TO STIMULITE MORE SCIENTIFG FARMAGS State College Experts Novel Pian of Instruction. SPECIAL TRAIN TO BE USED Lectures Will Be Given Stops—Pennsylvania Co-Operating. at Many | Railroad in scientific farming the added interest n-- Pennsylvania, railroad and the State College of Agriculture are io. CO -operate . in. an unusual plan of instruction and assist- ance to farmers. On Tuesday. No- vember 10, a farmers’ special "instrue- tion train will leave Broad street “sta- tion for a three-days’ Penmwsylvania. Twenty-two steps will meade, at each of which 45- minute leatures by experts from the State ccllege will be given on the growing of alfalfa, soil fertility, corn culture and dairy products. Under the direction of Prof. Agee, of the department of ture extension pamphlets by he the agents at the dif- stop. practical suggestions to the farmer for improving both his products and soil. In addition to the lectures, Initiate | hand by Philadelphia.—In gn effort to create | Mga a © | special rate had been issued to the New York.—The admission that the tandard Oil - Company benefitted from a preferential ‘freight rate low- er than that quoted to any other ship- per was drawn from a witness at the hearing in the government's suit to dissolve the company. George B. Ferguson, a clerk in the freight department of the Central Vermont railroad, after enumerating various tariffs in force on the Central Vermont, none of which, he declared; had ever heen secret, was taken the government's attorney, who elicited the information that a | Standard Oil Company. Pennsylvania | Pressed -2& to. what®other shippers had: benefited from this special- tariff; the witness said.that as. far as he knew the rate applied Standard. The extent of the pref- erence accorded to the Standard by | the Central Vermont was showa in trip to Eastern | Alva | agricul | of the State college, | Ohio Coal Companies Will Consolidate ferent stations at which the train will | These pamphlets will contain | descriptive literature will be given to | the farmers that they may apply the principles embodied therein in their | own planting. The purpose of the farmers’ special | is .to make more personal and direct the efforts which the . State college has been exerting to disseminate in- structions to the farmers throughout | the State. Appreciating the importance cf this movement, the Penasylvania railroad agreed not enly to run the special for the college, but alsg to cooperate in ‘every way possible in making the experiment a success. The train will be made un of three day coaches and an engine. On ar- riving at each station the farmers will | Virginia charters. take seats in the car, which will be fitted up as lecture rooms. Tn addi- tion talks will be made on the out-| side when the capacity exhausted. of the cars is Representing State college on the | special will be . Profs. Alva . Agee, Thomas F. Hunt, F. D. Gardner, E. F. Shaw and M. P. McDowell. 1t is probable that the United States bureau of forestry will send someone to talk on the preser- vation of fence posts and the care of trees. Division Freight Agents W. J. Rose and C. E. resent the Pennsylvania Cortpany. GOES TO POORHOUSE AT 112 Captain Diamond, Noted Vegetarian, Gives Up Work at Last. San Francisco.—Forced to apply for charity after he had added a doz- en. vears to his record as a centena- rian, Captain G. E. D. Diamond, well known in this city and Oakland, as a lecturer on health topics and publish- er of pamphlets on vegeteranism, ask- ed to be admitted to the county poor farm. The man with 112 years to his credit. was born in the shadow of Plymouth Rock in May, 1796, and he recalls well the expedition against the Barbary tribes and the war of 1812. He ‘still walks with considerable sprightliness, although he guards agains: falls with a heavy stick. BIG - "RAILROAD ORDER whetsiis Maryland Arranges to Spend $1,250,0C0 in New Ecuipment. Baltimore.