Ei oe Pmt RE tc RT FPR RAR et, LIB08 LEADERS SENENGED TO PRISON Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell znd Frank Morrison Are Found Guiity. COURT SCORES LABOR CHIEFS Penalty Is Imposed in Washington, D. C., for Contempt in Viciat- | ing Injunction. Washington, D. C.—After one of the | | Says Duty eon Steel Is i | with the world CARNEGIE ON THE TARIFF Small Manu In It Now. Wa gton, D. C— ew Carnz2- gie made a most I before the house cof ways and means comm i h the proposed revision of the contenticn needs no : g principal was that the steel industry more protection, 1 point in its development where the American manufacturers can compete under {ree trade condi- that it tions. Questicned by Representative J. H. Gaines of West Virginia cn the need of a tariff for small manufacturers of steel, Mr. Carnegie claimed that there most severe excoriations ever heard | were no small manufacturers of steel from ihe bench, Judge Daniel To products. Mr. Gaines persisted that Wright, of the Supreme Court of the | there were small manufacturers who District oi Columbia, sentenced Sam- | nei Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, to one year | in jail for contempt of court in violat- ing the injunction secured by the Bucks Stove and Range Company, of St. Louis, Mo., from Justice Gouia, of the saiue court. Vith Gompers were also sentenced John Mitchell, who was vice presi- | dent of the tederation at the tine of the alleged disobedience of the in| junctien, and Frank Morrison, soecre- | tary. Mitchell’s punishment is nine months, and Morrison's six months. All three of the respondents were in court ‘when the opinion of Justice Wright, containing about 30,000 words | was read. It was not only a person- al arraignment cf the conduct of the three men, but a general denunciation of the methods employed by organized make some special article from steel. ~ “I don’t know any small manufac- turer who makes just one item of steel and I would not rezard him. 1 would think he had not managed well,” said Mr. Carnegie. Mr. Gaines wanted to know if it was not impossible for a man to go | into the steel business to manufacture a specialty, or ii it would not be if there was no tariff to protect him. “There is always room for, the en- terprising man to make a specialty, and besides, he gets a hizh price for his article,” was Mr. Carnegie’s com- ment. “The man who would go into | the general steel business without the proper capital is a man you need not concern yourself about. Things that are used by the thousands cannot be made now except on a large scale.” Mr. Carnegie further admitted that RELATIONS RESUME Weim 5 | Special Commissioner Dispatched | to Confer with the New Covernment. A SETTLEMENT IS EXPECTED Dutch Blockade Raised and General Clearing of Atmosphere Looked For. Washington.—After an interval of eight months, the United States Gov- ernment has resumed. friendly rela- tions with Venezuela and William I Buchanan has left this county on the cruiser North Carolina in the capac- ity of a special commissioner to visit labor. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison gave notice of appeal to the District Court of Appeals, and were released | on bonds ct $5,000, $4,000 and $3,000 respectively. | In his opinion Justice Wright char-{ .., re f acterized the various utterances of | Nine Men Held for Grand Jury. the defendants with respect to the | Other Warrants Prepared. court as ‘‘utter, rampant, insolent de- | fiance, unrefined insult, coarse affront | Pittsburg.—Testimony most start: and vulgar indignity.” | ing in character and intended to The union men had a grievance | prove that the city of Pittsburg has against the Bucks Stove and Range | been the victim of an intrigue, man- Company cf St. Louis. Counsel for {ned by arch plotters and conspirators the <ompany secured an injunction | who have peddled legislation and re- against Mr. Gompers and his associa- | veled in graf. for at least two years, tes. After Justice Gould had issued | was adduced at a melodramatic hear- the injunction, although the name of | ing in Central Police Court, at which the company was dropped from the | seven of the city's most «unfair list” in the American Federa- | councilmen and citizens, also tionist, Mr. Gompers made repeated former bankers, were held for court references to the case in the maga- zine and in public speech, in which | passing bribes. he criticised the court and declared | Additional arrests, which it was de- his willingness to go to jail if neces- sary, rather than keep silent on what | social circles in the city, have been he believed to be an invasion of the planned. Twenty-two additional war- rights of organized labor. At the conclusion of his decision, Justice Wright said: It would seem not inappropriate for such a penalty as will serve to deter President William Brand of Com- others from following after such out- mon Council, on charges of accepting lawed examples, will serve physically | and offering