EXPRESS ROBBER CAUGHT Man Who Took $101,000 Found In Bridgeport, Conn. SUIT CASE HELD LARGE SUM When Opened at House of Cunliffe's Brother-ln-Law it Contained Nearly $80,000. Edward O. Cunllffe, the clerk who tolo $101,000 from the Atlamu Ex press Co. at Pittsburg, on October 9, was arrested la Bridgeport, Conn., on Oct. 191h, by an operative of the Flnkerton detective agency, and $79, 953.65 of the money was recovered at the home of Joseph W. Htmrdninn, Cunliffe's brother-in-law, at Bristol. Cuulilte had been In Bridgeport since two days after the robbery. Al though registered at a hotel, he hud been upending most of his time In the company of a woman known as Blanche Weir, for whom he was furn ishing a flat, and with whom he spent Wednesday night, so eluding olllcers who lay In wait for him at his hotel until morning. IMukertun men Hocked Into Bridge port by every train, Supt. Daniel C. Thornhlll, of the New York agency being In charge of them. When L'un llffe returned to the Arlington hotel, where he had been registered for a week us J. P. Duwllng, he was re cognized by Harry Brown, a Pinker ton, and placed under arrest. He was turned over to Patrolman O'Connell, In spite of Ills protests that a mistake had beea made and sent to police headquarters. Ten minutes after he got there he confessed his Identity and Bgreed to go back to Pittsburg without offering any resistance. As a result of the statement made by Clinllffe In Bridgeport, that he had sent $85,000 of the plunder to his brother-in-law, Boardman, in Bristol, a representative of the Associated Press called at the Boardman home and asked Boardman If that was so. Boardman, who Is agent for the Elec tric Express Company of Hartford, said he had received no money, but that on October 12 a dress suit case came to his house from Bridgeport, and, as there was no name on It he j had not opened It. Ills wife signed for the case and Boardman placed It In a closet, think ing It was sent to him as an agent of the express company, to be called for later. Boardman told the Asso ciated Mress representative t li fit If ho wished he would send for the po lice and they could break open the case. Chief Melius and Capt. Belden of the police force were then sent for, and In their presence the case was torn open. Huge bundles of money in bills tumbled out on the floor, also a black suit of clothes, a pair of shoes and two shirts. As the money was being counted, Supt. J. C. Curtis of the Adams Express Company's New England agency, and Wm. F. Mins ter, superintendent of the Plnkerton detectives, drove up to the house and were Bhown in. Mr. Curtis counted the money, and found a total of $79, 95.1.65. There were five bundles of $100 bills, making a total of $50,000. and the rest, with the exception of $3Ji5, which was In a pocket In the root, was $50 bills. Cnnllffe savs that he destroyed the rest of the $101,000. He tohl De tective Arnold that there was some $20,000 of It In bills on the Farmers' Deposit National Bank, and he was afraid of being discovered with it. He refused, ..however, to say how he destroyed It, and there Is a possibility that It can be recovered In mutilated form. Altogether $S9, 210.55 of the money has been recovered. To the $79,953. 155 recovered at the home of Cun llffe's brother-ln-lnw in Bristol, Conn., and the $292 found In his possession when he was arrested, was added $9.0Co, which he had hidden in Bridgeport. It has been found out that he spent only about $100 on the woman, Blanch Weir, to whom ho de voted so much of his time there, and It. Is believed that altobether ho did not. spend more than $500. This leaves over $11.0000 still to be ac counted for. LARGE ORDERS FOR CARS Pennsylvania Railroad Company Con tracts for 20,000 Steel Cars. The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa ny awarded contracts for 20,000 steel freight cars which were authorized last week and which will entail an expenditure of $23,000,000, which Is the largest single order for car equip ment ever pliic-ed by the company. The Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg landed the bulk of the order, getting tlra contract for 12, 000 cars at a cost close onto $14, 000,000. Tho remainder of the order was divided between the Standard Stoel Car Company of Butler, L'.ihh gondolas; Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown, 2,500 