DEMAND TARIFF REVISION Massachusetts Republicans Are In Favor of the Move. GUILD NAMED FOR GOVERNOR President Roosevelt's Peace Efforts Praised Congressmen Charged With Disloyalty to State's Interests. With only out! voice raised In op position the Republicans of Mussuehu aetts In State convention at Boston declared for revision of the tariff. The- radical wing of the pnrty, led by Eugene N. Foss of Huston, did not offer a substitute for the tariff plank although In a speech Mr. Foss de dared the revision favored In the State platform was not sufficiently wide In Its scope. Oeneral Wlllinm F. Diaper, former Ambassador to Italy, opposed In a vigorous speech the adoption of the tariff revision plank, contending that tariff revision would be followed by financial and commercial depression. The platform was adopted without amendment, and contained In brief an endorsement of the administration of President Roosevelt, special mention being made of his part In bringing about peace between Russia and Japan, and of his enforcement of the laws preventing corporations oppres sing the people, a recommendation for the enactment by Congress of a tariff provision which shall protect American markets against discrimina tion and secure to the United States the treatment accorded to the most favored Nation In nil foreign mar kets, and a resolution for the In crease of the navy and the upbuilding of the American merchant marine. Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., was nominated for Governor by acclamation. For Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Auditor, William M. Olln, Arthur B. Chapln and Henry E. Turner, the respective Incumbents, were renominated by acclamntlon. A feature of the day's proceedings was the address of Benntor Lodge In reply to Eugene N. Foss, who criiiy.ecl the Massachusetts Senators and Rep resentatives In Congress, charging that they were not loyal to the State's Interests. Senator Lodge censured Mr. Foss for his strictures on the Massachusetts representation at the Capitol. Mr. Lodge said the time for tariff revision was when the Republi can party was In power, and argued that "free raw materials" was but another term for "free trade." CHANGES FOR CABINET Postmaster General Consents to Sue ceed Mr. Shaw. It Is stated positively by a close friend of the President that Post master General Cortelyou will suc ceed Secretary of the Treasury Shaw when he retires In February. The place was offered to Mr. Cortelyou some time ago and he de clined the offer. Since then the President has renewed his offer, and only a few days ago, It Is said, Mr. Cortelyou accepted. Associated within this report Is one that Commissioner of Internal Rove nue Yerkes is to succeed Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalfe when the latter becomes secretary of the navy. Secretary of the Navy .Bonn ..jiarte, according to this program is to become attorney general when Mr. Moody retires from the cabinet. The date of the retirement of Mr. Moody has not been determined. FAMINE IN RUSSIA Eighteen Millions of People Are Con fronted by Starvation. Russia is faced with a terrible widespread famine, which extends through 138 districts and 23 provinces and affects a population of 18,000,000 people who will have to be fed until the middle fr next July. The splendid hospital organization of the united zemstvos is centered in Moscow and relief work has already been begun, but so gigantic is the task that there is no hope of supply ing sufficient food to the starving mil lions. - Fairbanks Lets Contract. Vice President C. W. Fairbanks has let the contract for a $35,000 resi dence at Mansfield. Ill.,a small town In Piatt county, where his brother Is a banker. The Fairbanks own thonsands of acres of valuable land In that vicinity, and It is announced that after completing his term as Vice President Mr. Fairbanks will make Mansfield his permanent home. 400 Persons Homeless, " Fire in the lumber district of Rhinelander Wis., destroyed proper ty valued at $600,000 and rendered 400 people homeless. The chief sufferers were the Brown Bros. Lumber com pany and the Robbins Lumber com pany. About 40,000,000 feet of lumber was destroyed. Three Children Perish.' Three children were burned to death and their parents rescued and taken In a dying condition to St. Mary's hospital, five other