bribes and conspiracy. to impose obedience, even though late; Captain John F. Klein, Commcn will serve to vindicate the orderly | Councilman old First ward, charges«of power of judicial tribunals, and es- | accepting and offering bribes, also tablish over this litigation, the su- | conspiracy. premacy of law. of steel is past, except for the man making a special article. PITTSBURG GRAFT CASES by the Voters’ League for of councilmen and others. Defendants Who Are Held. Joseph C. Wasson, Common Coun- cilman old Twentieth ward, charges of accepting and offering bribes also conspiracy. Hugh Ferguson, Common Council- man old Seventeenth ward, charged with: offering and accepting bribes. William H. Melaney, Common Coun- cilman old Nineteenth ward, charge of offering and receiving bribes. STANDARD OUSTED Petroleum Corporations Are Forbid- den to Ever Again Do Busi- ness in Missouri. Jefferson City, Mo.—The Supreme Court of Missouri handed down a de- Jacob Soffel, Jr., Common Council cision ousting the Standard Oil Com- | man old ‘Thirty-second ward, charge pany of Indiana, and the Republic |of offering and receiving bribes. Oil Company from the State of Mis- | T. O. Atkinson, Select Councilman, souri, forbidding them ever again to | old Twenty-first ward, charge of offer- do business in Missouri and dissolv- | ing and accepting bribes. ing the Waters-Pierce Oil Kania The former bankers held for court of St. Louis. | charged with bribing Councilmen are ach of the companies is fined $50, | William W. Ramsey and A. A. Vil- 000. | sack, respectively former president The opinion of Judge Woodson, | and cashier of the German National which was concurred in by the other | bank of Pittsburg. judges, states that the record shows | that the Standard Oil Company has heen guilty of unlawful means in the formation of a trust to control the output of oil and the prices at which it is sold to dealers; individual in- vestments have been blighted by the power of the trust and small inde- importance to Northwestern millers, pendent refiners and operators have | particularly those located in Minne- been forced to enter the service of | apolis, was filed with the Inter-State the company as hewers of wcod and ASK LOWER FLOUR RATES Northwestern Millers Railroad Discrimination. Washingten, D. C—A complaint of { Commerce Commission by 42 fiouw drawers of water. | milling concerns against the Great rer —— | Northern Railway Company and 27 AIM BLOW AT INJUNCTIONS joe inter-State carriers doing a transportation business between Min- Laker Men Have New Bill Ready for | NCAPIOilS and the Atlantic seaboard. Leaislatdre Alleging that present rates on egislature. : | wheat and flour to Atlantic seaboard Ceclumbus.—An anti-injunction biil | points giseriminate against them, the has been prepared by Ohio labor or- | complainants demand lower freight ganizations for introducticn at the | rates on flour in order that Eastern coming legislative Sesion i Tae | millers may not be abie to undersell measure seeks to wipe out e sta- |them. They also declare free oper- tutes governing mignepions 2nd the | ation of the railroads’ grain elevators authority of the courts to declare in | cast of Buffalo is unfair. The com- contempt those failing to comply with | mission is urged to fix a rate of 20 them, tical! Sotiall gents id hundred pounds on flour "he measure practically abolishes irom 2X inneapoliis to New York City. injunctions by making it impossible | The present Ph is 25 cents, wil to issue them until a period of five |that on wheat is 18 cents per hun- days has elapsed after the applica- | dred. tion for them has been filed. -— Scldiers’ Quarantine Order Modified. Washington.—First Lieutenant Will- Washington.—Secretary of Agricul- {lam J. O'Loughlin, Thirteenth United ture Wilson modified the Federal quar- | States infantry, at Fort Leavenworth, antine on account of fost 83d month | Kan., was recently convicted by court disease in Michigan an Maryland, | martial of the charge of because no infecticn has been found | making false reports as to certain Sentence Commuted. Complain of | .sent by the cr in Michigan outside cf Wayne and Oakland counties, nor in Maryland ovtside of Carroll county. Authori- {ies of the State to which animals ave Gestined must be willing to ac cept them, when shipped, however. TOMBS OF ROYALTY LOOTED Ancient Burial Place of Danish Rulers Entered by Vandals. Copenhagen.—The cathedral in Rocskilde, the burial place for centu- ries past of the Danish kings, was looted by burglars and large numbers of costly gold and silver wreaths, urns and shields were carried away. The tombs of both King Christia and Queen Louise were robbed of the valuable gold and silver memori rowned heads of Eur n and the cities of Denmark. & { | military duties and was sentenced to be dismissed. The President com- muted the sentence to six months’ confinement to post limits and to a fine of $50 a month for the same per- iod. Argentine Treaty Signed. Washington.