gondolas, all for the Eastern system of the road; the American Car & Foundry Company, 1,500 coal hopper cars for the lines west, and 000 box cars for the. lines east; the Mlddleton Car works, of Middlelown, Pa., 400 box cars. Since July 1 the company has or dered a total of 37,321 cars, of which J 1.700 are for the lines w.?st of Pitts burg. NO SEA LEVEL CANAL Panama Consulting Engineers Find Plan Not Feasible. A sea level canal across the Isth mus of Panama Is not feasible In the opinion of a majority of the board of consulting engineers, who returned from their tour of observation, and, therefore, it is likely the present plan for a lock canal will be fol lowed. Several of the engineers were frank In pointing out serious defects In the listing management of canal affairs. DUN'S WEEKLY SUMMARY Business ' Outlook'' Constantly ' Im proving and the Situation Is Most Promising. It. O. Dun's & Co. '8 weekly review of trade says: Activity broadens lu commercial channels and confidence expands ba cause of the many evidences of con servatlsm. Business Is brisk and Im proving, although tknre Is no dlsposl Hon to start a boom either lu com modities or securities. Munufuc turera receive liberal orders for re mote deliveries, many dealers having covered spring requirements, and shipping departments are forwarding as freely as traffic facilities will per mit. Current retail trade Is not equalling expectations, but this Is at tributed to mild autumn weather, and preparations for the future are un diminished. Especially good news Is received from the Iron and steel cent ers, output of mills and furnaces in creasing without relieving the press ure for quick delivery, particularly In structural and railway departments. Wages were voluntarily Increased at print cloth mills, and scarcely any labor disputes ar; noted. Much com plaint Is heard regarding freight Itlnckndcs, several contracts being accepted subject to delay in transit, which Is seriously retarding grain ex ports. Xovetheless, railway earnings for October thus far show a gain of only l.ii per cent, compared with last year's figures. This should be quali fied by the statement that prelimi nary reports are chiefly from the southwest, where quarantine condi tions and the tardy movement of cot ton make an unfair comparison with last year's figures, which were swell ed by unprecendented shipments of cotton. Statistics of foreign trade for the United States eclipsed all Sep tember records last month, which was particularly gratifying In view of the fact that a loss of over $11. 000,000 in exports of cotton had to be made up elsewhere. Another splen did exhibit is assured for October. Evidence of conservatism are more numerous In the primary markets for textile fabrics, although there Is no weakness In quotations, but rather more Indications of Inherent strength. VISITS MOTHER'S HOME President Roosevelt Sees Old Man sion and Servants. President Roosevelt carried out his long-cherished plan of visiting the home of his mother at Hoswell. (la. One of the reasons for coming South was that he might see the old home stead where his mother spent her girlhood and which she loft a happy bride. That the visit was fraught with many tender recollections was evident, and as his carriage drove away from the old Buloch mansion where his mother lived and married. The President reached Roswell at 7:.'!0 o'clock In the morning and was joined by Senator and Mrs. Clay. He then entered a carriage and was driven to the mansion. This line old homestead Is now the property of .1. D. Wing, a lumber merchant. Here he was greeted by two old servant b who lived on the place during his mother's young womanhood. One of these is "Aunt Grace," who acted as maid to Mrs. Martha Bulloch, who afterward became Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, and the other Is William Jackson, who decorated the mansion on the occasion of the marriage of Its young mistress. Robbed and Thrown in River. Jacob Levlne, aged 22, of Cleve land, O.. was attacked at 1 o'clock In the morning by two highwaymen while crossing the Smllhflold street bridge, In Pittsburg, robbed of $12 In cash nnd thrown Into tin Monongn hela river, 70 feet below. He floated to Market street, where he was pick ed up by John McDonald ami Arch McDnnlel, of the. crew of the steam er Helen White, l.evlne was uncon scious, nnd was taken to the