—The Western Raiiroad has arranged to sj in: the next few months $1, new. equipment. Already pany has aslic uailders bids for furnis hing dola hopper coal cars, freight lccomotives, three comotives and 10 caboose The foregoing for an expenditure of Marylond d with- 30,060 on the com- to submit 500 all-steel, gon- 10 consolidated switch 1lo- cars. G00,000. Later the company will place an order for 500 steel under- frame gondila hopper cars. The or- der is the largest announced in any system in the south for H. F. Van Norman, Kingston will rep- | " Railroad’! | | ber equipment will call | more than $1,-! | Timothy Kelleher | member more than a | year and it is believed to be the fore- | importont pure hase the next fev cf other within runner by railroads months. STEEL MEN PLEAD GUILTY Pay $1,000 Fine Each and Return $10, 000 in Profits. Boston.—Officials of two of largest structural -companies in th: city, David H. Andrews, president ot the Boston bridge works, and .Charles N. Fitts, secretary of the New Eng- jand Structural Company, pleaded the | guilty to an indictment charging them | with collusion fiom the city of Boston. a fine of $1,000 and » addition puid $RGCO. to “the citv for extra profits which: the two companies are said to aave Cerived from the contacts. Fatal Political Quarrel. Foraker, Okla.—During a politica Fach paid in obtaining co itracts | | postoffices at Sherman, | Clymer, guarrel Frank S. Seward, local Demo- | cratic committeeman, shot and in- stantly killed a farmer, John Millam, of Pahawska, OKla. The shooting occurred in Seward’s hardware store. Millam had been prominent in Osage Indian affairs for years. New Rochelle, N. Democratic National n Pennsylvania, who has been some weeks at his summer here, died October 31, Y.—James Kerr, Committeeman | stamps. two letters quoting-.freight rates per carload. In cne instance the rate was given as $33 a carload, while jn the other case the rate quoted was $23. The witness admitted that the $23 rate was the one under which the Central Vermont carried the Stand- ard’s shipments. BIG MERGER PLANNED Interests. Columbus, O.—Announcement was made that before the end of the year a consolidation would be effected be- tween the Johnson Coal Mining Com- pany of Columbus, with a capacity of 500,000 tons of coal yearly, and the Lorain Coal and Dock Company: of Cleveland, with a capacity of 1,500,- 000 tons, by the .formation of a new company with a _ capital of $3,000,000. Edward Johnson, now at the head of both companies, is to bé at the head of the new company, and his brother, Thomas Johnsomn, vice presi- dent. R. G. Forstbauer, treasurer of the Lorain company,.is to be secre-. tary. Both companies ‘now have West pany will be an Ohio corporation, with headguarters in Columbus. DUTIES OF RECEIVERS Explicit Instriictiens Promulgated by | Comptroiter-6f Currency. Washington.——Purposely refraining from recommending any hard and fast rules for the guidance of recelvers, because cof the need of individual dis- cretion as complications” arise, the re- port of the National bank receivers. here :some | who “met in ‘convention’ time ago, given out by the. comptrol- ler cf the currency, makes general suggestions 2s to the duties of the re- ceivers cn taking charge | .The report lays greatest stress up- on the need for economy and judsg- ment. port points out, must be largely gov- erned “by a careful and conservative consideration of the interests of the real owners of the trust” which the receivership invelves. BATTLESHIPS. AT AMOY Fleet Now Divided, One Squadron Go- ing to Philippines. Amoy, China.—Eight battleships, | comprising the second squadron of | the American Atlantic fleet, under | command of Rear Admiral William H.. Emory, arrived here October 29 from Yokohama. Every preparation had been made by the Chinese to welcome the revresentatives “of the United States and to impress upon | them China’s desire for even more | cordial relations with the Republic. The 16 ships of the fleet left Yoko- hama together Sunday morning, but divided into two squadrons when two days out, the first under Rear Admiral Sperry, headed’ - for. | Olongapo, Fhilippine Islands. The | two squadrons will join forces again | at Manila, the second division being scheduled to leave this port 4 and to arrive at Manila ber 7. Novem- Slayer Pays Penalty. Reading, Pa.