—Secretary Root sign- ed an arbitration treaty with Senor Tortels, the Argentine minister, for the settlement of disputes between the two countries. He also exchanged raiifications of the arbitration treaty between this country and Switzerland with Mr. Vogel, the minister from tuat country. Menasha, Wis.—The plant of the Fox River Valley Knitting Company co vas destroyed by fire. Loss ,000, fully inzured. that country, look into the situation and make a report. Much will de- pend on the nature of the communi cations which he will make to the state department, among them the question whether the United States will accord formal recognition to the government, as it now exists, a dect- sion dependent upon its ability to maintain a stable institution and to fulfill its treaty obligations. It has not yet been fully established that the Gomez government will re- tain there are many adherents of Presi | dent Castro throughout the country. Indeed, the possibility that disorder may arise is indicated in the expres- | sion of a desire for an American war- : . i | ship at La Guaira, to which wish this | e the time for the smaller manufacturer | aovernment has promptly responded. | Tug Wrecked | Secretary Root’s face wore a pleas- ed expression when he made the an- { nouncement that President Gomez | wished to settle satisfactorily all in- | ternational questions. | all along that the situation in Vene- | zuela would work itself out, if the Venezuelans were left to themselves. | Some significance was at first attach- | ed to the fact that Mr. Root had re- | ferred to Gomez as president in his statement to the press, and this was taken to indicate at once an attitude of recognition of the government. It was explained, however, that such a reference to him had been made in | the communication which came to the prominent department through the Brazilian of- two | ficials. The general opinion is that the new on charges of bribery, conspiracy and order of things will open the way for the Pacific settlement in some form of the issues not alone between this clared would astound business and country and Venezuela, but between the latter country also and Holland and France. Word came to the state rants are said to have been prepared cepartment that Thé Netherlands gov- the arrest | ernment has given directions that the military operations which have been conducted against Venezuela cease, following the news of the suspension of the decree by Venezuela regarding the transshipment of merchandise from Curacao to Venezuelan ports. TRADE DECREASES Exports Fall Off in Twenty-One Countries. Washington.—That the falling oft approximately $300,000,000 in import and perhaps $150,000,000 in exports in the commerce of -the United States ‘during the calendar year 1908 is in some feature due to a general condi- tion, is the claim made in the month- ly statement of the bureau of statis- tics. Of ihe 25 principal countries of the world whose foreign commerce the bureau records month by month, all bur four show a falling off in exports and nearly two-thirds show a falling in iiaports. An analysis of the year’s foreign ccminerce by grand divisions shows that the principal decrease on the im- | port side occurred in trade with Eu- | rope and on the export side in the | trade with North America. | | | | | MOLLY HILLMAN DIES | en ee en. | Noted Equestrienne for Fifty Years Expires in the Poorhouse. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Molly Hillman, aged 92, who for 50 years, up to 1880, | appeared all over this’ country and Europe as one of the foremost circus | performers, died in the poorhouse at | Greenfield, near here. In her day | she was one of the most famous | equestriennes and was for years a star in both the Barnum and Fore- paugh circufes. She was married four times and each husband met a violent death. She was the daughter of William Cook, a blacksmith of Newark, N. J. and her mother was a granddaughter of a chief of the Oneida tribe of In- dians. Old Woman Burned to Death. Akrcn, O.—While alone in her house Mrs. Magdalena Rupp of Sher- | man was burned to death when fire | from a kitchen stove ignited her dress. She was 82 years old and too feeble to fight the flames or make her- self heard by neighbors. A little grandson discovered her dead body. Congressmen to Visit Canal Zone. Washington.—To familiarize them- selves with conditions under the pres- ent form of government of the Pana- ma canal zone, and to consider what changes are desirable, 12 members of the house of representatives commit- tee on foreign and interstate com- merce, will leave for Colon to spend 10 days. Cees Into Receiver’'s Hands. New York.—A receiver ‘was ap- pointed for the American Diesel En- gine Company, of this city, with alleged assets worth over £100,000 in New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Texas and Missouri. A peti- ticn for involuntary bankruptcy was filed by Adolphus Busch, the Schaef- er & Budenbery Manufacturing Com- pany and Rol W. Hunt & Compa- ny. The p ers allege that the Diesel cc to pay three { ; ) due between ber 11. ITH VENEZUELR He has felt | its power without trouble, for | | GRAND PEACE CARNIVAL England Will Be Invited to Join in Celebrating Centennial of Perry's Victory. Cleveland.