SIX ARE BEA1EN TO DEATH "Mother and Five Children Found Dead in Their Home. HUSBAND CHARGED WITH CRIME Had Left Home and Told Mall Carrier That Family Had Been Murdered. Mrs. William McWIlliams and her five children, ranging from .three to IS lyears in age, were slain at their farm home, and the husband and fath er was arrested In Independence, la., bharged with killing the members of fiis family. He declares himself to be innocent. A dairyman called for milk at the McWIlliams farm shortly after noon, On entering the house, he says he found a partly euoked dinner on the stove and Mrs. .McWIlliams and the five children dead on the floor. Kach person had been killed with a hammer blow on the head. Mrs. Mc Willlams was ntrociously beaten, and a few knife thrusts had been inflicted on the crushed body. In the woman's rigid arms lay the corpse of the three-year-old baby. Its hood.eoat and mittens on, and a piece of buttered bread In one hand. The baby had been killed by one blow of a hammer on the head. ZZkll- ozlEWd mfwyp mfwyp mfwy The other children lay ? about the house, dressed in working clothes. Only the wife and daughter, 16 years old, seemed to have resisted, each sus taining knife wounds in the hand. The dairyman called the sheriff. flcWIlllams could not be found about he farm, but a suit pf clothes said to be his was found smeared twtth what Is paid to be blood. A rural mail carrier reported at the house that he had met McWIlliams on the way to Independence, and that McWIlliams had said that the family had been killed by someone. The sheriff arrested McWIlliams In Independence. FATAL COLLISION Engineer Killed and Five Others Injured. 1 One trainman was killed and five others injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at Thompson town. The wreck was caused by a rear-end collision between two freight trains going west. The mail train leaving Harrisburg at 4:40 a. m. ran Into the wreckage blocking four tracks and delaying traffic sever al hours. E. O. Huntzbergsr of Harrisburg, a freight brakeman who had just been promoted to flagman, was killed. The injured are: William B. Moore and E. D. Dunn of Altoona, engineer and firemen of the freight train; David Johnson of Harrisburg, engineer of the mail train: G. W. Baker of l ar rlsburg, conductor of one of the freight trains, and Clarence Edmond, a Pullman porter, None is seriously injured. All the coaches of the mall train were wrecked, but no damage was done to the mail. PRIEST EXCELS MARCONI Invents a Faster and Safer System of Wireless Telegraphy. Lieutenant Commander S. S. Robln flon of the bureau of equipment of the United States navy, with the mayors of Wilkesbarre and Scranton. Fa.. and many other invited guests, were present at the first public test of the Mlirgas system of wireless telegra phy. The test was conducted between experimental stations 22 miles apart at Wilkesbarre and Scranton. Every 5 mHlUt HUlllOU WBS , accurately recorded at the other. The messages were sent by the Morse code at the rate of 45 words a minute. Tn.. I-ll 1 t MUTgas inv;n-!four ..v.. ji nit: ,vrHi.-iij, in (JUMUr Ol me Slavok Roman Cnthollc church of Wilkesbarre, and has devoted ail of his leisure time for nearly ten years to the perfection of his system! Su periority of speed Is claimed for it, orwl o ,l,,,,l,1 . " th Atoh Z V '.' Ul ,s Veu TwTtn, r "iri.i uy other stations similarly attuned. $35,000 GOLD DUST STOLEN Cashier of the Seattle Assay Office j Charged With Theft. George Edward Adams, for seven years cashier of the United States as say office, in Seattle, was arrested by Secret Service officers for the alleged theft of $35,000 in gold dust, to which he had access in his official capacity. Secret' Service Agent Connell took 12,000 from Adams. Mr. Connell says Adams confessed that he had abstracted more than $30,000 from miners' pokes since jCne last, and substituted sand to maintain the weight. Adams was held in $30,00 bonds to appear for preliminary examination. Adams denied that $35,000 had been taken, but Agent Connell says the shortage will exceed $35,000. At Toledo, Ohio, robbers worked the combination of the safe in the of fice of WmvBeatty, grand keeper of records and seals of Knights of Py thias of Ohio, securing $200 In cash and 100 jewels for veteran Knights of Pythias. Cut Hole Through Safe. Burglars chiseled a hole in the safe r of a Japanese banking house .at Los Angeles, Cal., and removed a box containing $15,000 in coin. The burg lars evidently intended to use dyna mite, but decided it would be too dangerous, so they spent hours in cutting a hole through the safe. Foreign Secretary Lansdowne, in behalf of Great Britlan, has accepted president Roosevelt's invitation to participate in the naval and military displays on the occasion of the James town, Va., exposition in 1907. DUN'S WEEKLY SUMMARY Steel and Iron Mills Continue Active. Buyers are Preparing for the Future. R. G. Dun & Co. 