—Salvatora was executed here for the murder of of ‘Piltshureg, a of the State police. Kelle: was stabbed to death in attempt- to rescue a young woman her ing Italian on the oun irts of this city. Richard McKwe eg, 1nNegro, was hanged at York for the murder: of E. Warren Peterson a year ago. Miners Fall 234 Feet to Death, Johnstown, Pa, —Two foreigners met death at Jerome, Somerset coun- ty. They Were about to descend a shaft to go to work ‘cn the night shift | when they fell: 235 feet to the bottom. The bodies were terribly mangled. The name of only ene of the victims was obtainable. He is Mike Zerok, aged 35 years. = Blow Postoffice Safes. Corry.—Yeggmen blew “safes - N. .¥%.; and N. Y., and secured about $500 and several hundred dollars worth of They were tracked toward Corry. Old Spanish Debt Liauidated. Washington.—The Spanish debt of $599,850, awarded to certain citizens | of this country under a treaty of Feb- | treasury. ill | home | I ruary 17, 1834, with Spain, has of the register of the Spain has been paying an- nual interest on the amount since the treaty, and this year the Spanish gov transmitted $570,000 in n of the debt. The princi been paid over three times nual report in: only to the: The new com- | J] get cars. of failed | | Lackawanna, & Western, The receiver’s course, ithe re-. "| offices in the large command of { Novem- | Garrito | who ; was attacked by Ge \TTito and another | { 200 yards in | been | | finally liquidated, according to the an- Witness in aL Soe ire Were Not Always Obtainablé: SECRETARY ON THE STAND Coal and Iron Company Did Not Pay Dividend, He ; Asserts. i suit instituted by the governmefit’ for. the dissolution of the so-calied:toal trust was resumed here October 28; before C.-H. Guilbert. William $.:Tay- lor, secretary ofsthe Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, was’ ‘the first witness. Mr. Taylor told of the earnings of the three Reading companies:&and of the relations existing between: the Philadelphia &.Reading Company ‘and the Philadelphia & Rez 1ding Coal and Ircn and the Reading” “Company; the latter a holding" concern. He said the coal and iron company never paid a dividend; but the railway. had, 1n 1902, paid to the holding concérn 15 per cent, for two years thereafter 20 per cent, and during the last two years 20 per cent a year. Says Railrcad Is Creditor.’ The coal and iron company, ‘he said, is indebted to “the railway com- pany to the extent of $80, 000,000, which credit was inherited from the cld Reading Company, which was sold by the sheriff, in 1896. Mr. Taylor denied” that the Read- ing Railway Company owned any coal stock, but said the Reading Company was interested in several subsidiary companies. Oné of the. moost important points dent coal companies were compelled to enter into contracts with the coal- carrying roads because they were un- able to secure cars Wien selling coal direct. H. M. Howe, of the tree of A, Par- dee & Co., when asked by Special United States Attorney McReynolds why the independents did not go into the market and get full price for their cecal, asserted they could not always He admitted that his" firm operated its mines only when it re- ceived orders from the Lehigh Val- ley Coal Company. Tells of Contract. Concerning a contract which . the independent operators made in 1892 | with the coal-carrying companies, Mr. | Howe said that the independents | agreed to sell their coal to the rail” | roads for €5 per cent of the price at tidewater. The arrangement was made at a conference between a com- mittee of the Independent. Dealers’ association and President Baer, of the Phialdelphia & Reading Railroad; | President Truesdale, of the Delaware, and Presi- | dent Thomas, of the Lehigh’ Validy f Railroad Company. | Mr. Howe said that if his firm 'eould | have secured cars at the righg:-time, | it would have sold coal direct, with- | out depending on agencies of other | companies. ° It ‘was brought out that | the -independents maintained sales | ; cities and: did | handle their own output until a short- | age of cars blocked them. | 3 TE a ae TE : | DEATH PENALTY FOR FOUR All Are Men Charged With Murder of Women. v | Philadelphia. —Four men weré sen- | tenced to be hanged for murdér © by Judge Ralston in .the court of .oyer and .terminer here. Never before | has the death penalty been imposed on so many persons at one time in this city. The dcomed men are George Eels, a former policeman who shot Mrs. Eila Parschall; Walter Hallowell, 1 | i | who shot Annie Subold, because she | had rejected him; Albert Wnek, who | Emma Kerner, | Mary. | | killed” his sweetheart, and Fontaine Lewis, Robinson, a nurse, fused to marry him. who shot because she re- Cut in Wages of 30,000. Fall River, Mass.