tenants sent to hospitals suffering from burns, and two firemen hurt in a fire In a four-story flat house In Reld avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. May Divide Sakhalin Now. Negotiations are in progress be tween Russia and Japan, with the view to the immediate delimitation of the frontier on the Island of Sak halin before the winter prevents such work In order to avoid differences when the Russians take possession of their half of the island. District Attorney William T. Je rome was nominated for the office of district attorney of New York by the filling of a petition bearing 4,000 sig natures. t ACTIVITY INCREASE8 Large Tonnage of New Business In sures Full Time for Steal Mills Next Year. Favorable trade reports still pre dominate and there Is no anxiety re garding the future. Higher tempera ture checked retail distribution of heavy weuring apparel and other sea sonable merchandise, but preparations for unprecedented lull and winter trade continue without diminution Superlatives tire needed in comment lag on real estate transactions, build Ing permits, bunk exchanges and rail way earnings, and failure statistics for the third quurter show a very low commercial death rate. Quarterly records back to 1S75 disclose no three-mouth'. period when the ratio of liabilities to solvent payments through the clearing houses was lower than the 62 cents to $1,000 Just recorded, while the average loss to each firm In business of 15.26 per cent, was less than in nny year except 1881. Indus trial activity increases, a large ton nage of new business assuring full time at the steel mills still further Into next year; footwear shops show much heavier shipments than In 1904. and tho textile factories are well en gaged. Rotter crop news weakened cotton and grain prices slightly, but there will be enormous prollts to the growers even if quotations go still lower. Latest reports of railway earn ings in September show a small gain of 7 per cent, over lust year's figures. Strength prevails In the hide mar ket, despite Increased receipts of cat tle and some deterioration owing to the longer hair that Is a seasonable factor at Northern points. Leather Is strong. ENORMOUS COMMISSIONS District Attorney Will Have Insurance Scandal Before Grand Jury. That the nstomnllnir tnliil if n.nrs than $2,000,000 has been paid as commissions bv the Mutual i.ir in. surnnce Company to two members of mo inmny ot Klclinrd A. McCurdy, president of the company, and the promise of District Attorney Jerome that the Insurance scandals certainly will be submitted later In nn elr:i. ordinary grand Jury, were developed m me insurance Investigation. It was brought out bv tpstl mnnv before the legislative Insurance com mittee that Robert H. McCurdy, a Son of Richard A. MeCnrrlv hug ro. celved ns commissions on foreign Business si.lli3,X29, and on domestic business S"4 1.852 : and that lnlu A Thebaud, son-in-law of Richard A. McCurdy, has received an nggregato of J920.ll :l In commissions from the company. It was also brought out that Robert H. McCurdy expected his Income this year would be about fiio.uoo. V. F. Thumme!. an attornev of the Mutual Life Insurance Coninnnv. tea. tilled he had nald to the Hi the Republican congressional cam paign committee 12.5(10 In cash as a campaign contribution. Mr. Jerome, In announcing In court that the scandals would he submitted to nn extrnoiill niirv irrntwl Jury, said the inquiry by the legis lative committee had shown "great er moral obliquity and moral obtuso ness on the part of persons Import ant In the business world than did the shocking revelations In regard to the Equitable Life." RAMSEY REMOVED Wabash Directors Elect Delano to Succeed Him. The directors of the Wabash rail road met and removed Joseph Ram sey, Jr., from the presidency, F. A. Delano, first vice president was elect ed to succeed him. Mr. Ramsey was removed on the ground that he had made an attack upon the railroad, an unprecedented thing for a railroad president to do, according to one of the directors. At a special meeting of the directors last Monday. Mr. Ramsey's leave of absence was ex tended from October 1 to October 10, the date of the annual meeting, when Mr. Ramsey hopes to get control of the road. Mr. Ramsey was present at that meeting and entered a formal protest against the extension of his leave of