} thing has worked splendidly. going to operate a limited service for a time, bat we have already handled from 5.000 fo 10.000 words, to-day, on account of it being a special day, and ‘a large number of congratulat- and sagys have been ex- 3 London New transmit commer- . as .a. rule, ess day. inaugural eal opening wera the have Hresy Pre and rams between We anything to > are quiet- © business America in co! ice OTN urier two svstem this morning. seed to the British received © a mas: Itratheona, the sent peo- 12e on.” perty ny, and to have cost of tho is indepen r experimenting. S106.000, expenditur THE HAGUE CONFERENCE Obligatery Arbitration roved With Reservations. Hague conference has adopted Principle of App “he 1 Gen. Jorace Porter propesal of of the cllection i to the of- ve measures implying itary and. naval forces these debts shall not i creditor country of- and the debtor na- refuses or leaves the offer un- vr until after decision | the arbitrators not fulfilled by or country. Five small coun-| stained from voting, -aniong Venezuela. conference > of debts. subject contractual ho! ne ition it red, the is approved: of rinciple of obligatory arbitration, ions being made several countries, including the United States | wd Japan, David J. Hill explaining | for the former that his country would | not depart from its traditional policy | of ucn-interference in the affairs of | otter states. The project for the es-| tablishment of a permanent court of! arbitration was approved; six small countries abstaining from vcting and | many countries making reservations. | by BOTH INSANE Hospital Physicians Pass Judgment | on Preacher and “Soul Mate.” | County Hospital physicians, | declared both the Rev. Max- | well: Walenta, pastor of St. Lueas German Evangelical Lutheran Church | Villiamsburg, N..'Y., and: Mrs. | Dora Bauer, his “affinity,” insane, the cenple were discharged in the police court. Mrs Kings of Bauer, who is the wife of I.ouis A. Bauer, an electrotyper, and | the minister were arrested several | days azo, charged with offending pub- lic decency, and were committed to] have their sanity inquired into, as they had declared themselves to be “sonl. mates.” Riatives their took them in charge on release, in Adirondacks. inches snow fell Adirondacks, and it Deer hunters are happy. Snow Two out the of through- is sti MOORS AMBUSH FRENCH of a. Reconnoitering Party Killed and Six Wounded. A been received in from Gen. Drude, cemmander the French expeditionary force in Morocco, saying that a French recon- noitering party was ambushed, while proceeding in the direction of Tad- dert. Capt. Jandey and one private of the Chasseurs d'Afrique killed and six men were wounded. Gen. Drude at once went out with a battalion, but when he got to the place the Moors who had madz the had disappeared. dispatch has of Wants Into Texas Again. Gov. Thomas Campbell has ceived a letter from H. Clay Pierce, chairman of the Cominany, in which Pierce makes an appeal for readmission of that pany into Texas, on the ground that it is not connected with the Stand- ard Oil Company. A quarterly dividend of 1 per cent declared by the Amalgamated Copper. was Queen in Auto Accident. While Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha were driving about Madrid in an automobile, two tires burst, with the result that the Queen and Princess had to alight and seek shelter in the premier’s official residence. Next Encampment at Franklin. The grand encampment I. O. O. F,, at Lancaster, Pa. adjourned after se- lecting Franklin as the next meeting place. The patriarch militant coun- cil will meet at the same place at the same time. of | We are Canadian | | the I struggle. | Four Killed, i a hospital | were more | ton. i | ininred | Norman. IW. { shown were | | | | Tre- | Waters-Pierce Oil | com- | | a Preshyterian i death, Pittsburg Merchant’ Wants Damages | United REAL OF WAR RUMORS Fleet Ordered to Pacific Because of Japan's Activity. { variously { that THE OFFICERS WATCH EVENTS | richten Secret: Emissaries @of the United | States Put the President Upon His Guard. | Bank Preparation for a hostile emergency the Pacific is attention of authorities an in and tary occupying the time the naval and at Washington