—James | president of the Fall River council, sentatives that under the wage agree- ment between the Manufacturers’ as- association and the councyl, there will be a further reduction in wages: in the textile | cotton mills next month of about ¥ per cent. The Fall River milfs ems ploy- 30,000 operatives. Two Perich in Wreck. Baltimcre.——The observer of the { maritine exchange at Cape Henry re- i ports the schocned Charles S. Hirsch, | lumber laden, from Brunswick | Baltimore, wrecked near Paul Gam- | iels life-saving station, N. C. tain Frank Hunter and five sailors | were rescued in the breeches buoy by ! the life savers but the cock and one sailor were drowned. The vessel will be a total loss.- Child Kilied in Queer Manner. | St. Louis.—A large stone, thrown by a quarry blast caused the death of Dorothy Rhodes, 16 years old. She was lying in a tent 200 yards south of the city workhouse when the stone struck ‘the tent’s<cen- terpole. The pole fell upon her and killed her. | i Mine Magazine Explodes. 1, Ala-—One man dead, one irt, and four injured, is the | res f a dynamite explesion at the | Bammond mines. The dead man is Henry Keil, of Rome, Ga. Twenty- four houses were leveled and many others were dan d The fire de- parimnent was fi ing a fire In a Louse locat ed the nine maga- zine. Hu of spectators were standing explosion oc- including many en, were thrown to groul ’ “Philadelphia. —The Tie 4 Fite brought out was that the indepen- | Tansey, | has notified the union repre- | --all ‘under for Cap- | we New York.—The earnings of the _ UnitegeStates Steel Corporation for ‘thé. three months ended September 30, made public after the quarterly 1 meeting of the directors, October 27, amounted to $27,106,274. This was an increase cof nearly $7,000,000 over the previous quarter and was better by $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 than the: estimate which Wall street had form- ed of the probable showing for this quarter. ° The unfilled “orders on the “bocks of the:.company at the close of the gunarter totaled $3,421,977 tons, an increase of 108, 000 tcns over the or- ders on hand at the close of the June quarter. “This is the first time since the de steel corporation has reported an in- crease in unfilled orders. One of the most satisfactory features of the report issued is that each month of the previous menth. The July earn- ings were $8,599.360, the August earnings $9,152,311 and the Septem: ber earnings $9. 354,333. THREE MORE DRY COUNTIES: Greene, Williams and Counties, Ohio, Give Big Majorities. Columbus, O.—Three more coun ties have joined the dry column, mal ing 1,045 salcons that have been voted out of Ohio in the county option elec tions. Greene county voted dry by 667 plurality. Osborne and Xenia, ihe largest townships now wet re tirned wet majorities. saloons are affected. a plurality of 1,622. They carried all except three cf the precincts, Bryan, the county seat, went dry ‘by 88. Nineteen saloons are voted -eut’ in the county. inent railroad pcint, loses six of these. The Halm Brewing Company, which has been in operation 50 years, will he driven cut of business. By a majority of 1,189 Trumbull county voted dry. The vote was the largest ever cast in the county, The city of Warren went dry by 80 and | the city of Niles wet by 223. Hub: bard and Girard, other large town, voted wet. Seventy saloons abolished. ’ WOMEN FIGHT CANNON National W. C. T. U. Rags Uncle Joe in Resclution at Denver Convention. Denver.—The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union conven- tion adopted “with practical unanim- ity, a resclution commending the ef- election of Joseph G. Cannon as a member of congress. The resolution introduced by Mrs. Mary KE. Kuhl, presidént of the Liiinols WwW. C.T.U, follows: ‘Resolved, . That we. the women of the-W. C: T. U,, in convention assem- bled, do hereby ‘express a most hearty commendation of the action taken by the Methodist Episcopal church and the several churches, in- their brave efforts to defeat the re-election of Speaker Cannon to our national con- gress because of his persistent oppo- sition tp the many reform measures which Have been proposed by Intell} gent bodies. INDIANS SLAIN IN BATTLE . Mexican Government Said to Have Armed Papagos—Chief Is Killed. El Paso, Tex.