'a "Weekly Revluw of Trade" says: Fundamental condi tions are unchanged, although higher temperature at many points again cheeked retail sales of heavyweight wearing apparel and other seasonable merchandise. Labor conditions lu the building trades have not Improv ed, and unother serious struggle may occur which would be most unfortu nate In view of the large opemtlons under way and contemplated. Other wise the situation is satisfactory, with mercantile collections steadily Im proving. Holiday trade gathers im petus as the season advances. Com parisons with last year's figures con tinue favorable, this week's gains be ing swelled by the holiday a year ago. Leading industrial undertakings re port little idle machinery and there is less complaint regarding car ehort- nge, railway earnings thus far nvuil able for November exceeding last year's by 6.4 per cent. Foreign com merce at New York for the week showed a loss of $1, 089,032 In exports nnd a gain of $53,177 in imports as compared with the same week last vear. H is customary at this time of year to And a general quieting down In the iron nnd steel business, but nor mal conditions do not prevail this season. Although the leading Interests have prevented any sensatlonnl. Inflation of prices, all divisions of the market have hardened sufficiently to acceler ate the operations of consumers who believe that it is the part of wisdom to prepare for future requirements. Failures this week numbered 228 in the United States against 205 last yenr and 34 in Canada compared with 39 a year ago. WOMAN'S CORPSE IN TRUNK Packed in Chloride of Lime Missing Nearly Two Weekt. What appears to be a murder com mitted nearly two weeks ago, was dis covered when the badly decomposed body of Mrs. John Hammond was found In a trunk at her home in Al bany, N. Y. The trunk stood in the fireplace and the body within was heavily sprinkled with chloride of lime. The disinfectant was strewn quickly abmit the three rooms of tho flat and the cover of the trunk was popped open, with the evident idea of having the odors of decomposition escape up the chimney. John Hammond, the woman's hus band, has not been seen for neprly two weeks. He was 25 years old, the wife G7. There were no marks of vio lence on the body, which, when found, was fully clothed except Bhoes. The body was bound In position with a clothesline. NAVAL CADET ON TRIAL Court Martial Investigates Death from Prize Fight. Midshipman Minor Meriwether, Jr., of Lafayette, La., a .member for the third class of the Naval academy, was put on trial at Annapolis, Mil., before a naval court-martial on charges that Include that of man slaughter in having caused the death of Midshipman James R. Branch, Jr., of New York, a member of the class above him, as a result of a prear ranged fist fisht. ' All the medical officers gave it as their positive conviction that Branch died from the effects of the blows he had received in his fight with Merl- wether, PRISON OFFICERS KILLED Five Convicts Attempt to from Penitentiary. Escape In a desperate attempt to escape trnm tho MiuanuH SUntp npn II en t in rv five COnvIcts f0gl,t f0r fCdOU! Witll ,vpnr,nna ,, ni.rnHvcerin nt ihe . i- nt i..nii.r t., m,. ,i wounding Deputy Warden See, and men made a dash through the streets of Jefferson City under fire, only to be captured after two of the runaways had been wounded. Taking advantage of the absence of Warden Hall and six guards, who left with 71 colored prisoners for Fort Leavenworth, Kan.. live attempted to ;,,,(. but only four lert the prison aft?1. wrerk-,nK -,he gat0. WANTS BIG BATTLESHIPS Nava. Gencra, Board Recommend Construction of Three Monsters. Three first-class battleships of at least 18,000 tons displacement end IS knots speed, three scout cruisers of 5,000 tons displacement, one gunboat of the Helena class, and four other gunboats of