Homeo pathic hospital. Later he regained consciousness nnd told his story . Dowager Queen Margherltn. of Ita ly, returned after a journey of 5,ni)ii ' miles in an automobile through! Switzerland, Germany, Holland and France. Her majesty has expressed her Intent Ion of visiting the United Stntes next year with a 40-horso-power machine. Money Extorted by Matos. The payment of $130,000 through American asphalt companies to sup port General Mntos' revolution In Venezuela was testified to by General Avery D. Andrews, vice president of the National Asphalt Conipnay, but It was really extorted by General Matos. Mr. Andrews gave this tes timony before United States Com missioner Gilchrist, In New York, in the taking of evidence to be used to settle the suit of the Venezuelan government against the New York & Bermudez Asphalt Company. Ho snld General Francis V. Greene, former president of the National, authoriz ed the payment. Traced a Smuggled Necklace. Some weeks ago the treasury offi cials received information that, a Indy of means living in New York had purchiu"d abroad a necklace for which she pai.f $22,000. and had suc ceeded In getting It through the line of baggage Inspectors at New York. After a search of weeks she was fi nally found In a New York theater. Hre attorney paid to the officials about $13,000 and the added penalty. Won't Disturb Postmasters. Postmaster General George- B. Cortelyou, In an official statement, announces that fourth-class postmast ers will be retained so long as they give satisfactory services. The an nouncement was occasioned by stor ies to the effect that thero had been changes macto In the government's policy toward this class . of past masters. Many persons are wounded In fights between strikers and soldiers at St. Petersburg. SIX MEN PERISHED IT SEA Shipwrecked Seamen Suffered Terrible Experience. HUDDLED TOGETHER ON RAFT Only Two Left to Tell the Tale The Others Died or Jumped Overboard. A story of a North Atlantic ship wreck In which eight seamen suffered so fearfully from exposure, buuger and thirst that six of them perished was told by the two survivors of the coasting schooner Van Name and King, of New Haven, which was beat en to pieces by a gale off the South Carolina coast on October 0. The two men who lived through the five days and were rescued by the schoon er Stillman F. Kelly are William Thomas and William (!. Warnock. The six who succumbed were ('apt. William A. Maxwell, Mate A. B. Chase, engineer, name unknown; colored steward, colored Seamen William (iilswell and Alfred Arthur. The Van Name and King ran into a heavy gale October 5 and after wallowing abonl In the great sens for several hours sprang a leak. The next morning, with her hold nearly lull of water, the schooner was hove down on her beam ends. The crew clambered up on the weather side and lashed themselves to the bul warks. There they remained, wash ed by the seas that broke merciless ly over them, all dny. That, night the storm Increased In fury and one great wave crashed aboard, brenkiag both legs of Sea man Arthur, and sweeping Orlswell from his fastenings. Arthur's com panions could do nothing to ease his sufferings, but when, on Saturday, the schooner turned completely over they managed to cut his lashings and drag him on a piece of the afterhouse. It was several hours before they were all huddled together on their little raft. That night Arthur died In the arms of Capt. Maxwell nnd his boilv was dropped overboard. Sunday night Mate Chase's mind gave way and he jumped Into the ea. The next victim was Capt. Maxwell, who on Monday beenme violently Insnne and followed his mate's example of self-destruction. The spectacle of two men throwing themselves Into the sea proved too much for the Oer man engineer and he, too leaped to his death. The las! victim was the colored steward, who died, and whose body was consigned to the waters by the two remaining seamen. Relief came 12 hours Inter when the schooner Stillman F. Kelly, bound up the const from Ceylon, Georgia, to Boston sighted the little cm ft and rescued Thomas nnd War nock . IRVING'S BODY CREMATED Ashes Will Lie In Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The body of Sir Henry Irving was removed in secrecy to a crematorium, where It was cremated. The ashes were taken to Westminster Abbey, where they will lie beside the body of Oarrlck. In