SKATERS DROWNED
Pleasure Seekers Meet
Death in lcy Waters.
DVER 150 PEOPLE ON LAKE.
ee Lost Lives on Oncta Lake, in
Massachusetts, and Two at
Toledo,.O.
nnie Mosenier, aged 20; Henry
b, aged 20, and Frederick Norris,
d 16, skated through the thin ice
Onata Lake at Pittsfield, Mass.
day afternoon and were drowned.
/illlam Suttle, aged 16, who was
ting with Norris, was saved by
liam Zapp, who heroically
own life to drag Suttle from the
er.
the ice, which varied in thickness
m one to two inches, when
edy occurred. Norris and Suttle
e skating about 400 vards from the
re, when, with a crash, they went
pugh, crying for help.
app reached Suttle in time to save
. Norris had disappeared.
ce were immediately informed by
pphone of the . accident.
ite was informed by an excited
ter that a young man and woman
just gone down withou: an out-
scme hglf mile distant, just south |
Several
boards,
the center of the lake.
ng men, with ropes and
hed on skates to the rescue. They
md a great hole in the ice. * A gray
floated in the hole. Some min-
s before Ano and
i been seen skating together about
lake. They did not succeed in
ding the bodies.
\t Toledo, O., Frank Ballmer, aged
and Trank Felix, aged 12, were
bwn~d while skating in a slip along
river. Their bodies were rccov-
bd. The older boy made a heroic
empt te rescue his comrade and
d in trying to save him.
CONGRESSMEN FIGHT
pute Leads to Insult and Exchange |
of Blows.
epresentative John Sharp Wil-
s of Mississippi and Representa-
David DeArmond of Missouri,
intellectual. heavyweights, but
physical bantamweizhts on the
hocratic side of the House, engag-
in fist ficht on the floor of the
mber, directly after the House hail
urned for the day.
irst, there was a conversation re
fing in a difference of recollec-
In, the lie was passed and then there
s an exchange of blows.
How many were struck no one can
I, but there were several, and. when
hb combatants were separated by
ir colleagues, the minority leader
s bleeding from a long gash under
left eve, while blood cozed from
swollen nose of the dignified
mber from Missouri.
Fhe affair was entirely impromptu,
it could scarce have been more
ctacular so far as surroundings
if it had been pre-arranged.
nly two or three
b cpeaker had declared the
journed and left the hall
re still on the floor, however, a
hdred or more members, newspaper
bn and clerks and the galleries had
vet been cleared of spectators.
a
HA
Slain.
United
shot and in-
destroying a
the notorious
Revenue Man
Hendricks, a
officers, was
killed “while
bekade distillery in
onshine Smithtown settlement of
akés county, N. C. The shot that
led Hendricks was fired from am-
sh, and while it is known that
onshinerg did the act, it is not
own, who the murderer is.
Tuberculosis Resolution Held Up.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
the house to pass a resolution an-
orizing the department of state tc
rite foreign representatives to the
ternational «Tuberculosis Congress
Washington, September 1 to Oe:
yor 12. 1908. Mr. 3archfeld of
ttsburg called np the resoluticn, but
Rartlett of Georgia objected "and
laid aside.
Decrease in Em ration. .
The remarkable falling off in the
w of emigration from Fiume, Hun-
rv.« to the United States is well
strated by the empty steerages of
» departing steamers. Instead of
a customary 2,000 or 3,000 emi-
ints on each vessel, the Carononio
rried only 300 steerage passengers,
ile the Carpathia had on board
s than emigranfs.
wv W. States
rene
hntly
50
Doubkle-Header in Wreck.
frain No. 23 on the Southern, bound
m - Atlanta for = Birmingham, ran
o an oven switch at Tallapoosa,
.. killing Engineer Downey of At-
1ta and injuring two firemenn. The
in was drawn by two engines, both
which left the rails and turned
or.
Secretary Taft Returns.
Vigorous and joily and looking
l-groomed as if returning from an
ting at Atlantic = City, Secretary
ft reached Washington December
, after his 120-day trip around the
orld.