light draught, two for use In the Philippines and two for service op the rivers in China, wltwli additional torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, are the principal re commendations of the General Beard of the Navy, to be authorized by the next congress, which Is now under consideration by the Board of Con struction. New Japanese Loan $125,0000,000. A new Japanese loan of $125,000,000 will, it is officially announced", be is sued November 28. The Rothschilds of Paris will take $G2,500,000 and London $31,250,000. The balance will be divided between New York and Germany. The issue price will be 90 and the interest 4 per cent. Postal F.evenue Increasing. The annual report of the auditor of the U. S. postoflice department for the year ended June 30, 1905, shows the fiscal operations of the depart ment t have been as follows: Reve-, nue3 of the postal service, $125,82G,--585. Expenditures of the postal service, $107,399,169. Total amount ot money orders Issued: Domestic, $401,916,214; foreign, $42,503,2"46. Total amount of money orders paid: Do mestic, $104,34,974; foreign, $7,150,689. Total, $1,176,130,879. King Christian Accepts Honor for Charles, the Danish Prince. SUCCEEDED BY ROYAL SALUTE Great Crowd In Front of the Palace Gave New Ruler Rousinjj Re ception. The throne of Norway was formal ly tendered to Prince Charles of Den- mark nt Copenhagen by a deputation of members of the Norway parliament and was accepted by King Christian in behalf of his grandson. 1 ne brief ceremony recalled the similar event In 1S63, when the throne of Greece was presented to Prince George of Denmark. The function lasted only 20 minutes, but tne scene was brilliant, as it was at tended by all the princes and princes ses and their suites, the diplomatic corps, Including: the American min ister, Mr. O'Brien, and the high court omcinis. President Berner in a speech last ing five minutes invited Prince Charles to become king of Norway, and King Christian, with similar bre vity, accepted the offer. The old king was much affected as he blessed and embraced his grand children, King Haakon VII. and Queen Maud. The close of the ceremony was signalized by the firing of a roy al salute. An enormous crowd in front of the palace gave a rousing re ception to the new ruler. NO CABINET CHANGES Moody, Shaw and Hitchcock All Agree to Tarry Awhile. At the request of President Roose velt Secretary Shaw agreed to remain in the cabinet nt least until the end of tho coming session of Congress and as much longer as he can find it agreeable to do so. Attorney General Moody, also at the request of the President, has agreed to remain until the end of the present Congress, March 3, 1907. Secretary Hitchcock, too, agreed to remain for an Indefi nite period. This means that for at least six months there will be no changes in the cabinet on account of matters now pending. The names of all the cabinet officers have been used in connection with prospective retire ments, it being understood generally that Mr. Shaw desired to leave the cabinet for greater freedom in pro moting his candidacy for the Republi can presidential nomination In 1908. No intimation Is given of the Iden tity of the successors to Mr. Shaw, Mr. Moody and Mr. Hitchcock. AMENDS CIVIL SERVICE RULES Will Make Laws Conform to the Changes Recently Made. The President has issued an exe cutive order amending the civil ser vice rules In substance to conform to his recent order relative to the dis missal of employes in the classified service without hearing by direction of the President or head of an execu tive department. As laid down in the rule which is an amendment to civil service rule 8, this principle is pre faced by the following statement: "No person shall be removed from a competitive position except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." Another difference from the order of October 17 is the substitution for the phrase "such removal will be made without hearing" of the words "such removal may be made without notice to such officer or employe."' Another executive order just Issued exempts from examination one exami ner of lobacco and one examiner of tea in the Chicago custom house. The United States Steel Corporation has authorized tho expenditure of $2, 000,000 for improvements at the South Sharon works. It Is semi-oftlcially stated that the improvements will Include 12 more open-hearth furnaces, another blast furnace and a steel rail mill. Coal Operators Organize. Bituminous coal operators from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan and Indian Terri tory met in Chicago and formed a National organization, which will combat labor unions in an effort to put an end to the -'sympathetic'' strike. Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky were not represented by delegates, but it was declared that they will co-operate with the new Na tional organization. Denver Bank Robbed. Two masked men, armed with re volvers, forced Cashier Gabriel Jones, of the South Denver bank, In Denver, Col., a small concern, to de liver to them $2,000, all the cash in the safe and fled in a buggy. A man and a woman, who entered the bank while the robbers were there, were made to si and with their face's to the wall and hands up. . London hears reports that the Black sea fleet and Sebastopol garrison have mutinied. Disorders continue in Russia. Fire Destroy Much Cotton. More than 2,000 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire which started in property used jointly by the Cent ral ot Georgia railway and the At lantic Compress company. The to tal loss Is placed at $150,000. Li llian & Co., of Augusta, were the principal losers. Bert Gibson, aged 20, of Pitts burg, employed on the Chicago & Al ton double-track work, fell under a train at Athol, 111., and was killed. " AGRARIAN DISORDERS Russian Troops Unable to Cope With Mobs Which Riot and Pillage. The agrarian disorders iu the ills trlct of Subzha have assumed such violence that the troops are unable to cope with them. The whole northern part of the district is in the hands of peasant rioters, who are pillaging tne estates and burning the harvest ed crops. In the Juried and Alexandrovsk districts peasant mobs are demnndln the surrender of the stocks of pro vl flons nnd are threatening to set the torch to the whole locality and to storm the county treasuries. During a prayer meeting In the Esthonlan church at Pemau, Russia, a crowd of Socialists entered the church and threw the pastor from the pnlplt. The congregation fled in pan ic. The excitement among the peasants In the central and southeastern pro vinces Is spreading rapidly, and it is feared that it will be impossible to suppress the movement, which prom ises to develop Into a general no Using, bringing devastation and un told horror to the whole country. At the end of four davs' debate the executive committee of the zemstvo congress-brought in a resolu Hon in favor of supporting the gov ernment nnd Premier Witte. The reading of the resolution was greet ed with tremendous appluuse. DECISION AGAINST RAILROADS Court Sustains Classification of In terstate Commerce Commission. The authority of the Interstate Commerce commission was upheld in a decision filed by United States Judge Thompson, at Cincinnati, in a case brought by Proctor & Gamble against the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Pennsylvania, the Big Four and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroads. Prior to the protest against freight rates filed by Proctor & Gamble with the Interstate Commerce commission the railroads listed carloads of soap for the pur pose of classification In the sixth class and lots less than carload lots In the fourth class. Next the rail roads placed the carload lots In the fifth class and the lesser bulk at 20 per cent, less than third class. This change In classification brought out the protest upon which the matter went to the Interstate Commerce com mission. 1 he commission held . that the classification In curlond lots was proper, but that the change of frac tions of carloads was improper and ordered the railroads to desist on that point. The railroads refused. The Attorney General ordered District Attorney McPherson to bring suit ngnlnst the offending common carri ers. The result Is the Interstate Com merce commission Is sustained, and Injunction Issues against rates on fractional lots. BROKER IS ARRESTED Charged With Swindling People Throughout Country. Stock brokers and owners of unlist ed stocks in all parts of the United States are snld to have been swind led out of thousands of dollars by a scheme alleged to have been per petrated by R. Levy, a stock broker with offices in the Medtnah Temple building, Chicago. Levy was arrest ed on a warrant charging him