—News reached here from variouse sources that a battle be- tween Papago and Yaqui Indians had taken place north of Altar, Sonora. | and that 40 Yaquis were killed. Ac | cording to reports the Mexican gov: | ernment armed the Papagos, who lur ed the Yaquis into ambush and slaughtered them. Bisbee, Ariz.—Following a skirmish southeast of Hermosillo, Mexico, in | which it is reported that Pule, chief | of the hostile Yaqui Indians, was-kill- 24 Yaqui warriors came into | ed, | Hermosillo and surrendered. | $175,000 Mexico City.—A Chichauhua, says: and Martin Matues, both clerks in the Banco Minera, and Manuel Molinar, 21 years of age, are under arrest and the mystery of the rob: Is Recovered. dispatch from Moses Navarra | | bery of the bank of $180,000 en the | night 6f March 1, is solved. About | 317 5,000 has been recovered. Navar | ré “disciosed the name place of the money. Score Hurt in Trolley Crash. Edwardsville, Tii.—Two electric in- { terurban cars cn the Edwardsville | and Granite City line of the Illinois traction system collided head-on and a score of passengers were injured, some seriously, - but none fatally Those most seriously injured were | taken to the hospital at Granite City, 10 miles away. Explosicn Kills 12 on Isthmus. Washington, D. C.— Information reached thi s city that two explosions of dynamite on the Panama Canal on October -15 killed 12 men and injur- ed 18. All these killed were negroes, excepting W. J. Davis, an engineer, and George Goodley, a craneman. COTTAGES WIPED OUT. Flames Work Havoc Colony at Summer Salisbury Beach. Salisbury, Mass.—The greater por tion of the thickly-housed summer colony at Salisbury Beach was wiped out by a fire which destroyed more than 100 cottages situated alqQng the | beach front, north of the mouth of { the Merrimac river. Practically all of the he had been abandoned for i the 3 ge was es- timated in the quarter showed improvement over. Trumbull Twenty-five In Williams county the drys polled. Montpelier, a prom- are forts of the churches to defeat the re-- pression in business began that the | Offered $10,000 to Keep Quiet. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES 7 Prominent Lawyers Said to Have At- tempted to Fix Jurors in Case of Abraham Rueff. aR San Francisco.—Standing in the shadow of the penitentiary, with sen- tence about to be passed upon him and having seen his young wife led from the court room, hysterically ecry- ing,;- “No,” “No,” E. A..S. Blake, a contractor convicted of attempting to bribe:John M. Kelly: to qualify on the jury to try Abraham Ruef, and vote for Ruef’s acquittal, made a full confession in” court. > a Blake said that after he was_ar- J. Murphy, Ruef’s associate counsel, came to him and promised him $10, 080 if he would keep quiet. He said that notes for $10,000, purporting to be signed by Ruef, were delivered to a third party, to be paid to Blake im- mediately after he was sentenced, if he were convicted of bribery. Be- sides this amount, Blake declared, his wife was to receive $100 a month while he was in the penitentiary. When Blake was called on .to rise and receive sentence, his wife cried “No, not that,” and began to sigh hysterically. She was led from the roam. After motion for a new trial and arrest: of judgment had been denied, Blake said that he had a statement to make as a reason why sentence should not be pronounced. This came as a surprise to his attorneys, who were permitted to withdraw the case. After he had been sworn and had | stated that he had not been promised immunity, Blake said he had been of- fered $1,000 by Attorney M. S. New- burgh and F. J. Murphy, of Ruef’s counsel, to influence J. M. Kelly, a prospective juror, tp vote for the acquittal of Ruef. He at first offered Kelly $500, which was refused, he said, but an offer of $1,000 was accepted. It was then brought out in alles: tions that Newburgh had procured at- torneys for Blake's defense. Blake then