extent that all .other has been suspended in some branches mili- such work | of the two services. is spreading through of the arnzyv and the navy. Many officers are. now he circumstances which decision to send the battleship fleet to the i and “with their opened respect they. trend of the eveuts with erest The war feeling the personnel aware of Jed to the ©} watching 1 absorbiz The The information 's attitude. the President leet to the ision disquiet the mi the government abroad. that tl 10 tion—in furnished to departments confidential agents shadow of doubt th: partment received reports that Japan was making to replace its military. ‘and @ naval forees on a war footing, and that ports of the samc Zener came the war d agents of both depart of There is navy des to indicate active efforts no re- 11 nartment. ] ments told of purchases of war supplies. by and - shells, torpedoes, land, France and = Ger- tena to cent 10 torpedoes Europe to for our Japan had placed or- ders startling for simi- lar war material. ‘The Philippines; the branches of the government were 2d, were being Hooded with anes There was feverish tivity onthe nat of the Javanese camps of instruction, which had been established in remote parts of Ja. pan, and troons were being drilled in- cesaantly. | These SO military no: Jap- tiff S1ies reporte were all placed be- | fore the President for his perusal. Mr. instanee, or. of the general board consideration to the t hand that Japan was for another hostile Roosevelt's volition, avy information getting own gave a ready The outecemo of their deliberation was a recommendation to the Presi-| dent that the Atlantic battleship be sent to the Pacific. The concern | the administration did not abate after it became known to the world that the fleet would go to the Pacific | and the anti-American agitation in Japan apparently subsided. Unless the purpose now in the minds of those who will have a large part in determining its future move- ments undergoes a change, the fleet will proceed to the Philippines and remain there. fleck CAUSED BY MIXED SIGNALS | 10 in Hospital, Many | Hurt After Trolley Collision. Four were killed, 10 are in a persons than score or less injured in a head- on collision of two Sherman Heights street cars near the city of Chatta- nooga. Tenn. Confusion of signals is said to have been the cause of the accident. The dead are: Motorman Edward Parker, Motorman William Pennhme- William E. Smith, meat dealer, a negro named Cleveland. The are: J. K.. Brace, Hayne, will probably 5; Thomas C. 1... Burns Wallace, Stiles, T. G. avis, J. 7. Kib- M. Smith, Warner, Johnson and 14 The: gion occurred during a heavy fog. and more and Mich.; Gie Cc. hile. :C. Burton « cil NesTNHes: ES SENATOR PLATT SU From His Express Company. I'hat the troubles TT... Platt are not confined resisting claimants to his name and fortune in suit filed in Common Pleas Court No. 4 by William Grab- | owsky, a well-known merchant. | Grabowsky, who sues Platt and the | ‘States Express: Company, | claims that six Russian sable skins | shipped to him from New York, have | gone astray. savs the express company admits they have no trace of them, but decline to pay more than $50, while the merchant asks $400. 4 of Senator 10 is a T He Missionary Dies in Egypt. A cablegramm received in Toledo, 0O., announced the death in Egypt on October 1€, of Rev. Chauncey Murch, He was He went to Egypt in| His wife was with him at his | which was due to heart dis- ease. He was a native of Scotch Ridge, -Ohio. missicnary. 48 vears old. 1883. Boy Kills Mother. George Smiley, aged 17, shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Scholf- er, aged 42 years, in their home in Myrtle avenue, Kansas City. In a statement to the police officials Smiley says he shot his mother in de- fending her against a burglar. He is being held pending investigation. American newspapers in Manila complained that Secretary Taft's speech to the Philippine assembly was too indefinite, in that the policy of the government toward the island was evaded. to | ? [and | in | Jide | search | gol, GREAT FAILURE IN GERMANY Coilapse of a Hamburg Banking Firm. | May Be | | The Liabilities $7,500,000 old nrivatn Soelile Go. of Hamburg, failed. The