with using the malls to defraud. When arraigned before United States Commissioner Foote, Levy was released on $2,000 bonds and the case was continued until December 1. BOTH ENGINEERS KILLED Derailment of Erie Train Hurls En gine on Them. The eastbound Atlantic express, on the Erie was wrecked at Falconer, three miles oast of Jamestown, N. Y. All passengers escaped with a severe shaking up. Two trainmen were killed. They were Charles Krieger, of Salamanca, and William S. See, of Meadvllle, Pa. The train was about two hours late when it loft James town, and was being drawn by two engines in charge of Engineer Krieger and Sec. At Falconer both engines and four coaches left the track. The engines tipped over burying tlje engi neers. SLEPT STANDING Reason, Says Coroner, for Wreck at Rawlings, Md. The coroner's jury, which Inquired Into the cause of the wreck at Raw lings on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad which resulted In the death of Fire man Jerry Collins of Oakland, and Brakeman C. V. Marks, of Clearfield. Pa., rendered a. verdict that, the wreck was caused by Engineer Mc Manamie, of the second train being asleep. Engineer McManamie told the jury that he had been asleep. He said his train was stopped at Dawson and pro ceeded under a green block. He was sleepy and started to eat In order to keep awake, but went to awaken until it was too late. Thinks Kiss Worth $10,000. Miss Ella Hamilton, of Des Moines, la., thinks the kiss she alleges Hay den Marquis, a wealthy young man, stole from her Is worth $10,000. At least that Is the amount of damages she demands in a suit filed in the Dis trict court. Murquls is the son of R. W. Marquis, reputed to be a million aire. Ten Houses Burned. A block of 10 houses, the property of the H. C. Frick Coke company, at Lenient furnace, near Dunbar, Pa. The fire is supposed to havo been of Incendiary origin, as It started In a block which was unoccupied. Resolutions favoring abolition of American duties on Philippine pro ducts and the repeal of the new law to regulate shipping between this country and the Philippines were adopted by the New York board ol tradu. Battalion of Reservists Demands Better Rations. NEWSPAPER OFFICE HELD UP Armed Socialists Compel Employes to Set up and Print the Work men's Gazette. Private advices received at St Petersburg from Gomel, in the gov ernment of that name, says that a battalion of reservists, a . thousand strong, mutlnetl, following a demand for better food. V ice Admiral Blrllen. mlnistT of marine. Closed the npw a,ltnii-nllv yards owing to the demands of the woramen ror an eight-hour day. The Cabinet liiw -rirnftml n flprlpa of measures to protect tho right of liuiivitiuais against tho coercion and tyranny of the labor leaders, which in the event nf nruiilun- Kii-n.-o u-lll ,U placed In operation during the Inter lm until the national assembly meets The minister nf tnuHpo M Miinnlrhln las drafted a habeas corpus law for itiomission to the cabinet. The "Novo Vrenivn" wiia (tin vtpttm of a remarkable hold-up by Social revolutionaries. Three editors of the Workmen's finzotte " the nfficlnl nr gan of the workingmcn's council, en tered the composing room of the ''Novoe Vremya" with revolvers In their hands and compelled the com positors to set up their paper, making prisoners of such nersons na pntered the room. Later, descending to the press room, me vis tors comne etl the pressmen to run off fin.ooo copies Of the ''Wol-klnirmpn's fin. ette." The Immediate fllipstfnn ninfrnnl ing the cabinet In I ho Blpntnrnl Inn, Premier Witte and hl pnllpntrnna hnvo almost reached the conclusion to base ine elections practically on universal sun rage. POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS Senator Piatt Says Money Was Glv en by Insurance Coi.ipanies. United States Senator Thomas C Piatt, testified before the legislative committee investigating life Insur ance In New York City. Senator Plntf ,11,1 n.ii Uncttnt tn . nui ll70liaiC LU tell of the contributions nf the Irmnr- nnce companies to stale campaigns. The Hmiltnhto Mm f,,f..l r if 1 w.., ,1V. l.llllMltl lUtT ,111(1 the New VnrU f.lfo surance companies that made such -uuu millions. i ne Kqultuble Life, the Senator sntil rnni illi,,io,i i-on,.. Inrly. $10,000 to the state campaigns, f..,.., nr. mc nullum i.,iih me same sum rre- nnpntll' nnrl tho Nmn Vni-1. T If, o , ...... ... ...... iiiir