told cf:the alleged offer of $10, 000, and provision for his wife while he was in prison, if he would not make a confession. The story ‘told by Blake created consternation in court, and the case was continued | for two weeks. Newhurgh and Murphy are under | indictment cn the same which Blake was convicted In the court room of Judge Lawlor, just deross the corridor where attor- neys were in the third month of an attempt to-get a jury to try Abraham Ruef, and had just passed the twelfth man, the news of Blake’s confession caused consternation to the defense. Ruef paled visibly. SUFFRAGETTES IN COURT Women Refuse to Pay Fine, Chaosing Jail Instead. London.—All the suffragettes, with the exception of two who were ar- rested during the disorders in and around the hcuse of commons, were arraigned in court and fined $25 each. They refused to pay and were conse- quently sentenced each to one month’s imprisonment. Of the two exceptions one was a girl under 21 years of age and the other a woman who secured an adjournment to lodge a charge of assault against the constable who ar- rested her. Boone, Ia.—Six hundred suffraget- tes paraded the streets of Boone. The Rev. Anna Shaw, head of the Nation- al Order of Suffragettes, led the par- ade. With her were Miss Rendell and Miss Costelle of London, famous for their participation in the attacks made on parliament by the suffraget- tes of England. 600 women marching out to witness it. EMMA GOLDMAN MUZZLED Is Not Allowed to Make a Sveech at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Ind.—Emma Goldman was led from the propylum here when she was about to address a large au- dience that had assembled at a fash- jionable club house to hear her. Twen- ty policemen were cn hand when she arrived, and as she stepped into the hall she was told that she would not be permitted to speak in this city. She demurred at first, but the officers gathered around and she was informed that she would have to go to the po: lice station if she persisted. She did not make any further resistance. Ben L. Reitman, who was with her, attempted to speak on a corner near the propyleum, but ‘the police forced him to desist under threat of locking him up. Inheritance Tax Upheld. Frankfort, Ky.—Kentucky’s new in- heritance tax law, imposing a penalty of 5 per cent on all advises in excess of $500, was upheld by the Court of Appeals in an opinion written by Judge Settle. U. 8S. to Have Three Cardinals. London.—A dispatch from Rome fo a London news agency says the pope has decided that a special consistory shall be held for the new American cardinals after the re- organization of the American diocese, and that the United States shall have three cardinals. Cleveland.—Roy Hardy, a private detective, shot and killed his wife and his 12-year-old daughter and then committed suicide. £an Francisco Contractor Says He | rested on a charge of bribery, Frank | + RL aes g " = = t : prs 5 ’ . “ i 2 STANDARD G07 SPaCial BATE GAIN GRADUAL, BUT SURE i |e 1a i ; n TO SIGN REGISTERED MAIL aliros : Sstifics re : BT i Hi i = : Railread Clerk Testifies to Preferen i x 5 difnl iil OF PRISON PostHice Department Makes New tial Treatment of Big Cor- Each Month Shows Improvement Over i Order Caused. by Complaints. poration. Business of Previous One—New CONFESSES 1d BRIBERY a = -Tonnzge Is Large. ] i vashingten D. C.—Declaring that . ~ \ complaints continue to come to the department alleging viclation of the postal regulations concerning the dis- positicn of registered mail endorsed for delivery to the addreszee in per: son, an order was issued by Third Assistant Postmaster General Law- she directing that such mail must be delivered to no one but the addressee in person, not even upon his written order. If it cannot be delivered to the person addressed, it must be re- turhed to the sender or otherwise disposed of under regulations appH- %able to undeliverable registered mail. ' The wrapper of registered matter is required to be examined before de- livery {o see if it bears a restrictive endorsement, failure to notice which will "no longer be accepted as an ex- cuse. IMPORTANT RAILROAD DEAL Will Have Far-Reaching Influence on Railroads in the Piitsourg District. An important deal has just been closed