Poets' Corner of the Abbey, beneath the stntue of Shnkeg peare. Bryan Addresses Crowd in Tokio. William .1. Bryan addressed an audience of about 1,000 persons in Tokyo with Count Okumn, the former foreign minister and leader of the Progressive party. In tho chair. Later Mr. Bryan lunched with Count Okuma. The municipality of Tokio has Invited air. Bryan to attend a public reception, but his time here will not permit him to accept the invitation. Are Off for India. The Prince anil Princess of Wuleg started on their six months tour of India, going overland to Gennn, Italy where they will embark on the Brit ish battleship Renown, which Is due to arrive at. Bombay November 9. They will slay In India until Mnrch. The national encampment of the Union Veterans' Union at Springfield, III., decided to meet at St. Paul next year. Parents Ask $200,000. ' The parents of Sam Shubert, tho theatrical manager, who was mortal ly Injured In tho wreck of the Penn sylvania railroad's Chicago express last May, brought suit In tho United States circuit court at New York for $200,000 against the railroad com pany, alleging that negligence caused their sou's death. This suit is one of several others aggregating $000,000 and growing out of the same wreck. 34 Injured in Wreck. Thirty-four persons were Injured, three probably fatally. In an accident to a north-bound passenger train on the Cheyenne and Northern railroad, near Horse Creek, Wyo. The train was rounding a curve, when the smoking car and tho day coach left the rails anil rolled down'a 22-foot embankment. The locomotive and the baggage car had passed over the wea,k spot In the track in safety. Almost Million Free Admissions. Revised figures on the attendance at the Lewis and Clark exposition, which were made public, show that a total of 2,551,780 persons passed into the grounds during the exposition period. Of these 1,5S0,C17 were paid and 971,103 Were free. Gross earnings of Missouri. Pacific for the second week in October de creased $90,000. For the same week Wabash decreased $104,700. Com parison la with a period of heavy world's fair traffic last year. CASHIER KILLS HIMSELF i, Sensational Developments Fqllowed by Closing of the Bank. The Enterprise National Bank, Beaver avenue nnd Franklin Btreet. Allegheny, Ka., closed Its doors as the culmination of a series of sen Rational events. Following a meet ing of the directors Tuesday night, la which the condition of the bank was exposed, Cashier T. Lee Clark refused to face the developments of the following day. Rising from bed Wednesday morn ing Cashier Clark, at. his home in Bellevue, sent a bullet into his brain, dying In the afternoon. Comptroller of thu Currency Ridge ly ordered the bank closed during the day and placed Bank Examiner John B. Cunningham in charge as receiver. The last statement of ths bank showed deposits of $2,137 ' with loans nnd discounts of $2,212, 807. The assets and liabilities were given as $2,973,109 each.. Paper to the estimated face value of $700,000 on which It Is alleged the bank could not. recover Is said to be the cause of the insolvency. President (winner doelarivl that the politicians hud wrecked the Inst I tut Ion . The Enterprise National Bank wa:i an active Stale depository. There Is about $182,01111 of current f mills of the Slaie Treasury nnd about $:iu0, ihiii of the sinking fund moneys in the bank. UNREST SWEEPS OVER RUSSIA Strike at Moscow Spreading Through the Empire. The strike at Moscow has given an Impetus to the new wave of strikes and disorders which Is sweeping over the country and which promises a re petition of the period of stress that prevailed in January and February last. Besides the tumult In St. Petersburg and Moscow, strikes and disorders are reported from Saratoff, Kleff, Kazan, Khnroff and other cities, while the strike movement has again broken out in Warsaw. Dispatches from Eknterlnodar. Kuban and Ti II Is report troubles lu the Caucasus, which, have no connection with the Russian movement. A lnrge part of the working popu lation seems to he Inspired by a spir it of unrest. The movement is large ly political nnd Is engineered by the social democratic and social revolu tionary parties. Shuts Off War Supplies. Exportation of arriis, ammunition and munitions of war of every kind from any port of the United States and Porto Rico to any part of the Dominican republic