i iiiu a ouui not as large, and occasionally. These iiiuiit-ys were always delivered in cash to Senator Piatt's office by mes senger, and he turned them over to ine mine committee.. The Sennlni. cnl,l ha ... i o . - - . .' ' . " 1111 v -M ' i 1 I. 1 1 to influence the Legislature when any Ipetstnllnn annoafoil flint .nn :tn a ....u. v., .nil. vvnn HUBLIIt; to the insurance companies. Senator riuu sam ne uenved he had asked President R. A. MfPnnl tual Life for a contribution1 when 4he needs were very great. Ho had, how ever, never been asked to use his In fluence on any measure before the Lpfrisllltlirp. tinr linrl hp m-nr ilnno or. He knew nothing about contributions io me national campaign. FEAR MUTINY OF PRISONERS Strong Enmity Said to Exist Between Russian Army and Navy. It Is reported In Tokyo that Russia apprehending a mutiny of prisoners on board the transports conveying them from Japan, asked the Japanese government to convoy them with war ships to Vladivostok. But tho Japan ese declined to do so. Strong enmity between the members of the army nnd navy on the vessels is said to exist. Admiral Rojestvensky Is reported to be keeping his cabin on the Boroneji. Gen., Danleloff, who caine to Toyko to arrange for the transfer of tho irisoners, has left in haste, for Nagasaki. Stand by Old Professor. Tho trustees of Boston university nnounced the appointment of Prof. Hinckley G. Mitchell as instructor of Semitic languages nnd literature'. Re cently Dr. Mitchell was removed from his chair in the theological school of tho university, after 22 years' service, by tho board of bis hops of the Methodist Episcopal church, for alleged heretical Inter pretation of the Scriptures. Three Killed. About 200 persons were arrested In the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross at Lodz, Russian, Poland, for singing patriotic songs. When .the soldiers reached Mlkalajewska street with their prisoners a crowd of peo ple abused the escort, and the officer in command ordered tho troops to fire. Two men and ono woman were killed and four men were wounded. Bribe-Taker Fined $1,0C0. J. Marlon Doesberg pleaded gulltv in Judge Tarrant's court at Milwaukee to offering a bribe of $l..ri!() to super visors, in connection with the award ing or a county hospital contract and was lined $1,000. No Tail to This Comet. Professor E. C. Pickering, director of the Harvard Observatory, received further informal Ion last week bv Professor Schaer of the Geneva Ob servatory. The comet Is circular in ppearnnco nnd of the seventh magnl- ude. it has no tail. Grangers for Temperance. The National grange. Patrons of Husbandry, In session at Atlantic City, went on record In favor of tem perance and the curtailing of saloons, declining ''that they should be abridged until they are abolished." MUCH LIQJOR DURNED Bonded Warehouse and Contents De stroyed by Fire. At the A. Overholt distillery at Broadl'ord, Pa., 810,000 gallons of whisky furnished a spectaoular fire entailing a loss of between $3,000,000 and $1,000,000. Tho main bonded warehouse was burned to the ground A steady northeast wind which blew the flames toward the Youghlonev river saved the town of Broadford the buildings of the H. C. Flick Coko Company and the Baltimore & oiilo railroad station from destruction. Tho A. Overholt Company Is one of the largest manufacturers of whisky in the world. The plant is practically owned by II. C. Flick and the Mellons of Pittsburg. It was established by A. overholt In 1S10. ALL ON BOARD LOST Stsanier Strikes Rock and Goes Down In Plain Sight. The Norwegian coal-laden steam er Turbin, with her captain and crew of about 16 men, is thought to have foundered In a. terrific gale. Tho coasting steamer Edna R., which ar rived at Clarks Harbor, N. S.. brought news that on Friday about 5 p. m. a large steamer sutmosed to be the Turbin struck Black Rodge ledge, off the south coast, backed off In a few minutes and then disappeared in the sea. No person could be discerned aboard the craft, and so quickly did the steamer go down that no oppor tunity was given the crow to fight for their lives. No boat could have lived an instant In the sea that was run ning, v FOUR BLOWN TO DEATH Laboratory of Powder Plant Destroy ed by Explosion, Four men were blown to pieces by an explosion at the laboratory of the International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company