Dealing in grain futures is prohibit-
by a bill introduced by Represen-
tive
DEWEY HAS CELEBRATION
dmiral
serve Birthday.
Admiral George Dewey gave a din- |
on |
er December 18th, at his home
street, in celebration of the seven-
eth anniversary of his birth.
The actunal anniversary does not oc-
ir until December 26, but the: cele-
ration was advanced in order that
e president, who was anxious to ac-
pt the admiral's invitation to at-
bnd, might be present. The dinner
fas informal.
risked |
tion
|
: 3 { by
Pver 150 young pebdple were skating |
the |
| the
The |
Chief |
Miss Mosenier |
I destroys as it proceeds
| animals
minutes before, |
House |
There | : : 8 hi
{ is that New. York has had up to this
of
i eral
| the
Scott of Kansas, the new chair- |
an of the committee on agriculture. |
Gives Little Dinner to Ob- |
INTERPRET RATE LAW
Inter-State Commerce Body's Ruling
Affects All Claims.
Official interpretation of
limitation provision of
rate law has been made
Inter-Commerce Commission
This action. is the first importance
regarding all claims now pending
likely for damages or reparation.
The commission simply directed
that the following entry be made on
the minutes of the body:
“Claims filed® since August 28,
must have accrued within two
prior to the date when they
filed, otherswise they barred
the statute.- Claims filed on or
fore August 28, 1907, are not affect-
cd by the two-year limitation in the
act.
“The commission vill
jurisdiction of, or recognize
dietion over, any claims fer
or damages WHich are
the statute of limitations
preted by the commission: and the
commission holds further that it will
not recognize the right the
rier to waive the provisions of
statute.
“Relative to
law as to the
act. went
1906.”
An
{two-year
railroad
the
the
hy
Of
or
1907,
years
were
are by
bhe-
take
not
its juris-
barred
inter-
of car:
that
the constitution of the
statute of limitations
into effect August 28,
‘CURE FOR INSANITY
of Inhuman Form Now
Yields to Surgery.
A cure for one of the most
forms of insanity, hitherto considered
in expert medical works as 80
cent incurable, has been found,
hoped, in the surgeon’s knife by
N. M. Owensby, physician-in-chief at
Bayview = Insane Asylum, Baltimore.
This form of insanity is known to the
profession dementia nraecox. [It
the human
thought and
victim little
a mos{ de-
Madness
pitiable
per
it is
|
re
Dr.
as
qualities of resistance,
speech, rendering the
more than a beast-—-often
praved degenerate.
Selecting from the worst case in.the
asvium. Dr. -Owensby last July per
formed the operaticn. The case was
kept under observation for
months without the slightest indica-
tion of a return of symvtoms Last
Jetober the case was dismissed and
the man- has since secured employ-
ment and doing intelligent
Four other eases were operated upon
and three of these showed the
return of intelligence.
LWO
is work
Game
FIND MANY BAD CATTLE
York Investigators Discover
High Fercentage of Dovir
Tuberculcsis
New
a
iC
revelation of
tubereulo
2 IIS
A startling
alence of bovine
York state. and of the i
the legal means for the control of this
disease has been made 1 the
Tompkins County Medical
Dr. V. A. Moore, ha
Cornell university.
Dr. Moore stated that
tested by Dean Law cf the Cornell
Veterinary eollege, 16 per had
the disease The official 3-0f
the state in 1904 wl-that
tested, per cent
nu
yefore
Soeiaty by
cterinlogist
1.086 cows
cont
repot
sho wx
16
disease.
The
New
condition in
ceclared,
for this
Dr. Mcore
reas
York
n
state,
vear no inspection of a.:.nals srougt
into this state, while her states
have had such inspection. New York
has thus become the dumping ground
tuhercenlosis cattle.
other
MAKE DEPOSITORS SECURE
Imposing a Tax to Create Fund With
Which State Can Settle With
Creditors.