absence. Japan's Financial Burden. Former Foreign Minister Okuma, leader of the Progressive party, be fore the Associated Chambers of Commerce, referring to tho sudden expansion of Japan's finances, said that when the withdrawal of the troops is completed, she will find herself confronted with a debt of $1, 250,000,000, th interest on which alone, roughly speaking, will be $75, 000,000, or nearly twice tho revenue of the country ten years ago. The per capita rate of taxation before the war was $2. Now it is $6. Tho per capita shore in the nationnl debt be fore the war was $6. It is now $25. BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN Battle of Bullets Between Train Crew and Robbers. The east-hound Great Nor: hern pas senger train leaving Seattle at 8 o'clock at night was held up by a gang of bandits 10 miles from the city. Hundreds of shots were ex changed between the train crew and the robbers and the exprers car was blown to pieces by three charges of dynamite. Counterfeit $10 Bill Out Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, announces discovery of a counterfeit $10 United States ("Buffalo") note, of the series of 1901, check letter B. Lyons, register, Roberts treasurer. It Is said to be fairly deceptive photo mechanical reproduction on two pieces of paper, between which blue aud red silk fibre has been distributed. The counterfeit Is three-eighths of an Inch longer than the genuine. The seal is a trifle darker. The back of -the note is printed in very dark Green. NO RECORD ON THE BOOKS Contribution to Campaign Fund Was Not Recorded. BLACKMAIL BY LAWMAKERS What Insurance Men Have to En counter In Way of Proposed Legislation. That John R. liegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance icom puny, borrowed $50,000 from the New York Life Insurance company at 'A per cent, below the market rato wns brought out in the Insurance Investiga tion, and President John A. McCnll, of the New York Life, testified that he In turn borrowed $75,000 from the Metropolitan at. the same rate. This was in January. 1903, the loan was renewed In January, 1904, and ran un til March, 1905, when tho rate of In torest was advanced to 2 per cent., at which rate It is still running. Mr. McCnll enlivened the proceed lags further when he snld that there was no record on tho books of the New York Life Insurance company of t tie $150,000 paid to the Republican National committee for contributions to Presidential campaigns. While he had no personal knowledge that the money was paid, ho assumed it wns, because he had told the treasurer to make these payments. Mr. McCnll, In detailing tho general legislation work of Judge Andrew Hamilton and tho counsel he employ ed, denied nny knowledge of the leg islntivo pool which was disclosed in the examination of Alfred W. Maine auditor of the Equitable Life Assur ance society last week. President McCnll test Hied that, the New York Life's expenses for legal services from June 1, 1900, to August 31, 1905, were $1,103,920. Of this amount, Mr. McCnll snld, Andrew Hamilton received $176,927. In States where Mr. Hamilton looked after legislation, Mr. McCall said, he was expected to deal with the man who could produce the results. Mr. McCall, on this question made tho startling nssertlon that three- quarters of the bills affecting lire In surance companies were In the nature of blackmail. Nolllle F. Towner, of Albany, was called to the stand and disclaimed nny knowledge of tho whereabouts of canceled checks of Judge Hamilton, of Albany. Mr. Towner testified that he had made deposits for Judge Hamilton, but not while the latter was In Europe. He had taken, some can celed checks from the Albany Trust company early in September, and hnd thrown them Into a drawer in Judge Hamilton's desk. He hnd had no oc casion to look at. them again until last week, when ho received the sub pena to appear before the committee. He was nsked to bring these checks with him, but when he looked for them they were gone. He had no knowledge he declared, of where they could have gone or who could have taken them. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. The commission appointed for the purpose has recommended the es tablishment of pneumatic postal tubes for Pittsburg. William R. Hearst was named ns a candidate for mayor of New York at a municipal ownership mnss meeting. President Roosevelt will speak on the important policies of his admini stration during his approaching south ern trip. Rev. Stewart Nye Hutchison, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Steubenville, O., has been called to the First Reformed Church of Newark, N. J. Two hundred freight handlers em ployed by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad (the Big Four) at Indianapolis, went on strike. The people of Hamburg, Miss., where an epidemic of yellow fever Is raging, are appealing for aid. Tho people have not the necessaries of life. The conditions are fearful. Former Vice President Hyde of the Equitable society demands protec tion before he will testify before tho legislative committee. It is officially announced that the Grand Pacific has given an order for $4,000,000 worth of steel rails to the Dominion Iron and Steel Company, of Sydney, C. U. Tho contract calls for the delivery of the rails within five years. President Roosevelt has appointed Charles W. Russell, of Wheeling, W. Va., formerly special Assistant At torney General In charge of the Insu lar bureau of the Department of Jus tice, to tho office of Assistant Attor ney General. Finds a Pot of Money. An iron pot containing coins of gold and silver, valued at something like $500, was unearthed by George Brown upon some rented land in a suburban addition to Des Moines, la., known as Hyde Park. The coins were dated before 1860, and It is presumed that they were buried for safe keeping by some farmer who responded to the call for volunteers In the beginning of the Civil war and who never returned. Boy Finds $50,000. Certificates of deposit, notes and securities valued at more than $50,000 were picked up on the street In Cin cinnati by Raymond Schlie, 15 years old. The securities were turned over to the Western German Bank, and the officials are trying to find the owner. The papers were in two small boxes. J. L. Dick, a Baltimore & Ohio rail road trackman, was killed near Great Cacapon, Md., by a passenger train. HORRIBLE DEATH Captain and Crew Fall Into the Hands of Cannibals. That his brother was horribly mirV dered and given to sharks by cannibals of Mattlcolo island, New Hebrides, was the startling Informa tion received by R. (i. Pentecost of the Thomas Wlghtman Glass Com pany, Pittsburg. Mr. Pentecost's eldest brother, Capt. R. T. Pentecost, captain and owner of tho schooner Petrel, wn.s captured and murdered In the most revolting manner. So fur as Mr. Pentecost has learned his brother wns tied to a tree and transfixed with spears by the natives, of the Island. While still conscious he wns thrown to the sharks, the na tives dancing ubout, nfter which a cannibal feast was hold. A French warship was sent to. the island and during the attack and burning of the village of the natives, a marine gun nor and four natives were killed and the murderers of Capt. Pentecost, and Ills crew captured. Capt. Pentecost was aged 50 and nn Englishman. He had been at sea for 35 years, trading In the southern seas- GIVES $10,000,000 CASH Rockefeller Turns Money Over to General Education Board. Tho $10,000,000 gift of John IJ. Rockefeller to the General Education Hoard, which was announced last Juno, was paid to the board by Mr. Rockefeller In cash. In his lotter of last June Mr. Rockefeller announced that this gift would he forthcoming October 1 In cash or securities. The $10,000,000 wero delivered to the Executive Committee of the hoard whllo In session October 2 by F. T. (iates, a representative of Mr. Rockefeller and also n member of the committee. The payment was made In a series of checks made payable to George Foster Peabody, treasurer of tho hoard. Six of the checks were for $1,000,000 and two for $2,000,- 000. MILK FOR THE POOR. Secretary Wilson Imports a Herd of Milking Goats. The Department of Agriculture has Imported from tho Island ot Malta a herd of 68 milking goats. These ani mals will be taken to the Connecticut experiment station, where they will be fed, milked and propagated under scientific conditions. The young will be distributed throughout the experi ment stations of the different States. Secretary Wilson Bays: "The milk ing goat has been neglected In the United States. Goats are almost en tirely free from tuberculosis. Their milk Is peculiarly adapted to chil dren, resembling human milk more