at Parlln, N. J, The dead: John Pierce. Frank Spratford, John Applegnte, J. W. Redpath, superintendent of the labo ratory. W hat caused the explosion will never be known, as only the four men were In the building at the time. The next building, a storehouse, caught lire and was burned. Demand Employment. There was another "Poverty pa rade" in the streets of London, No vember 20. Some 5.000 to 6,000 un employed men and a sprinkling of women marched along the Thames embankment to Hyde Park, where they listened to, speeches and adopted resolutions condemning charity, as cure for lack of employment and de manding the summoning of Parlla ment to Initiate works of national utility. Red flags were seen. Will Sell Lands to Tenants. The Marquis of Downshle has agreed to sell his agricultural lands In County Down, Ireland, to the tenants. The estate Is the largest In Ireland, and is valued at about $15,000,000. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Lenora National bank at More- head, Ky., has closed Its doors. Gage E. Tarbell of the Equitable, told of collecting commissions on his own Insurance and offered a plan for mprovement of the life Insurance business. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Chile intends to order one battleship, wo cruisers and four destroyers from German yards, at a cost of $15,000,000. The Isthmian canal commission will ike adverse action upon tho sea lev el project, which eight of tho 13 members of the advisory board of consulting engineers have favored. After one of the warmest contests ever engaged In by delegates to the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor the steamfltters have been successful in gaining ad mission to the Federation. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw hns received a conscience contribution of $500 In an envelope postmarked St. Louis. The money will be added to the growing fund In the enstody of the Treasury. By tho will of Stephen Salisbury, which was filed for probate at Wor cester, Mass, more than $:!,000,000 is bequeathed to the Worcester Art Museum. His estate is estimated at 5,000,000. Rev. J. S. Lord, aged 97, said to have been for many years the oldest living alumnus of Yale University, died at the homo of his 'daughter, Mrs. W. J. Tillotson of Laingsburg, Mich. Rev. Mr. Lord graduated from Yale in the class of 1831. United States Senat6r J. R. Bur ton, nf Kunsns. Indicted nn tho rhnrire of having accepted compensation from tho Rialto Grain and Securities com pany for services rendered la behalf of tho company, pleaded not guilty when arraigned In the United States court in St. Louis. District Attorney William Travers erome, ot now York, has Jiled his declaration of election expenses, which he says amounted to nothing, he having personally spent not one cent to obtain his election. The "Maltese Cross" ranch, owned nil occupied by President Roosevelt dining his residence in North Dakota, has been purchased by O. J. Dolen- recie ot Furgo for $13,000. Boston Wool Market. Trado has been Irregular in the wool market. Leading quotations fol- uw: Ohio nnd Pennsylvania XX nnd above, :uis mc; no. i, 40jnic; No. 40fillc; fine unwashed, 2S20c; ur.rter-blood, unwashed, 3l35c; threo-eigliths-blood, :!435c; half blood, :U$r:!5c; unwashed, 30(ff31c; unmerchantable."! ift 32c; fine washed. 37Hc. Michigan Fine unwash ed. 2"ifi2Se; quartcrblood, unwashed. U?Ac; three-eighths blood, 3334c: half-blood, 33JT3lc; unwashed, 2Sc. KEYSTONE STATE GULUNGS VOUNG BOY BLOWN TO PIECES i. While Hunting for His Skates H Drops a Match Into a Keg of Powder. John McConnell, aged 8, was liter ally blown to pieces at his home in' Ashville, 10 miles north of Altoona.' The boy had gone to the attic, to hunt for his skates, and took with him a number of mntches to light up the) gloom. In groping about, a lighted, match fell Into an open keg of powd er. In an instant there was a terrif ic exploaion, which blew the roof off the house and killed the boy out right, the body being badly torn. W. H. Berry's official majority ott J. Lee Plummer for Starte Treasurer of Pennsylvania in the recent election, lacking official figures from Allegheny county, is 117,054. The unofficial vote in Allegheny county was: Plummer, 67,155; Berry, 41,188, giving Plummer a majority there of 25,969. Presum ing these figures to ' be correct Ber ry's majority in the State will reach 