A new banking law
providing a guaranty fund for the
protection of depositors, in insolvent!
banks, will become gperative on Feb-
ruary 17, 1908. Each bank is
required to pay to the state banking
board a sum equal to 1 per cent of
daily ave » deposits. When-
over this sum will
increased by further assessment,
Whenever a bank fails
bank examiner will step in and for
with pay the depesitors from
guaranty fund held by the bankir
board. These payments. become
first lien on the a 3 defune
bank.
for Qklahema,
state
its
depleted it he
the
if the
ol ih
CAPITAL NOTES.
has sighed a
the Arkansas
west-central
Roosevelt
proclamation creating
National forest in the
part \nsas, covering
1,000 000 acres. It will
east ( any of the g
forests.
President
more
the
of 4
be
est 31 vernment's
A claim for reparation will be mado
because the damage suffered
the Italian interests in the destrue-
tion of one of the tobacco factories
in Hopkinsville, : Ky., which. was
burned some time ago by night raid-
ers Fhe loss amounted to al
thousand dollars.
Italian Ambassador
Planches has learned
Italian consul at New Orleans
the three men killed by a mob
days ago at Chathamville,
and supposed to be Italians,
Hungarians: .
The treasury
the
‘Buftalo”
ed at the
of by
sevel
des
the
that
Sev
La.,
were
Mayor
through
department announced
appearance of a counterfeit $10
United States note, detect
National Park Bank, in
New York city. While the general
appearance of the note is deceptive,
lathe work and ruling are crude
broken. The note bears the se-
number 4,678,111.
and
rial
Project Kongo Railroad.
Petit Bleu
Britain and
State have at
for the construction of a railroad be-
tween Lado, on the east bank of the
| river Nile in Eastern Sudan, and th
Kongo f{rentier.
.
that
Free
announces
the
The
Treat Kongo
arrived an agreement
Compuny
pan
quarterly
The Proctor
has declared
{ dividend of 2 per cent on the prefer-
| red stock, payable January 15
| stockholders of record December
the
the! More Killed and Injured in Amer- | ;
| anniversary
MINE HORROR
i bering 2,061
| Government
| ders
i-Garfield
repara-r
{
to |
ol. |
ica than in Europe.
22840 DEATHS IN 17 YEARS
This Due
Ade-
Government Experts Find
Largely to Lack of
quate Laws.
In all world the
stands
United States
and
the
preeminent in killing
the
death
maiming coal miners, mines of
nation
many
this
times
causing
as men per 1,000 em-
eo
ployed as those of most European
countries.
In. the last 17
have given. up lives
mines of this country. As many
lent. deaths have occurred in
mines during the six years
during the preceding 11 years.
number cof fatal accidents each year
now double that of 1895.
In 1906 6,861 men
injured in the mines, the killed num-
and injured 4,800,
facts have been gathered by
experts acting under or-
Secretary of the Interior
to investigate the nature
and extent of mine accidents, and to
make suggestions as how mining
conditions may be improved and ac-
cidents prevented.
Since the reports
country has been. startled with
news of three mine explosions
inz nearly five hundred. lives.
The first occurred in the. Naomi
mine at Favette City. Pa., early in
December. and cost 34. lives, Then
followed the Monongah disaster in
West Virginia. wi a of nearly
100 lives and explosion in Ala-
bama the other ay... with 65 lives
lost.
The
1506
22,840
in
men
the
vio-
the
voars
their
last
is
killed ‘or
wer
the
These
from
to
the
the
O31
were written
the
indicate - that during
men were killed or
of this
nher of these
indirect-
has been
increase
lack of
regula-
proper
explo:
condi:
used
the gas
the fact that
coal. mining
figures
near
in
and
7.000
th yal. mines
injured the
country that the nur
iecidents, caused diroetly
ly. by mine ‘ex
steadily © inereasing.