than that from any other nnlmnl. It It also valuable for invalids. People who cannot keep a cow may keep a goat." Boston Wool Market. Although the tono of the wool mar ket Is strong, business has fallen off noticeably. Tho sales have been In small quantities ranging from 25,000 to 50,000 pound lots, and hnve oc casionally reached 100,000 pounds. Territory wools continue to attract general interest and are in goorl de mand. The grades on call are the Vt and combing and half clothing. In pulled wools the demand has been for line long staple carrying grades Foreign goods are active. Loading quotations follow: )hlo and Pennsyl vania XX and above, 3t;ff?37c; X, 34fD35c; No. 1, 404ic; No. 2, 41fH2c; flue unwashed. 2S29c; Vt blood unwashed, 34(fD:!5c; blood, 3(fi3fic; blood, '-i4(fi35c; unwash ed delaine, 30(fi)31c; unmerchantable, 3132c; fine washed delaine, 3940c. Fatal Collision. A Soo lino express train from the East, leaving the Union passenger station at St. Paul, Minn., collided with a Chicago Great Western fast stock train at the Fourth street via duct. The force of the collision sent five of the passenger cars down a 27- foot embankment. One passenger Is dead and five wero seriously Injured, while a score or more were slightly cut and bruised. TWO KILLED Gas Leak Causes Explosion in Cin cinnati Court House. An explosion of gas under the floor of the county commissioners' office ut the court house in Cincinnati killed George Zimmerman, chief clerk of the commissioners, and Russell Blair, an assistant clerk. The explosion tore loose the floor nnd completely wreck ed the county commissioners' room. It also shattered most of the windows In the court house. The explosion was occasioned by escaping gas coming Into contact with a lighted match in the hands of Pat rick Walsh, superintendent of county buildings, while he was looking for a gas leak in the court house. In addition to the injuries of Zim merman and Blair, which quickly re sulted in death, two others were painfully hurt. The first fall meeting of the presi dent's cabinet developed the necessity for better treatment of Chinese im migrants who are entitled to admis sion to the United States. Canton Bankers Indicted. The Grand Jury at Canton, O., re turned Indictments against W. L. Davis, vice president, and Corwln D. Bachtcl, cashier of the Canton State bank, now in the hands of receivers. Davis Is held for embezzlement of $15,300, and for grand larceny of the same amount. Bachtel is indicted for the same two offenses and an addi tional indictment la placed against him charging false entries on the bank's books. JUDGE CAPTURED BYA MOB Forced to Rescind Order for the Arrest of Officers. DRACGED FROM FREIGHT ENGINE Finally Released and Gambling Goec Merrily on In Brighton, Colorado. The spectacle of a member of the Judiciary being dragged about by a mob and forced to rescind un official order ended a day of turmoil at Brighton, Col., the county seat ol Adams county, adjoining the city lim its of Denver. A. H. Guthell, County Judge, sum moned tho Mayor, Marshal and mom hers of the town board before him mid lectured them for their alleged failure to enforce ordinances against gambling and Sunday liquor selling. Following this, the Judge ordered tho Sheriff and Marshal to gather the slot machines in tho town of Brighton, nnd when they reported later that they could only find one Judge Guthell deputized two men to arrest them for contempt. In the meantime both tho Sheriff and the Marshal dis appeared. . The report of the Judge's action concerning the two peace officers spread through tho town und caused much excitement Citizens begun to gather on the streotB, und, fearing for his personal safely, Judge Guthle boarded n Union Pacific freight engine as It was pulling n train slowly through tho town. He ordered thi engineer to uncouple the engine from tho train, It Is said, and run to Den ver with him, threatening legal ac tion unless the engineer compiled with tho order. The engineer refused to obey the demand, and while they wero dis cussing the mutter a mob gathered around the engine nnd Judge Outbid was dragged from tho cab. Ho was told that ho must rescind his order of nrrest against the Sheriff and Marshal and upon being assured that he had already done so the Judge was releas ed by the mob nnd allowed to proceed to the city on a passenger