91,985. The total vote in the State, lacking Allegheny, is 902,923. Alle gheny's total unofficial vote for Treasurer is 109,341, making the to tal vote In the State, calculated on this basis and Including Socialist, 8 775, and Socmlist-Labor, 1,244, 1,012, 066. In the last Presidential election, the total vote In Pennsylvania was 1,236,338. Thirty-five informations were made by Pure Food Agents James Frost, is. v. Miller, w. A. Hutchinson, and James McGregor before Alderman John Groetzlnger, charging dealers of Allegheny county with violating the? pure food laws. Dairymen, butchers and grocerymen are included in th wholesale accusations. Among the preservatives which are said to have been used by the dealers are formal dehyde, benzoic acid, coal tar dyes and acid. The verdict of the Washington county coroner's jury at Bentleyvlll was that Edward Farragher and th six other men who were killed at Braznell shaft No. 1 came to their death .by an explosion of gas caused by two open torches sent down In a ' bucket, by order of Edward Hastle, and that the explosion was due to er ror of judgment on the part of Far ragher and Hastie. Jewelry worth $3,000 was obtained by a second-story ithlef at Cresson. An Egyptian necklace valued at $1, 000 was taken from the home of C. S. Dlnvlllers, engineer of construc tion on the Pennsylvania railroad. Ell Conner, general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, lost a gold watch valued at $150 and other jewelry. Dunbar will have two new indus tries. A silica brick works will be erected on the Hooper estate, south of town, by Philadelphia capitalists, and will give employment to 100 men. The sand works of the Dunbar Sand Company, which was destroyed by fire several months ago, will be re-built. Twenty-two students at St. Vincent's were expelled by Rer. Father Leo because of the actios of two students In coming to Latrobe to attend the football game in violation of orders. On their return they were expelled. Upon leaving the college they were accompanied by 20 fellow students, whose expluslon followed. While Mrs. H. A. Foerlng, wife of Head Master Foerlng of the Bethele- hem Preparatory School, waa in the kitchen of her home the waterback of the stove exploded and a large piece of flying iron struck her on tho head, crushing her skull and Instant ly killing her. The Great Bethel Baptist church, of Uniontown has called Rev. J. 8. Bromley, of Reading, to Its pulpit. made vacant by the resignation of Rev. H. F. King, who goes to Indiana, Pa. His salary was fixed at $1,800, together with the use of the par sonage. James Pope pleaded guilty to stealing $500 in unsigned bank notes from the New Salem office of tho Adams Express company, and was sentenced to the Huntingdon reform atory for three years by tho Fayette county court. The Washington county court eli minated the conspiracy charge In the suit of Rev. Mr. Lee of Pittsburg, against 10 African Methodist Episco pal ministers. The jury placed one- third the costs on the prosecutor and two-thirds on the defendants. Frank Torrey, aged 51, an Itiner ant umbrella mender, died In the Dauphin county prison. He was tn a filthy condition when arrested by the police on a charge of vagrancy and died several hours after he had been given a bath. William Laurie, D. D. L.L. D.. re- ' igned as pastor of the Bellefonte Presbyterian church, after a continu- ous pastorate of over 29 years. His resignation will take effect as soon as the local preBbytery can take action. The plant of the Steelton Electric Light Company was destroyed by fire. Involving a loss of $60,000, with no insurance. Fire destroyed the foundry of the Evans Manufacturing company at Butler. The loss was $3,000, fully In sured. During the past month more than. 50 robberies have been reported in Dunbar and vicinity. Judge Kunkel at Harrisburg grant ed a rule requiring the Pennsylvania Guaranty company, of Pittsburg, to show cause why a permanent receiv er should not be appointed to take charge of its business. , At the home of A. J. Mills, a Pennsylvania locomotive engineer. Pittsburg division, was entered bv a. thief and two notes aggregating $2. 100 and $27 in money taken from Mrs. Mills's pocketbook. The new school house at Woolrlch. Clinton county, was burned. Losi $5,000, partly insured. The fire waa. caused by an overheated furnace.
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