is prohibited by a Presidential proclamation just Is sued. Accompanying the proclama tion is an explanatory memorandum to the effect that, this action has been taken after consultation with the Dominican government, with their concurrence, and Is Intended to assist them In the enforcement of their regulations designed to prevent the perennial revolutionists of the Island from getting warlike supplies. CURRENT NEWS EVENTS. Mrs. John Musch of Virginia, was killed and 14 passengers Injured in a wreck near Springfield, 111. Joseph Morrells, an Italian, was killed at Altoona, Pa., by the caving In of a trench In which he was work ing. The natives of British and East Africa are in revolt and sharp fighting between English troops and the rebels has already taken place. Dr. Edward D. Eaton, resigned the presidency of Belolt college. He will prolmbly accept n call from a church at St. Johnsbury, Vt. Datto All. with his followers in the province of Mindanao has taken the aggressive nnd Is killing many Moros friendly to the government. Richard A. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life, grew defiant In his examination by the legislative com mittee on Insurance. Andrew Carnegie was again install ed ns lord rector of St. Andrews uni versity, Scotland, and five Americans, Including Dr. Holland of Pittsburg, had conferred on them the honorary degree of doctor of laws. Secretary Taft and party will take up the subject of fortifying the Panama canal when they reach the isthmus. Charles A. McCllntock, of Pittsburg was elected vice president of the jun ior class of Princeton university at the annual class election. Lee Williamson, of East Liverpoo O., is In jail at Wellsville, charged by J. W. Uselton, of that city, with taking $005 from his pocket while plnylng pool. President Roosevelt has addressed a letter to members of his cabinet directing them to refrain from mak ing public any cabinet meeting pro ceedings or 'departmental business. President Richard A. McCurdy, of the Mutual Life declares nothing caa or will drive him from its presiden cy. British Boat Fired Upon. The British torpedo boat destroyer Cherwell reports that while anchored between Ceuta and Ceres she was fired at by Moors, whose bullets plerc ed her funnel. The Cherwell threw her searchlight on the assailants. There were no casualties. Powell Quits; Successor Named. Tho resignation of William F. Powell as United States minister to Haytt has been submitted to the President and accepted. As his suc cessor the President has determined upon Dr. H. W. Furnlss of Indianapo lis, a prominent negro. Dr. Furnlss- Is the present consul to Bahla, Brazil S. P. Averlll. of Bnttle Creek. Mich., travelling solicitor for the Order of Red Men, cut his throat at Hlnton, W. Va. His recovery is doubtful. TEN KILLED BY TORNADOES The Villages of Sorrento, III., and Mannford, Okla., Wrecked. MANY INJURED IN DEBRIS Windstorm Followed by Heavy Fall of Rain and Streets Were Flooded. A tornado struck the village of Sorento, HI., 32 miles nnrtheust of St. I .ami Is, killing eight persons, Injur ing 35 others, of whom three will probably die, and doing from $80,000 to $100,000 damage to property. Forty houses were blown to splinters or carried far from foundations. A complete swath was cut through the town. Four unidentified bodies were liikeii from the debris. The Identified dead: .Mrs. Thomas File, Mrs. William Stewart, William M;i n n, Harrison Maun. I'arllal list of Injured: Mrs. Will lam Maiiii, Frank Shields ami two daughters, Mrs. I. J. May. Charle-i Miller ami wile, Henry Mays ti ml wile, Henry IJiirlow and wile, Will iam Kliklaad an. I wife, she will probably die; William Stewart, will probably die; Tliomas Kill', filially; Mrs. Phoebe Moore, Mr. and Mrs. George Root. Mrs. John Griffith. The killed were In their homes. The storm approached from the southwest, and the wind swept through the mulii residence portion then followed a heavy downpour. Houses were converted Into hos pitals and the people by lantern light In the pouring rain searched through debris and drugged out the injured. The population of Sorento Is 1,100. At St. Louis the lowlands of the River Oospores were flooded and the police were busy rescuing people from the housetops. One-third of Forest park, outside the world's fair Inclosure, was submerged 15 feet deep. The total precipitation was c.20 Inches. A tornado passed one mile west of Mannford. Okla., and killed two chil dren of E. R. Anderson. Mrs. And erson, Miss Maude Root, A. Maggan ami wife, Ed. Root, two children of Ed. Root, and J. R. Edwards and wife were Injured. UNION FINALLY DISSOLVED Both Houses of Swedish Riksdag Passed Measures Repealing Treaty. The union between Norway and Sweden existing since 1814, has been dissolved, both houses of the Riksdag having passed the government bill re pealing the act of union and recogniz. Ing Norway, "as a State separate from the union with Sweden." 