—In the interest of peace and tranquility hetween two great world powers—Great Britain and America—plans are being perfected to invite the English government to par- ticipate in the commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the de- feat of the English in cne of the nota- ble conflicts of the war of 1812—that victory of Perry on Lake Erie. Arrangements are being made by the State of Ohio to promote a grand peace carnival and joint industrial exhibition on the island of Put-in-Bay in 1913. ~ A commission has been ap- pointed by the governor to formulate a program and this winter the State Legislature will be asked to make an appropriation which will put the mat- ter in concrete form. The proposed exhibition will run for several weeks during the latter part of the summer of 1913 and will be known as the International Peace Centennial. The site is appropriate and adequate. Put-in-Bay island was the center of Commodore Oliver Haz- ard Perry’s activities on Lake Erie, that resulted in the epoch-making victory September 10, 1813. The island possesses many points of historical interest in connection with Perry’s campaign, including the famous cave where, it is said, the naval hero hid his marines when de- feat was imminent. It is now proposed to have Canada, hrough England, share equally in the plans with a view to creating a fur- ther tie of friendship between the two countries. FOUR LIVES LOST en Pier—Cabin Clock of Disastery “Story. Tells Part Detroit, Mich.—A special dispatch from Frankfort, Mich, says: The -15-tcn fishing tug Rhine, of Frankfort, was wrecked against one of the harbor piers here at night, while trying to make the harbor in a strong southwest gale. The little vessel was broken in two and the four men comprising her crew were drown- ed. The Dead—Captain rath, Julius Dorry, Gus Straubel. ; The loss of the tug was not known through Frankfort until next day,when the cabin of the boat was found on the beach. The cabin clock was stopped at the hour of seven, and from this fact it is inferred that the wreck occurred early in the evening the victims going to their death al most within a stone’s throw of home but without any means of calling aid to their rescue. : Captain Hanrath was the only un married man of the crew, the others all leaving widows and children. Henry Han- Charles Kibby, WILL PROBE BEEF TRUST Far Reaching Investigation Into Country's Big Concern Now Admitted. Chicago.——That a far-reaching inves tigation into the whole beef packing industry is contemplated by the gov ernment and that the serving of .sub- poenas on employes of Nelson Mor: ris & Co. several days ago was only a preliminary to that investigation, was practically admitted about the United States district attorney’s of fice. . District Attorney Sims has request ed that all the railroads which trans- port the vast volume of packing house products open all their claim books, reports and documents for the inspec- tion of the government. Darius Mil- ler, first vice president of the Chica- go, Burlington & Quincey, admitted that such a request had been receiv- ed and that all documents asked for had been- turned over. STOPS NICKELODEONS fayor McClellan Makes a Clean Sweep in New York on Ground of Morality. New York.—Moved by the protests of ministers of every denomination, who complained to him that the great majority of the 550 moving pictures show establishments of Greater New York were exhibiting pictures detri- mental to the morals of the youth of the city, Mayor McClellan issued a drastic order, revoking every picture chow license issued by the bureau of licenses. The order of the mayor intimates that this revocation is only tempora- ry, but the conditions under which new licenses will be issued is such that it is doubtful if more than a third of the licenses revoked will be reis- sued. OUR NAVY SECOND IN WORLD Great Britain Still Leads Universe as Master of Seas. Washington.—Our navy stands sec- ond among those of the great world powers at the present time, according to the navy year book, prepared by Pitman Pulsifer, clerk to the senate navy committee. Germany is third, while France has dropped to fourth place and Japan is fifth. The year book will show that Great Britain has 61 first-class battleships with a tonnage of 910,330, the United States 31, with a tonnage of 449,796, Germany 31, with a tonnage of 414 - 486, France 26, with a tonnage of 357,132 and Japan 15, with a tonnage of 233,444. OVER $7,000,000 DISAPPEARS Big Scandal in the Accounts of City of Lisbon, Portugal. Lisbcn; Portugal.