train later. MANY BUILDINGS BURNED Fire in Japan Causes a Loss of Prob ably $5,000,000. A fire that broke out In an army storehouse at Hiroshima, Japan, de stroyed 20 temporary buildings, to gether with their contents, consisting principally of provisions and clothing. A largo portion df tho clothing was removed from a new storehouse the fire started. In addition to the 20 buildings con taining clothes and provisions, seven others filled with fodder were destroy ed. Although the buildings were con structed of light material, they con tained nn enormous amount of stored goods, and the structures being of In flarnable nature, the flames were difficult lo extinguish, despite tho des perate efforts of the troops. The fire spread with great, rapidity. It wns probably of Incendiary origin. The loss Is variously estimated at from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. ROBBER KILLS GREEK Two Blacks Hold Up and Rob Thirty Men. Peter Pnnnell, n Greek laborer, was killed at Salts Run, near Rayland, O., by ono of two unknown negroes who entered the Greek's sleeping quarters for the purpose of robbery. There were 30 Greeks In the room, all unarmed. The negroes fired sev eral revolver shots and terrified them. Then they went from bunk to bunk, tnklng the savings of their victims nnd secured about $325. Pnnnell had a bag containing $300 to which he clung tenaciously. When he refused to deliver It to ono of tho negToes ho shot the Greek through the mouth, killing him In stantly. The two negroes mado their escape toward Wheeling. LITTLE BEAR GIVES UP Famous Indian Chief Surrenders After Twenty Years of Rebellion. After 20 years of opposition to the Canadian government. Chief Little Bear and his band of 300 renegade Crees, nppflled at the number of their children and horses dying and their Inability to secure food as the re sult of the drought prevailing in Northern Montana, have surrendered. Chief Little Bear and his band fled to Montana at tho close of the noted Riel rebellion. Many of the tribe are now in Great Falls, en route to Havre, where the tribe will assemble prior to beginning the march to Canada, Lost in Typhoon. The Inter-island steamer Canlabe nia, 1,097 tons, was sunk in the re cent typhoon off TIcUo Island, one of the Visayan group. Apparently all on board were lost. She carried five Americans, one Spaniard and 11 na tive and Chinese passengers, and a crew of 97 men and officers. The is land steamer Carmen is also report ed lost. Details are lacking. New Rural Routes. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral De Graw reported that there were 1,431 rural free delivery routes established throughout the country during September, making a total of 32.486 routes existing. There arje 4.655 petitions for such routes pend ing. Joseph Bain of Pittsburg acci dentally shot Mllo Selter of Benton Harbor, Mich., in stomach while fool ing with Seller's revolver at the Pittsburg exposition. FROSTS DO LITTLE HARM Not More Than Five Per Cent of Corn Is Now In Danger. The weekly crop bulletin of the weather bureau summarizes crop conditions as follows: The weather conditions of the week ending Octob er 2, as a whole, were expcctlonully favorable to agricultural Interests. Highly favorable weather prevailed throughout the principal corn States An exceptionally large und line yield of oom is now assured over much tho greater part of tho corn bell, and only a very small part of the crop in Hid northern central portion, estimat ed at from two to five per cent of the total, remains exposod to Injury from frost, and this Is maturing rapidly. As a wholo, tho reports indicate no decided change In the condition of cotton, as compared with tho pro- vlotis week, n slight Improvement being shown In northern Alabama and in portions of Texas, while In other sections of the latter State there has ben a slight deterioration A light apple crop Is reported near ly everywhere, only a few unlmport ant apple producing Slates indicating satisfactory yields. Owing to the extensive prevalence of blight and rot In tho principal po tato producing Slates a light crop of potatoes of Inferior quality Is gener ally promised. The fall season so fnr, has been ex ceptionally favorable for plowing and heeding in the central vulloyR, luke region nnd middle Atlantic States. In pol l Ions of the Southern States