3'he Lower House adopted the bill without debate, but two or three members of the Senate expressed the opinion that the dissolution was an Irrepnrable misfortune, and that the time would come when Norway would perceive the benefits of the un ion. Both Houses subsenuently passed the new flag law. The flag will be a yellow cross on a- blue ground, the sam as existed prior to 1814, the union mark now showing In the up per left corner being eliminated. LEITER IS ORDERED TO PAY Must Meet Note for $69,767 Given in Effort to Coroner Wheat. Joseph Lelter, of Chicago, was ord ered by Justice Greeribanm, of the Supreme court. New York, to pay William J. Zeller. IU9.7G7 as a result of a suit brought by the latter to re cover a promissory note plus Inter est which Lelter gave during his at tempt to corner the wheat market several days ago. Lelter's defense was that under the laws of Illinois this transaction came within the de finition of gambling and that tho amount of the note was therefore Ir recoverable. Loiter gave notice of appeal from Justice Greenbaum's de cision. SUBMARINE SPRINGS A LEAK Crew of Sixteen on Board English Vessel Has Narrow Escape. The crew of 10 on board submarine boat No. 4 had a remarkable narrow escape. The boat was engaged In diving practice off Spithead and was submerged, when water leaked through the exhaust pipe and caused an accumulation of gas. A slight explosion followed, damaging the ma chinery. The crew, however, man aged to raise the vessel, which came up stern first. A government gunboat nearby went to her assist ance and saved all the crew. Roosevelt Visits the South. President Roospvelt was given a grand ovation In Richmond, Va., which In reality was the beginning of his Southern tour. After, leaving Washington brief stops were made at Fredericksburg and Ashland, where the President spoke briefly to the crowds gathered to greet him, but It remained for Richmond to Tormally receive the executive, and a royal welcome was accorded hjm. Rhode Island Republicans. A harmonious State convention was held by the Republicans of Rhode Island, and all the present State officers were renominated by acclamation as follows: Governor George H. Utter, Westerly; Lieuten ant Governor, Frederick H. Jackson, Providence; Secretary of State, Charles P. Bennett, Providence; At torney General, William B. Grten ough, Providence; General Treasur er, Walter R. Read, Gloucester. HEROES REWARDED Carnegie ' Commission Announoea Second List- of Awards. "Tea more heroes were rewarded under the provisions of the Carneg ie Hero fund and some of them will have occasion to remember the bene faction of Andrew Carnegie for many years to come. The awards made were as follows: Dunlel Duvls, miner, S'leru'svllle, O.; widow anil two chlldr.u receive $1,000, to be applied In manner that best suits case. Wate 11. Pliimmer, 15 years old. of Lamar. N. C; awarded $000 for educational purposes; also a silver medal. Michael Doyle, of Quebec, Canada; sliver medal. Maud Titus. 1(1 years old. of Yar mouth, Me.; silver medal. Mrs. Sadie L. Crahbe, near Coop ers Landing. Va.; $1,000 to her hus band for her children; kIko a bronze medal. Anna M. Cunningham, Savannah, (!:i . : In mi.'' medal . William ('. Bruce, 17 years old. Sandusky, O. ; bronze medal . Arthur .1. Gottschalk, Lancaster,. N. Y. ; bronze medal. George F. Russell. Crolon. Conn.; bronze medal. Arthur A. Ross, Foxboro. Mass.; luou.e medal. In this last general award, women share honors with the men. Two win medals mil the third, who lost her life In saving a boy, was made the subject of further aid. CHANGES CIVIL SERVICE RULES President Roosevelt Makes Sweeping Amendment to Regulations. An amendment to the civil service rules, sweeping and comprehensive In lis character, was authorized by President Roosevelt. Hereafter, a