1 been in part
n and enforceable
tions: in
information
C(
or
ions,
This
to. the
mine
lack of
concerning the
in mining, the
whieh ti} be
oper
used and
under
in the
dust. and in
the developie
cnly is
but m
or farther
good
sives
tions
safely
and
in
not
can
ce: of
part to
nt of
D
the number of miners
FINE CHURCH DEDICATED
is One of the Finest of Eccle-
siastical Structures.
Wi elaborate
th and impres
de-
His
emonies, tion and
tail” the otestant: ity
avenue. and
g. Was di
new
conal ehnreh.
Walnut © str
cated.
The new
examples of
attained in
I550.000. An
clergvmen
the exercises,
}
by. the Right
84
fice is
church architecture vet
this. country, and cost
immense ¢ gation
and lavmen. attended
vhich conducted
tev. Cortlandt Wlhife-
hi Oishop of Pittsburg diocese.
most imposing feature the
coremonies was the procession
the: boys’ choir, robed in
followed by a delegation of
ing clergymen and Rev. Dr.
Mcllvaine, rector of the parish;
IDDr.. Dl. Perris, -assistant’ rector;
Right Rev. Vincent, Right Rev.
Right Rev. William
GW. Peterkin,
A. Leonard and B Whitehead.
one of the finest
mgr
of
\
1
1
ad, the
Rev.
shop
ITALY REGISTERS KICK
Ambassador Complains About De-
st of Government's
Tobacco.
the
ruction
At the r of Italian Am
bassodor Secretary Root has
called upon the Governor of Kentucky
intervene prevent the
destruction by “night riders’ ff to.
bacco belonginz to the Italian Gov-
ernment and stored in Kentucky. The
that he is in-
quest
to tO further
ior. has reported
igating the matter.
Other matters about which the Ital-
ian Ambassador complained related
to the treatment of Italian laborers
in Mississippi and Florida. In Miss
31 lab had heen abused be-
cause ther were Italians, while in
/ made the vietims
1Ze worse than
ners
Florida
of a sys
slavery.
STOLE GEMS WORTH $32,000
Boy Arrested as He Is Trying to Sell
Them for $3.
New York December
White. aged 17, is the confessed thief,
according to the nolice. of the §32.000
package of jewelry stolen from the
United States Express Company. He
was “arrested in Jer City, after
trving to dispose of the entire collec-
tion for $3. The of a 33.000
necklace for 25 to his cap-
ture.
The priscner was a helper on
of the express company’s wagons, in
Jersey City His wagon cairied the
valuable package. which he put into
his peecket-as the wagon was being
unloaded.
sey
sale
cents led
ona
MISSOURI FOR TAFT
Stat= Republican Committee Passes
Resolutions Favoring Him.
With but ‘one member out of
when the final vote was taken
Republican state committee in
sion at St. Louis, adopted a resolu-
tion indorsi candidacy of
Secretary for the Presi-
line
the
ses-
the
Taft
dooney.
February 7.was set as the date for
1te convention, at which dele-
cates to the national Republican con-
ventien will be chosen.
‘the st
G INCREASE
| commemorative
| sons: came
to three
incendiarism
20.—William |
WHITTIER CENTENARY
Memory of Quaker Poet Honored in
New England.
17, the
of the
Whittier
observances
one hundredth
birth of John
was marked by
in many
societies in
December
Greenleaf
schools and by literary
many sections of the country, of which
he is generally considered one of the
most beloved and representative
poet 3. ao
At Amesbury, Mass., where the
‘poet: of freedom” spent many years
of his life, the 100th anniversary of
his birth: was celebrated with appro-
iate exercises. By hundreds per-
from out-of-town be
at the observances.
auditorium of the hall was
decorated with laurel and
a portrait of the poet
occupied a conspicuous position on
the stage. In the balcony were 100
school children, prepared to sing some -
Whittier's poems. that had been
to music.
The principal
rr Governor John
Washington of Tuskegee, and
Edwin D. Mead of Boston. A letter
from President Roosevelt was read.
Many visitors from : all sections
went to Haverhill, the birthplace of
the poct.