—The newly elect ed municipal council has unearthed 3 big scandal in the city’s accounts. Over $7,000,000 has disappeared. The former monarchical councilors admit the irregularities, but lay the blame upon the government, which they say, illegally took the city’s money. PRESIDENT PREPARING ANOTHER MESSAGE Reports Are that Reply to House | Is Forthcoming. FAVORS MORE DETECTIVES Be Cited of Man Who | Money and Was Not Arrested. Case Will Stole Washington.— From all accounts, President Roosevelt expects to spend 1 good part of the holiday season in sollecting the evidence and preparing | he case upon which he hopes to show that there was warrant for his insinuations that congress had refused | -0 extend the operations of the secret service because congressmen were afraid of being investigated. The President's message on the resolution of the house, calling upon him to make good his sensational ac- ~usations is to be a long document, according to report, and full of ex- planation of the reasons, which in- duced him to get the idea before the >ountry that there was corruption m the legislative branch of the govern- ment. The President's expected plea for establishment of a general bureau of | criminal investigation, to take the place of the prescribed secret service, | is bound to cause a lively debate in | congress if a bill to carry out Mr. Roosevelt's ideas in this connection aver gets before the house. Inspired statements have that Mr. Roosevelt intends to use his response to the house as a medium of | conveying his arguments in favor of a broader government detective sSys-| tem which will embrace the several existing secret services and enable the executive to utilize his secret po- lice without the hampering effect of the present legal restrictions. This comprehensive scheme will be combatted vigorously by the argu- ments an extension of the powers secret service. Under the proposed system a large body of detectives would be employ- ed by one department of the govern- ment to ferret out crime in the other departments and in congress. Under the present system each department makes investigations of matters un- der the jurisdiction of that depart ment, utilizing its own expert employ- es for the purpose. Cabinet officers have indicated that secret service agents were not capable of doing certain expert investigation, such, for example, as that required in detecting land frauds, in which men of superior intelligence familiar with the ‘land laws and possessing some legal ability and training necessarily would be employed to insure success. of the ANDREWS RAIDER IS DEAD Civil War Veteran Victim of Heart Disease on Street. ~ Kenton, O.—Jacob Parrott, sixty- six, a Cicil War veteran of this place dropped dead from an attack of heart trouble on the street. Mr. Parrott was one of the five liv- | ing survivors of the famous “Andrews reiders’’ who stole a conferedate lo- comotive and tried to burn the bridges and destroy the tracks of the West- ern & Atlantic railroads to cut oif connections between two confereate armies. Sunday P. M. Paper Appears. Baltimore, Md.—The first afternoon issue of the Baltimore News appeared and was the first regular Sunday afternoon edition of any news- paper to be printed in this city. Louis M. Duvall, the business manager, ex- pressed himself as delighted with the success of the issue. The paper ap- seared in 16-page form and is iden- | tical in appearance with the regular weekday editions. Nominations by the President. Washington.—The President sent to the senate the following nominations: Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua—Horace G. Knowles, Delaware. Consul general at large—Heaton W. Harris, Ohio. s Associate justice of the supreme 2ourt of the Philippine Islands—Sher- man Moreland, New York. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Pennsylvania Company has de- clared the regular semi-annual divi- ends of 4 per cent, payable December 31 to holders of record December 28. The Northern Securities Company nas declared a dividend of 4 per cent, payable January 11. The last previ- ous dividend was 5 per cent, on Jan- ary 10 last. Gross earnings of the railroads, ac- cording to the figures cf the -“Financ- tal Chronicle,” decreased less than 3 per cent in November, 1907. The im- provement in the gross earnings po- sition had been going on since Au- zust, when about 100 roads showed a jecrease of 161% jer cent. Columbus, O.—The supreme court held unconstitutional the law making | dog tax a lien of property at which | the dog is harbored. The decision is in the case of the Sunday Creek Com- pany vs. the treasurer of Athens | county. Prof. John White to Retire. Cambridge, Mass.—The Harvard university officers announce the resig- | nation to take effect September 1, 1909, of Prof. John Williams White, professor of Greek at Harvard since | 1884. The resignation of Dr. Will- jam Arnold Colwell, of the department of German, is also announced. shown | advanced previously against | Sunday "PLOT TO KILL GOMEZ Castro Blamed With Scheme to As- sassinate Successcr. Caracas.