cabinet officer will have the power to remove summarily and without hear ing any civil service employe In his department who, to the personal knowledge of the head of the depart ment, has been guilty of misconduct, or who Is Inefficient In the perform ance of his duties. By the terms of the amendment the cabinet officer must have persona! knowledge of the misconduct or Inefficiency of the em ploye whom he proposes to dis charge. With this personal knowl edge, the power of the head of tho department is absolute. Heretofore, in every case of the re moval of a civil service employe, charges had to be filed against the person whom It was proposed to re move, and the employe was given time In which to meet the charges with siuh defense as he might have to make. Under the authorized amendment, such a proceeding will not be necessary. A head of a de partment may discharge an employe for misconduct or Inefficiency, with the simple statement to the civil ser vice commission that the misconduct or inelflclency Is a subject of his per sonal observation. The discharged employe will have no recourse. TEN BANKERS INDICTED Charged With Conspiracy to Steal from Denver Bank. Leonard Imboden, James A. Hill, C. B. Wifley, K. E. Hull. H. L. Hull, C. C. Robert, W. T. Camp, D.-M. Car ey, A. H. Davis and J. H..Edmond son were indicted by the Grand Jury on the charge of conspiring to steal $1,712,587 from the Denver, (Col.) Savings bank. Wilfley and Edmond son were formerly presidents of the bank, and Hill was president of the bank when a receiver was appointed. H. L. Hull is president of the Mount Vernon National bank of Boston. Roberts and Carey are officers of the Cherokee State bank, of Enid, Okla. In addition to the general con spiracy indietmoTits were found against Edmondson. Ho is charge.! specifically' with the robbery of $105. ouo. Four indictments were returned against Wilfley charging him with lending certain funds belonging to the bank and securing heavy com mission for his own use. One In dictment was returned against Hill charging him with the embezzlement of $10,000. Warrants were immedi ately Issued for the arrest of the men. FIVE INJURED Two Gas Explcsions Cut Off Supply from Erie. Two terriffic explosions at the main regulating house of the Penn sylvania Gas Company, Just outside the city of Erie, Pa., cut off natural gas for heating and lighting in the city. Benjamin Donavan, the gas tender, aged 3G, is In Hamot Hos pital, not expected to live. His little son, Nell Donavan, aged 4, is so badly burned that his recovery is doubtful. Mrs. Mary Donavan, his wife, was burned in escaping. The accident was caused by a bon fire Donavan started In his yard to burn rubbish. Close by was the sup ply pipe, 'eight inches In diameter, that conveys the natural gas from Warren county to Erie. A small leak let the gas escape and communicate with the fire. Japs Seize, American Steamer. The Japanese Navy department has announced the seizure of the Ameri can steamer Centennial, October 10, In Soya Btralt. Express Package Stolen. An express pnekage containing sable furs worth $."00, consigned to a resident of Shadyslde, Pittsburg, was stolen from a wagon of the United States Express Company near Forbes and Atwood streets. Oakland. The theft took place while the driver of the wagon was delivering another package and W'as discovered within five minutes of the time It was com mitted. Despite this fact there Is said to be absolutely no clew to tha thieves. KEYStflNE STATE CULLIN9S FORMER JUDGE PAXSON DEAD. Was Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, Receiver for the Reading and Founder of Friends' Home. . Former Chief Justice Edward M. PaxHon, of the Pennsylvania 8u prem Court, died at his home In By cot. Death was due to a complica tion of diseases. He was 81 years old. Judge Parson was born In Buckingham, Bucks county, Pa. He was educated In the Quaker schools. At the age of 18 he established the New Town Journal at New Town, Pa., and later founded the Dally News of Philadelphia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar In I860. He was appointed Judge la the Com mon Pleas Court In 1809, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of F. Carroll Brewster. He was elected to the office the following year. In 1874, at the first election under the new constitution, Judge Paxson was elected to the