between the Frie Railroad Company and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Company. glv- ing the former trackage rights over the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg from Salamanca, N. Y., to all import- ant points along that line and to Ise- lin, Pa., within 55 miles of Pittsburg. Closing of this deal shows how the Erie will enter. Pittsburg proper from the East; means that the trackage agrepment between the Erie and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie between Pittsburg and Youngstown will be broken, and proves that the Erie will net enter Pittsburg over the ‘Wabash, as reporiody recently. Ww. c. T. U. DEMANDS Prohibition, Equal Suffrage, Abolition of White Slave Traffic. Denver, Col.—The convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union adopted resolutions reaffirm- ing uvnfaltering belief in total absti- nence and unyielding effort. They declare prohibition is the tnly means cof effecutally wiping out the traffic and demand a constitutional amend- ment. A continuation of agitation for equal suffrage is promised. The resolutions further insist on a uniform stand of morals for men and women and deplore the existence of the white slave traffic as well as the segragation and fining of vice. : charge of: The spectacle of | thrcugh the | streets caused the whole town to turn | nomination of | CHILDREN COCAINE USERS | Philadelphia Police Find Depleorable Conditions in Schools. Philadelphita.—In a crusade to break up the éccaine habit which, it has discovered, is.prevalent among children in sore cf the public schools of this city, the police arrested 11 men and three women, either users plying it ti others. Since the first of the year 150 per- sons, including boys, girls and many young men who were victims of the habit, have been sent to the hous=2 of correcticn from the same district, and 23 have been indicted for engag: ing in the traffic. Laurier's Majority 50. Toronto, Ont.—The results of the elections show that Laurier govern- ment has been sustained with a ma- jority of 50, with seven elections yet to be held. All the ministers, with the possible excepticn of: William Templeman, Minister of Inland Rev- enue in Victoria, were re-elected, while seven of the oppohiticn’s chief lieu- tenant swere defeated. Wire Worker Decapitated. Cleveland.—Erick Els was decapi- tated at the American Steel and Wire Company mills. Els was a wire draw- er. While drawing the red hot wire it broke. The end struck him about the neck and the wire, released from tensicn suddenly coiled ahout his | neck. His neck was burned:through {in a few seconds by the. hot wire, | completely severing his head from his | body. Americans Find Gold. Brussels.—Reports received from R. D. Mohun, leader of the.American ex- pedition in the Congo, state that he has discovered rich devosits of gold, im and copper in the Manymea dis- trict. Prohibition Pays Here. Union 8. C.—Unicn county again voted for prohibition. During the past three years of prohibition the arrests for drunkenness decreased 50 per cent and property valuation in the county increased $2,000,000. Wealthy Lawyer Dies. Roanoke, Va.—Russell Ingalls Dick- inson of Prophetstown, Ill, died here, wholesale grocery store of R. A. Bartley. The loss is estimated -at $300,000, with insurance of about half that amount. NEW AVIATOR APPEARS Dayton Stenographer Makes Success- ful Flight. Dayton. O.—Frank J. Heinfelt made a successful flight of 1,500 feet with an aeroplane materially differing from that of the Wright brothers in that in this machine the single plane prinei- ple is used, the Wright machine hav- ing double surfaces. Although hitherto unknown the aeronautic world Heinfelt has built three hachines paying his expenses in out cf his lary as a stenographer. of the drug or persons accused of sup- aged 86. He was a prominent law- yer and is said to have amassed a vast fortune. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Toledo, O.—Fire wiped out the | i - Am » find mos the inc¢r stor coffe man an 1 have sleey gest 29 ong tarrt die : unt seém had cart use ‘bette year: 8011ns the 1 ered I wel begas way coffee of Pc life” ‘Na Creel Wells Ev new They huvma
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