and on the north Pacific coast dry soil conditions hnve not been favor able for this work. GREAT POWER PLANT Will Rival the Great Works at Niag ara Falls. In Stanley county, N. C, of tho Yad kin river, away from settlement and almost out of tho reach of civilized man, tho T. A. Gillespie company, of Pittsburg nnd New York, Is construct ing for the Whitney company, of which George I. Whitney, of Pitts burg, Is the head, an enormous power plant, which Is expected to develop by water by tho time the plant is all completed anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000-horsepower. There is nothing in existence to rival the work now In progress there except tho great power plant nt Niagara Falls. The project contemplates tho expenditure of something like $6,000,000 or $7,000, 000 in the utilization of tho power from nbout 200 feet of full In the Yad kin river, ono of tho large streams of the Atlantic slope. SHOT BY A MANIAC Withodt Provocation Swede Fires at a Stranger. Without any apparent cause An thony Olson, a demented Swede, shot nnd possibly fatally injured Hugh Hamilton, of Greensboro, Pa., In the Hotel Wilson, No. 10 Smith field street. After a hard struggle Olson was lodged In Central sta tion nnd Hamilton wns removed to the Homeopathic hospital, where it was said that ho had a slight chance for recovery. Ho was shot four times nnd one bullet is still lodged In his right lung. Hamilton Is a prominent potior at Greensboro and Is wcll known In Ptlsbprg. He snld Olson was an nb solute stranger to him, and Capt. John Wilson, son of the proprietor of the hotel, said that ho never saw Hamilton with Olson. Hamilton had been coming to the Hotel Wilson for 15 years. Wants Money Returned. Attorney General Mayer of New York received the letter of Attorney William Hepburn Russell asking permission to begin suit against John A. McCall, president, and George W. Perkins, vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company, for the restitution of $150,000 contributed to Republican campaign funds. Un der the laws of the State tho sanc tion of the attorney general Is re quired In order to bring a suit pf this character. ENGINEER KILLED Serious Wreck on Big Four at Terre Haute. The second section of a Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (Big Four) train ran into a derail at the crossing of the Southern Indiana Belt line at Terre Haute, Ind. The engi neer was killed and three injured. The engine and ten cars were demol ished and the track was torn up for 100 yards. The dead, R. B.- Brown, engineer, Terre Haute. The Injured, Rev. A. W. Luce, Hope, Ind.; J. S. Shierbaum, fireman, Mattoon, III.; Jesse Syknell, Carthage, Mo. The engine went over the embank ment and the cars piled up. Engi neer Brown was caught under the wreckage. The Rev. Mr. Luce was moving his household goods from Fort Branch, Ind., to Hope, Ind., his new charge. Mrs. William Wilcox, of Johnstown, Pa., lifted a lighted lamp from a bracket to place It elsewhere. It ex ploded, setting fire to her clothes and her body was burned to a crisp. More Cotton Indictments Found. The Federal Grand Jury reported new indictments in the cotton crop report leakage cases against Edwin S. Holmes, associate statistician of the Agricultural department; Edwla A. Peckham and Moses Haas, of New York. They cover the same ground as the other indictments, but are be lieved to be more specific. John Clinton, a glassworker, waa killed at the Wabash railroad bridge at Mingo Junction, O., while trying to board a freight train KEYSTONE STATE CULLIWG5 WABASH STATION DESTROYED Agent at Hickory, Escaped Wit Money, but Tickets, Furniture nd Ferlght Are Burned. The new station of the Wabaso rallroud ut Hickory was destroyed by a fire. C. C. Coutcs, tho agent, was not aware that the building waa abluzo until ho wui driven from his oluce by tho flumes and smoke. He Just hud time to seize the mouoyj drawer and floe from the building.. All the tickets furniture, freight and express were destroyed. The loss Is about $10,000. Waiting nt the mouth of tho Mani fold coal mine In Washington county, with a warrnnt for the arrest of Jos. Orego, Constable O. W. Clutter and Detective K. Sarver were surprised when the cage reached the top to find Grpgo's dccapltntad body. The latter had been killed in the mine a few minutes before. The officers