Supreme Court. In 1893 he was appointed one of the re ceivers of the Philadelphia and Read ing Railroad Co., at which time h resigned his position as chief Justice. The home for aged and Infirm mem bers of the Society of Friends at New Town was founded by Judge Paxson. The action of the directors of the Pennsylvania & Mahonlug Valley Electric railway lino In selling the properties to the new $10,000,000 mortgaged company known as the Shenango & Mahoning Valley Light & Power Company was formally rati fied at a meeting of the stockholders at the general offices of the company in New Castle. Over 98 per cent of the capital stock of $8,000,000 was represented. The stock was turned over to James Blackburn of Youngs town, as a formality in the comple tion of the merger. The other lines taken Into the consolidation are tho New Castle-Sharon, and the Youngs-town-Sharon Interurban lines. The export department of the Westlnghouse Electric and Manufac turing Company has received a con tract from Takata & Co., Its Japan ese representative, for the electrical equipment of a street railroad in Kobe. The contract calls for 16 double equipments of 50 horse power motors, with multiple unit control. All of this machinery will be furn ished by the East Pittsburgh fac tory. Thieves robbed the post office at Markleton while Postmaster John Leonard was absent at dinner. They secured $200. Part of the money taken belongs to the United States Express Company, which had stored it there for safety. About $300 In gold and silver coin was overlooked by the robbers. This is the third time the office has boen robbed with in three years. William Slade, colored, aged 35 years and single, perished In a Are that destroyed his shanty at Lelaen ring No. 2 near Connellsvlllo. Slade and an unknown companion had a keg of beer In the shanty Saturday. In the evening the two were ra a drunken stupor and a stove was over turned setting fire to the shanty. Slade was too drunk to get out. A deal was closed for the purchase of 1,000 acres of coal land In Am well township, Washington county, by Isaac Seamans of Uniontown. Tha purchase price is $100 an acre. Op tions on a block of 2.000 acres ad joining this plot have been taken by D. L. Frazee of near Washington for a Pittsburgh syndicate, at $100 an acre. The board of public grounds and buildings appointed Norman Bortz of Allentown, superintendent of con struction of the new state insane hospital to be erected near that city, and Oscar E. Thompson of Phoenix ville, engineers for a state bridge to be built over the Lycoming creek noar Wllliamsport. An Income of over $1,100,000 in three years is the record of the estate of the late James Cochran, of Dawson, according to a report made to the Fayette count court by M. M. Coch ran, trustee. The report filed cov ers the period from 1902 until July, 1905. Hope of rescuing the six men en tombed in the burning Frederlckstown mine of the Clyde Coal Company has practically been given up. The local concern has made every effort to get at the Imprisoned miners, but say there seems no chance whatever of getting the men out alive. William Rudlsell, 58 years old, dropped dead at Sharon. For many years he was borough constable. He leaves a wife and several children. Fire destroyed the plant of the Dunbar Sand Manufacturing company near Dunbar. Tho loss Is about $10, 000, partially covered by Insurance. Margaret Williams committed sui cide at State College, by drinking carbolic acid. Her home was at Nantlcoke. At Punxsutawney, a contract for a school building, to cost. $G0,0O0, was let to J. A. Nixon of TItusville. The work will commence at oace. Pennsylvania railroad track walk ers found the mangled remains of an unknown man in Steelton. The First Baptist Church of Con nellsville, extended a call to Rev.. A. A. Delarme, of Paterson, N. J. Mark Coryell, a Pennsylvania rail road yard brakeman, whoso family re sides in Sunbury. caught his foot in a guard rail at Union depot, Harris burg, and a locomotive struck and killed him before ho could escape from Its path. At Punxsutawney, a contract for a school buildimr, to cost $00,000, was let to J. A. Nixon of TItusville. Th work will commence at o:ico. The Robbs Rim school, near Mc Donald, has been closed on account of diphtheria. Three cases wero found among the pupils.
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