Dr
to
present
The
elaborately
bunting. and
of
set
were For-
Booker
speakers
D. Long,
STEEL EARNINGS
$200,000,000 Indicated by
of the Big Companies.
LLeading steel companies will show
earninzs of $200,000,000 net at the
of the current year, which will
the largest in the history of the
Profits .of
Books
1
¢rose
1
oe
‘country.
The companies whose combined
earnings will run close to this figure
are the United States Steel Corpora-
tion, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Iron
and Steel, Jones & laughlin, Lacka-
wanna Steel Company, Tennessee
Coal and’ Iron, Colorado : Fuel and
Iron, Sloss-Sheffield, Pennsylvania
Stee] Company and the Maryland
Steel Company.
The increase in the earnings has
been due largely to increased produc-
tion and good prices received, which,
however, have been offset in a meas-
ure by the higher cost of labor and
the higher cost of raw material.
Ilmployes of the United States
Steel (Corporation wil} receive some
handsome Christmas presents this
vear., They will come from the pro-
fit-sharing plan. of the corporation,
under which $10,000,000 will be dis-
tributed between and January 1,
1908,
now
TO HELP FIGHT PLAGUE
for Creation of National Tuber-
Commission Is Intro-
duced in House.
ha creation of
‘nlozis. commission
n members, the
osis
cul
tuber-
.of
surgeons the
the navy and the bureau of
health and marine hospital
and four tuberculosis experts
to be chosen by the president of the
United States from citizen surgeons,
provided for in a bill introduced
Representative Smith of Towa.
of the commission are
outlined as follows:
“To inquire into the best methods
for the prevention and control of tu
herenlosis and to avoid the spread of
thie and the recommend to
congress, the legislators of the sev-
11 states and boards of health uni-
methods for prevention, control
and against its spread.”
The commission is required to
its final report within two. years
he dissolved.
national
to consist
a
of
army,
public
service
by
The
duties
disease,
form
file
and
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
of night riders” and
in the tobacco district
of Indiana and Kentucky, insurance
companies are cancelling policies on
leaf tobacco in warehouses and barns.
Ir National Exchange
York announced an en-
cagoment of $700.000 gold for import.
Thiz makes a total of $106,050,000
cengaced during the present move-
ment,
On account
ing
NCW
The
Bank cof
Senator Knox suggested an amend-
ment to a bill proposed by Tillman,
civing the varions states right to reg-
ulate sale of original packages of li-
quor. This right now belongs solely
to the government.
Wireless messages from Admiral
vans’ big fleet say that the ships
are now bevond the gulf stream and
are sailing along in an unruffled sea.
The {fleet was about 700 miles north-
east from St. Thomas, D. W. 1.
A pusse captured a man in a min-
ing camp 100 miles from KEsenada,
Cal., who is believed to be William
Walker, thq man who absconded
from New Drigain,~Conn., over a year
ago, leaving a defalcation of about
$500,000.
Fividence brought out in
ernment’s suit against the
Tobacco Company showed that one
one branch of the concern—that In
New York-—did an annual business
of $12,000,000, and controlled 75 per
cent of the tobacco business New
York and Yonkers.
Destrover Breaks All Records.
The turbine torpedo boat destroyer
Tartar . broke all records in fast
steaming in her final trials over the
oificial course at Southampton, De-
cember 17, attaining a speed of 37.037
knots. She also established a new
record for a six-hours’ trial, cover-
ing 235 miles in that time and main-
taining the unprecedented speed of
35.363 knots.
the gov-
American
in
Noted Scientist Dead.
TL.ord Kelvin, the noted scientist,
| died._at_ Glasgow, Scotland, December
| 17.
The newspapers pay him the
tribute as the foremost scien-
the age. comparable with
Newton and Faraday. William
Thompson, first Lord Kelvin, was
horn at Belfast, Ireland, June 26,
1824. He was a celebrated mathema-
tician aud physicist, and occupied
the chair of natural philosophy in
Glasgow university from 1846 to 1899.
He was knighted-in 1866 ‘and was
created Baron Kelvin in 1892.
highest
tist of