were there to arrest him on a surety of the peace charge So:no days ago Qrcgo Is alleged to have threatened to kill Frank Olmer, a fellow workman, who had a warrant Rworn out for his ar rest. A robber has Just completed a tour of Westmoreland county and has caus ed a lot of trouble to detectives em ployed by the Central District and Printing Tolegraph company. Nearly every automatic long-distance tele phono in the county has boon robbed of cash. In almost every Instance the tnlnphones In tho hotels were robbed, although at Latrobe nnd the Intersec tion tho rallroud stations were includ ed. The nineteenth annual reunion of the old Bucktall regiment was held' at tho homo of State Senator E. A. Irwin, at Curwensvlllo, colonol of the regiment. Many veterans went to the Gettysburg battlefield, where a marker was placed on the spot whore a colonel of the regiment, Charles W Taylor, feu. By the arrest of John Anderson, an alleged leader of horse thieves, at Franklin, and George Clarke, In Now Castle, the police think they have made a good start in breaking up the gang operating around that seectlon. for some time. William, son of John Henderson, was captured, but broke Jail, and a reward is offered for his capture. After having been practically dead for 12 months, Wehrum, in Black Lick valley, is about to be rejuvenat ed. A year ago the Lackawana Coal company closed Its mines. Since then, almost all the population has left. From now on, officials say, additional men will be taken on until the full quota Is at work again. The National works of the Ameri can Sheet and Tin Plate company, of Monessen, will resumo operations October IB. Only 10 of the 25 mills will be started. Tho plnnt has been Idle since June 15. Tho plant has been equipped with a new boiler house costing nearly $100,000. Two strangers went into the store of the Rochester Carpet company, and asked tho manager, C. H. Hickey, if they could purchase an empty store box. While Mr. -Harris took ono of them into the cellar to pick out a box the other stranger tapped the money drawer, securing $10. Captain John F. Dravo, ono of the leading coal and river men of the Upper Ohio vnlley died at his homo In Beaver in his 8Cth year. Capt. Dravo was a member of the legislature for several terms and a prominent man In the business affairs ot the City of Pittsburg. A deal has been closed whereby the Pearce Manufacturing company, of Latrobe, comes Into possession f the Merritt Comfort company, of India napolis. This plant will bo moved to Latrobe within a short time and the business will be conducted as here tofore. The Maryland Coal company, a Georges Creek corporation, has pur chased 3,000 acres of coal lands at South Fork. Approximately $500,000 will change hands on this deal. This Is the first venture of the Maryland Coal company In Cambria county. Congressman A. F. Cooper has named John R. Walker, of Berlin, Somerset county, as candidate for the West Point Military academy. The alternates are E. K. Fogg and John D. Locke, of this place. There was no competitive examination held. Discovering boys in his orchard stealing apples Karl Burk, whose farm is Just west of Altoona, started to chase them out. While pursuing them one of the narty turned and opened fire on him with a revolver, shooting him in the right leg. Walter Bates, 48 years old, was kill ed at Oil City while working In the new government building. He was di recting the hoisting of a large stone, when the crane broke and the stone ' and machinery fell on him. Bates formerly lived at Bradford. At Corry, Pa., Carl Gerston. aged 8, after school Jumped on a frelzht train In sight of his teacher, who told him to get off. He rode some dis tance and then jumped, landing in front of another train, which killed him instantly. The Erie Railroad Comoanv bna awarded the contract for a new pass enger station or or.cK and stone, at South Sharon. It is said the Erie will soon begin running passenger trains over the New Castle branch to Pittsburg. Harvey Hess, a dlstribut or nf samples of a breakfast food, was stabbed by an Italian fruit dealer at Harrisburg because he was not al lowed to help himself. The Italian escaped. Hess may die. The new sheet mill of the American Sheet & Tin Plate Company at South Sharon, Idle for several weeks has resumed.
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