liabilities are The { | | stated, and it was estimated | | | | | Haller, Germany, hanking: firm of & they were in the neighborhood of 35.000,000; but the Nach- | says it is informed that the liabilities will reach $7,500,000. This | will make the crash of this firm the | Hamburg biggest failure in Germany since the | famous breakdown of the Leipsizer | in June, 1901. The assets ‘of | the firm have not yet been ascertain- | ed, but in banking circles the capital | ‘the partners declared to. be | is vy all the joint stock and priv- | banks in Hamburg are affected | in .varying. degrees by this ‘failure, but: a number of them say their claims are adequately secured. Among the firm's liabilities are ac- ceptances for $3.750.G00. The difficulties of i from its ate firm rose eonnection with a Teplitz. Bo- capital the firm the ef] Soehle & fall in: eng difficulties 1 TTR tn tire Ter his apparently of NEGRO IS CHAMPIONED is Denicd, e x Is ot Scived. Carnegie save to. a hin Philogophical Institution, their views on 6 negro ¢ United States. Mr. Carnegie strongly the negroes, contended was a. saving maa, with and revudiated the idea gro is 1a The auc ye done is how more ni ers. can be obtained. The 1 become of immense economic and is indispensable. i Nevertheless, Mr: Carnezie adiit- ted, the negro problem is as vet un- solved. Mr. Carnegie sa New York on the steamer it 18. Andrew Ory Lord. Rose at the Kdinburgh, vroblem and 1 audience th tii he land that hunger, the ne- to be what negroes, b { them and o tion sed with can tT now ear 1 tr 1 il h work- 1¢ has vaiue | gro MANY FRENCH ARE DROWNED | High Water Causes Creat Distress in | cf Towns. Dispatches > the center south cf France all confirm the renorts of destruction floods. Many have been The rivers Loire, Rhone aad their tributaries are raging tor- rents, the water in some places being tha highest ever recorded. ! In hundreds: of cities and towns there is from two to 10 fert of water the Great distress has re- sulted. : Railroad ganized. have been tions are | and WOIsT caused by drowned. Saoae streets. rlv dizor- roadbeds the sta- utte the away. and water, is nlaces traffic At washed under RECEIVES QUICK JUSTICE A Toronto Ma2il Carrier Sentenced Within an Hour from Time cf Arrest. swifiness of Canadian justice is proverbial. but a case in the erim- mh ie (inal court of Toronto probably holds | the record even for Canadian courts. Horace Mountain, a mail carrier, emploved in collecting letters from street boxes, was arrested at 10:45 in the morning, charged with robbing the mails. AL: 11:10: he was the magistrate, pleaded guilty within an hour from the time of arrest had commenced serving a t of four years’ imprisonment. before and his NN arraigned Twenty Drown in High The Alfred engaged 1 bau to Gra the rocks. make its way the steamer crew were Sea. Frlandsen, of 95% tons, carrying lumber from Li- igemonth, was driven on Lofore lifebcat could through the heavy seas broke up and 20 of her drowned, a FIND $27,000 HID IN BED D. McDurmond’s Death Reveals Fact of Concealed Fortune. Secreted in the bed of J. D. McDur- mond, a well-known citizen of Neéw- ville, near Carlisle. Pa... who died, $25,000 in $1,000 bills and a small box of gold amounting to $2,000, were found. McDurmond was a rather eccentric character, but none of his neighbors imagined he had so large an amount of money. For many vears he was a traveling man, and was years old when he died. His widow, who is also seriously ill, suspected that her hushand had money hidden in the house and told her neighbors to carefully: for it. to Four Men Drown. Four men were drowned in the Illi- nois river, six miles below Hardine, I11., by the overturning of a gasoline launch. The dead are; Harvel An- liveryman, 34: vcars old: G. D. Jizillian, farmer, 3% years old; Jeff Hunt, riverman, 28 years old: J. C. Lamhy, saloonkeeper, 30 years old; Abner Poor, 20 years old, managed to swim ashore. Advance Guard of Squadron. The cruisers Maryland, West Vir- ginia, Colorado and Pennsylvania, the big four of the first - squadron, commanded hy Rear Admiral Dayton, | safled for Santa Barbara, where they will remain for several weeks. Sultan Abd-el-Aziz of Morocco is | repcrted to be in grave financial