—The end of the rule In Venezuela of Cipriano Castro has come. The dictator who has governed the republic with a rod of iron ever since he took forcible possession of the Yellow house in Caracas in 1899 is now openly charged with conspiracy to compass the assassination of a man he left at the head of the repub- lic when he sailed away on December 95 from La Guerra, nominally to se- cure skilled medical aid in Berlin. The Bank of Venezuela has cabled its correspondents at Berlin and Paris, cancelling the unlimited let- ter of credit given to President Cas- tro when he left Venezuela for Eu- rope, and no one. in Caracas believes he will ever dare return to the cap- ital. . The Castro cabinet has been forced to resign and a new and progressive ministry has been appointed by Jnau Vicante Gomez, the acting president. The attempt upon the life of Gomez was frustrated by the cool nerve and courageous daring of the acting press ident himself. Alone and unsupport- ed he arrested the ringleaders of the conspiracy with his own hands. MANY LEAVE, MORE COME Emigrants From America This Year Hold Down Country's Net Gain to 6,298. Washington.—The increase in the alien population of the United States in the year ending September 30, last, was only 6,298. Secretary of Com- merce and Labor Starus called the attention of President Roosevelt to | these figures. According to Secretary Straus 724, | 112 foreigners came to this country in the year between October 1, 1907 | and September 30, last, but during the same period, 717,814 foreigners | left these shores for their own coun- tries. Secretary Straus said er before has the government had figures as to departing aliens. Steam- ships have been relied upon to furnish estimates of these, but until the past year the figures were not officially re- corded. FOUR CORNERED DUEL Three Dead and One Dying as a Re sult of Georgia Shooting. Osilla, Ga.—Owen Smith, son of Chief of Police Smith, Charles Moore and his brother Virgil Moore, are dead and Policeman Cain Walters 18 dying as a result of a four-cornered pistol duel. The quarrel arose over the firing of a giant cannon cracker. Walters, mortally wounded by Charlie Moore, shot him dead as he ran. Smith, coming to aid Walters, was attacked by Virgil Moore. Both fired at the same moment and fell dead at almost the same instant. Capture Diamond Thief, San Francisco.-—Lewis Schultz, an ex-convict, who was recently released from Folsom prison, entered Sigmun and Hurtig’s jewelry store and when a tray of several thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds was showed to him, emptied the gems into his pocket, hit Hurtig over the head with a bit of | gas pipe and bolted. Bystanders | gave chase to the thief, who was soon | overhauled. Hurtig probably will jas, as his skull is fractured. Drops Dead in Washington. Washington. — Major Joseph W. jan U. S. A., retired, of Salem, Ill, for many years paymaster in the | army, dropped dead on the street near | bis home here, following a cerebral | hemorrhage. Major Wham had sev- eral disputes with superior officers ‘and was suspended for a technical | violation of the army regulations. | Begin Work at Gary. | Hammond, Ind.—The actual manu- | facture of steel at Gary, Ind., began | December 21. when blast furnace No. {12 was blown in and the first step | taken .in making the Calumet region {one of the greatest iron and steel in- | dustrial centers of the world. The $25,000,000 mills are now in active operation and the work will be in- creased rapidly from now on until it |is estimated that 25,000 men wiil be | smploged in the giant mills. Members of Zoroaster Cult Meet. {| Chicago.—At the call of Dr. Otoman | Zar-Adusht Ha’Nish, high priest at the Mazdaznan Temple, the members | of the Ancient Pagan Cult of Zoroast- | er assembled here for their seventh | annual gahanbar. The _American | representatives of the Persian Magi ere said to number many thousands | and representatives will be present i from most of the large cities. Burton Declines. New York.—It is authoritively 2an- jnonneed that the offer cof a cabinet | position to Congressman Theodore | Burton, of Cleveland, has been with- {drawn by President-elect Taft and { would not be renewed. 3I.. Burton t had been mentioned as p.t bable Sec- oer of the Treasury, and it is said | that the portfolio had been definitely | oered to him. Gibbon, Nebh.—Five robbers blew up the Holloway Exchange bank of this city, held the inhabitants at bay while the bandits secured $2,500 from the vaults and escaped in an automobile, the citizens pursuing them. 11,892,114 Bales of Cotton Ginned. ‘Washington, D. C.—The census bu- reau announced that 11,892,115 bales of cotton had been ginned to Decem- ber 13, as compared with 9,284,070 to corresponding date last year. The number of active ginneries reporting was 27,269. Indiana Town. Badly Scorched. The American Locomotive Com-| Portland, Ind.—Fire destroyed a pany declared the usual quarterly | large portion of the bus os section dividend of 13-4 per cent on preferred | of Pennville. 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