dis-| tress, and to have submitted a pro-| posal that France shall assume a | protectorate over the country in con- sideration of suuplying his monetary | needs. | covered, | compris | situated | to atoms. Some cf the vietims’ | building | practically admitted that the $1,000. { 000 loan by Congress to the | for construction work on the fair will | be a dead loss to the government. PONDER MILL EXPLOSION Scores of Persons Were Killed and Five Hundred Injured. BODIES ARE RECOVERED 21 Every Building in Fontanet Reported Wrecked by the Terrific Upheavals. Over 60 persons were killed, 290 | more, badly injured, 1,500 made home- less and a whole town practically de- | stroyed by the explosions in the Du- | pont powder mills at Fontanet, Ind. Forty thousand kegs of powder and 50 tons of dynamite blew up in the four blasts. : Martial law Gov. Hanly in guarding the looting. Three hundred hildre i thi was proclaimed Fontanet. Militia and will preve by reins schoo! of the a 'Se children Four and > crow. a toys 1 Twenty-one hodies while heen died have four sons on the: way to r] the first relief train. Many of the vi the burning debris, that their covered... The only obtained from chee up. the sidents the town Fontanet is a mining people. and the ctims will never tal list bodies of town of Dupont powder mi buildings, of the were seven were the edge struct town. blown bodies which These seven inthe fire immediate were burned caught the first | explosion. ec Supe Of the missing, ate exple two more fourth at 10:45 was in the other miils next. The mated powder As 1itendent Monahan is one Thera we four first at: 9:15: a. .m., afterwards © separ- sions, and the The first explosion mill. and the blown up S00 ing were zine, in which it is esti- thousands of kegs of stored, was the last to as the first explosion ocenrred, the wreckage caught fire, and the flames eommunicated to ‘a train on a side track nearby. At 10:45 the heat: from: the caused the magazine to explode. was ina hollow, some away. None of the residents were killed in their homes. When the first ex- plosion. came the people rushed from their homes toward the mills ently believing the danger to be over. Among the number were many Wwo- men and children, relatives of the mill employes, and they were near | the works when the second explosion came. Dozens of them were hurled to the ground by the force of the second explosion and piled up in a struggling mass on the ground. No cause for. .the explosion is known. The men in t mill where the first explosion occurred wert killed or fatally injurod, and it may never be known what caused the catastrophe. The mills manufactured blasting powder, and plant was one of the largest in country. mag: nmany Vere soon 20. mt fire This dis- tance he the the Electrie San Franeisco, admit a tion to 4.000.000 additional bonds to the stockholders on Novem: ber 20. Co. of pronosi- The. Pacific & 1 issue BROTHERS MORTAL FEUD fother Returns to Find One the Other Perhaps Dying. quarrel in their White, wounded Dead, home aged his Following a at Philadelphia, George o,. shot a and mortally and by head. | Louis, aged 32 years, then tried to end his own life sending a bullet into his own lL.onis White died shortly after being rentoved to a hospital and the brother in a critical condition. The mother of the men returned from a shopping tour to find them lving unconscious on the floor of their | bedrooni. Police say George admit- ted the shooting. Rotterdam The port of Rotterdam is becoming the most important on the continent of Europe, for its traffic continues to increase at an astonishing rate. Whereas in 1839 only 1,940 vessels called there, in 1900 it was visited by 7.268, and in 1905 by 8,305. In | the same time the corresponding ton- nage has progressed “from 240,186 tons to 6,326,000 and to 8,365,000. brother, is Becoming Great Port. Government Loses on Jamestown. Treasury officials at Washington James- town Exposition, and the additional money expended from federal funds Six Killed in Wreck. Northbound passenger train No. 34 on the Southern railway erashed into a freight train at Rudd, eight miles above Greensboro, N. C. Six persons are reported Yilied znd 16 injured. discussion { page change { the. tropics, | gion; | occupied sessions of the General Con- | tive appar- | to Mr. Westcott. | ed { son has been appointed receiver. The | total liabilities aggregate $375,000. PRAYER BOOK UNALTERED Proposal to Change Name of Episco- pal Church Deferred. A declaration by the change is tho house of depu- ties regarding topon pulpit:” title book, involving a in the constitution: the sub- mission of a joint committee's rocom- mendation that the ‘nnial conven- tion of 1910: be held in Cincinnati, and a debate regarding church work in Alaska and the Arctic re- among the that of in the of the praver were subjects vention of the Protestant ‘hurch at Richmond, Va. ‘he declaration regarding the open pulpit was in the following resolution, Episcopal | passed by. the House of Deputies. “No minister in charge of any con- gregation of this..ehuxch, or in case of vacancy or absence, no church war- den, vestryman or trustee of the con- ation, shall permit any person to ificiate. th it without = sufficient evidence duly licensed or ordained to minister church; provided that nething shall be 30 construed commauni- lay the to in this as ministers ion. of FORPOLAR HUN to Hence. Explorer, Use Norse Three Years Fy Win Europe, to reach the He announced tour . big expert in lie President yd States gov attempt 1910, having ain haul expect to and the rnment to allow in which he navi- passage in 1994, pass throngh the completion.: It Northwest = passage Amundsen discovered magnetic pole. The ex- expects make a lecture tour of the principal cities of the and jon, the Northwest the first ‘to canal i to FRANCE TO. BUY, MOROCCO? Report Says That Mcney Offer Wiil Ee Made to Spain. A startling report at Tang that sent of Sultan in circulation France, with the con- Abd El Aziz, intends making Spain ’a monetary offer -for all of her interests in Morocco, notably Melilla and Ceuta, which points, if the deal is made, will be the base of operations against Bu Hamara, the pretender to the throne of Morocco, and for the: policing of the Algerian frontier. Several. Jews: arrived at Tangier from ‘Casablanca, having: left that place because of information from na- sources that a division of the army Mulai Hafid, Sultan of the South, approaching Casablanca with 25 field guns, intending to shell the town unless it immediately evacuated by the Freneh. is of is is HE!NZE BROKERS GO UNDER Left in Lurch by Sensational Slump in United Copper. Following the collapse in United Copper in. New. York, the Stock EXx- change firm of Gross & Kleeberg, known in the street as the principal brokers lor the Heinze interests, sus- pended. The only authorized explan- ation of the failure was the remark of a representative of the house that its troubles were due to the repudiation orders by customers, & have with managing a pool formed to support the Heinze group. They bought heavily of copper in the face the sensational break and contin- y ses in. the falling O01 Kleeherg been cred- "TOSS HOW TRUST FOOLED PUBLIC Stancard Used to. Sell Its Products Through Alleged Independents. Hampton G. Westcott, vice presi- dent of the Standard Oi] Co., of Ken- testified the hearing of the federal suit against the oil combine in New York, Oct. 14, that in several Southern States the Standard had tucky, in | found it expedient to sell much of its products through companies which { the public believed to be independent. | The practice of selling through so- called independent companies, which were owned by the combine, was dis- continued two years ago, according CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. the drunkard's doom were soli- it would he less sad; but it al- involves the doom of the inno- If tary, wavs cent. The failure of the Rumbarger Lum- ber Co. of West Virginia is announec- in Wheeling. Charles H. Thomp- AMBULANCE WRECKED Shock May Kill Entire Load of Pow- der Explosion Victims. Hospitals and homes in Terre Haute were thrown open to care for the injured in the Fontanet powder explosion. While hurrying to St. Anthony's hospital the city ambulance was struck by a street car and wrecked. It is feared the shock will be fatal to the explosion victims, who were in the ambulance.
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